B li n d D a t e


♥ Sora ♥


Kairi and Roxas had been going out for two months.

Two whole months.

And Sora had been happily oblivious to it the whole time.

The poor boy stared at his two friends with an expression on his face that clearly read 'Oh mai gawd this news has forced my brain to hide in a corner shuddering so I can do very little but stare with an open mouth like a gutted fish at the moment.'

There had been so many signs – like at school, when Roxas offered to walk Kairi to her next math lesson. And Kairi hadn't glared at him or kicked him in the stomach and neither had she claimed she could find her way to her own fucking lesson. When boys walked up to Kairi and offered to be her escort/bodyguard for the treacherous journey to math room two Kairi usually snapped. And then gave a very long lecture that went a lot like this: even though I'm a girl it doesn't mean I'm stupid or weak.

But Sora, in a desperate attempt to hide from the fact that Roxas and Kairi were making out every time he turned his head, put it all down to friendship and thought very little of it.

He was so stupid . He should have asked right then and there why Kairi was letting Roxas walk her to lessons, and then he would have been told it was so they could sneak into a corner and snog somewhere and he'd have been all the wiser. And he wouldn't be sitting in Kairi's room with a face like a beet.

He wouldn't have woken up on his bedroom floor with a pounding head, and he wouldn't have run into Kairi house and banged her door down and demanded an explanation.

"I'm sorry Sora, but we didn't want to tell you," said Kairi, looking at her shoes (very interesting things they were, shoes). "We felt bad for you, like we were leaving you out."

"You left me out even more by not telling me. You should have said, I wouldn't have minded," he mumbled.

"Yeah, but we figured since you used to go out with Kairi-" Roxas started.

"And when you go out with somebody you can't really invite your best friend to join in -" Kairi continued.

"Resulting in the fact that they will get left out-"

"We thought it better not to tell you, really," finished Kairi, nodding her head.

Sora scrunched up his pretty little face, attempting to make sense of the very disjointed story his eardrums had just been treated to. Stories were meant to be written/told by one person, otherwise they get disjointed and confusing.

"Okay... I see why you guys did it... But if you have any more secrets please tell me, alright?" Sora asked, pretending it didn't really bother him that much and he was already over it.

Heh. Sora was forgiving, but he hadn't had sugar today.

And Sora who hadn't had sugar wasn't as forgiving as one might assume.

Kairi and Roxas looked at each other, and Kairi opened her mouth as if she were about to say something. Roxas shook his head and Kairi disguised her mouth opening as a yawn, quickly bringing her lips together and biting the bottom one to stop any more secrets leaking out.

Sora was more perceptive than people gave him credit for, and he saw that fake yawn. He chose to ignore it, however.

He wasn't sure if he could cope with any more secrets.

"Alright guys, I'll ... see you around..." he mumbled, feeling like running off to his room and crying off the news, eating a ham sandwich and then writing in his journal.

He loved his journal – it was forest green and had different coloured paper on the inside and he wrote about everything in it. All his worries were poured into that journal, and it made him feel happy to know he could push them out of his head and through the ink of his pen and onto the paper. And then close the book and lock them away, so he could be happy.

"Hey, Sora," Roxas cried, just as Sora had placed his hand on the doorknob.

"What?" Sora asked.

Kairi took a deep breath, and then asked in a manufactured (cheap, cheesy, 100 percent plastic) voice: "Would you like to go out to Hollow Bastion with me and Roxas tomorrow at eleven? We could get the tram, like we used to do last summer?"

It wouldn't be the same. It would be different.

Roxas and Kairi hadn't been going out last summer.

Sora raised an eyebrow in a way that was rather cool (for Sora). He'd been practising facial expressions in his mirror at home so he didn't look like he was having a stroke when he rolled his eyes and whatnot.

At school his teachers had sent him to the nurse about fifteen times unnecessarily because they thought he was epileptic (really he had been trying to smirk like his oldest and bestest friend Riku did).

"What? And stick around while you two sit kissing?" asked Sora. "I don't want to be a third wheel."

"Don't worry Sora, it won't be like that. We might just go to the cinema or something... And if you kiss at the Hollow Bastion cinema you get chucked out. Remember what happened to Aladdin and Jasmine?" Kairi asked.

