"Are you just gonna lazy around the house all day again?" Rinoa asked as she rushed passed Sora in their bedroom. She was getting ready for work while Sora sat up in their bed, watching her pace from left to right.

"Uh… yeah?" He arched a brow.

Rinoa shook her head at him as she looked at him from her vanity mirror. What was she going to do with her lazy fiancé?

"It's summer! Why don't you go live the life of an unmarried man while you still can?" She turned around from the mirror and smiled at him.

Sora let out a groan and fell backwards onto the bed with a plop. He really didn't have anything to do right now. Kairi and Riku weren't talking to him at the moment after yesterday's incident. Sora tried calling and texting them both last night, but neither of them replied.

"Well I'm about to go. Don't forget about our date tonight – wait!" Rinoa suddenly jumped up.

"What?" Sora asked while he stared at the ceiling above him.

"Why don't you go find a nice gift for me with that friend of yours!?" Rinoa clasped her hands together in delight.

Sora sat up. "What friend…?"

Rinoa rolled her eyes. "Talia!"

Sora's heart skipped a beat when Rinoa mentioned Talia's name, but he didn't let it faze him too much.

"And I should get you gift because…?" Sora playfully smirked at her.

Rinoa blushed. That was one thing about Sora. His smirk or smile could send any girl floating on Cloud 9.

"Because you love me!" Rinoa smiled.

"Eh, we'll see," Sora plopped back down on the bed.

"Seriously! Hang out with Talia today! Buy me a present!"

"Why do you want me to hang out with Talia so much?"

"Because… isn't she your best friend from high school? You haven't seen her in 4 years! You guys should… reconcile or something!" Rinoa walked up to Sora and sat next beside him.

"Eh, I don't think she'll be up to it-"

"Of course she will!" Rinoa gave him a serious look before quickly replacing it with a smile. "Just ask…"

"All this for a present…" Sora laughed quietly to himself.

"Ha ha, you love me!" Rinoa laughed and pecked him on his lips before getting up.

Sora froze again. "Yeah… I do."

Rinoa stood still for a second before exiting their bedroom. She noticed the hesitant response from Sora, but she wasn't going to make a big deal out of it.

"Okay babe, see you after I get off work!" With that, Rinoa slammed the door shut behind her.

Sora waited until he heard her car leave the driveway before he reached over and grabbed his cell phone on the nightstand beside him.

Why did Rinoa want a present anyway?

He scrolled through his contact list until he reached Talia's name.

Would Talia even agree to go out – no – hang out with him today? Isn't she still upset at him?

He looked at the time in the upper corner of his phone screen. It was 8:30… would Talia even be awake this early on a Saturday? Didn't she have some job at the hospital?

Unconsciously, Sora pressed the call button.

What would he say? He hasn't seen, or better yet talked, to Talia since Rinoa invited her over last week. Would she not even answer his call-

"H-hello?"

~!~

I sat up in my bed with my phone pressed up against my ear like I was holding it for my dear life. Sora had called me.

Sora had called me.

Even though it was 8 something in the morning on a Saturday and I should most likely still be asleep with my phone on silent-

Sora called me.

"H-hello?" I answered nervously.

"Hi Talia!" A semi-cheerful Sora responded.

"Er… what's up?" I tried to get rid of the nervousness in my voice and make it seem casual. I failed.

"So… uh… what are you doing today?"

He was nervous too. I could tell. It calmed me a bit to know we were both sort of nervous.

"…I'll probably go visit my parents but after that nothing. Why?" I asked.

"Erm… well… I was wondering… did you want to hang out?"

"Um-"

"I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to! Rinoa asked me to ask you to hang out-"

"Rinoa forced you to ask to hang out with me…?" My voice filled sounded disappointed. He was forced to call me. I should've known. He hasn't even tried to contact me since last week.

"No! She didn't force me. She, uh, she wants me to buy her a gift or whatever and she asked me to bring a friend along…"

I flinched when he said friend. Were we even friends?

"Okay Sora… when do you want to… go get Rinoa's present?" I asked him.

"Um… is about 12 okay for you?"

"Yeah, it's fine. I'll meet you downtown at Destiny Islands, okay?" I said.

"Great! Okay… bye!" He said quickly.

"Bye…" I trailed off as I hung up the phone.

