Jean: Hmmp! didn't give us any notice, and I can't update my stories for more than 24 hours!
Hurky: Mine too, but just get on with the story. And after finishing writing this story, you have to update your other stories.
Jean: I'll try my best and my holiday's going to be over in 2 days. And after that I won't update that often. 'Cause I'm not an American, so I don't spend the whole summer writing it.
"That him." I whispered to Yuffie, Sora and his friends entering the restaurant.
"Well, go get him." Yuffie suggested.
"Better not, but at least I'll try." I said, and went to the table they were sitting.
"Can I get you something?" I asked.
"You know what bugs me?" asked Sora.
"People taking your orders?" I asked.
"No, but that's a good guess. Taking people orders." He said, fuming about his father.
"Why would you do that?" I asked, puzzled.
"You don't know him." He growled, turning his head to the other side.
"Spaggitti and meatballs? Who does that?" I asked.
"Well, I take iced lemon tea, thanks." Sora ordered. "And Kairi."
"What is it?" I asked, returning back to the table.
"Don't you ever feel like if you are shown someone who you really are, but they don't accept you?" he asked.
"Yeah." That is the only answer I only think off, l really can't think of anything.
"Like being yourself is not good enough." Said Sora and smiled.
"Right." I answered again, I smiled this time.
"Like you're wearing a mask." He said.
"That exactly how I felt." I said, and went back giving the orders to Yuffie.
Back at home I was chatting with Savior/Sora in the chat room, and it was as usual. No one disturbing us. And it was the perfect time not to be interrupted by anyone.
"….you has to be honest with this person and tell him that it's me." I whispered to myself while chatting with Sora.
"I'm the one you're looking for, Winry. So tell me what's your identity, I want to know." He replied, and heaved a sigh, and then I thought for a while. To confess or not to confess, that is the choice.
"My name is---" I replied when Penny interrupted the section with us. "One second!" I yelled.
"No, NOW!" she argued, and no choice, I have to go down.
"I have to cool down, so I'll be back for a short few minutes, later!" I typed to Sora and went down to the living room.
"Then, see you later. Looks like you are busy right now. I'll be waiting." He answered, and I didn't notice it.
The next day in school……..
"Bonjour, male soccer team, here's your daily dose of medicine: Don't lose control of the lawn, make sure you got a license when driving a car or a motorcycle and remember, you guys out here, get your tickets for the upcoming game, and tickets are selling fast!" Hurky announced, when Jean entered the school the next day. Riku, Luna and I went to her and talk about Sora.
"Hey Jean. What's up? And do Sora sometimes come to school with you?" I asked her.
"Well, he didn't today. It was supposed that he was supposed to fetch me to school today, but just this morning at 3 he told me that he can't make it. And I understand that he was working with his father again at the patrol." She said.
"Okay and I don't see Namine and Lulu out here today. Neither are Paine and her mates. Wonder what they are up to." Riku answered, turning around looking for them.
"You're right. That's unusual for them to come late." Luna agreed, looking around.
At the study corner………
"….and then she tried to steal (Sob!) (Sob!) Sora away from you if that was the last thing she ever did to you!" Namine shed crocodile tears to Paine, at the study corner, to gossip all the lies about me.
"Our evil stepsister has always been jealous of you! Boo hoo hoo!" Lulu too joined in the soap opera.
"Go on." Ordered Rikku.
"And that's when she (Sob!) (Sob!) Invented this whole Cinderella tall tale." Namine cried.
"She got hold of (Sob!) (Sob!) (Sob!) Of Sora's chat-mail address and that's when she (Sob!) (Hyuck!) Started the whole affair. Wahh!" Lulu cried even harder.
"We wanted to tell us sooner, but she threatened to kill us if we speak up….." Namine started.
"She is worse than a monster!" Lulu screamed, and went shedding crocodile tears.
"And if you don't believe us, look at all her e-mails!" Namine began.
