A/N: Is that a kiss I see down there?

Warnings: a couple of cliches, but nothing to worry about.

Sora gave him a week before he started giving him pointed looks whenever Riku was in the same vicinity of them, and Roxas was certain that Sora was purposely making sure they were in the same vicinity often. He loved his twin, he did, but he was also certain that Riku was going to catch on to those looks and Roxas's pointed ignoring sooner rather than later.

To solve this problem, Roxas was spending increasingly more time in the library on the college campus. It was a good environment to be doing his homework anyway because, then, if he needed a reference or to look something up he just had to find the right shelf. And, moreover, he could actually be alone without interruption for once.

Of course, that all ended when it was time to leave.

Roxas was frowning at the rain. He and Sora lived just off campus so it wasn't a far walk, but by the time he got there he was liable to be soaked, and he wasn't sure the books in his backpack would survive that.

"Need a ride?"

And of course Riku was the one to find him. Roxas's frown deepens, just for a moment, and he schools his features into a careful neutrality before looking over at Riku and raising an eyebrow in question.

"Sora said you could probably use one. You weren't home yet and the library closes around now so." Riku gives a shrug and Roxas scowls. Sora knew how to make things awkward, that was for sure. But then, he figure if he didn't tell Riku, Sora would and he wasn't sure he quite wanted that to happen, if Riku was to find out Roxas preferred to be the one to say it.. But the point of this whole endeavor was for him to not find out.

"Yeah." It was more an explosive sigh as Roxas allows himself to give in to the reality of the situation.. Riku's car was likely to be the only way he managed to get home with all his books and homework in tact anyway. And he didn't have to tell Riku. The drive was only a few minutes, he could stand that.

"Car's this way," Riku says with a smirk and a jerk of his head before turning and leading the way. With a grumble, Roxas follows.

"So how long were you waiting there?" Roxas asks as Riku slides the key into the ignition, desperate to be the initiator of any conversation to keep the topics safe.

"Just a few minutes." The car rumbles to life and Riku carefully backs out of the parking space. Roxas is pointedly not watching him, shuffling through his backpack to make sure the least important things were on the outside to make sure that if his bag did get drenched he wasn't likely to lose anything, and desperately trying to find a new conversation topic.

"So, Sora said you have something to tell me," Riku says after pulling onto the road, beating him to the punch. The words are quiet, almost like Riku wasn't sure he had wanted to mention it, and Roxas wishes he hadn't. If he had just waited another minute Roxas would have found something to say and they wouldn't be forced into an awkward conversation in an environment he couldn't escape from.

"No clue what he means." Roxas pulls a notebook out of his bag, straightening the loose papers he had tucked between the notes, finding any reason to not look at Riku. Feigning ignorance wasn't likely the best way to avoid the conversation but there was no escaping it now anyway. The longer he played dumb the longer he could keep the secret.

"He said it has to do with why you're avoiding everyone," Riku continues pointedly, knowing Roxas was lying, and Roxas knew he knew it. But he didn't want to talk about this. Not now, not ever. With the lengthening silence, however, he can feel Riku's curiosity, and quite possibly frustration, growing.

Roxas shoves the notebook back into his bag and shifts to look out the dark window instead, opting now to state the obvious instead of pretending to be clueless. "Maybe I don't want to talk about it."

"He said that too. But he also said it had to be me."

Roxas pointedly stays silent and Riku sighs, giving up for the time being. They were halfway to Sora and Roxas's apartment anyway, not nearly enough time to have an actual conversation. However, when he parks in front of their tiny house, Riku levels him with a pointed look and Roxas knows damn well that should he retreat now Riku was going to follow him, time of night be damned.

"I know you don't want to talk to me about it. But obviously you told Sora, and if it applies to me then I'd like to know what it is."

They say two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. Clearly it was time to kill Sora. Barring that, maybe three could keep a secret. Or, at least, let it edge it's way into open territory. They did keep telling him you don't know until you try, right? What's the worst that could happen?

Against his better judgement, Roxas turns to look at Riku. He looks frustrated, a little tired and Roxas figured, currently, both emotions were his fault and part of him is annoyed at how easily misery spreads. But those teal eyes were determined to get the truth, too. There was no escape, there was the truth, or an elaborate lie and his twin's unending disappointment. Roxas is getting ready to talk. Getting ready to say something, anything really, when instead he sighs and shifts again. He twists around and lifts one knee to the passenger's seat under him and uses it as leverage to lean over the gear shift. Just a couple more inches, and could this really be so simple?

The first thought through his head after their lips touch is oh my god I should have done this ages ago. The second is fuck, now he's never going to leave me alone. With that abrupt realization Roxas pulls out of the kiss, quickly grabs his bag and retreats through the rain into his house. Riku doesn't follow him.