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CHAPTER 9
"HA! I knew I'd find you guys here!" Selphie laughed out loud.
"What gives you that idea?" Sora asked.
"Olette told me you two were smooching!" Selphie laughed even louder, getting the attention of quite a few people.
Sora slapped his forehead and Kairi rolled her eyes.
There was no escaping Selphie.
The Last day: 11:34 a.m.
Namine walked through the main area of the hotel where the crowds and crowds of people rushed from here to there, this way and that, in and out, I'm sure you get it. Riku had left earlier, claiming he needed to talk to the guys alone, and wouldn't let her come. Kairi and Sora weren't in their rooms and Olette was most likely in her favorite lounge. So, she was hanging out with Selphie for the time being, seeing as nobody else was to be found.
"Olette said she had one last thing planned before we left for home tomorrow." Selphie snickered to herself, "I wonder what it is…"
"Ah…" Namine through her hands in the air, "Let her keep her secrets. Not like I care."
"I love secrets!" Selphie squealed in excitement, getting a hopeless sigh out of Namine.
"I know, Selphie." Namine rolled her eyes and scanned the room they were in, checking every possible place for Riku. She didn't expect him to be gone for that long. She was curious.
"Have you seen Tidus?" Selphie leaned over and looked up at Namine, who seemed to be getting more and more frustrated with her failure to find Riku by the second.
"No, have you seen Riku?" Namine questioned, taking a second to push a few people out of the way and look out of a large window.
"Nope!" Selphie re-gained her posture and followed as Namine quickened her pace out of the room and down one of the hallways.
"Maybe Olette'll know something." Namine approached lounge room number 3. She stopped in front of the door and turned the golden knob, revealing the room inside. But…
Namine sighed, nobody was there, "Where is everyone?"
"How bout' we wait for them to come to us?" Selphie suggested, lacing her fingers behind her back, a smile creeping over her lips.
Namine sighed deeper, "Fine, where do we wait for them?"
"TO THE KITCHEN!" Selphie grabbed her wrist and pointed onward, rushing down the hall and into the dining area, dragging Namine alone with her.
Namine couldn't help but laugh. Selphie just had to be… Selphie.
As soon as the two reached the dining hall they sat at the biggest table in the room, which happened to be in the very center, even though it was just the two of them.
"Whoa…." Namine admired the insanely large, gorgeously decorated room as she sat down breathlessly in her cozy seat.
"It gets better." Selphie laughed, and then holding both of her hands up to her mouth, preparing to scream.
"Huh?" Namine fixed her gaze on Selphie as she took in a deep, deep breath.
"ECHO!" Selphie yelled at the top of her lungs, and then covered Namine's mouth before she could say a word, "now listen!"
In the background the two could faintly hear Selphie's scream repeating itself, getting dimmer and dimmer and dimmer as it went.
ECHO, Echo, echo…
"Whoa…" Namine repeated, staring at the decorative ceiling. Breathtaking.
"Told ya it was cool!" Selphie leaned back in her cozy chair, resting her feet on the table in front of her, getting a sigh out of Namine.
"Maybe if I yelled Riku's name…" Namine's lips curved into a devilish grin, and she inhaled, getting ready to shout at the top of her lings, " RI-"
"He wont hear you." Selphie leaned back further and laughed out load, "The whole room is sound proof."
She exhaled, "Damn…"
"But…" Selphie removed her feet from the table and took one deep breath, "We can try!"
Namine nodded, and inhaled again, "RIKU!"
"DUMB ASS!" Selphie screamed next, getting a grunt out of Namine.
"Ouch!" Another voice yelled from the right of the room (behind them), catching both of their attention.
"I knew it." Namine smirked. Of course, it was Riku.
"And I'm not a dumb ass!" He huffed at Selphie, who only laughed, throwing her hands up in the air as if to say, 'yeah, sure you're not.'
"Where've you been?" Namine stood up from her chair and pocked at his chest.
