Day 2-entry 20

So, I'm totally jealous of Sora, cause he's lived here his entire life. Ok not his entire life but for the past 14 years of his life, which was practically his entire life seeing as how he's only 16. It is awesome here. Destiny Islands really is a beautiful paradise where children's laughter abounds. Yeah, totally got that off of a brochure. Anyway, I'm so wowed by this place. Ugh…bad part of the deal? Tidus wanted a trade, so now he's bunking with Selphie in the tree house and I'm sharing a room with Squall. Yeah, you'd think I'd have been ecstatic to be sleeping in the same room as him. Well I was—but that was before I knew how loud he snored. I'm starting to wonder if I snore or not…

I stuffed my journal into my duffle bag, making sure it was at the bottom of the bag, before I zipped it up and left the room. On my way out the door I accidentally tripped over Squall's things. I turned around to see if he'd noticed. I received a glare, meaning he did of course see the incident.

I gave him a sheepish smile, "Oops?"

He continued to glare at me, with his…pretty, navy eyes. I 'hmphed' and returned his glower with a glare of my own. My hands climbed onto my hips as I readied myself for a staring/glaring contest with him. A minute passed…

"You ready to give up yet?" I asked getting tired of standing still for so long. He just smirked. What a cheater. He was sitting on his bed, with his back against the wall. That's cheating! While he's all comfortable, I'm standing here like an idiot trying to keep my eyes open and mean looking at the same time. He has this face on all the time. I'm tired. If he hadn't put all his junk in the middle of the room, I probably wouldn't have tripped over it.

My short attention span took over. My eyes wandered away from his and gazed at the pile of clothes (and hair products) I was standing over. So I was wrong…his mess wasn't in the center of the room…it was near the wall…on his side of the room. Ok whatever—he knew I'd trip over it.

My eyes flickered to where he sat on his bed innocently, a book in hand. I half grinned, "We'll continue this later." He scoffed and I just left the room. We're immature, I know.

I decided I'd take a walk and explore the island on my own for a while. Most of us weren't even up yet; it was only 7:46. In the bathroom, I pulled a turquoise wife-beater over my head and then pulled on a pair of Bermuda shorts (which were massively destroyed, love these to death, made 'em myself). As soon as I slipped on my shoes and grabbed my camera, I'd be out of here. Squall was nice and returned my shoe to me yesterday. Of course I had to take his underwear hostage first.

I walked along the shore and allowed the small waves to splash around my ankles; I held my shoes in one hand, the camera in the other. I gazed out onto the horizon…the ocean seemed to be endless. The sea gulls flew by noisily. I held my hands over my head and ran for shelter under the bridge. I didn't want to get pooped on. I watched from under the wooden bridge, making sure it was safe to start walking again. The birds were gone. Just as I let out a sigh I heard creaking sounds—footsteps going across the bridge; which also caused sand to fall down on me.

"Hey!" I shouted as I got out from under the bridge. I glared at the guy until I registered in my mind that it was just Riku.

He just stared at me for several seconds, his forehead creased. It was difficult to tell it was him right away, because he was wearing a sweater with his hood up. What gave him away were his aquamarine eyes, those weren't very common.

I blinked a few times then looked away when I felt cold water rush up against my feet. I nearly jumped. I observed the area around me then looked back up at him, "What're you doing up there?"

His eyes left mine and seemed to go out of focus for about a minute. Silence. Riku being quiet? That was just too weird.

I heard him answer, finally, but he cut himself off when he noticed I wasn't there anymore. I was in the small shack, climbing the stairs to where he was. I pushed the wooden door open silently, not to make him aware of my presence. Again with the weird creeping-up-on-people thing, I couldn't help it.

I nearly made it to the other side of the bridge, when I stepped on a loose board. It creaked. I looked up at him, but he didn't seem to be surprised. He stood there, with his arms folded across his chest, leaning against the bent paopu tree and seemed to be captivated by the sunrise. I pretty much was too, seeing as how there is no sun in Traverse Town. I turned off my stealth mode and sauntered over to him loudly, dragging my feet.

"So, why are you out here?" I asked again, as I jumped on to the tree.

"Just felt like getting fresh air." I gave him a 'I don't believe you' stare. He sighed, "..And to get away from Christy."

I glanced at him and walked as far as I could to the end of the branch to pick one of the Paopu fruits. I smiled at the star-shaped fruit and then walked back to wear Riku was and took a seat next to him.

"What happened?" I'm nosey.

"Eh…we had an argument. It was nothing—"

"Over what?" I took a bite out of the fruit. It wasn't at all what I'd expected it to taste like. Bleh. It was…bitter. I chucked it out into the water. Hey, maybe it'd grow another 'wonderful' paopu tree down there. I'm not littering.

The whole time Riku watched me from the corner of his eye, and then smiled. Maybe he was just waiting for me to take a bite of the thing to see my face after I realized it was poo. "…You."

"Me?" Now I was confused. I leaned over just to see enough over the edge of the small island. The fruit was floating on top of the waves, making it's way back to shore.

He looked back out at the horizon but continued to talk, "She thinks I like you," He shot me a glance with the addition of a smirk then looked away again, "And you know…you totally just wasted that Paopu fruit. Those things are like—super special here." He said, putting his hands in his pockets.

"Eugh…that grosso thing is special?" I stuck my tongue out and cringed my face to express how I felt about it.

Riku chuckled, "Yeah. Sora's mom was explaining to us, the other day, that there's a legend saying that if you share the Paopu fruit with someone you care about, your destinies will be intertwined together for—eh… ever, or some corny story like that."

I made a face, "That is corny. And the legend totally sucks. Why do we have to eat such a foul-tasting…thing to be with someone forever? Besides…forever's a really long time."

"I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Riku stated. Easy for him to say, he hadn't just taken a super large bite out of one.

I raised an eyebrow, "You wanna try one then, Mr. I'm-so-tough-and-manly-I-can-take-a-weenie-paopu-fruit?" That sounded so much cooler in my head.

He gave me a "You're an idiot" stare for about ten seconds and then broke out into laughter, "Sure. Hand me one of those 'weenie fruits', then."

I smirked rising to my feet, carefully balancing myself. I stretched my left arm out to reach for the thing when suddenly the tree started shaking. I shrieked and grasped onto the branch. I turned around looking daggers at Riku. I let him enjoy his fun; I'd have my turn to laugh as well. I steadily stood up, picked the grossest looking one I could find and then tossed it over to him. I stopped and crouched down onto the branch when I was about two feet from where he stood.

I watched attentively.

As soon as he opened his mouth and brought the paopu to his face, I tackled him, making sure to shove the fruit in his mouth—unfortunately I missed and just ended up pinning him onto the ground. I watched as the yellow star rolled pass the ladder and five seconds later heard a small splash. Darn.

Hearing Riku's groan reminded me I was crushing his elbows. I had his arms pinned down with my knees. His grimace faded and a half grin had formed on his lips.

Before I even had the chance to raise an eyebrow, he did a sit-up-like maneuver (though his elbows were still underneath my knees) and swiftly pressed his lips against mine. With all the will power I had I pulled away, this was wrong—Christy—he freed his arms and pulled me in this time. I really did try…I've never had much will power to begin with.