A/N: Hey another chapter and on my birthday! Yes it's my birthday; I'm turning 15, yes! I can drive or take driving lessons, can't wait. Anyways I meant to get this up yesterday but I got distracted. I get busy starting last week so I don't know when I'll get the next chapter up and school starts so…Read and Review and be happy.
xXx
Demyx glared out the kitchen window at Olette and Roxas. The two of them were sitting out in the garden's lush green grass leaning against the low stone wall that was between the grass and the flowers. Olette was laughing and Roxas had a shy smile on his face as he watched her out the corner of his eyes, but seemed to be looking away.
"Humph," Demyx said, his eyes narrowed and he bit down on his lower lip frowning. He'd been watching them for quite awhile now and he didn't like what he saw. He also knew that he probably should have stopped watching over half and hour ago, but he couldn't seem to pull his eyes away from them.
Roxas had only been back from his 'vacation' for a few days already he had Olette spending all of her spare time with him. It was like he was some sort of hero or prince charming to her. Demyx just could see what Olette saw in him. What did he have that made him so much better them Demyx?
"Looks like somebody's jealous," Someone said from behind him. Demyx turned to see Kairi coming into the kitchen from the side door with a basket filled to the top with clothes.
"What? No!" Demyx's answer was panicked and just a little bit to fast.
Kairi laughed and moved to set the basket down on the table, "How long have you known Olette?"
Demyx sighed and slumped into one of the chairs at the small kitchen table, "Is it that obvious?" he asked and continued without waiting for an answer, "Not much longer then any of you. I met her the same day really, just a few hours earlier is all. But when I met her she just gave me so much hope, more then I'd had in the longest time."
"Well," Kairi said pulling a chair out and sitting down with the older boy, "just a little, but Olette hasn't noticed." She had been trying to say something that would make him feel better, but she couldn't find the right thing to say. She stopped herself from saying anymore by biting on the inside of her cheek.
"I know," Demyx's hands gripped the edge of the table, "I'm really trying to just act like an older brother to her, but it gets harder and harder everyday. And when she smiles at me," Demyx closed his eyes for a spilt second and shook his head, "she doesn't know what she does to me. Sometimes I don't know if I can take it."
Kairi smiles meekly, "Just hang in there," she said patting Demyx's arm lightly, "I'm sure everything will be okay in the end. Maybe you'll find someone else?" Demyx realized almost instantly that the girl hadn't said anything about Olette coming around and falling for him. But he pushed it aside as a fact that the girl just had her mind on something else or something.
Kairi stood up just as the kitchen door opened and Olette walked in followed by Roxas, "No, it's fine really." She said to him before turning to look at the kitchen. "Hey Demyx," Olette chirped smiling at him. Demyx couldn't help but smile back at her weakly. "Do you have anything that you want washed, 'cause I was going to do some laundry."
"Oh, that's okay; you don't have to do my laundry. I can do it myself later." Demyx lied; the truth was he hadn't a clue on how to wash there had always been people to do that before. But he didn't want to burden Olette so he would learn how to in his own time…later.
"Don't lie to me Demyx," Olette laughed seeing right through him, "Come on grab your washing and I'll show you how. Better now then never and I'm doing washing anyways. I really don't mind teaching two boys." She glared at Roxas who still stood behind her, "You're just lucky it's a warm day so I'm in a good mood." Olette joked.
"If you insist." Demyx shrugged and pushed back his chair to get up and left the kitchen rolling his eyes, but you could see a grin on his face all the same.
Roxas slide past Olette and follow Demyx to his room as Olette came in from the doorway and closed the door behind her.
"Do you want to borrow one of my old dresses so that you can wash your dress?" Kairi asked Olette picking up the basket and pushing the door out into the hallway open with her foot. She held it open and looked back at Olette with her eyebrows raised.
"Could I? I mean it wouldn't be to much trouble?"
Kairi laughed lightly and shook her head, "Not at all." She said turning back towards the hallway and headed towards the girl's rooms.
xXx
Olette walked out into the warm sun wearing a deep pink dress that's color was starting to fade from being out in the sun for to long. The dress may have been old but it didn't look bad on her and it had a weird golden-colored design on the bottom right corner that looked something like a shooting star, but not quite. She was holding her orange one hanging in her arms which she had crossed over her chest. Roxas and Demyx where already standing out there waiting for her both had a basket of clothes at their feet.
