A/N: Wow. Okay, well, here's the eleventh chapter… And I had a little trouble deciding how to write this one… Honestly, I was all obsessed with the AkuRoku in the last chapter that I really wanted to change this entire story and make it just about them. But, alas, I cannot… So, since I'm in a fluffy mood right now, I'm gonna have some SoKai. Hopefully, for you fans of them, I don't completely destroy them for you. If I completely failed with them, then let me know. I'll shy away from them...
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The 'To Do' List Chapter Eleven
WITH KAIRI
Kairi was pacing on her front porch, waiting patiently for Sora to get there. He had called to tell her that he was on his way when he had just gotten Roxas from Axel's house. The poor blond would probably be getting a lecture from him when he got back from her father's party.
She still felt really bad when she asked him to help with her father's party when she knew exactly where he went with his own father last night. But she had to ask, she hoped that it would help him temporarily forget what happened, and that's all she really cared about.
Her parents didn't like Sora, but amazingly over the summer he grew on them a little. And thank god for that, she couldn't handle them trying to get her to hook up Leon anymore. Sure, he was a good guy and all and he was pretty gorgeous but they just didn't click like her and Sora did. They finally got that.
The only thing she wasn't entirely sure of was how to tell him that she was moving. Her father found a better job two towns away and they were going to be moving there permanently. She didn't want to go. She begged her parents for hours to let her stay and Namine just stared at them and ever since she's been a horrible mood. Not that Kairi blamed her. Her and Seifer were getting closer now, and Kairi could tell she wanted something more out of it but wasn't sure how to go for it. And now that they were moving, Namine might never get that chance with Seifer. And Kairi would have to leave Sora. And she didn't know how either of them would handle it.
She was contemplating whipping out her cell phone and calling him to see what was taking him so long. But, she decided against it. He wasn't really late. The party didn't start until about one that afternoon and it was only ten-thirty, so they had plenty of time to get everything settled.
After about five minutes of wondering off and on if something else might have happened, Sora's car did a donut into her driveway, making Kairi have a mini heart attack and run off her porch and scream at Sora.
"Are you crazy?!" She attempted to screech in his face. She was breathing heavily, looking at him through the driver's side window and waited for him to get out of the car.
He finally got out and slammed the door behind him, and looked at her furiously. She jumped a bit at his sudden anger and wondered if something happened between Roxas and Axel last night. It wouldn't surprise her if Axel was that shitty of a best friend too.
"Alright, so when's the party?" He said through his teeth.
"Sora?" She asked cautiously. The only time when she'd seen him this angry was when her father sent her a date with Leon. "What happened?"
Sora sighed, the anger leaving his face, and leaned against the car, slamming one fist beside him. "Roxas. He's having those damn blackouts again, and I know it's because of Mom and Dad."
Kairi looked at him, surprised. "But-I thought those were gone! He hasn't had one in years."
Kairi was awestruck. How could everything fall apart for Sora in just a couple days? It just wasn't right.
"I know. That's what pissed me off about it. He was fine before Mom had to go leave like a selfish bitch and Dad had start binge drinking again. I mean what the hell?! He's their son! They knew something like this could happen…apparently they don't give a damn anymore." He said bitterly.
She bit her lip, thinking about whether or not to tell him to just go home and be with Roxas or to just hug him. Either way, she may have to do this party without him. That was fine with her though. As long as he was okay. She didn't think him helping fix her house for her father's party was a good way to be 'okay'.
"Sora…If you want to go back home, you can. I can call Marluxia and Rose to come help or something." Kairi suggested.
Sora shook his head. "No. I'll stay. Roxas will be fine, he'll probably still be crying about his PS2 when I get back anyway." He gave her a slight smile, but she knew it was forced.
Kairi smiled at him, choosing to ignore his fake smile until later, grabbed his hand, and led him into her house. "Alright, then. Let's get started."
WITH SORA
When they walked in they were instantly greeted by music, coming from the kitchen, which was a slight mess with cake ingredients.
Sora took a good look at the kitchen. "It's a mess in here! What did you do?"
