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Solstice

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By: oathk33p3r

Disclaimer: No, it's already obvious that I do not own any of these characters. Sora has a British accent by the way. I just that it'll be weird mentioning England in Destiny Islands.

Characters

-Kairi
-Sora
-Selphie

-- - - Chapter Two - --

+In the morning I'll be your shadow+
But at night I won't be there to follow.

+Kairi&Sora-

Kairi swallowed a gasp as she eyed the boy struggling under her silver bike. He was so beautiful. Despite the hood covering most of the upper part of his face, she was able to make out his features; he had creamy pale skin that she can practically see through and possessed bright blue eyes that peered from the shadows of his chocolaty hair.

She was so focused on the beautiful person that she didn't notice he had difficulty getting up.

"Oh dear, I'm extremely sorry," Kairi nearly squealed as she rushed over to him.

"It's quite all right," he replied with a voice as smooth as the surface of a river.

Kairi blinked at his accent; it wasn't from around here. It wasn't heavy and not very noticeable, but it was there. It made him even more attractive and she didn't mind it at all.

The two worked together to untangle the boy's feet from the chain. Sweating a bit, Kairi heaved the bike off of the brunette and kicked the kick stand. She faced the boy and gave him one of her biggest, dazzling smiles.

"I've never seen you around here. May I ask you your name?" She asked politely.

Sora looked nervously at the sky and turned back to her, shuffling his feet with anticipation; he had to get into that shop before he burned to the ground, and the sweet scent coming from the girl only made his fangs poke through his gums. He hid his mouth with his arm and replied:

"It's Sora."

He headed towards the flower shop looming over them as soon as the last syllable of his name left his lips. He hoped his dead heart out that the uniform she was wearing wasn't for this place.

Sora burst into the small flower shop. The sight of it took his breath away; there were flowers with pedals like silk and vines that seemed to dominate the whole shop. There were only one or two of them he was able to identify, and he's been living for nearly three hundred years.

He slightly jumped when he saw the girl behind the counter looking at him quite seductively.

"May I help you?" she asked as she batted her darkened eyelashes.

"No, thank you," he replied.

He quickly made his way to the back of the shop, looking for a way to hide from customers until night fell. To his delight, he found what seemed like a broom closet. He turned the doorknob and pushed himself in. Darkness met him right away and enveloped his body from the rest of the bright world. As he made him self comfortable in the corner, he was amused to hear scratching and clawing from a nest of rats.

Kairi frowned as she started towards the shop. Could it be that he was meeting Selphie?

"No, she would've been squealing her head off about him if she was dating him," Kairi reassured herself.

Fixing up her mussed up hair, she walked her bike to the side of the door of the small flower shop. It was probably the only one on the island; there might've been one or two more on the other side, but Kairi didn't know of any others.

"Good morning, Selphie," Kairi greeted her friend as soon as she walked through the glass door.

A whiff of cold, icy air greeted her like always. Kairi searched the place without craning her neck about, afraid that it might be conspicuous to Selphie; she had bloated the other day that she didn't care for guys anymore.

Her friend looked up from behind the counter and her emerald eyes widened in delight. She nearly flew to her and grabbed her hand, shaking it up and down.

"Oh, my gosh, there's this totally cute guy at our shop. Our shop!" Selphie piped.

Kairi gave her a small smile.

"Yeah, I saw him from outside…I kinda ran over him," Kairi said, scratching the back of her head.

"What? Well, shouldn't you check up on him just in case he's hurt?"

Kairi's eyes widened. Why couldn't she have thought of that earlier? Now that she thought of it, she hadn't even asked him if he was all right. How stupid she must've looked, asking for his name as soon as he got up from being ran over by a vehicle driven by a complete stranger.

"Ugh, why am I like this?" Kairi scolded her self as she sat down on a large smooth rock used to decorate gardens.

Selphie peered at her with her bright green eyes and shook her head. Letting out a deep sigh, she sat by her auburn haired friend and put an arm around her.

"Honey, about what you said yesterday…I know that was a lie," Selphie said maternally.

Kairi gave her an amused look.

"Oh?"

"And you need to get this guy. I'm serious," Selphie said defiantly.

Kairi raised a brow. This was somewhat different from the everyday Selphie.

"You don't want him?"

Selphie's fake eyelashes batted with surprise and she let out a gasp.

