The Perfections of Imperfections
Chapter 2
School was a fun time for Sora: he would see all his friends, learn some new things, would have nice lunches, would joke around with his friends in the common room, learn some new things again and go home.
And if it ever was a bad time for Sora, it was an obvious 'bad' thing that made school a bad time. Like, failing a test, getting caught talking, detention.
The things that happened at school for Sora were never in a strange limbo where certain qualities wouldn't settle themselves as good or bad in Sora's heart.
Until three weeks and four days after he had met Roxas.
Sora was in a part of the school he had never spent much time in despite all the years he had been in high school; the science department. He was to send a note to one of the chemistry teachers and take a note back to his own teacher.
The brunette shuffled through the halls, bored and mumbling a tune to himself as his mind began drift. And as it had been doing the past few weeks, his mind's eye always seemed to wash up pictures of the blonde boy, Roxas. Sora would usually fight it back, throw insults and snide comments at the pictures of the blonde's half-assed sneer and then go into a rant with himself about insulting someone in your own head and not even truly meaning the insults in the first place, then his sanity would be questioned and then an object nearby would have the imprint of a stern foot in it.
But Sora didn't have the energy for it today (or maybe, he thought, he didn't want the energy for it) so he stepped down and let the images of those sunshine flicks flood his mind, he wouldn't even mind if they drowned him.
Cobalt eyes glanced over room numbers and soon landed on the one he looking for and with a look to the note in his hand, Sora stepped to the door, knocked it and pushed the handle down.
The classroom air was thick and warm and a smell of foamy soap floated in the air. Spotting the teacher at his desk, staring into space, Sora headed towards him, note in hand and a wary smile ready.
"Sir?" Sora asked.
The teacher briefly looked to the side and held a hand out and Sora carefully placed the note in his hand. With a heavy sigh the teacher, opened the note and skimmed over it with a bored glaze giving Sora an opportunity to scan his whereabouts.
Turning blue eyes to the classroom, Sora suddenly felt a series of small tingling splashes and pops on his cheek. Blinking, he noticed the room to be decorated with bubbles and the murmurs and laughter of twenty other people. A recognisable peal of laughter sounded at Sora's right and Kairi was suddenly in view, blowing bubbles into Sora's cheek again.
Grinning and wiping off the residue from his cheek, Sora asked, " Kairi, should you really be blowing bubbles when the teacher is right there?" Sora glanced to the teacher who was scribbling something on paper.
Kairi giggled and replied, "It's an experiment."
Sora raised an eyebrow at Kairi in doubt.
"It is." She responded, smiling and blowing more bubbles into the air, "Right, Roxas?"
Sora locked his eyes to the ground as he felt his heart swell in a panicky doubt; had he heard right? Was Roxas in this very room at this instant? He must have heard wrongly, Roxas wasn't here.
"Yup, an experiment." Sora heard called from somewhere in the classroom.
His throat dried immediately and his breath choked him. The bridge of his nose was suddenly alight with an intense burning and he didn't look up because of the simple fact, he was scared. Internal conflict dominated his mind and chest, he wanted to look, catch his eyes for just a second but God, did he want out of there.
"Here." The teacher finally said, shoving the responding note into Sora's hand.
In a rush, Sora stalked from the teacher and past Kairi, mumbling, "See ya later."
But for just a split second, Sora faced his fear as he always had in life and allowed his eyes to flicker around the room until they landed on the boy Sora's mind couldn't keep away from.
Pale skin, wide blue eyes that didn't catch Sora's, swirling blonde spikes: Sora inhaled the image with zest.
In an instant he had noticed and internally noted several things about Roxas; he sat next to Pence and behind Kairi in this class, he hadn't taken his jacket off despite the fact class had begun nearly half an hour ago, he was smiling slightly at something Pence had said yet not looking at said boy but at a fresh fragile bubble he was carefully balancing on the tip of his finger.
The cool air of the hall was a surprise to Sora and only when the small surprise had passed and Sora was shuffling back to his class, did he become aware of the fact that he didn't know Roxas and himself went to the same school. A whirlwind of questions hit him at that moment: was he a new student, was it just chance that they had never met, was Roxas purposefully avoiding Sora or did he think Sora was purposefully avoiding him? Those thoughts made his stomach shrivel but common sense made the discomfort ease, they had simply never crossed paths, it was a large school and very possible that Sora didn't know everyone in his year.
