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Namine might be confuse but not for long. School's second week of the year is starting and she has to face the challenge of Sora and his stoic partner along with Kairi dragging her off…
Finding out and falling in.
"My dear Namine, your socks don't match."
"My dear Kairi, shut up." I replied sweetly.
It is seven in the morning and the usual hubbub of the dorms has already begun. The morning DJ is already belting out sunshine tunes; very sarcastic considering the sun has yet to rise.
"Get those bummers off that pillow! We are going to have a full day ahead, peepz!" The DJ said energetically, his voice echoing the corridors. A chorus of vulgarities followed his announcement, almost in sync. I laugh.
I then groan. "I'm going to get your gammy socks right even if it's swarming with rats!" She cried out and lunge at me. I nimbly side stepped her and she crashed on my bed. Kairi sure is persistent. She turned and tried to grab my shoe now. I pushed my foot too near her feet and she stumbled. Taking the chance, I grab my bag and fled, dodging over the mess of books and papers. Welcome to Monday.
I feel a bit spontaneous so I thought some kind of oddity is welcome even if it is just socks. Go me!
As I locked my room with Kairi in, there is a slight scuffle and Xion emerged, with oversized jacket draped on her shoulder and baggy jeans touching the floor. There is a meow and Sycorax peeped through the door. Xion kneels down and shove her inside before shutting her room too.
We face each other, questioning looks on our expression.
"Kairi tried to mug my socks." I said.
"Ah." Xion now stare at my red and blue socks.
"Sycorax is under observation and must be shut in the room." Xion analyzes.
I shrug and shove my key under the spacing of my door. I then rap hard on my door. "Hey, the key's underneath!"
Xion tailed me as I burned the pathway to school.
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We burst out laughing as we collapse on the benches in the mess hall. Our laughter echoes around, multiply thus, it sounds like a thousand hyenas got loose here.
As I wipe tears away from my eyes, Xion gives a loud sigh and blow her fringe up. Her face is slightly red and her blue eyes sparkle. I grin and continue grinning until something or someone comes up. Scratch that, there are two people emerging from the end of the mess hall. The two cousins have arrived. I groaned.
They spotted us immediately and started towards our direction. Sora looks as tall and idiotic as ever, his cute round eyes inquiring and his grin normally wide. His spiky hair obstructs the beautiful view of one of the four walls of the mess hall. I yearn for scissors.
"Hey Namine!" He greets and looks pointedly at Xion.
"Oh, that's Xion, our roommate." I introduce. "Xion, the idiot I told you about."
Sora acts hurt and I laugh inwardly. He looks more like his puppy bites him. What a softie!
"Where's Kairi?" Roxas asks.
I must have looked surprised as Sora says exasperatedly, "He can talk, Namine."
"Oh." is all I can manage. I still remember that incident and hope that he keeps it to himself. I scowl. It was he who does that in the first place!
"Kairi must be out by now." Xion predicts and sure enough, there is a loud thump echoing and Kairi pops into view.
I consciously hide behind Xion who is about to burst into another fit of giggles. Sora and Roxas doesn't understand and turn to Kairi for an explanation.
"Socks! How can you be so uncoordinated?" She snaps across the mess hall and in a thrice, she is beside Sora, fuming at me. I give her a silly lop side grin, hoping to pacify her. She doesn't buy it.
"Hey, chill out." Sora said gently and taps on her shoulder. She spins around and one look at the (puke) handsome boy is enough to knock her speechless. I cheered. You go Sora the seducer! Maybe I should just put on a Sora mask next time.
"Since we're here, why don't we check our timetables?" Roxas suggests.
"I have already known my times table, Roxas." I joke. "One times one is one."
"Yeah and sixty three times two hundred is 12600." Roxas calculates. I gape and Xion pushes up her glasses. It flashes.
"That is correct." She announces. The only person who is fast and smart enough to calculate that number is Xion. I see a male version of Xion.
Sora frowns at him and he shuts up immediately. He must feel inferior to such a genius. Well, he has no right to make Roxas shuts up!
"Yeah, it sounds good. What have you guys got?" Kairi says quickly.
