Jessica: Why is almost no one reading this story? We had ONE REVIEW, which I greatly appreciate all the same. We worked so damn hard on it! Brandon: People are reading it, they just don't like it. If they did, they'd leave a review. Simple as that. Jessica: I think I'm gonna cry now! (Sobs uncontrollably in a corner rocking back and forth in misery) Brandon: No, don't cry, that's almost as bad as going all emo and slitting your wrists – which you will NOT do, damn it!!! JESSICA, GET OUT OF THAT CORNER RIGHT NOW!!!
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Alright, that's the end of that nice little conversation. Ahem… So anyways, please. Leave a review this chapter; this whole no reviews thing is driving me into becoming emotionally unstable end of my brain!!! Really, Brandon's upset too, but me more so I do believe. It makes me wanna cry, people can't take a minute out of their schedule to leave me a tiny review to say what they thought of all our hard work. Please, make me feel loved and leave a review! Cookies for reviewers!!!
Chapter 2: The First Day
"Brandon,"
No reply, just more snoring from under the large mount of fluffy pillows and blankets situated on the top half of the bunk bed.
"Oh Brandon, come on already, wake up. You've gotta get up and get dressed!"
"Shhhhh, I'm still sleeping…" He responded drowsily at last, flipping over to lay face first into his uncomfortably lumpy pillow, not that he cared how uncomfortable it was right at that particular moment as he was still divulged in his own happy little dream-land. This comment earned him a light playful smack on the back of the head from his sister, who had to stand on the edge of her bed to reach him being as short as she was. "Stop it, damn it! I'm tired you bitch…"
"Come on Brandon, today is our first day at Destiny Island Private High School Academy so you need to look at least halfway presentable! Get out of bed this instant and get ready would you? I don't wanna be late on our first day!" Jessica begged her brother to no avail, for of course it had been her trying to rouse him unsuccessfully for the past twenty or so minutes.
"Sis, five more minutes please! I was having a great dream too, I was making-out with…" He said lazily so that all his words slurred together, falling back asleep in an instant so that his sister was left to once again listen to the sound of his snores in their otherwise silent room. Oh Sora, your lips are just so soft and kissable, Brandon sighed in his halfway stage between sleep and waking, secretly glad that his sister couldn't read his thoughts. Not that she couldn't have guessed by the way he had said 'making-out' but why should she ruin his naïve idea that she had no idea what he was talking about?
Jessica sighed, crossing to the door and heading into the hall, her black messenger bag with the large red star she had painted on it over her shoulder as she went, her small pink and black purse tucked securely inside it along with her sketch book which she never left the house without. "Alright, suit yourself then Brandon."
"I will thank you, now shut up and leave me alone! God, you're worse than an alarm clock sometimes. You're defiantly louder than any damn alarm clock I've ever seen in my fifteen and a half years on this planet, though you can force an alarm clock to shut up unlike you and your big mouth!" He shouted groggily back, flinging a pillow at her as he wiggled around in his bunk trying to get comfortable. She dodged it easily, her brother getting on her last nerve – time to play dirty.
"Fine, have it your way, I'll leave you alone so you can sleep." She smiled to herself as she moved to leave and close the door behind her as she went. Leaving it open just an inch or so, she called back to her brother where still he lay in his bed. "Oh well, I was going to make your favorite, you know, those fluffy blueberry pancakes I used to make for breakfast but never mind about you getting any since you don't want to get up and get dressed. I'll just have to eat them all by myself then, sleep well." And then she shut the door.
It took almost thirty seconds, just long enough for Jessica to rush down the hallway and into the kitchen, for her last comment to sink into her brother's sleep-logged brain. As soon as it had sunk in however he sprung out of bed looking wildly around the room, flinging the blankets to the floor. Jumping the side of his bed, landing on his feet beside his trunk full of clothes he riffled through it. Deciding hastily on and outfit and throwing it on before wrenching open the door and rushing down the hall towards the kitchen, his black messenger bag tucked under his arm as he hopped up and down trying to put his shoes on as he went.
