Chapter Four is here to say hello! Oh, and I say hi. School's been a major ugh at the moment, so I'm finding it hard to write. Ah, hope you like it! To make things clear, Sora is eighteen, not seventeen. He's out of high school and so are the others. Except for Kairi and Tidus, since they never finished high school…

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts not mine….but, Kingdom hearts + me happiness.

P.S. A new character will be introduced in this chapter. Guess who?

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"Owwwww."

"Stop being such a baby. Be a man and take it!" Yuffie said. "Right Selphie?"

"Huh? Oh…yeah." Selphie nodded, then going back to staring at the wall.

That's what the whole day consisted for Sora and his two female friends the next day at work. Sora was extremely sore. His legs and arms still felt all the small exercises Riku made him do repeatedly. Even worse, for Sora, were the lingering feelings that the other boy had left. Sora had some difficulty concealing his joy at being so close to him.

Despite all of Sora's happiness, one person was having a hard time with the day before. Selphie was spacing out the entire day. She refused look at anyone and didn't even make a single opinionated comment. And this was indeed a cause for worry. Yuffie tried her hardest to get any phrases out of Selphie, seeing that bothering Sora was not as fun when she didn't have her partner helping her.

"What time is it?" Sora asked for the fifteenth time, fidgeting in his seat. He twiddled his fingers while tapping his feet on the floor.

"It's ten after one. Why are you asking?" Yuffie teased. Just because she didn't have Selphie's support didn't mean she couldn't do some effective teasing of her own.

"No-no reason. Ah…it's just, ah, when's he coming here again? I forgot."

"He's coming at around two or so. I've already told you that. So what's the real reason?"

"That was the real reason. I-I swear!" Sora cried. He started to swing his arms in front of his chest. He tried to play it cool and sit contently on the stool. This was the period of time where hardly anyone came in. It was more crowded during the morning or in the afternoons. This meant leisure time for them. More specifically hassling Sora.

Yuffie walked away from the cashier and stepped in front of Sora. She closed in on him and stared right into Sora's eyes. If it's one thing that Sora really couldn't defend himself against, it was intense eye contact. Especially close up.

"Really? Are you sure that you're not lying to me at all? Are you sure that you're not just asking because you're impatient to leave and see a certain someone?" Yuffie pestered.

"Give Sora some room Yuffie; you're going to give him a heart attack."

Sora's heart jumped at the thought that maybe, just maybe the person he'd been thinking of was the one who spoke. He whipped his head around at the door to see a boy leaning against the door. He had beige cargo pants on and a striped shirt. On his arm was a checkered band and in his hand was a skateboard. He had bright blonde hair. He sighed and then walked in. "Things really don't change, do they? Sora's getting badgered by Yuffie and Selphie…" He noticed a foot stretched out a little ways from him. He followed the body it was attached to and saw the brown-haired girl laid out. Her eyes were focused on the jar of straws on the front desk.

The boy walked up to her and flicked her on the forehead. Selphie did not move, but merely sat, absent from the realities of the world. With this, the boy flopped down on the seat next to Sora. "Hey cuz, how you've been?" Yuffie frowned as she sat across from them next to Selphie. "Hello to you too, Yuffie. You're looking as much of a ninja as ever." Yuffie grinned and then began to poke Selphie.

Sora, pushing away his disappointment, smiled broadly. "Hi Roxas. I've been doing really great. We've met some new people yesterday and they're really cool. Riku is teaching me how to surf, he's a professional surfer!" Sora continued to go on about how wonderful Riku's teaching was and how he thought Riku was composed and trendy and…

"Oh!"

Both Sora and Roxas stopped talking and looked at Yuffie. She jumped out of her seat and skipped over to the cousins. She rested her elbow on Rojas's shoulder. "Yeah, we went a lot of interesting people. Do you remember Kairi? She was there and it seems that she's been traveling with all of them as her manager. Sora, you continue." She gave Sora a wink.

"What?" Sora gave Yuffie a blank stare. Yuffie looked at Sora then at Selphie, switching glances continuously. Sora caught on. "Oh, and they're all surfers. On of our own is with them too, you remember Tidus, he-"

"What?" Selphie snapped, her body turning stiff.

