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Seven: Beautiful

I seriously had to take my eyes off him, I didn't want him to think that I was checking him out or anything because I totally wasn't.

Okay...fine I was.

However, he was always checking me out...or always staring at me, whatever you want to call it so...it can't hurt to look at him a bit, right? Who knows, he might just think that I'm spacing out or trying to focus as he drew me, but I was doing the complete opposite. I couldn't stop staring at him, or thinking about him!

Seriously! His arms are HUGE! He HAS to work out, I mean...you're not just born with those kind of arms, that takes some serious weight lifting or whatever kind of crap that guy's do to get all buff for the ladies.

I studied the large hump of muscle on Roxas's biceps, then to his hair that had a silky shine to it. It looked so fluffy and clean and silky I had to fight the urge to reach out and just ruffle and run it through my fingers...do you think he'd mind? Namine You idiot! Of COURSE you would! How would you like it if somebody you just met went up to you and played with your hair? Yeah, that's what I thought Namine, so quit being a creeper!

Roxas's head snapped up from his paper, those cobalt-blue eyes staring at me immensely. I felt my cheeks flame with embarrassment. I didn't just say that all out loud now, did I? I do that sometimes...oh God. Now he's REALLY going to think I'm a freak!

"W-what?" I stammered after a while of him just staring at me, the way he always does. To a great extent, as if I were the world's largest and most popular car.

It made me so uncomfortable when he just stops and stares at me like this...why? Because he's freaking hot! And I'm...I'm just that awkward girl who sits in the corner just being a loser.

"Do you ever pin your bangs back?" Roxas said finally. His question caught me off guard.

Why would he ask me something like that?

"U-Um...sometimes...not often..." I said, though it was hardly audible.

Roxas's eyes seemed to shine as he reached up a hand to slowly push my long bangs out from my face, tucking them behind my ear. I blinked rapidly and I ducked my head abruptly, avoiding his gaze.

"Uh, uh,uh..." Roxas said in a teasing way before I felt his fingers curl around my chin, slowly lifting it up until our eye's are locked on to each others . I just stared as if I've been paralyzed. Roxas gave me a small smile before dropping his hand from around my chin. "Much better, now I can see that beautiful face of yours."

I felt myself flush violently at his comment, thank GOD he was already looking back down at his paper. Beautiful, he called me beautiful... no one's ever called me that before. Not even when I was going out with Siefer, he'd say I was hot and sexy...but...never beautiful.

"So, how you liking this rat-race of a school?" Roxas asked. I nearly fell off of my stool from his sudden question. My heart was beating faster than a rabbits. Calm down, you spazz. He's a person, just like you and everyone else. He's no different. Actually, yeah he is...more beautiful...Oh great, now I'm starting to use the word.

"S-Sorry...what was that?" I asked, talking a bit to quickly. He chuckled and shook his head slightly.

"Boy, you're a jumpy one. Relax. I don't bite." He winked at me before looking back down to his portrait of me, if it were possible for the human body to catch on fire from how badly you were blushing, than I'd be crisp by now.

I laughed nervously. "Uh...yeah...It's fine..."

I watched his lips quirk into a smile. "For now."

"Hmm?"

"Just you watch, this place is nothing but a hell hole with rooms."

I felt my stomach turn uneasily. Oh gosh, Namine if it's gas just hold it in...

"Why's that? Crappy teachers?" I asked, my eyes dropping to his hand that was tracing the curves of my face. His eyebrows were narrowed, his lips in a straight line.

"You'll see for yourself real soon. It didn't take long for me to find out, and it won't for you. Especially since you're naïve."

Did he just call me NAIVE!?

"I-I'm not Naive..." I insisted swallowing hard. Roxas smirked but his eyes never left the paper.

"Maybe, maybe not. But you're innocent."

"You don't even know me!" I nearly snapped, glowering at him, but he continued to sketch me calmly.

"Hmm, Not yet. I would be honored too."

My heart leaped in my throat and I felt my cheeks burn again.

Is...Is he HITTING on me!? Geeze maybe I am Naive.

I swallowed hard, folding and unfolding my hands together nervously. I wasn't good with guy's...I wasn't GOOD with anyone but my sister, and she's the only thing I have to worry about for now...maybe for my whole life, but I didn't care. She's the only person I trust anyways and probably the only one that likes me as well.

"Sorry...but I've got other thing's to worry about other than a relationship." I blurted out, causing Roxas to look up at me again.

