A/N: Yay!!! Chapter three is out already!!! I am in such a writing mood lately (It's starting to creep me out a bit 0.0)
Anywho, I hope you enjoyed chapter two even if it was a little lame, I know, and I hope that chapter three is even better!!!
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After many hours of playing video games with our eyes to the television screen we decided that it was finally time to stop for the day. A.K.A Riku said "If we play anymore your eyes are going to melt and your skin will turn into mud." I pouted and set down the controller. There was no point in arguing… since the game was already turned off…
"So, you as hungry as I am?" I asked, heading towards the door of my room. I could feel my stomach call out for food and decided it was time to eat. Riku didn't move from his spot, though. I guess he was thinking…
"Sora, what exactly do you remember about your brother? What did he look like exactly?" I was taken aback by his question, but it did get me thinking. I hardly even remembered what my own brother looked like!
"Well… from what I can remember, He has blonde spiky hair and blue eyes… and tall." My brother really was tall. He towered nearly three feet above me, though I was also shorter back then. The thought of how much taller he must be compared to me now made me cringe.
"I was hoping you would say something different…" I gave him a weird look. What would what my brother looked like have anything to do with anything?
"Why would it be such a big deal?" I asked, my curiosity getting the best of me. Riku walked about three steps before flopping onto my bed with a groan.
"I can't believe this is happening… I was wondering why you could see me so clearly. Not only that, but hear me and even feel me." Now my brain was doing everything it could to make sense of what Riku was saying. Why wouldn't I be able to see or touch him? He's a regular human just like everyone else, right?
Wait… Human?
"What are you trying to say, Riku?" I asked. I wasn't prepared for the one possibility I was anticipating on, but I felt like I had to hear it anyway. It was the only way to find out if it was true or not. No, it was the only way to find out if he was real or not.
"…Ten years ago, the school allowed the lockers in the 800 hall to be used again due to the overpopulation of kids. This angered one of the ghosts, Leon, that they couldn't be left in peace. He started scaring the kids out of the hall, because normal people could only see the reflection of our energy.
"There was one, though, unlike the others. He could see Leon, and it was like he was alive again. By senior year, though, the person had to make a choice no sane human being would dare to cross on…" I gulped, somehow already knowing what he was going to say.
"He had to choose between reality and the beyond. In the end, he left his home, following the lone spirit to wherever he may have taken him… Sora…" I looked up, tears pooling under my eyes as I stared into cerulean ones.
"Your brother was the only other person who could actually see a ghost as a human being. And the ghost who took your brother with him… was my best friend. He stook up for me so many years ago, and in the end we met the same fate… Sora, I'm not real. I'm a ghost." My palms were sweaty and my legs started to quiver. I could tell that my body was taking this roughly, and before I knew it the world went black.
(A/N: I COULD end it here and make it a really short cliffy chapter… but me being the nice authoress I am, I shall continue on with my story!XD)
I felt myself wake up on soft pillows and sheets, making me assume I was on my bed. I couldn't remember exactly how I had gotten there, or even when I fell asleep in the first place. But the nice feeling didn't last long when a throbbing headache came into being.
"Ow… my poor head…" I lifted myself off the comfort of the bed and headed into the bathroom, pulling out a bottle of aspirin for the hidden cabinet behind the mirror. I took two out and swallowed them, then started to walk slowly back to my bed.
"Good to see you up." I jumped nearly two feet in the air and looked in the direction of the voice. I groaned. Now I remembered why I was out like a light in the first place.
"You couldn't have said anything when I first woke up?" I asked looking in his direction with an annoyed look.
"You didn't look like you could understand anything more then the word 'cookie'." Bunny ears appeared on my head and twitched. I would do anything for a delicious chocolate chip cookie…
"Sora, earth is hailing you and requesting that you land immediately." I saw Riku roll his eyes and I glared. How could the guy go and ruin my cookie fantasy!?
"So what are you going to do to me now that you know I am an accomplice in your brothers' disappearance?" I gave him a funny look.
