Eeep! Time for a big apology! I haven't updated in like over a month! -hides-

Wow, where has the time gone? I've been so busy with summer ending and school starting that I completely had no time for this. I unfortunately will probably only update this story on the weekends because it's like the only free time I get…sort of. Well, to make up for it, this chapter is longer then the others.

Well like I said at the end of the last chapter; this chapter takes place 32 days after Naminé moved to the island. Yeah I know, that's like a month but the only reason I did that is so I can get closer to the school chapter which will be in the next chapter.

Disclaimer: I sadly do not own Kingdom Hearts.

I present to you…

Chapter 3: So close

August 20th

Meaning just 15 more days until school starts. It also meant that Naminé had officially been on the island for 32 days. Over those 32 days, she had gotten much closer to all her new friends and learned what their personalities were really like.

Roxas: A deep thinker: Can be distant at times and not always the fun-loving teen like Sora is.

Sora: A goof: Can be serious, but for the most part, he's like a clown. Sometimes he can even get on his friends' nerves.

Kairi: A shopper: Loves to shop all the time. Also loves the color pink considering the fact that her entire room is filled with pink, fluffy things.

Riku: Macho man: Thinks he's all that because he is the oldest and has more muscles then anyone else.

Selphie: A romanticist: Thinks anything that has to do with romance is the cutest thing in the world. Her attitude and size are not to be underestimated.

Olette: School lover: Gets straight A's in everything and ends up helping everyone else when they don't get something. She is also pretty athletic.

Hayner: Challenge taker: He doesn't like to back down from a challenge. He'll do pretty much anything to prove that he isn't weak.

Pence: Laid back: Doesn't really worry all too much, except if he doesn't do well in school. Then Olette comes in to save the day.

Tidus: Jock # 1: Major athlete. He loves anything that has to do with blitzball and he's even on his schools team. Wakka is the exact same type of person Tidus is; he's just older.

Naminé herself had noticed a change of personality after hanging out with everyone. She was more open and a little louder. She could still be her soft-spoken self, but only when she was in a new environment.

Two days ago, the group celebrated Hayner's 16th birthday. Everyone took note that Kairi's birthday was the next to come, being a little over two weeks away. Then it was Pence's whose fell on the 23rd of September. Surprisingly, Naminé and Olette were only two days apart. Olette's birthday fell on the 26th of October while Naminé's fell on the 28th, but enough with birthdays.

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"Naminé, could you please go get the mail?" Amanda asked, sticking her head in her daughter's room. Naminé looked up from her sketchpad and nodded, putting it down and standing up. She quickly slipped on her white sandals and headed for the door. When Naminé got outside she spotted Kairi watering the flowers in her front yard and ran down to the end of her driveway, waving.

"Hey!" She yelled across the street, grabbing the mail out of the mailbox. Kairi looked over at her and smiled, turning the hose off.

"Oh, hey Naminé. It looks like your school uniform arrived." She pointed to the box that hung in a bag, around the mailbox. That must have been why my mother wanted me to go get the mail' she thought, unhooking the bag and looking over at Kairi.

"You want to come over when you're done watering the flowers?" Naminé asked. Kairi placed her finger in the air as if to say "one minute" and ran up to the side of her house, shutting off the water and ran back down, crossing the street.

"Done." She replied and the two laughed, walking up to the house.

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"Come on, hurry! Open it!" Kairi exclaimed, watching eagerly as Naminé poked a knife through the tape and slowly cut it.

"Do you want me slice my finger off?" She asked, pulling the knife out and placing it on the counter. Kairi giggled, nervously, looking out the window.

"Not really. Sorry." She said, looking back at the box again. Naminé rolled her eyes playfully and intentionally continued to open the box real slow. Kairi stomped her foot and crossed her arms. "Hurry!"

"What's the rush Kai? It looks just like yours!" Naminé said, pulling the top off and looking in.

