Sick and Sora deprived
Saying goodbye to Sora to go back to school was one of the hardest things Riku could remember having to do in his life. Yeah, he knew that he'd see Sora on the weekend, and he'd call Sora as soon as he got back to school... they'd get skype so that they could see each other when they were both on the internet, and they'd call all the time. But it wasn't going to be the same as having Sora live right down the hall.
There was just something wrong about the first day of the new quarter, and not having Sora there to share it with. Oh having to do his homework in front of the computer so that he and Sora could talk, even though it more often than not turned out to be Sora watching him do his homework.
Still, Riku tried to balance everything. He met with all their people and had lunch with a different once each day, he went to class, he went running in the mornings, he called his boyfriend after classes, he did his homework in the evenings, and talked with his boyfriend during that and after it too when Sora was around and not at the hospital until one or both of them went to bed.
The first weekend he got to visit Sora was almost teasingly cruel. Sora's parents were still at the hospital, and they were there more often than anywhere else.
Tuesday back, Riku began to feel blue and kind of slow. Wednesday he overslept after coughing all night and didn't have time to go running. Wednesday night, Riku didn't turn on skype and just 'talked' to Sora over instant messenger. He'd been informed several times by his roommate that he looked like shit. He didn't want Sora to see that. Or hear him either. He used 'lots of homework' as his excuse as to why he couldn't use skype or his phone. Sora was busy looking after his parents; Riku didn't want to give him anything else to worry about.