Sora had to laugh a little at that.

"Well, alright guys... If it'll make you happy."

Roxas and Kairi gave each other another one of their little 'knowledgeable' looks.

"I think it'll be good for you, Sora."

Sora rolled his eyes, thinking that if you found a girlfriend all the braincells in your head that produced chemicals to make you 'normal' went out of whack. That was Roxas looked so silly when he was Kairi, no doubt. And why he just said that weird statement.

"Alright then, guys. I'll meet you at the tram station, then?"

"Sure. And would it be alright if I brought along a friend?" Kairi asked hopefully.

Ah...

So it wouldn't just be Roxas, Kairi and Sora. Not like the 'good old days'.

It would be Roxas and Kairi together, kissing, with Sora pushed to the side with Kairi's friend for company. They would make strangled conversation that would all end rather arkwardly by an accidental insult and watch as Roxas and Kairi had fun, and wish that something heavy would fall from the sky and crush/impale/kill them. Like in cartoons.

So that was how it would be now.

"Fine... You can bring a friend..." Sora mumbled, smiling very fakely. "I'll ... go home now, alright guys?"

And Sora left.

.o-O-oxx.

Kairi smiled a devilish little grin, as Sora left her house and went back to his. That was conveniently placed right next to hers.

"Are you sure your plan will work?" Roxas asked, scratching his head. He always did that when he was confuzzled (confused and/or puzzled) and Kairi thought it was quite cute. As of late it was becoming quite annoying, however, like her boyfriend was scratching for fleas. Kairi tutted and pulled his hand away from his hair.

"Sure it will. I mean, you know we feel bad about leaving him out? Well, it won't be a problem any more as of tomorrow. So why worry about something that it sure to work?"

"I don't know, Kai," Roxas mumbled, placing his hand back to his head.

Kairi growled, wishing Roxas wasn't so sensible. And why did he always scratch his fucking head, it was fucking irritating!

"Don't worry, Roxas, I'm sure it'll work so don't feel bad. And stop scratching your head, people'll think you've got lice or nits or parasites or something."

.o-O-oxx.

Sora's Journal

Well, today I found out Roxas and Kairi are going out.

I mean, I guess I already knew they were going out (they must have thought I was really stupid and would've been easy to fool. How can anybody hide a secret that big for long without someone getting even a teensy bit suspicious?) but it still hurt.

I wrote down all the signs I saw a few days ago, but then I ripped them out and scrumpled them up and threw them away. It hurt too much to even think about it.

But I can remember all the signs:

1) Kairi let Roxas walk her to lessons.

2) Kairi started to use a different shampoo (strawberry).

3) Kairi wore mascara. You get where I'm coming from? Mascara.

4) Roxas stopped coming to the after-school Blitzball practises.

5) Roxas went to buy Kairi a coke from the canteen with his own money.

6) Roxas stopped hanging out with his other friends (Hayner, Pence and Olette), and started hanging around with me and Kairi more. Didn't want us getting too close, I guess.

7) Seifer stopped calling Roxas gay and he stopped tripping him up in the corridors... Well, he still does, but not as much.

So yeah, I did sort of figure it out. Roxas would've sooner given up his arm then miss Blitz practise (three times in a row, I may add). And Kairi's too much of a tomboy to EVER use a different shampoo other than 'cheapbrand'.

And now they've invited me to come to Hollow Bastion with them, like we used to. But I know they'll be kissing all the time – why else did Kairi invite her other friend round? So I'll have someone else to suffer with.

I don't think I'll get on with her. Especially if she's like Kairi – one Kairi is enough for anyone.

Maybe I won't go.

But then that'll hurt their feelings and they might think I don't want to be friends any more...

Gah, what do I do?

.x-X-oxx.

A/N: I am also aware it says AkuRoku in the title, but that will come later, too. Don't you see how shaky Roxas and Kairi's relationship is? Anyway, in the next chapter the plot starts to pick up.

So, if you hate Roxas.x.Kairi and love Axel.x.Roxas and Sora.x.Weird people then review! Pwease? Two reviews for an update?

Skitts & Lamatikah xxx