Jean: Just having spaggitti for dinner. (Burp!)
Meg: Ewe!
Jean: So what? You burped every single day, and the good news for me is that my father is coming back home, after a month overseas! I miss him, and I'm going to fetch him this Thursday.
Sora: Oh.
Jean: and we may continue with the story.
The next day in DIHS…..
"Hey, hey, hey! Male soccer team, here's your daily drought reminder from Mr. Franklin: Only go for number 2!" Hurky announced the next day in school. "Sora Hikari was the homecoming prince this year, what a surprise to everyone out there, and I didn't see that one coming. But the biggest scoop is, who is our mystery princess?" she asked everyone.
"So, how long have you been grounded?" asked Riku. Luna, Riku and I were playing soccer together. We were in individual teams, and means that I am a group, Luna's another and Riku another too.
"C'mon, Riku. Get real!" I said, while dribbling the ball (The thing I changed to soccer is that I don't know anything about football. And I'm not an American, I'm an Asian, and I live in Singapore. Oops! Not supposed to tell, my bad!). "It's not like he's pin for me. And trust me, he's forgotten about Cinderella."
"Yeah, he must have completely forgotten all about you." Agreed Luna, as she dribbled the ball to the goal, Riku and I went to the goal post. And Luna kicked the ball to the goal post, through the both of us.
"Dude, Sora. Why go through all the trouble finding that chick of yours?" asked Tidus. Sora, Tidus and Meg were pasting posters about the mysterious princess. It was pictured a face of a princess with a question mark on her face. And below it written: "Have you seen this girl? If found, call Sora Hikari at 01-54349720."
"Look, she's not just a chick, all right guys? She IS real!" Sora corrected Tidus, and he went pasting the poster at a locker.
"Really, in dreaming about her?" Meg asked.
"No. She's real. I saw it with my own eyes." Sora argued.
"A girl who has more on her mind than what she wears …..Or how much weight she wants to lose." Asked Tidus.
"She listens to me." Sora said, pasting another poster.
"Listens to you?" asked Tidus and Meg. "Hey, bro. We're listening to you, okay? I feel your pen pal--"
"Hey!" Sora echoed.
"A great listener." Said Meg, and he wrote it down.
"Well---" Sora began.
"Look, kid. You got her cell phone." Tidus reminded. Sora took out my cellphone and opened it.
"You just got to find out what's inside the phone, and clues." Said Meg, looking at the phone.
"The phone's locked." Sora reminded him.
"Oh." Tidus and Meg cooed.
"I always see messages like 'I need your help', or 'come here right away'." Sora told them.
"That's hot, man!" wooed Tidus.
Back with me, Riku and Luna…..
"So kung-fu expert, what are you going to say with the angel?" asked Luna, pointing at Paine swimming in the pool.
"Well, I've been thinking, and what am I going to say to her?" asked Riku.
"Okay. And on graduation day I tell Sora it was me who's Cinderella, and you tell her it's you, and- Riku, where are you?" I asked, looking around. Luna tapped my shoulder and looks like Riku have gone up to Paine, as she finished swimming.
"Hi, Paine." Riku greeted, looking excited and nervous at the same time.
"What's he doing over there with Paine?" I was shocked he was doing this to me.
"Kairi, watch and learn how Riku charms a lady." Luna whispered, and we looked at them.
"Paine, so what's up?" asked Riku.
"Are you are…." Paine looked puzzled when she looked at Riku.
"Yes, and allow me to refresh your memories. I'm the guy who saved you. You know, kung-fu expert." Riku reminded her.
"You mean kung-fu rookie." Paine reminded him badly.
"Who is he?" asked Yuna.
"That's Riku Zandels, the Professor's son at the hospital." Paine said.
"He's the guy you embarrassed in front of during last year's winter prom." Rikku remembered.
"The silver-haired freak who reads a lot of books for his whole life?" asked Yuna.
"Ahem! I'm right in front." Riku coughed, looking furious.
"Shut up, and quit it!" Paine shouted.
"Sorry, so let me be in front." Riku said.
"Riku's acting weird every second." Luna whispered.
"What's he thinking? Has he had a mental breakdown?" I asked.
"Listen, Zandels. Last night, I drank too much Lion Beer (I know its Tiger Beer, but I can't put the real thing, its rule) and I had a very bad cold. I just wasn't myself." Paine explained. Riku's jaw dropped, and looking at Paine in disbelief.
"But….but I thought we have a connection?" Riku reminded.
"Sorry, we don't have anything." Paine apologized. "We are from a different class of high school teens. You are the nerdy type, and the popular ones don't mix with the bookish." Paine explained. "That's what the world works. Let's go back to our normal lives and I only care….if you let me copy your homework this afternoon." With that, she and her friends left the pool. Riku stood there as if he was like a rock.
"Are you okay?" Luna asked. "He's becoming a rock."
