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Chapter Two: New Friends

Sora was startled awake from a loud thud I close proximity to his head. He heard a silky, albeit irritated voice above him. He slowly opened his eyes and started listening to the voice.

"…are you bags. I had to get them for you and miss dinner. Won't you even thank me? I'd appreciate it if you would at the very least remove yourself from my bed." Sora groggily rose and walked to the other bed in the small room, which he promptly plopped down upon. He sleepily batted his eyes and smiled, oblivious to the condescending tone in his roommate's voice.

"Hello. My name's Sora. Who are you?" His roommate's eyes were piercing, and he had the same hair as the boy in the office.

"My name is Riku. If you can manage to get yourself downstairs in 10 minutes, I'll heat us up leftovers from dinner. To let you know, it's at 7:00pm every night." With that, Riku turned and briskly left the room. Sora quickly dug through his bag and found a change of clothes, then rushed downstairs to help Riku with the cooking.

When he got there, Riku was already eating. There was a bowl across from him. Sora sat down and dug into his food with gusto, but, after a minute, noticed there were no meatballs to go along with the spaghetti. He looked at Riku.

"Where are the meatballs?" Riku looked up from his food.

"I'm a vegetarian. And I'm not going through the trouble to heat that up too. It's disgusting." Sora nodded and stared at Riku, who it seemed was intent on finishing his food as fast as possible. Glancing up, Riku caught Sora wistfully staring. His eyebrows came together, and he went at his food a little faster than before. Sora blushed and began eating again. He always seemed to get caught up in his thoughts. Riku seemed intelligent, and was the most beautiful person Sora had seen, even though he was a man. Riku finished his food and dumped the dishes in the sink, going back upstairs without saying anything else. Wanting to get to know his roommate, Sora gulped down the rest of his food and followed Riku.

He was sitting on one of the lounge chairs studying a book. Sora sat down in the chair next to his and gazed about the room. The walls were painted a periwinkle blue, and all the furniture was wooden. There was a huge window over looking the ocean, but the curtains were drawn to keep out the flash of lightning. There was a large rug in the centre of the room, a desk and bookshelf to one side. And two doors; one leading to the bathroom and the other leading to the bedroom. It was a cozy place, and Sora felt quite comfortable at once. His gaze settled on the elder boy, who once again was unsettled by such a steady stare.

"What is it you want?" A tone of pleading laced Riku's voice. It was obvious he was not used to having people around.

"Well, I thought it would be nice if I could get to know you, seeing as how we're gonna be living together for this next year." Sora smiled cheerfully. Riku put down his book on the table and turned to face Sora, a look of annoyance flashing upon his face for a moment.

"So, you want to get to know me? Alright. I like privacy. I don't like talking. I like to be left alone. I don't like loud little boys. I think that's all you need to know about me. Goodnight." With that, Riku stood, picked up his book, returned it to its place on the shelf, and walked into the bedroom. Sora was crestfallen, to say the least, that his roommate seemed to dislike him so much so soon. He waited for 10 minutes before going into the room to see Riku asleep, turned toward the wall. Sora fished his toothbrush and toothpaste from his bag, took a shower, and went to bed. His first day at Destiny Buddhist Academy was finished.

The next morning Sora awoke to the cacophonous sound of an alarm clock. He rolled over, wondering why he was being forced to wake up at such an ungodly hour. Who in their right mind wakes up at 6:30am? Then he remembered: it was to be his first day of actual classes. He got out of bed and saw that Riku was already in the bathroom. He got dressed in his uniform and came out of the room just as Riku left the bathroom. "Breakfast is at 7:00. You should hurry." Sora hurried through his attempt to brush his milk chocolate hair and rushed downstairs. The tables were filling up as people got their breakfast. He waited in line for his, and then searched the room for Riku. He was sitting at the end of a table, friends surrounding him. Sora rushed over to snag the spot right next to Riku.

"Good morning Riku." Upbeat and happy as ever, Sora smiled and looked around at the older boys.

"So Riku, who's your little friend?" A tall boy with spiky red hair and black eyeliner asked.

"He's pretty cute" added a shorter blond.

"A little too young for you, don't you think? Hehe." The red-head teased Riku, who shot him a death glare.

"This is Sora, my new roommate. Sora, Axel, Demyx, Malruxia, and that quite one is Zexion."

