.Attempts

"It didn't even taste very good," Riku says, spilled over Sora's shoulders in a way that has only happened once before, and under very different circumstances.

"... Okay." Sora says, and thinks then why did you keep drinking it?

"I don't know how much I had though," Riku says, words slurring. "I lost count at ten."

"... Okay." Sora says, and wonders how he had lost count if he still knew what number he'd been at.

Riku continues to ramble, only slightly coherent. With each obscure confession mumbled, Sora just looks down at him and says '... Okay,' and continues supporting his friend to the bedroom. Slightly bitter, Sora wonders who's genius idea it was to give Riku alcohol.

"Remember that time," Riku says, and Sora resists the urge to interrupt 'yes' before he's heard the rest. "when I left a bucket of crabs on your bed?"

This is the first thing he has said that gains a real response from the brunette, who frowns and says "Yeah. That was pretty traumatizing, you know? I slept on the couch downstairs for three months."

Riku half-pouts and says "I was trying to woo you."

Sora just stares and asks dryly; "When we were seven?"

"I was eight."

"... That's not much bett--- Wait, woo me? What, by leaving live crabs on--"

Riku manages to stand up long enough to mash his mouth against Sora's, and brings them both down when he falls.

Their first kiss, Sora informs Riku the next day, looking almost amused and almost sympathetic from the bathroom doorway, sucked. Riku tasted like alcohol. Really gross alcohol. And he'd bit his tongue a few times, and they'd knocked teeth - it all over just sucked. Sora sighs dramatically;

"Even though we tried to get it right until two in the morning, they were all just awful."

Riku grimaces from where he is, and thinks that if he weren't so certain that his own taste was of bile, that he would offer to try again. Instead, he says "So after spending ten years attempting to get a kiss from you, I finally get it, and can't remember."

"Kissing's not all you forgot," Sora lies, just to annoy him. Riku looks stricken, but after a moment recovers;

"When I'm feeling better," he says decisively. Sora just blinks at him.

"... Okay."

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