"And Ms. Kairi, you seem to have no interest in any school activities?"
"Nah-"
"Actually, Kairi was apart of her old school's tennis team and their student council!"
"Yeah, but I qui-"
"That's very interesting, was she on varsity for tennis?"
"Yes-"
"Well, I wouldn't call Kairi a super-star-OUCH!"
There I was. Now sitting in hell. With my family from hell. What could be better than being in hell, or yeah, nothing.
After my mom had practically dragged me into school, saying how she was going to make sure I got into the school and wouldn't ditch as soon as she dropped Roxas and I off, she quickly yanked me along to the main office, where we were now having a friendly-boring-chat with the black-african american-principal who seemed to be way more interested in me than I was in her.
"Well," Principal Rowan started, placing her hands firmly on the table as she looked back between Roxas and myself, "it looks to me that the Destiny Island Dolphins would be proud for you two to join our blue and white family."
"Yay." I cheered sarcastically, getting a "don't you embarrass me" look from my mother, as Roxas still continued to rub his arm from the smack I had just applied onto his arm.
"Thank you so much Principal Rowan, Kairi and Roxas we be a great addition to your school." My mom thanked, shaking Rowan's hand as she stood up from her chair. Principal Rowan shaked her hand back as Roxas and I stood up from our chairs, picking up our bags and throwing them over our shoulders.
"Thank you for allowing me to meet your wonderful family, I'll have one of the office assessments show your children to their new lockers, and give them a mini tour of the school."
Oh great, a tour, how fun.
"That's great, so I guess I will see you to later…" Mom replied, turning towards us as she pulled us together for a group hug, but no, this wasn't a real family hug, it was just the easy, sneakiest way for her to get close to enough to me so she could snarl, "be good" against my neck. When she pulled back, I wore a grinning smile on my face before waving goodbye, as Roxas said farewell for her. As soon as she was out of the school though, my face turned back to the cold scold I was wearing before.
"Okay! So if you two will follow me, i'll introduce you to one of our assistants." Rowan explained, holding open the door as Roxas and I followed her out into the office hallway. She followed us out, sliding out in front of us as she lead us down the hallway to the main desk. In the main room, several students sat against a row of chairs with smug looks on their faces, as if they somehow committed murder and were happy about it. Besides the line of students that sat a little bit in front of the desk, there was one student who sat behind the desk, her floppy orange flip-flops hanging out over the counter as she stretched out her legs. In her hand, she flipped through a magazine, at the pace she was going, probably only glancing at the things that interested her. She wore a yellow tank top that looked to expose a lot of her cleavage, with a blue jean vest over the top, and a pair of black skinny jeans with several big holes in them. Her hair was a light caramel color, and was curly at the bottom, looking like she had spent hours curling it when it was obviously natural.
"Selphie, I thought I asked you to call Vice Principal Denise to deal with these trouble-her-students." Rowan asked the girl from behind, causing the brunette to jump in surprise, pulling her feet back towards her body as she glanced back at the principal.
Selphie, rhymes with "selfie", wonder if her parents named her after that? now that I saw the brunette's face, I realized she her okay choice of style kinda matched her face. I mean, she wasn't ugly and she defiantly knew how to create some dramatic eyes using eyeshadow.
"Uhhh, I did, but he said that he was like busy, and I was like "weell, she needs you" and he told me to deal with it, and then hung up, and I was like, dude, I just got this job after I screwed up Mrs. Miller's clay projects, so how was I supposed to know what to do?" Selphie began talking, and talking, and talking-I mean the girl didn't have a big mouth, but I guess you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover.
"Selphie," Rowan stopped the girl, raising up a hand to signal her shut, "it's okay, I'll deal with them now. In the meantime, I need you to give a little tour to our newest students, Roxas and Kairi."
Selphie turned her head sideways to see past the women standing in front of her, she trying to get a pick of us I guess.
"Of course, Principal Rowan, by the end of the day these two will know this place like they've been here for years!" The brunette cheered, standing us as she slid past the lady to where she now stood in front of my brother and I, grabbing both of our hands as she shaked them, "Hey, hi, I'm Selphie, but you can call me Selph, or S, or Selphur, or Courtney or anything really!"
"Hi...I'm Kairi." I answered, letting go of the girl's hard grip rather quickly as Roxas did the exact same thing.
"I'm Roxas, please to meet you." Roxas followed, wincing sort of at the end, his eyes watching Selphie as she looked back between the two of us.
"Are you guys twins?" She suddenly spoke, earning her a slight nod from Roxas and I as she cheered happily, "Ahhh! I knew it! At first I was like, 'I'm not sure if i should ask' but then I was like, "ehh, should probably go for it" and I was right! OMG, that's crazy! You guys aren't identical right? Is that even Possible for girl and boy twins? How many minutes are you guys apart? I would love to have a twin, just think, two of me, that would be-"
"Yeah it would, but what about that little tour you're suppose to give us?" I interrupted our tour guide, who seemed not to notice but paid close attention to me when I started speaking.
"Oh, right!" Selphie said clapping her hands together, as she turned towards the door that lead out of the office, "Follow me!"
We followed the brunette out of the office, and stepped into the cold, main hallway that made my arms shivered up and down as I looked around.
