Chapter 3: Is He Your Boyfriend?

Is he your boyfriend? My, what an interesting chapter title. Read on to find out.

Genre: Romance/Parody

It is another day at Destiny Islands High and a few days have passed since the dinner. Aerith decided to take a small vacation in the islands, but only because Tifa insisted on staying to see the place where her friend grew up in. Of course, Aerith hated the idea of staying, but she couldn't say 'no' to the friend that had helped her all these years. Meanwhile, Kairi and her friends have been hanging out together to develop a close relationship. Although, Sora still appears shy and timid to others except them. Now, the four were taking a test in English and all was quiet except for the sounds of bricking over the answers, the pens being used to write, and the faint scraping noise of erasers. Kairi was having a hard time on grammar. She loved English, but hated her own language's rules of writing. "Ok…verb tenses. I got this. What was that rule of present perfect?" she thinks, staring at the last correction she has to do. "Wasn't has or have plus the participle?" The sentence on Kairi's test read: Kairi will have studied for this test. "Damn you grammar and your stupid rules! I'll go with my instincts!" She writes: Kairi has studied for this test. "That sounds about right!" She gets up feeling proud and turns in her test next to Mr. Fair, whom is sitting at his desk in the classroom, playing a game. Kairi takes a glimpse and notices it is Mystic Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. "It sucks Zeke dies," she blurts out.

"Hey! Spoiler alert!" her teacher shouts, making all his classmates look at him due to the volume in his tone. "Finish your test!" he says and they soon put their heads down on the paper in front of them.

"Not like it matters Mr. Fair. You already know he dies since that is prequel to the original."

"It's so sad though," her teacher mourns. "It's more fun playing him than that emo Chad. He reminds of someone though." This pipes Kairi's interest, which causes to raise her eye brow.

"Oh? And who is that?"

"Cloud," he confesses, laughing at his response. "If you think about it, you'll notice some similarities." That is quite a nice observation, but to Kairi, it seems to tie in with Cloud and Aerith and she is dying to hear more. Her teacher is friends with both of them, so he must know something between the two. However, she needs to be careful of what she says in order to get the information out of him.

"Why? Is Cloud mourning over something? That's what Chad does in the seven series." Zack opens his mouth to give a response, but immediately retracts when he knew what she is up to, so he decides to make a believable lie at the top of his head.

"His pet gold fish," he answers, making Kairi give him the sting eye. "Maybe she'll fall for it." He did make a promise to his bud one day to keep the secret and he knows Aerith doesn't like to mention it as it would bring painful memories.

"Seriously? That's one of the worst lies I've ever heard," Kairi conceives, putting up a fake face to make it seem she believes him. "Tell him to get over it. There's plenty of more fish in the sea," she advises and goes back to her seat for class to be over.

"Whew! That was close! Cloud would've killed me," Zack thought, chuckling in his head until he notices his students are staring at him again. "Oh crap! Did I just laugh for real?"

"Yes you did," Namine points out, staring at him with her pen still in hand.

Minutes later, the class ends and it is a fifteen minute recess. The students flee their classrooms and out the buildings to fill the school grounds to be with their friends. Kairi and friends are the last ones to leave the room with the exception of two people: Olette and her boyfriend. But a little conversation stops Kairi and Sora from leaving while Namine and Roxas go into the teacher's lounge for something. "Y-you're breaking up with me? Here out of all places?" Olette stammers.

"Because it's more dramatic," her boyfriend says, which makes her give him a disgusting look.

"More dramatic? It's just a cheap way to end a couple, so one of us looks for the one unless the couple was a crappy one. You said we were soul mates."

"I did…?" the teenage boy curiously asks since he didn't know what she is talking about.

"You did when you kissed me in the rain yesterday…" Olette trails off. "After our umbrella was taken by the wind and I slipped and I cried. You kissed me to comfort me from the pain."

"Who knew our smarty pants has relationship problems. It's like we're watching some terrible romantic movie right in front of us. It's so bad, it's good," Kairi claims.

"How does that work?" Sora questions. "Cuz I really don't understand that concept."

"Hold on that thought until the end of this scene," Kairi informs him, willing to answer his question, but couldn't due to Olette. Soon enough, Namine showing up behind her with a bag of popcorn. "Oh! Popcorn! Perfect timing!" she says, putting some in her mouth. "Olette's boyfriend is probably gonna ask if they can stay as friends," she mumbles through her food.

