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Larxene

"Um, excuse me..." a tiny voice asked from behind my desk. I looked up from my reading, and after a moment's hesitation on my brain's part, recognized the voice was a child. I leaned over and saw a couple of kids, two small boys, probably not even old enough for school, about the same age as that Tidus kid who lived next door. One was behind, he was kind of doing his own thing, his brown hair seemed kind of messy, but organized messy I guess. The other one, the one who bothered speaking to me, seemed a little older, and had a wierd platinum/sliver hair color. I didn't know if it was dyed or what, but then again, on this island I've seen wierder, like a couple of nights ago when there was that meteor shower.

Either way, as a 15 year old girl, working as a summer secretary for the mayor, these two kids were too cute, especially from all the stuffed-shirts I had to see through all day every day, it was a nice change of pace.

I looked over and smiled at the boy staring at me with the innocent eyes, "Well little guy, anything I can do for you?"

"Um..." he began, seeming kind of embarrassed, or uncertain at least, "could we talk to the new girl?"

I got lost for a second, but I remembered something about a strange girl showing up the night of the meteor shower. I winked at the silver-haired boy, "Oh, a couple guys looking to hook-up huh?"

This didn't seem to amuse him, "Ew, no."

I laughed to settle him down, "It's OK, I'll go ask the mayor, I don't think he's seeing anyone just yet, it'll only take a minute." I walked over to the mayor's door behind my little semi-cubicle, and knocked three times.

"Come in," a voice said. I entered and saw the mayor, at his desk, just filling out some forms for land distribution. I knew it was probably a bad time, there had been calls to develop this little island south of the mainland, but the mayor was steadfast in his support to keep it clear of development. It was almost a sanctuary for the kids here, and he wanted it to remain a playground forever. That was hard, there were only a couple islands left to build on, we were growing a little fast for our own good I suppose. But this entire week, and booked all next, were citizens and people he was going to try and convince to join his position. "Excuse me, sir, but there are two little boys here wondering if they could speak with the little girl who showed up at your house?"

He smiled, but seemed upset at the same time, "I'd love to but I haven't got the time right now, and I'm not so sure she's over the shock. I think she has amnesia, no memory of her parents, of her home, anything."

"Well," I offered, trying to sound as innocent and helpful as possible, "you know I could take them down, it would only be for a minute, I wouldn't be gone long."

"Well Larxene, you've been a big help, can you make it back before my appointments begin?"

"Can do," I said smiling. Anything to get out of this stuffy place. "Thanks a lot, sir." I went back to the boys in the lobby, they were looking at pictures, and just joking with each other. "Excuse me gentlemen," I said, and they both came over and tried their best to be taller than the desk. "Well," I said, trying to sound official, "after much persuasion, the mayor didn't want to at first," they started to look a little disappointed, but I winked at them before they could process it, "but I managed to sucker him into it. I can bring you, wanna come?"

"Yes," they both said, almost in unison. I had to giggle to myself, these two were precious.

"OK then follow me," I said, and opened the door for the two of them. The mayor's house was the next street over from city hall luckily, but I knew these two could find it on their own. This WAS a small island, everyone knew everyone for the most part, especially the mayor, kind of hard to miss a big name like him. While we were walking, I decided to put the kids at ease, they were probably a little nervous, I was, at least. This girl was...an enigma. I had no clue why she just appeared, it was really wierd. "So what are your names?"

Brown-haired boy came up to me, while it appeared the silver-haired kid just kind of ignored me. "I'm Sora," he said, making it sound like a grand expression, like I should remember that name. Kids. "And this is Riku," he told me, with slightly less enthusiasm.

"Well guys, here we are," I said, gesturing at the mayor's house. "Need me to introduce the great Sora and Riku?" I asked winking.

Riku walked forward, going to the door, "No thanks, we can do it."

"OK," I told them, "if they give you any trouble, tell them Larxene said it was OK."