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Chapter Nine

**Naminé's POV**

"Mr. Terra?" I asked as I approached his desk after class ended. He looked up at me, his eyes curious.

"Yes Mrs. Lockheart?" he asked me with a kind smile. I became a little nervous.

"Well, I was wondering if you can have more than one entry in the contest…You see I have two of these really great ideas, and I wanted to enter them both." I informed him. He smiled at me.

"Sure thing Naminé, whatever you want to do." He said with an encouraging smile. "I am very excited to see what you are going to enter."

I nodded and thanked him before heading to my locker. Just as I turned the corner, I saw Roxas standing there. I smiled and walked over to him, my heart racing. I was so happy to see him again.

"Hey, sorry I'm late; I had to ask Mr. Terra a question." I said as I put in my locker combination, opening my locker as I put all my things in my bag.

Roxas ignored me and asked: "Who's that girl?" My eyes immediately hit the picture of Olette that was placed by a magnet against the locker door. I sighed.

"One of my best friends back from Destiny Islands." I said half heartedly, or at least I tried to sound like it. Of course, Roxas didn't buy it and took a step closer.

"What's wrong?" he asked, concern coating his voice. I nodded my head, not meeting his eyes.

"Nothing, nothing's wrong." I tried to assure him as I closed my locker door, walking through the hall.

"Naminé, please don't lie to me." Roxas pleaded as he moved in front of me, so I couldn't walk. I sighed and looked up to meet his eyes.

"It's just…she was a really good friend to me. She and I started hanging out since kindergarten. But ever since I've moved, she hasn't contacted me. I've tried to email and call several times but…she just doesn't reply." I felt tears brimming in my eyes. "I don't know what happened to her. I'm afraid she's found better friends." I admitted, moving my hair to my right shoulder.

I sighed and pushed past him. He quickly caught pace with me again. He stayed quiet most of the way to the beach (well at least I was one hundred percent sure that we were going there.) I think my mini story kind of brought him down.

I knew what I was about to say might have ruined his mood more, but I was dying to know. "So, how's it been with Sora lately?" I asked. He sighed.

"I've kind of lied to you about him." He admitted. He looked up at my expression, but I wasn't mad. I was more…curious of what he had to say.

"Where is he then?" I asked.

"He's-he's living with my dad." He admitted, looking down at the ground. My heart sank. I knew Roxas told me about his dad every once in a while, and I felt sorry for him. "That's who was on the phone…it was my dad. I just kind of got upset thinking about being there with him…." His eyes went straight ahead as we walked towards the beach.

"Why didn't you go and see him?" I asked as we finally reached the beach. We walked up the wooden steps of the porch and entered the little house, Roxas throwing his bag off somewhere.

"Do you want me to tell the truth?" he asked in a serious tone. I followed him to the couch as he sat down; I sat down on the other side, watching his face carefully.

"Yes, very much. I'd rather you would tell the truth then lie." I answered. He smiled.

"Okay…this might sound kind of corny, but I didn't want to leave you alone here with no friends. I mean, I know you had Axel, Demyx, and Riku…but I knew I couldn't just leave you with those idiots." He said at the end in a teasing tone. I giggled.

"That's true." I said sarcastically, trying to get back to the serious mood again. "Anyway, he's your dad. You don't have to hold up to see him because of me. I would hate to come between you and your dad." I said honestly with a small smile.

He sighed. "No, it's fine. I think I'd rather hang out with you than my dad anyway." I was shocked at the words that just came out of his mouth. He rather pick me over his own dad?

"Hey, I wanna see what you want to enter for that contest." He said, gesturing towards my bag, which was still over my shoulder.

I blushed. "Um, I don't know…" I said honestly, keeping my bag against my chest.

"Aww, come one Naminé." Roxas whined. I giggled.

"Well, you're gonna have to catch me first." I said getting up and running off into a different room. Before I knew it, Roxas tackled me against a wall. He chuckled.

"Gotcha!" he teased, tickling me.

"Roxas!" I screamed as I started to laugh uncontrollably. "I give up, please….stop!" I said still laughing. Roxas stopped and stared at me for a long moment. I felt my heart racing again. He just looked into my eyes, holding them carefully. I shoved the bag towards him and he took it.

