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ROXAS' POV:
The car ride home was tense, quite, filled with thoughts and different emotions buzzing around making it hard to breath. We had decided, without vote, that we where not hungry and Tifa didn't charge us anything. She actually shooed us out telling or ordering us to make sure that Sora would be okay. Only as Sora and I slouched onto the couch did I notice the time. It was already two o'clock. I only had three hours until I was to see Axel. What did he want me for? I couldn't remember.
All I could think about, really, was what happened at Tifa's. It was...intense. I wasn't expecting it. Actually...I thought everybody else knew. I knew the second I saw him that he had to be at least bisexual. I didn't know that Leon and Cloud didn't know. My heart broke when Sora came back crying. I wanted to comfort him, wrap him in my arms and whisper soothing words of comfort but I couldn't, it was a brother moment. Not my turn to hold Sora I guess...But I will get my turn...someday...
I looked over to Sora, he was slouched next to me, he looked...confused. Not sure how to act. How do you act after the major first reactions are when you drop that bomb? I did the one thing I could think of doing in the living room.
I turned the TV on but it was to bright and to loud so I turned it off. There was not much to do.
I needed to feed Reptar. "Wanna feed Reptar with me Sor?" I asked, maybe getting him to do something would lighten his mood. It's not like anybody was actually mad at him or anything so I'm not sure what the problem was. I couldn't remember, strange as it was, what I felt after I told Cloud I was gay. He was the first one I talked to about it.
"Sure." He smiled but really...he didn't seem into it. We walked into my room and I quickly found the small box of dead crickets that I was supposed to feed him. "Can I go first Roxas?" He asked me.
"Sure. Just give him two right now though. We have to wait to see if he eats those first." I instructed. He nodded and opened the box of dead insects, selecting two off the top and dropping them through the feeding holes on the top of Reptars' cage.
The small little thing quickly gobbled them up. " I guess he's hungry." I laughed. Sora smiled. "Add some more if you want." I offered and Sora dropped two more in. Reptar quickly polished those two off as well.
"When was the last time you fed this thing?" Sora joked.
"Last night. Just give him one more, I don't need him getting sick." I cautioned. He nodded again and only dropped one more cricket in. Reptar stared at it like it was an alien but he ate it after a minute or two.
"Hey, Sora, what kind of music do you listen to?" I asked him, my mind was on the skate park, which included Axel who was permanent scenery there and Axel was a band-mate of mine.
"Er, Leon has control of the radio and he likes classical stuff. And sometimes, if i'm lucky, he's in a rhythm and blues mood. So that's pretty much it. Why?" Sora said, he sounded depressed.
"That's all you've listened to? You've got to come with me to the skate park. My friend Demyx, I think I told you a bit about him before. He's the sitarist in my band and he knows the best music ever. You have got to come with me." I told him. He nodded, his interest peeked and at the moment he wasn't thinking about the restaurant moment. Which was good.
"When are you going to the skate park?" Sora asked, now eager to listen to all the things he's been missing out.
"Well, Axel told me to come at five but we might go earlier, it's kinda boring here right now, don't you think?" I hinted.
"Cool, do you think Cloud and Leon will let us go now?" He asked.
"Excited?" I joked. He gave me a smile and I wondered which was cuter; his pout or his smile. "Maybe. Why don't we ask."
"Cool!" Sora exclaimed, grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the living room where Leon sat, watching a documentary on how Germany grew to power during the Nazi Regime.
"Hey, Leon, Roxas wanted to know if we could go to the skate park." Sora asked. Leon could tell that Sora didn't even know that there was a skate park in the city.
"Sure, I guess, but be back by seven." Leon told us.
"Cool, thanks Leon!" Sora said and gave his big brother a hug. I liked him and all but...i didn't think physical contact was in order. I just gave him a big smile and a thank you. He nodded his head, I wondered if he felt the same. Did he? Hmm...
"Grab your jackets! It's cold outside you two!" Cloud called behind us...he totally ruined the momentum we had going for the door. "And Sora, don't you think you should change in pants? It is getting cold outside..." Cloud worried over us for a few more minutes until Leon spoke up.
"Cloud, come on, really, why don't you just wrap 'em up in bubble wrap? They're fine! And how come your not over here worrying about me?" Leon pouted the last part.
"Because I know that you are a strong man and can take care of yourself. Our little sticks of bones are just that, they could crumble in the wind." Cloud teased.
Leon raised his eyebrow. "Wanna see how much of a strong man I am?" Leon purred suggestively. Oh crap. Time to leave. Like, now.
