Chapter 3
A few days had passed and Kairi hadn't had the dream again. Better for Kairi considering that she was going to start her first day at high school to day. So Kairi did her normal routine and took a shower brushed her red hair and her teeth. But instead of putting on the clothes she had been wearing all summer she had to wear a uniform. The school require that she wear a skirt that was different shades of blue plaid and the same coloring of plaid for her tie that went at the neck of her blouse. It wasn't a horrible uniform. In fact Kairi thought it was cute. She admired herself in her new uniform and got a text from Sora.
Her and Sora had been hanging out together a lot by themselves scene Naminè wasn't there. She didn't hate hanging out with Sora by herself. They got to bond more and to tell the truth Kairi thought it was kinda nice for it to be just him and her. Ultimately she felt bad about being happy that Naminè was gone but she had to look at the bright side. Kairi then opened her phone and looked at the text Sora had sent.
7:45am - Hey Kairi you ready? We gota be at the bus stop at 7:15
7:46am : Yeah I'm ready! (: are we stopping to go get the boys?
7:47am - Sure why not? I'm waiting outside see ya when you come out :)
7:47am : Alright I'm heading down! (:
Kairi grabbed her black and white checkered backpack and headed outside to meet Sora. Sora was also wearing his uniform. The boys were required to wear the same kind of plaid tie around the neck of their dress shirt and same kind of plaid for pants. Her cheeks got red as she saw him in his uniform looking so very handsome. He blushed as well seeing Kairi in uniform. They were to flustered to hug each other. They stood there blushing and flustered before she could speak up.
"Hey...so...um... we should probably go get the boys.." she trailed off and look to her left and walked off her porch to the sidewalk and kept walking. The brown haired teen ran after her. Today seemed like a perfect day. It was sunny and even though there clouds in the sky they were white puffy cotton candy like and showed no threat to rain. The morning air smelt fresh and clean and the sun warm on her skin. Silence was what walked with them until Roxas and Riku popped out and tackled Sora.
"Sora!" they said in unison. Roxas put Sora in a headlock and laughed an evil laugh.
"I heard you've been keeping Kairi all to yourself! What a shameful thing for a boy your age to do!" Roxas shouted and Riku laughed while Kairi panicked.
"You guys! Don't be so mean to Sora it's not like we were doing anything," Kairi saw the look on Roxas and Riku's face and knew she shouldn't have said that. Now they had a weapon and they were going to attack. Letting go of Sora, Roxas smirked.
"I never asked you that. That must mean you guys have been doing something! So what was it? Did you guys do it?" Roxas's remark made Kairi blush a deep red. The thought of that made her almost have a nervous break down. She started flailing her arms up and down.
"NO! It's not like that I would never- not with him. I mean I wouldn't do that with a guy! Wait! No! That's not right! I mean... I mean... That's so wrong!" the boys both looked at each other and laughed. Riku patted her back.
"We were just messing with you. Don't worry we know you wouldn't do anything with him. Besides we all know he doesn't have it in him," Sora blushed bright red and didn't know what to do but protest.
"I do to have it in me! I just wouldn't do something like that to Kairi unless we were dating and she wanted to!" the boys looked at each other and started laughing. Oh how they loved to tease Sora and Kairi.
"Would you guys stop teasing Sora and Kairi! Geez she looks like she's going to have a nose bleed and poor Sora over I'm sure is going to die from blood loss of a nose bleed worse than Kairi if you don't stop giving him images," Selphie laughed and so did the boys, but still Sora and Kairi couldn't look each other in the eye. "Well let's hurry up we are going to miss the bus! It's already 7!" So they walked on to the bus stop. All the boys laughed and joked with each other while Selphie started talking about the boy that she was now dating. Kairi hadn't seen her so happy in so long.
"He's so sweet kairi! He's tall and has shaggy black hair. But his eyes! They are the most amazing shade of gray," Kairi didn't know that gray had more than one shade but she wasn't one to argue. So she just continued to listen to her friend. " You know we are dating right?" she asked her red haired friend. Shock hit her like a brick wall. She was happy for her friend but still it seemed to good to be true. Maybe Kairi just felt it unfair she didn't have a boy like what Selphie was talking about. When would Kairi realize there was one?
"Really! I'm so happy for you! I can't wait to meet this guy!" The bus had come to soon and to soon they would be at school and Kairi would find things not hte same as she would hoped they would be.
Kairi went through her schedule. 1st being Health, 2nd being Spanish, 3rd being her Bio Science class, and then came lunch. When Kairi walked into the commons she realized that at a table all she saw was the boys. Selphie and Olett were nowhere to be found. She sat down in between Sora and Roxas setting her box lunch on the table that was white just like the tile. She could smell the school pizza and other school products for lunch mixed with the smell of colone that both were wearing. Of course it was different cologne. Guy friends rarely ever wore the same cologne she noticed.
"Where are Selphie and Olett?" the boys looked to her and realized she didn't know where they both were and as Riku explained he opened Kairi's lunch box and eat a few of her apple bunnies.
"Selphie is with her boyfriend who by the way is a real douche bag and Olett is off with some boy she's found an interest in," suddenly Kairi missed Naminè a lot more than she had a few days ago. She wished that she was here with them. Naminè would have run off and brought them over here even if they didn't want to. Which usually they ended up liking it. But what concerned her now was Selphie's boyfriend and him being a douche bag.
"what do you mean he's a douche bag?"
"Well we tried to get her to stay here but her boyfriend said that if she didn't go with him he'd dump her," Sora explained.
