"Kairi, give it to me." Naminé held out her hand.
"No!" Kairi shouted and ducked behind the couch.
"Kairi, I'm serious!" Naminé kicked off her knee high boots and chased her around the living room, hand outstretched and grasping for the
chocolate Kairi was holding. "You don't need anymore chocolate!"
Kairi pulled her hand away and chomped hard into the chocolate. "Mmmm." she said.
Naminé stood and said nothing. Then she slapped the rest out of Kairi's hand when she wasn't paying attention.
"Hey!" she screamed.
"No, Kairi. You need to get out of the house, talk to Riku, and then Sora, and... stop eating. Stop eating, baking, crying, and screaming!" her voice raised to an unusual high.
Kairi almost looked intimidated, but slowly pulled another chocolate from her pocket and bit into it.
"No!" Naminé jumped over the couch and landed on top of Kairi, wrestling the candy out of her hand. "Give. It. To. Me!"
Kairi screamed. Naminé heard a door slam and she brushed her hair out of her eyes.
"Um..." Roxas stared, eyebrows arched, at Naminé on top of Kairi's
back.
Kairi started laughing. "This looks weird, doesn't it?"
Roxas dropped a bag on the couch. "Only from this angle." he sat down.
"Get off." Kairi hissed at Naminé. Naminé dropped to the ground and walked over to Roxas, pulling her shirt dress down over her hips.
"What are you doing here?" she asked as she picked up random articles of clothing and Kairi's designer magazines, tossing them on the table.
Roxas put his feet on the ottoman. Naminé knocked them off. "I came to see you, actually." he smiled.
"Did you now." she said flatly. Kairi walked into the kitchen and started rifling around in the cupboards. Luckily Naminé had hidden all the house's supply of chocolate earlier that day.
"Is that a new shirt?" Roxas pointed to Naminé's top.
"Don't look at my shirt." she snapped. When she was frustrated at Kairi she usually took it out on Roxas. It was her favorite pastime.
Roxas smiled and looked down. "How is your cut?" he asked.
She sat down. "It's okay." she felt it with her hand.
He motioned to her wound. "May I...?" he asked.
"Uhh." She didn't try and hide her suspicious look, but carefully lifted up her shirt anyway, revealing the white bandaging. She peeled back the gauze. Roxas touched the stitches lightly with his fingers.
"They look reliable." he bit his lip.
"Thank you, Doctor." she pulled her shirt down and stood up again.
He stood up too. "Can I show you something?" he asked.
"What?" she said timidly. She heard Kairi squeak in disappointment as she dropped from the counter in the kitchen.
"Come with me." he grabbed her hand and one of her jackets from the couch.
"Where are we going?" she exclaimed as he dragged her through the house and out the door.
"A walk." he said and put his hands in the sleeves of his hoodie.
"Oh no." she put her hands in front of her. "I'm not in the mood to relive our last walk." she turned around.
He grabbed her wrist. "I know where we're going this time." he kept walking.
"Don't make me regret this, Roxas..." she sighed and tagged along behind, slipping her jacket over her shivering arms.
They both walked for awhile under the glow of the streetlights, so long that Naminé began to wonder where he could possibly be taking her. She made out the sea-salt ice shop, the chíc store where Kairi bought her clothes, and the furniture store in the dark, and each familiar place they passed Naminé felt farther and farther away from civilization.
"Are we almost there?" she chattered.
"Yeah." Roxas said, swinging his arms. "We're close."
Naminé closed her eyes and breathed in the fresh night air, ignoring the subtle but sharp pain in her chest that came along with inhaling. Naminé was a night owl. It felt really nice to be out at night, that is, when she wasn't bleeding and lost.
"Duck." Roxas put one arm above a huge crack in the Wall. The Wall was a giant thirty foot high slab of concrete that surrounded the entire town, and the crack had been there as long as Naminé could remember. It was barely big enough for someone to fit through, and Naminé remembered running back and forth through it as a child. She and Kairi would have so much fun whenever Kairi and her family visited from Destiny Islands. Naminé showed to Kairi the whole Square, and was proud of the fact that she knew so much of the town. Now, being familiar with the twisting, turning backstreet and tunnels, she could laugh at herself so long ago. When Kairi and Naminé were little Kairi would come back talking of her friend: a small, brave, brown-haired boy. Whenever she talked of him her eyes would sparkle brightly and she'd smile until she'd have to go home. Naminé didn't know at the time it was Sora, and it made her realize all the more just how unbreakable the bond was between the two, however little either of them would admit to disclose about it.
The crack made a path to the mansion; a large, abandoned tower of a house that lay at the end of a tree-top filled forest.
Naminé slipped through the hole, stretching out her chest, making it strain. "Ow." she said.
Roxas went through backwards, slipping through with his feet first. "You okay?" he asked as he dropped on the other side.
She felt her chest. "I think so..." she replied.
Roxas took her hand. "Let's go." he started pulling her through underneath the trees, leaves crunching under the weight of their steps.
"Seriously, where are you taking me?" she exclaimed.
He stopped and looked at her. The light of the moon illuminated his face. His eyes looked dark black. "Would you just wait?" he smiled.
They kept walking. Finally he helped her up a fallen log, and over a tiny hill towards the looming mansion.
"I am not going in there." she said, pointing at it.
He laughed. "Neither am I." he said.
Out of nowhere Roxas plopped down on the manicured grass just outside the mansion.
"Here we go." he said.
She just stood over him. "I'm sorry?" she laughed.
He laid down and put his hands behind his head, spiky blonde hair fanning out over his face. "You said you like stars." he smiled. "Here's some real ones."
She followed Roxas' gaze to the wide sky, and gasped in amazement. Slowly without noticing she laid down beside him and stared at the sky.
It was speckled with stars. Millions and millions of them. Their bright and individual gleaming surfaces reflected across Roxas' face as she watched him survey the night sky, then she turned back and stared at them too.
"Is it better than glow in the dark?" he smirked.
She looked at him. "Yeah." she said. "It's much better."
He put his arm around her, but she didn't pull away. She stayed like that for so long, she lost track of time, and completely forgot she even had a cousin named Kairi, or that she was laying in the arms of the boy she used to love.
"It's beautiful." she said dreamily.
And it was.