A/N: Late once again. Roar, my excuses are just getting more terrible each time! Sorry .. you guys XD I seem to say that word everytime I update in my Authors' Notes. I think I should start yoga or meditating or Kung Fu or something to help me relieve stress more But now that school is finished for THE SUMMER, I'll have time to update! So now the only stress I'll carry is updating and finishing the story! Hopefully I'll be able to update every couple of weeks now.

Ah, yes! I also got a babysitting this summer; 5 days a week, 9 hours a day. Maybe I'll find some inspiration somehow for my writing from a three year old, a six year old, and a n eight year old. JUST KIDDING. The only thing I could get from them is mashed peas -- Yeah, okay, I'm rambling now; None of you even know what I'm talking about, nor do I. xD

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x Update: May 31st 2005 x
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x Chapter Thirteen x
x A Solo & a Decision x
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x Author: Tohrue aka Honda x
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Kairi watched Sora dip his spoon into the bowl of cereal, right before placing it in his mouth and repeating the process over. Riku, who was seated next to Sora, bit down loudly into the toasted bagel as Queenie gave him a look of disgust. Kairi began to giggle at how amused she was with everyone around the table. They were all so ... well, colorful. Riku was a bitter prick but deep inside, he actually had emotions like a human being. Queenie too, had a cold exterior but once you got past that she was a good .. friend. Sora, on the other hand, had multiple personalities. One when they were alone, one when he was around other girls, and another around his friends.

"You were asking me something?"

"Huh?"

Kairi quickly cocked her head after she realized she'd gotten too lost in thought. Sora paused from eating his cereal as he locked his gaze on her. She too noticed that Queenie and Riku were also now dividing their attention to her. A little flustered and embarrassed now, she began to fidget with her fingers.

"U-uh .. yeah. Um, listen, yesterday night after the movie ... did you say something? Because I-I was kind of dozing off .. and .. and .. yeah."

Looking up from her fingers, she now realized that Sora had looked more confused than she had. He had his head slightly turned with one of his eyebrows raised slightly higher than the other one. The other two were also giving her the quizzical look.

"No .. not that I remember. Sorry."

"O-oh, it's okay!"

"Geez, Kairi .. You can be so ... awkward sometimes," Queenie added curtly as she bit down softly into the cinnamon flavored pop tart.

"Sorry ..."

Looking back down at her moist cereal, she sighed quietly. Sometimes she felt as if she was going insane or something .. It was kind of sad. .. really sad. Maybe she had heard something; Sora couldn't remember it and the others hadn't of heard. Yeah .. that was it! After cheering herself up emotionally, she slightly giggled before she dunked her spoon in the cereal and continued on with breakfast. But little did she know .. she really had heard something and Sora really had remembered ...

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"S-say what!"

"Yeah! They're giving us UNIFORMS."

Queenie plopped down on the school's courtyard's bench as she sighed heavily. In seconds, she began to rub her temples with her fingers; obviously suffering from a bad headache. None of the other girls from the "clique" had approached Queenie, for they could tell how irritated and frustrated she was. Thankfully, the girl hadn't gotten bitched out yet by her majesty but with the sudden news flash, she could foretell a bitching sooner or later.

"The principal called me to her office during 3rd hour, regarding our 'highly inappropriate choices of attire,' " Queenie quoted the principal in a deep and serious tone. "She's decided that it'd be best if we got UNIFORMS. Can you believe that? She believes that 'it will help girls not be so divided among groups and possibly bring future friends together.' Can you believe that BITCH?"

"Why did she call you to the office, though?"

Kairi plopped down on the bench next to her friend.

"Because she believes that I am 'the leader of all girls in our grade.' And that I 'discriminate against girls of different ethnicity, uniqueness, etc etc!' THAT'S NOT EVEN TRUE! YOU DON'T SEE ME HANGING OUT WITH JUST CRACKERS. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT BULL SHIT, KAIRI? She's had this planned for TWO WEEKS NOW. In fact, today during ninth period, uniforms will be given out to everyone; extras shipped over the weekend to homes."

"T-this .. sucks .."

