Chapter 3: Lunch Doors and Skateboards

Everyone nearby was looking at us now. "Heh, yeah?" I said nervously. Sora continued to stare at me in disbelief.

"Bore a hole right through her, why don't-cha?" Selphie said. Sora shook his head, blinking a few times as he snapped out of his trance.

"Sorry," Sora replied. "Wow, you look different." I felt kind of awkward with him and everyone looking at us.

I glanced around a bit before looking back at him. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" I asked, biting my bottom lip.

"A good thing," the five of them said in unison.

I looked at Cloud raising an eyebrow. "I wasn't really expecting you to reply," I said to him.

"Hey, you've gotten a lot prettier," Cloud said. I looked at him funny. "Oh, no! Don't get the impression that I like you. No, that was four years ago. Besides there's someone else now," Cloud said winking. I glanced at Namine who looked completely clueless. I laughed. I looked back at Sora who was whispering something to Riku. They both looked up. Right as Sora was about to speak, the bell rang.

"The bell already?" I asked getting up.

"Yep, time for English. Room 325," Namine said as we walked out into the crowded hallway.

"325?" Cloud said confused. "There are three stories?"

"No. We just have a separate building behind the main building," Selphie explained at our lockers.

"This is cool that all our lockers are together," I said as Selph opened her locker, which was next to Nam's.

"Well, each group has a section. 310- 317 is group B, along with 410-417," Namine said pointing to the lockers across the hall. "Sora's is 415, and Riku is 416." I looked across the hall to see them closing up their lockers.

We headed to English were we had group 'C' with us. There, Cloud and I were reintroduced to Tidus and Wakka. I remembered them, but I just didn't talk to them when I lived here before. In room 213, Math, we met Cid who was in-group 'P'. Room 101, History, we met Aerith and Leon who were in-group 'L'. Then it was lunchtime.

"Kai, meet me in the cafeteria. I need to go do something," Cloud said running out of class, leaving Namine and me behind. Everyone had already left to go to lunch. Nam and I walked down to the cafeteria.

"So Cloud doesn't have a girlfriend?" Namine asked.

"Nope. They broke up a couple of months ago," I replied. I looked down the hall by the cafeteria door. I noticed Cloud talking to Sora.

"Wonder what they're talking about," Namine said, obviously noticing them too.

"Nam, keep your head bent down. We don't want them to know we're watching them," I said looking at the ground. I saw her bow her head down too.

"So you still have a thing for Sora?" she asked quietly since we were getting closer.

"Uh, yeah… He's still cute. I just don't know if he still has the same fun personality that he had before," I mentioned.

Nam said reassuringly, "he's the same, don't worry." I gave a small laugh.

"So you still like Riku?" I asked. But before she could reply, the cafeteria door flung open causing Namine and I to run head first into it before falling backwards.

"Hey Sora!" Riku called from behind the door. Cloud and Sora looked over to see us on the floor with our hands covering our soon to be bumps on our heads. Riku looked behind the door. "Oh crap!" Riku said noticing he just hit us with the door. I was squinting my eyes in pain when I saw a blurred hand held in front of me. With my other hand, I took it and got pulled up. I lost my balance since I was so dizzy. I fell into the arms of whoever was helping me up. I closed my eyes tight from being lightheaded.

"Thanks Cloud," I said recognizing his strong arms.

"For what?" his voice came from in front of me. I opened my eyes to see Cloud helping Namine up and Riku standing next to him. I looked up to see that Sora was the one holding onto me.

"Oh," I laughed nervously. "Thanks for helping me up Sora," I said stepping back.

"No problem," he said. Then he did the smile, that cheesy smile, which I fell in love with. It caused me to smile back at him. I blushed realizing I just embarrassed myself in front of Sora. I looked at Riku with a glare before slapping his arm.

"Riku!" I said loudly.

"Ow!" he yelled. "I'm sorry! I didn't know you guys were there!" Everyone laughed as he pouted, rubbing his sore arm. We all headed into the lunchroom.

"So do you want to eat with us?" Sora asked putting one of his hands behind his head to run his fingers through his hair.

"I was going to eat with Namine and Selphie," I said nervously, trying not to insult Sora even though I really did want to eat with him.

"Actually, they eat with us," Riku said. I looked at Namine who nodded at me.

"Oh, heh, alright then," I said. We all walked to the table and ate together. We got reacquainted better. After lunch, we went to P.E. with group 'Y' with Yuffie. Then finally it was the last class of the day, computers, in 183, with group 'O'.

"See that blonde over there?" Namine asked point to a snobby looking girl in the corner talking to some other girls. I nodded.

"Well, that's Christy," Selphie said crossing her arms. Obviously she didn't like her either.

"Sora's ex?" Cloud asked.

"Yep," Nam said with a disgusted look.

"Let's get started," Mr. Lubo said getting our attention back. We all worked on web page set-ups until the end of class.

"Want to come with Selph, Yuff, Tidus, Wakka and me to get ice cream?" Namine asked Cloud and me after class.

"Sorry, but we got to get home. But thanks Nam," I said hugging her.

"Alright, see you guys tomorrow," Namine said waving bye to us as we all went our separate ways. Cloud and I walked home in silence. Our homes were coming into view after two blocks. We finally started to talk.

"Today wasn't too bad," Cloud said.

"Well, you're not the one who ran into a door," I said feeling my head. He laughed, and then said something I couldn't hear. "What?" I asked trying to find out, but then again, why ask when I could find out first handedly.

Cloud's little brother, Blake, left his skateboard in the middle of the sidewalk. I just happened to step onto it. The skateboard went flying from under me, causing me to fly backwards onto the concrete. I laid on my back gazing at the sky as it began to spin faster.

"Kairi!" I heard someone yell from behind. Before I knew who called my name, three blurry faces came into view before I passed out.