After what seems like hours to get home, I finally make it to our new driveway, beginning to make my way up to the garage door. Once there, I quickly go up to the small garage key-pad, where I type in the code, which happens to be my mom's birthday, on the pad to unlock the garage. The door come lifting upward as I hit the last button of the code, causing me to quickly duck under to get inside safely. Heading up to the door leading to the house, I noticed mom's car isn't here yet, meaning I had the house ALL to myself. The house is quiet and cold when I walk in, you could almost probably see my breath as I lugged my stuff over the kitchen counter. I then spy a small yellow sticky note taped to our bare fridge, it reading, "Won't be home until late. Love you, Mom."
I sigh, of course she's working late, old habits die hard-but then again, habits are hard to break. Like thirty days or something in that time relam. I walk to the living room and look at the wrapped up couch; the movers must have not gotten to unboxing and unwrapping everything. Besides the couch, there's still no tv or table, or anything entertaining there. Damn those movers were slow.
I then decide to head upstairs, thinking of getting my tight school clothes off and into something more comfty. I quickly change into an oversized navy hoodie, and an old pair of jean shorts I found in my suitcase. I threw my hair up into a half up half down ponytail, and wrapped that into a bun, then I began to check myself out-because what girl doesn't at least one time a day, look at themselves in the mirror? After looking at myself for what seems like thirty minutes, i slowly make my way back down stairs, taking a seat against the hard plastic covering the couch.
I'm scrolling through my instagram feed when I get a text from an unknown number.
Hey!
Um, who is this? I type and press send.
Oh sorry! It's Aqua!
I smile to myself, Hey girl, what's going on? And how'd you get my #?
Stalked you on instagram and found your # :D I was wondering if you wanted to meet up?
Yeah sure, I have nothing better to do, where do you want to meet?
How about the school parking lot? she replies a few minutes later.
I hopped off the couch, grabbing my jacket as I headed to the door, Kk see you there!
I opened the garage door once again, and headed out into the cold air; the sun was still hidden behind the clouds and the wind seemed to had picked up a little since this morning. I started walking down the street towards the school, which is only a couple blocks away-my brain yelling at me from the smart decision to wear shorts in this pleasantly cold weather-when I spot Olette running down the opposite side of the road. She spies me, and waves franticly as she runs across the street to meet me.
"Hiya Kairi!" She says not even out of breath from running over to me.
I give her a small smile, "Yeah, hey."
I would be freezing if I were in Olette's clothes; she only wore a small athletic tank top and some running shorts, with some nike tennis shoes.
"Where you going on this beautiful day?" I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or not.
"I'm meeting Aqua at the school. We're just going to hang out."
She clasps her hands together, "Oh cool! Well I'll see ya later!" With that she takes off running down the street, actually going a pretty fast pace. She must run track or something.
I continue down the street, and finally make it to the school, where Aqua is sitting on the concrete steps. I slowly approach her, as she scrolls through something on her phone. She has changed clothes too, now wearing a white tank top with a maroon colored leather jacket, and a pair of leggings and boots. She looks weather appropriate, unlike Olette and I.
"Hey, you made it." She says, pushing herself off the stairs while coming towards me, "I gotta make a quick run to my uncle's place, if you don't mind."
"Sure, I've got nothing better to do." I shortly say, as we start to head down the sidewalk into the small town.
Even though it's cloudy and cold, that doesn't seem to stop the townsfolk from coming out of their houses; people walk up and down the streets, mingling and shopping in the little boutiques as if it was sunny and warm. Aqua walks a little fast because of her long legs, but she doesn't seem to notice me running along, until she starts speaking.
"My uncle owns a gun store at the corner of maple and oak-it's just up ahead." She explains, while still taking long strides down the street.
Soon enough we reach a store called 'Kennedy's' with displays of guns and other type of weapons in the window, things like various knifes, axes, bows, tomahawks, and huge shotguns. Aqua opens the door and I hear a little ching above, as we step through into the even colder room. Up ahead is a man with long black and gray hair tied into a low ponytail-he was also wearing an eyepatch that seemed to cover a long scar across his face. He looks up and gives us a chilling smiles, which I find just downright creepy, but Aqua doesn't seem to notice.
"Ah, if it isn't my favorite niece, and who is your lovely friend?" the man asks coming around the corner of the checkout, as he approaches Aqua and I.
Aqua gestures to me, "Uncle Braig, this is my new friend Kairi. She just moved into town."
He takes my hand, which was currently at my side, and gives it a strong shake, "Pleasure to meet you Kairi. Any friend of Aqua's is a friend of mine."
"Thank you." I say, as he releases my hand from his grasp.
"So," he turns to his niece, " whatcha need?"
"Uh, Dad wants some new bullets for his handgun. He wants them to be silver bullets."
Silver bullets? Like what they use to hunt werewolves in movies and tv shows. This place just keeps getting weirder, and weirder.
"We got some in the back. Why don't you head back there and get em." he says pointing to the back door with a sign that says 'storage'.
Aqua nods and head for the door, while I try to follow, but i'm soon stopped by Baig. He steps right in front of me, almost causing me to collide into him as he towers me by a couple of heads.
"So," he starts, only a couple of feet away from me, " where'd you come from?"
I swallow, " Radiant Garden."
"Wow, far away from home are we." he smirks as he wipes a gun off with a cloth. He then points it at me, which makes me freeze. He laughs at my reaction and sets the gun down against the counter he was just behind, "Say Kairi, seen anything strange lately?"
Well yeah I have; that creepy stalker guy who keeps following me around for starters, then we have my brother hanging out with a group of hot guys which is totally unlike him, and he also has now befriended a girl who makes bracelets out of things she finds in the woods, there is an exact replica of my brother, only he doesn't even know my brother, and now finally, I'm in some crazy gun store with my new friend, who is buying silver bullets for her dad.
"No, not really." I lie, crossing my fingers behind my back, hoping Braig wouldn't somehow sense my lie.
He laughs, "Okay, just making sure. Didn't want you to get the wrong impression of our beautiful island."
"Yeah." I try to laugh along, but I think it sounds more like a robot laughing.
Aqua comes back out of the storage room with a brown box; she hands Braig some cash, which he declines saying, "Just think of it as a favor."
Aqua and I wave goodbye as we exit the store, Aqua tucking the box under her arm.
"So now where to?" I ask as we begin to walk up the street-and by walking I mean Aqua walks, and I run.