"With the guys and Olette." Riku folded his arms and backed away, avoiding Namine's pocking.
"What were you doing with them?" Namine mimicked his actions, also folding her arms and smirking.
"Where's Tidus?" Selphie interrupted, suddenly gaining interest in the couple's conversation.
"He's outside with Wakka, where else?" Riku rolled his eyes.
"See ya!" Selphie jumped out of her chair, grabbing one of the chocolates in the bowl that rested in the middle of the table, and rushed out of the room quickly.
"Figures." Namine shook her head.
"A-anyways…" Riku grabbed her hand and led her away from the middle of the room, where the people who 'just happened' to be there couldn't see them, and then led her quickly and quietly outside.
"Okay." He started, stopping with her behind the pool house, just out of everyone's site, "I have to tell you something."
"Yes?" Namine let go of his hand and continued folding her arms.
"Well…" Riku paused, "First, I have to ask you a question."
"Yes?" Namine pressed on.
"Do you have stage fright?" Riku eyed her.
Namine was taken back a little, "huh?"
"Just answer."
"N-no…" She lied.
"Great!" Riku smiled widely, unfolding both of her arms and holding her hands in his, "Then you'll love what Olette planned today!"
Oh great… Namine thought to herself, trying to smile back at her cheerful boyfriend, you've gone and done it now…
"What she planned on doing today was-"
"HA!" A voice yelled from behind them ,"I knew I'd find you two here!"
They both froze, musta been Selphie. But no, it was…
Roxas?
"Wha…?" Namine looked over her shoulder and the two stared.
Roxas folded his arms, "Olette wants all of us at the Limo in the front of the hotel."
"Right." Riku nodded his head, being as tall as he was, he didn't need top lean over to see him. He was looking over Namine's head, "We'll be right there."
"See you there!" Roxas said, and then ran off around the building.
"So what was she going to do?" Namine looked back up at him.
He shook his head, "You'll see." And then he grabbed her hand and ran off in the direction of the Limo, "Let's go!"
"But-"
"You'll see!" He repeated.
Namine sighed and went along with it all. Although, Riku's questioned scared her a little. Why would he want to know if she had stage fright? She had a bad feeling about this.
They reached the Limo and jumped inside, Riku sitting next to Sora and Pulling Namine next to him.
"So…" Kairi looked at Olette, "What do you have planned?" She asked, her eyes full of excitement.
Olette said nothing; instead, she was smiling wickedly to herself and staring off in another direction.
"Please?" Kairi begged.
Olette laughed a little and shook her head.
"Aw, why not?"
"Because."
"Because why?"
Olette shrugged, "Just… Because."
Kairi crossed her arms and huffed, getting a chuckle out of Sora.
"What's so funny?" She asked.
"Ah… Nothing…" Sora laughed harder.
Kairi only huffed again, "HMPH!"
"I'd like to know too." Namine bit her bottom lip, looking at Riku with pleading eyes.
"No!" all the guys and Olette said at the same time.
"Jeez…" the rest of the girls muttered.
All-of-a-sudden the Limo came to a shocking STOP, sending everyone fling forward. Roxas hit his head on the ceiling, Olette landed on Hayner who landed on Sora who landed on the ground, Riku caught Namine who feel the opposite direction of him and landed backwards, Tidus landed on Wakka's arm and Selphie landed on Tidus, and pence landed on his camera.
"Oh man!" Roxas tried to gain balance again, holding his head as he saw double of everyone, dizzy as he was.
"My camera!" Pence held his broken camera up to his face and wept.
"GET OFF OF ME!" Sora yelled at Hayner and Olette.
"That was close…" Riku was still holding onto Namine on his chest tightly, just in case it happened again, "Another second and I wouldn't have caught you."
"Ow…" Wakka pushed Tidus off of his arm and massaged it.
"Selphie, are you okay?" Tidus held Selphie close to him.
"I'm fine." She shook her head.
