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Note: Theme SONGS: Love Song for No One & Love Soon– John Mayer

You & Me

Chapter 3: Truths and Revelations


For the moment, everything was going the way I wanted it to for once.

I had finally accepted Sora and Naminé's relationship, which meant my mourning days were over (goodbye sappy radio song days and chocolate overdose), and even managed to run into Roxas every now and then.

Coincidentally, of course…

We now refer to ourselves as friends, well, I'd like to refer to ourselves as friends; he's convinced that there's something more. Can't help thinking though…that maybe…

Maybe there is something more…

We do have a mighty number of things in common.

I mean how many people do you know right off the bat that can quote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from start to finish by memory?

Not many.

Well, as I said before, life was pretty good. That was until Selphie returned from her 3-month vacation in Castle Oblivion, a tourist sight located on the other side of the planet.

Looks like I was in for another surprise.

According to Selphie, Sora had been seeing Naminé way before we even broke up. That of course hurt me a lot. But what hurt me more was the thought that Naminé had also hurt HIM.


"We are not painting my room purple," I stated bluntly as I watched him walk around my bed with his hand beneath his chin.

We had met at the local video rental store and I had invited him over for some coffee before I headed off to work at 7.

"Aww, come on, Kai. Your room signifies your personality…" He began.

I rolled my eyes. Not again.

"…And you, my lovely Kairi, are distinctly the color purple-" He was cut off by my drawl.

"Roxas," I looked at him squarely in the eye, "if I wanted my room to signify my personality, I would have made it out of chocolate and added a built in refrigerator containing a lifetime supply of ice cream and left over pizza," I gave my room a quick glance over, "…And seeing as how it contains neither of those things, I obviously DON'T want my room to signify my personality, or anything of the sort."

He opened his mouth to protest, but I cut him off. "No matter how pretty the color purple is."

"But, Kaiiiiii," He whined cutely as he plopped down on my bed comforter.

"We are not painting my room purple," I repeated this time with a tad bit more enthusiasm.

He pouted but said nothing more on the matter as he picked up my acoustic guitar that was lying on the stand near the bedpost collecting dust.

"You play guitar?" Roxas asked dusting it off with his sleeve.

I stared at the instrument in wonder. I had never, not ONCE played guitar in my lifetime.

"Umm…I remember vaguely that I was obsessed with guitar music back in 10th grade and convinced my mom to buy me one," I took a seat next to him, "Turns out I wasn't particularly skilled in the musical department and I guess I completely forgot about it."

He cocked a brow in my direction.

"Pathetic, isn't it?" I added sheepishly.

Roxas shook his head, "Wow…"

I looked up at him in confusion. "What 'wow'?"

He smirked. "That IS pathetic."

I scowled at him and threw the pillow next to me at his face. He laughed as he caught it and brought the guitar back up again. It was then that I noticed that he held it with such grace and familiarity.

"Do you play?"

He threw me a sly grin and replied by playing me song. (A/N:I guess you can pick whichever of the theme songs you want for this moment.)

I closed my eyes and lay back on the bed. Beautiful…

It wasn't until he stopped strumming the strings of the guitar that I realized something…

"AHH! I'M LATE FOR WORK!"


I walked hastily down the sidewalk tightening the scarf around my neck as I went. It was as cold as ever and I tried my best not to turn into a human popsicle on my way to work.

Roxas had returned home after I realized how late to work I actually was, 20 minutes to be exact. Turns out I'm more like my mom then I let on.

I checked my watch as I entered the small building complex. "I'm here!" I called out.

"You're late!" Someone shot back with the same tone.

I chuckled and nodded at the customers I passed as I went behind the counter. The turn out was pretty good considering the fact that it was nearly 50 degrees below 0, or maybe that was just me.

"I'm not THAT late, Riku…" I replied when I entered the EMPLOYEES ONLY room.

A silver haired teen clad in a dark green apron came out from one of the other rooms. "Not that late she says…do you OWN a watch?"

I smiled at him and held up my wrist bearing my pink Fossil watch with rhinestones and stuck my tongue out. "As a matter of fact, I do!"

He shrugged with his eyes closed. "Well then, I suppose the problem lies with whether or not you know how to use it…"

"I'm not stupid, Riku!"

He laughed. "Of COURSE you're not, Kairi…of course you're not."

I frowned cutely at him. "So where's Selph?" I asked putting on my own apron.

The hyperactive brunette had gone on a trip to Castle Oblivion for her mother's birthday. She had been there for 3 months, and I was beginning to miss the girl and her complete and utter randomness.

He shrugged and looked around the room. "Hmm…I don't know-"

"HERE I AM!" A voice called out from behind me.

I turned around and there my only female friend was dressed in her work clothing and grinning like a mad woman.

