"Selphie!" Roxas groaned. "Do we have to?"
Selphie nodded her head emphatically. "C'mon, it'll be fun!"
'But what if she rejects me?' Roxas thought to himself, glancing sideways at a certain blonde haired person sitting next to him.
"Well!" Cloud said. "I know who I want to ask!" and with that said, he walked off.
"Wait! Can't you tell us?" Selphie yelled after him, burning with curiosity.
"Nope, you'll find out on the night!" Cloud called back, smirking.
"Guys, it's not that bad!" Kairi said encouragingly, trying to cheer the group up.
"Well, miss Optimistic, who are you going to take?" Namine asked Kairi. Kairi blushed and said falteringly, "I don't know…" and exchanged glances with Sora. 'Well at least they have each other, even if they don't know it. I doubt he would even think of me that way,' Namine thought, accidentally brushing arms with Roxas. She looked up to see Roxas smiling at her, and immediately started blushing.
Meanwhile Kairi and Yuna gave each other a knowing look, and Yuna said, "It's not like you two will have a problem getting dates!"
"What!" Roxas and Namine exclaimed in unison.
Kairi winked at them. "I-I don't know what you're talking about!" Namine spluttered.
"Who are you going with?" Sora asked Leon changing the subject.
"Good question," Leon said. "Hey Paine, you wanna go with me to a dinner party?" A tall girl walked by. She was slightly goth looking, if slightly means a lot.
"Why not," Paine said, unphased by the sudden question and just continued to walk without getting any details.
"I guess I'm going with Paine now," Leon said, grinning at the shocked people.
At that moment the bell rang, and the group separated off to go to their lockers. While Sora was walking, he noticed someone just behind him. Turning his head, he realized it was Denzel.
"Hey man!" Sora said, slightly guiltily. He had forgotten all about Denzel during the excitement of Selphie's dinner party.
"Hey," Denzel answered in a sad voice.
"What's up?"
"N-nothing!" Denzel said in a fake cheery voice, stuttering a little.
Sora decided to let it alone. He didn't know Denzel that well, and he didn't want to be nosy.
"Well, see you later Sora, I have to go to Maths now," Denzel said waving cheerfully to Sora. Sora smiled a goodbye, as his hands were full with his books. Denzel walked around the corner, and as soon as he was out of eyesight of Sora, he collapsed on the wall, clutching his stomach. He pulled up his jumper, revealing a huge black welt that stretched across his belly. Another person rounded the corner, and Denzel hurriedly yanked down the cloth.
"You all right man?" A boy asked as he passed by. Denzel just nodded, smiling weakly. 'I can't go to Selphie's,' he thought sadly. If I do, people will see my…sickness…' Coughing, he trudged on to his Math's lesson.
Sora, in the meantime, met up with Kairi.
"Hey Ra," Kairi said with a smile. Sora sighed. She was never going to give up this whole "Ra" business.
"Hey Kai," he said tiredly. Suddenly perking up he said, "You know what? I think we should use this dinner party thing to include Denzel into our group a bit more!"
"Yeah!" Kairi said enthusiastically. "He seemed a bit out of it before."
"Mmm," Sora said, nodding his head. "So, Kairi…" Sora began, before he was cut off by a familiar drawl. Sora turned around and his smile turned into a scowl.
"What'd you want?" Sora spat.
"Chill, I just wanted to talk to Kairi, or is she your property now?" Briar Thorn said, and smirked at Kairi. Sora wove his arm protectively through Kairi's.
"If she's not, then you won't mind if I take her to Selphie's party then?" Kairi and Sora looked at each other in shock. They couldn't believe that Selphie would invite this moron!
"Good, so it's a date?" Briar said, and without waiting for a reply he walked off.
Sora and Kairi both just stood there dumbfounded.
"You can't go with him," Sora said finally.
Kairi raised an eyebrow. "Oh, and you're the boss of me now are you?" Kairi said fiercely.
"Kai, I didn't mean it like that!"
"I'm your 'property' am I?"
"Hey, I didn't agree with that!"
"You didn't disagree!" Kairi shot back, and then she walked away, tossing her hair over her shoulders.
'Oh great,' Sora moaned. The bell rang, and Sora had to run to his class in order not to be late.
It was health.
Sora walked in and sat next to Riku as the teacher was introducing himself.
"Good morning class," a tall, muscly teacher with blonde hair and a toothpick in his mouth barked. "My name is Cid."
"Uhh, Cid what?" Someone asked from the back of the class.
"Just Cid!" The man snapped. "Today, we will be learning about ligaments…"
After the word 'learning' Sora just tuned out. He didn't like Health, he didn't even want to do it but it was the only elective left. Looking out the window, he spotted a familiar red haired girl. Sora was watching Kairi run laps of the oval outside, when Riku jabbed him hard in the ribs.
