Sleepless Chapter 11

Selphie ran into the room and tackled Kairi. "You look so cute!" The brunette shouted. Tidus and Wakka skidded to a halt and sighed.

"I thought something bad was happening, ya?" Wakka muttered as he shook his head in disapproval at Selphie.

"S-Selphie, ouch." Kairi giggled, a little pained. Selphie gasped and took a step back. Kairi wore a black skirt, similar to the purple one she wears a lot, and a long-sleeved light pink shirt. "Maybe turn the screaming down so my neighbors won't think I'm getting kidnapped." Kairi suggested with a smile.

"Right-o! Now the main event! Go Tidus, go! Take her hand!" Selphie ordered as she stepped away.

"What?" Tidus asked shyly. He looked at Kairi who was smiling. She knew he was wondering if it was alright, so she walked over to him and grabbed his hand.

"C'mon," Kairi said with a nod. Selphie giggled and led the way outside.

"We actually don't have anything really planned for you two." Wakka announced once they got outside. Tidus and Kairi looked at each other and laughed. "But you're still gonna go out there." He grinned. Kairi nodded and whispered something in Tidus's ear. Before Selphie and Wakka could say anything they sped off.

"At least we know they'll be having a good time. And we won't need this." Selphie giggled as she waved the camera around and stared at Wakka to see if he agreed.

"Yeah, we can trash the film. Kairi having a good time…that's all that matters, ya? We owe it to Riku." The orange-haired blitz player agreed.

"Right! We gotta take care of her!" Selphie nodded. "But…where do you think they're going?" She asked as she threw the disposable camera in a nearby trash can. Wakka shrugged once they started walking away.

Kairi and Tidus sat inside the ice-cream shop, talking about blitzball and school. Kairi was actually interested in blitzball, though she knew she could never really get that great at it. "I hope you get some sleep tonight, I wouldn't want you being three hours late for school because you overslept," Tidus laughed as he stopped eating his chocolate mint ice-cream.

"If I'm that late, I'm sure the teachers would be surprised by my excuse," She muttered with a smile. She saw Tidus had a piece of chocolate on his chin. "Hey…Tidus," She chuckled as she pointed to her chin.

"What?" He questioned as he looked directly at her chin, "You look fine." He nodded.

"No, I mean you have some chocolate on your chin," Kairi laughed while she took a napkin and wiped it off for him. He blushed immediately and Kairi laughed harder. "Oh, I'm sorry!" She apologized, quickly shutting her mouth, though a few chuckles escaped her closed lips.

"N-no worries," He muttered. He took another spoonful of his ice-cream and looked around. It was almost six o'clock. "How's your ice-cream?" Tidus asked, turning back towards her. She had ice-cream in her mouth and simply nodded with a thumbs up of her free hand. They were almost done eating and he smiled at her.

"What?" She asked innocently. She wiped her lip and stared at him with a smile.

"Just thinking," He responded.

Kairi's right eyebrow rose, "About?" She pried.

He sat back and asked, "Where do you wanna go after this?"

"Selphie and Wakka are probably keeping their eyes on the time we're out," she stated as she took another bite of her strawberry ice-cream.

Tidus sighed, "You're probably right about that. They're completely crazy about this." Kairi thought for a moment and nodded.

"Let's go to the park again!" Kairi suggested enthusiastically. Tidus tilted his head the side and rubbed his chin.

"Alright," he agreed. Tidus took one last bit of his ice-cream and waited patiently for Kairi to finish. "You should grow your hair out," he blurted. Kairi looked at Tidus and smiled.

"Why do you say that?" She asked as she felt the length of her hair; it went a little below her chin.

"You'll look…"

"Better?" Kairi asked, wondering if she finished his sentence correctly.

"I-I don't mean it like that, Kairi. I was just wondering what you'd look like with longer hair," he said defensively. He hoped he didn't offend her.

"It's alright!" She assured. Kairi put her spoon down and tugged at her hair on both sides of her head. "I think I will actually. I haven't grown it out for a while, huh?" She asked, thinking back of when she was younger. But back then, her hair was still kind of short. She went back to eating her ice-cream and Tidus went back to staring at her. "Do you always have to stare?" Kairi smiled, she actually enjoyed his attention but sometimes she thought he could loosen up.

"I thought you wanted me to stare at you today," he replied with a smirk, "But that's fine. I'll just look outside." He turned to look out the window.

This is good. She's filling the gap. Kairi furrowed her eyebrows together at the strangely familiar voice. Who was talking this time? What are you talking about? Kairi thought, wondering if the voice could hear her. But there was no reply.

"I'm done," Kairi announced, looking at her empty ice-cream bowl then at Tidus. "Let's go!"

Haha, did you guys sweat over nothing in the last cliffy or what? xD

I hope you liked it! Review please? Thank you!