Fan Fiction ❯ Prep and Punk ❯ When Emotions Collide ( Chapter 5 )

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When Emotions Collide

After the compliments and pats on the back, Riku settled himself in a plastic blue chair within the audience, watching the next performance consisting of two trumpets and two clarinets. As he stared at his black Converse skull shoes, Riku frowned and crossed his arms in contemplation. Why did Sora just run off like that? Hmm…well…he did play that prank on him when Sora only was trying to help him…maybe Sora was mad and he wanted an explanation! But then the question still would be:

Why did he run off?

Tapping his shoe-covered foot on the gray carpet with assorted patches of diverse colors, Riku cast a pale hand through his silvery locks and furrowed his brows. This is stupid…it’s not like I made him run off…right?

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Rising from his seat, Riku trailed over to the stack of book bags toward the far corner of the room and glanced over toward his guitar ‘Something’ in it’s black leather encasement. Gazing away, Riku grasped his book bag in his hand and shrugged it onto his shoulders, stealing a glance toward his guitar once more and he trudged out.

“Riku! Hey man, wait up!”

Riku swung his body toward the sound of his name and smiled as Zell approached, punching his fists in the air with satisfaction. A pearly white grin was etched on his face and he slapped Riku in the back. “We were the BEST!” Rambunctiously, Zell skipped out of the music room, pushing at least three people to the side. They scowled at him, but Zell was completely oblivious to their scorn. Riku shook his head and pursued after Zell.

“Yeah…we were pretty good.”

“WHAT?!” Zell abruptly spun around and glared at his younger friend. “We MURDERED the others! They all SUCKED! It was like we were god and they were the stupid little trumpet and clarinet peasants!” He laughed and continued to punch the air. “There was even a hot looking guy that just watched us from the door. It was pretty sweet!”

Okay…so Zell was gay, but that wasn’t ever a problem for Riku. Why would it be? Riku was turning gay…but he wouldn’t admit it…or at least…not right now…

Riku averted his gaze away and shrugged his shoulders, now attempting to lie to his friend. “I didn’t see him…”

“Well he was a prep, but he was really good looking!” Zell poked Riku’s shoulder and a mischievous glint surfaced in his eyes. “If you weren’t straight I swear you two would be hot together…”

“Whatever…”

Both the boys turned to notice the King of Punks was walking beside them, his head bent to study the ground before him. Silent as always, Leon surprised both of them with his presence, but both got over it since it happened occasionally.

Crossing his arms in a pout, Zell rolled his eyes and his eyes latched onto a tall and quiet spiky-haired blond. As Zell’s eyes trailed down those few seconds that the blond walked by, he noticed the forest green Polo shirt and the khaki baggy pants with the preppy sandals to match. Beaming, Zell elbowed Leon and winked.

“That’s who you should go out with…god…he’s sexy…”

“Whatever…”

“He’s pretty cute…think about it Leon! Quiet, sexy, mysterious! It’s your type-minus the prep part- but you two would do well together!”

“Zell…” Leon warned, but Zell playfully punched Leon on the shoulder and Leon shoved him toward Riku. With a grunt, Riku pushed Zell away from him, causing Zell to bump into Leon.

“Hey! Stop!” The two younger boys laughed while the King cracked a smile, but it vanished as a certain blond made his appearance.

“Well! If it isn’t Puberty boy, the Singing Fool and Chicken Wuss! What are we talking about that would make the King of Ice smile?”

“Hey! I’m not a chicken!” Zell fumed and eyed Seifer with a heated glance. “Why do you have to ruin everything?!”

“Why do you love me so much?”

An awkward silence ensued as Seifer smirked and ran a hand through his short blond hair. “Reading your diary is so much fun, Chicken Wuss…”

“Did my sister give it to you again?!” Zell sighed stressfully. Riku chuckled and shook his head as they turned the corner to their next classes. Zell was hilarious at times. Yes, Zell was gay and yes he liked Seifer…a lot. Riku waved the others off as he entered his second period class and Leon was the only one who acknowledged him as Seifer and Zell began to argue.

Just like everyday…

“See ya Riku! We were the fucking best!” Zell yelled throughout the hall as his other friends entered their classrooms, finally realizing that Riku had gone into his classroom. He grinned waving to Riku as he dashed away to his class. Riku chuckled and shook his head as he peered from behind the door frame at the speedy blond.

