A/N: Finally the Internet is working! About time too... I couldn't update for a whole week… Anyways, hope you guys didn't have to wait long.
It is now Friday for Sora and the gang. Friday… Friday means parties, events and the start of the first weekend in this story! Gonna get wild! –Does the Tarzan battle cry- XD -8989™
-Singing Besides An Angel-
Sora's prediction of how friends should stick together was very wrong.
Very, very wrong.
In fact, his blonde friend chickened out. "O-Oh… M-M-My… G-Go-od… S-So m-m-man-ny peop-p-p-ple…" Despite the fact that his family was composed of all famous musicians who either performed on grand stages or big screens, Roxas still had stage fright.
"Damn… Ugh! If your going to chicken out like this… Ugh! We should've... Ugh! Gotten somebody to back us up!" His red haired friend was trying his hardest to pull Roxas on stage, but the blonde was clinging onto a support column for dear life.
Sora sighed at the sight. Axel had a death grip on Roxas' waist while the blonde had an even tighter grip on the support column.
The brunette came off-stage to grab a drink of strawberry punch. He took the spoon and filled a glass with the reddish pink liquid. It would have to do until he was 18…
He was raised the glass and took a big gulp. Ahh… Refreshing… That's when he realized that somebody was standing in front of him. A certain somebody with the same hair colour as the drink.
The reddish pink liquid nearly came out of Sora's nose. He held the glass aside while he coughed for a while before standing up straight and greeting the girl.
"K-Kairi! Didn't notice you there…"
"Hey Sora!" She smiled sweetly. The punch down his throat somehow became bland and dull in taste in comparison. Good thing that I don't have cavities… Or it would be killing me right about now…
"Would you like some punch?" The brunette used his free hand to gesture the crystal punch bowl on the refreshment table.
The auburn haired girl's captivating purple eyes gazed deep into Sora's. Now his stomach was doing flip-flops with strawberry flavored punch gurgling inside it.
"Sure!" Before Sora could take note of what just happened, Kairi already had what was left of his glass and glugged it down in. "Mmm… Refreshing!"
Either she knows how to read minds, or we're just really alike… And wait… Did she just take my glass?
The brunette was going to have a big think-a-thon inside his head when he was interrupted by the amazingly cute thief who just drank his punch.
"So how's the rehearsal for the concert coming along?"
Sora couldn't help admire the amazingly cute thief's outfit. She wore her school uniform to match the back-to-school theme. The uniform that every other girl in the school wears everyday. Only Kairi… Only Kairi would be able to make a simple short-sleeved shirt with blue plaited skirt look fashionable. She had a mini blue scotched tie around her collar and wore her usual Converse high tops. Adorable. Dazzling. Cute… The list could go on forever, but Sora realized that Kairi was still waiting for an answer.
"Well… We were doing great in practices… But I don't think Roxas can pull this off with his severe stage fright problems." That was the truth.
The girl didn't look surprised. Instead she giggled. Mesmerizing. "Well… Maybe I can help Roxas about his stage problem." Okay… Maybe only Roxas wasn't reliable. The girl in front of me definitely is.
"Umm… Backstage is kind of messy right now… Axel made a mess trying to haul Roxas to the front…"
"No prob. I know a way that would help." She gave him a heartwarming smile. So warm, that it melted his heart.
"Thanks." And he was about to add 'you're a real lifesaver' when he realized that might sound really weird after what she did to him in P.E. class today. They were paired together again… Sora could still feel those cuts and bruises… Only this time, he didn't get a kiss to soothe the pain.
Sora really didn't like the image that the two put into his mind. Axel was gripping on Roxas' underpants while the blonde still had a death grip on the column. The latter's clothes were torn and tossed everywhere backstage. The brunette could only assume that it was Axel using forceful measures to get the blonde upstage… If not… He didn't want to go there.
"Uhh… Guys? You know that this is in school… So Axel, please don't remove any more pieces of clothes than necessary…" Kairi laughed.
The half naked blonde and the sweaty red head both blushed and protested. Sora ignored them. He eyed auburn haired girl, which Kairi took as the signal to convince Roxas that 'the show must go on'.
"Look… Roxas, I know that you guys have been practicing so hard…" She started.
The blonde who now was collecting what was left of his clothes around the stage turned his head and looked at her.
"And if you back down now, your band wouldn't look so good in front of the school… You wouldn't look so good in front of the school…"
Roxas raised a brow but continued to listen while picking up the rags that resembled his clothes only a few minutes ago.
"… You wouldn't look so good in front of Naminé…" Kairi continued clearly not noticing the blonde's facial expression.
"… You do know that she's here and very excited to watch the show right?"
Sora heard a thump. Kairi jumped into Sora's arms making him blush, Riku snapped his head towards the direction and Axel just shrieked on the spot.
There was the half naked blonde, lying on top of his pile of clothes. Unconscious.
"Okay… Maybe that wasn't such a good idea…" Kairi worded out Sora's thoughts. Yeah… Well… "At least he got his wish. He doesn't have to go onstage anymore."
Axel thought for a minute… "Then we'd need a backup to play 2nd guitar!" Wow… Thank you Mr. Obvious. We didn't know that. The problem is where to find a sub…
To make matters worse, the announcer chose this as a good moment to introduce the band. The crowd below was cheering wildly. The loudest being from participants of Axel's party.
