Chapter 7
The steps of the wooden front porch were familiar to him. This is Kairi's house, isn't it?
Sora's eyes looked up at the slender girl who climbed the stairs ahead of him. That's right, wasn't Kairi Mika's cousin?
Sora went to raise his voice, to bring up his thought when the white painted front door swung open before Mika could even knock.
Kairi stood there wearing a purple bra and a small pair of panties, her deep red hair pushed back with a lace headband. Her face screamed of concern, her arms reaching out for her cousin, "MIKA!" Mika's smaller frame was suddenly being overtaken by Kairi's larger one. "Are you okay? What are you doing? Do you even know how late it is?"
Mika gave a sullen smile, pushing Kairi off of her to look towards Sora who stood there awkwardly on the top step, not sure of what to do with himself. "Kairi, it's kind of an emergency…"
"Sora?" Kairi lifted her hand infront of her eyes like a visor to make out Sora's shape in the darkness of the night. "Oh my gosh, what's going on? Where's Riku?"
Sora rubbed his arm with his hand lightly, giving his old friend a defeated look, "Well, that's why we're here, it seems…"
Kairi stood with a dumbfounded look before taking a hand of Mika and Sora, pulling them both inside and shutting the door behind her.
The house hadn't changed since he had last been there at 14. It was like a time capsule. Has Kairi just been stuck like this for all this time?
"Do you guys need anything? Want anything to drink? Water? I made pizza a little bit ago if you want a slice." Kairi asked, looking over the two of them before getting out blankets and spreading them on the couch, motioning for the two to sit.
Mika nodded and raised a finger, "I could use a pizza." Her eyes slid over to Sora and her lips broke into a soft smile. "And I think Sora hasn't eaten yet, either…"
Kairi let out a small giggle and nodded, "Yeah, of course." She turned her head towards the kitchen that was separated from the living room they sat in by a pink colored wall. "BABE! TWO PIECE OF PIZZA IN HERE, PLEASE!"
"Babe?" Sora and Mika both spoke at the same time, their eyebrows slightly raised.
"Yeah, it's kind of a thing, but I didn't want to make a big deal out of this by telling anyone yet, you know. Don't wanna put the pressure on a new relationship and let it turn to shit…" Kairi gave an awkward face that read, 'ugh' before letting out a sudden screech, "BABE, NOW."
"JUST GIVE ME A GODDAMN MINUTE, WILL YOU?" A booming voice replied from the kitchen.
"Men." Kairi rolled her eyes, "What are you gonna do?"
Sora and Mika exchanged a playful smile, scooching closer together, packing tightly to one another.
A stomping slowly emerged from the kitchen to reveal a slender man with blue hair that went down to half way down his back, with warm yellow eyes. He came carrying two plates with pizza on them, with a walk that said he didn't want to be here. Mika stood up, giving him a smile, "Ah, thank you very much for the pizza…" She reached a hand out to take the plates.
He set the plates on the coffee table in front of her and gave her a nod and sat in the couch opposite of them that Kairi sat in, putting an arm around her.
"Who are these people, babe?" He said, leaning his mouth into her ear.
She let out a giggle and playfully pushed him away from her, "Come on, idiot, these are my friends. Well, technically," She gestured to Mika, "My cousin and my…" Her eyes lingered on Sora. "My ex-boyfriend, actually."
The man's lip raised slightly in the corner, sneering at Sora. "Why is he here."
"Oh, Saix," She gasped before she erupted into laughter. "No, no, he's married."
"I don't care if he's married or not, that doesn't mean he wouldn't try to steal my girl." Saix locked his gaze on Sora. Sora's heart began to pound, leaving him with cold sweats.
"No, no, you see-" Kairi began, though she was abruptly cut off.
"He's gay." Mika said, her hands in her lap, her eyes focused on her fingers as she wiggled them around.
Sora's eyes shifted to Mika. Her expression looked so...grim. Why?
"Oh." Saix leaned back down in his chair, giving a hardy laugh, "Well, someone should have told me that sooner."
Kairi leaned over and put her hand on Saix's, her hair falling over her headband into her face, "Trust me, it was a puppy love thing. It was one sided and one time I made him put his hand on my boob, but that's as far as it went, anyways." A deep laugh burst through her chest, "Besides, you have many more guys you should be worried about besides Sora over here."
Saix nodded, "That's true. You are looser than the last rubber band put on the world's largest rubber band."
The room burst into laughter in agreement.
"That's so true," Mika giggled, slapping her knee.
"So," Kairi leaned forward, putting her chin in her hands as she looked over the two in front of her, "What's going on? What's the details?"
Sora's face flushed red as he tried to find the words to explain.
"Sora and Riku got into a fight." Mika answered for him, not a moment of hesitation.
"Riku?" Saix's eyebrow lifted.
"His husband." Kairi answered, not even bothering to look at him while answering.
"Y-yeah, that's right…" Sora nodded in agreement.
"Well, surely you could do something about it, Mika." Kairi's eyes rolled over to her cousin's. The two exchanged a long stare before the silence was broken by Saix in confusion.
"What does she have to do with their marital problems?"
"Well, first of all she has fe-"
"I'm a God." Mika said, very matter of fact, stopping Kairi in her tracks.
Kairi's face flushed red as she stood up, standing in front of Saix, blocking his view of Mika, "Ahahaha, well, you see...she and I play a little game online, yeah that's it...A game online…"
"No, it's true." Mika said, her stare penetrating through Kairi.
"Sit down, woman." Saix pushed her back down on the couch and met Mika's gaze. "Go on."
She nodded and stood up, raising her hand in the air. As she did, the power went out in the room, and a soft blue light starting growing from the space above her hand.
The light grew until it lit up the room, tinting everyone's face with the soft shade of blue.
Sora's face lit up like a tomato. She really was?
Saix's eyes remained fixated on her.
"A long time ago," Mika started, lowering her hand to her waist. "A young girl lived in heaven." From the blue light, a small shadow of a girl could be made out from the center, creating a shadow on the wall behind Kairi and Saix.
"The girl was born there…" Mika's eyes raised to look at the wall where her story was being projected. "She was the child of a happy God, who wanted nothing more than for his daughter to be happy." The shadows in her palm now grew in number. A large bearded man appeared with the girl, holding her close. "Though the girl had everything she wanted in heaven, she didn't have enough. She watched everyday from the safety of her clouds, the bravery of one boy in particular." Her eyes suddenly turned to meet Sora's gaze, causing him to look away to the wall, watching as a shadow that closely resembled him from many years ago begin walking on the wall. "What he had was amazing to her. He was braze, he was strong, he was selfless. The girl...fell in love." As she said those words, Sora's heart seemingly leapt out of his chest and onto the floor. Was it him she was talking about?
"And, her kind father, knowing her pain, took pity on her, and decided, on her eighteenth birthday, he would allow her to tread the dangerous Earth he had wanted to keep her safe from." Mika raised her hand once more, the blue ball of light disappearing and the lights in Kairi's house returning to full glow. "And so she traveled down in search of the one that stole her heart for so long…" Her face turned away from Sora, unending sadness apparent in her eyes. "Only to find out he was taken by another."
The room was deathly silent.
And then, applause.
Kairi stood from her seat and clapped vigorously, "WOW, Mika, that was amazing! Why don't you do that more often? That's awesome, you're amazing."
Mika smiled sadly and bowed before taking her seat next to Sora again.
Saix nodded and crossed his arms, "So you are a God."
Sora didn't know what to say.
This was...all for him?
What about his love for Riku? Was any of that...supposed to be?
Mika was a God. What did he ever deserve to gain the love of a GOD?