Hello everyone, how are we? I really enjoyed the responses I got to the last chapter and I hope I can continue that with this chapter! And p.s. I hope you all have a GREAT Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanza/etc.
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(~Naminé~)
I wasn't drunk. I didn't drink one drop of alcohol all night. But something inside told me that that was okay, because since everyone else was drunk, then I could act as stupid as I wanted, and I could say anything I wanted, because hey, I could blame it on alcohol, and say I was drunk, and I would fit in, because everyone else was. Also, I doubted that half of these people would remember that night the next day anyways. I thought I was pretty clever for that. And I was feeling pretty good about myself, too. Kairi and Sora were just disgusting, and I made a mental note to record some of it on my phone for blackmail. After about the fourth time Kairi flung her torso over Sora's lap I was about ready to puke. Honestly, if she wanted to get on that she should have just hung up a sign, which would have been more discreet than how she was acting. However my disgust towards Kairi and Sora were tamed by the buzzing in my stomach that had established itself nicely after Roxas kissed me. To me it didn't matter whether or not he was sober or out of his mind drunk, he was kissing me when he could be kissing any other girl in the house. He was kissing me.
The cheers and shouts when he did kiss me only fed the fire, and for once I didn't feel shy in front of all those people. I felt like I could do anything. I could kiss him again if I wanted, I could do whatever I wanted. And to an extent, I did. The drinking game that Roxas was playing was winding down, I could see, and I waited patiently for my opportunity to strike. "Sora, stop!" I heard Kairi giggle behind me, and I sighed, wondering if it would be worth it to turn around if I was better off minding my own business. To my own stupidity, I turned around to glare at Kairi, and immediately wished I hadn't. "My God, Kairi, what are you doing?" I hissed. She swiveled her head to me as if she were startled that I was there, "W-what do you mean?" she inquired innocently. She was sitting on top of Sora, legs wrapped around his middle, messing with his hair. I turned to Sora, who was completely out of it, grinning like an idiot. I glared at him before turning back to Kairi, "There are other people around, what if someone sees you?" she seemed to think about it for a minute, before answering, "Nah, they won't see me!" "Kairi!" I muttered, "People can see you, what do you think they're thinking right now?" She giggled and whispered, "That I'm in love!" I deadpanned and felt my left eye twitch. "I'm in looooove." She broke off into a fit of giggles, draping her body over Sora's.
"Naminé…I want some juice." I heard Roxas whine from my right, and I turned to see him sitting cross-legged rubbing his eyes. I sighed and smiled at him, and remembering that I was supposed to be tipsy, I giggled a little too loudly, and threw my hand on his shoulder, "Well sure you can have some juice!" I exclaimed, and made a big show out of getting up and rifling through Riku's kitchen for juice. Eventually I did find one juice pouch in the back of the refrigerator and I brought it back to the blonde, who was now lying on the ground singing loudly. I shook my head and threw the juice box at him. I have to admit, I have a pretty great aim, because the pouch hit him square in the face. I didn't even have to be intoxicated to burst out laughing at that, and several others joined in, including Xion and Riku. Roxas jumped up and shouted, "Hey, what was that for?!" For a moment I saw something in his eyes, I supposed it was anger, but it passed in an instance. I giggled at him, and asked him, "What were you singing?" he grinned and started belting out Bohemian Rhapsody in a key that definitely was not correct. "Oh my gosh, Roxas, you have to stop, you sound like a dying cat!" I chuckled and covered my ears and moved away. He trailed after me, and changed keys, no improvement though. "Roxas, stop!" I laughed, walking away. He followed me, switching keys and volumes at sporadic intervals.
Roxy, Roxy, what has gotten into you?!" I exclaimed, turning and wrapping an arm around his shoulder. He smiled faintly and shrugged, "I don't know, maybe you." I grinned at him and pecked him on the cheek. His eyes sparkled, my heart soared. I let myself fall into him and hold him in a hug. For a moment I felt a pang in my chest, if he weren't drunk out of his head this would mean more. Or it wouldn't mean anything. Would he do this if her were sober? Sure he'd kissed me but maybe that had just been something he wanted to try. Would it be the same when we were around our friends? I sighed and let him hug me, because for now that didn't matter. What mattered was that for now the person I had a huge crush on was holding me and it felt amazing.
We stayed like that for I don't know how long. We just let the party go on around us, all of the screaming and laughing and singing, like everyone else was on a different planet than us. We were untouchable. Eventually though, Roxas pulled away, and gave me a crooked smile that made me giggle. "I'm tired, Nami." He mumbled into my neck, and I swear my heart melted into a pool of love-struck goo. "Okay, let's get you upstairs then." I replied eventually, and half lead, half carried him up the stairs. Once I got him up the stairs I had to look through rooms to see if any of them were open. The first room to my left was occupied. By Hayner and Olette. I didn't even try to say anything; you wouldn't have either if you saw Hayner naked. I just slammed the door shut and looked to the right side of the hallway, which held one door to a bathroom and a closed door. I didn't want to repeat another experience like I'd just had so I left it alone and turned back to the left. There were four doors total, the first I already knew was occupied. The second was shut, and I left it that way. Fortunately, the third door was ajar, and when I pushed it open, it was empty. I sighed, "Oh, thank God!" and shut the door as quietly as I could behind me, and locked it. Roxas stood still behind me, smiling dumbly at me. I smiled back at him and led him carefully to the bed in the center of the room.