"Of course I do! But he's not my style, and he's totally yours! I mean, your eyes are almost blue and his are just wow blue. That totally balances each other out. And your hair is red and his is brown. That's so cute, isn't it? I mean, I'm a brunette and so is he…and my eyes are green and his are blue. Now that I think of it, we don't look so bad together either," Selphie said dreamily.

Kairi rolled her eyes and smiled. Now this was the usual Selphie. She always seemed to judge couples by the color of their hair and eyes. Kairi thought it was stupid, but Selphie was an artist after all. Both of them were raising money to go to the famous school for artists on the other side of the island after graduating college.

The auburn haired girl sighed and looked down at her lap. She was surprised to see a scrape on her knee.

Selphie looked down as well and gasped.

"Hey! You're bleeding!" Selphie screamed, nearly hyperventilating.

"Whatever, I'll go put a bandage on it, and you should be watering the plants right now," Kairi said, standing up.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

"I'm going to look for the first aid kit," Kairi replied.

Shaking her head, Kairi went for the back of the shop where they had the closet of broken flower pots and other junk. She couldn't help but eyeing every corner of the shop looking for Sora. The flower shop wasn't that big of a place, but its exotic and colorful plants and flowers made it like a miniature jungle.

Not being able to spot him, she made her way to the closet and pulled on the door knob.

Kairi nearly let out a scream as Sora's eyes met hers, something gleaming crimson dripping from his mouth. He instantly hid something red and furry behind his back.

"Wh-what are you doing?" she asked.

"Um, I was looking for the bathroom," Sora said hesitantly.

"And what's that on your mouth?" Kairi asked, taking a step away.

Sora cursed under his breath and licked the blood on his lower lip.

"Um, well, I uh-was trying to eat a hot dog and I wanted to find a bathroom so I can eat it. You know, I thought this place didn't allow food."

"You are a mastermind, Sora," Sora thought, pleased with his excuse.

Kairi raised a brow. She started to have a second opinion on this guy, and where in the world can you find a hairy hot dog?

"Well, I have to get something, so if you'll excuse me…" Kairi made her way behind Sora and tried to get to the back of the closet.

Sora swiftly hid the dead rat under his jacket and continued to smile at the girl.

That's when she screamed.

"Oh my gosh! Your teeth! What's wrong with your teeth?" Kairi pointed at Sora's fangs and backed away.

Sora quickly covered his mouth with his hands, which were also covered with blood. Kairi saw this and let out another scream.

"Selphie! Hel-mmph,"

Sora covered Kairi's mouth with his gloved hands and pulled her to his chest. The stiff, dead rat fell onto the floor with a small thump. Kairi only stared at it, horrified.

"Please lower your voice, miss," Sora whispered.

Kairi, disgusted, pulled Sora's hands away from her face and quickly washed the cold blood from her face.

"Who are you?" she asked, her voice shaking.

"I'm Sora," Sora replied.

"No, what are you?" Kairi revised her question.

"I'm a person, just like you."

"No you're not. People don't eat rats and have fangs."

Sora's face fell and he stared at the ground. This was the first time he has been caught in one of those "sticky situations". Excuses weren't going to pull him out of this one. Maybe he can tell her the truth…

Kairi let out the hundredth gasp of the day.

"Are you a vampire?"

Sora gave her a blank stare. This wasn't what he expected.

"You're a vampire!" Kairi screamed.

She made a cross with her fingers and shook it in front of Sora's face.

"Be gone, you fiend!" she yelled.

Kairi's heart was thumping so loud that she was afraid that Sora might hear it. If he really was a vampire, he would be afraid of crosses…right?

"AH HA HA HA HA HA!"

Kairi gave Sora the same blank stare he gave her just a second ago as he rolled on the floor with laughter. Why was he laughing?

"You are hilarious," Sora choked out, "AMEN!" he added.

He started to laugh even harder.

Kairi's arms slowly fell to her sides and she was able to concentrate again. Now that she took a second look at Sora's mouth, he didn't have any fangs at all.

He wasn't a vampire after all. But did that mean he liked eating rats, or what?

Kairi crouched on the floor and covered her face in embarrassment.

"Great, I made a complete fool out of myself."

Sora's laughter ceased and he started to gulp for air, his abs aching. He peered over her shoulder to see the girl sitting in the corner. He let out a silent sigh of relief.

"Thank Lord, she didn't find out."