Warning: I really don't like this chapter.

I couldn't figure out what to write and when I sat down to write it everytime I'd come up with a blank. So some of this is kind of forced. I seriously can't write an angsty Sora, and Namine is weird to write. I really hate how I wrote this chapter. I hate Sora in this chapter. I- okay, thats enough of my self pity.

Disclaimer: If I owned them, most of the game's story line would have been about Riku and Sora's relationship. It would have ended with Sora ignoring Kairi and him racing to get through the door before it completely closed. Then he and Riku would make out. The sequel would be how they tried to avoid Kairi's evil ways. But since that's not it, you should get the point.

I closed the front door after almost breaking it down to get inside and sighed heavily. Today was not the day I had wanted. And unfortunately, Kairi had seen me and Namine at the pizza place. So I can expect to have everyone in school know that we are a 'couple' tomorrow at school.

The whole time I was with Namine I couldn't help but wish it was that bastard.

"Sowa!" Something leaped at me and I staggered to stay standing until it loosened its hold on me. "We have a new friend!" I looked down to see the whole herd of OFG's (Obsessive Fan Girls) gleaming at me. Then I looked up and saw Nina smiling at me, a giant bowl of popcorn in her hands. I slowly heard the show blasting from the TV in the other room; by the sounds of it Megatron had just 'defeated' Optimus Prime.

"Want to watch Transformers with us, Sora?" Nina grinned wildly as the OFG group had skipped merrily into the next room again to finish watching to see how they would ever survive without their brave leader. Morons.

"I don't want to watch that stupid show." I growled and started to stomp up the stairs. It was obvious that he wasn't really dead and would come back any second to defeat Megatron. I don't know how I liked that show. I rolled my eyes at them groaning in upset at my decision and continued up the stairs.

"Sora!"

"What?" I practically hissed as I turned to face Nina. She looked taken aback and frowned slightly.

"We're moving next week." She said expectantly. I guess Riku's not coming on the trip to New York. How sad. "If you...have something you want to do before then, I suggest you do it."

"I have nothing I want to do." I told her stiffly, and she got this flustered expression on her face before walking into the other room, sighing. I ran a hand through my hair and went up the stairs.

I walked into my room and threw my book bag on the floor and flopped down onto my bed to stare at the ceiling and to begin my self pity. I looked over to the snake cage unconsciously, to see that today it had escaped; I wasn't going to go look for it. My eyes wandered over to my dresser where the little red and gold box sat. I glared at it, even though I knew full well that glaring at it wouldn't make it burst into flames or make me go back in time to fix this. I sighed and closed my eyes. I only had one more day and then we'd be on the plane to New York. Namine and I would most likely sit together on the plane I suppose. I mean, we are supposed to be together now. I rolled over and pushed my head into my pillow and felt my eyes start to water. I didn't want to be with her like that, she was just a friend to me. I wanted to be with Riku.

The next day at school was a blur, I didn't pay attention to anything that was happening. The only thing I picked up on was to be at the school at 5:00 so we could get to the airport on time. Everyone at school would look at Namine and I as she held my hand going to our classes. Kairi acted like nothing ever happened yesterday, and was all smiles again.

Riku wasn't in school.

"Sora!" I herd a big bellow in my ear and pulled the pillow over my head. "Get up you lazy bum! You wanna be late for your trip? I think not!" The covers flew off my bed and I got cold. "I paid good money for you so get your lazy ass up before I make you get up!" I finally opened my eyes to see Delilah ranting and the two boys I shared the room with sleepily glaring at me and her. I yawned and waved her away, mumbling that I would be ready in a few minutes. She said some incoherent words and waddled out of the room. I went to the bathroom and took a shower, and pulled on my old pair of clothes. I put all of the clothes I used to wear into the tiny suitcase I had, leaving the ones Nina had made for me nicely folded in the draw.

