YESS!! I UPDATED YEAH, PARTY! xD jk, but...phew I updated. Sorry it's sort of a late update, I was just really sick...yeah very, I missed like a week of school. and now I'm scared to go back b/c all of my friends are telling me I'm sooo behind!!! O_O'

Anyway, hmm... this chappie, well I had fun writing it. There's more Roxiri in this ..yep, a lot more :3 and some Minor SoKai, I suppose, and more Namine in it, but whatever. Just so you guys don't get confuzzled, it's still the same day... so yeah, and omg I caught this jumango mistake in the previous chapter! Ahh i hate myself for it..but I fixed it already, so I'm cool now .

Also I had a hard time staying in the correct tense..you know, in this ch. i'd always shift to present tense which annoyed the crap out of me.. I think it's cuz I read the hunger games and currently reading The Time Traveler's wife...they're both written in present tense..so yeah . anyway both books are awesome! if you guys haven't read them u must O.O

Roxas: YOU ARE BABBLING!!!

Me: Ah you're right!

Kairi:Let's just get on with the story .

Me: ok ok sheesh, so I proudly present chappie 10...i think? i lost count

Roxas: What an idiot

Me: HEY!

Kairi: SHE DOES NOT OWN ME OR ROXAS OR KINGDOM HEARTS!!!

Roxas: SO DON'T SUE

Me: Yeah!


When we all got inside the class room, even the freakin' teacher couldn't recognize me! I took barely two steps and the Little Miss cute Asian woman was asking if I wanted to introduce myself to the class. What the crap!? There is seriously something wrong with all the people today, the only ones that are actually even acting the same have been Namine and well… Roxas, not counting that embarrassing comment he made outside of class. Talking about Roxas, he didn't even say a word to me after that. I mean who could blame him; I can't even say anything to him.

This is just great Kairi, I thought angrily. After thinking things couldn't get worse after everything that's happened between Roxas and me, it just did. We're back to square one, the 'no talking to each other unless we absolutely must stage'. I really felt miserable at this point. Miserable, embarrassed, not to mention harassed in the Seifer way, and annoyed. My head was already throbbing with an incredible migraine that probably was partly caused because of the stupid basketball incident, all these irritating people, and partly because of the fact that I can't freakin' see the board! After the teacher put up the warm up on the white board it looked like a bunch of colored squiggly looking blurred lines. As if reading my mind, a voice spoke up next to me. Three guesses, who? I thought sarcastically.

"Can you see?" Roxas asked curiously. I can't say I was surprised that it was him because he's the only male that sits next to me, last time I checked Olette wasn't a man. The thing that surprised me the most was why. I mean how he can still talk to me after that. I wouldn't even want to talk to me. After letting the shock wash over, it took me a moment to process what he said and I became instantly annoyed all over again.

"Of course I can see," I snapped irritably. "I'm not blind!" If I was blind I'd be crashing into doors, or doing something stupid like putting mayonnaise on my fries instead of ketchup.

He rolled his eyes disregarding my blind comment. "I meant can you see the board?" Realization spread over me, and I instantly felt a twinge of guilt for snapping at him. He must have noticed all my squinting and struggle over trying to look at the stupid board questions.

"Oh," I murmured, feeling my cheeks burn with embarrassment. "No I can't." He didn't reply, instead he pushed his paper in front of me. In his writing was the warm up, completed.

"You can copy if you want." He muttered quietly. I quickly scrawled down the questions and handed him back his paper.

"I'm not a cheater." I said stiffly. His face perked up almost instantly and his eyes narrowed.

"I didn't call you-"He started defensively, but I cut in before he said anything stupid that would cause me to say something just as stupid back.

"I know," I said, answering the first question, which was translating a phrase into English. "Thank you anyway."

"Hmph," He mumbled. I tried my best to ignore his sulking; pouting was more like it actually. I looked around the room trying to test my vision, I'd be needing it for at least biology, and then I'd be free. As I squinted around the room, I never really realized how reliant I was on my spectacles. Ha ha, spectacles sound so fancy. I mean I knew my eyesight was sort of bad, but not extremely bad to the point where I can't live with out them. Again, as if reading my mind Roxas spoke.