"Um….let's see how good an artist you are after all." He said moving away from me and walking back to the couch in the living room. I took a deep breath, straightening my hair.

I followed him back to the couch and sat down as he opened up my sketchbook. He flipped through pictures, and widened his eyes at one.

"Hey….you drew me!" he seemed a little shocked. I immediately blushed. "This black cloak you drew looks….familiar for some reason…." He said half to himself. I remembered that I drew Roxas yesterday after he left my room. I had a strange dream, a different dream than the one I usually had. I remembered Roxas was holding some sort of weapon….it looked so amazing! He was also wearing a black cloak.

Of course, I wasn't going to tell him that. "Yah…I drew you. Hope you like it." I said with a smile. "But that's not what I'm entering." I added.

Roxas seemed a little relieved at what I said. He flipped a few more pictures, and I scooted over next to him to see them too. I then saw the one with me and Olette and he stopped to look at it too. He stared at it for a long time before speaking.

"This is….amazing Naminé!" he exclaimed at the photo. I smiled.

"Thanks. I wanted to enter that and-"I flipped through a few more pictures to finally reach the one I drew of all of us together. Roxas smiled. I actually drew all of us NOT in our school outfits, which kinda pleased me.

"I wanted to enter this one too. Mr. Terra said we could enter more than one in the contest so I thought why not these two?" I informed him with a smile.

"Wow….these are awesome!" he said, still shocked. I rolled my eyes.

"There not THAT good." I said snatching the notebook from his hand.

He chuckled as I put it back in my tote bag. "I've done better." I added as I crawled back on the couch, cuddling against his chest. I felt so safe when I was with him, I felt like no one could hurt me.

"Hey, so Riku has been surprisingly invited to some party on Saturday. I wanted to ask if you wanted to come. You know you're welcomed." I looked up to meet his face and blushed.

"I don't know…I told you dancing isn't really for me….."I said, half thinking of my decision still.

"Come on Naminé, it'll be fun." He begged me, shaking my shoulder slightly. I sighed in defeat.

"Fine, I'll come to the party…"I agreed glumly. He smiled.

"Thank you." He said hugging me. I sighed into his chest as he let go, my head still laying there.

"Can we watch a movie?" I asked, even though I knew I had tons of homework. He moved me from his chest and got up, walking towards the TV in front of us. He bent done and opened a drawer full of movies.

"Titanic?" he asked me. I loved that movie to death, but it made me really sad; especially when the girl lost Jack. Thinking about it made me depressed.

"No, to sad." I denied it immediately.

"Avatar?" he asked me, aiming at the more newer movies. I had to admit it was a pretty good movie, but I didn't want to listen to the beginning. It was too boring…and I didn't feel like seeing too much violence.

"Nah." I said as Roxas rolled his eyes, placing it back in the drawer. He search through a few more until he pulled out the best movie of history (at least in my opinion.)

"How about New Moon?" he asked.

"OMG YES!" I screamed. Roxas laughed.

"Is it Edward or Jacob?" he asked, apparently getting that response before by someone.

"Jacob definitely." Roxas rolled his eyes as he placed the CD in the DVD player, the movie starting. Roxas came back to the couch and pulled me into him again, wrapping a blanket around me (who knows where he got it.)

I said the exact lines that Bella did in the beginning before her dream. "With violent delights come violent ends," I sighed as I watched Bella run through all the red cloaked people, until she reached the garden, where her dream started.

"I honestly think that Bella shouldn't be in love with a girl. That's kind of gay." He said still staring at the screen. I rolled my eyes.

"Jacob is NOT a girl." I protest in fake anger.

"Well he could pass for one with that type of hair." He commented, still looking at the screen. I hit his arm playfully. "Ow! What did I say?" he asked innocently. I rolled my eyes and continued watching the movie.

**Later That Day**

After watching the movie, I immediately went home. I was glad mom wasn't home and Tifa was at cheerleading practice. I went upstairs and did my Algebra and looked over my pictures, improve them for the contest.

Later Tifa came home and informed me that mom was having a girl's night out with some of her baking friends and wouldn't be back until later that night. Tifa order some pizza and I took my box up to the room, closing my door and locking it so Tifa wouldn't barge in on me. I shrieked and almost dropped my pizza box before hands caught it.

Roxas smiled at me. "Hey….sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." He said handing me back the pizza box. I blushed and shook my head.

