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Heya you guys! It's the last chapter, so I'll try to make as romantic and dramatic as possible. But first of all, I want to give my last and biggest thanks to annyx1, Becky13474, Sora788, annyx01, animelover07, Paper Hearts Bleed Ink (I'm not sure about that one, it was signed anon. So I'm not sure), KHKairiNamineFanatic, Angelgirl18647 and m-m333 (anon. Too) So on with the story, with the many questions soon to be answered! Like the winner of the jellybeans! Oh and my soon to be traditional after end of story party and secrets!
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Love On The Beach:
Picture 10"Hahaha! It's my long awaited picture! A lot of people have heard about this one already so you guys better make it good, 'kay?" Mrs. Celestial said.
"Okay, but exactly how did they find out about this picture?" Riku asked her.
"Oh, that wasn't me! So don't you go off to everyone and say that I told them." The teacher said in defense.
"But if you say it like that, it makes you look suspicious." Kairi said, causing the boys to laugh uncontrollably somehow in control under their breath.
"Yes it does, deary."
"Deary?" Kairi asked in a bit of disgust. Then she turned her head to Riku once again. "Hey Riku? This really is your cousin?"
He didn't answer for a minute or so. "Unfortunately. Hey guys look, we're at the beach and it looks like we can catch sunset!" The whole group gave a whoot, took off their shoes and ran to the shore.
Kairi got there first, stepping barefoot into the salty water. She just stood there, inhaling the air and letting her arms dangle loose. Sora was second because Riku and Celestial got caught up in one of their fights once again. He stood by Kairi, letting her enjoy the beach before he'll interrupt.
"If you're thinking of letting me soak it in first before interrupting, you already have." She said calmly, still keeping her position.
"Whoa, you can do that! Now I'm just wondering if you're psychic." Sora jumped back at least an inch or two.
"No, it's just that you breath really loud and wheezy."
"Yeah sure I do."
"I'm glad you understand that you do." And just when he was going to make another stupid remark just so he can hear her, Riku called out to them for the shot.
He led them to a spot where he can get them, the sun and its glare off the water. Riku ordered them, in a really bossy way, to hold each other close. They could've kissed if they wanted to, but they didn't. So Kairi and Sora were held together by a hug, head side by side, hers in front, his gravity defying spikes coming out from the back. He took the picture, and it sort of looked like it was taken from the side because of the glare of the sun, which made it look a bit confusing.
"'Kay you guys! We have maybe, oh ten minutes left on the beach. So you guys enjoy!" Mrs. Celestial yelled out to them. So Riku caught up to her, they walked off and the famous echoes of their yells could be heard again. Come to think of it, they've never really talked unless it was in the form of an argument.
"So we're left alone again?" Sora asked, that little nervous lump coming up his throat.
"Yeah, I guess so." Same thing happening to Kairi.
"What're we going to do now?"
"I dunno. You have an idea?"
In The Trees:
"Do ya think they'll notice we've stopped arguing?" Celestial asked to Riku.
"Heck, yeah they will. But then again, they're too soak up in each other to notice that." He answered.
"So if they kiss—"
"—And if we have the right side. Ahem, right. Sorry."
"Ok, back to where I was. You'll take the picture and replace that other one?"
"I never took 'that other one."
"WHAT?! YOU NEVER TOOK ANOTHER ONE!" the teacher yelled out. Kairi and Sora turned their heads to their direction; probably just thinking it was one of their louder uproars in their argument. Riku thought fast and took both heads down under the cover of the brush and shade from the trees.
"Shut up, Celestial. If you don't keep quiet and they hear you, they might find out that we're under the brush. And yes I did take a picture, I was just kidding you around."
"Two things: you joke around way too much for your own good, and second, you joked when that could've broken our cover, dumbo!" She gave him a hit on the head.
"Ow, and it t… oh look! I think they're really talking about something important." The cousins turned their attention.
"So you really think that Sora?" Kairi asked, that same I'm-in-love tone coming back from earlier. "Wow—"
"Wow what?" he asked back.
"I thought that this moment would be in Paris."
"Get over that, so do you?" By now, maybe even before, they sat on the sand. So when Sora asked Kairi, she jumped up and pulled him up too and hugged.
They didn't feel like they needed to speak, they'd talk through emotions. Sora broke the hug and they stared into each other's, probably about a minute or so.
"So you want to finish what we started earlier?" he asked.
