Tuesday, 11th October, 2011

So this is Kairi's reaction from when I told her about Leon and me taking a break:

SoraIsGay: You online?

KairiDoom: What else would I be doing?

SoraIsGay: Homework? Chores? Spending magical quality time with your family?

KairiDoom: Don't make me sick. What's up?

SoraIsGay: What makes you think anything is up?

KairiDoom: I feel it in my booooooooones.

SoraIsGay: -_-

KairiDoom: Cos I know you, loser. Tell me.

SoraIsGay: Leon and I temporarily broke up today.

SoraIsGay: …

SoraIsGay: Kairi?

KairiDoom: OHMIGODYOUDON'TKNOWHOWHAPPYTHISMAKESME.

SoraIsGay: This is why we're friends. Because you are so supportive.

KairiDoom: Sorry. Really. No but seriously. I've said it from the start; you can do so much better than that ass-wipe.

SoraIsGay: In this town?

KairiDoom: Well, yeah. I know it's not exactly teeming with homosexual talent, but there are some cute guys who are way nicer than Leon. Maybe no so good-looking, maybe not so smart, maybe not so nerve-rackingly perfect all the time, but they'd sure as hell treat you a way better.

SoraIsGay: Always assuming that any of them would even be interested in me.

KairiDoom: You can't let fear of being alone drive you to stay with somebody who doesn't deserve you.

SoraIsGay: This from the girl who will kiss anything with a penis if it shows interest in her.

KairiDoom: Harsh.

SoraIsGay: Yeah, sorry, that needed an emoticon, didn't it?

KairiDoom: It did. Anyway, point is I'm just having fun. You know I'm not a relationship kind of girl, don't deal well with commitment. YOU, on the other hand, thrive on it, which is why I can settle for subpar and you can't. You develop a sentimental attachment. I simply move along to the next penis-supporting organism. Like a sex-loving butterfly.

SoraIsGay: You should submit that to a poetry competition.

KairiDoom: I just copied and pasted it into my About Me section on Facebook. Watch the Friend Requests roll in!

SoraIsGay: I love you :)

KairiDoom: And I love you. Significantly more now that you're single.

SoraIsGay: As a penis-supporting organism?

KairiDoom: Oh yeah baby. Get in mah bed.

SoraIsGay: I'm learning some valuable lessons on how to attract men here. Please go on.

KairiDoom: Shut up and goodnight.

KairiDoom has gone offline.

So it turns out I'm a commitment-aholic. That's nice to know.

What's also nice to know is that pretty much everyone had the same reaction when I told them Leon and I were on a break. My mom looked relieved and said she'd always thought he was a bit too possessive of me; my dad said he was glad I'd finally dumped the controlling bastard and now I could settle down with Kairi (denial? Should I be concerned? Is it because of the divorce? Or was it a lame attempt at humor?); Xion smiled knowingly like she'd been expecting it all along, and Riku gave me a hug and said he was proud of me (I know. It's already ingrained so deeply into my memory that I'll probably dream about it for several weeks).

But whatever. I'm gonna try not to think about it, and see how I get on living my life without a boyfriend. I've been with Leon since I was fourteen and it's time to see what I'm like as a single person, as a whole rather than a half. And my friends are being totally supportive. They've got lots of things lined up for us to do over the next couple of weeks so I keep busy and don't dwell on things. Granted one of them is taking Axel Chakram on a group date with Xion and the rest of us but I don't think being around people who are in the process of getting together will upset me too much since they're both straight and I don't fancy Axel Chakram (or Xion). Plus Riku is in pretty much exactly the same position as me so we can always just rely on each other for a depression session if it gets to be too much for us.

I love my friends.

Saturday, 15th October, 2011

So yesterday was the day we were supposed to take Axel Chakram on our group date.

Xion was all smiles and happy all day, 'Ku and I were mildly but not terribly depressed about the fact that we were going on a date with a guy we weren't even seeing, and Kairi was excited because she thrives on putting people in awkward situations and was practicing her snap "that's what she said" response under her breath all day.

At lunch the four of us sat at our regular table and were chatting away normally when Axel and some of his similarly attractive jock friends came to were momentarily stunned while 'Ku glared at Axel threateningly (even though Axel is bigger than him) and Xion blushed a light pink at the attention.

Axel must have noticed that 'Ku wasn't exactly warming to him, because after a few minutes he faced him and said around a bite of cheeseburger (would he go vegan for Xion's sake? Would she make him? How come I had never noticed that Xion the Vegan didn't rhymed before that very minute?), 'So, my cousin says you're in her Dance class.'

'What's her name?' 'Ku asked stiffly.

'Selphie.'