Jessica was singing softly under her breath to herself when her brother entered the kitchen, a variety of food sitting on the table looking expectant as she pulled a bowl and a large pan out of the cabinet. She smiled at him, putting on her white apron while motioning for him to sit down at the table while she worked.
"Good morning Sis, nice to see you so happy even if I can't understand what's so good about this morning since mornings suck as a rule for me. Where did the food come from?" Brandon asked her as he sat down, leaning his chair back on two legs as he stared over at her as she took the food and arranged it over the tabletop. "I sunk in here late last night around midnight to get something to eat like I always do when I can't sleep. The only things in that refrigerator were a couple of beers and a moldy looking pickle in a jar on the second shelf."
"I woke up really early this morning and couldn't go back to sleep so I walked up to the grocery store to get food for breakfast." Jessica said cheerily as she pour her ingredients into a bowl, mixing them with a large wooden spoon she had found in a drawer moments before. Singing softly as she went, she walked slowly around the kitchen with the bowl tucked in the crook of her arm mixing the ingredients together.
"Where did you get the money for that stuff? You can't honestly tell me that Dad or Larxene gave you food money." He said, looking up at her as he fiddled with his hair, trying halfheartedly to flatten it under his palms. Sighing, his sister pointed with her spoon at the counter where a comb lay waiting for him which he gratefully rushed over and picked up to run through his flyaway bed-head hair.
"I used some of my own money, you know, my left over birthday money from last year that I had saved up for a rainy day and all that jazz." She said in a singsong voice before going back to singing as she turned the stove on and placing the buttered pan on top of the stove and pouring some of her batter into it in so that it sizzled on the surface in the shape of a perfect pancake circle.
"You used your birthday money on my breakfast?" Brandon asked, groaning when she nodded not looking up from her cooking as she was so intent upon making it perfect. "What have I told you Jessica? I don't like you spending your money on me okay? Just ask me next time you need money, save up your money for something you really want like a new easel or something."
"I'm not going to ask you for money Brandon. I'm not broke yet and I fully intend on getting a part-time job as soon as we get completely settled in." She commented pulling a spatula out of a drawer at her right and flipping the golden brown pancake just in time so that it didn't burn. "Look, we'll switch off on who buys the groceries every week since apparently Dad and Larxene eat out for every meal and have no intention of taking us with them. You can foot the bill next time, we gotta a deal?"
"That's fairer I suppose. You got yourself a deal Sis." He smiled as she set the pancake down in front of him, a glass of milk set down beside the steaming plate seconds later. Brandon glanced at the perfect pancake for a second, silently thanking God for giving him a sister that could cook so well before inhaling his pancake in a little under a minute. As soon as it was gone, Jessica slid another onto his plate, patting his hair as she walked back to the stove to cook her own breakfast. While she sat down to eat her own breakfast, Brandon cleared away her ingredients and deposited his plate in the sink with the other pile of dirty dishes. "How did you get so good at that?"
"Get so good at what Brandon?" She asked after she swallowed the food in her mouth, dumping the rest of her uneaten food in the trashcan, placing her dishes in the sink on top of Brandon's.
"You know, cooking and all that other stuff you do." Brandon said, watching her as she cleaned up her spot with an unhappy look towards the trashcan. "Why didn't you eat that? It was half a blueberry pancake! You could have at least given it to me if you didn't want it for God's sake!"
"Forgive me for that lapse of memory but I forgot that you'd eat the plate if it was edible, seeing as you've got a bottomless pit for a stomach and all." She smiled as she looked through her bag for her pale pink lipstick, pulling it out along with her compact mirror and putting it on before turning back to her previous conversation. "As for the cooking question, I learned it all from our Mother of course. I watched her and how she did things around the house all day while you were out with your friends playing boy games with bugs and rattlesnakes or whatever you did back when we were younger. You had friends back then."
"Yeah, I know I did. That didn't last long now did it?" He said scornfully, slouching slightly. She placed a hand on his shoulder comfortingly. "It's fine Sis, who needs a bunch of stupid friends when I've got a twin sister like you?"