"You really don't have to ask." Once she finished, Sora came down. Lip to lip, again they would talk oh, so privately. Kairi's right leg raised, more like flicked gently, up from the ground. Yay! My leg rose, so that means we're really in love with each other! She thought to herself, believing in the romance rumors that she hears from Selphie all the time.
Riku took the picture and Celestial checked her watch. "It's been fifteen, let's go back to the fair." So they stood up and walked to them in the act of just finishing their argument of the century. Celestial held her in Riku's face and said, "It's been fifteen, and we need to go." So they broke off each other, both in huge grins.
Back At The Fair:
"We're here, my wonderful fair that I organized!" Mrs. Celestial yelled out to the air.
"Show-off." Riku said, in his not-happy-not-mad-not-anything tone. She was on knees holding up her arms then he just hit her in the head. "Ok, me and Ms. Praise the Fair over there are going to start the stall, you guys, be you. Go on the Ferris wheel, it'll be fun!" he tempted them with the tickets they'd need. They gave a look at each other and Sora snatched the tickets out of Riku's hand. "Your loss." He said.
"Aww, you set them up on the Ferris Wheel." Mrs. Celestial said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's just print out the beach picture—" He said glumly this time.
"That's in a heart frame!"
"Yeah. I know, aren't you so happy?"
"Sarcasm much, Rikrik."
"STOP CALLING ME RIKRIK!"
"Why should I?"
"Then what am I supposed to do? Stop calling my cousin by her own name and start calling her Mrs. Celestial, when she's not even married?" Gasps in the passers by, good thing none of them knew Riku and Celestial.
"Don't you even bring that up—"
"Oh look, now. It's done." Riku took out the picture and placed it in the frame. No sooner than later, a small crowd started to form, bringing their films and watchful eyes on the pictures that were taken.
"Looks like he's gonna kill her."
"But he isn't. They look cute in the Halloween one."
"Yeah, those are nice, but look at the heart frame! They kissed!" A few random people started calling out. You'd be surprised at the crowd Celestial lured in. Only two or three people here and there that actually had pictures to print.
And the two that would spread the word of the kiss, Alyssa and Selphie, came out of the crowd. Their jaws dropped, but Selphie's came back up. "Omigosh! We need to tell more people! And tell them too, that they kissed! Riku, Riku, Riku! Where are they?!?" she squealed out.
"Oh, that picture? I sent them onto the Ferris Wheel." He assured her.
Alyssa drew back her jaw and looked a bit too surprised just to hear they were on the wheel. "Why'd you send them on this one? It's where the carts slide around the bars!!! You should know; you're the one who ordered it for the fair!" she yelled at him.
"Uhhhhh, I knew that!" he said really dumbfounded.
"Sure you did. So I wonder what's happening on their cart?" Selphie said.
On The Cart:
"S, Sora, we're on the top." Kairi said really scared as she and Sora were tied up in each other's arms, afraid of the ride they were set up on.
"And now, it's swinging!!!" They screamed for no certain death that they thought they were in. Sora held on tighter, as she buried her head in his shoulder.
About five minutes later, they reached the bottom. "Those were the worst ten minutes of my life so far. Where's Riku, I'm so going to beat 'em up." Sora said a bit aggressively.
"Sora! It's okay, that was actually fun!" Kairi said, lighting up the moment just by a tweak and a big smile. He returned with a yes with his cheesy grin, too.
The same two girls came up to them, Selphie once again perking up the moment even more with Alyssa quietly following her around; not just because she wanted to, she had to. Selphie was holding onto her arm. "Omigosh, omigosh, omigosh did you guys know you kissed!?!"
"Yeah, if we did." Sora stammered at the thought. "How'd you know we kissed?"
"You didn't know? Riku took the picture for the heart frame. He did it without telling you? Ohhhhh, he's in big trouble now!"
"Wait, you're telling us that Riku took a picture with his so-called cousin Celestial?" Kairi questioned then just noticing that she told Selphie she was a friend with the cousin of her most hated teacher.
"Riku's cousin is Mrs. Celestial! And to think, we worked together to hook you guys up!" The little bunny said back.
"Ha! I knew you were trying to do that!" So they left Sora and Alyssa alone as they walked off to converse about their topic.
And so came the dreaded moment of silence. A few people turned to a lot passing by, but they remained silent and a foot or two apart. Then Sora spoke up (oh the joy of sound!). "Uh, I gotta go beat up Riku. See ya later!" And so he left, leaving Alyssa alone.
But as if it were only fate, Veronica popped out of the crowd. "We need your help."
