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Chapter Four:
Purple Shit Flavor

Westburna Apartment Building

 "SICK? SICK! I can't be SICK! I haven't been sick since I was 12 years old!" I cried as Leon stood there staring at the thermometer. I was sitting on my bed this morning groaning. I felt horrible and Leon had felt my forehead. He'd said I was way to hot to be normal and found a thermometer.

"Well according to this you're sick." He said and I groaned. The bent plastic stick said, '100.45.' That couldn't be right! It was Thursday. I had both school and work today and I was SICK! I looked at Leon's face, his black eye almost gone, and wanted to strangle him. I didn't blame him or anything, it's just if I strangled him I'd feel a lot better.

I damn near wanted to cry too. Nothing was seeming to go my way anymore...oh wait it never did before either. I felt Leon grab my head and pulled me close and I leaned my head against his stomach. NO, don't you dare think it or I'll stalk and kill you. We hated to admit it but at times we actually cared about the other. This was his way of showing comfort.

"You want me to stay home today?" He asked and I shook my head.

"Nah, you've already missed one day this week you don't need to miss another one. Just do me a favor and get me some medicine to put me in a coma while you're out today." I said and he nodded.

"Alright but I have my phone with me so if you need me just ring, okay?" He asked and I nodded again and pulled away and ducked under the covers. I knew he was smiling down at me and then I heard him clunk out of the room and then heard the front door shut. Don't tell Leon this but I kind of wish he had stayed. I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep.

Pharmacy: Later that Afternoon

 I stared at the rack. I think Riku just had a regular cold course I wasn't a doctor. I kind of felt sorry for my buddy but this was working out great. Tonight when 'Black Leather' came in I'd talk to him and explain to him that I want him dating Riku just as much as he did. Well sort of. To tell the truth I wanted to date Riku myself but I knew if we did all we'd end up doing is fighting...course we already do that.

When Riku and I first started to live together at L.T.U. we had realized quickly that the other didn't feel like talking very much and it was there that we started the basis of our friendship. It had started as a 'don't talk to me unless you have to' friendship. It then grew into 'we can talk to each other but we probably aren't going to' friendship. From there we hit 'you're not so bad cause you're like me.' Then that evolved into 'I'm willing to talk and share my secrets but you tell anyone and I'll kill you.' It's changed more since then but I wasn't sure what it had changed into.

In time I had realized how cool Riku is. Not to mention that hot body of his. I had at one point thought maybe I should ask him out and then realized that it probably wouldn't work out. Riku and I may be alike but we were also very different. Riku was more anti-social than I am and he didn't really know how to have fun. I wasn't surprised. He grew up helping his uncle in a garage all day or staring at a computer screen.

Thanks to his uncle, Riku knew a car inside and out. His uncle believed in hard work and Riku liked to fix things and therefore it went hand in hand. Then Riku's parents wanted him back and since he hadn't seen his uncle. Riku had been hoping that he would see his uncle at his mother's funeral but he hadn't shown up. Probably out of spite for his sister.

I walked back out of the store with my purchase and started back for the apartment. Because Riku and I made little money we couldn't buy a car. It was fine by us really. No traffic for us. Course even if we could afford a car I'm sure that Riku would hardly use it. He didn't get that skinny from sitting around. Course the fact that he usually ate salad didn't help either. Riku didn't have washboard abs or anything. His stomach was soft and gentle.

You may ask how I know this. It was a little while after I had realized how much I liked Riku...

"Damn it Leon! I asked you to go grocery shopping. I do everything else around here. Can't you at least do that?!" Riku was bitching at me about the grocery list. He'd had a really bad day. His father had showed up after Riku had hung up on him. After bitching at him for almost two hours without letting Riku get in a word he had finally just left.

His dad had stayed for an hour hoping to wait until Riku came home. When he finally figured out that Riku wasn't coming back till he left, he left. Riku had returned about midnight. He was slamming doors and throwing things. Finally he slammed the door to the bathroom and I heard the water running. Most people would have assumed that Riku was just taking a shower but I knew better. Somehow I had learned how Riku's reactions would be even without ever seeing them.

I went into the bathroom and just as I thought he was standing with his head leaning against the wall crying. He stood there staring for a moment staring at me. He then started to wipe his face but even without the tears it was obvious he had been crying with the red around his eyes. I turned off the water and pulled a towel from the wall. Wrapping him up I asked, 'You want to talk about it?' He sighed and seemed to stand there in indecision.

"It's okay Riku. I understand if you don't want to talk." I pulled him into the bedroom and started to search through his drawers for some boxers for him to wear to bed that night. When he walked up behind me and wrapped his arms around me it had surprised me. I stood and turned around in his arms.

I was even more surprised at the reluctant kiss that landed on my lips. It was little more that a butterfly kiss as I felt his body so close to mine. I placed a hand on his face and kissed him this time. A gentle kiss but it was odd to me. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing but Riku had said he had never had a girlfriend or boyfriend before in his life.