"So, this is the main hall! There's the office-which you were just in-and there's the cafeteria! Those two staircases to your left lead up to the freshmen and sophomore lockers, where your lockers will be, and those two halls to your right lead to the junior and senior hallways." Selphie explained, pointing to each of the areas with excitement, before continuing off down the hallway, probably expecting Roxas and I to follow her.
"If you guys follow me, I'll show you where your lockers will be. What were they...? 2327 and 2428, right?"
"Yeah," Roxas responded, checking his schedule once more as he looked up confused at the girl, "how'd you know that? I don't remember saying anything about our loc-"
"Lucky guess, I guess!" Selphie laughed, starting up the stairs as Roxas glanced over at me.
"How on earth did she know that?"
"Beats me, maybe she's a great guesser!" I remarked, following Selphie up the staircase that was aligned with bright, clear windows that almost blinded me. I glanced out, wishing the sky would be a bright blue and sunny color, but I saw wrong, it was still the dark grey color it was when we first got to the school.
Selphie stood at the top of the stairs, leaning against the rail as she tapped her fingers, waiting patiently for us to catch up with her.
"Sorry to disappoint you guys, but since we didn't have enough open lockers, we had to put one of you in the middle of the alphabet while one of you is at the end." She spoke as we finally reached the top of the stairs, Selphie showing us the long walls of blue lockers.
"It's fine, I'll take the middle one so Roxie has room to get all his textbooks out." I snicker, causing the brunette to laugh as well as Roxas just snarled silently towards me.
"Ok then! Roxas," Selphie said, pulling Roxas over to where the his locker must of been, "this is your locker! And Kairi, yours is down here!"
I quickly followed Selphie as she trotted down the hall to a locker that actually did rest in the middle of the hallway. Something was weird with it though. It looked extremely clean, which wasn't the usual thing you first noticed about school lockers.
"Was this someone's locker?" I asked Selphie, who casually glanced over from looking at the wall clock above her head.
"Yeah, it was! I think, Macy Crew used to have this locker, but I'm not sure."
"What happened to her?"
Selphie gave me a little shrug, glancing back towards the clock as she answered me, "don't know. Some say she moved, some say she dropped out, but I personally think she was crazy."
Crazy? Maybe she left some of her craziness behind in her locker that I can have, that would be swell.
Selphie helped me open the rusty locker, and also helped get all of my things into the small space, explaining to me how my locker would soon become flooded with books that the teachers insisted we used.
"Since you're a sophomore, you'll have Mr. Bates, he's awful. He usually always gives you at least three pages of homework every night, and his pop quizzes are the worst. I also don't think he wears deodorant, because sometimes he has these smelly, big pit stains under his armpits!"
"That's so gross! What grade are you in, anyways, Selphie?" I asked, finally shutting my locker as I looked over at the brunette.
"Technically a sophomore, but my parents held me back last year, so yet again a freshmen." She shrugged, not sounding that upset about it.
"Oh, that sucks. Why'd they hold you back?"
"It's kinda complicated. They thought that it would be better if I got a better crowd, so they thought that holding me back would keep me away from my friends. Yeah, they were wrong." Selphie laughed, causing a knot to form in my stomach.
Had I been talking to a transsexual or a depressed drama queen? Oh Kairi, what have you dragged yourself into?
Before I could respond, Roxas's face came into my vision as he came over to where Selphie and I stood outside my locker.
"Great! I showed you two most of the school, I found your lockers and now I'll show you where your third period class is-since you've already missed one and two!" The brunette clapped her hands together loudly, as she turned on her heels and started back down the hallways. Roxas and I took it as a sign to follow her, but we were loudly interrupted by the sound of the speakers above making a buzzing noise. As Selphie turned back on her heels and trotted back to where we stood, doors along the white walls began to open, exposing students of all ages that headed out of their previous class.
"The bell? Already?" Selphie whined, looking around as students flooded into the hallways, bumping into her, Roxas and I as we stood in the middle of the hall, "I need to get to Mrs. Captain's room…..what to do, what to do….THAT'S IT! Follow me!"
Struggling down the hallway, Roxas and I tried to keep up with Selphie as she approached a nearby locker, where a boy that looked about our age stood. He seemed to be trying to fidget with his locker, pulling at the lock to open as we all approached.
"Damn you Sora, if you get me late to class I will tear you app-oh, hey Selphie! What's going on?" The boy mumbled under his breath, before noticing our presents, turning towards us with a smile.
Now that I saw the boy, I realized that he must of been from the land of vogue magazine, because he looked like he could of been a model. With turquoise colored eyes, and silver hair, along with a tall, muscular, lean body, this guy could definitely replace all of the guys I have dated all together.
"Riku! I know you look kinda busy, but I need a really big favor, and you owe me anyways!" Selphie said, placing a hand against the boy's sharp shoulder as he looked down onto her.
"I owe you? When was that?"
"Last week, when you told me to make a fake slip for Sora to leave school early."
"That explains why my locker is jammed."
"Riku, focus!" Selphie snapped, actually snapping her fingers at the boy-Riku-who simply had went back to trying to get his locker open, "I need you to show Roxas to his next class, he has it with you."
"Ohhhh, that's why I didn't recognize you two. There newbies, right?" Riku laughed, causing Selphie to sign with pain as she glanced over at us.
"No Riku, their not, they just forgot where there class is that they've had for the last two months! Of course they are!"