"Destroyed the kitchen, that's what she did." Said Namine, coming down the stairs with Seifer in tow, which surprised Sora. Seifer wasn't one for parties, unless there was alcohol…and seen as how this was the girls' father's birthday party, he seriously doubted any of them would be getting alcohol.
"Hey! I tried! The batter just doesn't like me." Kairi protested.
Namine rolled her eyes at her sister's melodrama. "Right. Well, how about you and Sora finish the decorating, while Seifer and I do the actual cooking."
"Hey! Whoever said I came here to help?" Seifer said, as Kairi started dragging Sora along up the stairs.
"I did. Now, get the eggs."
"But I don't wanna!" Sora heard Seifer whine before he heard a smack and Seifer protesting in pain, "Hey! Spatula's are not for hitting!"
Sora allowed himself to be dragged by Kairi into her bedroom. "Hey, Kairi?" He asked, as he sat down on her bed and watched her as she dragged out a big plastic bin and tugged the cover off, revealing an unfinished banner, a container full of confetti, and other decorations.
"Hmmm?" She replied as she carefully pulled out the banner and booted Sora off the bed and replaced him with the banner.
"Where are your parents?"
"Oh. We sent them out for a movie while we get everything settled. They don't know you and Seifer are here, so we have make the house look spotless and really good for me and Namine to not be in trouble."
She walked over the bin and got out paint and two brushes, handing him one and telling him to finish the end while she finished the beginning. While he painted the 'Birthday, Dad!' he asked her, "Why don't your parents want us here? I thought they liked me now…"
"They do, I just don't really know if they wanted this to be their friends, and family, and not ours." She said, smirking a bit.
Sora nodded, finally understanding now. "Oh. Well, I guess that's understandable."
Kairi beamed at him, in one of those I-love-you kinds of smiles. The one where it would get him distracted in class and he'd get scolded for 'paying more attention to his 'sweetheart' and not paying enough attention to the importance of life' as Mr. Vexen put it.
He smiled back and resumed the painting.
After a while of them just painting together he heard the door downstairs open.
He looked at Kairi in confusion. She glanced up and jumped off the bed, heading down the stairs eagerly, leaving Sora more than confused now. He was bewildered. Who could it be? It couldn't be Kairi's parents because they were at the movies. And Kairi didn't mention anyone else coming over the help.
He ended up following her downstairs after looking out of Kairi's window to see Leon's truck parked beside his tiny car.
He wound up finding Leon and Kairi in mid-hug when he came downstairs. "How ya doin', kiddo?" He asked, ruffling her hair.
"Perfectly fine. Sora was helping me with the banner upstairs." Kairi replied cheerfully.
Leon leered a bit at Sora. "Upstairs, huh? You guys weren't…?" He led off suggestively. Sora held back a snicker as Kairi turned beet-red and playfully slapped Leon on the arm.
"No! We were trying to get dad's birthday banner all ready! Jeez, Leon! We're not dogs!" She exclaimed.
Leon raised an eyebrow at her. "Coulda fooled me…"
"Stop teasing her, Leon. Just leave her and Sora alone." Namine said as she mixed the cake batter.
Leon turned to her, looking at her the same way he looked at Kairi. "Are you actually sticking up for your sister?"
Namine snorted and didn't reply. Just continued to mix the batter and told Seifer to get the no-stick spray and a cake pan.
Seifer got them, and he seemed to actually back away from Namine and sit in a kitchen chair by the stove. He seemed almost weary of going near her now. Probably because Namine likes to beat people with cooking utensils, Sora knew that from past experience from trying to tell her how to cook. That's not a good idea with Namine.
Leon turned back to Kairi, visibly laughing at Seifer. "All right, what can I do? You need me to put something up so you don't have to stand on a chair and possibly fall off?" He chuckled.
"Actually, yes. When Sora and I are done you can tape the banner up above the table, make sure it's in the center." Kairi ordered, grabbing Sora's hand again and dragging him the same way she did before.
"Yes, Ma'am. I'll just watch some bad TV until you're done." He said, as he moved into the living room and sat down on the couch and turned the TV on.
