Summary: How long can you deny that you're in love? Joy is going to find out at Twilight High Boarding School.

Genre: Romance/Humor/Drama

Pairings: RoxasOC RikuOC NamineOC SoraKairi HaynerOlette TidusSelphie(Other pairings may be decided later)

WARNING: Characters may be a bit OOC xP

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts II or any of its characters

Claimer: I own Joy, Amy, Cookie, BlackGarden14, and Ms. Teddy

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Chapter Seven
Halloween Bash

Today's Sunday, just three days before the Halloween Bash. The girls and I are at the mall, looking for Halloween costumes. The guys aren't here because we didn't want them to see our costumes. It was all their idea! Selphie wanted to surprise Tidus with her costume, and Kairi and Olette thought it would be fun and they agreed. Namine, Amy, and myself thought it would be interesting so we went along with it. The gym is all set up for the dance, all that was missing was the food. But Ms. Teddy said she got it covered so we didn't have to help out anymore.

Since the fall on Friday, it's been pretty interesting. Roxas would always tease me about my fear on spiders and all, but every time I looked like I was going to fall, he would be right next to me in a nanosecond.(A/N: Bold are flashbacks)

Joy and Amy were in Joy's dorm, Joy on her chair and Amy was on the bed, petting Cookie.

"I think Cookie's getting fatter," Amy said.

"Really?"

When Joy got closer to inspect Cookie, Amy poked Cookie and she suddenly let out a loud hiss, causing Joy to jump and lean back in her chair. But she leaned back too much and the chair started falling backwards. "Oh my - "

Instantly, Roxas appeared behind Joy and pushed the chair back on all of its wheels. "Do I need to be there every time you're falling?" Roxas said playfully while grinning at Joy. Joy stuck out her tongue at him.

I thought it was sweet. He was looking out for his friend. It made me smile, because he was doing it towards me. Even though I know it's not because he likes me or something, I can't help but wish he did. You know, I've gotten closer to him than I've ever had in the short time we've spent together. Sure, we don't know every single detail about one another, but I've spent enough time with him to know his habits, his personality, his laugh, his smile, his toothy grin, just everything about him now. And I think it's the same way for him. I'm so open like that. Even if he doesn't, I'm just happy I know him well.

"Hey Joy, what about this?" Kairi asked Joy as she held out a bunny costume for girls against her body.

"Hmm, it looks cute. But, I think it's better for a more Halloween theme kind-of costume," Joy giggled at her own way of explaining things.

"I guess," Kairi said shrugging, hanging the furry costume back up.

"Yes! They have it!" Joy heard Amy exclaim. Both Joy and Kairi turned around to meet wind as Amy raced to the changing rooms to fit on whatever costume that she found interesting.

"Uh, I guess she found something," Joy blankly said.

"Uh-huh," Kairi faced the other girls nearby, "Hey Namine, did you find a halo yet?"

"Not yet. All the halos I found were already attached to another costume. How about you guys? Find a costume yet?"

"No, not yet." Kairi replied to her.

"There's nothing here that interests me yet," Joy explained to her.

"Oh, well I hope you two find something soon."

"Yeah. It seems that Amy has already found her costume, and Selphie already got her vampiress costume."

"Where is Selphie?" Namine asked, looking around for the brown haired hyper girl.

"She's helping Olette find a costume," Kairi answered this time. "She doesn't know what to wear this year."

Joy started looking around some more when she saw a pair of white wings, "Hey Namine, you could wear this with your costume, can't you?" She held up the wings for Namine to see. Namine's eyes sparkled as she stared at the wings. She slowly took them from Joy's hands and said, "This is perfect. Thanks Joy!"

"Your welcome. That way, you don't have to wear a halo. The wings are a huge give away," Joy told her, grinning at her own good deed. At that moment, Namine walked over to the cash register to pay for her wings.

Joy and Kairi continued looking around the store some more when they saw Olette enter the changing room, although they couldn't see what the costume was that she was holding. Kairi spotted a costume to her liking and quickly entered a changing room of her own. Just then, Joy heard someone calling out her name, "JOY! JOY! Come here! I found the perfect costume for you!" It was Selphie. She had come out of nowhere and grabbed Joy's wrist, pulling her around the store to their destination.