"Didn't you say my brother chose to be where he is right now?" Riku nodded. I looked down for a minute, thinking about what to do next before smiling brightly at him.
"Then nothing. If he chose to be where he is, then so be it. not like you or me could do anything about his choices. I do have a question, though…" I looked back down at my feet, nervous for the answer that I was going to get.
"What is it, Sora?" I bit my lip. I wasn't exactly sure if I was sane or not, but I was curios about my brothers well-being.
"Do you know… how he's doing by any chance?" Riku laughed and turned his head towards the window.
"He and Leon are doing better then ever. I'm not gonna go into the small details, but just know that one nor the other could be even happier right now." I smiled a genuine smile and hugged Riku.
"I'm glad." I said. I looked up sheepishly and let go of him. It was kind of weird, hugging a ghost, but it felt good at the same time.
"So, why aren't you afraid of being in the same room with a ghost now?" He asked. I didn't even know what he was talking about!
"Being in the same room?" I asked stupidly, still rattling my brain about what he was talking about. Riku let out a long sigh.
"We were talking about the one thing that you were worried that would torture you all day and you don't know what I'm talking about?"… It finally clicked…
"Oh, that! Well… why would I be? I mean, if you're the ghost, and you've been following me around all day without hurting me, why should I feel any different about you then I did an hour ago? All that you did was made it so I understood why people gave me weird looks when I was talking about you." I told him. He shook his head.
"You should really take into consideration that I could easily suck the life out of you. The closer you get to me, the more things I can do in this world. Like the soda you gave me earlier, I could only drink it properly when we were sitting on the floor- inches away from each other." I blushed when I remembered how close he was to me while we were playing video games. Why it made me so bothered, I didn't think I wanted to know.
"So? Riku, I think if you truly wanted to hurt me, or anyone else in the school for that matter, you would've already done it. I see no point in fearing you if your harmless." I said proudly. He just stared at me.
"Sora, I really don't think you understand the full meanings of my words…" He made it so that his bangs covered his face and I just blinked. How much more complicated could this get exactly?
"Whenever I come into contact with humans, my spirit automatically takes the energy supported by them. It's the only reason why I still exist at all in this world. But with you, you can actually feel my spirit, whereas most people could just walk right through it and not get touched by it at all. With you, I could easily kill you just by sucking out the energy that your body willingly transfers over to me." My eyes widened a little before my smile brightened.
"You don't have to worry about a thing! I'm always full of energy!" I said, starting my usual bouncing fit. Riku was laughing.
"I suppose your right. So, what does it feel like to be in your last year of high school?" I hit Riku on the shoulder and rolled my eyes. It was one of the most horrid things a person could go through.
Just then, the house phone started ringing. I picked up the phone and saw it was Kairi calling.
I pressed the green button. "Hello?"
"Sora! I was hopeing you would pick up! Listen, I was wondering if you would like to go shopping with me, Selphie, and Tidus this afternoon!" I inwardly groaned and face palmed. The minute she said 'Tidus' it sealed my fate with not only a lot of misfortune, but a lot of face snorkeling.
Still, I hadn't been hanging around her a lot, and as much as would love to get as far away from the blonde haired prick as I could, this was a very rare chance to do something that I loved to do.
…Not shopping, mind you, just… looking at cool stuff and purchasing them at a desk…
"Sure thing. I'll be there in a few minutes." I hung up the phone and went into my closet to find some clean clothes. I could tell Riku was giving me a weird look.
"Why are you going if you really don't want to?" I scolded myself. If he knew that I didn't want to go it most likely meant that I had been making weird faces while talking on the phone again. I did that a lot.
"It's not that I don't like the idea of hanging out with Kairi or going shopping… It's the fact that her prick of a boyfriend is going to be there…" I cringed at the thought and grabbed my black sleeveless turtleneck and skinny jeans.
"What do you think he would do to you if you had a date?" I whirled around with my shirt halfway on and gave him a grave look.
"The day that Sora has a date is the day that pigs will fly and cats will moo." I told him, pulling on my shirt the rest of the way. Riku didn't look convinced in the least.
