Hello's and yo's. Yay I updated! Sorry, I've had homework, projects, birthdays, videogames, and writer's block that have been getting in the way, but hopefully I'll get farther along. Or I'll just get bored.

I doubt any of you noticed (because I barely did), but I had said in chapter two that Axel would be in Sora's biology class, but he wasn't when I actually wrote about it. So I fixed it. Kind of. o.O

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"I can't help noticing that something's missing…" I mumble, pushing my backpack strap farther up my shoulder.

"I can't help noticing that this mascara matches my dress," Kairi says from behind her mirror. ((A.N. – if you figure out where this line comes from you win 10 cool points!! So worth it!!))

Riku lightly pats my shoulder. "Don't worry, Sora. We'll find your straightness somewhere." I push him into the lockers, which only makes him laugh.

Kairi pushes open the double doors into the cafeteria, leading the way towards the lunch line. As Riku and Kairi argued over which of the school's foods was most likely to contain parasites (Riku's bet is on the school's 'Chinese' food that resembles worms more than noodles; Kairi's is on the heat up burritos that shame Mexican food), I reach into my pocket for my wallet.

"Oh shit," I murmur.

"Shit is right, man," Riku says, poking the side of the white tray of Chou Mien.

"I left my wallet at home."

"Don't worry about it, Sora," Kairi smiles at me. "I've got some extra money, I'll buy you lunch."

"Seriously?! I love you!" I say, hugging her tightly.

"Yeah, yeah, on one condition," She smiles sweetly, her eyes sparkling with evil. "I get to help Riku with you makeover Friday."

I glare at Riku. "I thought we were having a movie night."

He smiles at me. "We are. Me and Kairi will paint your nails and find a foundation that matches your skin tone while we watch 'The Devil Wears Prada.' Then we can stay up late talking about boys."

"Fuck off, man," I roll my eyes, turning to leave. "I want pizza, Kai."

In the very back of the cafeteria is our table, where our random friends and their random friends come and go as they please. For now only Namine and Demyx are at the table. Demyx stares out the window, crewing on the end of a plastic straw. I can only see the top of Namine's head, with her nose burying into a coloring book and her blonde hair sprayed across the countertop.

Glancing up at me for just a second, Namine reaches into her side bag next to her and pulls out a Disney Princess coloring book. "Here," she murmurs, pushing it across the table.

"…Why do I have to princess one?" I ask her as I drop my backpack to the table.

She glances at Demyx, then whispers, "Because Dem already has the Pokemon one."

I sigh, grabbing a blue crayon and coloring Ariel's hair. Despite all the years that I've known her, Namine still looks and acts like an adorable little girl, unlike her brother. Unlike her grown up, mature, gay as a rainbow brother.

"Have you told him yet?"

"Hmm…?" I glance up at her. She's busy drawing bunnies on the border of a picture of Simba.

"Have you told big brother that you love him?"

I drop the crayon. "How…how did you know that?"

"Because it's obvious," she responds dully.

Of course, there are times when Namine acts older than Gandhi.

A couple of seconds pass in silence. She's waiting for my answer.

"Well…" I start, blowing out a long breath. "I just…you know…?"

"You just have the lower regions of a girl?"

"What?! Damn you…Okay…I get it…I should tell him soon, right?"

Namine picks up a pink crayon, aiming it down on the laughing sun. "Well, only if you want him to know."

I glare at Ariel, who's gently floating in her secret cave, a hand caressing Prince Eric's statue's cheek. She's smiling, but it's a weak one, as if she knows that she can whisper to the sculpted stone all the sweet nothings that she wants or wrap her arms around its cold, hard neck all that she likes, but never will she be able to touch the warm, sun-kissed skin of her prince.

"Then nothing will change. You will long for him, and that is all it will be."

"Do you have to be so harsh!?" I can't help but scream at her. Namine flinches, her head dipping a little closer to the book. I bite my lip, staring back down at the mermaid. "I'm sor–"

"She has a point." Demyx whispers as he drops his straw. His coloring book lies beneath him, closed and ignored. "You have two options. You can tell Riku how you feel. Maybe he'll return the feelings, maybe he won't. That's life, learn to love it or get over it." His eyes flicker to the window again. "Or, you could just keep your mouth shut and watch him live his life as yours stays at a standstill." He glances at me, his black eye a sad, purple sunset. "But, that's just my opinion."

"Some hella of an opinion," I mutter, flipping the page to a picture of Cinderella cleaning the floors.

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Meanwhile.

"So, have you told him yet?" Kairi asks, picking up a chocolate milk bottle and placing it on her tray.

Riku flinches, but gives a quick laugh. "Told who what?"

"Have you told Sora that you love him?"

His eyes grow wide. "How the fuck did you know that, Kai?"

Kairi laughs. "Because it's obvious."

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When Axel was younger, back when his mother would walk him and Reno to the park near their apartment after school, after his older brother chased him around the park and they would fall breathless to the wet grass, he would always count the clouds, determining theie shapes to different animals or items. His mother thought it was adorable, discussing how the cloud above was a white bunny, which Axel argued was Superman. Reno just tackled him to the ground and called him a girl.

By lunchtime, the sky became speckled with small, puffy clouds, perfect for gazing at. Unfortunately, his friends were more of a Reno than his mother.