"K-kairi?" Sora looked around once he got the others off of him, "Where the hell is kairi?" he held his head and panicked, pushing everyone out of the way and jumping out of the limo, checking the streets, "Kairi? KAIRI!?"
"Calm down!" Kairi pulled herself out of the car with all of her strength, "I'm right here!"
"Kairi!" He rushed and kneeled down to her side.
"Ungh…" She sat up and grabbed her leg.
"Wh-what happened?" Sora examined her leg.
"It hurts." She informed, "Really bad."
"Uh…" Sora looked around at all the people circling the limo, questioning looks on their worried faces, "here." With that he picked her up and stood on his feet, and then backed away so the others could get out. Kairi flung one arm around his neck and the other clung to his jacket as she buried her head in his chest, breathing deeply. She was scared.
"My limo!" The limo driver ran to the side and yelled, running around in circles screaming.
"My head…" Roxas continued to hold his head up as he left the limo first.
"Damn, what was that?" Riku grabbed Namines hand and walked the two of them out, and he examined the front of the limo.
Great, just great. The limo had crashed into the car in front of it with such force, the whole front of the limo was blown to bits and on fire.
Olette gasped and covered her mouth, "Oh my…"
"I'll call someone to come and take it away so it can get fixed." The Limo driver said as he started dialing a number on his cell phone.
"What do we do in the mean time?" Pence asked, still sobbing over his broken camera.
The limo driver shook his head, "Look, kid, I don't know."
"We could still go see the show," Olette suggested, "It's only a block and a half from here."
They all shot her death glares.
"Does this look like the time we should be celebrating?" Sora questioned, also pointing out Kairi was hurt.
"Well, what else do we do while we wait for the limo to repair?" Olette defended herself, "And it's also our last day here!"
"That sounds like a GREAT idea!" The limo driver interrupted their conversation, "I'll just pick you all up with a rented limo after the show."
"Fine." Riku gave in.
"But after," Sora started, "Kairi needs to get back to destiny islands and into the hospital. She hurt her leg and I'm not trusting any of the doctors here. "
"Okay." They all nodded their heads.
The limo driver gave Olette his phone number, just in case, and they all walked forward towards the theater, besides Kairi, Sora was carrying her there.
"Olette!" Sora walked up to her and whispered just quietly enough so kairi wouldn't hear them.
"Hm?"
"What's Kairi supposed to do when we get there?" He asked.
"Sit and watch, obviously, she can't move." Olette pointed out, and Sora rolled his eyes at her sarcasm.
When they finally got to the large theater building they went to last time to see the sit com, they entered the building and were greeted by the same man from before. He led them to the seats right in front of the stage and they all quietly sat down, waiting for the show to start, which was in about an hour; they were early. Just what Olette planned.
She laughed to herself evilly and the other girls gave her glares. The rolled their eyes and time went on, until there was about 45 minutes left.
"Hey!" A voice shouted from a distance.
They all looked over their shoulder at a very tall man coming towards them, "Yes?" Olette asked.
"Are you all the back ups that volunteered for tonight?" he asked, getting a funny look out of all the girls besides Olette, who only nodded, her wicked smile not leaving its place.
"Come with me!" He told, and then they all got up, and Sora picked up Kairi again.
"What's going on?" Namine asked.
"This is what I planned!" she informed as they were being led up onto the stage and into the dressing rooms in the back.
"Yeah, I got that part, but what's your plan?" Namine asked again.
"Heh. heh heh…" Olette laughed, "I hope you don't have stage fright!
Namine's stomach dropped. Did that mean they were going to perform?... on stage?... in front of hundreds of people and several cameras?
Oh dear god…
"You don't mean…" Kairi gave Olette a suspicious look while clinging onto Soras neck tighter.
"You'll see." Olette sang, "But you'll have to watch from the side of the stage because of your injury." Kairi felt relived, taking a deep breath and thanking the lord she wouldn't have to be a part of this.