"Yeah… we should stay friends," Olette gladly replies, but she didn't mean it.

"You were thinking the same thing?" the boy excitingly says, smiling at the thought.

Olettle giggles, but stops and madly shouts, "No! Go fu-fudge yourself!" That line made everyone awe at her of that kiddy replacement of the actual word, but she never really does swear to people. After the confrontation, she coldly brushes past Kairi and friends.

"I don't get it. Why can't they be friends?" Roxas asks, making heads slowly turn to him.

"You still have that book?" Namine sweetly asks.

"Why yes I do." Roxas responds, pulling it out of his bag. "And I'm almost done with it."

"Rewind to three chapters of where you are and get back to me on that," she bluntly says and walks off. "Kairi help them."

"To answer your previous question Sora, the idea of 'it's so bad, it's good' means how enjoyable it is to watch a terrible scene," Kairi explains. "Like old movies with the cheesy music and acting that you can't help, but laugh. A good example would be film version of Macbeth, such as the scene where he sees the dagger. Now don't get me wrong, I love the story, but the movie wasn't that great."

"I think I get it…" Sora trails off.

"And Roxas…" Kairi stops to looks at him. "Do what Namine told ya to do cuz I'm not gonna explain of some people can't be friends after a relationship. It's too complicated." The three are about to leave until Namine comes back in front of them.

"Hey guys! I got something we can do after school," she happily says, pulling out Olette from her side. "I found Olette emotionally damaged, so let's do a time jump to help her out!"

"Time jump?" Roxas scratches the back of his head because he didn't know what she is talking about.

"You know the device used in stories to get passed the boring stuff and into the interesting ones." Her friends just stare at her. "To the mall!" she says, throwing punch in the air.

Hours later…

"Ugh, I needed that caramel frappe from Starbucks," Namine sighs in relief, sipping from her beverage while walking with her friends. "So out of all places Olette, your ex-boyfriend choses to break up with at school. How incredibly cliché of him. See that's when you know you have lame ass boyfriend if he does that you. You taking notes Roxas? Don't ever do that to a girl."

"What?" Roxas talks, once again clueless. "Can you stop badgering about love? There's more to life than two people getting together and living happily ever after in a vehicle and off into some beautiful scenery." Then they come across a panel movies posters down the line, leading up to a movie theater. "Like this one right here," he says, pointing to the poster of Life as We Know It. "It's got Katherine Heigl who has starred in a lot romantic movies after leaving Grey's Anatomy." However, Olette scoffs at the poster in front of her.

"Stupid Hollywood clichés of true love," she says, glaring at it as if she wants tear it down. "Shut up Katherine Heigl! You stupid liar!" she bursts, slamming the poster glass hard with her purse that she causes a huge crack in it. "Oh crap. Run away! Run away!" she panics, running away.

"Nice. I can imagine Mila Kunis saying that line." Kairi enlivens, catching up with her. "Now, what you need is to blow off some steam! Let's go shop—oh wait—that's too common for girls to do." Kairi looks up at the ceiling thinking in her head of what to do. "We could get make ov—no—that's too girly for the boys…" Ideas are constantly streaming in her brain, but she feel it is always the girly stuff. "I got it! We'll go to uh… Fun Factory! Yay…" Her cheerful voice dies down when no one seems to like the idea. "I have a card where we can play unlimited games for a year. I won it at a contest." Everyone cheers in excitement. Who could say 'no' to unlimited games? "Onwards to the factory!" She starts off the march and ten seconds later she says, "Ok. We're here. Time to go on in." She opens the door until each one goes in with Sora being the last one; however, he stops. "Is something wrong?"

"I've never been to a Fun Factory," he shamelessly confesses, looking down at the ground to avoid eye contact.

"Well, then I must take you under my wing because you are gonna have the time of your life," Kairi smiles, grabbing his wrist and whisking him in.

Meanwhile at Kupo Tech, Cloud is still trying to get used to the environment, but he did enjoy his office. It has a nice view of the main city in Destiny Islands. A city filled with various buildings that never went above five hundred feet due to island's rule of height limits in certain areas. He looks behind to see his with a few couches and sit with some shiny silver shelfs, white curtains, a white table with a black surface and materials on the top, including small aquarium. A knock is heard on the door and Cloud says, "Come in." The door opens, revealing a young adult in her early 20s with short hair. "And you are?"

