After the performance their group swamped Kairi.

"YOU WERE GREAT!" Selphie squealed. Kairi really did perform well. She sang a song from Hercules, called I Can Go the Distance, a few people in the audience cried.

Sora hung back from the group a little, and Kairi walked over to him.

"Hi So-ra," She said cutely, with her hands behind her back and swinging from side to side.

"Hey Kairi," Sora answered. "You were really great tonight."

"Thanks!" Kairi said, blushing.

There was silence for a moment.

"Umm… Kairi… Listen…I just wanted to-" Sora started before Riku jogged over, cutting him off.

"Hey guys, we're going to get pizza want to come?" he asked them.

Kairi glanced at Sora, and he agreed to go, so she did too. 'I wonder what he was going to say,' Kairi pondered to herself, but shook it off as they joined the rest of their group.

The next day, classes were organized.

"RIKU!" Sora yelled over the din of 180 students chattering. "WHAT CLASS YOU IN?"

"10Rust!" Riku yelled back. Sora looked disappointed.

"Aww!" Sora groaned, making his way over to Riku. "I'm in Black!" (A/N: The classes are colour coded, all the classes are Black, Rust, Gold, Yellow, Navy and White and senior school in this fanfic starts at year 10).

Sora spotted Namine at the poster that listed the people in black. She looked a little disappointed.

"Selphie!" Sora beckoned her over. "Are you in Black?"

"Yeah…"Namine said a little sadly.

"So am I!" Namine's face brightened.

"Well at least someone I know's in my class," she sighed gratefully.
A bell rang, blasting everyone to next week.

"I guess we'd better get to class, seeya later Riku," Namine and Sora waved goodbye to Riku and walked to their homeclass, which was in the labs.

"Gross! What's that smell?" Namine gasped, pinching her nose.

"That's just the normal smell in the lab," A man in his late 30's said, unperturbed as students flocked into the classroom, each one of them gasping and groaning. "I'm Mr. Olde's by the way, your homeclass teacher." Sora sized the man up. He looked nice enough, but then again this was high school. As Sora and Namine sat down, they realised they had more friends in this class than they thought. Namine spotted Yuna, Tidus and Wakka and nudged Sora.

"Hey guys!" He said, as he and Namine joined them. The five continued to gossip about high school, and what classes the other's were in.

"EXCUSE ME!" Mr. Olde's bellowed, silencing the room immediately. 'So much for being nice,' Sora thought. A poor unfortunate student kept talking, earning himself a cuff around the ears.

"Excuse me Mr Olde's but I think that is harassment," a boy chirped from the front row. He had a slightly feminine sounding voice.

Mr. Olde's glided over to him. "Oh you think, do you? Would you like to think some more in detention?"

"Uhh…" The boy said, thinking. "Um… not really…" He said, however he looked like he was still deciding whether he would or not.

"Hey Sora, looks like you got some competition for the Ditz of the Year award," Tidus said, nudging Sora in the ribs.

"They have one of those?" Sora whispered in awe, causing the five of them to giggle.

Sora looked confused but shrugged it off, and laughed along.

When the bell rang for recess, Tidus and Wakka left the group to go play blitz ball with the other jocks.

Yuna, Namine and Sora sat down in the Gazebo on the oval.

"Hey guys!" Kairi greeted them cheerfully. She sat down next to Namine, who was seated next to Sora. "Guess whose class I'm in!" Kairi whispered excitedly to Namine, while Sora was eavesdropping. Namine, being Kairi's best friend, knew exactly who Kairi was talking about. "He's not…?" Namine's mouth gaped open in awe. Kairi nodded excitedly, seeming for a moment like one of those bobble heads you can buy. "Yep! Briar Thorn is in my class!" Namine and Kairi squealed in unison.

"Whose Briar Thorn?" Sora asked, confused.

"Only the hottest guy in senior school!" Yuna exclaimed.

Sora looked hurt. "Hey, what about us?" Riku, Cloud and Leon walked up. "Yeah!" Sora seconded.

"Well…" The girls said blushing, they couldn't really say that four of their best friends were hot, however Selphie bounced up to the group.

"Of course you guys are hot!" She exclaimed. "DUH! Especially Cloudey," Selphie stroked Cloud's arm, while he looked extremely disturbed. "Don't be such a wimp I'm only teasing!" Selphie sat down with the others. The group gossiped for a while, occasionally watching the blitz ball game that was going on, oohing and aahing at Tidus and Wakka's spectacular saves, when Briar Thorn walked by.

Kairi, Namine and Yuna all exchanged looks, while Selphie was too busy arm wrestling Leon. Needless to say who won that match.

"Heya Kairi," Briar said in a deep, sexy voice. It was actually quite sleazy sounding, to Sora at least. "Do you wanna go to the beach with me tomorrow?" He asked her. Kairi nearly fainted. 'Briar Thorn just asked me out!' she was squealing mentally.

"Tomorrow?" She said weakly. "She'd love to go with you," Namine finished for her, as Kairi looked blissfully off into the distance, fantasizing about their date.

"Great, you can come too Blondey, if you're into that sort of thing," Briar said suggestively to Namine.

"Blondey has a name," Roxas shot at Briar, joining the group.

"Oh sorry, if she's yours you can have her, I like the red head better." And with that, Briar walked away. Roxas and Sora were fuming, whilst Namine and Kairi were off in La-La land, unaware of what was just said.

Sora nearly went after Briar, but Cloud held him back. "It ain't worth it mate, that guy's a jerk. Hopefully the girls'll see that."

"I'm not so sure…" Roxas said, glancing at the two who were giggling, a glazed look in their eyes.

"Well, we'll see soon enough, after they go on their "date"!" Sora said the word with remorse.

"Yeah, tomorrow we'll see," Roxas agreed.