Chpt 4-Stalker to Boyfriend

When Sora left the school again, Roxas watched him leave before following the bike towards town. 'its official. I'm a stalker and man...if I get caught by him, I'm dead.' the blond watched him turn down and ally and ran to keep up. He peaked and saw the brunette follow a man into a building. The blond looked up at the sign and stared. The Tavern was a bar. So why was his friend going in there? 'Dammit...I'm underage too.' Roxas cursed his age before turning and walking back towards the school. 'Guess I just have to wait and see, though I'm seriously concerned now.' During the ride, his friend would stop and lean against the bars of his bike. It was obvious his friend was sleep deprived but whether the  brunette was going to admit that or not wasn't certain. 'Just gotta wait for later on and see what happens.'

Chapter 4

Groaning lightly, Sora opened his eyes and stared at what lay in front of him. Glass lay under and some in his arm and he was on the floor. He sat up slowly and started to pick the glass out of his skin while trying to figure out what happened. The last thing he remembered was standing and cleaning the dishes before he left to pick Roxas up. Then his world went black suddenly. Lark must have left already since there was no sound at all and when he looked the bar was closed. He shot a look at the clock and gaped. It read 9:00 pm. He had missed picking his friend up and was late for his other job by four hours. Sora shook his head though after the shock wore off and went into the back, stopping when he pulled the biggest piece of glass out of his arm and letting it fall to the floor. His arm was a complete mess and covered in dry blood. The floor had blood on it as well and his right cheek was scratched as well. How was he going to explain this to his brother? He had done a good job keeping the suspicion down but injuries like this couldn't be ignored. Sora caught himself just as another dizzy spell hit him.
"I need to get this checked out," the brunette groaned. "I'll worry about my brother later."
He changed out of his uniform and into his regular clothes carefully before grabbing his helmet, shoulder bag and bike. Closing and locking the back door, he got on and started to pedal slowly out of the alleyway and onto the street. It wasn't crowed like usual, which he was thankful for. Riding on, he kept stopping here and there, fighting off a dizzy spell. He must have hit something on his way down. Why else would he feel like hell? Sora groaned and leaned against his bike. 'something is wrong with me. Did I hit something?'
When his vision was clear, he rode on and finally reached the ER he needed to go to. Sora didn't bother with parking his bike, he just rolled it in part of the way before letting it fall. A lady, he guessed she was a nurse, saw him and ran over.
"Are you alright?!" He shook his head. "okay, take it easy. I'll get you some help. Somebody!" a couple people came running in. "I need help."
"I'll take his bike and secure it," one of the people said taking Sora's bag and bike away.
"Alright, you help me carry him into a room."

Ventus opened the door and saw his brother getting ready. Confused as to why Roxas was still here, but the phone broke his thoughts and he answered it. Only to hold it away from his ear when he heard Vanitas on the other line. For once the lazy raven haired teen was up but the tone was full of worry and urgency. The speech was slurred and quick and he couldn't understand any of it. The volume even grabbed his brother's attention.
"Is that Van?" Roxas asked, coming out of his room. Ventus nodded. "...I'm glad we have a hallway phone up here. Otherwise we'd miss the show."
"Funny, Vanitas, calm down," the older blond said.
Vanitas yelled at him. "calm down! Sora isn't here!"
"Well isn't that normal?"
"Yes, but this time he isn't here! He isn't at school!"
Ventus blinked. "you are calling from the school?" he got a yes and looked at his brother. "well he isn't here."
"What is it?" Roxas asked.
"Yeah...we'll look for him, just keep your head and stop yelling" Yelling started up on the other line. "VAN!" it ceased. "thank you. Now listen, you look around the school. We'll handle the town."
He hung up and sighed. "what's wrong?"
"Sora's gone missing," Ventus replied. "Vanitas is covering the school grounds." Roxas followed his brother down the stairs. "I'm covering the town. You check their home."
"What if he isn't there?" the blond asked. "then what?"
Ventus shrugged. "then come help me look around town." his brother walked out the door with him in tow. "keep an eye out for his bike too Rox."
"I will, just get going," he said as he watched his brother run towards town with him walking in the same direction. "after this, I am suggesting cellphones." he groaned.

