Faded: yay! chapter 12! -dances-

Riane: about time, eh?

Faded: oh shut up. anyways, i warn all readers of more stupidity and sillyness :)

Riane: TFG does not own KH or any related characters, she only owns her OC Riena. Arisa and Naomi belong to Mad Hatter Fallon and Naomi Nagasaki (aka, Angel and Sami)

Roxas' POV

I sat in study hall, fiddling with a folded up piece of paper. 'Should I, or shouldn't I?' I wondered to myself. Now you're probably wondering what the paper is, right? Well, it's a note, you nosy little jerks. I wrote it for Riena a while back. Yes it's a love note—and don't even start on me, people—but I have to tell her some way. And I'm not going to just come out and tell her, I'm way, way, way too shy to say anything.

"Stop fiddling with it!" Axel hissed.

Yeah, Axel knows about it too. He actually helped me write some of it, and he changed some of the contents of it as well. Actually, it's been edited so many times by Axel and I, that it's barely readable anymore. I've also messed with it a whole lot, like folding and refolding it, so I'm sure you can imagine the sad shape it's in.

I continued playing with the note until Axel kicked me in the shin. "Stop messing with it!" he hissed even louder.

"Shut up!" I told him through gritted teeth. "She'll hear you!"

"Hey, Roxas, what's that paper?" I felt myself stiffen up. Of course it was Riena speaking.

"N-nothing…" I replied nervously.

"Aww…c'mon," Axel coaxed. "Just show her."

I glared at him and kicked him under the table. "No."

Riena's POV

I shrugged to myself and returned to working on my homework. "What do you think it is?" I asked Naomi and Arisa.

"I know what it is," Naomi replied, with a knowing smirk. Arisa leaned over and whispered something to her, and got an eager nod from Naomi.

"I knew it!" Arisa exclaimed.

"What?" I demanded. "What did you know?!?!"

"We can't tell you," Naomi taunted.

"Pleeeeease?" I begged, fully aware of retarded I probably looked.

"Hehe…nope!" Arisa answered with a smirk.

"Fine."

I tried getting my work done, but it was really hard to do that, considering Naomi and Arisa kept whispering back and forth and laughing about lord knows what. However, I can say that I was definitely glad when the bell finally rang. I gathered my things and headed out of the classroom. I heard Naomi and Arisa yell for me to stop and wait for them—which I did, even thought I really, really didn't want to. When they finally caught up, Axel, Roxas, and Demyx were headed outside. "Hey, let's go bug the guys," I proposed. "It's not like we have anything else to do. And plus when they just go off like that, you know they're up to something." The two of them nodded in agreement, the three of us walking out of the building.

I approached Axel and poked him in the ribs (or lack thereof) and asked, "Whatcha guys up to?"

"Nothing…?" he replied, raising an eyebrow.

I rolled my eyes. "I'm so sure."

"Don't you have somewhere to be, Ri-chan?"

"Pfft…no." Then I stopped. 'Do I have to be somewhere?' And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. We did have to be somewhere! "Oh, shit! Actually, we do have to be somewhere!"

Axel cocked his head. "We?"

I nodded. "Uh-huh! Remember, we have to do freaking detention!"

Axel let out a groan of frustration. "SHIT! You're right!" He grabbed Roxas by the wrist and started dragging him toward the administration building. He glanced back, seeing Naomi and I walking behind them. "Come ON!" he yelled. We tried not to laugh as we ran to catch up with them.

"See ya later!" Arisa and Demyx called just before we were out of earshot.

When we reached the admin building, Naomi was the first to notice Zexion leaning casually against the door, reading one of his many books. "Hi, Zexion," she greeted, giving him a quick hug.

He nodded in response. "I thought you guys forgot," he commented, a small smirk on his face.

Axel rolled his eyes. "Oh shut up, you—" He was cut off by Naomi punching him in the arm. "Ow!"

I shook my head at them. "Shall we?" I asked, gesturing to the door. They nodded, and I opened the door. We walked down to Mr. Xemnas' office, and were greeted with a less than happy principal.

"You're late."

I saw Axel wince slightly at his tone of voice. "We know, we know…" Axel sighed. "Please just don't give us another detention."

Mr. Xemnas looked vaguely amused by what Axel had said. "Alright then. Instead of staying until three-thirty, you'll all stay until four."

