Lessons of Love
A New Beginning, or the final ending?
Author: Kittycat_2312
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Kingdom Heart.
Rating: T
A/N: Yes, this once was part of Fools In Love, but for some reason the author is making me put this under my own name, do not ask why. It was her birthday, so i was TRYING to make her happy, I think I succeeded :P
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In the Previous Chapter:
"Olette. On Monday, we will be leaving."
Blanking, I blink and try to re-start my brain, "......... L-Leaving?" I repeat.
"Yes. My boss has transfered me to England for at least 6 months, if not more. It might be permanent. I thought it would be best if I get straight to the point, no sweet talking. We both hate it so, I thought this would be the best approach." He tries to reassure me.
"I-I see. Excuse me." Like a ghost, I walk out of the living room and head to my own room on the far back of the second floor. Opening my door, I don't even turn on the lights as I instinctively head towards my bed, sinking onto the bedcover. Grabbing onto the nearest pillow, I shove my head into it and burst out crying. For some reason, the tears don't seem to be able to stop. This was happening to fast. I can't register anything. He spoke it all so quickly. He knew that it would be hard for me. Dad knew it would. But I know he and mom were happy about it. They wanted him to get a promotion, and here it was, although they wanted to stay here to, I know that to. We were all happy, in some way, but I still wanted to stay. I didn't want to go.
I'm moving. On Monday. In just 4 days. Not including today. To England. In Europe. A different continent. It should be snowing there in a few months, its early October.
When realization hits in, I let out a strangled cry. Muffling it into my pillows once more, I cry myself to sleep. My parents never came that night to check up on me. They were either scared of my tears, or somewhat celebrating somewhere. I'd go with the first since there was no sound anywhere in the house. The evening seemed to pass in a haze, I didn't have dinner, I didn't look at my homework, I didn't do anything. I just cried, I can't remember any of the details. I only remember, that I was crying. And the tears refused to stop. I couldn't stop.
How was I going to tell anyone? Namine? Selphie? Pence?............ Hayner?
Friday.
My last day at this school this year. This morning, my father decided that I would stay at home and help him and mom finalize the moving arrangements on Monday. So, my last day.
My last day at this school.
My last day walking though these hallways.
My last day getting books out of this locker.
-Sigh-
I'm SO DEPRESSED!! GOD DAMN IT THIS IS NOT HELPING!!
Looking at the lockers across me, I see Namine sighing as Sora grins widely at her, waving a new sketchbook at her face. Silently, Namine sticks out her tongue at him, clearly oblivious of me watching them. I can't believe it. Our Namine isn't as innocent as you would think she is. Looking around me, I start to see things in a different light. Things really aren't what they appear to be all the time.
I giggle to myself and walk up next to Namine, "Is Sora harassing you?" I whisper in her ear.
Baffled and clearly shocked, Namine blurts out, "N-NO!" She proceeds to try and make herself look innocent. I lightly shake my head, understanding for once that there is more to Namine than what meets the eye. Frustrated, Namine sticks out her tongue to me, and slams her locker shut, but just a bit to harshly.
I was beyond bemused.
Turning around, I see Hayner and Pence coming my way. I panic slightly.
When they got close enough, I notice absentmindedly that Hayner was acting a bit more shy and akward than usual, around me especially.
Pence kept sighing every 5 seconds, what the hell is wrong with them?! "What's wrong?" I demanded.
"Oh nothing. It just great. Great. Soon I will be the third wheel." Pence sighs.
The three of us burst into easy laughter, it's been a while since I've laughed like this. Remembering what happened last night, I shut my mouth, and look away.
I see Sora smiling at us, quiet a distance away, chuckling as well, even Namine was smiling softy.
All of a sudden, a bunch of fangirls swarm in out of nowhere, they seem to have come out of every possible hiding place there. All of us look at the source of the noise, and make a dash for it, the only thing we can think about is TO GET AWAY!! AWAY away. Somewhere in the midst of it all, I got separated from the rest of them, all of us trying to make a desperate escape from them as to not be their next murdered victim. Eventually, I come face to face with a panting Sora halfway on the other side of the school.
As we rest in this quiet area, I ask "Why are you annoying Namine so much?! You keep insisting that you don't like her. But I find that hard to believe."
He chuckles, "I'm only trying to be her friend. She's closed herself up. I'm trying to re-open her. You see, I went to her house once, and I learned that her mother died a few years back. She needs someone to help her. So Tifa asked me to be the one to open her up." He makes easy conversation, talking like we've been friends for years, and not just a brief acquaintance.
