Chapter Nine

Kairi rushed to her class in the library. The professor thought that it was better to hold their class in the library because it promoted the theme "silence outside of the classroom is key." Everything with this professor was weird. But, that was why Kairi found the class so interesting. It was female psychology. The professor was a psychologist who once fought for woman's rights in many third world countries. She never talked about it, but her students had done their research. She had been arrested countless times and had once had an Italian lover. The Italian lover had been a lord, and she had dumped him when she had learned that he was married. She had once been in court in Sudan, Lebanon and even Egypt. She never said anything, but she was exiled from those countries. She was half Egyptian and half Italian, so she was fairly dark. She had long dark hair and slanted eyes. She took more after the Egyptian side of her heritage. Her name was Kamari.

Kairi climbed the twenty steps to the library. She walked past the circular desk, and all the book sections. The library was divided by two sections: fiction and nonfiction. Being a college, the nonfiction was larger than the fiction. It was where most of the college students spent their time.

Kairi made her way to one of the rooms in the fiction section. The one that they always used was in the way back and had couches in it. There were only five students in the class. It was Kairi, Olette, Selphie, Yuffie and another girl who was called Kiara. Kairi liked her because the girl was down to earth. She had brown hair and brown eyes, but had a good personality. If anyone mistook her as plain and boring, they were sadly mistaken.

Kairi rushed into the room and sat down in the back. She smiled at the other four, noticing that their teacher was late.

"Where is she?" Kairi asked. Olette shrugged. Selphie just looked off into nowhere. Yuffie responded to her.

"She's gone to get a phone call. That was five minutes ago," she said. Kairi smiled and thanked her. Yuffie nodded. It was odd, but she and Kairi had become friends since their graduation. Olette had withdrawn from Kairi, and Selphie was having boyfriend troubles all the time. She had semi given up on Axel, but not completely.

Their teacher stomped in a couple of seconds later. She sighed angrily and smiled at the class. "As you know, this is a group discussion class. We all discuss our issues, how we can solve them and then you write me a paper for next class. Who wants to start?"

Olette raised her hand. The teacher nodded.

"Well, as you all know, I'm going out with Sora," she started. Kiara's eyes widened. "Anyways, we were on a date last night, and I asked him to come up to my place. We've been dating for like a month, and he says that he has a paper due today. He is so full of crap! He has been making excuses for the last week! I am a woman, not a toy! I have needs too!"

"Very good," the professor said. Kamari nodded to Kiara's raised hand.

"What if he really had a paper due today?" she asked uncertainly. Olette shifted her gaze to Kairi.

"Well, Kairi? Did he have a paper due today?" she asked sneeringly. Kairi mentally sighed.

"I have other things to worry about than Sora," she said. She didn't mention that she and Riku saw him walk around for half the night.

"Well, you always come up in our conversations," Olette sneered. Kairi looked at her questioningly. Yuffie intervened.

"They live next door to each other, of course he sees her everyday," she said smoothly. "I mean, it's not like they never run into each other. Don't you guys always have supper together?"

"Yeah," Kairi said. "Tifa makes us come over every night now that Axel's doing better."

"Your brother is doing better?" Kamari asked. Kairi nodded and smiled. "I'm glad… who's next?" Yuffie put her hand up.

"I have finally given up on my older man. No matter what I do, he doesn't notice me," she said sadly. Kairi thought of all the pain that Leon had gone through after losing the girl he loved, and didn't say anything.

"At least you had a man," Selphie said. "Mine won't even talk to me anymore. Hayner and I have successfully broken up as of this morning."

"You two will be back together tonight," Olette said. "Unlike me, you are getting your needs fulfilled."

"You can always go on your own," Selphie suggested. Kiara gasped.

"But that's betraying his trust!" she exclaimed. Olette's temper exploded.

"Yeah, well, I'm dating a man who is in love with another woman! He never looks at me the way he looks at her! All he does is look at her if she's in the room!" she cried out. Yuffie came up defensively.

"You don't even know the story, so don't make assumptions!" she yelled. Kamari just looked at all of them and silently thanked that the rooms were sound proof.

"What story?" Kiara asked. Kairi just looked ahead.

"I found out that Roxas has a kid," she said. Everyone stopped short and turned to her. Tears came down her cheeks. Yuffie instantly kneeled by her side.

"What happened?" she asked softly. Kairi looked at her and told what had happened.

