Chapter 1- The New Girl
"Sora, c'mon, time to get up!" yelled my mom from downstairs.
"I thought it was the weekend!" I yelled back, sitting up and rubbing my eyes.
"No Sora, it's Friday, you can't miss school."
"Why not?" I laid back down on the pillows.
"Don't you want to go to the dance this evening?"
"I'm not going with anyone, why should I go?"
"Because I have to work late tonight and you're not staying home alone, besides, Riku's going."
"So…" I replied.
"OK Hero, go get Sora out of bed." I heard my mom say.
Then I heard something running up the stairs. Then it jumped onto my bed and started licking my face. It was my dog, Hero. Hero is a Siberian husky with red fur on his back, and white fur on his chest, belly, and legs. Hero is also Party-eyed. His left eye is full blue, but his right eye had two colors, blue and red. We named him Hero because a couple years ago, I fell into a fast river and couldn't get to shore. But he jumped in after and saved me, pulling me to shore. If it hadn't been for that Siberian stray, I wouldn't have made it out.
"OK OK! Alright Hero! I'm getting up!" I said pushing him off.
I got up and got changed into a nice but casual outfit. I had some baggy jeans and long, black Polo with blue stripes inside white stripes, and some tan boots. I was also wearing my crown necklace.
"OK Hero, time for breakfast!" I said petting him.
He barked happily in reply, wagging his tail.
We headed down stairs into the kitchen. My mom was making coffee and looking through the paper for anything interesting. I pulled out some dog food and poured it in Hero's food bowl. Then I filled his water bowl and set it next to him. After feeding Hero, I made some toast for myself.
"OK I have to leave for work now." Said my mom, folding up the news paper, "Be good, make new friends, and have fun at the dance."
"I will Mom."
She smiled at me grabbing her coffee and heading for the door.
"Bye sweetie."
"Bye Mom."
The door closed and it was silent. I finished my toast and got my stuff together for school. I was sitting on the couch with Hero when the door bell rang. I went and answered it.
"Hey, Riku."
"Hey Sora, you ready for school?"
"Yeah, just let me grab my bag."
I went over to the stairs and picked up my bag, then Hero walked over to Riku, wagging his tail.
"Hey Hero, have you been a good boy lately?" asked Riku, patting his head.
Hero barked in reply.
"OK, let's go." I said.
I locked the door behind us. Then we headed toward the bus stop.
"So Riku, you're going to the dance right, are you bringing anyone?"
"Yeah, Katlin, from our 3rd period class."
"She's one of the hottest girls in school, how'd you get her to go with you?"
"Well it turns out that she likes Me." said Riku.
I turned to see him smiling.
"You like her back, don't you?" I was smiling too.
"So what about you, are you taking anyone?" Riku asked at me, still smiling.
I looked up at the gray sky, just noticing that it was raining slightly.
"No I just haven't been interested in anyone."
"There must be a ton of girls that want to go out with you. You don't like anyone."
"Not really."
"Well if I know you, you'll find someone."
"You know it!" We gave each other hi-fives.
"Hey, who's that?" I pointed to a girl at the bus stop.
"I don't know. Maybe she's with the people moving the house down the street from yours."
When we got closer we saw that she had reddish-brown hair running down to her mid-back and blue eyes. She was wearing a white tank top, a pink skirt, pink n' white shoes, and a black jacket with pink stripes running down the arms. She had the sleeves of the jacket pushed up to her elbows.
"Sora! Riku!" someone called from behind us.
We turned and saw my cousin, Roxas running towards us. We knew it was him because of his blonde spiky hair.
"Hey Roxas." I gave him a hi-five.
"So you guys psyched about the dance?" Roxas looked at both of us for a response. I answered first.
"Not really." I said, "Who are you bringing?"
"Who do you think?" said Roxas, "Namine, duh."
"Well, where is she?" asked Riku.
"She's getting a ride to school." He pointed back over his shoulder.
We both nodded.