"I still wish you had friends Brandon, even if it was just one really good friend you really cared for." She said softly, looking deeply into his eyes with a frown. "If you found a friend you could truly care about and trust, you have no idea how happy I'd be. You'd finally have someone to hang out with instead of always staying home every Saturday."
"I know you do Jess, but it's never gonna happen. I'm too much of a freak to have any friends." He joked, sticking his tongue out at her making her laugh. He smiled wickedly, tickling her ribs so that she shrieked in her laughter struggling to pull away from him as he continued to tickle her to the point where she couldn't breathe.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING IN THERE? SHUT THE HELL UP WHILE WE'RE TRYING TO SLEEP!" Xemnas suddenly shouted at them from his bedroom down the hall. The twins looked at each other for a split second before grabbing their bags and rushing out the front door, sunning quickly away down the road.
"That sure was a close one!" Brandon smiled to himself as they walked down the road. He glanced over at his sister's face. She looked pale and worried, a look he hadn't seen her wear since they first found out about their Mother's illness. "What's wrong Jess?"
"Oh, um nothing Brandon, don't worry about it." Jessica smiled back at him, a large fake smile that showed all her teeth as they continued down the road to where they thought the school might be located.
"Jess, what is it?" He asked her, stopping right where he was as he grabbed her by the shoulder, forcing her to look into his face. "What's bothering you so much? You know you can tell me anything right? Just tell me what's bothering and I'll fix it whatever it is, I promise."
"What if no one likes me? What if I don't fit in here? I mean fit in more than I did at our old school back in New York. As if I really fit in back there, I was like a jet black circle among a lot of pale pink squares. What am I gonna do if I can't make friends here Brandon?" She asked in a small voice, for once in her life unsure of herself. "I like being me a lot and couldn't be anyone else if I tried, and I don't need friends for life to continue even though I do want them, but what if just being me isn't enough to make friends around here Brandon?"
"It's more than enough Jessica, and if they can't see that then their complete stupid moronic blithering idiots." He said serious, causing her to giggle softly before they began walking again. Throwing caution to the winds, Brandon said what he was thinking, knowing she would yell at him as soon as he brought it out into the open. "You can always talk to Riku. He seemed to like you a whole bunch. I mean, damn Jessica, I've never seen someone as hot as him flirt with any girl that long without getting the girl to flirt back or faint or something to that extent. I think you broke a record for longest time snubbing such a sexy hot in-crowd person or something like that."
"That's not funny." She said trying to act upset without managing to pull it off. She looked upset for half a second before bursting out laughing just as they entered the city limits. The mall on one side, the Destiny Island Private High School Academy on the other, offices and skyscrapers down the road but still in view, the city was quite a sight to behold. "This is it, let's get this over with. You ready?"
"Ready as I'll ever be." Brandon smiled, pushing his bag a little higher up his shoulder before pushing the door of the school open for them to walk inside. "Holy-"
The first time a new student walked inside Destiny Island Private High School Academy, they panicked. It was almost a tradition for the new student to run right back out of the front doors and the principal have to send another student he could trust to be nice to them go and collect them. This was not the case for the twins however. Taking a deep breath, Jessica and Brandon headed down the main hallway where most of the students were standing in small groups talking to each other about what they did over the summer. Intimidating, yes, Jessica thought as they strode down the hallway, but I've never backed down from a challenge yet and I don't intend to do it now. As the twins passed, people quieted staring after them with looked of amusement and curiosity on their faces.
"Why are they staring at us like that? Is something stuck in my teeth?" Brandon whispered to his sister, feeling anxious as to why everyone glanced their way as they walked. She shrugged her shoulders and kept walking. The reason for the staring was easy enough to figure out once she thought about it, not that she intended to tell her brother that. One look at the other students told her why they stared. They had committed fashion suicide.