Riku gave another laugh at Selphie, who looked as if her head was about to explode, as Riku held out a hand towards Roxas.
"I'm guessing you're Roxas? I'm Riku, nice to meet you."
Roxas took Riku's hand quickly, giving it a shake before answer, "yeah, that's me, nice to meet you too."
Riku then towards me, his eyes glittering from the light above us as he held out his hand once again, "And who is this gorgeous thing?"
"Kairi." I answered, shaking the boy's hand softly, hoping my hand wasn't sweaty from having to hull my backpack around this tiny school.
"Nice to meet you Kai," Riku smiled, calling me by the nickname that most people used on me, "fine Selphie. I'll take Roxas with me, but no more favors."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Riku!" Selphie cheered, giving the older boy a little hug before turning back towards me, "My class is on the way to yours, I'll take you halfway and then I'm sure you can figure the rest out."
Great, I'm going to get lost on my first day, isn't that fantastic!
"Um, yeah sure." I answer, sounding a little bit nervy as Riku gave me a strange glance.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later, Kairi." Roxas spoke up beside me, snapping me out of my daze of worry as he started to follow Riku, who must of wished us goodbye-only I was too worried to hear it.
I waved goodbye before turning towards Selphie, who was already half way down the hall. I scrambled quickly to catch up with her, but the crowd of students just seemed to just get bigger and bigger. I didn't realize how small I was until I was knocked down onto the cold, dirty floor.
"Ouch…" I mumbled under my breath as students began to pass by me, not even seeming to notice me as I laid on the floor. Well, at least they didn't step on me.
"Hey, are you okay?" A voice spoke, as a figure appeared over my sprawled out body. It was a girl, who looked about one or two years older than me. She had short blue hair, that came about to her shoulder, and piercing blue eyes that seemed to match.
"Yeah, just the typical new girl routine." I laughed, taking a hold of her hand as she held it out to me, it gripping into my wrist while she pulled me off the ground. Wow, she was strong for a girl.
After she had helped me off the ground, I quickly dusted off myself, trying not to get rammed again by an other students passing by.
"Oh, you're new? That must be tough, I'm Aqua, now you at least have one friend that will help you through the day." The girl-Aqua-smiled, giving me a bit of relief as I thought of the friend that had just disappeared down the hall, leaving me on the dirty school floor.
"Thanks, I'm Kairi."
"So Kairi, what class do you have next?"
"Um…" I mumbled, pulling out my small slip of paper that had my schedule written neatly on it, "AP biology."
Aqua's eyes widen, "You're taking AP bio as a freshman?"
"I'm actually a sophomore," Of course she think's I'm a freshman, enough with the short jokes, "and I just really like science."
"Well I have AP Chem, which is next door, so I can show you the way." Aqua said taking my arm and leading me down the hallway. Damn, her grip was firm for a girl.
She lead me down the hallway and down a staircase, like the ones we first went up, and then down another hallway till we get to what they call the 'science hallway'. Aqua stops outside a door with a plaque that says "Mr. Edward, Biology Teacher".
"It was nice meeting you Kairi," Aqua said giving my arm a squeeze, which actually kind of hurt more than it probably should have. "I'll see you around."
"Yeah, thank you!" I call as she starts to walk away, but I don't think she heard me because she kept walking without even looking back.
Okay Kairi, first class; time to show them your irresistible charm.
With that small pep talk, I step into Mr. Edward's classroom and immediately become very cold. Like what the hell? Why is the air conditioning so damn low?
"You must be Miss Lune," A short, well taller than me but still short, man with a large mustache says walking around his desk organized towards me, "Principal Rowan sent me an email. I'm Mr Edwards, pleasure to meet you."
I shake his hand, which matches his room, cold and clammy, "Nice to meet you too. Where should I sit?"
"Ahhh," he said walking over to one of the lab tables in front row, " right here."
I walk over to my new seat and sit my stuff on the table, now beginning to wonder who my lab partner will possibly be. Hopefully someone I can stand for fifty five minutes with. Just as I think that, in walks a girl with long brown hair who looks like she's on a serious mission of some sort.
"Mr. Edward! I got the homework assignment done, can I have anything else?" The girl asked as he sighs and rubs his temples- guess it wasn't an important mission like I thought.
"Olette," he says clearly agitated, "I've given you all the extra work I could, now you must focus on the work I give you and everyone else."
"But-"
"No buts about it." Mr. Edward interrupted, silencing her with one quick look. The girl, looking defeated, huffed and began walking over to where I was sitting, taking a seat next to me as she threw her stuff down onto the desk. She was pretty tall, probably like five six, and she had these long ass legs that look like they belonged to a giraffe. I mean her feet were clearly sticking out into the middle of the aisle.
This girl- or Olette as Mr. Edward called her- was kind of weird; she wore a orange victoria secret jacket over a white tank top, with a pair of running shorts-in this weather? It was like the low of forties, and I was still freezing my butt off.
She looks glances over, finally taking notice in me, "Oh Hi! I didn't see you there."
"Yeah." I say trying to fake a smile, as I feel the conversation already growing awkward.
"I haven't seen you in this class before," the girl says before asking, "are you new?"
I nod, "Yeah, my brother and I moved here from Radiant Garden-"
"Oh my god, isn't that where celebrities live?"
