First, I saw Zexion kissing that girl, Adele, under mistletoe. Then Demyx catches her. Then she's confused, and comes to me for help. Then she confuses ME, and goes off somewhere. Then I see Axel about to get her too, but she beats him to it just to keep him out of her way. Then I walk by Zexion's room, and... Can't they close the door or something before thet start making-out!?
But, you know, I'm still confused.
Girls are weird.
Right now, Zexion and Adele are curled up on the sofa, either sleeping or just peaceful. Zexion, peaceful? It was difficult to believe. But he was... Smiling. I just now saw it. Demyx just came in a drew a picture of them together. Despite his musical ability, he stinks at drawing. This is an understatement. But when he asked me what I thought of it, I just smiled and kept my mouth shut...
Axel just came in now. He's smirking and looking for a camera, but I must admit that I snatched the only camera in the house and had it behind my back right now. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for blackmail. But it was just too confusing to pass up an opprotunity to see it like this.
Riku must agree with me. He's over there staring at them with the most confused look on his face. He's been that way since before I even woke up.
Well, I'm staring too. I mean, their foreheads are touching, holding hands on one side, they're so calm...
I sound like a total sap. But Adele says girls like total saps. She says Namine' and I belong together too.
But really, what does she know?
Must be pretty amazing to get Zexion to smile though...
All day, those two haven't said a thing. They only respond to eachother. Demyx almost had a scared fit when there was no food waiting on the table at breakfast. I have to shove some toast into his mouth and tell him to shut up. Meanwhile, those two are sitting over there and eating. She's feeding him like he's a king. And he's got an arm around her like she's his queen. Who knows, that might be true. But I think some of the others are getting jealous.
This is a house full of drama.
And look there, they have their noses pressed together. He's saying something. Now she is. But only they seem to hear it. Demyx goes over and pokes them, wanting attention. She brakes the stare and glances quizzically at him. He whines something. She smiles a bit and gets up, leading Demyx over this way and ruffling Zexion's hair on the way over. She pushes him at me.
"Demyx wants you to sing a song with him." He nods.
"What kind of song?"
Hearing what it is, I immediately shake my head.
"Why not?"
"No way, no how, not now, not EVER."
"PLEASE!!!" Demyx jumps in a circle around me. "PLEEEEEEEASEEE!"
"Fine, I'll think about it."
"YAY!"
The rest of the day, those two were reading in the living room. They sat at opposite ends of the room, meeting eyes every so often. She was reading some girlish book, and he was reading one of her magic-series books. I read part of one once. It was depressing. But she seems to like them, so I guess they can't be too bad. I'm reading the lyrics to this song Demyx thinks I should sing. Apparently, I'm not the only one who will sing. Everyone in the house will get together, and some others will come too, and we'll sing the songs that come up on Adele's i-pod shuffle depending on who can sing what. Somehow they know how to take out the voices so we'll really have to sing.
Until then, she'll read her little girly book and he'll read the depressing-magic-series, Demyx will practice his sitar, Axel will be messing with his hair, Riku will be trying to find a good song to sing, and I'll be... Here. Sora? I don't know. What am I, his keeper?
So, all the members of the Organization turn up at the casual performance. Suddenly I See is the first song, which Adele takes. Demyx plays his sitar with the music throughout the thing.
Adele then makes Larxene sing Don't Let Me Get Me, which she sings surprisingly well.
Then a Britney Spears song comes on and they make Adele sing it, even though she doesn't know all the words. It's called That's Where You Take Me. Zexion seems to enjoy it. It's this really melodic and slow song, actually.
No one can sing Spiderwebs but her, and we skip the next song because of it.
Then, surprise of all, no joke, Zexion sings Brace Yourself. It's even the acoustic version! Since we're in that building Adele goes to study the hearts, there are enough places for everyone to lay down. She explains that this is because she wants everybody to stay the night there once they get their hearts back, just to make them feel like nothing bad will happen. So she's all cuddled up to Zexion, and he's just holding her and singing, with her singing on the chorus. At the end, he gets lots of applause.
Next is Hotel Paper, which Adele sings with Namine' for backup. It wasn't as surprising as Zexion's performance, but it was really cool. Then she throws mic to Axel. He immediately passes it to me.
There it is, that song. They're all looking at me, waiting. I'll show them.
"Under the silver stars,
Right where he broke your heart.
Girl you know, I'd give you anything.
I wanna hold your hand,
And say the words he never said.
I'll make you promises you can believe.
Let me be the one,
Telling you it's alright
Sharing the smiles and tears you cry.
Let me be the one,
Loving you when you're weak.
