1984
-Sora-
"Sora, these grades are simply just not acceptable." His mother took a shot of Jaeger.
Sora looked down at the floor, standing at attention, like he was supposed to while his parents scolded him.
"You have a C on your interim report card. Have you been slacking off again?" She took a sip of her wine. " I bet you were in your room reading those stupid comic books again."
"Momma, it's only a point away I can get it up again. There was a really hard test-"
"I don't wanna hear it. You're grounded for the rest of the quarter until the rest of the quarter of school."
"But what if I bring home my grade next week and it's a B?" Sora tried to negotiate with his mother.
"It doesn't matter, Sora. You were lazy and now you have to pay the price. You are so much smarter than this. When your father was in law school-" Here we go again. " He was the top of his class with a 4.0 GPA and was the president of a club while working 40 hours a week. What is your excuse?"
"Algebra is really hard."
His mother snuffed his opinion and took another sip of her wine. "Don't care. You are better than this how could you allow yourself to become this lazy. Do you not care about your future? Ivy league colleges like Dartmouth don't want no C student. You are going to be a doctor just like me but better especially if your father and I are supporting you while you go. You obviously don't care about us or your future!"
"I'm sorry mom." He said quietly.
"If you were sorry, you wouldn't have done it in the first place. Go to your room, if I see another comic in your hands at all this quarter, I'll burn it. You got that?" She took another shot.
When his father got home he got yelled at again for another hour before they allowed him to go to his room. Sora locked the door when he finally got to his room. His safe haven. Though, it was short lived since his parents started blasting music in the basement, and Sora's room was apart of the basement. He wasn't going to get any sleep that night. His phone rang in his room. He picked it up and the chord kept getting tangled around his arm.
"Hello, Day residence."
"Sora!"
"Tidus?" Sora asked as the chord started to tangle around his chair.
"Yeah, man, what are you doing tonight?" in the background he heard giggling girls and Wakka telling a story.
"Well, I was going to read some comics-"
"Dude! Come on, we're coming to get you! Get your nose out of the comic, nerd, we're going to a club downtown!"
"We're thirteen."
"Dude this place doesn't ask for ID and are persuaded quite well with money. I got my brother to drive! Stop making excuses! I heard you got a C on your interm, your grounded already for the quarter, what else are they going to do to ya?"
"Kill me." Sora said flatly.
"Quit bitching. We got the girls here and we're having a good time." Sora faintly heard his cousin in the background.
"Is Kairi there with you!?" Sora squawked. "Put her on the phone!"
There was a moment of shuffling. "Yello."
"Kai, what are you doing there?" Sora asked sternly.
"What? I might get a chance with you-know-who," She had that voice again, it was starting to get coy and playful. "If you don't come, who's going to keep an eye on me?" she sang the last part. Her voice got lower and more sincere. "Please Sora, I really like him."
Sora massaged his head and groaned. "Fine."
"Tubular! We're on our way now! See ya in about ten minutes!"
"Kairi wait-!" She already hung up.
Sora sighed and put his phone back on the jack. He really didn't want to go, but his cousin was going and he wasn't going to leave her alone with dweedle-dee and dweedle-dumb (Tidus and Wakka).
"Why does my cousin have to like a moron?" he slipped on a shirt and hid his comics so his mom wouldn't find them.
He snuck upstairs easily since his parents were too plastered to notice. Sora shook his head in disappointment and continued on upstairs where his crew was already waiting. Tidus popped out of the car first.
"Come on, Queens city awaits!"
Sora gathered up her courage and walked to the car door. The radio blared Michael Jackson as they sped off. Ten miles over the speed limit, Tidus and Wakka passing weed, Sora and Kairi passed but the car soon turned into a hotbox. It stunk but the kids were getting rowdy and laughing harder. Kairi went over to whisper to Sora's ear.
" I didn't know they had drugs, Sora. I don't like this." she said worried.
