a/n: hey guys nerdasaurus here and i would just like to tell you guys that i do NOT own kingdom hearts and that the characters here are OOC at times. okay, all the time. anyway, i hope that you guys will read and review! if you don't, i will get pissed and turn into a huge and ugly green thing known as the hulk and crush your homes! jk, i wouldn't do that! but still r&r!

Chapter One: Pride and Prejudice does not suck!

Namine Strife woke up to the annoying sound of birds chirping. "Stupid birds." She muttered as she rolled over to her side. Her eyes snapped open as she realized that she was going to be late for the first day of school. She hopped out of bed, tripping over a teddy bear in the process. She rushed into the bathroom and took a quick shower and brushed her teeth.

After throwing on a clean white tank and tugging on a pair of shorts and white flip flops, Namine ran down the stairs to squeeze in time for breakfast. She found her older brother, Cloud, forking down a mouthful of waffles while studying for his big physics test. Next to him was a bowl filled with coco puffs with milk already in it. "Thanks for making me breakfast." She gave him a smile.

"Oh. That's not for you." He said, pulling the bowl closer towards him.

"And you wonder why I'm so skinny?" Namine muttered.

"Well how do you expect me to do good on a big test with my stomach empty?" He questioned.

Namine rolled her eyes at her older brother, "I swear, you have the biggest appetite ever." She grabbed herself a bowl and dumped a handful of coco puffs in it. "How do I look?" She asked her brother.

He raised a brow at her, "Why do you care?"

She shrugged. She figured that she should at least try to make a good impression on others for the new school year. "I want to look good for the first day of school, that's all."

"Well, you look fine. Besides, who's there to impress?" He asked.

"Everybody." She replied. Namine would be going to Octavian Academy for her Junior and Senior year, which would be a lot different for her. One being that Octavian was a boarding school, meaning that she would have to live in a dorm room with two complete strangers.

"You'll be alright. Now let's go, you don't wanna be late do you?" Cloud asked. Namine shook her head and followed him out of the house, with her luggage in her hands. She regretted listening to her best friend, Xion, who told her to go to Octavian in the first place. Her old school, Radiant Garden High, had informed her that Octavian Academy wanted her to attend their school. At first Namine didn't want to go, but after her best friend telling her that it would be the perfect chance for her to find Mr. Right she couldn't just pass that chance up.

Namine was always the hopeless romantic. She believed in love at first sight, she believed in fairy tale endings, she believed in everything really. She blamed herself for reading too much romance novels, but she couldn't help it. The moment she read "Romeo And Juliet" she knew just what she wanted, to be in love.

"Honestly. I think this is the silliest idea I've ever heard." Cloud said to her as he placed her stuff in the trunk of the cab. "What makes you think that mr. right lives somewhere in Twilight Town?"

Truth be told, she didn't know either. She just figured that leaving Radiant Garden to experiment was a good idea. After all, how do you think Jack and Rose from Titanic met each other? It was fate that brought them to Titanic, and Namine was certain that it was fate telling her to attend Octavian Academy. "I don't know, but it doesn't hurt to try does it?" She grinned up at him.

He smiled back at her and ruffled up her hair before closing the door behind her. "I'm gonna miss you. Mom and Dad too."

She frowned. "Then how come they're not here telling me their goodbyes?"

Cloud grimaced, their parents had always been busy. Their dad was a business man and their mother was a hostess at a cruise ship. As soon as Cloud turned eighteen, they decided to send her off to live with Cloud in his apartment. "You know how they are. They're just trying to give us the best."

"Yeah, yeah." She murmured. It wasn't fair that their parents were working so hard to give them everything, when all they ever needed was them. She leaned over her seat to get the driver's attention, "To Twilight Town please!"