"I wonder…" He took my hand and pulled me to the bathroom mirror while I was still only in my boxers. He then walked behind me and stood up straight. I looked into the mirror and frowned.
"I can't see you…" I told him pouting. Riku chuckled.
"Not yet you can't. Do you trust me, Sora?" I looked back at him confused, but nodded anyway.
"There is a trick that Leon and your brother found out a long time ago. You see, the humongous amounts of energy run in your family, and Leon took it as an opportunity to test out some things. One of which was this…" Riku looked at me straight in the eye looking like he was searching for something. When it looked like he found nothing, he did something that made me want to go jump off a cliff and swim up to cloud nine at the same time…
Was he KISSING me!?
It felt so weird, having him kiss me. It was as if I had been kissing water, though at the same time it felt like something was being pulled from deep within myself. The sensation was breathtaking, to say the least.
Another few minutes, and my lungs were burning. I couldn't hold the kiss any longer and pulled away for much needed air. Riku took my hand and looked at me with sorry eyes.
"First you didn't, now you do." Riku turned my head to the mirror and I gasped. Riku was being reflected off the mirror as well as I could see my own. I turned back to him and he shrugged.
"Now you have a date." I blinked. Then blinked again. Did he just say date?
"This will last anywhere from and hour to ten, depending on how close we are. Now, you'd better pull up your pants or we're going to be late." I looked to the clock and gasped. I hadn't noticed how late I was running! I grabbed my pants and pulled them on, taking a hold of the comb in a feeble attempt to fix the wild thing that was my hair. I gave up after my third one.
"You ready to go?" He asked. I nodded while fake crying. I would never be as hot as Riku…
Wait, bad thoughts, Sora. You are not Roxas, and you are DEFINITELY not falling for the hot and smexy alluring… FLUCK A DUCK!!!
Sure, he looked good in his green hoodie with a yellow stripe and the baggy pants and his silver hair and sexy eyes… Yup, I need to sleep more.
We went out the door and I locked it, putting the keys in my front pocket so I didn't forget them again. Riku took my hand and I blushed while looking away. This wasn't the shopping trip I had planned on…
We kept walking until we were at the front of Destiny Islands mall centre. I did my best to ignore the constant stares we got, but in the end I just gloomed over every on of them. I did NOT like looking like a girl with a flat chest!
We walked in and headed towards the food court. I knew where Kairi would be since it was her favorite spot in the mall. Up a couple of stairs was an area that looked like an indoor rainforest with a tree growing so tall that it breaks the glass. I looked around and saw her and Selphie waving at us.
"Sora Over here!" She called. I smiled at her before looking over at Tidus. He had a look that either said he was going to murder me slowly or make fun of me until the end of time. I gulped. It probably meant both.
"Well well, looks like the girl decided to show up after all." He laughed and I turned away. Kairi only saw it as joking, but I knew the truth…
Just then, Kairi and Selphie left to get the food."You know, that's not a very nice thing to say to my anything but female date." Riku said, looking at Tidus with a glare. He shot one right back.
"Oh? So maybe you're the female, then? Your hair and eyes match the description." He shot back. I just stood there looking like a kicked puppy.
"At least my hair doesn't look like a cardboard cutout glued onto my forehead." Riku retorted. It was true, compaired to Riku's silky soft hair Tidus' was like straw.
"Oh yeah? Well at least my hair doesn't make me look like a little old lady who just got a perm!" I flinched at that. If that were me he was saying that to, I would be crying. I looked over to Riku, but he just had a look of sincere sadism.
"Really? Maybe so, but at least I don't have…" Riku moved closer to Tidus and whispered in his ear. I watched as Tidus' eyes widened to a maximum before pushing Riku away.
"H-how the hell did you find out about that!?" He said. His face was as red as a tomato and his fists were tight. Riku had the biggest smirk on his face.
"Better not make fun of him anymore. Who knows how fast a rumor like that could spread around the school…" Tidus had a horror expression on his face as he turned in the direction the girls went. Riku started chuckling when he was out of earshot.
"What did you say to him?" I asked, looking up at Riku. He only laughed some more.