I wandered into the kitchen and grabbed a frozen waffle from the freezer and started to nibble on it as I pulled up legs back up the stairs to get my suitcase. And the reason why I didn't just bring my suitcase down in the first place was...?

I grumbled and cursed as I stubbed my toe on the side of the door and pulled the suitcase off my bed and onto the floor, getting ready to drag it down the stairs and to school. But something made me stop and I glanced over to my dresser. My eyes rested on the little red and gold box. Half-mindedly, I walked over to it and opened it to reveal the shinning crown necklace. I put it over my head and tucked it into my shirt where it felt cool against my chest.

Okay, now I'm ready to go.

"You okay, Sora? Do you get sick on airplanes?" Namine asked as I sat in the aisle seat with my eyes closed. I had given up the window seat mostly because I wasn't planning on watching the clouds go by. I wanted to sleep and forget about Riku. He was almost always on my mind and I wanted him away. I tried to say yes but it came out as a grunt.

"He might just still be sleepy, Namine." I heard Kairi giggle from the opposite aisle where she sat with Wakka. Tidus and Selphie had the seat in front of them and Leon and Cloud were behind us. Strange how our seating arrangements just happened to be like that. I opened my right eye slightly to look at the seat that was open in front of Kairi. That was the seat that Riku would have been assigned. I mentally scolded myself for thinking about him and closed my eyes again to try to block out everything.

Unfortunately, most of my dreams I had, had to do with Riku and I having no shirts in the rain. Or Riku pushing me against his bed and me moaning as- well I think you know.

I woke up from Kairi squealing about the plane going to crash and the plane screeching down the runway. I saw Namine grabbing her stuff from under her seat and stood up on her chair to get my stuff in the compartment above our heads. I stood up and grabbed her around the waist, picking her up and setting her on the floor as I could see she was not going to be able to reach my stuff. I grabbed it and turned around to see Kairi giggling with the rest of the girls about my actions and I rolled my eyes that rested on Namine who was just smiling at everything and everyone.

'Come on," I lightly took her hand and led her off the plane and we quickly made it through checking as we were about to board the second plane. This time, I got seated next to the ever so cheerful Leon.

"So..." I attempted to make conversation to keep my mind off Riku, once again. He turned his head to look at me and then closed his eyes again. "How's Cloud?" I asked, wondering if he could hear me through his earphones.

"Great." He smirked, and I couldn't help but think there was some perverted undertone in his voice. So instead of continuing with that conversation, I started to watch the movie on the plane. It was something about this thing that looked like a weirded up dog that kidnapped this girl's dad. The girl then tells the 'beast' that she will trade places with her father so he can be set free. I didn't watch much more of the movie; I couldn't stand to see the strange furniture singing and instead tried to focus on something interesting. Nope, nothing there besides Selphie and Tidus making out... nothing but Kairi trying to tell Wakka what clothes he should and shouldn't wear...A pissed off looking Cloud...a sleeping Leon...grrreat. Just the plane trip I wanted.

I went back to watching the end of the movie where this strange guy stabs the furry guy and the girl starts to cry and the furry dude turns into a prince I believe. Then they start to sing and dance and live happily ever after. I bet in real life that stupid rose petal would have wilted sooner so then the beast would really be dead. Real love stories don't end happily. I frowned at the movie as I grabbed my stuff and got off the plane and located Namine.

We didn't talk much, Namine and I. It was more of a silent relationship, she was just content smiling at everyone and I was content to have someone to try to get my mind off of Riku. He was still haunting me and I knew he wasn't going to go away anytime soon. No matter how much of an asshole he was.

When we got to the hotel, the girls went to their part of it and the guys went to claim their rooms. Leon and Cloud got the same room, obviously, and Tidus and Wakka roomed together. In a totally annoying way, everyone else had someone to share a room with, but me. I had to get the last room, where I would sleep alone.