I was hanging out with Sora today. How was this going to work out? I mean… I'm helping him shop for a present for his fiancée. Should I even be going with him? What about Kairi or Riku? Where were they?

I let out a heavy sigh as I dragged myself out of bed. Time to get ready for this "outing" I guess.

~!~

"Any info of where Sora and Rinoa are going tonight?" Roxas asked Naminé as they walked the streets of Twilight Town.

"Not a clue. She only told me they were going to some fancy restaurant…" Naminé shrugged.

"That narrows it down…" Roxas said sarcastically. Destiny Islands was the hotspot for romantic dates. Fancy restaurants were almost on every corner.

"Kairi will probably find something out, I'm sure." Naminé smiled up at her boyfriend.

"I hope so… for Talia's sake…" Roxas let out a sigh as he reached for Naminé's hand to hold it.

"…When do you think Sora will tell Talia…?" Naminé asked.

"When he's on his death bed…" Roxas said sarcastically but instantly shut up as Naminé sent him a death glare.

Ring!

Ring!

Ring!

"Your ringtone is so boring, Nami…" Roxas chuckled to himself.

"Hush," Naminé playfully stuck her tongue out at him as she picked up her cell phone. "Naminé speaking!"

"Nami!"

"Talia?!" Naminé dropped Roxas's hand and pressed the phone up to her ear. Talia sounded nervous for some reason.

Roxas looked over at Naminé as he heard his best friend's name. Why was Talia calling Naminé for?

"What's up?" Naminé asked her.

"I… um… Sora…"

"What about him?" Naminé asked more impatiently. What about Sora?

"He asked me to hang out with him today!"

Naminé's heart skipped a beat. Sora had asked Talia to hang out with her? No way. Talia must've been dreaming. Last time Naminé checked, Kairi told her that Sora was too nervous and ashamed to be around Talia at the moment.

"Are you sure…?" Naminé asked.

"I'm serious! He called me! He wants me to go shopping with him… for Rinoa…" Talia dragged off when she said the raven haired girl's name.

Ah, that sounded more like it. No matter how much Naminé wanted Sora to hang out with Talia just to hang out with her, she knew it had to be some reason he had wanted to hang out with her today all of a sudden.

"Oh… well… um…" Naminé didn't know what to say.

"What's wrong?" Roxas mouthed over to Naminé who seemed to be at a loss of words.

Naminé took the phone away from her ear and placed her hand over it so Talia couldn't hear her conversation with Roxas. "Sora wants to hang out with her today to buy something for the witch…"

Roxas rolled his eyes as he grabbed Naminé's cell phone from her hand.

"Talia?"

"Roxas?"

"Yeah. Listen, don't let Sora get to you, okay? Don't cry in front of him. Don't tell him how you feel. Nothing. Keep it simple. He's treating you like a new friend, so act like a new friend!"

"…Okay…"

"What time are you going out with him?"

"Um… in like… 15 minutes at Destiny High…"

The high school? Why were they meeting up there for?

"Oh… okay, well just be careful, okay?" Roxas said.

Talia giggled slightly. "I'll be fine. You worry too much."

Roxas smiled gently to himself as he hung up the phone. His smiled instantly faded though as he handed Naminé back her phone.

"What?"

"Hey Nami, wanna do some spying today?" Roxas smirked at his girlfriend.

She instantly blushed. She was still trying to get used to her boyfriend's occasional sexy smirks towards her.

"U-uh… okay?" She arched a brow.

"Great! Let's go!" Roxas said excitedly as he grabbed her hand and dragged her towards the direction of Destiny Islands.

~!~

I stood in front of the empty courtyard of Destiny High. God, did this place bring back so many memories. It still looked the same after 4 years. The bright green grass was still cut perfectly; the tall white and blue school building glimmered in the sun's rays like it had just been freshly painted. My eyes shifted over to the old apple tree my friends and I used to hang out under before the school bell rung. It was still there, standing as tall as ever, blooming in apples.

So many things happened while I was here. As I reminisced, I didn't even notice the tears forming in my eyes threatening to spill out any moment.

"This place brings back a lot of memories, doesn't it?"

"Yeah…" I said nonchalantly, not noticing the voice from behind me.

"…So…"

I instantly froze up. Wait… I knew that voice. I hesitantly turned around to face Sora. He stood a couple of inches away from me and he had a smile on his face.