My expression is blank, "I guess so."
Olette clasped her hands together, "That's so cool! Oh I didn't get your name…."
"It's Kairi. Kairi Lune."
She laughed, "That's funny. Did you know your last name means moon in french?"
"No i didn't." I shake my head and push my hair over my shoulder, wondering what a weird conversation it had already become.
"Well, now you do," The girl said punching me lightly in the shoulder, this time it didn't hurt, "I'm Olette Cerf. Which means deer in french."
"Like I really care…" I quickly mumble under my breath, but Olette doesn't seem to notice, she's already pulling out a big notebook and several colored pens.
The bell is about to ring when a boy enters the classroom-and this boy is breathtaking, I mean I've seen my share of very attractive guys, but this boy is probably one hundred percent better than all of them combined. Even compared to Riku, Mr. Hotty Muscles, this guy was like literally perfect.
His features were very sharp, with high cheekbones and a chiseled jaw, he looked like one of those Greek statues of the gods-hell he could be a god. Along with his handsome face, he wore piercing blue eyes that look like sapphires, and do not let me get started on his hair. It was long and seemed to stick out in every direction, a beautiful carmel brown color; It just made me want to run my hands through it.
This boy would be the death of me. He walks past me without even looking away from his phone, and he sends me a wiff of his Cologne-it smells like something from the men's fragrance section at Macy's. I sigh dreamily, and sink down into my chair, clearly mesmerized by this boy.
I lean over to Olette, who is already jotting down notes that were left on the board, "Hey, who's that boy?"
She looks over her shoulder to where the boy sits, a couple of rows behind us, "Oh that's Sora Strife. He sure is something."
"Something? He's a goddamn angel from heaven." I remark as I look back at Sora. As if somehow he knows i'm looking back towards him, he looks up, and our eyes meet. I don't look away though; I stare deep into his eyes, and he does the same to me, as if he's looking for something from me. Olette slowly reaches over, grabbing ahold of my chin, and moves my head to look back at her.
"He has a girlfriend."
Wait. What? That was some lucky bitch, whoever his girlfriend was.
"Are you serious?" I ask looking Olette dead in the eye.
Olette nods, "Yeah, her names Xion. She's a freshman."
"A fucking freshman." I murmured underneath my breath, my eyes rolling over in annoyance.
Olette tilted her head, "What was that?"
"Oh nothing."
"Okay class," Mr. Edward said stepping in front of his desk, as he began to start lecturing us, "today we're rereading about meiosis."
The whole entire class groaned and wined, even one blonde kid, that looked like he was about to explode, stand up on his chair and complained, "We've been talking about meiosis since school started three months ago!"
"Tidus," Mr. Edward called, signaling him to step off the chair and sit down immediately, "first, school has only been in for two months, and second, meiosis is a very important lesson we all have to understand. Based on our last test results, obviously some of you don't understand. Now can someone please tell me what meiosis is?"
The room grew silent, "Anyone? Miss Cerf?"
"Um," Olette stuttered, "it's the, um, the division of um, cells…."
"Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information." I say interrupting Olette's train of thought, which surprises her greatly as she looks back over towards me.
Mr. Edward claps his hands together, "Very good Miss Lune, now can someone tell me how meiosis happens?"
Olette sighs and whispers, "I owe you one."
The rest of class was very quiet, with Mr Edward giving us lectures every minute it seemed like. I was gazing around the room when I looked outside, noticing the guy in the black hood that had once again entered my vision. I about jumped out of my seat and ran to the window, but then I remembered where I was. He was just standing there, in the middle of what looked like to be the football field, looking straight towards the windows of the classroom where I sat. As I stared more and more, I swear I could see his eyes, shining a bright red color. I was about to say something to Olette when the bell suddenly rang.
"Okay class, reread meiosis!" Mr Edward said before returning to his desk. I quickly picked up my things and headed for the door, just in time to end up next to the angel, Sora. His features were so much better up close; looking at his left side, I could see a little scar on the side of his cheek, probably from doing some crazy idea like most boys do. Roxas has one of those on his knee, it was only because I was trying to teach him how to rollerskate- note to self, Roxas and rollerskates don't mix by the way.
Back to Sora though, he was like Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams song, that could be our song-wait what am I saying, he has a girlfriend! Yeah but that could change. Um, no, I don't think so.
I hate when my mind starts to argue with my mind, it's hella confusing even with just one of me, but two, no.
With my mind being focused arguing with itself, I didn't even notice I had ran into him! My hands bumped his chest and his arms held my waist to balance me; my shirt had ridden up a bit and his hands were now on my bare skin.
I look up into his crystal clear eyes, as he caught me in his grasp, smiling down at me from his height, "Whoa there Mary Jane, you looked like your head was in a different dimension."
I gave a little laugh as I blushed harshly while Sora still held me tight against his body, "hah, yeah, sorry about that. My mind tends to slip away a lot."
"It's alright...Kairi isn't it?" The angelic boy asked, now releasing me from his grasp as I now held tightly onto my things.
"Um yeah actually," I nod, pushing my red long bangs out of my face, "how'd you know that?"
"Riku texted me," Sora says holding up his phone, "said there was a beautiful new girl with striking red hair, named Kairi."
"Well don't you boys know how to flatter a girl." I smirk as he laughs, which is like the sound of heaven's bells ringing.