Joy stared at the costume that Namine was standing next to. She was grinning at her, "What do you think?"

"Um, I like it, I'll give you that. But…" Joy started, gazing uncertainly at the costume.

"Just put it on!" Selphie ushered Joy in a changing room and threw the costume inside.

Five minutes later, Olette, Kairi, and Amy had bought their costumes and were waiting with Namine and Selphie for Joy to come out of her own changing costume. "Joy, are you done yet?" Amy asked impatiently, knocking on her door.

A slow reply came back, "…Yes…"

"Well, come out here and show us!" Selphie eagerly said.

"What if I don't want to?"

"Just come out here and let us see!" Kairi encouraged.

"Come on, it can't be as bad as you think it is," Amy persuaded her.

That's when the door started to slowly open and in the doorway stood Joy. All the girls gasped and said, "Oh my gosh!"

"You look so cute, Joy!" Namine exclaimed excitedly.

"You mean she looks hot!!" Selphie shouted. All the girls screamed.

Joy looked at them bashfully, "Don't you guys think it's a little… revealing?"

"Aw, come on Joy," Amy said, putting an arm around her shoulders, "Loosen up!"

Selphie started giggling, "Joy, Roxas is going to be drooling all over for you!"

Joy immediately started blushing at the thought of Roxas, and she started shaking her head furiously, "No way! I should change this costume - "

"No you don't!" Amy stopped Joy before going back in the changing room. "Look Joy, we only got ten minutes left before curfew, so just buy it," She said, trying to convince Joy.

Looking at her watch, Joy saw the time and sighed, "Fine…" The others sighed and shrieked in happiness for getting costumes. "What did you guys get anyway?"

Roxas was in his room, playing video games, like he would usually do when everyone seemed busy. Pence was out doing Yearbook Club stuff, Tidus and Wakka were playing Blitzball which he wasn't really interested in, and Riku and Sora were dueling each other at some place. Which left Roxas all alone. He was planning to go skateboarding, but his close friend, Axel wanted to borrow it; so thinking he would take care of it, he lent it to him. He was offered to do other things with his friends, but he preferred to stay in his own dorm and wait for his roommate.

At the thought of his roommate, his mind flashed back to what happened the day before.

"Oh, what a day," Roxas said, entering his dorm. He stepped in and looked at his surroundings. Taking a seat on his bed, he bent over and proceeded to taking off his shoes when he heard the faint sound of running water. "Joy must be taking a shower…" Shaking his head furiously to erase the images that popped into his head, he continued taking off his shoes, keeping his mind somewhere else.

"Meow…" Roxas turned around to find Joy's furry little animal on Joy's bed, somewhat tangled in a piece of clothing. It seemed like a strap had found its way on top of Cookie's head, so she looked jumbled on Joy's bed. Laughing quietly, he got up from his seat, walked toward the bed and unraveled the animal out of its predicament.

When Roxas set the animal back in its own bed, that's when he glanced at the article of clothing that the creature was entangling itself in. He felt his face flush as he quickly turned and laid on his own bed. That's when he heard the bathroom door click open. Sitting up, he faced the aforementioned door. His eyes widened at the sight that stood there.

Joy was standing at the doorway, but that wasn't what Roxas had noticed. Normally, she would've come out of the shower with clothes on and her hair might be still a little drenched. But this time, Joy came out in only a towel. A pure white towel was wrapped around her body, but it barely concealed much of her body. She had her used clothes in a messy pile in her arms and she widened her own eyes when she found someone sitting on his bed, staring at her.

Both faces turned scarlet as they stayed silent, not moving a muscle. Slowly, Joy retreated back inside the bathroom. Once she was safely inside, Roxas heard a click as she locked the door. That woke him up from his trance and Roxas rushed toward the door. Pressing his ear against the door, he heard nothing. "Joy? I'm sorry! I didn't know you would come out of the bathroom…" He trailed off and got the image flashed back into his head. Shaking his head, he quickly said, "Yeah, I'm sorry, Joy!"

