Author's Note: Here's chapter 9! Keep reading and keep reviewing por favor!

Chapter 9: Shopping at the Mall

" Romeo, Romeo, where art thou, Romeo?"

" I am here, Kairi, and I love you." Selphie joked around pretending to be Sora.

" Selphie! This is serious!" I began to get annoyed. I sighed. " All right, take five." I walked over and sat on my bed. " Selphie, I have to do this perfectly, especially in front of Sora."

" Why?"

" Because…he and I have to kiss in the play."

" WHAT!" Selphie spit out the water she was drinking. " Why didn't you tell me you guys were going to kiss?"

" Because you would overreact."

" Oh my gosh! When are you guys performing the play?" Selphie asked getting all hyper. I walked over to my calendar.

" Friday, February 7. That's my birthday!" I was shocked.

" This is awesome! Kairi getting her first kiss on her 18th birthday! And…what's today?"

" October 27th. That reminds me, we have to go shopping for our Halloween party."

" Yay! Shopping!" Selphie squealed.

My mom had the day off for once. They weren't recording today. I asked Mom if I could take the car. She said yes and gave me the car keys. The first thing I plan to get when I graduate is a car. A house can wait till after college is done with. Plus, if I get married, my future husband might already have a house. Anyway, we both got into the car and I began to drive towards the mall. I looked into my pocket and pulled out a list of items for the party. I could tell Selphie wrote this list because she put candy on there like, three times. We eventually arrived at the mall. Namine was with Roxas today, so she didn't come.

We walked into the mall. It was decorated for Halloween. The fake webs always scared me though, because I have arachnophobia. I am scared to death of spiders. We walked quickly to the closest store to buy decorations. I wasn't planning on buying any fake webs, but since it's Halloween, I'll get them anyway. We surprisingly saw Roxas and Namine there. I guess Roxas worked here.

" Hey Namine, Roxas." We greeted them.

" Hey, you guys shopping here for your party?" Roxas asked.

" Yeah." I nodded in reply.

" Um, Roxas, you wouldn't happen to have seen Sora today, would you?" Selphie asked winking at me.

" Yeah, all three of us work here at the mall. I work here, Riku works at Video Game Headquarters, and Sora works at Pretzelmaker."

" Oh, shit! Thanks for reminding me!" I thanked Roxas.

" What is it?" Namine asked me.

" I made a reservation for a copy of Kingdom Hearts II. It came out last Wednesday and I need to go pick up my copy. It's been on hold for over a week now. If I don't go pick up my copy today, it goes back onto the shelves."

" Well, then, we better pick it up before we leave." Selphie agreed. " Oh, and here are the decorations we'd like to buy." Roxas scanned them.

" $43.76." I pulled out my purse and paid for the decorations.

Roxas put them in a bag and gave them back to us. We said bye to Roxas and Namine and continued on with our shopping. The next store was Ross, where they sold costumes. I was thinking about going out a Vampire and Selphie wanted to go out as the corpse bride. We walked over and looked at the costumes. They had some good vampire suits this year. Last year, they sucked. I picked out the best vampire suit I could find. Selphie found a corpse bride costume to try on. We walked into the dressing room to try them on. I came out in my vampire suit. Selphie really liked it. I went back in and changed into my normal clothes. Selphie went in and came back out as the corpse bride. It actually looked good on her surprisingly. We bought the costumes and walked out of the store.

" I'm hungry, let's get a pretzel!" Selphie suggested.

" No! Sora works at Pretzelmaker!" I refused.

" Aw, come on!" Selphie pulled me over to Pretzelmaker. As we walked ion, I saw Sora behind the counter giving a customer their pretzel. " Hey, Sora."

" Hey, Selphie, Kairi." Sora grinned when he said my name.

" Hey Sora." I giggled.

" So, what'll it be?" Sora asked.

" Um…two pretzels with salt and a side of cheese dip with each of them. And two Pepsis." I ordered. Sora punched in a bunch of numbers and a receipt printed out.

" $9.78." Sora read the receipt.

" Keep the change." I said as I gave him a ten dollar bill.

" Thanks." Sora grinned as he put the dollar bill into the cash register. He went back and took out two pretzels and put salt on them. He took two cups and filled them with cheese and then served our pretzels with cups for us to get our sodas. " Enjoy."

Selphie and I took our pretzels and got ourselves our drinks. We took our drinks and sat at a table. I couldn't stop staring at Sora. I wonder if he felt the same way as I felt about him. I mean, sure he hugged me at the end of the Volleyball game, but who doesn't after your team won the championship. I sighed and began to eat my pretzel while staring at Sora.