She tucks a piece of blue hair behind her ear, " Well I thought we could take a walk on the beach, let you experience your first walk on the beach here."
I smile, thinking of how nice the beaches were back at Radiant Garden and imagining myself walking on the sand here, "Um, sure, sounds great."
Oh how I was wrong.
The beach is a beach alright, but nothing like the ones back at home. The sand is a grey color, with small black pebbles aligning the shore, as the blackish-blue water comes rushing in at a quick speed. When we first get there, Aqua quickly takes off her jacket and shoes, setting them down on the sidewalk, and runs down to the ocean. I slowly follow, kicking off my shoes, and walking over to where she stands. When I first reach the water, I immediately cringe as the water runs over my toes-it's cold, freezing cold, but Aqua doesn't seem to mind since the water is practically rising up onto her leggings. We start walking down the beach shore, as Aqua turns to me, giving me a suggestive smile as the wind blows her hair around from behind.
"Must be really different from Radiant Garden, huh?"
I nod and slightly laugh, "Yeah, more than you know."
She laughs, " I don't know if I could handle a change that big, ya know. I've lived here for all my life, and couldn't imagine living anywhere else, or leaving all the people so close to me."
"Yeah," I agree, kicking some water up in the air as I remember the night we found out we were moving, "it was kinda hard to say goodbye, but I knew i'd make new friends, so it ends up okay."
"I guess you have a point there, but I still think it would be pretty hard." She nudges me in the shoulder, almost knocking me down, "Oops sorry about that."
"I have to ask, where'd you get so strong?"
"Oh," Aqua blushes, "I have a somewhat personal gym at my house, Terra usually comes over and we just work out. I know a lot of martial arts, so I like teaching him."
I punch her in the arm, which probably hurt me more than it hurt her, "That's cool! I wish I could be that strong, but you know there are some perks to being five two."
"And what are those?" she laughs as I dash out in front of her, spinning round to see the reaction on her face.
"One, i have more room in airplanes and busses because my legs are short. Two, people feel the urge to protect me, which makes asking for physical tasks easier. And three, people underestimate me, which gives me an advantage."
She gives me a big cheeky smile, "You right on about that airplane thing."
"Aren't I though?" I shrug my shoulders as she walks up beside me, and we continue walking down the beach.
We notice a crowd of men playing what looks like volleyball- like, how even can they be playing volleyball shirtless in this weather- and Aqua quickly turns on her heels, taking my hand and dragging me along as if there was a "stop dangers ahead" sign that I didn't see.
"What's wrong?" I ask as she pulls me down the beach, away from the men as their voices start to become dim.
She sighs, "It's just…. it's getting late and I need to get you home."
She releases my hand when we get back to where our shoes were, her quickly grabbing her things as I picked up mine, "Was it those men?"
Aqua looks back towards me, "Yeah, it was, but don't worry about it, it was just a bad feeling I was having. Seriously don't worry about it."
"If you say so." I mutter underneath my breath, but she doesn't seem to notice, since she's already started walking back towards the way we came.
After that incident, Aqua walks me home almost like a child or protective boyfriend, leading the way and casually glancing back over her shoulder to make sure i'm following-thank god that the beach wasn't actually that far from my house. Were about to get to the road that leads to my house, when this huge group of guys, the ones we saw earlier, walks out of the woods towards us. I feel Aqua tense up, and my blood runs cold-if Aqua was scared, then this couldn't be good.
"Look what we have here. Two young ladies walking the streets." A man with long black dreadlocks spoke to us, his voice having an eerie chill that made my neck hairs stand up. The older looking man had big bushy eyebrows that seriously need plucking and, and sideburns that probably need shaved as well, that matched his dangling dreadlocks.
"Xaldin, leave them alone." A man with long, frayed blue hair framing his face-though slicked back in wild spikes at the top-growled at the man beside him. He had an X-shaped scar between his yellow eyes, that extended about halfway up his forehead in one direction, and to just under his eyes in the other.
Xaldin laughs, "Oh come on Isa, I was just having fun."
"I highly doubt that." Aqua mutters just loud enough for me to hear, or so I thought.
"What was that?" A younger looking guy barked, he looked to be about nineteen or twenty with dirty blond hair, and had an odd mullet-like style, along with several individual bangs that fall over his face. He looked way much more younger than all the rest of the guys.
Aqua gives a playful smile, "Oh nothing."
"That's what I thought." the younger man said, crossing his arms in success while Aqua just rolled her eyes.
"Guys," A familiar voice speaks up, "let's just go."
As the crowd walks past us, I see the owner of the voice, it's Riku. He sees me, and gives me a smirky smile as he pats one of the guys on his bare back, signaling them to get going. I mouth 'thank you' and give him a flirtatious smile, as the group of guys headed off back towards the forest. Aqua starts walking, and I slowly begin to follow her-we soon reaching my house in a matter of minutes.
"Did you know those guys?" I ask suddenly, causing Aqua to quickly turn towards me as we approached the house.
"Um," she hesitates, "yeah, I do actually."
"Who are they?" After asking the question, I felt as if Aqua and I had begun the game of twenty questions.
"They're friends of Terra's, but he doesn't exactly like to call them his friends. He's known them like forever though, him, Sora, Riku, and Ven."
"Why doesn't he like to call them his 'friends'" I ask, putting air quotations around friends.
She shrugs, "Not really sure, he hasn't given me a definite answer...yet. Something about them being party animals, just a bunch of rambunctious college kids, I guess."
That really didn't answer my questions, but I don't try and pry, "Well, what's your problem with them? Obviously they don't have one with you, but from what I got, you looked kinda scared of them."
"I don't know, I just get this bad feeling when they're around-and Terra would kick my ass if he found out I was around them. So that's your cue to keep your mouth shut. " she places her hands on her hips, and looks up at the sky, as if she had another thought come to her mind.
I laugh, "I get it, I'm not that stupid."
She laughs along with me, and once her laughter dies down she waves me goodbye, "See ya tomorrow Kairi!"
I wave goodbye, and head back inside the house, thinking of how that adventurous walk had made me hungry-like almost starving, actually. After pacing the kitchen deciding weather I should eat some icky leftovers from last night-which consisted of, what i think was meatloaf-or having something unhealthy and delicious. Yeah, I came up with the idea to make myself some yummy nachos.
I then spent the rest of my alone time watching reruns of the Bachelor and Gossip Girl, with my nachos of course, as the time began to grow later. By the time it was seven o'clock , I heard Mom pulling into the garage and opening the doors of the house. Her heels click and clack until she walks into the living room, where I am comfortable lying on the wrapped up couch, trying not to notice as she comes smiling in.