"O…kay?" mumbled Riku. "What does it mean its okay?" he yelled, and he was having a mental breakdown.
"He's going cuckoo already." I warned Luna.
"Cheaters." Riku yelled, and left the pool angrily. His face now looks mad, and I never see him look that angry before in my life.
"Guys, I don't know about this…." Started Sora when Tidus and Meg dragged him into the water fountain.
"Trust us, friend!" Tidus exclaimed.
"We asked every single girl at the whole school….." Meg began.
"…..if they were with you at the dance!" Tidus continued. "And they say yes!"
"Oh, no. No no no no no, don't do it, guys….." Sora shouted, Tidus and Meg started searching my cell phone.
"Sit down here, Sora!" Tidus and Meg forced him to sit at the edge of the fountain.
"Okay, Sora Hikari, here comes Constant no. 1, Audrey Blumberg!" announced Tidus on the microphone. Audrey stepped forward and she was a skinny lady.
"She likes to collect stickers, a newbie at this school this year, and hanging out with her friends at the mall!" Meg continued.
"Pleased meeting you, Miss. Blumberg!" Sora said it nervously, and shook her hand.
"Hello!" she greeted and shake Sora's hand so hard that Sora began to complain that his arm hurts.
"Ow. This is going to be a LONG day!" he complained quietly, rubbing his arm.
"Thanks for coming, Audrey." Tidus greeted.
"See you!" Audrey waved.
"Oh I'm dead!" Meg spat out his words in his heart. "She could not possibly be the one."
"Okay, ladies, let's bring out constant no. 2, and here's Gwen Darrow! She's a second year in this school and she loves chocolate chip cookies!" Tidus announced again. She came out, she was worse; she was the fattest girl in the school.
"Hi, Sora! You're so dead, and I want to marry you." She said, Sora dropped his jaws.
"Okay, next up is---" Meg began.
"Okay that's enough, c'mon guys, let's stop already." Sora said. "Look Gwen, you're beautiful, but I'm not your prince. You'll meet him someday, okay?" Sora asked, looking tired.
"Thank you Sora." Gwen said, and left.
"Late entry!" shouted a teacher, and it turned out to be Mr. Ward and Mrs. Carrollton shouting. All the girls left and it was left Sora, Meg and Tidus.
"Tidus, you stop it right now. You are a BAD BOY!" Mrs. Carrollton reprimanded. Sora laughed with his mouth covered. Mr. Ward looked at Tidus's shirt, and shook his head.
"And that shirt says "Ward is evil." Well, one word for it: Terrible. And everyone, get back to class!" he shouted, everyone groaned and went back to class.
"Hi Tidus!" greeted a nerd.
"NO fair! Why pick me instead of Meg?" Tidus complained, sobbing away.
"Bills, bills and more bills!" Penny complained and throwing the bills to the sofa. I went into the house, seeing Penny sitting on the sofa and watching television and looking at letters at the same time. I was about to enter my room when I overheard something.
Penny opened a letter she don't usually see and read it. It mentions:
To Miss. Kairi Foultly,
You have been chosen to come to Balamb Garden University as soon as you finish college. Seeing your grades are good enough for this university, we would want to have an interview with you when you finish college……..
"So Penny, any mail for me?" I asked, and she hid the letter.
"Oh, actually, there's a letter that I took part into a competition, like a lucky draw here from Mark Rinehart, that I won a million munny and if you want to spend it, don't spend too much." She lied, and I didn't notice the letter she read. If only I knew it was the university letter. After that, I went up to my room and entered the chat room and began talking to Savior.
"I need to know who you really are. I can't take my eyes off you. Tell me your true identity." Said Savior, which I met Sora Hikari last night.
"Okay." I typed, and took a deep breathe. "My name is----"
"Kairi!" screamed Namine.
"You missed the 'Do not disturb' sign!" I shouted and I was getting annoyed by the minute Namine called me.
"So are you done with my proposal? It's due tomorrow!" shouted Namine.
"I'm working on it!" I shouted. Lying wasn't so bad, when you're talking to your chat friend.
"Well, hurry up." Shouted Namine over the door. "It makes me nervous to have me wait for a long time!"
"And imagine how nervous was it to be when you're doing it!" Lulu continued.
"Dear sister, you're right!" said Namine.
"So this time, could you try to make it sound more like me?" I asked. I stopped typing the message. Every second with their conversation is driving me crazy. "I'm so sick to explain why I sound so smart on the paper, and not smart on the paper?"
"Kairi! Come downstairs now!" Penny yelled.
"Just a moment." I shouted.
"NOW!" she boomed.
I typed to Savior. "I'll be right back." And went downstairs talking to Penny. I didn't close the door, and ended up Namine and Lulu sneaking into my room without my permission and went up to the computer.
"Who the heck is Savior?" Lulu asked, looking at Savior's name on the computer. Namine read out what Sora wrote when I say I'll be right back.
