Authors Note: Well here we are, a new story again! Wow I'm chock full o nuts'. Not really. Just ideas, but hey you get what I mean right? RIGHT! Ha, chapter 15 of my other story will be up soon, and chapter 2 of this and my OTHER story will be up too. I just love you guys for reading my work. It makes me really happy to see people enjoy my stories.. I mean one day I plan to be a writer so... you guys are helping that dream! hehe thank you!

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE GAME!!!!!!!! Ergh. Ack. Poo poo. And I don't own 'we've got a big mess on our hands" By the Academy Is...

- - [Re/wound

"Did somebody spike Roxas's sea-salt ice cream?"

The question came from a blond girl, standing next to a teenage boy, propping him up with her arms, as he slumped forward, burping slightly. He grabbed the nearby microphone and yelled something towards the dj... then music began to play.

"(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)

(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
I've got that lefty curse
Where everything I do is flipped
And awkwardly reversed
You're seldom known and barely missed
I always put myself
In destructive situations
I need oxygen
To be exposed where no one goes, where no one's been
When it all comes crashing…"

He winked towards the blonde girl and stared out at the audience before him, no one he knew was there except of course Sora and Riku... but where was that one girl? He shrugged and kept singing.

"(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (yeah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight."

Suddenly as flash of auburn, a hint of violet, and there she was. The girl he knew Sora was desperatley in love with. The girl his brother loved.

Kairi.

Roxas watched as she turned and stared at him, her gorgeous eyes flashing at him, and a smile creeping across her lips... and he couldn't do it anymore. He couldn't finish his singing, so he stepped down off of the stage in a hurry, brushing against the blond girls arm, and tripping lightly as he fell through the backstage door.

"Roxas are you alright?" That was Sora... why did he follow him out here?

"I-I'm fine. Where's Kairi and Riku?" He mumbled sitting up, holding his arms tightly around his legs.

"Kairi just left, and Riku's talking to Naminé about some school thing I guess." Sora cocked his head to the side and held out his hand. "You seem a little off today. Did someone spike your ice cream for real?"

Roxas smiled and took his hand, and Sora pulled him up beside him with a grin. "No Sora. I just like acting stupid. You should know that by now. You've lived with me for what, almost seventeen years now?"

"Are you and Naminé fighting? Is that why you're acting like this?"

"Sora, I'm fine. I just didn't want to keep singing, that's all." Truth was, something was wrong, but he wasn't about to tell Sora that.

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Kairi was so confused with herself... why was it, when Roxas started to sing... and when he watched her... she felt her heart flip? She loved Sora... no one else... let alone his twin brother!

"What am I thinking?" Kairi shook her head as she walked through her front door and she dropped her purse on the floor nearby it.

Kairi and Sora had been together for almost two years now, since the ninth grade, and she was absolutely and uncontrolabley in love with him. She had been around Roxas for years, seeing him in school, watching him struggle to ask out Naminé out... and now, she never realized how adorable he was. It wasn't like she loved him or anything, he was cute, that's all.

"But why is that when I see him smile, my heart flips in my chest?" Kairi heard a knock on the front door, and as she stepped to open it, a gasp escaped her throat.

"Hey Kairi, Um, Sora wanted me to check and make sure you were okay since you left early." It was Roxas, standing in her front door.

"Oh, ah, well, come in." As he stepped through the doorway, he caught a whiff of strawberry, and realized it was from Kairi's direction.

That sweet sweet scent of strawberries he'd never forget.

"Roxas?" She was staring at him, and he realized, he had zoned out, thinking about the scent of her hair.

"Oh sorry, I'm just out of it." He smiled and sat on the couch.

"Why did Sora send you over? Why didn't he come over himself?" Kairi asked, sitting on the couch beside him.

"H-he was busy at home... something to do with tomorrow's date with you..." He stumbled over his words as he became of the awareness that Kairi was right beside him, within his reach... all he would ever need to do was lean over...

"Oh yeah! Tomorrow is our date for our two year anniversary! He said since he'll be gone all next week, that we should have it tomorrow." Kairi smiled. "A Saturday night with Sora..."

"So are you sure that you're okay Kairi? I mean, I get worried about you too. You're a really close friend to me." Roxas covered his mouth and blushed slightly.