Upon see her both boy cocked their heads to the side slightly and raised their eyebrows. "What?" Olette looked down at the dress, "Does it look that bad?" she turned around once trying to see the whole dress on her self.
"No, you're beautiful." They both exclaimed in unison making Olette giggle and blush slightly as she looked down at the ground biting her lip.
Once Olette got her composure back they started washing, or at least attempted to. It took about ten minutes of constant reminder from Olette on what to do before the boys even got close to know what they were doing and try to do it on their own and they still had to be corrected on almost everything after that.
Olette was laughing at the boys for how hard this was for them when the door to the kitchen was pushed open and Demyx was called inside.
"Don't worry I'll finish for you." Olette called after him as she grabbed her dress and moved to start hanging it on one of the clothes lines. "Thanks," she just barely heard Demyx call as he rushed inside, long legs making him go faster then the average person.
Olette went back to the washing tub and grabbed one of his shirts from the basket at her feet. "You seem to be really close to Demyx." Roxas said quietly hanging up his own newly washed piece of cloth.
Olette shrugged, "Demyx has been like an older brother to sense I've met him. He's nice, but a little too precautious sometimes. I don't know maybe that's how older brothers are suppose to be, I've never had any sibling before."
"Hrm," Roxas said grabbing another shirt. Straightening up he felt cold soapy water meet with his warm skin, "What was that for?" he asked giving Olette a shocked look as he wiped the water off of his face.
"You shouldn't be thinking that. It's not true!" Olette was shaking her head and smiling, but her voice didn't sound to pleased.
"Wha…how do you know what I'm thinking?" Roxas asked dunking his shirt into the large bucket.
"I just know," Olette said confidently, her hands rippled quickly through the water as she sprayed Roxas again.
"Ah, now it's war." Roxas said dipping his hands into the water and pushing them towards Olette sending water at her as the came back up. Olette shrieked and jumped back laughing before she grabbed the shirt, which was still soaking in the large tub of water, and chasing Roxas trying to wring it out over his head. While he grabbed a bucket and started throwing bucketfuls of water at her at the same time as trying to avoid getting wet him self.
xXx
Their water fight came to an end when Tessa opened the kitchen door and yelled at them. Although by then they where both soaking wet starting breathing heavily. And even though they were getting into trouble they both were grinning from ear to ear.
Kairi suddenly appeared behind Tessa at the door and she called "Olette you're want…ed," the last syllable barely heard she said it so quietly, obviously not to please to see the two of them dripping from head to toe in soapy water. When Olette came within a few feet of the door Kairi mumble frowning, "and I guess I'll let you borrow another dress." Olette blushed and looked down at the ground not wanting to meet the girl's eyes.
Tessa looked her over for a moment before stepping out of the door way and holding the door open as she said, "Through the kitchen quickly, I don't want you getting water all over my floors." Olette nodded and ran from the one kitchen door to the other and then down the hall to her room where Kairi was waiting for her with a towel and a dry dress, that was the same color pink as the one she had on only newer. Was pink the only color that Kairi owned?
"The Admiral has company and you'll be serving them drinks up in the library. So hurry up and get changed." Kairi said not being as patient as she usually was.
xXx
Olette once changed headed up to the library. She hesitated at the door, smoothing out the skirt of her dress, took a deep breath and then opened the door. She found her hands shaking as she walked down the small hallway, she'd never served the company before she didn't know what to do. She clasped her hands together to subside the shaking, but couldn't get it to stop altogether.
Walking in Olette noticed that a large table had been placed in the open space in the center of the library. Sitting at the head of the table, with his back to her and wearing his red uniform for the first time sense he had bought her, was Xemnas. All the other men wore blue and green uniforms making it clear that they were sergeants, of different levels. Being that they were here meant that these where the men undress Xemnas' control.
She stepped up next to the chair that Xemnas sat at and curtsied as she said, "You asked for me?"
"Yes," he smiled lightly at her as she straightened up and put her hands behind her back, clasping them back together right away, "would you get us some wine?" it was more of a demand then a question, but it wasn't like it really mattered, either way Olette would be getting it.
"Of course," Olette took a step back but stopped her eyes falling on one of the men sitting at the table. He had chopped chocolate brown hair, green eyes, and was wearing a blue uniform.
