AN: I'm really on a roll today. Actually, I had nothing else to do last night so I sat down and wrote a load of one-shots. Now I'm typing them up all in one go and posting them. I'm trying to make up for the fact that after next week I don't know when I'll be able to post again. Probably whenever I can afford to move out of my parents' place. This is prompt number 29 - "happiness".
I'm supposed to be heartbroken now. At least, everyone seems to think I am, or should be. They're so sympathetic that I can't bring myself to correct them. I know I should, but they almost seem to be enjoying their self-appointed role of cheering Kairi up. I suppose I could continue with the delusions of heartache for a little while longer. Not too long, though, because it's starting to get tiresome. I'm actually happy – the happiest I've ever been, and I want to show that.
The reason everyone thinks I should be so upset is because Riku and Sora have finally announced their relationship. I knew ages ago, of course – you don't travel the worlds with two people who are madly in love and not notice it. I don't have a problem with it – they're happy together and that's all that should matter. But no, it appears that part of my role as "Princess of Heart" was not only to be the damsel in distress, but to fall in love with the hero as well.
I didn't. Not in the romantic sense of the word, anyway. Both Sora and Riku are like brothers to me – the thought of kissing them is slightly disgusting and repulsive. The one I fell in love with is someone who shouldn't even exist. He's the one who kidnapped me – took me from Destiny Islands to Castle Oblivion. When I was there, he was the only person apart from Naminé (and I call them people because that's what they are, hearts or no hearts) who was civil to me. I don't know exactly when the grudging respect he'd earned started to turn into something more, or maybe that happened later, when he'd saved Sora, and then got washed up on the beach, still alive somehow.
No-one else was prepared to help him, so he's been living with me ever since. It's only because I'm supposed to be pining for Sora that rumours aren't flying around about the two of us. Well, I don't want to play the role of princess any longer, I've decided. Let's give them something to talk about.