Chilly Days
**Dedicated to the guy who inspired this**
Naminé shivered against the gust of cold wind and curled into the pale blue fold up chair to watch the struggle match that was about to unfold before her. Her little fingers pulled the hood closer to the center of her face so that her eyes were peaking out over her cold nose. In the ring before her, her cousin was covered in the blue orbs that came with the game of Struggle along with the bright blue bat that she was going to be swinging at her opponent. Naminé blew her warmest air at her hands and rubbed them together, watching her cousin Kairi's opponent which happened to be her own boyfriend, Sora. Sora did not appear to be nearly as excited to be playing his favorite semi-violent game, against his girlfriend.
"Go Kairi!" the blonde shouted making Sora cringe and mouth something, "Scared Sora?"
Kairi bounced up on her feet to face her cousin, "Of course he's scared. He's afraid he'll get beat by his own girlfriend."
"Don't make me do this!" Sora whined as he dragged his bat behind him as they went to the center to begin the match.
The ref pulled them in and began the match. This kind of match up had half of their high school cheering and shouting for which ever side of the couple they supported to beat each other. Naminé shuddered at the idea of even moving from her comfortable (and warm) place in her chair. Kairi went after her boy friend swinging the bat at him like a mad woman and he jumped back. It was all cat and mouse, for Kairi and Sora respectively. Naminé laughed from her hoodie home trying to keep warm. She watched Sora basically running in circles with Kairi running after him like a warrior with qall the ferocity her best friend could possibly possess. The blonde teen took in the fight but saw a person appear beside her, she turned to see who it was that had set up a lawn chair: Olette.
"Who's idea was it to do a Struggle tournament on the coldest day of autumn?" Olette shivered into the obviously too large letter jacket, "Why couldn't we have done this, I dunno, like three months ago?"
Naminé nodded and lifted a brow in gesture to the coat, "Hayner's?"
"Yeah he's good for something, since he's stuck at work," she popped out her tongue a pit as she shrunk into her boyfriend's coat.
"Just be thankful you're not fighting against him," she said this as Kairi whacked at Sora who was crouched in a ball trying to protect his face, "But I'm guessing you could take him..."
"Go Kairi!" Olette shouted in response cheerfully, "Kick his butt!"
"If she can catch him," the blonde mumbled, making both girls chuckle but then curl back into their warmest points.
Kairi continued whacking her boyfriend until he finally got tired of it. Clearly he wasn't going to be mocked in the locker room during school because he A) let a girl beat him at one of his favorite sports and B) let his girlfriend beat the snot out of him in public. He quickly rolled away and away with what few blue orbs he still had left and got into his best battle stance leaving Kairi slightly taken aback at this change in who had the upper hand. Her surprise didn't last long and she too jumped into a battle stance. They charged each other and soon each was whacking and grabbing at each other to rip orbs off quickly and fiercely. Naminé blinked her eyes and instantly Kairi was on Sora's back and the ref was trying to separate them to no avail. Olette stood to cheer on Kairi as she clung to his back ripping off the last orbs attached to his head revealing the sports on the back of Hayner's jacket: Wrestling, Blitzball, and Struggle. Naminé shook her head and shrunk into the little warmth she received from her hoodie. She pulled her phone into her lap and saw a message appear from Roxas.
Roxas
heyo
Naminé
Hi!
Roxas
wassup bud?
Naminé
Why aren't you here watching your cousin
getting the snot kicked out of him? It's a riot!
Roxas
work, ill be there for in like a half hour
Naminé
Hurry, I'm cold and you should be out here
freezing with the rest of us peasants :P
Roxas
cold? blegh, Roxas no like
Naminé
Sucks to be you, get here and win this tournament
Besides, you have to listen to your best friend
A big gust of wind blew through her and she shivered hard. Since Roxas hadn't bothered to keep up their correspondence, she shrugged and tucked her phone away and stared back at the ongoing battle of Kairi v. Sora V. Ref. Finally Sora managed to shimmy Kairi off, but not before she accidentally kicked him between the thighs and he went down in pain. Kairi and the ref flinched in horror as Sora grabbed himself and curled to the ground with the few orbs he had still clinging to his stomach. Kairi leaned in to inspect the damage while the ref cautiously watched her approach the young man writhing in pain. Naminé winced out of sympathy until she saw a smile creep onto Sora's face and he reached for his bat and swung hard at Kairi's shoulder. Kairi was stunned and stumbled back and Naminé couldn't help but laugh at the frustrated girl who was now a few orbs away from losing to her boyfriend.
Roxas
yikes, that was cold!
Naminé
What?
Roxas
kairi totally deserved it
Naminé
How are you seeing this? I thought
you were at work?
Roxas
look across the ring
Her eyes caught his and her frigid cheeks grew warm at the sight of his wide, bright smile. He was bundled up, which made her jealous, with his skateboard in one hand and his Struggle bat in the other. Roxas waved the Struggle bat to get her attention and then weaved his way through the crowd to get to her. When he finally arrived she rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"I thought you had to be at work," she smirked at him.
" I may or may not have gotten a chance to sneak out thanks to Axel," the he began to shrug out of his letter jacket and laid it on her like a blanket, "Besides I was told that this was a pretty good match up."
"Well... I guess I was convinced to take off by a friend," he shrugged out of his leather jacket and wrapped it around her with a smile, "You think I would miss seeing Sora kick Kairi's butt?"
"Oh come on it's too cold, keep your coat on," she tried to hold it out to him but he plopped down in front of her, "Olette tell him it's too cold out here to be-"
Olette wasn't beside her. Instead, she spotted her friend pressed up against a blonde who was half dressed to start the next battle. Roxas huffed and stood back up, grabbing the coat and laid it on her chest once again. He slunk around her and leaned down to her ear with a low rumble of a voice.
"It's not that cold," he watched as her face turned bright red and she shivered at the warmth on her face, "Besides I've got other things to keep me warm."
"W-w-what?" she felt his arms wrap around her, "Y-you're gonna freeze..."
"You're cold right?" she nodded, "Okay, so let me keep you warm for a moment."
"A-a moment?" she wasn't stuttering because of the cold, she was very aware of her heart pounding in her throat.
"Oh- my phone," he reached into the pocket of the coat laying across her lap, "Ah there it is. Besides if I'm about to fight, I should keep cool... avoid bruising that way."
"Take it back!" she shimmied out of his arms and threw the jacket over her head and onto his.
"I'm good," he said coolly, plopping the coat on her head "I think Kairi just got kicked out of the ring. I think it's my turn."
"Wait!" he halted himself as he had already started to walk away.
"Hmmm?" she reached out to grab his hand and pulled him close and he took this opportunity.
He leaned down and pressed his cool lips to her warm ones, seeing her cheeks turn so red it looks like she might burst. They weren't together, at least not in the same way that Sora and Kairi were, and he had been waiting for the perfect opportunity to change that status. He moved his hands to pull her into a deeper kiss but she pulled away. Roxas tilted he head quizzically- had he misread the moment?
"Your hands are freezing," Naminé bit her lip and looked away, "Go warm up..."
Roxas smiled and gave her another quick peck on the lips, "I'm already pretty warm."
A/N: And as the great DJ Khalid would say- "Another one". This was one that I have previous edited/re-written but I thought it could use another makeover. Sorry not sorry, I'm really happy with how these are starting to come out! Review! Let me know what else you wanna see from me :)