Chapter 10:

His hopes didn't come true the next day. Cloud came into his room and made him get up and go to school. Sora was standing outside of the front doors, trying to make his feet move forward. He couldn't do it, he couldn't go into those halls knowing Zexion and Axel were in there. When he was bumped into by someone walking by he finally found his feet moving him towards his own person hell.

Everyone's eyes were on him as he made his way over to his locker. He knew they were whispering about him and it just proved someone went around telling about what had happened. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before he closed his locker door. He stood in front of his locker, facing it for a few minutes, before he began to walk towards class.

"Slut." Was whispered as he walked into the class room and his eyes snapped up only to be locked with Axel's angry ones. He wasn't the one who said the word but it still hurt knowing he was sitting there not defending him. Zexion was sitting on the other side of Axel, head down towards the desk ignoring that he was even in the room.

He couldn't make himself walk over to his desk and slowly backed back towards the door. The teacher looked up at him for a moment before telling him to take a seat. Sora only shook his head, still staring Axel right in the eyes before he turned around and fled out of the room.

He didn't care if he was caught out of class as he walked slowly towards the back doors. He wanted to sit in the back of the school until the end of the day, no way he would be able to go home without Cloud finding out. As he sat underneath one of the trees in the back commons the tears started to fall.

He had hoped everything was beginning to change once Zexion and Axel became his friends again. Only this time he didn't figure in Roxas to change it once again. He didn't know what was wrong with the other boy but something was damaged up inside of his head.

When the final bell rung at the end of the day Sora stood up and walked back into the school. As he was about to walk out the front doors he saw Zexion standing outside of the gym doors, looking to be waiting for someone. He slowly walked over to the other boy and stopped right before him.

"Zex." Sora said and saw the other boys head snap up.

"Go away Sora."

"Please let me talk." Sora asked moving slightly closer.

"No. I don't want to hear anything you have to say. I saw you kissing him Sora. Just leave me alone." Zexion started to move away but Sora wasn't going to have any of that.

He quickly grabbed Zexion's arm gently and pulled him to his body. He didn't care who was walking by and seeing what he was doing, he wanted Zexion and he wasn't going to let him go without a fight.

"The only person I want to kiss is in my arms right now. I was trying to push him away but he is stronger than me Zex. Please believe me."

"I think he told you to leave him alone. Let him go." Axel was standing a few feet away, fits balled tightly looking ready to fight.

Sora bowed his head in defeat and let Zexion go. The other boy ran over and threw his arms around Axel who placed a small kiss to his head. Sora felt his mouth fall open and his stomach twist at the small movement.

"I'm sorry. I didn't." He took a breath to calm his nerves before speaking again. "Didn't know you two were together." Sora stepped back a few steps before he felt himself start to cry.

"We were there for each other to comfort. We realized a couple things last night so just leave us alone." Axel stated.

"Fine. I just wish the both of you would have listened to me last night instead of instantly believing Roxas. You both have known him for so long and know what he is capable of. I liked, like you both so much and I thought you trusted me. I guess I was wrong." Sora turned around and fled the school, not looking back once.

A week went by and Sora didn't leave his room. Cloud brought food up to him and tried to talk to him. He tried to force Sora to go to school but he wouldn't move out of his room. He sat in front of his computer researching other school, seeing if there was any place he would feel safer at.

His monitor beeped and he looked up to see a message from Riku sitting in front of his face. He quickly opened it up and almost cried at the words.

Sora,

I'm so sorry for what your step-brother has done to you. I'm taking it that one of those boys is the one you told me about? I was hoping that everything would have worked out better for you there but I can hear it isn't going all that well.

I know that you want to be there, get to know your father, but do you think it is the best place for you after everything you have been through? I have found a great school you may want to check out. It's right on the out skirts of Destiny Islands, which would mean we could see each other.

It's an all-boys academy. Maybe I could even talk my parents into letting me go, of course I wouldn't say you were going to be there but we could be back together again, friends until the end you know?

I enclosed the information for the school so if you decide it is something you would like to consider. Let me know what you decide to do and if you want me to go there to.

Love

Riku.

Riku was basically giving him a way to be back with him, but what about Seifer? Would Riku just up and leave his boyfriend behind and get back with him? Was he even saying he wanted to go back to dating him? Sora was so confused. He decided not to think about Riku but started to look into the school information that was with the message.

It looked good enough, plus there was a zero tolerance policy. He noticed that they had a group for the gay kids on campus, listing the events that they did together and the other stuff they organized. Maybe it was time to go back there, get away from everything that has been going on here, it couldn't get any worse he couldn't help but think.