HEY GUYS. :D
well, this is the biggest chapter yet so WOO. It's so long, I've put a halfway mark in so you guys can go and get a drink, do your business, fold some socks and have a break before starting again. :D
this is dedicated to xLycheeRAiN (who let me use her awesome username as the juice for this chapter), Shyuu, OmnomnomnChomp, Misfortune XIII, Typewrite, roxasXnamine-ftw AAAAAAND Cammehhh. :D
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN KINGDOM HEARTS, CLUEDO, TRIVIAL PURSUIT, FINAL FANTASY, SPEEDOS, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG OR ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS CHAPTER.
ps, there also might be one itty bitty swear word towards the end. but it's just the one. of that type. :)
One fractured wrist and several broken fingers. One lost tooth, and another chipped. Numerous deep cuts over his face, arms, legs and torso, pulled together with stiches. A broken clavicle and several cracked ribs. Bruises littered his body, the majority across his arms and torso, with the exception of the massive black purple bruise that had swollen over one of his eyes. In total, one cast, three finger splints, dentist work required, over one hundred stitches, a sling for his wrist and for his collar bone and morphine for the pain.
Demyx was looking much better now than what he had been last night, but it had stung her heart as soon as she walked and saw Demyx hooked up to an IV drip, half his face covered in bandages, one arm in a sling and the other covered in purplish bruises. Despite his injuries, he glanced over and smiled at them.
"Namine," was all he said. She smiled brightly, covered her mouth with her hands and begged the tears of happiness that were pooling in her eyes not to fall. She went immediately over to his good side, dragged up a chair and sat down next to him. She grabbed his one good hand and held it in both of hers tightly.
"I...I thought you were going to leave me..." Her brother's eyes widened and he watched her as she looked down at her lap. "I...I just...don't do it...ever again...please Dem...Please..." She didn't know how he could stop anything like this from happening at all, but she could at least try and convince some higher power to protect him. "You're the only brother I have and after...after Dad died, you're technically my only male family member... you can't leave...you just can't..." She could feel tears welling up in her eyes and she squeezed his hand tighter. "I don't say this enough...but...I love you Dem..."
She looked up at her brother and found that he was watching her with wide eyes. Demyx had always been like an open book with his emotions and right now she could see that he was slightly sad and surprised. His voice was soft, "I love you too Nam..." She felt herself smile at him, through her tears. He continued, "You're the best sister anyone could ever want and you always put up with me, ever when I am annoying as hell. I don't ever want to leave you either...and I'm not planning on disappearing for a long, long time..." He smiled at her sweetly, his usual smile. But it felt odd, seeing Demyx smile like nothing was wrong when he was lying in a hospital bed, covered in bandages. Namine decided that as soon as Demyx got out of the hospital, she would spend more time with him.
"H-has Mum already come to see you?" She asked him, curiously. She was working the night shift in the hospital as a nurse and she would've been one of the first to hear about it.
He looked confused. "I...I think so...I mean...I've been asleep for the last few hours so I don't know. The doctor said she was going to come back later after her shift and some sleep. She's going to wait until the visiting rush dies down." He smiled at her.
She smiled in surprise when her brother pulled his hand out of hers and brought her into an awkward one armed hug. He rested his chin slightly on her shoulder. She didn't know how long they had sat hugging, but eventually she heard Axel huff impatiently.
"All right, enough with this mushy stuff, I'd like to have a few words with my best friend." Namine smiled to herself and reluctantly pulled away. As soon as she moved away, Axel had practically leapt into her seat. She smiled slightly, rolled her eyes and sat in another chair near the window. It was still raining slightly, but she could see the sun rising. Had they really been here that long?
When she turned back to see what was happening between Axel and her brother, she nearly burst out laughing. The redhead was squatting in the chair like a frog, elbows resting on his knees as he stared at her brother with a slightly weird look on his face. Under his gaze, Demyx had grown nervous and his eyes widened in fright.
"W-what are you looking at me like that for?"