"A part of what?" Selphie suddenly gained interest and snapped back into reality. She had spent the first few moments before day dreaming.
"You'll see." Olette repeated, starting to sound annoyed beyond her limits. Olette was meant to be a nice person, but… well; Selphie was just being too… Well she was just being her and it was annoying. As usual.
Selphie huffed and folded her arms. But soon, they reached back stage and the man assigned them to different dressing rooms, the girls to one and the boys to another, although Sora was allowed one minute in the girls room to set Kairi down the couch that was inside, and then he left to the other room, shutting the door behind him.
"Now will you tell us what's going on?" Namine asked as another girl entered the room and sat them down in the chairs in front of the large mirror, switching from girl to girl to do their hair properly.
"No." Olette rolled her eyes.
"You can tell me," Kairi informed, "Since I won't be a part of it anyways."
"I didn't make it obvious enough?" Olette questioned, "I thought I was being totally readable."
"Just tell us." Selphie huffed, "The guys already know."
"Because I told them." Olette informed.
"Come on!" Namine groaned.
"Fine!" Olette sighed in defeat, "We're going to perform on the stage during the show with other professional dancers, but we'll look the nicest."
"I can't dance!" Namine hesitated, "don't make me do it!"
"I already signed you in." Olettes snickered.
"Well I don't mind." Selphie shrugged, "It's not like I have stage fright."
"I don't have stage fright!" Namine shouted, becoming a bit jittery.
"I didn't say you did…" Selphie gave her a funny look.
"Well I don't!" Namine shouted again.
"Okay, okay!" Selphie laughed at her.
Meanwhile… in the background Kairi was still partying over the fact she wouldn't have to dance in front of all those people.
Soon, their hair was finished and another woman came in, giving them all fancy, sparkling, brim stone incrusted clothing that looked like, well, something a high class dancer would wear.
"I have to dance in that?" Namine eyed the clothing as it was handed to her. This was getting even worse.
"I like it!" Selphie said as soon as she was dressed, "I look great!"
"I wonder what the guys look like…?" Olette thought for a moment, and them laughed at herself.
"Oh…" Namine looked at herself in the mirror, "I love like a dork!"
Kairi was having a field day, "Yeah, good thing I don't have to wear that, none the less dance in that!"
"You're not helping." Namine glared at her.
A while later, a nock on the door was hear.
"Come in!" The girls told.
Sora had opened the door and came in to retrieve Kairi, "The show starts in 5 minutes, I hope you're ready." He laughed at the girls, and then picked Kairi up, walking her out of the room and to the side of the stage, just out of sight. He set her down on the cozy chair he set up, just for her, and set her down.
"I can't wait to see it!" Kairi squealed as she sat in the chair.
He stared at her lovingly, "You enjoy it."
"I will!" Kairi only squealed louder.
The rest of the girls came out of the dressing room to meet the guys just behind the stage, where crowds and crowds of dances rushed from place to place.
"I don't feel too good about this..." Namine shuddered.
"You'll be fine!" Riku assured.
"Are you ready?" The tall man came back and pushed them towards the stage where the other dancers were starting to arranged themselves in front of the large crowd.
"No…" Namine gulped, looking out at the crowd and gasping.
"Okay, honey, look. Even if you're just spinning in circles you'll look great because those other dancers will be surrounding you. So, just do what they do." The man informed.
"But-" Namine hesitated to finish, the man really started to look irritated.
"Go, go, go! Come on, get up there!" The man yelled harshly.
"Oh…" Roxas coed, "I've ALWAYS wanted to do this!"
"I haven't!" Namine screamed nervously, "Please don't make me do this-"
"GO ALREADY!" The man yelled again.
"Here goes nothing." Namine thought out load.
They all rushed onto the middle of the stage as the music began to play and the dancers flew this was and that, to the side, up and down.
