Disclaimer: NO FELLOW FAN FIC BUDDIES, I DO NOT own any of the Kingdom Hearts stuff nor the song lyrics I used in the story. I clearly stated the name of the songs (if I used bits of it) and the band that sang them. OK?
"Take back all the things I said
to make you feel like that
and I
just wish that I didn't feel
like there was something I missed
and I
take back all the things I said to you
and I give it all away
just to have somewhere to go to
give it all away
to have someone to come home to
this is my December
these are my snow covered dreams
this is me pretending
this is all I need…"
Sora sang (more like mumbled to himself) along to "My December" (LP) playing from his CD player. He was sitting on his bed leaning against the wall. Around him his bedroom was messy, the floor covered by clothes, paper, shoes, and other junk. His walls covered in magazine cut outs and posters of bands. Pictures of him and Kairi spread out on his bed, he had been going through all their pictures since the night before. Then he came across an old picture of them two at Riku's 17th birthday (which was over the summer). Kairi in a ruffled mini skirt and an Abercrombie top; Sora in a hot pink BAM shirt and wearing a pair of destroyed jeans; They were sitting between all their friends, Kairi on Sora's lap—they looked happy. Next picture was of Riku blowing out the candles. Next one was of Kairi and Yuffie. Sora continued flipping through the pictures. Then finally, the last picture from the pile was of Tidus and Rikku. That was when they were still dating. Rikku eventually broke up with Tidus before she moved. Sora crumpled the picture and tossed it towards the wastebasket by the door, instead he missed and hit Riku in the face with it. Sora was startled to see Riku, he sat up straighter and took off his earphones,
"What are you doing here?"
"I called you yesterday to see if you wanted to hang out, your mom said you were going through some kind of," making quotations marks with his fingers, "depression." Riku laughed and through the scrunched up picture at Sora.
Sora laughed as he blocked it, "Well, I'm not feeling too good."
"Aaron (class vice president) says you resigned as class president and you quit the soccer team. Why?" Riku asked.
Sora shifted and sighed, "So I didn't feel like participating so much anymore." He shrugged, "Aaron can take over for me."
"What about the soccer team?"
"Uh..what about them?"
"Their new captain stinks. I saw their last game and they were HORRIBLE!" Riku laughed. A small smile appeared on Sora's face but quickly disappeared again. Riku looked around the room and then stepped closer to the bed, peering down at all the pictures of Sora and Kairi. "You're still depressed about you and Kairi breaking up?"
Sora still looking out the window (at nothing) nodded and replied, "Yeah."
"Why dude? That was two months ago already. Get over it." He roughed up Sora's hair, "She's moved on, and I think you should, too."
"It's not that easy, Riku." Sora changed the track on his CD from 'My December' to 'Numb'. He glanced up at Riku then put on his headphones again.
Riku sat down and then picked up and un-wrinkled the picture he had thrown back at Sora. He examined it and then rolled it up again. He then turned to Sora, "So you're not talking to Tidus anymore?"
Sora sighed, "Why should I?"
"Well," Sora snatched the picture out of Riku's hand and tossed it away. Riku shrugged it off and continued, "For one he's been your good friend for a long time. And two, Kairi's just a girl. You can't let her get in between you guys like that."
'JUST A GIRL!' does Riku NOT know who he's talking about? Sora grew agitated, "Riku…you just don't get it." He pulled off his headphones again, "I still—really like Kairi…and if Tidus was such a great friend, he wouldn't have asked her out knowing I still had feelings for her."
Riku thought for a minute, "Why'd you two break up anyway?"
Sora leaned back against the wall, "Over some dumb argument. I said some really stupid things that I didn't even mean, I was just really mad. I didn't apologize, she just took off…" Sora trailed off.
"So…" Riku pondered a bit in his head whether it was a good idea or not to go deeper into this conversation, "She dumped you?"
Sarcastically, Sora replied, "No, Riku. I broke up with her." (What guy in his right mind would dump Kairi?) Sora scooped up the pictures and chucked them into a black shoebox and shoved them under his bed.
Riku would have said something dumb back, but seeing as his best friend was already going through enough he just let that go. "Did you want me to talk to her?"
