A/N: Hello there again! I really don't have much to say in this Author's Note this time around, but I'd like to thank CupcakeLerman for being the first reviewer of this story. ^^ Haha, love ya Cuppie! :D

And thanks to all the people that added this story to their alerts, that's pretty cool too! :D

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. . . or the Victoria's Secret scent, "Pure Seduction" XD

Minor Edit as of April 9, 2011

ANOTHER Minor Edit as of July 9, 2011

ANOTHER Minor Edit as of August 27, 2011.

N 0 N 3 X 1 $ + E N +: The Last Day of Summer

"Roxas? Get your ass out of bed right now!"

I groaned, grabbing the pillow from under my head and covering my face with it. "Bleaf ve alawn, Sowa."

Though I couldn't actually see him do it, I could practically feel him roll his eyes at my behavior.

I say that its common sense.

Sora insists that since we're twins, we have the powers of telepathy.

Yeah, just don't listen to him.

"Roxas. It's the last day of Summer vacation. Are you really going to spend it cooped up in your room the whole day?"

Though I was still extremely tired, I forced myself to pause and think about it, "What time is it?"

"It's four o'clock in the afternoon."

My eyes widened and I quickly jumped out of my bed, still taking the time to smack Sora as hard as I could with my pillow before stomping around my room angrily to get dressed. "You idiot! You pick now to wake me up? The day's practically over!"

He didn't respond with words, and simply laughed at my antics. This wasn't funny. Today was important! It was supposed to count for something! I grit my teeth before throwing a dirty shirt at his face. "You pervert, at least get out of my room while I change!"

Sora laughed. Again. I swear, sometimes this kid was too happy for his own good. He made his way behind me before slapping my back a little too enthusiastically. "Aw, poor Roxie. Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed?"

I shot him a glare before mumbling the first curse words that came to mind. Of course, this led to Sora screaming, "Potty mouth! Potty mouth! Little ol' Roxie's a potty mouth!"

I honestly didn't understand how he was supposed to be the older brother.

Not knowing what else to do, and still stuck with that grumpiness you get after someone wakes you up, I pushed him out of my room, ignoring the cackles that were escaping my older brother's mouth. After slamming the door shut, and grabbing my clothes to change, I heard a banging coming from the hallway outside my room.

"Hey Roxas, you might wanna check your phone!" Sora yelled out before snickering maniacally.

Now somewhat confused, I made my way to the desk in my room and unplugged the phone that I had left to charge overnight. What phone may you ask? The Samsung Focus, baby! That's right, be jealous.

Since I was still in that "Oh my God, I need to hurry up!" mode, I quickly pressed he "unlock" button on the side of my phone, my eyes quickly darting to the bottom of the screen where several of my notifications would be listed. That's when I saw it.

8:17 am

"SORAAAAA!"

"I hate you."

"Yeah, I love you too, brother dearest."

"Go die in a hole."

My older brother's bright eyes shifted to mine, a frown tugging at the edge of his lips. "Aw, I was just trying to help you out, Roxie. You probably wouldn't have woken up if I didn't pull that on you."

I shot him a glare, and scowled at the dreaded nickname. Yet, somewhere deep inside of me, I knew that Sora was right. I mean, he had good intentions. He just wanted this to be one of the best days ever. I think.

I'd better just keep telling myself that.

"Yeah, yeah. Where are we off to now?"

Sora shot me a grin. "Why don't you focus on keeping up with me, instead of worrying about where we're going. Enjoy the ride, man!" He threw his hands up in the air dramatically at that last sentence, before zooming ahead of me on his skateboard, still laughing all the way.

I tried to fight the small smile from appearing on my face, but it was useless. My brother's emotions just seemed to be contagious. With a little more energy than before, I pushed harder off the ground and effortlessly caught up to my older twin. His eyes shifted to me before jumping with his skateboard, and beginning to grind on one of the nearby railings. The smile was still etched on his face, but his eyes had a kind of menacing glint to them, challenging me to do better.

I playfully rolled my eyes before scoffing. The battle of the skateboards had just begun.

After about hour or so of racing and skateboard tricks, we finally fell to the ground, laughing like idiots. "I'd say I totally won that one."

I playfully punched him on the arm. "What're ya talking about? Weren't you the one that fell and ripped a hole in his jeans?"