Axel suddenly shifted, sitting normally with one leg crossed over the other. He paused slightly in thought. "You look like you've been run over by a steam roller then sat on by that super huge life guard at the beach." The man Axel was referring to was Lexaeus.
Working on the beach, Namine saw him and the other life guards daily. Lexaeus was a massive, buff man who towered over her. He and his partner Xigbar came about once a week and always bought the same drink; a Lychee Rain. Being Lexaeus' life guard partner was Xigbar's day job, because apparently there 'aren't enough hot blondes at the shop' and he always got free juice, courtesy of the large man buying it for him because Xigbar was always forgetting his money, just like he always forgot his decency. She could now make the off the top of her head and she remembered the first time they had bought one.
It had been a particularly empty day at the beach and they had come during their lunch break. She had been cleaning out the fridge, leaving the boxes of fruit on the back counter, filled with ice.
"Is it closed?"
"Ha! As if! I see them cute girls up here all the time all day long."
"Kairi has a boyfriend."
"I know! But I prefer- wait, which one's Kairi?"
"Short hair,"
"Ah! As I was saying, I prefer blondes anyway, and the one that works here is freakin' H-O-T, HOT!"
"There's no need to swear."
Namine had chosen this time to come up, much to her misery. Xigbar, the tanned, creepy life guard with the eye patch was wearing a Speedo. She directed her gaze to the taller man, who had the decency to actually wear a board shorts.
"Ah! Here she is." She thought he winked at her, but it was hard to tell because of his eye patch. He grinned, "How you doin'?"
"Fine," She answered bluntly. She kept her eyes on Lexaeus, "What can I get you?"
"Two-"
"One smokin' hot blonde," Xigbar said to her, grinning flirtatiously.
"We don't sell those here,"
"Oh, I'm pretty sure I'm looking at one right now."
"I'm sorry, we don't serve people who look and act like drunken paedophilic pirates so I'm afraid that you're going to have to either; shut up and stop trying to pick up girls who are more than twenty years younger than you or go spend your time in a brothel, where you can't get charged for harassing young girls." Xigbar was slightly shocked, and Lexaeus took advantage of this to shove his partner aside. Because of their sizes, the smaller man went flying into a nearby bush. The tall man didn't look like he was affected by what he had just done. Because of his size, he was often taken as a threat, especially to Axel, because the two didn't get along at all. Lexaeus had physically thrown Axel into the water during a festival because Axel had conveniently forgotten to tell the life guards that part of his act included setting his clothes on fire. A very wet, very pissed redhead had emerged from the water and raged at the large man for a while, until Lexaeus had gotten fed up with him and had thrown him back into the water and walked off. From then onwards, at every chance he could, Axel insulted the large man. If Lexaeus ever heard, the redhead would hit with water somehow. It had been about two years, and he still hadn't learnt his lesson. It probably didn't help that Demyx laughed at every Lexaeus joke his best friend made.
Demyx grinned as best he could, "I do, don't I?"
His best friend smiled at him and suddenly the usual, playful Axel was back and so was her clumsy brother. They were joking around and talking as if nothing were wrong, even though Demyx was still bruised and bandaged.
"...I was so beating Larx at Cluedo, and I totally had it in the bag, until she goes and snatches the answer of Sora, who was screaming his little face off because that bitch is scary. She read out the answer and then complained because the game was cheating. How does a game freaking cheat?"
"Aw man! I am the best a Cluedo. It's like I just take in amazing amounts of useless information that nobody ever wants and every always thinks I'm a loser, but then I come out and beat everyone because I rule at Cluedo!"
"Dem, I think that's Trivial Pursuit you're talking about..."
"No, no... I'm pretty sure it's Cluedo."
"Is it the one with the thing that looks like a colourful pie and you have to answer questions about useless things?"
"Yeah, that's the one!"
"That's Trivial Pursuit."
"Are you sure? I'm pretty certain that that's Cluedo..."
Namine was watching them with an eyebrow raised. She could honestly listen to their conversation for hours, because it never got boring. Her brother's cluelessness amazed her. It expanded over every topic imaginable and even though he knew so much useless information, when it came to basic things he just didn't have a clue.
