"And as his spirit went… So did she…" Kairi sighed contently.
"Oh. My. God. Are you done with your story yet? You've been reading out loud for a half hour, Kairi." Sora banged his head on the steering wheel, causing it to slightly honk the horn. Kairi glared at him.
"Adam was helplessly in love with Claudine and he did everything to get her back! He died! You just can't appreciate the story." Kairi hugged her book while Sora made a face. Did she even realize what she just said?
"Um… Okay." He didn't want to argue that. "So how about we get dinner sometime soon?" Sora quickly changed what he said after realizing what that sounded like. "Um, not like, on a date because we aren't toge-"
"And we never will be, Sora." Damn Kairi, take that back. That was harsh. Kairi thought to herself. "That-"
"No, I get it… Um, there's a restaurant around the corner. You want to stop by there?" Kairi nodded.
This could be an awkward night.
"Hi, I'm Sara, I'll be your server this evening. Can I get you two a table?" A tall, lean girl with brunette hair that was pulled back into a high ponytail asked. She held two menus in her arms, smiling. "Well you're definitely nicer than the last girl we saw."
"What's that suppose to mean?" Sara's face turned to horror. Sora and Kairi's smiles fell. Sara coughed. "Follow me." She spun around causing her ponytail to bounce up. It almost seemed like she was skipping to the table.
Sora leaned down to Kairi. "Where are the sane people these days?" Kairi inwardly giggled and tried not to laugh out loud.
"Here you are, Hikari table," Sara gestured towards the table that faced the window out to the sunset sky. The furniture was a dark brown wood and even had the fancy salt and pepper shakers. Kairi's eyebrows arched.
"Um… How did she know my last name?" Kairi asked curiously as she sat in the chair Sora had pulled out for her. "I-I told her when you weren't listening, I guess."
Sora hid his face in front of the menu; beet red. "Okay, let's pretend that was a good lie," Kairi exclaimed.
"Imadereservations who wants pasta?" Sora smiled widely, but it soon faded when Kairi's hand was around a fork. "Okay, killing is not an appropriate resolution here."
"Why the HELL would you make reservations?" Kairi slammed the table. Their waters spilled a little from her doing so. "Well… It's a popular restaurant. I just wanted to make sure…" Sora said unsure, but Kairi gave him a glare.
Sora looked around the room, and his lie wasn't supported at all.
A woman with white hair and a blue windbreaker was writing on a lottery ticket slowly and man across the room was either fast asleep or drunk on a table.
"Oh yeah, Sora. This place is hoppin'." Sora rolled his eyes. "Can we just order already?"
"… Fine. But I'm not letting this go." Kairi lifted up her menu and intensely read. "You never let anything go, Kairi." Sora noticed she tightened her grip on the menu and he mentally chuckled.
Kairi looked at the menu but only paid attention to the pasta section. It was her favorite food. She would eat it all the time, but she was worried she would get fat. Her mom would always make her special Fettuccini Alfredo and it turned into her favorite meal for dinner.
"Can I take your order? Sorry about earlier, I'm a bit better now." Sora and Kairi looked up and raised one eyebrow. Sara's ponytail was out of place and her pink lipstick from earlier was smeared all over her lips.
"Sexy," Sora snorted. The waitress looked confused. "Ahem, anyway. I'll have the Chicken Alfredo, thanks." Kairi's eyes gestured towards Sora. He was still trying to contain his laughter.
His voice shaking, Sora replies, "Same thing, thank you."
"You're so immature, you know that right?" Kairi started drawing on a napkin.
"Hey, you have to admit that was funny," Sora chuckled, but all Kairi did was shake her head. "You know, I thought I heard some banging in the kit-"
"Don't finish that sentence, Sora."
Sora laughed once more and did his signature hands behind his head. "Does this moment remind you of anything?" He smirked.
Sora stood nervously behind Kairi's front door. He wore dark skinny jeans, converse, a striped black and white t-shirt. This was his very first datr with Kairi and he was nervous as hell. Sora took a huge breath and knocked on the door.