His brows furrowed, and he immediately turned his attention to examining his pants. Instantly, his eyes widened and he groaned in despair. "Aw, man! These were new too," he said, a scowl quickly taking place on his features. "Dammit, and I think that these were the expensive ones!" He sighed dramatically before clumsily falling to the floor, and sticking up the leg that had the damage on it. "Aw, crap. It's big too! How did I not notice that?"

I couldn't help but laugh at my brother. "C'mon, Sora. They're just pants!"

Sora got up into a sitting position, bent the "damaged" leg and leaned his arm against it, head resting on his hand. He shot me a glare, before a slow smirk appeared on his face. I couldn't help but furrow my brows, curious as to what was passing through his mind. "You know, I guess you're right." I couldn't help but smile slightly in relief. "I mean, at least I didn't step in dog poop!" He pointed towards my shoe, before falling to the ground, laughing hysterically.

My eyes widened, before an expression of absolute disgust took over my face. "Aw, no! These were new!"

"You. . . Feel my. . . Pain!" Sora managed to exclaim in between his laughter.

"No! This is worse! Shoes are much more important than jeans!"

An expression of mock shock took over Sora's features. "What're you talking about? You can walk around the world shoeless and no one really cares, but I mean. . . walking around pants-less? ! Oh, the absolute horror!"

I rolled my eyes, my brain scrambling for a comeback.

"Oh my gawd, what is that smell?" The over-dramatic and seemingly fake girly attitude caused both me and Sora to look away from each other, the two of us turning our attention to the newcomer.

"Aw, c'mon! It's not that bad, Olette!" I exclaimed, a childish pout drawing itself onto my features as I crossed my arms.

"I think Olette's right this time. Roxas, what the hell did you step in?"

Sora snickered at my shocked expression. "Not you too, Hayner!"

Hayner and Olette laughed, for what reason, I think you know. I mean, all three of them were laughing at me.

The childish expression still on my face, I exclaimed in an exasperated voice, "Well, Sora has a rip in his pants!"

The two newcomers merely gave me and Sora a curious look before cracking up again. Some part of me felt like scowling, but I knew that if it was any other person in this situation, I would be laughing my head off too.

Sora didn't take their laughter to any offense, but the mischievous glint in his eye was warning me that whatever he was going to say was not going to be good for my ego. Swiftly, without even thinking about it, I pulled off the infected shoe and threw it at my brother.

"AH! GET THE GROSSNESS OFF OF ME!" I scrambled away from my screaming brother, watching as he thrashed about. "C'mon! First my jeans, now a contaminated shoe! ? You guys, I liked this shirt!" His pathetic whine only made Olette and Hayner laugh harder, and I merrily joined in their cheerful amusement. After a moment or two, my poor brother muttered, "Ugh, now I have to go home and take a shower."

By now the laughter had died down, and Olette crinkled her nose playfully, a giggle threatening to escape her lips. "You haven't showered? That's not anything new for you, Sora."

Must I say it? The laughter started up again, but this time on a lesser scale. I guess we were beginning to laugh ourselves out.

Sora scowled, raising the impure shoe as though he were about to throw it at the orange-clad girl, making her shriek and hide behind Hayner, who of course blushed. But as I had guessed, Sora was too kind to do such a mean thing. He chucked the shoe in some other direction, and I couldn't help but notice that the passerby on the street were looking at us like we were crazy. I grinned cheekily at them, making them quickly turn their stares away.

That's right. Be scared of the creepy smiley kid across the street.

"Oletteeeeee," we all turned our attention to Sora who was yelling the girl's name in a whining voice, stretching it out for an impossibly long time. "I swear, I took a shower this morning! But now I have to waste five minutes taking another one! Five minutes out of the last day of Summer vacation!"

"Aw, I'll help you out, Sora." The girl giggled, and slowly made her way towards my increasingly pitiable brother. It was only when I saw what she was holding behind her back that I grinned devilishly.

Honestly, Hayner needed to hurry up and ask the girl out. He was obviously infatuated with her like some crazy psycho, and if he didn't make a move soon, someone else would probably get her. Not that I'm being mean, just my honest opinion.

