Hours later, the sun began to set in the horizon. Sora sat by himself on the beach near the bridge and Paopu Island looking out at the sea, hoping that Riku's head would pop out from the calm water. Everyone else was finishing the last touches for the party.
They decided to use Paopu Island as the place to hang out and have a one. Although it was small, it was just enough room for them to dance. Tiki torches were planted into the beach's sand, all lined up in a row to create a path towards the pier.
Sora could hear music being played from overhead and saw that Selphie and Kairi were dancing around like fairies or something. Tidus and Wakka were both laying out the food and putting out chairs.
"Oh, that Riku. Where is he? He's suppose to be helping us set up for Sora's birthday!" Selphie complained.
"I saw him earlier today here on the Island, but I don't know what happened to him after that." Tidus said.
"I'll show him a piece of my mind when he gets here." Selphie said.
"Calm down, Selphie." Kairi told her friend. "I'm sure he has a perfectly ---"
"Perfectly good reason or no, he still skipped out in helping. Well, if he doesn't want to set up, we'll have him do all the clean-up work." An evil smirk had settled on her lips.
"That's if he doesn't beat the living hell out of you first." Tidus said with a smirk.
"Hey!" Selphie's grin had disappeared and a glare was thrown in the blond haired boy's direction. "He wouldn't do that to a lady."
"Lady or no, he'd still do it... Just like all the other times." Tidus returned quickly.
'Riku...' Sora thought as he was unaware of the arguement coming from above. He laid back against the cooled sand as the sea nipped at his feet. He stared up at the mixture of colors in the sky. The clash of hues looked like a war going on, different shades of blue trying to regain the sky from the pinks, purples, and oranges. Of course, the victor was pretty obvious.
"Oi, wa's the matt'r wid Sora? He's been sittin' on the beach practically all day like dat." Wakka asked in a whisper. (A/N: Woot, Wakka's talking in ebonics! ^^;)
"Don't know. He seems sad about something." Kairi said.
"Why in God's name would he be sad? It's his birthday!" Selphie said in the middle of her and Tidus's arguement.
The teenager snapped out his gaze and tilted his head to the left, looking up at his friends from below. Everyone froze as they all they exchanged glances. He turned away as he resumed his gaze at the sky again, sighing as he pondered about the episode with Riku. 'If they only knew. I guess I have been a bit of a downer today. I'm sure Riku'll show up sooner or later, though. He wouldn't miss my birthday afterall, would he?'
"Oi, Sora! Ya ready ta get dis' party goin'?" Wakka asked.
Sora nodded to his friend as he got up from the sand. "Of course!" he replied while he shook some of the golden substand from his hair. He jumped up to grab a hold of Wakka's and Tidus's extended hands. Giving them one of his cute goofy smiles, he said, "Let's party!"
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Overall, the party was a blast. Kairi, Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka did a good job of decorating. They wrapped little Christmas-like lights around the Paopu trees and different colors of streamers hung down from their tops. Four Tiki torches formed a boundary around the little island.
Most of their conversations were about old memories, they played some games, and danced whenever a slow song came on from Selphie's portable boombox. This got Sora's mind off of Riku for the most part, but every time somebody would mention him, he'd grow even more worried and more anxious to see the silver-haired boy.
Finally, it was time for him to blow out the candles on his birthday cake. It was a white icicing cake with little sprinkles all over it. There was a picture of his face with a cheesy smile in the middle, and fifteen candles were placed above the words "Happy Birshday, Sora!! ^^;" (A/N: Can you all just imagine this like I can?)
"Heh," Selphie said with one of her hands behind her head, "sorry about the spelling."
Sora just shook it off. He didn't care much. 'Where is Riku?'
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Sora! Happy birthday to you! Yay!" They all sang.
Sora leaned forward to where his chin almost touched the cake. He stared into the flames before he blew out his candles.
