Chapter 16- The Shock Of It All

Dear Diary,

Christy just left. I'm her tutor in computers. It really is weird, because she's different. In a good way though. My friends don't want me to trust her, but I do. I don't want to trust her either, but I guess I'm just a softy. I'm nervous about telling Namine or Cloud since they really have a grudge against her, well Namine mostly. I can understand why though, I mean Christy did ruin Namine's dress and tried to steel Cloud from her. I'm hoping Christy doesn't ruin my relationship with my friends. But I can't help it if I have to tutor her for a week. I didn't want to be her tutor. I should have said no. Gosh, things are complicated. Well, I better get to bed.

Love always, Kairi

I put my diary away and changed in to my pajamas. I crawled under the covers. Precious curled up on my pillow, purring quietly. Princess slept at the end of my bed. Now only if Sora was here to talk to me. I laid on my side gazing out at the window towards the street. I looked at the clock. It said it was almost midnight.

"Ugh, why can't I sleep?" I said out loud to myself rolling over so I was on my back. I sighed. I heard a small meow. I looked up to see Precious stretching next to my head. She hopped off my pillow and stood on my stomach looking at me with her cute aqua colored eyes. She started to purr and curled up into a ball and laid on my tummy. Now I wasn't able to move. I didn't want to move my baby. Suddenly the silence was broken by something hitting my window. Princess' head looked up at the window and Precious jumped off of me. I quickly got up to see what happened.

I looked out my window, but couldn't see anything. I opened it and looked down. Sora was holding little pebbles and smiling up at me. "Did I wake you?" he said in a loud whisper. I shook my head. He pointed to my side yard. I turned to look at my window facing cloud's house, then turned to see why he was pointing. I saw him running into my side yard. I closed the front window and went to the side window. I opened it and saw Sora.

"What are you doing?" I asked him.

"Can I come up?" I looked at my door. I put up my hand motioning for him to hold on. He nodded and I ran over to my door and locked it. Precious and Princess were both at the edge of my bed looking at the window I was at. I nodded for him to come up. He looked at the tree.

"How are you getting up here?" I asked him.

"By climbing this tree," he said.

"And how exactly are you going to do that?" Sora pulled over one of the trashcans next to the tree. He put it under the branch that I had to climb up. Sora climbed on top of the trashcan and jumped. He was a good jumper. Sora managed to pull himself up onto the branch. Soon he was on the tree limb that was right under my window. "Oh, I get it," I laughed. I backed up and he pulled himself up into my room.

"I couldn't sleep," Sora said sitting on my bed having Princess jump into his lap. I sat next to him holding Precious.

"Neither could I," I sighed. I looked at him. "Now I know how you knew how to get into my room when I was locked out." He laughed. "I'm glad you're here."

"Me too," he said hugging me.

"Not to be rude, but why are you here?" I asked.

"My parents are going to be gone for a few days for their anniversary."

"So you snuck out."

"Well, not really. There's no one to sneak away from," he laughed. I laughed too. I stood up and got under the covers. Sora sat next to me, so both of us had our backs against the wall. I pulled the covers from under him, and he sat under them with me.

"I can't believe I have to tutor Christy," I said, as Princess laid on Sora's lap and Precious laid on mine.

"I'm sorry that you have to," I turned to face him.

"You believe me that she has changed right?"

"I do believe it, but I don't trust it," Sora said. I sighed knowing he had good reason not to. "Don't worry though, no matter what happens I'm gonna be by your side." I hugged him.

"Thanks Sora," I said as he kissed my forehead.

"You better get to sleep. We have school tomorrow. Don't worry I'll stay with you until you fall asleep." I smiled at him. Precious hopped off my lap and laid on my pillow as I rolled over to my side. Before I knew it I was asleep.

There was a knock on my door. I slowly opened my eyes and rolled over. Sora was lying right next to me. I jumped up to shake Sora awake. He opened his eyes and sat up stretching.

"Sora, you have to go on the other side of my bed and hide!" I whispered. He got up and ran over to the other side of the bed, and laid on the ground once he realized it was morning.

"Kairi? Are you up yet?" I heard my mom call from the other side of the door. "And why is you door locked?"

"Hold on a sec, I'm changing!" I called back.

"Okay, your breakfast is waiting when you're ready," she said back. I turned to Sora.

"That was close." I said to him.

He stood up and nodded. "I didn't mean to fall asleep here, but once you turned over, I turned over too, so I could get comfortable," Sora explained. I kissed him on the cheek.

"I don't mind."

He walked over to the window. "I better get ready for school." Sora opened the window and looked down. "Okay, there's a problem."

"What is it?" I asked standing up too.

"The trashcans are gone. I don't want to risk breaking my leg jumping off the tree branch," Sora said staring at the ground below. I bit my bottom lip nervously. I forgot that it was trash day today, my parents must of put the trash out front.

"Okay, I'll walk downstairs, and then I'll wave to you for you to sneak out the back door," I said.

"All right." I started to open the door. "Kairi." I turned to face Sora. "You just told your mom that you were changing. Won't it kind of be weird to say you were changing but then you come down in your pajamas?"