Sora's grin was so bright that it probably could've supplied the entire world with energy for a whole decade. "Really? Aw, Olette you're too ni-"

Before my poor brother could finish his sentence, Olette pulled out the feminine fragrance bottle from behind her back and sprayed my brother like there was no tomorrow. The look of horror on Sora's face sent me and Hayner cracking up. To top it all off, Olette bent over Sora, and dramatically whiffed the air around him. "Ah, the wonderfully feminine scent of Victoria's Secret!"

"Aw, man! My day keeps getting worse and worse!"

"Look on the bright side, Sora. At least you don't smell like dog shit anymore."

"Shut up, Hayner! Now I smell like. . . like. . ."

"It's called Pure Seduction by Victoria's Secret, Sora." Olette answered for him with an innocent grin.

If it was possible, Sora's face looked even more terrified. Olette, Hayner, and I resumed our laughter at my feminine-smelling brother that sat on the ground a few feet away from us. It took a while, but eventually his face lit up again in that signature smile of his. "At least I don't have to shower anymore!"

Ah, Sora. Always looking on the bright side.

So apparently, Selphie had sent out a text message to everyone for an end of Summer pool party at her house. It was only after Hayner took us all out for breakfast that Olette explained that the party was going to start at 1:30 and go on until whenever. Hayner then told us that he thought it would've been a cooler idea to go to the beach on our last day, but Olette reminded him of the long distance and the fact that though we were all Seniors only Riku had a car, and we would all be too squished to survive the few hours it took to reach our destination.

"How come we didn't get the memo?" Sora laughed nervously at my question, causing me to look at him skeptically. "Sora. You have an explanation?"

The nervous laughter continued before he finally answered, "Well, I kind of left my phone back at the house, and I put your phone on silent in case you had an alarm that would wake you up. You know, that way I could do it myself since I'm such a kind. . . caring. . . loving brother."

I rolled my eyes, a small smile on my lips since I found it funny that Sora thought I would be angry at him. I would never be angry over something so silly like that.

Okay, maybe I would, but it doesn't matter! I'm not angry now, am I?

"Sora, who in their right mind would have an alarm set during Summer vacation?"

Realizing that I was only teasing him now, the nervousness was immediately wiped off his face. "Well, Olette for one!"

The girl blushed, but shrugged it off. "What can I say? I like to get up bright and early."

I just looked at the girl in shock. "Who in their right mind would want to get up early during Summer vacation?"

Olette merely rolled her eyes. "I always feel like I've wasted precious vacation time when I wake up late. In those four hours I wake up earlier than everyone else, I can get more things done! Besides, I kind of need to wake up early 'cause you know. . ."

I opened my mouth to ask her what she could possibly need to get done so early, before a look from Hayner caused me to remember and shut my mouth.

Olette was an orphan. She lived with her sick, elderly grandmother.

The table immediately got quiet, no one really knowing what to say. Olette's grandmother had suffered from a heart attack a few months after Olette's parents died in a car crash four years ago. Two years later, she had a seizure, followed by a stroke. When she had been allowed to return home last year, Olette's grandfather, her husband, passed away. Her grandmother was still recovering from everything, so Olette took charge of taking care of it all. Making the meals, cleaning the house, giving her grandmother her medicine, taking her blood pressure, all that stuff. It couldn't possibly be easy.

"Hey Olette, we better get going if you still want me to buy you that new bathing suit."

Sora and I smirked at the blonde, causing him to blush and look away. Olette didn't seem to notice though, and grinned. "Oh, right! I completely forgot. We'll see you guys at the party, kay?"

"Hey Roxas, how many people do you think are going?"

I turned to look at my brother who was sprawled out on top of the sofa. Our mom, being the world-famous Aerith Gainsborough, was out on another business trip, so it was just the two of us. "I dunno. Probably the whole gang."

Sora grinned. "This is going to be awesome."

I nodded. "Yeah, I think so too."

I bent over to slide off my shoes when my eyes widened in absolute horror. "Sora. We never retrieved my lost shoe."

Sora turned to me, his face a mixture of both humor and mock terror. "Oh no! What are we ever to do?"

I got up to punch him (hard) on the arm. "Dude! That was my new shoe! We have to go out and get it. You just had to chuck it to God knows where!"