Sora had heard a distanced "Oh my God he's here!" and he smiled. At least he wasn't the only nervous one. The door opened, and it revealed Kairi's father.
"Hello, Sora! Come in!" Kairi's step-mom's voice rang from the kitchen. Sora bowed before entering the house and walked in. "How are you Mr. Hikari? Mrs. Hikari?"
"We're wonderful, Sora," Mrs. Hikari placed a hand on Kairi's fathers chest. "Look, Sora. We trust you a lot tonight. We feel very comfortable with the fact you're taking her out tonight. You're a good guy." Sora was surprised to hear this coming from her fathers mouth.
"T-thanks, Mr. Hikari. It means a lot. I will never hurt your daughter. She'll be back before 11:30 tonight, I promise."
"Gosh, Dad, don't make him think you're going to stab him or something." Sora started to laugh at the floor until he looked at the bottom of the stairs to see Kairi in a red sundress that tightened around the waist with a black satin belt and the rest flowed down to above her knees. Kairi gave Sora a grin and walked towards him. "I'm ready to go."
"11:30, Sora." Sora nodded at Kairi's fathers reminder. Sora opened the door for Kairi and they both headed out of the house, onto the porch.
"I didn't think it was possible for you to get any more beautiful, but you just did the impossible," Sora stated. Her put both of his hands around her cheeks and looked into her violet like eyes. Kairi smiled. "I've been waiting to finally do this, Kairi…" Sora leaned down, but before he could even make a move, she slipped right out of his hands and walked towards the car, laughing.
"Oh I see how it is!" Sora started to run towards Kairi, but she stopped in her tracks. Kairi pulled Sora's collar and pulled him close to her face. Closing his eyes, Sora waited for a kiss, but instead a peck on the cheek is what he got. "Come on, lazy bum. We're going to be late for our dinner reservations!"
As Kairi kept her eyes out the window, she noticed that they drove past the Italian restaurant they originally had reservations for.
"Um, Sora?"
"You'll see."
Sora pulled up to Destiny Islands, parking just before the sand hit. He opened his door and ran over to Kairi's, opening her door. "Why, thank you." She took his hand and he led her down the sand.
"Where are you taking me?" Kairi asked. "Just close your eyes and take my hand." Sora was lucky Kairi trusted him that much.
Kairi had to admit she was a little scared. Destiny Islands had a lot of rocks lying around and at the moment both of them were barefoot, so one rock could split a toe. She trusted Sora, though.
"Okay stand right…. Here. Now. Open your eyes." Kairi giggled before taking her hands away from her eyes.
"Only you would, Sora."
A fairly large plaid blanket was set just beside their usual palm tree in the sand. Two candles were set side by side in the middle of the blanket, with two plates on two side of the blankets. Fettuccini Alfredo was placed on both of the plates, aside with paopu fruit juice.
"Believe it or not, I actually made the pasta. I wanted to try something new, but mostly because I'm broke," Sora laughed. Kairi had a huge smile on her face. "This is way better than any date I've been on… well. It's the only one. But I'll definitely remember this." Kairi took Sora's hand, squeezed, and walked over to the dinner set.
"You're joking, right?" Sora asked as they both sat down. "What do you mean?" Kairi took a sip of her drink.
"You've never been on a date before?"
"Why is that so hard to believe?"
"B-because you're beautiful and amazing and any guy would be stupid not to ask out a girl like you." Kairi blushed at this. "I've had offers, but… I just turned them down. I wanted a guy to ask me out that would actually want to be with me for me and not just for something else…"
"… No one has tried to… you know…" Kairi's eyes widened. "God, no!" Sora breathed a sigh of relief. He took a hold of her hand and spoke.
"I'll never take advantage of you like that."
"You're different, Sora. I know you won't. I just hope you won't leave me, that's all…" Sora frowned in disgust. "I'll never leave you. Maybe to go to the grocery store, but…" Kairi let out a laugh and let go of his hand to playfully shove him.