"And many more on channel four! And Scooby-doo on channel two! And Frankenstein on channel nine!" a voice chimed in just as Sora was about to exhale a big breath.
Everyone looked up to see Riku walking down the bridge. He noticed the food that was laid out and grabbed a chip as he walked past, and strode over to the group of teenagers. Sora broke in a smile as the rest of them laughed as they joined Riku and added, "Happy 15th Birthday, Sora!"
Closing his eyes and pausing for a moment, Sora finally took a deep breath, and blew out his candles.
"Yay!!!"
Sora and Riku looked at each other and smiled. 'I'm glad you're here.' Sora thought.
"Oi, now time to open yer presents, ya?" Wakka said as he handed Sora a small box. Finally tearing his eyes from the teal pools, he looked at the present in his hands and Wakka. He ripped off the blitzball wrapping paper and opened a small white box. Inside was a bicycle-chain necklace, to add on to his, now, big collection around his neck.
"Sweet, thanks a lot, Wakka!" he said as he threw the new item around his neck. The moment he did, he realized how heavy the chains were getting every year. 'I really need to get rid of some of them..'
"Looks good on you, ya?"
Next, Kairi came up to him with a soft smile on her face. "Here ya go!"
The present was in a square shape, only one thing could be behind the red 'Happy Birthday!' wrapping paper. Sora took it off and found the new System of a Down CD. "Yay! Thanks, Kairi!" He said as he gave her a hug.
Tidus came up to him and handed him a larger box than his last two presents. "Happy Birthday, Sora." He said. "Heh, sorry about the wrapping paper...it's kind of for a younger kid."
Sora smiled at him and took off the puppy wrapping paper. "Whoa! A digital camera?!" he looked at the blonde next to him. "Tidus, you shouldn't have!"
Tidus only shrugged. "It wasn't that much. I got it off of E-Bay."
Everyone sweatdropped.
Sora flashed him one of his smiles. "Well, thanks anyways, man."
Tidus nodded his head as Selphie shoved him out of the way. "Happy Birs'day!!" She exclaimed with a large smile.
Sora sweatdropped. He had to admit that he was kind of afraid of what Selphie got him THIS year, and the Christmas wrapping paper was making him wonder even more. Last year she had gotten him a "Dummy's Guide to Winning Anything Against Anyone." The year before that she'd gotten him a perfume bottle because she said it'd give him good luck in the his lovelife. The year before that one, it was an autographed photo of herself. Yeah, Selphie gave him some weird gifts, but he knew that they were from the heart... at least, that's the excuse he came up with.
"I'm sorry about the wrapping paper too. I forgot to buy some 'Happy Birthday' ones."
"S'ok." He tore off the wrapping and was now holding a book with cloud designs all over it. He read on the cover: "Book about your Dreams." 'It isn't that bad. At least it's not a condom or something.' Sora smiled at his hopeless romantic friend. "Thanks a lot, Selphie."
"No problem!" She said with a wink.
"Hey Riku, where's your present?" Tidus wondered.
Sora looked over at the male.
"I'll wait to give it to you later." Riku said directly at the birthday boy.
"Ok." Sora said with a nod.
Everyone else had a suspicious look on their faces, but forgot about it when, 'U Got It Bad' started playing.
"Oi, Wakka, com're!" Selphie said as she dragged the poor orange-haired boy to the middle of the Island a.k.a. "the dancefloor." She smiled big while Wakka had a face kind of like this: ^^|;
"Hey Sora, you wanna dance?" Kairi asked.
Sora smiled. "Sure."
Riku was now leaned up against the bent Paopu tree, watching his two best friends intentively as they slowly spun around in a circle. 'They would've made a nice couple.' he thought to himself.
"So, Riku, where ya been all day?" Tidus asked. "Selphie was having a fit earlier."
"Getting Sora's present." he replied without taking his eyes off of the two brunettes who were talking among themselves.
"Yeah? What'd you get him that took ALL DAY?"
