Things are looking up

Sora sat patiently, waiting for the sweet tone of the school bell to ring. He rested his hand under his chin and watched Kairi sit silently, looking up at the teacher before the class. Her ruby coloured hair sat so perfectly on her shoulders and her small frame looked just as perfect under her school shirt. Sora sighed as his mind danced away into a land where they were, where he and Kairi just were.

"Hmm..." he muttered and closed his eyes for a few minutes until he was interrupted by that long awaited sound. The ringing of the school bell was followed shortly by a shuffle of feet from the students and the awakening of Sora from his daydream. He looked up and saw that Kairi had already stood from her seat. He grabbed his few books, quickly as he could and stood to find Kairi standing beside him.

"Oh, Kairi, I thought you'd already left..."

"Waiting for you Sora; come on, I'll walk you to your locker silly head." Kairi smiled sweetly at Sora and he near stumbled over his own feet as he followed her down the aisle of the desks in the room. Kairi clutched her books to her chest and walked ahead of Sora who was still in awe that she waited for him and wanted to walk him to his locker; normally he waited for her and he wanted to walk her to her locker.

The two of them walked silently to Sora's locker; though there a million conversation topics running through Sora's head. Kairi looked as though she was thinking about something too, but the way her ruby hair shone in the after sun sent Sora's heart prancing miles away. It seemed that they had arrived at Sora's locker all too soon, through the other students all rushing to get home. Sora didn't need Kairi to speak for her to be special, she was beautiful, through and through.

Sora opened his locker and placed his books inside. "How was your day?" He said as he packed his things needed for homework into his backpack. Being in his last year of high school there was always homework to do.

"Oh, good I guess. Art was kind of boring except for when Namine started flicking green paint at me." Kairi answered with a giggle, Sora chuckled with a shake of his head; the fact he could see Namine doing something like that made it amusing to him.

"I'll walk you to your locker, come on." Sora grinned and swung his backpack over his shoulder. The pair walked to Kairi's locker speaking of Sora's day and the English homework planned for the weekend.

"What else have you got planned for the weekend?" Kairi asked Sora as she unlocked her locker and placed her own books inside. Sora scratched the back of his head for a moment and looked around as he thought... Wait, is she going to ask me out? Is this the moment I've been waiting for the past two or three years?

"Oh... nothing much really, just... hanging out," Sora grinned again and shoved his hand into his pocket, his other gripping his bag strap over his shoulder. "What have you got planned?"

Kairi took her bag from her locker and slid her arms into the straps. "Not much," she replied and began walking with Sora to the gate they left school from every afternoon.

"Actually I was thinking Sora," Kairi picked up. Yes? Sora thought with incredible anticipation.

"Yeah Kairi?" She stopped at the gate and Sora did the same. She looked at him and smiled, holding one of her bag straps with both her hands.

"Did you want to hang out in the bay sometime tomorrow?" Kairi asked with an unsure look on her face.

"Ph-yeah!" Sora blurted, swaying slightly with excitement from his outburst of an answer. He calmed himself, "Yeah, that'd be fantastic." He grinned at Kairi and she smiled back, joining her hands at the front of her skirt and lifting her shoulders up.

"Great. About lunch time?" Kairi asked politely, Sora was blown away.

"Yeah! I'll pick you up, I mean I'll walk by and grab you... I mean uh, I'll come to your house and we'll... yeah." Sora beamed and Kairi giggled at his adorably blunder of a sentence.

"Okay Sora, I'll see you tomorrow then. Have a good night!" And with that Kairi turned and walked home. Sora turned the other way and couldn't wipe the grin off his face; by the time he got home his cheeks were hurting.

Upon arriving home, Sora glided upstairs to his bedroom and dropped his bag on the floor. He kicked his shoes off and jumped onto his bed. He gave a great huff and smiled up at his ceiling, and then he began fantasising about the next day, just him and Kairi on the beach. What should he wear? Should he bring anything? He didn't think to ask... maybe they'd just take a walk and head back to his place or Kairi's. And then what if they headed back to one of their houses? What would happen then? By now Sora was off his bed and pacing around his room, feeling more nervous about tomorrow than he was a few minutes ago. Maybe he needed advice, yeah, that's it.

Sora exited his room, school uniform still on, his tie flapping over his shoulder. His mother was in the kitchen, leaning against the bench and reading a magazine. Sora suddenly second thought his decision to come down here and speak to his mother about girls so he instead walked straight to the fridge behind her.

"Hey honey, how was school?" His mother asked after glancing at Sora as he approached the fridge near her.

"Mum, I just..." Sora sighed and abandoned his attempt to avoid discussing Kairi with his mother. "I'm... going on a kind of date thing tomorrow, and I just-"

"A date?" Sora mum interrupted; Sora sighed and nodded, continuing:

"Yeah.. a date, but I don't know-"

"With a girl?" Sora's mum asked with a raised eyebrow. He sighed and nodded; his mother, seemingly satisfied turned back to her magazine and stayed silent.

"I don't know what to wear or what to bring or what's going to happen and I just... I just need some advice." Sora said softly, watching his mother for something she could say to take his worries away but instead she stood and smiled at him then answered him with an apparently simple:

"Just be yourself and I'm sure this girl will be blown away," she told Sora reassuringly. Sora stood for a moment and thought: that's it? That's the best you got? His mother then grinned at him, touched his cheek and walked away to the lounge to further continue her leisurely activity elsewhere.

"Great," Sora huffed and took a juice box from the fridge before heading back upstairs. What was he to do next? His mother had given him something that only worked in the movies, but this was real life he was talking about here. He could talk to Riku but that could serve as an embarrassing topic for them to discuss as Riku wasn't the kind of friend you talked to about girls. No one else was comfortable enough for Sora to open up to about this kind of thing either, guess I'll just have to brave it and see what happens. Though the nerves Sora was feeling about seeing and spending time with Kairi alone tomorrow almost too overwelming.