You like me, you really like me! XD
Anyway, here's chapter two.
You know that feeling you get when you're battling with yourself?
Yeah. I've got it.
Part of me really wants to tell Kairi about the RokuNami moment I saw (wait, did I just give them a couple name? I really need to get a life); if I do that, there's a chance that she might become interested in me, after all.
The other part wants to keep it a secret. Kairi's happiness is my priority, and if she's happier with Roxas, then that's fine.
The whole thing culminated in those two parts of my brain appearing on my shoulders.
Not kidding. My brain went 'poof!' and all of a sudden, I had a mini-me on each shoulder. One was dressed in a full red body suit, complete with horns and tail, carrying a red trident. The other wore a white robe, had white wings on its back and a halo over its head.
"Whoa! Where the hell did you guys come from?" I exclaimed once I saw them.
"Well, I came from hell, bucko," the red-garbed one said in a harsh-sounding piping voice.
"While I'm from the polar opposite…literally," the white-robed me continued in a sophisticated tone.
"Wait…I have a shoulder angel and devil now?"
They looked at each other before answering. "Not really."
"Whaddya mean 'not really'?"
"It's only for this chapter," the devil deadpanned.
"What chapter?"
"Sorry," the angel apologised, "but I think the 4th wall's been damaged enough for now, wouldn't you say?"
The devil nodded. "Yes. Yes I would."
"Would you guys please start making sense?!" I yelled.
"Sorry," they said together.
"We represent your indecision on the matter at hand," the angel started. "I represent the good side…"
"Hence the dress," devil-me teased.
"Hey! It's a robe!"
"And I represent the bad side," the devil continued, ignoring angel-me's indignation. He jumped off my shoulder and onto my bedside table.
"What exactly do you mean by good and bad side?"
"Well, he is the part of you that wants to tell Kairi about Roxas' cheating for your own selfish gain," angel-me explained.
"Yes I am." The devil struck an obscene pose. "Just think about the fact that you could be doing this to…"
"Think of the younger readers!" angel-me shouted.
"Hey!" devil-me yelled back. "I thought we weren't breaking the 4th wall anymore!"
"Sorry."
I threw my face into my hands. Great. The tonic had a side-effect that Genie never told me about. It sent me nuts.
"He's the part of you that only wants what's…" the devil sneered the next word, "best for Kairi."
"Okay…" I nodded slowly. "So basically the devil wants me to tell her, and the angel wants me to stay quiet."
The two of them looked at each other and shrugged. "Pretty much, yeah."
"Then why the hell didn't you just say that in the first place?!"
"There are a few rules we as shoulder entities have to follow," angel-me started explaining, but devil-me told him to shut up.
I sat there, still not believing I was having a conversation with two miniature versions of myself. Then a thought came to me. If you can't agree…
"A compromise!" I shouted, standing up. That caused the angel to fall off my shoulder and onto my bed. It let out an 'ow' once it landed. "Sorry."
"Whaddya mean, compromise?" the devil demanded.
"Exactly what I said. I'll let Kairi know about Roxas' womanising ways without actually telling her!"
The angel sat up on the bed, adjusting its halo. "That could work."
"But how?" the devil protested lamely.
"Well, the best way is to get Roxas to tell her."
"And how are you gonna do that?"
I smiled. "Blackmail." I walked out the door and towards my brother's room.
Back in my own room, the angel and devil stood next to each other. The devil was sniffling.
"There goes our baby," he blubbered, "off to potentially ruin other people's lives. Aren't you proud?"
"Oh, shut up," the angel sneered, knocking his opposite on the head with his harp.
Then they vanished.
**KH**
Roxas was playing some obscure game called Final Fantasy when I walked into his room. "Hey, Sor," he greeted me.
"Stop that."
"Stop what?"
"Calling me 'Sor'. You've lost that privilege."
"When did that happen?"
"When you started making out with Naminé!"
