A/N: Whhooo…It's getting cold in here…someone please hug me!uuaahhhh…Anyway, I never thought that I would be able to write the chapter seven today, but I guess I'm just excited to let you know what happened next…Gawd, if only we have long vacation then I would be able to write some more chapters…So, here's the CHAPTER SEVEN, I hope that you will enjoy this…and as I promised there are lots of SoKai parts in hereXD…but still, sorry for the wrong grammars…ENJOY!
Summary:"You know what, I hate the kind of guy who loves to play the feelings of the women, I hate men when they trying to hit on girls, and I hate boys when they only dated girls and just dumped them like a piece of trash. Specifically I HATE YOU!"
Disclaimer: don't own the characters and the song SIMPLE AND CLEAN.
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BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE
CHAPTER SEVEN
"Wake up sweetie! It's morning already and you still have to go to school darling. Not to mention there's a handsome guy who is waiting for you at the living room."
She fluttered her eyes open, surprised at how her mother's voice sounded so excited while waking her up.
The truth was, she was already awake, so that she had heard all the things her mom had said, especially the last part.
"Who is he mom? I don't remember that I am going to school with someone today," she asked, rubbing the drowsiness of her eyes.
"It's Sora, remember him?"
Her body suddenly became frozen, she didn't expect that she was going to hear his name this early morning, especially when she had just woke up.
She just nodded her head.
"I admit that, I am surprise that he's going to pick you up today."
"Maybe, he bumped his head on the wall," she dumbly muttered.
Her mom looked at her and giggled, "Silly Kairi, maybe he just wanted to be friends with you, since he was the one who carried you to the clinic yesterday, so maybe; being friends with him is the perfect gratitude for him."
She grumbled," It was his entire fault why I ended up spending my time inside the clinic."
Her mom looked at her with knowing look, but before her mom could speak she heard her bubbly sister butted in their conversation, "SO YOU FINALLY ADMITTED IT!" her already dressed up twin sister squealed.
"Admit what?"
"Don't give me that dumb look Kai, you know what I mean."
She continued giving her sister a questioning look, "I told you, I—"
"Finally admitted that he is indeed HOT," She looked at their mom surprised.
"M-mom, what are y-you talking about," she gulped. 'Darn, now you are stammering!'
Her mom started folding her, "You just said yesterday, it was because of a certain source of heat why you passed out," her mother sang while looking at her teasingly.
She had nothing to say about that. 'Stupid Kairi.'
"See! Even mom noticed it!"
"Okay, I give up," she sighed; "I admit that Sora Ethan Fair is indeed hot, happy?" she glared at her nodding sister.
Her mom looked at her from getting her school uniform from her wardrobe and said, "Kairi, you should treat him nicely, since he is a kind guy…besides you should thank him, because he noticed your good looks."
"Huh?"
"What if someday he got tired of you and decided to left you."
"W-well, it's better so that no one would ever piss me off."
"You're being grumpy again, dear. I'm reminding you, you and Namine are turning eighteen three months from now. It's a relief that Sora is there for your escort on your debut."
"Mom has a point Kai, since you barely talk to the other guys in our school," her twin added.
She arched her eyebrow, "Debut? I'm not planning to have any. It'll only be a big fuss and were just going to waste money, right Namine?"
Her twin's eyes widened, "NO WAY! We have so much money to spend for our debut, besides being a debutant will only happen to us once in our lifetime, so we have to celebrate it, and if you didn't celebrate it, you will miss a half of your life,…if you became a mother, what do you think your children would say to you? That your teen life was boring? That's stupid! So you have to start planning right now," Namine demanded with a tone that said 'you have nothing to do, but to follow me.'
She sighed, "Whatever just do what you guys wanted to do."
Her mom clasped her hands, "Good! I thought that I have to take back my invitation to Sora."
"MOM! You invited him although you don't know him?" she asked with wide eyes.
"He's a kind guy Kairi, trust me. Besides he is the son of Aerith and Zack," her mother said smiling.
Then an idea occurred to her, "Right, I would like Roxas to be my escort—"
"NO WAY KAIRI HE IS MINE!" yelled her twin.
"Huh?"