"Sorry that today was my day off, but I wanted to stop by the check out the new executive," the woman says, walking up this his desk. "The name's Yuffie." She puts out her hand for a handshake and Cloud gladly shakes it. "You're seem pretty young to be in a position like this, but I guess you must smart to land such a big job. Hope you don't end up like the other two."

Cloud raises his right eyebrow in concern. "Why? What happened?"

"The last one killed himself due to depression and the one before was killed in an accident." Cloud gave a distraught look. "Yeah… you probably think there is some kind of curse that comes with the job and I can assure you that there isn't one. The others before them are alive and well," she laughs. Cloud goes along with her explanation and laughs anxiously.

"This better not be the karma that Aerith's giving me," he whispers to himself.

"Who?" his secretary wonders.

"Oh nothing," he quickly answers.

• Unwritten •

Kairi and Sora are playing Street Fighter IVin Fun Factory with Kairi is bashing all the button that are near her fingertips while Sora casually presses the button. "How are you beating me and be so calm about it?!" she yells at him. "I'm gonna get you with Fat Leg Chung-Li!" She furiously bashes the buttons and makes loud grunts, which makes the people around the two stare at her, thinking she has gone mad. Sora blocks her attack with Ryu and finishes her off with his special attack. "Nooo!" she screams, getting down on the ground in defeat. "I've been defeated," she agonizes.

"Ugh Kairi?" Sora looks down on her, but in a concern state.

"No… leave me," she dramatically says and continues, "I've been defeated by the great fighter Sora. I will forever be in your debt!" Sora gives her an awkward look. "Oh, come on. At least play along," she pouts, making Sora chuckle a bit of her small act. He sticks out his hand for her and happily takes it.

"It's just a game Kairi. It's a contract to slavery," he says to her as she gets up. "Plus, I would rather have child labor than you." Kairi gasps and playfully hits the side of his arm. "I'm kidding!"

"Never thought you would say such a thing," Kairi points out and the two start to walk around the area, passing by some teenagers and kids while taking at the same time. "I wonder how Olette is holding up on the breakup. I can't imagine having a boyfriend who would break up with me in school after class. The only thing worse than that is to do it over text."

"It's sounds painful to be in love," Sora thought out loud. "Like one big rollercoaster."

"It is. You have to go through a lot of stuff when it's all about compromise. If you really liked someone, you would have to be willing enough to accept them for who they are rather than change them to your benefit. It's gonna blow up in your face if you do."

"And how do you know these things?"

"I'm a girl. I magically know it all. Forget what Hollywood portrays. It takes a one in a million chance for life to imitate art. One that Namine hopes to happen to her and I doubt that will happen."

"It does happen though," Sora points out.

"You know, I'm getting a bit hungry. Wanna grab something to eat?" Sora simply nods and the two head on out together. As the two walk around the mall to the food court, an awkward fills the air. They pass through continuous streams of people pass by them or are walking at the same speed. Kairi wants to say something, but it looks like he isn't going to say much either. She hardly knew the guy and its only been a few days. She keeps on looking at him while he casually walks with his hands in his pockets. She examines his every feature to his spiky brown hair, to his blue v-neck shirt with black pants, and to the bottom of his black and white Vans shoes. "He must not be much of talker? Well, he does sit at the back of class like every other shy person does," she thinks to herself. "And when he does talk… its short. What's your story Sora? Did—oh shoot he's looking back!" Kairi immediately looks away from Sora turns his head to her, noticing the strange timid look on her face. "Oh crap! He probably thought I was checking him out! I bet the people around think I have a crush on the guy… uhh… can't a girl get a break?"

"We're here," Sora says.

"Huh?" Kairi, who hasn't been paying at all, notices they are in front of the food court. "Already? That was fast."

"Heeyyyy!" a familiar voice shouts, carrying a giant Red Bird from Angry Birds in her hands. The two look behind them to Namine running towards them with Roxas and Olette trailing behind her. "The least you could was tell us where you guys were going!" she says, stopping in front of the two. "You know how heavy this thing is?!" She points to her enormous prize, gasping for air.

"You could've made Roxas hold it," Kairi tells her.

