I seriously had trouble writing this. Stupid high school. And it's only been two days -_-

Disclaimer: Same old, same old. Don't own anything.

"So how was your day yesterday?"

I look up from the ground to face Riku. "It was pretty good."

He chuckles a bit. "You wanna elaborate on that?"

I laugh a little too. "Okay, okay. Hmm, so Twilight Town is really pretty you know! I had fun hanging with Roxas, Hayner, Pence and Olette. We did some cool things, mostly explored the town. Went to some places, played some games. And I really liked going someplace new." So I'm hanging out with Riku right now. It's Sunday afternoon and school is going to be tomorrow. Halloween is coming up soon. "How was yours?" I start smiling to myself as I remember that he hung out with Xion.

He just shrugs his shoulders and says, "It was whatever."

I raised an eyebrow at him and then chuckle again. "You wanna elaborate on that?" I say in a tone mocking him.

"Ha-ha. Very funny." He said sarcastically. "I mean, I had fun with Xion and everything but it was just like any other day I hang out with her." It seemed like something was wrong, but I left it at that. I could just be being paranoid.

We're stepping into a café right now. I just order a juice and a salad awhile Riku gets an energy drink and a sandwich. We sit down outside and just start relaxing. "So what are you gonna do for Halloween?" Riku, with his mouth full gives me a confused look and I couldn't help but giggle. He swallows the rest of what he had in his mouth, wipes his mouth with the back and his hand and then starts thinking.

"Uhmm. I don't know. Maybe just hang out with some friends or give out candy. I doubt that I'll be trick or treating."

"Yeah, same here. Let's hang out for Halloween, okay?" I see him give a silent nod and it's back to a comfortable silence.

We continue walking around the town and see how much money we have left. It doesn't look like we have much but still somewhat of a decent amount. So now, we're at an arcade and we're trying to get some tickets. I got about 300 tickets and he got about 500. Together, obviously, we got 800 tickets. I got some plushies and he got glow sticks and water pistols. He says it'll be fun being like a kid again. I agree but still, Riku, water pistols and glow sticks? Seems a bit off.

It was pretty fun but boring at the same time. I mostly played skeeball and tried the games that would get me a lot of tickets. It only happened twice. Skeeball was pretty much the only game I played at arcades so the time I wasn't playing, I watched Riku try to shoot virtual people.

"You know, I love hotels." I say as we're starting to walk back to the park near my apartment.

"Huh?"

I just shake my head at him. "I love hotels. And there's a strong difference between apartments, motels and hotels you know." He ruffles my hair and laughs.

"Oh no! I didn't know!" He says in that mocking tone again. I laugh at him and take his hand off.

"Well okay, Mr. Sarcastic. I'm just saying I really love the new hotel room smell, the neatness, the new atmosphere from a regular house, how it's usually close to some place to visit and see, the free services, the already set up furniture. I just really love it. I want to go to a hotel someday soon. I bet it'd be really fun, unless I was alone, it'd be kinda freaky." He just replies with a puzzled look. "Heh," I start scratching my cheek, "My bad. That was random wasn't it?"

"Yeah…" He shrugs it off though. "So, why the sudden outburst?"

"Oh, I was just thinking about how I haven't been at a hotel in a while and how much I really want to go to one. Especially with friends, and if the hotel came with free cable, wifi, and I could hook up my PS2! That would be so awesome." I smile just imagining a huge trip like that. If only it could come true though. Someday I guess.

I almost laugh out loud with his thinking face but I muffled it into a slight chuckle. "Now that you talk about it, that's true. And it sounds really awesome. We're going to have to do that someday." He smiles at me. Yeah, we have to wait until someday.

"So did you hear? Roxas Strife and Kairi Hikari are dating again!"

"Whoa really? Roxas and Namine move on fast! I mean even after how long they've been together too!"

"You ever think maybe Namine was a replacement?"

"No way! Kairi told Roxas to break up with her because he really likes Namine!"

"But why is he with Kairi now?"

"Namine is with Sora! Maybe it's revenge!"

So, if you don't know what is currently happening, I'll take you back to 1st period and give you a recap. It's Monday again and I'm going to school. See ever since I walked into the school, people were giving me these weird looks and I'm just like, ohkay? I just proceed through my classes and my day ignoring them. I kept hearing whispers though.