"I know but I wanted to see your face when you opened it revealing your new uniform!" She explained, watching her carefully take it out. Naminé gave Kairi a confused look, but shook it off, holding the skirt up to her. Amanda wondered into the kitchen and over to the girls, placing a glass on the counter.

"Is that your new uniform?" She asked, peering inside the box to see. Naminé and Kairi nodded, emptying the rest of the box.

"Selphie described these perfectly." Naminé whispered, feeling the material between her fingers. "They feel so comfortable."

"Wait until you try them on!" Kairi said, lightly pushing Naminé to the bathroom. She walked in and shut the door, leaving Kairi and her mother to wait in the living room. When she did come back out, Kairi, who was sitting on the loveseat, jumped up and gave a 'Selphie squeal'. Her mother clapped.

"Well…?" She asked, giving a shy spin. "What do you think…honestly?"

"I honestly think you look adorable!" Her mother said, giving her daughter a hug. Kairi giggled, nodding and walked over to the blondes.

"You'll fit right in at school!" She said, placing a hand on her shoulder. Naminé breathed a small sigh of relief. "At least I look good." She thought giving another spin in her new uniform before walking back into the bathroom to change.

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Later that day, after Kairi went back home, Roxas had come over. The two had wondered into the finished basement which had turned into the family-ish game room over the past two weeks. You could say it was mostly a 'hang out' room because of the plasma TV on the wall, pool table in the middle of the room, and bar counter complete with barstools.

"So, I hear your new uniform arrived in the mail today." Roxas said, collapsing on the couch. They had just come in from tossing a ball back and forth for an hour. Naminé sat down, handing him a bottle of water and nodded.

"Kairi tell you?" She asked, grabbing the TV remote off the small table in front of the couch and turned it on. Roxas shook his head, taking a sip of his water.

"No actually Sora told me. I guess he heard from Kairi. I wouldn't be surprised though. Unless it's a secret, don't expect too much to stay with her…or Selphie for that matter. Olette's okay though." He explained, watching her flip through channel after channel, not finding anything good on. She sighed, turning the TV off and stood up with a small frown on her face. Roxas chuckled and received a glare from her. She sat back down and grabbed a pillow holding it over her head.

"Can I ask you a question?" She asked, removing the pillow and looked at him, sitting up a little.

"Sure"

"How come I've lived here a month already and I've never seen the inside of your house? I-I'm not trying to be nosey or anything- just kind of curious."

"I don't know how you'll react." He whispered, looking away from her gaze.

"How I'll react?" She asked, spinning the bottle of water around in her hands. He sighed, and nodded, catching the sadness in her voice.

"Ah, never mind." He said, standing up. "C'mon." He held out his hand. Naminé looked at it curiously and then took it being pulled up. That moment reminded her of when they first met on the beach and she had confessed that she had never swum in the ocean before. Then he took her by the hand, pulling her up and the two went in.

"Where are we going?" She asked, following him out the basement door. He laughed a little and pulled her along.

"To my house. You wanted to see the inside, didn't you?"

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Roxas took a deep breath and pushed the double doors open. Naminé walked in first and gasped, looking around at all the expensive things that lined the walls along with pictures of him and Sora. She took a deep breath and smiled at the sent of apple pie.

"Wow, Roxas. This is amazing. Your house is so warm and inviting." She whispered, looking through an open door that led to the kitchen. He smiled and brought her into the kitchen, getting slightly hungry with the smell of apple pie lingering all around them. A woman had her back turned to the two teens that had just walked in, humming a tune and placing a freshly baked pie on a cooling rack. She turned around and smiled at the two.

"Well hello there Roxas. Who is this?" She asked, walking over to them. The women stood a little bit taller then Roxas and shared his blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Mom, this is Naminé. Naminé this is my mother, Claire." He introduced. Naminé shyly smiled at the women and shook her hand.

"It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Hikaru."

"It's very nice to meet you too, but please, call me Claire." She said, walking over to the pots and pans that were scattered about. "Roxas has told me so much about you. I wish we could've met sooner."

