This chapter is dedicated to Andrea! Thank you, dearest, for your donation! Lots of love from Roku-chan~!
Author's Note: I'M SO SORRY ITS SO LATE. IM SORRY IM SORRY IM SORRYYY! I've been swamped lately. With Miku stuff. Yes, I said Miku stuff. WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT? (shot)
Chapter 11 is already half done. So proud of myself right now. Sorry for the slow updates.
Chapter 10
My First Kiss Went a Little Like This...
"Stolen kisses require an accomplice. "
"Remind me again why you chose THIS movie?"
The brunette glares over at the silver-headed teen with an irritated look in his eyes. Riku and Sora had rented some chick flick Kairi told them about, 'The Notebook'. All they knew was it was some sob-story about a couple of better-than-average-looking teenagers falling in love like every other stupid teen chick movie out there and that Kairi wouldn't SHUT UP until they forced themselves through it. And, to be totally honest, Sora heard it was good. Part of him wanted to watch it. But he'd never tell Riku that; as if the silverette didn't make fun of him enough...
Said brunette plops the disc in the DVD player and heavily sighs. "We're watching it because Kairi said to."
"Two words for you Sora; lap dog." Riku dryly chuckles, expression never changing from his usual kill-me-now look. "To think, even after the Roxas incident you'd still swoon over her. She doesn't even have to throw you a bone to make you roll over."
...did he just call me a dog?
A blush crept along his cheeks as he threw himself on the couch next to his childhood friend. The leather of the seat was soft against his back as he sunk into it. "What's that supposed to mean? I don't like Kairi like that, and you know it! And no, ESPECIALLY not after the Roxas incident."
Roxas...
His heart skipped a beat at the sound of his name. And not the good way, either. It hurt. Like, a lot. He could almost see the expression that twisted across his face.
"...you okay?"
And, quite frankly, Riku can see it too.
He forced a smile on his face as thick as it could go. "Just fine, why do you ask?"
"Because you look like a fucking Cheshire cat. What up?"
He fought back the urge to just burst into emotion. Instead, he took a fist full of popcorn, shoved it in his mouth, and turned to the screen. Sora could almost feel Riku's death glare. "Nothing. Let's just start the damned movie, already..."
I don't wanna talk about it, isn't it obvious?
Halfway through the movie, Riku totally passed out.
He just dropped dead the second Allie started talking about her feelings for Noah. Not even kidding, there was hardly even a pulse on the kid. For about three seconds, Sora thought he was legally dead. Science says a person can't die of boredom, but Riku proved that theory wrong... CLEARLY. Said brunette, however, forced himself through the entire thing. They'd make jokes and he'd throw a sarcastic chuckle at the characters (who he realizes, due to lack of sensation) that couldn't talk back.
Riku came back around the time Noah and Allie kissed for like, the seven BILLIONTH time in the movie. That was also about the same time he and Sora agreed to shut it off.
The silverette yawned loudly, a bit more dramatically then he initially meant to. "Seriously, who can sit through TWO HOURS of this mushy crap?"
His brunette friend snatches his Dr. Pepper from the table and takes a few long gulps.
"Says the guy who was asleep for three fourths of the movie!" Sora laughs, playfully slapping his friends arm and wincing when Riku hit back. Even when they were just playing, Riku hit HARD. "But I don't blame you. The entire movie was just sob-story, kiss, sex, conflict, resolution, twist, more sex, even MORE sex, old people porn, and look; a happy ending! La-di-freaking-da..."
Okay, both of them had to laugh at that.
"You wish you'd passed out."
"Yeah. I do. That was awful. It was just kissing and old people. Ugh."
"Wow, how romantic." Riku snorted in a sarcastic tone. "If old people porn doesn't get your girlfriend going I don't know what will."
Sora burst into laughter. It was getting harder and harder to finish his Dr. Pepper when Riku was making jokes. "Can't forget the fifteen thousand dramatic first kisses."
"Yeah, how do you have more than one first kiss?" Riku takes a couple fists full of popcorn and shoves them into his mouth. "How many times are you allowed to not count a kiss as your first?"
A kiss is just a kiss, right? If it's your first it's your first.
The brunette shrugs. To be honest he didn't think you could do that. "I dunno."
But I wonder...
Looking over at his friend with a questioning glare, Sora taps him on the shoulder. "Hey, Riku?"
"What?" He manages to breathe out as he gulps down his soda.
"Who was your first kiss?"
Aside from the stifled sound of Riku nearly choking on his Coke, silence flooded the room in a matter of seconds. The friendly aura it had taken so long for Sora to build around Riku shattered just as quickly, and he hated the death glare his best friend was giving him. Sora never liked the quiet, and having Riku there really wasn't helping the cause. Why would he be so sensitive to Sora asking? Was it a secret or something?