"Can you see?" He asked again. This time I recognized the mocking tone. I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah, I can see Roxas!" I snapped.

"If you can see then why do you wear them all the time?" He pressed. My head ache was already worsening, by the minute. It felt like my head was going to explode.

"I just got so used to them; I forgot that they were there. Now they're just like… a part of me, you know?" I said. I looked over at him and his eyebrows were knitted together as if he were thinking.

"No," He admitted. I rolled my eyes again.

"Well you don't wear glasses, so you don't get it," I muttered, going back down to the warm up.

"So, are you trying to say that you use your glasses as a shield or wall to hide behind? Is that it?" He asked. I stopped writing to look back up at him.

"N-no what makes you think that?" I stuttered. He shook his head.

"Nothing." We didn't speak about that subject again.

Biology wasn't as bad as I would have expected it to be, considering the fact that I sit in the back. Roxas was there to let me copy down the notes, and questions so I didn't struggle with my eyesight. The most surprising thing that happened in that class was that the teacher actually recognized me! When I first walked in she scrutinized me briefly with her brown eyes, before returning to her bored expression.

"Can't get past me with that hair of yours Cherry," She sneered, with that robotic tone. I would have thought that was an extremely creepy comment but, actually I was grateful. I guess it really pays off to have a lifeless teacher who constantly bags on your vibrant colored hair.

When we started on the class work, Roxas shoved a piece of paper that was folded in half in front of me. I shot him a brief dirty look, while he was looking down at his textbook. I sighed, unfolding the paper. In his small cramped hand writing was one word.

Skateboarding?

I stared at the word, feeling really stupid. Obviously this was some kind of code that I really didn't get. I was about to write 'what the hell?' back, until it finally hit me.

"Do you think it's possible for someone like me to learn?"

"I," he paused, lifting his head up slightly. "I don't know, maybe."

"Can you teach me?"

My lips pulled up into an involuntary smile, as I scribbled down my reply.

When?

Today. Afterschool. He wrote.

OK


"I still cannot believe that you're actually going to learn to skateboard," Namine said incredulously, shaking her head. I could tell she was trying to hold back her laughter. "And with Roxas no less."

We were in our seventh period class. The teacher was snoozing on his table, piles and piles of papers awaiting to be graded surrounding him. The rest of the class was pretty much doing their own thing. Jumping on desks, throwing airplanes, writing disturbing messages on the white board, you know typical stuff. Namine and I were probably two of the few students who were actually sitting in our seats.

"Oh yeah, I know," I muttered feeling my face turn pink. Namine smiled.

"I can't believe that he agreed either," She said with wonder. I laughed.

"He didn't take that much persuasion." I said, causing her to smirk at me. Aw crap, I thought. She was wearing an expression which I knew only too well. In the next few minutes I was spilling out everything that happened between us after the whole embarrassing incident. I had almost forgotten it, but she brought it up again.

"He's only teaching you because he thinks you're cute," Namine teased, poking me in the cheek. I felt myself blush. I tried to look at anything but her prying blue eyes.

"Yeah, so does Sora," My blush deepened when I said that." And for some bizarre reason Seifer. Honestly I hope they quite whatever they've been smoking because they're hallucinating over false illusions of me."

Namine frowned, and her eyes narrowed.

"Kairi for the millionth time you're-" She started.

"No, don't even say it," I interjected irritably. That was the last thing I needed for this stupid day.

"Fine, I quit arguing with you about it." She stayed quiet for a long time; I was beginning to believe that she was trying to give me the silent treatment when she suddenly spoke up again.

"So when are you gonna do it with Roxas?" She laughed at her joke, while I blushed again, pushing her angrily. "Ok, no I'm sorry, Ok really when are you going to 'skateboard'?" she put air quotes around skateboard.

