Author's notes: Sorry for taking so long. Busy. Uninspired. Unmotivated. Tired. But since today's Valentines Day, I had to update at least one of my stories..even if I had a complete writer's block... too bad it's not Strawberry Bubbles. It really needs an update... *mumblemumble*
But this is just as good! We've get some ice cream fun...and naughty boys *bg* ok...not as naughty as one might wish for but...you'll see. reeeead ^^
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Sora could hardly wait for his classes to end as he chewed on his bottom lip in excitement. It was already the last of his lessons for the day and he impatiently watched the hands of the clock. Only five more minutes. He sighed, glaring slightly at his surroundings. He began to tap his pencil on the desk, unable to stay still even though the teacher was already giving him looks. Sora ignored them and wondered what the silver haired angel was doing right now. If Sora remembered correctly, Riku was having maths or something now. Too bad they weren't in the same class.
The boy slumped forward and let his head fall onto the desk. These minutes were sure the longest five minutes he'd ever experienced. All the time he had been together with Riku, learning all things about this school since it was only his second day. Riku had seemingly decided to instruct him about everything and anything in this school, showing him even the pettiest things. They had spent every moment together until now and Sora smiled at this thought. It seemed to him that Riku was trying everything just to have them stay together. Of course he couldn't be sure because it might have been just another role he was playing but why in the world would Riku insist on showing him the windows in every room he could find even though they were just normal windows and all the same? To Sora, it looked like a desperate attempt to keep him close. And Sora found that rather cute even though Riku tended to turn into that charming monster whenever they met someone, aside from Kairi. He idly wondered how Riku would behave when they were at the ice cream store.
"That's all for today. You may pack up your things now."
The bell rang and the students began to ready themselves to go home.
Sora was the first to stand up and he bolted out of the classroom, leaving the puzzled teacher behind. He dashed through the now (thanks to Riku) familiar halls and made for the exit, practically jumping through the open door. They had agreed to meet outside at the gates so that's what Sora did. He ran through the crowd, ignoring the fact that at least a hundred other students were making their way out, too, pushing and shoving around as they all tried to reach the gates. He ran as fast as he could and eventually stumbled through the gates, not seeing that he was stumbling right into someone.
And this someone just happened to be Riku.
"Hey, that was fast."
Sora looked up and for a moment he was breathless. Luckily he managed to get himself under control and straightened himself, unaware of the fact that he was supporting himself on Riku's arms. He only realized it when Riku started to walk, swiftly moving his hands to catch his wrist so he could pull him along.
Sora blushed again, cursing himself for being so girly around Riku but it was simply impossible not to feel something around this boy. 'Gotta stop acting like that…' he told himself and tried to focus on the way. They walked down the street and Sora thought he knew where they were going. There was this new café where they had various desserts and also ice cream of course. However, this café was extremely expensive and Sora would never ever have enough money to get in there; hell, he didn't even have enough money to get a regular Popsicle. But it was Riku's treat and that meant Sora would use this opportunity as well as possible. Probably not the politest way but who cared! It had been Riku's idea anyway.
Riku suddenly cleared his throat as if he was going to say something and Sora turned to him in curiosity. He couldn't wait for the silver haired boy talk, wondering how he would behave now. He seemed to be quiet and shy as far as Sora could see now. When Riku saw Sora looking at him, he quickly looked away, clearing his throat again. Sora smiled.
"So…how was your day?" he finally asked, casting a short glance at the younger boy before turning to face forward, focusing on walking.
Sora had to chuckle and shrugged his shoulders. "Well my day was fine and I think you know that since we were together all the time. Except for the last class…" he trailed off, remembering how impatient he had been, wanting to see Riku again. He sighed and then pointed at the café on the other side of the street.
"Are we going in there?" he asked, unable to hide his excitement.
Riku smiled and the nodded, turning a lot more confident as he did so. He motioned Sora to follow him, for he had let go of his hand some time ago. They went over and Sora was immediately glued to the menu hanging on the outside.
"Yay! I've never been here before! Look, they even got Kiwi ice cream!"
Riku nodded and proceeded to walk in.
"Not that I actually like Kiwi ice cream…" Sora added, grimacing slightly at the flavour. He liked chocolate much better. He followed the silver haired boy and they sat down at a table, looking at the menu cards.
Sora was so excited that he couldn't stay still and almost bounced around on the seat like a little boy. He never got to eat ice cream, not since his father died anyway. He remembered that they had ice cream when he was little and that it was his favourite food but now that they had to use their money as sparingly as possible, Sora never got to enjoy any kind of dessert or sweets.
He smiled as he saw the picture of a king sized bowl full of chocolate ice cream with whipped cream and a strawberry on top.
"I want that!"
Riku looked at the picture and raised an eyebrow. "You sure you can eat that much?" He seemed to be a little worried but Sora just nodded his head vigorously.
"Sure, sure! I love chocolate ice cream!"
Riku shrugged and smiled, nodding his head as the waitress came.
"What can I bring you?" She smiled sweetly and blushed as she saw Riku. His charm was working again but Sora was too happy and excited to care.