He was Olette's father.
Olette bit her lip and tore her eyes away, leaving the library quickly. Once out she saw Kairi waiting for her just outside the door. Olette sighed and asked slightly panicked, "What wine do I get?" the girls where already heading down the stairs towards the kitchen.
"Don't worry about it, I brought some up already. But for future reference you usually get the good wine, but not the best for this group. Grab glasses," Kairi said moving around the kitchen looking for something, "the sergeants come once or twice a month so he don't waste to much money on them, the really good wine is for when the prince comes. Ah!" She pulled a try out from one of the cabinets, but pulled a verity of other things with it making a loud crashing noise that got Tessa running into the kitchen. Kairi bit her lip and handed the try to Olette as she started to pick up the other things and put them back into the cabinet.
Olette gratefully took it and place the glasses on it and balancing the tray on one hand as she grabbed the bottle of wine. She was glad that she didn't have to go into the cellar. She had been in there once and didn't really like the fact that it had so many cobwebs and the floor was just covered with dirt. Not to mention it was really dark.
"Thanks," Olette said already leaving the kitchen and heading back towards the stairs which where more difficult to go up then they should have been even with the tray in hand.
She had planned on pouring the drinks and then getting out of the library as fast as she could, but once she had given all the men drinks, placed the bottle by Xemnas, and started to take a few steps back she heard him say, "You may stay." It almost seemed like an order even though it probably wasn't really. But Olette wasn't sure so she spent the meeting standing behind Xemnas and pouring more wine for the men that wanted it.
She had started out trying to figure out what they were talking about, but in the end it only seemed like they were speaking a totally different dialect that was now where close to there real language. So she just let her eyes wonder over the library's many shelves of books. She had already gotten permission to take some out and read them, but she hadn't found the time yet. She really didn't even know when she would even find the time to look through so many books. Was there some sort of organized system to all these books? And if so what was it?
I'll come tomorrow, Olette thought, but then shook her head, no, not tomorrow, but some day soon.
Sudden she heard the sound of chairs scraping against the wood floors and men talking about everyday things that she could understand. They headed for the main stairs and down towards the front door, while Olette moved to pick up the glasses and push the chairs back in.
"You seem to be doing well." A deep voice said from behind Olette, but she just ignored it and continued to pick up glasses and put them back on the tray. The man however continued to talk, "I didn't expect you to end up in such a good place, but I suppose it's for the better with the standards that you where used to." Olette turned and glared at her father, tray in one hand while the other was placed on her hip. It was easy to tell that she was pretty annoyed with him, but he just keep talking, "So, you're still living. That's good, but where did you get it?"
Olette knew that her father was indicating where she got the blood for her little condition, but she just shook her head and said, "The only thing I have to say to you is 'Goodbye'." Olette turned and grabbed the wine bottle off of the table and went down the servant's stairs to the kitchen.
xXx
"Are you doing alright, Olette?" Sora asked her looking at the girl sitting at the kitchen table with her head in her hands as he placed his plate down across from her.
Olette snapped. She pushed the chair back and stood up slamming her hand down on the table hard catching everyone's attention. "Would people stop asking me if I'm okay and just leave me alone!" She yelled at Sora and ran out of the room towards her own.
People had been asking her that same question all day and it was past getting on her nerves. It was on her nerves. Not to mention that Olette hadn't been able to sleep very well the night before so she was tired as could be and she hadn't had any blood sense the day that she met Roxas so she was starting to shiver again.
Olette slammed the door to her room closed, glad for once that she had the room to herself. She gave the dresser a hard side kick and curled up in the corner of the room at the end of her bed. Her knees pulled up to her chest, arms wrapped around them, and head berried into her knees.
Tears started to well up in her eyes, but she blinked them when she heard the door open slowly, but she didn't look up from her knees. "What's going on?" Demyx's voice said a moment later from right in front of her. Blinking away a few more tears Olette looked up. "Come on," Demyx said, "don't tell me that nothing is wrong. Not after you yelled at Sora like that."
Olette clenched her teeth together for a second before banging her hand hard on the wall next to her making the wall shake and hand throb. "It's my birthday!" she snarled letting her hands slink to the floor limply.