His smile…

It was still as gorgeous as ever. Even though he looked kind of nervous, his smile still out shined it. He wore a blue plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He also wore khaki shorts and simple black vans. His hair wasn't as spiky as it usually was which showed he had not too long ago gotten out of the shower. To finish off his look, a gold chain hung from his neck with a crown on it. Something I had never seen him wear before. Was this a present from Rinoa?

"So… uh… were you waiting long?" He asked nervously.

"No…" I said as we stood there awkwardly.

"Oh… that's good…" He trailed off.

I took a deep breath. We weren't going to get nowhere with this if we kept acting like we were complete strangers. I have to treat him how I used to treat him before we started dating.

Before I realized I was in love with him.

"You're so nervous," I giggled as I walked up to him and punched him playfully in his shoulder.

He blushed immediately from my touch. I pretended not to notice.

"Ah, same old Talia, I see."

"Talia? Hm, what happened to Tally-Chan?" I asked playfully. He didn't seem to find this funny at all so I quickly wiped the smile off my face.

Great. Way to embarrass yourself, Talia. Of course he wouldn't still call me Tally-Chan. He called me that when we were in high school.

When I was the one he was in love with.

"Yeah… so um… where should we go first?" I asked.

"Oh, we can head to the boardwalk to see what little shops they have!" He grinned at me.

"Great! Let's go!" I said in a fake cheery voice. I prayed her didn't notice.

~!~

"I see how Riku felt now…" Naminé gave Roxas death glares as they stood behind some old, abandoned on the boardwalk.

"What do you mean?" Roxas turned around to face her.

They had instantly found Sora and Talia walking the boardwalk. It wasn't hard to spot the two awkward kids walking sort of a distance away from each other while everyone else was holding hands or walking very close to each other. To hide their identity, they each were wearing big hats that usually old women wear to church and huge sunglasses. This, of course, was Roxas's clever idea.

Who knew Naminé's boyfriend was like this? She knew he was kind of weird… but this weird? It was all new to her.

"Roxas, this is going a little too far, don't you think? I mean… we could've simply just walked a couple of feet behind them without being noticed."

"That would've never worked," he gave her a serious look.

"These hats and oversized sunglasses aren't helping our situation…" Naminé gave him a blank look.

"…I finally know how Kairi felt…" Roxas frowned at his girlfriend.

"And I see how you guys failed all together,"

"Naminé stop compla- they're on a move! Let's go!" Roxas grabbed her hand and pulled Naminé from the building.

Naminé let out a heavy sigh as she was almost being literally dragged by her boyfriend. This was going to be a long outing.

~!~

"Eh… what do you think about this?" Sora asked as he picked up some sort of conch shell. "Apparently you can not only hear the ocean, but the swimming creatures in it, also!"

I gave him a dumbfounded look. No wonder he had asked me to come along. He was definitely horrible at picking out gifts. The last thing he picked out was a black t-shirt with a skull on it with green blood pouring from its eye sockets.

"No…?" He chuckled nervously and sat the thing back down as he saw the look on my face.

"You're horrible at picking out gifts," I said as I walked passed him to the next little stand on the boardwalk.

So far, we've been looking around for 15 minutes. We haven't found anything at all. The boardwalk was a long strip that stretched from one side of the beach to the other with tons of little shops, so there was a lot to choose from. Even though we've only been to about 5 of them, I thought we'd find something by now and we could've been left.

"Ugh, shopping for women is so hard," Sora let out a loud sigh.

"No it's not. You just have to know what the girl you want to buy something for likes," I said as I picked up a seashell necklace with a clear pearl in the middle as Sora rumbled through a clothes rack on the other side of the small shop.

It was a beautiful little necklace. It was made up of various little seashells strung together. Each seashell had its own little design on it and in the middle was a clear pearl. I immediately sat down the necklace though once I saw its price. 500 dollars? I guess that's what I get for picking up something made of real seashells and stuff.

I let out a sigh as I walked over to another small clothing section in the store.

"Hey, this is cute!" Sora said as I turned around to see what he was talking about. I let out a small gasp as he had just picked up the small necklace I had just held.

"Do you think Rinoa would like this?" He grinned at me.

Okay, Talia. You told Roxas you wouldn't cry. Why was I getting teary eyed anyways? It was just a stupid necklace.

"Y-yeah," I stuttered without noticing. Sora's grin faded as he looked from me to the necklace.