"Whaaaaaat?" Naomi whined. "Four?!"

"Unless you'd like to stay longer, Miss Nagasaki?" Mr. Xemnas asked.

"No thanks…" she answered, looking away.

"That's what I thought. Axel will tell you what to do, and I'll be back at four," Mr. Xemnas told us.

"Okay," I said. The principal walked out of his office leaving the five of us to do…whatever it was that we had to do.

"Ok, first things first," Axel said, immediately taking charge. "We need a couple people to clean up the office and a couple people to sort his papers. I'll do anything else that needs to done. Sooo…who wants to do anything that I just mentioned?"

"I'll clean up the office," I volunteered.

"I'll help you, if that's alright with you…" Roxas said.

I nodded and smiled. "Thanks!"

"Okay," Axel said. "So that means that Naomi and Zexion get to sort out the papers. Faculty stuff goes in the black tray, school stuff in the white tray, administration stuff in the tan tray, and anything else in the clear tray."

"Um…kay, Axel." Naomi said uncertainly, turning around and leading Zexion to Mr. Xemnas' desk. Roxas and I began putting away some of the principal's folders, unless Axel yelled at us saying to leave one of them alone. Once in a while our hands would brush against each other, and I swear, every time I saw Roxas turn slightly red. But hell, it was probably just my eyes playing tricks on me. Damn these eyes and their trickiness!

Nothing particularly exciting happened until about halfway through when I saw something fall out of Roxas' pocket. I glanced at him quickly to make sure he wasn't looking and picked it up. Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be some kind of note, and believe me, this thing was in terrible shape. The paper had gone soft from being folded up a million and one times and it was all marked up. I slipped it into my pocket and decided not to tell Roxas about it until after I read it.

"Ahhh! No!" Axel's voice cut into my thoughts about the note. "That's faculty! White tray! White-fucking-tray!!!"

Naomi stuck her tongue out at him. "Sor-ry. But how am I supposed to remember where to put everything?"

He glared at her, sending out obvious waves of hate. "If Mr. Xemnas finds anything wrong, then we're gonna get another detention!" he snapped. "And I could do without anymore marks on my record!"

I sat in Mr. Xemnas' chair and looked up at Axel. "Do you even remember how many detentions you've had in your entire high school career?"

"I stopped counting," he replied nonchalantly.

I laughed slightly at this and Naomi said, "Wow Axel. You really suck at life, don't you?"

I did a cursory glance around the office as I spun around Mr. Xemnas' extremely comfy spinning chair. "I think we're done, Roxas," I told him.

He nodded. "Mmkay. I think so too."

"Wonderful," I sighed. "Now what?"

"You can help dumb and dumber sort the papers," Axel answered, not looking up from what he was doing.

"I am not dumb!" Naomi said, taking a pen from the desk and throwing it at Axel. "And neither is Zexion."

"Pick up that pen," was all Axel said.

"What about me…?" Zexion asked, having missed part of the conversation.

"Nothing…I was just throwing things at Axel, cause he called us dumb," Naomi told him.

Zexion shrugged. "Whatever. We're done anyways."

"WHAT?! But the papers are a fucking mess!" Axel screamed.

"Uh…no there not," Zexion told him, stepping aside to reveal the papers properly organized and in the correct tray.

"Fine. That better be in order, Zexion," Axel growled. Zexion only rolled his eyes and sat in on of the chairs across from where I sat and started reading his book again. I glanced at the clock; it was no where near time to go. 'Might as well make use of the rest of the time,' I thought to myself, curling up in one of the cushy chairs. Not five minutes later, I was being shaken out of my nap.

"Riena…Riena… pst…wake up," Naomi was whispering.

"Mmph…goway…" I mumbled, turning away from her.

"But, Mr. Xemnas left his computer on."

"Are you serious?!" I jolted out of my nap and jumped up. "Well what are we doing sitting around? Let's do this thing!"

We (attempted) to walk nonchalantly toward the computer, trying to make sure Axel didn't notice, but since Naomi is a bad luck magnet…he did. "And what do you two think you're doing?" he asked, clearly unamused.

"We were gonna go mess around on Mr. Xemnas' com—" Naomi started. "Uh…I mean…oops?"

