Decisions

Sora ran all the way to Kairi's house. He ran down the hallway to Kairi's room and burst in. Kairi jumped about five feet.

"What's wrong?" Kairi asked, noticing the worried look on her friend's face, deciding at the same time not to scold Sora for charging into her room without knocking.

"Riku . . . Riku" Sora stammered "He . . .he wants to have sex with me."

"O.k., start from the beginning". Sora explained the whole story. He told her how they made out in the secret place, how they confessed their love, how they made out again, how Riku explained how boys have sex and finally, asking for sex.

"I don't know what to do" Kairi just laughed.

"Riku had to explain how boys have sex?"

"You're not helping!" Sora yelled.

"O.k., sorry. So I guess the most obvious question is; do you want to have sex with him?"

"Ya, of course. I love him and I want to make him happy. I'm just not sure if I'm ready."

"I know you love him, you clearly do, but that's not a reason to have sex if you're not ready."

"How do I know?" Sora asked.

"You'll just know. If you're not sure, then you're not ready. You'll just know."

"He looked like he really wanted to do it, though. I don't want to let him down." Sora's voice was shaky. Kairi could tell he was struggling with this.

"Look Sora, it's Riku. You and I both know he'll understand, so go talk to him. You don't even need to do anything different anyway. I mean, you two are close enough already." Sora looked up and smiled at Kairi's words. He nodded to Kairi and said one thing before walking out the door.

"Thanks Kairi" Sora walked out the door to find Riku. He was a little worried but not really. He knew, deep down, Riku would understand. Then Sora realized he left Riku in his room. It's not likely he stayed there so Sora decided to take a walk on the beach.

Sora got to the beach to find no one there. He took off his sweater and lay down in the sand. He listened to the calming sound of the waves and felt the warmth of the sun shinning down on him and closed his eyes. Sora stayed there for five minutes focusing on his breath when a hand gently cupped his face. Sora opened his eyes to see Riku above him. Sora smiled and Riku kissed him gently on the lips.

"Good morning" Riku said gently.

"Morning? It's the afternoon." Sora was confused. Riku just smiled then Sora remembered what Kairi said. "Riku..." Sora began "...about earlier..."

"It's O.K." Riku knew exactly what was on Sora's mind. "We don't have to do it if you're not ready. To be honest, I'm not so sure I'm ready either. So we can wait. I don't want to make you uncomfortable. I don't want to make you uncomfortable because I love you, Sora. I've loved you for a while, so I can wait as long as you want me to." Sora blushed as his heart beat so loud he could almost hear it. Riku stood up.

"Does this mean we're dating now?" Sora asked.

"Ya" Riku laughed at Sora's confusion. He held out his hand and helped Sora up off the sand. As Sora grabbed his sweater, Riku began to walk down the beach.

"Riku" Sora called. Riku stopped and Sora ran to catch up. Sora stopped in front of Riku. "I love you too" Riku smiled, his eyes watered and a tear rolled down his cheek. They held hands as they walked home under the cloudless sky (It means that a cloud wasn't in the sky. It does NOT mean Cloud himself was not in the sky, although, thankfully, he wasn't).

Surprisingly, Sora and Riku didn't get any negative attention from holding hands. There was, naturally, a few elderly people who gave them dirty looks, but they didn't care, they were in love. They got to the front door of Sora's house and stopped.

"I take it our relationship isn't going to be secret one, is it?" Riku asked with a bit of a laugh.

"Why would I want to hide the fact that I'm dating the best looking boy on the island?" Sora asked back.

"Two things. First, you are the best-looking boy on the island. Second, I just want to make sure you don't care if people know you're gay."

"Well . . . people are going to find out eventually. Why not make it now?" Sora smiled.

"I agree." Riku cupped his hand on the back of Sora's head, leant in, closed his eyes and kissed Sora. The kiss lasted for about half a minute. When it ended, Riku just smiled and said; "See you tomorrow"

Sora walked in to his house to find his mother doing dishes.

"Did you have a good day?" She asked drying off another plate.

"Ya" Sora said with a grin. Sora's mom decided that it was best not to ask. Had she have asked, she probably would have dropped the fancy china she was holding. Sora walked into his room, lay down on his bed and fell asleep.