It was quiet. Roxas pressed his ear on the door harder, straining to hear if she said anything, "Just do me a favor Roxas… get out and wait…"

"Right," Roxas started moving toward the door. Quickly glancing back at the bathroom door, he felt his face flush and he quickly opened the door, walked in the hallway and closed the door. Sliding his back down the door, he put his face in his hands in embarrassment, from what he saw and the fact he didn't get his shoes.

It wasn't his fault he didn't know that Joy would come out wearing only a towel. How was he supposed to know? But, he couldn't help but stare at her when she came out in all her wet glory. Her holding her clothes tightly against her chest as she tried to maintain the grip on her towel around her, her dripping blue-green hair stuck around her neck and face. He was sure if those clothes weren't in the way, he would've seen something else. Roxas couldn't help but blush, he was thinking that she -

"Hey Roxas!" Roxas turned his head to the girl walking to her own bed.

"Hey Joy," Roxas greeted back to her and saw the shopping bag she had placed on the ground next to her bed, "what did you buy?" Roxas asked, reaching a hand for the shopping bag. He was hoping that Joy couldn't see the blush that crept up to his cheeks from his thoughts earlier.

Joy quickly saw and grabbed her bag. Roxas gave her a peculiar look, "No peeking! This is my Halloween costume."

"Oh, you finally got one? What are you going to be?"

"A person in a costume," Joy replied, putting the bag in her closet.

"Of course," Roxas rolled his eyes and continued to play his video game, every now and then taking a glimpse at what Joy was going to do. "Not going to tell me, huh?"

"Nope," Joy laid on her own bed, leaning against her pillow, and watched Roxas play his game. "Have you found a costume yet?"

"No."

"Do you know what you want to be?" Joy asked, raising her eyebrow at him.

"Nope."

"Are you even planning to be in a costume?"

"Maybe."

"Alrightey then," Joy said, and she leaned her head on the pillow and continued watching the television. Slowly, she drifted off to sleep.

The guys were already at the dance, waiting for their friends - that were girls - to arrive. "Man, they are late. How long does it take to put on a costume?" Hayner asked annoyed in his pirate costume.

Roxas looked at his friends around him, all in costumes: Sora was a vampire-like creature (A/N: Think of his transformation to Halloween Town in KH2), Riku was a heartless man (A/N: Like Riku Replica), Hayner as a pirate, Tidus was wearing his kendo uniform, Wakka is in his Blitzball clothes, and Pence was just there to take pictures, so he was wearing his usual clothes. Roxas looked down at himself, he too, was wearing his own casual clothes. He didn't even bother to look for a costume.

"They sure are taking awhile," Roxas agreed with his best friend.

"Well, they are girls," Riku said.

No one argued with that because they were girls. "Hey, isn't that them?" Pence was pointing at the entrance where six girls were entering, arm in arm. The boys turned their heads and five out of seven gawked at the girls.

From left to right, was a raven haired Geisha, a Dark Angel with a black beret, an Angel with blonde hair, an auburn haired princess, a short brown-haired Vampiress, and lastly, our other brown-haired kitty. "They have nice costumes, ya?" Wakka asked his gawking friends.

Selphie, in her Vampiress costume, smirked at the guys' reactions and said, "Targets, straight ahead."

"Do we have to walk like this?" Joy said, a bit uncomfortable and embarrassed.

"Yes, it's more fun this way," Kairi told the girl. Joy sighed at her, she was wishing that she on the edge right now instead of Amy, that way she could've escaped.

After a few moments and they finally reached the guys. The same guys were still staring, Hayner and Sora's jaws dropped, and Pence took a picture. "You girls look great!"

"Thanks Pence," Olette said to him. She started fixing her headband that had her cat ears placed on them.

"Sorry it took so long, Namine and Joy had a little trouble entering through doors with their wings," Kairi said, pointing at the said girls' wings.