"Yeah! I know! Any ways, I need to go tell Riku about this .. Knowing how the principal ordered the uniforms, the boy's pants will be too tight to pull down without a pair of pliers! Great, now during 7th period Riku and I won't be able to ... well, you know what I mean! Geez, you're a girl!"

"Yeah. He he .. wait, I thought you weren't dating R--"

"Well, gotta go," Queenie interrupted as she stood up from the bench and dusted off her short mini skirt. "Need to vent to him. See you later, Kai'. Love you, bye." Before walking off in a frustrated manner, the blonde blew Kairi a kiss before she slightly waved her hand. Kairi just smiled as she watched the girl pivot around and storm off.

It was amazing how fashion affected girls' lives. An extremely beautiful girl could wear baggy and saggy clothing and be dubbed outcast of the school, yet a not sobeautiful swan could wear a mini skirt and dab on some makeup and she was one of your popular girls. Kairi began to giggle at how amazing it was. She had never really cared much about fashion to be honest. Queenie had told and "taught" her how if she was going to be an item with Sora, how she'd need to look and play the part. It was somewhat artificial of her to allow the queen to do such a thing, but in a way .. it was fun. She got to pretend to be someone else, act like it, and dress like it. It was kind of like Barbie; you could dress her up as doctor and she'd be really intelligent. Or you could dress her as a super model and she could be well, beautiful.

Kairi got up from the bench and slowly began to walk back towards the building of the school. Playing Barbie can be a lot of fun .. but sometimes, you get sick of it .. You get sick of dressing Barbie up because it takes so much times and patience so you just want to leave her as one thing and let her stay that way. And that was how Kairi was directly feeling about herself.

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Destiny Island High's Choir Solo List

Duet for Hallelujah Amen: Selphie & Yuffie

Solo for Hallelujah Amen: Mariah

Duet for Wish Upon A Star: ----

"Oh, come on! Let me just see if I made it already!"

Kairi pushed through the crowd of people as they surrounded the tryout list for the school's choir concert. She'd auditioned for the more "prestigious" role of the concert. Whomever got the solo got to sing a song of their choice. However, it had to affect a strong emotion or represent something that was deep or close to them. Kairi had an idea .. but of course, she couldn't go too carried away. Besides, she hadn't even known if she had gotten the role yet!

"Isn't it weird that they don't list last names?"

"Yeah isn't it?"

"Kairi, oh my Destiny, you got THE role!"

"H-huh?"

"Congratulations! What are you going to sing!"

Kairi shoved through a couple more people before she could fully see the end of the list. And there it was .. at the end of it .. her name next to 'Select song: Kairi.' For a moment, she just stared at it. And stared. And stared. AND STARED. Surely ... it was a mistake .. there was no way she could have won it. There were so many better singers in the school than her It was impossible! But that was when reality finally gave her a check up and decided it must have been real.

"OH MY! I REALLY DID WIN!"

Jumping up and down, Kairi must have looked like a little bunny rabbit amongst the people in the crowd. Others patted her back, others congratulated, while others grumbled and mumbled things as they claimed that they were much better. Though the girl had heard such things, she pretended ignored them and just assumed that they were jealous that they had not gotten the role. Among her excitement of getting the role, she'd spotted Selphie and Yuffie a couple feet away, exchanging 'congrats.' and high fifing.

"S-selphie! Yuffie! I got the role!"

She pushed through the small crowd of mostly girls with a huge grin on her face as she approached the two girls. However, when she finally got closer to them, they didn't seem to be sharing the excitement. Selphie had been smiling back at her for a moment until Yuffie had sharply elbowed her in the side. That was right .. They were still mad at her about the other day. Realizing this, she took off her grin as the three of them continued to stare. Finally Yuffie had broken it off before she grabbed Selphie's arm and began to pull her away.

"Congratulations .. Kairi," Selphie said quietly enough before being dragged away.

As the crowd began to fade and people began to hurry back to their last classes of the day, Kairi walked over to the wall. Leaning her back against the hard wall, she raised her hands to her head as she covered her face almost as if ashamed. Now she felt bad .. Now she wasn't so sure that she even wanted the solo anymore. Selphie and Yuffie were the only ones who really understood how much that solo piece meant to her .. but if they were mad at her, who would truly get to share the joy and anticipation with her?