" Kairi?" Selphie waved her hand in front of my face.

" Huh? What?" I snapped back to reality.

" I was wondering if you wanted to get your game next because the video game store is right down there."

" Okay." I took a sip of my Pepsi.

We finished eating. I threw our trash away and we began to walk in the direction of the video game store. I took one last glance at Sora. We walked into the store. It looked like they got some new releases in. They had the new, Final Fantasy XII. I looked at the game's cover. It didn't look that good. The ones I had were FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, and FFX-2. Anyway, I went up to where Riku was sitting on a stool listening to his headphones. I walked up and tapped on the desk. Riku didn't hear me, so I had to yell.

" HELLO?" I yelled.

" Whoa! Take it easy, ma…Kairi! I was wondering when you were going to come by. I see Selphie is shopping again, huh?" Riku greeted us.

" Uh, yeah." Selphie blushed.

" So, one copy of Kingdom Hearts 2, please." I asked as I pulled out the $50 check my mom gave me for my birthday last year.

" No problem. You know, I swear, the main character looks just like Sora." Riku took my check and put a copy of KH2 into a bag for me.

" Have you started playing the second one, yet?" I asked.

" Yeah, I got my copy yesterday."

" How's the game?" Selphie asked.

" It's good so far. Although, for the first three hours, you have to play as a different character."

" Who's the character?" I asked.

" I'm not telling you. It'll be spoiled." Riku laughed. Selphie said bye to Riku and we walked out of the store.

We were finally done shopping for the day. I helped Selphie take the items to the car and we got in and I began to drive. I glanced at the number of bags that we were carrying. I've never really shopped this much before in my life except for around Christmas. I continued to drive. Selphie's cell phone rang. Selphie answered it. She hung up after a minute and said she had top be home. I turned on Selphie's street and dropped her off at her house. I then drove home to my street. As I passed Sora's house, I saw him with a script in his hand. I guess he was rehearsing. I didn't want to disturb him, so I just took the bags out and carried them inside.

" Hey, Kairi!" Sora called out to me.

" Oh, hey." I greeted him.

" Listen, did you want to rehearse lines in your backyard? I really need a Juliet to practice with."

" Um, okay. Go ahead and go into the back. I'll meet you there. I have to put these things way first." I walked into my house and quickly put the bags into my room and grabbed my script. I walked out into my backyard where I saw Buddy jumping on Sora. I grabbed Buddy and put him inside with my mom. " So, what part did you want to rehearse?"

" Let's see…" Sora answered as he looked through the script. " How about the end?" The end? I asked myself.

" That's the part where Juliet kisses Romeo." I said with butterflies in my stomach.

" It's okay. The kissing part is easy, we just need to get the lines perfect."

" Right. All right then, where in the end did you want to start?"

" How 'bout when Romeo is dead? I really need to work on pretending to be dead." Sora said sitting on the grass.

" Okay. Let's get started then." Sora lay down on the grass pretending to be dead. I began to kneel down beside Sora and say my lines. " Romeo, thy heart and thy soul called upon thee. Now, I know the truth is that thou are dead. Thy misery started when thy family said we couldn't be together. Thy soul shall be released from misery after this last kiss from thy lips to thou." My heart began to skip beats. I was holding Sora's head while I said my lines. After I said my lines, I began to lean my head down. This was nervous wrecking. My lips were about to touch Sora's, until my mom came out.

" Kairi, dinn…er's ready." I quickly looked up when I heard my mom. Sora also quickly opened his eyes. " What're you guys doing?"

" Sorry, Mom. We were rehearsing for Romeo and Juliet." I blushed.

" Which by the way, Kairi is a great Juliet." Sora added. I blushed even more.

" You didn't tell me you two are playing Romeo and Juliet! I'm so happy for you!" My mom cheered. " Anyway, Kairi, dinner's ready."

" Okay. Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." I glanced at Sora and walked towards the dining room.

" Bye." Sora waved and walked out of the backyard.

I went inside and walked up to my room to put my script away. I couldn't believe I almost kissed Sora! I guess Namine was right. I'm going overboard with Sora, but what the heck! He's cute, but the fact that he suggested to rehearse the kissing scene, that made me wonder.

Author's Note: End of chapter 9. Don't worry, there's more coming up! Review please! Just to let you know, the play won't happen for a while, but I promise you, there will be a play.