"You can't blame us, these wings are long," Joy started playing around with her black wings, indicating how long it was.

All the guys looked closely at the girls' costumes. Amy was wearing a black and white kimono, her black hair in a bun and she was wearing make-up: her whole face was white from face powder, her lips were a bright red from lipstick, and other make-up to make her look like a real geisha.

Joy was a Dark Angel. The dead give away was the long dark wings on her back. With it she wore a black and white tube top that stopped at her stomach with a black and white long skirt that reached her ankles. There were long slits up the skirt and she wore arm warmers, one black, the other white. To finish it off, she wore her black beret and light make-up.

Namine was the Light Angel, wearing a pure white spaghetti strapped dress that reached her knees and feathery white wings on her back. In a way, her costume and Joy's costume were like a paired set with the other.

Kairi is the princess of them, wearing a tiara upon her red hair and a strapless amaranth pink dress that ended below her knees. Something that she wore that made Sora smile was the necklace around her neck, it had a crown hanging from it. It was a present from Sora for her birthday the year before.

Selphie wore a coat that she tied at the top, and the collar shielded her neck from any cold. Her coat was open except at the top, which showed her outfit within: a red V-neck dress that reached to her knees. Wearing long red gloves that started from her fingertips to her elbow, her hair was in small pigtails. Finishing it off, she wore a black choker around her neck with a rose on it.

Olette was last. She was wearing a cat costume which consisted of a headband with two big cat ears with a little bow in the middle, she wore a sleeveless black shirt and sleeves that seemed to be a separated clothing, and black capris. The last touch to the costume that made it so obvious that she was a cat was the black long tail behind her.

"Uh, what's up with them?" Joy asked Pence, pointing at the still gawking guys.

"Oh, they're just surprised to find their crushes in such awesome costumes," Pence replied simply, taking another picture.

That little statement made Selphie and Kairi laugh, and made the guys snap out of their trance. "Awesome? You call that awesome?" Hayner said defensively, blushing a bit.

"Yes awesome, Hayner. Like your pirate costume is any better," Olette sneered at him.

Second one to react to the situation, Riku stepped toward Amy, "Wanna dance?"

Despite the face powder, Joy could tell Amy was blushing like crazy, "Okay…" They both went off to the dance floor, a slow song was playing at the moment.

"Awwwwww, how cute!" Joy exclaimed as she saw the two dance.

"Not as cute as you," Joy heard someone whisper in her ear. Spinning around, she found her red haired friend, "Oh, hi Axel. You freakin' scared me!"

Axel laughed at her, "Sorry, but that was funny to see your expression."

Joy made a face at him, "What do you want, anyway?"

"Just came by to talk."

"Oh, I see." Joy looked at his costume, "What are you supposed to be?"

"A guy in a black cloak," He merely said. Axel was wearing a long black cloak with a hood that he didn't wear, the clock reached the floor and he wore black shoes.

"Interesting," Joy said.

"Hey Axel," Roxas said, appearing next to Joy, "where's my skateboard?"

"Keep your socks on, it's fine," Axel said, giving a noogie to Roxas.

"Okay, okay!" Roxas pleaded, getting out of Axel's hold.

Over with Hayner and Olette's bickering, Hayner shouted to her, "You want to know what I really think about your costume?!"

"Yes, I would actually!" Olette yelled back at him.

"I think you look cute! Okay!" Hayner immediately blushed at what he said. Olette stared at him.

Suddenly, a fast paced song started playing and Hayner grabbed Olette's hand and started pulling.

"Hey! Where are you taking me??"

"To the dance floor of course!"

Moving to Selphie and Tidus, we find them to be at the punch bowl, Tidus pouring her some punch and Selphie talking animatedly. Namine was with Pence and Wakka, and they were talking with one another with the exceptions of Pence taking pictures of the dance. At one point, Wakka asked Namine to dance just for fun, which she accepted. Amy and Riku were still on the dance floor, having the time of their lives.

Axel left Joy and Roxas when he spotted Larxene. "Everyone seems to be having fun," Joy said softly as she watched all her friends having fun.