"I can feel that this is one fight that will last a little longer than a week or so .."

Moaning, Kairi slouched her figure until her back begin to drag down against the wall. In seconds, the red head was sitting against the wall, face covered, and embarrassed. Where did she go wrong ..?

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RING. RING. RING. RING.

"Hold on, geez .."

Kairi paused from typing as she scooted over her computer chair over to her side table. Grasping the phone, she picked it up before hitting the green button. What was it now ..? It was almost 1 AM and she wasn't finished writing her 12 page term paper for History that was due the next day. She had a feeling that she wouldn't exactly be finishing it in time, seeing how she was only at 'This term paper discusses Shakespeare.'

"Hello?"

"Hey Oh. MY. DESTINY. I HATE THESE UNIFORMS."

Here she went again ..

"Maybe you shoul--"

"No, I mean, this skirt makes my ass look like it could crush everyone on a continent and give them AIDS."

"Queenie, I think you're --"

"You think I'm what?" The girl's panicky voice quickly became cold and daggery as she awaited for Kairi's answer. For a couple of seconds, Kairi hesitated but seeing how she was in an extremely cranky mood from lack of sleep, she continued with what she was going to say.

"Overreacting."

"I'm am NOT overreacting."

"Yes, you are. Queenie, listen," before continuing, she took a deep breath. "Listen, they are just uniforms. Maybe they'll do us good .. you know? Look on the bright side of it. I mean, at the least the skirts are short and we're not wearing over coats with them. I just think you need to cool it, okay? Besides, the year will be over soon in a couple of months and maybe a parent will complain about having to constantly be cleaning uniforms. So for now, just tone it down and stop complaining."

And as soon as Kairi finished that .. she knew she was dead.

"YOU BITCH."

"Ah, no--"

But Kairi, once again, was interrupted. Only this time it was by the dial tone on the other end of the receiver. Queenie had hung up on her. .. For a couple of minutes, Kairi just listened to the other end before she slammed it down and screamed in agitation. Moving her chair back over to the computer desk, she stared at the blank screen of what she had so far on her paper before she slammed her head down on the keyboard.

"AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH."

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x Riku's Point of View x
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blitzmyballs 12:52 : y did you get a new sn again?

borntorapandkill04 12:52 : idk dont ask. god

blitzmyballs 12:52 : fine

blitzmyballs 12:53 : im suprized that sora realy lieks kairi now arent u tidus

blitzmyballs 12:53 : likes

borntorapandkill04 12:53 : yea w/e i hate that skankie poseru i mean cant she get her own life without sora and i think sora is just a lil fruit for caving on in his feelingz and stuff i think we should get her back u kno

blitzmyballs 12:55 : wtf r u talking about?

borntorapandkill04 12:55 : here i got an idea to make this plan suicidal

blitzmyballs 12:55 : wtf?

choirnerdkairi has been invited into the conversation by borntorapandkill04.

blitzmyballs 12:57 : ...

borntorapandkill04 12:59 : yea sora was making out with that other girl at the movies the other nite and i feel bad for kair but thena gain w/e bc sora doesnt really like her i mean u kno i bet he just wants her bc shes eazy like a pig or sumething!1 i mean god she is so ugly nad faft and stuff and none of the girlz even like her adn queenie says shes ajn pozer

choirnerdkairi has left the conversation.

borntorapandkill04 1:01 : HA HA HA HA HAHAHA TAKE THAT BITCH

blitzmyballs 1:03 : ...

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"He doesn't really like her."

"Queenie thinks she's a poser."

Kairi exited out of the conversation between Riku and Titus. Did .. Sora really do and .. Queenie .. what? What was going on? .. Riku must have accidentally invited Kairi into the conversation instead of Sora and .. Oh, she felt so sick. Slowly, she turned off her computer, got off of her chair, and moved over to her bed where she plopped down lazily. Stuffing her face into her pillow, she laid there and contemplated what had just happened. If Riku had invited her into the conversation, wouldn't he have had the brains to not say that before I had left? No .. no, he wouldn't have. Maybe I should call Queenie -- no, she's mad at me after what I said. And I can't call Sora .. because, well, I can't. Laying there, she stayed there for a couple of minutes before the phone rang.