"Don't take it too personal," Sora waves his hands in front of him, "Riku's kind of a flirt."
"Is that a warning I hear?" I teasingly ask while he scratches the back of his head.
"Um, maybe. He's my best friend and all, but I know how he is, and he likes to hit on a lot of girls."
"I'm a big girl," I say earning a small smile from him, "I can handle myself."
He gives me another smile, "I'm sure you can. I'll see you around, Mary Jane."
With that, he turns on his heels and starts walking in the other direction. As he's walking away my butterflies seem to go with him, leaving me alone, standing in the middle of the crowded hallway; thankfully, after glancing around, I spotted Roxas heading my way. He sees me, and begins to turn around when I latch onto his arm tightly.
"Roxie!" I shout, and he cringes his nose, "What class do you have next?"
"Uhh," he says pulling out the sheet of paper from his back pocket, "I have AP english-"
"So do I!" I interrupt him, pulling him down to the English hallway, or what I think is the way to the english hallway.
"Um, Kairi," Roxas tries to say as I pull him down the hallway, "we just missed the classroom."
"Well why didn't you say something sooner?" I snap, turning him around to head in the opposite direction.
Roxas sighs, as I drag him along, my hand wrapped firmly around his wrist, "Because I knew you'd get mad."
"I'm not mad!" I shout, earning some weird looks from people nearby, and passing by, "I'm just agitated okay."
Roxas used his heels to stop me from going any further, causing me to turn back to look at him. I'm about say something, probably aggressive, when he points to a plaque on the wall.
Mr. Bates, Language Arts.
"This it?" I ask touching the plaque; it felt smooth besides the letters, and was cold just like the rest of the school.
Roxas nods, "Yup, let's go in before we're late."
Roxas walks in first and I follow; the teacher doesn't even seem acknowledge us, so Roxas and I just take a seat in the middle row where some empty seats were.
I'm sitting my stuff down when I notice Roxas, staring at someone. It's this girl who just walked in; she's wearing this long sleeved white lace shirt that flows at the bottom, and a pair boot cut jeans with some moccasins that looked like they were some "native" movie, like Pocahontas. Her long blonde hair is braided in a french braid, and hanged over her shoulder very messy, making it look she had just thrown it up.
She walks over, actually says hi to Roxas, and sits down next to him, sitting a notebook and a book down on the plain desk.
What the hell did I miss? Roxas has never been one to be able to talk to girls; when he was in sixth grade, he passed out because a girl said 'God bless you', and he wasn't even the one to sneeze. He says that he had a low blood sugar, but I know the true reason-Roxas gots no game.
"Roxas," I say poking him the back, trying to get him to turn back towards me, which is only probably making him way more annoyed with me but, "Roxas, Roxas, Roxas, Roxas-"
"What!" he whispers loudly, causing me to almost jump from his aggressive tone.
I look over his shoulder at the girl, who is currently writing something down with a wooden pencil-who uses those anymore? "Who's that?"
He sighs, "You could have just said that you know."
"Psssshhh, you know me."
Roxas sits back, so i can have full exposure of the girl, and begin questioning myself why she seems to have any interest in Roxas, "Kairi, this is my friend, Naminé. Naminé, this is my sister, Kairi."
"So you're Kairi!" Naminé smiles, dropping her pencil back down on the desk, as she looks over at me, "I've heard a lot about you."
"I wish I could say the same." I say, shooting glances at Roxas, who just rolls his eyes. "But it's still nice to meet you." My eyes drift over the girl once more, and I notice a couple bracelets resting on her wrist. "Nice bracelets." I say as the blonde blushes, causing her to push some stranding hairs behind her ear.
"Oh thank you!" She says holding up her wrist, "I made them myself."
"From what?"
"Just stuff I found out in the forest and my backyard, you know, like tree bark, flowers and grass." She says as she admires the bracelets, her fingers sliding over each one of them as I stare blankly at them.
I blink, "Okay, that's nice."
Class soon starts, and it is boring as hell. I mean, Mr. Bates seems nice and all, but he has a monotone voice, causing him to sound like a robot more than ninety percent of the time.
All I did was play flappy bird on my phone-my final high score being one hundred eighteen-while Roxie and Naminé talked all the way through class. I'm glad though; I've always wanted Roxas to find someone, because he's weird, and there's got to be someone who likes weirdos-and I think Naminé fits the bill perfectly. She's weird, he's weird, they're made for each other.
When the bells again for the end of class, Roxas, Naminé and I headed to the cafeteria for lunch. The cafeteria wasn't as big as ours was back at Radiant Garden, but then again, the school isn't even remotely that size.
Naminé shows us the cafeteria line; one having all snack foods, one was just for vegetarians, and one just served your typical school food. Roxas, of course, insisted we go in the vegetarian line to get salads because Mom wanted us to be more healthy, and because he was a vegetarian-even though he had only been one for about a month now. Naminé agreed, and I was already out numbered; even though I really didn't want anything from this icky school.
So we just got salads, I got mine with lots of croutons because I absolutely love them, and Naminé took us over to a high table by the windows. The sky still looked gray and rainy, but it was nice to be able to look outside-hopefully I wouldn't see that stalker dude out there once again, that would be like freaky. No, it was already freaky.
