And now, the second part ...

Ohmigosh, I just realised Kairi hasn't made an appearance since chapter 3! Oh, well, she'll be in this one.

Maybe.

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"Hey, Riku!" Christie was surprised to see Riku sitting at Sora's kitchen table.

"Good morning!" He said, standing up and walking over to the girl. He kissed her forhead, then her cheek, then her lips.

When they broke apart, she noticed Sora standing there. His face was pale with an unreadable expression on it, and his eyes looked like they were fighting to stay open and close at the same time. The cup he was holding was shaking a bit.

"You okay?" Riku asked Sora.

"Enh - uh - y-yeah. J-just a b-bit of a st-om-ach-ache," he squeaked out.

Christie knew exactly what was going on. "Oh, here, maybe you should go sit down in the livingroom for a while." She took Sora's wrist and gently led him past his friend and into the other room, calling "Riku, wait here just a minute." behind her.

She led him to the sofa and sat him down. "You okay?" She whispered.

Sora shook his head. "No, no, you're still on the list." He looked up. "I'm really sorry."

Christie put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't be. It's okay. I'm going to go tell Riku everything."

Sora looked at his glass - which was still shaking a bit - and nodded.

Christie patted his shoulder and left. "What was wrong?" Riku asked as she came back into the kitchen.

"Riku ... I have to tell you something ... I'm not from here -"

"Duh," he said, smiling.

"No, I mean, I'm not from this dimension. I come from a place called 'Earth'. I don't know how I got here, but, when I did, I saw Sora and Kairi on the beach. When Sora came back, I decided to play Cupid by playing girlfriend to get him and Kairi together. Unfortunatly, though Sora knew I wasn't really his girlfriend, his mind is still making him be over-protective."

"So? What do you want me to do?"

"Well, there's two things - we need to back off around Sora, for his mentality and ours."

Riku nodded. "And the other thing?"

"We need your help getting Sora and Kairi together."

"Why?"

Christie took a deep breath. "Because she has a crush on you - she told me."

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Sora, Christie, and Riku all walked up the boardwalk to the market. For some reason, after Riku visits, Sora's fridge and cupboards are in lack of good food.

"Hey guys!"

Christie recognised that voice. She hadn't heard it sice chapter 3 - er, I mean ... two days ago, but she still knew who it was.

"Hey, Kairi," she said cheerfully. She turned around - and wished she hadn't. The young red-head threw the three (Author - "Threw the three, thruh thuh theh, th th th ... aw, man.") into a massive bear-hug.

"Hey, what's up with you?" Riku asked when she let go.

"Dunno! I'm just in a good mood!"

"Well, uhh, maybe you could cheer Sora up? He's in a bad mood - hey, Christie! Look at that!" With that, Riku dragged the blonde off by her wrist, leaving the other to alone.

"Well, that was weird," she could hear Kairi say.

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Christie hit the large ball back to Riku. When they ran off, they had gone back to Sora's house and "borrowed" his beachball and took it down to the beach. Christie soon learned that her pants could zipoff into shorts and took off her white over-shirt to play in the water.

"Ha! I win!" She said as the ball hit the water.

Riku picked up the ball. "Yeah?" He said, walking over to her. "And what do you win?"

She kissed him. "Bragging rights." She smirked and splashed him.

"Oh, you -- !" Riku picked Christie up and started walking into deeper waters.

"No!" She yelled, laughing, "No! No no no!"

"What? I can't hear you! Go deeper? Okay!" She knew perfectly well he was grinning from ear-to-ear and began kicking. "Hey watch it! Oh, it's too deep for me to go any further! I'm going to have to drop you off here!"

And drop her he did. When she reemerged, he was laughing his head off. "You're gonna pay for that!" She yelled. She jumped on him and he caught her in his arms.

"Oh, well, I sorta like this get-back," he said, smirking.

"Oh, this isn't it, love, but I like it, too." She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. "This is it."