"Yeah…" Roxas mumbled, taking Naminé's hand. "Well, we're off to see the rest of the house." And with that, the two walked back into the room with all the paintings and expensive things.

"Your mother seems very nice." Naminé said, following him into the living room.

"She is. She also can get pretty goofy and when that happens, it's kind of embarrassing." He explained, walking into another new room which was probably the study considering it looked like a library with a computer in the corner of the room.

"So I take it that's where Sora gets his goofiness?

"Yeah, pretty much." He replied, walking back into the main room and up the stairs. Naminé looked at the pictures that were hanging on the wall of Sora and Roxas. They were little kids in the picture, which made them look even cuter.

"How come you don't have any maids or butlers?" She asked, sounding a bit childish. Roxas sighed and looked at her.

"That's the kind of question I was expecting you to ask eventually. We do have a maid, but she only comes on Sunday. No butlers though. Again, it's not like we're famous." He said continuing down the hall.

"Oh" She whispered, following him like a lost puppy. Roxas pointed to two doors at the end of the hall.

"That's my parent's room." He turned to two doors that were in front of them. "And this," He paused and opened the door. "This is Sora's and my room."

"Holy. Moly." She gasped, looking around the room. It was huge, but she expected it to be because it was also Sora's room too. The walls were a dark navy blue with an equally dark carpet that Naminé couldn't exactly tell what the color was. Two queen sized beds rested in the corners of the room with two nightstands next to them. A desk occupied another corner of the room with a small black laptop sitting on it, next to a regular dell Inspiron.

Naminé also noticed a 50-inch Panasonic plasma flat screen TV that hung on the wall. A tan leather couch was below it where Sora was sitting with another small black laptop on the table that was in front of the couch.

"Naminé…? Naminé say something." Roxas said, waving a hand in front of her face. She snapped out of her shock and looked at him. Sora turned around and smirked at her reaction to the room. Kairi's was the same.

"Wow."

"Hey guys!" He greeted, waving casually and turning back to his laptop. Naminé gave a small wave and walked over to a wall with pictures of the two hanging up. One particularly cute one caught her eye. Sora and Roxas were probably nine when it was taken.

The two were wearing black t-shirts and black baggy jeans with matching flame designs on the bottoms. Roxas had blue flames while Sora had the original red and orange. They were both sitting so that one leg was pulled up to their bodies with the flame facing the camera and the other leg was under that one. And the finishing touch-they were both giving piece signs to the camera. Under the picture was the title "Destiny Islands Cutest Twins". Naminé examined the photo a little longer before turning to Roxas.

"You won the title Cutest Twins?" She asked, giggling. "That picture is pretty cute." Sora started laughing.

"Everyone says that! It must be true!" He said, wiping an invisible tear from his eye. Roxas shook his head and sat down in front of the computer. Naminé walked over and sat down next to Sora on the couch. She noticed his laptop had the name of the school on it.

"Sora, did you get that computer from school or something?" She asked, pointing to the laptop.

"Yeah. It's required that all students take multimedia all throughout high school. I don't know why though. They also require you to take gym all throughout high school too." He said, going back to his game of solitaire. Roxas walked over and plopped himself next to Naminé on the couch.

"You'll probably get your laptop on the first day." Roxas replied, kicking his shoes off and putting them up on the coffee table.

"Oh, okay." She said, thinking about the first day of school and what awaited her. She was already nervous and school didn't start for another two weeks. She noticed Roxas was smirking at Sora and wondered why, but she got her answer when Sora shut off his laptop and stood up.

"Hey Sora mom made an apple pie." He said, causing a huge smile to spread across Sora's face.

"Really? I love apple pie!" And with that, the brunette had run off, downstairs. Naminé wondered if Roxas had intentionally got rid of Sora or if he was just joking around, but she could have sworn she heard Roxas curse under his breath when a man walked in right after Sora had left.

"Roxas, tomorrow you and Sora start modeling back to school clothes for those non-private losers." The brunette man said, causing the blonde the groan.