"She goes by Winry, but then her real identity was actually Kairi London Foultly!" Lulu continued.
"And we're just Namine and Lulu Drake!" they confessed the lied.
"So that little boyfriend stealer thinks she can pull a fast one out of me? Well, I'll I give her a taste of her own medicine." Paine said to herself with malice.
At the staff room….
While Hurky was announcing an announcement to remind the band members that there is a practice, Lulu interrupted and passed a piece of paper to her.
"Sora was a little late today, so he asked me to pass this to you if you've read this announcement." Lulu whispered to her, and Hurky reluctantly read the 'announcement.'
"Cinderella…." Hurky began, and started at the note looking puzzled and confused. "…if you're listening to this message….."
"What was that about?" I asked when we heard the announcement.
"Must be the one at Halloween. I knew from a distant that the person wearing the white dress and a mask was you. Just guessing, so it was really you, but I won't tell it to anyone. I just HATE gossip." Jean said laughing softly and putting her bag to the locker.
"What are you wearing that day?'' Luna asked.
"Oh, a desert costume (Something like the one Sakura wore back at her country at TRC.), but not too hideous." She answered, taking the books out of the locker.
"…your prince wants to meet you after the soccer/cheerleading rehearsal." Hurky finished announced the note and went on with the usual schedule.
"Woot! Nothing like a soccer/cheerleading rehearsal with your Prince Charming…." Riku started.
"Shut up!" Luna, Jean and I yelled at him.
"Hey gals just cool down. And I heard that Sora was going to Balamb soon, but I'm not sure about it. I overheard during recess time that he may not be going there after college." Riku said.
"Maybe it was just a gossip." Argued Jean.
"No it wasn't. I heard Sora saying to Tidus and Meg, and I always sit near them, after Luna and Kairi. I heard it with my own ears." He argued back.
"Okay I talk to Sora, but not as Cinderella." I said, sighing.
"Then did you told him everything?" asked Luna.
"No, not everything, and not the part about me being Cinderella." I said, and turned to Riku, grinning, as he was the troublemaker of all the friends I befriended.
"But I'm gonna tell him after the rehearsal so you coming unlucky charmer?" I asked, and reminded him the incident when Paine trashed him off at the pool in just a conversation.
"And do I look like an unlucky charmer?" he asked.
"Sure. Yesterday then, after Paine ticked you off." I grinned and went closer to him.
At the rehearsal…….
"Who you're gonna beat?" asked Paine during cheerleading.
"The Spirals (The team in Spira High School)!" yelled the others.
"And when we're gonna beat them?" asked Paine loudly.
"On Saturday!" yelled back the others. And at the back of the area, Sora was talking to his dad privately.
"Good news, I just got off the phone with Coleen Weightburn." Sora told his dad.
"And you played well on Saturday, and your future is set without stopping in this Saturday's game." His father replied, patting his shoulder.
"That's great dad." Sora replied, looking at his father in fear. He didn't want to confess that he was accepted in Balamb Garden.
"And who's gonna lead us to victory?" boomed the cheerleaders.
"Sora!" shouted his father.
"I can't hear you!" he argued, as the cheerleaders are getting louder.
"Kill the Spirals!" the cheerleaders boomed louder this time.
"Sora!" screamed his father. "Go get them!"
Everyone became silent when Miss. Deliria kept the court silence, and went passing off the mic to Paine.
"Thank you, thank you. Thanks for coming for this rehearsal, and we, the Destiny Islands High School cheerleaders have out together a skit to help us get in the spirit." Paine announced, and went off the stage still having the mic on her hand.
"I Love You Paine! You're the hottest girl in the world!" shouted a random kid from nowhere.
"Thank you for that, and let's get on with the story." Paine said, and passed the mic to Yuna.
"Once upon a time, there was a big strong Islander." Yuna started, showing a big, muscular cut off picture of a famous wrestler, a girl with short hair hiding behind it.
