Mix-up wonders
"Sigh! Life is just too complicated!" Namine complained to Kairi after explaining the whole story to her.
"I guess I have to agree." the redhead muttered without looking up. "Sora has been acting strange lately since yesterday, and still is."
Namine glanced over at Sora who was "busy" doing work behind the counter. She leaned closer to her friend. "Is that why he's not talking to you?"
She nodded. "I tried to apologize, but he just ignored me. Plus, he doesn't seem to be in the mood to talk to anyone at the moment."
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Noon
"Okay, I'll take my leave now." Kairi announced getting ready to pack her belongings and leave. In Namine's point of view it was more like run away immediately.
"Eh?" she asked in surprise. "Why are you leaving early today?" checking the time to make sure she was seeing things right.
"I need to think about…stuff. Besides, this is a good opportunity for you to figure out what's wrong with Sora." she mumbled softly so that no one would hear. She smiled weakly and left out the door.
"I'm really going to need help for that." Namine noted to herself. "Now, how am I going to plan this all out?" she thought worriedly, trying to decide what to do first. "Hey Sora, I'm going to be outside for while but I'll come back." Smiling and hoping he wouldn't be suspicious.
He chuckled and nodded. "It's okay Namine, you don't need to tell me that, since you don't work here anyways."
"Oh right. Ahaha." she nervously replied and ran out the door. "Now what?" she wondered. "I could always ask Roxas or his friends for advice on what to do… I don't know about Olette though-"
"Namine! Is that you?!" a familiar voice called out.
"Speak of the devil." she muttered glancing over at the brunette that was running towards her. "Hello Olette." she sighed.
"Hm?" she asked. "You don't look so happy today. What's wrong?"
"That's what I'd like to know."
Olette smiled knowingly at her. "Have you ever tried Sea-Salt Ice Cream?"
"What?" Namine asked in disbelief and how it was random for a girl like her to bring up at a time like this.
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"So" Olette began. "You're saying that Kairi and Sora are kind of upset at each other?"
"More like Sora seems to be at Kairi. We have no idea what really happened in his situation." she replied.
"Then ask him."
"What? It's not like I can just walk up to him and ask what's wrong."
"Of course you can. You just don't know how he will respond."
"How would you know?"
"I have guy friends too, Namine."
Looking at Olette, she started to take note that maybe she wasn't so bad. "Olette really does have a close relationship with guys." she admitted.
"Are you going to ask him?" her voice interrupting Namine's thoughts.
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"Sora? Hello?" Namine announced walking in the shop seeing no one around. She looked at the sign that still said "We're Open!" and shook her head. "Sora, are you here?" she asked again walking around the counter to see if he was hiding. Her hand accidentally knocked over a folder on the counter as she was walking and quickly began to clean up before he came.
Taking a peek at the paperwork, she remembered seeing Sora working on, she skimmed through each of the pages and became surprised.
"Namine?" Sora asked walking behind her. "What are you doing here?"