Disclaimer: I really don't own KH. I do own Leslie, since she is an oc.
Comments: Sora chapter. Xcloudx thanks Mountain Dew is what I drink. Happy you liked the chapter. Black Juju chapter 3 not written so well, sorry. Sometimes I have trouble getting things down right or how I want them. But it makes me happy you like the story. Thanks! Chocolove that's great. I think a couple of parts are important to see from both p.o.v. Is-Simple yeah that would have been funny. Little Sora fighting bigger Seifer, and now that I think about it it is pretty ooc of him not to fight, but he is ooc in this story a lot of the time so I thought it would work better for him not to fight. Who knows though, depending on how the story develops we may see him fight, I don't know yet. Thanks for the compliment on the story.
Chapter 6 Bad Timing
It all happened so fast that Sora could barely understand what exactly had happened. He had been walking down the sidewalk with Axel when all of a sudden Axel was jerked from behind. The guy quickly punched Axel in the face, which Axel didn't hesitate to return. Axel had reached over towards Sora to push him away, sending him crashing into the front of a building. Sora noticed it was a couple of those guys that had been on the bus. He looked around for their friends and sighed in relief when he didn't see them. The other young man seemed content on letting his friend fight while he just watched.
The fight didn't last long before the cops came and everyone, including Sora, went running. It seemed one thing they did agree on was not wanting to get arrested. Sora and Axel knew the area well enough that it didn't take them long to lose any pursuers that they might have had.
"What the hell? I didn't think we would be seeing those guys again." Sora said, as he was trying to catch his breath.
"Yeah, wasn't it fun." Axel said, smiling.
"Only you would find that fun."
"No, I bet that guy thought it was fun too?" Axel said with a slight smirk appearing on his face.
"That's because you are both crazy."
"You know you love that about me. I make your life exciting."
"Who says I love you? But I can't argue with the other part, you do make life exciting." Sora said, teasing Axel. He knew Axel didn't love him. He cared about him and he was protective of him, but he didn't go so far as to love him.
"So, what do you want to do tonight?" Axel asked, changing the subject. He knew there would be no point in arguing with Sora about love. Sora was at a point in his life that he didn't believe it was possible for anyone to truly love him. Not his father, his mother, and certainly not Axel. And Axel wasn't actually sure how he really felt about the brunet.
"Don't know. I want to do something that helps me forget about today." Sora said. He continued to walk down the street they had ended up on, not really caring where it led.
"We could always go back to my place and have sex." Axel said, a smirk starting to appear on his face.
"Is everything about sex with you? But you do need to go back to your place, right? You said you had picked some stuff up, so you need to drop it off?"
"Yeah, I do. We can make a stop there." Axel answered. Sora wasn't looking his way so he missed the look of shock that suddenly appeared on Axel's face.
"Alright" Sora started before being interrupted by Axel.
"Sora, I forgot I had something to do tonight. I'm not going to be able to go with you tonight." Axel said. He didn't give Sora a chance to respond before he turned and quickly headed to other way, leaving Sora alone. Sora blinked in surprise he hadn't expected that at all. Axel did not normally take off like that. He shrugged and kept walking.
"Guess I'll just have to find something to do by myself then." he told himself. Sora had only walked a little ways further when his cell phone rang.
"Hello."
"Hey Sora, where are you?"
"Out, about a mile from my house. Why? Something going on Hayner?"
"We stopped by your house to get you, but you weren't there. Did you forget we had plans for tonight?" Hayner asked.
Sora thought to himself, 'Plans? Oh, shit! We did have plans, I completely forgot'.
"No, I didn't forget. I just had something to do for my mom." Sora lied, not wanting to upset his friend by admitting he had forgotten. After telling Hayner exactly where he was, they agreed that he would wait for them there since it would be a waste for him to walk the rest of the way home only to turn around and walk that way once again.
Sora sat down on the curb as he waited for the others. His mind wandered to Axel and why he had taken off so quickly. What had Axel needed to do that had caused him to run off like that? He thought
about the conversation they had had earlier. Axel had implied that Sora loved him, no not him but something about him. Sora had denied it and Axel had dropped it. There where times when Sora had to wonder what Axel actually felt for him. Sometimes he wondered if there was more to it than he realized. He had always figured it was only about sex, but sometimes he wasn't so sure.
