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White Light and the Darker Angel
Chapter 7
*RIKU*
We reached the car first somehow. I guess it always takes girls longer. The same routine happened. I sat on the hood listening to music, Mozart, on my iPod. Kairi came out and gave Sora a kiss and I messed with them along with Naminè. I laughed as I slid off the hood nearly bumping into her.
"Sorry" I mumbled passing her to get to the other side of the car. Sora reached for the passenger side and Naminè smacked his hand away.
"We don't really want a repeat of yesterday do we?" She asked. I smirked as Sora huffed and slid into the back and wrapped an arm around Kairi. Naminè pulled the seat up and got in throwing her bag between her feet. She looked back at them and smirked as Sora planted a kiss onto Kairi. I looked at her beautiful golden hair shining in the sunlight, It rolled off of her shoulders and gracefully ended in blissful curls. wow…what was I turning into? A poet? I needed to snap out of it.
"Are you going to start the car?" She asked looking up at me with her beautiful sea blue eyes.
"Oh, yea right" I said kicking myself inside. I really needed to stop whatever was happening. She'd catch on sooner or later.
I started the car abruptly and as I turned to get out of my parking space I looked over to Namine's side of the car. That same beautiful hair seemed to glisten this time as she went through her bag. I got through some of the traffic, with this being the only high school in Twilight Town it was pretty crowded. We silently rode as we made it by the mall we had stopped at yesterday for Naminè and Sora to switch places. I was happy she had accepted, It made driving a lot prettier with her by my side. I could see us taking an evening drive…maybe to the beach. I wonder if she likes the ocean…
"Ugh this cold weather is killing me" Kairi complained rubbing her arms, Sora scooted closer.
"I like it" Naminè said gazing out the window. "You can always get warmer but you can't always get cooler" She said.
"Where'd you get that from?" I asked peeking over at her from the corner of my eye.
"It was something my mother use to say"
Her mother…I remember now, her parents died in a fire where they use to live. In her first week of school she was the topic of everyone's conversation. Marly had gotten excited until he realized that she was way too innocent for him. That and I had already seen her and said that if he ever laid so much as a pinky on her I'd skin him alive. That pretty much stopped him.
"Sounds like she was a smart woman" I said. She smiled and nodded at me.
"She was" She whispered. I felt bad for asking now…
I quickly turned on my cd player and Bach filled the silence. I looked over and Namine was still looking at her brown boots weaving her scarf between her long fingers. How I longed to grab and hold her hand and make her feel better. I mentally slapped myself for being such a sap. I quickly changed the subject. I pulled into Kairi's driveway before too long.
"We're here, don't forget Sora, I'm going to help you with Yen Sid's class" Kairi said grabbing her key and turning the knob.
Her house looked just as it had the last time I was here. Marluxia, Sora and I had come that night to warn Kairi's father Axel about what might would happen if Kairi kept seeing Monsieur Gaston. Gaston was the old French teacher who had come at the end of the last school year. All the girls had seemed obsessed, but He took a special evil interest in Kairi. I remember the murderous look that had been on Axel's face. It was one of the most scarry and threatening looks I had ever seen. Luckily we all had been able to protect Kairi before anything really happened. But Kairi had almost caught us in the act. But Namine had thought quickly and had jumped in my lap as if we were dating. I still remember how warm she had been in my arms.
"Hey guys I'm in the kitchen!" Axel yelled behind one of the small plastered walls.
"Hey Riku...Nice to see you again" Axel said lightly rubbing his hands on his aprons. It had 'Kiss the Cook' written in red letters. We shook hands, he was surprisingly happy to see us.
"Dad! I told you not to cook! You'll burn the house down" Kairi said pushing her father aside looking into the metal pot.
"Yea right...I was doing fine" He rolled his eyes and took his apron off and draped it over Kairi's head with a kiss on her cheek.
"Naminè and Riku, you guys can do your work in the Kairi's done Her and Sora can go into the living room. I'll be watching you all" He said smirking and walking away.
Sora smiled and put a hand to Kairi's back. She giggled as she kept stirring whatever was in the pot.
"Dinner will be a little while, is spaghetti alright with everyone?" Kairi asked looking at each one of us.
"That's fine with me" I said putting my bag on the chair at the small table
"Want something to eat?" I can get you whatever, and if it's not here it's normally at my house" Namine said setting her bag in the kitchen chair beside me.
"I'm fine, thank you" I said smiling my thanks at her.
"Alright…shall we?" She asked sitting down in a small wooden chair. I sat down in the small chair beside her trying to ignore the excitement feelings in me. I pulled out my sketchbooks and pencils. I had brought some extra stuff as well.
"Sora and I will be in the Living room, If it startes to bubble over yell for me!" Kairi said pushing Sora towards the room. We waited for a moment to start.
"Alright, First, I want to know what exactly you would like to know" I said/asked.
She shifted in her seat and a beautiful blush crept over her cheeks. I opened my sketchbook towards her.
"I really want to get into the Twilight Town Art Academy" She said looking over at it. I had just gotten accepted... We'd be going to the same college. Well I'd be there a year before her...