"So," Naminé said, breaking the silence between the three of us, "are you guys enjoying our innocent little school?"
"It's decent," Roxas says looking around the cafeteria. "Nothing compared to our old school though."
I nod, "Yeah have to agree with you there, Roxie."
"Change is nice though, sometimes it's good for you." Naminé smiled shyly, carefully picking up a tomato and examining it on her fork.
I shrugged, placing my fork back down into the box that contained my salad, "I guess, in a way."
I glanced around the cafeteria with wide eyes, taking in every detail, until my eyes landed onto a big table full of guys- I mean literally, there were so many guys, it was hard to count them all.
But my quick eagle eyes pick out one guy from them all; it's Sora. He's sitting next to Riku, and a girl with long black hair, who must be Xion. I'm tempted to go over there, but with all the other guys around, I carefully consider my odds. Just as I'm about to ask Roxas' opinion, a strange guy pulls up a chair to our table, and sits down next to Naminé. He's a very tall and lean, with a lighter shade of red hair that spikes past his shoulders, and all over the place. The guy's green eyes remind me of eyes belonging to a snake, before the serpents about to strike its prey.
"What's shaken bacon?" he asks Naminé, while he swings his toned arm around her shoulders, which makes her frown as if something as gross as a mud had touched her-wait, she probably didn't mind mud, with all her nature getto.
"Go away Lea." She says, clearly agitated with the older looking boy, who had already snatched one of the girl's tomatoes and plopped it into his mouth.
He pouts out his bottom lip at the scolding girl, "Is that anyway to introduce me to your new friends?"
Naminé sighs, and mumbles, "Lea, this is Roxas and Kairi, Roxas and Kairi this is Lea."
"Nice to meet ya sugar." he says sticking a hand out towards me, which I examine cautiously. He looks over at me, giving me a funny look and smile, then nodding his head towards the extended hand.
I sigh, "Nice to me you too." I take his hand, trying not to make my hand seem tense and sweaty; it fails completely, and if anything my hand felt like a noodle.
"So," Lea says releasing my hand, "I saw you and Sora today. You guys a thing now? Or is he still will little Xi-boo-boo?"
Naminé quickly exchanges glances with me and Roxas, ignoring Lea's question completely as she asked, "You like Sora?"
"Is that a bad thing?" Roxas asks as he sits his fork down, giving a strange glance to me, and then to the girl across the round table.
Naminé plays with her hair, avoiding eye contact from either of us as she answers, "Well it's not exactly a good thing."
"And why is that?" I look over from Lea to Naminé, who is now starting to look kind of worried and pale, while Lea looks like it could be the end of the world and he could be okay.
"Watch where you tread Nami dearest, don't want to spill the beans quite just yet." And with that, Lea jumped up from his seat, and began heading towards the big table of guys. He sits down next to a yellow haired girl, and the immediately begins talking about something about her, acting as if nothing he had heard previously had mattered.
"What the hell was that about? Who's going to be spilling what exactly?" I inquired, my eyebrows scrunching up in confusion as my eyes go back to the quiet girl IN front of me.
Naminé tired to laugh it off as a joke, but she wasn't very convincing, "Um, it's just an inside joke! Nothing you should be worrying about. And about Sora, he's just not my type, so that probably explains why I don't find him attractive."
"Okay." Roxas says awkwardly, trying to switch the conversation back to feeling more comfortable than weird, but I know they're hiding something. I look past Naminé shoulder to see Lea, and the blonde hair girl he was sitting next to staring right at me, straight in the eye. When they saw me looking, they both looked at each other and grinned, as if they know something I don't.
I thought that was totally creepy, and I excused myself to the bathroom-which I had no idea where was-but I just wanted to get out of there before the creepy stares got the best of me. I exited the cafeteria, and began heading over to my locker, thinking that by the time it would take me to get there, maybe my nerves would be seeming better. I was going up the stairs when I heard voices at top talking quietly; they sounded familiar.
"Why does Xemnas want her brother? You know how hard of a change that is going to be for him, especially with a full moon coming up?" A voice said, sounding angry and confused.
Another voice spoke, "Whatever he wants, it's for the best, even if it is on a full moon. He'll survive, like all of us did."
What the hell are they talking about? Are they talking about me? Maybe Roxas? I'm about to head back down the stairs when I hear footsteps and voices approaching from behind me, coming from the bottom of the stairs where I had just came from.
Okay, two decisions here; it's either confront the voices, or run. I decided to run-hey, seemed like the best way to go, literally. I start to go back down the stairs. when a hand from behind grabs my arm, and yanks me around to see their face-or their faces. As my eyes look up, I realize that the hand belongs to Riku, who wore a smirk now on his face, and behind him stood Sora, the handsome angel who looked down on me from a couple stairs above.
"Hey Kairi," RIku says, releasing my arm from his grasp as he lets out a little laugh, "didn't mean to scare ya."
"Psssh, me? Scared? That's not likely." I say as I rub the spot where he grabbed me, not realizing hard his grip must of been on me.
Sora laughs, "You looked pretty scared to me."
"Ha ha very funny."
Riku laughs along with Sora, before looking back over to me and asking, "So what are you doing out here?"
I shrug, "Trying to find the bathroom."
"There's one right outside the Cafeteria, to the left." Sora says pointing to the stairs, sounding a bit obvious as Riku gave me a confused look.