He got upstairs and they finished the banner, allowing a few mistakes on Sora's part. He wasn't really good at painting, so the edges on his part weren't very neat compared to Kairi's.
"Okay, let's take this down to Leon so he can tape it up while we inflate and tape balloons all over the place." She smirked at him before giving him a peck on the cheek and running downstairs, the banner rolled on her arm with him, yet again, following her.
"Alright, Leon, we're done. Use your behemoth skills and tape it so it's an inch and a half away from the ceiling and make it centered between the two walls, okay?"
Leon saluted her before taking the banner from her hands and moving the table a ways away from the wall so he could wiggle in between it to put it up. Sora did find it a bit funny that Leon, Mister Big and Tough, looked so much more awkward than the rest of them, with the exception of Seifer, in this house. The ceiling was way too low for his height with which his head only had three inches before he hit it.
Kairi stepped back, her back finally reaching the counter that was opposite to the table and was telling Leon which direction to go to make sure it was centered. Evidently she didn't trust him in that sense.
Sora looked up at the banner and he felt his gut twist as he read the word 'Dad' over and over again. He wished he and Roxas could do something like this for their dad. He couldn't remember the last time they had a birthday party at their house because of him. It made a lump form in his throat and he lowered his head so his bangs covered his eyes as they watered slightly.
"To the left a bit. No, your other left!" Kairi yelled at him, which caused Sora to let out a watery laugh as a tear fell on the floor.
Kairi went silent and walked over to Sora, she put a hand on his shoulder. "Hey, you okay?"
His head shot up, which caused more tears to fall, to see Leon, Seifer, Namine, and Kairi all looking at him with concern.
"Yeah," he sniffed, and quickly wiped his eyes. "I'm fine. You got anything else you want help with?" He asked her.
Everyone seemed to believe him. Everyone except Kairi. Sora knew she didn't buy it that was okay. But he was glad that she didn't push it, at least, not yet.
"Well, like I said, you can help blow up and tape the balloons. I want at least three to every wall and two to every doorway."
Sora nodded, and waited until she grabbed the balloons before delving into the bag and blowing one up, snagging some tape from Leon and putting the first one the main doorway. "This good?"
Kairi nodded. "Perfect. Just keep doing that, that way the balloon won't get in the way of the door opening."
"Kay." He said as he grabbed another balloon and did the same thing over and over again until he and Kairi had the house practically covered in balloons that were blue, red, and white.
"Is your dad patriotic or something?" Sora asked, while he taped the last balloon up.
Kairi shook her head. "Not really, those are just his favorite colors and they just happen to be patriotic. Don't mention it to him; it annoys him whenever Namine and I tease him about it." She giggled at some memory that he didn't really want to ask about.
"Are you going to tell him why those are his favorite, Kairi?" Leon asked, smirking at her.
Kairi glared at him. "No. It's not important."
Sora blinked and looked between the two, Leon still smirking as he leaned against a gap in the wall between and red and white balloon.
"It stands for her mother's favorite color, Namine's favorite color, and Kairi's old favorite color, back when she had good taste in clothes that weren't all pink." Leon said.
Sora looked at Kairi. "What's the big deal about that?"
"Nothing, I was just in my tom-boy stage until I grew out of it." Kairi said, looking at him. "You're imagining me in red, aren't you?"
Sora nodded. But the truth of it was; he couldn't imagine her in red. He's only known her to wear pink; sure her hair was red but more auburn than anything. And she had a pink Volkswagen for cryin' out loud! Everything the girl
The timer going off made Sora jump a little, while Namine rushed over to the stove and dragged out a blue cake, but slamming it down on the top of the stove and rushing over the sink yelling at herself for forgetting the oven mittens.
"God, I'm stupid." She complained as she turned on the kitchen faucet with her good hand and brought her slightly burnt hand under the running water.
Seifer quickly ran out of a room and rushed over to Namine. "What did you do now?!" He yelled at her while he pulled her hand out which caused Namine to hiss from pain and put it back.
"I got the cake out of the oven and I forgot the pot holders…" She said sulking a bit.