Riku just shrugged. "You'll hear about it later."
"Come on, you can tell me. I may not be as close to you as Sora and Kairi are, but I can keep a secret." he began to take a drink of his Coke.
Riku eyed his friend from the corner of his eye. "I've been study on how many ways to fuck him." trying to make it sound as serious as he could.
Tidus spat out his Coke. "WHAT?!"
Riku laughed. "Tidus, I was kidding." he continued to laugh some more. "Whoa, you should've seen the look on your face, man! That was totally priceless!"
"Heh, very funny, Riku." Tidus said sarcasically as he wiped some of the Coke off of his chin.
"Sorry, I just had to take it. You were so serious." he looked over at his friends again and smiled in Kairi's direction.
"So what DID you get Sora? Seriously now, no jokes." Tidus took another sip.
"You'll find out."
"How?"
"You'll read it in Sora's livejournal."
"Yeah right ---"
"His confused_puppy one." he said with a wink.
Tidus's eyes widened. "Wait, how'd you? Where? What?"
Riku only grinned.
"Wait, how do you feel about it?"
Glancing over at Sora, Riku only said, "You'll find out."
Before Tidus could say anything else, Riku had already walked away from him. 'He knows???'
Riku walked up to Kairi and Sora. The both of them looked up at him.
"Can we help you?" Sora asked in a cute little voice.
"You mind if I steal you away for a little bit?" he glanced over at Kairi, "Sorry, Kairi."
Sora blushed a little and then looked at Kairi.
She only stared blankly back at him as she released her grip from around his neck. She stood dumbfounded as she watched both of her best friends walk away. Tidus stood next to her. "What's going on?"
"Not sure." he brought her arms over his shoulders and around his neck as he placed his hands around her small waist. "Whatever it is, I've gotta tell ya something."
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Woot, that was another crappy chapter. Where is Riku taking Sora? What DID Riku get Sora for his birthday anyways? Dun dun dun! I'll have the final chapter up within a few days, so tell me what you think and stay tuned! ^_~ Ja!
They decided to use Paopu Island as the place to hang out and have a one. Although it was small, it was just enough room for them to dance. Tiki torches were planted into the beach's sand, all lined up in a row to create a path towards the pier.
Sora could hear music being played from overhead and saw that Selphie and Kairi were dancing around like fairies or something. Tidus and Wakka were both laying out the food and putting out chairs.
"Oh, that Riku. Where is he? He's suppose to be helping us set up for Sora's birthday!" Selphie complained.
"I saw him earlier today here on the Island, but I don't know what happened to him after that." Tidus said.
"I'll show him a piece of my mind when he gets here." Selphie said.
"Calm down, Selphie." Kairi told her friend. "I'm sure he has a perfectly ---"
"Perfectly good reason or no, he still skipped out in helping. Well, if he doesn't want to set up, we'll have him do all the clean-up work." An evil smirk had settled on her lips.
"That's if he doesn't beat the living hell out of you first." Tidus said with a smirk.
"Hey!" Selphie's grin had disappeared and a glare was thrown in the blond haired boy's direction. "He wouldn't do that to a lady."
"Lady or no, he'd still do it... Just like all the other times." Tidus returned quickly.
'Riku...' Sora thought as he was unaware of the arguement coming from above. He laid back against the cooled sand as the sea nipped at his feet. He stared up at the mixture of colors in the sky. The clash of hues looked like a war going on, different shades of blue trying to regain the sky from the pinks, purples, and oranges. Of course, the victor was pretty obvious.
"Oi, wa's the matt'r wid Sora? He's been sittin' on the beach practically all day like dat." Wakka asked in a whisper. (A/N: Woot, Wakka's talking in ebonics! ^^;)
"Don't know. He seems sad about something." Kairi said.
"Why in God's name would he be sad? It's his birthday!" Selphie said in the middle of her and Tidus's arguement.