"Let's go Sora!" I shouted, grabbed him by the wrist and bolted out of the house. I stopped to grab my skateboard but that was it. We continued to run till we got to the park; only a few blocks away. And running on the rush that we had to get out of the house and seeing our brothers do god knows what the run was easy.
"This is the park Sora." I told him and he nodded in awe. It was a pretty cool sight. The skate park had two pools the size of half a foot ball field. We had stairs with rails made just for practicing grinding, we had four half pipes, we had it all. And around it, was a stretch of greener then green grass with a few good groves of shady trees. The place was perfect. I loved it.
"Let's find your friends Roxas." Sora urged. I nodded.
"Sure. They should be easy to find, unless they find us first." I told him, and began describing my friends. Axel and his fiery red hair with striking green eyes and those tattoos under his eyes. Demyx and his mullet, his sitar ever present and his loud obnoxious attitude. Zexion and his slate hair that covered one eye and his annalist attitude. I stopped in my tracks and Sora bumped into me, he mumbled his apologizes. I saw Vanitas. He was an A-class douche bag.
He was a good, great, skater and he acted like he owned the place. He would be cool to hang around with if he got an attitude switch. Like, if he acted more like his brother Ventus. It was hard to believe that they where related at all but they where...
Unfortunately he noticed me to. We sorta...didn't like each other...much.. I'm not sure why, I guess it's because, if we where ranking each other here, that I'd be the second best skater in the park while he is the first. Maybe he just doesn't like any competition. Or anybody...
"Hiya, Roxas." Vanitas said, casual like.
"Hi Vanitas." I replied. "I gotta meet up with my friends so talk to you later, k?" I told him, and still holding Sora by the wrist, tried to walk around him. I failed.
"Did I say you could leave? I wasn't done talking." He spat.
"I didn't know I needed your permission!" I barked. I had just signed my own death sentence. Nobody talked like that to Vanitas and lived.
"What did you say?" He asked, venom in his voice.
"Er, that I'm sorry?" I tried. He glared. Crap.
"Vanitas! Come here!" A girl called. She had blue hair and her clothes where a bit revealing. Short blue shorts with a long sleeved white t-shirt with a gap in the back revealing her skin and bra strap.
He gave a small growl and walked to her. That was his girlfriend Aqua, giving me my chance to high tail it out of that danger zone.
I looked around the skate park for a few minutes, Sora helping, but our combined efforts where not enough and I couldn't spot a single one of my friends.
"Let's go sit by one of those trees." I suggested and Sora nodded, glad to get out of the sun.
We sunk to the ground, our backs leaning against a sturdy tree, and just sat in silence. At least, for a few minutes anyways. "ROXAS!" That would be Demyx calling my name. Good thing to, he would have his Ipod on him and able to enlighten Sora to the world that was Good Music.
"Hi Demyx. This is Sora, he's Clouds boyfriends younger brother." I explained. The tall blond nodded his head.
"I'm Demyx, nice to meet you!" He shouted. He was always loud...always. His whispers where even loud. He shook Sora's hand violently.
"Hi." Sora said, shocked at Demyx's enthusiasm.
"Demyx, you have your Ipod on you?" I asked, for good measure.
"Yeah, always, why?" He asked.
"Because I need you to show Sora some good music. Like, whatever we normally listen to. That stuff. And maybe some of our own stuff to." I pretty much told him but,really, this was an important matter so it was appropriate.
"Sure, definitely." Demyx nodded and quickly took out his Ipod. He handed the ear phones to Sora and he put them in.
Whatever Demyx had Sora listen to, the brunette loved it. His smile was intensely bright. He really, really loved it. "What is it?" I asked him.
"Oh, that's our song, Wondering Soul." Demyx answered. I knew that song, it was the only one Axel wrote by himself. Normally it was all three of us who conspired together.
After it was over Sora took one earphone out so he could hear us. "Who sung?" He asked.
"That would be that little blond." Demyx said, smiling, pointing to me. I blushed a bit. "And I played the sitar and Axel is drums. Pretty nice, ha?" He smiled. He did that a lot; smiled. He was just that kind of guy.
"Speaking about Axel, where is he?" I asked Demyx.
He just shrugged. "Wanna listen to more?" He asked Sora.
"Yeah, that song was amazing!" He smiled and I think I heard him mutter one of the chorus' lines; 'Cause I'm just a wondering soul.' It was funny.
The minutes ticked by as Sora listened to music and Demyx chatted on and on about the history behind each one of the songs; ours or not. He knew, like, everything, about any song or band. It was kinda freaky actually.
Five songs later, Sora was seated next to me, cold and wishing he had changed into pants like Cloud had suggested. I gave him my jacket and he thanked me. I love that smile.
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