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Chapter Eight: A Silent Agreement

Groggily, Sora woke up to find himself in his own bed back at Leon's place. The bed was large and freezing cold, unnerving to Sora. He tried to sit up, only to wince and fall back down again. It was morning and he was alone, not taking up much space on the bed. The brunet looked down to find that he was still wearing Riku's shirt, as he remembered what happened the day before. 'Is Leon going to be mad at me? What do the others think? T-They didn't say anything, please don't let them hate me.' Sora felt tears prick his eyes, although they weren't from the pain his body felt. Sora looked at the clock, it was pass time to get ready, though he knew Leon wouldn't send him to school this morning. 'God, I'm such a freak!' He rolled onto the side that didn't hurt and buried his head in his hands. 'I manage to screw up and make a fool of myself in front of everyone, an-and they s-saw my-.' A tear streaked down Sora's cheek, leaving a burning trail behind it as it rolled down his face. 'No, no crying.' He sniffled wiping at the tear, 'I better go say sorry to Leon; I don't want him to be mad at me.' It took some effort, but he managed to crawl out of the bed and stumble to the door. Quietly he opened it and softly crept down the stairs, limping every so often. He sat on the bottom step of the stairs, thinking about what to say. He heard a voice. No, multiple voices. 'Who could that be?' The small boy thought, straining to hear more clearly. Slowly, he walked towards the kitchen, making sure not to make a sound. He heard a voice; Leon's, and another's. 'Is that Cloud?' He peaked seeing Leon, Cloud and Riku sitting at the bar. 'Riku's still here?' He heard another voice, this one softer; Zexion's. 'Maybe they're all here.' Sora let himself have a small amount of hope. Sora smiled, he smelt food, and not just any food; delicious, mouth-watering food and he couldn't wait to have a taste. Apparently his stomach agreed and it gave a long rumble as if saying 'feed me'. The others must have heard, because they stopped their conversations to look around.

Sora took this as his cue. He walked into the kitchen, his singing voice slightly cracked because he hadn't used it in a while.

"So here's another day, I'll spend away from you. Another night, I'm on another broken avenue~" Sora continued, leaning on the counter and laying his head on his arms. "My bag is ripped and worn. Then again now so am I."

The brunet continued, closing his eyes as everyone gathered around him, "Take what you want to take, what you wanna take, what you-" Sora smiled looking up at them through a blue, open eye. "I miss the stupid things. We'd go to sleep and then," He stood up, trying to stretch his sore muscles, "you'd wake up and kick me out of bed at three AM~"

Demyx joined in, "Pick up the phone and hear you sayin' dirty things to me."

Everyone laughed, Sora included as he clutched his sides.

"Anyone want to fill me in?" Sora asked, looking around at the others.

"You remember basketball game, right? In gym." Axel asked.

"Yeah, and then I got tackled and you guys took me to the nurse." Sora nodded.

Demyx looked over at Sora, his already puffy, red eyes watering again. "There was blood, and, and you were hurt." Sora smiled sadly at the big teddy bear. Demyx was sensitive, that Sora knew, but he didn't no that Demyx would care so much for him when they've only known each other for a day.

"I'm okay Demy, I promise." Sora tried to cheer Demyx up, but a few tears rolled down his cheeks and Zexion, who was hiding behind him, hugged him.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Roxas asked, his eyes were red too.

Axel nodded, "I'm sure Coach would of let you sit out the rest of the game."

"He offered, but I wanted to play so bad." Sora looked down. Stretching his head he continued, "I didn't want to be the one, weird, new kid, sitting on the bleachers alone while everyone else was playing."

Riku stayed silent, nodding his head as if he understood. Sighing, he looked directly at Sora, "It's okay, but from now on; don't say you fine unless you really are."

Zexion agreed with Riku, "You really scared us, I-I didn't know what to say or what to do."

Demyx wiped his eyes, "Yeah, for once I was stunned into silence."

Cloud walked over and stood beside Sora, "Does your back still hurt?"

"Y-yeah, kind of." Sora replied.

Leon walked towards the bathroom. Returning he handed two white pills to Sora, "Here, these will help with the pain." The older brunet had dark circles under his eyes, as did Cloud and Riku.

Sora nodded and took the pills with a glass of orange juice that Cloud handed him. "When did you guys get here?" The small brunet asked, looking at his friends.

Riku answered for the group, "We came with you here. We just never left."

"Oh," Sora stated as he realized they were all still wearing their clothes from yesterday.