"Must have missed it." I laugh trying to lie my ass off, which I couldn't tell if it worked or not, but, "What are you guys doing out here all alone?"
"Getting stuff for Sora's classes." Riku says as Sora holds up an Algebra book, his right bicep flexing as he holds up the textbook-which almost made me have a mini heart attack.
"Mr. Watson would kill me if I didn't bring this thing, again, so Riku suggested we got it before the bell-." Sora says sliding the book underneath his arm, as he is interrupted by a ringing noise.
The bell signals the end of lunch, and the hallways become flooded with students once more; Sora and Riku exchange glances, and then look back to me as students pass by us.
"-rings. Hey Kairi, I'll walk you to your next class, Mr. Watson can understand me being late for showing a new student around." Sora says stepping over to where I was standing, but Riku grabs his arm before he gets to me.
"I'll walk her. Your class is just at the end of this hallway, no need for you to be late again."
"Okay." Sora said, kind of sounding confused, as he looked back at me and then to Riku.
The taller boy starts walking, giving a quick wink and a pat on the shoulder telling me to follow him, leaving Sora in the middle of the hallway, still looking as if something was bugging him.
Riku walks fast-so I practically have to run to catch up with him-he starts to slow down a bit though, probably because he notices me panting heavily from all the running I had to do just to keep up with the teenager.
"So, you liking it here so far?" he asks, as I walk up beside him, clutching my stuff tightly as we made our way down the hall.
I shrug, "It's fine, good as it can be."
"Is it just you and Roxas?"
"Yeah, and my mom, of course. Yeah, dad bailed a couple years ago, so it's just been the three of us." I honestly say, feeling a flush of heat come across my face and body.
A father figure hasn't been in my life since I was five years old, and even then he wasn't necessarily a "father figure". Then he ended up ditching us for some young chick, or that's at least, that's what Mom always said about him.
We soon arrive at the study hall classroom, leaving Riku and I now ready to say our goodbyes, "Hey, thanks for walking me."
"Don't mention it, just call me Mr. Tour Guide." he smiles, squeezing my arm as he walks by, heading the other direction to his next class.
I walk into the classroom, which looks like some sort of lecture pit which many seats and low lighting, and see Aqua sitting with a brown haired kid, and to my surprise, Roxas.
What the hell? I didn't know he had this class at the same time as I did. I walk over and down the stairs over to where the three sat, hitting Roxas on the shoulder as I sat down next to Aqua.
"Hey stranger!" She greets me, while my brother and the tall guy shared confused glances with each other, "How's your first day been?"
"Boring as hell." I replied, looking over to Roxas, who still looks very confused, "I didn't know you had this class."
He looks dumbfounded, "Excuse me, have we ever met before?"
"Roxas?" I asked the boy, I assumed was my brother.
"I'm sorry, I'm Ventus, not Roxas." the Roxas look alike- Ventus- shakes his head and laughs, causing my brain to almost explode with confusion.
"The hell?" I pinch the bridge of my nose as Aqua, and the brown haired boy laugh.
"Kairi, are you smoking something?" Aqua asks slapping me on the back, causing me to jump as I look over at her.
"No," I say, still kind of startled by the slap, "I seriously thought this kid was my brother! You guys could be twins!"
Ventus arches an eyebrow, "We look that much alike?"
"For real." I say, pulling out my phone, and picking out a picture from my gallery of Roxas and I at summer camp around a year ago. It's one of the only pictures we have together, only because the camp director forced us to be in a picture together, since we were siblings. Roxas and I stood by the lake with our arms wrapped around each other-me, smiling like a cheshire cat, and Roxas looking slightly scared, as usual.
I hand over my phone to show Ventus, and brown haired kid, "See, this is us last summer."
Both of their eyes widen in shock, as Ventus answers, "Woah, we could be twins."
"The hell Ventus!" The boy says, punching Ventus in the shoulder, "You never told me you were a twin."
"I didn't know until now, Terra."
"Oh," Aqua interrupts them, turning towards me with a quick smile, "where are my manners? Kairi, this is my boyfriend, Terra Lightfoot, and my best friend, Ventus Strife."
"Are you related to Sora?" I ask gesturing towards Ventus, remembering Olette telling me Sora's name earlier in the day.
He nods, "Yeah, I'm his younger brother."
"I see the resemblance." His and Sora's faces could be identical besides not having a slight scar on his cheek, and the hair color, of course. Sora's hair was more for a Carmely brown while Ventus' was a sandy blonde-similar to Roxas's hair.
"Where'd you move from Kairi?" Terra asks me, while he pulls his phone out of his pocket, probably checking the time or an incoming text.
I tuck some hair behind my ear, "Radiant Garden."
Aqua's raises an eyebrow, "Radiant Garden, eh? That's pretty far away."
"Yeah I know," I say, slightly disappointed, "It was a long car ride."
Aqua looks out the nearby window, "Probably a different change in scenery."
Outside, the sun still isn't shining, and if anything, it looks like it's going to rain, again. In Radiant Garden, it was always warm and sunny, with weather in the high and low seventies-the perfect temperature, not too hot and not too cold. Radiant Garden was know for it's flowers, hence the name 'Garden", I remember our school being surrounded by fields of flowers, and there was this beautiful beach and ocean that laid to the right of our school. Destiny Islands and Radiant Garden were like polar opposites, if you can't tell.
