Author's notes: Oh I forgot to say this earlier but @Tyson FoxFlame: yup I know that song and it actually inspired the title ^^ cause I was listening to that song when I wrote the fic ^^
yeah so... we got chapter 6 already. Seems like my writer's block is gone...it always vanishes when I say I have one. So no one ever believes me pft....
anyway....I think I'm going to develop their friendship now. Like, the crush is wearing off...a little...and they'll be more like friends with some sexual tension heh heh heehh. And blushy Riku. Yeah, I love it when he blushes *gets sora to huggle riku*
Riku: *blush*
awww! ehh...enough rambling. have fun with the chapter!
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The week passed rather quickly and Sora found himself wishing it was Monday so he could go to school again. Usually he loved Sundays because his mother didn't have to work then and they would just sit around or take a walk or do something together and just relax. But ever since he'd come to the new school, Sora couldn't wait to go there. Not because he loved the building or the classes or anything…but because he missed Riku the moment he couldn't see him.
It was an annoying feeling, really. They had met every morning, gone to school, spent the breaks and most of the classes together, and when they walked home (Riku always accompanied him) he didn't want the day to end. The funny thing was that the two boys always had problems with saying goodbye and ended up standing around for another thirty minutes before they actually turned.
Riku hadn't hugged him ever again. Not after that one afternoon they had gone for the ice cream. And Sora wondered why he felt so disappointed.
"Boo!" A voice behind him suddenly appeared and Sora jumped in surprise.
He turned and saw his mother grinning at him.
"Sooooo how's your friendship going?" she light-heartedly asked, still fighting to get her hair look decent.
Sora sighed and shrugged, not knowing what to answer. Was this really a friendship? Sure, they saw each other every day and talked. But he found that he didn't know a thing about Riku. He had no idea where he lived. No idea what he liked (except for the Vanilla ice cream). No idea about his hobbies and what the boy was doing when he was not at school. He also had no idea about his family or past other than they were extremely rich. It felt like thinking of a fictional character of whom he knew a few facts but nothing personal.
"Why don't you call him to come over? I'd like to see that boy."
Sora immediately shook his head and blushed at the thought of having Riku here in this house. It was bad enough to think of him but having him here with him, when his mother was there even! No, it was unthinkable. Besides, he didn't think it was the right time. They had only known each other for a few days…he wasn't sure if Riku would agree to come to him. And actually he was afraid that he would laugh at him for that little apartment. They didn't have enough space for more than two people. It would just get awkward with Riku.
Of course he was only trying to find reasons not to invite Riku over because he was simply too nervous. The apartment was small, all right, but it would have easily given enough space and it wasn't as shabby as Sora thought it was. Sure, the walls seemed to crack on some sides but it wasn't like it was a complete mess.
Sora's mother sighed and patted her son's head.
"It's ok. Take your time but just so you know, your friends are always welcome here." She smiled as Sora looked up and nodded at him, encouraging him and hoping he would invite this friend of him now. It didn't work.
"Yeah, maybe later…" he answered, getting up from the couch to stroll into his room. To his mother's surprise, Sora closed the door to his room.
She shrugged. Time for some sleep. Not that she needed it since she'd slept till noon today, but she was bored and sleeping had always been a hobby of hers.
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Riku was in his room, lying in the huge bed. There were at least five pillows around him and he rolled back and forth in frustration. Why wasn't Sora calling him? Why did it have to be Sunday? Why was he thinking of Sora all the time?? He hated it and punched himself in the guts only to grimace and roll his eyes in annoyance. He was getting more and more stupid and it was all because of Sora.
Getting to know the boy was harder than he thought because every time he attempted to ask him something, he was overrun by screeching fangirls. The only time they were alone was on their way home or in the morning when he came to pick Sora up. But at those times Riku never got the courage to actually ask anything personal and instead they just talked about random stuff and things that happened at school.