"It's okay Kairi, I'll drive us home, I did it plenty of times for my parents." he whispered back in her ear.
Sora noticed that Tidus' brother was drinking alcohol while driving and Sora became more worried. He looked over at his cousin, she was dressed in her best clothes and she looked beautiful but her face was stained with worry and dismay. Sora grabbed her hand reassuring her, "We're not getting into this car again, I'll use my money to get us a cab." Perks of being rich.
The car stopped in the bad part of the city. A cab wasn't going to come to this part of time at night.
"Fuck." Sora whispered under his breath.
How were they going to manage to un-fuck themselves tonight? Tidus' brother passed out in the car and he was a big linebacker for varsity football, there was no way him and his cousin would be able to move his ass. As the group of morons left for the club, Sora and kairi followed behind.
"There's probably a pay phone in there." he whispered to her cousin.
The neon lights read 'Usual Spot' the music vibrated through their bodies and they could hardly think. Sora and Kairi asked the ticket woman if there was a phone inside. She chew on her gum and looked at the kids with scrutiny. "We do, but you need to pay us 8 bucks to get inside." They paid.
"Who are we gonna call? My parents are in Aspen this week."
"What about Dorothy?"
"She lives in Kansas now, remember?"
"Shit. I guess we'll have to wait for Tidus' brother to sober up a bit so we can move him."
They sat in the corner. Making sure his cousin was away from prying eyes. Sora saw it plenty of times before not to mention what happened when she was babysitting the Hillard's kids, the father tried to touch Kairi but she was smart enough to keep his hands away from her. They tried to tell their parents, but they don't want to hear about that, especially since the Mr. Hillard owned a lot of stores in the city. It felt like it was Kairi and him against the world a lot. He was worried for Ventus, mom and dad drank so much what will happen when he's gone to college and Ven has to face them on his own? Ventus would be eight when he goes to college. His mind started to wonder again until he heard someone singing.
This guy was playing the guitar and singing. His hair was long and silver and his fingers blurred as he played and the way he sang, it felt like electric. It was raw and full of warmth...This guy rocked his world and he never wanted him to stop. He looked in Sora's direction and his smiled. Sora's face lit up. He had to meet this guy. He was singing the song "Melt with you" By Modern English.
"Oh my Gosh! I love this song! It's from Valley Girl!" Kairi squealed.
The song ended.
"Give it up for Riku Fields! This kid is only 15 and can sing no other! The canary of white trash! Send this kid some love!" The audience applauded. "Here's your cash kid, I hope it's enough to bail out your dad." The boy counted the 20s and smiled and thanked the man. "getcha something to drink."
"Thanks Cid." The boy smiled and Sora's heart raced. He was cute.
Sora found himself right in front of the boy, gawking at him. Though, he found himself walking into someone and that someone was not friendly.
"Watch where you're fucking going you little shit! You spilled my beer all over me!" the man yelled at him.
Sora backed away. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to I swear."
The drunk man walked closer to him. Sora felt his stomach drop. This was not good.
"Mac leave the kid alone, and quit bitching about your spilt horse piss!" It was the guy! Riku gave the drunk guy a twenty and the man grumbled and moved on. Riku shook his head at the drunk and whispered under his breath 'fucking useless piece of shit'. The boy looked at him with a scrutinizing look before he spoke, "Why the hell are you here, dude? Shouldn't you be at the country club or something? A kid like you is going to get shot in this area." Riku gave Sora his drink, it was a Pepsi.
Sora took a drink, "Well, to be honest, we were dragged here by our friends."
"We?" Riku raised his eyebrow.
"My cousin and I. The driver got drunk and passed out in the driver seat. he's a 400 pound linebacker. We can't move him." Kairi came by and grabbed onto Sora's arm.
"Hey dude, your singing is pretty awesome! But I must ask, do you know how we can hail a cab?"
Riku chuckled. It was a cute laugh that made Sora feel heat come to his cheeks.