It feels like the first day of school again. We all fish out our timetables and place them flat on the table. I scrutinize mine and compare it to the others. Sora and Kairi have many classes together. I and Roxas have ALL classes together. Cool considering that he can talk. He is normal. Xion as usual merely hovers around as she isn't in any of our classes. She's a year forward as she skipped a grade.
After the comparison, Kairi suggests to fill them in of the people in the school.
"Well, there are always the Season sisters." I started.
"Mrs Spring and Summer, Ms Autumn and Winter." Xion lists.
"Mrs Spring has taken maternity leave. She was pregnant last year. Mrs Summers pregnant this year. Ms Autumn is engaged. Ms Winter's a widow. Winter's very fierce so try not to provoke her." Kairi reels on. Xion and I become quiet. Kari must know a lot since she is in the G.O.S.S.I.P club.
"There is an odd person in this school who claims to be cursed." Kairi continues. "Jamie loves food fights so try not to pick any from him. Trixie Pixie's our school phantom. Top of the social chain in this school is Axel and Mystique. Pick your subject." She says and looks slightly put off. I guess she is a fair person for mentioning Mystique. I would call her a human crossbreed of a bat and peacock.
"Who is Trixie pixie? All the guys I met say it's a he or a she and some even say that she's a spirit." Sora probes.
"Well," Kairi take a wary glance at me. I nod.
"It is a she and she's a prankster that recently moves on our second year. Her first prank is the sparkles on the generator behind the water machine. It nearly exploded and the whole school was in a blackout. We were having our break at that time." Kairi says.
"Afterwards, she kept doing major pranks. There is one time on last year's April Fool's day, Trixie announces the closure of school and sure enough, everyone didn't come on that day. The authorities have a hard time getting everyone to believe that there are no man eating mongooses lurking around the school." A smile tugs at the corner of my mouth at that particular incident. It was awesome.
"Then there is the food fight for the starting of the year, school dance."
"Serves the principal right! He always has dances for all major occasions in the calendar." I chip in, rolling my eyes.
"You seem to know a lot about her." Roxas states carefully. He is staring at me again.
Who is he, making me this nervous? Is he a genius enough finding out Trixie's secret identity? I gulp. I hope he keeps to himself.
Xion notices my panic look and swerves the conversation away. "So that's all we know because we were there. You can get different versions from the others."
Sora and Roxas nods and I breathe again. "What else do you want to know?"
"The cursed person." Roxas says.
"Ah." Kairi smiles. "Before that, you must know about the school ghost."
The mention of those words makes my palms sweaty. My hearts beats faster and I feel a tremor around my body. Fear zips down my spine. I feel weak and pale.
Xion's hand grasps my clasp hands. Her warmth soothes me a bit.
"Sorry, Namine. This topic about ghosts always makes her nervous." She explains. "She's rather more sensitive to this kind of abstract things."
"I see." Roxas answers and looks rather knowing. I feel a slight pang of irritation. No need to imply my breakdown! How does he know about my condition anyway?
My mental questions got swept away by fear when Kairi starts the story. "It is taboo mentioning or thinking about the ghost. There is an unwritten rule that what you think a lot about or say will happen in this school. I will say this once and no more." Kairi whispers.
"The school is said to be build with a curse as the very person who built it is cursed for his greed and destructive nature. His name is carved in front of the school."
"Ansem." Sora says in a hushed voice.
"Yes." Kairi nods. "Ansem is rumored to be a scientist but no one really knows what he did. Some say the ghost is one of his unfinished experiments. Either way, it is mysterious as it is real." Kairi takes a deep breath. I too follow her and clench my hands tighter.
"The haunt started when Ansem died and it was made into a school. A girl, student from this school, got possessed and shrieks out that a black thing tried to mug her soul. She then started blabbing some kind of prophecy and died on the spot. Her heart stopped." Kairi snaps her fingers. "Just like that."
"She said that there would be one cursed person in the school forever until the thing can find someone of its own kind. A kindred spirit. So every time the cursed person graduates, there is uproar of fear. Who will be the next to be cursed?"
"Then it leads to Amy Ambers." Xion continues.
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A cliff hanger!! Pls read and review. Ciao. BTW, the ghost of the school is an important development to Namine's real self. Keep in mind.