Jean: Sorry for this sudden information: That the special chapter, about the other's P.O.V about chapter 8 was now at my homepage, just looks at my profile and then looks at it. It was stated there.

Sora: No wonder I can't find it.

Jean: and for me, this is the last day of my holiday, so tomorrow I'm going back to school, and I had less time updating my story.

Readers: Awww!

Jean: But don't worry, I'll update the story and the others ASAP, and let's get on with the story. Boo hoo! Holiday's the last day!

The next day at the restaurant…….

"You want a cookie?" asked a mother to her son.

"They're so moist." Said her son, eating the cookie.

I was at the restaurant, as usual, mopping the floor and doing all kinds of odd jobs, everyone were busy doing their usual jobs, and I was rejected from Balamb. Well, guess I have to give that up when I heard Paine and Sora and their friends went into the restaurant, give me a strange look and she said it really loudly.

"People like that Kairi brat don't belong to your world, Sora!" Paine said it loudly, and went laughing. Just then, Riona went to me and she started looking worried.

"Kairi, what are you doing here?" she asked while I was mopping the floor.

"I'm trying to get the floor clean." I replied, and turned away.

"C'mon, sweetie, stop mopping the floor." She said. "I mean is that what you are going to do in your rest pf your life?" she asked.

"I'm a dork, and I do what dorks do!" I protested, and went back mopping the floor.

"Kairi sweetheart, what's gotten into you? You don't even realized how blessed you are. You got a family, I mean, Squall, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie; we are all supporting you. We have faith in you, and what you're doing is to have faith in yourself." She said, the staff members looking at me.

Just then, Penny went in, and the hammer clock dropped, along with part of the decorations of the walls.

"Mother! Look what Kairi had done!" Lulu complained.

"She just ruined your wall!" Namine shouted, pointing at the wall.

"What?" I asked and what was it all about?

"Yes you did ruin my wall, and that's going to come out of your paycheck!" Penny taunted, and started using the telephone. "And Kairi, cover up those stupid words!"

Just then when I was looking at the wall, I saw a note, but it was not just an ordinary note: it was the note Dad mentioned before he died.

"Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game." I quoted, and smiled. I finally realized what my father was talking about.

"Okay, I'm going off to get some more soda, and as for you Kairi, tonight, clean the pool. C'mon, girls!" Penny ordered, and I stood up not for myself, but for the others too.

"No." I said it boldly and clearly.

"Excuse me?" Penny asked her face red in anger.

"You heard me, I quit!" I shouted, putting the mop on the floor.

"I quit this job, I quit your family, and I'm moving out!" I shouted. Did I just say I'm moving out, and who am I going to be living with?

"Oh and where you're going to be living?" Penny asked, making sure I don't quit my job.

Riona stood up for me too. "With me!" she stands beside me, putting her hand on my shoulder. At last I feel comfortable about leaving Penny's family.

"You can't just walk out with me!" Penny protested, looking madder every minute.

"You know what, Penny? You can mess with your hair, your nose or your face, and you can even mess with my father's restaurant." I complained, loud and clear.

"Wait up, Kairi. You take another step out of this restaurant, and you're fired." She warned.

"Oh no, and that won't be necessarily. 'Cause you know what? I quit!" Riona joined in the rebellion. "The only reason why I put up all your boastfulness is because of this girl. And now that she's free from you, you can't stop me from kicking your fat smelly butt!" And with that, she took out mustard and ketchup, and splat it on Penny's face.

"C'mon, no, not the face! It's much newer than my face. Go with the girls!" Penny screamed, and Riona too splat it on their faces.

"Mother!" Namine and Lulu screamed, their face covered with ketchup and mustard.

"Riona! Riona!" Penny screamed, and Riona did step out of the restaurant.

"Anyway Mother, she's not even worth it." Said Lulu, sneered when Riona left the restaurant.

"You're right, Lulu." Penny said.

"You know what? We both quit too." Squall and Cloud announced, took out the apron and their chef hat and left the restaurant.

"Me too, hey Squall, Cloud! Wait for me, I want to go for a ride!" Yuffie said, take out her name tag and left with them too. One by one, even the customers, left the store.

"See you!" greeted Tifa, leaving the restaurant

"Well, I don't mind not getting my salary, but this job sucks." Axel said, and also left the restaurant.

"I had a bad feeling of you since I came here. And I'm tolerating enough, see ya." Saix too left the restaurant.

"Wait! I'll--" Penny started when he shrugged hardly and left the store angrily. The only ones left in the restaurant were only Penny and her evil daughters, leaving them speechless.

At Riona's house…..

"I'll do it for you." Said Riona, and carried my luggage to an empty bedroom which was in vacancy.