"He had the most beautiful girlfriend, and his father owns the biggest mansion in the island." Continued Yuna, when there was a girl with a moustache and a girl with pigtails holding hands.
"But still he didn't smile." Rikku continued when Yuna passed the mic quickly to her. The audiences all cooed: "Awww!"
"If only he could find a princess, and then she could kiss him, next turned him into a prince and they would run away together." Rikku continued. Paine continued with the story. The Islander once wore a torn cloth, and then wore a manly costume, and ran to the backstage with the princess together.
"One night, after that dirty Islander ditches his super hot senior-cool-most-popular girlfriend, he meets his princess." She said, and another girl came into the scene.
"Your Highness," quoted Paine with a manly voice that it was so funny; people didn't know how to describe it.
"Alas, it turned out that not our Islander has a secret identity, but also had a secret chat-mail relationship with a pen pal called Winry, and that isn't good!" said Paine, as in the voice of the girlfriend.
"Dear Winry, I can't wait till we finally meet each other, and you're the only one who gets to understand the REAL me. The man who doesn't want to play soccer, but who wants to be at Balamb Gardens with you?" asked the voice of the prince.
"Who are they talking about?" I asked Riku.
"I don't know." He answered, and went on watching the skit.
The so-called prince opened an envelope and went on reading the message.
"Dear Savior, I want you to know who I really am, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you! I'm scared you reject me, and I'm a person who never had a real kiss." The 'prince' read the letter.
"I can't they are reading my chat-mails!" I protested when Riku held my hand, getting me out of the area.
"Let's go. I think Paine is up to no good again, just as she treated me yesterday." Riku told me, gripping my wrist so hard that I have to scream in pain.
"But our princess had a secret too." Announced Paine, walking towards me, and this time I'm in big trouble.
"She wasn't royalty at all; she was a geek, a nerd, a loser, and a dork."
"Yeah!" shouted the random guys and it turned out to be both Roxas and Demyx screaming all the way. They were the 3rd years in high school and the running gag in the whole school.
"Any ideas about this?" Paine asked, walking nearer to me. "And who you both ask about the imposter, and give it up, the dork loser pretend princess girl, Kairi Foultly!" she announced, and everyone were on eyes at me. I heard people calling me a loser, a dork, a geek, a nerd.
"Dork girl! Dork girl!"
"Dork girl! Dork girl!" everyone was shouting at me, and I felt, like I was a dork.
"C'mon, confess! Just say you're Cinderella!" Paine teased, that her looks irked me. I feel like kicking her butt, mess up her nails and face and everything. Instead, I ran all the way back home.
When the audiences shouted me as dork girl, Riku can't stand all the commotion, and yelled shut up. The first time don't seem to work.
"Shut up, you guys…." Luna shouted, looking right to left.
"SHUT UP!" Riku yelled as if he was fed up with everything. No one sees him too fierce before as a geek, and everyone in the court, even Paine and her mates, hanged their mouth open. Riku angrily pulled Luna's wrist and left the court and Jean followed them.
Back at my room….
I was pouring still, back at school when Penny went in and was holding a letter.
"Kairi…." She began when I shut her off.
"Go away!" I screamed, and I continued pouring.
"But Kairi, you got a letter from Balamb." She said, and passed it to me. I opened it, and I went pouring again. I failed to get into the interview.
"What does it say?" she asked.
"I failed to get into the first interview." I moaned and cried.
"Oh god! And you had studied so hard for it. I can't believe you failed. And Kairi, I'm so heartbroken. Life can be so unfair. But look at the bright side; you still have a job at the restaurant." She said, and I knew she was pretend to feel pity on me. I clenched my fist that I'll get everything back that I lost.
TBC…..
Jean: I know that was sad, but the good part goes on the next chapter, right Hurky?
Hurky: Yup and I feel sad for Sora and Kairi.
Jean: Well, we'll continue on the next chapter. But the next chapter was the other people's point of view during the events that happened on this chapter. So, see you then! The real story will be back on the following chapter.