"You're right!" Namine shoves Red Bird into Roxas' hands, making him fall over. "Oh come on! It's not that heavy!" As Olette helps out Roxas, Namine says, "You know, it would be totally cool if there was some Angry Bird contest with these giant plushies. We get to throw to kill the ugly green little pigs." Suddenly, music blasts throughout the music, making everyone go to the source. It seems to be coming from the center of the mall and Namine's wish comes true. In front of the five teenagers are the structures that are similar to the games with the pigs inside. On the other side of that are the birds and a giant slingshot. Namine's eyes gleam in excitement and runs off, leaving a gust of wind to her friends.

"Wow," Olette says. "That girl should join the track team."

"I'm hungry," Roxas blurts out. "Can we go back to the food court? I'm sure this will be on the news."

"Yeah. Let's head back," Kairi answers as the four of them walk off. "I'm sure she'll be there for a while." Too bad it ends quickly when they stop in their tracks due to the sound of the entire structure falling down already. They slowly turn their backs to see the scene happen before their eyes and the MC announces through the microphone, "And we have a winner!"

"I won!" Namine shouts from the microphone. Her friends stood in shock. Namine sure is one crazy girl, but it probably went up a notch after that. The four utters four words in a particular order: Kairi, Sora, Roxas, and Olette.

"I."

"Can't."

"Believe."

"It."

And soon they all say, "She actually did it." Just like that, Namine is seen once again running to them, with tons of prizes in her hands.

"You better start running now Roxas," Kairi warns him.

"Huh? Why?" he says, clueless of what she means until he hears Namine scream for him.

"Roxas! I got more stuff for you to carry!" Roxas panics and quickly runs away with her Red Bird. "Hey! I can't carry all these myself!"

Meanwhile in another place on the island, Aerith brings Tifa to the great sandy beaches of Destiny Islands, along with Zack. "Oh my god! This is one of the most beautiful beaches I've been too! Another reason to live here!" she shouts, running to the shallow waters already, but comes back to give her stuff to Zack to carry. "Sorry, but I'll be back!" With that she runs off. Obviously she has never left the city.

"Where was she from again?" Zack asks, noticing her tourist behavior.

"Radiant City, but don't hate. It's a great place and I live there with her," Aerith defends. "Without her, I would've been lost and my career wouldn't have taken off," she continues, while the two carry their belongings to an empty spot. "Taking her to North Shore was a great idea Zack, so thanks. I've been gone for so long that I forgot my way around here."

"It's no problem," her best friend happily replies. "Just remember some thing aren't the same as they used to be."

"Yeah, you! An English teacher!" she praises. "I never thought you would get into a career like that. Back then, you didn't even know your future. Whatcha do? Switch up on a ton of majors in college?" she jokes, but Zack nervously chuckles. "You did didn't you? How many times? It's nothing to be ashamed of."

"T-ten… ahehehe…" he admits, hiding his shame.

"T-ten?" Aerith tries to digest the information. She gets people switching up a few majors, but ten? That's quite a lot and a ton of money must have been spent to keep Zack in school, so she asks him about it. "How did you stay in school? What did your parents say?"

"Not much," he answers. "Actually, it was great timing too. My parents won the lottery and got tons of money, so college wasn't hard to pay. They didn't mind the numerous times I changed my majors because they told they rather have me finding something to pursue than walking a mindless path."

"How nice of them. That's the Fair family I know. Always sweet and caring."

"We can settle here," Zack put down the stuff, including Aerith. While the two the prep, they continue to have a conversation with each other. "Being a teacher is actually fun at the school. It's a pain to grade the work, but I love working with the kids."

"How's my little cousin doing? Not causing any trouble is she?" she asks, taking a seat in her beach chair, and Zack in his own.

"She's doing fine Aerith. You don't have to worry about her," Zack assures her, easing her worries. "Although, I must tell something and it concerns you."

"Me?" Zack nods.

"He who must not be named told me his sister is trying to find out about you and him," Zack tells her, recalling the conversation he had with Cloud before at Aerith's book signing. "I know it could be troublesome, but do you want that kind of information getting out? If Namine finds out, she's gonna hate for what he did."

"Let her investigate. It's best she hears it from him than me," Aerith coldly answers. "What Cloud did was unforgivable."

"Can't you let go? You two are so much alike that you guys are oblivious to it."

