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My school day dragged out as per usual. I couldn't take my mind off of one subject. She seemed to linger at the back of my thoughts. I couldn't get anything done today.
I sat at the back of my history class, slouched in my chair chewing on the lid of my biro pen. I zoned out from the teacher speaking and stared out of the window. We were on the top floor, and I could see the beach from here. I tried looking for the red head, in hopes to catch a glimpse of her. But I couldn't see her. From out of nowhere, a ruler came flying at me and hit me on the side of my face.
I snapped back into reality to find my history teacher standing arms crossed, glaring at me from the front of the room with his bright golden orbs. Aqua hair standing on end like an irritated cat.

"Anything interesting out there young man?!" he snarled as he held his posture.

"No Sir. Sorry Sir" I spluttered out quickly and began paying attention again whilst others around me continued to giggle and whisper about how funny it seemed to be.

Apparently he'd been calling my name over and over and I just ignored him. I must have been in such a trance, not hearing or seeing anything but the view of the island out in front of me.

But today was far from over.

I stared down at the history text book in front of me. It had been graffiti'd on by others, with slang and rude doodles scribbled in the corners on every page. I could care less about what the subject was today. Historic deaths of the island. Who cares? I slumped down in my chair again and chewed on my pen again. I could hear the sound of my teachers voice starting to become echoey and muffled. My eyelids felt heavy. I tried blinking for a moment to find myself becoming drowsier by the second. Soon my neck started to become weak, letting my head fall in all directions before I contained myself and pulled it up trying to stay awake. My body wasn't having it. Sorry sir, your lessons are that boring, it's making...me...sleepy.

I yawned and stretched out my arms. I had hoped this would wake me from my daze a little, but to no avail. My head thumped on the table and I was out for the count.

I woke to the smell of fresh grass and flowers surrounding me. I sat up and had no idea where I was. All around, was covered in a light green meadow, covered in blotches of coloured flowers. Surrounding the meadow was a few mountains which reached up higher than the clouds. Butterflies fluttered past my ear as I heard someone call my name. Curiously, I turned around and saw this crimson haired beauty before me. She had a crown of white Daisies and pink Carnations placed onto her head, and a white flowing gown on. It had long sleeves with slits down them, which released her arms. A butterfly from before came back and circled me, until it landed on my nose. Of all places. It made Kairi chuckle a little. She moved her finger near it and it fluttered onto her instead. Finding her more of a suitable place than me. The wind picked up and sent a breeze over us, making Kairi's long flowing locks and dress dance. She looked more beautiful than ever. I stood in awe. Why was something so beautiful calling me? I've never seen this place before either. What was this place? I was about to ask, but suddenly there was a crash of thunder and lightning filled once before crystal clear sky! And then another! The noise sent birds and butterflies flying around in a blind panic, startled by the noise. The ground started to rumble beneath our feet.

"Sora!" Kairi shouted my name and held out her hand for mine, but as I reached out for her, it felt like I was getting pulled away.

"Kairi!" I yelled.

My eyes shot open rather startled by a sudden thump on my desk. I shot straight up and fell backwards out of my chair into a heap on the floor.
The entire classroom roared with laughter. My teacher looked less than impressed. To wake me, he'd taken my textbook, (which was thick with pages, and heavy) and slammed in down onto the desk.

"Rise and shine sleeping beauty!" Saix shouted. "You young man, have earned yourself a weeks detention!"

My face flushed. I really did dream about her. And I called out for her. I felt awkward. But tried to ignore the looks I was getting from my classmates.
"A week?! Come on! All I did was fall asleep because I was bored!?"

"Are we gonna make it two?" My teacher raised his eyebrows in warning. He'd love for me to respond right now. But I wasn't gonna give him the satisfaction. I got up and sat back down in my chair and folded my arms.

"Settled then. I'll also be informing your parents."

'Whatever' I mumbled in my head.

Once he'd turned away, I stretched my arms up in the air and placed my hands close together, and lifted a middle finger at him. Which caused a few students to snicker.
He was the one who always gave the unfair detentions. Once he gave a kid a months
detention just for answering back. What an asshat!
Just then, the bell rang and the entire class stampeded out to get to their next was gonna be a loooonng day. I walked out of the classroom and rubbed my eyes and yawned.

"What'cha doin' later?" asked my blonde haired friend as we sat down for lunch.

"I got detention with Saix" I grumbled before I took a bite of my pizza.