"SELPHIE!" I squealed as I threw my arms around her. She laughed and hugged me back.

Riku appeared beside us and pouted. "Hey! I want a hug, too!" We laughed and he joined in on our group hug.

It had always been like this with the 3 of us ever since kindergarten. Our entire group consisted of Wakka, Tidus, Riku, Selphie, Sora, and I. Wakka and Tidus seemed to separate from us every now and then to hang out with the kids from Spira. Nowadays, that's the only place where you'll find them.

Sora usually hung out with us.

But during Selphie's absence, he had been drifting.

It wasn't like he didn't hang out with us. He just wasn't there sometimes. And there was even a time where he disappeared completely and without a trace for a week. He told me it was his on account of his parents' divorce, but I soon learned it was something completely different.

"Hey, brats!"

We turned to the left and saw an older red-haired man stepping out from the door I entered from. "Get back to work!"

Riku and I smiled sheepishly and stepped away from the hug. Selphie went closer to the older man and took his arm and hugged it. "Aww…Axel wants to join the hug, too!"

Axel scowled and pulled his arm away from her. "The day I hug you, Tilmitt, is the day I willingly admit that I have a secret obsession with moogles."

My eyes widened as I put my hand to my mouth to stop from laughing out loud.

Selphie shrieked excitingly. "He admits it! He admits it!

I tried my best not to yell with her. Axel was our boss and he was NOT someone you wanted to mess with, but I soon found that I could not resist.

"Axel likes moogles! Axel likes moogles," I sang.

Selphie joined me in the banter. "Axel likes moogles! Axel likes moogles! We call him the MOOGLE MAN!"

"The moogle man?" I questioned happily.

"THE MOOGLE MAN!" Selphie exclaimed.

Riku snorted and Axel turned his death glare towards him. "What? They've been suspecting that you had a moogle fetish ever since you brought that stuffed moogle to work."

Axel growled. "The moogle was from Larxene!"

Larxene was his girlfriend. She worked at the ice cream shop, too. They had been together since forever. In my opinion, they were made for each other. They had the whole 'sexy and playful' relationship going.

You'll see what I mean…

Riku nodded disbelievingly. "Sure, Axel, sure…"

"I'm serious," Axel muttered darkly.

Riku put an arm around Axel. "It takes a true man to admit their moogle obsession, a true man."

Axel shrugged it off and was just about to strangle him when Riku dodged and went to our side of the room while singing along.

"Axel likes moogles! Axel likes moogles!"

Just then the EMPLOYEE door slammed opened again, but this time it was an older woman with short blonde hair.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her.

She looked at Selphie and me, then at Riku, then at Axel, and then back again.

"Did I just here Axel and…could it be?" She looked with wide blue eyes at her boyfriend, "…Moogles?"

Selphie went back to grinning wickedly. "You heard right, my dear Larxene. Your boy toy here has just confessed that he's obsessed (Ahahaha that rhymed!) with MOOGLES!"

Larxene smirked and went up to the fuming red haired man. "Ahh…so you've finally let the cat out of the bag, honey poo."

Axel's eye twitched menacingly. "Honey poo?" He questioned and with an even more threatening expression asked, "What cat?"

The blonde woman put her arms around his waist and looked at us. "Axel here has loved moogles ever since he was but a wee boy. I discovered the shocking news as I was digging through his closet and came across this!" She pulled out a t-shirt with a dancing moogle.

We all gasped.

Axel let out a long annoyed sigh. "Larxene…you bought that shirt yesterday…"

Larxene looked toward us. "Or so he says…"

I giggled along with Selphie. Riku prefers that it be called 'manly laughing' in his case, but to me, it sounded exactly like giggling.

Axel looked as though he was about to pass out. Larxene patted his cheek. "Aw… Poor Axel. We won't be mean anymore, will we guys?"

We shook our heads humorously.

"See?" Axel looked down at her and glared. Larxene smiled sweetly at him. "Everyone apologize to the boss."

We mumbled out apologies through choked hilarity.

Larxene waved us off. "Now off you guys go. Me and my 'boy toy ', as Selphie likes to put it, need some 'alone time'." She moved her eyebrows suggestively.

The three of us looked at one another and immediately rushed to the counter.

You did NOT want to be in the same room as Larxene and Axel when they had there 'alone time'. I learned that…the hard way…

We escaped into the other room just as they both leaned in…

Phew…

I looked at the other two near me. Selphie was still laughing, and Riku was shaking his head at her.

I smiled at them and went over to where the ice cream containers were. "So Selph, how was Castle Oblivion?"

The laughter stopped abruptly.

I cocked a brow and turned toward her just as I filled up a cup of buttered pecan ice cream.