She rocked backwards and twisted so he hit the water first and got the worst of it. She let go of him and started to swim backwards. When he didn't emerge, she paused. "Riku?" Tch, like that'll do any good. He's underwater - ! "Aah!" She screamed before being pulled under by her ankle.

In the water, she saw Riku. She swam over to him and he met her halfway and they shared a very quick kiss before he picked her up, once again, bridal-style.

"I did it!" He yelled out when they were above the surface. "I found a mermaid!"

Christie laughed and looked at Riku. "Oh, but Mister Human, I cannot stay out of the water alone," she said, "I need to share a kiss with my true love to live out of the water."

"Oh? Will I do?" He asked.

She gave him a quick peck. "Yup."

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"C'mon. Sora, Kairi and I used to play here when we were young," Riku said as he pulled Christie into the secret place.

Once inside, she found it more beuatiful in real life than in the game. She went over to the pictures of Sora and Kairi and gently passed her fingers over them. She looked over to the door and sadness fell over her. Riku ... he'll be swallowed by the shadows ... does he know what's coming?

"What's behind that door ... ?" Christie asked. Her voice was wary and quiet.

Riku grinned and reached for the doorknob. Christie planted her feet firmly into the ground and readied herself. His fingers wrapped themselves around the handle and panic ran through the girl's veins. Riku's thumb pressed down on the button. And he pulled.

... nothing. Absolutly nothing - it didn't even open. There was just a click! click! signally the poor boy was just trying to open a locked door.

"No clue," Riku said as Christie let out a silent-yet-huge sigh of relief behind his back. "It's been locked forever."

"I see," Christie said, smiling. She looked around and noticed another picture on the wall in a far, dark corner. "What's that?" She asked, walking over to the wall.

Riku joined her. "Huh, don't know. I've never seen it before."

Both teens studied the picture. It showed a young girl with short hair and glasses with a very tall young man with spikey hair. Why does he look so familiar ... ? Christie thought. The picture next to it showed an old man in a cloack shooting the girl and the young man jumping and reaching towards her wrist. Then there was a large spiral and there were no more pictures.

"Weird - " Christie said before being interrupted by Sora running into the cave. His bug eyes and severe blushing said he did something big.

"What's up?" Christie asked. Both her and Riku were grinning.

"I asked her," Sora said quickly.

"Asked who what?" Riku questioned, his grin growing.

"I-I asked K-Kairi to the d-dance."

"Great!" Christie exclaimed. "What'd she say?"

"I ran away."

There was a long, awkward pause.

"What?" Riku asked.

"B-before she could answer ... I-I ran away."

Christie looked at Riku. Both their grins were replaced with gapes. She looked back at Sora who was eyeing the pictures of him and Kairi.

"Wow," was all Riku said.

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"Think you'll ever recover?" Christie asked as she dried her hair.

They had spent the rest of the day shopping for clothes for the Valentine's dance coming up - Christie refused to show the guys her dress, but the saleslady said she looked beautiful - and then they all went home. Christie, who smelled like seaweed and was getting sticky from the seasalt, took a shower and came down into the kitchen to find Sora sitting at the table, holding a mug of hot chocolate, and looking exactly the same as he did when he ran into the cave earlier that day.

Sora merely shook his head and pointed to another mug filled with hot chocolate, then to a bowl of marshmallows, both sitting on the counter.

She grabbed the cup and dropped three marshmallows in it, then sat across from Sora. She sipped her chocolate as he stared blanky ahead. Getting bored, the girl reached across the table and poked Sora's nose. "Beep," she said.

That got him out of it. He laughed and swatted her hand away. He took a drink and then suddenly broke out into a smirk.

"Thinkin' about sharin' a cup o' chocolate with Kairi, ain't'cha?" Christie asked, grinning.

Sora ducked his head and his smirk grew broader. "No, but now I am."

Christie threw her head back and laughed. She rubbed her eye and looked at the night sky outside. "It's getting late, so I'm gonna take this hot chocolate to bed." The girl stood up and waved. "Buenos dias," she said, walking out of the room.

" 'Night," Sora called.

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