"It's up to you," Sora replied. "I'm tough." He paused. "I definitely got more mad at your Mom than upset, when we talked. I think she was MORE mad, though." He was a little...rude there at the end.
"Riku, I don't want you to be alone if they upset YOU," he pointed out. He didn't want to get a pissed off or upset phone call from two hundred miles away that he couldn't do anything about. He'd hate that. "I don't have to BE in the room," he tried to compromise. He didn't have to directly hear them talk crap about him. "But I'd like to be...around, if that's possible?"