"Okay I think I heard that wrong. Did you just say that it was your birthday?" Demyx looked really confused, his eyebrows where raised and head cocked to one side as he was scratching his temple with an index finger.
Olette wiped away frustrated tears and laughed lightly at Demyx's expression. "That sounded really weird didn't it? I mean who doesn't like their birthday? Usually you get presents and everyone is hugging you and you can't stop smiling, but…" Olette trailed off getting lost in her own thoughts.
"Does this have something to do with that man that you called your father at that meeting yesterday?" Demyx asked.
"Wait how did you know about that?" Olette asked, leaning forward.
"I might have been waiting for you at the door and just happen to over hear a few things." He said shrugging it off like it was nothing.
Olette sighed, "Yeah, it kind of has to do with him. You see he is my real father, but…lets me start at the beginning, my mom died in child birth, she had me. My father never really got over the fact that my mom died because of me so he started treating me like I was just another one of the servants. Then around my sixth birthday me father started taking drugs and after that started so did the abuse. I think that was when I started hating my birthday. I always thought if my mom hadn't died the same day…" Olette trailed off for a moment, but her mind got back on track, "…I just think that if she hadn't died then everything would be okay. I wouldn't be here, I'd now my mom, and we would just have one happy family. But it's all just a dream; it's never going to happen not now, not ever."
Demyx moved to sit next to Olette and wrap his arm around her should her, "Hey, you'll always have me."
Olette smiled, "Thanks Demyx. No one's ever said that to me before."
"There's a first to everything. Now let's find a way to get you to enjoy your birthday. Does that sound okay?"
"Yeah, sounds good." Olette said pushing herself off the floor and heading for the door, "But first can we get something to eat I didn't really get a chance to eat my lunch."
"Yeah, yeah," he said pushing him self up and following the girl out of the room.
xXx
"I'm sorry if I scared you, Sora." Olette said walking back into the kitchen a few minutes later followed by Demyx. She took the set at the table that she had vacated as Tessa put her plate back down in front of her and Demyx moved over to stand by some of the other works he'd been talking to before.
"Um, that's okay; I think you just startled me." Sora said as Olette took a large bit of veggies making her realize just how hunger she really was. "You never seemed like the kind of person that would do something like is all. Can I ask…?"
Demyx quickly cut in, not allowing Sora to finish his sentence, "Sooo we need to think of something to do for Olette's birthday. Any ideas anyone?"
"When's your birthday?" Kairi asked looking up from the sewing she was doing to one of Sora's outfits and setting it done on her lap.
"Today." Demyx said cheerfully, jumping up and down a few times until his excitement subsided enough for him to stand still.
"Wha?!" Sora said mouth falling open and eyes widening as he stared looking from Demyx to Olette and back to Demyx, "You couldn't give us more of a warning?"
"Sorry," Olette said softly, "That was my fault. I didn't plan on telling anyone at all really."
"Why wouldn't you tell us it was your birthday?" Roxas asked suddenly looking up from the window he'd spent the last ten minutes aimlessly staring out of. He used his hip to push him off the wall that he was leaning against and moved over to the table with everyone else.
"It's a long story." Olette said smiling so as not to worry anybody and to get her own happiness level up, it was her birthday after all.
Roxas nodded as Demyx asked again, "So what should we do?"
Everyone looked around the room and at each other trying to find something to do or just hoping that someone else would come up with a good idea. Finally after a few minutes Kairi said, "Well we could have a picnic?"
xXx
"This was such a stupid idea." Kairi said as they sat down in the on the side of the house. Tessa had given them all sandwiches and cookies for later, but being that they had just eaten it was kind of pointless.
"Don't say that!" Olette said, sitting down next to the girl, "It'll work out just fine, you just see. We just have to think of something that we can do. What do people normally do at picnics? Besides eat that is."
"Play games!" Demyx said, "Let's play a game."
"Like what?" asked Sora sitting down across from Kairi making it so that they were sitting in a circle.
"Well," Kairi said, "my family always used to play Frisbee."
"But we don't have a Frisbee, Kairi." Roxas said sourly.
"How about Truth or Dare?" Demyx said thrilled by his own idea. "We don't really need anything to play so it works out okay as long as everyone agrees."
Everyone looked around at each other for a moment and then mumbled in agreement that they would play.
