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Letting himself out Sora ran into Tidus who had just got off of work. That was a REALLY awkward moment, the two just looked at each other so Tidus (still wanting to fix their friendship) decided to greet him,

"Hey buddy. What's up?"

Nothing's up punk. "I just dropped Kairi off. I've gotta run some errands for my mom."

"Ok. Yeah, uh—I've got some cheeseburgers in my car, I was gonna let my little brother have em, but if you want you can take em."

Are you kidding? Me take food from you? HA! "No, man. It's ok." For I fear it may be poison.

"Alright, see you around, Sora." He nodded a bit and then went in the house.

Sora got in his car and drove off. School was starting again the next day so Sora finished up his mother's errands quickly and went home to prepare for school. Just returning to school from a two-week break felt like starting a whole new school year. Everyone comes back with stories to tell that start off, "OMG. Guess what I did…" either that or "I didn't do anything." And they blame their LOSERism on their parents. If someone asks me what I did over winter break what would I reply? "Oh you know, the usual. I took my ex girlfriend to the mall and bought her a bunch of clothes"?

February finally came, Sora and Kairiwere totally psyched for it (the concert). But turns out it was going to be delayed for another few months. That totally bit HARD but it wouldn't kill them to wait a while longer.

A few weeks after the dumb announcement of the minor setback ofthe concert, the horrid day came: Valentine's Day. Crummiest holiday of the year-yet Sora wanted so badly to be able to celebrate it. Seeing as how he was single that wouldn't really be happening anytime soon. It was funny to watch all his friends have anxiety over what to buy for their girlfriends, "Oh man, what do I get her? Roses? Candy? Balloons?" "I don't know." "Or maybe Lingerie. No, no. Then she'd think I was trying to say something…But I AM! ARGH!" hah ha hah ha. Pathetic fools, though secretly I envy you all so much. On the day Yuffie and Sora, both not having a valentine, decided to go watch a scary movie.

Walking out of the theatre now, "That was interesting."

"HA. I thought it was gay." Yuffie snorted, "The boogeyman." She said in a semi-sinister voice.

Sora shook his head at his silly friend who had way too much candy that evening. "Where do you wanna go now?" he asked as they sat on the curb and pretended to wait for a ride(as if that made them look less LOSERish out there).

Yuffie shrugged, "I don't know. What time is it?" Yuffie looked at Sora.

Checking his cell phone he replied, "8:23." The two sat there a while longer and finally decided on just grabbing some burgers and then heading home. The walk home was all right-until it started sprinkling. Yuffie shrieked and dashed under the near by tree. Sora snickered,

"What's wrong with you?"

"I don't like the rain!" Yuffie griped. She looked up at the sky and pouted, "This totally BITES!"

"Ah quit complaining. The rain is fun, besides-it'sonly sprinkling!" Sora walked over to where Yuffie stood and gave her a bear hug on purpose to get water on her. Again she shrieked and then rushed over to another tree. Sora laughed hysterically and then started jumping around in the rain taunting Yuffie to watch out before he pulled her out from under the sheltering tree. Now the sprinkling had come to a full downpour, huge drops of water fell everywhere. Once more Sora tried to convince Yuffie to come out form under the oak tree, "Come on Yuff. Why don't you like the rain?"

The girl narrowed her eyes at him (not being angry with him of course), unfolding her arms now, she shifted her weight onto her right foot and placed her hands on her hips simply replying, "Because, the rain is... wet."

Sora frowned and then burst into laughter, "WOW. how else would the rain be like?" Yuffie furrowed her brows and didn't find it THAT hilarious .He gasped for air and then coming back to his normal state he straightened up and went over to Yuffie, letting her win this squabble. They waited until the rain came to a drizzle and Yuffiefinally agreedto just continue on their way home, because it was already 9:59 then and her curfew was 10.