She had forgotten that Zexion was in the room until he shifted and stood up. She saw Demyx's eyes snap to him, and immediately it looked as though he stopped listening to whatever Axel was rambling on about. His eyes widened with surprise and she guessed that he didn't know that the small male had even been there at all. He looked too surprised to speak as Zexion calmly walked over to him.
"And so I said that we should totally...Dem?" Axel soon noticed that his best friend wasn't listening, and instead looking at something behind him. When the redhead turned around, he saw exactly what Demyx was looking at. He groaned and slumped in the chair, "Zexion...really? I was having a nice conversation with my best friend. Must you be so distracting?"
"I don't see how I am distracting when I am merely standing here."
"You know exactly how you're distracting him, you and your mysterious depressive emo-ness. It's like a cry for help, and he just immediately wants to cheer you up, Zexy."
"I would prefer it," Zexion said to the redhead, his annoyance present. "If you refrained from calling me such vulgar, disrespectful names and I am not emo."
"Your hairstyle and depressive, monotone voice says differently," The redhead grinned playfully, "I bet you're only around Demyx because you are trying to suck out his happiness like cheeriness sucking vampire you are."
"I am not restricted to keeping my voice monotone," Her brother's boyfriend said calmly, not backing down from the drummer's insults. "I am with Demyx not because I am trying to suck out his happiness. I am with him, because I love him!" She saw Zexion smirk slightly. "And my hair is more fashionable than your ridiculous hedgehog spikes ever will be"
Axel stood up suddenly and glared down at the smaller man. Namine knew from experience that the redhead hated it if you 'dissed his hair'. Demyx had made the mistake once of comparing his to Sonic the Hedgehog. Axel had shaved the sides of his head while he slept, leaving him with his faux hawk mullet combination. It hadn't gone well for the drummer though, because Demyx had fallen in love with his new hair.
Zexion didn't cower under Axel's glare like many people would have. She suddenly respected the man a little more, simply because he was standing his ground against Axel, who was at least a head and a half taller than him and had narrowed his eyes down at him. Axel looked slightly like a cat, hackles up. She wouldn't have been surprised if the redhead had started hissing.
"Listen up you little emo garden gnome, just because Demyx is hopelessly head over freaking heels for you doesn't me-"
"Zexion, you're in love with me?" It seemed as though Demyx had snapped out of his surprise. She noted that it was a very long moment of surprise, but it must've just been the medication affecting his thinking.
Namine saw Zexion freeze totally. Her brother was watching his boyfriend, eyes wide and curious. Axel looked at the two of them, unamused. He threw his hands in the air in defeat, "Screw this, I need coffee." When neither of them paid any attention to him, he huffed and walked towards the door. He got halfway outside, before turning and looking back in the room at her. "Want anything Nam?"
She shook her head and watched as he left, shutting the door softly behind him. Zexion still hadn't moved from his position.
"Zexy,"
"...Y-yes, Demyx...?" He managed to say quietly as he sat down in the chair beside the bed. Her brother reached his free hand over and grabbed one of Zexion's hands gently.
"Zexion, do you love me?"
"..."
"...do you?"
It all kind of came at once, "...W-well, technically speaking, I feel something towards you...a-and it's definitely not annoyance or irritation like I normally feel towards people...especially to that oafish moron who is your best friend...b-but, whatever I feel...generally makes me want to always be around you...a-and I always want to see your smiling face..." He was speaking quickly and quietly, and Namine could see the blush rising up on his cheeks as Demyx just watched him with all his attention. "...a-and you generally make me nervous and slightly unprofessional b-because I always find myself thinking about you...when I'm working...and when I'm meant to be studying...a-and I generally think that I don't want to be with anyone but y-you...ever...s-so, I think it classifies as something along the lines of adoration...and I think that I feel some kind of...affection...towards you...I suppose..."
She could see the blush rising on Demyx's cheeks as her brother's face turned beet red. Zexion dropped his head and looked into his lap.
