I am truly sorry for the very very very late update. Before my long...break, I had told you about my cat and how she was sick well unfortunately she did not make it through and so I was currently grieving for her. Also, I started school once again and that is another thing keeping me from being able to do the next chapter. yes, I realize it's been a while however I was going to upload a new chapter on October 8th but then I was trying to get into document manager and I couldn't get through so I did try to put it through however, because of technical difficulties I was unable to so as a retribution for my not being here and for the technical difficulties, I will put up chapter 8 asap for you guys. However, I am very busy this weekend so if I don't have it up by tomorrow then I won't have it up until next week and I am sorry for that but I do have a life outside of this computer. Anyway like I said I will try to get it up but with all the work and the stuff that's been going on here I haven't been able to get on and get it done.


Kairi wakes up to a ray of sunlight shining through her window. She hears bird chirping happily. She gets up and looks outside to see beautiful flowers overflowing the yard. She gasps in awe of the beauty and runs downstairs. Bursting through the door of her house in what was suppose to be her back yard, she twirls around and basks in the warm sunlight. She stops and takes a deep breathe of the fresh air. Opening her eyes, she giggles at her foolishness. Looking down, she notices that what had once been a simple white nightgown had turned into a beautiful, sparkly, blue, ball gown. She gently runs her hands down the new fabric admiring the simplexes yet elegance to it. She twirls once again and watches the princess style gown twirl with her. Suddenly, while looking down she notices a stone pathway. She stops, turns around and follows the pathway with her eyes. Kairi gazes for a moment then begins to walk forward down the path. Several minutes pass and she comes to a fork in the pathway. She stops and tries to decide which way to take. Suddenly she hears a voice

"Kairi!" the voice shouts to her from the left path. She looks at the left pathway almost making her decision to go that way until another person calls to her.

"Kairi!" someone shouts from the right path.

She looks between the two paths in confusion when suddenly Zidane emerges from the left path wearing a tux, holding out his hand to her. She smiles and begins to walk to him ready to take his hand when suddenly someone says her name again.

"Kairi" a voice says once again. She stops dead in her tracks and looks over to the right path where a certain spiky hair brunette awaits her, smiling goofily, and holding out his hand to her.

'He looks good in a tux.' Kairi comments to herself as she stares at him. Just then she realizes she's been staring at him and, blushing, she looks away. She takes a couple steps back to where she had originally stop and looks franticly between the two.

"Come with me Kairi" Zidane says as he takes a step forward.

"I think I'd like that" Kairi says smiling at him.

She takes another step toward Zidane.

"Kai" Sora says pouting. She looks at him and frowns.

"I don't know Sora" She states.

She once again takes a step back and decides which one to join. Zidane smiles at her while Sora seeing her smile back at him frowns once more. The scenery changes slightly and a mirror is placed in front of her. She sees herself which soon changes to a younger version back when she had her hair short and used to wear that white tank top and the purple skirt. She watches as her boyfriend who was now her ex-boyfriend pushes her to the ground. She sees herself cry as she runs to Sora's. Sora opens the door and welcomes her in. On his couch she cries and Kairi knows that she is telling him about what her boyfriend has done to her. Sora frowns and hugs her gently and pats her back in silence and she cries on his shoulder. The mirror changes once more and it shows another instance where her boyfriend beat her. She watches as her younger form runs to Sora's again. More and more images form in the mirror, each one showing a past experience with Sora. Finally, the last experience shows up and she sees her boyfriend kick her to the ground after she rejected the idea of having sex with him. Again, she escapes and goes to Sora for help. Kairi looks away but another mirror appears in front of her once again. She looks the other way to find another mirror she then looks all around her up down left right. All around her are mirrors and she is forced to watch as she and Sora yell at each other. She turns around unable to escape.

"No" she says quietly but the image continues

"NO" she shouts louder

"NO!!!" she screams as she closes her eyes and falls to the ground.

Just then she sits up and opens her eyes to find darkness all around her. She looks over to see the blue numbers of her clock which read 2:30 AM. She falls back onto her bed and sighs. A moment passes.

"You're ok" she tells herself.

"It's the past. It's over. You don't about it anymore" she adds still comforting herself. She looks back and remembers that at times like this she would call Sora and tell him about her dream. She remembered him telling her any time and of any day she could call or visit. 'He'd always be available for her' he'd said to her and she used that all the time.

'I miss being able to do that' she says to herself. Soon, she drifts back off to sleep.


Kairi, Namine, Selfie, and Yuna walk to the movie theater. That morning Riku had called Namine to see if she wanted to go to the movies with some friends. Of course they were all guys and Namine didn't want to be alone with Sora, Roxas, Wakka, Tidus, Squall, and Cloud. She asked if Kairi wanted to come. However, Kairi heard Sora was going and didn't want to go. So, Namine called Yuna and Selfie knowing that that if Tidus went Yuna would go and because Squall was going Selfie would go and as a result they dragged Kairi out. However, when they got there, things looked really bad for two of the four girls.

