Is This Really Who We Are?

Summary: 3 seniors in high school struggle with who they seem to be and who they really are. Kairi Pureheart wants to prove she's not perfect, the title that comes with being popular. Sora McKey wants to prove he isn't the jerk everyone thinks he is. Riku Fallentrue wants to prove he isn't the lost cause that he has been labeled as. Can these three show everyone their true selves and find real, genuine, sincere happiness?

Disclaimer: If I owned KH would I actually be writing little stories about it?

Wow! 2 stories in one day! This story just came up while I was supossed to be doing my homework but instead was thinking. I just grabbed my Laptop and strated writing. This story has somehow managed to jump infront of like ten other ideas I have.

I started to think about Popularity. Kairi's thoughts in this chapter are a mix or my views, my friends views, popular people I know's views and just a general view of popularity. I hope you enjoy it! (My first highschool storyline!)

What is So Great About Being Popular?:

Popular? What does it mean? Its commonly used in sentences like, 'Rebecca is the most popular girl at school', but when people say this what do they really mean? Do they mean Rebecca is the coolest girl at school? Or the meanest? The biggest slut? Or the most admired? The most fashionable? The nicest? Whatever they meant, the popular person was always the one everyone looked up to. The one everyone wanted to be just like. And I, Kairi Pureheart was the girl every other girl in the school wanted to be like. I was the image of perfection.

Everyone wants to be popular. Why? Because when you are popular you never have to worry about being alone. You don't have to worry about what other people think about you, because everyone loves you. To sum it all up everything about your life is perfect. Perfect friends. Perfect boyfriends. Perfect parents. Perfect clothes. Perfect hair. Perfect grades. Perfect car. Perfect house. Perfect everything. A Perfect life. But can life really be so faultless?

Everyone thinks that being popular is associated with rainbows and butterflies, but I disagree. No one, despite what they think, know what it is like to be me. I am a role model. Everyday I have to look perfect, act perfect, and seem perfect. Everyday, from the moment I step onto the campus, till the moments I am alone, I become an actress, playing a role. And I play it well. I deceive everyone, with my mask, with my perfect facade. I hide the frowns behind a fake smile. I never let the tears run. I'm never just Kairi until I am alone. Every other moment of my life I am Kairi Pureheart. The most popular girl at Destiny High.

People think that since I have so many friends I never have to worry about being left alone, but that's not true. I could be walking down the crowded halls of school with a group of people and I'll still feel alone. Most of the people I hang out with don't care about me. All they care about is themselves. If I broke down and cried they would try to comfort me but everything they would say would be a lie. My friends are all a lie. My life is a lie. It is one big play that people just watch, filled with lies, deceit, betrayal and fake happiness. Full of fake smiles and fake words of love. Everyone I hang out with only talks to me because they want to be popular. They tell me lies saying how cute my outfit is or how sweet I am, but none of them mean it. They never mean it. So before you think I never have to worry about being alone, think again. Everyone gets lonely.

When I'm around people life is all big smiles, and lots of laughs. You never see the frowns or the tears. We are all fake, false, phony. The list goes on and on. Were imposters, and posers. We hide behind a guise of someone happy. Were all actors and actresses. We play pretend almost every moments of our lives. I hate it! I hate who I am, who I've become, how I act, my life. I hate it all! This isn't the way I wanted to be. I wanted to seem like a real person that people could trust and be friends with. A person who was popular because everyone liked her, not because no one liked her but they were afraid of her so they were nice to her. How did it come to this? What changed? Why can't we just go back to when life was so simple?

Every girls dream is to be popular, whether they like to admit it or not. In these dreams they only see advantages. They miss all the bad. For example some people say I'm a bitch, or a slut, but I am neither. It just comes with being popular. Everyone's jealous so they try to make you seem like you're a piece of shit. They spread rumors, say bad things just because you seem perfect and they seem so flawed. It's not fair! All the bad that comes with being popular. I have power but I can't use it for good because the moment I do I will lose all this power. I can't make a difference! I can't change someone's life! I'm just a worthless piece of white trash!

One day, one day soon I will break. I'm going to stop. I will have a major meltdown. One day I won't be able to take it any more. That day I break you better watch out because it is going to be scary. The scariest thing about it? It will be so unpredictable. No one will see it coming. I'm the perfect, happy popular girl. Why would I have any reason to hate my life?

So tell me:

What is so great about being popular?

Well review if you like it and if you hate it review any way and tell me why. Flames , critisms and anything else is welcome!

Next Chapter:

What is So Great About Me?

(Sora's Chapter)