The room fell into dead silence. Roxas paused the game and stood up. "What?" he said in a quiet voice.
"You heard me. I saw you two. Kairi was worried that something had gone wrong at training, so I went looking for you. You didn't see me, of course. You were too busy sucking on your girlfriend's sister's FACE!" I was absolutely livid (or had you noticed?).
Roxas' angry bravado fell away and he collapsed onto his bed, not looking at me.
"How could you do that to her?" I continued. "She's completely and utterly in love with you. She won't shut up about how amazing you are." That was a half-truth. She rarely gushed about Roxas, but when she did, it was for a very long time. "I just… You know, I lost a lot of respect for you when…" I stopped when I heard a strangled sound coming from my twin's throat.
Roxas was crying.
This was weird. Roxas never cried. He didn't shed a tear at the end of Titanic, nor did he cry at sad situations in real life. I always thought that Roxas was born with no tear ducts. Turns out I was wrong.
"Roxas?" I asked, my tone gentler now.
"I just…" he sobbed, "I love them both so much."
"Both?"
Roxas nodded and sniffed loudly. "I've been in love with Naminé for as long as I can remember." This was not news to me. "Then Kairi asked me to the dance six months ago, and…" He paused and took a deep breath. "I started to fall for her too."
I looked at him with sympathy in my eyes. Roxas was in an even tougher situation than me.
"When I saw Naminé at that training session, all my thoughts of Kairi went out the window. She…" He looked at me, and his eyes were red from tears already. "She said she loved me, Sora. I…I couldn't help it." He bowed his head again and cried.
I placed a consoling hand on his shoulder. "Then tell Kairi that."
He looked at me like I was totally insane. I probably was, now that I think about it.
"She's not the vindictive type," I continued, to which my brother nodded. "If you tell her what you just told me, she'll understand…eventually."
Roxas gave a slight chuckle at that. After a while, he nodded decisively. "Okay, I'll tell her tomorrow." He smiled sadly at me. "Thanks, Sora."
I gave him a smile back. "I take it back. You can call me 'Sor' again."
He chuckled and hugged me. "Thanks, Sor."
Standing on the door were my temporary angel and devil. The angel had tears in his eyes.
The devil looked at him. "Oh, for shit's sake, dude. Grow some balls."
Angel-me smacked him over the head with his harp again. "Younger readers, remember?"
**KH**
The next day at school, Roxas took Kairi aside and told her the whole story. She cried, of course. She even said that she hated him. But that's not what she was thinking.
He loves Naminé, she thought. Of course. Why didn't I see it? She's loved him forever and a day. Of course he loves her back.
As she walked away, a thought came to her mind which nearly gave me a nosebleed. Well, that's over. At least this means I can start flirting with Sora without feeling guilty about it.
Genie, I take back what I said about the tonic sending me round the bend. That stuff is amazing.
**KH**
Somewhere above my head, the mini-angel-me and mini-devil-me hovered in the sky. The angel was on a white nimbus, and the devil was on a storm cloud.
"Don't you just love endings like that?" the angel teased.
Devil-me scowled. "This isn't the end, you know."
"Of course I do. I meant that it's a good way to end the chapter."
The devil nodded begrudgingly. "I guess you're right." He looks directly at you. Wait, can he see me? you think, panicking slightly in front of your screen.
"Hey! Reader! The author wants me to tell you that if you really liked us, put that in your review, and he might bring us back someday. SO SAY YOU LIKE US!"
The angel threw his halo at the devil, hitting him squarely in the head. "Stop being mean to the readers. If you are, they might say how much they hate you and not bring us back."
Devil-me sneered. "I hate it when you're right." They both vanished.
Meanwhile, you stare uncomprehendingly at your screen, wondering what the hell just happened.
I think I just put a sledgehammer through the 4th wall, then blew it up with dynamite, then disintegrated the remnants with a laser. Sorry about that.