"I already asked Roxas about that and he said 'yes', so you don't have a choice but to be with Sora instead," her sister explained while shaking….'shaking?'
She shrugged, "Okay."
"Kairi, what is wrong with Sora? He's good-looking with a good character. I really want him to be your boyfriend, right Nami."
She smacked her forehead at the thought of him and her, "Mom, he's just pretending to be a goody-goody yesterday. He is really more mischievous than 5 years old…and he is also a playboy."
Her mom chuckled, "Maybe, he is fond of you, and I know that once you became his girlfriend he would stop being a playboy."
"How can you so sure about that?"
Her twin sister answered for their mom, "Because you are different from other girls he was dating, Kairi…you're simple yet beautiful, that's why when you two became couple he would change." Namine explained with sincere eyes.
Now, what her sister said had some connection to what Roxas had said to her yesterday… "…thank you for existing in this world, without you I would lose hope that my brother would come back…"
She just shook her head instead. She couldn't have a debate anymore since the two in front of her were really fond of him.
"It would be better if you start arranging yourself now. Sora would be bore if you keep making him wait. It's relief when I ask Mrs. Potts to prepare breakfast for him," her mom said.
At exact time when she heard that, a crazy thought occurred to her as she immediately went back to bed and covered her body with her blanket up to her chin.
"I am not feeling well and I think that I was not able to go to school today. Mom, please tell Sora that he could go now to school without me."
Her sister looked at her, "Are you okay Kairi, do you want me to call a doctor?"
'Oh no, don't you dare!''
"No need, I'm fine…" she smiled.
"Okay… I will tell the others…" her sister frowned, "I should get going now, Bye mom see you later!...bye Kairi," after kissing their mom, Namine waved at her and left, leaving her and her mom.
Her mom looked at her warily and studied her face, "It seems that you're absent today…you don't need to work for the restaurant also…" her mother said and walked towards her. "I still have work on the hospital, take care sweetie,…love you." Her mom said as she kissed her forehead.
"I love you too, mom…take care," she said blowing a kiss to her mom.
"Do that also to Sora."
"MOM!"
Her mother giggled, "Kidding, bye sweetie!"
She smiled when she heard the 'click' sound of her door as her mother headed out…
'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!'
Then she covered her body with her blanket.
But it didn't take long that someone knocked on her door again. Maybe, her mother forgot something. Or maybe, she noticed that she was only pretending that her mom was going to force her to go to school.
At that thought she became more determine to pretend that she was sick. It doesn't matter to her if Sora's eyes became white while waiting for her
She heard her door creaked open. Her mother silently approached her bed. She became alarm when her mother started peeling her blanket from her body and gently caressing her cheek. After that she felt the strands of her hair that were hovering her face were being tucked at the side of her face.
There was something wrong about the texture of the hand. She was indeed sure that it was not the hand of her mom. Her mom's hands were soft and light, but the hand that was continually caressing her was slippery and rough. But the way it caress her felt very pleasing and it seems that the owner of the hand was trying to be careful.
She became nervous. If this isn't her mom, then who in the world is this?
"Kairi…" a familiar voice called to her.
Her suspicion was confirmed. It's Sora! Sora was inside her room! He was the one who was caressing.
"Kairi…" he called her again.
This time she could feel his warmth breath fanning his face. She slowly fluttered her eyes opened. But a tiny-weenie bit only, enough for her to see what the hell was happening. Her body became like a statue when she noticed his face slowly becoming closer to hers.
He was going to kiss her!
But her heart was beating rapidly and she was worried that he might hear it and he was going to recognize that she was only pretending.
She could feel their lips only inches apart! She caught her breath and waited for the next thing he would do. But what she was expecting did not happen.
"Are you still going to pretend you're asleep and let me kiss you, or should I simply tell you to wake up and get ready to school?" he said, amusement was evident in his voice.
Her panic and anticipation that she was feeling popped like a bubble. it changed into annoyance.
She fluttered her eyes open and glared at him. His face was still incher closer to her. His eyes were twinkling with mirth. He looked like he was in delight seeing her annoyed face.
"Can you move your ugly face now?"
He smirked, "Forward or backward?"
She scoffed, "Oh please…"
"Please?"