"Hi everyone" Sora greeted the bashfully. He wasn't used to being the centre of attention in front of new people. And he wanted to make a good impression. They were Riku's friends, after all. Axel started up the conversation, asking the regular questions; where he was from, why he chose that school. Demyx joined in. Both of them seemed really nice, much friendlier than Riku had been. And Malruxia even offered to show Sora his flower garden, which earned a few raised eyebrows from the other boys.

Soon breakfast was over, so Sora said goodbye to Riku's friends, ran upstairs to get his books, and then walked out of the dorms. Outside, he found Roxas waiting for him.

"Hey Sora! I thought since we have most of the same classes, we could go together."

"Oh, we do? Great, I'm glad I know someone. I get really nervous when I don't" Sora blushed as he admitted this. But Roxas didn't seem to hear him. Instead, he was staring at someone as they walked by. Or rather, at their ass.

"Riku is the sexiest man alive." Roxas was overcome with the other's beauty.

"He's my roommate."

"Are you serious? You are so lucky. There are so many guys who would kill to share a room with him." Sora was dumbstruck.

"Really? I guess he is good looking, but its not like he's really friendly or anything. And he's a guy." Roxas giggled.

"That wouldn't stop me…"

Sora followed Roxas to the main building and up to their first class: English. Then came math, a half hour break, Buddhist History, and Chemistry.

Sora got through the day fairly well, but was exhausted by lunch. He was looking foreword to the free hour. Roxas had promised to introduce him to his friends, who were also freshmen.

So when the bell finally rang, Sora jumped up from his seat and grabbed Roxas by the hand, practically dragging him out the door. Once out in the hall, however, he had no idea where the cafeteria was.

"Okay, Roxas. Time for you to lead the way. I'm starving!"

"Jeeze, slow down a little!" Roxas laughed. Sora impatiently followed him to the lunchroom. It was large and grand, reminding him more of a high class restaurant than a cafeteria. The ceilings were high, each table had a tablecloth and hardwood chairs. A huge chandelier hung from the oval room.

Sora stared around him in awe, until Roxas led him to the huge buffet of gourmet food. Sora didn't hesistate to pile his plate high with food until other people started to take notice. Roxas wondered how such a petite boy could eat so much.

"Sora, over here. Meet Hayner, Olette, and Pence. They're from Twilight Town too. We've been friends ever since… kindergarten, right guys?"

"Yea. So you're Sora, huh? Nice to meet you" Hayner said, eyeing Sora. They all sat down at the table and began talking. Sora felt like he had known them for forever; he fit right in. but after a while, Sora drifted off into his own thoughts.

"Hey. You there?" Olette questioned, waving a hand in front of his blank face.

"Sorry. Have you guys ever had the feeling that you thoughts are louder than the people talking to you?"

"Ahh. No." The other four looked at him strangely.

"What were you thinking about anyway?"

"I was wondering where Riku was. I'd like to say hi to him…" Roxas laughed at Sora.

"Well, he and his buddy Axel been staring at you ever since they sat down." With that, Roxas pointed behind Sora, to where Riku and Axel quickly looked away.

"Or maybe, just maybe, Axel wasn't looking at Sora. maybe he was looking at you, Roxas" Hayner teased. Roxas blushed furiously.

"No way. I have no idea what your talking about" Roxas humphed.

"Do you mind if I go over there?" Sora asked. They didn't mind, thinking it was cute how Sora was trying so hard to be friendly when Riku was obviously not looking to make a new friend.

Sora stood and made his way slowly, somewhat bashfully, to the seat across from Riku and sat down. After a few moments of silence, and awkward glances from Riku, Sora decided he would have to say something.

"Hey Riku. Ummm. How's lunch?"

"The same old stuff."

"Don't be so hard on the kid, Riku. He's trying really hard to be nice" Axel put in.

"Humph"

"Anyway, Sora. You can talk to me, not Mr. Grumpy-pants over there." Axel smiled. Sora nervously returned the smile, wondering if coming over to say hi had been such a good idea. Now he was stuck talking to Axel, who creeped him out a little. Who wore eyeliner at school anyway? Luckily, the bell rang, and Roxas came to retrieve Sora and bring him to the next class. Botany.

Okay Second chapter done! Hehe. I'm probably more proud of myself than is warranted.