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Laughing, as the blond was late yet again to his second period class, he turned and sighed.

AP Biology, one of the funniest classes he could possibly have. His plump short teacher, Ms. Talbot, with her curly dirty blond hair always up in a pony tail and a happy grin plastered on her face everyday, Riku loved this class because of her. She would be straight forward on everything, if she was talking about reproduction, she wouldn’t use the dim-witted scientific terms that a biology teacher was required to do. She would just simple say ‘Sex’ and shrug it off. She was just like a student and she was the coolest person. She even made games out of the boring things. For blood types, the class played Jerry Springer and lucky Riku was Jerry, he asked the one girl who the father could have been. Since his class had to be the funniest, they really got into it and started play fighting, throwing light punches and shouting at each other denying that they got the girl pregnant, which got everybody laughing and almost peeing in their pants. Another kind of interesting thing they did was have labs at least once a week, which was enjoyable. When they had a lab on bacteria, Ms. Talbot brought in some things to study under the microscopes like moldy bread and cheese.

This class was a place to learn and have fun which was hard to come by at a school. The only other class Riku had that was as fun as this one was his AP Science class with Cid. But that was only because Cid cursed every ten seconds about anything and everything.

Speaking of Science, Sora was in that same class…Riku would have to confront Sora there. Great…

Trailing over toward his long black two-person desk that he shared with Zell’s smart sister Quistis, he dropped his book bag onto the floor that needed a serious mopping and a good sweep and he booted it under the desk, plopping himself lazily in his orange chair. Glancing over at the quiet and observant girl that was reading some novel that was green, Riku smiled and shook his head. She had such an opposite personality than her younger brother…well…Zell was younger by five minutes…

Yes, Quistis and Zell were twins, though everything they did was the complete opposite of one another. Like Zell always laughed at every little thing, but Riku had never seen Quistis laugh since… ever! And he knew both the siblings since his freshman year!

“Quisty?”

The only movement she made was the narrowing of her eyes and her brow rising in a question.

“What are you reading?”

“Queen of the Damned…by Anne Rice…”

“Oh.” Nodding his head leisurely and averting his gaze away, he shrugged. It wasn’t as if he had read that book before…or like he had the time to read in the first place.

“Is it any good?”

“Yes, quite wonderful actually.” Quistis replied softly and lifted her gaze to look at him. “You seem a little off today…”

“What?” Riku grinned and shook his head. “Why would I be?”

“When was the last time you asked what book I read?” Quistis questioned and Riku attempted to count on his hands, but failed as he glared at her.

“I’m fine!”

“I heard you did a brilliant job in music today.” She placed her baby blue bookmark inside her book and rested her book on the desk. She adjusted her glasses on the bridge of her nose and flashed Riku a small smile.

“Where did you hear that?”

“You don’t think I can’t hear my brother from the hallway?” She chuckled and pushed her long blond hair behind her shoulder. “I’m surprised I didn’t hear anything from you yet…”

“It was okay…” Riku shrugged as if it wasn’t such a big deal and Quistis gave him a knowing look.

“Something happened today didn’t it? Something that would make you say that because you always boast about being the best in the band and-”

“Hello class!” Ms. Talbot cheerfully exclaimed through the noisiness of the classroom. She crossed her arms and sighed. “Class!”

Everyone paused their conversation and looked at Ms. Talbot, who continued to smile at her class. She was beaming as if she were about to explode from all the excitement and she squealed clasping her hands together.

“Today we watch plant sex!”

Everyone seemed to enjoy that, but Riku guessed it was because the word ‘sex’ was involved. The only person who seemed to be totally calm about the idea was Quistis, which took out a piece of notebook paper to scribble down notes and study it for later. Riku wondered how good this subject would be.

“I have a movie for the class to see and don’t think it was like the last movie we saw! This one is actually quite funny!” She ambled over toward the DVD player and she lifted up her head, her dirty blond curls bouncing as she lifted her gaze to the class. “Take out a piece of paper and take notes!”

The class obeyed and they waited for the movie to start. One girl behind Riku and Quistis was chatting away about something that happened to her friend and how she wanted to beat whoever hurt Sora…wait…Sora?!