He began to wonder what the boy was doing right now and imagined him sitting outside in a park with that cute smile and adorable clueless look on his face. He wished he could go to him but he couldn't. Whenever he wanted to go somewhere he had to tell his parents and give them the exact location and reason. He wasn't allowed to go out if it had nothing to do with education except it was shopping. Since his mother loved shopping, Riku was always allowed to go but only under the condition that a servant went with him. He wasn't even allowed to go out on Sundays unless he was accompanied by some of the attendants. And bringing someone with him wasn't really what he wanted when he got to Sora. Also, he didn't want to come by without invitation so he had to wait until Sora wanted to have him there.
He cringed, now that he felt the pain in his stomach. Why the hell had he punched himself? It seemed Sora was able to make his reason disappear. He sighed.
***
Sora awoke with the brightest smile on his lips as he looked at his alarm clock. It was 6:45 a.m. and it was Monday! The last day had been torture and Sora still felt the pain in his hand where he had bitten himself to stop saying Riku's name. It was that bad.
Dressing himself in ultra speed he rushed out to get some breakfast and finished it in less than a minute. Now he was ready to go and it was only 6:48.
The smile on his face wouldn't falter and he checked the things in his bag for anything he might have forgotten. Everything ok. He looked at the kitchen to see that everything was cleaned so he had nothing to do. Sora sighed. How to kill time until Riku arrived? It was only 6:53 now.
Deciding that the day seemed sunny and inviting enough, Sora took his school bag and walked out, locking the door of the house since his mother was already gone. When he was to turn around he suddenly noticed someone standing next to him, leaning against the wall. He looked to his right and yelped as he saw Riku with his arms crossed, eyes closed.
"Riku!" he exclaimed with wide eyes, surprised to see the boy this early. Was his clock wrong? Or had time passed in the last few seconds so fast that it was already 7:30?
Riku opened his eyes and looked over at Sora, a little surprised himself.
"Eh…Sora? What are you doing here so early?"
Sora's jaw dropped and he shook his head to gather his wits.
"I think the question is what are you doing here so early??" he countered, staring in confusion as Riku pushed himself off the wall to straighten his clothes. His face looked a little flushed all of the sudden and Sora noticed how his gaze dropped to his feet.
"Um…I woke up too early…and I…" he paused, raising his gaze to meet Sora's and smiled.
"I came here an hour ago. I couldn't sleep anymore and I thought I might as well come here…and wait." The blush on those pale cheeks increased and Sora felt himself blush, too.
No words were exchanged after that but Riku tentatively reached out to take Sora's hand. He saw how the younger boy tensed and relaxed shortly after, giving him that bright smile again. Riku smiled back in relief and then they just stood there, holding hands, smiling at each other. They had another 30 minutes before they had to go, so what would they do?
Riku didn't think he could last any longer and sat down on the ground, pulling Sora with him as he did so. His legs would give in if he continued to look at Sora. The only thing he hadn't thought of was that Sora would lose his balance, slip and fall onto him in an awkward position - bumping foreheads.
"Ow!" both of them exclaimed, rubbing their heads in unison. Riku felt his heart pound ten times faster and felt embarrassed for pulling Sora down like that but Sora seemed to take it lightly and began to laugh.
He laughed as he pulled away, still kind of sitting on the silver haired boy and Riku felt the blood rush into his cheeks.
He blushed. Hard. He could feel Sora's weight shifting in his lap as the younger boy laughed at their idiotic accident. His laughter seemed to be infectious and soon Riku was laughing, too without really knowing why it was so funny to bump their foreheads. It really hurt, too. But Sora was laughing and Riku felt like laughing, too and they still had half an hour left before they had to go, so they might as well laugh.
And they did. Until it was time to leave and Sora had rolled off Riku's lap since he seemingly preferred to roll around on the ground.
The silver haired boy rubbed his eyes to clear his vision from the tears that had come forth due to the unstoppable urge to laugh. It took all of his willpower to stop laughing and the fact that Sora was still giggling did not help.