There were times when he thought that maybe they could be an actually couple. Times when he wanted to be able to think of Axel as his boyfriend. Times when he thought it might be nice to hear Axel say that he loved him. But then he remembered that it couldn't be that way. He would lose everything if it was way. His friends would hate him, because they would finally see what he had become. Who knew what his mother would do. He would only have Axel, and eventually he would leave him too. Then he would have no one and he couldn't risk that. Especially not for something he knew wasn't really there in the first place. Axel didn't love him and he never would. He would never consider being Sora's boyfriend. Why would he, after all he knew the real Sora and what had happened to him. Why would he want someone like that. Sex was one thing, but to love them was something else all together.
Sora thoughts were thankfully interrupted as he heard voices approaching him. Figuring it must be his friends he stood up and turned to the direction they were coming from. His mood that was already fairly sour turned worse as the sound of their laughter danced around his ears. It made his angry how they could be so carefree. How they could laugh so easily when he could not. Even when he did laugh it usually wasn't heartfelt. But they never seemed to catch that. They could never seem to tell that his laughter was forced.
"We have found him at last." Hayner said happily as they walked closer to Sora.
"Great!" Olette said. She smiled brightly at him and he returned the smile out of habit.
"So are we ready then?" Sora asked. Hayner nodded in response. The group started heading in the direction that Sora had come from. They would continue that way for a little while and then turn left. While walking Sora sensed that someone had gotten closer to him. He turned his head to see who had trespassed into his personal space and gave a silent groan.
It was a girl named Leslie that was known to have a crush on him. She hadn't confessed her feelings and Sora pretended he was unaware, since everyone else assumed he didn't know, thinking he was too naïve to know. Leslie was cute and she was a nice girl, he knew he should be happy that someone like her had feelings for him, but he wasn't. If she was to confess to him he knew Hayner would encourage him to accept and he probably would because that is what they would expect him to do.
"Sora, I was wondering if I could talk to for a minute?" Leslie said as she smiled sweetly at him.
'Here it comes' he thought then cheerfully answered, "Sure."
"Um... I like you. I was wondering if you would go out with me?"
Sora stopped walking. Leslie also stopped and turned to face him.
"You like me? Really?" Sora innocently asked. Leslie nodded. Sora noticed the fear in her eyes and decided it was probably the fear of rejection. She may like him, but she liked the fake him. But if that had been how he really was he would say yes.
"Yeah, I'll go out with you. That would be great." Sora said and gave her a big smile. A look of relief crossed her face which she quickly replaced with another sweet smile. The two turned and continued walking side by side to catch up to their friends.
They were heading to a local club. Normally they didn't go to clubs all that much but tonight was a special occasion. It was Hayner's birthday and he decided this was what he wanted to do. There was a girl from school, Rikku, that was said to frequent the club and Hayner had a huge crush on her. He wasn't about to go alone so the rest of them were dragged along. Sora didn't care though. He could use the loud music to clear his head of the day's occurrences. At least that is what he thought.
The group made there way inside the club and found a table. Sora and Hayner left everyone else to go get drinks for them and that is when he saw them. The loud jerks from the bus, including the two that had showed up later when he had been walking with Axel. He let out an inward groan. He had hoped to not see them again. Now he hoped they didn't recognize him, and if they did, then they wouldn't talk to him. The last thing he needed was for them to say something about the red head he had been with. Hayner would know they where talking about Axel and start questioning him.
Sora proceeded to order his and Leslie's drink, Hayner was ordering the others. As he waited for them to be ready he looked out of the corner of his eye and noticed the loud group was not paying any attention to him. He let out the breath he had be holding happy that he seemed to be safe.
"Rikku!" Hayner suddenly shouted. Surprised Sora looked towards him to see where he was looking. He turned in that direction and noticed that Rikku was with the group he had been trying not to catch the attention of. Thanks to Hayner it was now to late, they were all looking towards them.
'That doesn't mean they recognize me.' Sora thought. He noticed a smirk on a couple of their faces as they leaned over and started talking to each other, eying them off and on. 'That doesn't mean anything. Hayner yelled that way, they are probably talking about him. They are probably looking at him. Maybe Rikku is going out with one of them and they don't like some other guy calling out to her.'
"Come on Hayner, let's just take the drinks back to the table. Everyone else is waiting on us." Sora pleaded with his friend, wanting to get away from their looks as soon as possible.
"We can stop over there first. I came here to see her, so I want to say hi." Hayner said.
"I don't think that is a good idea. She is with a bunch of guys right now, and they don't look to nice."