To my surprise, my brother chuckled. "Hey, it's not my fault that you just noticed that your damn shoe was missing now. How do you not notice that?"

I scowled, realizing that he was right. "Whatever, c'mon let's go." Sora shook his head, angering me further. "Well, why the hell not?"

"Roxas. That shoe is all crusty and gross with dog poop. No one's gonna want to touch it. Well, except you I guess. We can pick it tomorrow after school."

I frowned at his logic, but at the same time I understood what he meant. With a sigh, I fell to the floor in defeat and mourned the loss of my shoe.

Since Sora had already started to channel surf on the T.V., I took it as my chance to go on the Facebook app on my phone.

Roxas Hikari: How the hell do you go four hours ago without noticing that you're missing a shoe?
Sora Hikari, Riku Takama, and 126 others like this.

Sora Hikari: You forget to mention that it was your amazing brother who chucked the shoe to, as you said, "God knows where" ;D
Tidus !#$, Axel ohmygawdimonfire and 58 others like this.

Roxas Hikari: Sora, you idiot. That's not supposed to be a good thing. You know what? When we go hunting for my shoe tomorrow, I'm going to make *you* pick up my icky shoe and CLEAN it.
Kairi Soto, Tidus !#$, and 79 others like this.

Sora Hikari: DISLIKE. D: Roxas, you wouldn't!

Roxas Hikari: Wrong, my friend. I would.
Riku Takama, Axel ohmygawdimonfire, and 119 others like this.

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Sora Hikari needs to spontaneously combust before Roxas Hikari forces him to pick up and CLEAN his icky, impure, contaminated, GROSS shoe.
Axel ohmygawdimonfire, Tidus !#$ and 17 others like this.

Axel ohmygawdimonfire: I can help you out with the spontaneous combustion part. ;D
Roxas Hikari, Demyx Nocturne, and 79 others like this.

Sora Hikari: Ah, Axel! Don't TOUCH ME. (Even though we know you want to)
Riku Takama, Kairi Soto, and 45 others like this.

Axel ohmygawdimonfire: Sora, Sora, Sora. Unlike *you* I don't swing that way. *I* have a girlfriend, remember? It's alright, don't be jealous. One day you'll find the person that was meant for you.
Larxene Flash, Demyx Nocturne, and 83 others like this.

Sora Hikari: . . .Well you know what? SHUT UP.

Riku Takama: Alright. Sora? That was the *worst* comeback ever.
Axel ohmygawdimonfire, Roxas Hikari, and 27 others like this.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Selphie Tilmitt is getting ready to throw the awesomest party in the entire world! If you're not busy, be at my house at 1:30. ;)
Kairi Soto, Riku Takama, and 78 others like this.

Tidus !#$: Aw yeahhh! Its partytime peoplez!

Selphie Tilmitt: Tidus, I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that it's weird that you put in random symbols as your last name.

Tidus !#$: Aw, don't be a killjoy Selph. It gives me some sense of originality. Besides, it's a new trend I'm starting! :D

Tidus !#$: You know what, don't even respond to that. Any of you. I'm almost positive that you'll say something mean, and I do *not* want to be in a bad mood on the last day of Summer. Sooo. . . .Stop facebooking, and keep on working on making this Summer party awesome! :D

Riku Takama: Pressure much?

Kairi Soto: Really, Selph? "my *house*"? Your place is more like a freaking MANSION!

Sora Hikari: The bigger the better. Thats my motto!

Riku Takama: Gee, Sora. We all knew that you swung that way, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't expect you to admit it to the world. ;)
Roxas Hikari, Tidus !#$, and 94 others like this.

Tidus !#$: Damn you Riku. That was *my* line.

Sora Hikari: ROXAS. YOU'RE MY BROTHER. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON *MY* SIDE. And screw you Riku. Only *you* could turn something so innocent into an innuendo. *shudders disgustedly*

Roxas Hikari: What can I say? If I had gotten on earlier, I would've said the same thing.
Riku Takama, Axel ohmygawdimonfire, and 17 others like this.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Roxas Hikari wrote on Axel ohmygawdimonfire's wall.
Axel, why the hell did you change your last name? Don't tell me that Tidus' crazy trend is catching on.
Tidus !#$, Sora Hikari, and 23 others like this.

