Kairi, Roxas, and Riku decide to join in the volleyball game too.
"I think we should play in pairs! I'm with Tiddy!" Selphie runs over to Tidus and grabs his arm.
"Aww...Selphie...but I was gonna pair up with Wakka...can't you pair up with someone else?" Tidus puts on an annoyed face.
"But Tiddy...I wanna be with you! Pwease...!" Selphie does the puppy eyes hoping she will win.
"Ugh..." He sighs. "Wakka wants to be my partner, right?" Tidus looks at Wakka with pleading eyes. He quietly mouths to Wakka, "Help me..." Wakka starts to laugh and says, "That's okay, ya? Selphie you can be his partner. I will be with Riku ya?" Wakka walks to Riku.
"Yay! He says we can be partners Tiddy!" Selphie jumps on him from behind.
"Can you stop calling me Tiddy?" Selphie just smiles and chuckles.
Tidus heads drops down. 'Yeah...thanks Wakka for helping me! We're definitely gonna lose.'
Sora asks Namine if she wants to be his partner, "You want to?" He smiles.
"Uh...me!?" Namine says in shock.
Sora chuckles, "Yeah, who else?"
"...I would lov-" Namine stops short. She remembers the promise. "Uh actually I..." Namine gets sad. '... Dang I can't be his partner... because of the promise between me and Roxas. Err...I have to turn him down...'
"So what do you say? Sora says with a big smile.
"Uh...sorry! I have to be partners with Roxas!" Namine looks at Sora's face hoping he wouldn't be mad.
"Okay then I will be with someone else then." Sora smile stays the same.
"I'm so sorry!" Namine bows her head.
"It's alright. Let's just have some fun!" Sora runs to Riku. 'Wow he's so kind...' Namine runs to Roxas.
"Roxas!" Namine says with a smile.
"Namine?" Roxas says surprised.
"Hey partner!" Namine starts to giggle.
"Partner? Wouldn't you rather be with Sora?" Namine gets caught off guard but then she turns happy again. Namine shakes her head.
"Come on Roxas...You'll always be my partner in everything! And you know why?" Namine looks at him.
Roxas couldn't stop staring into her eyes. 'Man...she's so cute.' Roxas shakes out of thoughts and smiles.
"How could I ever forget? The promise right? The promise that we made when we were little kids to always do everything together." Roxas pats Namine's head.
"Yep that's right! Hehe lets have some fun okay,?" Namine takes Roxas's hands and pulls him towards the others.
"Alright everybody! Everybody gots a partner ya?" Everybody responds with a "Yeah!"
Wakka starts again, "Okay then! Which team wants to go first?" Everybody looks around. All of a sudden Selphie blurts out, "Me and Tiddy will go!" Everybody starts laughing.
Tidus gets embarrassed. "....."
"Who wants to face them?" Riku asks. Riku looks around and sees a waving hand.
"Us! We will go!" Sora says with a big smile.
"Okay then it's settled! It's Selphie and Tidus against Sora and Kairi!" Riku says while sitting on a chair and crossing his arms. Wakka tosses the ball to Tidus and Selphie.
"Let the games begin ya!?" Wakka sits down too. Roxas and Namine sat next to Wakka and Riku. Sora and Kairi being partners wasn't a surprise to Namine. Kairi and Sora were most of the time, partners anyways especially when they were going out.
Tidus starts the game by serving first.
Wakka yells out, "Out of bounds!"
Selphie puts her arms around Tidus's neck and gives him a small peck on the cheeks, "Awww...It's okay Tiddy! You're just tired aren't you?" Tidus responds by pushing Selphie away from him. Selphie smiles.
"Hey! We're just getting started! Don't think we will be going easy on you guys!" Selphie yells out with all her might to Sora and Kairi. Tidus puts his hand to his face in embarrassment. 'Tiddy I won't let you down!' Selphie puts her game face on.
Then Namine serves. Tidus goes in to bump it but then Selphie gets in the way and slaps the ball up and the back of her head hits Tidus's face.
"Ow! Selphie!" Tidus rubs his nose.
"Oh my god! Tiddy sorry! Are you okay?" Tidus groans in pain.
"Let's just continue the game..." In the middle of the game Sora and Kairi were winning. The teams took a break and started playing again. Namine's aunt comes and talks to Roxas and Namine.
"Hello! You guys having fun?" Both Namine and Roxas nod their heads.
"Well I made some lemonade and cake. I think you guys will be getting thirsty and hungry soon from all the playing." Namine's aunt looks up at the sun.
"Did you say cake!?" Wakka licks his lips.
"Yes." Namine's aunt smiles.
"Can you guys do me a favor? Can you bring them out here because I need to do some errands at the store really quick. And oh yes I left some towels on the counter too for you guys."
