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Chapter nine. Suspension with Sora, and a talk with Roxas
I sat there with my mouth wide open. Why was Sora coming to me about this? I felt bad, but why did he want my help? I just looked at Sora, he looked at me with pleading eyes. "Sora, I don't know about this," I whispered.
"Please Kairi just for a little while." Sora pleaded. I reached my hands out to help Sora into my room. Sora climbed through my window and sat down on my bed. He looked around my room at the pink and white walls. "Nice room" he mumbled. I just shrugged my shoulders. This was so weird.
It was quiet and tense in the room. I was so uncomfortable. I finally broke the silence. "Sora, you can't stay here tonight." I said. Sora looked at me. "If my parents find out…I would be in so much trouble." Sora got off my bed and walked towards me.
"Kairi please! Please." Sora whispered. I had never seen Sora beg. It was kind of sad, but cute at the same time. I knew I was going to get into some sort of trouble for this. It was quiet again until I spoke up.
"But Sora, if my parents find out, they'll kick my ass, if Tifa finds out she'll kick my ass. Either way I'm getting my ass kicked!" I bit my nails, but it made me wonder, why wasn't Sora staying with Tifa? I wanted to ask, I knew I shouldn't but I just had to.
"Sora, why aren't you staying with Tifa?" Sora looked at me. "Well, we haven't been getting along lately. Too much drama I guess….and she basicly told me I was only good for one thing." I was so happy to hear that, but naturally I didn't say anything.
"Well, Sora, you look terrible, are you hungry? I could go get you something to eat…If you want." Sora nodded. "What do you want to eat?" Sora shrugged. "Anything would be fine."
"Okay, stay there. Don't leave my room." I cracked the door open and peaked my head out into the hall. It was empty. I walked out into the hall and down to the kitchen, that was empty too. I opened the fridge and pulled out some deli ham, and some bread to make a sandwich.
I heard someone coming into the kitchen. My mother came in wearing her blue bathrobe carrying an empty glass. She just looked at me. "Are you still hungry?" She asked, I nodded. "Okay, just don't stay up to late, even though you're not going to school tomorrow since you're suspended." I was so hurt, my mom was taking this so hard. I just took the sandwich and went upstairs. I opened the door, Sora wasn't there.
I put the sandwich down on my desk and started to bite my nails again. Where was Sora?! Then I could hear water. Why could I hear the shower running, I gasped and ran out of the room to the bathroom, Sora sure was bold. I knew it was him, my father was in his room, I saw the light on, and my mom was still in the kitchen.
I banged on the door. There was nothing. I walked back to my room. This was making me nervous. I could tell this was not going to work, and how long would Sora stay here? And how long could I hide this from my parents?
I was sitting in my room for twenty minutes until I heard the shower water stop. I stood up, my door opened slowly. Sora tip-toed into the room and shut the door behind him quietly. Seeing Sora in just a towel made me blush. I turned my head the other way to get his clothes.
"Here, I have your clothes here." I said handing him the little bundle. Sora looked at me. I jumped a little and turned around while Sora got changed. I couldn't believe this was all happening.
"You can turn around now" Sora said. I turned around there was still a tint of pink on my face, I knew there was. "Oh, here's your food." I said quietly handing him the plate. He took it and ate quickly. "Where am I going to sleep?" He asked. "Um..on the floor" I said.
I went over to my door and locked it incase my mom wanted to pop in without knocking. I sat on my bed and tossed Sora down a pillow. I heard some rustling and I looked down to see Sora taking off his shirt.
I turned the light off quickly so he couldn't see me blushing.
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I woke up at seven-thirty thinking I was going to school, but ugh, I was suspended, the principal said that fights only got you one day suspension, but since people got hurt we all got a week. And my mother pretty much has me on house arrest and she won't let me leave the house, she'll call every single hour to check in on me, and I have no cell phone. The next four days were just going to fly by. Yeah I wish.
I yawned, and ran my fingers through my red hair to kind of get the tangles out. Sora was still sleeping next to me, and was snoring very loudly. I'm surprised that my mom didn't knock on the door to check on me because she probably thought that was me snoring that loud.
My stomach growled so I knew it was time for breakfast. I got up and tried to make as little noise as possible so I didn't wake Sora up. I carefully climbed over him and opened the door and shut it softly behind me.
I looked through the fridge and pulled out some bagels, there wasn't really anything to eat since my mom didn't go shopping this week. I didn't really like bagels, but when you're hungry, you're hungry, right? I took out two bagels incase Sora was hungry when he got up too and put them in the toaster. I went upstairs top get my bookbag and do my homework, to be honest I was getting pretty behind. Who knew being suspended could be good for something?
I walked down the hall to my room and opened the door, I must have been a little too loud, because I woke Sora up. He sat up and stretched and sat there for a minute as he was still waking up.
"Hey, Kairi" He mumbled lazily as I he got up.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up." I said quietly. Why was I being so shy around him lately?
"Nah, it's fine, I had to get up eventually." He said with a slight smile, but he wiped it off quickly.
"I made you some breakfast…if you're hungry. If you want it, if you don't that's….fine, and.." My voice just kind of drifted off. I don't know what was happening to me.
"Sure. I'll get something to eat." Sora said. He lifted himself up and walked out of the room and into the kitchen. I followed behind him. I took a napkin off the table and helped himself to one of the bagels that already popped out of the toaster. I grabbed the other and sat down at the table. Sora came and sat down across from me. The only sound you could hear was the sound of our chewing. I finished first why'll Sora was eating more slowly.