The irritating alarm clock went off exactly at 6:30. Sora hit the SNOOZE button at least 7 times before he actually got out of bed. It was March now, Sora has been keeping a journal, don't know why—sounds kind of fruity but…he got bored with himself and didn't think it too bad to start one. (Biggest guess, he was high when he thought of the idea).
Journal entry: March 10

Riku's changed a lot (he has a new hairstyle, he cut it for Selphie. He doesn't hang out with us as much, he has the luxury of sitting at the cheerleading table. LUCKY BASTARD! He doesn't dress punkish anymore—he's crossed over and gone to the prep side. Which is ok, just odd cause he's doing it all for someone else and OTHERS to accept him), Kairi and Tidus are still together, me and Kairi only talk like—once every three weeks. Remember those cheeseburgers? Hah ha yes, lucky I stuck with my guts. His brother ate them and got sick for two weeks. Dumb Tidus can't even make cheeseburgers right. How the heck does he expect to work at fast foods for the rest of his life? The guy isn't very smart. I envy him though, for somehow in that dumb head of his—he has the skills to keep a girlfriend for so long. Kairi and me didn't even last three months. He and Kairi have been together for eight. I hate him. Yuffie says I really don't, I only dislike him because he's won my old girlfriend over and I'm, how she explains is, "OOBER JEALOUS of him". Whatever. Selphie is no longer a brunette. Hah ah. Just as I was pointing out before…a lot of the girls are fake and don't walk around with their natural hair color. A cheerleader…hrmm. Can you just GUESS what color she died it? Hah ha. Yes BLONDE. Yuffie had her bellybutton pierced, OUCH, but it looks cool. I joked with her when she showed it to me, "You know what would be even hotter?" "What?" "If you had your nipples pierced." She socked me for that one, though I was totally kidding that wouldn't be bad to see. I mean, the nipple piercing would be kind of extreme but the SHOWING ME part sounds fun. Ha hah. And…the last new thing this month is my brother has decided to get married with Dani.

When Sora arrived at school the first thing he noticed was a new kid. He had black hair gelled into a small mo-hawk. He was wearing a black t-shirt with hot pink skater tag allover it, his Dickies shorts down to his knees and a pair of dirty black chucks. Seems like he also wrote allover it in hot pink ink that stood out brightly. He was sitting on his board outside of the office while his dad talked to the principle in the office. Sora walked up to him and introduced himself.

At last lunch came and Sora introduced Tommy to the rest of his friends. They all seemed to like him and he the same. Yuffie immediately took a certain liking to Tommy, after school Sora and Yuffie were walking towards the front of the school and saw Tommy in the office again. Yuffie rubbernecked through the window until they fully passed it.

"Alright," Sora poked her head, "What's going on in that kinky mind of yours?"

"HEY!" hah ha. "I SO do not have a kinky mind." She was a horrible liar.

Sora gave her a bizarre look. "OK" she admitted, "So I think he's hott. So what?"

"And…?" Sora pushed her to spill.

"ALRIGHT! Geesh. So I'm like, dying to DO HIM. Wouldn't you?"

Sora laughed being sarcastic, "Oh yeah, Yuffie. If I were gay, I'd so do him too." He laughed.

Yuffie poked Sora in the side and he winced, "HEY! Not cool!" he shouted, and then did the same back. The two fooled around childishly until Leon walked out of the Career center and looking at them strangelyasked,

"What the hell are you two doing?"

Sora and Yuffie immediately stopped and tried not to laugh anymore. "Nothing." Yuffie said and poked Sora one last time before she took off running down the hall.

Sora shouted to her, "I'll get you back tomorrow Kisaragi. Watch out!"

Just then the principle walked out and asked, "Was that a threat to another student, young man? You could get into a whole lot of trouble for that kind of language."

"Oh, don't worry sir. We're talking about a rematch to a 'Tickle Fight'." Sora stated as he nodded to Leon and headed towards the parking lot. Before he passed the corner of the bike racks he saw Kairi, she was really upset. It seems she and Tidus had just had an argument. Tidus still at his car trying to call Kairi back. That reminded Sora of their argument. Except that, unlike Sora, Tidus wasn't as stubborn and ran after Kairi. Sora watched, Tidus caught up to her and they talked, and within a minute or two the argument was over. Was that a good thing? No. Sora narrowed his eyes at the sight of them two being happy.

The next day was just as boring as the day before. Besides the rematch-tickle fight, nothing interesting happened. This time Sora won.

"HECK YES!" Sora jumped up, "I won this time. IN YOUR FACE YUFFIE!"

"SO NOT FAIR. You cheated!" Yuffie objected.

"And how did I do that?"

"You—you just did!"