"Roxas, you're one of my best friends. I trust you more than anyone else." Kairi patted his arm and smiled lightly at him once more.

"Even more than Sora?" It came out without him realizing it, and now he couldn't take it back.

She studied his face for a moment then nodded. "Yes. I do."

They sat in silence for the next few moments, Kairi staring off in front of her and Roxas twiddling his thumbs. Finally after a few minutes, Roxas looked over at her and spoke.

"Why me. Wny not trust your boyfriend more?"

"Sora is trusting, don't get me wrong, but you're my best friend. I can tell you anything... Sora I just... can't with some things. Like when I told you about the time I accidentely went into the boys locker room during gym class one day. You laughed so hard I thought you were going to puke." She giggled lightly.

"Haha. Do you remember that time I sorta of ended up in a Geisha club meeting? They said my punishment for interupting their teachings was to put make-up on and wear a flowery kimono." Kairi laughed slightly, recalling when he came out of the club to face both her and Sora, his lips brick red and his hair pinned back. "I never told Naminé about that either."

After the laughter died down, silence once again reigned over the room. Kairi felt awkward, sitting there next to Roxas... and she could feel the warmth of his leg illuminating towards hers... and she shivered at the feel. Roxas faced her for a moment, his eyes were as serious as ever, as though he was about to say something, but at the last second he looked away, and Kairi sighed.

"Well you should get going. I mean it's about two in the morning." Kairi stood, and Roxas followed, and they walked towards the door.

"Goodnight Kairi. I'll tell Sora you're okay." He smiled and turned away.

"Goodnight Roxas." She wrapped her arms over the back of his shoulders into a tight embrace.

He could feel her heart beating through his chest, and he felt his own begin to jump around. She let him go and he faced her again, and he noticed, her cheeks were pink... she was blushing.

"Kairi I-" But he stopped himself, and turned away once again. "Night."

Kairi felt her heart jump once more as he walked out the door. "Night."

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The following morning, Roxas woke, and at about seven that evening, he headed down to the beach, as was his daily routine. Of course, Sora didn't come with him today because he was on his date with Kairi.

Kairi...

He was completely confused of his feelings... he didn't know whether he just liked her, or was it something more? Did he actually love her? No, he couldn't be in love with his brothers girlfriend... that just wouldn't be right...

"This has to stop. I can't keep going on like this." He laid back onto the sand and stared up into the blue sky, when he heard shouting farther away from him on the beach.

It was Kairi and Sora. He could barely make out Sora's form, because he was standing behind Kairi, yelling at her back. Kairi on the other hand, he could see perfectly, her auburn hair cascading to just below her shoulders... her arms folded neatly across her chest, and her lips pouted out as she listened to Sora yell.

"Why can't you understand that I need to get back home? I don't want to fight with you Kairi, but I need to get packed for next tomorrow!"

"It's not that Sora. You're more distant. Do you not like me anymore? Is it someone else?" Kairi turned towards Sora and Roxas saw his brothers face for a moment, and the grief plastered across it.

"I love you." He pulled her arm lightly so that she was closer to him, and pressed his lips onto hers in, what Roxas saw, a very forced out kiss.

He couldn't help but turn away.

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"Good bye Sora." Roxas said, patting his brother lightly on the back.

"Take care of Kairi while I'm gone, okay?" His brother winked, and gave one last look at Kairi before sitting down in the car, and driving away.

"So where is he going exactly? He never did tell me." Kairi asked, looking over at Roxas.

"Some summer camp. Traverse Camp of Music and Art or something." Roxas mumbled, pulling his arms behind his head.

"Hey! That's where Naminé is going for extra drawing expirience!"

'Naminé is going too? Why didn't she bother to tell me this? She has been quite distant lately...' He was knocked out of his thoughts by Kairi, who had begun yanking on his arm.

"Come on! A week without our boyfriend and girlfriend! We have got to make this week count Roxxie!" Kairi pulled on his arm harder, and began to drag him down to the beach, and he knew then and there, that this week was going to be the best week of summer he'd had in a long time.

Authors Note: Well chapter two may take a little while to be up because I have to put up chapter 15, so be patient with me, kay? review with that purpley button.