"Nothing that you need to know about just yet." He took my hand and started to walk with me to one of the shops. I still couldn't take my mind off of what could've made Tidus tense up so much.
Though, it didn't last for very much longer. We walked into a jewelers shop and the first thing I saw took my breath away.
"That's aquamarine, right?" Riku nodded, and I walked over to the case. I was surprised that they had such a color, everything being hand made. And it was only a little over 200 munny!
"You can get it if you want. Besides, it would match your eyes." I smiled and grabbed the small case, walking over to the counter. The woman looked up and smiled.
"Ah, that one is a collector's item. Have you heard of the legendary tear?" I racked my brain before shaking my head no. she smiled and pulled out a book with a picture of what looked like a teardrop on the front.
"Once every hundred years, a spirit is neglected from heaven and they fall to the earth as a tear. However, they do not look like a tear to us. They look a lot like normal human beings. But in fact, there has only been once where it has said that two tears have fallen to earth. That was no longer then a century ago." I stard with awe and thought about the spirits that fell to the earth looking like a tear. I wondered if Riku looked the same way.
"They say that the tear looks like a combination of the spirits true eyes and their loves eyes. Looking at you two, I'd say this gem is a pretty good fit." I started to wonder about that. What was the color of Riku's tear as he fell…?
I couldn't think anymore when Riku took my hand and lead me out of the store, gem in hand. The woman was smiling, so I was guessing he had already paid for it. When I looked up, though, R8iku looked like he had been a stabbed puppy.
"What's the matter?" I asked with true concern. He only got really upset when it had to do with something he was hiding. Riku didn't say anything this time, though.
"Nothing's wrong, Sora. Do you want help putting it around your neck?" I nodded and he wrapped the blue and aquamarine pendant around my neck, clasping it together. He was smiling again when he was through. Though, somehow it didn't reach his eyes.
I started to wonder more about why he was so upset about the whole teardrop thing. He never really took anything like that into consideration, at least of what I knew of him. Come to think of it, how much exactly do I know about Riku? I had only met him this morning. All I knew was that he was a ghost. I didn't know much of his personal interests like color or sports. I didn't know what his life was like back when he was human. I wanted to learn more.
He had told me things about my brother that I could hardly believe were real. Why would he go with a ghost and leave his family behind? What was the reason behind that? Was it possibly to protect us from something?
No, I don't think that Riku's friend would be THAT dangerous. If he was, why would Cloud even think to go with him instead of getting a priest?
My head was starting to pound and I knew it was about time to be heading home. I turned to Riku and pulled his sleeve. Apparently it was clear on my face that I wanted to go home. We said our goodbyes to the lady's and set off into the night sky.
"Riku?" I asked. He turned to look at me and I froze. I had built up the confidence only to have it shot back down again. I couldn't ask, not yet at least.
"You… You never told me what you said to make Tidus turn bright red." The evil smile from earlier had returned and I almost regretted what I said. He put an arm around my shoulder.
"Well, my friend, did anyone ever tell you what teeny weenie syndrome is?" I shook my head no and Riku started laughing his head off. We stopped and he whispered something in my ear. I felt the crack of my jaw when it hit the concrete.
"He has WHAT and he's calling ME the girl!?" I was horrified!
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A/N: lmao… hoped you like the ending… if you don't know what it is, look it up on wikipedia, because that's how I have to learn about new stuffs in fics…XD
Anywho, this chapter was actually longer then I planned on it being, but I decided that next chapter was going to be told in a whole other place with whole other people instead of a boring shopping mall trip. That's right, next chapter will be told in Cloud's POV! Squeal all fangirls!
Anyways, Reviews are nice, flames are not, and PLEASE!!! There have been a lot of people (I won't mention names) who have ALERTED my story, but haven't reviewed on it. Please review!!! I don't care if it's the stupidest thing in the world, reviews give me the will to write!! Alerts just make me think that It's boring and dull and people just read it cause they don't have anything better to do. And that is what makes me the saddest, cause I do try to come up with somewhat new and interesting ideas! Please REVIEW!!!