I wanted to spare you guys from too much waiting. A short chapter but no more cliffhangers!

Chapter 10

"I'm sorry, Riku," Sora said quietly. His forward-tilted head made the water drip down his bangs. I closed my eyes. I had waited for this but it didn't prevent it from hurting.

"Don't be," I said smiling slightly. "I understand."

Sora lifted his face a bit and looked at me from under his brows with those unique sapphire eyes. "I mean..." he started gulping.

"You don't have to explain, I was waiting for this anyway," I said shaking my head. "I should go now. We'll probably see at school, at least," I continued and turned to leave. I didn't want to see any kind of pitying expression on Sora's face.

I didn't get to take even one step to walk out the brunette's life when something grabbed my arms. I turned around and was surprised to see Sora clinging to my arm.

"Sora, what are-?"

"Just listen to me, Riku," Sora said frowning. "Don't make your own assumptions without hearing my side of the story first."

"But, Sora! I Heard you confess to Kairi!" I exclaimed hoping that the other would loosen his grip so I could run away. I didn't need to hear this.

But instead Sora's grip became tighter as he refused to let go. "J-just listen to me, Riku, I beg of you!"

It made my broken heart ache to hear him sound so pitiful so I couldn't struggle against him anymore. I said nothing and just let him speak.

"I-I know that I confessed to her," Sora started with a shaky voice, still gripping my sleeve. "I was confused and thought that everything would clear out if I started going out with her because she was nice and making moves on me too! I was scared because I knew that my feelings were split in two since I also fancied you a lot. Maybe more than Kairi. I-I fell into denial! I didn't want to believe it! It all made my head swirl in wide circles and I becaume confused."

Sora kept a moment of silence to carefully lift his face to look me in the eyes. I was confused and what he had said didn't seem to want to sink in to my head.

"I did confess to her. But only because I needed to run away from myself. I guess I was using her and it was very wrong. I felt really filthy after that. And Kairi seemed to notice that I wasn't myself because... she turned me down."

I couldn't say anything. I had been sure that Kairi would have defenately to take him.

"You really have an understanding sister," Sora said quietly. "She told me that it was clear that I didn't really like her that way. That I should just realize my own feelings. Then she apologized for using me in her war against you but she would've said yes if I had really meant it."

"Sora, you..." I whispered staring at him in surprise without being able to continue.

"I apologize for being dense and hurting you. But now I see that I like you a lot," Sora said sternly but there was a frown between his eyebrows. "I-... I hope you can forgive me and... and maybe you would like to take this as a confession and go out with me."

I never thought Sora would be the one to finally confuse me to the pointed where I would freeze for five seconds. For that moment I just kept on gaping at Sora while he was getting nervous and flushtered. Then I just couldn't keep it in and chuckled. Sora tilted his head to the side with a qiestioning look on his face. I just thought that he was cute.

"I understand," I said finally. "I forgive you and yeah, I think I can go out with you."

After a moment a smile made it's way on Sora's lips. "Wonderful."

I smiled back at him and finally the heavy rock rolled off my heart that had been repaired so easily by Sora. I could finally breath. My wish had come true and it brought a nice feeling inside of me. I was so happy that I didn't even realize it myself until I had already lifted Sora up with my arms.

"Whoa! Riku! Careful!" he exclaimed in surprise gripping my shoulders. I looked him in the eyes still smiling. He was blushing and flushtered and had problems looking me in the eyes.

"To tell you the truth it has been some time now since I last felt this happy," I said and slowly let his slide down. He was as light weighted as a feather as I had thought.

"O-oh, really?" Sora rambled and hesitated a while before lowering his hands to my collarbone area. There was a brief silence as I still held my hands on his hips as his lingered on my chest. It was awkward, sure. But I was still happy. I never thought that I could someday really stand with Sora like that. Closely, and so that I could touch him so intensively and he would accept it. We looked to each other's eyes and then started laughing.

"Hey, Sora," I said to get the other's attention.

"Yeah?" Sora asked smiling.

"It's already a bit chilly and you're still soaking. Mind if we go now?"

Sora chuckled and was about take off my coat that was still on him but I stopped him. "Leave it. You're colder than I am."

"Alright," he said nodding. Then he took my hand to his and we started to walk to the road to go home.

The rain had stopped...

TBC...

A/N: Happy now? Good

This would be a good last chapter but it'd be rather dissapponting so I'm going to continue.