Crixen: (still moping about the plan failing)
Riku: Crixen it was an accident okay? Besides you can always try again.
Crixen: I don't care! That stupid random person ruined the best kiss set up ever! (flops to the ground and sobs)
Riku: (pulls her up) I know what will make you feel better.
Crixen: What?
Riku: I saw Heart grab a cd and a cd player after she changed her outfit.
Crixen: (brightens immediately) I gotta go tell Axel!
Riku: And one more thing. (gives Crixen a very passionate kiss) Feel better.
Crixen: (all gaga because of the kiss) yeah… (walks away humming "Can You Feel the Love Tonight")
Kairi: Heart Keeper doesn't own the song "Beauty and the Beast" or "Kronk's New Groove".
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The Chasers
Chapter 24
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Roxas's POV
I was on the main island, sitting on a bench near the beach. I had almost kissed Heart and suddenly I was wondering if maybe we just weren't meant to be.
"Roxas?" I turned my head and saw Heart coming down the path. She was wearing her t-shirt and gym pants instead of another dress. In one hand was a cd and in the other was a player for it.
"Oh hi Heart," I said as I stood up. "What's with…?" I pointed to the objects in her hands.
"Well since we kinda didn't get a chance to finish our dance," she laughed. "I thought I'd grab some music and we could finish. That is if that was okay with you." Was it okay with me? Heck yeah it meant that maybe she felt the same way I felt about her. "There's just one thing I want to ask first," she added. "Are you in love with Namine?" Talk about coming out of the left field. I did not see that coming.
"What makes you ask that?"
"Well, oh I don't know," she said nervously. "I guess I just want to know if I'm a replacement for someone you care about that isn't here anymore. That and you've been avoiding me for almost the whole party."
"I thought you wanted to be with Malik," I said.
"Only because you didn't speak to me for pretty much all the time that we've been on Destiny Islands," she countered.
"Sorry," I said hanging my head. "I just hadn't figured out my feelings…about you."
"Oh," Heart said in surprise and when I looked up I saw that she was blushing. "Because that's why I wanted to know how you really felt about me." My eyes went wide in shock at she said next. "I didn't want to fall for someone who didn't feel the same for me."
"Wow," I said still in shock. "We were so worried about what the other person thought of us…"
"That we never actually took the time to ask," Heart added then her blush darkened. "I heard in a movie that if you finish each other's sentences…"
"It must be love," I finished and smiled, "so how about that dance?" Heart put the cd into the player and pressed start. As the music began to play I nervously put my right hand on her waist as she took my left hand in her right. I just hoped that this time we would finish.
Tale as old as time,
True as it can be.
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends unexpectedly.
Just a little change
Small to say the least.
Both a little scared
Neither one prepared.
Beauty and the beast.
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before and
Ever just as sure as the sun will rise.
Ever just the same.
Ever a surprise.
Ever as before.
Ever just as sure
As the sun will rise.
Tale as old as time.
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong.
Certain as the sun
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme.
Beauty and the beast
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the Beast
As the song progressed, I couldn't help but pretend that we were in a ballroom dressed in the appropriate clothes. I didn't really put much thought into what I might have worn but Heart would be in a shimmering white ball gown, looking like a princess. I was so lost in my imagination and the music that I didn't notice until near the middle of song that we had slowly gotten closer to each other. By the time we had gotten to the end, both my arms were around Heart's waist and hers were behind my neck and then we kissed. It didn't feel weird at all, it just seemed so natural do to that right then and there. We pulled away and just stood there looking at each other as the song finished. Even after the song had ended we stood there not wanting to leave this moment.
"We'll have to go soon," Heart said as she laid her head on my chest.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because I don't want Axel or Crixen to see us like this," she explained. "Not yet." I knew what she meant. This was too special to be spoiled by those two. I gently lifted her face up towards mine and placed a faint kiss on her forehead.
"Alright," I said quietly. "You win but you know we'll have to tell the others."
"I know." I grabbed the cd player and the two of us walked hand in hand back to Kairi's house.
"Good night," Heart whispered.
"Sweet dreams," I whispered back and handed her the player as we shared a third kiss. I waited until she was inside before heading for Sora's house, the last few minutes playing over and over in my head.
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Axel's POV
"Please tell me you got something from that," I whispered to Crixen. She held up the digital camera and started going through the pictures. Because Heart and Roxas kept moving, there weren't that many good pictures of them dancing though Crixen did manage to get a few decent ones. However there was one picture that had to be in there or so help me I was going to-
"Hey I think I got it!" Crixen shouted and waved the camera in my face. I grabbed the camera and smiled. Sure enough the picture I wanted was in the camera.
"Good, good," I said, "now all we have to do is put these on a computer, print them out and I shall have my revenge!"
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Me: Another chapter done.
Roxas: Wow you were on a roll today Heart.
Me: Well I just had the right kind of inspiration.
Axel: Does his name start with an "R"?
Me: (blush)
Roxas: (points at Axel) Dead.
Axel: (runs off)
Roxas: (chases after him)
Me: Uh anyways R&R!