Sleepless Chapter 21

She grabbed a dictionary and looked for the word Roxas, like she thought; it wasn't in there. She threw the dictionary in a random direction and heard a loud thud. I've better not have broken anything… She turned around and saw that it hit her desk. She mumbled at herself and went to pick it up. When she threw it, her drawers opened. She pressed the drawers in from bottom to top, but stopped. In her top drawer was a thalassa shell. What's that doing here? Kairi placed the dictionary on her bed and grabbed the shell. She observed it, nothing out of the ordinary. But she couldn't remember why it was here.

"It's not mine. I already finished my charm, so I don't know why I would need it."

The words popped into her head suddenly. Charm? She looked out her window and saw the island where Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie were at right now. Now, something told her to go there. Not now though.

Kairi sat at her computer chair and started planning as she set the shell down on her computer desk. She'd go to the island tonight, without anyone knowing and come back after an hour or so. She looked at the clock; they should be back in about an hour. Kairi took out a paper and a pencil and wrote Roxas on the top of it. She decided it might need some scrambling. But names she was familiar with didn't have an 'X' in it. Maybe Axel gave me this to throw me off. Something told her to try it out, so she did. After five minutes she ripped the paper in half and threw it away. No luck.

She leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes. Kairi leaned on her chair a little too much and ended up tipping the chair over and falling down.

"Kairi! What are you doing?" She heard her mother yell from the kitchen, which was directly beneath her room.

"I just fell out of my chair again!" Kairi yelled back as she rubbed her head and stayed on the floor, not wanting to move. She heard her mother laugh. Kairi turned her head to the left and saw the painting of the castle. The painting held no important meaning to her, but still hung on her wall because her parents wanted her to keep it. She looked away with a sigh and got back up, taking the chair up with her. She looked at the painting again and frowned. Kairi walked to it and touched it gently, it felt like déjà vu. "Riku…" She whispered. She closed her eyes and memories from the storm started coming back to her in pieces. She remembered her hoping Riku could hear her and then her feeling arms around her. Who was that? I can't remember. Her eyes shot open at the sound of knocking on her door. Kairi jumped away from the painting, "Yes?" Tidus opened her door and looked at her with a smile on his face. "You're early!" Kairi greeted with surprise.

"Not happy to see me?" He joked with a playful grin.

Kairi caught his tone and ran into his arms and hugged him. "I am happy, just surprised. So why'd you come back so early? Didn't you and Wakka wanna practice for a while?"

He held onto her waist and looked at her, "I felt kind of bad leaving you all alone like that. So I just came back and told Wakka to practice his aiming," He laughed softly at the last statement. Kairi guessed it was an inside joke or some argument between them again.

Kairi pouted and broke away from their embrace, "That's what I didn't want you to do in the first place, Tidus. I wanted you to go have fun," she said with a pout stuck on her face.

He smiled at her and cupped her face in his hands. Kairi smelt the ocean water on him that dried up and blushed once she looked at him. "I am having fun," he whispered with his face close to hers, "being here with you is unbeatable." Kairi's blush deepened and she pushed Tidus away playfully.

"Don't fluster me like that!" She muttered to him while she turned her back to him.

He grinned and wrapped his arms around Kairi's waist, "Fluster?" He chuckled, the word sounded funny to him. "What were you doing while I was gone?" He questioned as he let go of her and sat on her bed.

"I went to the park then came home," She replied, purposely not going into detail.

"You didn't puke yet?" He asked. Tidus scratched the back of his head and yawned softly.

"Nope, the feeling went away once I started drinking some more water," She said with a nod. "I'm sorry I didn't go to the island with you," she apologized.

He shook his head, "That's fine. We'll go another time."

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