Reaching Sora's house, Roxas ran towards the front door when he saw familiar blue mountain bike and inside. The front door was unlocked, but there was no sign of breaking or entering. Everything was in place still too. Vanitas's bedroom door was shut but Sora's was open. The blond ran down the hall and looked in, sighing out of relief when he saw the brunette in the bed. The relief faded when he walked over and picked two bottles of pills up. One had one pill in it, the other had at least three. Both were for pain though. He turned from them to Sora. He was out cold and from the looks of it, wasn't going to wake up any time soon. The phone went off and Roxas ran out and answered it. The other line was Vanitas. Again yelling but Roxas wasn't in the mood to deal.
"Van, shut up!" he yelled. Vanitas went silent. "Sora's at home. Get over here now." the blond hung up and sighed.
"...Roxas..." a sleepy voice said, making him turn to see Sora standing in the hall. "what...what are you doing here?"
The blond smiled sadly as he walked over. "well...we got a call from Van and he said you weren't at school. So we decided to look for you. I guess you just arrived from the hospital judging from that professional wrapping job on your arm and those pills I saw too." Sora sighed. "what happened?"
The brunette turned around and walked back into his room with Roxas following him. He closed the door while Sora layed back down.
"Sora...what happened?" Roxas asked, taking a seat on the bed.
"One minute I'm standing...the next minute I'm on the ground..." the brunette said, trying not to fall back asleep. "this medicine is powerful. I'm sleepy again."
"Hey, before you go cold turkey again on me, what caused you to pass out?" the blond asked. Sora just shrugged slowly before falling back asleep. "...well that is just great. What do I tell Van then?"
"Tell him...that I fell..." the blond shot an odd look towards Sora. The brunette clearly wasn't even lucid and granted it was taking advantage of the situation but he he didn't have much choice at the moment.
"The question is Sora, what have you been doing all this time to cause this to happen. And why did you go into the backdoor of a bar?" Roxas asked. "can you answer that?"
"Uh huh..." Sora mumbled. "I work there..." the blond blinked and let Sora continue. "...good pay...work also at a Piano Parlor...and school..."
"Two jobs and school, yet you never consider the consequences?" the brunette shook his head slowly. "well now you know what'll happen. Is that why you aren't sleeping at all?" another nod. "geez...why are you working that hard?"
"...we need the money..." Sora said, clearly falling into a deeper sleep since he was starting to sound more distant. "...Van...hasn't found...a job yet.." Roxas just shook his head. "...what?...is there something wrong..."
"Yes, what you are doing is practically killing yourself, you do know that right?" a nod. "then at least quit one of the jobs you have. I take the one that pays you more. That way you at least get some sleep."
"No point...so why bother?"
"So you can live a somewhat normal teenage life, how about that?" a sleepy chuckle. "what?"
"Your sorry arse isn't even probably aware of what I've gone through..." a door opening made Roxas turn towards the brunette's bedroom door. "Van's home..."
"With Ven most likely," Roxas commented.
Just on the dot, Ventus and Vanitas came rushing into the room and Roxas waved at them. "hi, about time you got here. Sora isn't really lucid right now."
"Is he up?"
"Barely..." the brunette replied.
Ventus shot Roxas a look. "hey, don't look at me bro. I found him like this. Also, don't bother asking him any questions since he currently on drugs. More specific, pain medication." a tap on his shoulder made him look and both Ventus and Vanitas stared when they saw Sora kissing Roxas on the lips.
"Shut up..." Sora grumbled before laying back down.
Roxas blushed and turned away while Vanitas and Ventus started to laugh. The blond just glared at them and they stopped but smirked at him.
"...you two gonna leave or not?" the younger blond asked. they left the room, closing the door and he sighed.