"That's it, just lay down." I coaxed as he hesitantly sat back and eventually lay down. I couldn't help but smile at him; he looked like child waiting to be tucked in. The poor boy, he was exhausted. I pulled up the covers over his chest and moved away from the bed, and decided to look out the window to my right. It was a full moon. "Naminé, I need you to come snuggle with me." He whined. I raised an eyebrow and turned to him, "Roxas, are you sure that's a good idea?" I watched his head bob up and down vigorously, "Please, come snuggle with me?" I giggled, thinking that the normal Roxas would never ask me to 'come snuggle' with him. I circled the bed and climbed in, noting how soft the sheets were, and laid my head against his shoulder. It felt like heaven, it really did. I could get used to this was my thoughts as I closed my eyes. I would have dosed off, too, if Roxas hadn't leaned down and kissed me on the forehead…and then my cheek, and then my chin. His lips met mine and his arms wrapped around my waist, pulling me closer. His mouth traveled down my neck, across my collar bones. I was in heaven. He moved away and glanced up and down at me before asking, "Want to know a secret?" I nodded immediately, not trusting myself to speak, and hoping he'd continue kissing me. But the look in his eyes, the same one I noticed earlier emerged, and I recognized what that was a split second before he said it, "I'm not drunk, either."
(~Kairi~)
My night was a blur, like I was underwater, watching the surface through a shimmering haze. Sora and I ended up draped over each other on Riku's couch halfway through the night, watching other people act like bigger idiots than us. At least I hoped that they were acting like bigger idiots than us. I mean, Axel did knock over a glass vase while trying to dance with Demyx. That was pretty amusing considering Sora and I laughed much longer and too loudly at that. We didn't really know how to clean it up, either, and nobody could find Riku anywhere, so Pence, probably the least drunk out of all of us, did his best to pick up the larger pieces and get the smaller pieces with a wet paper towel. Anyone who stepped towards where the glass had broken Sora and I yelled, "Glass!" at really loudly.
"You know, Kairi, I never noticed this before, but Riku's ceiling looks a lot like the sky." Sora hummed. I glanced up at the ceiling and chuckled, "Sora, the ceiling's blue! Of course it looks like the sky!" he giggled a little and patted my hair clumsily, "Silly Kairi, that's not blue, its teal, there's green in it." I squinted at him and replied, "Go get your eyes checked. You need glasses." He shrugged, "I could buy hipster glasses." I thought that over as best I could through my tipsy state and said, "You'd look cute in those." He stopped and smiled really big at me. "Thaaaanks, Kairi!" He drawled out, and I had to cover my mouth to keep from giggling excessively. "Yup, no problem." I told him eventually. "Hey, Kairi?" Sora asked innocently. "Yeah, Sora?" "Can we go sit on the porch?" I figured why not, and I stumbled to my feet, and yanked Sora along with me. We only tripped a few times (more like 50) on the way to the back porch, and when we finally got outside I felt pretty nauseous, and I sat down pretty quickly. Sora was quick to plop down next to me, and he stared up at the stars and the moon with an awestruck smile. "The moon sure is pretty," he murmured, and I glanced up at the full moon and had to agree, it was beautiful tonight.
"You're right, Sora, it is pretty." We didn't say a lot for a while, we just admired the sky, and that was okay for me. Especially since the waves of nausea were rolling over me more heavily now. If only I didn't feel like crap, maybe I'd kiss him. Maybe we'd hug, make out, start dating, who knows. But I couldn't do any of that feeling like I was going to hurl. After what seemed like a considerable amount of time, Sora started speaking, "You know, Kairi, You're my best friend in the whole wide world." I cringed, but he didn't seem to notice, "You've been my bestest friend forever, and I'm so glad because you're so pretty and funny and smart." Even as drunk and sick as I felt, I knew he was rambling, but I didn't trust myself to open my mouth right then, "And I think that you're pretty-no, I think you're stunning! And I think you're funny and smart and the best friends to ask for!" I hiccupped and slapped a hand over my mouth, "Kairi, you're awesome, and I wish I could hug you and kiss you all the time! You want to know something, Kai? I love you." My response to that? I threw up. Everywhere.
(~Naminé~)
I couldn't speak. I merely stared at him with widened eyes and a clenched jaw. His eyes peered down at mine with amusement, "You gonna be alright, there?" I nodded slowly and pulled away from him. A flash of worry crossed his eyes and he ran a hand through his hair, "Oh man, Nam, I'm sorry if I'm being too forward, please don't kill me, I just figured that if we kissed before you wouldn't mind doing it again. I mean…shit, I'm sorry, it's okay if you never talk to me again, I get it, I mean, this is terrifying for me-" "Wait, you actually wanted to kiss me again?" I finally made myself ask. He glanced at me with a confused expression, "That's what you're worried about? I just pretended to be drunk to get you alone, I mean, I'm not going to try anything with you, I wasn't going to do that. Wait, not that I wouldn't want to, I just mean…" he sighed and covered his face with his hands, "This isn't coming out right."
I started laughing. First just a little giggle, but soon it turned into loud cackles. Roxas slowly uncovered his hands and glared at me, "Are you seriously laughing at me right now? Do you know how terrifying this is for me?!" I just kept laughing, and eventually he smiled at me, and reached out, and started tickling me. "Ack! Roxas, s-stop! Ahahaha, you have to-STOP!" I squealed, kicking at him and swatting his hands away. He stopped and glanced at me with a warm smile on his face, "Naminé, of course I wanted to kiss you. I've had the biggest crush on you for forever." I stared into his eyes, my smile gone, "Really?" I squeaked, and he nodded seriously, "Really." My eyes flickered down to his lips and back up to his eyes. "Now that I've officially made a fool out of myself, can I ask you something important?" my heart speed up even more and I found myself nodding. "Can I kiss you?" I'm pretty sure my heart stopped, but I managed to nod again, and his lips met mine, again and again and again.
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