"Ha ha!" Selphie jumped up and down and spun in circles, imitating the other dancers as best as she could, having fun with the whole thing. The guys were already hidden by the other dancers so they were no where to be found, leaving Namine all by herself because Olette had ran to the front to the stage with some of the other dancers.
"Uh…" Namine tried to dance a little, hiding herself behind a few tall dancers in the back of the stage. And then, she started to get into it. She danced this way, and then that way, copying the dancers she was around perfectly to the music.
She started laughing at herself, totally forgetting the crowd she was in front of, as of now; they weren't there to her. She couldn't believe how fun this was! Kairi was missing out, big time!
But soon, to her dismay, the song ended and everyone clapped. Namine was being dragged off of the stage because she didn't want to leave it.
When they got behind the stage again, where kairi was, they discovered she was still laughing.
She clapped for them, "Bravo!" Kairi only laughed harder.
"I wanna do it again!" Namine looked at Olette pleadingly.
"Well-" Olette started but was cut off by Sora.
"I wanna get Kairi back to Destiny Islands!" He huffed.
"Alright, fine." Olette pointed to the dressing rooms and they all got back into their usual clothes, and then departed the building and jumped into the limo that was waiting outside. Sora carried Kairi and sat up front next to the driver with her there so he could watch her, and the others sat in the very back watching the TV. that had been installed into the new limo.
The drive took 13 hours, and as soon as they reached Destiny Islands again it was 1 am in the morning. The first stop was the hospital, where Sora and Kairi were dropped off at, and then everyone else was dropped off at their homes and they fell asleep. Later that day, the others decided to go see Kairi at the hospital…
"Are you okay?" Olette asked, very worried.
"It's just my leg." Kairi smiled, also pointing down at her cast.
"I get to sign it first!" Selphie declared.
"No I do!" Roxas huffed, pushing her out of the way, "I wanna sign first too!" Namine joined.
Kairi laughed and then pointed to the left side her cast, where there was a signature, "Too late, Sora signed already."
They shot death glares at him and he only shrugged, "You snooze you lose."
The rest of the day went pretty much normal, besides everyone's rush to get everything finished before school started the very next day. Kairi was given crutches, so she could move around with her leg being like this, and was driven home by her parents, who assured her friends Kairi would be at school the next day.
School… Oh, that word sounded horrible. And sure enough, with all the things about to happen this next year, it was going to be another loooooooooooooong 12 months.
And they didn't even know what was coming.
+TO BE CONTINUED!+
A/N: Phew! I'm finally done with las Vegas, and can finally really start this story! –laughs- I can't wait to bring Kim back, and then get Roxas a girl. Drama, drama, DRAMA! But, high school's always filled with drama, so, I'm sure you know what's coming. Ha ha, everyone's favorite; Namine's dad will even be involved in drama. But… not till later, because Kim is first.
Here we go!
Awards!
Top reviewer of chapter 8 is: sayshello3!
2nd place: mOOnlite-dUSk!
3rd place: Naminecrys4riku!
The sneak peak I sent all the reviewers
Heh, to keep it interesting I sent you all a different piece of that scene! I hope ya'll enjoyed it! P.s. If you didn't get the review reply I sent it in, the site is having problems with the e-mail system again. It'll probably be sent to you in a week or less.
About Namine's CRAZY dad!
Ha ha, I remember a reviewer saying earlier Namines dad is A lot like Dymix. And guess what- that's who I modeled him after! Dymix is one of my favorite characters, so I wanted to model Namine's dad after him. Just for laughs.
About me!
-dances- I'm that much closer to beating ff10! WHOO! And… (bad news) One of my friends is having a rough time. Currently, her and I are NOT friends. NOT talking, NOT speaking. Still, I hope she'll be okay. (p.s. It's not Kim)
BYE!
I hope you all had a happy thanksgiving! I did! See ya'll in the next chapter! Remember, it's still 8 reviews or a 3 week wait for a new chapter.
TURKEY! –Cracker-jacks000
