-------------- The Next Day, School, Beginng of Day, Homeroom
Riku lay sprawled out on the desk he couldn't believe how long it had taken for Namine to get ready and then decided to come to school. She clearly wanted to spend more time with Kairi. After her return last night from Kairi's she had refused to talk to him but he hadn't pushed it and had been forced to sleep on the couch as she took up his bed. Now said girl was drawing ontop of her new desk a few away from his.
"Riku?" Riku's head picked up at the sound of the one person he was obsessed with's voice. The little brunette pocked his head in and grinned at him. "We gotta do cleaning duty after school today." Riku never thought he would look so forward to clean up duty then he did right then.
"Oh. Hi Sora." Namine waved weakly at her as the brunette beamed at her. Why couldn't he beam at me like that anymore? Riku rolled over annoyance clear in his body language.
"Namine? Wow. I didn't know you went to school."
"Neither did I." Came kinder voice and there in the entrance to the room was Kairi wearing her uniform, Namine blushed at Kairi's smiling face and looked away.
"Well. I would prefer to be here. Then in Riku's bedroom." Silence followed her statement, Selphie jumped in out of nowhere demanding to know what that meant but Sora was out the door before anyone knew it, even before Riku could jump off the desk he had been lying on.
On his way out Sora bumped headlong into someone, who dropped all their books and then laughed cheerfully afterward as Sora said he was "Sorry" fifty times.
"SORA! OMG! I DIDN'T THINK I'D SEE YOU HERE BESTEST BUDDY!" Sora felt himself hugged and he looked up to see the ever cheerful bouncy Aran Cky.
"Aran? What are you doing here? Don't you go to the private school downtown?"
"Well yeah. But they decieded I should make friends with kids down here to get our band out there, eh?" Aran giggled slightly and bounced around Sora. "So what's with the running and the long face? You don't look like yourself Sora." Aran said cheerfully, ruffling the other boy's brown hair.
Sora looked down. Upon meeting Aran he had nearly forgot what he was running away from. "Well, I just…"
"SORA!" Riku was sprinting down the hall towards them and before Sora knew what he was doing he grabbed Aran by the arm and pulled him towards the emergency fire staircase.
"WeeeeEEEEeee! What is this? Are we playing hide'n'seek? YAY!" Aran cheered happily as Sora rolled his eyes.
"No. Were not."
"Uh oh. He's found your hiding place. Hey! I know where we can go!" Aran chirped and this time grabbing Sora by the arm he led him down a new hallway that Sora soon recognized as the upperclassmen hallways, he swore he saw Cloud talking to Yuffie in a classroom as they passed.
"Where are we going?" Aran lifted a hand quickly to his lips as they passed the auditorium.
"Ssshshshsshh! They might be near!" And with amazing grace and silence Aran pushed Sora into the auditorium and locked the door behind him. "There. He can't find us here." Giggled Aran happily then he turned to grin at Sora who was making his way over to the stage where he took a seat, letting his legs swing back and forth. "Uh oh. I sense bad karma. Speak your mind, girlfriend." Aran said cheerfully and then forced Sora's chin up to look him in the eye.
"Well, I talked to Liam last night about my problem."
"Well of course. You don't think he didn't call me to tell me every word you said to each other. I love Liam dearly, love. But the man can't keep his mouth shut forever, let alone cook to save his life." Aran shrugged the last part off and then letting go of Sora's chin he climbed ontop of the stage to sit next to him. "He told me you wanted to seek my advice. Is that right?"
"I guess."
"So your having love trouble. Hard times. What I need from you is to tell me exactly what the situation is. And don't even try lying. Trust me. I've caught Alex's perverted stories about sleeping with two lesbian twins 39 times." Aran said proudly and then not even looking at Sora he listened.
"Well, I guess I love someone. A-A-and I think they love me too." Aran clapped happily for him but when he gave him a look Aran quickly changed his energetic clapping to trying to squish a fly in the air. "Then things changed. I didn't want them to find out I liked them so I offered to go out with one of my other best friends."
"Oh. That's bad." Aran stated and Sora nodded, for most people Aran's input was annoying but to him it helped because it made the whole thing seem like just some funny joke. "So did they catch on?"
"No." Sora seriously felt like he was telling a story as Aran stared in wonder at him. "Well, he might have. But then another one of our friends comes in and I just found out she slept over his house last night…" Sora actually felt himself choke up and he quickly looked down so Aran didn't see him cry. But then he heard a small sniffle and he looked up to see Aran had fountains of tears pouring out of his eyes too.
"So-So you guys can't be together because of this person that slept at his house? Man, that's horrible. S'cuse me." Aran rubbed at his eyes and then looked up at him again, and to Sora's surprise he saw a more serious look in them and an actual frown on Aran's face as he now closed them once more and lifted a hand to his head to move about his hair and to think. "And it's probably even worse because you thought they loved you." Sora nodded. He was surprised at how serious Aran suddenly was.
"How do you feel about this guy?" Sora started listing all the things he said last night. "No. I mean." Aran cut in and looked over at Sora. "I mean what does your heart tell you? Does it hurt when you see him with this girl now? Does it throb when your not with him?"
"Well I guess I just- Hey! Wait a minute! How did you know it was a guy?" Aran smirked at him knowingly.
"Love. I'm as queer as they get. I've admitted it. And if I can't spot someone of my own kind then I'm pretty pathetic."
"I'm not queer!" Aran held up his hand in dismissal.
"Tell me. What do you think? About my Heart question." Sora shrugged still annoyed by the queer comment.
'I don't know. I haven't been listening to my heart for that."
"Alright. Well start." Aran shrugged and got up from the stage. "I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL MY BIG PERFORMANCE!" Aran squealed back to his normal self.
"When is it?" Sora asked actually interested.
"April 1st." Aran grinned widely, "I'm so excited. You should come, Here. Free tickets." Aran launched them into Sora's hands. "Bring your friends and that dude."
"I'm not queer!" Sora shouted after him.
"Darling? Do you think about this guy all the time and want to be with him no matter?"
"Well, yeah." Sora said thinking about Riku and all they had done together and been through.
"Well, you're certainly not Straight, then." Aran blew a kiss and raced out of the auditorium as Sora followed suit quickly.