The next day, we went to the beach. What a fine day to be at the beach. It was even better that all the girls, including my 'girlfriend' were playing in the ocean and all the guys were trying to build better sand castles then the other. I, once again, had no one to build a sand castle with. So, I lied on the beach blanket under the beach umbrella Namine had bought before that had these white furry things on it that had these weird pom poms sticking out of their heads.

And my mind wandered back to Riku. Maybe I had been overreacting, one side of me said. No you weren't, the other side argued. I didn't even listen to what he had to say, they both seemed to agree was the worst thing I had done. They, whatever they were, were right. He wanted to talk to me, and I ran away. He said he had an explanation, and I didn't listen.

He lied to you.

I heard that voice the most, constantly repeating that he never told me anything. But why should he have? I had barely known him. I ran my hand through my hair and then rested it on my bare chest sighing. I'm going to become depressed. Or even worse, one of those people who say their life sucks but really they are just being stupid sissies.

I looked over to see that Leon and Cloud were done with building sand castles and instead were making out. I glanced around to see Kairi's jaw drop and Selphie having a giggle fit at her surprise. So, I guess they finally got their act together, good for them. Now all I have to do is get out of my depressing pit of doom and I can get my act together. I stood up and marched over to where everyone was playing volleyball and declared that I wanted to play. They seemed kind of surprised by the way that I said it, it kind of sounded like I was saying it like the king's announcer, but they smiled and said okay anyway.

I made three points and almost forgot about Riku. I say almost because in all my hype I had turned around to smile at Riku and tell him that I won, only to remember he was never there.

The next few days I tried to do things to get more active. I went shopping with everyone, played DDR, went out on the stupid nature hike and even volunteered to try to talk to some American girl they all thought was hot. I ended up getting slapped in the face and she hurried off in a fury of reds. I guess I need to get my English straight before trying to talk to another person.

It was the last day we were going to be there when we went to the planetarium. I sat in the room with all the stars and stared up at them as Namine pointed out all of the ones she could name. I tried to remember the few ten, but eventually after the 25th star and/or constellation, I gave up and just nodded when she would point them out. I started to zone out and wonder what Leon and Cloud were doing in this dark room when I noticed Namine looking at me.

"What?" I asked. She didn't look like she normally did, her face was more serious.

"I need to tell you something." She started, and I felt that this might not end well. I cleared my throat and went back to starting at the fake sky. "Kairi wants you to know this too." I glanced at her and then my eyes flickered over to the redhead who was making Wakka fall asleep with her talking. I looked at Namine curiously. "It's about Riku." She said sternly. I felt my eyes narrow.

"What about him?" I spat out and crossed my arms. Namine frowned at me and then continued.

"Kairi wants you to listen to what I have to say. She says that you should listen to what I know about Riku's part of the story." My mind remembered the day when Riku was talking to Namine and I had exclaimed that I was her 'boyfriend.'

"Is that what he was telling you that day?" I asked and her mind took a second to realize what day and she nodded.

"He wanted to talk to me, so I met him after our 'date'," I noticed the emphasis on the word, but let her continue. "This may not sound as good as he explained it to me, probably because he was spilling everything to me so fast I could barely collect enough information to say this. He was very upset about how you rejected him." I flinched at looked at the ground. I knew I had hurt him, but I didn't think he was that upset over it. Now I know why he had yelled at me and ran off that day too.

"Was he..." I couldn't ask that, I couldn't bear to know the answer to that. I didn't want to know I had brought him so much sadness that he cried.

"No, he wasn't crying. But I'm pretty sure if he had been talking to you, he would have." She said sternly and my face fell. "Sora." I looked at her, knowing she wanted me to.

"He says, it was true, what Kairi had written about him. But Kairi had never put in the fact that he had transferred to start over. He wanted to start over. He didn't want to be what he was. When he first saw you, he forgot all about his promise to never go back. But then he felt so wrong when he thought about tricking you, he just wanted to be as close as possible to you." She paused, perhaps to let it sink into my slow mind and then continued. "When you didn't refuse him when he kissed you, he felt so happy. But he never wanted to force you to do anything. Riku told me 'I always asked permission first'." I stared at her, trying to figure out what Riku had meant and searched the back of my memories. Then I remembered that every time he would push me up against the wall, before he made me groan and do other bodily noises and functions, he would kiss lightly and then stare into my eyes. Then I would always kiss him back before he started to molest my willing body.