"What for this time?" Roxas quirked an eyebrow in curiosity.

I informed him on the events that occurred and he shook his head in amusement.

"It's not fair! I swear he's got something against me. I actually had plans later too" I moaned.

"What plans? You never do anything after school except xbox" Riku appeared from nowhere and sat down at the table with his tray of lunch.

"Uh..." I realised I'd slipped up. I turned as red as he apple on Riku's lunch tray.

Roxas noticed me stumbling for words and squinted one eye at me in suspicion. I couldn't ever keep anything from these guys.

"I know that look! You're meeting some girl aren't you" Roxas teased.

Riku smiled coyly at me. There was no hiding it now. I think the slight redness across my face gave it away. That and my slightly raised body temperature.

"What's her name?" Riku asked smirking at me.

"What's who's name?" Asked a cheery black haired girl as she sat down next to Riku. Namine also joined the table and sat down next to Roxas.

"Sora's got a date" Roxas informed.

I suddenly became more important that food. Nothing is more important that food! At least to me there isn't! All I wanted to do was each my lunch in peace. Everytime I went to take a bit of my mouthwatering pizza, I got hooked into conversation! AHH!

"It's not a date! We're just hanging out. (If you can even call it that?) But it is most certainly not a date!" I flustered. My face must have been redder than Kairi's hair right now. I felt embarrassed.

"Aw. He's going all shy" Xion grinned like a Cheshire cat.

"Seriously, cut it out! It's not a date! We're just hanging out. We only just met last night" I gritted at them.

I'm glad this was entertaining for them. For the last few years, the 4 of them had tried to set me up with girls left right and center. It was annoying! I just purely wasn't interested! I had become the star of their own little reality TV show.

"What's her name then? And what is she like?" Namine asked. The humor soon died down and much to my dismay, I reluctantly started telling them about her.

The guys were grinning and smirking at me. Xion looked like she would explode with excitement! Namine laughed at Xion's silly overreaction. It wasn't that much of a big deal was it?

"Awwww! That's real cute! It's about time you found yourself a girl!" she winked.

"I've already said! We're just friends, well, not even that at the moment. We're acquaintances more than anything." I stated.

"Just means you need to capture her heart before someone else does!" Xion replied to me. Standing up with her hands on the table leaning over to me.

"I don't even think I like her in that way." I lied. Or did I? I don't even know!

Xion slumped back into her chair and groaned.

"Riku, why is your best friend so difficult?" she whined

"I am here by the way..." I moaned.

"Riku why is your girlfriend such a hopeless romantic?"

"I ask myself that one too" he remarked, in which he received a flick on the ear from her. "Owh"

"Why are you so intent on finding me a girlfriend Shi?" I asked.

"So you aren't depressing to be around." she smirked.

She could have said that alot better. But whatever.

"Riiiight..."I said nothing more about the situation. I already regretted telling them.

The rest of lunch break flew by and we parted ways to go off to our next lessons. The last bell of the day rung, whilst others raced each other to freedom, I lazily headed to my detention with my hands buried in my pockets.
I knocked on the door and opened it. There I saw Saix sat at his desk doing some marking. He looked up at me and called me over by wagging his finger at me. He handed me some paper, a pen and a textbook. I knew the drill.

"Sit and copy until your time is up. I'll decide if you've done enough" he spat whilst checking though a students test. By the looks of it, he or she didn't pass, as Saix was planting crosses next to each of the questions.

'Poor kid' I thought to myself.

Silently walking to my seat at the back, past his other victims for today. Ones were sat doing nothing, swinging on their chairs, refusing to do the writing or passing notes to each other.
Not that I was a goody goody two shoes, but I actually wanted to get out of here today. I had somewhere to be!

My hour was up. Boy! I've never written so fast in my life! So fast infact my hand was hurting! I managed to fill 8 sheets of paper back and front with text from the book. Surely that was enough. Saix was surprised to see I'd wrote that much. With that, he nodded to signal I could go. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. All I could think about was seeing Kairi. Imagining her warm smile sent chills through my body.

I stopped off at home first to change out of my school uniform. I felt like a douche bag in my uniform. I rummaged through my draws and pulled out a pair of black jeans, a white t-shirt and yanked them on. I pulled on a black hooded jacket too and let it hang undone. I grabbed another and packed it away into my bag. 'No doubt she'd be there freezing like she was last night' I thought to myself.

In my bag, chucked in some chocolate, crisps and packaged apple pieces. I was starving by the time I got home yesterday. Maybe she was too.