"I...I'm sorry Demyx...I didn't want to tell you this way...I was hoping for a perfect mome-" Her brother suddenly pulled Zexion close and as soon as they started kissing, Namine nearly sprinted out of the room. Sure, they were in a relationship and it looked like they loved each other, but she felt as though they needed some privacy. She shut the door softly behind her.
Namine sighed and leant against the wall beside the door. She slid down it, and ended up in a sitting position on the floor. Smiling to herself, she tilted her head back to rest it against the amazingly clean hospital wall. I'm happy for you Dem...
When Demyx had first come out about being gay, he wasn't very fussed about it. All of his friends and the family had accepted him for who he was and didn't judge him. No one was worried, until he came home from school one day and had immediately locked himself in his room. It took Namine and her mother about two hours to coax him out, and when they managed, she was filled with fear.
Her brother stood in front of them sniffling slightly, even though he was sixteen years old. The thing that shocked her most was his purple swollen eye. Her mum had hastily sent her down stairs to get the pack of frozen peas from the freezer. Namine could remember sprinting as fast as she could without falling. She wasn't tall enough to reach the top shelf in the freezer, so she had to run to the pantry, drag out the plastic stool and place it in front of the fridge. She opened the freezer, pulled out the bag of peas, at least two other bags of frozen food falling to the floor in the process, leapt off the stool and ran out of the room.
On her way up the stairs, she could hear her mum talking kindly to Demyx, trying to get an answer out of him. Her brother was sniffling slightly, but she couldn't hear him saying anything. She rounded the corner into his room and handed her mum the bag of frozen peas. Her mum smiled then sent her to get a towel for them. Now that she thought about it, it was probably because her mum didn't want her to hear what was wrong.
She came back a few minutes later with the softest towel she could find, but her brother's door was closed. She sat down in front of it, and listened.
"...because I'm freaking gay. They were calling me all these names before, but I just brushed them off...Axel was always there, standing up for me. Today he had to leave school early for a dentist appointment and they just took that as an excuse to bash me up..."
Namine couldn't put herself in her brother's shoes, but she definitely knew what it was like to be bullied. Standing up, she opened the door and walked in calmly. They both looked up at her as soon as she entered. She ignored the looks, sat herself next to her brother and wrapped her arms around him. Even though he was feeling better by the end of the night, he was convinced that he'd never get him happy ending, simply because he was gay and people treated him differently because of it.
How's that for your happy ending...? She was tired, even worse than before, but she smiled nonetheless. She blamed her lack of sleep on the amount of stress in the past twelve hours, but the after affects of the coffee probably weren't helping her energy levels either. She couldn't go back into the room, so she settled against the door and dozed off.
There were some people talking down in the waiting room and she was woken up suddenly when two people burst through the door and into the corridor. She recognized one of them immediately, the pink hair being an unmistakeable give away.
"...I don't see what your problem is, I just said you were sexy and now you're all annoyed at me?" Marluxia sounded confused yet he had that mischievous hint to his voice.
"I am merely annoyed at the fact that you have no respect for personal space." She heard another man say quickly and bluntly. Looking up, she recognised the doctor from before pacing swiftly down the hall towards where she was sitting.
"But Vexen, you were my roommate in college! Of course I'm not going to give you any personal space after not seeing the love of my life for three years!" She had never heard Marluxia say anything like that before. Nearly every day at the Shack he would point out the hottest guy on the beach, but never had he talked about love or anything of the sort.
Vexen stopped abruptly and spun to face her boss. "Love of your life?" He hissed at Marluxia, who looked slightly frightened. "You stalked me and made my life a living hell for those three years that you studied botany. Thank God you left to let me finish my medical degree in peace!"
The pink haired man stood frozen, watching the doctor glared at him. Marluxia suddenly beamed at him, "You remembered what I studied!" Her boss suddenly threw him arms around the doctor' "Oh Vexy! I knew we were always meant to be!"
"GET. OFF. ME!" Vexen pulled Marluxia's arms off him, huffed and shouted something incomprehensible before storming off around the corner, her boss following the man adoringly. She just stared at the where they disappeared. Wasn't Marluxia here to see Demyx?
