Ch 3: Riku's number
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts© or any of the characters
Warning: Swearing.
A/N: I'm actually enjoying this.
And the answer to Juliana's question in the reviews; with twins, the one that is born first (even by It's by a minute or mere seconds) then they can be deemed 'The eldest'. And in Roxas's case he was born before Sora, so he's technically older by two minutes.
: 2kitsune :
After the incident of Sora's 'mysteriously flat tire' he and the Silverette quickly became mutual friends, hanging out at Star Bucks when the Silverette had time and when Sora was off work instead of pretending to be sick; they would maybe see each other three times a week and even though the Brunette was so happy that they were friends, he found himself wanting more.
Expecially after the dream he had last night; it had started off innocent with Riku and Sora having lunch but then the clothes started flying off and Riku's breath was a little to realistic in the Brunette's ear, and basically the lifeguard woke up moaning the Silverettes name with his hand down his pants.
But still Sora wanted to get closer, today though he had a lunch 'date' with Kairi so grumbling away the Brunette pulled on some khaki shorts, blue vans, a simple white shirt and his wallet and keys before venturing out; Today it was supposed to get up to over 20 degrees, so there was no need for a jersey.
Twenty minutes later Sora pulled into the car park of a organic tea shop and parked his blue Volkswagen, whistling a tune as he spun his keys around his fingers the Brunette traipsed up the steps to the door and entered; immediately he was hit by a wall smell, Jasmine, lilies, violets, strawberries, peach, and to many more for Sora's nose to detect.
Swaying a little Sora peered around the small cafe and immediately saw Kairi sitting at a table beside the window, a huge smile on her face as she waved; nodding back the Brunette began to make his way through the many tables and finally plopped down in his seat opposite the cherry redhead.
"Sora!" Kairi greeted, "How are you!? We haven't talked in ages" she gushed and took a rather excited gulp of tea before folding her arms on the table and fixing the Brunette with her deep blue eyes, sighing Sora faintly noticed that he could already feel a headache and picked up the tea menu un-excitedly.
It wasn't that he didn't love Kairi as a friend; it was just that sometimes she talked too much.
"I'm good" Sora replied much more un-enthusiastically, "Nothing much has been happening, I was meant to have dinner with Roxas a couple of days ago but it was kinda- er- busy so now I feel bad" he told her as he waved for a waitress to come over, ordering green tea and a scone before watching her bustle away again.
"Oh yeah?" Kairi asked with her mouth full, it was then when Sora noticed the salad in front of her and the cup of rose tea perched beside her elbow.
"Yeah" Sora replied eerily and turned to look outside with his cheek resting on the heel of his palm, he was slightly out of it even with the slight mention of Riku even if Kairi hadn't noticed it.
"Who is he?"
"What?" Sora turned slightly to look at Kairi with wide eyes and raised eyebrows, had she really caught on that fast? 'Well, she is a girl' he thought, 'They have an affinity for this kind of thing'
"Or she, I honestly can't remember if your bi or gay, it's been so long since you 'came out'! and Roxas came out at the same time so it's kinda of confusing" she rambled once again, using quotation marks around 'came out' "So?" she finished, silence covering them as her blue eyes scrutinized him carefully.
"K-Kairi" Sora stuttered and turned red, running a hand down his face before sighing and idly swinging back and forth in his chair, "It's embarrassing" he whispered even though there was no need considering how there was no way anyone could overhear them, "Drop it"
Kairi went to say something but the Waitress popped up and smiled a cherry, and a little fake, smile at them both as she placed down Sora's tea and scone before leaving just as fast.
"Sora" Kairi's voice was just as low, and she snaked a hand over the table to gently hold Sora's "You can tell me, I won't judge" looking up through his eyelashes the Brunette was caught by her pouty gaze and sighed, feeling his walls fall.
"I feel like we've done this before" Sora joked and nervously ruffled his hair with the hand that Kairi wasn't holding, but when Kairi didn't offer a smile the Brunette realized that she was actually serious, "Fine" he sighed, "Remember how around three weeks ago I told you about that guy I talked to at the supermarket?"
"Yeah" Kairi supplied, but her mouth tightened like she was chewing on lemons and her eyes turned a little darker.