In his baggy green cargo pants, a tight black tank top with a large white guitar painted on the front and his Panic! At the Disco jacket, a short studded belt wrapped up his left arm like a bracelet and a large silver skull and crossbones ring on his right hand ring finger, Brandon looked like something out of a rock concert – which apparently wasn't the way teenagers from this school dressed. Everyone was dressed the same in plaid skirts, khaki capri pants, long dark blue jeans, dressy button-ups, and sweaters, all lipstick and made-up like dolls on display in a store window.
In her own opinion, Jessica didn't look much better than her brother and she certainly didn't fit in any better with the preps. Not thinking about what private school teens wore she had worn her black knee length ruffle skirt and white tights with black and white star flats, a long white elbow sleeve shirt embroidered with silver stars and a pair of long dangling clear star earrings. She didn't fit in at all, not ever her hairstyle fit in – two twisted buns she had yanked down to dangle down to brush her shoulders instead of being pressed right up against her head, a large black ribbon tied with the bow on top of her head.
"You must be our two new students." A voice said behind them. Turning they saw a small group of students smiling at them as they all extended hands for the twins to shake. "I'm Namine, the quiet blonde one is named Tidus, that one with the orange hair is Wakka, and the grumpy looking girl is Paine. Welcome to our High School!"
"Thanks um, Namine, its good to know someone around her knows how to be nice to the new kids. Sadly I was beginning to loose faith that anyone would talk to us." Brandon smiled at her. She smiled back, nodding her head.
"Yeah, the whole school for the most part is a bunch of snobby rich preps. We're the freaks who don't fit in." She said sadly, gesturing at her outfit. She was wearing a white dress and black combat boots which surprisingly didn't look that bad together, her blonde hair flying this way and that under her small white knit cap.
"Hope you don't mind my sayin' so, but you twos look like you ain't gonna fit in too well here either." The orange hair boy Namine had called Wakka said with a chuckle. Wakka was in a long blue and orange basketball jersey and a pair of blue jeans, a basketball tucked under one arm.
"Can it Wakka, that's not a very kind thing to say. No wonder you only have three friends. Seriously, we want them to be our friends so stop saying stupid stuff or they might not like us which is the last thing I want." The blonde boy said elegantly looking down his nose at his friend. Tidus was in a tight black sweater with khaki pants but still didn't fit in with the crowd owing to the amount of black eyeliner and other make-up he was wearing. I always liked guys in eyeliner, Brandon and Jessica both thought at the exact same moment.
"Leave it alone Tidus, what's said is said. You can't take back words, one of the reasons some people shouldn't talk at all." Paine said coldly, her blank eyes gazing over the twins critically.
"We're not cool, so if you want to be cool you might want to leave before everyone sees you talking with us. We'll understand if you do, it happens a lot with the new students we try to befriend." Namine said cutting across the others in a louder voice than Jessica and Brandon would have thought possible of her and her seemingly quiet nature.
"What, you four not cool?" Brandon said sarcastically, putting an arm around Paine and Wakka's shoulders. "I never would have guessed it."
"Do you wanna join our group and be friends then?" Namine asked hopefully.
"Yes, I do think it would be nice to try and be friends." Jessica smiled taking Namine by the hand. Tidus mouth twitched ever so slightly in a smile as she took his hand as well. "So where's the front office? I need to pick up my schedule."
"Oh, I'll take you to the front office if you want." Tidus said quickly and quietly, blushing as he said it. Namine giggled softly and pulled Wakka and the others away when Jessica nodded sheepishly, telling her brother to wait for her to bring back his schedule as well. Gripping her hand a little more firmly Tidus led her down a small side hallway away from the crowds of people. "So Jessica, are you and Brandon-"
"He's my twin brother, not my boyfriend if that's what you're thinking." She said quickly knowing exactly what he was about to ask. Tidus stopped and looked at her, his smiled widening the smallest bit. "It's true, he's my twin brother. No one ever believes it though because we look and act so different. But it's true, Brandon is my twin brother."
