Author's Note: Welp, here's Chapter 2 already! Like I said in C1, I don't want to delay releasing chapters, just in case I lose inspiration or something. That being said, I'm glad that I got a review! And I also saw a few of you add it to your alert list 3 Thank you, it really means a lot.
With that, I present to you your dislcaimer, and Chapter 2.
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and the characters contained within this story are owned by Square Enix. I don't own them! There is also a further disclaimer in Chapter 1, so if you missed it, I suggest going back to read it! (Though I'll give you another one when that content is showing up.)
Enjoy, everyone!
The rest of Sora's weekend passed by without much excitement. Or at least, that's what he wanted to believe. The youthful brown-haired boy awoke surprisingly early the next morning, even by his normal viewpoint of early; if he had his way, school would begin at a loose ten o'clock every morning and end promptly at three, regardless of any extraneous duties he had to perform. He often reasoned, with himself mostly, that anything he needed to accomplish at school he could get done in those 5 extremely dedicated hours he was willing to put in. Regardless, he sat up in bed looking at the obnoxious red coloring of the 8 blinding his eyes on his alarm clock.
"Eight in the morning?" he grumbled, falling back down to his pillows.
Since he had parted ways with her, he hadn't had much time to think of the girl he'd met last night, Kairi. He'd spent most of his time after they parted ways attempting to get Riku home and in his bed safely after his silver-haired friend heaved a good portion of his stomach's contents out the window in the middle of driving. Sora promptly swapped seats and drove the rest of the way home. He'd decided to walk home and leave Riku's car at his house, but that meant a 10-minute walk back to his own. He vaguely remembered an odd feeling he'd had as he tried to think about the girl, but his feet had carried him to his house before he knew it. He promptly headed upstairs and collapsed into bed, his body accepting the gracious offer of a comfortable rest.
He glanced over at his cell phone, lifting himself up a bit and grabbing it in one swift motion, attempting to unlock it. The small piece of technology refused to light up, and Sora grumbled.
"Oh no! It died in the midst of the night! But what if she texted me?!" he mocked himself, holding the phone daintily against his forehead as he deflated back onto his pillows, "That's really not how things work though..." he trailed off, giving up on the device and letting it fall freely from his hand onto the bed.
He stared at the star-fruit stickers that were plastered all over his ceiling from when he was small. The local name for the breed was Paopu, and it was apparently created right in Twilight Town a few decades ago. Ever since, it had become somewhat of a cultural icon for the area, thanks in part to their easy growth on Destiny Islands. Sora fondly remembered picking out the stickers with-
He shot up, shaking his head to clear his mind, "I guess I'll go take a shower..." he moaned, wishing he'd had his phone for some music to listen to.
He emerged from the shower with a towel wrapped around himself, taking a look once more at his phone. Happy enough with the bar showing half a charge, he unplugged it and turned it on. He tossed it onto his mattress while its familiar start-up tones and advertisements appeared, his towel dropping as he pulled out some clothes to put on.
"I wonder if she really would be up to hanging out today," Sora mused to himself, slipping red and black shorts on over the fresh pair of dark blue boxers.
Satisfied with his clothing for the moment, Sora turned away from his dressers and launched his bare-chested self onto his bed, attempting a turn in mid-air.
"Ten points all across! The crowd goes wild!" he joked cheerfully to himself, grabbing his prize as he slid his finger around the screen to unlock it, "Then again," he began, noting the 0 messages he had waiting for him, "I am pretty lame," he shook his head at his antics mere moments ago. "Well, here goes nothing," the brunette said hopefully, scrolling down to the contact 'Kairi' and beginning a text message.
'Hey, wanna do something?' Sora asked coherently, attempting to avoid chat speak.
"Gotta talk smart-like, Sora. Ladies don't like a dumb dude," he gave himself another stupid smirk, shaking his head as the message gave confirmation it was sending through the air. Satisfied with his attempt, he rolled off the bed to his feet, maliciously attacking his dresser as he looked for a shirt to wear.
'Hey, wanna do something?' the message came all too soon. Kairi wasn't expecting it to be the day after they had met. Or...well...she didn't know how to put it. Regardless, it wasn't something she expected of the beautiful chocolate boy she'd been talking to the previous night.
"Hey, sis..." she began, wrapping her towel tightly around her abdomen as she stepped into the girl's room.