Still…
The rest of the day was a constant conflict of paranoia and frustration at himself for actually being paranoid about someone he wasn't even sure if that someone pissed him off or not.
"FINALLY FREE!" Sora exclaimed as he burst through the school's main doors.
"That's not like you, Sora." Kairi said, smiling at the brunette as he smiled up to the clear bright sky.
"What's not like me?" Sora quizzed while he and Kairi made their way to the main school gates.
"Being so happy to get out of school, yeah, you aren't the biggest fan of maths but…" She trailed off, "So why're you so happy to get out of school today?"
"No reason." Sora could hear the wariness in his own voice.
"You sure?" Looks like Kairi had heard it too.
The image of Roxas in chemistry suddenly flicked before his mind's eye and the bridge of Sora's nose lit up in a panicky heat.
"Yes. I'm sure." Sora whined as annoyance grew in the pit of his stomach every second Roxas stayed in his mind.
"Sora? Are you blushing?!" The red head took a little leap in front of Sora and peered at the brunette in surprise but a cat-like grin cracked her surprise in an instant.
"Who are you thinking about or what?" She excitedly squealed, latching onto the flustered brunette's arm.
"No one and nothing!" Sora tried as he shook off the giggling red-head.
"But you're blushing!" Kairi pressed tugging on his arm once more.
"What's Sora blushing about?" Sora suddenly heard and when looking to his left, to the road, he found Riku, in his car and with a fresh smirk.
"An escape route!" Sora cheered in relief as he dashed around the car and into the passenger seat.
Kairi shuffled around and into the backseat.
"Hey Riku." She called from the back, "And Sora don't think you're off the hook!"
Cobalt eyes rolled.
"Off the hook…? Explain." Riku said as he started the car and pulled off.
"Well…" Kairi began and Sora switched off immediately in full knowledge that if he heard the short story he would be blushing again and the warmth in his cheeks and nose had thankfully just faded.
But then one of the many school buses passed. And out of the what, twelve? Yeah, out of the twelve school buses that could have passed the one that passed was the one that contained a very bored looking blonde. The bus stopped next to Riku's car.
And then Sora was in desperate dire need to escape. He didn't know what to do with himself, his breath caught in heavy shakes and his heart pounded frantically in terror. He tried, oh how he tired, his best to throw his sky gaze from the blonde in the bus and to the dashboard, Riku, the car in front, the school students passing, the traffic lights, anything but it was impossible for the brunette because for every heart wrenching moment his eyes stayed on those flicks, he happily noted anything he could about Roxas in his mind.
Sora internally begged and begged for Roxas to keep his eyes away from the brunette so he could merely look at him for a small instant more but fate wasn't on his side today because as if Sora had practically screamed the blonde's name at the top of his lungs and into the other boys' ear, Roxas whipped his head around and met Sora's gaze immediately.
The frustration, contradiction, and annoyance of the situation forced Sora's mind into a blank state of embarrassment at that moment. He wanted out and far, far away forever. Terror and embarrassment pulsed through his veins as Roxas squinted through the bus window and at the brunette.
His mind went blank, numb and empty from everything but Roxas, there, looking directly at the brunette.
But then to his reliefdistress, the bus drove off. Taking Roxas too.
"Was that not Roxas on that bus?" Kairi wondered from the back seat.
Sora said nothing but watched the bus turn a corner at the end of the road.
"Yeah, wasn't it, Sora?" Riku said, only half paying attention.
Sora said nothing.
"…Sora?" Riku asked his tone lowered with slight concern.
"Wha…? Roxas? Oh, erm, I'm not sure." Sora lied with a wobbly laugh, "Wasn't paying attention."
The brunette directed his gaze to his shoes but a second later he felt two, perplexed gazes locked onto him.
Without looking up, he slouched in his seat and frowned out the window while mumbling, "What?" to his two friends who were watching him in confusion.
"You're acting strange." Riku stated, turning back to the road.
"Very strange, lately." Kairi added, sitting forward.
And, for the third time, the brunette said nothing.
But Sora couldn't agree more with his friends.
I decided this story is gonna be a short one… I think O_o Y'know, not many chapters, ten at most?
But yeah
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Next chapter, they will have a proper conversation. PROMISE :D
But if you want me to add the chapter up, reviews will be required ;}
Its easy, ppl
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