Axel ohmygawdimonfire: Why, Roxas. I have no idea what you're talking about. We all know that Tidus isn't creative enough to come up with something so awesometastic unless he copies it from someone who's a pure genius. *cough*ME*cough*
Roxas Hikari, Riku Takama, and 54 others like this.

Tidus !#$: DISLIKE. Axel, you pyro, stop making things up.

Axel ohmygawdimonfire: Kid, don't lie to yourself. You don't want to challenge the *MASTER*.
Roxas Hikari, Kairi Soto, and 3 others like this.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tidus !#$ thinks that Axel ohmygawdimonfire is a meanie.
Axel ohmygawdimonfire, Roxas Hikari, and 27 others like this.

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Kairi Soto has a surprise for everyone that's attending Selphie Tilmitt's party. . . So you all better go!
Selphie Tilmitt, Sora Hikari, and 29 others like this.

Tidus !#$: Oh gawd, the suspense is killing me. Well actually, I'm just really excited for the party. XD
Sora Hikari, Axel ohmygawdimonfire, and 17 others like this.

Sora Hikari: Haha, well we're lucky. Twenty minutes to go you guys! ;D I think that its easy for me to say that I'm not the only one that's stoked.
Roxas Hikari, Selphie Tilmitt, and 62 others like this.

Sora and I were all smiles when we arrived at Selphie's hous- ahem. I mean, mansion. It was ridiculous. Her mom finally becomes a famous musician, and Selphie moved a couple of neighborhoods away to the fawnceh houses. But, hey. Who could complain, right?

The thing was huge. It was the color of Orange Sherbet ice cream (I'm sorry, I don't have an extensive vocabulary when it comes to colors), and was five stories high. Okay, what kind of house is five stories high? Well, apparently Selphie's.

Carelessly throwing our skateboards in her front lawn, we ran towards her open front door, following the music that was blasting from what could only be her pool.

Yeah, even though we had planned on getting to the party early, we arrived about an hour late.

But as soon as we passed through those fancy doors she has separating her actual house from her pool, we were swarmed by a million of our friends. Okay, maybe that's a little overdramatic, but you know what I mean. I couldn't help but notice that there were probably another two million people that I didn't know. Damn, Selphie was more popular than I thought.

"You guys are LAAAATE!"

"Dude, how long does it take to put on your clothes?"

"Well, I guess we can forgive you this one time. Kairi hasn't even shown up yet!"

"And she said that she had a surprise for us!" Tidus added, a childish pout on his face.

"Then again, Hayner and Olette aren't here yet either. . .," Xion added with a smirk.

We all knew what the next thing to say was, and all of us were internally debating whether or not we had to say it. It was Sora who finally decided to shout it out to the heavens before cackling merrily, "Wherever you guys decided to do it, I hope you're using protection!"

The rest of the party joined in with his laughter until our faces turned red, and Selphie began to tear up from laughing so hard.

Sometimes I think that my friends are on drugs. We laugh at everything. Then again, who could resist? When it came to their feelings, both Olette and Hayner became increasingly shy. They were just setting themselves up. Not our fault.

"Why aren't any of you wet yet?" Sora asked innocently, and Riku, Tidus and I couldn't stop ourselves from laughing even harder.

Sora blinked for a second (probably out of confusion), before a flicker of recognition passed through his eyes. He rolled his eyes, and soon enough, he had a huge smirk on his face and was pushing Tidus into the pool. But I swear, the kid has the reflexes of a ninja. Before he fell in, he managed to grab Riku and I, causing all three of our watery deaths.

Oh yeah, what a wonderful friend.

I think that we were lucky that the people that were in the pool and not gossiping or drinking alcohol (courtesy of none other than Axel of course, who was already twenty one) moved out of our way. If not, they would've been attacked by three (pretty muscular if I do say so myself) teenage boys.

When our heads bobbed out of the water, it was like the three of us were thinking the same thing. It only took a single glance at the smirking faces of Riku and Tidus before we stealthily made our way towards Sora, getting ready to drag him into the pool by his ankle, when Selphie sniffed the air and said something that led to a worse punishment for Sora. "Oh my gosh. Xion, are you the one wearing that amazing perfume?"