Seifer's mouth hung open in shock and Sora had to keep from laughing from his lack of zipped-zipper. Apparently he heard Namine yelling and just rushed out. Sora held a hand over his mouth to keep from giggling like a little girl.
Seifer didn't notice at all though, he was still staring at Namine's hand intently as the water ran over it. "Maybe we should take you to the hospital…"
Namine scoffed. "No. It's not that bad. I'll just have to put some Aloe on it and bandage it is all… No big deal. And I doubt the ER would take kindly to a third degree burn taking up their schedule."
"Namine's right, Seifer," Kairi cut in before Seifer could argue further and Sora knew he wanted to, "If it does get bad later we'll take her, but right now, it looks fine."
Seifer glared at her. "Look, just because you're her sister, doesn't mean I have to be nice or anything."
"Well, no, but you may want to zip yourself up before you go all macho-man on me. It doesn't help you any to have your fly open…" She smirked at him and Sora couldn't help it, he just burst into laughter with Leon.
Seifer's eyes got wide as he glanced down and quickly zipped it while blushing furiously, which made Sora laugh even harder, and Seifer ended up throwing a wooden spoon at him that had cake batter and water all over it. Sora ducked but Leon apparently was right behind him, and he didn't duck. Sora froze, glancing from Leon to Seifer to Leon again.
"Hey, Namine, mind if I run your boyfriend over?" Leon said through gritted teeth and threw the spoon back in the sink.
"No, and he's not my boyfriend, Leon, so stuff it."
"Crap, now I've got freakin' cake shit all over me and it's staining my shirt." Leon complained glancing at his white shirt under his over coat.
Kairi rolled her eyes and grabbed Leon's arm, leading him to her parent's room connected to the living room.
Sora had no clue why she did but the answer was soon revealed after he came out in a navy blue t-shirt that he'd seen her father wear quite a lot. "We'll just put these in the laundry so you can go home in your actual clothes." Kairi said as she walked past Sora to go the wash room.
"Okay, I think my hand stopped stinging for now." Namine said suddenly as she practically ran to the bathroom holding her hand.
A minute later you could hear Namine's disgusted groans. "Ewwww! Seifer, you peed on the seat!"
Seifer turned red again and yelled back, "Well, what'd you expect?! You scream, I think bad things, I'm not really gonna care about a little piss on a toilet seat!"
"Clean it up! Now!" Namine yelled at him before coming out, her hand wrapped with an ace bandage and a white bandage sticking out on top and bottom.
Seifer glared at her but went in the bathroom anyway, grumbling the whole way.
"You know, Namine, you should probably stop bossing him around. It'll put a strain on your relationship." Leon said, looking serious but his body told Sora he was trying really hard to keep from laughing.
Namine turned to him, glaring fiercely. "There-is-no-relationship!" She said before stomping over to the utensil drawer next to the sink, pulling out a knife, and began to 'cut' the cake.
"Uhhh, Namine?" Sora asked weakly, eying the knife she was holding tightly.
She turned on heel and narrowed her eyes at him. "What?" She shot at him.
"Aren't you forgetting the icing?"
Namine looked confused for a second and looked back at the cake. Sora was right. No icing.
"Dammit." She breathed as she put the knife beside the cake and got out red icing and white sprinkles along with the spatula she had earlier and started icing the cake.
Sora felt a tug of the back of his shirt. He turned around to see Kairi tugging on it and leading him towards the door.
"C'mon, I gotta tell you something." She said quietly.
Sora noticed Namine's head shoot up toward Kairi. "Can't it wait until after the party, Kairi?" She asked nervously as she stole a glance at Seifer who emerged from the bathroom yet again.
Kairi shook her head. "No, I've waiting long enough. We can't just dump it on them, Namine. It's happening in two days. We gotta do it now." She insisted as she led Sora further out of the house and walked down towards his car.
"What was that all about?" He asked, as he snaked a hand around her waist and was taken-aback when she pulled away, and refused to look at him.
"Kairi?"
"We need to break up."
A/N: Okay! So, chapter eleven is FINALLY finished! I am temporarily off groundation at the moment so I wanted to upload this before I get off the temporary release. XD
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