The teenager snapped out his gaze and tilted his head to the left, looking up at his friends from below. Everyone froze as they all they exchanged glances. He turned away as he resumed his gaze at the sky again, sighing as he pondered about the episode with Riku. 'If they only knew. I guess I have been a bit of a downer today. I'm sure Riku'll show up sooner or later, though. He wouldn't miss my birthday afterall, would he?'
"Oi, Sora! Ya ready ta get dis' party goin'?" Wakka asked.
Sora nodded to his friend as he got up from the sand. "Of course!" he replied while he shook some of the golden substand from his hair. He jumped up to grab a hold of Wakka's and Tidus's extended hands. Giving them one of his cute goofy smiles, he said, "Let's party!"
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Overall, the party was a blast. Kairi, Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka did a good job of decorating. They wrapped little Christmas-like lights around the Paopu trees and different colors of streamers hung down from their tops. Four Tiki torches formed a boundary around the little island.
Most of their conversations were about old memories, they played some games, and danced whenever a slow song came on from Selphie's portable boombox. This got Sora's mind off of Riku for the most part, but every time somebody would mention him, he'd grow even more worried and more anxious to see the silver-haired boy.
Finally, it was time for him to blow out the candles on his birthday cake. It was a white icicing cake with little sprinkles all over it. There was a picture of his face with a cheesy smile in the middle, and fifteen candles were placed above the words "Happy Birshday, Sora!! ^^;" (A/N: Can you all just imagine this like I can?)
"Heh," Selphie said with one of her hands behind her head, "sorry about the spelling."
Sora just shook it off. He didn't care much. 'Where is Riku?'
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Sora! Happy birthday to you! Yay!" They all sang.
Sora leaned forward to where his chin almost touched the cake. He stared into the flames before he blew out his candles.
"And many more on channel four! And Scooby-doo on channel two! And Frankenstein on channel nine!" a voice chimed in just as Sora was about to exhale a big breath.
Everyone looked up to see Riku walking down the bridge. He noticed the food that was laid out and grabbed a chip as he walked past, and strode over to the group of teenagers. Sora broke in a smile as the rest of them laughed as they joined Riku and added, "Happy 15th Birthday, Sora!"
Closing his eyes and pausing for a moment, Sora finally took a deep breath, and blew out his candles.
"Yay!!!"
Sora and Riku looked at each other and smiled. 'I'm glad you're here.' Sora thought.
"Oi, now time to open yer presents, ya?" Wakka said as he handed Sora a small box. Finally tearing his eyes from the teal pools, he looked at the present in his hands and Wakka. He ripped off the blitzball wrapping paper and opened a small white box. Inside was a bicycle-chain necklace, to add on to his, now, big collection around his neck.
"Sweet, thanks a lot, Wakka!" he said as he threw the new item around his neck. The moment he did, he realized how heavy the chains were getting every year. 'I really need to get rid of some of them..'
"Looks good on you, ya?"
Next, Kairi came up to him with a soft smile on her face. "Here ya go!"
The present was in a square shape, only one thing could be behind the red 'Happy Birthday!' wrapping paper. Sora took it off and found the new System of a Down CD. "Yay! Thanks, Kairi!" He said as he gave her a hug.
Tidus came up to him and handed him a larger box than his last two presents. "Happy Birthday, Sora." He said. "Heh, sorry about the wrapping paper...it's kind of for a younger kid."
Sora smiled at him and took off the puppy wrapping paper. "Whoa! A digital camera?!" he looked at the blonde next to him. "Tidus, you shouldn't have!"
Tidus only shrugged. "It wasn't that much. I got it off of E-Bay."
Everyone sweatdropped.
Sora flashed him one of his smiles. "Well, thanks anyways, man."
Tidus nodded his head as Selphie shoved him out of the way. "Happy Birs'day!!" She exclaimed with a large smile.