"Sure we'll do it!" Namine says. Roxas and Namine stands up. Her aunt leaves. Roxas and Namine rush to the house.
"You guys hurry up! Ya?" Wakka yells from far away. Both of them started chuckling. Namine grabs the drinks.
"Umm...are you sure you should be carrying those?" Roxas looks at Namine with a worried face.
"If your talking about the last time...it was because of a stupid rock!" Namine pouts.
Roxas chuckles quietly. "Well alright then...I guess I will carry the cake and towels." They both started walking out. Roxas thinks of an idea. Out of nowhere he starts to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Kairi looks back at Roxas with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh nothing I was just thinking how funny it would be if I threw the cake in your face!" Roxas laughs harder.
"You wouldn't..." Namine says half scared. Roxas face turns serious.
"Are you sure about that?" Roxas takes a few steps closer towards Namine.
"Uh...Roxas...What are you doing?" Namine takes a few steps back. Roxas lifts up the plate with cake on it. He smiles evilly at Namine.
"Where you going Namine?" Roxas walks towards Namine again, each step faster than the last.
"No...Roxas...!" Namine starts to run. Roxas chases after her.
"Haha...don't make the lemonade fall!" Roxas laughs.
"It will be your fault if it does!" Namine giggles. She keeps on running without looking back, scared to see how close Roxas is behind her. The whole time Namine had a smile on her face. She was happy to share moments like these with Roxas. It made her remember the good times they had together when they were just little kids. 'Hehe this is fun!'
Namine yells out happily, "You can't catch me!" Then all of a sudden Namine steps on a shell and loses her balance.
"Oh no!" Namine yells, fearing the lemonade will drop and also falling on her face.
"Namine!" Roxas runs to her as fast as he could. Before Namine could fall, Roxas puts one arm around her waist and pulls her toward him.
"Haha I gotcha!" Roxas puts Namine back on her feet. The lemonade was in great shape, not even a drop spilled and the cake was not mushed.
Namine sighs in relief, "Phew! That was close..."
"Yeah...man you're so clumsy." Roxas chuckles.
"Uh...Roxas..." Roxas finally notices that he was still holding on to Namine.
"Oh sorry!" He lets go of her waist. 'Dam...how embarrassing.'
"No...not that.." Namine points to something in front of her. Roxas looks at her face.
"Hmmm? What?" Roxas looks at the direction she was pointing at.
Roxas eyes widens, "Oh...no...the towels..." While running to catch Namine, Roxas dropped the towels and now the towels were all over the place.
"Who's the clumsy one now?" Namine sticks her tongue out at Roxas.
"Haha shut up. We should be getting the towels." Roxas and Namine, both in a hurry, gathered the towels before they flew away into the water. From behind a bush, someone was watching Roxas and Namine from faraway, smiling and laughing. After long minutes of finding and running after towels, they were down to only one left.
"I think this is the last towel." Roxas picks it up and puts it on the stack of towels.
"Woo! Good work Namine." Roxas wipes a sweat drop from his face.
"Is it me or is it much hotter?" Roxas asks. Namine doesn't respond.
"Namine? Nam-" Roxas turns around and there, on the hot sand, Namine was lying down.
He starts to chuckle"Haha if you were that tired you could of said so. I mean the towels flew everywhere!" Namine doesn't respond back.
"...Namine?" Roxas kneels down to check on her. He places his hand on her cheek. 'She's burning up! Dam I got to get her out of here!' Namine lets out a groan.
She tugs on Roxas's shirt."...Roxas...I can't see...everything looks black."
"It's gonna be okay. Let's just get you into shade first." Roxas carefully, with two arms, picks Namine up. Her head laid on his chest while one of his arms was supporting her back and the other one under her legs. Then he holds her tighter and runs as quickly as possible. He runs through the volleyball game, towards a tree, and lays her in the shade. Everybody takes notice and crowds around Namine and Roxas. Kairi was the first to get to them.
"Roxas what happened to her!?" Kairi had a face like a mother worried about her child.
"I think she fainted. She's dehydrated. She needs water." Kairi nods and goes to water.
"Is she gonna die!?" Wakka takes a step back in fear.
Tidus shakes his head in disappointment, "No dummy! She's just dehox...dehay...no...what's the word again?" Tidus scratches his head in bewilderment.
"Dehydrated?" Selphie articulated.
"Oh yeah! That's the word...It means that she doesn't have enough water in her system. " Tidus smiles. He was proud of himself.
Sora takes a couple steps forward and kneels down by Namine's side. He brushes her hair away from her face. Roxas glares at Sora as he touched Namine's cheeks. Roxas just wanted to look away but he couldn't keep his eyes off Namine.