Xion shook her head before sniffing the air around her too. "No, but it smells. . . wonderful. Like. . . Like. . . . Oh my god, I can't even describe it!"

Selphie nodded eagerly in agreement before pursing her lips in thought. "It smells so familiar. . . I think I've bought this scent before. Ugh, what was its name! ?"

Sora, now realizing that he'd be screwed if they realized it was him began to sneak his way off into the pool. Of course, Riku, Tidus and I were blocking his only exit with smug smirks. Tidus took the liberty of pushing him back towards the girls.

Sora turned to shoot us a glare before muttering something about getting more chips and darting off into the house. The three of us were about to charge after him, before we saw that someone else had beat us to it. I couldn't help but smile.

"Pure Seduction by Victoria's Secret, ladies. You can ask Sora about it, he's the one that's coated in it."

Ah, Olette.

Said girl was already pushing the already shirtless Sora (whoa, when did we all take off our shirts? Dang, I guess it does take me forever to notice things) towards Selphie and Xion. Hayner and Pence were trailing behind her like lost puppies, which I couldn't help but snicker at.

I guess you might think I'm a terrible person when it comes to sharing details. I mean, I miss a few myself. Ah, so here goes.

Selphie's pool deck was practically equivalent to the first floor of her house, maybe larger. The thing was split into two levels. The first level was the main pool which was, as I said before, huge. There were probably about forty people or so swimming in it comfortably. I'm talking like hotel-size here. To the far right was one of those fake, giant, stone waterfalls. You know, the ones that you could sit under and pretend you're under a cave while making out because the water falling in front of you would kinda cover it.

Well according to Riku at least. Come on, must I repeat my depressing childhood to you again? I hate to admit it, but I have had dated girls before. What're you supposed to do when they ask you out? I mean, it's the guy's job, but it takes a lot of courage on their part, right? Besides, I always break it off before it gets serious, so it's all good. . .

Man, I kind of sound like a jerk right now.

Oh, right. Back to Selphie's pool.

The second level was a Jacuzzi, about only one-fourth the size of the main pool. If you climbed up the staircase (or just climbed the rocks on her waterfall thing), you could get to it. After all, it was actually on top of the waterfall thing, which I have to admit was pretty awesome.

To top it all off, behind me, by the entrance to her house, was this dining table stashed with a bunch of junk food. I'm talking chips, cupcakes, and even cinammon rolls. Yeah, I'm talking the whole enchilada here. A little to the left of that was a large cooler that had several bottles of beer and cans of soda inside.

What else did you want me to describe? What everyone's wearing? Well, I don't even know half the people here, so I'm just gonna go with the people that I do know.

Selphie was wearing a yellow bikini.

Olette was wearing an orange one.

Xion was wearing a black one.

And Larxene was wearing this turquoise one with a yellow swirl on her left boob.

I don't know how to be more descriptive than that. I'm a guy. I have no idea what the specific names of bikinis are.

And I don't think I really need to describe the guy's either. They're just wearing their swimming wear. I can't elaborate, because if I look at them for too long, someone will be convinced that I'm checking them out. Not good for my image.

"Roxas! Hold this for me, will ya?" Whoa. When did everyone jump in the pool? I blinked in confusion before Axel thrust a bottle of beer into my hand and jumped into the pool.

I shook my head slightly, before placing his drink on the ground and heading to the cooler to get one of my own.

It was like after that one drink, I couldn't stop. No, I wasn't drunk. But still. I had already downed seven (I think. Math hasn't always been my forte), and I have no idea where the time went. When I started functioning properly again, it was apparently already 9:30, and most of the guests had left. In fact, the only ones left were Selphie herself, Tidus, Riku, Xion, Hayner, Pence, and Sora and I.

Olette had left around six, saying that she had to go home and make dinner. I'm pretty sure that happened.

Axel and the rest of his college friends had gotten kicked out when one of them asked Selphie if she'd like to follow him into a room. I remember that happening pretty vividly. I was cracking up like crazy.

But the people that left had left behind a huge mess. Which meant only one thing.

"Where do you guys think you're going? You have to help me clean this up!"

See? Told you so.

With a groan, we all set to cleaning up Selphie's pool deck. Fishing out the now soggy chips and snacks that had fallen into the pool and jacuzzi. Picking up the empty beer bottles and cans of soda. Properly disposing of the condoms that Axel and his friends had brought and thrown at a couple of party-goers. All that crazy shit.