"Do whatever. I'm just—really tired."
"Why?"
Sora yawned, "I haven't slept in two days." He laughed a bit at himself. "I'm gonna go to sleep, maybe we can hang out later."
"Yeah, sure." Riku got up and left the room, closing the door behind him. On his way out he ran into Sora's mother.
"Bye—uh… Sora's mom." (A/N: What is Sora's last name anyway?)
She laughed and nodded her head, "Good-Bye, Riku. Come back soon."
"Oh yeah, your son offered to hang out later tonight. Is that ok with you?"
She seemed surprised, "Really? Sora wants to go outside?"
Heh, "Yeah. Is that good?" Riku put his hands in his pockets.
"Oh that's very good. He and I haven't been really communicating this past month. How is he?" She asked placing the grocery bags on the counter.
"Um…well he's not doing too well. He's still getting out of a 'phase'."
"What kind of 'phase' are we talking about?"
"Hrmm…Well, as you probably know already, He and Kairi broke up recently and uh—"
Sora's mother interrupted, "I didn't know they broke up. When did this happen?"
"OH." Was Riku not supposed to tell her? Oops, "Actually this was awhile ago. I'm still trying to get his mind off it. So—please don't bring it up around him."
"Oh, I see." She gave Riku a wink and then continued to put the groceries away.
Riku said, "See you later Mrs." -BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP-
Sora's mother didn't hear what he said after that because a huge truck went by honking at a dog that was crossing the street.
Upstairs Sora slept for only a minimum of two hours but awoke from a dream in a cold sweat. So climbing out of bed still exhausted, he tried to wake him self up by jumping in the shower, afterwards he went downstairs. In the kitchen he heated up a hot pocket and sat down on a stool. Leaning back and resting his elbows on the counter, He gazed around the kitchen; the refrigerator was plastered with drawings, report cards, notes, and pictures (all held up by stickies and magnets). The phone rang at the same time the microwave's bell went off. His stomach was growling, stuck between the choice of two: the phone, or his toasty hot pocket. He was at one of those crossroads in his life-to pick up the phone for it may be important… or starve himself for a few minutes longer. Again the phone rang. Looking back at the phone to the microwave he formed a quick plan in his head. He would run for the hot pocket and then dash for the phone. He started, He sprinted to the microwave and then grabbed the delicious hot pocket-he clenched the pocket between his teeth and jumped onto and rolled over the counter in the middle of the kitchen (in his plan he was to roll over the counter and then jump for the phone…but that didn't quite work out). He fell off the counter and landed on the kitchen floor. The answering machine picked up:
His mother's recording, "Hello, this is Hanna," from the background, Sora yelled " AND SORA!" "Heh…We're not able to pick up the phone at this time. Please leave a message and we'll return your call. Thank you." BEEEP
"Um…Hi Sora. This is Kairi. Wow, this is kinda weird but—Riku told me about your…" she sighed, "Just call me back when you can alright? K…Bye."
"Kairi?" He muttered shaking his head. Rubbing his now throbbing head Sora pulled himself up off the cold tile floor. Still rubbing his head he felt a bump begin to form, he almost half-cried. Just then his mother walked in and said, "Oh honey. What happened?" She was worried.
Sora murmured, "I-" he took a breath, "I dropped my hot pocket."
His mother laughed at him and replied, "I've started dinner already, go put on some warmer clothes and take out the trash for me."
Sora looked at himself, he was in his boxers and a dirty shirt that read, "I LOVE SOCCER MOMS". He nodded, sauntered upstairs, and pulled on a pair of jeans and a black Swithfoot sweater. Sora was forgetful and always misplaced his things—especially his shoes, so he was forced to just wear his mom's pink slippers outside hoping no one would see him. Outside he carried the trash to the garbage bin and then looked out at the beach (his house faced the beach, which was just down the hill). Amazed by the beautiful scenery he stood there for a while with his hands in his front pockets. Yuffie rode by on her skateboard and said, "Hey Sora." She passed already but yelled back, "I LOVE your slippers. They're hot!" She laughed and continued down the road. Sora laughed at himself just remembering he was in his mom's shoes, he went back into the house.