"One chocolate ice cream with whipped cream and that strawberry…and for me…" Riku paused, looking over the menu again.
Sora couldn't help but wonder what Riku would choose. And it came to him like a flash of genius.
"Vanilla," he said, blinking as he voiced his thoughts. He hadn't meant to speak for Riku and hoped he wasn't upset or angry about it. Turning to Riku, though, he saw that the silver haired boy was genuinely surprised and for a second he seemed speechless. Then he blinked and nodded, looking at Sora in a strange way.
"Right…" he absently told the waitress. "Vanilla for me."
Sora grinned. Lucky guess, he supposed but it was still funny how it had been right.
The waitress gave a sigh and did her best to sound sympathetic as she informed the boys of the bad news.
"Oh, I'm so terribly sorry but we're out of chocolate today. Can I bring you something else? We have a lot of other flavours and they're all delicious! How about strawberry? Or are you more of a blueberry type?" The waitress went on about all different kinds of flavours and Riku rolled his eyes, lifting his hand to gesture Sora to come closer. The boy leaned over the table to listen to what Riku had to say.
"Sorry about the chocolate thing but I tell you something. We take this one." He pointed at a picture. It was vanilla ice cream, all right. But it had chocolate syrup and whipped cream.
"I know it's not the same but at least it's chocolate, what do you say?"
Sora nearly drooled at the sight of the picture and nodded eagerly, causing Riku to smile.
"…so there's also frozen desserts with fruit and nuts and.." The waitress was still talking.
Riku cleared his throat to make her stop. Instantly, she was enchanted by his eyes and stared dreamily at him.
"Have you decided?" she asked, losing herself in the boy's aqua eyes.
Riku nodded. "Scratch the vanilla for me. We take that one," he pointed at the menu.
The waitress lifted her eyebrows and then smiled brightly, nodding in approval.
"Oh, I see! Well, that is a very good choice! One 'Vanilla-Love-Dream' for the boys, all right!"
Sora's eyes nearly fell out of the sockets as he read the description above the picture.
"Share with your lover on a hot, sunny day. Vanilla-Love-Dream, makes your secret desires come true."
Sora gulped. He slowly turned his eyes to Riku and felt like burning up right here and there. Had he done that on purpose?! He felt like he had! Riku was grinning kind of smugly but he also looked so sexy with that smirk on his face and Sora wanted the earth to open up and swallow him. Here he was again with this split personality! He thought Riku was actually being shy and sweet but he was wrong! He had tricked him and just started another attack to make him turn into a puddle. Sora fumed.
However, the waitress came dancing towards them with their Vanilla-Love-Dream and blew Riku a kiss before placing the dessert on the table. The boy shrugged it off and took the spoon, gesturing Sora to do the same.
At first Sora didn't react, still thinking about how evil Riku was and how much he hated him and how much he still liked him but then he finally realized that his ice cream had arrived and there was a good amount of chocolate syrup, his favourite type, so he forgot all his worries and started digging into the ice cream.
After a few spoons he sighed happily and smiled gratefully at Riku.
"That's the best ice cream I ever had!"
Riku didn't smile this time but seemed to stare at Sora for some reason. He was somehow staring at his mouth and Sora felt a little uneasy and nervous all of the sudden. Was something on his face? Maybe he had some of the syrup on his chin and didn't notice? He sure as hell didn't want to embarrass himself in front of Riku. Not any more than he already had.
But Riku wasn't staring at anything unusual, just at the way Sora had devoured the ice cream. And then he seemed to wake from his trance and frowned.
"You're eating it the wrong way," he murmured, cocking his head to the side as he took a spoon full of the dessert.
Sora raised his eyebrows and then frowned, wondering what Riku meant. So Mr Perfect knew better how to eat ice cream? Ha! Ridiculous. Sora was really curious about what he had to say, though.
Riku seemed contemplative and hesitated before he lifted the spoon. Before it went to his mouth, however, he pushed it towards Sora and the sweet cream met his lips, causing Sora to open his mouth automatically. Riku fed him and chuckled.
"It said you have to share it and I think that's the way it's meant."
If Sora had felt like burning up before, he felt like exploding right now. But courage and some kind of fighting spirit took over him and he decided that he was not going to lose to Riku.
He grinned as adorably as he could and took another spoon full of ice cream, lifted it to his mouth and ate some but not everything. He then fed the rest to Riku, smiling proudly at him.
"Now we even share the spoon." He snickered at Riku's surprised face and stuck out his tongue to tell him he could play just the same game. Of course Riku was just as eager to outdo him and reached out to take Sora's hand. The other boy was surprised and watched as Riku dipped one of Sora's fingers into the whipped cream before he lifted it to his mouth, lapping off the cream.
Sora's eyes widened as he felt himself grow hot and he frantically tried to pull away but his body wouldn't move. They were in public, for heaven's sake! How could Riku do something like that to him when everybody could see it? How could he do it, period?!
Riku pulled away, smirking at his victory over the younger boy. If Sora had surprised him before, Riku had paid him back quite well.