The four girls walk into the theater to find eight people waiting for them. Immediately, Yuna and Namine walk toward Riku and Tidus. However, Kairi and Selfie stop dead in their tracks. Immediately, Selfie frowns when she spots Squalls girlfriend, Rinoa, and him holding hands. She glares at he couple who at the moment are laughing at some stupid thing the two had said to each other while Kairi who was already pissed at having to come glares at Sora who was in turn glaring back at her. She glances at the person next to him. She had long black hair which was pulled back into a loose ponytail. The girl was wearing yellow leather pants and a yellow jacket to go with them and she wore a brown shirt underneath to go with her brown leather boots. She looks back at Sora.

"Sora" she says with venom.

"Kairi" he says with an equal amount of venom. She glances at the rest of the group.

"I wasn't aware that we were inviting our boyfriends and girlfriends" she says crossing her arms apparently annoyed, obviously because, one, Sora was there and, two, she was missing out on a chance to be with Zidane.

Namine laughs nervously and timidly says "yes I'm sorry Kai I didn't know this was gonna be a whole big group thing"

Kairi glares at Namine then says "well I'm not going in until Zidane gets here then" The eight who had been waiting here before all groan.

"I suppose we can wait until the movie starts, but you'll have to call him now" Squall says calmly.

Kairi does as he says and takes out her little blue cell phone. She, quickly, dials his number and waits for him to pick up. It rings twice and then Zidane picks up.

"Hello?" She hears Zidane say over the phone.

"Hey do you want to see a movie?" she asks getting right to the point.

"Sure" he replies

"Great, I'm at the movie theater so meet me here ok?"

"Yeah great"

"Great ill se you later"

"K bye" and with that the two hung up. Everyone stares at her waiting for her answer.

"He'll be here soon" she informs them with a smile now happier that Zidane is coming along.

Several minutes pass, and Zidane walks into the theater. Kairi runs and jumps into a hug with him. The two separate and she pulls him over to the rest of the group.

"Everyone…" Kairi says addressing everyone around her "This is Zidane!" She says gesturing toward Zidane. Zidane smiles "Hey everyone" he says

"Zidane, you know Namine, Yuna, Tidus, and Selfie." She says

"Hey guys" he says simply.

Kairi points to Squall. "That's Squall, and next to him is Rinoa" she says pointing to Rinoa" She moves on "Over there is Cloud, Roxas and Wakka" she says pointing as she says their names.

"That's Sora" she says flatly "and I don't really know her" she says gesturing toward Garnet.

Garnet walks over to Zidane and Kairi. "Hello I'm Garnet" she says smiling and holding out her hand to Zidane. He shakes it and she moves it over toward Kairi.

"I'm sorry we weren't properly acquainted before" Garnet says to Kairi. Kairi stares at Garnet's hand hesitantly before taking and smiling back at her.

"Hello Garnet, I'm Kairi it's nice to meet you" Kairi replies. They let go and everyone starts to walk toward the ticket booth to buy tickets.

Kairi takes Zidane's hand while Zidane begins to talk to Garnet. She listens to the conversation and waits for a chance to join in.

"So, Garnet, are you new? I don't think I've seen you around before" he says to her.

"Well, not too new, I think it's been almost I year since I moved here" she replies.

Immediately this catches Kairi's attention "Oh so that's why I didn't really know who you were. How long have you been with Sora, then?" Kairi asks changing the subject. She glances at Sora who is now glaring at her

"Well, several months now but as you know we didn't want to let it out so we sort of kept it a secret, but I convinced Sora that the secret thing was putting way to much strain on the relationship and finally we just decide that it didn't matter who knew anymore" Garnet replies.

"So why did you want to keep the relationship a secret in the first place?" Kairi presses

"Well, there was so much gossip and I just didn't want anything to start up about me and Sora when there was nothing really going on" Garnet says look down at her feet and blushing. Kairi watches as garnet throws a mask up and realizes Garnet had obviously had a bad experience with gossip and boys before coming here.

"You know Garnet, I like you; we should hang out sometime." Kairi states Garnet blushes.

"Well, thank you Kairi, you're also not who I thought you were" Garnet states. She then speeds up and begins talking to Yuna and Tidus, dragging Sora with her

"Huh? Wait, what do you mean I'm not who you thought I was? Garnet?" Kairi says pouting. Garnet giggles happily and the group enters the theater and takes seats to see the movie


Twelve people file out of the movie theater chatting and laughing together about the movie they had just seen Sora talks to Riku, Roxas talks to Namine, Kairi and Zidane talk to Garnet, Selfie flirts with Squall, Squall ignores her and talks to Rinoa, and Cloud eyes the flower girl in the shop over on the other side of the shop as Tidus and Yuna encourage him to go talk to her.

Outside, the group stops their chatting and sits in silence for a moment.