Namine didn't appreciate waiting for another hour to talk to the dean of the school. It was a long drive from Radiant Garden to Twilight Town, and another long drive to Octavian Academy. Namine knew that Twilight Town was a big metropolis, but she never imagined that it would be this big! Lucky for her she always carried around her copy of "Pride and Prejudice". She flipped open to the first page and began to read. She had finished the book several times, but she never got tired of reading it.

The door swung open and a silver haired man with a tanned complexion stepped out. He gave her a smile that sent chills down her spine, and not in a good way. "Ah, you must be Namine Strife. Please come in." He waved her over.

Namine got up from her seat and walked into his office, the door shutting behind her. She wished that he would have left it open, being alone in a room with him scared her a little especially with the way he was looking at her. His eyes followed her every move, almost like that of a tiger watching it's prey. She took a seat in front of him and waited for him to say something.

He began shuffling through drawers before clearing his throat to speak. "I'm Professor Ansem and as you know Octavian is very glad to have you here." He smiled at her again before continuing, "Here at Octavian, we only accept the brightest and most talented students so you'd be lucky if we accepted you into our school. After all, we only expect the best -"

A short haired girl with one green eye and one blue eye wearing denim shorts and an orange top stepped into the room, pulling a boy with a mullet by the ear. "Do you have any idea what he did this time!?" The girl exclaimed. "I caught him using a peephole while I was changing!"

"I didn't see anything! No really, you have nothing to hide." The boy said, pointing to her boobs. The girl slapped him upside the head, without letting go of his ear.

Professor Ansem gave her a tight smile that said, 'I'm trying to make the new student think that Octavian Academy is really all that and a bag of chips!'

"If you don't do something about this, then I will!" The girl exclaimed. The boy she had dragged along the ear had been whining for her to let go the whole time. Namine's heart went out to him, her grandmother always did that to her when Namine felt gutsy enough to disagree with her.

"Yuna, I will handle this. Trust me. Right now I'm trying to settle in a new student." He emphasized on the word 'settle'.

"This school's a joke." She muttered before leaving.

"Don't worry A-dizzle, I don't think this school's a joke!" The boy said, before getting yanked out of the office by the girl known as Yuna.

Professor Ansem sighed, and turned back to Namine. "Sorry about that..." He said sheepishly.

"What was that about we only accept the best?" She said.

"The boy's grandfather founded this school!" He exclaimed. Namine raised a brow at him, "Okay so the truth is that this school is falling apart and we needed to find a way to regain it's glory. Me, being the genius I am, decided to accept a student who has never done anything wrong in their life before and that student just happens to you." He explained.

"How do you know that I'm not going to make this school worse?" Namine asked.

"Look at you, you're a walking Sandra Dee!" Namine blushed. It was true, she did look quite the perfect angel with her light blond hair and innocent, doe-eyed blues. "Besides, name one thing that you've ever done wrong?"

Namine opened her mouth to answer, but fell silent when she realized that she had never done anything wrong in her life before. Never. Except for the occasional drink spilling, and bombing tests and quizes but other than that she had never really gotten her hands dirty.

"And I guess that sums it up. Here's your key to your dorm room, your schedule, and your rule book!" He threw the items into her hands and rushed her out the door. "Good bye now! Have a nice year at Octavian Academy!"

Namine headed out the door and started down the hallways. Just as she was about to make a right turn, she was knocked over by a blond haired boy wearing a plain black shirt. He immediately got up and began picking up her books for her. "Sorry about that. I was in a rush to get to class." He said, not looking up.

"That's right you better be sorry!" She wanted to say, but of course, being the polite Namine that she was she said, "No problem, I probably should've watched where I was going anyway."

His hand landed on her copy of Pride and Prejudice, and he grinned. "Pride and Prejudice? Are you serious?" He said, looking up at her. He had cerulean blue eyes and a smirk on his face.

"Wh-what's wrong with reading a book!?" Namine said defensively.

"Nothing's wrong with reading, it's just that Pride and Prejudice is such a lame book. Actually, all romance novels pretty much suck." Namine had stopped listening when she had heard him say that Pride and Prejudice was lame.