"After School today," I muttered.

"Really? Boy that's really soon!" she said. I rolled my eyes.

"I didn't plan it Namine," I replied.

"Right right," she said absently, balancing her pencil on one finger. "Hey where are you doing this?" I opened my mouth to answer, and then tell her to buzz of with the questions, until I realized I had no idea where we were supposed to meet. Were we even supposed to meet somewhere or what? I already felt panicked and nervous about it, which made me feel incredibly stupid. It's just a skateboarding lesson…thingy.

"I-I don't know," I admitted.

Once the bell rang, I have to admit I was sort of freaking out. What the crap was I supposed to do!? As soon as I walked out of the class room all of my doubts seemed to wash away, because Roxas was standing by the door apparently waiting for me.

"Well, looks like you're in luck," Namine whispered behind me. I turned around to face her; she was walking down the hall.

"Hey where are you going?" I called after her.

"Didn't I tell you? I've got a major art project to work on, sorry can't make it to your little skateboard session," she laughed, stalking off.

"Traitor," I murmured, turning my attention to Roxas. He had his backpack slung over his shoulder, and he was clutching his skateboard with his right hand.

"Where'd that pop out from?" I asked pointing at the board. He shook his head, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"I left it in a classroom closet after an incident involving a complete nincompoop scraping my board."He muttered, giving me a furtive look. I rolled my eyes.

"Hey, I apologized for that already, and I'm not a nincompoop!" I snapped. Roxas merely laughed.

"Yeah, ok, that's true," He said.

We ended up doing our practice session in front of my house, which is really weird because Roxas now knows where I live… creepy. For about a few minutes he started talking to me about the board pointing at the proper sections of it, and its name. I sort of tuned everything out; it's not my fault if I have the tendency of having an attention span of a squirrel when it comes to physical activity.

"Are you even listening?"Roxas asked irritably. I switched my attention from a passing butterfly to look at him.

"Oh huh, yeah of course!" I smiled, giving him the thumbs up. He rolled his eyes. I changed the subject. "Am I going to learn tricks, and the one where you spin and-"

"No," he said rather flatly.

"What? Why not!?"

"This is going to be your first time on a board, do you expect me to just let you even attempt to do something like that?" Roxas snapped. I crossed my arms over my chest, and rolled my eyes. Stupid Roxas, I thought.

"Fine" I mumbled angrily.

"Here put these on," He said gruffly handing me what looked like biking equipment. Did I really look that accident prone or something? I reluctantly took the gear, which included a helmet, gloves with the fingers cut off, and pads.

"Come one Roxy, is this really necessary?" I complained, putting on the helmet. He smiled briefly, before giving me a stern look.

"Yeah it is, if this is your first time," He said. I huffed, strapping the pads on each of my elbows and knees. I probably looked like some kind of dork learning to ride a bike for the first time. Ugh. I took one step towards Roxas then fell over; my knees wouldn't bend at all because of the stupid pads.

"Ugh, stupid piece of crap," I cursed silently, flipping over to sit down. Roxas kneeled before me chuckling. No laughing. Well someone is really amused, I thought sarcastically.

"Kairi, you've got the pads all mixed up," he continued to laugh. I frowned, watching him snicker at my stupidity.

"Well, sorry, Mr. Pad expert, they look exactly the same to me." I snapped. Roxas shook his head, still wearing that absurdly huge grin. It was weird seeing a big smile on his face. I still wasn't that used to it. He leaned in close to me; our faces were practically inches apart. He was so close, too close to the point where it almost felt like some kind of intimate close. I swear my face was a way brighter shade of red than my hair. Roxas didn't blush, he didn't even seem to notice, he looked too preoccupied with the way I incorrectly put on my knee pads, which were on my elbows.