"A couple of hours ago, I saw Roxas in town. This surprised me because he goes to school on the other side of the country. He had his arm around a woman, and his head on a boy who looked exactly like him. I just stood there frozen because I didn't know what to do… I went home and confronted Sora. He paled and told me that it was his kid. I yelled at him and told him that he was a lying son of a bitch. He told me that he had done it when we were in high school, and I just stood there. I could see the pain in the eyes, and I stood there yelling at him… he just let me yell. He said that he had never meant to let me find out. I said that he had destroyed my trust… and he stormed out," Kairi got out.

She had come home from seeing the incident, and went right up to Sora.

"Why couldn't you tell me that he was cheating on me?" she yelled at him. Sora looked taken back, but quickly recovered.

"What do you mean?" he asked calmly. Kairi stomped around the living room.

"He was with our old English teacher, and a baby boy. He was gripping her ass!" she yelled. Sora closed his eyes briefly.

"That's my son," he said. Kairi looked at him unbelievingly.

"The kid looks just like him! I don't believe you!" she yelled. "You are a lying son of a bitch!"

"No I'm not!" he finally yelled at her. "I'm just cleaning up his messes!"

"What do you mean by that?" she yelled back. Sora came right up to her and grabbed her waist. He pulled her to him and held her tightly.

"He's been cheating on you for years," he whispered. His blue eyes softened as they searched her blue ones. "It was one of my duties to always make sure that I was the one scrutinized, not him." Kairi fought tears coming down her cheeks. Sora gently wiped them away. She put her head onto his chest and started to cry. He held her like that until she stopped crying.

"Why?" she choked out. Sora lightly put a hand through her hair.

"Because you weren't having sex with him," he said. Kairi cried all over again.

"He always pressured me," she said. "I had told him no every time. I never told him that I wasn't a virgin, but I didn't want to have sex with him." Sora's arms tightened and he gathered her closer.

"I never meant to hurt you like this," he said. He brought her chin up so that they were looking at each other in the eyes. "I love you too much to let that happen to you." Kairi had gasped, but hadn't broken out of his arms.

He just hugged her until she had to go to class.

Yuffie smiled smugly as she looked at the expressions passing over Kairi's face. So, he had finally caved. It was about time. Olette had just seen anger and humiliation sketched on Kairi's face. She was happy that Kairi had shooed Sora away. Kamari clapped her hands together.

"Well, that's it for today… I'm sorry Kiara that we didn't get to you today. You'll be first on Wednesday," Kamari said. Kiara nodded and silently thanked her. Olette and Selphie rushed out of the room, followed by Kiara. Kamari got up and looked at Yuffie and Kairi.

"Will you two need the room for a couple more minutes?" she asked. They both nodded. She sighed and went out.

"Tell me what happened," Kairi said. Yuffie nodded and sighed.

"He was always covering for Roxas. Everything that you heard in high school was actually Roxas doing it. Every rumor about Sora wasn't true. He was always clean, except when he went out with me. But, we were just friends with benefits. He never treated me harshly, but I knew that he always loved you. He's loved you ever since that party sophomore year," she said. "The first time that he saw you, it was over. He fell head over heels in love. He told me that he had seen nothing like you. You had enchanted him from the beginning. So, he tried hard over the next two years to get your attention. That's why he was always rude to you. He just wanted your attention, good or bad."

Kairi nodded and looked up at Yuffie.

"My brother needs a girlfriend," she said. Yuffie laughed and thanked her for the information. They walked out, but Kairi was quickly stopped by a looming shadow. She looked up and saw Sora grinning down at her. She grinned back. Yuffie went on ahead of them to give them time alone.

"How was it?" he asked. She just shook her head. He grinned and took her hand. He kissed it and put it in his.

"When did you realize that you loved me?" she asked him. His steps slowed and he looked down at her.

"The first moment I saw you," he said. He didn't say anymore than that. Kairi looked at him.

"You were him," she said. Sora nodded. She just flushed and continued to gaze at him. Neither knew that Olette was watching the exchange of glances.

A/N: Yeah… well… that was kind of fast… but there are a couple of problems coming up… like Leon's thing, Yuffie's gotta get a guy… Olette's going to get "revenge"… hm… idk what else. Oh! Sora's mom and dad, I planned a whole chapter for that one… and a couple of minor problems.

Well, thank you for reading and if you want to review, then you can.

Until next time!!!