"Darn… jus take away your pig face from me…!" she snarled, completely annoyed.
"But your eyes aren't cooperating, Princess."
'Damn, that nickname again.'
She couldn't contain herself anymore for her heart was beating really loud and fast that she hardly heard what she was saying.
"I was hoping that you will still pretend that you're asleep and waiting for me to kiss you," he said teasingly.
"W-well, keep hoping," she said, and then pushed him away from her.
"Good morning, pretend Sleeping Beauty," he said and before she could retort back, she kissed him on her lips…light yet sweet. She could barely react.
He winked at her, "I'll wait for you downstairs," he said then he went out of her room.
To get rid of the weird feeling she had, she threw her pillow at her door.
OOOOOOOOOO
KAIRI scowled when she caught a glimpse of Sora feeling at home inside their house. There he was, laying on their sofa while watching some sort of anime on television. He had already drunk a half of the glass of juice and ate two pieces of a five croissant that were prepared for him.
His gazed suddenly averted to her when he felt her presence. His faced her with a blank expression. She placed her shoulder bag and binder on a single sofa.
"Wow, looks like you are feeling at home, huh," she stated while arching her brow.
"Yep, Aunt Tifa said that I don't have to feel shy and think that this is like my own house too," he explained, smirking. "Seems like your mom really likes me especially when she said that she wants me to be your boyfriend."
"You aren't just an annoying nosy idiot; you're also a guy who doesn't get embarrassed."
He scratched the back of his head, "That's really too much. It seems that you just said that I am petulant."
"You're the one who said that, not me."
He laughed, "You are really cute when you're being sulky. You're eyes becoming chink, when you're scrunching up your nose like a rabbit."
She widened her eyes at him, "So it means that I look like a rabbit?"
He even laughed harder, "You're the one who said that, not me," he repeated what her lines that she used to him.
She puffed her cheeks in annoyance. Why does she feel annoyed every time this guy was around her? Her head was always boiling. If it is only allowed to kill a person then she would bury this man alive on their backyard.
"Seems like you're thinking something dreadful eh, that's bad," he said when he noticed her eyes turning into a little slits.
"It's good you know," she annoyingly said, then threw a throw pillow at him.
He caught it and placed it at his back and shook his head in disbelief, "I never thought that you are a sore-loser," he said laughing.
"I AM NOT A SORE-LOSER!"
"But it's better that way, if you are always piss then I could always see your cute face."
"Shut UP! Just find another person that you could make fun with you CHEAP MONSTER!" she yelled stamping her and faced him with arms akimbo. How she wished she could rub off that devilish grin on his face. "I thought you're here to pick me up?"
"Yeah."
"Then, why are you still laying there while watching TV and drinking some juice, while I am already here minutes ago."
He shrugged, "I don't even know if you're ready or not, cause you're not telling me."
"If you're not in the mood to head already then I should get going I might get late in school."
"Why are you always being hot-headed when you are with me?" he asked with brows twitching. He turned off the TV then stood up from the sofa.
"Because you always make me feel like that. No wonder your teachers also get annoyed cause of you. They couldn't protest because your grandfather is the owner of the school."
He shrugged, "They're not annoyed actually."
"Huh?"
"Remember Professor Marluxia?"
"Yeah."
"He was staring at me whenever I am not looking, and no…he wasn't staring cause I did something bad…he was staring at me dreamily…he was also blushing that time…" she just gaped at what he had said.
"Let me carry your bag," he politely said when she attempted to carry her own bag. She didn't protest though, she just held her binder and followed him outside.
"Kairi…"
"Hm?"
"Thanks."
She looked at him in wonder, "For what?"
He smirked then winked at her, much to her surprised," For admitting that I am HOT."
She could feel her blood rising on her cheeks.
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"SO, it's your debut three months from now. Aunt Tifa mentioned it to me. What a relief when she asked me to be your escort."
"And why is that?"
He looked at her lovingly and said, "Because I don't want any other guy to hold you close, to dance with you or even laugh with you …meaning I only want you to look at me on that special day of yours."