"Cinderella, are you not talking to me because you are shocked…… to know I'm Sora Jonathan Hikari?" he asked.
"Kairi is Cinderella?" Namine asked Lulu.
At the patrol station…..
"Yes! I got in!" Sora yelled happily, jumping up and down that he was interviewed to enter Balamb Garden University.
"Sora! Stop jumping, and what are you doing and what's going on?" yelled his father from downstairs.
"Nothing. Just exercising!" he yelled back. "Let me guess, you thinking that working at the patrol station is the right choice for me?"
"Don't worry about it. You're just making the right choice, and all right?" asked his father.
"Okay." Sora said, and heaved a sigh. If his father found out that he was interviewed at the university, he will have to reject the application and forced to work with his father. Sora went down and went to Namine's car.
"It's me, Sora. It's Cinderella from the dance." Said Namine.
"Oh, you found me." Interrupted Lulu went getting out of her car.
"Oh no!" exclaimed Sora quietly.
"You see, Sora, I live in this world, full of people pretending someone they're not." Said Namine.
"Pretending---" Sora started when Lulu interrupted.
"I miss you, I don't want to---" she began and Sora stopped her.
"What do you mean when you're Cinderella?" he asked the both of them.
"I'm her." Said Namine.
"I'm Cinderella your dream girl!" Lulu interrupted again. "You see I live in a world full of---"
"You!" Namine screamed.
"And what are you doing here for? If you don't have anything you want, get out of here. I'm working." Sora grunted angrily, looking impatient.
"I'm Cinderella, coming to meet my prince!" Namine lied.
"That's hard, considering me as Cinderella." Lulu annoyed Namine.
"I mean, I'm the most 'cinderelly' Cinderella there ever was." Continued Namine.
"Er, ladies? Look I can settle this problem, right?" Sora asked.
"Huh?" cooed both girls.
"The girl I met at the dance. She dropped something on her way out and when she's gone, the only thing I found was the thing you need to guess." Sora requested. "What was it?"
"That's easy. It's a wallet!" Lulu guessed.
"Pah!" Sora crossed both arms to an 'X'.
"I mean a wallet purse!" Lulu argued.
"Pah!'' Sora crossed again.
"A fish." Namine answered.
"A fish? What's that for?" asked Lulu, puzzled.
"It was the first thing that popped out from my head. And you say wallet-purse? What's that, and I've never heard of that." Namine explained.
"Sora?" asked Lulu.
"Well….." Sora mumbled and was about to begun when the two girls interrupted.
"Look what you did, see? You always ruined everything!" Namine screamed.
"I was supposed to be Cinderella. I'm older than a year than you!" Lulu complained.
"So what if it's just a year? And you never let me forget it!" Namine argued, and she started beating Lulu up. "This will help you remember who Cinderella is!" Sora left the scene while Lulu and Namine weren't looking and busying over a trivial matter that wouldn't be concerned.
"NO!" Lulu screamed, and pushed Namine to the car which was at the car wash machine, both of them entered and they got wet first.
"Come here! You ninny!" screamed Namine and kept pushing Lulu to the other side. Then, it was time to put soap on the car, and they did too.
"You're gonna die today! And I'm serious!" fought Lulu and pushed her to the car. On the panel on the other side of the patrol station, Riku and his father were taking their car to be washed. As Prof. Zandels was paying the bills to the car wash, Riku was standing at the glass panel, having an ice-cream when he saw Namine and Lulu fighting.
"I'm gonna kill you ONCE AND FOR ALL!" screamed Lulu, and this time, they were have to dry themselves with the machine using a big dryer and dried them.
"That's what you got for stealing my big idea!" Namine kicked her on top of the car.
"Okay, Dad, do I see Namine and Lulu at the car wash machine, at our car while the machine was washing?" asked Riku to his father.
"Why ask?" he asked, and took a newspaper and paid up. "Must be your imagination." And went on reading it.
"I hate you!" Namine yelled.
"I hate you too! Lulu cursed. Both girls looked in front and felt something hot came into them.
"Oh god! Don't tell me it's the…" Namine began.
"IT'S HOT WAX!" screamed the two girls, and just as Riku and his father went out of the mart, they heard a loud bang out of the car wash, and saw their car was broken.
"Riku, do you know that since you got your driving license, there is always an unlucky mishap happening to your car. What on Destiny is going on?" asked his father.
"Maybe I'm bad handling at cars, when I tried to." Riku replied, and saw Namine and Lulu coming out of the car wash, looking like charcoal-ed.
"Oh my! Better send them to the hospital immediately." Prof. Zandels replied, and drove the two girls to the hospital.
TBC…
Jean: Whoa! Namine and Lulu deserves that!
Sora: And I'm tired. Go back to sleep. (Went back to his bed)
Jean: All right we have to go now, and I'm exhausted. Yawn! See you next time!