"Nah, I don't think it's her! Let's just keep looking okay," He smiled over at me.

I quickly forced a smile and nodded my head in agreement.

We walked further down the boardwalk before we both decided to take a break. We weren't even halfway down the beach yet and we were already exhausted from looking. So we decided to rest a bit on one of the many benches.

"Your fiancée is very hard to shop for…" I let out a heavy sigh. "And I still have to go visit my parents!"

"I'm sorry…" Sora trailed off.

I looked over at him, confused. "Sorry for what?"

"That I made you come along…"

"Ah, you didn't make me come along, silly. I chose to come along," I playfully shoved him.

He smiled gently before looking up at the sky. We kind of had an awkward moment. It was bothering me.

"Ha, you're so easy to shop for…" Sora quietly said with his eyes closed as he still looked towards the sky.

"Hm? How come?" I asked him.

"Because you're like an open book; I can read you so well…" Sora trailed off.

"H-huh? I'm not!" I blushed intensely.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean that! I mean I did, but…"

"It's fine…" I said.

After that we didn't say much to each other. We just sat there, listening to the waves of the ocean crash into one another behind us.

~!~

"Ugh, they're so cute! I hate Sora for this!" Naminé frowned as they continued to watch Sora and Talia from afar.

"Eh," Roxas simply shrugged. He didn't like seeing his best friend being heartbroken by Sora. He could clearly tell by her face she was trying not to break down crying.

"I mean! They're so perfect!" Naminé said as she continued to stare.

"Naminé, calm down!" Roxas hushed his overreacting girlfriend. She always got like this when what she considered "romantic" things were happening between her friends.

"C'mon Roxas, look at them! How could he do this to her!? Why can't we just tell her!? Why can't we just kill Rinoa off or something!?"

"Nami, we can't kill her. We'll go to jail," he chuckled at her. "Besides, that still wouldn't mean Sora would tell her."

"Ugh… this stakeout is really getting us nowhere except for me feeling all sad and stuff," Naminé let out a sigh.

"Yeah… I guess we should just leave and prepare for tonight…" Roxas said as he removed his hat.

"Yep. Besides, I'm hungry! I should make you buy me some food for making me follow them around for an hour and some minutes!" Naminé playfully frowned at Roxas.

"Awe, okay. I'll buy you something," Roxas kissed her on her cheek causing the blonde to blush immensely.

"O-okay…"

~!~

"3pm…" I said quietly to myself as I looked at the time on my phone. Sora and I had gone back to our search about 30 minutes ago.

I walked down another jewelry booth. What was up with me today in jewelry? What's that saying? A diamond is a girl's best friend or something? Maybe that had something to do with it.

"Hey Sora…" I said as something had caught my eye.

"Talia, what about this shirt?" He held up a green, plaid halter top. It looked like something a hooker would wear. Was he trying to get slapped by Rinoa?

"No… just come here!" I urged him to quickly come here.

He put the shirt back and quickly walked over to the jewelry case I was looking at.

"How about that…?" I asked as I pointed at a silver crown necklace.

It resembled the same one around his neck except this one was clearly for females. It was silver and at each point had a small diamond on it.

"It's beautiful…" Sora said as he examined it.

I stood there awkwardly as I realized what I was doing. I was helping my ex-boyfriend shop for his fiancée. Why was even here? Why was I even putting myself through this torture?

"Hey…" I said as I felt my eyes watering up again. "I need to go now…"

"Oh…" Sora looked away from the necklace and at me. "Okay… well let me just buy this and I'll walk you back!"

"No it's fine. I'm going to my parents' house anyways… so…"

"Oh okay… well thanks for coming out with me!" Sora grinned at me.

I gave him a weak smile as I turned around to walk back in the direction of Twilight Town.

"See you later… Tally-Chan."

My heart skipped a beat as I heard him call me that. I quickly nodded my head and walked away as the tears started to roll down my face.

~!~

"Target is sighted. I repeat. Target is sighted," Hayner whispered through the small microphone on his suit jacket.

It wasn't hard to figure out what restaurant Sora and Rinoa were going too. Kairi apparently knows all of Sora's date spots from her stalking days. So here they all were; waiting to foil Sora and Rinoa's date.