"... ... ..."

She wasn't sure if she wanted to pick it up. Knowing her luck, it was probably Riku and Tidus who had "accidentally" three way ed her. But maybe it was Selphie or Yuffie or something, calling to apologize about earlier at school. Or maybe it was just Queenie to bitch her out some more .. Either way, she knew she had to pick it up or it'd haunt her forever as she'd ponder and wonder who had called her that night. In this situation she knew that curiously couldn't kill the cat. At least, not physically. Leaning over to her side table, she grasped the phone and paused for a second before she hit the green button. Delicately and slowly, she pulled the receiver over to her ear.

"H .. hello?"

"Hey, Kairi!"

It was Tidus .. and she was relieved.

"H-hey .. Tidus."

"Um, hey .. uh, did you see that conversation with Riku and me?"

"Yeah .. I did."

"Listen, Riku was just lying and --"

"There's no need to explain, Tidus. I know he was lying."

"Yeah .. but uh, that's not it. There's kind of .. more to everything. And I feel bad about not telling you and it's .. yeah .."

Suddenly, the waver of relief left as he mentioned "bad" and "not telling."

"... Huh? You can tell me Tidus .."

"N-no .. I think it's better if I tell you in person. I'll just tell you at school tomorrow--"

"NO. TIDUS. WAIT, NO."

Kairi knew that if she had to wait all the way until tomorrow at school to hear what he was going to tell her, she'd die. She knew that she wouldn't be able to sleep either as her mind would just come up and create ideas of what Tidus must tell her. If he wasn't going to do it over the phone, he might as well just came over because she was not waiting until tomorrow to hear of what was so important.

"Tidus, can you meet me at the dock? I know it's dark out but bring a flashlight or something. Please, Tidus .. I have to know," Kairi did her infamous beg that always got her out or in something.

"... Fine. Meet me in 5 minutes at the dock, okay?"

"Awesome! Thanks so much, Tidus. I'll see you in 5 at the docks! Love you!"

Hanging up the phone before he could say goodbye or any kind of "see you later", she quickly scurried over to her closet where she threw on a pair of sweats and a baggy gray hoodie that read 'Destiny Island Paopus.' Yeah, their mascot was the paopu. Depressing, really. Quickly she removed a hair binder from her wrist as she messily threw her hair up in a messy pony tail. Within seconds, she grabbed her bag for no reason, slipped on some flip flops, and ran out of her room and down her stairs. There was no need to be quiet .. Mom was off doing her night job and even if she had been home, she wouldn't have cared if Kairi was leaving at 1. In fact, she probably wouldn't have cared if she said she was getting ready to go have rough sex on the sand with a stranger. Which, one, she would NEVER say or think of, and two, was really quite sad.

As Kairi left the house and began to run across the shoreline, a question hit her. .. Why was she so excited to hear what Tidus had to say seeing how he'd put it in kind of the bad way? .. How strange. Maybe .. she really wanted to know the truth about how Sora felt or maybe she wanted to know what was behind Riku's words on the online conversation. Either way, as she was running, she was beginning to feel anxious and sick. She didn't really want to know about how Sora felt or what Riku meant ... Stopping immediately in her steps, she just stood there. No, she wasn't at the dock yet .. not even close .. but the reason she'd stopped was ..

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AH. HA. HA. ... HA HA HA HA. CLIFF HANGER. HA HA, YOU GUYS GET TO HANG ON THAT WHILE I SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE THOUGHT OF KNOWING WHAT IS. 8D GOD IT WOULD SUCK TO BE YOU GUYS RIGHT NOW! He, he .. I'm so evil; you gotta love me But any ways, for now I'll let your imaginations ponder on why she stopped. Is someone behind her? Did she hear something? Is there naked Donald Ducks swimming in the water? You decide for now until you read the next chapter

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