I felt my self harden at the thought of this beautiful naked body against mine. It was a wet dream come true and I think, as I pushed him on the bed, that I was actually going to go through with it. I crawled over him on all fours. I kissed him again and ran a hand across his stomach. A gentle gliding touch that tickled and caused him to squirm underneath me.

I then pulled back and gazed down into his half-lidded eyes. What I saw there made me feel so ashamed of myself that night. I saw so much hurt and calm terror. I couldn't do this. Riku probably didn't even know what he was doing. He just wanted something strong to hold onto during the night. Something to reassure him that things were still real. I stopped there, standing up.

"We can't do this Riku. You'd only end up regretting it in the morning." I said and a soft tear came from his eye. He was scared of being alone that night. Why I wasn't sure but he was, I could see it in those electric blue eyes. "But I'll stay here tonight." I said and he smiled slightly and whisper, 'Thank you.'

That's how I knew what Riku's body felt like. A night like that hadn't happened in a long time and I was glad it hadn't. I had been able to stop myself that night but I don't know if I could stop myself a second time. Course the bad part was that Riku had become colder than ever. At the time I had just about gotten him to crack and to get him to trust me. I guess that night had scared him so much that he had repaired his walls with steel.

After that I knew that Riku couldn't be alone at night. Not just because he was scared but also because I wasn't sure to what extremes Riku's depression had put him in. After that we got a different apartment in the building, the one we had now. It had a large spacious bedroom and that way we could fit our small beds in there and I could make sure he didn't do something stupid like jump out the window.

I don't remember what his dad had been yelling at him for that night but I hated his dad for doing it. Riku had told me a little about his life before that night. About how he was always ignored and how he would get slapped if he disobeyed. Then he had just been dumped on his uncle whom he had never met before. Then yanked back from the one person he trusted. You just can't do that to a kid. It confuses them too much. It had changed him for life.

I opened the door to our apartment. It was part of the reason why I tried to get Riku to go out and have fun. I was hoping maybe he might realize what he was missing out on but it never worked. Riku was asleep on the couch with the TV on. I figured he must have been watching TV and then out of exhaustion he just fell asleep. I picked up the remote from the floor and stared down at him. Hopefully if I could get him to date Sora, Riku could fix his life. Maybe he wouldn't have to be ice to survive anymore.

I went into the kitchen and opened the bottle of medicine. After pouring it in a small plastic cup I brought it back into the living room and reached down. Gently shaking his shoulder I heard him groan. He then coughed and looked up and half smiled. He sat up, pulling the blanket around his shoulders. I sat down beside him and reached over to give him the small plastic cup.

"Here." I said and took it.

"Aw the purple shit flavor. Thanks." He said, his voice hoarse, and drank the thing down making a disgusted face as it hit his taste buds. I handed him the glass of water I had also been holding. He took that and drank it down too, trying to remove the flavor from his tongue.

"How are you feeling?"

"About as good as that medicine tastes." He said causing me to chuckle. Riku could always keep up the sarcasm even when he was sick.

"Well I'm going to go take a shower and then head to work. You need anything? Hungry? Thirsty?" I asked.

"More water please." He said. I took the glass back into the kitchen and filled it with ice and water. After returning it to him and getting him to shake his head to the question of, 'anything else?' I went into the bathroom and started the water.

Downtown Diner
 I walked into the small diner as I did every Thursday. I saw Leon standing at the counter talking to the person that was cleaning the bar but didn't see Riku. Figuring he was in the back I walked over to my usual seat at the back of the diner near the window and stared out waiting. A few minutes later and a plate and glass were sat in front of me and Leon sat across from me.

I sat there blinking staring at him in the blue and white t-shirt. He stared back at me, his hair tied back in a low tail.

"I need to talk to you." He said and I blinked again.

"What about?" I asked returning to myself and pouring some ketchup for my fries.

"Riku." He said and I immediately became interested. "He's not here tonight. He's out sick." I became somewhat concerned for my white fox but tried to not let that show.

"What does this have to do with me?" I asked.

"I may be dumb but I'm not a complete idiot, Sora. I know you like Riku. I see you checking him out all the time and I want to help you get him." He said. I raised an eyebrow and stared at him. "I don't want anything in return. Riku's my friend and he's going to die old and lonely if something doesn't happen. I'm hoping you're that something." He said.

"Did you have something in mind?" I asked.

End Chapter

ALRIGHT THEN! Wasn't that great? I know this is kind of short but that's what I wanted in this chapter. I added the slashy bit of Riku and Leon to try and keep you guys interested. Stick around and it might be even more! These guys are over 18 so they can go at it like rabbits if they want and if I'm willing to write it lol. Well I hoped you liked reading it as much as I did writing. Till next time, love ya,

Screamarie.