Believe in your heart

"Ne, ne Kairi!" a hyper girl exclaimed as she immediately ran into the shop almost causing Riku to fall over.

"Hey, no running!" he reminded her as she just grinned.

"Sorry Riku!" she quickly apologized and ran into the kitchen looking for her certain redhead friend. She glanced to her left and to her right to only see no one. "Hm, if I were Kairi, where would I be hiding?" she thought as she began opening cupboards, and drawers, even the oven. "Nope, not here either she thought." as she opened a box of cookies and peered inside. "Well, I didn't find Kairi but I found some cookies!" she happily declared and stuffed some in her mouth and continued looking.

"If you're looking for the sugar packets, I already hid them somewhere where you're not supposed to find them." a voice muttered behind her.

"HAIRI, EVE BIN LOOKIN FER YEH!" Selphie yelled hugging her who gave her a confused look. (hiding the fact the cookies were in her mouth). Translation: "Kairi, I've been looking for you!"

"I don't know what you just said, and hey are you eating cookies? Riku ordered you not to eat any sugar during your shift." Kairi suspiciously asked staring at her friend in the yellow dress who shook her head.

"ME DID NOT NOT EAT COOKIES!" she protested shaking her head. Translation: "I didn't eat any cookies!"

She gave her a blank look and sighed. "I'm not that stupid Selphie, your cheeks are puffy from the cookies in your mouth. It's really noticeable."

"Hairi! Hairi! swelphie saw swora and wamie!" Selphie continued as she jumped around Kairi to get her attention, waving her arms around beginning to annoy her. Translation: "Kairi! Kairi! Selphie saw Sora and Namine!"

"Don't eat with your mouth full!" Kairi snapped as she walked out of the kitchen. "Come out when you're not eating anything."

Seconds later

"I'm ready!" the brunette grinned running around Kairi again. "Kairi! Kairi! I saw Sora and Namine together!"

She gave her nod and a weird glance. "Okay, that's nice to hear that Selphie, the world is full of interesting things isn't it?" as she grabbed a washcloth to wash the messy tables the customers left behind. "So, what were they talking about that was so interesting?"

"Well" her friend smiled with dreamy eyes. "I, saw them talking and eating sea salt ice cream, and they were eating something blue which was sea salt ice cream, and they were eating something cold which was sea salt ice cre-"

"You've already said that!"

"Oh! really?" Selphie asked in amazement and thought some more. "They had on their serious faces. It was something important, and she was trying to cheer him up with something that was on his mind."

This was starting to interest Kairi but it was also making her feel left out. "What could they be talking about that they couldn't tell me?" she kept wondering and worrying at the same time. "What were they talking about Selphie?!" she panicked turning to her.

"Hm?" she asked tilting her head slightly to the side and blushed a little. "Well…I don't know…I was looking at their sea salt ice cream the whole time to even notice." she admitted laughing nervously.

"You don't know?!" Kairi wanted to yell but kept it in her head as her friend continued on.

"Well, I was going to get one, but then they would've seen me, so I had to wait at the right moment to get one. Guess what! I got some!" Selphie grinned showing three blue popsicles in her hand. "There's one me." she announced putting on in her pocket and gave one to Kairi. "This one is for you!" and quickly ran to look for Riku. "Oh RIIIIIIKUUUUU!" she kept yelling running around the shop again.

"I'm right beside you idiot." the silver haired boy glared as he held wet dishes showing that he was busy at the moment. "Can't you see my hands are full? What do you want?"

"Don't worry! Leave it to Selphie! I'll help you!" she grinned, and before Riku could protest or even ask what she was going to say, she opened the wrapper of the popsicle and stuffed it in his mouth. "No need to thank me!!!!!!"

While Kairi stood frozen in her spot staring at the Selphie feeding Riku scene, she didn't know which emotion to come first. Become worried that something bad will happen, laugh about what's going on, or just breathe and walk away. "Breathe and walk away." she decided and walked behind counter to where all the papers were at. "Maybe if I just draw a little, that could calm me down." she noted as papers accidentally fell to the floor.

"Hm? What's this?" she thought as she put most of the papers back in neat order on the desk. "It says, Talk to Namine about something important." she read. "This is Sora's handwriting, I know this scribbling." but before she could read anymore, a certain blond walked in. "Oh Namine." she called out glancing up expecting to see her, but it was only Roxas. "Oh Roxas, hi. Sorry, I thought you were Namine. Have you seen her?" as she stuffed the paper in her pocket.

"Actually I was about to ask you the same thing." he responded. "I haven't seen her all day, so I thought that maybe she was hanging out here with you." as he sat down on a chair. "So, where's Sora? Messing around in the kitchen or something?"

"Now that you mention it……I haven't seen him.." she mumbled.

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Sora and Namine at the moment

Namine sighed as they got to her house (White Mansion) as she stared blankly at the brunette who was laying down on the couch. "I told you eating so many of those blue popsicles would give you a stomachache." as she walked into the kitchen to find some remedies for him.