"HA! You've no proof. Besides, I doubt there are ways to cheat in a tickle fight." Sora teased Yuffie until the lunch period ended. The two were just buddies but everyone including their friends agreed that the two liked each other. After school Yuffie gave Sora a ride home (his car was out of gas) and Yuffie brought up the subject.

"Wow. Today Selphie was asking me if you and I were dating. And I was like NO. That's like my little brother!"

Sora interrupted her story "Uh…not quite. I'm not your little brother Yuffie. We're only a month apart."

"Oh shut up Sora. Ha hah. You're KILLING my story here."

"OK. Geesh. I was just pointing that out."

"Yeah, yeah. But like I was saying, that totally WEIRD-ED me out."

Sora laughed. Though feeling kind of odd. That made the thought come to mind, Going out with Yuffie wouldn't be a bad idea, but then again…they were good buddies and-that'd just be weird. He shook his head of the weird thought and then turned to look out the window. The sun was setting and the sky was the three shades of orange, pink and a slight amount of blue that was fading over the orange sky.

Yuffie finally reached Sora's house and he got out of the car. She parked across the street from his house so the driver's side was to the house, Sora walked around the front of the car and then bent down to look into Yuffie's window. "You're really cool."

Yuffie laughed, "Yes. I know..aren't you jealous?"

"Oh yeah, very. Except, i'm still cooler than you are."

"Oh whatever!" Yuffie snorted.

Sora messed up her hair and said, "I'm kidding, Kisaragi." He walked up the trail and steps to his house, as Yuffie yelled out, "I am SO MUCH cooler than you, dummy!" Sora just smiled and waved back to Yuffie. She gave him the "L" (LOSER) sign against her forehead and drove off laughing, She honked loudly before turning her faded sky-blue mustang (convertible) around the corner.

Inside Sora found Cloud and, his wife-to-be, Dani, along side her parents and Sora's mom. He greeted them all and headed upstairs after Cloud introduced him to Dani's parents.

"Your brother doesn't seem to talk much." Sarah stated laughing a bit.

"Actually he does talk a lot. He's just going through his 'teenager' thing."

Upstairs, to his surprise, Sora got a call from Riku.

"Yeah?"

"Sora…"Riku sounded exhausted yet SUPER hyped up.

"Riku? Are you ok?"

"No man. I'm like…SO wasted right now." He oddly laughed at nothing funny.

"Uh…and why?"

He gave a long sigh and it was quiet for a while.

"Uh…Riku? Are you-"?

He was cut off, "Selphie left me."

"Huh?"

"Heh…yeah. Stupid skank. You wanna know why?"

"Riku…"

"She left me for Joel!" the sound of something being hurled across the room and shatter could be heard in the background, "You know him right? That QB on the varsity team."

"Look, Riku, don't do anything stupid. Ok? I'll be there in a few minutes."

"A few minutes? HA! More like FOREVER!"

"What are you talking about, Riku?"

"You're constantly obsessing over Kairi, and she doesn't even want you. You don't even have time for your BEST FRIEND, Sora!"

"You don't know that."

"Oh every one does, Sora."

"Look, you don't know what your saying. I'll be there in a minute or two—don't move."

"So now I'm taking orders from you, too? First my dad, then Selphie…and now YOU?"

"No, I just don't want you hurting yourself."

"WHATEVER! I'll do what I want, FOR ONCE all right! I don't want your help!"

"Then why is it that you call me when you have problems?"

"F-You Sora." –-click-

Sora immediately tried calling back but Riku had called from a pay phone. Sora took his mom's car and drove out to Riku's house. Riku's room was trashed but no sign of Riku anywhere in the house. Later Sora found Riku only across the street passed out by the payphone. He had a bag with his belongings in it—he must have been planning on running away but blacked out. Sora couldn't help but laugh at the effort, Riku was so high—whether he meant those words or not, Riku was still his best friend and he couldn't let Riku lay out there and be mugged, or worse—RAPED.

Riku awoke with a splitting headache and found that he was in bed. He was fully dressed (in yesterday's clothing) and with his shoes on. His clock read: 9:08am Saturday, March 12th. Remembering the things he said yesterday and hearing from his mom that Sora had found him and brought him home, he text messaged Sora and apologized. Nothing changed except Sora's knowledge of Riku feeling left in the dark.

SORRY THIS CHAPTER KIND OF BIT. BUT I'M TOTALLY HAVING WRITER'S BLOCK AND IT BITES HARD!