(I know that i said the end of last week but I had some computer complications that needed to be worked out but now it's all good.
Anyway, on with the story!)
Chapter 6:
(Roxas POV)
"Hello, Welcome." Roxas greeted for what felt like the thousandth time.
His party had finally started and all of the estimated guest from around the world wanted to make a "Fashionable" entrance and took their sweet time arriving.
"Welcome" Roxas put on a fake smile and bowed as one of his father's business partners walked in with his wife
"If I keep smiling like this, my face might fall of" Roxas groaned in his head while continuing to put on a fake face
"Roxas!" a loud feminine voice knocked Roxas out of his trance. Ascending up the stairs was a fully "figured" plump lavender skinned woman with white hair who was wearing a (rather to tight) black dress with a purple colored fur coat and a bunch of gaudy jewelry. The sight of this woman made a cold chill shoot down Roxas spine.
"It's been to long dear" she roughly grabbed Roxas and planted sloppy wet kisses on his cheek
"W-W-Welcome" Roxas stuttered out
"You may not remember me, you were only this small when I came the last time" she clinched her fingers to show a small amount
"I was the size of an ant" Roxas unknowingly blurted aloud. He hadn't realized that he did that untl the woman busted out in a care free laugh and roughly patted him on the back
"You're so funny!"
"Heh Heh" Roxas nervously chuckled
"Any who, the names Ursula, I know regal isn't it" she softly chuckled to herself "But you can call me auntie" she reached to touch Roxas's cheeks again but he took a step back and quickly shook her hand
"Nice to meet you" Roxas swallowed the lump that formed in his throat and said the one thing he knew (would make him sick to his stomach) but would get rid of the woman "Auntie"
Ursula smiled to herself and quickly clapped her hands "Flotsam, Jetsam!" she called out "Bring in the gift" no sooner then she beckoned them, two small men with greasy flat hair and bright yellow eyes wearing tuxes carried a large wrapped gift into the house.
"Its nothing fancy, just a little something" she said taking out a fan and opening it to cover her face. "Come boys, let's go and check out the buffet table"
"I'm so sure" he thought to himself before turning back around and plastering another fake smile to welcome his next guest.
(Namine POV)
"This cannot be me" I said to myself for about the tenth time
Sure it was my hair, and my body, and my clothes, and all of the other distant characteristics that make me who I am but this could not be me that I was looking at. She was cute; she was everything that was I wasn't. Yet she has my face
"This must be how nerd's feel when they get made over. Wait, did I just call myself a nerd? How long have I been in this bathroom? Maybe Kairi already went to the party and left me here. Maybe I'll get to the party and trip down the stairs or something. Huh! What if they don't have stairs? Maybe I shouldn't go. Yeah, I'll just make up an excuse and make my mom cancel her date and then…"
There was a knock at the door dismissing my from my daze
"Namine?" Kairi said from the other side "Stop talking to yourself and come out"
I sighed and looked at myself one more time in the mirror. My dress was a strapless white dress with light blur frills at the bottom and stopped right above my knees. It was sequined in dark blue stars that went down my sides and the white was embroidered with what I assumed to be a flower design. Even against my will, Kairi had gotten me into some white 2 two inch heels; because anything higher than that, I wouldn't be going to this party.
I walked out and there was Kairi giving a death glare
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Because" she started "I'm not going to let you chicken out on me now"
"I wasn't going to" she gave me that look like "Yeah right."
"How did you know I was" she cut me off
"Because, every time I get you to try something new, you start thinking about everything that could possibly go wrong and then you start wanting to back out but not this time" she forcefully grabbed my wrist and started to drag me down the stairs to my living room.
My mom was down stairs in nothing but her bathrobe with her hair pinned up. All she saw was Kairi drag me down the stairs, toss me on the sofa and then rush into the kitchen to make a phone call
Instead of asking If I was alright like a normal mother, she went straight to talking about my appearance
"Wow, check you out" she said whistling and looking me up and down.
Even though it was my mom, I could feel my face heat up
"I knew you were already cute before but now" my mom brought her hand to her chin and gave me a pondering look
"What" I finally felt myself speak
"Nothing, its just your dress make's you looks like you have more chests then before"
"Oh my god! Mom!" I felt my whole face turn red
"What, people are going to be looking at you and thinking the same thing so it's better to hear it from me then some random stranger"
I sunk deeper into the sofa and tried to block out the senseless babble my mom was sprouting when Kairi walked back into the living room and closed her phone
"Sora's outside" she said plainly
"Good" I hopped up from my sport an made a b-line for the door when my mom stepped in front of me
"Wait, I need a picture" she handed Kairi her phone who snapped couple of pictures and handed it back to her
"New screen saver" she muttered to herself
Kairi walked outside and rushed to the car and I was right behind her before my mom placed her hand on my shoulder making me turn to her again
"What is it know?" I asked slumping my shoulders
"Just...be careful" she said with a tender smile while stroking my cheek
"I will" I said smiling back
As I started walking down our drive toward Kairi car, she yelled out to me
"By the way, I put some protection in Kairi's purse for the both of you" she said before closing the door
"She just had to ruin the moment" I muttered under my breath as I got into the car
"Hey Namine, boy do you look hot" Sora complimented
"Thanks, you don't look bad yourself" I complimented him back. He had a simple black and white tux on but with his hair combed back a little
"Thanks" he said giving me a cheesy grin
A foot suddenly appeared in between mine and Sora seat making us back up into the windows
"Oops, my bad" Kairi calls from the back seat
"What are you doing?" I asked as she started to strip her clothes off
"I'm getting dress, duh" she said in a snarky tone. Sora started to peer in the back but she outreached her hand and whacked in the head
"Eyes front" she called out
He huffed and turned his attention back to the front and started to drive off
"This is going to be a long ride" I thought to myself as I peered out the window at the night sky
(Roxas POV)
"Roxas!" a voice called out to him
Roxas turned around and was engulfed in a hug by a tall red-haired man
Roxas smiled and hugged the man back "Hey Axel, how have you been?"