"You're right…" I said closing the door. "Turn around, play with Princess and Precious or something. Do NOT turn around. I will have to hurt you if you do," I said sweetly. He laughed.

"I wont." He smiled turning around. I opened my closet. I changed into a pink shirt and dark blue pants. I turned around and kissed Sora's cheek. "That was fast."

"Yeah I know," I smiled. "Okay, let's try this." I opened the door and peeked out into the hall. I heard my parents talking downstairs. "Okay, let's go," I said to him. He nodded and followed me out into the hall. We quietly crept down the stairs. Princess ran downstairs barking happily.

"Hold, on. I'll go let Princess out." I heard my mom say. I turned to Sora and put my hand up and ran downstairs. My mom was walking into the hall I entered.

"I got it!" I smiled running to the back door and opening it. My mom looked at me suspiciously. Princess wasn't going outside, she continued to bark up the stairs. My mom started to walk towards me.

"Why is she barking?" she asked.

"Oh, it's because I left Precious up there, that's all," I lied. Princess started to run up the stairs. "I'll get her!" I ran up after Princess, who was trying to jump at Sora. I smiled at him nervously before picking her up. A ran back downstairs where my mom was walking back into the kitchen. I looked up at Sora and nodded. He quietly walked down the stairs. We finally made it to the back door. I kissed him and told him I would meet him outside in a while for school. Sora walked to the side yard to leave. Princess tried to follow him.

"Kairi?" I heard my mom say behind me as soon as Sora turned the corner. I jumped and slowly turned around.

"Yeah…?" I said hesitantly.

"Was that Sora?" she said.

I looked around casually. "What are you talking about?"

"I thought I just saw… oh never mind. Come on, your food's getting cold," she said walking into the kitchen. I let out a sigh of relief.

"That was too close." I looked out back and called Princess in. Precious came trotting down the stairs and went into the kitchen. After breakfast, I brushed my teeth, and hair and got my things for school. I met Sora, Cloud, and Namine outside.

"Wow, it seems like I haven't seen you in forever," Sora winked. I laughed.

"What are you guys talking about?" Cloud asked.

"Nothing…" Sora and I said in unison. Namine looked at us.

"Right…" she said noticing something was up but ignoring it. We all headed out to school. Just like the day before all we did were reviews. Lunch came and we were all very thankful. We all ate and talked about things other then school, when someone interrupted us.

"Kairi!" I heard someone call cheerfully behind me. The whole table turned to see who just called my name. Christy was waving at us from the other side of the lunchroom. I sighed. Sora pulled me close to him.

"Just ignore her," he said. I nodded and we returned our looks to the table. Next thing that happened was her sitting right in between Nam and me.

"Excuse you," Namine said to her. I looked at Christy who turned to hug me.

"How's my best friend in the whole world?" she exclaimed happily. I pulled away from her hug.

"I don't know why don't you ask her?" I said. Namine looked at me.

"I am," she smiled. Every since she got back, she was WAY too cheerful. 'Why am I so nice?' I thought. I gave a half smile.

"Uh, you know that Namine is my best friend right?" I said to her. She looked down. I sighed again. "But I guess we could be… friends." It was hard for me to choke up that word talking to Christy. She smiled big.

"You're my best friend," she smiled… again, almost like a little child. No one seemed happy about that. I wasn't too happy either, but I didn't have the heart to tell her off. Sometimes I hated being me. "So now we're all friends?" she said looking around the table. Everyone just looked at her.

"How about not?" Namine said standing up. She looked at me. "Kairi, can I talk to you?" I nodded and got up. She pulled me over to an area of the lunchroom where no one was. "What's wrong with you!"

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"You just invited her with welcoming arms without our permission!"

"So what, now I have to have permission to have friends?"

"Yeah, you do. At least with her!"

"Namine! Stop judging her. You don't even want to get to know her new side," I said, staring to get angry about how she was reacting.

"Didn't you hear me on the first day of school? I don't want to know her! Kairi, get it through your head! I've known her longer then you have! She's the most horrible person alive! She's putting on an act! She wants something!" She was practically screaming now. I noticed people were starting to watch us.

"Stop over reacting! PEOPLE CHANGE!" I started yelling too. I didn't care anymore if people were watching us.

"Yeah, people do change," she hissed at me. " And that person is you…"

"Oh, like you're miss perfect over here?"

"I wish you would have stayed on the other side of the island so I wouldn't have to deal with this."

"Oh sorry if I'm ruining you life! You wouldn't know Cloud if it wasn't for me!"

"You'll never understand how high school is will you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"We'll eventually lose the friends we had when we were younger. That's high school for you." I continued to look at her confused. "Stop living in the past Kairi. Your happy ending will never come true." Namine grabbed a milk carton from someone who was walking by and opened it.

"Namine…" I started to say. I was nervous. She looked at me and poured the milk over my head. I stood there in shock as the milk rolled down my head onto my clothes.

"Consider this friendship over. Bye Kairi," Namine said leaving the lunchroom, leaving the whole school stunned, along with me.

A/N: Aw! Isn't that sad! Well, hope you liked this interesting chapter! Please Review!