"Dad!" He whisper-hissed when he remembered Naminé was there. "This is Naminé. Naminé this is my dad, William."

"You can call me Will. It's a pleasure to meet you Naminé. Roxas has told me much about you."

"Oh he has, has he?" She asked, looking at him from the corner of her eye. Roxas blushed, rubbing the back of his neck slowly.

"Well anyway, I just thought I should tell you that tomorrow you've got to model. It was nice meeting you Naminé. Take care."

"It was nice meeting you too!" She said, as he walked out the door. "Well, I suppose I should go too. Dinner will probably be ready soon."

Roxas nodded and stood up, pulling her up with him. Naminé blushed when she realized that they were still holding hands. Roxas quickly let go and laughed a little.

"Uh…I'll call you tomorrow then."

"Promise?" She asked, causing him to blush a little.

"Promise." He said, watching her walk out of his room. He figured he should have walked her to the door, but he decided not to, feeling like it would make it a bit uncomfortable between them. He walked over to his bed and fell onto it backwards looking up at his ceiling. Just then Naminé stuck her head back into the room, causing Roxas to sit up and give her a questioning look.

"Oh and Roxas," He straightened up a little, still staring at her, waiting for what else she had to say. "Thanks for showing me your house."

"Your welcome." He replied, falling back onto his bed. Naminé smiled, walking back down the hallway, thinking how cute he looked just then.

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The next day, Naminé had her cell with her everywhere she went, waiting for Roxas to call. She knew she had been acting slightly different lately, but she didn't care. She would just have to keep waiting and waiting and-

"Ring."

Naminé gasped and grabbed her phone, flipping it open without even glancing at the caller ID.

"Hello?"

"Hey Nami!"

"Oh, hello Olette." Naminé sighed, switching her phone to the other hand and walked into her room. She sat on her bed and sighed again, catching Olette's attention.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, really. I'm just tired." She lied, picking up a picture of her and everyone on the beach, making a big sandcastle. She giggled in her head remembering that Riku had pushed Sora backwards and he landed on top of the sandcastle completely demolishing it.

"It doesn't sound like nothing, but I won't pry."

Naminé was really thankful that she had met Olette and everyone else. She noticed that they all really cared for each other and always wanted to try and help. It was one thing that Naminé's old friends never did.

"Anyway, Kairi, Selphie, and I are planning a sleepover on Friday and we wanted to know if you would like to join?"

"Sure! Whose house is it going to be at?" She asked, grabbing a small hand mirror off her bedside table and looked at herself.

"We don't know yet."

"What if we had it here?" She asked her reflection and then placed the mirror back on the table.

"That would work! Go ask!"

"Okay, Okay, hold on."

Naminé returned after about a minute and a half of convincing her mother and jumped onto her bed. She grabbed her cell and brought it to her ear, smiling happily.

"Olette? She said we could have it here!"

"Great, I'll pass the word onto the other two. Talk to you later!"

"Bye." She closed her phone, looking around her room with the smile still in place. Day after tomorrow, she will be hosting her first sleepover…ever.

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That night, there was a knock at Naminé's bedroom door. She placed her sketchbook on the table and sunk into her bed more, sighing. She was a little gloomy because she never got her call from Roxas. He had even promised her that he'd call.

"Come in." She said, looking at her white duvet cover. The only way that she'd cheer up is if she got a call from Roxas, even if it was already was 10:00pm.

"Naminé?"

Naminé gasped, glancing up; a big smiled spreading across her face along with another one of her famous blushes.

"Roxas!" She exclaimed, practically jumping out of bed. His eyes widened a bit at her sudden excitement and then he started to blush a little too. She realized that she was only in a tank top and shorts and she felt her face heating up even more.

"Uh, w-what are you doing here?" She asked, grabbing a blanket off her bed and wrapped it around herself. He rubbed the back of his neck, looking out the window.