"Yeah…" Roxas glanced at Joy from the corner of his eye. "Hey Joy?"

Joy looked at Roxas, "Yeah?"

"Do you want to dance?"

"Oh, I'd like to, but," Roxas' eyes showing disappointment, "I don't know how to dance…" Joy turned her face away from Roxas in humiliation.

Roxas laughed at the girl, "It's okay." Joy looked back at the boy to see his hand out for her, "I'll teach you, in private if you want."

"Right now?" Joy asked anxiously.

"If you trust me," He simply said, his hand still out for her to take.

Joy stared at the hand and then back to the dance floor. 'Should I?' Joy thought. Looking over toward her busy friends on the dance floor, she gently placed a hand on top of his, "Alright." Roxas smiled at her and started guiding her to the exit of the gym. "Where are we going?"

"Somewhere private," was his response, and out the doors the two went. Unbeknownst to them, Pence and Namine had noticed the two. Boy, they couldn't wait to tell the others.

It was a nice breezy Halloween night. The crescent moon was out and shined brightly with the rest of the stars. From the gym, two figures were exiting and walking away from the building. Once they reached a tree a few yards away from the building, they stopped and faced one another.

"Basically, the guy is the dominant one when dancing, leading their partner," Roxas said to her once they reached an area farther away from the gym but it was still in view. All the doors to the gym were open so the gym wouldn't get too hot, thus they could hear the faint sound of the music the dance was currently playing.

"Why?"

"I don't know. That doesn't matter though. Okay, a basic position to dance is this," Roxas started moving Joy's left hand on his shoulder and the other in his hand as he placed his hand on her waist. They both felt the chill again run up their spines as their hands came in contact, like they did the first day they met.

"Uh…isn't this the waltz position or something?" Joy asked, trying to ignore that chill.

"Yes."

"Then, why am I going to learn this one?"

"Because, for some reason, they play more slow songs than actual dancing songs."

"I see."

"Okay, just follow my lead," Roxas instructed her and he took one step forward. He saw Joy staring at their feet to know which foot to move and so on. Roxas chuckled at her, "Look up at me," Joy slowly lifted her face, "and keep your gaze on me. Don't stare at your feet because then you will mess up."

"Okay, I'm sorry," Joy told him, and she took a deep breath. Opening her eyes, she was met with blue eyes staring back at her. Their eyes stayed locked throughout the dance lesson. There were the moments where Joy would lose her footing or step on Roxas' foot on accident, but they covered it up with a laugh and an apology and went back to dancing. The funny thing was that, the whole time they were dancing, slow songs only were playing in the gym.

Roxas had them dance even closer when he let go of her hand and placed his hand on the other side of her waist and Joy had to place her unused hand on his other shoulder. Eyes were still locked as they continued dancing.

From the doorway, the gang snickered and awed at the couple.

"Oh my gosh, Roxas is leaning in!" Selphie whispered loudly.

"Are they going to have they're first kiss together yet???" Sora asked anticipating.

Amy stared intently at the two with a serious face. 'Is she going to do it?'

With the couple, Roxas started leaning in, very slowly and hesitantly. For a minute, Joy seemed to be leaning in as well. Roxas was more confident now.

The gang held their breath in anticipation.

'I guess not yet.'

"What?"

Unexpectedly, Joy had placed her head on Roxas' shoulder. Roxas' expression changed to disappointment.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Kairi exclaimed, her jaw dropped in shock.

"She did it again!" Hayner exasperated.

Roxas turned his to the girl laying her head on his shoulder. 'She's still not ready…' Roxas smiled faintly, 'I guess I can wait a little longer.'

In dorm #317, a computer was left on. Regardless of a high electric bill for the school, a window had popped up. It started flashing. It seems Joy had left herself online on AIM, AOL Instant Messenger.

BlackGarden14: Hey Joy!

BlackGarden14: Guess what?!

BlackGarden14: …

BlackGarden14: Are you there?

BlackGarden14: Well, hurry up and get back on here!

BlackGarden14: I have great news!

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