Looking up at his older brother Sora begged, "Can I still go to school today?"

Leon looked a bit taken back. He glanced over at Cloud, contemplating. "If you really want too, but you're eating breakfast first."

Sora smiled and followed Cloud who maneuvered around the kitchen, pointing at different foods. Sora decided on pancakes and brownies. The oldest blond slid the food into the microwave. The others were talking, though Sora had tuned them out; focusing solely on the delicious food in front of him.

"Okay." Roxas said.

"Hey kid, I'm going to take your friends to get their stuff for school, okay?" Leon yelled as he walked down the hallway, leading the group of kids.

"Mhmm!" Sora mumbled, face full of food. Cloud laughed as stayed behind with Sora. The small boy helped Cloud put away the dishes as Cloud and him talked.

"So, you like to sing?" Cloud asked, blue eyes shining.

Sora blushed, "Yes, Leon always makes jokes that whenever he sees me in the kitchen, I'm singing."

Cloud smiled and laughed lightly, "You're a great singer, I wish I knew earlier. What sort of songs do you like to sings?"

"Anything." Sora replied easily, "Though Katy Perry is my lady jam." Sora giggled and Leon laughed at the terrible inside joke. Once the kitchen was in order Cloud had asked if he was going to need help getting a new shirt on.

"Probably, I needed help putting one on before this happened." Sora admitted, head down.

"That's okay." The blond smiled, "Come on, I'll help you."

Sora nodded his head and followed the other up to his room.

"D-do you think Leon is mad at me?" Sora asked sadly.

"No way!" Cloud quickly replied, "He's mad at the kids who couldn't play basketball right, and slightly mad at Marluxia for not calling them out."

Sora nodded, once more. Sora grabbed a shirt from his closet. It was a cute one him and Leon had found at the mall, it had a chobobo on it and said, 'If you're happy and you know it clap your…. Oh…" What made it funny was that chocobos had short arms like T-rexes and couldn't clap their hands. Cloud laughed as he read the shirt.

"Here, arms to the sky." He said, and Sora lifted his arm as high as he could.

Once the got it off that side, they carefully slid it off the next arm. Repeating the process, backwards, they put the new shirt on. It was slightly big and loose, so it didn't rub against the bandages. Sora's only problem was that it wasn't a long sleeve shirt. Sora was nervous about others seeing just how hurt the small boy really was.

As if reading his mind Cloud asked, "Do you want a jacket?" Sora nodded and the older boy walked to his closet and looked for one.

"Actually, now that I think about it; jackets are the only thing we didn't buy at the mall." Sora concluded as he thought back to that day.

"Really? I'll text Leon asking if he has one somewhere." Cloud did so and then sat with Sora on his bed. "They're going to be home soon, do you have everything you need?"

"Yeah, I just need to change pants and put on shoes."

Cloud nodded, "Okay, I'll be downstairs then."

Once he left Sora, struggled to change his pants and he eventually got it, and put on his socks and shoes. He walked downstairs and wait for the others, backpack in hand. At the bottom of the stairs, Cloud was waiting for him. In the blond boy's hand were ten wrapped cookies.

"Here," Cloud smiled, "All for you. The others already got theirs." The taller boy smiled and handed them to Sora, who gladly took them.

"They smell great!" Sora said before eating one carefully, savoring the taste of buttery chocolate chip.

"I hope so, I made them last night just for you." Cloud laughed. A car horn went off, "You better hurry, you're already late to school."

"Oops, thanks Mommy!" Sora winked and ran out the door. Climbing into the car, Sora realized Cloud was right. It was already 9:37.

"It will still be first block when we get to school." Leon said quietly, pulling out of the drive way and waving at Cloud who stood in the door way. Sora was in the back with Riku, Demyx, and Axel; the four of them squished in the car which was only meant to seat five people. Roxas and Zexion were sharing the passenger seat up front, the two of them only taking up half a seat. The four stuck in the back struggle to get comfortable and Sora tried to not lean onto Riku as he was in between the older boy and the car door.

"Screw it, Dammit someone has to sit on someone else's lap." Axel yelled out in frustration. Everyone's eyes were on Sora, including Roxas' and Zexion's.

"It's not like we can sit on you." Demyx agreed.

Sora sighed and used his good arm to hold onto the door and lift himself slightly. Riku placed his hand on Sora's back to help the brunet as the three older boys shifted over towards Sora and got comfortable. Once everyone was settled, Sora set himself down, sitting side ways towards the other window and on Riku's knee. One leg was draped over all three boys and the other dangled in between Riku's and Demyx's legs, not quiet long enough to reach the ground.

