Love in a piece of cake

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Chapter 4: Confession (Last chapter)


"Sora," I started, "I challenge you for a struggle fight. If I won, you must tell me what's been bothering you."

After a while, he heaved a huge sigh. "Fine." He stood up and took the bat in his right hand. "Let's get this over with."

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"Just give up already!" Sora shouted as he saw me kneeled down at the ground.

I lifted my head a bit to see him face-to-face. "No," I said, "I won't."

I stood up, and then as soon as I regained my balance, I ran over and started to attack him. But all I can do was a slow, short combo, which he blocked perfectly.

I jumped backwards when I almost out of energy. Sora, seeing this as a chance, glided at fast speed towards me and attacked rapidly from side-to-side, making me hard to defend. Some of his attacks hit me, although it only made some minor damages, luckily.

After a few times of slashing, he leaped into the air, and then jumped down hard at where I was standing. I quickly dodged it, but instead, I fell down to the ground.

Sora, as soon as he touched the ground, didn't move even a bit. He stood still at where he landed, looking down at me.

"Why won't you give up?" he asked.

"Why would you care?" I asked back quite harshly.

"You only hurt yourself…"

"Stop acting like you care!" I snapped even before he could finish his sentence.

He looked at me wide-eyed, don't say even a word.

"I won't give up! I won't! Until I defeat you, I won't give up!" I repeated the same words again and again.

"….." He looked down at the ground.

I rushed at him and swung my struggle bat. I hit him with a few times of single downward strikes and the best combo I could make. He either blocked or dodged it, and I constantly attacked him.

On my last attack, I let my bat clashed with his. We both stood there, face-to-face, using equal force on our weapons. We were both equally matched. But after a few minutes, he seemed to best me so I gave a full force to my bat. Sora backed off a little bit. We clashed our bats once more and we jumped away from each other.

I threw my struggle bat, using it as a boomerang. He dodged it to the right. I jumped over and caught the struggle bat that I threw before as I landed behind him. Then I swung my bat at him before he could even defend. This time, I got him quite intense.

He fell backward and lost his grip on his bat. His bat fell to the ground next to my feet.

I kicked his bat to make sure he couldn't reach it. Then, I walked to him and pointed my bat to his face.

This means a win for me.

Sora, still lying on the ground, stated, "You won."

I still looked at him. I knew I won. But I also I knew this isn't right.

"Why do you let me win?" I started.

He didn't answer for a minute but then said, "I don't. I lose already…"

"You could just block my previous attack but you didn't." I repeated again, "Why?"

"…." He looked straight at me. Then he sat up and said, "Since you wanna win that bad…"

I heaved a huge sigh as I put one of my hands on my forehead. "So that's why…" I kneeled down beside him, sat down, and pulled my legs up to my chest. "You know, Sora? I really wanna win, but not because you let me. I wanna win by my own strength."

A soft smile formed on his face. "I know," he said, "But, you did great, Arin. Way better than before."

I smiled back at him.

Sora scratched the back of his head. "And anyway…" he began, "I sort of want to tell you."

"The reason?"

"Yeah," he said as he nodded.

"Go on."

He took a deep breath. "I was kinda jealous of you and Riku."

"…" I didn't respond. Sora turned his head to me, but all I can do was showing a 'what-the-heck-do-you-mean' face.

"Arin?" his voice brought my mind back.

"W-W-Wait a minute," I shook my head, "What do you mean 'jealous of me and Riku'?"

"What? Well, exactly it is…"

"N-No," I tried to think about the proper way to ask this, "I mean… Why?"

"I saw you walked with him two days ago."

Two days ago… That's when I asked Riku about the cake.

I silenced for a minute, expecting him to tell anything further, but he didn't. "That's it?" I asked.

"Yeah," he answered, "Well, Riku seemed to enjoy your companion. He rarely laughs around everyone, especially girls. But, he laughed freely with you."

"And that makes you… jealous?"

Sora didn't show any response when I said that, but instead, his face seemed to stammer. After a minute or so, he nodded.

I opened my mouth a bit, about to say something. But only a heavy sigh came out. "You're such an idiot, Sora," I said as I put my head on my lap.

"Wh-What!?" He cried, "What's with the sudden insult!?"

I stood up and walked over to a palm tree. I bent down a bit and picked up my bag, which I put under the tree before I fight Sora. I ruffled the inside of my bag and took out a small box from it. Then, I walked back to him.

I held out my hands, showing him the box. "Here," I said.

He took the box from my hands. After a few seconds observing the box full of confusion, he opened it. His eyes blinked as he saw what's inside the box.

"Chocolate cake?" he said.

"To be exact, flourless chocolate cake," I explained as if I was a professional. I chuckled a bit.

"You made this?" he asked, still focusing on the cake.

"Yeah. Lily and Riku taught me."

"Riku?" he asked, suddenly turned his head at me.

I nodded. "Yeah. I asked him about what I should make."

"Wha…" He didn't finish his sentence and let his mouth open. "So what I saw that day…" He looked down at the ground.

"Riku accompanied me to buy the ingredients."

"…" It was silence for a while. "But… Why didn't you ask me instead of Riku?" he asked again, lifting his head and looking at me.

"Because…" I bent down again, kneeling at the ground. "I wanna give that cake to you. Do you think I could ask you for something like that?"

He stared at me. "You made this for… me?"