The plan was quite simple. Hayner and Olette were on lookout so they pretended they were on a date on their own at the same restaurant. Since Kairi was pretty popular around Destiny Islands, she knew some of the waiters who worked there and worked her magic on them to do as they were told to ruin the date. Of course, she'd only use them if she had, too. She wanted to try and ruin the date herself, first. Naminé and Roxas were working back in the kitchen. They were to ruin Sora and Rinoa's order with anything possible. Riku, unfortunately, had to watch Kaiya at home so he didn't attend this plan. No matter how much he begged to come along and let Kaiya go stay at her grandmother's house.

"Oh… I see she went with the red dress," Naminé hissed as she peeked out at them through the kitchen doors.

"Excuse me, mademoiselle?" A guy with a heavy French accent asked Naminé. "Aren't you supposed to be working in the kitchen and not out of it?"

"Um… I'm sorry!" Naminé bowed quickly to the guy and returned to the kitchen.

"Don't get fired on your first day here, Nami," Roxas playfully plucked her arm as he walked over to where the sink is to wash some dishes.

"Look at her, all up on Sora," Olette said in disgust.

"Probably thinks she's gonna get lucky tonight…"

"Ew. Gross, Hayner. I can hear you, ya know?" Kairi said loudly through their ear piece.

"C'mon guys. Can you not talk about that while I'm trying to stir this soup…?" Naminé begged.

"Kairi, you act like you don't get it on with Riku!" Hayner said kind of loudly, causing others in the restaurant to turn around and give Hayner death glares.

"Hey, Hayner. Let's try and not get our cover blown. Okay? Thanks," Roxas chirped in.

"Yes. Please behave," Kairi said.

"Kairi, are you even here? I don't see you…?" Olette asked.

"Turn around."

Hayner and Olette both turned around and saw a short waiter with black hair, a fuzzy mustache, and a unibrow wiggling his fingers at them.

"Hey, I think that creepy guy is trying to talk to my girl," Hayner quickly stood up.

"Hayner please," Olette grabbed onto his arm to try and sit him down.

"It's me, you idiot," Kairi said.

"Whoa… you're so… ugly."

"I'll let that go for now…" Kairi mumbled as she walked past them, casually bumping into Hayner and Olette's table.

"Play it cool, Kai." Naminé said.

"Welcome to Midnight Destiny! I'm your waiter… er… Kaiyou!" Kairi said with a strong French accent.

"Nice accent…" Hayner snickered from the table.

"Hayner if you don't shut up before our cover is blow!" Olette hit him in his shoulder.

Rinoa and Sora looked up at the short, girl-like waiter.

"Hi. I would like the steak, please. Medium-well. And a sweet tea!" Rinoa quickly placed her order without looking up from her menu.

"Si! Si! The steak!"

"You speak Spanish, too?" Sora looked away from his menu and up at the waiter.

"Er… I'm French and Hispanic?" Kairi laughed nervously.

"Kairi!" Kairi flinched as Naminé screamed out her name in her ear piece.

"You okay there…. Kaiyou?" Sora tilted his head slightly.

"Just peachy! What can I get you, sir?"

"Uh… the spaghetti please! And a sprite!" Sora grinned at the weird waiter.

"Yes! Yes! Your food will be out shortly!" Kairi quickly took the menus and headed for the kitchen.

~!~

"Our waiter is a strange little guy," Rinoa frowned as the waiter seemed to glare at another table not too far away from theirs as he walked towards the kitchen.

"Ah, it's probably his first time working at such a fancy restaurant," Sora came to the waiter's defense.

"Hm… whatever. How was your outing with Talia?" Rinoa got straight to the point.

Sora stiffened again. "It was… okay."

The image of the blue haired girl flashed in his mind of her smiling. A small smile enlightened his lips but quickly faded as the image of the same girl crying. He had seen her crying. It literary broke his heart into pieces. Sora wished he had never even asked her to come along. He knew she was still hurt…

"You okay? Did something happen?" Rinoa reached over the table and grabbed his hand.

"Ah, nothing happened! We found the perfect gift for you!"

"Great! Where is it?!" Rinoa's brown eyes lightened up as the subject of Talia slipped her mind.

"Haha, I'll give it to you after our date!" Sora grinned at her.

"Hmph, fine," Rinoa playfully pouted.

"Here you guys are! A sweet tea and a sprite!" Kaiyou placed the drinks in front of them. "I'll be back soon with your food!"