"Kairi," she calls holding up a bag, "I got us takeout. Where's your brother?"
"Um, he's at a friend's house." I say getting up from the couch, and walking over to meet her. Hey, even though i had just ate, didn't mean I couldn't eat more.
She looks surprised, "Really? That's great for your brother! You know I was a little worried about him making friends, but now I'm not!"
Yeah, of course she only cares about Roxie, don't even worry over me making friends or getting invited to parties or getting a boyfriend or-
"How was your first day honey?" she asks interrupting my train of thought.
I shrug, "It was fine, I guess."
She smiles, "That's great! Now come over here and let's eat, and I'll tell you about my day."
Oh goodie! I get to hear the exciting details of the life of dentist. I wonder who bit her today, probably some deranged toddler who's freaking scared to death of the dentist, or maybe an elderly man almost choked on his own spit.
"I met someone today!" She squealed like a schoolgirl, hurting my eardrum, as we sat down on the still wrapped bar stools.
"You mean you met someone, like romantically?"
"Yes, I mean romantically. He was my first patient, and I could tell he was something when I first laid eyes on him. He was tall, very handsome, with this long silver hair and these orange colored eyes! And his teeth were PERFECT!"
"What's his name?"
She grabbed my hands, "His name was Xemnas! Isn't that a unique name! I've never heard anyone called that before, and you know I know a lot of people."
I burst out laughing, "You know you can spell Man Sex with his name if you rearrange the letters."
"Kairi! That's not funny. I think it's a wonderful name, so wonderful that I invited him to go to dinner with me tomorrow."
I pause, about to take a bite of my french fry, "Wait! What about me and Roxas? I can't cook to save my life-"
"Then, your brother can cook you something, or I can bring you leftovers, again. Your choice."
"Depends on what restaurant you go to."
She laughs, "It's someplace called 'The Secret Place'."
"Sounds secret." I say with my mouth full of french fries, laughing at my own self for my little pun.
Mom gasped, "Kairi chew with your mouth closed!"
"Sorry."
After dinner, I head upstairs to take a shower before Roxie gets back and hogs the bathroom, probably using up all the hot water-if there is any-before I can even brush my teeth. I open the bathroom door, stepping into the cold tile room as I pull the shower curtain back against the rod, reaching for the nozzle of the small bathing area, when I accidently shock myself. But here's the kicker, I'm not standing on anything that could give me an electrical current of any kind. My feet are bare of any slick socks, and there isn't even a bath rug in front of the shower. I shake my hand out and reach again, this time making it to the nozzle and turning it to the right quickly-fearing another shock. The cold water runs down my hand, and I jerk it back out of the way, wiping my now damp hand against my sweatshirt. I open up the cabinets below the sink, and start pulling out some white fluffy towels that resemble clouds, and some shampoo and conditioner mom happened to pack with the moving supplies; It's smells like vanilla and strawberries-my favorite, of course. I undress and climb into the shower, letting the warm water run down my back and hair, until I am finally warmed up.
After washing my hair, I begin to shave my legs when I hear a noise, a noise that didn't come from me. I peek open the shower curtain and look around the bathroom, nothing, I see nothing-but I can still hear the noise, it sounding like several voices chanting against the walls of the bathroom. I turn the water off and grab a towel, wrapping it around my body, then heading to my bedroom, hoping to escape the weird callings from the bathroom. The chanting is growing louder and louder, as I begin to search the room, looking for what it could be. I suddenly look down onto my pillow, noticing a slight glow coming from the area. There it was. I had thrown it onto the bed after I had gotten home, probably disposing of it later, but there it was-the red necklace I had found earlier.
I slowly lower myself to the floor, and lean my head over the necklace; I hear the chanting loud and clear, it's something in a different language though, so I don't understand exactly what it's saying. I pick the necklace-feeling the rough edges burn my skin as I stand up-quickly opening my window as I chuck it out through the air. It lands in the field out by the woods, but still too close for comfort. Tomorrow I'll take it to the ocean and throw it in, so it will never be able to find it's way back to me. I finish doing my nightly routine and lay down on the air mattress, expecting Roxas to come waltzing in and tell me about his day with Sora-but he doesn't, not at nine o'clock, or ten, or eleven, or twelve. I lay awake wondering where the hell he could be; I checked my phone for messages or calls, or even snapchats, but didn't get anything from him. I was going to stay up, hoping to get the opportunity to question him about Sora and maybe if he said anything about me, but sleep slowly took it's toll, and the next thing I knew it was morning. I slowly sat up and rubbed my eyes, anticipating Roxas to be beside me, but he still wasn't there. I get up and head downstairs, where I hear Mom hustling to get ready to head to work. I stop at the final step of the stairs, as I cup my hands around my mouth.
"YO MA!" I shout causing her to drop countless papers onto the floor, her heels making a clicking sound as she jumps from being startled. Looks like we're back to me being a pain in the ass, and she constantly yelling at me.
"Kairi for god's sake, what do you need!" She shouts back, trying to pick up all the papers spilled onto the floor.
I shrug, and answer in a much calmer voice, "Where's Roxas?"
She sighs, giving up on the last piece of paper, "He stayed at his friend's house, or that's what he told me."
Roxas having a sleepover at Sora's? That seems a little childish, but I guess it must be cool since it is Sora. I yell back a 'thanks' and head back upstairs to my room to get ready for school. I go through my suitcase once again and pull out my red, black, and blue flannel and matching black lacy bralette. I pick out my favorite pair of leggings, and my small wedged boots as I head to the bathroom to change. Once I have my clothes on, I easily apply some makeup and some false eyelashes, then I throw my hair into a half up half down ponytail. I blow myself a cute little kiss in the mirror and head out back into my bedroom, preparing to leave, when I about have a mini heart attack. Sitting on my bed is that creepy necklace! I sprint over to my bed, snatching the worthless thing up-making it glow a bright red color-and shoving it into my backpack. After school I will follow out with my plan to throw it into the ocean, and say adios for the stupid thing for good.
I grab my backpack and throw it over my back, heading out the door of my room and then down the stairs, getting ready to soon make my departure. Looks like Mom left without saying goodbye, which I don't necessarily blame her, I'm kinda an asshole.
I hurry out the front door, and start walking down the street towards school, feeling kinda lonely without having someone to walk with. Just kidding, I like having some time to myself-it gives me time to think over things, and besides, I like myself more than anyone else.