"I have a friend who went to the same school as Riku did. He says that when Riku left, Riku had seemed sincerely sorry and upset with himself for what he had done. I talked with him the other day over the phone and he suggests that you give Riku a chance before someone else takes him." Namine added. I felt something click in my head.

"You never seriously wanted to be my girlfriend did you?" I asked and she looked around the room. I smiled at herfunny reaction and she eventually turned back and smiled at me. "This whole time you were just waiting to tell me to get back with Riku?" I playfully poked her and she giggled.

"Yes," she smiled and I felt so good to know that I wasn't going to hurt her when I told her I wanted to go back to Riku.

"The friend you have, he wouldn't happen to be your real boyfriend would he?" I asked and she slowly nodded.

"Well, when we get back tomorrow, I have to meet him. Ya know, so I can make sure he's good enough for you." I joked and grinned at her as she laughed too.

I knew that Riku was moving this week, I only hoped I would be able to get back in time to tell him. To Tell him that I was a loser ass hole who wanted to be forgiven.

I ran off the plane and waved goodbye to Namine and everyone else as I raced home. It was pouring rain outside, but I didn't care. I raced home and threw my suitcase into the living room and ran back out of the house. I needed to get there before he was gone. I turned the corner to get to his mansion and saw the moving van being piled up with the furniture. Almost tripping over my untied shoe laces I went over to the front gate to see that Nina, Sephiroth nor Riku were to be seen. I went past all the movers who started to stare at me, the weird little boy who liked to visit empty mansions, and searched around the house. I started to panic and ran back outside.

"Hey!" I shouted to the most professional looking mover who had on a yellow raincoat and a clipboard in his hand. He looked up at me and raised an eyebrow. "Did they leave yet?" I frantically questioned him a bit too fast because he gave me this strange look.

"Yeah." He answered. No.

"Where are they?" I asked.

"They left earlier this morning. Their plane is going to California in the U.S." I can't even bike to his new home? I looked around and then pointed at the truck.

"Can I come? I can be luggage!" He looked at me wildly and I started to frantically move my hands around in the air. "Please?"

"Sorry kid, only non-living things can get on the moving truck." I narrowed my eyes at him and started to run for the truck. He grabbed my arm and pulled me back. "Kid, you can't come." He said with a frown on his face and went to the truck. He got in with a bunch of the other movers and they drove down the street.

Then it finally hit me what just really happened. I was too late. Riku was probably already halfway to America right now, and I was here. Standing in the soaking downpour unable to do anything. Why couldn't they just let me go too? I collapsed to my knees and stared off down the street. I wasn't going to be able to get to America again. Delilah had used up all of her money on this one trip. I didn't have a job, I had no money. My vision got blurry as I knew that I would never be able to tell him what I wanted.

Riku was never coming back.

Yeah, a lot of things going on. I didn't know what to have them do when they got to New York, so I just fast fowarded that all. I really couldn't figure out the scene with Sora and Namine, I just know that I wanted Namine to get Sora to forgive Riku and go racing back to him. Then I realized, nothing can be anywhere as interesting in New York then that! I mean, there's no plains or stuff in the city, just buildings. So that's how they got there. >.>;;;

The only part in this that I liked was when Sora is like 'OMG RIKU MOVED AWAY.' Other then that... I liked all my other chapters better than this one.

So, as I search for inspiration on how to end the story right and now turn out a crappy chapter like this one...

Review! hehe. :D (oh yeah, and I blame any bad grammer or spelling on my beta. I was too lazy to re-read it again.:gets attacked by certain grammer and spelling obsessive people: xD)