"Pretty good" he replied giving Roxas a huge grin
Roxas grinned at the tall man antics. Axel was one of the other friends that Roxas had made at the orphanage. Even though he was older then Roxas, he would always involved him in his schemes, even when the both of them would get in trouble he would take the blame so that Roxas wouldn't be punished. Axel left the orphanage one day and ended up becoming a lead singer in a band called Organization XIII. Even when he became famous, Axel would send Roxas letters with souvenirs in them and he was surprised when he found out that Roxas had gotten adopted by Cloud.
"Soooo" Axel started "The big 1-8, betcha feel all grown up now"
"Not really" Roxas shrugged
"It only feels like yesterday when I showed you your first porn magazine" Axel said wiping away a fake tear "They grow up so fast" he started to hysterically cry
"Please, don't bring that up" Roxas said blushing
"But seriously, now that you're a man, I'm going to get you laid" Axel said grinning make Roxas slump his shoulders
"Take your pick" Axel said showing opening his arms to the entire ballroom
"He sounds like my parents" Roxas thought chuckling to himself
"I'd rather not worry about that" Roxas said running a hand through his hair "Besides, shouldn't you be getting your instruments ready"
"The others can take care of all that manual labor crap" Axel said digging into his ear
"You are so lazy" Roxas said punching Axel in the arm playfully
"Isn't that why you love me" Axel said blowing air kisses at Roxas who just shook his head in return
"Well, you seem to be having fun" a feminine voice said behind Roxas
Both boys turned around and Roxas eyes widened at who he saw
"Xion" he gasped
The petite black haired girl giggled "Hello, Roxas" she said in smooth voice that sent shivers down Roxas skin (But in a good way this time)
"H-H-Hel-lo" Roxas blushed and could feel himself stuttering. The girl standing before was wearing a modest but still revealing black dress.
Axel raised an eyebrow at the distraught boy and decided to lend a hand, but more precisely; he delivered a hand to the back of Roxas's head
"What the Hel-"Roxas started to screech but Axel covered his mouth
"Hello, Madam" Axel said in a fake sophisticated voice "I'm Axel, one of Roxas better known friends and I must say" he took her hand "You look very magnificent tonight" he finished giving her hand a small kiss
"Oh, well thank you" Xion said as she blushed "Well um, I have to go step over their" Xion pointed in the opposite direction "So um Axel, was it?"
Axel grinned "Got it memorized already huh?"
"Right and I'll see you later Roxas" Xion hesitated to move but started to walk away after a moment. When Xion was out of hearing distance, Roxas snatched Axel hand away and gave his friend a death glare that the even the grim reaper would be afraid of
"What" Axel said scratching the back of his head innocently
"What was that for" Roxas whispered/yelled
"What was that for?" Axel gushed "You froze up like a deer in head lights"
"So you hit me!"
"Well it was the only thing that I could think of"
Roxas clinched his fist in frustration and opened his mouth to say something but decided to storm off from Axel instead
Axel watched as Roxas marched of and sighed
"I wonder of this place has any booze" he thought aloud and went off in search of something to drink
(Namine POV)
We reached what seemed to be the thirtieth red light (I'm exaggerating here) before I sucked it up and looked at Sora
"Hey, how long till we get there?" I tried to ask calmly but my anxiety was starting to take over
"We should be there any minute now" he said absentmindedly while sneaking glances in the rear view mirror
I leaned over and flicked him in the forehead
"Ow, what was that for?"
"Eyes front" I said in a stern tone
Sora rolled his eyes and turned his attention back to the road, I glanced in the back seat where Kairi was just starting to put her shoes on
"We've passed at least 100 lights (again exaggerating) and your still getting dressed" I asked in amazement
"Being beautiful takes time" she said taking out her small make up case and started applying some blush
"Besides" she started "Do you know who's going to be at this party?"