"Don't you always." I said taking the box and walking towards my bed, placing it there. He chuckled and followed me.

"I suppose so." He said as he sat next to me on the bed.

"You can have some pizza." I said, gesturing to the half empty box. He shook his head.

"Nah, I'm good." He said as he stared off into space. I wondered what was on his mind. I stared at his face for a long time, trying to read it. But one of the things I hated about Roxas was that you couldn't read him like an open book. He was always closed; he didn't like to open himself. I really didn't like that. He finally turned around to meet my eyes, holding them for a long time.

He squinted them a little, making his face full of confusion. "What are you staring at?" he asked me. I blushed and looked at my hands before getting off the bed.

"Nothing…nothing." I said as I walked over to my window to stare out it, mostly to avoid any eye contact with him. I heard him get up and follow me over there. I immediately became a little scared that we were alone.

"Naminé." He said when he was finally beside me. He turned my face and lifted my chin so I had no choice but to look at him. "Why are you lying?" he asked me, his voice becoming very serious.

"It's….it is for an important cause." I truthfully said as I stared into his eyes. His eyebrows became a confused line of his face as he stared right back. "We don't have to do this to each other." I whispered.

He sighed and stepped back, walking over towards my bookshelf, looking at the little stuffed animals and things placed on top of it. I sighed too. I probably wasn't getting anything out of him tonight. I walked over towards him and looked at the different books I had.

"You really like the Twilight Saga, don't you?" he said sarcastically, taking out the forth book, "Breaking Dawn" from its department.

I blushed. "Well yah." I said running my fingers through my hair. "Doesn't everyone?" I asked playfully.

He chuckled. "Not me." He said flipping through pages.

"Then why did you have the movie in the first place?" I shot at him. He raised his eyebrow.

"My dad bought it for my mom since she's in love with it." He answered, his eyes looking troubled. I immediately realized what I asked and what the conversation might have lead to.

"Roxas-"but he didn't let me finish.

"It's fine." He said, placing the book back in its place and walking towards my bed again. I felt my throat burning. I hated when I made him upset.

"I did it again…" I sighed as I walked over to the bed too, sitting next to him. He looked up at me, a confused look forming his face again. "You told me…I was never the reason you were upset. I am Roxas…I don't want to upset you." I said truthfully, meting his eyes.

He laughed silently to himself, shaking his head. "You aren't Naminé. Stop saying that." He said, his face becoming serious again,

I bit on my bottom lip. "No, Roxas. You're lying to me now. You know I am, so stop saying I'm not." I said as I moved my hair behind my ear. "It's killing me Roxas….hurting you. We don't have to do this." I repeated what I said previously a few minutes ago. "We don't-we don't have to keep hurting each other or hiding things from each other." I felt my throat getting hotter and my lungs started making it harder to breath.

He stared at my face for a long moment, and I stared right back. He took my face in his hand, tilting my head up. "Then don't." he whispered moving his face closer to mine. My lungs were swelling up, and I could barely breathe at the moment. His forehead lightly touched mine and I felt my heart about to explode. "I never said I didn't want this; I just said it would be better to not do anything….stupid."

I closed my eyes, clutching onto his shirt and trying to breathe correctly. "I'm intended to finish what I started." He murmured against my lips.

I wasn't sure if my heart could take anymore of this torture. I shook my head, knowing it would be too much, knowing this could mess up everything we built up.

"Roxas….please…."I pleaded, meeting his eyes once again and becoming mesmerized. He put on finger on my lips to silence me. Now I wasn't sure what I wanted anymore, I knew that we couldn't do this.

"Do you trust me?" he asked barely above a whisper. My breathing became silent as my heart beat quicken. I trusted Roxas with all my heart, for the last few months I have know him I had. And now….now I definitely trusted him.

"I-I think so." I breathed, moving my hands to his shoulders.

"Then close your eyes." He murmured in my ear, setting me off the edge. I batted my eyes once before I closed my eyes tightly, waiting for what was about to come. He was so close, so close to me, and I wanted him so badly. I knew I we could ruin everything right now or we could walk away and pretend it never happened. When your heart tells you something, no matter how risky it is, you have to follow it.

