Hey look, I updated. Chapter 5! Yippee! Are you all excited? Well, I'm not. I hate Namora. Even though there's not really any in here but yeah… xD
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any Kingdom Hearts Characters. Also, I do not own any movies mentioned in this chapter.
I keep on walking down the street. I try not to get lost as my head fills up with all these worse case scenarios. Like what if Sora and Namine last so long that when Namine gets back with Roxas because they obviously belong together, he won't be over her and never will be? What if we stop being friends? What if he forgets about me?
My eyes get watery again and I just let the few tears come out. I like crying sometimes, when I'm alone and I really feel the need to get my feelings out. It helps.
I look up and see that our apartment is just another five minutes. I start wiping my tears and trying to clear up my face. What am I crying about anyway? Why should I be crying? It's only a little crush on Sora and it's not like we were ever together or going to get together anyway. I'm being such a baby. If anyone should be crying, it should be Roxas. He's probably hurting a lot right now. I hope that I can actually help him through this.
I open the door, hoping my face is alright and walk inside. I see Xion is already sitting at the table with some sushi. She waited for me and I'm about fifteen minutes late.
"Xion, I'm sorry! I got carried away at Roxas' house and I ended up getting whipped cream on me and getting dirty and I'm late! I'm really sorry!" I tried to apologize as best I could.
She smiles at me in an almost teasing way, "It's alright, Kairi. Just go take a quick shower and we can eat our dinner together. Then we could watch some action movies and have a sleepover in the living room!"
Smiling, I say, "I would hug you right now, but I'm dirty. I'll be right back." I go into the shower and start turning the knobs.
Mhmm, I love spicy tuna and California roll. "Mhmm. Thanks so much, Xion." I tell her after gulping down my food. Man, do I love sushi.
"You're welcome! Now come on, let's go pick out some movies!" She hops over to the wooden frame holding our television and DVD's and everything else. "I wanna watch, Transformers."
"Ohkay, let's pick out 5 DVD's to watch! You pick another, I'll pick two more and then we both pick the last one." It seemed like a good idea to me.
"You got it!" She answered. We ended up picking Transformers, 2012, Wanted, Avatar and Zombieland. We only watched two of them though since we both crashed during Wanted.
I woke up to the sound of her snoring a little after though. She isn't obnoxious but since she was close to me, I could hear it more clearly than in our separate rooms. Then there was knocking on the door. Xion is a bit of a heavy sleeper so I knew I had to get the door.
I got up, had to stretch and then went for the door. I looked at the peephole to see Roxas holding a box. Confused, I opened the door and let him in, "Hey there, Roxas. Whatcha got? And why are you here at…" I honestly didn't know if it was still Sunday morning or noon.
"It's one p.m. I thought maybe you guys would have been up by now but I guess not." He laughs quietly to himself and then sits himself on the chair next to our sofa. "I brought our cupcakes!" He says showing the box.
"Mhmm, cupcakes! That's right, I didn't get to eat any yesterday." Memories from last night start replaying in my mind. I try not to think about what happened exactly.
"Or help me ice them." He smirks at me.
"Oh yeah, ha-ha." I say with a nervous smile.
He gets up and starts pinching my cheeks. "Awwh, it's okay Kai! That's why I'm only giving you two cupcakes while I get about ten more at my house!" He says in that annoying baby voice.
Instantly, I stop trying to get his hands off my face and just stare at him. I wonder if my eyes looked sadder. He just called me Kai. The nickname Sora gave me. There's no way I could forget yesterday now. One of the best and worst days of my year so far.
He lets go of my face and looks at me in my eyes, dead serious. "Kairi, what's wrong? Did I do something?" Roxas asks concerned.
"It's nothing. Just please don't call me that, ever again." I tell him. I could tell my voice was cracking up. He didn't say anything else. He just sat me down and started making me and Xion some breakfast.
A few minutes pass as he makes our bowls of cereal. "Kairi, do you wanna tell me what's wrong now?" Roxas finally said something to me after our awkward silence.
"It's just, yesterday. Uhh, that nickname. And well, like Sora." I sigh and try to find a way to explain without breaking down. "It's just bringing up memories I don't wanna think about right now. I'm sorry I overreacted. Thanks for making us breakfast and for bringing over the cupcakes." I say trying to explain. It was too hard. I'll just have to do it later. I really shouldn't be so affected by this. I need to follow what I said to myself last night. It's only a little crush on Sora and it's not like we were ever together or going to get together anyway. I'm being such a baby. I shouldn't be the one breaking down.
"No, it's alright. No sweat, don't worry about it." He then goes and tries to wake up Xion as I begin eating my cereal.
"Hey Sora!"
"Hey Namine!" Then she gives him a quick peck on the cheek. I couldn't stand it. It's only Wednesday and I just, couldn't get used to Sora and Namine. In fact, I couldn't even get over Sora at all. I thought maybe seeing them together would help me get over him but it just seemed like my crush on him got bigger over the past couple days.
"Kairi, you alright?" Roxas asks me.
"Of course, I don't have a reason to even be upset. I'm fine. What about you?" I reply back to him.
"Of course you do Kairi. Don't be so hard on yourself. And it's going fine. It's still hard but it's alright. We all go through hard times right? Besides, I'm sort of used to Namine being with other guys. Remember the times before her and I went out? And how she has a lot of guy friends? I'll be okay. And I know everything will be alright in the end." He smiles at me. It really was a wonder how he didn't seem to have almost break-downs like I did earlier this week. Roxas was one tough cookie.