I felt his hands run up my arm, causing the little hairs on it to prick up, to my elbow to rip off the pad. I hope he didn't notice that either. Roxas did the same with the other arm. I really wasn't sure if the whole feeling my forearm to my elbow was intentional or not, but it still made my pulse quicken uncomfortably. I blinked watching him, from the view I had, all I could see were his forehead which was covered by his windswept blonde hair, and his eyes that looking down at my knees. His fingertips barely brushed against my thigh when I jumped up suddenly. Roxas stared at me wide eyed.

"Um, I-I can do that," I muttered, feeling my face grow warm and eventually hot. I bent down to undo the pads. There were already marks of the straps being super tight against my legs.

"Ok, then," He said uncertainly, handing me the knee pads. I strapped all of them rather quickly, not caring for the ones that were done loosely.

"Alright, let's do this," I said, trying desperately to get out of this whole 'intimate' moment. I had a feeling Roxas had no idea what he was doing to me. He sighed, rising to his feet and walking over to me. I hesitated when his fingers found there way to my face. Oh crap, oh crap, what the hell is he doing? I closed my eyes, but opened them immediately when I felt my helmet strap tighten, as well as all the other pads. Ok, he was only fixing the straps…cool.

"You've got to make sure everything's secure Kairi," Roxas said. "Jeez you're not even on the board and you're acting careless."

"Oh, right," I said rather lamely. The closeness was still distracting me. How was I going to last the whole session if he was going to be this close?!

"Alright, let's go." He said. Roxas led me to the street where the board was laying innocently, well feigning innocently. It was the same evil board I chipped in homeroom that one day some time ago. "Ok, the most important thing is balance, if you lose that, then you're a goner."

I gulped. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Roxas seemed to have read my mind, because his face lightened up amusedly. I don't think I've ever really seen him this happy.

"So, here, step on the board, and I'll hold onto you so you won't fall," He said carefully. I stopped listening after the 'I'll hold onto you' part. Ok, maybe this was a horrible idea. My face flushed a great deal when he took both of my hands. I tried to ignore it, and focus on my feet on the board. That was more important!

I followed his instructions on pushing the board to roll down the street, with Roxas as my balance… thing. I fell a couple of times, on my own. Actually I fell a lot. And I sweated a lot, which was incredibly gross. I felt the cushiony part inside the helmet, stick to my head, and my knees shake under my weight when I pushed the skateboard.

After about the next five falls, we called it quits for the day. I peeled of the helmet in relief, before being disgusted by how wet my hair was. He told me I had enough humiliation to deal with. So we sat on the curb for the next half hour just talking. I can tell you that was the longest conversation I've ever had with him. It was actually going great until, he brought up Sora.

"So… um Sora," He said awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck. I stayed quiet waiting for him to continue. "Can I ask when it started?"

"Probably since seventh grade," I admitted, feeling the blood rush up to my face. Roxas was the first person I've ever told. Heck, he's the only one that knows my deep dark secret. He whistled, long and low.

"That's a pretty long time," He commented.

"Yeah," I agreed. The sun was starting to set, filling the sky with the gold and pink colors. I glanced over at Roxas, who was staring at the sunset. His face was tinged with the swirling mixture of colors from the sky.

"I like sunsets," He said suddenly, looking over at me with soft blue eyes. At that moment, my stomach churned uncomfortably. Roxas smiled serenely at me, making my face burn hotly. I blinked regaining my composure, to smile back.

"I don't really like sunsets," I whispered. He looked startled.

"What? Why?" Roxas asked as I turned back to the sky.

"They make me sad," I laughed. "It's like; sunsets show that the day is ending, especially if it's a good day. Even if the day is bad, it's still a day less of my life." I sighed. "I don't know what I'm talking about."

"I never thought about it that way." Roxas murmured. "I guess, they are sad."

"Yeah," I agreed. It stayed quiet like this for a little while. Not like an awkward kind of silence, more of a peaceful silence, one where you can enjoy another person's company without talking. Roxas broke it after a few moments.

"Is this a good day for you?" He asked. I looked at him. His eyebrows are knitted together and his eyes were so intensely focused on me, that I couldn't help but blush.