"Penny actually thought you were going to lecture her." She said, wiping her hands after bringing my luggage.

"I was going to do more than that." I said, and laughed a little, now that I'm free.

"Yeah, and I always knew that you were." Riona said, eating a bun from the fridge.

"Riona….." I started. "….are you sure this is okay?"

"I have no choice Kairi; I don't have any other way." Riona replied, sighing and settling down on the sofa.

"I've never felt such a home for a long time." I said, lying down on the sofa. It was soft and comfortable, I relaxed a little, and I never felt that home-like before.

"I'm sure compared with a family filled with vampires." Riona joked and we began laughing. Her home was bright and colorful, unlike Penny's house, filled with colors that don't suit a person that looked happy.

"So what are you going to do today, now that you're free?" she asked, looking at me, finishing the last munches of her bun.

"I got to do something, tonight, and it's very important. Do you know that today's the game? I mean a soccer match between our school and Spira high School's soccer team." I told her about tonight's soccer match.

At Redingdome stadium…..

"Welcome to the start of tonight's game between Destiny Islands High School soccer team, the Invincible Islanders (I know it sounds lame, but I can't think of others). And Spira High School, the Spirals! And a big welcome to our returning ex-students to tonight's 12th annual homecoming game!" Hurky announced at the spectator's corner.

"Check it!" shouted a player.

"Chick at 7 o'clock!" shouted another member from our school soccer team.

"Hey dork girl!" mocked a player while I was entering to the locker room to see what Sora was doing. I ignored what the other players are talking about me.

"What's she doing in here? Don't you read the sign, 'Players only'?" asked a player.

I busted in, the other players walked away, leaving me and Sora alone, having a small talk.

"Kairi." Sora started and went confessing, putting his hands on surrender position. "Okay, I know you think I'm just some---"

"Coward? Dork? Or a phony?" I interrupted, comforting him; he talked like as if I was just another idiot.

"Okay, just listen---" he started again when I interrupted him again. I wanted to tell him how I feel being Winry in the chat room, and how it feels like to be in the spotlight.

"You turned out to be exactly who I thought you were. I never pretended to be someone else I'm not. And it's been me all along. And it was me who was hurt in front of everybody." I lectured him. I wanted to cry, but there's something else on my mind.

"Look, I did not come here to yell at you, okay?" Sora asked. "I came here to tell you I know what it feels like to be afraid to show ho you really are. I was, but not anymore."

"And the thing is, I don't care what people around me, because I believe in myself, and I know things are going to be okay. But even though I have no family, no job and no money for college, and it's you I feel sorry for." With that lecture, I left, crying all the way to the stadium.

"Heads up team, five minutes!" the coach boomed, all the players quickly assembled and straightened up.

"Coming Coach Franklin!" Sora shouted, running into the field with his other team members.

"I know that guy that sends those chat-mails is somewhere down here inside of you." Said Luna to me, walking up the stairs to meet Riku and Jean with the crowd.

"But I can't wait for him, because waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. And it's getting colder and colder here." I said, shivering with cold as the wind blows and finally seen Riku and Jean waving at us.

"Useless and disappointing." I said when I settled down.

"Kairi, so you're here after all, looking for Sora again?" asked Jean. I was thinking hard of something when Luna nudged me with her elbow.

"Kairi, she's talking to you." Luna warned, and I regain focus.

"So what are you doing here?" I asked Riku.

"Riona called me to ask where you will be if you're not at the stadium. I thought I could use a friend. Sit closer, the game's starting." He said, and we sat closer to get a closer look.

"And we're so proud of you; you deal your stepmother and Sora in one day. So how does it feel?" asked Jean, smiling at me.

"Well, I was thinking going to the game, but I understand if you don't want to do that." Riku talked about it

"NO, I'll go." I said.

"Really? You're going to the game?" asked Riku.

"Yes, and I can handle it now, it'll be our first and last confrontation." I said, smiling brightly. "And besides, if I don't go, who else is gonna explain the game for Sora?" I asked the others.

"I like what you're wearing, and what character are you putting in?" asked Luna.

"Myself." I replied to her, looking at the field.

"And I think it's your best look." Jean commented, looking at what I was wearing from head to toe.

"Thank you, Jean." I greeted, and went back to the game.

"Come on, everybody, weren't they great? Let's hear it from them! And let's give our cheerleaders a big hand! Please make some noise, to welcome them!" announced Hurky and the cheerleaders began cheering.

"Sora and I are almost back together, and it's isn't official or anything, but it's on, looked there." I said, pointing my head to the field.

"Okay everybody! Here they come!" Hurky announced, and all the cheerleaders went in the stadium and everyone screamed.

"I'm glad you came, Kairi." Paine thought to herself, looking at me from up the spectator's corner.