"Confessing how you really feel about your best friend isn't a crime. It's how you handle it that matters and this is my way of handling it. Holding a grudge, so he can regret till the day he dies."

"Man, you can be a cold-hearted woman."

"Only to him I am." Tifa emerges into the two's eyes, soaking wet from the salty water.

"The water felt so great! You should come to Aerith! Time to get that bikini of yours wet!" she excitingly says.

"Thanks, but no thanks. I can't swim."

"We'll only be in shallow waters. Now, let's be the weirdest adults ever by swimming like little kids."

"Sorry, but—hey!" Zack, who is now shirtless with a great body of muscle and abs, including his swim trunks, grabs Aerith and runs off the ocean. "Zack! Put me down! I'm gonna get you for this! You know I'm good at the game of revenge!"

"Don't care!" he replies and finally arrives to the waters, taking her down with him. "I'll treat to some shave ice as a sign of forgiveness."

• Unwritten •

Back at the mall, Kairi happily eats her Panda Express food, consisting of fried rice, chow mein, orange chicken, and honey walnut shrimp, which are her favorite ones to get. Right now, the girls try to keep Olette comfortable and to forget her ex-boyfriend, so Kairi says, "There's nothing wrong with being single. You'll find someone way better than that douche.

"Where are all the good guys?" Olette whines, stuffing her face with a delicious cinnamon bun with warm icing on top.

"In the friend zone where you left them," Namine answers, grabbing a tempura shrimp with her chopsticks, and puts it in her mouth to chew on. After she shallows it, she adds, "You know, it sucks how it's always like that. Girls constantly complaining about finding a good guy when they're usually in front of them. But no, they just have to be all 'oh, he's like a brother to me. I could never date him' and all that other crap."

"You're so right Namine. Where have you been all my life?" Olette asks.

"I've been in all your classes since elementary school, but you're always caught with your work."

"I need to be valedictorian for our graduation this year! We're seniors and everything has lead us to this point where we all start to go in different directions."

"For most of our class. Going to the nearest community college from our hometown is what fifty percent of our class will do. It's basically a high school reunion. And twenty percent go into the military while the other percent goes to an actual college."

"How'd you arrive with those numbers?" Roxas wonders.

"I don't know. I made it up, but that's what it feels like," Namine replies. "Plus, college is expensive. Island life here isn't exactly cheap compared to other places. Probably because we are an island."

In the midst of the talking, Kairi eats her food, but takes a look at Sora. He's hasn't really touch his food since he bought it. He stares off in the distance, not really paying attention to them. She looks at his expression and it's the same as when the two walked to the food court alone. "What's on his mind? I'm so curious of what he's thinking. Is he bored of us? Then again, it seems we left him out of the conversation. Maybe we should talk about something he likes, but what does he like? I don't ever remember him mentioning anything like that. I wish I knew him better." Soon enough, the same thing happens like before. Sora catches her staring at him again.

"Is something on face?" he asks, using his eyes to see if there is a stain or anything. This causes the red auburn girl to snap out of her thoughts.

"W-what? No. I was just looking behind you," she lies, pointing at whatever is behind him. Sora looks past his back to see a little girl wandering alone, with tears in her eyes, holding onto a stuffed Moogle in her right hand. No one around her seems to notice, which made Kairi made. "Oh my god. Is she lost?" She quickly gets up from her seat and bends down the little girl's height since she is half her height. "Hey, are you lost?" The little girl doesn't say anything, but simply nods. "I can't believe no one tried to help you. Lucky I came to the rescue. Wanna help find your mom?" she sweetly asks, and another nod follows. "Ok. I'll take you to the security, so we can find your mommy." Actually, she doesn't know where the security office until Sora offers help.

"I'll take you girls there," he says, making Kairi happy.

"Thank you Sora," she replies, getting up while holding onto the kid's hand. The two follow behind Sora, but Kairi's head fills with thoughts again. "Strange. I never thought he'd be the first to offer me some help. Namine would usually come with me, but Sora beat her to the punch. Although, it's not like Namine knows where the security is anyway, but Sora seems to. But why?" Despite her continuous over load of thoughts, she blurts out one question: "How do you know where the security is? I've been here for a while and I don't know where that is." Sora doesn't respond to her question, leaving her with nothing. "Crap! I should've have asked that! I'm over thinking all of this! I need to stop."