I finally reach the school, without having to run to catch up with anyone that would happen to be with me, az I head up the concrete stairs to the door. As soon as I walk into the small building my ears are blasted with screaming, two people to be exact, screaming at each other. Me, being my gossip loving self, quickly hurries to the corner of where the screaming is coming from. I peer over the corner to see Sora, surprisingly, and the small black haired girl who I saw sitting with him yesterday. That must be Xion, his girlfriend, but right now, the two could look like they were a divorced couple-and it looked to be a nasty one at that.
"Sora, you're a goddamn idiot!" She yells, and paces back and forth between walls of the hallway.
Sora clenches his fists, "Xion, I didn't have a choice. Xemnas said it had to be him."
Xemnas? Wasn't that the guy Mom was talking about last night. What did he mean by 'It had to be him'? Who?
Sora steps forward, stopping her from pacing as he places his hands against her arms, "Xion, I can't do this anymore. I don't want to be causing you this much stress anymore, you're better off without me."
Is he saying what I think he's saying?
"What?" she asked, clearly shocked, "You can't do this to me! You're supposed to be there for me, and yet here you are making up your own rules! You can't do this Sora-"
"Well I am!" Sora shouts over her, making me almost jump, "Xion I'm tired of these rules! You clearly don't need me to protect you."
Rules? What is there some handbook called 'The Rules of Dating"?
She choked back tears, "So that's it. We're done?"
He pulled her into a hug, "I'm sorry."
She actually lets him wrap his arms around her, unlike me who would be bitch slappin that boy, even though he is as hot as hell. He release her and she wipes away a few stray tears before turning the opposite way and heading away from the lonely boy.
He watches her walk down the opposite end of the hallway, and I take that as my cue to leave.
I rush up the sophomore staircase and over to my locker-it actually being much easier to get open than yesterday-as I start pulling out my materials needed for first period. After shutting my locker, I glance down the hallway and see Roxie at his locker. I dash down the hallway, dodging students and run straight into him, which really hurts both of us. Roxas drops his stuff and bends over, gripping onto his right forearm.
"Roxas? Are you okay?" I ask, but I suddenly feel hands gripping onto my shoulder, as they spin me around. It's Sora, and he looks almost as frightened as I was.
He places himself in between Roxas and I, "Yeah he's fine, just had a rough time last night hanging with the group."
"A rough time? What do you mean?"
Roxas slowly lifts himself up and looks over towards me, "Just messing around Kai, nothing you should be concerned about."
Sora slaps Roxas on the back, and I see him wince in pain, but I don't say anything. I believe my brother most of the time, but this time is different. I know he's hiding something, and I'm going to find out whatever it is-whether he wants me to or not.
"Well, I better get going." I say turning on my heels and heading for my math classroom, not even bothering to say goodbye to either of the boys. I feel their eyes staring holes into the back of my head, and when I look over my shoulder, they both look away.
I finally make it to the hall where my math class is, passing by several art and design classes as I make my way down to the end of the school. Walking by several open doors, my eyes land on Ventus and Naminé, who sit together inside one of the art classrooms. Ventus points me out to the blonde beside him, causing the girl to turn towards me with a smile
"Hey, how's it going?" I say, as I approach them inside the classroom.
Naminé still has her interesting bracelets on today, but with them, she's wearing a red knitted sweater, a blue and green plaid skirt with a blue jacket wrapped around her waist, some thigh high blue socks and a pair of high light brown combat boots. Ventus is just simply wearing a light gray color v-neck t-shirt, with some cargo joggers in a khaki kind of color.
"We were just talking about you." Naminé laughs, as Ventus joins her, while I probably looked like a confused fool.
"Nothing bad, I hope." I laugh alongside them, trying not to seem awkward in the conversation.
Ventus shakes his head, "No, just talking about how much Roxas and I look alike."
"So, you met your twin?"
He nods, "Yeah, last night when Sora brought him over for the bonfire. We have a lot of catching up to do, like for real, when do you find out that you have some sort of doppelganger?"
Naminé nudges him softly, "I'm sure you do."
"Do you guys know where room one hundred and five is?" I asked looking at my schedule that I just pulled out, sitting my stuff down on the table in front of the two blondes.
Ventus- or Ven as Aqua called him- gestured down the hallway, "All the way down to you right. You can't miss it, well you can, but it's not likely."
I give them both a smile, "Thanks! See you later."
I walk to the end of the hallway like Ventus had instructed, finding one hundred and five very easily, as I took a seat next to the window of the room; the sky looks the same as it did yesterday, gloomy and rainy. I feel a slight breeze beside me, causing me to glance over my shoulder to see who's there-it's Riku.
"Hey, I was gonna scare you. Damn." Riku snaps his finger and sits down, making me laugh as I turn my body towards him.
I smile, "Nice try Mr. Tour Guide, but it's gonna take a little more skill to scare me."
"Sure, you say that now."
I bite my lip, "Hey, can I ask you something?"
"Shoot."
I turn to him, looking him straight in his turquoise eyes as I take in a deep breath before asking, "Is there something going on with my brother?"
Riku scratched the back of his neck, his arm flexing as he did so, "Uh, I don't think so, but what do you mean by 'something'?"
"I don't know," I sigh, giving Riku my best puppy dog eyes, "I just feel like somethings going on, and I'm scared for him."
"Hey now, no reason to be scared." He says reaching for my shoulder, "He's probably just adjusting to the crowd we hang out with, nothing scary about that."
"I guess you're right-"
"Okay class," Mr. Higginbottom basically shouted, "Let's open our books to page one hundred three. Today we will be talking about solving algebraic equations."
I look over to Riku as I open my book, as he whispers softly, "Don't worry, Kai."
I try not to worry about Roxas, I usually don't give a flying F about him, but I can't help it, something doesn't feel right. This doesn't seem like something he would be doing; his group of people are the type who play pokémon in their secret tree house, not the hottie, muscular, dream boat kind of guys. The only type of game Roxas would probably play now is spin the bottle! My noise cringes as I almost slam my head onto my desk imagining my brother kissing some stranger, when he hasn't even had his first kiss yet. The rest of class passes by quickly and soon the bell rings, leading up now to Riku and I now strolling down the hall to our next class.
"You seem tense." He smirks wrapping an arm around my shoulders, like an overprotective boyfriend might do to show support.
I laugh , "How can I not be? My brother is turning into something he's completely not."
