It takes Two

"You awake?"

Namine opened her eyes confused and noticed someone opened the blinds for the sunlight to shine in. "Now I am…what's with all this light?" she muttered using her hand to cover her face from all the brightness.

Sora who took this by surprise chuckled. "Well, you really need to let some sunlight in the house once in a while. It's all dark in here. Don't you get lonely living in this house? er- I mean mansion?" correcting himself that this wasn't really a house.

Thinking about it to herself, that was a question she never took notion of. "Now that you mention it. Not really, I'm usually with you guys during the day." she shrugged looking at the clock and gasped. "Sora! It's already ten in the morning?!"

Receiving an applause from him he laughed. "Glad to see that you figured that out."

"No you idiot! I mean don't you usually work at this time?" she sighed also annoyed just after a few minutes of waking up.

Pretending to think about it, he smiled. "Yep! I do."

It became silent between the two, Sora who was grinning and Namine who was shocked and confused as she shook her head. "Then why are you here?"

Getting his bag and opening the door he turned around. "I was going to wait for you, maybe you wanted to come along."

"O-Oh….really?" was all the blond could answer still in shock. She stared at the floor nervously as a slight blush appeared on her face. "Y-You didn't have to…"

Even though the teenage boy in front of her was pretty dense, her reaction was pretty noticeable to him as he patted her head. "Let's go before I get even more late."

"I'm not a dog you know!"

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"You're late." Riku announced as Sora tried to sneak into the shop making him freeze. "Did you sleep in again? How typical."

"Well, actually, someone did sleep in and it wasn't me." he nervously explained also referring to the blond girl behind him.

Namine put her hands on her hips. "Well, maybe if you woke me up sooner and not wait for me to actually wake up, we wouldn't be in this situation."

"Namine has a point you know." a familiar voice agreed appearing behind Namine as she turned around who came in.

"Ah! Roxas…"

Kairi who was already there and noticed the others coming in, once again, stared at the scene. "Why would you be waiting for Namine?" the question slipped out as the crew turned to her. "I mean, why would you be waiting for her when she doesn't even work here?"

Roxas agreed. "Ah, Kairi has a good point too."

"Geez, I didn't know today was twenty questions." the brunette boy muttered sarcastically. "Can't I do something nice for a friend who let me stay overnight?" as gasps could be heard from his friends, and a snap from Kairi's pencil.

"You did what?!" Riku asked hoping it wasn't what he thought he just heard.

"I didn't mean it like that! I just wasn't feeling well, and Namine helped me, that's it!" waving his arms around to gather their attention to him.

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In the Kitchen

"So are you sure that's all you did to Namine? Nothing more?" Roxas asked eyeing him suspiciously as Riku walked in circles around Sora.

"I'm sure!" he shot back. "And why are we in a dark room with only one light and I'm tied to a chair with you guys questioning me like how it is in the movies?!"

"It makes the story interesting."

"You're kidding me….."

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"Alright, just calm down Namine…" she reminded herself as she inhaled slowly as she nervously sat down on a chair across from where Kairi was pretending to be writing something. "What should I say?"

"Say about what?" Sora asked appearing out of nowhere as he took a seat beside her.

"Never mind." she mumbled as she turned to him. "Are you going to tell Kairi today?"

Pulling out a notebook and opening it up to the first page, he pointed to the first line. "What I'm about to tell Kairi: Part One" and handed it to her. "I was kind of hoping you could edit it."

Sweatdropped at the moment she closed her eyes to remain calm. "Sora….when I said think about what to say to her. I didn't mean this!" using her pen to circle the words "Part One."

"Don't worry there are only Five Parts I wrote up."

"That's not what I'm talking about!" taking the notebook to whack him on the head while Kairi watched them, sighing to herself.

"You know Kairi, if you keep that up with the attitude, you're going to feel feverish." Roxas commented seeing her condition and her nonstop habit of watching the two.

"I know, I know. I just can't help it. It keeps bothering me." she murmured gazing at the floor to avoid any eye contact. "But, if that's the way they feel, I'm alright."

"You shouldn't lie to yourself. You can say you're ok, but it's obvious you're not." trying to reason to her that she shouldn't be like this. "I told you to wait until we know the truth. I'm not willing to fall for those kinds of dramatic romantic movies where the character thinks so and so likes someone else." he smiled. "I have faith in love."

First, the red head didn't say anything and once she did, it was nothing but giggles. "Are you sure you didn't get that from a soap opera too?" she grinned at his blushing face. "It sounds like a line the character would say."

"Or maybe it's you that has been watching too many romantic shows when she's still dreaming of Prince Charming." he joked this time to make her blush. They both had to admit, that their comebacks were funny as they laughed together.

Namine, who had already stopped her notebook from hitting Sora, paused to hear laughter from the two behind the counter. Setting the notebook down, her expression went gloomy.

"Hey, Nami? You okay?" Sora worriedly began waving a hand in front of her face.

"I'm fine, I'll edit this at home, so I'll see you later." she said quietly trying to avoid the subject and ran out the door.

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"Now, let's see what Sora wrote up in here." as she hoped that he didn't write up nonsense that would be a waste of time and took a red pen for editing work. Hesitating at the beginning, she forced her hand to turn the page.

After reading all of it, she couldn't believe that Sora would write this much. "It's almost like a biography or something." smiling about the fact that he took all this time to write up a whole story about him and Kairi since kids and until now…

"Our friendship last for many years. I still hope we can become friends when I finally tell you…."

"Sora has pretty good endings for his write ups. The only problem about it, are spelling errors." she glared as she checked back numerous pages that had red markings on them. "Well, might as well give it to him."

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"Here Sora! Thanks for letting me read it, although you had spelling problems." Namine grinned handing the notebook back to him while Kairi gave Roxas a confused glance.

Kairi looked at the notebook that seemed like he was doing a project that was important. "What did Sora write about?"

"Oh, well…." she tried to explain. "Nothing really…"

This answer certainly didn't help anyone at all, and she knew it. "Oh…" was all the red head to say to that as the tension between them continued.

"What's with the gloomy atmosphere all of a sudden?" Sora whispered to Roxas seeing that the girls were quiet.

"I don't really know exactly. I was thinking you had an idea." the blond boy whispered back.

"Maybe it's their time of month?"

"SORA!"