"W-well, I was wondering if you wanted to go to the park, but if you're about to go to bed…" He trailed off, quickly looking at her to see was her expression was. She giggled, nodding a little.

"I was going to go to bed, but I'd love to go to the park first." She replied, walking over to her closet. "Give me a second, okay?"

"Okay." He said and walked out of her room, still blushing. He was screaming at himself in his head about how he should've asked her a lot earlier. Naminé opened her door a couple minutes later, wearing long light blue pants with a white t-shirt.

"Ready." She said, walking down the stairs, Roxas following close behind. Her mother was sitting on the couch reading magazine when Naminé and Roxas walked by. "Roxas and I are going to the park for a little while. I'll be home before 11:30." She said. Her mother looked at the two and nodded.

"Alright, have fun." She chuckled, going back to her magazine. The blondes blushed again, walking out the front door. Naminé mentally shot her mother for embarrassing her like that. It seems that all parents like to torture their children.

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Roxas and Naminé had been walking around the park for about a half-hour before they decided to sit down on one of the park benches under a tree. It was a beautifully clear night with just a soft wind that blew past them, signaling that autumn was coming. Naminé looked up at the sky, thinking of a question that's been bugging her for a while.

"Roxas, can I ask you something?"

"Uh, sure. What is it?"

"I'm just a little confused. Why would you want to go to a public school if you were so famous? Or even hang out with the people around you?" She asked, feeling her cheeks flare up. Suddenly, the ground was a lot more interesting then the silent seconds that were being exchanged between them. Roxas looked at her strangely and shook his head.

"North Destiny High isn't a public school." He said, putting his hands in his jacket pockets. "And I go there because I like to see my friends. People always think just because Sora and I model means that we have to be treated like kings. Well, the only real reason that we're somewhat famous is because we are the only twins on Destiny Islands that model, but I'm sure there are others."

"Oh…I'm sorry I asked." She whispered feeling embarrassed that she asked such a stupid question. When she felt weight on her small shoulder she looked up and saw Roxas's hand on it.

"No, I should be sorry." He sighed, looking away from her. "I didn't mean to take my frustrations out on you. To answer you're other question; again I prefer to hang out with normal people. To tell you the truth, I don't even like modeling! Sora's getting sick of it too."

"Then why do you continue to do it if you don't like it?"

"Because I get paid for what I do." He replied, sadly standing up. She stood up next to him and crossed her arms, giving him an angry look. "What?"

"So money is more important to you then your own happiness?"

"No, but…I just can't explain it to you." He walked over to the fountain that took up a good part of the bench area. Naminé followed him, feeling a little sorry she said that. Sighing, she sat down on the edge of the fountain and started playing around with the water.

"You still never told me." She said randomly, splashing the water around. He gave her a funny look and sat down next to her.

"Told you what?"

"You still never told me about how the modeling went today. I mean, I'm just curious and all."

"Oh, it was okay." He answered, looking into her cerulean eyes. He loved her eyes and not because it was almost the same color as his, but because they always looked so bright and lively and even…a little alluring. Slowly, he leaned closer to her and noticed she had closed her eyes knowing what was coming. They were so close, he could feel her breath just lightly tickling his lips.

"Bzzzt bzzzt."

Naminé opened her eyes in surprise and quickly pulled away, grabbing her cell phone out of her pocket. Roxas fell forward, landing in the fountain. "That was such a Sora move." He thought coughing a little. Naminé flipped open her cell phone and extended her hand to help him out.

"Hello? Oh, no it's okay. Goodbye." She hung up and blushed, giggling mostly at the shivering cold Roxas and the fact that it was a-

"Wrong number?" He asked, wringing out his wet shirt.

"Yeah. I think we should head home, so you don't catch a cold." She said noticing the Goosebumps all over his arms.

"Y-yeah. O-okay." His teeth chattered, noisily as they started walking home. He couldn't believe how close he was to kissing her! But then that stupid phone rang messing everything up and I fell into a fountain. Only Sora could be that clumsy. He thought. Roxas didn't even want to know what Naminé was thinking about.

