"How the hell do you manage to get so many balls in? You don't even aim or anything you just hit it as hard as you can and half the time you get my balls in as well," said Sora exasperated, amazed and annoyed all at the same time.
"It's luck. I'm just a super lucky guy which is why I don't need skill. I know my luck will do the job," replied Roxas with a cocky grin.
"Get stuffed. You know I can kick your ass whenever I want if I actually tried. Roxy-Woxy." Sora used the nickname because he knew that Roxas hated it and it would annoy him. What Sora didn't count on was his response.
This was the usual bickering that the two friends had whenever they played pool. Roxas was also Sora's cousin and at the moment Sora was staying with Roxas in Twilight Town. Sora came from the Destiny Islands so staying in a place like Twilight Town was an exciting thing.
"Well then if you're so confident in your ability how about we make the next game more interesting, Tracy?" Sora's eye twitched at the use of his real name. Sora hated his name name it made him sound girly so he would use his second name instead.
"My name is Sora not Tracy. I hate that name!" Sora's voice was angry but he made sure not to yell as they were in a public place.
"Well someone seems to like it," responded Roxas coolly as he pointed to a red headed girl who was giggling.
"Shit," was all Sora could say.
"Now about you beating me I was thinking we could make the usual bet?" asked Roxas once he had finished humiliating his cousin.
"Okay you're on but before we play I just need to deal with something." With that Sora quickly moved from next to his cousin to next to the mystery girl. "Excuse me," he said while tapping her shoulder.
She turned around and Sora nearly forgot to breath. Needless to say she was breathtaking. She had amazing red hair, indigo eyes and an amazing smile (The smile came when she realised who had tapped her shoulder). She wore a simple white top and a purple skirt but simple only made her look better.
"Can I help you?" even the way she talked was amazing to Sora, it was liked angels singing.
"Can you?" asked Sora before he quickly came to his senses and remembered why he came. "Yes you can! I am here to inform you that my name isn't really Tracy, my cousin was just joking around. My real name is Sora Strife."
"Aww that's a shame because I thought that Tracy was a really cute name," said the mystery girl with a wink.
"You did?" asked a confused Sora.
"Yeah I find it sexy when a someone isn't ashamed of their name, no matter how girly it sounds." She whispered the last part in his ear with a seductive voice.
"Oh well then I should probably tell you that Sora is my middle name. My first name is Tracy." Sora decided that he could get over his hatred of his name for this girl.
"I knew it!" cheered the red head as she started laughing and doing a little victory dance.
Sora sweat dropped as he watched this girl who was practically seducing him before doing a victory dance and then it clicked. "Hey you tricked me. You just wanted me to admit that my real name was Tracy," accused Sora.
"Guilty as charged." The red head laughed as she stopped her victory dance.
"That was devious," said Sora
"Yeah I know," smiled the mystery girl.
"You know, that was actually really mean. It hurt my feelings." Sora was pouting and his voice was full of mock hurt.
"Well then to make it up to you how about I give you my name and number?" as she said this, the girl grabbed a pen from a nearby table.
Sora couldn't help but grin at that, "Deal."
15 minutes later, the girl had left and Sora had pen marks on his arm in the form of words and numbers. Sora had also learned the red heads name, Kairi Gainsborough.
"Ok Roxas ready to get beaten." Sora felt as if nothing could stop him now.
He was wrong because 10 minutes later he had lost the game of pool and the bet. 15 minutes later he was standing in the middle of a huge shopping centre with a CD player at his feet and get ready to sing the song of his cousins choice, 'Call Me Maybe' by Carly Rae Jepson.
He pushed the play button and the starting of 'Call Me Maybe' started to play. By this time a bit of crowd had formed around Sora wondering what he was going to do so it was lucky that Sora actually a pretty good singer. Sora took a deep breath and started to sing.
"I threw a wish in the well, Don't ask me, I'll never tell I looked to you as it fell, And now you're in my way
It was at this point that Sora saw a familiar flash of red hair amongst the crowd.
I'd trade my soul for a wish, Pennies and dimes for a kiss I wasn't looking for this, But now you're in my way
As he sung this part he actually saw that it was Kairi because she had managed to push her way to the front of the crowd.
Your stare was holdin' , Ripped jeans, skin was showin' Hot night, wind was blowin', Where you think you're going, baby?
It was at this point that Sora realized he might have been staring at Kairi and quickly started to move around the group doing a little bit of a dance to go with his singing. When the chorus came the whole crowd of people became to sing along with Sora and as much as Sora would later deny it, he was actually having a lot of fun.
Everything was going great but at the start of the second verse something happened that no one expected. Someone from the group of onlookers had started to sing and they had an amazing voice. Sora was probably the first to see who was singing because he had hardly taken his eyes off of her since he first saw her. That's right the singer was Kairi and she was a good singer to, she was probably better than Sora and her voice suited the song a lot better.