Sora softly speaks to Namine, "Hey...Namine can you hear me?" In response Namine's lips move but no words could be heard. 'Sora...is that you?...For some reason I can't seem to make out any words...Sora I really wanna talk to you.' Namine tries again but no words came out. Finally Kairi comes back with a few water bottles and hands it to Roxas. He gently lifts up Namine's head and puts the top of the water bottle to her lips and slowly and carefully tilts the bottle up.
*Cough* *Cough*
Namine opens her eyes, blinking a couple times to balance out her vision. Everybody stared at her attentively, like she was a fragile creature. Namine sits up and her eyes fell on Sora.
"Sora..." Namine eyes started to water.
"Yes?" Sora looked at Namine with kind, gentle eyes.
'Sora...a moment ago I couldn't talk to you. I was so scared. Just the thought of not ever being able to talk to you can kill me.' A tear slips down her cheek. Everybody starts to frown. Namine's tears instantly turned into tears of joy.
"Hehe I'm fine you guys!" Namine smiles big, reassuring everybody.
"Namine...!" Kairi rushes to Namine and gives her a hug. Everyone all sighed in relief. They felt like the heavy weight of the atmosphere was lifted off their shoulders.
"I'm glad you are okay." Sora lays a hand on her shoulder. Namine blushes a light pink. She cocks her head to one side and smiles shyly at Sora. The whole time, Roxas sat there quietly, watching Namine especially when she was turning her attention to Sora.
"Next time I'll be there to catch you okay?" Sora winks at was it. Roxas couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't stand seeing the very kind Sora and the blushing Namine together. He quietly stands up and walks away. Roxas face turned angry and annoyed. 'Pft...catch her next time? My ass. I'll be the o- Wtf? Dam why the hell am I acting like this. This is stupid.'
"Roxas!" Someone calls out. 'Oh great who is calling my name now?'
"Roxas! Wait!" Roxas turns around and sees Namine is running towards and immediately his face turned surprise.
"Namine?"
"*huff* Roxas...*huff* Hold on..." Namine catches her breath.
"What is it?" Roxas looks at her worried.
Namine giggles, "I just wanted to say thanks! Everybody told me how you ran while carrying and laid me down under the shade." "Man...I love her laugh."
Roxas looks away. "Uh...It was nothing. That's what best friends are for? Hahaha..."
She started to chuckle. Then she takes a step forward towards Roxas. She goes on her tip-toes and gives him a kiss on the cheek. "You're my hero."
Roxas gets flustered by the unexpected kiss on the cheek."Uh..." Namine just smiled sweetly at him.
For a long moment, Roxas and Namine stayed quiet. They were both lost in her thoughts. Roxas felt he forgot something but he couldn't quite put his finger on it while on the other hand, Namine was thinking about a fun activity that all her friends can do together. Namine was the first to break the silence.
She slammed her fist into the palm of her other hand."Bingo! I got it! Swimming!"
Namine's voice shook Roxas out of his daze. "Huh? Did you say something?"
"Swimming!" Namine says with happiness. Then somehow Roxas remembered what he was trying to remember. His eyes showed panic.
"What is it Roxas?" Namine looked at him puzzled.
Quietly but audible Roxas spoke, "Lemonade...cake...and towels..." Then Namine also was wide-eyed. They looked at each other in unison then they turned their heads slowly towards the direction where they left the stuff. They both ran as fast as they could. When they got there, all the lemonade was spilled, all of the lemonade sunk down to the sand. Most of the cake was washed by the ocean waves. What was left of it was little groups of frosting with seawater and sand in it. And as for the towels...well you know...they flew away.
"Crap!!!!" Roxas falls to his knees. The others heard Roxas's yell so they came over.
"What's wrong?" Selphie bends her knees and sits next to Roxas.
"Look..." Roxas pointed down toward the sand.
"Huh? I don't see anything." Selphie takes a closer look but she still saw nothing.
"That's it...nothing...it's all gone." Roxas lowers his head.
"What's gone?" Kairi also takes a look but can't see anything wrong.
Wakka out of the blue blurts out,"DON'T TELL ME..." Wakka staggers towards Roxas like he had just lost his greatest treasure. "It not what I think it is, ya?" Roxas nods his head slowly. Tidus and Riku shake their heads knowing what was gonna happen. Wakka falls to his knees so hard that sand flew around him."NOOOO!!!"Wakka yells out. Namine puts her hand on Wakka's shoulder. She tries to calm him down.
"It's okay Wakka. My aunt can make more I promise." Wakka looks at Namine eyes like a child who was going to get a new toy.
"Really?" Namine nodded. Wakka's sad face turned into a big smile.
"In the meantime while we wait for my aunt to make cake and lemonade, we should go swimming!" Namine shines a smile. Everybody agreed. They headed to the water. Before Roxas can take a step in the water, Namine grabbed his arm.
"Huh? What is it Namine?"
"Just come with me."
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