"What?" Sora whispered furiously, rubbing his side.
Riku just pointed towards the front, where Cid was standing glaring at Sora. Sora smiled feebly at the teacher.
"Uh, yeah?" He asked in a small voice. This teacher was scary.
"Uh yeah you like got detention," Cid said, mimicking Sora.
'My voice isn't really that high, is it Riku?" Sora whispered to his best friend.
"Fine, two Wednesdays. Meet me here after class, today being your first one," Cid barked. "Anyway so the femur is connected to the…" He continued, and Sora once again tuned out. 'Great now I have five Wednesdays all up,' Sora thought. Turning his attention to outside again, Sora watched with jealousy as Briar Thorn flirted with Kairi. 'By all means, this makes no sense! Shouldn't she still be angry at him from the chocolate shop incident?' Sora wondered. 'Well, I guess she's more angry at me now,' he thought sadly.
About ten minutes later, Kairi's class went into the gym, and another class came out. Sora saw Denzel and, completely forgetting he was in class, tried to wave. But he stopped his arms in mid air as he watched what Denzel was doing. The boy, who had been running, now stopped and leant against the wall. He then fell to the ground and started convulsing.
"Cid!" Sora yelled, raising his hand and waving it frantically, still watching the horrifying scene before him.
"What is it boy?" Cid walked over to where Sora was. All Sora could do was point at the small heaving figure of Denzel.
"Oh my…" The toothpick that had occupied Cid's mouth fell out. "Someone use the phone over there and call an ambulance!" He ordered, but no one could move. Everyone had crowded around the window, and now they were all in shock. Most people had never seen anything like this in their school life, well the lucky ones at least. Sora snapped out of his stupor and ran to the phone. Once he had called an ambulance, he ran outside. No one had even noticed him, lying there on the ground, occasionally twitching.
"Denzel!" Sora cried out, and the boy moved his head slightly. But his eyes were rolled back into his head. The boy was unconscious. Sora moved him onto his side, remembering all his first aid training, and checked Denzel's pulse. He was still breathing. In all the movement Sora had done to Denzel, the boy's jumper had rolled up slightly. Sora saw tattooed on the boys skin a huge, painful looking welt. 'So this is why he wears baggy clothes,' Sora thought, reverently pulling Denzel's jumped back down. At that moment Cid came running up, along with half the class. The teacher of Denzel's gym class finally noticed the commotion and was walking over with his class. Once Cid had checked Denzel, he strolled over to the teacher, who happened to Mr Oldes.
"What happened?" Mr Oldes asked.
"How can you not know?" Cid yelled at him. "You're the teacher, you're supposed to be looking after your students, not gallivanting about doing nothing! It's been a good five minutes since this boy has been unconscious. HE COULD HAVE DIED!" Cid bellowed in Mr Oldes face. The other teacher had been growing redder and redder. Sora was listening to Cid's rant, and in his books, Cid had gained about fifty brownie points. Denzel moaned and moved slightly, and Sora called out to Cid. The moment Cid had turned away Mr Oldes stalked off.
"Sora?" Denzel asked weakly, seeing the spiky haired boy's face. Sora couldn't say anything. He had never seen someone have a seizure before. It was frightening.
"Don't worry kid, we'll have you in a hospital soon," Cid said gently, saving Sora from having to speak. Sora decided this teacher was his favourite. 'I don't think I'll mind having Wednesdays with him,' Sora thought to himself.
WeeoooweeeoooweeoooweeoooweeoooThe sound of the ambulance filled the silence that had fallen upon the group of students, and teacher. The paramedics came running out of the vehicle and checked Denzel. They moved him onto a stretcher and carted him into the ambulance. One of the paramedics noticed Sora standing next to him.
"Will he be alright?" Sora asked softly.
"Yeah don't worry," the paramedic said kindly. "He'll be okay."
Another paramedic added quietly "This time." But Sora did not hear him.
"He's just going to the hospital on Destiny Islands right?" Sora was thinking of going to visit Denzel after school.
"Probably, but then he might be moved. Destiny Islands isn't really equipped for this sort of case," the paramedic replied, but then they were ready to go.
"See you kid," the paramedic said to Sora, smiling kindly at him.
"Yeah, bye," Sora answered waving slightly, his mind troubled. 'I wonder what he meant by "this sort of case"?'
Okay, there it is CONFLICT! woohoo with Denzel, oh poor wil Denzy! Oh well.. And i bet you're all wondering who Cloud goes to the dinner party with? Well, you're just gonna have to wait and find out..tehehee.