So... I lost this chapter, then edited a whole new version of this, and now I find it again! AHHHH! I really hope you guys like this, because, honestly, it was like, WAY too much work to actually get through. Oh, yeah, and I don't own Kingdom Hearts of anything else I may have written about in here.

Thanks, guys! xx

"Okay, so, just to make sure..." Sora muttered, feeling extremely uneasy. What if Kairi saw through them? Or worse, Axel. Sora wanted to shutter at the thought. "We're not going to anyone, right?"

Riku sighed. "Yes, So-ra . We've already agreed on this way too many times. Can you just walk in the door?"

Sora was hiding behind a large bush, and Riku was standing next to him. Then Riku got a brilliant idea. He crept his finger up Sora's spine, and the younger brunette quickly stepped out from behind the bush, acting like he had come that way for some completely normal reason.

Kairi grinned. "Sora! I didn't see you last night! Did you and Riku..." she raised her eyebrows suggestively, and Sora looked around to see like, everyone who was entering the school staring at him again.

"Kairi!" he whined. "Shut up! Everyone is staring! And no, we didn't do anything weird!"

Kairi laughed as Sora ran over to her. "You're so innocent, Sora. 'Weird' is such a childish way to put it."

Sora pouted. "I am not a child!" he said, deliberately stomping his foot. Kairi laughed again, and her face started to go red. "Um, Kairi," Sora said, taking a step back. "It really wasn't that funny."

Kairi nodded, doubling over. "Y-yes it was! You're hilarious, Sora!"

Sora took another step back, raising an eyebrow. "Um... Kairi... you're scaring me."

"Wassup, people? I am here!"

Sora knew it was Axel before he turned around. To his surprise, he was standing next to Roxas was Riku. How had the silverette pulled that off? He lived nowhere near them. Unless he...

Sora froze. No, no, he hadn't told them. Otherwise Axel wouldn't be casually laughing, with his arm loosely draped around Roxas' shoulders. And Riku looked calm, smiling about something Roxas was saying to him.

Sora felt a surge of both anger and jealousy run through him. Why couldn't Kairi and Axel be normal people? Like Roxas? If they weren't such jerks, he wouldn't have to hide his jealousy at the fact that Roxas could get as close to Riku as he wanted – if he ever did – because they weren't rumoured to be together already.

But then Riku looked at Sora, as if in slow motion, and all his bad feelings were gone. He was cleansed. He grinned, trying desperately to keep up the facade. "Hey, guys!" he called out, walking over to them. He still felt a slight pang of misery, but he pushed it away. Riku was back, and he didn't want extra-observant people, even if they were his boyfriend, asking him all these demanding questions. He just wanted to feel happy with Riku.

They all smiled. "Hey," they replied.

And then, as they walked inside, Sora felt Riku's eyes on his neck.

Today was one of those two days. Riku didn't have any classes with Sora that day. He hated Fridays. He always had. And it made Riku wonder, had Sora always hated them, too?

As they walked inside, Riku found himself not able to look away from Sora. The brunette was just the same as always, telling Axel he was gross, and begging Roxas to come to dinner one night soon. Huh. Who knew that kid was such a good actor?

But Riku felt some hurt inside his little body of bliss contentment. He had dreamed of being with his best friend for a long time. It had felt good just knowing that Sora counted him as a friend – a person he trusted. But now that he knew Sora loved Riku, well, that was a whole other.

But then why wasn't Sora sneaking peeks at him, like Riku was to him? That was where the hurt throbbed. In that one, small thought. But then Sora smiled at everyone, waving. "See-ya!" he called, biting his bottom lip. He blinked, and for a second it seemed as if his eyes were closed for a few moment longer than they were supposed to be.

Riku smiled. Sora was so beautiful. Gorgeous. Anything. Everything. The silverette felt like he weighted nothing, and he practically skipped to class, ignoring Axel's jibes and Selphie's giggles.

Sora had Kairi and Roxas to worry about. He deliberately sat on the other side of the room from those two, and they noticed. Roxas kept sending him winks; Sora saw from the corner or his eye, and Kairi kept poking her tongue out at him.

Sora had always been kinda good at English. He got paired, teachers choice, with a girl called Olette. She had brown plaits and a really awesome fringe, in Sora's opinion. Her pants were three quarters, and her singlet was orange. Sora thought they suited her nicely.

Olette was quite good a writing as well, and had a wide imagination. Sora found out she wanted to be a writer when she was older, but right then, she just couldn't care less about the effort, and she wanted to enjoy school as it came and went.

"School is the place that sets you up for your future," she said. "But, of course, you sound like a nerd if you put it like that. So, I tend to see it as... one hurdle in the race-track of life."

Sora thought this girl was smart. And funny. And extremely pretty. All the things that would make Sora crush after her hopelessly. But he couldn't even bring himself to imagine her kissing him. That would just be gross. Riku, on the other hand...

Oh my God! thought Sora, panicking. Am I gay? Like, truly, honestly gay?

He knew what Riku would say.

"Well, you like a guy, you kissed a guy, and you are a guy. So, yep, you probably are."

But... that would mean that Riku would be gay, too.