We stop outside my next class, Riku slightly leaning on the wall, "Have you ever thought, you might like this new Roxas?"
"I don't know," I sigh, and lean my head against the wall too, "I just want my normal brother right now."
"I'm sure he's still in there. Shit happens, we gotta work with it though." And with that he leaves me, walking down the side of the hallway onward to his next class.
I sigh again, and walk into my classroom, finding a lonely spot in the back since there seemed to be no one I knew very well in this class.
I'm gazing out the window for the longest time, when I come upon the creepy stalker guy, again, but this time he's closer than he's ever been before. So close I could…. No Kairi that would be stupid…. but then again…. Okay we're doing this! I gather my stuff and jump up, exiting the classroom, as I headed for the huge doors right beside my classroom that I could guess lead outside. I sit my stuff down before I push open the doors into the cold, chilly air that causes my hair to go flying back behind me. The man still stands across the field from me, and I begin walking closer and closer, and closer to him until we're just a couple feet apart.
"Who the hell are you and why do you keep following me? And what's up with the screwy necklace you dropped?" I shout into the air, startling myself because of how loud my voice is, and how hard my heart is pumping out of my chest.
The man laughs, which is eerie and even more creepy than any horror movie I've ever seen, his voice almost sounds like paper crinkling, "You know nothing, girl. I thought you could be some use to me, but you don't even know what you can do."
I feel my blood boiling, and my fist forming a tight ball, "What does that EVEN mean!"
I guess the man finds me very funny, because all he keeps doing is laughing, "Do you even know what you can do? It's quite obvious to me that you do not."
"I don't even know what you're talking about!" I scream, hoping someone would hear me; I'm starting to get mega creeped out because of this whacko, and his weird laugh.
"I guess I should just," The man starts to say, but then his voice gets low, and becomes almost like a growl, "put you out of your misery."
With that, the cloak the man was wearing started shaking and shrinking, it's fabric becoming tight and short with every second that passes by. Soon, I can begin to hear the rips of the material breaking, and the cloak seems to shrivel up into nothing but rolls of threads. But standing before me isn't the man I once thought I was talking to. It was some monstrous beast, that seemed to stand several heads above me, it's teeth as long and as sharp as knives, glistening down towards me as it's now glowing red eyes narrowed. Before me was something not human, and the only thing I seemed to recognize it as was as a wolf.
After taking in notice of his scary features, I decide my best bet would probably run for my life to the towards before I'm ripped in half, or something worst. Without taking another look, I turn on my heels and start racing towards the doors of the school. I almost reach them, when I hit a patch of grass and fall onto ground with a loud thud, as my breath is pushed out of my lungs. I see it all in slow motion, my foot getting caught, my knees crashing towards the ground as I quickly turn myself over, just to witness the large beast pounce towards me. I raise my hands to block the attack, and clench my eyes shut-but It never comes. Instead, a huge flash of lightning comes down out of nowhere, and strikes the dog right on it's back, making the dog whimper loudly in pain. It takes one longing look over to my resting body, before taking off across the field, and into the forest aligning the school.
I take a couple deep breaths; where in the hell did the lightning strike come from? It doesn't look stormy outside, so I can't say for sure what just happened. I get up, even though my ankle is killing me, and walk back towards the door, which is strangely propped open as if someone was waiting for me. I limp back inside the heavy metal doors, making sure they shut tightly behind me, as I decided to make my way to my locker-forgetting both about the class I was missing, and my stuff that I had sat next to the doors.
God my ankle hurts bad! It takes me almost double the time to get back to my locker with this crudy ankle, than if I was perfectly fine. I finally make it though, and just as the bell rings with that. I sigh deeply, and leaned my head against my locker, exhausted physically, after having to haul myself up the stairs to my locker-along with running away from whatever that thing was-and mentally, since I had no idea what I just saw. I undo my locker combination, and grab my book for biology that luckily is in reach, so I didn't have to put anymore pressure on my tight ankle. With it in hand, I begin to try to walk as normal as I can to the class-fingering out just within a couple of seconds that that isn't going to work.
"Hey, Kairi!" Aqua shouts at the clear end of the hallway, running past a bunch of people to get to me, "What's wrong?"
"Uhhhh, nothing. Why do you ask?" I try to say nonchalantly as I can, putting a light bit of weight onto my ankle to look normal.
She looks down at my foot, "Something wrong with your foot?"
I start laughing, "Oh my foot! Well ya see, I tripped coming… up the…. stairs! Yes the stairs, I tripped coming up the stairs!" Hopefully she bought that.
"Awww," she said slapping me on the back, "That SUCKS big time."
"Yeah, I know."
"Hey, but you know the good news?"
"Hmmm, what's that?"
She runs out in front of me and does a cartwheel, landing in a lunge with her hands doing the rock on gesture as students pass beside her, "Guess who got an A on her Calculus test! This bitch!"
I limp over to her, and almost push her over, "Nice job there, bud."
"Hey, I studied my ass off for that test-blew Terra off twice for it-so he's gonna be so pumped when he hears I got an A." She says getting up, and walking beside me again.
We make it to my biology class, and I say goodbye to Aqua, who heads to her next class down the hall. I'm almost late to class, so I quickly hurry over to my seat and sit down next to Olette, who doesn't look so disorganized today.
"Hey Kairi!" Olette greets me, as I collapse into the chair from the pain of my ankle.
I look over her ,and give her a small smile, "Hi."
"Did you hear?" She whispers, and glances behind us.
I frown, "Hear what?"
"Sora and Xion broke up. Word around school says it was because of you."
"ME?" I ask, brows furrowing as I look confusedly around the room. All because I'm new, doesn't mean I'm the scapegoat for everyone's problems.
Olette nods her head excitedly, like she's happy about it. What am I saying? I am happy about it. If Sora did dump her because of me, that means he's gotta like me, right? I'm pretty sure that's how it's supposed to go.
"Okay class," Mr Edward starts, writing in big red letters 'Meiosis' on the whiteboard, "who read about meiosis last night?"
Only a couple students honestly said yes, the rest, including myself, said nothing, causing Mr. Edward to rub his face, sighing as he reached for his hanky to wipe his, now, sweaty forehead.
"Okay, then let's pick up where we left off."
With my ankle still in deep pain, my body began to feel drowsy, my head resting on my hand, while beside me, Olette still was sitting straight up. She was sitting tall and proper with good posture, unlike me who looked slouched over and tired. I glance out the window, and to my surprise, the man isn't there. Whatever that was that shocked him, must have scared him so bad that he ran all the way home to is mutant mother.