Sora sweatdropped. He had to admit that he was kind of afraid of what Selphie got him THIS year, and the Christmas wrapping paper was making him wonder even more. Last year she had gotten him a "Dummy's Guide to Winning Anything Against Anyone." The year before that she'd gotten him a perfume bottle because she said it'd give him good luck in the his lovelife. The year before that one, it was an autographed photo of herself. Yeah, Selphie gave him some weird gifts, but he knew that they were from the heart... at least, that's the excuse he came up with.
"I'm sorry about the wrapping paper too. I forgot to buy some 'Happy Birthday' ones."
"S'ok." He tore off the wrapping and was now holding a book with cloud designs all over it. He read on the cover: "Book about your Dreams." 'It isn't that bad. At least it's not a condom or something.' Sora smiled at his hopeless romantic friend. "Thanks a lot, Selphie."
"No problem!" She said with a wink.
"Hey Riku, where's your present?" Tidus wondered.
Sora looked over at the male.
"I'll wait to give it to you later." Riku said directly at the birthday boy.
"Ok." Sora said with a nod.
Everyone else had a suspicious look on their faces, but forgot about it when, 'U Got It Bad' started playing.
"Oi, Wakka, com're!" Selphie said as she dragged the poor orange-haired boy to the middle of the Island a.k.a. "the dancefloor." She smiled big while Wakka had a face kind of like this: ^^|;
"Hey Sora, you wanna dance?" Kairi asked.
Sora smiled. "Sure."
Riku was now leaned up against the bent Paopu tree, watching his two best friends intentively as they slowly spun around in a circle. 'They would've made a nice couple.' he thought to himself.
"So, Riku, where ya been all day?" Tidus asked. "Selphie was having a fit earlier."
"Getting Sora's present." he replied without taking his eyes off of the two brunettes who were talking among themselves.
"Yeah? What'd you get him that took ALL DAY?"
Riku just shrugged. "You'll hear about it later."
"Come on, you can tell me. I may not be as close to you as Sora and Kairi are, but I can keep a secret." he began to take a drink of his Coke.
Riku eyed his friend from the corner of his eye. "I've been study on how many ways to fuck him." trying to make it sound as serious as he could.
Tidus spat out his Coke. "WHAT?!"
Riku laughed. "Tidus, I was kidding." he continued to laugh some more. "Whoa, you should've seen the look on your face, man! That was totally priceless!"
"Heh, very funny, Riku." Tidus said sarcasically as he wiped some of the Coke off of his chin.
"Sorry, I just had to take it. You were so serious." he looked over at his friends again and smiled in Kairi's direction.
"So what DID you get Sora? Seriously now, no jokes." Tidus took another sip.
"You'll find out."
"How?"
"You'll read it in Sora's livejournal."
"Yeah right ---"
"His confused_puppy one." he said with a wink.
Tidus's eyes widened. "Wait, how'd you? Where? What?"
Riku only grinned.
"Wait, how do you feel about it?"
Glancing over at Sora, Riku only said, "You'll find out."
Before Tidus could say anything else, Riku had already walked away from him. 'He knows???'
Riku walked up to Kairi and Sora. The both of them looked up at him.
"Can we help you?" Sora asked in a cute little voice.
"You mind if I steal you away for a little bit?" he glanced over at Kairi, "Sorry, Kairi."
Sora blushed a little and then looked at Kairi.
She only stared blankly back at him as she released her grip from around his neck. She stood dumbfounded as she watched both of her best friends walk away. Tidus stood next to her. "What's going on?"
"Not sure." he brought her arms over his shoulders and around his neck as he placed his hands around her small waist. "Whatever it is, I've gotta tell ya something."
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Woot, that was another crappy chapter. Where is Riku taking Sora? What DID Riku get Sora for his birthday anyways? Dun dun dun! I'll have the final chapter up within a few days, so tell me what you think and stay tuned! ^_~ Ja!
