Chapter 23 – A Little Love?

Kairi was cleaning under the bed when she found some old yearbooks. She sat against the wall and flipped through some of them. One was her Senior year, the year she actually fell in love with Sora. She read through all the signatures until she came to what he wrote.

"When I wrote your name in the sand…" She said aloud without realizing it.

"A wave came and I thought the ocean washed it away." Sora came into the room and sat next to her. "However," he looked in her eyes, "when I turned to look, it was still there… completely untouched." He had memorized it. She leaned her head on his shoulder.

"What exactly does that mean?" Kairi asked him. "I had a few obvious ideas, but I want to know what you meant when you wrote it."

He looked at her with a confused expression, as if he had forgotten what they were talking about.

"It means," Sora said, "That no matter what happens, I will always love you. You will always be in my heart."

"That's what I thought." Kairi giggled. "I love you so much."

Sora kissed her forehead and asked to see the yearbook. He went to their senior pictures. Kairi covered hers up with her hand, but Sora moved it.

"Oh come on… you were beautiful then and you're beautiful now. There's no doubt about that." He complimented.

"Whatever…" She turned the page. Kairi and Sora began to remember all the ups and downs they had in high school, and how their love pulled them through it, even if it was the last few months.

"I've always wondered… what happened to Tidus, or Wakka… or even Tifa?" Kairi asked. Sora gave her a strange look.

"Why would you want to know that?"

"I don't know." She said. "I just wonder these things. I guess what my Family and Parenting teacher said was right. You will only keep in touch with about two or three people that you met in high school after its over… its just a fact."

"Well, Wakka plays for some Blitzball team, I'll tell you that much." Sora shrugged.

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Kairi was in her fourth month. She only threw up occasionally now, which made her happy. However, mood swings still affected her every day life. Lately she had been crying at even the happiest situations… for no reason at all. She remembered that she did this when she was pregnant with the twins, so it wasn't a surprise to her.

"Oh my God…" Kairi clutched her stomach. "It moved!" This was definitely a shocker for Sora because of how random it was, but he liked it.

"Really?" He would sometimes put his ear to her stomach to try and hear a heart beating, which had always been strange to Kairi… especially when he kissed it. Maybe she wasn't normal for not liking it, but… it was just weird to her.

Sora helped her stand up, since she had put on a little weight from the baby. She then followed him into the kitchen. Akira was sitting at the table playing a Nintendo DS as Kosuke did his homework. Sunshine was sniffing around the kitchen for some leftover crumbs.

Kairi recently had told her kids that they were going to have a little brother or sister after Akira commented that she had quote on quote been "getting fat." They were really excited about it. Even though they didn't know anything about pregnancy, hearing that a new baby was coming made them happy for some reason. Kairi thought they would hate it.

Luckily for Kairi, she was on maternity leave at work. She wasn't really needed anyway, since her character just died. Sora still hadn't found another satisfying job, but then again he didn't really need one at the moment. They had a lot of money.

Not to mention that tomorrow was Kairi's thirtieth birthday… (A/N: It's somewhere around there…)

"I heard something about progress reports today?" Kairi eyed her children. Kosuke pulled out his and happily showed her. Sora leaned over and looked too. Kairi saw that Akira supposedly didn't hear them and was still playing the game.

"Great job, Kosuke! Akira?"

Akira grinned at them and took his out. He handed it to Sora, who stared at Akira as he opened it. Sora read down the list.

"A,A,B,A,C,D." He said aloud. "Not bad."

"Better than last time. Keep it up." Kairi told him. Akira left the room.

"Wow," Sora said, "I never did my homework."

"Really?" Kosuke asked him, finally closing his book. He was finished. "If I don't do my homework I freak out."

"He's like me." Kairi commented. "If my homework wasn't done… oh man…"

After Kosuke went upstairs, Sora came up behind Kairi and put his arms around her. He rested his head on hers.

"I love you." He whispered in her ear.

"I love you too…"

"When this baby comes, I want to be there for you and the baby… no more mistakes this time." He promised. He seemed to be really relaxed by lying his head on her shoulder.

"Tomorrow, I'm going to take you out. Just you and me. Got it?"

Kairi nodded, eager to find out how tomorrow would turn out.

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Kairi: Am I really thirty years old?

Me: I dunno… if not you're close to it.

Sora: She's 29!

Me: Shhh!