"When I was a kid, I got lost once here," he confesses.

"Oh… that must've a terrifying experience for you," Kairi softly says with bit of remorse.

"It was, but I learned to never drift away from your parents as a kid," he explains. "My mom was mad, but only because she lost me."

"What about your dad? Wasn't he there too?" she asks.

"Nah. He was working at the time, but she never told him about it." After about a minute, the three come across a candy store, and Sora just walks inside without saying a word, leaving Kairi with the little girl alone. The two females watch him walk around the store for something and are curious as to what he is getting.

"Is he your boyfriend?" the small girl asks, widening Kairi's eyes. How does she respond to that? Well, now that she thinks about it, they do look like a couple since they're alone with a child. And a few people are starting at them with smiles and cute faces. "Is he?"

"Uh… sadly no. We only met a few days ago," she admits. "We're just friends getting to know each other."

"Isn't that how couples start off? My mom and dad were like that."

Kairi can't help, but hold the girl's hand and stare at her in surprise of the things she had said. "Geez! What is this girl? Straight out of some romanctic flick by trying to pave the ways of the leads together? Oh man, someone save me now. Where are you Sora? Hurry up!" Her patience is getting thin, but luckily Sora comes back with some pink cotton candy.

"Here you go," he sweetly tells the child, handing her the treat, which she slowly reaches out for and eventually grabs it. "It's gonna be ok." He then flashes a bright smile at her to make her feel better. "We're almost there."

"T-thank you," the little girl replies, slowly forming a smile of her own.

"Come on. Let's take you to the security, so we can find your parents," he tells her and the three continue on down to their destination while the girl eats away her cotton candy.

After a few minutes have gone by, they arrive and they saw two adults in a room, talking to a man. "Mommy! Daddy!" The little girl immediately runs inside for a happy reunion and cradles in her mother's arms. "I was so scared!"

"Oh my god! I'm never leaving you out of my sight again!" the woman says, feeling relief that her daughter has come back to her. "Me and daddy will be more careful now ok." Kairi and Sora couldn't help, but smile at the scene. It is sort of touching to see it and then the girl looks at the two, pointing to them. "Hm? Did they help you?" the mother asks and her daughter nods. Kairi sees the father pick up his child and see the family coming out of the room with the mom approaching the two. "Thank you for help. Our daughter means so much to us."

"It's no problem," Kairi comments. "It was my friend Sora here that did it all. He even bought her that cotton candy."

"I can tell one day, you'll make a great father to your children," the girl's dad happily says to Sora.

"He probably thinks we're dating…" Kairi thinks in her head, putting up a blank face. "Can't a male and female ever be friends for once without anyone thinking they're dating? It's so overly done." Before she knew it, the small family begins to head on out. "Bye. Be safe now." After they are out of sight, Kairi turns to Sora. "Man, how lucky of us that they were already looking for their daughter. You can tell they care a lot about her."

"Like your parents?" Sora asks.

"Yeah. They are. What about yours?"

"My mom used to be a model, but quit after she had me, and my dad… I never did get to see him much," he replies.

"Wow. Your mom must really love you since she did that. It must be a joy to see her at home when your dad isn't around."

"Yeah." A small silence ensues between the two again and Kairi comes says something, so the two get going since they are still in the same spot. This always seems to happen nowadays ever since they bumped into each other. He still sits in the back of the class, but hangs out with her and her friends in between breaks.

"It's best we go now. The others are probably wondering what's taking so long." Just as she is about to walk on out, Namine surprises her. "Namine! You nearly gave me a heart attack! How'd you find us?"

"It's not like we followed you here," she playfully answer her.

"Then what's with the sunglasses and big hats?" Kairi asks, looking at their newfound wardrobe.

Moments before…

Just as Sora and Kairi gets out of everyone sights, Namine immediately draws her eyes on Roxas and Olette. "Ok! Let's stalk them now!" Roxas and Olette look at each other and back the crazy blond in front of them "What? You want a nicer way of me saying that? Fine, we'll follow them. Now let's go," she explains, getting her bag and tray of food.

"But I'm not done yet," Roxas childishly pouts.

"Ugh, I'll buy you another one next time we eat!" Namine replies, throwing her food in a nearby trash.