"Come on Sora, if it was a girl you liked I would go with you, even with those guys there." Hayner said, leaving Sora unable to answer. It was true and Sora knew it. Now he didn't know what to do. Hayner started walking towards Rikku and Sora automatically followed, praying the whole way that they would not recognize him. He thought there was a pretty good chance that would be the case, since he thought himself to be not worth remembering.
"Hi, Rikku."
"Hi"
"I was thinking maybe would could dance later." Hayner said, ignoring the people around her.
"Why would she want to dance with you when she could dance with one of us?" one of the guys said. Sora looked to see who had said it. It had been one of the guys with silver hair, but not the one that had been at the fight.
"I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to her. Would you mind staying out of it?" Hayner said. The silver haired guy stood up and faced Hayner.
"She is here with us, so get lost." he said. He looked around Hayner to where Sora was standing and smirked. Sora knew by the smirk that the guy did remember him from earlier. And he wasn't the only one. The one who had punched Axel stood up and pointed to Sora.
"Hey, you, twerp. Where's your friend from earlier. I still have business with him."
Hayner turned to face Sora, a confused look on his face, "Sora, do you know these guys?"
"No, I don't know them." Sora said, shaking his head.
"You mean you forgot us already? I find that hard to believe. So, where is your friend?"
Sora grew scared. The guy didn't seem like he was about to drop it, but how could he answer without letting Hayner know he had been with Axel. Sora thought quickly and came up with an answer he hoped would work.
"He is not my friend and I don't know where he is. He took off."
"Not your friend? Perhaps your boyfriend? You two looked awfully close." the silver haired guy said. Hayner looked at him, once again confused.
"We aren't close. Not at all. I don't even like him." Sora answered. They silver haired guy eyed him like he didn't believe him then shrugged.
"He doesn't know where he is, Seifer. Just drop it."
"I think he is lying, but whatever. Anyway, why don't you two twerps get lost. As you have already been told the girl is here with us." Seifer said.
"Come on Hayner, let's go. Maybe you can talk to her later." Sora whispered to his friend. Hayner decided Sora was right, he could try later. The two walked away with the sound of laughter following them. Sora really wanted to stop and turn around and punch those two right in the face. He knew they were laughing at them. But he also knew that without Axel there he had no chance against them. They would be the shit out of him and there would not be anything he could do to stop it.
"You two took quite a while. What happened?" Olette asked as Sora and Hayner got back to the table and started handing out drinks.
"I saw Rikku and we went to talk to her."
"Oh, did you get to talk to her?"
"Not really. There was a bunch of guys around her that I've never seen before. Who were they talking about Sora? Who was the friend you were with earlier?"
"Oh, I ran into Axel earlier and he started talking to me. They saw him. See I said it wasn't a friend. But those guys made him mad and he fought with that one that was asking about him."
"Sora, you shouldn't be hanging out with Axel." Hayner said. Sora didn't want to hear his lecture that he was sure was coming so he quickly said
"I said I ran into him, I didn't say I was hanging out with him. Hey Leslie, would you dance with me?"
"I would love to."
Sora grabbed her hand and led her out to the dance floor. He was happy to have avoided the lecture. The music was loud and fast. Sora enjoyed the feeling of it flowing through his body. He moved in time with it, feeling like he was a part of it. Leslie was dancing pretty well too. They dance for a couple of songs when Sora felt someone bump up against him. He was grabbed by the arm and yanked slightly. Turning to see who it was Sora was horrified to see the smirking face of the silver haired guy he had been questioned by a little before.
"I guess you weren't lying when you said that guy wasn't your boyfriend." the guy said into his ear. He nodded his head not far from where they were at. Sora looked in that direction. There was Axel, dancing closely with a guy that Sora didn't know. The way they were dancing made them look like lovers. Sora watched as Axel pulled the guy even closer and nibbled on his ear before moving to his neck.
And he felt... betrayed. But that was a feeling he had no right to feel. Axel wasn't his. Sora turned away and took off. He had to get away. He needed air. He had no idea what he would say to Leslie or Hayner, but he didn't really care. As long as he could get away now, he would figure everything else out later. Damn that silver haired guy for making sure he saw that. Sora really hated that guy.
TBC
In case it wasn't clear, the silver haired guy mention in this chapter is of course Riku. I realize I am making it harder and harder for them to get together. It doesn't help anything that Sora reacted that way to seeing Axel with someone else. Have to wait to see what happens with that. Next chapter we will see Riku's side of the club scene. Please review.