"I'll go first," Demyx said excitedly. And no one had any arguments about it, they just shrugged and watched at Demyx put one hand on his chin and started to look around the circle for his first victim. "Kairi," he said leaning towards her, "truth or dare?"
"Truth?" she said slowly leaning away from Demyx as he continued to lean in closer to her, but as soon as she answers he leaned back into a normal sitting position.
"Okay…" he hummed to himself as he crossed his legs like a pretzel and looked down at the grass for a moment. When he looked up he had a maniacal look in his eyes and a vile grin on his lips making Kairi shiver, "Admit that you like Sora."
"That's not a question!" and "What?!" where the answers that Demyx got, both very loudly. One from Kairi one from Sora, guess which came from who.
"Well I don't want to ask if you like Sora because everyone already knows that you do. I just want to admit that you like him." Demyx was back to his normal self a smile on his face and his eyes twinkling with delight.
"B-but…" Kairi stumbled. Olette nudged her gently and gave her a stern look and a smile, she sighed and nodded, "Okay, I like Sora, a lot. Sometimes more then I know I should." She glared at Demyx, "Are you happy?"
"Quite." He said a simply answer but it made Kairi's eyes start to burn with anger and narrow in on him as she frowned, you could tell she holding back from saying anything.
"It's your turn, Kairi." Roxas said quickly before anything bad could happen. He was nervously looking from Demyx to Kairi and every sparing a glance towards the still shocked Sora.
From there the game went relatively okay. Moving from person to person without anyone getting mad, or at least not showing that they were. That is until it was Sora's turn, for the second time.
At first he just sat there looking at each of them for a few seconds before moving to the next person. Finally his eyes landed on Roxas and didn't move. "Truth or Dare, Roxas?" he asked smiling in a not so pleasant way, and making a shiver go up Olette's back. She had a back feeling about this one.
"Dare." Roxas said confidently ginning at the boy and keep eye contact with him.
Sora's grin grew and even Kairi and Demyx started to get worried, Demyx enough that his normal smiling face fell into a frown at the brunette. "I dare you to…," Olette wasn't sure if he paused for dramatic effect or if he was just thinking, but either way it was totally starting to freak Roxas out, "I dare you to kiss Olette." The smirk on his face grew with every word he said.
"What?!" Demyx, Olette, and Roxas all said staring at Sora like he was out of his mind. Even Kairi didn't like the idea, you could tell by the fact that she was giving Sora a worried look. Maybe he was out of his mind? "No way." Roxas continued.
"Well if you want to chicken out…" Sora said knowing that Roxas wouldn't make himself look like a coward no matter what he had to do.
"Fine, I'll do it." Roxas said stubbornly, standing up and moving towards Olette who stared at him in shock.
What? She thought He's really going to kiss me just because Sora's being an ass.
Roxas held his hand out to Olette to help her up off the ground. She hesitated, but took it and stood up.
She stood absolutely still and let him lean in and kiss her. What surprised her was that when he pressed his lips against hers it wasn't hard and rough like she expected, but soft and gentle. He tasted like…white chocolate Olette smiled into the kiss as she, without meaning to, leaned in wanting more. But Roxas pulled away his lip lingering centimeters from hers for a split second before he took a large step back.
Their eyes meet for a moment, but suddenly they were both knocked over and fell to the ground by a Demyx that was running towards the front gate.
"Demyx!" Kairi cried pushing herself off the ground after giving Sora a not mean glare, much worse then the one that she'd given Demyx earlier. "Good job, Sora." She said sarcastically and she followed after the older boy.
By the time Olette was back on her feet she was only one left in the court yard. "Wow," she said to herself, "What a great birthday." She bit the inside of her cheek and decided that she might as well spend the rest of the time in the library now that everyone else had run off.
Besides, it might help getting the kiss of her mind.
But it was so much better then kissing Xemnas. Something in the back of her mind kept telling her as she ran off leaving everything still lying in the yard.
xXx
Demyx ran all way to the front gate without really thinking. He just couldn't sit there and watch him kiss her while he wanted to be in his place so bad. He didn't care that he had knocked over the both of them or that he would probably get odd questions later, he just couldn't watch.
He stopped catching his breath, leaning forward, his hands placed on his knees as he gasped for very much needed air.