"Mhmm." I give him a small smile and he turns back around to talk to Hayner as I just look back at my desk. I wasn't even halfway done with my worksheet. I didn't even notice. School didn't seem so important to me right now. My mind was preoccupied with something else happening around me.
"Kairi, what's up?" Riku immediately asks me with a serious tone.
"Huh?" I say confused. "What do you mean?"
"Why have you been so down lately? You need to tell me what's up." He demanded.
"It's….it's nothing. Really." I try to say. It wasn't a complete lie. "And I haven't been so down lately!" I try to defend myself even though I know that that sentence was a total lie.
"Always spacing out with what I can see are sad eyes and barely talking to anyone anymore? I say that's being down. Now tell me what's going on." Riku is one of my closest friends. It made me a little happy to see that he really cared about me. But, he really shouldn't. I told Roxas not to worry about it and I told Xion not to either when she questioned my behavior too. I guess now it's Riku's turn to tell him.
"Riku, don't worry about it. It's really nothing to worry about. I'll be fine." I say trying to assure him I will be.
He gives me a look that shows he's not so sure about it. "I'm coming over today. I'm walking with you guys home."
"Why?" The question immediately pops into my head and I think it out loud.
"You're going to tell me why, Kairi because I can tell it's obviously not nothing. You need some cheering up from this dude right here!" He announces to me while putting one arm over my shoulder and pointing his thumb at himself.
I giggle at him trying to cheer me up already. "Ohkay Riku. But no guarantees I'll tell you soon!"
"Of course." He says releasing me.
"Alright, who took all my French fries?" Hayner looks around our small circle giving each of us the eye, of course though, he couldn't last more than 2 seconds without turning red when he was looking at Olette. "Pence…." he says sternly.
"Hey! Don't look at me! Sheesh, I know that I like eating more than you guys do but I don't even like the school's French fries!" he says immediately trying to defend himself. Olette and I laugh as Hayner made the assumption towards the more plump friend of ours.
"Kairi…." He looks toward me next.
I just smile as I close my eyes and nod my head. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, Hayner. You should know by now that I hate ketchup! Why would I eat all your French fries when you always have to put swirls on ketchup on them?" It's true. I would have taken them though if they were ketchup-less.
That only left Olette who had a sheepish grin on. "Heh..well, my lunch wasn't as satisfying as eating you French fries Hayner."
Hayner just replied with a mumbled "grr" and starting sipping on his chocolate milk. We all know that he let it slide since it was Olette. Even though we all know that Hayner and Olette had a thing going on, they weren't so obvious about it. Like they didn't always blush when they would just talk to each other, or stutter every time they would talk and flirt in a way that they didn't know was flirting.
In other words, it was just a simple, innocent crush they each had on each other that was the other was oblivious to. I was thankful for this as I didn't have to watch some couple together. It just kept my mind off of a certain someone.
"So Kairi," I turn over to look at Pence. "The three of us were thinking about visiting our old city Twilight Town and since we all haven't hung out in a while, we were wondering if you wanted to come!" he announced.
"Oh yeah! I forgot about that!" Hayner said giving his head a slight smack. "When are we going again?"
"I think we're going on Friday night so we get there by early morning. We can just take the train and sleep on there overnight. Unless of course, Kairi is too busy with her other friends." Olette said sticking her tongue out at me.
"Ha, very funny Olette." I say pushing her face the other way. "Nah, I'm not busy and it's not like you guys can't talk to Riku, Roxas and Xion either! Or Sora, but he's probably hanging with Namine nowadays. And you know Roxas pretty well since he used to live there with you guys and hang out with you before he moved to Destiny Islands with his dad!"
"Yeah, I remember those days. We'd walk around the town eating sea-salt ice cream and chilling at our spot. Then he moved and we didn't talk much. But one by one we all came to Destiny Islands and were together again! Except, Roxas still barely talked to us." said Hayner reminiscing.
I sensed the awkward aura around everyone and started thinking maybe it was a mistake bringing up Roxas and old memories when Pence interrupted my thoughts. "Hey guys, stop being so mopey! It'll be nice to catch up with Roxas and see how things have been. It's not like he hates us or anything or was some sorta jerk! He just couldn't find time to hang with all of his old friends, new ones and his family! Let's be more positive about this!" I couldn't help but smile at his optimism.
"Yeah, you're right." Olette agreed with a small smile.
Hayner smiled too and suddenly we were all happy again. "So it's settled. Let's ask Roxas to come with us Friday night! We all have enough money for the train tickets right?" We all nodded in agreement. "Good. Now Kairi, ask Roxas about our trip and then tell us what he says okay?"
"Mmkay!" I start thinking to myself how nice the trip will be. I wonder if Xion will want to come since her and Roxas are almost inseparable these days, but then again….she could always spend Saturday with Riku.
So here is the 5th chapter of my story! I'm not really happy with it. Eh….Please tell me of any errors and typos!
And by the way, here's some background information. Sora and Roxas are twin brothers, yeah, but their parents got divorced and Roxas lived with his dad in Twilight Town and Sora with his mom on Destiny Islands but then they get remarried and Roxas moved to Destiny Islands. Which is why Hayner, Pence, and Olette don't mention Sora here and why they don't really know him.
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