"Oh, so this is what this is about. I get it." Roxas said. He stood up and stepped in front of Selphie again. "Would you mind coming with me for a bit, Selphie? I've forgotten how things work around here." Selphie, her eyes still wide open, rose and started to walk to the back of the shop. "Hey, wait!" Roxas shouted, and then he gave one last look to Yuffie before going to catch up with Selphie.

"What's going on?" Sora questioned. In all of his pleasure of being with Riku he had forgotten to ask what was between Tidus and Selphie.

Yuffie looked both ways and beckoned him to sit next to her. When he sat, she scooted her chair closer to his and whispered, "You think she's gone, right?"

"Huh?" Sora spoke. He never thought that Yuffie would be scared of Selphie or be able to lower her voice that much. "Why are you whispering?"

"Shhh!" Yuffie grabbed his collar and hissed, "Is she gone?"

Sora gulped and replied, "Yeah, she and Roxas are in the backroom. They won't be able to hear us. Why?"

Yuffie relaxed and relaxed her grip on Sora's collar. He gave him a smile and apologetically said, "Sorry, but I really don't want Selphie to hear us. She gets touchy when we talk about Tidus."

"I get that, but why? How many times do I gotta ask?"

"Let's start from the beginning. Tidus, Selphie, and I all used to live on the other side of the island. We were childhood friends. Back then, Tidus used to horribly bully Selphie. She was in tears almost every other day. We told him to back off, but he kept giving her trouble. Then he left in the middle of high school. We didn't even hear of him since yesterday."

"So how does Roxas know about this and I don't?" Sora huffed.

"It's because the summer before Kairi and Tidus left Roxas stayed with me. My mother had his are really good friends, I think they knew each other on the main island or something. Anyways, I introduced him to the others and saw how mean Tidus was. And he overheard….he overheard that…"

"That what?"

"That Selphie was in love with Tidus, even though he picked on her so badly. He heard that one night when Selphie slept over and he was going downstairs to get a drink. After he heard that he started to act weird so I finally got him to confess that he knew."

Sora was astonished. He managed to get out, "Is she still in love with him?"

"Can't you tell?"

Sora looked down and thought about how Selphie was acting. He jolted back up and said, "But what do we do now? We should get him to find out!"

Yuffie covered his lips with her hand. "No way. If Selphie ever found out, she'd tear our tongues out!"

Sora closed his mouth. He was about to say something else when he heard the chimes in front of the door ring. He motioned to Yuffie to go back to the cashier to help the customer. She said nothing else.

After quite a few customers and many smoothies, it turned five. Sora gathered Roxas and Selphie out of the back, where it turned out they were having a fight with the mops. He was glad to see that Roxas got Selphie to take her mind of Tidus. However, he still wanted to get Tidus and Selphie on good terms. It was Sora's turn to meddle.

They all strolled out of the shop. Yuffie and Selphie were walking together, chatting animatedly. Roxas and Sora walked together in front of them.

"It's our first day back at work and what do you do? You almost break our mops!"

Roxas shrugged. "Hey, I can't help it. Selphie was the one who forced me to defend myself."

Selphie pounced on Roxas while shouting, "You liar! You're gonna regret you ever messed with Miss Selphie!" Roxas struggled for a few minutes while Selphie jumped off of him and ran around him in circles. Yuffie watched happily and Sora chased Selphie until he got sick and had to sit on the floor.

Yuffie went over to Sora and slumped on the floor next to him. She rubbed his back until Sora could look in front of him. Then she leaned on her arms and watched the scene that opened up in front of them. Sora looked at Yuffie before viewing the fight. He gave out a small sigh and felt exceptionally peaceful. He thought about being able to see Riku soon…

"Hey, we gotta go right now!" Sora pulled on Yuffie's arm to get up. He went in between Roxas and Selphie and yanked Selphie off of him. "We were supposed to meet Riku right after work!" He motioned for the others to follow him. He began to jog when he met a huge wall. He looked up to see a man staring right back at him.

"How have you been, squirt?"

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Actually, there are two new characters, but the first one, Roxas, is more important so sorry new character #2! Let's move on to more important matters (Roxas: what about me?) Does anyone like to push buttons? Well if you do you wouldn't mind pushing that little purple review button, would you? I'd really like to read comments, particularly ones on how to improve my writing. Thanks!