Tell the neighbors I'm not sorry if I'm breaking walls down.

"I can't believe you convinced me to do this."

"Oh come on, ya' gotta' live a little kid. You're eighteen – I think it's about time."

Currently, I was with Ventus, whom was getting his ear pierced. That's right. I convinced the goody-goody to get a piercing. It may only be the ear, and it may only be one, but still. I did it.

"Roxas is gonna' kill you," he laughed, sitting on the stool as we waited for the guy to get stuff ready.

"Na, I'm leaving soon, so he won't even get the chance."

He eyebrows furrowed a bit. "When are you leaving?"

"Tuesday," I told him, watching the piercer.

"But that's in like three days! I've hardly seen you."

I just shrugged. I didn't want him to know that I wasn't exactly happy about going back either. I wanted to leave the island because it was boring, but I didn't want to leave the island because of Ventus. Whatever it was I had for the kid, I was pissed as hell that I hadn't figured it out sooner.

Granted, there wouldn't have been a chance for us in the beginning anyway. When I was under eighteen, Ven would've been like fourteen, and that wasn't my thing. But he was eighteen now, and I was twenty-one, so maybe that's why I'm realizing my interest in him?

"Ow!"

Apparently I zoned out, and that was when Ventus got his ear done.

"You like it?" the piercer asked as he handed Ven the mirror.

He inspected it, probably unsure of what looked good versus not. "What do you think?" he asked, his eyes looking over at me.

This time I inspected it. I may not be a "piercing expert" by any means, but I had plugs, and I had gone with plenty of friends for their piercings, so I wasn't ignorant.

"Looks good," I told him, unable to not grin.

He gave me a similar smile, although it was probably much more innocent looking than mine. Ventus gave the piercer the mirror back, before reaching into his pocket to likely grab some money.

"I got it," I told him, grabbing my money first and giving the piercer cash, plus a tip. I was all about tipping; they needed that extra amount.

"I was gonna' pay for it," he pouted as he got off the stool, following me outside of the shop.

"Yeah, well I got my money out first," I said, shrugging. His face was set in a pout, but I knew he didn't really mean it. Ven was easy enough to read, and he was easy enough to cheer up. "Wanna' grab some food?"

Like I thought, he was immediately smiling and nodding his head.

We drove to the town's popular diner, where dates tended to happen. Although I wasn't necessarily calling this a date between us, I also wasn't going to deny it.

Ventus actually looked confused about it when we got out of the car, but he never brought it up. And when we walked in, it was surprisingly dead. Then again, most people were still probably at the beach party.

We sat at a table, ordered our shit, and waited. "So when did you become a vegetarian?" I asked him.

He ordered some veggie burger thing, which sounded weird as hell to me since I was practically a carnivore.

Ventus just shrugged. "Ever watch any of those slaughterhouse videos? One of em' really got to me, and after that, I just can't do it," he said, shivering.

"That bad, huh?" Obviously I knew about the torture and crap, but like most people, I really didn't care. I knew cows tasted good, and that was good enough for me.

"You don't even know the half of it – " His eyes were wide suddenly, and he ducked his head.

"What's wrong?" I'd never seen him react like that before.

"Ex-boyfriend," he muttered. I looked in the direction he had looked at, before seeing a tall brunette guy with some blue-haired chick. Wait, wasn't that Terra? Ventus had dated Terra? "And his new girlfriend."

I had no idea who the chick was, but I knew Terra pretty well. He was a year younger than me, even though he looked like he was five years older than me. Terra had been on the football team, from what I remembered. He was never a bad guy or anything, but he wasn't necessarily the most approachable guy around.

"You dated Terra?" Seriously though, it was pretty shocking. Ventus was practically half his height.

"Yeah…I mean, it was sort of a secret, but some people put two and two together, and then we broke up 'cause he couldn't 'date a guy'. So now he's dating her."

I looked in Ven's eyes, and I could tell how hurt he was. "You want me to do something?"

Terra could probably beat the shit out of me, but the idea of him hurting Ventus made me furious. Ventus was the nicest kid around, and that included Sora who was practically the human incarnate of sugar, and he didn't deserve that. He was pretty much perfect, and Terra had to be a little piece of shit and hurt him.

"No – no. You don't need to do anything," he told me, and I hadn't realized that I had actually gotten up and Ventus was holding onto my hand. "I'm…I'm okay with it."

"No you're not," I told him, practically hissing as I sat back down. His hand was still on mine, though.

He sighed. "I'm not over it, but I'm okay. I promise."

I forced myself to calm down, before looking back at Terra. He wasn't looking at us, but he knew we were here. He looked nervous. And boy, should he. He's lucky Ventus held me back. I wasn't near as strong as Terra, but everyone knew I wasn't weak. I had always been the scary guy in high school.

"Thank you, though," he said, and I looked back towards him. "For…for wanting to stand up for me, for not judging me for being with a guy…"

I rolled my eyes. "I'm pretty sure my brother's with that Riku guy. If I'm not judging him for it, why would I judge you?"

He shrugged. "I don't know; I'm not related to you."

Once again, I rolled my eyes. "Well no shit. If you were, I wouldn't be able to do this – " And again, I surprise myself by doing something.

I kissed Ventus. I grabbed the back of his head, and pulled him and myself into a kiss. And dear God, it was glorious. It was short, and I didn't even get my tongue in, but it was the best kiss I'd ever had nonetheless.

I pulled back, not really wanting to open my eyes as I let go of him.

"V – Vani?"

"Yeah?" I gulped.

"Can…Can we do that again, please?"

My eyes popped open and I was welcomed with a ridiculously blushing Ventus. "Oh hell yeah, we can," I told him, grinning as I pulled him into another kiss.

Boys like boys like girls do, nothing new.

Author's Note: So I got this out. A little surprised that I did, actually, but I'm seriously happy with it. It's way better than I thought it'd be, and it was fun getting back into Vanitas's head. I want to do a Zemyx one soon, but it sort of depends where my mind's at. I've been into DeadpoolxSpiderman for a while now, so it's hard to focus on much else. xD

BUT I thank those who have been liking this, and I hope you enjoyed this recent chapter. :3