"Well, I've kinda, sorta, been stalking him for around a month and yesterday I faked a flat tire outside his house and we hung out for an hour 'cause he called AA for me " Sora rambled off keeping his eyes firmly on the offensive pink tablecloth, "And, well, I think I've fallen for him, Kai" he added lamely.
Still staring at the tablecloth the Brunette pretended to be extremely interested in the small patterns of flowers that could be found there, fortunately for him Kairi wasn't speaking; 'Wait' Sora thought, 'Isn't-speaking?'
Peeking up through his eyelashes Sora found the redhead watching him intently, her whole pallor had turned white and her eyes were as wide as saucers "You-you think you've fallen for him?" she choked "But, I-" she then whispered, to low for Sora to hear.
"Kai? You okay?" Sora asked concernedly and squeezed Kairi's hand, suddenly as though the redhead was shocked Kairi jolted and she smiled widely.
"Sora! That's great!" she chirped seemingly back to her own self, "I'm really happy for you" but she didn't seem it, her smile didn't reach her eyes and when the redhead thought Sora wasn't looking the Brunette saw her smile falter slightly.
"R-really?" Sora asked and went back to rubbing the back of his neck nervously, at that moment he decided to play along with Kairi when she was obviously faking; something he had learnt was that if the redhead wanted to tell him something she eventually would, he remembered how one time he had made the mistake of pestering Kairi in High School and how it had just made things worse.
"Yeah, I'm glad you've finally found someone! Guess it's my time now, eh, Sora?" She joked and reached over to jokingly slap Sora's arm, but to be honest the Brunette felt really bad when the redhead then silently removed her hand from on top of his.
After that Kairi seemed to become more and more distant from Sora, a week went past and neither of them talked to each other, then two weeks, and then three; And through it all the Brunette just became more and more withdrawn, and in the end he would just spend the day going to work before laying down on the couch and stare up at the ceiling.
Unfortunately for him he had Roxas as a sibling.
Sora was just laying there daydreaming on his couch when, 'BANG!' his door flew open; squawking like a parrot Sora flailed his arm's as he fell off the couch and onto the hard ground, "Ouch!" he yelled and lay still.
"SORA!" a loud and very angry voice yelled from the door, pushing up Sora had the pleasant surprise of finding Roxas standing there in his doorway with his arms folded as he glared at the Brunette; "Three weeks!" the blonde snapped as he stomped around to Sora, straddling his twins thighs and grabbing the front of his shirt "Three fucking weeks and I don't hear anything from you! For all I'd known you could've been dead!"
"But I'm not!" Sora protested loudly as he tried to get out of his brother's grip, which resulted in Roxas shaking his twin a few times.
"I don't fucking care!" Roxas yelled, "Don't ever do that to me again!" Getting off Sora the blonde continued to glare down at him for a second before snapping, "We're going out. Dinner. You have ten minutes to get ready. Or I'll come in there and help you" he demanded before plopping down onto the couch and flicking the TV on.
Half an hour later Kairi was well out of his mind as he watched Axel and Roxas fight over what entrée to get, laughing to him Sora eyed his own menu and quickly decided to get the fish; it was times like this when the Brunette really got a chance to look at how happy the Blonde was with Axel.
"So, Sora" Axel called from across the table and pulled Sora from his musing, looking up the Brunette was once again struck by how red the man's hair was; that and the stretched ears, the septum and eyebrow piercings, and the tattoo's all over his body not to mention the upside-down tear drops on his face.
"Yeah?" Sora replied and grinned when he noticed that Roxas was pouting, he had obviously lost the argument.
"How's life with you?" The redhead asked as his amazingly emerald eyes scanned Sora up and down, on the table Axel's lanky hands twitched and the Brunette knew he was itching for a cigarette; and if he looked over at Roxas then Sora knew he would find his twin's leg shaking, a sign that he was wanting a cigarette too,
"Its fine, life's not really interesting when you're a lifeguard" his answer was a little sad but Sora quickly perked up by saying, "But I saved a kid yesterday! His mum was so happy, you should have seen all the kisses she gave me!" he Brunette said a little too proudly and grinned.
"Mmmm, really? Well, at least that's more interesting then tattooing people every day" Axel flicked his fingers dismissively, "Expecially when their stupid fucking teenage girls who want fucking 'pretty unicorns', or their fucking boyfriends names" he laughed.