"Shiiittt…I want a cigarette so bad…" Larxene yanks at her hair, her legs bobbing up and down. Seifer has his arm dangling over her shoulder, his eyes peeking down her tank top.

She glances over at the redhead. "Axel, hand them over."

"Hand over what?" he mutters, leaning against the wall of the back of the gym.

"Your cigs, man. Give me your cigs," She snarls.

Seifer laughs. "You can't be serious, babe. Wait til after school."

"I don't want to fucking wait!" Larxene glares at the blond, retreating a little from his embrace.

"So like you," the druggie murmurs. "Like last night…"

Axel fazes out of the conversation then, the light whispers and giggles beside him becoming a minor annoyance. Above, a slightly plump cloud grew a thick arm towards the sun. A samurai on horseback. Or maybe a soldier standing by his cannon. Other clouds surround the warrior, but this cloud stands proudly, as if daring the bigger ones to even try to cover him.

Of course, Mom would probably say it's a heart or a bunny's head, or something girly like that, Axel decides. A small chuckle escapes him.

"What's so funny?" Larxene sneers, her grin trimmed with wickedness.

"Nothing," Axel replies.

Seifer nudges the pyro harshly, letting a loud cackle loose. "Probably just thinkin' dirty thoughts, babe."

"Probably about that one cheerleader bitch," the blond jeers.

Axel's eyes snap up to the girl. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"Oh don't give me that shit, Axel," Larxene starts to pull at her hair again. "I saw you staring at that skinny girl's ass. You obviously were just dying to get your filthy hands down her panties."

Reaching for his backpack, Axel pushes himself up, making his way to the front of the building. Behind him he can hear more jokes and taunts, but he fazes these out too, turning them into soft scraps of a nail against metal.

He couldn't stand to go to Sora and Riku, pretending to be normal and just like them. Kairi would probably be there anyways. And it'd be too early to go to class now. Near the edge of the cafeteria, a lone table stands, more than likely dragged there by some kids that morning. Climbing on top of it, Axel leans back onto the brown crisscrossed surface, clouds gazing. The samurai/soldier still makes its way across the sky, the other clouds behind him.

"What are you doing here?"

Of course, of course, Kairi stands at the foot of the table, smiling brightly down at him. Axel coughs a little, holding back a girly squeak, then returns the smile. "Nothing. Just cloud gazing."

She laughs at this, looking just a little less than Aphrodite Axel thinks (but only so he would not have to deal with the goddess's wrath). "How manly of you."

"Only men without balls don't stare at the sky," he returns, hoping that his vulgar humor didn't scare her off.

But, of course, it doesn't, since she's probably used to that and more from Riku and Sora and all the other boys she hangs out with. Maybe even Hayner (he thinks, holding back a growl). "So…heading off to see your boy toy?" Axel suggests, his hand behind him starting to grip the table.

Kairi shakes her head. "Nah, he went off to play basketball with his friends. What a bore." She glances at a building a few yards off. "Speaking of bore, I need to get to my next class to make up that dumbass test." Damn she can make cussing hot. "Oh, and Sora said he was pissed that you didn't show up for Bio. Skipping, maybe?"

"Me? Of course not, – how dare you," the pyro argues. The girl's laugh shows that he failed to convince her.

"Well, I'll see ya around," Kairi goes to turn away.

"Wait."

"Hmm…?"

"That cloud right there," Axel points to the warrior cloud. "What do you think it looks like?"

Kairi squints at the sky. "I dunno…a heart? Or maybe a bunny's head? Yeah, because that would be its ears." She waves goodbye.

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Hayner pulls her into his arms, running kisses up and down her neck. She giggles, pushing him back lightly. "No, not here!"

"Come on, I've been missing you all day," he gives her a smile that could clear away the harshest storms. The blonde moves to kiss her again, but she pulls back. "No, no! Later, I promise."

She wraps her pinky around his, eyeing him seductively. He grins. "Alright, you better call me." He turns away and walking down the hall, the girl moving away in the opposite direction.

Kairi walks around the lockers, looking down the hall at her boyfriend. He's leaning back casually, probably grinning like an idiot. She glances at the dyed blonde girl, her miniskirt dangerously close to showing her thong. And suddenly anger slips into her blood, boiling underneath her skin, begging to pull out her hair, to strangle that whore, and then dump her unconscious body on her boyfriend's porch and wait until that bastard comes out and see it and then she'll –

Something pushes heavily on her back. She spins around, looking down at the boy. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He stammers, hurriedly grabbing at the contents that fell out of his bag.

Kairi drops to her knees, helping to pick the items. "It's okay, don't worry about it." She smiles, which is surprisingly easy to do. The kid looks up at her quickly, and then glances back down, putting his calculator into a small pocket. Probably a freshman Kairi decides, studying his messy dirty-blonde hair and his baggy clothes that look less of a fashion statement and more of a lack of proper fitting clothes.

The boy stands, muttering another apology, and moves to go away. The redhead noticed a small silver gadget on the ground. "Wait!" she calls, picking up the cellphone and handing it to him. "You wouldn't want to lose that."

He smiles a little. "Thanks Kairi."

She nods, deciding to get to class early. It isn't until she reaches other side of the school that she realizes that she had never told him her name.

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Cliffhanger! Again! Because I love them:D

Yeah, so I'm now piecing together some of the story. If it's a little boring right now, then just wait, it'll get more interesting (hopefully. . )

Review please! My self-confidence needs it!! DX lolz