"Oh, I see." Another reason to feel depressed. First of all, I'm leaving, and now, I don't have a chance to be her friend. "That's such a shame, I wish I could become her friend, but, I'm leaving on Monday." I murmur.
"WHAT!!! YOU'RE LEAVING?!" He bellows at me, grabbing my shoulders and violent shaking them. Shocked at how much he cared, I looked away and sadly nodded at him.
He frowns at me, "I'm guna miss you're book clubs, not to mention you're after school lessons...." I giggle at his response.
"Just promise me you'll study hard. Got it? And.... take care of Namine for me." I hesitated at the end, was that the right thing to say? "OH! And not to mention! YOU'RE NOT EVEN CONSCIOUS IN THE CLUB!!! AND YOU ONLY JOINED THE AFTER SCHOOL LESSONS BECAUSE NAMINE IS THERE, DIDNT YOU! DON'T YOU EVEN THINK OF LYING MISTER!! YOU CAN'T HIDE THE TRUTH FROM ME!!!"
Nervously, Sora started to laugh, "Oh, look. MORE FAN GIRLS!!!" He shouts, pointing behind me.
Turning my head in fear, I saw that nothing was coming. Looking back at Sora accusingly, he was already gone.
Blinking, I sigh. Then out of nowhere. A big bear hug carries me off the floor, and I turn to see a grinning Sora spinning me around in circles around the deserted hallway. As soon as he let me go he proudly said to me, "I'm going to miss you though! Even if I barely know you!" He let got of me slowly, "Call me selfish, but the real reason I'm sad that you're going is because there won't be someone for Namine to talk with. She seems to get along really well with you. I mean, she gets a long best with you, or gets long with you the most. You get the point." He bashfully smiles, scratching the back of his head impishly.
I feel a smile creeping out across my face, I was really touched by this, I could even feel the tears starting to build up. God how I hated my parents right now. No, better yet, how I hated their boss.
"She has you, so I can't agree. I believe she gets along with you the most. Since she's more of herself with you than she is with anyone else. Well, I don't know, I just feel it."
He cracks up a grin, and whatever sad mood we all felt a second ago, it dispersed, "Take care, okay? Oh, and don't forget to tell Namine about this. You can't just leave her like that. She'd be beyond hurt if you did." With that he left, going off some place. I sadly smile at his diminishing silhouette.
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Eventually I did get to talk to Namine about it, during lunch actually after I was able to escape everyone. She seemed sad that I was going, and I know for sure that it was sincere, since it was clear in her eyes. She reacted in every way Sora said she would, sad and lonely. Curiously I recall asking her what would she feel if I didn't tell her. But once again Sora was right, her answer was that she would be upset. God Sora really DID know her. The only good thing I've perceived from this is that Sora cares for her to a high extent, he is SO in love with her, although he doesn't know it..... YET! It's so obvious she has feelings for him to though. In the end I guess that that is all that matters, and I'm happy she's found someone she can be herself with at least.
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Monday.
It's late afternoon and I'm here at the airport. We just finished checking in and my parents have gone to get coffee for themselves, I stayed with our baggage just outside the terminal where we just left, looking sadly at the airplanes coming in and out. My parents didn't want to stay in right now knowing that I was sad. Leaning against the wall dejectedly, I have my back to the escalator and started to daydream about the weekend. Basically I locked myself in my room and was finished packing within 5 hours. Every item I packed felt like I was ripping my heart apart and every time I didn't bother to shed a tear for that, it felt like my heart just shattered into glass pieces that were impossible to touch and that lay lifeless around my core. Sighing and slumping my head again, I knew I was doing myself no good.
Hearing a panting sound behind me come suddenly. I turn only to find myself confronted by Hayner.
His furious brown eyes met my shocked green eyes, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING BY NOT TELLING ME YOU WERE LEAVING?! THE HELL WITH IT OLETTE!! DON'T YOU THINK I DESERVE TO KNOW TO?! NOT JUST PENCE?! DID YOU NEVER REALIZE THAT I LOVED YOU?! AND I CARED IF YOU LEFT OR STAYED?! GIVE ME ONE GOD DAMN GOOD REASON YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU WEAR FUCKING LEAVING!!" He screams, half of the people in the airport turn their heads to look at us, but Hayner is completely oblivious as I blush crimson red at his declaration, for two reasons actually: We were in an Airport, people were STARRING, and the second was that he said he loved me...... If this wasn't sad it would be down right beautiful.