"Well that's good thing to know." Tidus said. He stopped her in front of the large wooden door at the very end of the hall. "This is the main office. Do you want me to wait out here for you and take you to your next class after we take your brother his schedule?"
"If you don't mind, I'd really appreciate it." Jessica smiled at him before opening the door. It took nearly twenty minutes to fill out all her paper work – and her brother's for he had resolutely stayed behind with Paine and Wakka – and get their schedules. On returning to the hall outside the office however she was greeted with a rather unwanted and unwelcome surprise.
"Stop it; cut it out you nimrods! How childish are you jerks anyways, what did I ever do to you?" Tidus shouted as three taller older looking boys pushed him around between them, his bag lying forgotten in a corner beside the feet of another boy with fly-away ruffled looking blonde hair and sapphire eyes. When Tidus saw her come out of the office he stopped shouting ducking his eyes from hers a moment too late. She had already seen the tears forming there.
"What's going on here?" Jessica asked loudly stepping forward into the center of the group to stand resolutely in front of Tidus where he was cowering slightly. The four boys looked taken about, as though no one had ever come between them and their prey before now. When the group remained silent, Jessica took Tidus sweetly by the elbow and led him away from them and down the hall to where his bag lay beside the feet of the other blonde boy who thankfully had restrained from fighting. The three tormenters rushed off in the same direction, away from Tidus and the girl who had saved him for the time being.
"Hee he, sorry about that Tidus, they were just messing around you know?" The blonde boy smiled weakly, bending down and handing Tidus his stuff. Turning to Jessica instead when Tidus nodded he extended a hand. "Hey, I'm Roxas. You must be new here huh?"
"Yeah, this is my first day here, I'm Jessica." She smiled kindly making Roxas smile back sincerely this time. "Who were those guys anyways? Are they always like that?"
"Oh, that was just a few of my friends from the In-Crowd you know, they own the school and like to make sure that everyone knows it. They aren't always like that though, but to be honest they have a strong hatred for Tidus and his circle because of the Anti-In-Crowd pep rally they held last year." Roxas said in a low voice so that Tidus couldn't hear him. "Listen, if you need someone to show you around or wanna hang with the Inners as we're called just make sure I'm around and I'll hook you up, you seem nice."
"Thanks Roxas, I might have to take you up on that later." She smiled at him making Tidus scowl disapprovingly behind her back.
"ROXIE, where are you!?! We're gonna be late if you don't hurry up!"
"Oh damn I forgot we had plans before first period, I'm coming Axel!" Roxas cursed, practically flying down the hallway in the direction the voice had come from. "Wait for me Axel, wait up damn it! I'm your boyfriend, you better wait for me!
"You didn't have to do that you know." Tidus said gruffly while he leaned against the opposite wall from her looking like an abused puppy. "Even so, thank you for stepping in like that. No one's ever stood up for me before."
"Oh it's nothing, really I didn't mind at all Tidus." Jessica said as she brushed the dirt off his shoulder, a small smile curling her lips. "I'm sure you'd do the same for me since we're friends now you know, that's how friendship goes."
"They – they'll come after you next you know. That's how they do business. You helped me now they'll go after you for interrupting their fun and don't think being friends with Roxas will stop them. By no means is the one in charge in that group." Tidus explained to her as they walked down the now empty hallway. He suddenly grabbed her by the arm and turned her to look into his face and deep into his eyes. "I won't let them hurt you though, not if I can help it, I can promise you that."
"Thank you, Tidus." Jessica smiled. Tidus put an arm around her shoulder as they continued to walk, not speaking until a voice called out to them from the shadows.
"Well don't you look familiar…"
"So Brandon, is Jessica your-"
"No Paine, Jessica is my twin sister not my girlfriend." Brandon sighed lazily as he leaned against a banister. Never really having friends before Brandon didn't know what to do with them now that he had them. If this is what it's like to have friends then maybe I don't want any, Brandon thought sadly, friends are so boring. Suddenly a rather familiar spiky haired brunette walked around the corner and waved at him making him feel a completely different feeling from boredom almost instantly. "Hey look over there guys, it's my good buddy Sora. Hey Sora, nice to see you again after that rather strange meeting yesterday, hit anyone else with your car then?"