The bell rings once again, causing me to get up from my chair and head up towards the doors, my eyes catching on the angel who awaited for me by the door.
"Hey." I say just loud enough for him to hear as I get closer.
"Hey. What happened to your ankle?" he asks, eyes drifting towards my foot with a cautious glance.
I try to put most of my weight on my other foot, as I balance in front of him uncomfortably, "Tripped coming up the stairs."
He obviously doesn't buy it, "Are you sure? You know you can tell me."
No, I'm not sure I can tell you-or if you'll even believe me. A crazy ass guy turned into a wolf, and almost attacked me. After trying to escape the hands of death, I accidentally tripped and fell from a patch a grass-what luck, right. And I don't know know if I'm okay, all I know is my foot hurts really bad.
"Yeah I know, but that's what happened." I lie, and shrug it off like it's nothing.
He bites his lip, which makes me get all warm inside, "Okay...if you say so."
I nod and grab onto his hands, earning me a strange look from him, "You know, you should start worrying more about yourself, and not so much about me."
He makes a noise, "Thanks for the advice MJ, see ya around."
He turns and heads down the hallway, catching up with some of his friends, while I turn and head the other direction towards language arts with Roxas. When I get there, Roxie is sitting with his head on the desk and his hands over his head. I quickly sit my stuff down, and start annoyingly tapping him on the shoulder.
"Roxie? Hey Roxie, you in there?" Tap, tap, tap, tap tap, tap-
He quickly reaches out and grabs my hand almost cutting off my circulation. I quickly grab onto his wrist, and start pulling my hand free from his grip.
"Ow, ow, ow!" I yelp as he releases my hand, and sits up straight against his chair.
"Sorry," he mumbles, but it more to me seems like a growl, "I have this huge migraine."
"Understandable, but did you have to grab me that hard?" I kinda laugh it off, but secretly I think I might be losing my mind. When did Roxas gets the reflexes of a tiger, and when did he get such a strong ass grip? The hell is going on?
Before anything else can get weirder, in walks Naminé, who wears a small smile on her face. But something changes. When Naminé seemed to enter the classroom, her eyes landing on booth Roxas and I, her smile seems to change, and I can somehow feel some strange force coming from her. I lied, it could get weirder.
"Hey guys," Naminé says taking a seat besides Roxas, who looks like he's about to strangle someone as she cautiously glances over at him, "What's going on? Roxas are you okay? You're shaking?"
She reaches out for his shoulder, her small hand extending as if she doesn't even feel the heat coming off of him, "Uh Naminé, I wouldn't do that-"
But the strangest thing happens; Roxas actually calms down and stops shaking, as Naminé's fingers touched his shoulder. Naminé carefully gets up, sliding her legs over her chair to perch beside Roxas, hand still resting on his shoulder, and he slowly lifts his head to look at her. I swear, I almost feel jealous for Roxas, as the two stare blankly into each other's eyes as if it is just them two in the entire classroom.
They are sadly interrupted by Mr. Bates, who begins to lecture about periods, commas, and semicolons, signaling Naminé to return to her seat as she began speaking.
Throughout the entire class I see Naminé shoot cautious glances at Roxas, and even occasionally grab his hand, when he starts shaking again. I feel like a total third wheel right now.
Once class is over we head out, and towards the cafeteria, Roxas and Naminé still holding hands while I straggle behind. They reach the cafeteria first, and I hurry over to the entrance to catch up with them, the usual thing that happens to me. I finally reach them when Roxas is speaking over towards the petite girl.
"Wait, what?" I say clearly out of breath, bending over as I lean down on my knees.
Roxas looks from Naminé to me, "I was saying that I'm going to go sit with Sora today. You guys can come if you want."
"I'd love to-"
"Were okay, thanks." Naminé interrupts me, snatching a hold of my hand quickly and dragging me off to the high tables, where she forces me to take a seat.
I give her a snarly look before snapping, "What was all that about?"
She sighs and rubs her temples, "It's just… i don't know.. I didn't want to loose you guys as my friends. This is like the only time anyone ever sits with me…"
I frown. Was she serious? I mean Naminé was kind of weird, but she wasn't that weird to have no friends. I look over to Sora's table, and almost feel kind of bad for wanting to go over there.
I look back towards Naminé, "Why didn't you just say so? Roxas would so choose you anyday over them guys."
She shrugs, "I don't know. I just have a hard time expressing my feelings."
I'm about to say something when someone grabs my sides, making me jump up and yelp. I turn around to see Lea laughing his ass off.
"It's not funny." I say kicking him in the shin, which probably hurt me more because it was my hurt ankle. Smooth Kairi, great job.
He holds his side, "You should've seen your face! Wait, I'll reenact it for ya." He then gives me this weird looking face, and he yelps in a high pitched voice, then returning back to his low hyena laugh.
Naminé lets out a big sigh, "Go away Lea."
"What, Nami Dearest isn't in the mood for a smartass like me? Well, too bad."
"Look Lea," I say stepping up to him, even though he's a couple heads taller, "Naminé and I aren't in the mood for your shit. So please, back the hell off."
Lea puts his hands up in defense, "Hey I can tell when I'm not wanted. Just wanted to let you know, you're about to lose something very special to you."
With that he starts to walk away, "Hey! What's that suppose to mean!?"
He shrugs and keeps walking towards the guy's' table, not even acknowledging the question. Naminé sighs and grabs my hand, "Don't worry about him. He's just full of it."
But for some reason, I couldn't just forget about it. Something major was happening to my life-my once perfect life, was now tearing itself apart. I quickly take a seat across from Naminé, afraid my legs might give way, and I hold my head in my hands.
"Hey Kairi," she whispers, nudging me in the shoulder, "everything is going to be okay. I wanted to give this to you yesterday, but it slipped my mind…"
I look up to see she's taking one of her bracelets off, handing it over to me. It looks to be made of different types of grasses braided together, but something makes the grade has a sparkly kind of tent to it. I slowly take it between my fingers, and slide it over my small hand onto my wrist.
"Thanks." I say holding my hand out in front of me, allowing her and myself to examine it on me.
"It's no problem, I have a million more just like it. Just something to keep you safe."
Keep me safe? How was a grassy bracelets supposed to keep me safe? Whatever, she must just like to talk in rhymes, and metaphors, I guess.