"Finally!" Someone's voice came from the other side of the gate making Demyx jump, stumble, and nearly fall to the ground, "I've been waiting here for half an hour, you'd think they'd just have someone always standing at the gate, I mean what if it was someone important."
Demyx started up a red haired young man; well okay he looked to be about the same age as he was. His hair was the color of fire and it spiked out from his head like it was going to dance like fire too. He had elongated upside down triangles tattooed below his eyes, one below each, and he was wearing black pants, a red shirt, and a long black coat that went all the way down to his old black boots. Demyx just gapped at him for a moment, the only thing running though his mind was, Oh my god he's beautiful.
"Are you going to let me?" the red head asked sounding slightly annoyed that he was still standing on the other side of the gate.
"Oh, sorry," Demyx mumbled hastily moving to unlock the gate and open it for the man.
"Thank you." He said with a bright smile making Demyx feel as though he would melt right where he was. He looked over Demyx slowly his eyes looking curiously at the boys unusual hair and then into his clear blue eyes. "I'm Axel, commit it to memory." He said tapping his temple with his pointer finger as he continued to smile broadly at the blonde boy.
"Um, I'm Demyx." Demyx said slowly his voice got unsteady and broke as he said his name, making him blush and look to the ground. All the same he stood up straighter having regained most of his breath back by now.
Axel chuckled and one of his hands moved to take a piece of Demyx's hair, which he started to play with as he continued talking, "Well, Demyx you must be new here because I've never meet you before." Demyx could only nod as the man continued to torment him with his sweet smooth voice, as well as the finger that was twirling that single stands of hair around and around, "That's nice. Do you enjoy working here?" Demyx could only nod again as the man's finger stopped wrapping itself in his hair and his whole hand ran through instead.
"Axel!" a girl's angry voice said from Demyx.
Axel pulled his hand way from the blonde's hair and looked over at the frustrated Kairi, "Hey, Kairi long time no see. What's been going on?"
"Don't start." She snapped, "What are you here for?"
"To see Roxy, what else?" he said grinning down at the girl as she stomped the rest over the over to stand in front of him.
"Well, now's not a good time. I suggest that you leave, immediately." She said.
"Why? What's going on?"
"It's none of your business Axel, just leave," she said trying to be as polite as possible, "please."
"Okay, but only because you said please." He smiled at the blonde boy, Demyx, before he turned and walked back out the gate rather disappointed that he didn't get to see his friend.
As soon as the red head was out of ear shot Kairi asked Demyx, "Are you okay?"
Am I okay? Demyx thought what kind of question was that? Of course I'm alright, why would I be…? Oh.
"Yeah, I'm okay," he said slowly finding it hard to believe that he had totally forgotten about the incident that had made him mad enough to run away in the first place. "I was just over reacting."
"Alright," Kairi said looking at him oddly, but she shrugged, "You want to go back we still have those cookies that Tessa gave us. Maybe if we're lucky no one else will be there anymore."
Demyx nodded, that sounded like a good plan and mentioning cookies was making him hungry. He licked his lips and followed the girl back over to where they'd been sitting before.
xXx
Olette was standing on one of the many ladders trying to grab a book several shelves above her head when Sora walked into the library looking for her. Olette didn't notice him though and took another step up the ladder to grab the book just as he said, "I'm sorry about earlier and everything." Olette jumped at the sound of his voice, falling off the ladder and onto the floor followed by a collection of books.
She looked up at Sora rubbing her head where one of the books had fallen on her and laughed lightly, "That's okay, but gosh don't scare me like that. Give a girl some warning please." She stood up and looked at the mess of books on the floor for a second before turning back to Sora.
"Sorry," he said again, "I just thought that I should apologize 'cause everything fell apart after I made Roxas do that dare and it is your birthday and all."
"Don't worry about it. I want to come up to the library anyways and that just gave me the excuse to. Besides Sora it wasn't total your fault. In a way it was kind of all of ours so don't fret about it." She said, smiling at the brunette as she leaned down to start picking up the books that lie scattered across the floor around her, she still had to find the one that she had been reaching for in the first place. She picked up several books and started to climb back up the ladder with them.
"Do you want me to help you pick these up?" Sora asked handing her a few more books, she looked at them before placing them carefully back on their shelf.
"That's okay, I can handle it." Olette said just as they heard a knock on the door that called for Sora's attention. "Besides, you seem to be a wanted fellow at the moment."