"Let's go!" He forced himself up and pulled the giggling and shaking mass named Sora with him. Only to have them fall over again.
"Sora!" Riku exclaimed, already bursting into laughter again. He should have been embarrassed and annoyed, for they were in the middle of the street now, lying on the ground, Sora on top of him , laughing like maniacs.
"Sooooorry!" Sora snickered, trying to get up. Riku started laughing again as he watched the younger boy struggle to get up. He couldn't stand on his feet for longer than 2 seconds.
"We're going to be late if you keep going like that," Riku scolded, frowning at Sora. He was getting worried now. It wouldn't be good to be late for school.
Sora seemed to calm down and grinned at Riku.
"Errr all right, I'm ready to go. But just an advice…you should stop lying around on the ground."
His grin broadened and he nearly burst into laughter again as Riku's eyes widened. He was blushing again and quickly got up, straightening out his clothes. He looked at his watch and gaped.
It was almost 7:50 now! They had ten minutes to get to school, which was very much impossible because they'd need at least 20.
"Sora I swear it, if we're late because of you, you're so gonna get it!"
Blinking, Sora had no time to realize what was actually happening and only found himself stumbling after Riku who was pulling him along. Riku ran at an inhuman speed and Sora had to struggle to keep up. But he wanted to show Riku he could keep up and forced all his strength into his legs before he clenched his teeth and dashed as fast as he could until he was right next to Riku and they ran neck and neck.
"Don't worry! We'll make it in time, trust me!" Sora breathlessly called, giving Riku a confident grin. He only hoped it was true.
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"I'm soooorrry!"
"Shut up."
"But I'm really, really sorry!"
"Just shut up, will you."
"But Riku, it wasn't completely my fault…"
"I'm telling you to shut up, Sora!"
Sora frowned and hung his head, sighing deeply as he stood in the corridor, holding a bucket* of water. Riku was standing next to him and he scowled. He looked really frightening with that scowl, Sora noted. They stood in silence as the clock on the wall ticked away the minutes. Only twenty more minutes and they'd be free.
"You know, in my whole life, this has never ever happened before," Riku suddenly muttered, scowling at the clock. Sora turned to him with an apologetic smile.
"Well, there's a first time for everything, right?"
He immediately regretted that remark because Riku snapped his head to him and he was still wearing that frightening scowl. However, his features softened somewhat when he saw Sora's quivering lips and he heaved a long sigh, rolling his eyes.
"Yeah I guess…" he muttered, narrowing his eyes as he recounted what happened.
They had been late even though they had run as fast as they could. Ten minutes too late. And as if that hadn't been enough they ruined the door of the classroom when they barged in like some wild animal. The teacher obviously wasn't very pleased by that and told them to sit down quietly. It would have been all right then, Riku thought, but no, there had to be something that went wrong. Sora tripped, knocked Riku over while he was at it and the next thing he knew was that they were standing in the halls with two buckets.
"And as the school representative, even…" The teacher had shaken his head and Riku felt humiliated and embarrassed.
All of this was Sora's fault. What if that teacher told others about it? It was bad enough that his classmates had witnessed the whole scene. He really hoped it wouldn't spread through the whole school. Riku the model pupil had been late for school and ruined the door when he trampled into the classroom. He could already see the headlines of the school magazine.
"Do you hate me now?"
Riku snapped out of his thoughts and blinked at Sora's worried expression. He shook his head and tried to smile though he failed since he was still angry. Not angry at Sora but angry that he cared so much about what others thought of him. Here he had thought he didn't care at all but now he noticed how important his image had become for him.
Sora sighed in relief and slumped his shoulders. He moved a little closer to Riku until their shoulders touched.
"Can I make it up to you somehow?" he quietly asked, looking straight ahead as he leaned against the wall.
Riku's anger subsided as he felt Sora close to him and he shrugged slightly.