Rinoa opened her straw and placed it in the drink. She took a long swig before quickly grabbing a napkin and spitting the brown liquid into it.

"What's wrong?" Sora asked, worriedly.

"Gross! This tastes like dirty dish water!" Rinoa said as she looked at her glass in disgust.

"What?" Sora said as he reached over and grabbed her glass. He examined it and saw tiny particles of different kinds of food floating in it.

"Ugh, this is most definitely dirty dish water!" Sora said as he sat down the glass. "Waiter!"

Kaiyou quickly popped up out of nowhere and made his way over to the couple.

"Yes? Is there a problem!?"

"Yes, it would appear as if you gave me dish water instead of tea…" Rinoa glared at the waiter.

"Ah! My apologies! We have new staff members. I'll be sure to fix that right away!" Kaiyou took the glass from in front of Rinoa and hurried back to the kitchen.

~!~

"Oh my God, I can't breathe! Her face!" Naminé held onto the sink for dear life.

"That's disgusting," Roxas stuck out his tongue.

"Bitch got what was coming!" Naminé laughed some more.

"You guys are horrible," One of the waiters, Yuna, tried to suppress and smile.

"It's hilarious!" Kairi grinned as she actually got a glass of sweet tea.

"Alright, their food will be ready in a second. Well… Rinoa's anyways," Naminé smirked evilly.

"You guys! Did you see that! She drunk dish water!" Hayner chirped in from the ear piece.

"God, you guys are so late! What were you two doing anyways?" Kairi hissed through her microphone.

"I'm sorry, but the food here is delicious and I wasn't paying attention to them." Hayner confessed.

"Whatever. Just continue to be lookouts!"

~!~

"Sorry about that, ma'am. Here is your sweet tea," Kaiyou placed the tea in front of the girl.

"Wait! Stay right here until I taste this!" Rinoa eyed the waiter suspiciously and took a sip of her tea. "Hm… okay. You're free to go."

"Ah, your food will be out shortly, ma'am." Kaiyou bowed at them and returned to the kitchen.

"I'm sorry, but that's one ugly guy," Rinoa said in disgust as she watched the guy walk away.

"Rinoa, be nice!" Sora frowned at her.

"I'm joking, sweetie! So what else did Talia and you do today? What you guys do? Did you catch up on old times?" Rinoa grinned at Sora.

"Haha, why do you keep bringing her up? It's our night. Let's just talk about us," Sora smiled at Rinoa. Rinoa blushed a crimson red and took another longer sip of her tea.

Before long, Kaiyou returned with Rinoa's steak.

"Ah, sir. Your food will be out shortly," the waiter apologized to Sora.

"It's fine."

Kaiyou sat the food in front of Rinoa and quickly hurried back to the kitchen.

"He's in a rush…" Rinoa rolled her eyes as she picked up her knife and fork and cut into the steak. As soon as she did, though, a pool of blood oozed out of the steak onto the plate.

"What the hell!?" Rinoa said in shock. The blood was pouring out of the steak like it wasn't even cooked.

"I thought you ordered medium-well?" Sora arched a brow.

"WAITER!" Rinoa screamed furiously, ignoring the judging glares she was receiving.

Kaiyou immediately returned to the table, trying hard not to burst out into laughter in front of them.

"P-problem, ma'am?"

"Problem? PROBLEM!? I asked for medium-well steak! Not raw! I refuse to eat this!" Rinoa glared.

"Ah sorry, ma'am. New chef. I'll return this quickly," Kaiyou picked up the plate, but not before "accidentally" spilling some cow blood onto Rinoa's arm.

"UGH!" Rinoa quickly reached for a napkin to remove the blood from her arm.

"My apologies," Kaiyou said under a smile. He looked over at Sora whose hand was over his mouth as if he, himself, were trying not to laugh.

~!~

"I'm dying over here!" Olette laughed from the table.

"That's so gross! Aha!" Naminé said from the kitchen.

Ring!

Ring!

Ring!

"Naminé, why is someone calling you?" Kairi arched her brow.

"Oh fuck, it's Talia!" Naminé started to panic.

"Answer it!" Roxas quickly said.

"I can't! It's too much noise in this kitchen! She'll get suspicious."

"HEY EVERYONE! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Kairi yelled causing the busy kitchen and everyone in it to stop moving.

"Hello?" Naminé answered the phone.

