Kingdom Hearts x Awkward Silence
.D r e a M i n g W i s t F u l l y.
A/N: W00t! Yay for the return of fast internet in my house! We've been on dial-up for awhile since our DSL provider made us wait two weeks to get DSL, then told us DSL isn't available in our area. Gah. So we got Cable internet from another company instead. Yay Comcast! Heh heh. Product placement? Nah.
Uhm, and another thing. Some teachers may be Final Fantasy characters, but some may be based off of my real teachers from 7th grade.. I changed their names a bit so bleh. I am not good with names.
Disclaimer:
This is a fanfic, of course, so it means I don't own any of the characters, except maybe Dinah.
Replies:
-to kaoru hiirigizawa: Too bad I didn't inspire you enough that you actually updated your fic. Gah!
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weren't for that stupid internet fiasco. So anyways, here's the fourth
chapter!
-to Letter Bomb: Yay kudos! Yeah, it was kinda predictable that Dinah's
weakness was clumsiness, but there's another one revealed in this
chapter!
-to belovedRiku: I have heard of that song Ocean Avenue, but the name
for the street didn't really come from the song. Well it sorta did
because if I hadn't known the song then I probably would've come up
with another name. But no, I don't really listen to yellowcard. And
here is your update, come back from the insane asylum (or whatever you
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"So, what class do you have now, Dinah?" I asked Dinah as I gave her the last piece of paper that fell out of her binder.
"Oh, umm," she stuttered, fiddling with some papers, she found her schedule, "English, with Mrs. Strife.."
"Oh, sweet. We're in the same P.E. class." Selphie said while looking over Dinah's shoulder to look at her schedule. "She's really cool english teacher. And she's married to Mr. Strife, the P.E. teacher. Hey, come to think of it, you're in all the same classes as me. And you're in the same Advisory as Kairi and I!"
"Oh, really?" Dinah took a look at her schedule. "Cool!"
"It's sad because," Selphie looked at me, "We only have Advisory, Science, Spanish and P.E. with Kairi. But we don't have English, Math, and Drama with her."
I smiled at Selphie. "It's okay. Say, Selph.." I leaned into her ear and whispered, "Is Sora Jacobs in any of your classes that I'm not in?"
"Nah, come to think of it, I don't see him around much. Only after school during sports." Selphie whispered back. She took tennis. Like I said, I am not into sports. "I think it's because when we have classes in this building, we have classes in the other one, and vice versa."
That sounded like a decent explanation. I turned to Dinah and smiled. "Sorry about that. Say, Dinah, are you trying out for any sports?" I asked her.
"Uhh," She brushed her hair behind her ear. "no... I'm not really good at sports.."
So, she wasn't athletic either. I guess it comes with being clumsy?
"Oh, you're like Kairi!" Selphie joked, "I take tennis."
"Cool." Dinah commented. She glanced up at the clock in the bathroom above the mirrors. "I think we should get going to our first period classes." She opened the door for us. I was about to walk right out when Selphie pulled me back.
"Selph--"
"Kairi, you might wanna un-roll your sleeves before going out there."
"Oh, right." Selphie let go of my hand, and I put my drama things on top of the sink. I unrolled them and turned to Dinah to explain. She needed it, she looked confused.
"Our principal, Mrs. Cartwill, gives people detention for rolling their sleeves up. It's weird." I explained. Dinah nodded in agreement and waited for Selphie and I to go out of the bathroom before doing so herself.
"Well, see you guys at Advisory." I said, waving goodbye for now. Unlike some schools, we had homeroom after having two periods of regular classes. I had Drama, Math, then homeroom. Selphie and Dinah waved back before turning right into another hallway. I looked ahead to the staircase that led down to the mini-theater where Drama classes were held.
"Hey, Kairi! How was your weekend?" someone tapped my shoulder. I looked back, it was Yuffie, another classmate.
"It was good, Yuffie. How about yours? Did you go on a date with Leon again?" I greeted.
"No, not this weekend, we were pretty busy with our lab-write ups." We were supposed to do lab-write ups for Science class, describing our experience with dissecting frogs. We weren't even finished dissecting, so we why is she doing it now?
"But it isn't due until next week, is it?" I was puzzled. Yuffie wasn't the kind to do things in advance.
"It isn't !" Yuffie exclaimed, going down the steps with me. "We thought it was due tomorrow."
"Yuffie, we haven't even finished dissecting the frogs, remember?" I reminded her.
"Really? You mean we're supposed to see it's insides? I thought we were just supposed to see the muscle layer."
"No, Yuffie." I laughed softly. We arrived at the small theater, named the Bennett theater, after the woman who first taught Drama in our school, and still continues to. She was in her middle 30's, and has been teaching for the past 15 years of her life. A couple of our other classmates were there ahead of us, but most arrived a little after us. Mrs. Bennett came into the theater, clapping her hands as she sat on the edge of the stage.
"Okay everyone, please get into a semi-circle." She instructed, and everyone formed a semi-circle on the floor in front of the stage.