"Here's my promise Hayner. You get good grades while I'm gone and I'l go out with you. If I return. Things are uncertain right now." I try to calm him down. Making him promises I didn't know if I could fulfill.
"Answer the God Damn question." He stood by his point, refusing to back down. God why was he just as stubborn as me?!
"I never told Pence, I'm betting Sora did. And don't start on why I told Sora and not the both of you! Since frankly not even I know why I did. And I didn't want to tell anyone! I'm not obligated to! It's my life and I decided how I run it! Not you, not Pence, not ANYONE BUT ME! So back off! And even if you did love me that doesn't mean that you have a say on what I do and don't do in life got it?! It's sweet you care, fine, but don't think that changes my decision whatsoever! Got it?!" I calmly respond back to him, through gritted teeth and with slitted eyes, "Get your grades better and I might actually talk to you next time." I mutter at him.
"I'll get better. You can count on that much. You still have to give your reason for not telling me though."
"You better control your temper better as well. Try not to torment Pence while I'm not around."
"GIVE ME A GOD DAM REASON ALREADY!" he screams once more.
Chuckling, I smile up at him and said, "What good would it have done? Besides I already did."
Backtracking, he looks to the ground and mutters, "There's so much to say....."
I swear that out of the corner of my eye I could see him tearing and trying to contain it, trembling his fist ever so slightly. "You're really cruel you know that?" He tells me, he must really be agitated right now. He was trying really hard to cover it though, but I've known him to long for him to be able to hide it from me. He was trying to say something, that much I know, but he can't bring himself to. Right now, I can't force him to, he would break no doubt, and that will just hurt his pride a tad bit to much that he would never be able to talk to me while looking at me straight in the eye. He just kept balling his fist up every few seconds to try and get rid of it.
His actions surprise me since he's acting so much more calm and mature, he must have grown up in the one week where we were competing against each other. He's so accepting now, and he's opening his heart up to me. Without warning, he leans in and hugs me. Wide eye, it took me a few seconds to be able to adjust at the sudden change between us. Instinctively, I wrap my arms around him and refuse to let go, pushing myself closer to him. He slightly pulls back away from me though after I wrap my arms around him, and my first reaction was some sort of form of rejection and hurt. Could he have gotten over me now that I was leaving? Or did he just realized he liked someone else? Looking up into his brown eyes, I'm to stunned to speak as he leaned in closer to me.
Without warning once more, he places his lips onto mine. It isn't one of those kisses were there is desperation pushing at you, or when there is such passion that you want to sink into each other and the world would disappear around you. This wasn't as kiss where you melt into each others arms in pure ecstasy or bliss, that you forget about time around you. But instead, it was a kiss that made you long for each other. A kiss of a goodbye and a new beginning. A kiss that told me the message, 'I will wait for you'. I cried again, not making a sound to disrupt the moment. He loves me. That's all I cared about. He loves me.
We both pulled away from the kiss at the same time, blushing like mad. Pulling himself together emotionally he says, "Don't date any guys while you're there, got it?! Stay the same nerdy Olette that hides behind her books. The Olette that I fell in love with in the first place!"
Is he just INSULTING ME?! I felt that whatever compassion I had for him turn into dust the moment he said those final words, "Mhmm, I'll probably date a few guys there, from the rumors I've heard, the guys there are GORGEOUS! They have this accent that makes you swoon. Can't wait to date a few!"
My response infuriated him. It was obvious. He was biting his teeth, hard. Balling his fists again, trembling. Breathing he replied, "I'l probably date May, one of the girls that confessed to me last week. She was really cute, I can see myself with her. Mhmm ya! Or how about Eliza, she was cute as well.... her eyes were really pretty: Aqua blue... with blond hair she looks like an Angel..."
"Go ahead, I'm sure she'll get sick of you in not time at all. Realize what a stupid choice she made and dump you the same way she confessed, bluntly and blushing, looking away from you the entire while."
Looking at each other once more, we burst into a fit of laughter together. In this short time, we've developed some sort of link I guess, it was strong enough that I knew he was lying, just as much as he knew that I was lying.
"Do one last thing for me. There's a history test tomorrow, get at least 60% okay? For me at least?"
Smiling he replies, "Sure, sure. I'l write to you through email."
With that I leave, my parents had just arrived, and I walked with them going through the gates, waving to Hayner as I went. Turning around one last time. He was waving right back at me.
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