She didn't know what to say about that, cause she only knew that her face was already burning she decided to ignore what he had said, "M-mom…s-said it to me either, a-actually I don't want an overly lavish party…just simple is enough." 'Stop stammering for Pete's sake!'
"And why is that? It will only happen to you once. Besides you should celebrate it because I already agreed to be your escort."
"What are you, special?" she arched an eyebrow at him.
He grinned at her, "What do you think?"
"I can't think."
"You are really a snobbish person."
"Well I am only snobbish when I am with you!"
"See? I am really special to you."
She smirked at him too, "Yeah, you are really special…ignorant perhaps."
"WoW! You really won't let the others win against you…"
"OF course!"
"Anyway," he said in a serious tone, "What do you want for your birthday?"
She shrugged. "It's all up to you. As I told you, I don't plan to celebrate it. It would only be a waste of time and money. But you know mom, you can't prevent her from doing what she really wanted to do."
He nodded. "Okay, so it's all up to you too, to choose what would be your gift to me."
She twitched her brows at that, "What do you mean?"
"It's kinda weird, but I am turning eighteen…three months from now."
"Yeah, it is really weird," she agreed.
"But it can be fate."
She snorted.
"You don't believe me?"
"Whatever."
He chuckled, "So when is your birthday?"
"Three month—"
"Yeah, yeah… I know it already…I mean what date?"
"April twenty-seven."
He looked at her in astonishment,"Wow, mine is on April twenty-five." Then his face lit up, "We can have a dual celebrate."
"It seems that you had already planned everything."
"Well, at least your family doesn't have to spend everything; the half of the expenses will be paid by us."
Well he had a point.
"Besides, Namine and your parents already agreed to it."
'Yeah, he already planned everything.'
Then she remembered, "Oh, so it would be also Roxas' birthday, right?"
She saw his face became serious, but after that he smiled again, "Yeah, so four of us would celebrate our 18th birthday."
She ignored that and looked at him...studying his every move, especially his hard grasp of the stirring wheel. 'Why the sudden change of mood? Was it because of Roxas?'
She just shrugged it off and decided to ask the blond later.
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"KAIRIII!" the auburn haired girl looked behind her to greet her bubbly friend but too late, she was already on the ground with her friend glomping her.
She giggled, "Good morning to you too, Selphie Ann Matterson ," she greeted.
"Good morning Kairi," greeted another one.
She looked up to see the Vice President of the Wise Academy, Olivia Antonette Lizowski or 'Olette' for short. The girl had emerald eyes and brown hair.
"Good morning Olette," she greeted back and accepted the hand she was extending to pull her off the ground.
"And what in the world happened that makes our Miss President to be that late?" Asked a blonde guy behind Olette, she smiled it's the school's captain of the sport 'Struggle' Hayner Derpson Johnson.
"HI Derpy!"
"Stop using that dumb nickname, Kairi," the blonde growled.
"But—"
She was interrupted at the clearing sound of throat. 'Oh, right… I forgot.'
Her friends looked at the brunette beside her.
"And who is this guy, Kairi?" asked Hayner.
"Why don't you introduce me to your friend, honey?" Sora said, smiling at her.
'Honey?
"HONEY!" she covered her ears at the sound of her friends loud voice.
"N-no, you got it wrong…this is—"
"OH, I know you…you are one of Mr. Ansem's grandson…Sora Ethan Fair, if I got it right?"Asked the raven guy beside Hayner who was holding his camera, 'Pence Lloyd Williams' the schools best photographer and technician.
"Oh, I remember…he was the brunette guy with a blond yesterday, who used limousine to go here," Hayner snapped his fingers.
Her friends looked at Sora in amusement and she just sighed, "Well, Sora…the brunette girl who is wearing an orange band is Olette, the vice president of this school. The raven haired guy who was holding a camera is Pence, the photographer and technician of this school. The another brunette girl…if I remembered you already met and know her, she's Selphie. And the blond guy is—"
"I AM HAYNER DERPSON JOHNSON, the best 'Struggle' player in this school," Hayner announced with his nose high.
Sora looked at him wide eyes, "What did you say?"
"That's right, I am the best 'Stru—"
"His name is Hayner Derpson, Sora," Selphie interrupted bluntly whom she received a glare from Hayner.