It seemed like an eternity we sat there, controlling out breaths; and before I knew it, Roxas's lips were pressed against mine. The sensation was excessively too much for my heart to control as he forced his lips against mine. Then he pulled away, but I wanted more, so much more. I leaned into his lips again, making the kiss last longer as I wrapped my arms around his neck. He moaned softly into my mouth as he pushed me against the headboard of the bed, kissing me back with more force and intensity. I stood up on my knees, tangling my hands in his hair as I kissed him, until he pulled away, breathing heavily.

I tried to catch my breath again too as I moved away from him, running my fingers through my hair. Roxas shook his head, probably trying to clear it.

"I'm…sorry." He said quietly, still catching his breath. "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to control myself."

I took in deep breaths, shaking my head left and right. "Don't be." I breathed, looking down at the covers on my bed.

His hands stroked my hair, leaving a burning trail on my check, before he sighed. "I-um….have to go." He said quietly, getting up and walking towards the window. I didn't have the energy to tell him not to as I still tried to process what just happened. "See you tomorrow?" he asked hopefully.

I look up to meet his gaze on me. I nodded my head. "Yeah…see you tomorrow." I said with a small smile. He smiled back, but it never touched his eyes. Then he jumped out the window and I became worried. I hope he didn't hurt himself….

I immediately ran to the window, looking out it until I looked down to see him walking towards his house. I touched my lips with my fingertips before sighing and closing the window. I needed to get some sleep anyway.

**Roxas's POV**

I sneaked into my house and into my room, hoping I wouldn't get caught by mom. I walked into my room, closing my door softly as I walked up to my window. I sat down on the opened part that was meant to be seated on at my window.

Naminé…..Naminé was all I was thinking about lately, especially now. The way she kissed me, the way the taste of strawberries and vanilla overwhelmed me. I knew we both probably made a big mistake, but we both knew it needed to be done to get aside or differences.

"Hey, Roxas." I heard a male voice say as they closed the door behind them. I turned around to see Cloud walk in. "You look really tired, why are you up so late?" he asked.

"Why are you?" I shot back. His eyes widened.

"Hey, hey, no need to be mean. I was just saying…" and then he squinted his eyes at me. "Hey, what's that on your lips?" he asked me.

I wiped my finger against my lip and looked down at my hand. There was a glossy gel on it. Oops….

I immediately blushed and rolled my eyes. "It's nothing." I lied as I looked out my window again. Cloud chuckled. I tried to wipe it off with the back of my hand, but I had no success.

"What happened? Give me the details." He begged as he walked over to me, leaning against the wall, looking at me.

"There are no details because nothing happened." I lied again, biting on my lower lip. Cloud chuckled.

"No really, tell me. I won't tell mom if that's what you're thinking." He added as I narrowed my eyes at him. He kept his face serious.

I sighed in defeat. "I kissed Naminé." I said as my face turned red. Cloud started to laugh uncontrollably. "No seriously!" I said, mad that he was laughing at me.

"You mean that blonde chick that lives next door? Oh, Roxas….ha ha!" he started laughing again and I rolled my eyes.

"You wanted to know…" I said as I tried to look through her window. The lights were out, signaling that she might have been asleep.

"So, how was it?" he asked more seriously to me. That was probably the hardest question I would ever have to answer. You couldn't really answer that, but I tried.

"It was….overwhelming. But it felt….good." I said half to myself, still staring out the window.

Cloud stayed quiet for awhile until he yawned and stretched his arms. "Well I gotta get going to bed then." He said his eyes still on me. "Don't do anything stupid bro, be careful." He said before he walked towards the door, closing it shut. I'll try Cloud, I'll try. I thought to myself before I walked away from the window, deciding to get some sleep.


So...they aren't exactally together...but they kissed. =D (Okay...maybe a little bit more than just "kissed" XD) I think things are going to be VERY awkward with them for awhile, but hopefully they get comfortable around each other again. =)

So um...reviews? Comments? Anything you didn't like? Anything you did like? Also thank you Vandenbz for suggesting the artwork contest ideas. =)

Anyway if any of you reviews have ideas for some music that could play at that party Roxas invited Namine to, tell me please. Just tell me some fun, dancing songs...and some romantic ones too. =D

So thanks to ALL reviewers and readers for coming along on this journey with me. =) The next chapter should be up alter today or tomorrow.

Love, Peace, tacheyanna! =D