I thought about the question, and then my day, from my glasses breaking, to all the attention, to the embarrassing incident, and to now. And I wouldn't change one second of today if I could.

"Yes," I said quietly.

"Hmm," He muttered just as quietly. "Hey, Kairi"

"Yeah?"

"Can I," He paused, switching his gaze from my face to his shoes. I wish he didn't. "Can I ask why… Sora?"

I hesitated. "Sora is, "I paused, looking down at my hands, which were unscathed because of the protection of the gloves. " I don't know, he's just Sora. Ha-ha. He's always so nice, and he's so real, there's like nothing fake about him. I really love that about him."

"You do know that he um-" Roxas started, looking uncomfortable.

"-That he likes Namine, yeah I do," I muttered, trying to focus my attention on my hands. I heard Roxas sigh softly.

"What are you going to do?" He asked. I chanced a glance at him, but regretted it because he was looking at me worriedly. And my eyes stayed glued to his. I hate it when that happens.

"I don't know," I admitted wearily. I felt my eyebrows pull together as I thought of his question. "I don't think there's anything I can do." He shook his head.

"You can tell him," He suggested.

"Hell no!" I said suddenly causing him to laugh.

"Why not?" He pestered.

"-Because, Roxy," I said with a 'duh' tone in my voice. "I can't just tell him, he likes Namine, not me. Namine, my best friend Namine!"

"Ok, you're kind of acting a bit dramatic-"

"I am not! Do you even know how it feels to wish you can just, I don't know, hate your best friend?" I asked, feeling my voice rise. I didn't mean to, but he had already gotten me riled up. "Do you ever feel like in agony just watching the person you like completely ignore you to just talk to someone else? You're best friend to be specific! Someone you absolutely can't hate because you love them to death. Do you honestly know how it feels?!"

He looked at me for a long moment, his soft blue eyes piercing into mine. For a moment I felt a mutual understanding, but it broke off when his eyes hardened.

"No, I don't," He said.

"No you don't, so just don't call me dramatic, or try to understand because you don't," I snapped. Roxas turned away grunting. He was starting to sulk again. I tried giving him the silent treatment, but ended up breaking the silence.

"Hey, I'm sorry Roxas," I said quietly as he looked up at me. "I didn't mean to say that, I just-"

"Yeah, I know," He said just as quietly. He looked up at the sky, and I followed suit. The sun had already set, but the pink remained in the sky. "Hey it's getting late, I should… go."

"Yeah," I agreed. He stuck all the gear in his back pack and put the board on the street. He was just about to push the board when another blonde figure came into view. Namine was walking towards us, sketchbook in hands, and paint all over herself.

"Hey Kairi, Roxas, you guys are still skateboarding?" she asked, looking from Roxas to me. A faint blush appeared over his face, or it could have been the reflection of the sky.

"No, we just finished," I said.

"Uh, huh right," she mocked. Roxas looked at me awkwardly, one foot on his board and one on the floor. He just stood there, as if waiting for me to say something, so I did.

"Oh, thanks Roxy, for everything," I smiled, waving goodbye. He scowled at me, before nodding his head and riding off home. I watched him roll down the street until he was out of view. Something nudged the side of stomach making me jump. I really had forgotten Namine was standing there the whole time.

"'Roxy' huh?" she teased, wearing a big smile on her face. "You guys are on nickname basis?"

"I-I… sure," I sighed.

"Aww, how cute," she said, reaching out and squeezing my cheeks. I slapped her hands away, but she resisted. In the end, we wound up on the floor literally wrestling each other.

"Eww you smell go take a shower!" Namine laughed, pushing me off of her and grabbing my head in a head lock. I pulled her off of me and knocked her on the floor standing up.

"Eww, you're dirty, you go take a shower!" I countered. She laughed harder, causing me to join in. I reached out to grab her hand and pull her up. We both walked to our respective houses and I immediately jumped in the shower.

Today ended up being a good day for me, I guess.

DUN DUN DUH!!!! I'll try to update ASAP, ...I'll try, Im not making any promises

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