"The defending champions, your very own Invincible Islanders!" announced Hurky, the players ran into the field.

"Both the Spirals and the Islanders enter the game, tied for the lead in the conference standing!" she continued, the players went to their proper positions.

"The winner of tonight's game will advance to the playoffs and for the universe championship!" she announced.

"Sora." I looked at him seriously, and he listened what I was saying seriously just now at the locker room.

"Sora, all right buddy, this is a big one, all right?" asked the coach.

"You stay focus and win the game, sonny." Reminded his father, who was sponsoring the game for mineral water. "Everyone is counting on you, all right?" he nodded and Sora went running into the field with his mates.

"One, two, three, start!" The referee shouted and blew the whistle. As Sora was the striker of the game, he passed the ball to Andy, a player, and then Hurky was watching the game, talking about the players.

"Whoa, look at the players! And they seemed pretty good for a tough match, too bad they are only at the final round when one of these teams going to the playoffs." Hurky said, looking at the players.

The opposite team got the ball from Tidus, by accident for Tidus when he didn't look carefully where he was going. He fell on the ground, the opposite team scored a goal from the Islanders and Tidus ended up carried by four paramedics carrying him to the medic room.

"Awww!" the Destiny Islands High School students cooed, and the match continued, Tidus replaced by Jason.

"I love soccer!" screamed Namine.

"I love soccer! I truly love soccer! My favorite game, and if only I joined the girls' soccer team." Lulu screamed, moving around and the girls were standing up somewhere at the crowd.

"Sora! Sora! Sora! Sora! Sora! Sora! Sora!" the crowd chanted, looking at Sora having the ball while running away from the opposite team players.

"Riku, I thought that I could handle this, but I really got to go now. I can't do it." I moaned, pulling Riku's wrist when he was still cheering Sora for the goal.

"And you know what; wait till the Sora scores the goal, and then we go. Sora! Sora!" Riku began joining the crowd again, cheering for Sora. "C'mon Sora, you can do it!"

"Do it, baby!" Roxas and Demyx screamed somewhere at the crowd, waving the banners they made jumping and shouted away, cheering for Sora.

"This is the one, Sora. This is the one. You can do it sonny!" Mr. Hikari cheered, as if putting pressure for himself when Sora went to the goalpost to kick the ball. But then, Sora stopped, and walked away from the field.

"Sorry mates. I gotta go now." Sora said, leaving the field. The spectators looked surprised when Sora just left the game even though it wasn't half time yet.

"Where are you going?" said his father furiously, walking to him, his face red in anger.

"What is he---- What is he----" Coach Franklin mumbled, looking at Sora leaving the game.

"What's the problem Sora?" asked his father angrily, grabbing his arm. Sora threw away his soccer shoes and his knee belts from the stairs, where the spectators were sitting, near to me.

"I'm outta here, and I'm sick and tired of you telling me what to do. I've grown up." Sora said, not facing his father.

"What's you're throwing away your dreams!" his father yelled, his face became redder and redder each minute.

"No, dad. Actually, I'm throwing away yours. That's not my dream from the start you mentioned this excuse of yours." Sora said angrily, facing his father this time.

"It's your game now, go get them!" his father ordered, pointing at the field.

"Substitute for Hikari is Meg Anderson, number 15!" Announced Hurky, Meg went into the field. After that, Sora began climbing up the stairs.

"Sora!" I screamed, chasing after him.

"Sora get back here you idiot!" his father reprimanded, pointing at the stairs.

"Sora, what are you doing?" I asked, then the rain fall as soon as I catch up with him.

"Sorry I waited for the rain, dad." He said, his father still red in anger.

"It's okay." I comforted him.

"No!" his father screamed.

"Oh, god. It rained, just like that?" asked Namine, looking up the sky.

The whistle blew. "The first half of the game, the Invincible Islanders had won! They won the first half!" Hurky announced, cheering for her school soccer team.

"Oh my, you gonna love high school for it." I remembered my father saying that when I was just 3, and too remember all the wonderful things my father did.

But what I remember most was I got my prince…..

….and a really bad cold.

"Ah-choo!" I sneezed, raindrops falling on us.

And then we kissed. Namine and Lulu fainted after seeing this, Paine looking furious and me when Yuna and Rikku were calming her down. Luna, Jean and Riku joked about it and Riku went kissing Luna after that, Sora and I did kiss. It was not a dream. The kiss was real.

And that's how the wonderful ending looks like…..

TBC……

Jean: Yeah! Sora and Kairi kissed!

Riku: You forgot us too.

Jean: Oh and this is the second final chapter of this story. Wanna find out what happens in the end? DON'T MISS THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THIS STORY! It's going to be a happy ending, like all fairy tales. So see you, at the end of the chapter!