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I really meant to update sooner, but I've had a ton of stuff to do around the house. I noticed that a few people put this fic on their favorite or story alert list. It really means a lot to me, to see that people are actually enjoying this fic. Much love to you all.
First Day of Class
Sora's alarm clock began to blare in his ear. He set it for 7am so he would be able to shower before breakfast. "C'mon Riku, you want breakfast don't you?" Riku rolled over so he was facing the wall. Then Sora came up with an idea. "The first one to shower and get to breakfast first wins." Riku jumped up, never being one to turn down a challenge.
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The two boys walked down the hallway as fast as they could without it being considered running. Both boys had dripping wet hair from not drying themselves off properly after a hasty shower. Sora ended up tripping on his own feet, leaving Riku in the lead. "I should start writing the scores down. How many wins does that make it for me?" Sora slowly caught up with Riku, now that the older boy had slowed down. "Yea, but it got you out of bed." Riku huffed and turned back to the line.
Sora sat down to eat his breakfast at an empty table. Riku sat beside him eyeing the meal wearily. At least he thought it was a meal. Sora stabbed his fork at the rubbery piece of bread that was supposed to be french toast. Roxas came a minute later and sat down on the other side of the table. "Don't worry, it's just the breakfast they can't seem to make right. Everything else isn't too bad." Sora breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh that's good. What class do you have for first period?"
Roxas pulled out a piece of paper from his back pocket. "Physics..." Sora tried to chew the stuff they called food. "Well good luck on that. Me and Riku have government. Don't we Riku?" Riku was staring into space with his fork in midair. "Riku?" Riku put his fork down. "Yea, government."
Axel took the liberty to pull a chair up between the place Sora and Roxas were setting. He smiled at Sora. "Hey lover boy. Did you sleep good last night?" Sora's cheeks became slightly pink. He replied quietly, "yea." Riku smirked. Sora was the most emotional boy he knew. Roxas showed some sympathy before getting up to dump his tray. "See you guys later." Axel looked at Sora and Riku. "You better get your books. You probably don't even know where your class is, do you?"
Sora suddenly had a worried look on his face. "Come on Riku, we gotta go." Sora began to drag Riku down the hall back to the dorm. "We gotta get our books!" "Slow down Sora, I'm sure being late one time won't kill us." Sora looked devastated, he had never been late to a class in his whole life.
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They ran to the building that their class was supposed to be in. Sora was literally panicking. "Where is it? I can't find the room!" Riku shook Sora slightly. "It is going to be okay. Just calm down. The class isn't even on this floor." Sure enough when Sora looked at his schedule it did say the class was on the second floor. "I'm sorry Sora, but you have no sense of direction. Just follow me, kay?" Sora nodded dumbly, and followed Riku. They just managed to step in the classroom by the time the bell rang. Riku smiled. "See, I told you it would work out."
Riku walked to the back of the room and took the last desk in the corner of the room. Sora decided to set in the one in front of it. The teacher started passing papers out to everyone. "Would everyone please remove their hats?" It wasn't really a question, more like a demand. "And that applies to hoods too." The guy that had his head down on his desk next to Riku grunted. He pulled his hood down revealing a massive amount of red hair.
Sora grinned, if that was Axel, he would probably get into trouble a lot in this class. Well the class couldn't be too boring from what Sora could tell. He knew Riku had a knack for keeping things interesting. He didn't know much about Axel, but he didn't seem to be the quiet type.
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The class wasn't too bad. The teacher just droned on about how things would be graded, and how they should all read the syllabus. Sora made a mental note about how he didn't have homework in this class. As the bell rang, Sora was glad that this was a short period. He didn't know how much more he could listen to the teacher go on about the grading system, or what color ink they were allowed to use.
This time he relied solely on Riku's directions to find the next class. "How did we get put into art?" "They like their students to be well rounded." "Huh?" Sora saw that Riku was reading one of the school's brochures. "I hope they only grade based on effort though..." Riku laughed. He knew Sora wasn't good at drawing...or anything art related really.