"You know, Kairi never showed up," Sora said, a pout evident on his face.

Selphie frowned too. "I never even noticed. Gee, she's supposed to be my best friend, and she didn't even come!"

Ah, right. Thanks to Sora, we know had to listen to a not-so-sober Selphie rant about the randomest things.

It took a while, but finally the house was clean. And it was only eleven! I think that we were able to finish that up in record time. An hour and a half ain't so bad.

As we said our farewells and began to make our way out the door, we finally saw Selphie's beloved best friend. "Kairi!"

The girl smiled, and opened her mouth to say something, but Selphie ran towards her and punched her. Though, it probably wasn't that hard, seeing that the poor girl could barely manage to stand.

"Well. Hello to you too, Selph."

"Kairiiii! Where were you?"

"Yeah, you missed the party!"

"Why did you even take the time to still come?"

"Where's the surprise? !"

Kairi rolled her eyes at the bombardment of comments, but the smile was still etched on her face. "If I remember correctly, the text said 'from 1:30 to whenever'. And if my clock is correct, then 'now' also applies to 'whenever.'" She paused for a moment to playfully stick her nose in the air, pretending as though she was better than us while speaking in a British accent, "You guys should just be happy I decided to grace you with my presence."

We all laughed at her lightly. Well, all of us except Tidus who looked eagerly impatient. The blonde haired boy opened his mouth, probably to bug her again about the surprise, but Kairi shushed him. "So as promised, meet one of my cousins, Naminé Soto! She'll be in Senior year with us!"

None of us had even noticed the girl in the simple white dress that had been shyly standing behind Kairi. But at the mention of her name, she slowly stepped out. Her light blonde locks were strewn over one of her shoulders, and her vivid blue eyes looked into the mini-mob that could only be described as our friend group. Her white dress was simple enough. It was sheer, so I could kind of make out the light blue and white striped bikini that she had been wearing underneath. Light blue flip flops adorned her feet, and she wore a silver locket around her neck. There were words and a design inscribed on it, but I couldn't really make it out. Her eyes scanned the group, a timid, almost forced smile lifting her lips up gently.

Immediately, I felt bad. Since she arrived so late, the party was pretty much already over. It also made me curious as to why her and Kairi were so late.

Before I could open my mouth to ask them, Namine turned her gaze to meet mine. For some odd, clichéd reason, my mind automatically went blank. I'm not sure how long we stared at each other, but it was Namine who broke the contact with a bright red blush, making me turn slightly pink too.

I hadn't even realized that everyone had already gleefully welcomed her to the group and had begun making their way home until Sora nudged me. "Dude, we should get going. At this rate, it'll be impossible to wake up early enough tomorrow!"

I nodded slowly and followed him towards our skateboards. I shot a skeptical smile at the new girl, Naminé, before we left, realizing that I hadn't even said a word to her. I didn't think she would catch it, but apparently she did, because she sent me another one of her withdrawn ones.

"See you tomorrow, Naminé."

A/N: Well, that was somewhat long, right? The main thing that was supposed to happen here was Selphie's party, and Roxas meeting Naminé. But while I was writing that, all of a sudden I threw in a poop covered shoe, and a Victoria's Secret fragrance. Talk about random, huh?

And I think that you can blame me for the crappiness of the details and events during Selphie's party. I wanted to get this out before my Spring Break ended, and so I kind of just dashed through it. XD

And since they ARE Seniors, it only felt right to throw in a little Facebook. XD But don't expect it in every chapter, I think. I might throw in the occasional text message too, but I think I need to see what you guys think of this.

So thoughts? Comments? Ideas? Lemme hear 'em. Please review.

I'm also thinking of using different POVs and if you guys caught it, I threw in a little Final Fantasy in there. ;D (By the name of Aerith Gainsborough of course!)

I was debating whether or not I should add in more Final Fantasy characters,

other than the ones that were shown in the Kingdom Hearts series. (Cloud, Zack, Leon, Yuffie and them) I was debating whether or not to add Yuna and Lightning and all of them in, but I don't want it to get confusing for people who haven't played those games, and. . . yeah. XP What do you think?

Review.