"I almost fought him but he bitched out," Roxas said with a smile on his face. He always like to play the tough guy role and get in fights. Normally Naminè would be here to tell him how it was a bad idea or she would be the one getting in a fight and Roxas would be the one holding her back. Maybe even convincing her that it was a bad idea. Everyone always said that Naminè had a temper of a ginger. Those two had known each other sence the 7th grade and were always together. Somehow even though they were rough and wrestled with each other they were soft and kind to each other when the other needed it most.
Kairi sighed and felt a sadness. What the heck is she doing with a boy like that? It pissed her off more than anything that he threatened her with a break up. As far as Kairi was concerned they might as well break up. Selphie didn't need a jerk for a boyfriend. Kairi pulled out her phone an started to text Naminè.
11:30am : Hey Nami guess who's dating a douche bag?
11:30am - Who?
11:31am : Selphie! This guy she met told her that if she didn't go with him to where ever he planed on having lunch than he was going to break up with her!
Kairi eat some of her food while she waited for a response from Naminè. Goth Tamn it school sucks without Naminè here. There is no one to be loud and just crazy. That was Naminè and Olett's job.Finally she got a text back.
11:34am - Well that is douche but I don't see how we can do anything. The more we talk bad about him the more she'll feel she has to defend him. Look this is just a faze. We went through Dating a douche and so she will have to too. Just a girl thing I guess.
Kairi couldn't believe the answer she got! Is Naminè crazy? Well okay is she crazier than usual? Is it because she moved? Did she just not care about us any more? Confused and slightly angry she just put her phone away not bothering to answer it. She would just text her later.
The rest of her lunch she eat in silence just listening to the boys joke and laugh and talk about some hot girls around the school or in their class. Kairi was hardly listening and just went straight to her next class after eating, which was Choir. Then English, Photography, and finally Math. At the end of the day all Kairi wanted to do was go home and sleep or just listen to some good music.
Once Kairi was off the bus she just walked home without saying good-bye. As she was walking home and the sun was starting to set she heard another pair of foot steps. Kairi slowed down but the other pair of foot steps didn't. The dream came back to her. She quickly turned around but found nothing there. Someone touched her shoulder and she turned around and almost punched the person when she realized it was Sora and stopped mid punch.
"Whao! Sorry I didn't mean to scare you Kairi. I just wanted to talk. Are you okay?" he looked concerned. Adrenalin was racing to every part of Kairi's body. Beads of sweat were on her forehead. I thought I was going to have to fight. Geez Sora gave me quite a scare. But if those footsteps behind me weren't Sora's then who's were they? She turned around but still found no trace that anyone had been behind her. "Kairi? Are you okay? You seem kinda out of it," Kairi didn't think another moment about it. she grabbed his hand took off running to her house.
"I'll Tell you about it when we get in my room,"
Once they were in her room she told him to sit down and told him about the dream she had. He didn't interrupt her once. Then she told him about the foot steps she heard behind her. That that's why she was so freaked out. She had only had the dream once but for some reason it bothered her more than it should.
"I don't know maybe I'm just freaking out over something little but..." Sora looked her in the eye. Those amazing eyes always look at me with such honesty and determination. Maybe they even have a loving loving look to them at times. She looked from his eyes to his lips. I wonder...Kairi quickly looked away. Was she really just thinking about kissing him? She was snapped out of her thinking when he grabbed her shoulders and looked at her with a stubborn look on his face like in her dream. It gave her chills down her spine.
"Kairi I've had that dream to. So has Riku and Roxas. I bet Naminè has to. I just wonder what it means. And why Naminè of all people? I know she has those weird drawing powers but... and Axel seemed as though he knew what was going on... Axel would never do that and definitely not to Naminè." the wheels were turning in his head. So she wasn't the only one who thought things were strange. Suddenly Kairi just got up and walked over to her window and watched the sun set. Colors of purple, pink, orange and a strange almost hot pink colored the skies.
"I don't want this to happen! It isn't fair! First Naminè moves away and Selphie and Olett are leaving us for some stupid boys! They can't take Naminè and Roxas away forever!" tears started to fall and Kairi rose her voice more and more. "Sora..." Finally she got quieter to almost a whisper. "...Is there anything we can do?" she turned to him and he rushed to her side and held her in his arms.
"Kairi just remember we don't even know if this is going to happen. And if it does we won't let them take our friends away from us. I promise," although he was sincere about what he said Kairi still found it hard to believe. But Sora had never been wrong. and when he put his mind to something he would do what he wanted. So Kairi whipped her tears away but they kept coming. So when Sora pulled away he whipped her tears away.
Suddenly their lips locked. Kairi felt something she had never felt when she kissed a boy. An explosion of fireworks. A soft and feather cloud. Like she was in the safest comforting place she could dream of or imagine. She never knew his lips were so soft and his embrace so gentle. When he pulled away all she wanted to do was go back to that moment. She wanted to feel his soft lips against hers again. But all Sora did was hold her hands. So gentle like he was holding onto something fragile and he didn't want to break it. The look in his eyes said it all. He loved her. His eyes were loving and so were hers although she was blushing a bit.
"Kairi please trust me," that was all he had to say and she gave him a hug and he knew that she trusted him. That night Kairi relived that moment maybe more than a million times. Of course after she texted Naminè about the whole thing. Which she had already heard(read really) about the whole thing from Sora. It bothered Kairi a little that she didn't get to tell her best friend about the moment first but Kairi felt as if nothing could destroy her good mood.