Gosh! Can you STOP giving me heart attacks with your amazing looks please?

He raised a brow, looking amused. "Was I asking you out?"

"It sure seemed like it." I snapped, my voice sounded a lot colder than I wanted.

Roxas smirked. "Well, maybe I was."

I snapped my mouth shut, trying to think of what to say next but my mind was as blank as a wall.

"Is that a yes, Namine?" Roxas continued.

Before I could say a word or even think of a word to say, the dismissal bell rang. I got up to my feet so quickly that I fell, but Roxas's strong hand was already holding my wrist before I hit the ground. I stared at him sheepishly, feeling like a complete idiot as he helped me back up.

"I'll let you think it through, I've got time." He said as he slowly dropped his hand from my wrist. I just looked up at him in agape as he gathered our supplies and walked over to the back table to put them away.

I've never rushed out of a room so fast in my life.

"NAMINE! NAMINE! NAMINE! NAMINE!" Kairi squealed as she ran over to me while I was at my locker. She was wearing a white blouse and a blue plaid mini-skirt with a matching tie, I realized that she was shorter than me by a few inches. Which was weird because I remembered her being my same height the other day...

"Hey Kairi, did you...uh...shrink over night or something?" I asked kind of randomly.

"Hmm? Oh! Hehehe, you mean I look shorter than yesterday?" She said smiling brightly. I just nodded.

"Yeah, my sneakers give me a little boost, I'm wearing my flats today!" She replied, her voice was so peppy she was making everything sound like they were the most important things in the world.

"You say that like...It's a good thing, most short people hate being short."

"Eh! I'm only five feet! No biggie!" Kairi replied with a wave of her hand. "Yuffie's four eleven! Poor Yuf, it's so strange because her dad is like a giant! Then again...Aeris is only five foot five so yeah...I guess she took after the smaller gene...Xion is five foot three I suppose...Terra is as tall as his dad and Sora..." She paused to giggle, and I shook my head.

"He's five seven! You know what that means!?"

"He's short for a guy?" I suggested biting down on my lower lip to stifle a laugh.

"No, no silly!" Kairi shrieked shaking her head back and forth. "It mean's that he's seven inches taller than me! SEVEN!"

I couldn't help smiling, the more I looked at her. The more I realized she looked like an older version of Nora.

"You really like him, don't you?" I asked her, her cheeks turned a bright red and she opened her mouth to say something but a voice from behind us beat her to the chase.

"Who do you like, Kairi?"

Kairi's eyes widened and a little squeak escaped her throats before she turned around, I did too. It was Sora, his hair as messy and spiky as it was in the Christmas photo Aeris showed me. He wore a dark blue t-shirt with a black mini short-sleeved sweatshirt over it and black baggy shorts with yellow buckles strapped around his legs and large red pockets on both sides. I looked down at his feet and nearly choked to keep back my laughter...the poor kid had clown feet! He must of been a size 19!

"Sora! H-hi! Uh, this is my friend Namine! Namine say hi to Sora!" Kairi said glaring at me a little, it was sort of creepy so I said hi. He grinned that goofy grin and gave me a peace out sign. He was also wearing black fingerless gloves. This kid had an interesting wardrobe...

I watched how Sora turned over to Kairi almost instantly. His pupils were wide almost cover the light-blue color in his eyes. It was so obvious he liked her, why couldn't she see it!?

"Who were you saying that you liked, Kai?" Sora asked looking very intrigued when he noticed the blush start to rise on her cheeks. Kairi glanced at me quickly before looking back up at Sora.

"Oh! Um...uh...hahaha it's...well...I...I can't really say..."

"Oh..." Sora looked crushed. "How come? Do I know him?"

Kairi's hands went over her cheeks. "Oh dear..." She pouted shaking her head.

Sora blinked in bafflement. "Kairi?"

Whoa...he had really long eyelashes...Wait..why am I staring at his eyelashes?

"Sora! There you are!" His brother, said placing a hand on his shoulder from behind him. The only reason I knew it was his brother because from that photograph. Terra was it?

"GAH!" Sora jumped a foot in the air before whirling around to glare up at his brother. "NOT cool Terra! NOT COOL!"

He shook a finger at Terra while he just raised a brow at him.

"Yeah, well...neither is skipping out on practice." Terra replied drawing out a groan from Sora.

"Do I have to play blitz today? The game's not till the end of the month!" Sora whined rolling his eyes.