"It's okay…" he answered, feeling his arms turning sore from holding that bucket. Sora made a sound of protest and pushed himself off the wall to face him.
"No, I really wanna do something for you. I owe you for the ice cream, anyway." He trailed off, thinking of delicious desserts and nearly lost his train of thought as he remembered their little game.
"Don't worry about it," Riku insisted, bringing Sora back to the real world.
The brunet thought for a while and then wondered if Riku would like to… No, he couldn't. Or could he? Why not, he asked himself. Riku had seen the outside of his house often enough, maybe he would like to see the inside, too.
"Hey, um…" Sora hesitantly began, wondering if he should really invite Riku over. He took all his courage and remembered his mother wanting to see his friend so he decided to ask. Just because he asked it didn't mean Riku would agree.
As he thought about it, he suddenly wondered if he could even call Riku a friend. His mother had assumed they were friends right from the first day…but were they really? When did you call someone a friend?
"Well?" Riku prodded, obviously curious to what Sora wanted to say.
Sora took a deep breath and nodded.
"Wanna come over to my place some time? Like, in the afternoon…or on…a Sunday…" he hesitated as he saw Riku's face. It was unreadable. But then a smile tugged on his lips and Riku slowly began to nod, only stopping as he realized one thing.
If he really wanted to go, he had to explain it to his parents and find a good reason for them to let him go. Alone.
"I'd really like to but…" He became uneasy and pondered over what he should say. It would be the best chance to finally meet Sora outside of school and be alone with him. They could finally talk about things without being bothered by those idiot girls, as he liked to call them.
Sora's face fell as he thought Riku didn't want to come and was just being polite. Somehow he had known that Riku wouldn't agree. Maybe he didn't even care...
"Oh, it's okay if you don't want to…" he murmured, shrugging his shoulders, trying to take it lightly. He didn't want Riku to see how disappointed he was.
The silver haired boy immediately shook his head, a little too vigorous in his actions because he spilled some of the water in the bucket as he protested.
"No, no, no! You don't understand…it's not like that…" he faltered and frowned as he thought of how to explain it to Sora so he could understand. No one ever understood why he couldn't meet anyone outside school. He had become used to it and everyone knew it by now that Riku, the perfect angel, had no dealings with other people like his classmates. But still, it sounded too ridiculous to say 'my parents don't let me'.
"I really want to…" he then continued, seeming thoughtful. Sora noticed and turned to him with a small frown, feeling a little worried.
"Then what is it?"
Riku hung his head. He didn't know how to say it.
But Sora didn't want to leave him be and leaned close to him, resting his head on his shoulder.
"It's okay if you really can't. But I thought I might make it up to you…you know…everything."
Riku smiled and nudged Sora's head with his chin to make him look up.
"Well if that's it...I'll try my best to come."
Sora's eyes widened and he seemed to sparkle with happiness as he heard Riku's answer.
"Really? Yeah, great!" he cheered, spilling almost half of the water as he wanted to throw his arms around the other boy. "Uh…" He nervously looked around, trying to wipe up the spilled water with his shoes. Which was a very bad idea, by the way.
Riku chuckled and stopped him, gesturing towards the toilet.
"I'll take the bucket, you get some paper to clean this mess."
Sora bowed his head and heaved a long sigh. "Man, now I owe you again."
Riku snickered and wagged his eyebrows. "You can pay it alllll back, don't worry," he said with a slight smirk.
Suddenly, Sora wasn't so sure if he really wanted that.
– To be continued –
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*about that...you know in anime when they have to stand around in the halls with a bucket of water because they were late? I was thinking of that....
Ending notes: Whoot! So how was it? Liked it? Of course you did! heh. mmmm yeah like I said. Friendship's going to come now. they'll get to know each other since Sora's invited Riku to his house...and blah blah, I really don't wanna spoil the fic ^-^
ja review and stay tuned ^^