"Ugh, Nami, I had the worse time ever today and I need someone to talk to. I tried calling Olette but she didn't answer. First off it all started off with Sora-"

"Look, Tally, I don't mean to cut you off but I'm kinda busy right now!" Naminé quickly said.

"Busy…? Oh sorry. I forgot. All my friends have lives and date nights and stuff." Talia said sarcastically.

"Eh… yeah! I'm sorry, baby! I'll talk to you when I get home! Love you!"

"Wait, Nami-"

Before Talia could finish her sentence, Naminé had hung up the phone.

"OKAY EVERYONE, RESUME POSITIONS!" Kairi yelled again and the kitchen staff just looked at her like she was crazy.

"I said show's over! Get back to work!" Kairi glared at them all.

"I can't take you seriously with that unibrow…" Roxas frowned at her as he went back to washing the dishes.

"Shut up, blondie."

~!~

"Ugh finally, here he comes! Let's see what he messes up this time," Rinoa glared at the waiter as he approached them with another plate of food.

"Rinoa, it wasn't his fault as he said. It was the chef's…" Sora said.

"Stop defending him! Ugh, you're too nice sometimes," Rinoa frowned at him.

Sora shrugged.

"Here's your spaghetti, sir! Your stead is still cooking, ma'am. Again, my apologies."

"Whatever," Rinoa rolled her eyes away from the waiter.

"Excuse her. She's just a little cranky."

"Its fine," Kaiyou said as he was about to set the plate of spaghetti in front of Sora.

As soon as he was though, someone hurriedly walked passed him, bumping into him along the way. The clumsy waiter lost his balance and the plate of spaghetti landed in Rinoa's lap.

"THAT'S IT! THIS IS THE LAST FUCKING STRAW! SORA! WE ARE LEAVING NOW! THIS DUMBASS IS REALLY PISSING ME THE FUCK OFF! I WILL MAKE SURE THIS RESTAURANT WILL GO OUT OF BUISNESS! I'LL TAKE EVERY STEP POSSIBLE!" Rinoa screamed as she stood up, spaghetti falling off her lap.

"Rinoa, it was an acci-"

"NO! WE'RE GOING HOME, NOW!" Rinoa screamed as she grabbed her purse and marched out the restaurant.

"I'm very sorry about her," Sora smiled apologetically at the waiter."

"It's fine…" Kaiyou pretended to sound hurt.

"SORA! LET'S GO! NOW!" Rinoa yelled from the entrance of the restaurant.

"Eh, sorry! Bye!" Sora quickly rushed after his fuming fiancée.

~!~

Kairi, Hayner, Olette, Roxas, and Naminé all met up after the incident at the Usual Spot.

"Oh my God, that was too hilarious! I wish Pence and Riku could've seen it!" Roxas laughed.

"They can. I recorded that ish," Hayner grinned slyly as he pulled a video camera from his pocket.

"Oh my God, when this is all over, we must show Talia!" Olette laughed.

"We can't. She'll hate us," Roxas laughed slightly.

"Hate you guys for what?" I asked as I pulled the curtains to the Usual Spot.

"T-Talia! What are you doing here?" Naminé asked nervously.

"I was hanging out here earlier and I left my sweater…" I said as I walked over to the couch to retrieve it. "What are you guys talking about?"

"N-nothing! We were just… y'know… talking about something…"

"About what?" I arched a brow.

"You wouldn't know Kisaragi. It was a group date." Kairi rolled her eyes at me.

"Why are you even in here any ways?" I glared at her.

"These are my friends too! What? First you want Sora to yourself and now you want these guys, too? Whatever. I'm out." Kairi pushed pass me and out the Secret Spot.

"I still somewhat dislike her," I grumbled under my breath.

"It's okay. We're only hanging out with her temporarily," Olette smiled at me.

"Hm… so where'd you guys go for your group date?"

"Er… we just rode some rides at the boardwalk. Not a big deal," Roxas shrugged.

I looked at all them suspiciously. They were hiding something, but I wasn't going to push it.

"Hm, alright. I'm going home…" I yawned as I walked out the Secret Spot.

What are my friends doing? What are they hiding? I'm going to find out one way or another.

~!~

A/N: Yay! I hoped you liked it! I had a major writer's block while writing this but I loved the restaurant scene! Haha, hope you guys liked it and thanks for waiting so long. Love you!