Sora nodded and ran down the main stairs towards the front door.
Meanwhile Olette finished placing the books on the shelf and found the one that she had been looking for. She took it and moved over to the two armchairs in the whole room. Settling into one she opened the book and only got a few sentences before someone was standing in front of her, nervously shifting from foot to foot. She looked up to see Roxas, hands clasped behind his back and biting his lower lip.
"Sorry about…you know." He said hastily, "Sora can be a bite of a jerk, but he's a really nice guy most of the time and he's the most optimistic person I know when it comes to anything except think that Kairi likes him, although that might change now."
"Don't worry about it. And I know, I've been here long enough to know what Sora's like." I shrugged, "Something must have just been nagging at his mean side earlier today or something." Like you who made him climb that ten foot tall wall even though you know he's afraid of heights. But Olette didn't say anything about that she just smiled at Roxas.
"Um," Roxas said looking as though he was going to say something else, but he shook his head and said, "I'll see at dinner then." Olette watched as he walked towards the stairs, but stopped before going down and turned back towards her, "And Happy Birthday. If I would have known sooner I would have gotten you a present." Before Olette could tell him that it was fine and she didn't need anything he was heading down the stairs and then out of sight.
So she just smiled and turned her attention back to her book starting over have forgotten the few sentences that she had read already.
She didn't get much farther this time when Demyx showed up making quite a bit of noise as he came up the servants stairs to her right. She watched the door until he entered the room and stumbled over to her, collapsing into the other chair and leaning towards her, placing his hands on the small table between them, which held a reading lamp. "Hey Olette I'm so sorry about earlier." He said out of breath and smiling like a mad man. "But guess what?!"
This was not what Olette had been expecting. She closed her book and set it down on her lap raising her eyebrows at the blonde, "What?"
"I just meet the most bee-utiful man that has ever lived on this planet. I mean he looked like a god and…" Demyx started talking so fast that Olette couldn't understand him.
But she just laughed and held her hand up to him, "Slow down Demyx. My you're going to hurt your self talking like that. Tell me again, more slowly this time."
"'Kay, when I ran away I went to the front gate where there was this guy that was really, really good looking. I let him because he was here to see someone, Roxas I think, and he started talking to me and then he started to play with my hair and I think he was flirting with me. It was weird, but it felt good and oh god I know I must have been blushing to high heavens the whole time."
"Um, what does this have to do with anything?" Olette asked, cocking her head to one side as she watched her friend. He seemed to be looking right through her, meaning he was off in his own world. Olette waved her hand in front of his face and he snapped out of it, she repeated the question, "What does that have to do with anything, again?"
"Well, nothing I guess. I just really wanted to tell someone." Demyx said looking at Olette oddly like she had asked a question that didn't really make sense, but did at the same time, "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
"No," Olette said flatly, frowning at the older boy, "Love at first sight is made up simply for fairy tales, but it's not real. You're not in love with this guy no matter how good looking he is Dem, it's just a crush."
"Well, this is one hell of a crush then." He said standing up, "I gotta get going. I'll see you at dinner." He bit his lip staring into space for a second humming lightly to him self before he skipped once and then ran the rest of the way out of the room and back down the door that he'd come through.
She didn't move for a minute almost expecting someone else to come rushing into the room, but no one did so she picked her book back up and made it through several pages. She was humming to herself as she read when Kairi came up the stairs this time.
"There you are." She said, sighing lightly, "The Admiral wants me to take you into town so that you can pick up those dresses that you got fitted for last week."
"But we're not supposed to pick them up until tomorrow." Olette said, raising her eyebrows in confusion.
"You'll be busy tomorrow and you're going to need the dresses. You're going to go somewhere with the admiral for business early tomorrow and you're going to need to look you're best."
"Where are we going?"
"You're going to the palace." Kairi said looking down at the girl with what seemed a lot like jealousy in her eyes.
(End of Chapter Three: Good-bye and a Birthday)
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A/N: Yeah! Another chapter done and up. Please review. I want 10 reviews before I update. I'm normally not the kind of person who doesn't update until I get so many reviews but I fell that this story can handle it so please review. Tell me what you think so far, or if there's anything that you think should happen because I'm imagination is being strained on this story, more so then it usually is. : )