Author's Note: Okay, here's chapter 32! I've decided that the next chapter will be the ending. Pure SoraxKairi fluff in this chapter! Review por favor again!
Chapter 32: Summer DayI stared out my window that same night I had officially graduated High School and became a free adult. Watching the stars twinkle in the night sky, I thought about how lonely it was going to be without having Sora around. Even though I knew he had to go, I would always feel like crying. Meeting Sora was the greatest thing that has ever happened to me in my entire teenage life. Well, I knew that we only had today for each other and then, he'd leave tomorrow.
It began to rain a bit and then a lot. I turned on my nightlight and just turned on the TV. I turned the channel to a movie channel. "Romeo and Juliet" was on, so I decided to watch that. (A/N: The newer movie, not the older one.) The movie was at the party scene, which reminded me of the time Sora and I were in the play. I was supposed to kiss Sora, but I sort of bombed forgetting I was supposed to kiss him. I climbed into my bed while watching the movie and then I fell asleep.
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I woke up the next morning early for once. I wanted as much time with Sora as possible. First, I took a shower like I always do, and then I got dressed into not a fancy, but casual outfit. I wore a white tank top with a pair of jean shorts and flip-flops. I then went downstairs and let Buddy outside in the backyard. I decided to go out with him since I was also gonna leave him behind. It was pretty warm today since it was summer. Try having it at around 72 degrees in the morning and it gets to be about 95-100 degrees in the afternoon. I picked up the tennis ball and threw it to the other side of the yard and Buddy chased after it.
" Morning!" Sora greeted me and just popped over the wall. I sort of jumped a bit.
" Don't scare me like that!" I laughed.
" Hey, you're supposed to be hanging with me!" He made a pouty face. I'm guessing Buddy understood him because he growled at Sora after saying that.
" I know. But I want to see my doggy first."
" Okay." Sora sighed. I laughed and walked over to the wall and hopped on it too.
" Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you. I'll see you in a little bit, okay?" I have him a kiss before jumping off the wall.
After throwing the ball a number of times, Buddy got hot and tired, so we stepped into the nice, air conditioned house. I filled Buddy's dish up with water and I grabbed some lemonade that I made yesterday. To kill time, I walked upstairs and began packing for college. I leave tomorrow as well. I'm going to take Sora to the train station and then I leave for Destiny Islands University. I packed up my clothes and that's all I got to before Sora rang the doorbell to take us out for the day. I grabbed my purse and then walked out waiting for Sora because he had to use the bathroom.
" Hey, how 'bout some music?" Sora asked as we got in his car.
" Sure." I agreed.
Sora then slowly put on his sunglasses and started the car as he turned on the radio. "Beautiful Soul" by Jesse McCartney was playing on the radio. I began jamming to it as the song played. We drove for a number of minutes and then arrived at the pier near the beach. Even though the weather was quite warm, it was still nice and breezy. I actually enjoyed going to the pier a lot. You had a great view of the ocean, seagulls would fly and caw all over the place, and if you watch closely, you can see dolphins swimming and jumping in the deep part of the ocean. We got out and just began to walk.
" So, what did you wanna do?" Sora asked.
" Well…" I began to say, but then I realized that the first day of summer fair was going on. They always do a fair for the first day of summer, 4th of July, and the last day of summer. " How 'bout the fair?"
" You read my mind." Sora said in a creepy voice. I laughed. " Good thing I have all this cash!"
We then walked over to the ticket stand and bought tickets for the rides and games there. It was pretty expensive, but Sora didn't mind. After we got our tickets, we got down to business. First thing we did was ride this one ride where you're on a swing, and you go around and around like a carousel only you're on a swing. Sora started to get dizzy a bit. It was funny.
" Oh my gosh." Sora said in a dizzy voice.
" Are you okay?" I asked laughing.
" Yeah, I'm fine. Why don't we calm down with the Ferris wheel?"
" All right." I agreed.