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So far the day had been uneventful. They finished up their third class of the day and went on to lunch. They made it in time to not have to wait forever in line. Sora practically had a bounce in his steps, everything was going great today. "Chicken nuggets!" "Now if that could only be a test question. You would do great." Sora sat down at the nearest available table. "Hey, I'm not that bad at school." It was true, he did pretty good in most of his classes. Although when it came to math, Riku was really his only hope.
A blonde girl came over to the table. It looked like that shy girl from art class. "You're Sora right?" "Yea, what's your name?" Everyone always loved Sora. It was just like on the island. She looked up at Riku who was watching her contently. "My name is Naminé. I'm in your art class. I just thought I should say hi, since you're new around here." Sora smiled. "Thanks. Do you want to set here with us?" She glanced back at Riku again, before responding. "No, someone's waiting for me." "Oh, well maybe next time then?" Her voice started to get quieter. "Yea."
Before popping another chicken nugget in his mouth, Riku said "She likes you." "Really? How do you know?" Riku shrugged before finishing off his milk. They met a good deal of other people during lunch, mostly girls. Riku held his calm demeanor as always. Sora found himself backing away as a couple of girls asked him if they could touch his hair. "Class...gotta go to..." As if on cue Riku got up and told everyone that he had to go too. Their were a couple "awws" that went through the cafeteria.
When they got out of the cafeteria, Sora took his schedule back out. "Why are they all acting like that?" Riku chuckled, pinching one of Sora's cheeks. "Because they think you are cute." Sora immediately tried to change the subject. "What are we supposed to do in study hall? We haven't got any homework yet." "Hey you guys." Roxas picked up his pace so he could walk beside Sora. "You have study hall too?" "Yup, I don't know what we are going to do in it though."
"Actually I do. I already have homework in physics." "No way. Who would give homework on the first day?" "Yea, that's what I get for signing up for advanced classes..."
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Sora and Riku sat in the back of the classroom like always. Roxas was somewhere near the front trying not to get distracted. Sora put his paper on Riku's desk behind him. "You wanna be 'X' or 'O'?" Riku rolled his eyes, like he could think of a million better things than this. "X." For the rest of the period they mindlessly placed x's and o's on the paper. It was one thing that Sora sometimes won at. Riku would never let him count it though, saying that it was just a kiddy game.
They got through all their classes, amazingly without any homework. It seems Roxas was the only unlucky one. "Come on Riku, let's get our books together for tomorrow." "But we just got out of class..." Sora used his pout again. "It will give us more free time later." Riku gave in and started sorting through his books. "We skip first and fifth period tomorrow. So that means...we don't go to government, and Latin." "What, you're not going to make us pick out clothes for tomorrow?" Sora stood still for a minute. "You know that's not a bad idea..." "Forget it."
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"Hey Riku." "Hmm?" Riku was busy making paper balls out of an art syllabus. He then proceeded to throw it to the trashcan on the other end of the room. "It's our last year of school." He missed, and got up to get the paper. "Haven't we been over this already?" Sora sat back in a chair with his legs propped up on his desk. "Yea, but it's our last year of school, ever. I just think we should do something memorable. Something we can look back on and be happy about."
Riku decided that the trashcan was an unworthy target of his syllabus, and instead threw the paper at Sora. "Ow! What did you do that for?" "Because you worry too much, that's why. And don't worry, don't I always make our years memorable?" Sora laughed. Yes, Riku had a way of making things stay with you. It was probably because Riku had no boundaries, and the fact that all the teachers liked him back on the island.
"Maybe we should go hiking this weekend?" "You mean purposely walk around on rickety rocks when we can be doing absolutely nothing?" "Aw come on, it could be fun." Sora held up a piece of paper. "And look at all the different kinds of trees they have." "We'll see, but I'm not making any promises. If I can think of something better to do, I'm going to have to pass up the little nature trip of yours." Sora grinned, he knew that if he whined enough about it, Riku would give in when the time came.
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I like this chapter, I think it has its moments. The next chapter should hopefully be up by tomorrow. Thanks for reading.