The summer ended how it started, a total nightmare. We tried to remain cheerful after the three left but we really can't help it. The scandal was so big that we can't even hide it to the others anymore. There was no fight, no punches pulled and no curse word said but the truth is someone did get hurt.

Namine apologized to me that evening for slapping Sora. She gave me a weak smile and tried to joke about it. "I told you, didn't I? I will slap him if I see him." She waved goodbye and went to her respective room. I thought everything will be going to be fine but….

"What do you mean you're leaving?" Selphie said while she tried to catch up to them.

"Exactly what we said, we are leaving." Namine said and ignored Selphie's pleas. Roxas tried to calm her down and smiled to shrug her worries off.

"Sorry, we really just need to go. Don't worry it's not about the incident yesterday. It's totally unrelated." He patted Selphie's shoulders and followed Namine, who is waiting for him outside.

Totally unrelated he says. Roxas, you terrible liar.

The remaining days were….fun. Selphie and the others tried to make me smile and we talked about numerous things like their school life and the things I missed while we are taking different paths. Nothing changed. They were the same, laughing and smiling with no worries.

"Geez, I really hate you Squall!" Selphie folded her arms and pouted. She thumped her feet and looked away from him.

"We didn't know that today is the last day. You never did explain things perfectly to us." Squall said in a calm yet irritated voice.

"Well why don't we stay a little longer?" I said a very bright smile while placing my hands on Squall and Irvine's shoulder. "Well? We can stay a little longer right Terra?" I asked and turned to Terra.

"Ugh yeah…. I guess?" He answered with a weird look on his face.

Nothing will change if I became sad about that matter so why bother? Let's have some fun!

"What do you mean you stayed longer in the beach?"

Namine kept in touch with me through phone calls. But she rarely does that. You know her. She doesn't want people to know that she's worried. And she never even opened "that" topic not even a hint that she wanted to.

What a great actress.

Anyways today will be marked as the last day of my first summer in my high school life and tomorrow will be….

"I hate going to school. New semesters always suck." I said while moaning on my chair. Olette poked me on the forehead and smiled.

"Class Rep, don't be like that! The whole class might imitate you." She said and pointed over the other students, who are also complaining on the start of the new semester.

"I doubt that. I bet they are as unhappy as me because classes resumes today." I said to her and rock my chair. "I can still feel the summer heat!" I used my hands and fanned myself while complaining I caught in the corner of my eye, a silver hair of someone I know from a very long time.

"Riku!" I shouted on the corridor while I catch up to him. My shout send chills from his spine and I felt that he was trying his best to ignore me. I shrug the thought off and continued to call him. After a few calls, he turned with a gesture that he was forced to. I bet he got irritated.

"Yo!" He said with a weird tone while avoiding my eye contact.

I thought Roxas said that he exclaimed to him that I was his destined soul mate? I guess he only said that because…

"What are you two doing?" Sora appeared from behind while Riku shivered in fear.

"I thought I made it clear that I'm not going to talk to you EVER AGAIN!" He poked me in the forehead and smiled.

"Yeah but that doesn't mean that I can't talk you." He said confusing me with his logic. "No one's going to stop me from talking to you and besides you just said that you're not going to talk to me."

"But that is equal to talking to a wall you know. Yes you can talk all you want to me but that doesn't mean I'm listening and I will not reply back to your -!"

"Stop!" He put his finger on my finger and smiled showing his canine teeth. "But you are talking to me right now, am I right? Does that mean your words are false?"

"I give up." I sighed and face palmed. Wait a minute…. Why am I acting so casual to him? And why does he act so casual even though he made a ruckus during summer break? Is he an air head or something?

"Uhm…. Am I still a part of this conversation? I will leave if I'm not." Riku said while the two of us looked at him. We screamed and laughed at forgetting his presence before us. "You do know that it is rude to call someone and talk to someone else. Not to mention I haven't seen Kairi for a while."

"Kairi?" I asked and pointed to Sora. "Wait don't tell me you are hanging out with each other without me knowing?" I barked those questions to Riku while Sora, on the sides, signaled not to tell me the truth.

"Oh look here's the bell for second period. See you guys!" Riku said and made an escape.

"RIKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Sora and I will be waiting for you at the rooftop during lunch break okay?" I shouted to the corridor and waved goodbye to him. He laughed a little and nodded.

"I couldn't remember the last time we had lunch together. I missed those times." I said while the two eat their lunch silently. I glared at them and noticed that I'm the only one talking.

Riku and Sora stopped eating and laughed at my face. Sora rolled on the floor while Riku spilled the food on his mouth from laughter. I blushed from embarrassment and folded my arms.

"You never change Kairi." Riku said while I slowly looked at him, still embarrassed. "You still eat like a pig." He said making me explode from embarrassment while they continued laughing.

"I hate you." I said, almost crying.

"Hey sorry about that, I just missed spending time with you guys." He said and gave his handkerchief to me. "Apparently someone doesn't want me to talk to you so I avoided you." He added and glanced at Sora.

"Why?" I asked curiously to Sora.

"I-Heard-From-A-Phone-Call-That-He-Said-That-You-Are-His-Soulmate SO I DON'T WANT YOU TWO SEEING EACH OTHER!"

My eyes widened and I can feel the blood rushing through my face. I can totally imagine myself being bright red. I never imagined Sora will be jealous on things like that.

Riku snapped his fingers and laughed. "About that. I said that to Roxas because I was so anxious on meeting him. I can't believe my ex's current boyfriend will act calm in our first meeting after what I did to her. I can't believe there is someone still nice here in this world."

"I see so you used me as an escape goat." I said knowing that deep deep inside I saw it coming.

"Rikuuu! We need to go now. Practice at the court." Someone said and fetched Riku away from us. Riku shrugged and smiled.

"We will still meet again, right?" I asked with a smile on my face.

He didn't replied back but I saw him smiled and he waved goodbye to us before he left which was reassuring that we will in fact see him again. I need to be sure since he always vanishes into thin air.

"Where did Riku go?" Sora said while continuing his meal.

"He just left. Didn't you notice him leave?"

"Nope. Phone call." He said and showed me his phone and to my surprise it was Roxas!

"Roxas called you? Why? A fight?" I said while I pulled his phone and arms towards me.

"A fight? Why do you think that will happen? We're friends you know." He said while he pulled his arm away. "He was asking what he should do for Namine on their anniversary."

"I see but why did he asked you? I'm here. How did you get his number?"

"He said that you're not good at keeping secrets. I got his number the night before we left. Man I never thought our vacation will be cut short."

"Cut short?" I asked. I see so they didn't fight after all. That's why Namine didn't open it up because there was nothing to open anyways.

"Roxas and Namine got cram school while my mother and I went to our relatives."

"I see." I sighed and looked down. I noticed something on the ground and picked it up. "What's this?"

"Oh right. I forgot about that." He snapped his fingers and smiled. "Do you want to have a date with me?"

Eh?

[Author's notes]

Ugh yes.. I'm terribly sorry that my updates are slow. I've got some problems about my works. I'm starting to feel that no one feels the romance in my stories so yes…. It's getting kinda complicated when I write. I get frustrated ALOT and tried to write my stories when I'm in the good mood to get better results.

So this chapter has been stock at limbo for weeks. I'm really sorry. I wish that my problems will be solve soon so I can write and update regularly again.

NEXT UP: What does this mean?