"Hey Brandon, how are you doing, oh and no I haven't hit anyone with my car thank you very much because Riku refused pointblank to let me drive after that little near-mishap." Sora smiled broadly. He looked around at the three people standing around Brandon sulking from having a happy person so close to them. "Oh, hey there everyone, who are your friends Brandon?"
"Oh um this is Namine, Paine, and Wakka." Brandon said pointing at each on as he said their name. None of them waved or gave any sign of recognition as Sora smiled cheerily at them.
"So did you get your schedule yet then Brandon?" Sora asked, still oblivious to the disapproving and even loathing stares he was getting from the 'unpopular' teenagers around him.
"Not yet, Jess went to get it for me so I could stay and hang with these guys." Brandon smiled at them, winking when they smiled back at him. "Why aren't you hanging out with your other friends?"
"I just - oh shoot you just reminded me! I gotta get to my first period now, its Coffee Monday! Bye then Brandon, kisses!" Sora smiled as he rushed off down the hallways and out of sight.
"What the hell is a Coffee Monday?" Brandon asked the others his head tilted to one side slightly in his part confusion part amusement at the lovely little brunette's antics.
Is it just me or did he get sexier over night? Brandon's final thought before Wakka came up and waved a hand in front of his face to stop him staring off into space. Just then Tidus came walking back with Brandon's schedule in hand – alone.
"What the hell are you doing alone, what happened to my sister?"
"Well don't you look familiar..." Riku smiled as he walked out from behind the corner he had been lurking in while his friends hassled Tidus and Roxas invited Jessica into their group. "Nice to see you again Jessica, I see you've made yourself a friend already."
"Yeah she has made a friend in me Riku, what of it?" Tidus asked rudely as he flipped Riku off snidely, Jessica taking note of the large amount of distain he used as he said Riku's name. His arm slipped from about Jessica's shoulders as her turned to look her in the eyes. "Jess, I gotta get back to the others if you don't mind. Sorry to rush off without taking you to your first class like I said I would but I can't stay in the present company a moment longer than necessary. You don't mind do you?"
"Oh, um of course not Tidus. Would you take Brandon his schedule for me then since you're going back?" She asked as he turned to go. Tidus turned back to her and took the paper from her hand, his finger's brushing against hers for a mere second before he pulled away and rushed swiftly down the hallway.
"He really does hate me then, I thought Sora was kidding when he told me Tidus had something against me." Riku said dejectedly, running his long thin tapered fingers distractedly through his silvery hair.
"Why does he hate you though?" Jessica asked him tilting her head just enough so that she could look into his eyes as she asked. His aqua green pools stared back at her a moment before answering. "You really should explain yourself Riku, me and my curiosity really need to know. Tidus just doesn't seem like the type who would hate someone for no reason."
"We used to be best friends if you can believe it. That was before I became popular though, and when I became popular I couldn't spend as much time with his as I used to so he started to resent me and my new friends. Then one day I lost track of time and missed his birthday party because I was at a road race subbing in for Leon when he couldn't drive because he broke his leg during a basketball game and couldn't drive. Tidus never spoke to me again, at least not until just now." Riku said nervously shuffling his feet as he stared down at the ground.
"Why didn't you just apologize? I'm 100 sure he would have accepted it if you would have apologized from the heart Riku." Jessica stated in a matter-of-fact voice.
"I did apologize to him the next day when I went to drop off the present I bought him to give him at the party. You wanna know what he did?" Riku asked her sounding angry, but she nodded her head anyways if not somewhat reluctantly. "He threw the present at my head without opening it and told me to go screw myself. Yeah, he really knows how to forgive people for their mistakes Jessica. What do you know anyways, you just met him! You think you know him better than me, is that it then?"