Was it someone I know?
"...well?"
Azure met turquoise eyes in a glare that almost looked... lost. But a layer of hope sat thin in his irises. "Why do you care?"
"Because I'm your BEST friend. Emphasis on BEST!" Sora says proud, popping out his chest dramatically with a superhero-like pose. The silverette all but rolled his eyes and it almost looked like he was... blushing? Nothing too noticeable, but his cheeks were definitely pinker than usual.
Seriously, man? I thought you said Riku doesn't blush!
Sora nearly pounced over the couch to get in his face. The rosiness on his cheeks just kept getting darker and more noticeable. Something about it agitated him. "Well? Don't just sit there and blush about it, answer the damned question!"
Is he... embarrassed? Oh that is freaking rich.
The brunette's expression softened as much as it could, and he took in a deep breath before saying, "If it makes you feel any better, I'll tell you my first kiss. It was Roxas. Back when we were dating, remember?"
Like he'd planned, the sudden I-still-wanna-kill-you look took over his face. "Well no shit, even I knew that." He turned his face in the other direction. "I've never kissed anyone before." he stated slowly, not bothering to look Sora in the eyes when he said it.
What? No way. He's gotta be kidding me. The amazing, lady-killer Riku's never kissed a girl before? Complete and udder bull CRAP.
"W-What do you mean?" Sora chuckles nervously. "But you've been with a ton of girls! You've never kissed them?"
Riku just lets out an exasperated sigh. "Nope. I've been saving it for one person. Someone who means a lot to me." As he says this, Sora looks over at him with widened eyes.
So he DOES like someone, does he?
"So... who is it?" Sora scoots closer to him, getting close to his face in attempts to make him look at him. "Does this girl like you back? Have you ever even tried asking her?"
Something about the way Sora had asked it tore a chuckle from Riku's throat. "Yes well..." he chuckled even louder. What was so funny...? "She isn't exactly the smartest girl out there... Might even call her a bit of an idiot."
"If she's really that stupid, what's so great about her?" Sora asks with curious eyes. Maybe it was just Sora, but ditsy girls are the worst...
"We've got history, I guess." he sighs, looking over at his friend. His heart thumps in his chest when he noticed Sora's face so close to his. "And remember that, 'you're-10-meters-too-close-to-Riku' rule we have?"
"What about it?"
"You're breaking it."
As of now, Sora officially HATES Riku's guts. See, when Kairi met up with them later to ask them what they thought, Riku mistook that as an opportunity to tell her how much the movie sucked. You'd think that Mr. Lady-killer Riku would know that when a girl asks for your 'honest opinion', she wants you to lie and fluff up the truth. Seriously. He's been with enough girls to figure that out...
"How can ANYONE hate the Notebook?" she practically screamed in Riku's face. She'd been rambling about how, and I directly quote, 'fantabulastically romantic' the movie was for the past ten minutes. Sora's never seen Riku so annoyed. Seriously.
Oh yeah. If you thought Riku looked pissed before, you'd hate to see his face now. He makes Satan look like NOTHING on the pissy-o-meter.
Kairi sighs, brushes a few strands of hair from her face and crosses her arms tightly against her chest. "I don't get you, Riku... It was so cute. Probably like my favorite movie."
I wonder...
"Hey, Kairi?"
She turns away from her prey. (Riku was fake choking her from a distance in the background...) "Hm?"
"Who was your first kiss?"
Clearly he keeps catching people off guard when he asks that, cause her eyes widened and she stared at him as if he'd just grown a second head on his shoulders. "Um... Roxas. Why do you ask?"
. . . Did she just say Roxas?
"No reason. Just curious... I asked Riku too and- WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT? When was this? How? Why?" He didn't realize how much he was using with hands until he felt the back of his hand collide with Riku's face. That earned him a punch in the neck, of which he admits REALLY hurt.
"Couple years back. Nothing too big. We just wanted to try it." She smiles longingly, twirling a strand of hair around her index finger.
No wonder she likes him so much.
"So... no strings attached, then?"
The red head chuckles, twirls her hair again, and sighs. "Well... I guess not. If there are any feelings they're totally one-sided, I can assure you that."
"Oh. I see."
Suddenly Sora felt... kinda bad for her. He felt like... like he knew how she felt.
Like how Axel probably feels for Roxas.
"I should probably get back to my dorm. You too, Kairi." The brunette yawns, stretching his arms behind his head and forcing out a yawn. "Wouldn't want Nami to get worried, would ya'?" (Not just that, but Sora wanted to ask Roxas about this first hand...)
There was a pause before Kairi spoke.
"Yeah. I guess so."