"Little lady, a cab wouldn't dare coming out to this area even if you paid him double." He looked like he was contemplating something for a moment before looking at up at them. "Hey, I know a guy who can take ya'll home. Don't let the tatts fool ya, he's a teddy bear."
"Tatts?" Sora asked apprehensively. Kairi elbowed him.
"We'll take it." they both looked at each other and nodded.
"Pretty close huh?"
"Yeah, he's only here because I'm here, if it was up to him he would be closed up in his room reading his nerd books." She make a goofy face as she prodded her cousin with her elbow again.
"Don't dis Marvel." Sora said flatly.
Kairi winked and stuck out her tongue.
"Oh really? Who's your favorite superhero?" Riku asked.
"Captain America. Yours?"
"I would have to say Ironman."
"Hey man, hellva performance!" A redheaded guy with teardrop tattoos approached Riku and wrapped his arm around his shoulder. "Next time, lemmie know so I can join the glory."
Riku smirked and snickered and pushed his arm off, "Piss off."
The redhead caught us in his attention and smiled, "Little far away from the country club ain't ya?"
Sora and Kairi forced a smile.
"Ax, I have a favor to ask you." Riku made his voice a little bit more serious.
The redhead stood up a little more straighter,. "Yeah, man, what's up?"
"Can you take these two home to.. where do ya'll live?"
"Twilight Town, in Radiant Garden county." Sora spoke up.
"Ah, good, we're from that area too." Riku smiled and whispered 'thank god' under his breath.
"Yeah I got this man. Keep on hustling, there's some yuppies playing pool, I'm sure you can get a couple of bucks from them."
Riku pat his shoulder, "Thanks for the tip and thanks for taking them home."
"No problem man, I'll come and get you too when I get them where they need to be." The redhead smiled.
Riku left before Sora could thank him. Why should he trust this guy? His gut didn't stir like it did when he got in the car with Tidus.
"Okay, what is ya'lls names? My name is Axel and I shall be your magic carpet ride tonight." He did an over exaggerated bow.
Kairi seemed charmed by Axel. "It's a pleasure to meet you, My name is Kairi, and this is my cousin Sora."
He held his hand out and Kairi went to shake it and he softly grabbed it and gave it a light kiss. "Aun chante, miss Kairi" He said in a horrible french accent, Kairi giggled more. He looked over at Sora and smiled. "Welp, Looks like I've hit the gold, I'm escorting two cuties back home."
Sora's face became red. What kind of man just outwardly says that about a girl and a guy? Kairi only laughed more.
"I like this guy. He's pretty brazen." Sora smiled, he had to agree. He genuinely felt comfortable around Axel and especially Riku.
They left the club and got in an old school 70's van, with a trippy mural on it and everything.
"I call her, The Rolling Turd. She's a pain in the ass, but she'll take you where you need to be." He unlocked the car and the door creaked horribly as he opened it up. Kairi jumped in immediately.
"Sora, come on! The Rolling Turd calls for you!" she smiled.
Sora took one last look at their Usual Spot, he had to find that guy again. Somehow.
The ride was long, but not boring. Kairi and Axel were talking up a storm, we even got some food too, Axel insisted on paying, saying that the company was enough payment for him. Kairi's eyes would light up as she spoke to him. Her eyes never lit up like that for anyone. She was radiant and the way Axel looked at her. Pure adoration. Sora could feel his face get warm because of the energies bouncing off of them, like passionate fire between a couple of firecrotches. Heh, it worked for them.
Sora looked out the window; they were close to home, Twilight Ridge Woods was in sight.
And for a second he could have sworn he saw someone there in white watching them.
Authors note: Thanks guys for all the reviews, follows and favorites! It really makes my day better!
Here ya go! Sora and Riku meeting for the first time!
i love making flashbacks!
i love my 80's kids
Oh by the way Axel is 16.. Why are all of these children out when they should be in bed!?
more to come!
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RainbowColoredTurds.