Chapter 13
Selphie stood up and climbed over the three others on the couch when none of them would get up to answer the door the their dorm as it was knocked on. "Ow, Selphie! Get off me!" Lulu whined as she awkwardly scrambled over the girl's legs.
"Get off your butt and answer the door then!" Selphie spat back.
"Oh, shut up, you two!" Yuffie said. "I'm trying to watch the movie!"
Yuffie glared at the two and shoved some more popcorn into her already-filled mouth. Selphie couldn't help but giggle as Yuffie began to laugh and spit out some popcorn. Kairi flinched further away from the raven-haired girl, apparently a bit grossed out. Selphie rolled her eyes and clambered over the arm of the sofa and hopped to the floor. Smoothing the creases in her skirt, she crossed the room and pulled open the door. She grinned at the person outside. She couldn't be sure if it was Ryo or Sora- but she would be happy with either. Sora for Kairi's sake because it was obvious the girl had it bad for him -her face had been bright red after bumping into him at the mall earlier that day- and Ryo... Not so much for Kairi's sake.
"Hi!" she greeted warmly.
"Um, hey..." the guy said awkwardly. "It's Sora. I was wondering if.."
"Kairi was here?" Selphie interjected.
"Well, um..." Sora began. "Well. I guess that would be nice but I actually just need to know if Kairi's Wal-Mart bag was here."
Selphie blinked in confusion. She could hear her friends giggling quietly in the background, not so quiet that she couldn't hear them, but probably too quiet for Sora to hear, standing on the other side of the door.
"Kairi's... Wal-Mart bag?" she said slowly. "...Why?"
"Well, because, actually... It's... ah... my Wal-Mart bag. We must have gotten them mixed up when we bumped into each other."
"Oh... I get it. It's like a... 'reach into your bag to pull out whatever you bought but instead come up with panties' sort of situation."
"Um... Well, yeah. Basically."
Selphie smiled as she took the bag with Kairi's stuff in it and left the doorway to switch it with the other bag. She hadn't actually had to voice the part about what kind of situation it was, but seeing how awkward and uncomfortable it made Sora, she figured it was worth it. Just as she thought that, she was struck with a hilarious idea- Kairi had bought 5 pairs of underwear at Wal-Mart. She looked in the bag before picking up the other one and heading back over to where Sora was standing.
"You know," she said, elaborately casual as she handed the bag that belonged to Sora over. "I'm pretty sure Kairi bought 6 pairs of panties the other day. I only see 5 in here." She glanced over- just beyond Sora's sight- and saw her roommates straining not to laugh. "You didn't take any?"
"Uh. No... No, I didn't."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I'm quite sure..."
"Positive?"
"Um, yeah. Quite positive."
"Really positive?"
Sora shifted uncomfortably, obviously a tad freaked out by Selphie's questioning. She almost felt sorry for him but didn't really. It was super funny. There was no time for feeling guilty or sorry during funny moments. Only time for laughing. And at least pretending you weren't laughing.
"Really absolutely positive," Sora answered.
"Well, okay then," Selphie said and slammed shut the door in the face of a very surprised Sora.
She stumbled over to the sofa and began to laugh with her friends as she settled back into her place.
"That was so mean, Selphie!" Yuffie laughed.
"Yeah, good one!" Lulu exclaimed.
"No!" Kairi said. "It wasn't a good one! That was really mean! Poor Sora!"
The three other girls burst into laughter and Yuffie even spit out some soda. "Aw, poor little Sora," Lulu mocked. "Kairi, you have such a big crush on him. Really, it was just a little prank!"
"No, I don't!" Kairi hissed. She jumped up and began to whack Lulu with a pillow. Lulu grabbed another pillow and began fighting back against Kairi's attack. One stray shot eventually found its way to Yuffie's popcorn bowl, knocking it over completely. Yuffie, in an act of 'pure rage' at the demise of her popcorn joined in the pillow fight. Selphie did, too.
Just for the heck of it.
Sora sighed and plopped down in a chair next to Kerrak and Riku in the front Hall of the school where there were several tables set up. The room was filled with the sound of laughter and chatter as well as the incessant pounding of rain on the windows. Kerrak was sitting on a bench across from Sora and Riku, turned backwards so he was leaning against the table. Riku was carelessly flipping through a magazine.
"Give back Kairi's junk?" Riku asked, turning the page of whatever magazine he was reading. Finding it apparently boring, he casually tossed it on to the table.
Sora rolled his eyes. "Yeah. After 20 questions from Selphie. She thinks I stole some of Kairi's panties."
Across the table, Kerrak spit out Coke all over the back of Ryo who was sitting at the table behind them. Kerrak turned around and hid the Coke can as Ryo spun around angrily. It didn't help, though, because hiding the Coke can didn't hide the vast masses of laughter escaping his mouth.
"Did you just-" Ryo began.
"No!" Kerrak exclaimed, not turning to face Ryo.
"Then why are you laughing?" Ryo demanded.
"Uh... Just at what Sora was say..." Kerrak never finished his sentence, because he couldn't get words out between his laughter anymore.
Surprisingly, Ryo spun around ignoring Kerrak and continued talking with his friends, though he did reach back constantly in attempt to dry himself off a bit.
"That was smooth," Riku said in a monotone voice, raising one eyebrow at Kerrak, who had finally controlled his laughter.
"Yeah... So anyways..." Kerrak chuckled and rolled his eyes. "What were you saying?"
He turned back to Sora.
"Oh, uh..." Sora wasn't so sure he wanted to tell Kerrak anymore. "...Selphie thinks I stole some of Kairi's panties, it would seem."
Kerrak laughed. "She was probably just kidding you. She does that a lot. because she is-" Kerrak raised his voice a bit, probably so Ryo could hear him- "A nasty, nasty girl. Selphie is super mean. She's a bi-"
Ryo spun around once again. "Kerrak."
"What?" Kerrak asked in a sugary sweet voice turning to face Ryo. He was met with a face-full of soda. Kerrak sat still, shocked for a moment but then smiled sardonically and nodded at Ryo, afterwards turning back around to face Sora and Riku again. He wiped off the pop on his face with his sleeve. The doors to the front hall burst open, increasing the sound of the pounding rain. They closed again and, with all eyes on him, in walked a very wet Kaz. He grinned and sloshed over to where they were sitting, falling onto the bench with a squelching sound. Kerrak moved away quickly.
"You're wet," he told Kaz.
"Yes," Kaz said, still smiling. "It's raining."
"Indeed..." Kerrak smiled grimly. "I hate water."
Kaz grinned. "That's nice. I'm going to go get dried off. Later!"
He stood up to leave and rushed out of the Hall. Kerrak turned to look at Sora and Riku with a confused look on his face.
"What was he doing?"
"Probably just running around and dancing in the rain or something. He loves the rain. And any type of water for that matter," Riku said.
"Why? The rain is so... wet!" Kerrak exclaimed, shivering. "I hate water!"