Olette looked up as Sora started laughing uncontrollably, for no reason. "A-are you alright?"

Sora just nodded, brushing her away with a hand. Kairi and Roxas had ended up together and both looked over at him. He just grinned at them, sticking his tongue out dopily. He continued laughing.

R-Riku's... gay! AHAHAHAHAHA!

It was then the bell went, and Olette slid what they had written so far into her textbook. Sora clutched his stomach, wiping his eye free of tears, and smiled at her. "Thanks," he said. "You were really great to work with."

She blushed a little. "Um, t-thanks, Sora." Then she scooped up her stuff and bolted to the door. Sora stared after her. What a strange reaction to have.

Honestly, how long would Sora last, until he could be with Riku freely? Without Kairi giggling away, Axel screaming it out, and Selphie telling the whole world.

He was very obviously agitated at lunch, and, as he lined up for his food, he pouted. He was in deep thought. What was he going to do? Riku wasn't even in the cafeteria yet! Sora sighed. Things were not going good for his relationship.

Also, when would he get to kiss Riku again? Riku had pecked him quickly on the lips before they had left the Secret Place the night before, but had made no advance to do anything this morning. Was it that... Sora was a bad kisser? Or maybe, now that he had tested it, he didn't like Sora like that? Or maybe it was...

Sora inwardly groaned. These thoughts weren't supposed to be appearing until at least a week of going out, right? Sora felt suddenly depressed.

Then Riku walked in, looking around frantically. Sora slumped his shoulders. If only he were looking for Sora. But no, he was looking for which table they were going to sit at today. Maybe not, though, because Roxas waved at the silverette, and then Riku waved back. But he was still looking. Sora didn't want to get his hopes up, but it honestly seemed like-

Riku caught eyes with Sora, and was immediately happier than before. Sora felt some of Riku's grin squirm its way in his heart, and suddenly, everything was okay again.

Sora scolded himself for being so madly in love. He had only started the relationship the night before! But, it felt like Sora had loved Riku his entire life.

Who knew? Maybe he had. Maybe he hadn't. But everyone, including Sora, thought he had.

Grabbing the tray out the bench, he made his way over to Riku and the others. Kairi grinned at him, and Axel made a peace sign. Sora poked out his tongue, taking his usual seat next to Riku.

His lungs stopped and his heart jumped as his leg brushed against Riku's on the way down. He forced his blush away, and focused on unwrapping the plastic cover on his sandwich. It was chicken and salad, one of Sora's favourites.

Since that night, all of Sora's feelings felt magnified. Not just towards Riku, but to everything. He could now see the gaps between the grains in his bread and the actual soft fleshy part of the bread. The colour was slightly different, and the textures were so contrasting, they looks mutated - like two different foods being glued together.

Then again, and this was the down part, he could now see the glint in Axel's eyes as he stared down Riku.

This made Sora worry. What had Riku told him? Although, he wasn't looking at Sora, so it must have been something else. But, it couldn't be something too major, or else Sora would know about it.

The brunette pursed his lips as he thought back to all the recent conversations he and Riku had conversed in lately. Riku hadn't seemed to say anything particularly Axel-stare-down worthy.

Sora shrugged it off, hypothetically, and went back to devouring his sandwich. Then someone shouted something inaudible, and there was a loud crash. Sora jerked his head up, shocked.

Olette had landed sitting down, her legs splayed out everywhere, and one of her arms drenched in what looked to be tomato sauce. At least, Sora hoped it was tomato sauce. A girl with wildly orange hair was standing above her, visibly fuming. Her chest struck in and out, and Sora guessed she was breathing deeply.

"Olette!" he cried, shooting up from his seat. He shoved the chair out of the way and ran over to where Olette was. Her lip was trembling, and he hoped with all his anything that she didn't cry. She looked up at him, and gave him a small smile.

Sora bit his lip. "C'mon," he said, helping her up. He looked around to see the angry girl storm out of the cafeteria, and decided it was best to stick with the person he knew, and not some crazy, pissed off stranger who could beat Sora to a pulp in less than three seconds. "You alright?"

Olette nodded. "She's a bit... annoyed."

Sora laughed, bending down to pick up Olette's food and store them on her tray. Thankfully the sauce had come from a packet, and that packet was sealed shut with its content. He stood up straight, his arm drenched in chocolate milk, and handed her the tray.

"Here," he smiled, smiling politely. "You can come sit with us if you want."

Olette smiled. "Really?"

Sora nodded. "Mhm."

Then he led Olette over to his current table, shocked to see the look on everyone's face. Roxas looked like he was in deep concentration, Kairi was pouting, and Axel was smirking at an extremely upset Riku, whom, as soon as he felt Sora's eyes on him, composed his face.

But Sora had seen the anger, and sympathised. He had felt that jealousy that morning, and that was with someone Riku wouldn't even take a chance with, even if he had one! Poor Riku...

But, regardless, Sora pulled up a chair and sat Olette down. "Guys," he said, looking around the table. Everyone had returned to [their definition of] normal, except Roxas, who still had his eyebrows furrowed. "This is Olette." Then he looked at Olette, smiling. "This is Roxas, Axel, Kairi and"- - his heart skipped a beat – "Riku."