"So are you doing anything after school today?" Nam- the nickname that I just gave her- asks me from across the table.
I tap my finger on my chin, "Um, no I don't think so."
She clasps her hands together and smiles widely, "Good, because you're coming over to my house."
"I am?" I ask kind of confused. Did she really just say i'm coming over without even asking me first?
She nods happily, "Yup! I've never had any friends over, so you're going to be the first."
"Um Okay? Where do you live?" I ask as she writes something down on a piece of notebook paper.
She slightly laughs, "It's kinda out in the middle of nowhere, so if you think you're lost just keep going."
I take the slip of paper, and tuck it into my flannel pocket, "What time should I come over?"
"Um probably around three."
The bell rings just as she finishes her sentence , and we both get up to leave, " I guess I'll see you later." I say turning to the left as she went to the right.
She nods, "Bye!"
I continue limping down the hallway, some people giving me some weird looks, which I shake off and ignore, since my I'm in too much pain. I finally reach my study hall classroom, and make my way over to where Terra, Aqua, and Ven were sitting. Aqua looks up from her phone, as I drop my stuff onto my desk beside her.
"Hey Kairi, how's that foot feeling?"
I try to laugh it off, but I think I sound like a robot that's dying, "It's kinda worse."
"That sucks," She moans, as she steals a piece of food from Terra, "I know someone who does these awesome massages. I could hit you up."
"No thanks." I laugh and take a seat, my foot sighing with relief. "Do you guys know what's been going on with my brother?"
Terra and Ven exchange glances, while Aqua just shakes her head, "Haven't seen him today. Terra and I went out for lunch." She smiles, grabbing onto her boyfriend's hand with ease.
Ventus shrugs, "I didn't think there was anything wrong with him. Maybe you're just looking too much into it."
I sigh and hold my head in my hand, "I don't know. Today has been really confusing."
"Why's that?" Terra asks, as Aqua still holds onto his hand, her fingers sliding slightly over his with care.
I shake my head, "It's nothing."
"AW come on!" Aqua nudges me with her foot, "You can tell us. Is it about Sora?"
I feel my face heat up, "What! N-no it's not-"
Aqua laughs, and points at my face, "See guys! I told you she was thinking about him."
"I have to admit," Ventus smirked, scratching the back of his head, "Sora couldn't stop talking about you last night."
"Really?" I feel my heart flutter as he nods back at me.
"So, is he gonna ask you to the homecoming dance?"
"The what?"
"The homecoming dance." Terra says, and pulls up a flyer for it on his phone, "We have this huge parade for all the sports and other activities, and then we have a huge party at this place downtown. It's this Saturday."
"I'm a shootin for homecoming queen!" Aqua slaps her knee, as Ventus rolls his eyes at the giggly girl. "Hey Kairi, you can come the parade at my house. I live right inside town, so we have the best spots to check out my cutie boyfriend riding the lacrosse float."
"You play lacrosse?" I ask Terra, who returns another nod back at me.
"Yup, we all do. Riku, Sora, Ven, and maybe even your brother."
I burst out laughing. Roxas and sports? Wait till they see Roxas try to catch one of those balls, then they'll realized how screwed they are. I earn some weird looks from Aqua, Terra, and Ven though, but it makes it even funnier for me since they don't know what's coming.
I stop laughing, "Roxas doesn't play sports."
"I guess he does now." Ventus shrugs as Aqua hits him in the shoulder, causing the boy to wince in pain as she drew her arm back towards her.
Theses guys seems to know more about my brother than I do-it's not supposed to be that way, right? These guys are practically strangers to me and Roxas, but now they're acting like they know every single detail about Roxas. I laugh in my head, they'll never find out that Roxas had an obsession with My Little Ponies. Even my mom doesn't know about that. Only this chick! I bet they don't even know what month is birthday is-
"Hey Kairi, did you know Roxas and I have the same birthday! SO we really are like twins." Ven says interrupting my train of thought, causing something to snap inside my head.
I scowl and Ventus scratches his head nervously, "That's great. Another thing you know about my brother."
I stand up just as the bell rings, even though I was planning to leave anyway, since I didn't know how much longer I could stand hearing about how normal my brother was acting. Aqua slaps me on the back before walking ahead to walk with Terra and Ventus, leaving me alone once again.
I try to walk like a normal person, but I think I look like my legs can't bend; the pain has seemed to gotten worse, it's spreading like venom up my leg and veins. I finally reach my locker and undo the combination, but just for my lucky, it doesn't budge and I'm experiencing the same feeling I had yesterday for my locker. I wipe my hands on my leggings and grab onto the lock, pulling up with all my might-but the damn thing still doesn't budge. I slam my hand onto my locker, hoping it would do something, but it really just ends up hurting my hand, too. Great, now I have two injuries to kill me through the rest of the day. I sigh, leaning my head against the locker, praying that that guy had just ended my life right there. I feel someone come beside me, and lean onto my neighbors locker, giving me a small poke on the shoulder as i let out another sigh.
"Need some help, Kairi?"
I look over, and give Sora a small, helpless smile, "Yes please."
He grabs onto the lock and easily extends his bicep, causing the lock to pop open with ease as the metal door swung open. I look at him with amazement on my face, while he shrugs and bites his lip, something that he seems to do when he's questioning himself.
"What?" I ask, snapping him out of his gaze as his eyes jump back to mine.
He blinks, "Hmmmm?"
I cross my arms over my chest, "You look like you were thinking about something."
"Yeah, I kinda was…." He says turning face towards the locker, as his arms pressed down against the locker for balance, as he looks over at me with caution.
I step closer to him, close enough that through my nose I can smell his sweet cologne, "What? You can tell me."
He smirks at my choice of words, "Do you maybe want to go somewhere?"
"Like now?"
"Yeah."
I tilt my head to the side; go with the guy of my dreams to some place, or go to boring history class. Hmmm, I wonder which I'll choose?
I tilt my head straight, "Okay! Where to?"
Sora, excitedly, grabs my arms and starts pulling me down the hallway, towards the nearest exit he can find. We climb down the stairs, then past the small gymnasium and pool, until we're finally out the back door. I step outside as Sora holds the door for me, and let the wind sweep across my face, making my bangs tickle my face as the I take in the view of the grey sky. Sora starts walking out towards what looks like the lacrosse field, heading towards a small building on the left side of the field. I follow him as he pulls out a pair of keys and unlocks the door; inside are a bunch of lacrosse sticks and balls that are probably used to play lacrosse. He grabs one of the long white sticks and throws it to me, which I clumsily catch, as he grabs one for himself, tucking it under his arm quickly.