"Eh, but it was worth it." he smiled weakly still laying down on the couch and sighed. "I kinda did that on purpose to miss work and think about what I was going to say to Kairi anyways."

He heard a chuckle from her as she came back with medicine. "I never thought thinking was your thing."

"You're so mean, it's a bit too bad I'm not feeling well, otherwise I would've gone up and chased you around the house for saying that." he mumbled tiredly as he closed his eyes.

Namine smiled again at her silly friend. "Whatever you say. I have to leave for a bit to buy food for dinner." as she placed a bottle on the table beside him. "If you're not feeling well when I'm gone, just drink this. Any questions?"

"Can…..you…" he began as he opened his eyes, motioning for her to come closer. She leaned closer to him to hear what he had to say. "Buy me pocky?" he finished almost making Namine fall over anime style.

"T-That's it?" she asked in disbelief as he only nodded and sighed again. "I'll give it to you once you feel better." and left the mansion to go shopping. "That weirdo." she muttered.

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"Do you think that Sora is with Namine?" Roxas finally spoke up from the silence looking at Kairi who was unconsciously drawing random scribbles.

"I don't even want to think about it." Kairi mumbled and sighed. "Roxas, you like Namine right?"

"Yep I do." he admitted without hesitating to answer. "Are you worried about her being with Sora? That they might like each other?" he questioned seeing her nod. "You know, you could always ask her how she feels about him."

"Since you brought that up." she interrupted as she noticed the other blond starting to come inside. "Roxas, go hide in the kitchen." she ordered as Roxas simply followed orders since he knew what she was planning.

"Kairi!" Namine waved running towards her, as the redhead forced a smile waving back to her. "Hi Nami." she responded.

"Nami? Haha, I forgot about that nickname, only Sora keeps calling me that." Namine laughed making Kairi wince.

"Sora eh?" Kairi thought to herself. "So you like Sora?"

The blond nodded happily. "Of course I do! He's weird and random often a dense minded person at times, but he's caring and sweet also. Who wouldn't love him?" she smiled as she described the silly brunette boy.

"Oh…really?" Kairi asked pretending to be interested as she glanced at her drawing trying to avoid her happy gaze. Before she could ask any more questions, Namine quickly looked at the time and gasped.

"Sorry Kai, I have to do grocery shopping! I also have to buy chocolate." her friend added as she wrote down the things she needed.

"Wait, why would you need chocolate?" Kairi stared at her list with a confused look about a item she had written down.

Namine smiled. "It's for Sora of course! See you later Kairi!" and ran out of the building leaving her friend to her thoughts.

Forgetting that Roxas was in the kitchen and that he heard the whole conversation between them, he casually walked out only to see a crying Kairi. "Hey, Kairi, why are you crying?" as he ran to her worriedly. "Are you okay? Wait, that's a bad question…"

Kairi didn't say anything but tears continued as she leaned on Roxas, who took her actions by surprise and nervously hugged her back. "K-Kairi?" he asked again.

"S-S-She likes Sora, Roxas!" Kairi cried. "Why?"

Roxas, not sure of what to say to her closed his eyes for a moment. "I don't think that's exactly what's going on."

"Yes it is. Chocolates for Sora, the two of them hanging out, him ignoring me and always talking to Namine instead, and the note in his handwriting that says talk to Namine about something important!" she quickly said still hugging him.

He sighed. "You have a point, but I say we should wait until we really know what happened."

"O-Okay…" Kairi finally gave in, as the two still hugged each other.

"Kairi, I almost for-" Namine was about to say, only to see the two of them hugging who didn't notice her. "Namine, calm down, Roxas…and Kairi… don't like…each other that way…" Namine kept repeating to herself. Seeing that they didn't let go of each other, she quietly walked out the door and left to go back home.

In the Mansion

She smiled warmly at the sleeping face of Sora. "He really is cute when he sleeps, haha. That must be one thing Kairi likes about him, they've known each other since kids." she remembered her friend telling her that day.

Flashback

"Haha, so that's what Sora is like!" Namine laughed as she and Kairi were talking about him.

"I remember on our first sleepover, the reason why i couldn't sleep was because i was so nervous around him and that his sleepy face was sooooooo cute!" Kairi gushed and blushing as it replayed into her mind. "I was worried about waking him up because i was worried that I would snore or doing something weird in my sleep, so I didn't sleep a wink!"

"So what happened next?" Namine asked in curiousity.

Kairi blushed again. "Once it was morning, he noticed I was feeling sleepy so he told me to go to sleep and that he would be the first person I'd see when I woke up. He was right! Only except, he was sleeping right beside me..." she giggled as she took a pen out to write things down.

"He was making sure you were alright of course." Namine giggled thinking about how romantic that could've been.

End of Flashback

Her expression went blank as Kairi came to her mind. "Kairi told me she liked Sora. So what's she doing with Roxas?"