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Forgiven

Chapter 2: A Day of Sun, Fun, and Apologies

"Make that nine," I say as I reunite with my friends. I've had my time to cool down and now I'm thinking clearly. I know my friends are fine, they're used to it. What I'm worried about is Naminé. Is she upset? I completely forgot she was there when I started attacking Riku, I didn't even think about her seeing me like that.

I hope she can forgive me.

I walk over to the very injured Riku, whose arm is in a sling and has numerous cuts and bruises on his face along with two black eyes. I didn't know I hurt him that bad, I just didn't think… "Hey man… sorry for freaking out earlier. I overreacted, it was just a joke and I took it too far," I apologize, this was customary, whenever I do this to one of the group, I always admit I was wrong and apologize.

"It's alright dude, I was out of line. I shouldn't have said that joke, friends?" Riku replies, this was also customary, whoever I attacked would forgive me. The only time someone didn't let it go was our old friend Hayner, and we won't talk about him…

"Yeah of course," and its over. Apologize to Riku, check. Apologize to Naminé… not the right time yet.

"Alright! The gangs all here now let's go to the beach!" who gave Kairi coffee while I was gone?

We sit pretty much in silence the whole train ride there. I'm not complaining, I enjoy silence, but this was awkward. Naminé won't even look at me; I guess she took it pretty hard… I guess I'm not gonna tell her about that night two years ago for a while then… Come on! Talk to me! Look at me, please! Relax Roxas, its not like you want to date this girl, you will always be a one girl man, always. Speaking of… I wonder what Xion's doing right now?

Who knows? She won't tell me why she cancels or where she goes. I don't want to think the worst but… No. Xion wouldn't do that… For the love of God! Someone say something!

"So Naminé," thank you Kairi, I can always count on you to say something. "You've really never been to the beach before?" say what? Ohhh right… no beaches in World that Never Was.

"No, in fact, I've never been in the water…" she replies softly, almost in a whisper. But wait, does that mean… "I've never swam before." Whoa… didn't see that coming.

"That's okay, Roxas can teach you! He's a great teacher and even better swimmer! He taught me how when Venny here was too impatient," Aqua says. I remember that, she was REALLY hard to teach. I know why Ven gave up. But anyway, let's rejoin the conversation.

"Yeah, it's no problem," I agree, hoping to get back on speaking terms with her.

"No no, that's okay I think I'll just sit on the beach," she responds immediately, not even glancing at me. What have I done? She must hate me… can I blame her? The silence falls over the group again and I welcome it gloomily. I hang my head down the rest of the ride…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Quick Nami's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I didn't want to ignore Roxas, but whenever I look at him… I just see the fury that was in his eyes when he attacked Riku. Everyone just accepted Roxas back with a simple apology. How do they do that? I can't stop thinking about how scary he looked. I couldn't take the swimming lessons from him. The hurt look in his face when I declined his offer… it stung. I wanted to accept, but I don't know when he's going to have another "episode" like earlier… and I don't want to be anywhere near him when it happens again.

I'm sorry, Roxas…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Roxas POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We arrive to the beach and everyone goes running for the water except for Riku, Naminé, and me. Riku was too injured to swim, Naminé doesn't know how, and I was too upset. My goal is clear: talk to Naminé, tell her I'm sorry, and then teach her how to swim. Simple, right? Well let's just see…

"Hey Naminé, can I talk to you for a second?" I ask, hopefully.

"Ummmmm… I… I guess so…" she replies. I messed up big time, she's terrified of me.

"Cool, lets go for a walk?" that's it Roxas, calm, cool, and most of all nice.

"O…okay"

We both walk together, down to the jetties, our feet in the water, both silent. I better start talking.

"Hey… I'm sorry you had to see me like that earlier… I let my emotions get the better of me and I shouldn't have. That's really not who I am, I try to be the best Christian I can, sometimes I just mess up."

"… it was scary… the look in your eyes, when you attacked him… It was like… you wanted to kill him… He was just telling a joke and you really hurt him! Why?! Why did you do that!?" She says, as tears roll down her face. I can't believe I did this to her. I may have hurt Riku physically, but the real damage was done to poor Naminé as I lost control.

"I… I can't talk about why I did what I did and please… don't ask, it hurts. I know I can't take back what I did this morning anymore than I can make you forget it… but I just want ask you to forgive me and maybe… start over? I promise, you will never see me like that again just please, I don't want this to ruin what could be a good friendship," I ask, no, I beg, as tears begin to well up in my eyes as well. She looks up at me, this time not with anger or fear… with… I don't know… but I don't want to look away.

"Hi, I'm Naminé," she says with a smile that has made its first appearance since this morning.

"Heh, hi Naminé, I'm Roxas. Nice to meet you," I say, as relief rushes over me. Apologize to Naminé, check.

"I forgive you, Roxas." Those four words, the same words God spoke to me 2 years ago sound as sweet as that day. Now onto the third order of business…

"Now," I begin, "can I teach you how to swim?"

"Err… ummm…" she stutters, looking down, twirling a stand of her hair with her finger, "I don't know Roxas, I forgive you and all but… I'm still a little nervous about you freaking out again… I'm sorry but I don't think I can take lessons from you… you go have fun, I'm gonna sit on the beach…" Okay… not what I planned but I can't expect things to be fixed all at once.

"Okay I understand completely. I wouldn't trust me yet either. How about this, if I don't have another 'episode' all this week, you'll let me teach you how to swim?" I offer.

"Ummm… okay, I guess that's fair," she accepts my deal. YES!

"Cool, let's go back to the group and see what they're up to,"

We arrive back to the group and find everyone out of the water and sitting with Riku. Everyone's laughing except for Ven who looks upset.

"Hey you're back! Good to see you two worked things out," Axel greets us.

"Yeah, so what did you guys do?" I ask, curious as to why Ven looks like he's about to cry, he is such a sissy.

"Played keep away with Ven's tie," Terra laughs, holding up a soaking wet and ruined tie. Ven looked crushed.

"Aww, next time just don't bring a tie to the beach silly!" Aqua says, trying to cheer him up, but not even she can help Ven when he loses one of his precious ties! I honestly hate ties and refuse to wear them (A/N: that's true, I'm very informal :P)

"Well, what do you guys want to do now?" Kairi asks the group. Gosh, she cannot handle two seconds of down time, chill Kairi! I'm standing very close to Naminé, I should step away. I can't look like I want Naminé because I don't. Repeat after me Roxas; you have a girlfriend, you like Xion, I have a girlfriend, I like Xion.

I wonder if I'm the only one who talks to themselves…

"Well, we still have a lot to show Naminé, like the Usual Spot and the Sandlot, we could give her the grand tour of Twilight Town?" I offer.

"Yeah! Naminé you have to see the Tram Common! It has so many shops and malls, you'll just love it!" Aqua says, a mile a minute, acting as giddy as a little girl. Aqua, now you're sounding like Kairi…

"Okay, Sounds great!" Naminé says, excited.

I'll never understand girls and shopping. (A/N: I really won't)

"Okay lets go!" I say, picking up my stuff and getting ready to leave when…

"Roxyyyyyyyyyyyyy" I hear a squeal from behind me. I turn around to see who made the screech and I rest my eyes upon a girl with jet-black, shoulder length hair, with blue eyes that resemble mine.

Xion…

And that's chapter 2! Like I said, I'm not to sure how much I liked this chapter so please tell me what you thought.