'Then yes,' he confirmed, 'I'm in her Dance class.'

There was a moment as this registered and one of Axel's friends started to snigger, but Axel elbowed him hard in the ribs and the guy went quiet. 'That's cool,' Axel said conversationally. 'She says you're good.'

I looked up with interest. Riku had mentioned on the first drive to school that he was taking Dance but I had never really thought about it. What kind of dance did he do? Tap? Ballet? Interpretive?

'I don't wear tights,' Riku said mildly, and I noticed he was looking at me with one raised eyebrow, looking slightly amused.

I shrugged. 'Pity,' I said, and he laughed.

'What kind of dance do you do, anyway?' Kairi piped up.

'Freestyle, mostly,' he said, shrugging. 'I don't deal well with guidelines and parameters.'

I grinned. 'Why am I not surprised?'

'So like Step Up?' Kairi interrupted, her eyes shining. She once had a brief yet serious crush on Channing Tatum.

'Sort of…'

'Will you show us?'

Never one to miss an opportunity to be the center of attention (not to mention doing something that might get him in trouble) Riku immediately got up and started moving like his body was made of different components to the rest of us. Popping and locking and all sorts of mad things.

We all started laughing delightedly and clapping; the rest of the cafeteria noticed and some of the other Dance students got up and joined him. It wasn't like a movie, like they spontaneously burst into synchronized dance; they were doing different things but it looked amazing. Almost simultaneously everyone in the cafeteria who wasn't dancing had their mobile phones out and was filming it, while one kid made a beat box out of his mouth and we all stamped our feet along with his beat. Then, only a few minutes after the whole thing had started and everybody was really into it and it was automatically the most fun lunch that anybody at school has ever had, the teachers arrived and restored order and monotony and made everyone sit down and the principal came and suddenly they were making a way bigger deal out of it than it needed to be.

The principal stood at the top of the room and said that the person who had started the "flash mob" (seriously?) should come forward and turn themselves in, and Riku started to stand up, but Xion grabbed him so hard by the wrist that he yelped in pain and stayed put.

After a few minutes of nobody standing up, the principal sighed like he had given us a fair shot and announced that as punishment for the actions of few, everybody would have their mobile phones confiscated for using them on school property, which is strictly prohibited. I don't know whether it's a testament to mob mentality or the fraternity between the repressed or how much everybody loves Riku after only knowing him a couple of weeks, but even though everyone complained voraciously about this unfair move, nobody gave him up. We all handed over our phones (a few people claiming that starving children in Africa have it better than us) with the understanding that our parents could collect them on Monday after school.

So we would be without our phones all weekend.

Can you imagine the chaos?

Anyway, I mention the supposed "flash mob" for two reasons. One, it was frigging awesome. And two, the fact that none of us had our phones played a large part in the proceedings of the group date.

So anyway. After school Kairi, Riku, Xion, Axel, and I all met at the main entrance and got in my car and I started driving. The plan was supposed to be open and relaxed; we were just gonna drive out to the country and have a picnic in a field somewhere. I know what you're thinking; that's totally gay. And you'd be right. And it wasn't even my idea.

Kairi sat in the front with me, and Riku sat stubbornly in the middle in the back between Xion and Axel, but Xion didn't seem to mind and Axel kept up a steady stream of chatter, apparently with himself, but which we were all invited to listen to. He's actually kind of funny and interesting. If you're into the jock thing.

Once we were significantly deep into the countryside – by which I mean sightings of sheep and the gurgle of a river nearby – I stopped the car and we all piled out and started pulling picnic baskets and blankets from the boot and went to tramp through some farmer's private property to find the river and set up our date beside it.

I'm not going to lie. It was a totally fun way to spend an afternoon. Even though it's October and not exactly picnic weather, it stayed dry and pretty mild, and once the sun started to set and it got a little cold Axel put his arm around Xion shyly and they both blushed and true to form Kairi pointed it out to make fun of them, but they didn't seem to mind. She and 'Ku and I huddled together to keep warm as well, because we were all having so much fun that none of us felt like going home.

Once it hit eight o clock and we had to squint to see one another in the gloom we admitted defeat and started packing up, making our way back to the car and commenting on our luck that some mad farmer hadn't come across us and killed or kidnapped or raped us, or tried to sew each other's mouths to each other's bums and kept us in a basement.

We piled back into the car, and this time 'Ku sat by one of the windows and let Axel and Xion sit together, and they held hands as I tried to start the car.

And tried.

And tried.

And failed.

So, as I promised, here you go. What do you guys think will happen next? And would you guys do me a favor and vote on the poll of what pairing my next story should be about? Please and thank you.

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