"At least you didn't have to deal with those two girls yesterday" Roxas grumbled from his side of the table, earning Sora's attention when the Brunette visibly perked up "These two blondes came in wanting each other's names, apparently they were like BFFL's or something" the Blonde grumbled, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Oh yeah, their giggling gave me a headache, and I was just at desk" Axel grumbled hooking a finger in his ear as if he was trying to clear it.
"At least you have fun doing what you do" Sora grumbled, "I just sit around" he then laughed and rubbed the back of his neck; it was then when the waitress decided to finally show up and take their orders and drop off the drinks they had ordered.
"Speaking of which, when're you gonna' come in to finally get some ink on you?" Axel asked, eyeing Sora up and down, "Your kind of skin is a delicacy, virgin skin" he added a little creepily as he nudged Roxas, "Roxy here used to be a virgin, in more ways than one" the Innuendo in that one sentence alone made Sora wince.
"Axel!-" Roxas started but was cut off.
"Yeah, I've noticed" Sora commented and eyed the tattoo's littering Roxas's arms, and thinking about the ones that he couldn't see presently but had seen under the blondes shirts "I have nothing against them though!" he said noticing his twins small frown, "I think your tattoo's are cool, Rox, and I would get some too but I'm afraid of needles" he laughed, rubbing the back of his neck.
Laughing a little Sora just happened to look over towards the bar above Roxas's shoulders, and then proceeded to freeze when he saw a very familiar Silverette sitting there along; "Riku?" Sora uttered quietly and stood up from the table, ignoring Roxas's startled expression, and padded towards the Silverette like he was being summoned.
"Huh?" Riku turned just as Sora sat at the barstool beside him, "Oh, Sora, Hi" he said and grinned at the Brunette, resulting the lifeguards stomach to turn to butterflies, "What're you doing here?"
"I'm here for dinner with my twin" Sora grinned back and tried to ignore how nervous he felt, "They're back there" he added pointing over his shoulder and watching as Riku's aquamarine eyes briefly flickered in the direction he had pointed, before returning to Sora.
"Which ones your twin" Riku teased "The skinny redhead, or the short blonde" he laughed and Sora watched with awe as it made his eyes twinkle.
"Silly!" Sora laughed along and punched Riku on the shoulder, "The blonde one's my twin, do I honestly look related to Axel?" he asked, "That's the redhead, by the way"
"Well-" Riku trailed off and suddenly he was far too close, their noses almost touching and one of the Silverette's cool hands under his chin so that he couldn't get away; Sora felt his breathing hitch and he started trembling, his sky blue eyes were drawn to Riku's and he just couldn't look away.
"Honestly? No" and suddenly Riku was gone and Sora was gasping for air and pretending that the Silverette hadn't just nearly given him a heart attack because of how close they had gotten, nervously laughing the Brunette rubbed the back of his neck and kept his eyes firmly on the ground; he could feel how red his cheeks are and he hoped like hell that Riku hadn't noticed, though when he peeked up through his eyelashes, the smirk on the Silverette's face told him he had.
"So, what're you doing here then?" Sora asked a little confusedly, "I hardly imagined you being the type to sit around alone at a bar, where are all your screaming fan girls?" he asked with a straight face and tried not to laugh, but unfortunately the look that Riku sent him was just far too perfect.
"Very funny" Riku grumbled but did actually look a little annoyed, "No, I just came here from a art gallery that was showcasing some of my friends art" he explained, "Though, I didn't really have any fun, everyone had someone there with them and I didn't" he complained kind of like a teenager, making Sora giggle again when it probably wasn't very appropriate.
"Well, maybe I could go with you next time" Sora replied a little too coyly and reached forward to run his hand up Riku's arm, "I mean, if that's alright with you" he added, looking down and then up through his eyelashes and shooting the Silverette flirty smile.
"Sure" Riku said a little too quickly and actually surprised Sora a little.
"Wait, really? You mean it!?" the nervous feeling was back and Sora gulped a little, Riku looked him up and down once before leaning forward to whisper.
"Oh yeah, I'm sure"
By the time Sora, Roxas, and Axel left the restaurant the Brunette was positively beaming and refused to let go of his phone; because finally he was the proud owner of Riku Leonhart's number
So, there's chapter 3. Hope you enjoyed it! :)
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