"Huh? Why? I've long left you guys now." Alyssa said back, wondering what she was needed for.
"Yes, yeah you've left us. But do you think Riku has an extra picture of Sora and Kairi?"
"Why, I ask again. But would I even want to know?"
"It's not bad, trust me this once, 'kay?"
"No."
"Do I have to beg?"
"Yes." Alyssa slyly asked. She knew that if she could get Veronica on her knees just for one thing in front of her, that her reputation would lift.
"Fine, but we have to go behind something so no one would see us." Plan of the century, defeated for the day. So they went behind the picture stall, where Riku was so they could just borrow the picture.
What Veronica was up to was to enter them into the 'Cutest Couple' competition, where Sora and Kairi were bound to win with their picture. But what she forgot was that Sora would be there too.
"What do we do now? My plan is ruined!" Veronica yelped.
"Wait, there is some hope. We need Mrs. Celestial." So both their faces lit up and Alyssa called out for her.
She came running out, stopping just two steps away from them. She came over to Alyssa "Isn't she the bad guy in the story here?" She said as she pointed to Veronica.
"Not right now." She stopped and cleared her throat for no particular reason, just because she wanted to. "We need to borrow the picture of Kairi and Sora."
"Why?"
This time, Veronica stood up. "We're going to enter them in a contest."
"Ohhhh, I've heard of your plan."
"WHAT! How?"
"Nah. I was kidding, and sure I'll give another copy."
"Yay! But what about Sora?" Alyssa asked. They huddled up together and exchanged plans. After a minute or two, they broke up and went to the places they'd agree they'd go to.
Alyssa came up to Sora. "Hey Sora! Kairi told me to tell you that she wanted to meet up with you by the wheel."
"NO! Not the wheel. But why?"
"She says it's important."
"Okay." So he left Riku be, who came out of under a table, hiding from the tinier than him brunette. Celestial came in from the back door, pressed a few buttons on a printing machine and handed them the picture.
"Thanks, Mrs. Celestial." The girls said together.
"No problem! Now go enter them and hope they'll win!" And they were off to do whatever it was they were going to do.
"What was that about Celestial?" Riku asked after Alyssa and Veronica were off their view.
"Nothing, Rikrik. Nothing at all."
"Sure it wasn't. What was—" Fate says that it didn't want Celestial to answer that, to it sent a giant crowd to disturb the quiet. "You got lucky."
Veronica and Alyssa ran off to enter them in the contest. And just as they slipped the entry with their picture, the voting booths opened. They were able to count the votes and see the winner was "Kairi and Sora! Please come to the stage!"
How awkward, the two were told to meet each other at the wheel, which now held many memories, those forever-dreaded memories. "You enter us in something, Sora?"
"No, you Kairi?"
"I wouldn't be asking if I did."
"Oh, well then let's go!" They arrived at the stage, stood up and faced the crowd.
"Congratulations! You two have won the Cutest Couple Contest!" an announcer yelled out to the crowd. He handed them back the picture Veronica and Alyssa worked for and the same puzzled look of the century came out.
"We never— Ow!" A flying note hit Sora. He rubbed his head where it hit and read the note:
Veronica told me that a sour apple could turn sweet. I have no heck of an idea what that meant, but whatever you do, don't say you never entered the contest. You guys won, Veronica entered you, so kiss for the crowd!
Alyssa"Hey Kai, read this." Sora handed her the note and she stared at it for a minute or so.
"So should we?"
"You don't even have to ask." Sora took her in his grasp as Kairi put her arms around him. As soon as their lips met, the crowd went in a loud cheer.
They finally confessed their love for each other. Not only them know now, so does the rest of Destiny High.
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The x's are more specially written this time, it's the end! Yeah, yeah, I know it sucks, but that was all I could come up with. The anticipation for my next story stopped me. Sorry! But like I promised, the winner of the jellybean contest is… drum roll…m-m333! I only got 3 entries', the others from Angelgirl18647 and KHKairiNamineFanatic! Thanks so much! And the secrets!
First one's about Mrs. Celestial. Yes, she's a cousin with Riku, yes you could say they're at war but they aren't, but you were surprised when Riku said that she wasn't even married. Yes! It's true! And even bigger secret, she's younger than all of them. Omi, oh my! She's really smart so she skipped a lot of grades and graduated high school early. She wasn't allowed to get any other job but a teacher 'till she was older, so Celestial took the offer.
Erm, I got nothing else now, just keep checking up on my profile for my next story, it's still not named. Seriously it isn't. Sooooo, I'm out for now!