Riku turned just as Ms. Talbot flipped off the lights and started the movie and jade met wide hazel orbs. It was one of Sora’s little friends…what was her name? Oh! Sofia! No…that can’t be right…wasn’t it something like Stephanie or Sel-

“Riku…”

He turned to face the front as Ms. Talbot gave him a warning look and Riku tried to pay attention to the movie. The English man was going through some tall grass that Riku didn’t catch the name to on an elephant! Riku’s brow rose and he scribbled down that a weird English man was riding an elephant even though that wasn’t anything about plant sex…oh well…

It’s probably something so simple like the sperm goes into the ovary and-

“This is a flower that has a petal that looks like a female bee to trick the male bee. Watch as the male latches on and tries to mate with it!”

Wide-eyed, Riku observed when a male bee did just like the host said and landed on the flower petal, it began to hump it with a odd fervor and the pollen on the stamen rubbed on the bee’s back. When the bee thought he was alone, the voice interrupted.

“Watch as another male bee tries to claim the fake female bee and lands on the male, trying to mate with both, all the while getting pollen on his back. After their futile attempts, the bees will head to other flowers and pollinate them. This is how a flower reproduces.”

Oh…that’s how…hopefully Talbot will explain after because I’ll totally forget and-OH SHIT!

Another male bee appeared and attached itself to the other male, humping him from the back. Gaping, Riku blushed and was glad that the lights were turned off. Whoa…

A shiver ran down his spine and Riku snapped out of his intense gaze at the T.V. screen as he heard the two girls behind him giggling amongst themselves. Geez…he didn’t expect this movie to be so…forward…with everything.

“See! Plant’s are smarter than animals.” Ms. Talbot interrupted the movie to express her opinion. “All the yellow stuff on the bees are the pollen and the bees-to get the nectar from the flower-have to go through the style and the pollen enters through the stigma which go down to the ovary where it then is fertilized. This is called pollination!”

Riku glanced over to Quistis and witnessed her writing down what Ms. Talbot had just said. Riku chuckled and wrote only the key points.

Plant Sex…how interesting…

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“ ;Sora? Sora, are you in here?”

A masculine voice caused the brunette to stir from his slumber. He blinked his cobalt orbs and his blurry vision finally cleared as he noticed that he was leaning against the stall door. He must have fallen asleep…

“Sora?” The voice called out softly and Sora opened the door to gaze upon Tidus. His lips twitched into a frown and he paced over to Sora, a puzzled expression on his worried face.

“Are you okay, Sora?”

Sora shrugged and glanced down at the grubby gray tile floor. He brushed past Tidus and turned the cold water knob of the sink, getting his hands wet so he could wash his face. His eyes were red from just waking up and his throat was sore. Why was he feeling like this?

“Why didn’t you come back to class, Sora?”

The questions made Sora narrow his eyes at his own reflection and he shrugged once again, not in the mood for talking. He could feel his friend’s eyes staring at the back of his head and after turning the water off, Sora turned, his back leaning against the sink. He crossed his arms and he couldn’t look at Tidus even if he wanted to. He felt so stupid for acting like this…and he was being mean to his friend…and all Tidus wanted to do was help…

“It’s complicated…” Sora began and he averted his gaze toward the gray wall which had writing embedded into it. Like ‘Jason loves Ashley’ and ‘Virginia and Danielle are Destiny High whores!’ stupid things like that.

“You’re not going to tell me are you?” Tidus asked, as silence seeped into the modest-sized boy’s bathroom. Sora shook his head and Tidus nodded in reply, turning his back to his friend. “Well…I brought your things to Dr. Streater’s class. He’s talking about Abraham Lincoln…I bet he was alive back then to see Abe and all the shit he did!”

They both laughed and Sora felt much better. Smiling, he pulled his body up to stand straight and Tidus grinned walking over toward him, setting his hand upon Sora’s shoulder.

“I knew I could make you laugh! Now come on…let’s get to class…”

Sora agreed and they headed out to AP U.S History. Tidus’ arm wrapped around Sora’s shoulders and Tidus ruffled his chocolate spiky locks. Sora pushed Tidus away and they opened the blue-painted double doors to the Social Studies hallway. Surrounded by green lockers on both sides of them, they continued to stroll, stopping in front of the designated place.

“Alright…I told him you were sick, so act like it!” Whispering, Tidus opened the door and all eyes were on them. Sora placed a hand on his stomach and followed Tidus, who was trailing over to Dr. Streater at that moment. Dr. Streater frowned and scratched the top of his balding head. His gray beard resembled the poster of Abraham Lincoln that he was holding in his hands and from his features they seemed to be twin brothers. That’s were Streater got his nickname that his class called him all the time and random students, ‘Mr. Abe Lincoln’…how suiting…

“Sora…are you feeling any better?” He had a little voice, but it reverberated so oddly that all the class heard it without him raising his voice. Sora gave him a quick nod and was about to say something when Tidus cut in.

