7 Ways To Say I Love You
Chapter 4: Ich liebe dich
"Hey Larx, it's Namine...uh, call me when you get this message."
Namine hung up the phone and dropped it back inside her pristine white bag. It's just unbelievable. What was UP with Roxas lately? Namine kicked a stone into the road and contemplated why this was suddenly becoming her problem. She needed to let off steam somehow. Usually she would paint, but it was getting harder and harder to hide her pictures from Kairi. There were pictures of her and Kairi that she'd rather the other didn't see.
Namine placed real importance in her paintings. It was like a tiny piece of her heart, he feelings poured onto blank canvas. Unwanted eyes stealing her painting from her was like snatching a part of her soul out of her grasp. On the outside, she was relatively mysterious. Plain, blonde, pale, white. Just white. From looking at her paintings, it was like you'd pulled of the mask and found the REAL Namine, the one full of colour and happiness, sadness, frustration, and her own worries.
Carrying Roxas's as well wasn't fair. She needed to call Larxene...
She needed a plan.
"So what was it again, Ax?" Kairi questioned rather loudly.
"He's in love with his best friend, just like you. Sort out your problems together, and shut UP, I'm trying to listen to a message," Larxene spat at them. "God.....children."
"You're in love with WHO NOW? Have I met her? I don't remember you having any girl best friends..."
Axel stared pointedly at the table, practically hearing the cogs in Kairi's brain slowly turn.
"...Oh. OH. OH!"
If he stared at the salt shaker long enough, it just might topple over and distract her. Maybe.
"OH MY GOD, ROXAS?"
"YES, WELL DONE, YOU CAUGHT UP WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. NOW SHUT UP."
Thank God for Larxene, Axel thought as Kairi slid down in her seat for fear of being yelled at again.
"Call me when you get this message...Hey, Nam? Yeah, it's me."
She looked back at Axel who was blushing a deep red and trying to ignore Kairi's incessant poking.
"He's here. Yup, moody as hell. So's yours? Boys..."
The person on the other end of the phone laughed sweetly.
"A plan, you say? Well that sounds..."
Larxene smirked and a mischevious glint in her eye twinkled.
"...that sounds like a plan!"
She snapped her phone shut and turned back to the other two.
"So why won't you tell him, Axel?" Kairi asked for the fiftieth time.
"Because he's a stupid boy," Larxene said simply and slapped him upside the head.
"Hey, my haaiiiir!!" The girls both giggled (or cackled, in Larxene's case) as Axel tried to flatten his hair down. Not that it ever looked flat. It was a hopeless attempt to regain his dignity.
"Well, see you two! I gotta go to my friends house," Kairi said, "Nice meeting you Larxene!"
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5 short minutes later and Larxene was strutting along the empty road, proud of the sounds her heels made on the concrete path. She saw a pale figure sitting in a deck chair in the front lawn of a house. It was holding a sketchbook and looked deep in thought.
"Namine! Hey girl!"
The girl looked up, startled, and waved back. Don't call me girl, she mouthed. Larxene grinned, and hurried up to Namine's house.
"Hey, what's that.." She lunged at the sketchbook on Namine's lap. She tried to protect it but Larxene was just too quick. (Like lightning hurhur...she is like the Flying Nymph or something?)
"Oh my god! You know what?"
"Wha-at..." Namine moaned through her hands, currently used to bury her face in.
"This looks EXACTLY like that girl I was just with? And is that you? What's.."
Namine roughly grabbed her sketchbook back and carried on drawing without a word.
"Okay, whatever. She was just a relative of Axel in some way, I think.." At Axel's name she perked up. Axel meant Roxas. Roxas and Axel. And that meant plan.
"What was this plan you were thinking of again?"
"Follow me," Namine replied, and walked into the house leaving her sketchbook behind her, along with a silent Larxene. Or should that be a plotting Larxene...
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"Okay, so I don't have a plan."
Both girls stared at each other, one with a look of incredulity and the other with a look of despair.
"I thought you could help me..."
"And, how exactly?"
"Uh." Namine blushed. "N-not me! Axel and Roxas! Help me, help them..to..uh.."
"What, set them up? HA!"
Namine slumped, resting her chin on the cold marble desk.
"Dear, they are totally fallen for each other. They are destined to find each other. It's going to happen sometime."
"Yeah..but...don't you think we could speed it up a bit? Roxas has been bugging me all week..."
"Tell me about it."
They both smiled, more to themselves than each other. Falling for your best friend...she knew what that felt like. She just didn't know what to do about it.
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Dadada...what a ca-atch..hmmm..
Kairi hummed to herself. It was too quite where Namine lived. Kairi preferred noise, light, camera, action! It was fun to be in a big group. But right now Sora was always with Riku, Axel was always with his other friends, Namine was the only one there for her. Yeah. Namine was always there for her.
Not that Kairi could count on that. She pondered whether she should have called before coming...she just had to get out of that tiny café. She kept getting told off for being too loud. Isn't that just unfair? You can't shout at someone to tell them to stop shouting, she thought.
She stood in front of her best friend's house with an uneasy feeling. The door was wide open...was it right to just go in? She paused when she saw a white book open on the ground. It was really heavy, and...blank? Oh wait, those just hadn't been drawn on...this was Namine's sketchbook!
Without considering the immorality of looking through someone else's things, she flicked through the yellowed pages. It was out of curiosity mostly, she hadn't seen Namine's sketchbook since...ages. She'd get really annoyed if you disturbed her while she was drawing.
Kairi stopped for a second when she came across a picture of her. Or, at least, it looked like her. It looked to pretty to be her, Kairi thought to herself. Red hair, lightly tanned skin...Nam had really made the eyes look alive. She was so skilled at drawing people. She carried on looking through them.
As she got to the end, there were more and more of her, and some with namine in too, which must have been drawn from memory. She heard voices from inside the house, but didn't look up. This one was deep, with warm, rich colours, what looked like tippex used to make sparkles on the page. It was just a drawing, but she could feel the emotion behind it...feel an aura around it, something that made her heart swell up like when she saw a bunch of kittens.
"Hey, I got you some lemonade! OH-Kairi?"
Namine was standing in the hallway with a glass in one hand, stock still. She looked as if she was about to topple straight over. She stared from Kairi to the sketchbook back to Kairi again.
"K-k-"
It was just a second before the glass hovered over the ground and then threw itself down, smashing into tiny pieces. And then she ran. Kairi dropped the sketchbook and then ran, but Namine couldn't move.
"So, you gonna give it to me or what?"
Larxene appeared in the doorway, and raised her eyebrows at the shards on the floor and the lemonade currently soaking into Namine's sandals.
Kairi reached the end of the road, panting. Her and Namine, stuck in that painting, it felt like..
Felt like love.
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Roxas stared at his German textbook, and it stared back. He wished he had a photographic memory like that guy he sat next to. Seifer, was it? He was such a tough guy – did nothing all lesson but scored top in all the tests. No-one to copy off either. In fact, part of Roxas's struggle with German could be the red-head that sat on his other side, flicking bits of rubber at him.
"You want to stop that?"
Flick.
In frustration Roxas knocked all his pencils off the desk, and then reluctantly leant down to pick them up again. He got back up and restarted his staring contest with the textbook.
ICH LIEBE DICH
Hn? That hadn't been there a minute ago...and Roxas wouldn't allow any graffiti on his book. He HAD standards. He peered closer. Liebe? He opened the dictionary to look it up.
Axel just stared out the window and sighed.
hur hur you thought I wasn't gonna do another chapter did you ;D I hope it's not too short...
and, like what? KairixNamine in an AkuRoku story? It's still AkuRoku, don't worry!