"Don't really" I replied shrugging
Kairi finished applying her lipstick and pressed them together before making them pop out "The most sophisticated and wealthy people of the world or this side of the world anyway, are going to be there"
"And that means" I said not fully understanding
"That means that of all those people there, I'm bound to catch someone's attention and have them whisk me off to fame and fortune" Kairi had stars in her eyes as she said that
"So basically, your trying to find a sugar daddy" I replied smugly
"Eww, when you say that it makes it sound like I'm trying to find some old man to mooch off of" Kairi shuddered at the thought
"I'm looking for someone more refined and poised, and more importantly around our age"
"Well, there something to be said about optimism" I giggled at the thought of Kairi actually finding her "sophisticated and refined partner" that it was making me forget about my anxiety of going to the party. That was… until Sora decided to slam on the breaks and scare me and Kairi half to death. I had to dig my nails into the seat just to keep myself from being thrown out the car. The car creaked and rocked back and forth before coming to a complete stop
"Was that really necessary!" Kairi screeched at Sora
"We're here" he said in a aggravated voice before jumping out the car and slamming the door behind him
"Jeez, what's his problem" Kairi said using her hand to flatten her hair back down
"I wonder" I giggled to myself before looking out the window and having the feeling of my heart dropping from my chest and into my stomach.
The Strife mansion seemed big from the school but up close it was a complete monster. It was bigger and brighter than anything that I had ever seen before. Of all the things rolling through my head at the time, the one thing that I couldn't help but focus on was:
"How do they have so many lights?" I asked aloud to no one in particular "There bill must be through the roof"
"There rich, Namine" Kairi answered as she opened the door and got out
"Yeah" I whispered under my voice and swallowed the lump that had formed in my throat
I didn't realize that I was still sitting in the car with my seat belt on until Kairi knocked on the window
"What are you doing?" she mouthed behind the class
I shakily unbuckled myself and stepped out the car. The cool air flew by and I shivered as it touched my skin. The music inside was loud enough to be heard outside but not enough to be heard through the whole town. Fancy limousines and chauffeur stood outside as the silhouettes of people dancing and laughing could be seen through the window.
The sound of footsteps pacing up the stairs to the main door shook me from my daze as I noticed Sora and Kairi walking up the stairs. I jogged to catch up to them and when we reached the top there was a guard waiting for us.
"Invitations please" he said in a gruff voice
I took a step behind Sora who walked up to the man and presented him with an elegantly decorative piece of paper. The man scanned over the piece of paper and gave the three of us a suspicious look before opening up the door
"Enjoy the party" he said in the same gruff voice
The three of us rushed in and what we saw was breathing taking
Diamond chandlers, porcelain floors, different culinary cuisines, different people wearing extravagant clothing laughing and drinking wines from tall glasses, it was like something from The Great Gatsby, except without all the other stuff
"This place is amazing" Kairi gushed
"I'm going to see if I can find Roxas" Sora said before strutting down the stairs into the crowd
"Ok, is it me or is he in a bad mood" Kairi said placing her hand on her hips confused
"I think it's pretty obvious" was what I wanted to say but all that came out was a puff of air. The more I tried to talk the drier my throat became.
"Namine" Kairi placed her hand on my shoulder "Are you okay" she asked concerned
I turned to her and was finally able to say something "I don't know if I can do this" It came out hoarse and wheezy
Kairi gave me a worried look and looked around the room until her eyes landed on what she was looking for
"Look" she pointed to the opposite side of the room; I turned and looked at what she was pointing at
"There's a punch bowl on the other side, can you get to it?"
I looked down the stairs and the crowd that was locking my way to the punch bowl. I turned my head to Kairi and nodded
"Ok, meet me over there in like 10 minutes"
I nodded to Kairi one more time before looking at the stairs. I was scared to be left alone but at the same time, I didn't want to keep Kairi from having some fun, even if her plan was next to impossible. With the courage I could muster, I took one step at a time down the stairs making sure not to miss one and land on my face in front of all these people.
When I felt my heel hit the floor I turned back around to look at Kairi but she was already gone. I looked at the crowd and could feel my anxiety start to grow.
"You can do this Namine" I kept chanting in my head as I ventured into the crowd. I slid my body past the people on the dance floor and prayed to whoever was listening that I didn't run into someone. After maneuvering my way through the mash pit of bodies, I made a direct line to the punch bowl and poured myself a large glass and chugged it like I hadn't had a drink in forever. As the punch went down my throat I could feel my body start to become less tense, I mean the worse was really over; I was at the party, I hadn't fallen on my face and humiliated anyone, maybe this wasn't going to be so bad after all.
I chuckled at myself before pouring another glass of punch only to bump into someone
"Oh I'm sorry" I said blushing at my antics
"No it was my fault" the voice said
"Wait, that voice sounds familiar" I thought to myself, I looked up and gasped at the last person I thought I would see at this party, and the look on his face was equally as shocked as mine
"R-R-Riku!" I gasped
"Namine?" he asked in a surprised tone
"What are you doing here?" we both asked each other at the same time
What could Riku possibly be doing at the party?
And next chapter, the two blonds finally meet face to face or possibly face to fist (all depends on how it works out)
Okay, Please R&R Honestly and all that