"Alright, First things First" I said feeling a little more at ease with Axel, Kairi and sora all gone. Though I knew they were probably listening to us. "Do you mind if I see your sketchbook? So I now the kind of things you like to draw?"
She nodded and tugged on her bag, I reached down a hand and helped her lift it to the table. I was surprised that it was actually pretty heavy with notebooks and textbooks. "Thanks" She flipped it open with a red notebook peeking at me in my utter despair.
"I liked your sketches" She said so quietly I almost thought I had imagined it. She looked at me with her thick dark lashes.
"Thank you, I'm glad you liked them" I said thankful that she wasn't crept out by me drawing her. I mean, she really only really gotten to know me yesterday. We were always apart before.
"They're beautiful, you did an incredible job" She said with a slight blush, I hope she meant the one of her. She pulled out her sketchbook, which was just a white book filled with non-lined pages.
"Wow Naminè, these are beyond incredible you are blessed with talent" I said forgetting myself at the sight of her sketches. I laughed as I flipped thorough and saw the one of the back of a woman's head. There were sketches of Kairi, and a dog. Some of who I would assume is her aunt. She had some Anime sketches the must have done a couple of years ago.
"They're rough" She said, her right hand was across her holding her shoulder in a shy way. She kept her eyes on the sketchbook.
"I only have a few tricks and tips I can teach you…First things First, We are going to work on people. I like your noses but I have a trick I can show you" I said getting out my pencils.
I grabbed my 2H pencil and started to make a small circle on the paper. My lines were light as I drew in my sketchbook. I started working on the basic line feeling her eyes on me. She watched every pencil move with an intense want to learn. I remembered feeling that way as my grandfather would show me how he drew. I grabbed my HB pencil next adding texture and shadows revealing the nose more clearly. She smiled and picked up her own pencil and started to scribble in her own. I liked this, just me and her. Doing something we both loved to do…
"Riku, Can you show me how to do Fruits?" She asked shyly. "I try in art class, Miss Aerith says they look nice but could use some work. She's too busy with everyone else to really show me what I'm doing wrong" She said after we had done a couple noses.
"Yea sure thing, got any fruit?" I asked looking around Kairi's kitchen.
"Umm…here's an apple, orange, and…a pear?" She asked picking each one from around the room and setting them on the table. She then started to arrange them for us to draw. As she did so she stood leaning over. Her butt was looking really good in those blue jeans. 'REALLY?" I asked my stupid self. She didn't notice me staring at her –which I thanked God for- and she gave me a small smiled as she sat down again beside me.
"Ready" She said picking up her pencil again.
Wow I liked her smile… "Right…well…You really want to use a lighter pencil shade; I always use my 2H".
"Alright" She looked down with her beautiful blonde hair falling in front of her face. How I wanted to brush it back. Ugh! Boy did I really need to stop being such a sap. I mean, guys weren't supposed to be like this…I normally didn't really care for people. I hated crowds. I guess Namine was just special.
"Well you are going to want to use lines to show the side of the fruits. You sharpen them later on in the sketch. Then you tend to find the light source."
I watched Namine examine the exhibit in front of us. She looked around trying to find the light source which she then pointed out to me. I nodded and smiled, she wasn't just pretty but extremely smart. We worked on the sketches until Axel came in announcing that the hour was up. Not to mention that it was time for Dinner
"Hey, how'd it go?" Sora asked us walking into the kitchen.
"I think it went really well" Naminè answered placing her sketchbook back in her bag.
"Wish I could say the same" Kairi said rolling her eyes at a red faced Sora.
"Hey, You were the one that started it!" Sora said rubbing the back of his neck.
"It's not my fault" Kairi said sticking her tongue out. Sora said tickling her and making her giggle,
"What'd ya'll do?" Naminè asked curiously stepping up beside me. Hmm, I smell...what is it, peaches?
"He started tickling me, my dad came in and gave us the evil eye" She said rolling her eyes.
"Nice going" I said to Sora. He laughed lightly and looked behind him to make sure Axel wasn't standing there. He must have gone back to wherever he was before.
"Anyways let's get to my favorite part...kairi's cooking" Sora said rubbing his hands together evilly.
"Yea. By the way do you girl's need a ride tomorrow?" I asked looking from Kairi to Naminè.
"Yes please" Kairi said smiling at us.
"That'd be great" Naminè said speaking up as she spooned out the meat sause for each of us.
"Alright, sounds good" I said smiling to them. I grabbed my plate smelling peaches as I brushed past Naminè. The Best smell in the world I'd have to say.
Dinner went along really well. We all laughed and talked about people in this town and some of the idiots we went to school with. Namine had asked me if I had seen the campus of the Art Academy. I actually had toured it and tried to describe everything. She actually looked like she wanted to hear me talk. The meal was really delicious and we all had clean plates at the end of it.
"Well...we better be getting on with homework." Sora gave Kairi a kiss on the cheek and started to go into the living room. I waved goodbye at them and headed out too.
"That was awesome"
"I'll say" I said as we got into my comaro.
