Life's Cheat Code

-Level 10: Begin-

With the money she had in her pocket, Mayuka had gone shopping for more eggs and a few other things at the grocery store. Sora locked himself in his room and never thought he could cry so much.

He was so close, so damn close to getting out of Felicity.

He had to have money, he had to keep the house, he had to keep the electricity and the water bills paid…

But how was he going to keep Riku, too?

He sat up from his bed and brushed the hair from his puffy red eyes and sighed. He dried his tears and reached for his cell phone, dialing a number he knew by heart.

"Hey…Riku?"

/L-C-C\

"He WHAT!?"

Axel got up from the couch, dropping Roxas onto the cushions and looked around for his boots, "But I thought – but, but – you guys fucked like, every night!"

"Shh, Axel!" Roxas said, getting up and pressing stop on the DVD player. He scurried and stopped in front of Axel just in time for his hand to come out and grab his shoulder for leverage while putting on his boot and muttered an apology, still holding the phone up to his ear.

"How did… Why, Riku? …What do you mean he didn't say!?"

Roxas pressed a finger to the older boy's lips and looked for his other boot. He jumped at it at the end of the couch and slightly bonked his head on the arm of the couch.

He stifled his cry in pain and only rubbed it as he gave Axel his other shoe, "Okay, dude, I'll be right there, okay? Don't move, don't…don't piss until I get there, understand?" And he hung up.

"What's wrong with Riku?"

"Your little stripper friend dumped him!"

"…What?"

"Yeah, Sora just called him at the crack of dawn this morning to break up with him!" He shuffled around and found his coat. "Get dressed, you're coming with me."

"O-okay, um, wait…why?"

"He didn't even say, he just told him he loved him and then he said they were better off friends."

"Oh…" Roxas looked down at the carpet covered stairs he slowly tramped up them to get dressed.

"Ya better hurry, Riku gets kinda…suicidal."

/L-C-C\

Riku hadn't moved since the phone call.

He had fallen asleep on the couch watching a movie and the next morning, he gets the call.

The most Axel and Roxas had done was sit him up and tried to talk to him. Axel even got a gallon of mint ice cream on the way over.

The three of them now had spoons, and it was only Riku who didn't touch it. Axel was almost inhaling it and Roxas took a spoonful every couple of minutes.

They chose not to talk. Not much, anyway. Roxas sat on Riku's right and Axel sat on his left. The ice cream sat in Riku's lap loosely, and all Riku could do was stare at it.

"Hey, it'll be okay." Axel said, mouth half full of mint, "You fon't neef fat kid anyfayf."

Riku didn't even look up.

Roxas tried not to glare at Axel; that was his best friend, hello?

Roxas stood up, watching Riku pick up his head to look up at him. Roxas then turned to Axel, who still had a glob of ice cream in his mouth, and some not, and had stopped chewing and was looking up at him blankly.

"Take me to Sora's, please?"

Axel swallowed, mouth still covered in the stuff, and glanced at Riku, who had glanced in his direction also.

Axel sighed and stood up, taking both Roxas and his spoons to the sink and quickly following the younger boy out the door. He looked back at Riku, and then he was gone.

"This isn't like Sora…"

"Chya, I'll say." Axel said, catching up to the kid and unlocking the doors, "What are you doing to say?"

"I'll just ask if he's alright. I mean… He practically is in love with Riku, it just doesn't make any sense…"

Roxas sat in the passenger seat quietly and waited impatiently until Sora's house came into view, and told Axel to stop a few houses down.

"I'm going back to Riku's, okay? Call me if you need anything."

"Okay, I'll see you later then."

Roxas closed the door and all but ran to the house. He knocked on the door quietly, "S-Sora?"

No answer.

"Sora, it's Roxas."

He pressed his ear against the door and heard the older boy's footsteps, and nearly fell when it opened up.

Roxas looked up after regaining his balance, and almost fell again. Sora's eyes were puffy and his cheeks were wet and he was currently rubbing at his eye to hide it.

"H-hey Roxas, what's up?"

"Sora you look terrible."

"Yeah, no kiddin'?" He chuckled, and his smile turned into a sob again shortly afterwards. He grabbed onto Roxas, almost making the younger boy fall, bawling into his sweatshirt.

Difficult as it was, Roxas finally got the older boy to sit with him on the couch, which hadn't lasted very long. Sora would stand every couple of seconds and pace the room.

"So, what happened?"

Sora groaned, running hands through his hair and balling his fists tightly. "I don't know, Roxas, I don't know."

"Why'd you break up with him?"

"I don't know, Roxas."

"Sora, what's the-"

"I don't know, Roxas! For fuck's sake, I don't fucking know!"

Roxas cringed slightly, putting an arm up as a feeble defense. Sora only glared with tears in his eyes before scrambling his hands through his hair again, groaning loudly into the room.

Roxas didn't move. Sora's been mad, crazy-mad, but not this mad. He watched Sora sink to his knees, hands finally losing aggression and returning to his sides.

"Mayuka got fired, Roxas…" He muttered, swiping the tears away from his eyes and sniffling slightly.

That was when it clicked.

Roxas sprang from the bed, and grabbed Sora by the shoulders, "When?"

"Yesterday." He sniffled again, "Budget cuts, fucking budget cuts!"

"It's okay, Sora, she'll have no problem finding another…job."

Sora didn't say anything.

He wrapped his arms around the younger boy's waist and pulled him into a hug. Roxas wrapped his arms around the older boy's shoulders and heard him sniffle in his ear.

He didn't realize they were walking backwards until the door met his back, one of Sora's hands moved from his waist to his hair. Sora picked his head off of the younger boy's shoulder and looked him in the eyes before wetting his lips and pressing them against the younger boy's.

Roxas' eyes went wide, and his arms flexed to push the older boy away, but the tongue poking at the entrance of his mouth made his muscles go slack. He parted his lips in the slightest bit before the older boy's tongue invaded and poked around.

Roxas couldn't think. He felt a hand tug at his belt before it came loose and was dangling from the loops, and he felt the heat rushing to his cheeks as the button popped and the zipper fell.

"…So-ra!"

He managed to escape Sora's mouth in time to moan at the contact of Sora's hand around his arousal. The older boy's lips moved to his neck, swiftly biting and sucking in spots Roxas weren't even sure existed, still ghosting his fingers over his length.

He wanted this; he needed this. He wanted to be touched; he craved the contact…

Roxas raked his nails across Sora's shirt, fisting it tightly and moaned loudly as he felt himself grow hard. He breathed in the older boy's ear and rocked against his hand and tried not to be loud.

Sora pulled the younger boy's face up to his for another kiss, tongue easily gaining access into his mouth. Roxas' back left the door and pressed even further against Sora's body, hands circling his neck and lacing in his hair.

When Sora threw Roxas against the door again, it wasn't there.

Roxas landed hard on the cement stair with his right elbow hitting the sidewalk. He hissed slightly in pain before looking up at the open door.

"Take that," He pointed at the younger boy's spread legs, "And go play with Axel. We don't need your help."

Roxas glared as the door slammed in front of him and locks clicked. He stood up, and dusted off his pants and examined the throbbing pain in his elbow, and dismissed it as merely a scratch.

…Axel?

Oh…fuck.

+Insert Coin To Continue?+

A/N: o.o…I dunno where Sora's breakdown came from either.

Excuse the shortness.

PotC3three times!!! XDDDD :B