So then lunch comes around and when I go to sit by Xion, she seemed a bit…how should I say this…put off by me? She somewhat flinched and inched away from me. She wasn't like that this morning. I asked her what was wrong but she just shook her head. Roxas comes along and he started telling me about his day. It was almost the exact thing I've been going through today and then I overhear these girls at the other table talking about Roxas, Namine, Sora and I and now it all makes sense. I stare, gaping at the girls and then turn towards Roxas who seems surprised too. I look at Xion and now it makes sense.

"Xion. You don't really believe them do you?" She does nothing. "I mean, really, me, Roxas, dating! It didn't work out before and it wouldn't work out now! You know that! I mean, we haven't even been hanging out that much and having been doing anything beyond that whole friendship boundary! Xion you gotta believe me!" Her reply was just a silent nod and her taking a bit out of her sandwich.

I turn back to Roxas and we nod our heads in agreement. We get up and start to confront the girls. I'm pretty sure Xion turned to watch us. "Hey! You! Gossip girls! What are you all going on about?" I was pretty upset about this if you couldn't tell.

"Oh my gosh, speak of the devil! Or should we say devils?" She and the other girls giggle at her joke. This only upset me more and then Roxas decided to speak up.

"Kairi and me are not dating. What would make you guys say that and start making up assumptions like those?" Roxas, I think sounded pretty pissed. When he got pissed, he was usually quiet and would give glares. This time though, he was raising his voice and making it clear he wasn't going to be nice just because these bubblebrains were girls.

I think they got a bit intimidated. And scared. Roxas wasn't a generally mean person but I'm pretty sure he could do some damage to the face underneath all that make-up. "We heard it from a lot of others. They were talking about these pictures that were on facebook! Everyone was talking about how close you guys were in the pictures and how romantic the scene looked and all!" I was surprised I could understand that from how fast they were all talking.

"Yeah well, that still doesn't give you guys the right to make up shit and spread it around and talk as if you know what's going on and what isn't. Don't assume you know things just like that and don't talk about shit as if you do know what you're talking about." This was one of my HUGEST pet peeves. We start walking off to our next location. Roxas and I looked at each other. Olette.

"I'm really sorry you guys! I didn't think it would get out of hand! People were just commenting about how cute you guys were and if it was an old photo and then they got confused and started making up the rumors!" Olette apologized.

I sigh and start rubbing my temples. "It's alright. But it's really out of hand now! And people are involving Namine and Sora in this now too! What's gonna happen when they hear about this Olette? Just imagine all the chaos and teen drama that's just waiting to happen now!" I said flailing around my arms like some sorta wacko.

"I know." She looks down sadly. "I'll delete the pictures right away the second I get the chance to okay? I have to go meet Hayner now but I'm really sorry you guys!"

"It's okay." Roxas said as we watched Olette jog off to who knows where. "This is great! Namine ended our relationship because she was jealous of you and me being friends and didn't trust us and now that this crazy rumor is out, who knows what she's gonna think!"

"I agree," I shake my head at all this. I just know something bad will happen to Roxas or Namine today. Maybe even both. "You have to tell her to trust you." He looks at me now confused. "She has to learn how to have faith in you so that she wouldn't be so jealous at you just being close friends with a girl, you have to make her realize she's the one for you so no one else could possibly be a threat. If she doesn't, then you guys can't be together for a long while. And you want to be together, stronger than before right? So something like this won't happen again." I try to tell him. It's the only solution and it's for the best right? It's true but I still had a bad feeling about it.

"You're absolutely right. I have to do that today. And make sure to tell anyone you see or hear talking about us that we're not together okay? We have to end this rumor." He says with a determined look in his eyes. It seems like he's ready for the worst.

"Right." And like that, he's off.

Sora and Namine were sitting with a few friends at lunch in the courtyard. They weren't touching each other but were seated next to one another while the other people were around or in front of them. Sora had some chips and Gatorade while Namine had a salad and apple juice. "So did you guys hear the news?"

"What news?" said Riku munching on his cheesestick.

"Roxas and Kairi are back together!" Tidus exclaimed.

"PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFBT." Sora just did a classic spittake from his Gatorade after hearing the shocking news. "Excuse me?" He said in a voice slighter higher than his usual.

Tidus just nodded his head. "Yup. It was going around facebook and at school too. Weird how you guys didn't hear it. People think it might be Roxas' revenge or something on Namine or like Namine was a replacement or some other crazy story like they've been together all along just secretly and now it's public again since he isn't with Namine."

"This isn't true." Riku shakes his head confused at what his old friend just said. "I mean, even if they were together, Kairi would have told me yesterday when we were hanging out right? She was talking about how much she loved hotels though! What if something happened in Twilight with her and Roxas in a hotel! No, no, no, no, no! That's crazy! But well…" Riku just kept mumbling to himself looking down at his tray and occasionally up at Tidus trying to find out what was happening while the other two had very different reactions.

Sora was still shocked and speechless. Hearing Riku's possibilities for some reason made him mad. He didn't like imagining anything happening between his brother and Kairi. But why? It just made him want to find her and see if any of this was true and then maybe punch his twin if he did anything with Kairi in that hotel if that theory was true. But still, why?

The pale girl said nothing. She only stopped moving. She was still breathing but besides that, might as well be one of those silver painted robot looking guys who moves right when you're in his face to scare you. Her fork was about to puncture some lettuce but was only halfway into the bowl, her head was still down, mouth open, eyes unmoving, and body in the same position as the world around her kept moving. She couldn't believe what she was hearing, but at the same time, she felt as if she saw this coming.

"Namine." The boy calls her name. "Namine, don't ignore me. We need to talk."

" I don't want to talk to you." She keeps on walking ahead trying to get to the exit as quickly as possible. They're the only two people in the hallways. Everyone else has already left for the day except she forgot her textbook in one of her classes on this floor and he managed to find her here.

He takes her wrists and stops her. He walks around her as she seems to have frozen in place. He now gently holds her hands as he tries to look into her eyes. "Listen to me. There is nothing going on between me and Kairi. Those people don't know what they're talking about and are making things up. Why won't you believe me?"

Her eyes start getting teary as she looks up at him. He still has that look in his eyes that could make her melt. "I want to believe you,"

"Then why don't you?"

"Because!" She lets go of his hands and throws hers up into the air for a brief moment. "I don't want to get hurt Roxas! I don't want to have the man I love be having affairs or just plain liking someone else! I don't want to hurt you either but I don't want to be alone. I just, I don't think I can. That's why I'm with Sora now." She looks down at her feet.

"I understand that. But if you really love me, then you would trust me when I tell you nothing is going on with me and any other girl! When I tell you I don't like anyone else or love anyone else or want anyone else!"

"I know. I know Roxas but I…"

"But you won't." She immediately starts to defend herself now as she sees that his expression is changing.

"It's not that I won't, it's that I can't!" She pleads with him. "That's why I don't want you to ever be around her alone!"

"No!" He raises his voice at her, something he's never done. "No! It's not that you can't, it's that you won't! You won't just try to get over it! The instant I started hanging out with her you got jealous and ended our relationship! You didn't try to know her, you didn't try to talk to me, you didn't try to get over the jealousy, you just ended it! You didn't trust me and you'd rather me just stay away from my best friend than for you to get to know her and possibly help your jealousy issues!"

"Roxas...I! I..."

"No. And I'm sorry Namine. But we can't be together until you learn how to be less jealous and learn to trust me. I love you and only you with all my heart, but I won't leave my best friends because of a problem you won't even try to overcome! Especially when you don't even know her and she's the reason we're even together! She made me realize that it was you, you're the one I love and you can only see her as a threat?" He stops to take a deep breath. "Kairi's my best friend. I'm sure she'd be a good friend of yours too if you gave her a chance but you won't. Just like you won't even try to stop being so jealous." He closes his eyes, shakes his head, and she sees that he's shed a tear, but she can't help the words that come out of her mouth.

"You're defending her?"

"There you go again!"

"Roxas! You can't see how hurt I am because I know that you used to like her and she liked you back! You guys were together and she's not just some girl that I could not be jealous of! I knew there was something going on between you two! Everyone can obviously see it too since they're all talking about it and you can't!"