"I didn't know he did that to you Riku, but you still don't have to be so hateful to me when I had nothing to do with it! Why yell at me if it's him your mad at?" She snapped back. Jessica knew he hadn't meant to raise his voice against her and that he had just been upset but she couldn't stop herself snapping at him somehow. "I'm sorry Riku, me snapping back at you isn't the right thing to do. I shouldn't have done it."
"Oh it's alright Jessica, you're completely right, I shouldn't shout at you when I'm mad at Tidus." Riku smiled weakly at her. She smiled back. She didn't know what made her do it, all that she knew was that suddenly she gave up being standoffish and smiled at him, a true smile for the first time since they had first met each other the day before. "Really though, I like it when you snap at me like that Jessica. No one ever snaps at me and people always let me have my way because I'm popular and so God damn drop dead sexy. It's nice to have someone challenge my authority."
"You're really weird you know that Riku?" Jessica giggled as he reached for her schedule that she still held in her hand slightly crumpling it up. "Oh no, you gonna stalk me now then Riku? I swear if I see you pop up in one of my classes that you're not in I'll die of laughter."
"Huh, we have almost all the same classes, imagine that. Just our third and seventh periods are different because you're talking art classes. I could never take art, I don't have a creative bone in my body or so I've been told by every art teacher I've ever had throughout elementary and middle school." He smiled to himself as he handed her schedule back to her. She stared at him for a moment before ducking her eyes and looking around nervously as though she didn't know what to do beside look at her feet. "Well, since Tidus seems to have abandoned you and we have the same first period, would you oh so kindly allow me to escort you to first period?"
"Of course you can Riku, but only if you can find something interesting to talk about this time. No more sports please, my brain couldn't take anymore of that kind of torture." She joked with him as he led her to their first period class which was advanced chemistry in Lab #2.
"I think I can think of a few things to talk about actually." He smiled to himself as he struggled to remember exactly what Brandon had whispered to him the day before when he had dropped the two of them off at their house. "So then Jessica, how do you feel about white roses?"
"Did you say white roses?" Jessica asked sounding shocked, her question laced with a note of intense enjoyment and relief that he had picked a topic she had interest in. When he nodded she smiled broadly. "I adore white roses! They're my favorite flower actually if you want to know. Every year on my birthday Mother would buy me as many white roses as I was years old."
"So this year you'll get how many roses then?" Riku asked her with interest. Now he's thinking, Jessica smiled to herself. He threw a two-sided question at me so her can keep me interested and find out how old I am at the same time. He's learning how to deal with me and my thought process, good for him. Maybe now he won't be so boring to talk with – thank goodness for that!
"I would be expecting sixteen this year on my birthday but I won't be getting any roses at all this year no matter what number or color." She said sadly, her voice filled with emotion as she confessed it to him. "My Mother sort of isn't around anymore. She can't come back either if you catch my drift."
"I'm so sorry Jessica I had no idea about your Mother." Riku said biting his lower lip. She gave him a slightly sideways look, slightly surprised that his apology sounded so genuine .
"Of course you didn't know silly goose, I didn't tell you she was dead until just now. It doesn't matter though so don't be worried I'm angry with you or anything." She added when he still looked nervous. "Are we almost to first period, it sure is taking a long time to get there Riku."
"That's because I'm not taking you to first period." Riku smiled at her broadly before grabbing her by the wrist and pulling her through a door on his left. "I wanted to show you this first."
"Holy-" Jessica's voice trailed off as she stared open mouthed at what was before her.
Oh my, what could it be that is Riku showing to her to make her act like such a ninny? (Jessica: Ha, I love the word ninny! Don't ask why though, I just think its fun to say!) What will Brandon say about the Tidus-leaving-his-sister-alone-with-Riku thing? Who were the boys that harassed Tidus and what is Coffee Monday!?! (Jessica: Hee he, my friends and I have Chocolate Tuesdays at my high school, don't we Brandon? Brandon: That we do, and don't we love the chocolate! Caffeine is like the white-people version of crack!!!
So anyways, please leave a review and tell US what you though of the second chapter, a cookie for anyone who reviews this chapter!!!