We paid our tickets and got on one of those Ferris wheel seats and we began to go up. I had always loved Ferris wheels when I first fell in love with Sora, I always dreamed of stopping at the top of the wheel with Sora. Now, it may actually happen. Sora began to rock the seat as a joke, which made me jump a bit, but I hit him playfully in the arm. After going around once, the ride stopped and we were at the top.
" Nice view, huh?" Sora asked.
" Yeah, it's beautiful."
" So, enjoying yourself?" I nodded in agreement.
" You know, when I first had a crush on you, I always dreamed of us like this. You know, being stuck on the top of a Ferris wheel, just the two of us, enjoying the view." I said while blushing.
" Well, now we're up here together. I guess you're dream came true." Sora said as we stared at each other eyes.
" Get a room already!" Someone behind our seat yelled.
" Oh shut up!" Sora yelled back. " Idiots."
" Don't worry about them. We don't need people that don't understand love to ruin our time up here."
" Yeah. So, where were we?" Sora asked as we leaned in to kiss, but the ride started up again making the seat move a bit, interrupting our kiss. I sighed in disappointment.
The ride eventually stopped at the bottom and we got off the Ferris wheel. It was nice breezy ride while it lasted. We decided to get some food after the wheel. Sora got us each a corn dog and sodas and we sat down and ate our stuff.
" Sora, did you always want to be popular?" I asked as I took a bit of my corn dog.
" Well, I didn't have a problem with it at first. I actually loved being popular at first. But then came a time where I wanted to give up my popularity. There was something special that wasn't going to be found by being popular, the only way to obtain it was to just be myself. The "something special" that wasn't going to be found by being popular, was love. I fell in love with someone. A really special, honest, beautiful, loving, someone." I felt like crying for I knew who he was talking about.
" Sora…" I said while hugging him. I wiped my tears away. I loved Sora so much. He was perfect.
" Okay, let's get more rides down." Sora suggested pulling out his tickets.
" Yeah." I agreed finishing my corn dog.
We decided to play some games at the arcade first. We didn't need tickets for that, but we needed tokens. We paid for tokens and then began playing. Sora and I played whack-a-mole, which is still enjoyable even as an adult. We then played Tekken 4, the arcade game, which I kicked Sora's butt at. Apparently, I think I'm better than Sora at fighting games.
After playing those two things, we played the skeeball game where you try to roll the ball into the hole things and get points for it. Then, we played this basketball shooting game, which Sora beat me on, since he was really good when it came to sports. We then walked over to where the best arcade game was, the one game that attracts such a huge crowd, "Dance Dance Revolution!"
" Hey, DDR!" I said pointing to the DDR game. " I'll challenge you."
" You wouldn't even dare to try to beat me. I'm the KING of DDR." Sora said trying to show off.
" Really? Well then let's make this interesting. If you win, I have to pay for everything for the rest of the day. But if I win, you have to buy us ice cream and sing the Goofy Goober theme song from the Spongebob movie while in the shop."
" Done and done!"
We pounded our fists together and paid 4 tokens each and started playing. I picked the song "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. (A/N: They're playing DDR: Supernova.) The song began to play and we started to dance to the arrows. Sora wasn't doing the best job. He got a good amount of boos and almosts. He got a few perfects and a few greats and goods. I ended up winning that round.
After the first round, we went onto round 2. We decided to do random with the song choice. I didn't know what song was playing at the moment, but whatever it was, I wanted to win this round of course. This time, I did pretty bad because I didn't know the song and Sora knew it. So, Sora won this round. Whoever wins the next round wins the bet.
This time, I had to win this round! We did random for song choice again. This time, we both knew this song. So, it was going to be a tough call. We got the same amount of perfects, greats, goods, almosts, and boos. But at the very end, Sora got one more boo than I did, making me the winner of the round and the bet. So, after we finished DDR, we went and played a racing game.
" So, do I really have to sing the song?" Sora asked.