"Practice makes perfect, little bro, and you know dad'll be pissed if you don't."

Sora's eyes widened and he nodded rapidly. "You're right. Let's go! I can NOT afford to miss the newest episode of Chester The Chocobo!" He turned to Kairi. "Bye Kairi!"

Kairi gave him a shy wave as he raced with his brother down the hallway, nearly crashing into two white-haired men arguing over salsa. One man was smaller and had shorter hair than the other, but other than that, they looked like twins.

"Oh... isn't he just beautiful!?" Kairi asked placing her hands over where her heart was.

I laughed. "Those two sure aren't!" I pointed at the two arguing men coming our way, Kairi's eyes went wide.

"Ohhh...the taller one is Principle Loz, and the smaller one is the Vice Principle, Kadaji!"

"I say you're wrong!" I heard Loz roar to Kadaji as they continued walking by us. "Prego is WAY better!"

"Prego SUCKS!" Kadaji shouted causing Principle Loz to shriek.

"HOW DARE YOU! I'M TELLING MOTHER!"

I looked over at Kairi who was giggling in her hand.

"Do they... always do that?" I asked and Kairi nodded before taking my hand in hers. "Come on! I wanna take you to Yuffie's locker! You haven't met their crazy ninja-sister yet! I'm still deciding if it should be at their house or Olette's...oh wait...wait...no...it will be Olette's for sure! I can't talk about how much I like Sora when Sora will be there!"

"Why not? He likes you too, you just need to tell him." I said pulling out of her grip a little, Kairi turned to look at me. "And...I'm not sure if I can sleep over, I have to watch my little sister."

Kairi shrugged. "Bring her to Olette's! We don't care!"

I raised an eyebrow.

Bringing Nora to a sleepover? Would it be more safe if she was hanging around with hyper love-sick teenage girls...or home alone with a drunk and abusive father?

"Oh! Namine, look! Kittens!" Nora squeaked tugging harder on my hand as we approached the Pet Store.

I promised her this morning I would take her to go and look at the cat's, it melted my heart seeing how happy she was.I smiled, grabbing her underneath her armpits to give her a boost up on the stairs, I could never trust her and stairs after what happened to mum.

Nora giggled and took off like a jet down the narrow walkway of cages, her auburn hair bouncing around her. I couldn't help smiling like an idiot as I followed her over to the kittens, she was already sitting criss-crossed on the floor in front of the large cage sticking her little fingers through the cracks of the metal bars to stroke their little heads.

"Hi you guy's! I'm Nora!" She greeted the little kittens in a soft voice, the way a mother would talk to her newborn baby. "I know that you all don't have any names because you're all still looking for a home, but if I had a lot of money, I'd buy every single one of you!"

The kitten's looked at my sister through the cage with their wide eyes. They were all different One was brown with black spots all over it's body, kind of making him look like a Jaguar. Another was a complete white fluff ball with big green eyes, on top of him was a black cat with a lighter shade of green eyes, another was grey with black strips all around it and he was purring loudly as he licked his paws.

The last one was lying right up to the bars, he reminded me a little bit like Garfield, and he was defiantly the cutest out of the litter. Nora seemed to be very fond of him as well.

"I'd hate to pick favorites because you are all so beautiful, but...I think you are the prettiest!" Nora said as she continued to stroke the kitten that looked like Garfield. He purred proudly as he stuck his paw between the cracks of the cage. Nora giggled and gently took his paw in her hand to shake it slowly.

"Nice to meet you!" She said giggling before turning to me. "Namine, he likes me! Do you think we can bring him home?"

I felt a wave of guilt singe through me. Of course we couldn't bring him home. Dad would go mental...even more mental than he already was! The poor cat would probably end up being drowned in the bathtub from dad when we'd come home one day. I couldn't risk it but I didn't want to see my little sister so sad. She loved cats.

I sighed. "We'll see, Nora."

Nora looked at me in disbelief but she nodded her head slowly. It broke my heart, especially since she took it so maturely, most five year olds would whine or cry.

"Nora?"

"Yes, Namine?" Nora asked a little smile sprouting across her face as all the kittens swarmed at the other end of the cage stretching their paws out to shake hands with her as well. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

"How would...how would you like to stay over one of my friends house with me tomorrow " I asked, knowing I should of just stayed home with her like always but...I'd just hate to see Kairi so disappointed.

Oh listen to me, I'm turning into a sap. Maybe I am one.

A/N: Hope you all liked! :D