The next few days felt like hell to Sora. Vanitas wasn't mad at him but he did quit the piano parlor job for more rest. Much to his displeasure, he now had scars on his arm from the glass penetrated his skin. It was that constant reminder of his mistake, the other mistake was when he was on the pain medication was that he kissed his one and only best friend right on the lips. Every time he thought about it, it made him feel horrible. Like he stole something from Roxas and now couldn't give it back. Since then, he started to avoid Roxas and Ventus, even his own brother was being avoided. Riding to work and refusing to give any of them rides. Stating they could walk to to school and home since they had two legs. Vanitas finally landed a job too at another place far from where Sora worked since he didn't really tell his brother where he worked and made Roxas, before he started to avoid him, to not tell his older brother. Since then, he had started to push the blond away. Guilt, stress and he wasn't entirely read to face what he had done. He was just glad that he had the rest of the day of work and home to avoid his friend. On the other end though, Roxas was having troubles of his own. The fact that Sora was avoiding him and the whole kiss thing wasn't leaving his head either. For awhile things seem fine, now he couldn't even get a ride. Ventus and Vanitas had recently been avoided by Sora as well. It was pissing him off slightly and he wanted to know why his only friend was doing this and the other issue he had, was that he was shooting glances toward the brunette and catching glances from Sora towards him. Some connection was there and he was willing to face it but with the brunette so distant lately it was hard to figure out what it was that had been sparked. His thoughts were broken when Ventus ran into him.
"Sorry Rox..." Ventus sighed. "have you seen Van?"
Roxas shook his head, sneaking a glance towards Sora. "no, I haven't." his brother sighed again. "...Ven, you started this problem. You are helping me out with it, how do I get Sora to talk to me again?"
"...I thought you hated me pla-" "I do but this time I am asking for your help," the younger blond snapped. "you started it, you'll finish it."
"Okay...after school, when he comes to pick Van up to take him to work, stop him then."
"I thought he was avoiding his brother?"
Ventus shrugged. "Vanitas finally got Sora to get him one ride to work today. So..after school, stop him. I'll have Van skip out on the ride for you."
"This better work Ven," Roxas growled.
"It will"

When the day was over, Roxas walked out of school in time to see Sora pull up towards the school. No sign of Ventus or Vanitas and Sora was looking around for his brother. Until he caught sign of Roxas and looked away.
"You're avoiding me, why," the blond asked when he was at the brunette's side.
"I am not avoiding you," Sora told him.
"Really? Cause not talking to me is called avoiding. If you didn't know that, then you must be failing your advance reading class," Roxas sighed. "why are you avoiding me?"
Sora shook his head and turned his bike around. "I'm not avoiding you." Roxas ran in front of the bike and grabbed the handle bars.
"Yes you are!" he snapped. "just tell me what I did wrong!"
"It's not you!" the brunette yelled. "I kissed you Roxas. I was completely high off drugs and kissed you right on the lips. That isn't normal!"
Roxas sighed. "that is what's been bothering you? You were on drugs but I didn't really care."
"Its no-you aren't understanding this at all. Normal drugged people Rox, lay there acting loopy. They don't kiss people."
"You don't know that now do you?" the blond asked, keeping Sora from riding off. "how many drugged people do you know kiss someone."
"None"
"Exactly, so you don't know how all drugged people act"
Sora groaned. "That isn't the point!"
"Then what is!" the brunette sighed. "I don't get why this is bothering you so much. It's just kiss."
"Best friends don't kiss each other! They...hug and that is al-" he was cut off by Roxas kissing him. "..."
"Drugged or not, I wasn't bothered by what you did. Alright?" Roxas told him.
"...they were playing matchmaker weren't they?" Sora groaned as the blond leaned against his handle bars and nodded. "...they win I guess?"
"Yeah...the matchmaking came true," the blond groaned. "...can I have a ride home?"
The brunette sighed. "...I should say I have another job to go to..." Roxas sighed. "but...I don't, not anymore at least."
"...so can I get a ride from now on?" Sora smiled and blushed. "or do I have to walk still?"
The brunette just smiled. "yeah...I can give you rides again." Roxas smiled at him. "just...get on already. Before someone catches me." the blond walked around and got on the back. While Sora started to pedal towards his house. "you aren't off the hook."
"I'm aware of that," Roxas stated. "by the way, I never did get an answer but what was the other pain medication for?"
"They said I hit my head on something and it gave me a concussion, minor one, but a concussion still," the brunette told him. "the other was for my arm. Which by the way, scared."
"I know its plainly visible, no offense"
"None taken"