After Roxas showed up, everyone else did too, including Alan, the school bully. He usually caused trouble around us though.
"Hey look everybody! Three members of the lame gang!" Alan pointed at us.
"No one's laughing stupid." I looked at him and his two friends, Jake and David. I loathed them all.
"Yeah, guess it was too smart for them." He said acting disappointed.
"Please, it was probably too smart for you." Said Roxas.
Everyone started to laugh, including the new girl. Alan walked over to Roxas and said.
"You'd better watch that girlfriend of yours."
The bus drove round the corner a few minutes later. Alan and his gang got on first and headed for the back seats. Riku and I sat down in our seats. Riku and I sat in seat 17, while Roxas sat behind us in seat 19. Everyone else sat down except the new girl.
"Why hello dear, I'm the bus driver, Ms. Maggie."
"I'm Kairi." Said the new girl.
"Well Kairi, let's see where we can put you."
Ms. Maggie grabbed the seating chart and studied it for a moment.
"There's an opening in seat 18 with Namine, who isn't here today so would Sora and Riku raise their hands."
Riku and I raised our hands and waved.
"You'll sit right across from them." Ms. Maggie pointed at the seat next to us.
"Thanks." said Kairi.
She walked over to the seat and sat down.
"Hi, I'm Sora, and this is Riku." I pointed to him.
"Hey there." Riku waved at her.
"Hi, I'm Kairi." She smiled at us, "Who was that guy back there?" Kairi pointed to the back of the bus at Alan.
"Oh, that's Alan; he's a jerk and just happens to be the school bully."
"I noticed the jerk part." She made a disgusted look.
Kairi turned back around in her seat to her backpack and pulled out a piece of paper.
"What's that?" I pointed at the paper.
"My schedule." She was scanning it thoroughly.
"Can I see?" I held out my hand for the piece of paper.
"Sure." She handed me the schedule. I looked at it with interest. I saw that 4 of her classes were the same as mine.
"Cool, we have four classes together." I said looking up at her.
"Neat." She said in a perky voice.
I handed her back the schedule.
"I can help you with what we're doing in each of the four classes."
"OK, what are we doing?"
"Well, in 1st period we hav-"
"Sora, your phone's going off." Riku pointed at my pocket.
I had just noticed it vibrating. I pulled it out and saw that I had a text message…from Alan. It read:
'U R gonna get it 2nite'
I looked back at him and he was holding up his middle finger. I hated everything about him, his messy jet black hair, his poisonous green eyes, and his stupid smirk. I hated him.
"What is it?" Riku looked back at Alan too.
"He says he's gonna pick a fight with me tonight."
"He's really gonna do that?" Kairi looked bewildered.
I flipped him off back.
"Well, he says he will, but he usually doesn't follow up on his threats though." I reassured her by smiling.
A few minutes later we arrived at school. Riku and I invited Kairi over to meet our friends after we got off the bus. We walked over to our usual spot in the Destiny Island High courtyard.
"You guys made it. We were starting to think you were gonna skip school." Leon said noticing us.
"The bus was running late, Leon." I smirked.
"Who's she?" Cloud jerked his head at Kairi.
"Oh, right! Everyone, this is Kairi," I put my hand on her shoulder, "Kairi, this is everyone. That's Leon, Cloud, Arieth, Cid, Yuffie, Namine, and Roxas." I pointed to each in turn.
We started talking when Katlin walked up to Riku.
"Can I talk to you for a moment?" she asked Riku.
"Sure." He walked away with her to the other side of the courtyard.
We talked among each other for a couple of minutes. Riku rejoined us looking unusually happy. The bell rang and we all headed for our 1st period classes. (WOW! 11 people!) Kairi got up and headed for the door. I stared at the back of her head. Her reddish-brown hair, swayed as a breeze flew by.
"C'mon Romeo." Riku waved his hand in front of my face.
"Wha!" I said, startled by Riku.
"C'mon, we gotta get to class." said Riku.
"Oh…right."
I followed him into the building. An Image of Kairi stuck in my mind.