“Did we get far, Doc? I love when you talk about Abraham Lincoln!”

Sora knew Tidus was lying and buttering up their teacher. Dr. Streater smiled and shook his head.

“No, we were waiting for you two to come back, but then we had to start. Now…please take your seats.” He pointed to their seats which were right beside each other and the two boys nodded in agreement, maneuvering through the desks as they sat in the back of the class. Plopping down in his seat, Sora searched through his book bag and took out his binder for this class waiting for Dr. Streater to begin. However, Tidus lazily leaned back in his chair that was attached to the desk and he smirked taking out a piece of paper and pretending to enjoy this class.

“Now…as I have said…Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and one of my favorites of course.” Streater smiled as his class chuckled and he continued. “He was born February 12, 1809 in a log cabin. Despite Lincoln’s accomplishments he was actually an uneducated boy as he was growing up. He went to school, but it never lasted because he had to work for his family for a living.” He stopped to cough and then set the poster on his desk, walking around the classroom now, eyeing the students.

“Since I know the class would not like me to rabble on about Lincoln, I have brought in a movie that we shall watch.” He ambled over to the VCR and turned the television on. Sora stared at the blue screen and his ears detected pencil scribbling on paper. He turned to find a piece of paper flying at him. It landed safely on his desk, folded nicely and he glanced over to Tidus which was smirking to himself.

Sora unfolded the paper and read the question:

Are you still going to the beach today with me and the gang?

Sora took out his pen from his pants and uncapped it.

Yes. Why wouldn’t I?

Not caring if the paper was folded up or not, Sora passed it to Tidus and the blond boy smiled as he read it. Dr. Streater turned on the movie and it began to talk about Abe and his life. Sora scarcely paid attention as Tidus and him passed notes.

Well…you just seem off today so I thought you wouldn’t want to.

No…I’ll be okay…I don’t know why Riku would play a prank on me when I was only being nice to him…he’s such a jerk.

As Tidus read it, Sora felt the sudden fury pass his friend’s features. Sora gulped, regretting that he wrote that on his reply. Tidus gingerly placed the note on top of Sora’s desk and Sora picked it up, afraid of what it might say.

He was the one that made you upset…?

Yes…

He’ll pay…just wait till I get him at lunch, I swear I’ll chop his balls off with a plastic knife…

Tidus…please don’t…

Why not?! He’s an asshole and he needs to be taught a lesson…

No! I’ll handle it! Anyway, am I taking you to the beach after school?

If you want to…I could always get Lisa to drive me.

You have a mean limo driver…she’s a bitch…

Yeah, I know.

They were interrupted by the sound of a gun shot and they snapped their heads up to witness the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They frowned and Sora went back to writing.

I’ll just take you, okay?

Yeah. Thanks buddy.

Hey, it’s cool! ^-^

I better not see that ass in lunch though…I’ll knock the shit out of him…

Don’t fight him…it’s not worth getting in trouble!

You’re worth fighting for though…

Sora stared at that comment and his head tilted to the side. Was he really worth it? Yes, he had know Tidus since they were babies, but that didn’t mean Sora was worth fighting for right?

Don’t be stupid Sora…he’s only being a friend…

The lights turned back on and Sora grimaced as the light made him dizzy for a moment. Dr. Streater stood in front of the room and smiled upon his class.

“Well, the bell should ring any minute now, so since I’m having a good day…there will be no homework!”

The class sighed with relief and they began to pack up, gossiping amongst themselves.

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I’m going to have to deal with Riku today…damn it…

Hearing Tidus sigh and pat Sora’s shoulder, Sora smiled as he felt the comforting touch of his best friend.

“If you need me, text me okay?”

Head bobbling, Sora concurred with the idea and felt Tidus’ hand drift away.

“I’ll see you at lunch.”

“Alright see ya.”

They waved goodbye to each other and ventured their separate ways.

Ugh…I’m about to enter Hell…what am I going to do about Riku? What if he saw me watching him in the music room…? Wait! He did! He had to see me…

Instinctively, Sora’s feet had a mind of their own as he continued to pace toward AP Science with no enthusiasm.

