A/N: So I just got back from a three day sleepover to find that my next chapter is planned to be about Kairi's sleepover. Talk about timing. This chapter's a bit short, sorry. We're nearly to the good parts of this story ^^ I can't wait to show you what I have in store. Next chapter's about Roxas. Send me some good jokes! I need them!
Ten points to whoever figures out the real name of the band Riku listens to. Twenty points to whoever names the first song that comes up when the stereo is turned on.
Enjoy.
Kairi was putting the finishing touches on her cake when the cliché ding-dong tone of her doorbell echoed into the kitchen. Wiping her hands and hanging up her pink apron, the redhead left the kitchen and strolled to the wooden front door at the other end of the hall. A pair of cheerful brunettes met her eyes, each smiling.
"Hi Kairi!" Selphie cheered, pushing past Kairi and dancing down the hall to the living room door at the right.
"Good morning, Selphie," Kairi giggled, stepping aside to let the much less hyper Olette follow Selphie's footsteps. The hyper girl was already spinning into the living room and playing with the stereo. A pretty song about being superman began to play, but was quickly changed before Kairi and Olette had even taken three steps down the hall.
"What's this?!" Selphie jumped as the notes of an electric guitar reverberated around the room.
"Fracturing Franklin," Kairi answered as she closed the living room door behind herself. Olette and Selphie looked at her with confused expressions.
"Riku listens to them," the hostess shrugged as she changed the radio station once again.
"Ooooh, stop there, that's Blue!" Selphie cheered as the blue haired woman's voice came from the speakers. Kairi laughed and left the stereo, heading back into the hall to grab Selphie's bag, which she had tossed to the side when she came prancing in.
"We're sleeping up in my room tonight," Kairi called down the hall, heading towards the stairs. Her friends' okay's drifted towards her as she began carrying Selphie's bag up to the attic, where her room dominated the entire third floor.
The young teen carefully set her friend's bag on the air mattress Selphie always laid claim to when she slept over and crossed the room to her window. It was open in hopes of tempting a nice breeze to come cool the hot attic air, though it didn't seem to be having much luck. Looking out, she could see several houses down her street, and the faint outline of Sora's house in the distance. Riku lived in the opposite direction. Kairi smiled at the thought of her closest male friends and turned to return to her guests downstairs when she noticed something odd. A car with the local doctors' office's name painted on the side was driving down a street not too far away. Was the doctor making a house call? That was really rare. She bit her lip, hoping everything was all right. Making a mental note to call her grandmother later, Kairi decided it would be best not to worry too much about a single odd occurrence and promptly opened her bedroom door and started down the stairs.
"-and Yuna told me she saw Tidus skipping classes last week when she was on her way to the bathroom. So, most likely he was planning on spying on them, though I don't know why he'd bother," Selphie was informing Olette when Kairi returned.
"Bother doing what?" the redhead asked, confused.
"Spy on Wakka and his girlfriend," Olette explained.
"What would he do that for?" Kairi asked.
"That's what I just said," Selphie sighed. "They're best friends after all, aren't they? If he wanted to know about what's-her-name, started with an L I think, he could just ask, couldn't he?"
"Why does it matter what he does?" Olette asked softly.
"You know Selphie, gossiping is her life," Kairi giggled. Selphie grinned.
"Speaking of gossip," Selphie purred turning to the redhead, "you promised you'd tell us who you like!"
"Whom," Olette corrected gently as Kairi's face turned pink.
"Why don't we play a game," she stalled. Olette smiled weakly at her companion's attempt to change the topic. Selphie looked irritated for a moment. Then her eyes lit up.
"Ok, only if I can pick the game," she agreed. Kairi knew it wasn't a good idea, but Selphie's persistence at getting a good chunk of juicy gossip couldn't be avoided either way. If she was careful, she had a better chance of dodging the topic during a game.
"Alright, what do you want to play?" she asked slowly.
"Truth or Dare," Selphie grinned. Kairi sighed; she should have seen that coming.
"Alright, you first then," she conceded.
"Kairi, truth or dare?" The bouncy brunette wasted no time.
"Dare," Kairi answered quickly, since the truth question was obvious. She was put off a bit by the smirk on her nosey friend's lips.
"I dare you to tell us who your crush is," she said, her smirk turning into a full on shit-eating grin. Kairi sighed. Both girls watched her attentively.
"Whom," Olette added in as Selphie's poor grammar skills registered in her brain.