"That was not fair…" Sora muttered as he pouted at the silver haired boy. A sudden idea came to his mind but he couldn't really do that. It would be the ultimate attack and he was sure Riku could no way outdo him after that…but he just couldn't do what came to his mind.
He took a mouthful of the ice cream with syrup and leaned over the table, closer to Riku.
The silver haired boy watched him with a calm, superior expression and Sora felt furious so that he just did what he had thought of, not caring if it was completely unthinkable and wrong.
He moved forward, supporting himself on his hands as he leaned over the table.
'STOP!!' the little voice in his mind screamed and he stopped just a few inches before Riku's face, eyes widening in shock as he realized what he had been about to do. Riku was still wearing that calm expression, though he did seem nervous as Sora stopped right before him, staring into his eyes.
The ice cream in his mouth had melted and Sora was forced to swallow it, slowly withdrawing to sit back in his chair. His heart was pounding so loud that he was certain everyone could hear it. His eyes were facing the surface of the table now, unwilling to look at Riku. Sora mentally kicked himself.
What the hell had he been trying to prove? Why did he have to go that far just to outdo the other boy? It was insane! Luckily he had stopped himself before he actually did it. Sora shuddered. He couldn't stop wondering what would have happened if he had actually gone through with the plan and shared the ice cream with Riku through a kiss.
He gulped. Why in the world did he think of kissing Riku? It was gross!
Sora faltered. Not that he had ever kissed anyone…or been close to anyone… or been anyone's friend for that matter. The only person close to him was his mother but just in a motherly or sisterly kind of way. She was family. But Riku was different. Riku was something he didn't understand. Maybe he was a friend. After all, he didn't quite know how to define the meaning of the word friend. Maybe Kairi was a friend, even though they just met. She seemed to be nice and he liked spending time with her because she always seemed to have something fun for them. But what was Riku? He felt different towards Riku. The emotion was similar but stronger. And there was rivalry between them. He wanted to be better than Riku even when he knew he couldn't because the silver haired boy was a God. He was perfect.
"The ice cream's melting if you don't eat it," Riku suddenly said, snapping his fingers in front of Sora's eyes to make him come back to reality.
The younger boy was startled and met Riku's eyes. He was still embarrassed about the whole thing but seemingly Riku didn't mind at all and pretended it to be completely normal.
Sora sighed in relief and nodded. They ate, each with their own spoon this time. The little game of feeding each other had been more than enough to shut both of them up. They ate in silence, only sometimes glancing at each other before turning back to the quickly disappearing ice cream.
When they were finished, Riku paid and Sora was not surprised to see how much money the boy had with him.
"Isn't it dangerous to walk around with so much cash?" he asked as they walked towards Sora's home. Riku shrugged.
"No one knows I have that much with me."
They continued to walk and eventually reached Sora's house. It was late afternoon now and Sora still had homework to do, so he wanted to get in quickly. However, he found himself unable to leave as he and Riku stood there, staring at each other a little awkwardly.
How to say goodbye? It was just like talking on the phone.
First, Riku lifted his hand, attempting to wave, but then he lowered and extended it and Sora took it. They shook hands to say goodbye but somehow it didn't feel right. Sora smiled a little sheepishly, just like Riku and they shrugged in unison.
"Are we going to try the little one, two, three trick again?" Riku asked in amusement.
Sora chuckled and shrugged. "Like we count to three and then both turn around?"
They agreed on that and readied themselves to count.
"One,"
"Two,"
"Thr—" Sora was just about to open his mouth when he found himself being hugged by Riku. It was a really awkward hug, clumsy and only fleeting.
Before he could really respond, the silver haired boy pulled away and waved, turning around to walk away.
Sora just stood there, kind of dazed and awestruck. When he saw Riku almost turning around the corner he waved at him and called, "Don't forget to get me in the morning!"
Riku stopped, turned and smiled.
"Only if you don't oversleep again! I'll go without you if you're not there!"
Sora nodded and both smiled, waving at each other before turning around, each going off into their direction.
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Riku leaned against the wall as soon as he had turned around the corner and out of Sora's sight. He exhaled loudly and struggled to keep standing. Whatever had possessed him to hug Sora? He wondered. And the thing with the ice cream. He had done it on purpose, all right but he didn't think it would make him feel quite like this. Riku's knees were jelly and he was surprised how well he could disguise the giddy feeling he had around the other boy.
It also dawned on him that he had only seen him for the second day! He didn't even know Sora!
He narrowed his eyes. Maybe he should get to know him then, he thought.
Smiling slightly, Riku took a deep breath and nodded to himself, pushing off the wall to walk home…and stumbled. If only his knees were as confident as he thought he was….
– To be continued –
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Ending notes: Turned out a little different from what I've planned. But it doesn't matter. So...they're only having a crush on each other. There's no love-of-my-life crap....yet XD For now they just get wobbly knees and butterflies from looking each other....which will fade away after they get to know each other....and then they'll be friends...and then they'll learn to love each other...and theeeen we come to the love-of-my-life crap ^-^
yeah... so I basically told you the whole plot right now. *sighs*
oh well. review for this chapter...and you might get the next one! ^^