He even thinks of pulling another prank and I swear I’ll LET Tidus chop his balls off…

He stopped at the opened door of Cid’s room and he groaned. Well…here goes nothing…

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Second Science class of the day! He just couldn’t get enough…or…his uncle couldn’t get enough of science and he made Riku take freakin’ AP Science and AP Biology! It wasn’t a bad thing of course…they were his favorite classes besides music. All his classes this year were fucking easy; expect Trig honors…that was a butt sucking class! It was all because of his stick-up-the-ass teacher Mr. Saunders. God…how many times did he get a detention for cursing up a storm in that bastard’s class? Too many to count of his fingers and toes.

That was the beauty of having an uncle as your school’s principal…Riku never really got serious punishments unless it was something REALLY bad…

Entering Cid’s class, Riku noticed a few students discussing about what they were going to do this weekend and Riku spotted Sora, staring at the board as Cid began to write the lesson down before class started. The silver-haired teen cautiously approached his seat which was a few ahead of Sora’s and Riku dropped his book bag on the floor punting it under his desk and he shivered.

Bananas…nakedness…ugh…I don’t think I can look at Cid without gagging…or laughing…I mean Cid’s wasn’t as big as I thought and-

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Assembling himself comfortably in his desk, the whole class was there…Geez…was he that oblivious as he thought about that dream? Whatever…

“Alright you bunch of fucking brats…we will continue to learn about the solar system and then you will pick another damn person to do a project with.”

Groans from the class, Cid gritted his teeth in annoyance and his toothpick spilt in half from the intensity. The whole class gawked at their teacher. Riku even had to admit that he had never seen Cid so mad before…damn!

“Now…lets’…get…started! ” Cid scowled at his students and they cowered under his gaze. He turned to face the board, his back to the class and he spit the toothpick out of his mouth and onto the floor.

I wonder what’s up with him…god it’s like his wife had an affair with another man or something…he needs to calm down…

“There are how many planets?” He didn’t face the class, but randomly called out a name.

“Riku…how many are there?”

“Nine…”

“Good…” Cid grasped a dry marker in his hand and turned to face Riku. “Now name them all…” Fire burned in his eyes as he gazed upon Riku with an powerful look. Riku could tell that Cid wasn’t going to take any shit today…

Hey! Don’t take your anger out at me old man! It’s not like I caused it!

“Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto…”

“Good…”

So as the oddly infuriated Cid rattled on about the solar system and the different facts about the planets, Riku could hardly concentrate since Cid was talking at a rapid pace. His face became flustered and Riku wondered when the man would take a breath. Finally Cid exploded.

“DAMN FUCKING TEENAGERS!” He snarled out of no where and Riku jumped in his seat, startled.

“Can’t you fucking kids stay away from sex until your fucking married? I swear I’ll cut that kids BALLS OFF!”

Riku couldn’t help but frown at Cid and his brashness. What was he talking about? Why would he be mad at teenagers? Why would he want to chop off someone’s-?

“Rikku will never seen that bastard again! He’ll be dead before he reaches twenty!”

Oh…that’s what he was talking about…that was Cid’s daughter! She was a senior this year…well…she definitely pissed her dad off…

Cid threw the marker down onto the tiled floors and plopped down in his wheelie chair, crossing his arms and grumbling to himself.

The class sat silently, not expecting any of this to happen…even though this WAS Cid…he was never like this.

“You have five damn seconds to pick a partner, if that doesn’t happen…then I’LL pick who you’ll work with!”

The students rushed out of their seats and stood by their partners. In a flash, everyone had their partners expect Riku and he sighed shaking his head.

Damn it…maybe I should have learned to get to know more people in this class…there has got to be someone that doesn’t have a partner…

Riku peered around the room and spotted a brunette planted in his seat, wide-eyed as he stared at Riku. Cobalt gazed into jade and their gazes locked as Cid cleared his throat. The two boys snapped their heads to look at their teacher and Cid glared at them, motioning for them to partner up.

What am I going to do? I just can’t be all buddy-like on him and forget everything that I did to him…he probably hates me right now…

“Riku…Sora…will you get your asses in gear and wok together already!”

Sighing, Riku grabbed his book bag from underneath his desk and strolled over toward Sora, sitting in the seat beside him. Neither boys looked at one another nor spoke; they just sat there quietly, averting their gazes away from one another.