I sat there for a minute while he kept eating. The phone rang a few seconds later. It was exactly eight, my mom was right on time, I had to go into the family room to get the phone since there was no outlet for a phone in the kitchen.
It rang a few times before I could get to it. I picked it up.
"Hi, Mom." I said into the receiver.
"Hello Kairi, just checking in." She said, she sounded like a robot, they way she said it. Sora called me from the kitchen. I almost wanted to hang up the phone then, but my reflexes aren't as fast as my mother's mouth.
"Kairi, who was that?"
I was squirming like a worm on a hook, I couldn't tell her someone was over, let alone a boy, who was in my room all last night, and if I said it was the tv I would still get in trouble because I'm not aloud to use that either. God, when did life get so complicated?
"Um, I don't know what that was." I said nervously, I could actually feel my whole body shaking.
"Mhmm." My mother said , she obviously didn't believe me. If I were her I wouldn't of believed me either.
"Hold on for a second, I'm not through yet." My mother instructed. I sat on the other line and waited.
She picked the phone up a few minutes later. "Kairi, I have to go. I'll call you back again at nine to check in." The phone clicked off and I hung the phone off. I breathed a sigh of relief I was sure I was going to get caught. But think my mom knows something's up.
I trudged into the kitchen, a scowl on my face. "Sora! Why did you do that! My mother was on the phone! You could of gotten me into serious trouble!" shouted. Sora just shrugged. That really pissed me off.
I stormed out of the kitchen and to my room down the hall to do my homework.
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The rest of the week was pretty much like that, Sora came when my parents went to sleep, and stayed in my room until they left and then went off somewhere. At dinner I would only eat half of my meal put the other half in the fridge, and then bring it up to Sora.
I'm surprised I didn't get caught, to be honest I didn't think this would work out. But for some reason I knew this was going to blow up in my face.
It was Monday morning and I was finally going to be able to go back to school. Don't ask me why I was so excited. I missed a week worth of work, and it's probably going to take me all of this week to finish, and all of next week to finish this week's worth of work. Sora left at six in morning doing God knows what, and at seven I got ready for school.
I combed through my hair and put it up into a pony-tail, and braided the back. I raided through my closet for something black to wear, I pulled out a black tee-shirt that I had gotten sometime in middle school, it still fit me pretty well, and it use to be my favorite. It had gray roses, and vines on the side. I dug out a pair of jeans and slipped them on. They were kind of lose, maybe since I'm eating half as much now because of Sora. Who stayed longer than a night like he promised, more like a week.
When I was finally happy with the way I looked I grabbed my bookbag by the door and left. The school was only a few minutes away, it was nearing Spring and the island was getting a little warmer. It was at least seventy-eight today. And wearing black was going to be hell when it stared getting really warm.
I was actually enjoying my walk except when I saw a group of kids. I didn't want to walk past them, but I had to, to get to school. I looked really closely and saw Roxas, Olette, Demyx, and a few other kids I didn't recognize were there too. I kept my head up high as I walked past until Roxas grabbed my arm.
I wanted to scream, kick him in the shins, and run, but his grip was too tight on me. I stood there and squirmed to try to break his grasp, but his grip on my arm only got tighter, I wanted to cry, until his grip loosened and he let me go, I looked at my arm, there was a red hand-print on it.
"What do you want Roxas?" I spat. Roxas's face formed a huge grin. I was about to turn and run, I had the perfect opportunity. "So, how was it being suspended?" He asked, that dumbass grin still on his face. I rolled my eyes, and tried to look as tough as I could while walking away.
But he grabbed my arm, pulled me closer to him, and squeezed it as hard as he could, as much as I tried to fight it, a little tear drop fell from my left eye, Roxas's grin got even wider. "What do you want Roxas?" I asked, getting annoyed.
"Oh, nothing really, how are you feeling? Olette roughed you up a little bit." I looked over at Olette who had a grin on her face too, and my free hand automatically flew up to the back of my head where the bald patch was from when Olette tore out a chunk of my hair.
"Leave me alone Roxas?" I mumbled, and tried to hit him with my free hand. He took his other hand and grabbed my arm, I tried to pulled myself free, but all my twisting and turning made it hurt even more, I cried out as more tears fell from my eyes.
Roxas's face went from a grin to a smirk. "I guess you're not so tough huh?" He asked. Tears just kept coming from my eyes, the pain was excruciating. He let up his grip a little but it was still tight enough so I couldn't go anywhere. "You're lucky, if you weren't a girl, you would have been in the hospital right now." He hissed. I finally stopped crying, I didn't feel lucky.
"What are you going to do to me?" I asked hiccupping, Spit dribbled down my face. Roxas let go of me completely. I took a step back and looked at me. I think he expected me to run, but it felt like lead filled my body and I couldn't move a muscle. Roxas still stood there with a smirk.
I started to walk away, my eyes watching Roxas very carefully, until her grabbed my arm again. "Listen, you hang out with that Namine girl, right?"
"I'm sure she doesn't want anything to do with you." I spat, Roxas held my arm tighter. I really didn't want to go through this again. "Yes" I mumbled. "What do you want with her?"
"That's none of your business." He said quietly. He let me go. It was silent for a moment, then with my bookbag still weighing me down, I sprinted down the street as fast as I could, not even looking back, I could hear Roxas's little ugly laugh. Tears started falling down my face again. What did he want with me? But the real question was, what did he want with Namine?
