A/N: I do not own any characters. Surprise! I'm not dead! Just had a lot going on. I switched jobs, college is a pain and… I almost got married but things ended badly. So here I am. Accept this as my apologies? And I have way too many messages to respond so I just marked them all as read. Sorry guys. If you honestly still want to bother messaging me I will try to message you back this time.
Chapter 15: Plan B
Roxas and the girl beside him turned and watched as Kairi and Sora came face to face.
Sora's face flushed. He found himself speechless.
Kairi, however, was not speechless. "What are you doing here? Why didn't you tell me you'd be here? Are you on vacation too?"
Riku quickly intervened, trying to save Sora from answering. "Hey there, Kairi."
"Oh, are you Sora's friend?" Kairi found herself blushing too now that everything was sinking in. Sora was here with his friends. Right in front of her. And here she was running off at the mouth!
"Uh, yeah. I'm Geir from Warscape. You can call me Riku though." Riku held out his hand, and Kairi took it gently and shook it.
Roxas stepped up and shook her hand too. "Godric, but my real name is Roxas."
The girl behind him gasped. "Roxas?"
Namine came to Kairi's side, her eyes shining and her smile broad.
"Namine?" Roxas didn't bother with a silly handshake. He hugged her tightly and picked her up off the floor.
Riku cleared his throat, and Roxas, embarrassed, set a blushing but still smiling Namine down.
"Well this is great to see you guys but we gotta get going. We'll send you text and we'll all hang out. Kay?" Riku grabbed Roxas and Sora and fled from the girls.
Namine and Kairi just watched them as they ran for the doors.
"Hey," Namine looked at the retreating heads of the boys. "Wasn't that red-head our bell boy?"
Outside the mall…
"My Namine… She was right there!" Roxas whined.
Sora still had not spoken and looked as if he was about to be sick.
Riku shook them both. "My plan is ruined!" Then he turned on Axel. "You! This is your fault!"
"What the hell? How is my fault?" Axel glared at Riku.
"You should have locked them in their room or something! I don't know!" Riku pulled at his hair. "Shit!"
"Let's get back to your house Riku. We'll figure it out," Axel said, leading the guys down the sidewalk towards Riku's home, Sora and Roxas trailing behind with their heads down in shame and Riku muttering obscenities under his breath.
Inside the mall…
Kairi hugged her shopping bags to her chest as she and Namine walked towards the mall exit. There were a million questions in her head. Why didn't he tell her? Is there someone else? Did she do something wrong?
"Kai, I already know you're not okay so let's just get back to our room and watch some movies. I'm really upset too, but I'm sure there is an explanation!" Namine said, trying to rub Kairi's back but it was a little hard to with all of her shopping bags hanging from her arms.
"Namine?" Kairi turned to her and stopped in her tracks.
"What is it?" Namine looked at her, trying hard to smile even though Kairi looked so incredibly betrayed.
"What if they didn't tell us because they already have girlfriends?"
Namine frowned. "I doubt that Kairi. I seriously doubt it. Now let's get a taxi and head back to our room. I'm going to send Roxas a text and see if he can't straighten this out."
After the girls got back to their apartment, Kairi threw her bags on her bed and Namine set her down as if they were made of glass and the joined in the living room. Kairi grabbed the remote and started looking for movies. Namine went to grab the room service menu and with it came a letter she knew was not there with the menu before.
"Hey, Kai," Namine held up the letter. "Come look at this."
Riku's house…
"Oh shit, shit, shit!" Riku paced up and down the length of his bedroom.
Axel giggled. "Shit must be the word of the day here."
"Shut up, you idiot." Riku growled. "I gotta fix this."
Meanwhile, Sora sat on Riku's bed, staring at his phone. He really wanted to send Kairi a text, but what could he say? Roxas was splayed out on the floor on his back, texting furiously on his phone.
Suddenly, Riku stopped and turned to the three guys. "Roxas, who are you texting?"
"Namine." Roxas replied, obviously distracted as he texted something that looked to be very serious.
"What? What are you saying?" Sora almost dropped his phone as he jumped up to give his brother his full attention.
"I'm explaining everything to her." Roxas said with a shrug. "What's the point in making up a story?"
Riku grabbed his phone. "YOU IDIOT!"
Roxas's mouth dropped open but Riku continued, "You have ruined all of my plans!"
Roxas snatched his phone and without skipping a beat said, "It's time for plan B then."