“Alright…now since your lazy asses finally picked your partners, I’ll assign you a planet and you must research it. The assignment is due Tuesday of next week.” Cid sounded exhausted as if the yelling he had done had made him weary. Cid gave Riku and Sora the planet Uranus, which got a few chuckles from the class.

“Alright you sick ass perverts, it’s not like that! Shut the fuck up and do your damn work! Research the planets in your books and then at home on your spare time…get use to your partner because for the rest of the semester, they‘ll be your partner for everything!”

Riku’s shoulders slumped and he stole a glance at Sora, who’s mouth was gaping wide in disbelief. Shaking his head, Riku rubbed his temples as a major headache was approaching.

It’s not like I want this either Rich Boy…damn it! Now I have to spend extra time with him! Shit…this weekend is going to suck…what am I going to do? I’ll throw up if I have to hang around his preppy ass friends…wait! Maybe I wont have to even see him until Monday…I’ll do half and he can do half! Or even better…HE can do everything…but he probably won’t even do it! He’ll pay some smart ass to do everything…

Unzipping his book bag to get his Science book, Riku grasped the said book and slammed it on his desk, clearly agitated at the current situation. He could sense Sora’s eyes on him, yet he didn’t turn to look. Grabbing his black binder from his book bag, Riku flipped it open to a clean piece of paper and opened his book, searching through the Table of Contents for the page number. He inclined his head forward toward the book as he flipped the pages to the designated page and he began to read on Uranus.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sunand the third largest (by diameter)…Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune…ugh…maybe I should just says it’s my ass and make that my project…hmm…I don’t think Cid would want to see a picture of my ass on my project…though it would be funny.

“Riku?”

Slowly, Riku shifted his head to the side and lifted his gaze to meet Sora’s.

“Yeah?”

“I want to ask you something…”

Riku froze and blinked a couple times. Shit…he’s gonna ask me why I played a prank on him…what am I going to tell him?

“Can I use your book too? I forgot mine in my locker…”

“Oh.” Riku straightened up and grinned scratching the back of his head. “Sure! No problem!”

“Thank you!” Sora smiled and scooted closer to Riku, desks now touching. Riku pushed the book in between the two desks and both took their own notes. There was a long silence between them and Riku kind of enjoyed that. He didn’t want the moment spoiled because of something that he did to someone. Sora didn’t even seem to be mad…it was really weird. The kid was way too nice for his own good…If Riku was Sora, he would have kicked some ass right about now…but that was just how Riku thought…

“Uranus is kind of interesting, isn’t it?” Sora inquired and Riku snapped out of his thoughts at Sora’s voice.

“When have you been looking at my ass?”

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Wide-eyed, Riku slowly looked at the blushing Sora as the noise stopped for a moment. Sora grinned sheepishly and Riku chuckled, shaking his head.

“Sorry!”

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“Sora!”

“I said I was sorry!”

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 220;Alright! Lunch!” Sora climbed out of his seat and dashed over toward the door, causing people to rush out of the way. The brunette waited for Riku at the door as people exited and Riku made sure he had his wallet in his pocket before setting out with Sora.

“I’m starving!”

“I can tell…” Riku chuckled and Sora shrugged smiling.

“Riku! Hey buddy! Over here!”

Riku swung his body around to glimpse Zell stampeding toward him. People scowled as the hyper blond made his way toward Riku and some were even pushed out of the way by Zell.

“Riku I’ll see you later…”

Riku glanced over his shoulder to look upon Sora and Riku nodded, waving Sora off.

“Yeah I’ll see you too.”

The silver-haired teen watched the brunette trail away, oblivious to the grinning Zell beside him.

“RIKU!”

Startled, Riku growled as he turned to face Zell. “What the fuck do you want?!”

“You like him…” Zell snickered, an impish glint in his eyes. Riku shook his head and dismissed the idea with a wave of his hand.

“He’s a prep and I’m not gay…”

“Are you sure? That was the boy that I saw in music today! I saw you two talking and you look great with him!” Zell poked Riku in the arm as they moved toward the cafeteria and Riku pushed him away.

“Will you leave me alone about it? I’m not gay, Zell!”

“Whatever you say…I saw how you watched him leave…I’m not stupid…”

“Whatever Zell…”

They entered the crowded cafeteria and they spotted their friends sitting at their original table. The two strolled over there and made their greetings before all the punks at the table except for Yuffie and her skateboard which leaned on the table beside her. She grinned and waved, flashing a mouth full of food.