"TAKE THAT BACK!" She snapped, grabbing the book from his hands.

He raised a brow at her, "What? That Pride and Prejudice is a lame book?" Namine nodded. He snorted, "So you're really into this lovey-dovey stuff?"

"It's called romance. Do you have anything against that?" She quipped.

The blond shrugged his shoulders, "You know, I'd love to stay here and talk about how dumb this "love" stuff is but I gotta get to class." He started to leave, but stopped to say, "I'm Roxas Hi-"

"Don't care!" Namine held up her hand to him. Did she really do that? She always thought that holding up a hand to silence a person was such a diva thing, she had never imagined that she would ever need to do that to someone.

Roxas just shook his head and left. Namine started down the halls again, a little pissed off at Roxas. How dare he say that love was stupid! Oh well, she could cross him out of her list of "Possible Mr. Rights".

Namine had reached her room, room 210 on the east wing. She flopped onto the only available bed left, which was by the window. Great, she thought, I'll have to put up with birds singing again. On the bright side, it had a great view of the Clock Tower. She could use the view to sketch it and send it to Cloud and Xion. She doubted that her parents would even care to see her drawing, they probably didn't even know that she could draw.

She pulled out her schedule and looked for her third period class. She had World History. How exiting, she thought. History had always been her worst subject, mostly because she rarely paid any attention in class. Her old teacher always put her to sleep with his monotone voice. Namine hoped that her teacher would be a lot less boring than the one she had back in Radiant Garden High.

"So can anyone tell me who was the first person to discover Destiny Islands?" Mr. Hiromi asked the class. When no one raised their hands Mr. Hiromi decided to pick on a student. A student who wasn't paying attention in particular. "Ah, Ms. Tilmit! Can you tell us the answer?"

Selphie Tilmit jumped at the sound of her name. Not just because it had a nice ring to it, but because she had been busy daydreaming about her and Tidus's wedding day. "Um.." She began before the door slammed open.

"I'm Namine Strife. I'm a transfer student." It sounded more like a question than an answer. Mr. Hiromi nodded and pointed her to a seat by a familiar looking spiky haired boy.

"NO!" she shrieked, causing the class to jump back in surprise. Usually new kids were supposed to be too shy to say anything in front of the class.

Roxas's eyes widened. All because I said that Pride and Prejudice sucked? He thought. An equally spiky haired boy elbowed him lightly on the ribs and whispered, "Looks like she doesn't like you already! I think it was your face that did it!"

Roxas elbowed him back only harder. "It's not my face, idiot! It's something I said to her earlier. And anyway, nothing's wrong with my face." He grumbled, touching the side of his cheek.

Mr. Hiromi stared at her and asked for an explanation. Namine realized that she had screamed No in front of the class and blushed. She hadn't meant to say it out loud. She shook her head and apologized before reluctantly taking her seat.

Roxas waved to her when she sat down. Namine just stared at him with a horrified expression. "Hey, it's not that bad sitting next to me." Roxas said.

"That's what you think. You're anti-love thing might rub off on me." She murmured.

He stared at her and chuckled. "You're still hung up on that? Geez, it's just my opinion!"

"Yeah, well, you're opinion sucks!" She replied.

"My opinion sucks? Well at least I don't go around making a stupid list of possibe Mr. Rights!" He retorted.

Namine's eyes widened. "Y-you saw it?" No names were written on it. Not from this school anyway.

He nodded his head. "You think you would've learned that Mr. Right doesn't exist after a hundred guys?"

Namine glared at him. "It's not easy finding the one! Of course, I doubt that you would know." She crossed her arms as she said this, "What do-"Roxas held up his hand to silence her and grinned. Namine's eyes widened again, remembering that she had done the same thing earlier. "I hate you." She said slowly.

"And I love you."

so that's it for chapter one! i hope you guys liked it =) please read and review so i know that people actually like this story or something!