"Hey… I have an idea." Sora stood up, and took Kairi's hand. "What are you doing, Sora?" Sora gestured towards the ocean.
"Oh, no! I spent forever on my hair and this dress shouldn't be in water," Kairi stated as she crossed her arms. "… Then how will you wash it?"
"… What's your point?" Before Kairi could argue once more, Sora bent down and flipped her body into his arms. "SORA, NO!" Sora started laughing as he ran towards the clear blue currents.
Sora kicked off his converse, his socks follow, and started to reach the water. It wasn't as cold as he thought, and it felt so good under the sunset. When the couple got to the part of the ocean that was deep enough, Sora took a huge jump, and they both fell under.
Kairi opened her eyes to see Sora grinning at her under water. She swam to the top of the water and let out a huge breath.
"Sora I hate you so much!" Kairi yelled as she pulled her hair out of her eyes. "No you don't. You know you wanted to do this," Sora giggled. Kairi rolled her eyes. Sora pulled Kairi closer and wrapped his arms around her waist. "I'm sorry, I couldn't resist." What Kairi did surprised him.
Kairi took the ends of Sora's shirt threw it over his head towards the sand. "K-Kai?" Kairi dunked his head underwater far enough for him to struggle. She followed.
Sora opened his eyes to Kairi's. She took both of her hands and put them on his cheeks.
And kissed him.
Their first kiss.
Sora put his arms around Kairi's waist once again and continued to kiss the girl of his dreams. The two couple didn't care about the limited amount of air supply. They knew when it was time to stop, but it was definitely not now.
Soon enough they kicked their legs to the top of the water again and their lips let go.
"You're right, I did want to do this."
Sora leaned in for a second kiss, but it still felt like the first one. Kairi giggled as they struggled to float above the water, but continued to kiss him. "Sora, I don't think gravity wants to deal with us right now." Sora looked around the ocean.
"Do you trust me?" Sora swam a little ways away from her, and extended his hand.
"What? Are we going on a magic carpet ride now?" Kairi giggled. (A/N: If you don't know what that reference was to, do not keep reading this… XD)
She grabbed Sora's hand, took a deep breath, and the two dived down the water. When they arrived above the water again, Sora decided to break out a moment. "I can show you the world! Shining shimmering splendid!"
Kairi's side hurt from laughing so much, and especially when trying to keep her weight above the water. She had to admit that even though he was trying to be funny, Sora still had a wonderful voice.
"I'm pretty sure Axel would orgasm right now if he heard you sing that. He loves that movie," Kairi giggled.
"Yeah, he loves Roxas too but you don't see him doing THAT out of nowhere."
"No… it doesn't." The two were almost done with dinner when Kairi finished her memory. She looked up to the mall and saw the time. "Shit, Sora! We have to go. We're totally off schedule. We're suppose to be at Traverse Town in like a half hour and we're almost two hours away."
Sora frowned. "Um, alright." He put forty-dollars on the table (probably more than what the recipe had said) and the two headed towards the exit.
"You've GOT to be kidding me."
Outside, rain was down pouring from the sky. "Hurry to the car!" Sora yelled as he opened the door for Kairi.
Sora and Kairi made it to the car but they didn't come back exactly dry. It was enough for Sora to turn on the heater in the car. "Man, that rain came out of nowhere, I swear. How did we not notice that while we were eating?" Sora asked scratching the back of his damp hair.
But Kairi wasn't listening. She was still remembering the memory from early. "The theory you have is very believable, I'm loving the silence," Sora sarcastically said as he pulled out of the driveway of the restaurant.
Sora was driving for about a half hour when he noticed the gas tank flashing. Shit… Calm down, Sora. You'll make it. He turned over to the Kairi, and she was still staring off into nothing.
"Kairi, are you oka-" Sora was cut off when they started to slow down. They were out of gas.