So Leon, Riku, Zell and Seifer made their way into the school lunch line (since the snack line was usually a waste of money) and they leaned against the faded blue tiled wall.

“So Chicken Wuss, I heard you were late to class again…” Seifer began and Zell poked Seifer in the chest, brows furrowed.

“Stop calling me ’Chicken Wuss’!” Zell fumed and turned his back on Seifer, pouting. “I hate when you do that…”

The group laughed and Zell brushed past them, showing his back to all of them. Seifer chuckled and smirked.

“Be careful Chicken Wuss…becoming that mad will make you poop out an egg!”

The group laughed again, except for Leon which smiled softly and Zell’s head bent down to look at his black Converse shoes. Riku kind of felt bad for the blond and shook his head.

“Alright Lapdog, quit picking on Zell…”

Seifer froze and growled, giving Riku the most furious of stares.

“I told you to never call me that…”

“Let’s just stop…” Leon demanded quietly and they all became silent. When the King of Punks speaks…that meant you do what he says…or else…

Riku heard Zell huff as he grabbed his Styrofoam tray and the silver-haired Prince of Punks watched the lunch lady hand Zell some Salisbury steak thing…by the look and the smell of it…the meal probably came out of the trashcan. Riku just picked a chicken sandwich and some French fries. Sliding his tray down the line, he grabbed a fruit cup and then entered his Student number in and handed the lunch lady his money, following Zell out the line. The two boys waited for the others and when everyone was done, the group headed to their table, all the while, Riku felt someone watching him.

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“I can’t wait to head to the beach today! It’s going to be so exciting! Right Sora?”

Sora’s head snapped up to acknowledge Selphie and he smiled, nodding his head.

“Yeah…”

“What’s wrong Sora? You’re really quiet today and you’re not even eating!”

Sora looked down at his bag from Taco Bell and shrugged, raising the taco in his hand to his mouth and taking a bite, chewing it utterly slow. He could feel Tidus’ eyes on him and when he looked, it wasn’t the expression he expected…

Tidus looked worried…

But what was to worry about? Sora was fine! Why wouldn’t he be?

Sighing, Sora displayed a small smile to reassure Tidus that everything was fine and Tidus nodded, glancing away. Sora watched as Tidus’ eyes narrowed in rage and Sora followed his gaze and recognized Riku walking with his friends. He knew what Tidus was thinking…and Sora didn’t like it…

“Tidus…” Sora warned, but the dirty blond shook his head and rotated his head to face Sora. The ferocity in his eyes made Sora want to shudder and then Tidus finished his own food, staring off at the Punk’s table.

“Well I know what I’m gonna do.” Wakka began and Selphie and Kairi listened. “I’m gonna surf, ya know?”

“What about you Cloud?”

Everyone turned their heads to the King of Preps and he lifted his head slowly, gazing at them with eyes of a beautiful incomparable shade of blue that the group had ever encountered. He ran his hand through his blond spiky hair and the hair stood straight up again. He shrugged and continued on with his meal, not even bothering to answer his friends.

“Come on Cloud! You know you want to do something at the beach!” Selphie chirped and Cloud shrugged again, which caused her shoulders to slump.

“I’m going to find you a girl Cloud! You’re way too quiet!” Selphie said and Kairi agreed.

Cloud suddenly became tense and he remained quiet as Selphie named off girls that she thought would be prefect for Cloud and he shook his head as she finished her list, clearly not wanting anything to do with her ‘get-a-girl-for-him’ scouting. Selphie sighed dramatically and rested her chin in her hand, shaking her head with a sad glint in her eyes.

“Okay…maybe you’ll find someone you like at the beach…wait! You’re going to the beach right?!”

Cloud nodded his head and Selphie calmed down, grinning.

“Oh good!”

Tidus pounded his fist on top of the table and stood, stomping away.

Oh shit…oh shit…what’s wrong? I told him everything is okay…why is he so mad?

Then there was a scream and the cafeteria suddenly got quiet and Sora stood seeing Riku on the floor and Tidus over him…

Oh shit…

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Alright…this chapter is done! Some interesting things, all the teachers (except of course Cid) are actually my real teachers except for Dr. Streater, but I know him. He really does look like Abe, but anyway. Next chapter will definitely have some blood and topless guys! ^-^ So please REVIEW!! REVIEW!! REVIEW!!