For all of the strength you need,
You can come to me."
About now Adele is out of shock and ready to sing background for me.
"When you're down and you feel so lonely Turn around, you can come to me When you're down baby, I will be the only Come to me
You can just be yourself,
'Cause I don't want nobody else.
All of your secrets are safe with me.
For the kind of love you can trust,
For more than just a crush,
Baby, why don't you just come to me?"
She joins in, just enough to compliment my voice a bit. Her voice seems to play about in different tones while mine stays relatively steady.
"Let me be the one,
Telling you it's alright
Sharing the smiles and tears you cry.
Let me be the one,
Loving you when you're weak.
For all of the strength you need,
You can come to me."
Then it's both of us, with her part like parenthesis until the chorus.
"When I've got you in my arms (got you in my arms)
Say it's where you wanna be (where you wanna be, yeah)
'Cause girl I'm down on my knees
Promising my heart, oh, my heart
Let me be the one,
Telling you it's alright
Sharing the smiles and tears you cry.
Let me be the one, (Let me be the one)
Loving you when you're weak.
For all of the strength you need,
You can come to me.
Let me be the one,
Telling you it's alright
Sharing the smiles and tears you cry.
Let me be the one,
Loving you when you're weak.
For all of the strength you need,
You can come to me.
Whenever you need me(always here)
Whenever you need me girl
Whenever you need me
Oh, I'll be there
Whenever you need me
Whenever you need me girl
Whenever you need me
Oh, I'll be there..."
The whole room is silent. I throw the mic at Axel. It just hit him and he barely caught it.
Then, all of a sudden, the whole room is clapping for me. Everyone. Even more than they did for Zexion. Not knowing how to reply, I just scratch my head.
So, Axel hears part of the song and tosses it to Larxene. She demands that Adele help her. It's Leaving Las Vagas.
Axel gets the mic and demands that they pass the song he doesn't know. All American Girl comes on next and he starts smiling. Somehow, Demyx, Sora, Riku, Axel, and Zexion seem to know this song and have a whole dance for it, directed at Adele. They're having her play the part of the girl, and each takes a turn at the lines. It's pretty funny.
If She Knew What She Wants is on, so Adele grabs the mic and sings it with the help of the girls.
Now she goes right on to Steve McQueen. She must have been singing this to her cats, because she said one of them likes Sheryl Crow. I asked how she would know something like that and she just laughed. She really is something different. Anyhow, she's really good at this song.
Zexion just grabbed her and pulled her to him so she's laying on his chest again. Now he whispers something that makes her giggle. After that last song, no one sings anything else and just fades into clumps of friends and all. Those two now get up and walk into another room, probably to discuss some new idea for the heartless. After a little bit of being bored, I decide to go outside for a walk. Then I hear their voices, that girl and Zexion.
"Zexy, what'll become of me?"
"I don't know."
"Will I ever get home?"
"Do you want to get home?"
"I don't know. Maybe. I mean, I can't say this whole experience hasn't been amazing, but I don't know much about my past. I'd like to remember."
"What if it wasn't a good past?"
"Then I'll think it over and decide if it's okay to move on, with the present, my friends and strange little family."
"But you have no family here."
"I have Elearn, don't I?"
"I suppose so. But, she's only one person."
"Not true. And she's not ONLY one person, she is A person. There's a difference. And then there's Sadie."
"Sadie?" Zexion spoke Roxas' thoughts.
"Yeah, remember Sadie?" Her eyes cloud up with that same looks she gets when remembering things. "She always loved her music, especially when we'd sing together."
"What else?" Zexion prods her a bit, since she didn't remember often and it might help for her to think a little.
"Ah, we'd sing Michelle Branch songs. Empty handed. Her guitar playing would go right on along with my singing. The crowds went wild for us, cheering- cheering- La-" She gasps. Her eyes clear.
"You remembered something."
"Yeah, I did." She smiles sadly. "I almost..."
"The stars are gorgeous tonight."
"Sure are." She looks up at the sky. "The sun. I know there was that. it was one of those stars, the brightest to us because it was so close. You could only see it in the daytime. I guess that's pretty much true for all worlds, huh? Still, they are prettier when they're far away."
"I think you're pretty up close."
"Hehe. You're flirting with me."
"Is it working?"
"Hmmm. Not sure yet."
"Well, I guess I need to keep going then. How about..." He pauses. "I seem to have lost my phone number. Can I have yours?"
"You got that from Axel!" She laughs.
"Alright then. Your lips look so lonely, Would they like to meet mine?"
She does kiss him for this. Just a quick little one, but a kiss all the same. I think I might choke on fluff.
