After a yawn I asked, "What time is it?"
"Um," Sora looked at his watch then scratched his head, "I think the rain ruined it. Does 7:40 sound about right to you?" Sora chuckled.
"I sure hope not. Or else I wont have enough time to get to work." I said stretching.
"Nah, it's only 12:00ish." He smiled, "Do you want to get some food?"
Sitting up on his bed I let out a final yawn followed by "Yeah, I'm starving."
"Holy shit, Riku!" Sora screeched pointing my right arm, "Your bleeding!"
"That rose." I growled holding my forearm. It was a big gash too, probably a good three inches long and pretty deep too. I stood up and walked over to Sora's sink and started cleaning the blood off. The rose was covered so I made the effort of rinsing it, but ended up throwing it away.
"How does Cid's place sound?" Sora smiled. I just tilted my head and grinned while digging for bandaids in his drawer.
I covered the cut and threw my clothes back on then we walked together. I'd never been to Cid's diner before, always meant to, just never got around to it. When we entered the lobby I could see through the doors that it was still raining. "Why aren't you wet, Sweets?" I said nudging Sora.
He paused before saying, "The headmaster called the meeting in his quarters so we wouldn't ruin our class clothes walking to the school building."
"Hm." I said kind of blankly. Sora then took my hand as we walked out in to the rain. I hated to think of Sora being with someone else. Especially the head master.. And what about that boy? I didn't hear it enough to place it, but if they go to the academy, I know them. Sora is keeping something from me. How could he though, I'm honest with him.
When we stepped in to Cid's Sora released my hand, let out a huge sigh then the expected, "Finally!" Taking a look around it seemed like any other diner; clean, yellowish light, obvious attempt to make it look somewhat vintage, and a salad bar. The booths were a light blue and everything else was chrome and white. "Where do you want to sit?" Sora smiled.
"Anywhere you want to-." I started, but in a booth in a corner was a lone boy, with black hair partially in his face, pink eye make up, heavy dark lashes, and a silver ring on the left side of his lip (the boy from chap 1). "How about there." I finished pointing to a booth on the opposite side of the diner where we'd be well out of view.
"Okay." Sora said kind of giggling.
We had a waiter come pretty soon after we sat down. He looked a lot like Sora, had the same build, maybe a little tanner, and with blond shaggy hair past his ears. "Sora!" the waiter smiled, "Haven't seen you for awhile."
"The voice!" I blurted. Sora kind of looked at me weird then took a menu from the waiter.
"Hey Tidus, this is Riku." Sora said.
Tidus turned to me and widened his eyes, "Riku?"
"Yeah," Sora began, "Remember that boy I told you about?"
"Oh, yeah" Tidus rushed, "I'll go get you guys some water."
After Tidus left I leaned in, "How do you know Tidus?"
Sora just paused for a minute, "He just works here."
An older waitress came back with our waters, "Here you go, boys." She said with a smile on her face, "Do you need more time or are you ready to order?"
Sora's face tightened and he asked, "What happened to Tidus?"
I folded up my menu and looked at Sora, "I'm not hungry, I'll just see you later, Sora."
"Riku, please." Sora started.
I stood up and started to walk out when the dark haired boy stopped me at the cash register paying for his meal. "Riku, right?" he smiled leaning his hips close to mine.
"Yeah." I said trying not to sound sad.
He smiled and took a step closer to me, "I had fun last night. I have a place a few blocks over if you want to come over."
I turned to look at Sora who was now standing and appeared as though he was about to cry then back to the boy, "Sorry, I don't feel well.." I looked back to Sora now walking over to me and I just took off running.
Instead of going home I hit the park. Shortly after I arrived it finally stopped raining. At first I just walked around nervously picking at the wound on my arm from Sora's rose, but soon found a bench to be a better idea after I broke a sweat. I didn't have a clue what time it was or what happened back at the diner. I should go to Sora's and just appologize. I need him.
I got up off of the bench and started walking to Sora's again. The whole way I was preparing a speach as to what I was going to say. All of them ended the same, "I love you and need you, and I'm sorry." I considered getting another rose, but Lulu's would be locked up and there have been enough flowers for one day.
It wasn't hard to convince the door man to let me in because after the mention of Sora's name there was little hesitation. The lobby was cool, and I started to get kind of nervous. I got to Sora's door took a deep breath, and knocked. Sora took a few minutes to answer, but when he did he seemed suprised to see me. He was wearing a white shirt and boxers and he had really bad bed hair.
On the verge of breaking down inside I said, "I'm so sorry, Sora, I had no reason to think what I did. I love you and need you, and once again I'm sorry."
His blue eyes widened and he kind of laughed then his face grew more serious, "Uh, I wasn't expecting you."
"Who is it, Sweets?" Tidus's voice broke out from within Sora's room.