"'Dad'?" he challenged. "Am I your dad? According to Cloud, I'm nobody to you two. Apparently sticking around this family that I thought I belonged to for fifteen fucking years, didn't account for anything. Isn't that right Cloud? Isn't it?" Miraculously, his voice was still mostly calm, just loud and very pointed towards the blond at his feet.
"Dad, please…" Roxas said in a pleading voice, but Leon just shook the two off his arms and raised his hands in a surrendering notion.
"I'm fine."
The only sound after Leon had left the house for a long time, were that of car tires screeching out of the driveway.
42.
Sora looked at his feet. "How could you do this?"
Cloud stood up, Riku with him. "Sora-."
"No really. How could you do this?" The brunet shot a pained look at his father. "Things were starting to get settled; Roxas was feeling better and-and making new friends; I've been doing better at school; we were just starting to get back into the swing of things. You haven't even been around most of the time and now you- because you've been-"
He paused, abandoned sadness and shot out with anger. "Leon has been the one acting more like a father around here, while you've been out doing God knows what! How could you do that to us, Cloud? How could you do that to Leon?" He lashed his arms out in gesticulation.
"That man has supported us, provided for us, hell, he's loved us for all these years and you've just thrown it all out the window on a whim. Do you know how much you hurt Leon?" Sora spoke so forcefully, Cloud couldn't say a word. "What about us? Me and Roxas? You've just altered both our lives in one fell swoop. You've just made this big change in our lives like it wouldn't affect us. Do you have any idea of what you've just DONE?" Sora shouted and charged forward to his dad, and Cloud almost saw Leon saying the words he should have.
"Sora!" Riku stepped between the two and held the brunet by the shoulders. "Take it easy!"
"And you!" He narrowed his eyes into slits, looking Riku up and down, sizing him up. His voice dripped with venom, and for the hell of it all, he whipped around and hit his arm against Riku's to let go of him. "You knew about this and you said nothing. THIS. You knew something about MY family," he jabbed three fingers to his own chest. "and you didn't say a motherfucking word?You think I'm even going to consider being involved with you? –Forget it!" With all his strength, he rammed his shoulder into Riku's clearing the way and bolted for the staircase.
Riku, standing there, head bowed in shame, flinched when the sound of Sora's bedroom door smacked through the house, smacking him with the full effects of his dishonesty. Once again, the rest of the occupants of the room were at a loss for words, but Riku didn't look at either of the other two.
He felt sick. His head spun and his throat closed violently, making it hard to swallow his pain. He was rapidly feeling dizzy, like his legs were going to give out from under him. And when Riku found it harder and harder to breath normally, he left the house silently, shielding his wet eyes from the world.
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