Chapter 11
Kairi awoke the next day to find the bed empty, the sounds of cooking in the morning background. She sat up, not realising where she was for a couple of seconds. Her eyes darted around the room. Pink chair in the corner. Clothes stacked on the floor. A silver briefcase in the corner. The room in a general state of disarray. She fell back onto the bed and sighed. She wasn't sure whether or not she had dreamed the last 24 hours. Had she really had all of those experiences? Or was it some kind of wonderful dream?
She decided to go see what was happening in the rest of the house, but when she got up, she could barely walk. She looked down at her naked body and saw her crotch. It was red and swollen from the previous night's escapades. She smirked at herself. Obviously, it wasn't a dream. Kairi saw a dressing gown about her size hanging from the door handle. She picked it up and draped it over herself, tying up the rope at her waist.
She wandered out to the kitchen with a little difficulty, resting herself on the wall the whole way. Kairi made her way to the kitchen and sat down on a stool next to the main bench in the centre of the kitchen. Aerith looked up from the stove she was stooped over, and smiled at Kairi. "Morning, sleepy head!" she said, before going back to work preparing breakfast. Aerith was making some scrambled eggs. It looked like she was the one that did all the cooking in the house. Kairi tried to say something, but she couldn't get a noise out of her throat. She moved across the kitchen and got a glass from one of the cupboards, and getting some water from the tap. After drinking the water, she was about to speak, when Yuffie came rushing through the door and nearly bowled Kairi over. "Morning!" She said breathlessly. Yuffie made a dive for the oven, opening the door and letting out a plume of think black smoke. Immediately, everyone started coughing. Yuffie waved her arms around, frantically trying to dispel the smoke. After a while, the smoke went away, but the smell retained. Yuffie pulled a tray out of the oven and dropped it on the bench. There were lumps of charcoal on the tray, vaguely resembling bread. Yuffie grinned. "Toast is ready!"
The eggs were split between the three at the table. The entire meal was mostly silent, except for Yuffie's giggles. Aerith spent the entire meal glaring at Yuffie, right up until the end of the meal, when Yuffie suddenly burst out into laughter and fell off her chair. Aerith screamed out "I WIN! HA" and danced around Yuffie, while she was shaking with laughter. Kairi looked strangely at both of them, until Aerith explained, "Sorry about that. Every morning, it's a staring contest. Don't ask how it started, we don't really remember." Kairi shook her head, laughing all the while. She glanced over her watch on her wrist and saw what time it was. "HOLY SHIT! IT'S 11:30! I was supposed to meet Sora an hour ago! Look, Aerith, Yuffie, I'm sorry, but I gotta go. I'll come back sometime. It was fun!"
Kairi grabbed her clothes together as fast as she could. She noticed that the rip in her shirt had been fixed. You would've barely even known that there had ever been a rip there. She rushed to the door, calling behind her as she went, "Thanks for everything!" Kairi stopped dead in her tracks. "Hey, what do you want in return for saving me?" Aerith called out from the kitchen, "Hey, after last night, consider your debt repaid!" Kairi ran out of the door yelling, "Thanks again!" to the house, as she made her way to the café. I mean, she was only an hour late. Hopefully Sora wouldn't be too mad…