"You just wasted perfectly good food. I should destroy you for that," Olette snaps, but in a joking manner.

"What's with you guys and food? Some in Africa barely get any and you complain about it? Now let's go!" Roxas and Olette groan and follow the girl's orders. The three follow Kairi and Sora, including the little girl, but do it discreetly by hiding in a nearby spot if the three look on over their suspicious behavior. "You think it would be very suspicious if we hide behind this plant?" Namine asks.

"Nooo… of course not. Let's try to make ourselves more obvious when stalking another individual," Roxas sarcastically says.

"It was the first thing that came to my head." Namine eyes sparkle when she sees a beach store and come to see big sun hats and glasses. "I got an idea. Come with me." Moments later, the three come out, wearing black sunglasses and big sun hats. "This is so much better!" Suddenly, Namine busts out iPhone and uses it and binoculars. "Ok. Where are these two?" She scans the area and sees Sora coming out of a candy store with cotton candy. "Found ya! Aww… how sweet of him."

"What's he doing?" Olette pushes Namine to get a better view. "You know, cotton candy sounds good right now." Soon enough, the brunette gets a smack at the back of her head. "Hey!"

"Focus woman!" Namine whispers and looks back to the where the three are. "Huh? They're gone already?! Man, I need to practice these stalking methods!"

Now…

"You see, I was…" Namine gives a plausible pause, thinking of something while looks at her. "Thinking we should go to the beach over the weekend. Yeah… wouldn't that be fun?" Namine thinks of how lamely she puts it, causing her to examine her own actions.

"Today's Thursday, so I don't see the harm in going tomorrow after school," Kairi replies.

"You bought that?" Namine questions because she wasn't serious earlier.

"Huh?" Kairi stares at her in disbelief.

"The beach it is then!" Namine cheers, but a questions pops into her head. "But whose gonna drive us there? There's quite a lot we have to bring if we want it to be a great day and none us can provide a car. Then there is my brother who I always have at the palm of my hand…" She soon starts to make a soft malicious laugh at the thought.

"I can drive. I have my license," Roxas claims, making everyone turn their heads towards him, which make him nervous. "Ok, I don't like driving that much since I prefer to walk most of the time. Plus, gas is expensive, so I don't want to spend all my money into that."

"How come only now we discover this?" Kairi inquires. "At least it makes traveling a lot easier now."

"I don't really have anything to wear to the beach," Sora proclaims.

"No worries, I have extra swim trunks at home." Roxas takes a look at Sora's body from head to toe and says, "And since you're like a twin to me, I'm sure we're the same waist size."

"No, it's ok. You guys can—"

"You're a part of us now Sora," Kairi tells him, trying to get him to come along since he tries to get a way out of it because he feels he is intruding… again. "It's the beach. When was the last time you actually went there?" Kairi then grabs his arms and holds it up against her chest and looks into his eyes, pleading. "And if you don't go, I won't go and I'll go wherever you're going."

"What is she saying?" Sora thinks, freaking out inside, but calm on the outside about what she just said.

"What the 'f' am I saying?" Kairi says in head, being in the same state as Sora. "And why did I grabs his hands all of a sudden?"

"A-Alright. I'll go," Sora gives in, making Kairi feel content about his answer. Finally, they all get out of the security office and start to walk off to another destination. Sora and Kairi walk side by side in front of everyone else, not saying a word, while their three friends whisper behind them. All of them think it is odd for Sora to change his answer in a quick second like that. Before, he didn't want to go, but Kairi seems to charm her way into changing his answer.

"Strange. It's almost as if Sora never seems to deny Kairi," Namine whispers, watching the two. "It happened before when she invited him to her house and it happened again."

"Now that I think about it, you're right," Roxas agrees. "He simply agreed to go when she pleaded and I remember her grabbing his hands before."

"I don't know what you guys are talking, but I'm gonna pretend that I know," Olette joins in.

"My friend has found her soulmate," Namine dreamily puts the situation, dreaming on numerous scenarios on making them happen and the perfect couple.

"I think it's too quick to label them soulmates," Olette says, thinking Namine is rushing things.

"Who cares, I want to see how their romance is gonna unravel! I'm so gonna based a story on them!"

With Sora and Kairi, I really do want to take things slow compared to how I've done it before. Looking back, they all seemed quick with Secret Agent Kairi being the prime example, but I managed.