Author's Notes: It's been happening more and more often lately- when I try and work on a fic that I've already started (I have plenty of ideas for fics I could start), my mind is a total blank, and what I do manage to write sucks. ¬_¬
Gah. Although I've said this many times already, I'm EXTREMELY ticked off at ff.net. They deleted a perfectly good fic (one of the ones for my challenge, no less! Pool Party by Quist…) for no apparent reason at all! It wasn't breaking any rules I know of, unless challenge fics are suddenly against the rules. Which, last time I checked, they aren't.
Thanks to Umeko for the sticky hand idea!
"So, what should we do after dinner?" Sora asked through a mouthful of pizza.
"Don't talk with your mouth full, Sora!" Kairi laughed.
"Sorry." Sora swallowed. "I said, what should we do after dinner?"
"I don't know. Maybe we could just go to the paopu island or something. Or sit on the pier and talk and stuff, just like before."
"Nah… we can do that any day. It should be something special!"
"Yeah. Um… I know! We could go to a movie!"
"Sounds good to me!"
"What're they saying? What're they saying?" Tidus whispered excitedly.
"Maybe if you shut up for a moment we could hear them."
Tidus, Riku, and Wakka were hiding behind a conveniently placed potted plant, trying to eavesdrop on Sora and Kairi's conversation. Well, Riku and Wakka were hiding behind the plant, anyway. Tidus was a little off to the side- the plant wasn't exactly big enough for three teenage boys to fit behind.
A little too much off to the side, really: a server that wasn't looking where he was going tripped over Tidus…
"GAH!" … and Riku ended up with a large Hawaiian pizza on his head.
"Mm, pineapple." Wakka plucked a bit of pineapple out of Riku's hair. (Ew…)
"I'm surrounded by morons." Riku sighed exasperatedly.
Sora found himself staring dreamily at Kairi. She has such pretty eyes…
Kairi smiled at him, and Sora blushed and looked down at his plate.
Kairi giggled. "Hey, it's okay, Sora. I don't mind."
Sora blushed even more. (If I had a dollar for every time someone blushes in this fic… OK, I'll stop interrupting the story with my comments now. Seriously.)
He's so cute when he's embarrassed, Kairi thought.
And so they continued to eat their dinner in silence, because the authoress doesn't know what else should happen in this paragraph. o.O
"Hey, cool!"
"What is it this time, Tidus?" Riku asked, trying to get the cheese out of his hair.
"There's those machines that have candy and little toys and stuff in them!"
Riku rolled his eyes. "I think they're called vending machines, Tidus. And no, I'm not giving you a quarter."
"Aww…" Tidus began looking around on the floor hoping to find a quarter someone had dropped.
"Hey, Tidus, I've got some spare change, ya? I think…" Wakka dug a paperclip, some lint, a Barbie doll's head ("I'm not even gonna ask."), a spare Blitzball (wow, those must be big pockets), and a few candy wrappers out of his pocket before finally retrieving a quarter, which he handed to Tidus.
"Thanks!" Tidus went back over to the vending machines. "Now which one to get… Oh! They have those sticky flingy hand things!" He gleefully deposited the quarter in the machine, and received a red sticky hand.
"Hey, can I play with it?" Wakka asked.
"No way, it's mine! But you can have the little plastic thingy it came in. Pretend it's a spaceship or something." Tidus gave Wakka the plastic capsule.
"Gee, that's… nice, ya?" Disappointed, Wakka put the capsule in his pocket along with all that other junk listed above.
Tidus ran off to find something to fling the sticky hand at.
"Oops!" Sora accidentally knocked over his glass of orange soda. "Uh, sorry, let me clean that up…" He grabbed a napkin and leaned over to wipe up the spilled soda.
"No, no, I'll help…" Kairi set the glass back upright, then started to help mop up the soda as well.
By some crazy coincidence, the authoress's will, and/or really bad aim, at that moment Tidus hit Sora with the sticky hand. This caused Sora to fall forward (more out of surprise than anything; you can't really knock someone over with a sticky hand, can you?).
