Chapter 1

The car engine stops. My eyes meet his. He smiles and squeezes my hand. "It'll be ok, Kairi." My dad's words should make me feel better, but I can hardly breathe. I can tell he's exhausted from this move. He has dark circles around his eyes, his auburn hair sticking out in places, and he can't stop drinking coffee. We just moved to Destiny Island, which is supposed to be the most populated island of the four. My dad, I, and my sister, Aqua, lived on the island north of here. Sunshine Island was where I was born. I lived there for the 15 years of my life, but now I'm here. Dad insisted we moved here because we had lived on the normal quiet island for most of our lives. I disagreed, but Aqua seemed to enjoy the idea. Aqua is the brainiac of our family. She was on the mathletes last year, as well as the advanced math classes. Aqua's group of friends consisted of mostly smart geeks. At least she has friends. I, on the other hand, am a different story. I was probably the 'not extremely popular girl, but isn't a loser' of my school. It's not that I don't want friends, but I just have a hard time making them. I figured if we did move might try to fit in. At my old school, Sunshine High, I had around 4 friends that I could count on. This time, I want to have that amount by the end of today. Like every kid who has to go to a completely new school, in a whole new place, I was nervous. My hair was piled in my dad's business cap, and my short sleeved jacket was zipped tight. My fingers are red and sweaty. I wipe them on my dark jeans, and pray I don't die today. Aqua seems fine, which is normal. Sometimes I think she doesn't even have emotion. Dad decides to break the silence, "Kairi, don't worry about not fitting in. You're an amazing and talented girl, anyone would love to have you as a friend." I smile, he is the only who gets me. I pick up my bag, "Thanks dad." I climb out of the car, and stand next to Aqua. I haven't noticed that she is a full head taller than me. She probably got her height from mom. Mom. I never knew her. Once I was born, she started acting weird. One night she just cracked. I don't exactly remember what happened, but she left my dad. All these years and she has never came back. When I was older, Aqua told me that mom couldn't handle having to take care of us. I never ask our dad, because it's really painful. Dad waves to us, and drives off. I sigh. No way to escape this nightmare. Aqua turns to me with a sad smile, "This is a new place. It all starts with 'hi my name is Kairi', it isn't rocket science." To me it might as well be. I nod, " I'll try."

I smile a confident smile to hide my walk into the 'Destiny High' office. Dad dropped us off really early so we could get our schedule and stuff ready. There are barely any students here, except the students' of teachers. Aqua walks to the lady at the front desk, "Excuse, I'm Aqua Lange and this my little sister, Kairi, were here to get our schedule." The lady looks up at us. Her blonde hair is put in a messy pony tail, and her glasses look like they are about to fall of her nose. Her eyes are green and glassy, and she has long thick eye lashes. Her thin lips form a smile, " You two must be new here, welcome to DHS. I'm Mrs. Crown, or the office lady by the students." I smile at her, and Mrs. Crown hands us our schedule. Since Aqua is a grade older than me, so I won't have any classes with her, which will suck for me. I head to my locker and put my books away. This is the 3 week of school for the kids who started already, so I hope I'm not too behind. I shut my locker and nearly die because a girl is in my personal space. "Wha-" I start to say but I end up falling backward onto the floor. "Oh my gosh! I'm SO sorry!" the girl grabs my arm and yanks me off the floor. With a pull like that I bet she could rip someone's arm off. I steady myself with my locker, I finally be able to see this girl. This girl is very petite, with brown hair that sticks out on the sides and two strands of hair fall from either side of her head, just long enough to drape over her shoulders. She also has big green eyes that match her skin. The girl is wearing a short sleeve orange shirt with matching khaki shorts. Her shoes are like everyone's shoes, flip flops. She smiles slightly, but then let's out a big sigh, " I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to startle you." I chuckle, " It's fine, and it was an accident after all." Her smile brightens, "Exactly! Hey," she taps her chin, " is your name Kairi?" Wow. I haven't even been in the school for a whole 20 minutes and I already have someone ask me my name. No, not ask my name, KNOW my name. "Yea, I'm Kairi. I just moved here." The girl clasps here hands together, " Oh goodie! Well, Kairi, I'm Olette. I'm the president of our school council. I'm supposed to welcome you to our school." A welcome comity, that's something new. "So you run the 'welcome comity'." I ask. Olette laughs, " Nah, there isn't an 'actual' welcome comity. That's just me being nice. Can I see your schedule?" I hand her the piece of paper with my classes. She glazes over the paper fairly quick, then hands it back. " You're in a few classes with me, but I'll introduce you to my friends." I nod, and Olette talks some more about herself. She is a perfect grade student with high academic skills, and she loves to write. Olette lives with her mom, who happens to be the principal of our school, on the west side of the island. She told me that's why she was here early, because it takes her 50 minutes just to get to school. Olette was going to tell me about some of her friends when the bell rang. "Oh well," she sighed. " I'll see you in English class." And with that she walked off.

Phew, first chapter done. Please review, tell me what you think so far, and any ideas, ways to make it better. Plus I don't own KH, I only own the plot.

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