Great. We're screwed. Sora turned to his band members, or what was left, and cleared his throat. "Well, guys… Looks like that we're gonna have to go without a second gui…"
"I'll fill Roxas in!" Sora turned to find that Kairi was once again by his side. Cute, aggressive and musical… Okay… Now I wouldn't even be surprised if she said she liked killing zombies in Left 4 Dead…
The auburn haired girl faced Sora. "The show must go on… You guys didn't just come here for nothing." With that, Kairi took the black ESP from the fainted blonde.
"Come on! It'll be fun!" With one last smile, she stepped on stage. Sora's face was as red as her hair. Normally a smile wouldn't turn him this red… But Kairi holding his arm and pulling his onstage did.
Hope the audience doesn't get the wrong impression…
Then the spiky haired brunette that was now as red as a tomato heard loud cheering and wolf whistles coming from the crowd. Just dandy…
When the rest of the band stepped upstage, Sora walked up to the microphone for the introduction. "Hey guys."
Cheering from the crowd.
"I'm Sora, the guy on the drums is Axel, on the bass, we have Riku… And since our second guitarist was… Occupied at the moment… Kairi would be playing for him."
Sora looked at the audience gathered below him, picking out a few faces he knew. Pence, Hayner, Olette, Selphie, Xion, not to mention Mr. I-love-to-snore Demyx were shouting their heads off, bouncing up and down in the front. Naminé who was standing in the front looked disappointed to hear the news. Wait until I tell Roxas…
"Thank you, and I hope you enjoy our performance."
After another ear-paining cheer from the crowd, Sora turned and gestured Axel to start the countdown.
"Four! Three! Two! One!"
Kairi gave a light strum to her guitar.
"Summer has come and passed"
"The innocent can never last"
"Wake me up when September ends…"
Sora sang softly to the tune.
"Like my fathers come to pass"
"Seven years has gone so fast"
"Wake me up when September ends…"
Sora lost all track of time. All he knew was that there was a beautiful angelic girl standing beside him, strumming on the black ESP like a boss. She was at least as good as him, if not, then better…
They played through a few songs, Sora ending another one with another loud strum from his guitar. The crowd went wild.
Sora was about to bow and end the performance when he noticed Kairi mouth words to him. 'One more.'
'One more? But we didn't practice anything beyond this…' He replied back in the same fashion while waving to the audience at the same time.
'Don't worry. I got this.' The girl with the ESP in hand smiled. A confident smile that told Sora that everything was going to be okay. With that, she took the mike from the brunette's hands and cleared her throat.
"Thank you for being all so wonderful today! We have one more song to present. Hope you enjoy."
With that, the auburn haired girl started to play a few soft notes on her ESP. Sora immediately recognized this song. He'd always see Roxas listening to it on his IPod Nano… He opened his mouth and found that the lyrics of the song had come with ease.
"I opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light"
"Walking down by the bay, on the shore"
"Staring up at the planes that are there anymore…"
The brunette closed his eyes and enjoyed singing. That came with ease with Kairi's playing. Even with an ESP, Kairi's strums were still soothing and calming.
"I was feeling the night grow old and you were looking so cold"
"So like an introvert, I drew my over shirt"
"Around my arms and began to shiver violently before…"
After a while, Sora gave in to his curiosity and slowly opened his eyes to take a sneak peek at the amazing girl beside him. That's when he found that 2 orbs of purple were staring back at his. She was looking at him and smiling. A smile that could melt snow in the coldest depths of Antarctica. Then came the duet singing.
"Time together is just never quite enough…"
Sora opened his mouth and found his voice mixed after hers in perfect sync.
"When you and I are alone, I've never felt so at home"
"What will it take to make or break this hint of love?"
"We need time, only time"
Sora suddenly realized what he just sung. Wait a minute… Is it just me? Or did she pick out this song in purpose...
"When we're apart whatever are you thinking of?"
"If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?"
"So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?"
Her eyes met his. Something in those glimmering amethyst eyes told Sora that the girl beside her wasn't only singing. It was like that she was trying to imply something…
It's probably just me.
"All the time, all the time…" Those words flowed out of Sora's mouth a little too fast missing the beats. It was like that he was in a hurry to say them. Well… Yeah… I mean why not?
Kairi's shoulders slightly lifted up and down again. It was like that she had a huge weight off her shoulders.
"Can you believe that the crew has gone and wouldn't let me sign on?"
"All my islands have sunk in the deep"
"And I can hardly relax or even oversleep…"
Both of their voices mixed together perfectly. It's like the song was made for us… Wait… Did that just pop out of nowhere? Okay… First thing after the concert... Get. Brain. Checked.
He lost all sense of time. What mattered most at the moment was accompanying the girl beside him.
"Time together is just never quite enough"
"When we're apart whatever are you thinking of?"
"What will it take to make or break this hint of love?"
"So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?"
"All the time…"
This time, he meant it.
A/N: First of all, I'd like to tell you guys that I don't own anything in this chapter. I don't own Kingdom Hearts, ESP, Apple, Left 4 Dead, When September Ends by Green Day or Saltwater Room by Owl city. Just saying incase any of them have nothing better to do and come hunting me down. Really, I don't need to get sued.
Thanks for reading… And I apologize on the delay for my one-shot… It's still not done yet… But I will update something that would take its place soon…
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