Was I over thinking this? Probably.

After, I pulled on my white vans and grabbed my bag and headed for the front door.

I ran on down to the beach to see if I could see Kairi. I scanned around and found her down the far end of the beach again, right near the pier. Casually I walked closer to her. Just as always, she was sat on the sand near the shore staring out to sea. He long auburn hair swaying in the breeze.

When I reached her, I sat down next to her. She took a moment to respond, but soon looked my way and flashed a smile at me.

"Hello, Sora!" She beamed.

"Hey Kairi" I greeted. We didn't say anything to each other for a while, we just enjoyed the sunset in each others company. It was peaceful.

The sun had disappeared below the horizon, giving the sky a beautiful colour mixture of crimson, yellow and blue.

Kairi took in a deep breath and lowered her head as she exhaled. She let her crimson hair fall, covering her porcelain face.

"What's wrong?" I asked quirking an eyebrow.

She didn't answer me for a while. So I just left it. And continued to gaze on out at the horizon, casually checking back on the red head.

Finally, she spoke up.

"You came back" I turned my head to face her to find her gazing at me. Her eyes locked onto mine just like they did yesterday.

"I said I would didn't I?" I smiled. "That's why I asked if I could see you again"

Kairi giggled a little then crossed her arms over her body. Her facial expression changed before she spoke up again.
"Sometimes...people forget"

"That's true, people do forget about stuff. But as long as they remember it once in a while, it's okay right?" I had no idea what I was saying at this point. It just seemed to make sense. Heck, it was making sense to her! So I just went with it.

Kairi looked back out at the ocean again and said nothing. We returned to our previous state. She bent her legs up and lent her arms on her knees. A breeze came along and swept over the both of us. It made her hair swish in my direction and I got a brief hint of strawberries. It was lovely! As the sky darkened as it did yesterday, the breeze got colder. I remembered how cold her hand was last night. I rummaged through and pulled out the light blue jacket I had packed in my bag earlier. I then placed it on my lap whilst I zipped up my bag. After, I got up and placed the jacket over Kairi's delicate shoulders, then sat back down next to her. As always, she was too busy to realize what I did, she noticed a little while after though. She felt the fabric between her fingers, studying it carefully.

"You looked cold. I figured I was seeing you today so I bought a spare" I explained.

She didn't say a word. She just gave me a warm smile to say thank you. I was getting used to her silence. After that, she pushed her arms into the holes and wrapped it around herself. She took in a deep breath. I think she should smell my cologne on it.

"You hungry? I bought snacks..." I asked her.

She softly turned her head towards me and watched as I rummaged through my bag.

"I bought crisps, chocolate and apple slices. They were the only things in the house. We're waiting for my mother to go food shopping" I clarified.

Kairi glanced down at the items in my lap. She then didn't do anything but stare. I saw that she was eyeing the chocolate, so I broke off a square and offered it to her.

She slowly took it from my hand and placed it into her mouth. Her eyes closed as did her mouth. Like she was enjoying the taste. She remained with her mouth closed as she reopened her eyes. Letting the morsel melt in her mouth.

We continued to watch and share the sweetness, as the night sky appeared above us, and the moon rose from where the sun descended.
I lead back onto the sand and stared at the sky for a change. I held my hands behind my head, cushioning my head from the sand. Kairi had noticed and gave me a questionable look.

"You ever lead under the stars before?" I asked simply. She looked as if she thought for a moment, then shook her head in response.

"You should try it. Close your eyes and lay backwards." I instructed encouragingly.

She did what was asked and kept her eyes closed. Her hair had placed itself into the sand, her bangs fell from the sides of her face revealing more of her porcelain skin. Her legs were still bent up and her arms were resting on her stomach. Moving up and down rhythmically to her steady breathing.

"Okay, open your eyes" She opened and she greeted the sight with awe. She moved her eyes and head around on the sand, not daring to miss a bit of the world above her. I heard her whisper "woah" to herself. I smiled lightly at her. She was like a small child.

"Hey look, sometimes you can make pictures out of the stars. Like that one" I pointed to an area in the sky.

"That one looks like a lion"

She continued to gaze at the sky and smiled when she saw what I was talking about.

"Look!" She giggled as she pointed to another spot, "It looks like a rabbit. You see the fluffy tail?"