Roxas' eyes widened and he grinned. "You're Hayner's girlfriend, right?" he asked, proud of himself for figuring that out.

Olette looked away, at a spot that just happened to be Sora's knee. "Ah, no, he's just a close friend. Why?"

Roxas looked away politely, shaking his head, but Sora could see his smile was amused. Olette shifted uncomfortably. "So... um..."

Sora had taken to looking at Riku, and he found, looking past Riku's mask as well as he could, that Riku was jealous. Sora took a deep breath through his nose. How could he fix this? Everyone was there, so he couldn't very well just say it plainly.

"Olette is my partner for the new English assignment," the brunette stated, looking at everyone except Riku. Hopefully his brooding boyfriend would get the message. "It's really hard, and she's, like, a genius."

Olette blushed. "No, I'm really not. Sora would be the brilliant one in our team."

Kairi squealed. "Ooh, Olette! We have to hang later! I could so totally use some tips on how to get my hair like yours!" She gave a meaningful look at Sora and the younger boy blushed, all this blood running to his head.

Olette nodded shyly. "That'd actually be kinda cool."

Sora snuck a look at Riku. His eyes hid behind silver hair, but the shape of his lips told Sora he felt slightly better. Although he couldn't see his boyfriend's eyes, he flashed a grin at Riku, before turning back to the rest of the group.

His throat loosened up, and he knew now that Riku would trust him.

"C'mon, Riku! Please?"

"Nope."

Sora sighed. Riku sighed. It was around a week later, and Olette had suggested that Sora and her crash at someone's house to study for the upcoming English test. But Riku's jealousy overcame him – it was like he was possessed.

"But it's just a study session!" Sora reasoned, struggling to catch up to the fuming Riku.

Riku hadn't missed fact Sora had purposely missed the word 'date'. Most girls would giggle and say they had a study date with the guy of their dreams, due to a term exam, and Riku was beginning to see just how obvious it was that Olette had feelings for Sora, just like those worthless females that lingered the halls.

He shook his head, starting to run again.

"Riku!" Sora cried, panting. "Stop running!"

Riku sensed a pain in Sora's voice, and he wondered what was wrong. Was he really that puffed out? He turned, and saw that tears were welling up in those blue eyes, a few running down his cheeks in their race to escape.

Riku walked back quickly. "Hey, are you okay?"

Sora choked on something, but then he straightened up. "Yeah," he said in a harsh voice that Riku had never heard from anyone before, let alone Sora. "Just... don't follow me home, okay?"

Riku gulped, nodding. He had never felt, well, threatened before. But now he was almost terrified. He wanted the old Sora back. Even if that meant comforting him, wiping his tears, and letting Olette study with him.

He knew he needed to say something to Sora, but he didn't know what. And by the time he had gotten his voice back, Sora was gone.

Riku always went to the islands if he wanted some peace. So he hopped in his little boat and went there. Once there, he docked the wooden carrier and walked calmly over to the beach. He stared at the waves. They were meaningless now.

He had loved, what he thought was unrequited, a love for his best friend since he was ten years old. That would be six years of waiting and fuming and crying because he was different to the other boys.

It was because they knew each other the best out of everyone on that whole island. Sora didn't have many secrets, but Riku knew them all. He was scared the dark, his sensitive spot was just underneath his bellybutton, and secretly he wanted children when he was older.

Riku had always cherished Sora, even before he knew what it was to love in the way he did now. Sora had always ran to Riku for help without a think that anyone else out there could help him. At first it was because Roxas had been a bully, then because the guys at school weren't treating him nicely. Then there were girl problems – Riku hated that he was the one who got Sora all lovey-dovey again with girls, but that just was how it was – and hard Math problems.

So...

Why had he never seen that side of Sora before? Riku knew they wouldn't break up, and most likely tomorrow Sora would be back to normal, but that was what scared him. Sora would just brush it off – brush off the one thing that had swirled the pool of fear into his heart strings.

"Riku!"

Riku felt arms go around his waist, spiky hair touching his arms. He smiled. Sora was back to normal already. "Sora?" he asked. "It's ten o'clock at night. Why are you here?"

Sora put his head underneath Riku's arm, his head popping back out next to his stomach. He twisted his neck around to look up at Riku, grinning. "Well... I tried to go to sleep, honestly. But..." a guilty and upset look appeared on his face, and Riku's fear melted into something acidy and uncomfortable. "Oh, Riku!" Sora cried, nuzzling his head into the silverette's stomach. "I'm so sorry for being mean today!"

Riku chuckled, his fingers sliding through silky hair. "You are so weird, Sora."

The said boy grinned, before pouting. His eyes went wide, and his bottom lip trembled. "So you're not mad?"

Riku's eyes widened. He swallowed all the indecent thoughts coming to mind, and focused on how adorable Sora looked in those few moments. Then he smiled. "No. I'm not."

Then they stood, Sora behind Riku, secretly feeling proud that he was the one embracing Riku, and Riku feeling safe and content – until they realised it had been hours and they had school in the morning.