" Yes, it was part of the bet."
" Okay."
After using up all of our tokens, we walked out of the pier. It felt nice to get back outside. In case you haven't noticed, I'm an outdoor person. I love being outdoors. We walked over to the ice cream store nearby and we walked in to get some ice cream. I got Cookie Dough and Sora got Rocky Road. I held onto Sora's ice cream while he sang the Goofy Goober song.
Oh I'm a Goofy Goober, yeah!
You're a Goofy Goober, yeah!
We're all Goofy Goobers, yeah!
Goofy Goofy Goober Goober, yeah!
Everyone stared at us while Sora sang it, but I didn't care. I thought it was hilarious. I just laughed and then everyone laughed with me. Sora didn't mind that people were laughing, he just laughed along with us.
" So, where to, next?" Sora asked while eating his Rocky Road.
" I know exactly where we're off to next."
We decided to ride the Silver Bullet, a killer roller coaster at this fair. We got into silver cars, put the down the things on our shoulders, and the ride began to go. It started off really slow, but then it stopped, and began to going at about 100 m.p.h. It was so fast; our hair was flying in the back of our head. There was a bunch of drops and a few loop-de-loops as well. I could see Sora getting ill. Maybe riding this right after eating ice cream wasn't such a good idea. After getting off the ride, Sora ran to a trashcan and barfed.
It got late, and we decided to just chill out on the beach now. We took our shoes off and walked in the water across the beach hand-in-hand. The sun was setting and the waves were splashing against our feet. We couldn't go swimming because we forgot our swimsuits and there was no way I was gonna go skinny-dipping. But, I still just enjoyed walking with the one person I loved the most.
" Hey, did you want to sit for a minute?" Sora suggested.
" Sure." We sat on the rocks that were on the ocean and watched the sunset.
" Hey, did you read what I put in your yearbook?"
" No, I haven't." I just realized I never read what Sora wrote.
" Well, now you can." Sora then pulled out my yearbook.
" How'd you get that?" I asked in shock.
" Remember when I said I had to use the bathroom?"
" Yeah."
" Well… I grabbed your yearbook in the process."
" You idiot!" I hit him playfully in the arm. I took the book from him and opened it up, my eyes got watery when I read what he wrote:
I love thee, as I love the calm
Of sweet,
star-lighted hours!
I love thee, as I love the balm
Of early
jes'mine flow'rs.
I love thee, as I love the last
Rich smile
of fading day,
Which lingereth, like the look we cast,
On
rapture pass'd away.
I love thee as I love the tone
Of some
soft-breathing flute
Whose soul is wak'd for me alone,
When all
beside is mute.
I love thee as I love the first
Young violet
of the spring;
Or the pale lily, April-nurs'd,
To scented
blossoming.
I love thee, as I love the full,
Clear
gushings of the song,
Which lonely—sad—and beautiful—
At
night-fall floats along,
Pour'd by the bul-bul forth to greet
The
hours of rest and dew;
When melody and moonlight meet
To blend
their charm, and hue.
I love thee, as the glad bird loves
The
freedom of its wing,
On which delightedly it moves
In wildest
wandering.
I love thee as I love the swell,
And hush,
of some low strain,
Which bringeth, by its gentle spell,
The
past to life again.
Such is the feeling which from thee
Nought
earthly can allure:
'Tis ever link'd to all I see
Of
gifted—high—and pure!
I began to cry. It was such a beautiful poem. I just dropped the yearbook onto another rock and embraced Sora. He wrapped his arms around me as well. We then kissed. But I accidentally kicked the yearbook and it almost fell into the water.
" I love you…" I said as I buried my face into his chest.
" I love you too." Sora said resting his head on mine. I was going to miss Sora so much.
Author's Note: Aw! Pure fluff! Told ya there was pure fluff! Next chapter will be the last one! (cries) But the sequel is in progress right now. I'm actually working on the first chapter now. Anyway, review please!