I laughed slightly when I saw what she did. What amazed me just then, was that she just spoke a sentence of more than 3 words. That was the first time I'd ever heard her speak for that long. I loved the sound of her voice. It was soothing.

Just then, a group of teenagers entered the beach and had started piling up wood on a section of a beach. Kairi already had her eyes on them. She was watching them closely. Observing everything they did. Something niggled at the back of my mind. She was always here. An every time I saw her, she was on her own. I'd never seen her at school either. I figured the lack of communication was because she didn't really have anyone to talk to. No close friends.

"They're all friends...aren't they?" She mumbled softly then turned her head to face me.

I raised an eyebrow. "Yeah. They are"

Kairi silenced for a moment and stared up at the sky above her again.

"Do you have friends?" she asked suddenly, turning her head back to me.

"Yeah, I have 4 other friends. They're my best friends actually" I wondered where she was going with this.

In the end she didn't reply to my answer. "Do you have any?"

Kairi closed her eyes and shook her head.

I was right.

"Would you...would you like to be my friend?" I asked her slowly and calmly. In an instant, she turned her body towards me, still lying on the sand. She looked at me with a gaze which held much happiness. Her bright blue eyes began to fill with tears. She nodded immediately with so much enthusiasm. I felt sorry for her. Clearly she had had some issues.

"Thankyou!" she yelped at me in happiness. This was the loudest I'd heard her before, so it was a little awkward adjusting myself to listen to her be so loud rather than the quiet, reserved girl I came to know.

I felt her smile at me again. Something inside my chest was doing somersaults.

Was I kinda feeling something about this girl? Probably.

When Kairi had decided she wanted to go, we began walking down the beach together.

As usual, there was silence.

"So...how long have you lived here?" I asked her hoping to create some small talk with her.

She dipped her head a little and closed her eyes.

"For as long as I can remember" she replied quietly. "What about you?" she asked sending me another one of those smiles.

"The same for me. I was born here and grew up here. Do you like it here?" I asked again, hoping to get another response like the one I previously got.

She nodded and giggled. "Yeah, it has it's perks. I couldn't really imagine being away from here"

I asked her about her school, and told her I'd never seen her before. What she told me next surprised me.

"I don't go to school. I'm home tutored. I can't be around the people there. They all hate me and I have no idea why..." Her voice turned sad. She looked if she were about to cry. But she held it in.

"I'm sorry" I mused. It was all starting to make sense. She was quiet and reserved because she didn't really socialize, which was initially because everyone at her school supposedly hated her. I couldn't imagine why though.

"Don't be sorry" She smiled. "I never have to see them again so I don't think about it"

Soon, we had to part ways.

"How far is your house from here?" I asked. I saw her frown a little, but that melted away when she told me it as right around the corner.
"Okay, so...do you uh...um-wanna hang out tomorrow?" I stuttered a little, making my face flush red. Kairi noticed and laughed.

She nodded at me as she placed her hands behind her back. She looked down to realize she still had my jacket on.

"Oh, your jacket?" she said as she began removing it from her body.

"Keep it. You probably need it more than I do" I smiled.

"Thankyou" she whispered gently and pulled it back onto her shoulders.

An awkward silence came about. Before I made myself look like an idiot, I spoke up.

"Great! So uh, yeah...uh...bye!" I stammered some words together, realizing afterwards that I just sounded like an idiot! Hopefully she didn't notice!

"Goodbye" she said, then giggled lightly and gave a small wave. Then turned round and began walking away from me.

I felt this warm fuzzy feeling inside my chest. Yeah okay, I'll admit it. Maybe I've got a bit of a soft spot for her! I walked home with a stupid grin on my face. I knew I was gonna be bombarded with questions as soon as I got in. But I didn't care.

Kairi's POV.

I turned the corner and watched Sora disappear. I felt so bad. I had lied. I hated having to lie! I had no home! I hadn't had one for years upon years!

I felt his jacket around me and in inhaled his scent. It made me feel secure, safe. Something I hadn't felt in a long, long time...

I sure hoped this feeling would last.

He was the only person to speak to me on his own terms...like I was actually somebody...I couldn't get my hopes up about anything though. I knew what I was. And soon enough, he'd find out too...

I wondered how long...

Dun Dun Dunnnnnn! xD

I really hope you liked this chapter! I'm gonna start adding small snippets of Kairi's POV which will most probably be at the beginning or end of the chapter. But anyhow! Let me know what you think! :D

Thanks for reading everyone!

-TwilightIsn'tLiterature!