The end result? Sora and Kairi's faces were so close together for a moment that their noses were practically touching. (Kairi was somewhat disappointed that they didn't end up kissing.)
"Uh-oh." Tidus ran off before they had a chance to recover.
"I wonder who threw that…" Sora muttered as he and Kairi straightened up, blushing (again!).
"I don't know. I didn't see who it was either."
"Tidus! What the hell did you do that for? You almost got us caught!" Riku hissed, somehow managing to look threatening despite still having cheese, pizza sauce, and pineapple in his hair.
"I wasn't aiming for them! I was aiming for that waiter that tripped over me earlier. It's not my fault he was walking by Sora and Kairi's table just then!"
"Hmph. Suuuuuuure you weren't."
"Honest! Hey, I think I just saw that Yuna chick again." Tidus bolted.
A few minutes later (hey, a slice of pizza doesn't take that long to eat :P)
"So… guess we're just waiting on Jenna and her buddies then?" Sora asked.
"Yeah." Kairi shrugged. "Hey, Sora?"
"What?"
"I was just thinking. When that person knocked you over and all- it was actually kind of romantic for a moment."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, if we were any closer we'd probably have ended up kissing…" Kairi blushed. (Again.)
"Yeah, that's true."
"Sora?"
"Hmm?"
"When I get my first kiss… I hope it's with you."
Sora blinked. He hadn't expected her to say that. "Um, yeah… I hope that's my first kiss too. Who better to share it with than you?"
"Aww… That's so sweet, Sora." Kairi smiled. "C'mon, let's go see what's taking Jenna so long. I wanna get to the movie theater!"
"Yeah!"
"Yo, Jenova, isn't that your little sister and Sora coming this way?" Brian pointed out. (Marina had started calling Jenna Jenova, and it had stuck.)
"Yeah. Hi, sis. Hi, Sora. Done already?"
"Yep!"
"Got any other plans for tonight, or should I just take you home?" Jenna asked.
"We were kind of hoping we could go to the movies," Sora said.
"Good idea! I'd better ask the folks if it's alright. Marina, can I borrow your cell?"
"Sure thing." Marina handed Jenna her cell phone.
A couple phone calls later…
"It's okay- they agree with me that just a couple slices of pizza is kind of a short date anyway." Jenna laughed. "I have to tag along to the theater too, though, and you guys can't pick an R-rated movie of course…"
"Hey, we'll come with you," Brian offered. "I don't think you need to watch the movie with them and everything- we can finally see The Matrix Reloaded." Brian had been talking about that movie for days.
"Cool!" Jenna nodded. "It's a plan then. Sora, Kairi, do you know which movie you want to see?"
"Um, no."
"Heh, that's okay, you can decide when we get there. I'll pay for the tickets-"
"You really don't have to, you know…"
"Aw, sis, you just won't let me be a nice generous big sister, will you? If you insist, though…" Jenna was secretly glad- she only had so much of her birthday money (her birthday had been a few days ago) left, though she did want Sora and Kairi's first date to be perfect. "Well, that's all settled then. Let's go!"
They all went outside to where Jenna and her friends had parked their (or their parents' XD) cars.
"They're leaving, ya?" Wakka called.
"Aw… Bye Yuna, I gotta go." Tidus had been talking to his new friend about various shtuff of randomness (mostly Blitzball, and how silly Riku looked with a pizza on his head).
Riku, Tidus, and Wakka followed Sora, Kairi, and the others out the door, hoping that they wouldn't be late for any of the movies (the whole not-being-able-to-keep-up-with-a-car thing comes into play again :P).
A/N: Well, now I need to decide on a movie for Sora and Kairi to go to. Ideas are very much welcome… the main problem is that I haven't seen any of the movies that are in the theater right now. ^_^;; Except for Daddy Day Care, which was funny but coulda been better. Sorry this chapter was so short. Fwee.