"How hurt you are? How hurt you are?" he asks in obvious shock and rage. He scoffs at her. "I have to see the girl I love with my brother when I've been nothing but faithful to her but she won't trust me and completely believe me when I tell her that anything my best friend and I had, is over. No, instead, she believes everyone else. All the people that don't know the truth." She takes his words to heart, she tries to think of something to say but she knows in her heart that he is correct. Everything he has said and everything he has told her, is the honest, pure truth. Even if she can't openly admit it yet. "Look Namine, I'm not going to abandon you. I love you and I always will. But I won't abandon my friends either. So I guess until things get better, we probably won't speak. Just know I'll still be here for you. I'll see you around."

And just like that, he's gone. She crying silently taking in everything that happened. She doesn't want to admit she's wrong. She doesn't want to lose him. She doesn't want to make him choose between her and his friends. She just won't make herself do anything about it to make things better. So she just stands there.

"What do you want for dinner tonight Xion?"

"Maybe some carryout."

"So, uhh how was school?"

"It was alright." Is all she replies. I sigh. It's been maybe an hour or two since we got home. Most of time we've been together since school have been silences. Comfortable or awkward, I don't really know.

"Learn anything new?" I say, trying to make some sort of conversation flow.

"Hmm, not really." Actually, it doesn't seem like she's so confused or mad or shocked about the rumors but I wanted to make sure.

"Xion, you believe me right?" I ask her.

"Yeah, I do. Sorry, I just have a lot of my mind." Huh?

"What do you mean?"

"Roxas was looking for Namine at the end of school. I think something might bad happen. But that's not the only thing." She admits.

Oh, yeah. "Oh, that's true. What else is on your mind?" I ask. I wonder what's been troubling Xion.

"It's nothing big. Thanks for asking though. It'll be alright." She gives me a brief smile before continuing. "I think I'll just go to my room and start my homework now. Maybe I'll call Roxas and see what's up." She hastily moves into her room and shuts the door.

"Ohkay, tell me what he says!" I yell trying to get her to hear through the door. I hear a muffled 'okay!' and then I start getting some food from the cabinets. Now I plop onto the couch and set my things down. I turn on the tv and start surfing the channels. Why does this school year seem to be such a drag? So many things have happened and it's only almost the end of October! Or well, it just seems like so much has happened. Then I hear the doorbell ring and have to get out of my cozy spot. Who would be coming over right now? Maybe Roxas to tell us what happened. But the second I opened the door, my heart started beating faster and I couldn't be more confused.

"Sora?"

Yeah, this chapter probably sucks but I tried to make it long for you guys! I only succeeded in making it a bit longer though -_- Well, Guess what? I had a lot of inspiration from my trip to ocean city! After so long, I finally got to go to a hotel and stay overnight! Most of this chapter was actually written around midnight on the balcony of my room. Just edits and tweaks and the first few paragraphs were written on home.

And well technically, I finished this chapter after the first week of high school and during my long weekend from Labor day. Man school is tiring.

Anyway, I can look at the ocean too with this view so it's pretty awesome. I love this and you might notice some of my inspiration in this chapter, mostly the hotel and arcade thing. But I had so much motivation to write this chapter. I can look at the stars so well here! If only there was less light so I could actually see a lot of stars. -_-

And the silver painted man! Hahahahaha so funny when some guy walked all the way up, the painted man was bent down so you'd kinda have to put your head under and look up and then when the guy did that, the painted dude moved XDDD imagine if my younger sibling threw a coupon book at the painted dude. We were seriously gonna do that except we didn't wanna take the chance of being rude if the guy was real xD

Mhmm and yes I'm now doing the whole 3rd person thing more now since this story is mostly Kairi's point of view but you guys need to know what's going on with the others too! Imagine it like the game, it's in Sora's view mostly but then occasionally you see something and learn something Sora hasn't yet :D

I hope you guys at least somewhat enjoyed this chapter! Birth by Sleep comes out today! I'm so getting it :D I bet you are too right? Dude, I actually don't like reading Namixas much but I seem to be able to write a lot of it. -_- I need to fit in some SoKai! :D So that's the reason for a cliffy haha. Well, it's more like RokuNami drama though hahaaha. Sorry for any grammatical errors!

Review please! :D