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Friday night came a lot quicker then Naminé expected. The past day or so she had only one thought that wouldn't leave her alone; that 'almost' kiss with Roxas. She hadn't told anyone about it, not even Olette.

The doorbell rang causing Naminé to jump up from the dining room table and run over to it, throwing it open. She was face to face with her three friends who had sleeping bags and backpacks.

"Hi everyone! C'mon in!" She waved, stepping aside to let the girls pass. Once Selphie was in she immediately dropped her stuff down on the ground and hugged the blonde tightly.

"Hey Nami!" She squealed, squishing her again. "Thanks for inviting us over!"

"I-It's no p-problem Selphie, just please, let go!" She begged trying so desperately to get out of the death hug her friend had her in. Finally Selphie let go and scooped all her stuff back up, following Naminé into the basement.

"So what have you been up to?" Kairi asked, dropping her own stuff next to the couch. Naminé shrugged, pushing the small table out of the way and then moved onto the couch.

"Not much really. I went to the park with Roxas the other night."

"With Roxas? What did you two do?" Selphie asked, causing Naminé to flush a dark shade of red. She grabbed a smoothie off the try her mother had brought down earlier and began to drink it. The other three grabbed their own smoothies off the tray and waited for Naminé to spill.

"It's okay Naminé, you can tell us." Olette assured, taking a long sip of her drink. Naminé plopped down on her sleeping bag and motioned for the others to do the same. They all sat down around her, with open ears, waiting to find out what went on between her and Roxas.

"Okay, so we talked for a while and then kind of got into a small argument…I guess you could call it." They all nodded, urging her to go on and not to skip any details.

"Well, he walked over to the fountain in the middle of the park and I followed him, feeling kind of bad and we sat down on the edge and talked a little. Then he leaned closer to me and we almost kissed." She exclaimed, the others giggling and squealing.

"Wait, you almost?" Naminé nodded. "Then what happened?" Olette asked, leaning forward, a little.

"My cell started vibrating so I pulled away to answer it. Turns out it was the wrong number. Roxas ended up falling into the fountain too." She giggled, blushing at the thought of Roxas and their 'almost kiss'.

"You didn't get your kiss then?" Kairi asked, sadness filling her voice. "Oh, that's terrible!" Olette and Selphie nodded in agreement. Naminé thought about it for a minute. She found it pretty weird that her cell would go off at that exact time. Maybe it was a sign…

"So does this mean that you two are like a couple now?" Selphie asked, placing her empty glass on the table.

"No, I don't think so. I mean, I don't think he likes me like that."

"Naminé, he tried to kiss you. How can you say he doesn't like you? You rarely see Roxas in any kind of relationship other then just friends. In fact, you would be his first girlfriend." Kairi said, placing her cup next to Selphie's. "He's dangling bait in front of your face. Go for it!"

"I guess your right." She smiled, thinking of being with the blonde. Him holding her tight and not wanting to let go. Watching the sunset together. Going out to eat and watching movies, cuddling under a blanket, in a dark living room. None of that sounded like something Roxas would do.

"You two would make such a cute couple. I think you should ask him out, but do it when you're ready." Olette said, placing a hand on her thin shoulder. Naminé nodded really thinking it over.

If what they're saying is true: Roxas really does like me, then I should go for it, right? But what if I do and he rejects me because he just wants to be friends? But then why did he try to kiss me? Unless…unless I was imagining it and it never even happened! Get a grip Naminé! Now you're going insane!

Gah, when did life become so complicated?


Oh boy, I hope that was okay. I mean, I finished this at 12:50am after a week of demanding school. Plus I changed a good chunk of this chapter when I was typing it, so it probably has a ton of mistakes in it. I apologize for that too. High school has taken a lot out of me but whatever.

I hope I didn't lose any of my fellow reviewers!

-Gets sporked-

Blame it on school and homework and icky Spanish class! I'm off to my wonderful bed now.

-Akina193