"Hey, what's up R-" she stopped herself, looking at her sibling standing in the doorway to her bedroom, "You look ridiculous," she laughed, the younger sibling's face becoming red as her sister ridiculed her after-shower look.
"Aren't you really overdoing it?" she pointed to the towel wrapped around Kairi's head, her expression finding immense amusement as she continued down to the pink slippers her sibling was wearing, "That's a little much, even for you."
"Listen, jerk," Kairi embarrassingly turned her head away from the girl, momentarily forgetting why she had subjected herself to this, "shut up," she stuck her tongue out, suddenly remembering what she had been doing. "Look!" she held out the phone for the girl to see clearly what had been written, and from who.
"Oh my god, Sora? Is that the boy that you-"
"That's not the point, Namine," Kairi shook her head, her hand going to her forehead in annoyance, "I want to be friends with him, but he was kind of hitting on me last night, and I don't know if I should hang out with him so soon or not."
"As long as you're honest with him, I don't see what the problem is," the girl responded seemingly uninterested, turning back to face her magazine as she lazily flipped the pages.
"You don't see-honest with-are you even listening to yourself?" Kairi stomped her slippered foot onto the floor as she grew mad, her sister laughing a little bit as she rose, going over to stand next to her.
"I know, it's a whole mess, but...as long as you make sure he understands you're just friends, what could be the harm in it? I mean, it's not your fault there was a big misunderstanding. It was circumstance," she grabbed her sibling by the arms, pulling her in for a hug, "But seriously. Tone it down a little?" she let go of Kairi, her hands cupping an invisible area on the girl's chest as she moved them up and down for effect.
Kairi swatted her away and stormed off to her room, hesitantly thanking the girl with a yell, "THANKS...I guess," she sighed, her towel tightly pressed against her body, her own hands making the same gestures her sister just had, "Maybe she's right..." Kairi thought aloud, her free hand pulling the towel wrap off her head while the other went about starting a text message.
'What did you have in mind?' was the message she finally decided to send out, hoping it sounded more friendly than flirty.
It was already ten by the time Kairi's message was delivered to Sora. He had just been in the midst of his second bowl of cereal, a tame breakfast for his weekend habits. He'd only noticed the screen's backlight suddenly on a moment before it shut off again, grabbing it from across the table and once again unlocking it.
"Riku musta woke up wondering how I managed to get him home alive," Sora reasoned, nonchalantly chewing on the cereal he'd poured.
His complete devouring of the food slowed to all but a halt as he opened up his messages and saw who his new text was from. A smile crept onto his face that he couldn't help but show, rapidly tapping away at the screen as he thought up something to do.
'Mall? I figure there must be something there we'd both destroy,' the text message gave its confirmation as it was marked sent. He'd only noticed his mistake after the fact, quickly sending a second text to amend it, 'enjoy* omg, the phone auto-corrected it, sorry.'
Kairi sat fixing her hair, her phone located next to her as she brushed it through, placing bobby pins to pin it off to the right like she usually had it whenever she wasn't at school. The sudden noise of vibration made her instinctively reach for her phone, quickly unlocking it and reading the message.
'lol, you're still funny, Sora. Sounds good. Call me when you're leaving and I'll give you my address.' Kairi sent the message away, re-reading it as the 'Sent' confirmation disappeared, her eyes widening.
"You're still funny, Sora?" the boy questioned, unsure of whether or not a sudden character transformation overnight was a legitimate concern of Kairi's or not.
'sorta* Auto-correct got me too ;P' another message came through, forcing him out his thoughts.
"Duh, I'm so stupid sometimes," he snapped out of his daydreams, grabbing the keys to his car-on-loan waiting outside. He never really needed a car to use for school, since Riku always drove him, but his parents told him whenever he felt like taking a ride somewhere he could borrow their second car. This was one of the very few times he actually took them up on that offer.
As he started the car and buckled himself in, Sora saw himself visibly smiling in the mirror. He gave a little laugh at how much of a kid he was being, but he regained composure long enough to make a call to Kairi, asking the girl where he could pick her up at. She answered curtly, and, with his destination confirmed, Sora pulled out of the driveway and headed down the road.
It all started between us such a long time ago.
AN: I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. A little awkward maybe, I don't know. ! I hope it's well-received though, and SERIOUSLY. Any rating/reviewing/favoriting means a lot to me. :) Until Chapter 3!~