A/N: Thanks: Kairikh3, MaroonAngel of Darkness, and The Layman. :)
10. Confused
Kairi blinked, a little dazed, standing outside Vanitas' home…all alone for the first time ever. It was over between them, apparently. Just like that, which she had definitely not seen coming. Even before she'd had the chance to leave her Grandma's house to pay him a visit, he had called her and asked her to meet at his place.
She still couldn't quite believe it, but she was sure that the shock would set in later, and she would be crying her eyes out…
I'm even starting to sound like him now, she thought, and for the first time, she wasn't proud of that.
He hadn't cheated on her, but it still felt like Vanitas had betrayed her in every way possible. He had explained to her as patiently as he could muster that it was also her own fault; Kairi never even tried to make their relationship work and he was tired of that. Love wasn't a one-way street. Not only that, but her father was still bothering him and that added to the stress that he had to experience due to personal issues…whatever those were.
"He'll always find an excuse to tell me off, even if I suddenly become the most amazing guy in the world. If I had been poor, he would've said that I would never give you a good future. If I hadn't been attending uni, he would've said that I was too dumb to date his daughter. I'll never be good enough for you and I'm sick of his constant nagging. Like I don't have anything better to do than try to avoid his wrath."
Kairi's first mistake had always been to defend his adoptive father, which added to the list of things Vanitas hated.
And then, to add insult to injury, Xion had come along out of nowhere. The new girl to whom many guys seemed to be attracted. Sweet, beautiful, innocent Xion, who was making everything so easy to him. Besides, if you squinted your eyes slightly, you could say that she looked like Kairi, but with dark hair. Only Xion was more mature for her age. It was only a matter of time until those two would become an item. Now that the redhead thought about it, it was so damn obvious that it hurt.
So needless to say, Kairi still saw this as cheating. How could she not, when Vanitas was taking the easy way? Not wanting to fight for their relationship, but blaming her and her father for everything that went wrong, the coward. And in the mean time, he was happy to hang out with the new girl in town, showing her around as though it was his personal mission.
She was both confused and disappointed, because Vanitas was one of the last people that she had expected to chicken out on something. Where was the badass in him, that had stolen her heart?
Vanitas was nineteen now, two years her senior. If she could come up with the conclusion that walking away from your problems instead of facing them would bring you nowhere, then how did he think that this trait would help him in the future? He was a grown up man who should be more serious.
Maybe I've been wrong about him from the very beginning… Maybe this was what Dad meant when he said that he had no honor…
Kairi sighed wearily. Slowly but surely, she was starting to realize what had happened; her worst nightmare had become reality...
A/N: Well guys, only one chapter to go! I wish it could be longer, especially for those who don't want to read a 100-chapter story just for this pairing, but the challenge was only 11 chapters long lol.