disclaimorness: not owning kh or any of its cool stuff

::sunnydays::

Kairi contemplated life, mainly in the relationship department, as she walked along the street, watching the street lamps flicker into life. It all seemed so complicated, and yet, she'd only been at school for a week.

She liked a boy whose name was yet to be found out, and personality, undecided. She was twins with a girl whom her best friends hate. She was enemies with that Sora kid who shoved her in a fountain. And, to top it off, her mother had a boyfriend.

This was big. Big, big, biggety, big. Her mother never had a boyfriend. It was always a one night stand with a desperate neighbour, or a quick kiss with a tourist. Something like that. But, a boyfriend was different. A boyfriend was as strange as Kairi walking into school with a moose on her head, claiming she was a creature of the darkness called a 'Maleficent'.

Not that Kairi wouldn't. She wanted to be different, she wanted to stand out. She wanted people to like her; no one in her previous schools had liked her, and therefore, she had spent her life, lonely and unloved. A precious jewel hidden away from society.

That was why when Selphie and Yuffie had told her that she was now their 'best friend', she knew that she would have fun, because she wanted a friend, she needed a friend. It was all she had ever longed for, and that was why.

Kairi flexed out her fingers, and tucked her sleeping bag further up her arm. She suddenly noticed the rain. It wasn't the thick, horrible stuff that slipped down the back of your shirt and frizzed your hair and swamped inside your shoes. It was the complete opposite.

It was the sort of rain you only got at this time of night, the sort that looked so pretty against the transparent plastic of lamps. The sort that settled in your hair, and made your eyes look shiny. The sort that seemed like shy, as though it felt it didn't have the right to rain on you, but it was sorry because it was its job. So, rain it must.

That sort of rain.

So, Kairi carried on her jolly walk at about ten at night, walking in the general direction of Selphie's house.

And, as it turned out, Kairi's deep, thoughtful moment, lasted longer than a 'moment'. It lasted the best of ten minutes. And, Kairi was soon at Selphie's house, feeling happy and refreshed.

Her first sleepover.

Apparently, your first sleepover is scary – like an evil demon taking you away from your parents, suffocating you to the confinements of a friend's house. She didn't like the sound of that. But, then again, she had no 'parents'. Or decent ones at that, and she felt suffocated in her own house.

So, maybe Selphie's would be better.

Knocking on Selphie's door, Kairi waited outside on her porch, rocking back and forth on her heels. She was definitely excited, and she hoped that everything would run smoothly.

Not that things not running smoothly would make things worse. In fact, they would probably make things better. Kairi cackled lightly under her breath, steam appearing before her pale face.

The door was suddenly clicked open, and before Kairi stood a short woman with brown eyes and an inquisitive smile.

"Hi, I'm Kai-"

"Ah, yes, Selphie told me you were coming. Go right on up those stairs there, she and Yuffie are watching something on the TV. Have a nice time!" Kairi grinned and headed in the direction of the stairs.

She climbed them as quietly as she possibly could, and entered a room whose the door was covered in bright, shiny stickers saying things such as 'SELPHIE RULES'.

Inside this room was Selphie with Yuffie playing a video game of some sort.

"Hey, guys," Kairi said, casually, waiting for the two toher girls to notice her. Yuffie turned and grinned for a split second, not willing to be beaten by Selphie. Selphie on the other hand had seemed to have completely forgotten about her game and ran up to Kairi, nearly killing her with hugs.

Kairi laughed, "Heya, Kairi, how's you?"

Kairi nodded, "Yep. Good. You?"

"Fi- Oh, you beat me again, didn't you, Yuffie?"

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a/n: so yay. another chapter updated and put up. grr. i dont think anyone actually reads this which is a depressing thought. i bet youre all off reading skitts one! hmph. if youre not, you should, its very good. oh well – sleepover time and kairi finds out who the boy shes been liking is. and yes, sora is her enemy in this story. but only for a short while, considering fluff will come soon. and don't worry, next chapter will explain everything.