And so drama class flew by. All we did was act out a few scenes. I'm not saying it was boring, and I'm not saying it was the most fun I've had in years, it was just... Drama class. I went to my locker, passing by Selphie's and telling her what we do in Drama since she had it next, and then dropping by Dinah's to ask her how her first period was.
"It was good. Mrs. Strife is really nice." she said, stuffing her English books into her locker and taking our her Drama things.
"I know, isn't she? Well, I better run off to my locker if I want to make it to Math in time. Woop-de-doo." I said sarcastically. Math was the class everyone hated. Probably because Mrs. O'Donald treated everyone like 3rd graders when we were 8th graders and didn't really teach us anything new. Needless to say, it was the perfect time to fall asleep. I ever so slowly walked to my locker, spinned the lock, got the wrong combination, tried opening it again, got the combo right, opened it, put in my Drama things, got my Math binder, looked for my calculator, found it, closed my locker, spinned the dial and tugged on the lock. I yawned, a few tears coming out of my eyes. I wiped them away and yawned again. I haven't even set foot in the Math classroom and I'm already sleepy.
Nothing much, or rather, nothing NEW happened in math. We were reminded of how to add our fractions! Squee.
No.
Just, no. I hate it when Mrs. O'Donald does that. I swear, if any of us had stayed in that room for longer than forty minutes and one second, we would've gone mental, or fallen asleep, or gone mental in our sleep. We all rushed out of the Math room and 8th graders flooded the 8th grade hallways once more as everyone waited for each other. Selphie and Dinah were already waiting by my locker by the time I got there. I walked slowly, ready to fall down and sleep on the floor for all I care. I leaned my head against my locker as I spinned the dial according to my combination. My head went back to its position, not leaning on my locker, as I opened it, shoved my Math things and got my snack. Yum, an orange. Selphie had a pack of those chocolate-covered breadstick things, and I was guessing she was hungry since one of the things was in her mouth already. Dinah held a clear zip-lock bag of cheese puffs. How does she keep her body like that even if she eats junk like that? Well, it's not like she eats it all the time.
"Omga Kai," Selphie said, biting onto a breadstick, "today's Advisory mixup day, right?"
"Right.." I muttered.
"What's Advisory mixup day?" Dinah asked. Selphie chewed and swallowed.
"It's when someone from one advisory gets switched with someone from another advisory. It only happens once a year. I hope none of us get switched around."
"I hope so too. I want Candice out of our advisory, she's too.. I don't know.. too sexual? I mean, she always talks about that kinda stuff." I said, not meaning to sound mean, but I sort of did. Selphie nodded.
"Same here. I mean, does she really have to talk about that kinda stuff? I think our advisor doesn't like her all that much either." Our advisor, by the way, was Mrs. Strife. Lucky, right?
We went up a flight of stairs to the sixth grade hallway near Mrs. Strife's room. We went in, and saw Candice, Yuffie, Tidus, and Mrs. Strife of course. Selphie came in with a grand greeting.
"¡Hola!" She exclaimed.
"¡Hola, Selphie!" Mrs. Strife greeted back. Even if Mrs. Strife was the English teacher, she knew a little bit of Spanish on the side as well. Selphie, Dinah and I took spots near Mrs. Strife's desk and sat on the tables.
"Okay chicos y chicas," said Mrs. Strife,"hoy es Advisory mixup day. I'm just gonna say this in English." she said. Sometimes Señora Strife just wants to speak Spanish, but then decides to switch back to English. "Today's Advisory mixup day, and I'm going to tell you now who's getting switched."
"Oooh, do we get to know who's getting switched into our advisory?" Yuffie asked excitedly.
"I won't tell you, but you'll find out when the person comes into the room." Mrs. Strife opened a drawer to look for the sheet of paper with the information on who was getting switched with who. "Okay, let's see... Candice, you're switching with one of Mr. Strife's advisees."
I was trying my hardest not to jump up and shout "YAY!" out. From the looks of Selphie's face, I knew she was trying just as hard. Dinah simply looked relieved she didn't have to hear anything Candice had to say. Tidus, well, he wasn't paying attention. Selphie though, during the other times of advisory, was paying attention to him. Yuffie was excited about another thing.
"Oooh, Mr. Strife's advisory? Aren't all his advisees from the basketball team or something?"
"Correct. For some odd reason, during the beginning of the year Mr. Strife chose all the kids who were in the basketball team last year." Mrs. Strife said. I felt my heart skip a beat. That means, there was a possibility that Sora would be the one switched into our advisory. But it was a slim chance. I mean, there are lots of kids in the basketball team.
"Mrs. Strife," I began, "How many people are there in Mr. Strife's advisory?"
"Hmm..." Mrs. Strife scanned the paper with her eyes, "there are five, Kairi, why?"
I bit my lower lip and laughed softly, "Five? Aren't there more kids in the basketball team?"
"Well, most kids in the basketball team this year are seventh graders, Kairi. Only five from the eight grade have joined." Mrs. Strife explained.
"Oh.. I was just curious, that's all..." I laughed nervously, biting my lip again. A terrible habit, I know. I felt someone nudge me with their elbow. It was Selphie. She winked at me, knowing why I was so nervous.