"I think I'll go talk to that flower girl" Cloud says still eyeing the cute brunette arranging the flowers in the flower shop across the street. They watch him leave. Soon, Tidus and Yuna begin to whisper to each other quietly. Suddenly, Tidus speaks.

"I'm gonna take Yuna home" He says Yuna walks over and hugs Selfie, Kairi and Namine, then walks over to Garnet and Holds her hand out to her.

"It was really nice meeting you tonight, Garnet" she says smiling.

"No, the pleasure was all mine," Garnet replies after a moment. She takes Yuna's hand and shakes it. Then, Tidus and Yuna leave Kairi glances over and notices Rinoa and Selfie glaring at each other. Namine notices also and then suddenly speaks.

"Uh… I think I'll take Selfie home" She says quietly.

"I'll go with you" Riku says

"I think I'll go, too. My house is nearby to Selfie's so I can just walk there after we drop Selfie home" Roxas interjects before they leave. Selfie hugs Kairi. They say a couple goodbyes and the four teenagers walk into the darkness. A silence washes over the remaining teenagers. Suddenly, Squall speaks.

"Rinoa and I are going to get some food, anyone want to come with us?" he asks. Sora and Kairi refuse.

"I'll go" Zidane says shrugging his shoulders. Suddenly, they hear a low grumble. Everyone turns to a, now, blushing Garnet

"I guess my stomach answered for me" she says nervously. Everyone begins to laugh and the four begin to walk away.

"I guess I'll go too then" Sora says as the group walks away laughing and chatting about the day. Sora takes turns to catch up when suddenly he hears a quiet whimper. He looks back at Kairi who looks like she is about to cry.

"Kairi?" She looks at him with frightened eyes.

"I-I-I'm f-f-fine" she stutters out. He looks at her unconvinced

"It's fine g-go ah-h-head. I c-c-can walk home by m-m-myself" she says shaking.

"I'm not stupid Kairi, maybe you should just come with us" he says

She shakes her head violently "if you d-don't g-go now you'll lose them" she replies

He turns around to see the group has disappeared "too late" he mumbles.

"I guess we are stuck walking together huh?" he says nonchalantly throwing his hands behind his head and beginning to walk. She stares at him for a moment.

"Wait, where are you going?" She asks him

"Home" he says simply

"You coming?" he asks her She hesitates as she watches him continue walking away.

"Sora… wait up!" she says running to catch up with him. The two walk in silence. Sora glances over at Kairi who is currently looking down at her feet. He looks forward again.

"What are you so afraid of?" he asks her as he puts his hand back down to his side. She jerks her head up surprised to hear him talking to her.

"N-nothing" she says looks back down and trying to hide the blush creeping onto her face.

"You don't have to be embarrassed about being afraid you know" he says to her.

"I'm not afraid" she says as her voice creeps up to a higher pitch than normal.

"Is it because of what happened?" he asks

"What?" she says surprised

"You know… is it because of what happened last year?" he says as he glances over at her once more. He watches her stiffen slightly at the mention of what had happened. A moment passes and she relaxes.

"Yes, I never really have been the same since" She says. Sora stops and stares at her. He hadn't been expecting her to admit that she wasn't who she had been before and when she did, he still couldn't believe it. Kairi notices he stopped and she looks up at him with tears running down her face. She stares at his surprised expression then looks back down at her feet.

"I'm sorry" she says. Suddenly she feels a pair of warm arms wrap around her. She gasps and looks back up to find Sora's chest in front of her.

"S-Sora…" she stutters once again blushing

"You don't have to be afraid anymore" he tells her.

She stays still for a moment then smiles and nuzzles her head into his chest while wrapping her arms around him.


So i would like to thank my reviewers. Thanks guys you are all very encouraging!!!!

Cake: yeah i know what you mean he seems to be in the friend zone all the time doesn't he ah well. he does eventually get the girl in a lot of the stories though, at least the ones Ive read. Yes i know Riku finally has someone to love. lol however, i do have to ask everyone a question after i do my reveiws about this particular couple so just make to look at it after i finish here

DRAGONFIRE563: yes well while writing i really only know the end so when i write I'm kind of writing blindly here i mean i did have a general plan but not one that was too excessive anyway i thought it was a good reason to get mad granted Kai was being stupid by staying someone who had the intent of hurting her but i think that Sora maybe should have tried to be a bit more understanding of how scared she may have been at the time so ya know anyway I'm sorry for the long wait a lot has been going on over here and I've had some pretty bad writers block for a couple weeks to go along with it all so if i don't update as quickly its because of that however, i should have chapter eight posted soon.

Okay now for the very important question. when i began this story my plan was to start out with several relationships some of them would end others would stay together. well when i planned this particular story i planned for Namine and Riku to be together for the beginning but break up somewhere in the middle of it. so what i want to know, and please just put you answer in a review, should i have Namine and Riku stay together or should i go with my original plan?