"Funny, isn't it?" Namine nearly had a heart attack. Sitting to her right was a familiar redheaded male. "I mean, I don't know either of them 'yo, and you can obviously tell that Pinkie is hopelessly in love with that blonde oldie."
She looked incredulously at Reno sitting next to her. Where was Axel? The redhead next to her saw the look on her face and grinned suddenly. As if reading her mind he answered, "Went home to shower. I told him that he stank like a rat and offered to push him into some massive ass puddle 'yo, but he denied."
Of course he did. No one in the right mind would want that to happen to them. She blinked tiredly. "What time is it?" How long had she been asleep for...?
"It's about 9am and it's still freaking raining 'yo." He smiled at her, picked up something from beside him and handed it to her. She took it carefully and put it in her lap. It was a sketch book, and when she flicked through the pages it seemed completely empty. She looked at him questioningly. "Ah, last night you seemed really, really down, so I asked Riku what you liked doing and he said that you liked drawing. I'm obviously not going to go looking in your room for your sketch book, 'yo, so I bought you a new one, fully complete with pencils and signature, courtesy of moi." Namine smiled at his ridiculous French accent. He pulled out a box of pencils from his pocket and put them next to the pad before opening the book to the front page. His surprisingly neat handwriting covered the middle of the page, and there was a small cartoon drawing of him in the bottom corner.
'Keep smiling, and stay sexy 'yo!'
She could immediately tell that he and Axel were brothers, because they technically both spoke and acted the same way. It made her smile and she turned to the redhead. "Thanks Reno."
"Ah," He grinned and scratched the back of his head. "No problemo, 'yo." He stood up and offered a hand to her, which she took gratefully. He smirked slightly and tilted his head to the side. "Now I'm sorry, but I gotta go, 'yo. My job does not allow sick days."
"Oh, yeah...you're a pizza boy..."
"Ah! Only by night am I a super sexy pizza boy." He grinned at her. "By day, I am an awesome, kick ass government agent, 'yo. I work for Shin-Ra." That name immediately brought back memories of her father. She swallowed and shoved them towards the back of her mind. Reno tucked his thumbs underneath the collar of his black blazer, "Do you think I honestly wear this piece of shit all day every day, 'yo?" Namine shook her head. "Anyways, I gotta go. Riku said he was coming past later, so you might see him if you're still here." Before she could answer, the redhead's phone rang and they both jumped. Reno looked slightly frighted, "See you later, 'yo." He took off running down the corridor.
Namine sighed and put her art things down on the floor while she tied her hair up. Why did she and Demyx have such weird friends? She looked behind her when the door to Demyx's room opened and shut quietly.
Zexion stood in front of the closed door, looking at her curiously. "Where did you go?"
She bit her lip and gestured to the floor beside the door. "I slept out here." The man's visible eye widened and she smiled slightly at him. "It was perfectly fine. Honest."
He shook his head. "Anyway, I have been called in to work today. Merlin, my boss, has refused to give me the day off because he needs someone tall to stack books." Zexion grimaced, "I am the shortest employee, so honestly do not know why he insists." He sighed and looked at Namine, hesitatingly somewhat. She was surprised when he suddenly stepped forward and hugged her. It was an awkward hug, but a hug all the same. She hugged him back tightly.
She felt kind of special, because it was coming from Zexion, who Axel had described to her as a 'heartless moody bastard who is so afraid of physical contact that he will bite you with his emo fangs when you get close to him'. He had also cautioned her that for her own safety she shouldn't 'go near the vampiric emo garden gnome, got it memorized?' Sometimes she honestly wondered what the redhead had against Zexion. He truly seemed like a good person, but Axel was Axel, and he was enemies with Lexaeus, one of the calmest, friendliest people on the beach.
"I just wanted to thank you again." He said to her in the midst of their hug, "For accepting me and giving me a chance."
"You're welcome..." She smiled and he pulled away.
He smiled softly at her, before looking at the watch on his wrist. He looked back up at her. "I really must go. Good bye Namine." He said to her, before walking around her towards the waiting room.