"Better?" Riku asked.

All the boys sighed in contentment.

"So what class do you have first, Sora?" Roxas asked.

Before Sora could answer, Riku beat him to it. "Science."

"With me, you, and Roxas?" Zexion asked.

"Looks like it." Sora smiled.

A look of realization crossed Demyx's face as he exclaimed, "Wait, you can sing! Are you in Music?"

"Yeah, I gave it second block." Sora looked over at Demyx as everyone else began talking.

"That's great! Everyone except for Riku has Music for second block." Demyx said, bouncing in his seat.

"What do you have, Riku?" Sora asked nicely, looking down at the silverette whose knee he was sitting on.

"Orchestra." Riku answered, turquoise eyes focused on the brunet.

"Really?" Sora perked up, "What do you play?"

"Violin and Viola." Riku responded nonchalantly.

"That's so cool! I love the sounds of violins and how violas complement them so well." Sora smiled looking out the opposite window. "I wish they played the melody more often, though."

"You're interested in music?" A surprised look crossed Riku's face.

"Yeah, I use to eat lunch with my old music teacher, and help her out. In return she taught me some stuff." Sora shrugged and smiled at the memories.

Everyone was suddenly interested and Leon smirked, "Do you know how to play any instruments?" Riku asked. Leon already knew the answer and he felt like teasing the smaller brunet.

"Mostly just piano and guitar." Sora said, trying to hide from the others' stares.

"You know some other instruments." Leon butted in.

"Y-yeah, but not very well." Sora distracted himself by playing with the hem of his shirt.

"What other instruments? I play the sitar!" Demyx said excitedly.

"J-just trumpet, violin, drums, and viola, but not very much!" Sora said in a rush.

"Alright, enough messing with Sora. I already called the office, you guys just need to stop by and get passes. Axel, your older brother is working the front desk." Leon said, cocky grin on his face.

"Hey! You helped, and really? Sweet, I get to mess with dear, older brother." Axel stuck his tongue out and Leon flipped him off.

Laughing the group got out of the car. Sora got out first and Riku followed right behind him. Everyone soon followed suit, waving at Leon as he drove off. Riku led the way to the office, his hand on the small of Sora's back to steady him. The group walked into the office, heading straight to the front desk. Yuffie was off duty, probably in class already and in her place was a tall, lanky teen, who had long, bright, red hair.

"Yo, there you are!" The boy smiled, beginning to write passes.

"Hey Reno, this is Sora." Axel smiled, gesturing to Sora.

"The famous Sora?" Reno laughed, looking the small boy up and down, "Damn, I've heard a lot about you from Cloud."

"Really?" Sora's face brightened, this Reno character was automatically okay if he knew Cloud.

"Don't even get me started and what's this about Leon being 'daddy'?" Reno snickered, Shaking his head he continued writing passes. Finishing the passes he handed them out, one to each person. Reno ruffled Sora's hair, "Yo. Heal up quick, okay? Leon said I'm not allowed to mess with ya 'til you're all fixed." He winked.

Sora laughed and everyone began walking towards the main hallway yelling their goodbyes to Reno.

"You ready for another day of hell?" Demyx joked and Roxas groaned.

Riku scoffed, "Yeah right, everything will be okay as long as you don't ever participate in gym again." Riku gave a pointed look at Sora and emphasized the 'ever'.

Sora gave a sheepish smiled before replying, "I won't; I promise!" And Riku let out a sigh of relief,

"Besides, none of us have gym today." Zexion said quietly.

"That's right!" Demyx slapped his forehead, "Duh! We have free block today."

"Oh yeah!" Axel smiled, "Hell yes!"

"Free block?" Sora asked looking up at Riku.

"Free block is basically at the end of the school day where we can leave early, because none of us have classes." Riku said as he went up to Sora's locker and typed in the code.

"Sounds great!" Sora smiled and everyone exchanged looks, winking as Sora grabbed his books; oblivious to their silent agreements. Once everyone had their books, they all split up' Riku, Sora, Roxas, and Zexion all heading towards first block Science with Mr. Vexen.

"Good luck!" Axel screamed, running away, as the group opened their class door and everyone looked at them.


Thanks for reading Chapter Eight! Sorry! Late update, but I hope you liked it! It's a little shorter than I wanted, I've been VERY busy lately. Love you all! Please review with your thoughts and corrections! 3 ~Kristin