"It's…it's Riku," she sighed, her cheeks flaring up. Selphie fell backwards overdramatically.
"Riku?!" she nearly shouted. Olette looked torn between laughing at their companion's antics and questioning Kairi.
"Is that such a bad thing?" Kairi blushed, not making eye contact with her friends.
"Well, not really, but I mean…Riku?!"
"She has a point," Olette said softly. "You hit Sora every time he says a curse word, and, well, Riku's the reason he says them, after all."
Kairi blushed and looked down. "Well, whom did you expect?"
"Duh, Sora!" Selphie said, as though it were the most obvious answer. Perhaps to everyone else, it was. Kairi cringed.
"No, Sora's like a little brother to me. I could never date him, he's too…"
"…much of a goody-goody?" Selphie offered. "Kairi has a bad boy complex!" she cheered, bursting into a giggle fit.
"Oh yeah, Miss Smarty-Pants? Truth or Dare?" Kairi shot back, embarrassed. Olette sighed, knowing a war was about to break out.
"Truth of course," Selphie answered instantly.
"Spill the beans about your crush," Kairi said confidently. It was the brunette's turn to blush.
"Hey, you're just asking my question," she protested.
"It's not against the rules," Kairi shrugged, grinning. Selphie sighed.
"Okay, okay…I like Tidus," she said softly.
"What about you, Olette?" Kairi added, turning to their quiet friend. Olette blushed bright red.
"Oh, n-no, I don't really have anyone I like at the moment…I just got out of a relationship," she chuckled awkwardly, rubbing the back of her neck. Kairi couldn't remember Olette ever dating anyone, but she let it go.
"So it's my turn, right?" Selphie asked, drawing attention back to herself. Kairi and Olette nodded. "Truth or dare, Kairi?"
"Me again?" Kairi blinked. "…Dare," she decided.
"I dare you…" Selphie trailed off, thinking hard. Kairi bit her lip as Selphie apparently thought of something good and grinned mischievously. "I dare you to tell Sora you're a lesbian," she snickered.
Kairi's eyes widened as she thought about what would happen. If she told Sora that, he'd either run straight to Riku and tell him, or he'd try to hide it and Riku would figure it out. She wasn't afraid they'd abandon her or anything like that; she was pretty sure she'd overheard Riku talking fondly about lesbians to one of his friends before. She was, however, terrified that the boys would believe her, and then where would she be? It could prove difficult to try to win over the heart of your best friend when he thought you were interested in a completely different gender than his. Not to mention the brother-sister bond he probably felt between them.
Selphie was beside herself with laughter. She was literally rolling on the floor, which made Kairi blush more out of annoyance than anything else.
"Th-then…I dare you to tell Tidus that you're a lesbian," she snapped back. Selphie's laughter was instantly eradicated.
"That's not fair!" the brunette called, sitting up straight. "You didn't say truth or dare!"
"Are you too chicken to do your own dare?"
"No!" Selphie blushed. She was too chicken, but there was no way she'd admit that. "I'll do it if you do it," she insisted. Olette shifted awkwardly beside them.
"Hey, let's, uh, let's do something else…" she trailed off. Kairi and Selphie were having a challenging staring contest of some kind. "Here's an idea! We could…we could make cookies… You know, to give Riku and Tidus…"
Kairi and Selphie stared at one another for a few more seconds before nodding to Olette. The curly haired girl sighed with relief and led the way to the kitchen, hoping her friends would get along now.
"What kind of cookies should we make, anyway?" Selphie asked, bouncing to the pantry closet on the other side of the room. Kairi put a lid on her cake and set it aside.
"Well, I'm going to make peanut butter cookies-those are Riku's favorite," she said.
"Peanut butter? I thought he was allergic to nuts!" Selphie nearly yelled, knocking over a few cans of paopu juice in her attempt to grab some chocolate chips she'd spotted.
"No, that's Sora. And it's only peanuts; he can have cashews and stuff," Kairi said.
"Well I'm making chocolate chip marshmallow cookies," Selphie proclaimed, grabbing the plastic bag of fluffy white treats she'd just noticed.
"I think I'll make plain chocolate chip," Olette said shyly as Kairi grabbed the flour they'd need.
"Who are you making your cookies for, Olette?" Selphie asked in a sly tone of voice. Olette blushed.
"Oh, you know, just my friends," she said awkwardly, turning quickly to help Kairi find the things they'd need. Selphie snickered.