She watched him disappear out of sight before picking her art things off the floor and walking into her brother's room. It was quiet in the room except for Demyx's soft, rhythmic breathing. She guessed that he had fallen asleep a while ago, because usually he rolled around and spoke in his sleep until he was in deep enough. She smiled at him and went and took a seat by the window.
The blinds were drawn closed, but she could see the morning sun peaking through around the outside. She opened the sketchpad on her lap and she slid her pencil behind her ear. For some reason she didn't feel like drawing.
Namine was lost in thought about everything when there was a slight knock on the door. Not wanting to call out, she folded her pad closed, stood up and placed it on the seat. With her pencil still behind her ear, forgotten, she walked quickly and quietly to the door and pulled it open.
Riku stood in front of her, smiling faintly. His long silver hair was tied back in a loose pony tail and he was holding a buddle of balloons in one hand and flowers in the other. "Hey Nam," He said calmly. "Can I come in?"
She seriously debated about shutting the door in his face, but stepped aside silently and let him in. He walked past her and into the centre of the room. She sighed. She didn't want to be angry at Riku but she couldn't help it. Still, though he had ruined her chance with Roxas accidentally, she couldn't blame him for being in love with her, even if she really, really didn't want it to be true. Hopefully after what happened last night, had wouldn't try anything with her anymore and they could just go back to being friends. Best friends, even...
She turned around and saw him looking at her brother with a frown on his face. "Isn't that a bit much to bring someone?" She whispered to him, gesturing to the balloons and flowers he was holding. He turned to her and smiled, before putting the balloons on the table near the window. He turned back to face her, still holding the flowers.
"That's because only the balloons are for Demyx." He was watching her face intently. Namine immediately focused all her attention onto the bouquet of flowers in his hands. It was just a simple bunch of about six white lilies, tied together neatly with a purple ribbon. He took a step forward and immediately she wanted to go sprinting out of the room. Riku held the bouquet of flowers out to her. "These are for you."
She looked at him in shock. What is he doing? "...P-pardon?"
He took several more steps forward and held the flowers just in front of her. From where they were standing, she could smell their fresh scent, but she could also smell Riku's deodorant. It wasn't that he or the flowers didn't smell nice. Namine sneezed. It was just that together they made her nose tingle.
She took the bouquet with shaking hands, as Riku started to speak again. "I know you told me that you liked me only as family...but I was wondering if you would just give me a chance anyway..."
Namine didn't know what she could have possibly said to Riku. Here he was, standing in front of her, flowers and everything, asking her to just give him a chance. There was no possibility of anyone hearing them, because the white walls of the hospital room seemed pretty thick and her brother, who was lying in the single bed, was out like a light anyway.
She looked to the ground, trying to keep calm and think out some kind of logical solution. Internally she was practically having a heart attack and felt like she could cough out a full colony of butterflies. She walked over to the table where the balloons were and laid the flowers down next to it carefully. She was so nervous right now, and here she was, foolishly thinking that Riku would just accept the consequences and give up. Obviously she had forgotten one of the most important things about him; that he never gave up easily.
"I love you Namine," he said directly, looking at her with his odd green eyes. "And I don't-I can't just give up on you. I know you like Roxas, but you've only just met him and it could be just like some silly childhood crush." Namine clenched her fists slightly. The way she felt about Roxas wasn't just some silly crush. She liked him, a whole lot, and wasn't ready to give up on him...just like how Riku was blatantly refusing to let her go.
She didn't want to care. Why was he making it so difficult for her? Why was he just setting himself up for heartbreak? She suddenly didn't feel like talking to her best friend anymore. She started walking purposely towards the door but was hit with a déjà vu when the silver haired boy behind her seized her by the wrist.
"Riku..." she said quietly."Please let me go."
She heard him hesitate and his grip tightened slightly. "Sorry Nam, but I can't just do that." Riku sighed and continued, "You never know...after you give me a chance, you might start liking me instead...crushes fade Namine...I've had plenty of them...but now I know for sure that I love you...You and no one else."