"Did we just run out of gas?" Kairi asked making no eye contact.
"Um… that's what she said?"
"Dammit, Sora!" Kairi yelled. Sora slammed his hand on the steering wheel and covered his face. "I knew I should have gotten gas once we passed the accessory shop."
"I'll call the nearest gas station. See, Sora? This action I'm doing right now is called being mature. You should try it sometime!" Kairi frowned and looked at her phone. "BUT OF COURSE. No bars. There's a pay phone right there. I'll be right back."
"Oh hell no! You're not going out there alone."
"Sora, I have to call Nam and Roxas anyway to tell them we're going to be late. Try and start the car somehow. Maybe it's just the electrical. Didn't Riku show you a long time ago?"
"Kai… that was seven years ago. How am I suppose to remember that?" Sora asked with attitude. "I don't know, try remembering it more than you remember our relationship." Kairi slammed the door shut and put her hood over her head and started to run towards the pay phone. Sora got out of the car also and opened up the hood of the car, even though he knew that they were out of gas.
Sora saw that a mysterious man was behind Kairi at the pay phone, but tried to shake it off. Maybe he's in line for the phone… I'll run over just to make sure… Sora walked slowly over to Kairi and the man. From afar, Sora suddenly saw the man putting his hands on Kairi's waist. She reacted quickly and hung up the phone. Sora started to run over to them, then ran faster once she tried to push him away, but he wouldn't budge.
"Get the hell off of me, you perve!" Kairi shoved him again, but with no success. She yelped when the man grabbed her arm hard. Sora was at a full sprint.
"Hey! HEY!" The man forced a kiss on Kairi and she was crying at this point. Sora grabbed the man's shoulder, shoved him off with great strength, and punched the man square in the nose, and kicked him down below. Sora squeezed his face in the pain his hand was in, but shook it off. The man fell to the ground in pain. "FUCK OFF, DUDE!" Sora yelled at him.
Sora grabbed Kairi's hand and ran towards the car. He opened the drivers door and gently put Kairi in the car, her crawling in the back seat. He heard something he never wanted to hear, and it was Kairi wailing at the top of her lungs. Sora crawled to the back seat taking a seat next to her.
"Ssh, ssh, it's okay, Kairi, he's gone, see? He's not there anymore he's driving away, okay? You're okay, you're gonna be okay." Kairi continued to sob at the terrifying moment that just occurred. "Shit…" Sora looked around and grabbed two blankets from the back of the car. He wrapped one around Kairi, and then the other around both him and Kairi. She was shivering and still crying, and it broke Sora's heart.
"Kairi, look at me. Look at me!" Her violet eyes were a grey color and it was filled with horror. "W-what if he d-did something t-to me? Sora, I'm s-scared! What's going to hap-"
"KAIRI! He drove away! You're going to be fine. No one is going to hurt you. I'll protect you no matter what." Sora wrapped his arms around Kairi, as she wrapped her arms around his waist. Her crying died down when she realized the man was gone and out of site.
"I-I got your shirt really wet…" Kairi stated. Sora chuckled. "I… really don't care. It looks better on you anyway."
This moment reminded him of the old days. The days where they use to hold each other until they fell asleep. Or watch a movie. Or if Kairi just had a bad day.
"Hey… how about you try going to sleep?" Kairi nodded.
Sora took a shot at trying to lighten up the mood. "R-remember on our first date when I took you out to the water? I think we ended up just like this that night." Sora laughed. He was waiting for a punch in the arm and for her to shove him off, but she surprisingly started laughing.
"And then my dad got so mad that we were all wet."
"And he got so pissed because it was like, what, 11:35 when I promised to drop you off five minutes before then?" They both started laughing at this. It felt so good to Sora for him to reminisce with Kairi like this without any fighting. "I'm surprised you remembered that…" Kairi almost whispered. He could tell that she would fall asleep any minute.
"W-well… like you said. I remember our relationship more than fixing a car."