A slightly sarcastic smile came onto Axel's face. "If you want another detention, that's fine with me," he said.

"What if we fixed your grades?" I asked, hoping he would buy it.

He thought about it for a moment before shaking his head. "Tempting, but no. Sorry."

"Then what are we supposed to do? I'm freakin' BORED!" Naomi complained.

I shrugged at her. "I know I'm gonna take a nap," I told her. "Wake me up before he gets back."

Roxas' POV

'She's so peaceful when she's sleeping,' I thought to myself. I smiled a bit and felt someone elbow my side. "Why don't you take a picture?" Naomi asked, smirking. "It'll last longer."

"Waaaay ahead of ya," Axel had his cell out and poised to snap a picture.

"Dude! You're sick!" Naomi exclaimed. "I was being sarcastic, dumbass. What were you gonna do with it? Post it on something like Craigslist or something?!"

I laughed. "Nah, he'd probably end up selling for 50 bucks on eBay."

"But if someone worse than Axel got a hold of it, then, then…" Naomi shivered. "Ugh! I don't even want to think about that!!"

"Oh come on! I was joking! What makes you think I'd do that to our innocent little Ri-chan?"

"Cause you're sick," Naomi and I said at the same time.

He opened his mouth to respond when he was interrupted by someone laughing. "Who was that?" Axel asked, looking around.

"It's Riena," Zexion replied, not looking up from the book he was reading earlier.

"What's so funny, Ri?" I asked quietly, trying not to wake her.

"Marluxia…" she muttered. "Face plant…heheh…" She turned over and huddled against the chair. She sighed, a serene smile gracing her features. It was way too tempting to kiss her right then and there. I bit my lip and forced myself to look away. Then Axel told us it was already 5 till and that someone should wake up Riena.

Before I could even say anything, Naomi was already yelling in her ear, "WAKE UP!!!"

Riena's POV

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" I covered my ears. "I DIDN'T DO—!" I looked over and saw Naomi, Zexion, Roxas, and Axel all giving we slightly weirded out looks.

"I think you broke her," Axel said to Naomi.

"Ah, crap…" Then, thinking it would "fix" me, she screamed, "I'M SORRY, RI!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO BREAK YOU!!!"

"Naomi… shut the fuck up," I said calmly. "I'm not broken so there's no need to… FUCKING SCREAM IN MY EAR!"

"Hehe…oops…"

Not a minute later, Mr. Xemnas walked into the office. He walked around and did what I assumed was a post-cleaning inspection. We were all practically holding our breath, waiting for what he would say. "Well…you guys could do better," he started. I heard myself let out a little squeak. 'I don't want another detention!' "But I can't say I expected much better from a group of teenagers. You guys can go."

"Thank you Mr. Xemnas!" the five of us said in unison.

He just nodded and said, "Now leave before I change my mind." There were a few mumbled "ok"s as we scrambled out the door.

As Axel, Naomi, Roxas, and I reached our dorm, I remembered the note I had tucked away in my pocket…. And something else. "I just realized something. Tomorrow's the start of winter break!" I exclaimed. "And you know what that means…"

"Presents!" Naomi said, pumping her fist in the air.

"No, stupid," Axel said, hitting her in the back of the head. "It means no classes for a month!"

"Got that right!" I said. "But guys, I have just one favor to ask."

"What is it?" Roxas asked.

"First of all, no corny presents from any of you," I said sternly, looking pointedly at Axel. "And second, can I have the dorm to myself for a little while?"

"You can't kick us out of our own dorm!" Axel yelled.

"You and Roxas kicked us out before," Naomi pointed out.

"But that was different!" he protested.

She ignored him and told me, "Take all the time you need. We don't mind, right boys?"

Roxas shrugged, obviously not caring. "Fine," Axel muttered through gritted teeth.

"Just give one of us a call so we know when to come back," Roxas reminded me.

"Kay," I replied. "See ya later, guys."

Faded: DUN DUN DUN. what did Roxy-kins write in the note? :O

Riane: OH I KNOW! PICK ME! PICK ME!

Faded: guess you guys will just have to wait till next chapter :3

Riane: BUT I WANT TO TELL -- -got knocked out-

Faded: until next time! don't forget to review! reviewers get flowers special from Marluxia.