"Please Riku." The boy didn't remove his hand. She was getting slightly annoyed at him now. She was her own person and she didn't belong to him! If she was going to belong to anyone, she was going to make sure that she belonged to Roxas alone; him and only him.
"...Namine, please..." It sounded like he was pleading with her.
"I-If you love something...you'll let it go..." When Riku's grip didn't relent, she sighed. She didn't want it to come to this, now it was either give her heart or break his... Namine yanked her hand forward, twisted it and pulled away from Riku's grip. "...I'm sorry but there's someone that I have to talk to." When he didn't respond, she turned and looked at him. Her best friend was looking at the ground, somewhat defeated. "Riku..." she said, before he strode past her wordlessly, flung open the door and stormed out.
The door swung slightly on its hinges before clicking shut softly. Namine watched it for a few moments, before slumping into the nearest chair and burying her face in her hands. What has she done for all this to happen? Her best friend looked like he both hated and loved her, she hadn't spoken to, seen or heard anything to do with Roxas since Riku's confession and her brother was beaten and bruised but still, thank god, very much alive. She felt as though every little thing was somehow her fault, and she sighed shakily in to her palms. What was she going to do?
"Nam, are you okay?" she looked up suddenly and she saw Demyx watching her from the hospital bed. When did he wake up? Had he heard the whole conversation? She nodded in response to his question. He raised an eyebrow at her, and immediately she knew that her brother didn't believe her. "Seriously Nam, I may have been hit upside the head quite a few times, seriously failed science and a few other subjects in school and be a total idiot nearly all the time, but I know for sure that I am most certainly not stupid, especially when it comes to stuff like this."
She should have known that Demyx would've found out about everything sooner or later. She has been delaying telling him about anything until he was better, but right now it seemed like a pretty good time to spill everything.
So she started from the very beginning, from that day when she met Roxas at the shack and how the boy hadn't left her thoughts and heart since. She told him her side of the attack, something which she had been too traumatized to tell anyone else. She told him about how Riku had been acting weirdly around her when she had confronted him about his injuries and how Kadaj had hinted about his brother's feelings towards her. She told him about Roxas' invitation and the backstage pass to the concert and how he had confessed to her. She had mumbled when she came to the part when she had told Roxas that she liked him. Demyx had made her repeat it so slowly and clearly nearly three times and by the time she could finally stop saying it, she had turned at least four different shades of red. She told him about Riku's nervous invitation to his party and Roxas' offer to walk her there.
Namine had to sit down when she explained the full details of the confession. As desperately as she wanted to, she made sure that she didn't leave out anything about it; the initial confession, the kiss and the part when she somehow managed to break Roxas', Riku's and her own heart in less than ten minutes.
Demyx had listened carefully the whole time, watching her closely. By the end of it, she was pacing the floor in front of his bed in agitation.
"What happened to everything being simple?" she huffed, annoyance slipping into her tone. "No boy used to like me; I'm not an interesting person! Everyone goes for bubbly Kairi, not shy me. Now I've got two boys after me and one has been my best friend for god knows how long! And the one I really cared about? I went and broke his heart!" Demyx was just simply listening to her from the bed. He often said that to think properly you just had to let everything out, and that's exactly what she had been doing.
She sighed and leant on one hand against the wall. "I've screwed everything up. I can't believe it..." She put her hand to her face and sighed into it, willing herself not to cry. What was she going to do...?
"Nam..." Her brother said softly. She could hear the concern and support in his voice. "You need to go and talk to Roxas. Ring him up, visit him...do something...the poor boy is probably just as heartbroken as you."
For someone with little experience in this kind of thing, Demyx was giving good advice. He was right. She had to talk to Roxas and explain the whole thing. That Riku loved her and that she didn't love Riku back. That she was falling for Roxas instead...
She sniffed and nodded, digging around in her pocket for her phone. It was a good idea. She was going to call Roxas, right here, right now. If he didn't pick up, she would leave him a message and hope that he called her back. If he didn't, she would borrow Sora's phone and ring him from there.
