Wow Chapter 2 already huh? Neat!
Summary and dedication stay the same.
Dedication- and to all of my reviewers, especially jcola0823 for being the first, and
KHwhitelion- thanx so much for faveing
Disclaimer- Yeah I own Kingdom Hearts, and if you look close enough it's raining cupcakes and chocolate monkeys are flying around. Yup. And the 'make music not war' wristband belongs to Kristina C.
Namine POV--
"Wow, this is such a pain." I thought to myself as we waited for the new guy to arrive. Not that I'd ever voice that thought, because it's not something 'sweet, quiet' Namine would say. But seriously; by the fuss that Xemnas and Vexen are making you'd think the guy was gonna be riding in on a white stallion, complete with dramatic music.
Well, it turns out I was wrong, no stallion just a guy in jeans. Very interesting guy, though. He has slate colored hair that easily covers half his face, but is only about 3-4 inches taller than me. A blessing, since everyone here is like a giant in height, and me being 5'4 really doesn't help. He was wearing a fitted black shirt that had paintbrush stains on it, and a pair of faded blue jeans and worn black boots with a black wrist band that says in red letters 'make music, not war', I'll have to get the story behind that one. Not exactly classy, but I can't really talk, now can I? With my plain old white dress and light blue sandals.
After a few moments I realized I was blatantly staring at him and was about to look away when I met his eyes, a dark ocean blue. I looked away quickly, embarrassed that I had been caught looking. He was blushing too, so at least I dragged him down the tunnel of embarrassment with me.
A voice startled me out of my thoughts "Oh, yes, everyone this is Zexion, he will be the new artist here and someone will need to show him how everything goes. Hmm Namine, how about you, you seem to have the most free time on your hands right now." Xemnas stated. I just shrugged since I was lost in thought. Oh his name is Zexion, nice name. Hey wait a minute…
What the Hell? They saddled him off on me! Wait I have an idea. This could be fun, I get to increase my friend count to two, and a cute guy at that, and as an added bonus, make Rocks-ass extremely jealous! I can tell that it will work by the fact that when I was looking at Zexion, Roxy was glaring daggers at him. I now will have someone else to bitch at too, my true personality! Haha I can tell this year will be interestining if nothing else.
Zexion POV--still no lines--
After Xemnas's little speech he started on something else and completely forgot I was there. He also missed that half of the artists had already left or were talking amongst themselves. Since I knew that Xemnas wouldn't notice in his ranting, speaking from experience, I just walked over to Namine.
"Hey, apparently you're the one who's supposed to be showing me around?" I asked, never did like small talk.
"Wow, did you figure that out all by yourself?" she asked, very sarcastic I might add, looks like she's a feisty one. Lovely.
"Yeah I did. So how bout you show me some of your macaroni art?" I stated dryly. Two can play at that game. I could tell our riveting conversation would've gone on for hours if fan-boy hadn't interrupted us.
"Hey Nami" he began completely ignoring my presence, and I noticed a slight twitch at the 'Nami'. Interesting. "How about you ditch the emo kid and hang with me?" Now it was my turn to twitch. Oh so he thinks I'm emo? It is on now, bitch.
--Namine POV--
I wish that Roxas would just leave me alone and find someone else to stalk, I mean talk to. I mean, me and Zexion, grammar be damned, were having a decently civilized 'my shit is better than your shit' kind of conversation and he ruined it. Then he went and called me Nami, sometimes I just wanna hit him- but wait looks like Zexion did that for me. I was just about to say some excuse to why I would never 'hang' with him if he were the last person on the Earth, politely of course, but then bam!
I mean, damn, once Roxas called him emo, he bitch-slapped the kid! It was hilarious, everyone there was cracking up- with the exception of Xemnas who still hadn't noticed we weren't listening, and Saix who was completely entranced by staring at Xemnas's ass- mainly because Roxas had this 'what the fuck?' look on his face, and Zexion was seething. Aww, he's cute when he's angry, but a mental note: never call him emo.
"Wow." Was all I said though, I mean can't ruin my little façade in front of all these people. Once everyone actually got back to pretending to work (1) I decided I might as well do my job and show the guy around.
"Hey, Zexion, why don't I show you my 'macaroni art' for starters?" I suggested, though I gave him a look that said 'that's what we're doing, bitch, so if you don't like it leave.' He immediately caught the hidden meaning.
"Okay." Was all he said, but he communicated by glance, 'You have some pretty bad mood swings. That time of the month?'
I have no idea how we understood each other through all of these glances, but we managed. After his little comment/glance we proceeded to have a rather vicious stare-off, not looking away until Axel butted in.
"Hey, are you two love birds just gonna stand there or move, cuz some of us would like to use the room your blocking." He said with all of the usual bluntness I have come to know and hate.
"What are you on? We are definitely not love birds." Hmm, it seems that Zexion also has that bluntness, but at least he said it so I didn't have too.
"Suuuuurrrrreee. That's what you say now; I give it two weeks before I find you making out in the hallway." And with that he walked away, mumbling something about having to find Luxord, the local casino owner. I don't like where that's going.
Before I knew it we were in my gallery. Here at The Studio, we each have our own gallery, incase a client comes in and wants to see some of our freelance work before we came here, and work we do in our free time.
"Well here we are, obviously." I started "This is one of my earlier paintings, I call it 'heartless'. So what do you think?" I asked, nervous after he hadn't said anything. He was just gaping like a moron.
--Zexion POV--
Too say that it was one of the best pieces of art I'd ever seen would be an understatement. On the bottom there were swirls of blue black clouds parting to reveal a swarm of black creatures with beady yellow eyes looking like they were drowning, but reaching up to bright red lights. Above them was a heart shaped moon that was shining pale light down onto the otherwise very dark picture, it also looked like there was a green stairway going off of the side (2).
"That's some great macaroni art." Was all I managed to stutter out, trying not to look like a complete idiot to this girl.
"I'm happy that you like it." Was all she said, her voice not accented with thick sarcasm for once. Interesting. (3)
"Is there some particular reason that you swing back and forth from being polite, to being very sarcastic and then sometimes even being nice?" I asked, trying to make casual conversation.
She sighed. "Look" she started, "I'd rather not explain it here, do you wanna go out for coffee later or something?" I was surprised she asked, but my curiosity got the better of me. I never did have many friends anyway, so this may be my chance to make another.
"Sure." I agreed "Just give me the place and the time."
We were gonna meet at a café called Oblivion, apparently it was a local favorite with poetry readings and everything. We could also just go together because Namine was going to be my guide today. I guess you could say this is my first 'date' since high school; I need to get out more. But I guess you could say I'm excited, but until then it's just Namine guiding me through these hallways. Seriously, though would it kill them to put some color in here- I mean the color scheme is just white everywhere, I'll have to ask Namine about that too while we're out. This will be interesting if nothing else.
--End 2nd chappie! --
(1)Come on, who actually does their job?
(2)I like to describe things, so sue me. And I have a poem to match, I think that I'll have Zexion read it at the café, lemme know what you guys think.
(3)I think I was gonna explain something here, but I don't remember now so oh well.
Yeah, I take awhile on updating anything, sorry! I hope you guys liked the chap, and I have a question for you guys- who wants me to write in a drunken make-out scene? It involves a wedding (not theirs!) and an open bar, that's all I'll say, so give me you opinion on that okay? Well as I say a lot I am real busy (track) so it might be awhile, but reviews super motivate me, this would not be out now if not for jcola0823 and KHwhitelion. Thanx guys! Much love, Cat