She looked suspiciously guilty and was biting her lip, my own bad habit that she picked up on occasion.

"Selph?"

The brunette forced a smile. "It was great! I…uh had a great time, and…met a lot of great people…and…the sights were…uhh-…"

"Great?" Riku drawled. I could tell he was just as curious to her odd behavior as I was.

She nodded hastily.

I put a spoon full in my mouth and savored the sweet, buttery taste before asking in an accusing voice. "Selphie…what happened?"

Her eyes darted from left to right and I shared a look with Riku. He nodded and turned toward her.

"Hey, buddy, what's up?" He asked.

Riku had always been the smooth one compared to Sora. He could make a girl do just about anything he asked, but even though, he had the most peculiar effect on Selphie, one that both him and I were clearly aware of.

She looked at him and visibly melted as she gazed into his pale blue eyes.

You see, the difference between Selphie and me is, when I look a hot guy in the eye I always get rendered speechless, but Selphie is entirely different.

She-doesn't-stop-talking.

"Well, you see while I was at this cool balcony thingy place where you can look at the view of the sky and the castle through these binocular things on the 2nd month of my vacation I saw this guy who looked distinctly like Sora, but I knew it couldn't have been him seeing as how yall are going out and you don't believe in long distance relationships or anything like that and I was sure that he wouldn't go on a vacation without you, and you weren't there, so I went closer to him just to make sure and found out that he was with this other girl. Blonde hair, blue eyes, similar somewhat to Larxene except reminded me of you in some ways. Well, after I saw her I knew it COULDN'T have been Sora until I saw the charm. You know, the charm that you gave him? Oather? Othakeepadora? Oath-awatchamacallit?"

"Oathkeeper?" I confirmed quietly. I was biting my lip so hard that I could almost taste something metallic in my mouth.

Oathkeeper was a charm bracelet I gave him to ensure that we would be best friends for life.

It represented a promise…one that was too deep and too pure for words…

Riku looked confused and worried at the same time. "Go on, Selphie."

Selphie looked at him and then at me before continuing. "Ok, so when I realized it WAS Sora I was shocked because when I put two and two together it just didn't make sense. I mean here was Sora, your boyfriend, and he was there with, another girl. So I was like no way and decided to follow them to make sure he wasn't cheating on you, because I didn't want to just jump into conclusions and stuff. So I followed them to the beach, to every darned floor of Castle Oblivion, and lastly to the hotel they were staying at and don't give me that look Kairi. They weren't doing THAT. But ok so they went into their hotel room, did I mention that they shared a hotel room? SHARED?"

I shook my head.

"Well now you know. So anyhow, I listened in on what they were doing and heard them talking and let me tell you before you start asking. Those hotel walls were as thin as paper and I could here every single word they said. And it started out with Sora saying something like…wait a minute…what the heck am I doing? I got it on tape!"

My eyes widened. On…tape? Hearing it be said in 3rd person was one thing, but actually HEARING it? I don't know if I really wanted to…

It was too late to voice out my opinions though; Selphie rushed into the other room and came back with a tape recorder in hand.

"Wait a second, why do you have it on tape?" Riku asked with his eyebrows raised.

She looked sheepish for a moment. "Well, before I went out that day I brought a tape recorder with me so I can work on my whole reporter act."

Selphie wanted to be a reporter and a journalist when she got out of college.

Riku nodded in understanding.

Selphie looked at me and held up the tape recorder. "I think you should do it, Kairi…"

I nodded my head slowly and took it from her. I could feel the blood on my lips...

Riku and Selphie stared at me apprehensively. The same way I stared at the contraption in my hands.

What was it going to say?

What was it going to say?

What was it going to say?

With a deep breath I pressed the PLAY button with trembling fingers. Immediately, I heard a familiar male voice.

-"Naminé, do you love Roxas?"-

I felt myself slowly disappearing with each word.

Nothing was going to be the same again…


A/N: Oh dear? A CLIFFIE? That's right folks!

Well, this chapter was a bit wordy wasn't it? I'm thinking that this story will end with 5 chapters, just to let you know. I want to get this done and work on Crash and Burn so I can start writing The Replacements, another Roxas and Kairi pairing.

Anyway, just thought you guys should know. By the way does anyone have any ideas with what I should do with Crash and Burn? If you do…let me know…please?

Comments are very much appreciated! REVIEW!

KINDOM HEARTS 2!…Oh my…this will certainly change a few things won't it?

Next chapter: Lies, lies, lies! Was that all what our relationship was built up on? A web of lies? I couldn't believe that. I refuse to believe that. There had to be an explanation for all of this…

The rest of the tape, realizations, and an encounter with a certain ex-boyfriend that will make everything go haywire.

Hearing is believing…

But don't trust everything you hear…

(Can you say…drama?)

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