Why is he always in here...? Sora thought to himself as he opened the door to find Axel sitting on the couch again. Nothing out of the ordinary; the kid practically lived in their dorm anyways... He was next to Roxas, a not-so-subtle arm wrapped around his roommate's shoulders (though he didn't seem to care enough to move away) and both of their feet were on the coffee table. A checkered throw was messily laid across their laps. And no matter what Roxas said, how much he would deny it had Sora pointed it out, he was definitely resting his head on Axel's shoulder. Almost... lovingly.
Hard to believe they're not a couple.
"'sup, Sora?" The red head grinned, slyly pulling Roxas closer to him. Sora rolls his eyes.
"Your sister made Riku and I sit through some chick flick called The Notebook, that's what's up." The brunette runs his fingers through derezzed chocolate spikes and slumps down on his bed, bag and jacket lazily scattered onto the floor. "It was awful. If I had to choose between watching it again or chewing broken glass, I'd probably chow down on a window."
Roxas chuckles. "That bad, eh?"
"See what I live with?" Axel replies.
"Yeah... and you know what's weirder?"
The two teens on the couch look over at him.
"She told me Roxas kissed her."
The death-glare Axel gave Roxas was scarier than Riku's smile. Seriously. There was RAPTURE in those eyes. If I could give World War III a facial expression, it'd be Axel's. "Did he, now?"
"It didn't mean anything. Just a stupid kiss a couple years back. Besides, it wasn't my first or anything. Just wanted to see what it was like to kiss a GIRL."
Something about the way Roxas put emphasis on 'girl' ran a chill up Sora's spine. "If your first kiss wasn't Kairi... who was it?"
"Axel. When I was little, we were joking around." The blonde elbows his friend in the arm. Axel laughs. "It was just an accident. Fell over and whatnot."
Wait... what?
"What do you mean Axel?" Sora snaps, voice coming out as a shocked shriek rather than a manly shout as he'd intended. His roommate all but laughed at him, turning around and smiling.
"No worries. It didn't mean anything. Stupid accident."
Of course, the brunette's eyes automatically shifted to look at Axel. In the past few months he'd been living in his dorm, he'd never seen him look so hurt. Yet at the same time his lips curved into a grin and he chuckled just the same.
"Exactly," the red head nods, teeth biting down on his lip. "Didn't mean a thing."
[A/N: Sora had left to go to the library to cram, leaving Axel and Roxas alone in the dorm.]
"You know I'm still mad at you for stealing my first kiss."
Roxas chuckles, eyes never leaving the TV screen in front of them. Axel throws him a glare and pauses their round of death match to turn and face his friend. Toxic green eyes met oceanic azure as he gazed.
"What, you didn't enjoy it?" he chuckles, resting a hand on Roxas's shoulder as the boy laughed. A smile crept its way onto his lips when he heard Roxas's laughter. His giggles, so cute, rang in his ears and he snickered a little too. Happiness looked best on him...
"No, stupid... why'd you do it anyways?" the blonde laughs, curiosity glazing the oceans of his eyes. Roxas, in Axel's opinion, was beautiful in every meaning of the word.
Calm down. You don't want to lose your cool.
"Just wanted to try it, see if kissing a guy was any different from a girl."
Roxas just nodded, turned his face away and sighed. The red-head all but stared as sunlight beamed on profile. Vanilla skin twinkled, creamy and seemingly soft. The usual azure in his eyes shined three tints brighter; it reminded Axel of the sea... But even worse were the lips that curved into a smile, that parted, so gently, so softly, with every breath he took.
Crap... Just calm down. S-Stop staring. He's your best friend; stop thinking like that. It doesn't matter if his eyes are so captivating. It doesn't matter if his lips are right there.
None of it matters.
You just can't snap.
"You know, Roxas... I enjoyed it."
He couldn't believe the words that forced themselves from Axel's mouth. Roxas turned his head to face him slowly, his eyes hazed in curiosity.
"W-What do you mean by that...?"
Roxas wanted to say something else... but found it impossible with Axel's lips on his own...
Roxas: YOU CHOOSE TO END IT HERE?
Miku: Yep. Suck on that, honey.
Axel:
Xion: I'm not in the school yet... -_-; I thought you said I'd be in by now! Miku-chan! D:
Miku: Nope. No worries, honey. You're coming.
Xion: Good.
Miku: Ice cream, anyone?
(All scream yes)
Miku: Axel gets this one (hands ice cream) and Roxas gets this one (hands ice cream)
Roxas: ...is there a paupou fruit in this?
Miku: ...Whhhaaa? No...
Axel: No way, Roxy. What makes you think that?
Roxas: The point of the star is sticking out the top...?
(Miku and Axel make a hasty exit)
Roxas: AND WHAT WOULD THIS ACCOMPLISH?
Reviews are the Aku to my Roku ;P
Axel: I rather like that one.
Miku: Thought you might, Aku-chan~