"D-derpson."
"Yeah, got a problem with that?"
"As…in D-derpson," she could noticed Sora's face was already red from preventing his laugh, and his hands that were over his mouth.
"Y-yeah?"
She sighed, "Oh come on Hayner, I know you know what the hell he is talking about."
Hayner growled, "Don't you dare laugh at me you porcupine head… I am not that Derp from that 9gag you brute…I don't even look like him…don't compare my god-like face with that pig! Understand?"
She couldn't contain her laughter anymore, so she just let it out, followed by her other friends, except from moping Hayner.
Olette sighed and spoke, "So, Sora since you are new here…why don't you join us for lunch."
Hayner nodded at that, "Yeah, dude…so we could talk about 'Struggle'."
'Oh no, God please don't let him be with us' she silently prayed.
To her dismay, he nodded his head and grinned, "Sure."
'Oh god!'
"Then it settled!" Selphie squealed, "Come on guys, we still have something to do," she said while looking at the trios.
Olette smiled, "Right let's leave the two love birds for now."
'Oh, so that's it'
"Oh I remember that I still have a meeting for the student cou—"
"No need, Kai…Olette handled it already," Hayner interrupted.
"Later Kairi...Nice to meet you Sora," Pence said, then ran off following her 'demon' friends.
'Great, now I am stuck with him.'
"So? What now?"
She faced his smiling face and answered bluntly, "Of course, we have to get ready for 'Homeroom'…what room is yours?"
Sora thought for a moment before saying, "Room 205."
She scowled, "Oh, I give up…follow me then."
The brunette's eyes lit up, "So does it mea—"
"Yeah, yeah…you don't to remind me."
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"When you walk away
You don't hear me say,
"Please, oh baby, don't go."
Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight
It's hard to let it go"
He continued strumming his guitar as he let out his melodic voice envelope the school garden he was in. He always does this every time he was in a deep in thought, especially when it includes his brother.
He doesn't know if it was right to compete with his brother so that his brother would become his old self again.
He wanted his brother to stop being a playboy and focus on a serious relationship. He knew that Sora's smiles weren't real. Plus his cockiness, Sora was being like that just to hide his real feelings. Yes, his brother suffered so much, many years ago when they were only 15, and because of that…Sora became womanizer, since he believed that all girls weren't trustworthy and liar. Bad memories that made Sora change, a bad memories that made Sora stop trusting the others…especiallygirls, a bad memory that made his brother become so distant from him. And also, bad memories were his brother became broken.
"You're giving me too many things
Lately, you're all I need.
You smiled at me and said."
He thought that his brother would always stay like that, playing every girls heart. That's when he met Kairi, the key that would open his brother's unlock heart again. He was going to let his brother know that not all girls were untrustworthy and liar, that always think of the 'S' word, boys, make-up, dresses and money…and the example of that was Kairi.
His plan was to pretend that he was in love with the girl, so that his brother would feel jealous towards him…and would make a plan to get Kairi away from him. He knew that Sora had a special feeling towards the girl, but he himself weren't aware of that. So he made his plan that would make Sora fall in love again and stop being a playboy.
He knew that Kairi doesn't want to be near his brother, so that his brother would be felt challenge and to try anything just to make Kairi like him. And he knew that it will eventually lead them to something…something that would made everything so that no one would ever plan to ruin it.
After that his twin brother would be back again and not only that, his brother would finally see his happy ending and understand the real meaning of Love. Thanks to Kairi for this, everything would be Simple and Clean.
"Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at all
Nothing's like before"
OOOOOOOOOO
Lines for the next Chapter:
"If you want someone who can play guitar, why don't you just ask me?"
"Do you like my sister?"
"WHY DON'T YOU JUST ACCEPT THE TRUTH THAT I HATE YOU!"
"Okay, I give up! So you like Roxas…But me Sora, is the one you love."
OOOOOOOOOO
A/N: So how was it? I hope you guys enjoyed it…So in this chapter we encountered the first appearance of Olette, Hayner and Pence and learned the real intention of Roxas, and also the upcoming birthdays of the twins and twins XD… If you have any questions and suggestion, just PM me and I would be willing to take notice of it...
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