You took your time with the call, I took no time with the fall, You gave me nothing at all, But still, you're in my way
I beg, and borrow and steal, Have foresight and it's real, I didn't know I would feel it, But it's in my way
Your stare was holdin', Ripped jeans, skin was showin', Hot night, wind was blowin', Where you think you're going, baby?
Sora had barely sung the first line and forgot to sing for the rest of the verse because he was too taken aback at how amazing this girl really was (Sora was a sucker for girls that could sing). The only reason he started singing again was because Roxas, being the gentleman that he is, threw his shoe at Sora's head. This had snapped Sora out of his trance and he started to sing again only now he was singing with Kairi as well.
When the song finished everyone who had been watching started clapping and then they even started to throw munny at them, it was all Sora could do not to hug Kairi. He walked up to her and asked if she would like to go get some ice-cream and she agreed, so 5 minutes later Sora, Kairi and Roxas, who was pissed because even though Sora had lost the bet he had got to hang out with a girl which made him a third wheel and to top it off someone had stolen his shoe that he had thrown at Sora so now he was only wearing one shoe, walked out of the ice-cream shop with a bar of sea salt ice-cream each.
"This is the best thing about Twilight Town. The ice-cream," cheered Sora as he licked his ice-cream with enough speed that you would think it would melt any second.
"I know it's amazing. You can't get ice cream like this anywhere else." While Kairi wasn't eating her sea salt ice-cream with as much intensity as Sora she was still licking it like a mad woman.
The next few minutes passed in silence as everyone ate their sea salt ice-cream except for Roxas who was still complaining about his missing shoe.
"Well I had better head home before my Mum freaks out and thinks that I've been kidnapped. Thanks for a great day Sora." She hugged Sora as she said the last bit and all Sora could was mumble something that resembled the words that's okay, "It was nice meeting you Roxas."
"Yeah okay," grumbled Roxas.
"Oh and Roxas I almost forgot. I have something for you." Kairi pulled a shoe out from her handbag and chucked it at Roxas.
"It's my shoe!" cheered Roxas.
"When did you find that?" asked Sora.
"Well remember when we were singing and Roxas threw his shoe at you?" Kairi asked.
"Yeah I remember," said Sora wondering where this was going.
"Yeah well that's when I picked it up. I was going to give it back to him but I thought it would be more fun to watch him suffer," giggled Kairi.
"Wow you really are devious." Sora smiled as he said this.
"Why thank you." Sora and Kairi started laughing as they watched Roxas try to put his shoe back on and fall over.
10 minutes later Kairi had left and Sora and Roxas were on a tram to take them back home. "Roxas I have an idea," said Sora
"What is it?" Roxas was tired and grumpy after spending most of the day without a shoe.
"When we turn 18 and have finished school we should go on a road trip but not just any road trip. We will go to all the worlds and it will be you, me and Riku and we can all bring one guest, male or female." Sora was now standing to emphasize his speech, "We won't plan anything we will do everything spontaneously. We will stay wherever, look at whatever sights we want to and be gone for as long as we want. We will end up doing anything and hopefully by the end it will have been the most fun we have ever had or ever will have."
"That actually sounds like a good idea. I'm guessing that the guests we bring would most likely be lady friends," asked Roxas amazed at how fun the idea sounded.
"That is correct. The guests could be current lady friends or they could be people you want to make your lady friend," Sora was still standing and other people on the tram were starting to give him funny looks.
"And I'm also going to guess that you want your lady friend to be Kairi."
"Right again my perceptive friend. Also we need to start earning money now to make sure we will be able to afford it," Sora's voice had changed to a more serious tone.
"What do you mean I'm getting heaps of inheritance once I'm 18 remember?" said Roxas.
"Ok so I need to start earning money," corrected Sora.
"That's better." Roxas nodded.
For the rest of the tram ride the two discussed how they could get the money and what they might bring and even after they got back to Roxas' house they kept discussing it until eventually Sora got up and rang someone.
"Hello, this is Kairi." Kairi's melodious voice came through the speaker of Sora's phone.
"Hi Kairi this is Sora. I was wondering because me and Roxas were making plans for a trip that we would do once we finished school and we would go to all the worlds and stuff. It was going to be a more spontaneous trip so we weren't going to have anything specifically planned just that we would decide what to do when we got wherever it is we are going." Sora's voice was nervous and he was speaking very quickly and he thought he was starting to ramble, "anyways we decided that we could both invite a friend to come on this trip and well, I was wondering you maybe wanted to come with me on my trip…With me."
The line was silent for a moment and Sora wondered if he had said something wrong or something and was about to hang up when he heard her voice again. She didn't say much before she hung up but they were words that Sora would repeat in his mind over and over again.
"Sure I'll go with you."
