Another chapter IS long overdue…I hope. I hope I get some more hits & readers….:) And trust me, I'm gonna try! This chapter is pretty nice, finally, and I think you'll like the next chapter even better!(Some long overdue fluff XD) Mucho love!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts or Square Enix….seriously, I wish I did, so then I could own Roxie's body. HEH!

It's Cloud Time!

Cloud looked around his Algebra class. Luckily, there was no Namine in this class. He had a plan to make up, a plan to get Roxas and Namine together. It was the least that he could do for poor Namine. When he started hanging around with his…other friends (AKA the gangsters) he turned into a different person, and Namine couldn't love him anymore after that. So it was obviously time for him to make that up to her. If anybody was going to have her, it was going to be this Roxas kid. He thought about it for a while.

'Namine likes Roxas, that much I do know,' Cloud thought to himself. 'But Roxas is dating that Olette girl. Maybe it's time to get a little information from her.' He looked behind him and saw Olette doing her Algebra all the way in the back of the class. She smiled at him when she looked up, and he smiled back, turning around.

'Maybe ditching the old clothes and shaving would have been a good idea a while ago…' he thought to himself. He had spent all morning shaving and looking for just a clean pair of nice jeans and a polo shirt. That had taken some serious digging…and almost his dad's pitchfork. He laughed quietly to himself. Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around quickly.

"Hey, dude," said some obnoxious blonde kid wearing camo pants. "Wanna pair up? Mr. S said to get some partners." Cloud reluctantly nodded.

"You better know a lot about Algebra, squirt," Cloud said. The boy looked at him angrily.

"Hayner Takami ALWAYS does it right," he grinned.

"Well, Hayner Takami, the right thing to do right now would be to sit down and stop making a fool of yourself," Cloud said. Hayner turned around and saw that everyone was looking at him…including Olette. Cloud noticed that too. She was looking at him with a longing gaze. Maybe there was something out of this Hayner kid that would be useful in his plan.

"Sorry, everyone…" Hayner said, turning a shade of red. He pulled up a desk next to Cloud. "Well buddy, shall we get started?"

Cloud rolled his eyes. "Call me buddy again and Hayner Takami will be doing things right BY HIMSELF," he said. Hayner shuddered.

"Alright, alright…" Hayner said.

After thirty minutes of hearing Hayner boast about the Struggle tournaments that he had one and seeing Olette staring at him at the corner of her eye, Cloud finally heard the bell and rushed out of class. He almost ran into Roxas.

"Hey, squirt, move it," Cloud said, not noticing who he was.

"Don't call me squirt," Roxas said. Cloud turned to look at who he was.

"Oh, you're the Roxas kid," he said.

"Yeah, that's right…and you're the new kid that's Namine's friend," Roxas said, putting heavy emphasis on friend.

"Yeah, friend only," Cloud admitted. Roxas looked at him funny.

"What class are you going to, Roxas?" Cloud asked him.

"Weightlifting. Why?" Roxas questioned back.

"Same here. Looks like we have a couple of things to talk about," Cloud said, walking with him to weightlifting.

Looks like Cloud's overdue favor is about to happen…but will something good happen to Namine, or will Roxas just end up hating her forever? Ohh poor Namine…hope you liked this Cloud chapter of Paupous And High School!

Love always, 'specially to Garfy bby and Roxie-bby.

Nami