He looked back at the cake as soon as I nodded. He picked the cake and took a big bite of it, munching it for a while before turned to me again. "It tastes great!" he said as he showed me a big grin.

I laughed, looking at his face. His mouth was dirty and chocolate was all over his cheeks. "Can't you eat any messier than this?" I said sarcastically.

Sora, who has taken his last bite of the cake, looked at me just before he realized his dirty face. He was about to wipe his mouth with the back of his hand when I interrupted.

"Hey! Don't wipe it with your hand," I said as I took out a piece of tissue from my pocket. "Come here," I called.

He stood up and walked towards me, although we're not too far from each other. He stopped right in front of me and bent down a bit. As his face was at the right height, I wiped his mouth and cheeks with the tissue.

"There," I said, releasing his face from my hands.

He stood up straight from his previous position. "Thanks." He grinned.

I smiled at him.

"Um… Arin," he called, turning his back to me as he scratching the back of his neck, "There's something I haven't told you yet."

"Hm? What is it?"

"I…uh…" he started.

I waited for him to finish his sentence patiently.

Then, in a quick movement, he spun around to look at me again. "I li… Ouch!" he was about to finish when out of nowhere a basketball hit his head hard, making him drop to on top of me.

"Wha-What the…?" I said, looking at the basketball, completely confused.

"Ouch," Sora groaned, holding his head at where the ball had hit.

"Sora!" I heard someone yelling.

Sora and I turned our head to the source of the voice, which coming from behind Sora. We both looked in quite surprise at Lily and Riku. Riku was holding both of Lily's hands, stopping her from throwing another basketball which is in her hand.

"Let me go, Riku!" she yelled at him.

"I won't unless you calm down a bit," he replied, tightening his grip.

I stared at both of them for a while, and managed to say, "Lily! Riku!" I cried out, calling their names as Sora getting up from me.

Riku looked up at me. "Hey," he replied simply.

"What are you two doing?" I asked with Lily still yelling "Let me go!" on the background.

"Well, we are some kind of… searching for you," he answered.

Lily still struggled.

"Kind of?"

"You were nowhere to find, so she…" he motioning with his chin to Lily, "asked me for help," he continued.

This time, Lily's effort to set free was successful. As soon as Riku lost his grip to her hand, she threw another ball at Sora's head, bull's eye at his forehead this time.

Sora fell to his back on the ground with another "Ouch". As she yelled, "Sora, why are you ignoring Arinaz? You even told her to leave you alone… What was that about?"

I looked at Lily speechless just before turned to Riku.

He shrugged. "I told her about that. Sorry."

I shook my head. "N-No. That's okay," I said as I started to walk between Lily and Sora. "Lily, stop!"

She stopped.

"We've already get that problem solved," I explained, "So please calm down and stop throw another basketball at him." I pointed at Sora.

She seemed to be calmer. "Solved?" she asked.

I nodded.

There was an awkward silence. "O-Oh," was the entire thing she managed to say.

"Ouw…" Sora groaned as he got up from the sand, rubbing both the back of his head and his forehead. "You sure know how beat the crap out of me, Lily," he said.

Lily's face stammered out of embarrassment. "S-Sorry," she said as she bowed deeply at him, "I'm so sorry."

The sudden changes of her attitude made all of us speechless again, except for Riku. He was mocking her with his chuckle, while rolling his eyes as he said, "I told you."

"Shut up, Riku," was the respond.

Both Sora and I laughed at this scene.

"So, you've done with the misunderstanding?" Riku suddenly asked, crossing his arms.

Sora nodded. "Yeah," he grinned.

"Good," he replied, "Then, have you told her?"

Sora blushed deeply red suddenly. "Sh-Shut up, Riku!" he cried.

"Two 'shut-up' in a row," Riku said, rolling his eyes again.

"Oh, shut up!" This time, both Lily and Sora snapped at him.

I laughed and Riku chuckled.

"Okay. Enough with the 'shut up'," Riku said. He then dragged Lily by her neck. "C'mon, Lily. We should get going."

"Hey!" she yelled again. "Let me go, Riku!"

After they were out of sight, we both laughed again. I was the first one to stop the laugh.

"By the way, Sora. What does Riku mean by 'told me'?" I asked, remembering Riku's question to him before.

"Ah. Well…" he became nervous again, "Um… I… uh…"

"Yeah?"

He took a deep breath then said, "I like you, Arin."

I didn't respond.

"I like you. That's why I was jealous," he repeated.

"…"

"I know how I'd acted today must be hurt you. I'm sorry."

"…"

"I'm really sorry, Arin."

"…" I still didn't say anything. "Sora," I called after a few minutes.

"Yeah?"

"I-I like you, Sora," I managed to say although my voice seemed trembling really hard.

I avoided his gaze. I turned my back at him so he won't see my face, which is deep red out of nervous and embarrassment.

"Really?" he asked, making me more nervous than before.

I only responded with a nod.

Suddenly I felt his arms wrap around me as he pulled me closer, hugging me from behind. My heart pounded really hard. I couldn't even say anything.

"I like you, Arin," he said once again.

I gulped as if it would make my nervous go away. And who knows, it does work!

I grabbed his hands and made him releasing the hug. Then, I turned to him and gave him a big hug.

"I like you, too," I said as I rested my head on his shoulder.

--The End--