"Have you ever played before?" He says reaching for some of the balls, causing his shirt to ride up in the back, and exposing some of his bare back.
I feel my face turning red, "Uh, no, actually. At my old school my boyfriend used to play football, yeah, that was the oh-so popular sport to play."
"Your boyfriend huh?" Oh gosh, wrong move Kairi. Total turn off. "What was he like?"
In a way Sora was the complete opposite of Seifer. Sora was tall and lean, Seifer was short and stocky. Sora was tan, Seifer was as pale as a ghost. Sora didn't hit me, Seifer did.
"A complete asshole." I say with no regrets, making Sora laugh.
"Well," Sora said swinging his lacrosse stick around his body, "that makes me feel better."
Before I could ask what that meant, Sora takes a step, picking up one of the balls, and throws it into the net. I stare at him, wide eyed, as he looks over at me, his smile forming into a small smirk. He then begins walking towards me, swing his lacrosse stick between his fingers with ease.
"Alrightie, your turn." He says grabbing my arm, and tugging me closer to the net.
I dig my heels into the ground, "Ah, hell no. There's no way I'm doing this-"
"Oh come on," Sora said releasing me from his grasp as he threw me a ball, "live a little."
I caught it, and slowly sat it inside my net, while Sora walked over and stands beside me.
"Okay, so first thing you have to do, is to hold your hands like you're holding a baseball bat, and place your hands about a foot apart. Stand with your feet apart and pointed, towards the goal."
I place my hands on the rod and hold it like a baseball bat, following Sora's instructions as I place my hands a foot apart, I then mimic Sora as he steps with a space between his legs. Hey maybe this won't be so hard after all.
"Good, so when you're ready to shoot, place your right foot in front of you-it helps increases your accuracy-and then just follow through."
Okay, I can do this. I place my right foot in front of me, and swing! The ball goes flying, but nowhere towards the goal. I bet that couldn't of gone worst, but it seems things just get worst for me.
Sora gives me a quick chuckle, as I roll my eyes towards him, "Hey, not everyone gets it on their first try."
"So what did I do wrong, Captain Obvious?"
"Your feet," Sora says tapping his foot against mine, "weren't pointed towards the goal. They were a smidge bit off."
I nod, grabbing another ball and placing it in my racket's net, before taking a step back towards Sora. I grip the lacrosse stick and place my feet apart, taking a step forward with my right foot as I swung hard towards the goal. The ball flies over, and hits the top of the metal part of the net-I clenching my teeth to stop from myself from swearing.
"Okay maybe we should try a different approach." Sora walks over to the other side of me, and places his hands on top of mine, "We'll do it together."
I nod, feeling his side pressing into me as he grips onto the lacrosse stick, making my face heat up again. He slowly raises the lacrosse stick with me, and we both place our right foot forward and swing. The ball flies through the air, and hits right in the middle of the goal.
I drop my stick and run around, screaming, "I DID IT!" Sora laughs as I run over and wrap my arms around his neck, almost knocking him over, " Thank you!"
I quickly realize what I was doing and release him, my cheeks turning bright red as I take a step back, "It's no problem." He says, now heading for the metal bleachers to sit down.
I follow him, taking a seat to his right on the first set of the bleachers. The wind blows a gust right by us, making my hair float through the air, as I grip onto my flannel.
"Do you miss Radiant Garden?" Sora asks me out of the blue, causing me to look over at him with a raised eye.
I sigh and nod, "Yeah sometimes, mostly the weather."
"What about the people?"
"I miss some of them," I say pulling my hair over my shoulder and running my hands through it, "but I really like the people here too."
Sora looks over, and makes eye contact with me, "What do you like about the people here?"
"I don't know. I guess you guys aren't as wrapped up in society as people are back at home. You know what I mean. You guys seem more true to yourself, not so fake."
"T-t were just as fake as anyone else is." Sora makes a noise, and says.
I tilt my head to the side and look over at him, "What do you mean?"
He looks over at me, "Everyone has secrets; some have these huge secrets that they could never tell anyone, or some are so unimportant that everyone in the entire school knows. I have secrets, you have secrets, everyone does."
"I guess you're right, I didn't think of it that way." I look out towards the woods, and I think I see something. It's that dog again! I quick scoot next to Sora and point over to him, " Do you see that dog?"
He looks across the field at the woods, and his eyes widen, "Yeah, we should go."
With that he quickly gets up and grabs my hand, pulling me across the field. I look over my shoulder, and the wolf is gone from my sight. We hurry back over to the school doors, and open them, entering the building and escaping the cold outdoor weather. Just as we enter the bell rings, and students fill the hallway, the two of us not alone anymore. Sora and I stand there for a minute, before he turns towards me.
"Hey, I'll see ya later, I guess. Practice on your shooting." He says giving me a cheeky smile.
I laugh, "I don't think I'll even get close without your help."
He laughs too, his voice making my heart melt, "We'll have to see about that."
He turns and walks down the hallway, catching up with Riku who comes out of a different classroom, while I stand there for a second, just watching him walk away. Was it really possible that it was me that he broke if off with Xion for? Well, I guess I won't know until I ask him. If I ask him.
I head back towards the sophomore hallway, cutting my route short by going through the senior hallway, when I see some of the guys that were with Riku yesterday. The tall dreadlocks guy is there, and the guy that smart mouthed Aqua, but the rest I don't really know. One guy notices me and nudges the dread guy, and next thing I know they're all staring me down. I try to walk quickly but my ankle keeps bugging me, it probably wasn't a good idea to of went and played lacrosse with Sora. What am I talking about, I should do that everyday.
I pass them and feel a sigh of relief come over me, as I make my way down the stairs to the sophomore hallway. I limp down the hallway to my locker, where I find Roxas leaning against the wall next to there. He's strolling through his phone when I step up beside him.
"Hey." I say doing my combination, and pulling my locker open-whatever Sora did to it, must of fixed my locker completely, since it came open so easily.
He looks up from his phone, "Oh hey."
"You heading home with me or….."
"Actually," Roxas slides his phone back into his pocket, "that's why I'm here. I have lacrosse practice after school today, so I won't be there to walk you home."
I scrunch my eyebrows, "What's up with you playing sports all of the sudden?"
"I don't know. Just wanted to try something new." he shrugs and turns to leave, "See ya later Kai."
"Later." I say as he starts to walk away.