She was missing him already, and when she flipped her phone open and saw the back ground, her heart ached. She needed to see that smile again, in real life. Opening the menu and scrolling through the contacts, his name practically jumped out at her. She hesitated with her thumb above the call button. What if he hated her?
Namine quickly looked over at Demyx with worry. He smiled at her reassuringly and gave her a thumbs-up with his free hand. She swallowed, took a deep breath then pushed the button. Holding it to her ear, she listened to it ring twice before a phone blared to life outside the door to the room. Both she and Demyx looked at each other questioningly. She walked over to the door and opened it.
Riku had his back to her; arms folded, standing right in the middle of the doorway. The ringing phone belonged to the shorted blonde boy in front of him. Namine stared wide eyed at Roxas, who was standing in front of her best friend, glaring at him. There was a blue present with a neatly tied ribbon under one of his arms, and his phone was in the other.
Totally confused as to what was going on, Namine cleared her throat nervously and snapped her phone shut. Roxas' mobile immediately stopped ringing, and the two boys turned their attention to her.
"...What's going on?" She asked apprehensively. Roxas opened his mouth to say something, but Riku beat him to it.
Her best friend smirked and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer. "I was just explaining to Roxas here that he's going to have to find another girl because you're taken."
Namine was in shock. And it also appeared that Roxas was too. She stuttered something, desperately trying to explain to the blonde the truth. He snapped out of his shock first and looked between them, stopping to look at her with wide, sad eyes. "Namine...is this... the truth?"
She desperately tried to form a proper sentence in her mind, but nothing was coming. Riku spoke for her, smiling at the boy in front of them. "It sure is. Now run along..." Namine reached out to grab Roxas' wrist. If she couldn't say anything to him, she was going to show him how she felt. Her best friend stopped her however, by entangling his fingers with hers and bringing her in for a kiss.
The blonde avoided looking at them, calmly put the present on the floor, turned on his heel and walked quickly down the hallway. He was out of sight before Namine could do anything. And the first thing she did do was shove Riku violently away from her.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" She was so angry, she felt like she had to swear at him.
The boy simply smiled at her. "I love you Namine."
"But I don't love you! I thought I made that perfectly clear!"
"It doesn't mean I'm just going to give up on you...I never give up."
"Well maybe you should consider trying something new for a change!"
"C'mon Nam, just give me a chance alright?" He took a step closer to her and she immediately slapped him across the face. He slowly raised a hand to his cheek.
"Leave me alone you bastard. What did you do to the real Riku, who was my best friend and just my best friend! He didn't want any of this, and he didn't love me like this either!"
"I am him, and he has always loved you!"
"I don't care. I do love someone, and you most certainly are not that person!"
"Well maybe I could be!"
"No! You can't! Because I love Roxas and you've gone and screwed everything up! If I thought I still at least had the slightest chance left with him, you've just gone and freaking blown it! Go away!"
Riku looked at her with sad eyes. "Namine...please..."
"No!" She clenched her fists and looked angrily at the floor, "...just ...no! Just go! Leave! Leave me alone...you've already made things bad enough..."
In front of her, Riku sighed, "Really?"
"Yes, I'm absolutely freaking certain!" She huffed and looked up at him. "Now just go! Before I hit you again...!"
Riku sighed again then without another word, turned and walked off down the hall. When he was out of sight, Namine turned and punched the wall of Demyx's room. It made her hand throb. She was so angry at Riku...how could he do that to her? He just screwed up that last chance she had of trying to be with Roxas... now the only thing she could do was apologise to him... there could be nothing more, simply because Riku had screwed the whole thing up...
What was she going to do now...?
WELL, THIS CHAPTER IS DONE.
What did you all think? A bit crazy hey... D:
THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR READING AND STAYING WITH IT THIS FAR, WE'RE NEARLY DONE... ISH.
wooo, thanks again to xLycheeRAiN for her username, YOU'RE AWESOME.
Next update has more Roxas than this one, YAAAAAY. :D
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I know what I want for my birthday though, XIGBAR IN A SPEEDO, WOO... aha.. no, I don't think ANYONE wants that.
"KEEP SMILING AND STAY SEXY" ;D