"It's definitely a change. Good or bad, i don't know yet."
"I'm sure you'll figure it out." Aqua gives me a small smile, which kind of makes me feel better since it seemed like my day was getting worse and worse.
Ventus hits his desk with his palm, interrupting my train of thought and, this time, making Aqua jump, "I want to know more about this doppleganger of mine."
"What do you want to know?" I ask, as he scratches his head, trying to think of a question to ask.
"Is he allergic to cheese?"
"No why?"
"Just wondering."
"Okay." I laugh, and pull out my phone to text Roxas about his new bestie.
"Hey Roxie", I text quickly, my finger jamming into my phone as I typed each letter of the short sentence. I hit send, and it take around five minutes before he responds.
"What?" That's pretty much his answer for everything I text him.
"I just met your twin! :D"
Five minutes later, "Haha very funny Kairi."
"What?" I inwardly laugh to myself, "I'm serious you jerk."
"Whatever," he replies, "hey I'm going out tonight. I won't be there to walk you home."
I raise an eyebrow; Wow, first day here, and Roxas already has nerdy friends to go play videogames with. Me, on the other hand, will be enjoying the house all to myself.
"Kk", I hit send one very last time, not really caring whatever thing my brother was doing after school, as put my phone back into my pencil case, zipping it up so that it was fully closed. Just as I do so, the bell rings; I follow Aqua, Terra, and Ventus out the door, and into the main hallway, where most kids are meeting up with their friends or are heading towards their classes.
"See ya later, Kairi." Aqua says over her shoulder, as her and Terra grab each others hands, the two lovers starting to head towards where, I would guess, the junior hallway would be.
"Bye!" I shout over the crowd of students forming, almost getting knocked down once again-these people seriously have no manners.
I continue walking down the hallway, following the numbers on the doors, while glancing down at my schedule to make sure I don't miss my room. I make my way around the whole school, in probably a record time-finally finding the history hallway, as I make it just in time for my AP European history class. I walk in just as the bell rings, and I see the angelic boy sitting by the window, the sun shining in just for a minute and hits making his facial features glow, while his eyes sparkle like diamonds. I quickly walk over to an empty seat behind him; he sees me, and gives me a small smile as I pass by.
"Alright class," the teacher - Mrs. Wills - speaks loudly, arising us from our thoughts and conversations that started before class, "today we're going to be going over notes, and vocabulary, so get out a piece of paper and let's get started."
I totally zone out through the entire class; thinking between two things that were really on my mind; Sora, and the two mysterious voices I heard down the hallway. Were they actually talking about Roxas and I? If so, what did they mean 'he'll survive'? The thoughts of these guys's conversation was driving me nuts-so nuts, that my head actually started hurting from thinking too much about it.
Probably the best I should do is just find out who it was, in general, then come up with a scheme on how to confront them, and then explain to them how their word choices made me question whether or not it sounded as if they were going to attack Roxas or I. Only one problem….how am I going to find out who it was. I could always sneak in, and steal the security footage, or maybe I could get that Selphie girl who works in the office to get them for me. My train of thought is interrupted, when Sora and his gorgeous smile, turns around to look at me.
"Hey." he says, sound as if he was about to get down on one knee, and let his feelings for me all come rolling out.
"Hiya." I whisper back, as Mrs. Wills continues through her powerpoint, now talking about something that had to do with the age of exploration.
He gives me a innocent smile, "Were having a party this Friday night, and I was wondering if you wanted to come by, maybe, you know, if you are free."
A party! If anything that you should know about yours truly, it's that she's the queen of parties. Back in Radiant Garden, parties were thrown about every weekend, and you know who was always invited to them? Me, obvi.
"Yeah, sure!" I say a little too loud, catching Mrs. Wills's attention as she turns around to see where the noise of my mouth came from. I shut my mouth as she scans the classroom, hoping she won't realize that the girl in the back of the room is blushing harshly since the boy of her dreams just invited her to her first party in this dumpy, little town. Seeing no one was talking, she turns her back once more to the class, and continues on with her lecture. Sora chuckles, and I blush, again, "I just need a time and an address."
"I'll text it to you. What's your number?"
I write down my number on one of the stick notes I had in my pencil case, and hand him the piece of paper; our hands touch slightly for a second, and I feel a shot of heat rush through my body. It slowly dissipates as my hand comes to rest at my side, while Sora turns back around to face the projector. It isn't until he is fully around that I noticed several inflamed cuts going down the back of his neck. They don't look too deep, but they still looked like they hurt from the way the ripped skin looks. I stick my hand out, not actually realising what I'm doing, and reach out to feel them, when suddenly his yanks his body around, just to catch my hand right before I'm about to touch him. Sora's grip is firm on my wrist, causing my heart to skip a beat as he looks me dead in the eye, a feeling of slight fear trembling over my body.
"What happened?" I stutter out, still feeling my heart pump a bit, as he releases my hand from his death grip.
He shrugs, and then calmly replies, "Went mountain biking, and fell."
I nod, kind of doubting his quick story, "Oh okay. Sorry."
"You know curiosity killed the cat right?"
I quietly laugh, "Well, do I look dead to you?"
"Guess not." He says, and turns back around once more, leaving me asking myself, "what the hell just happened?"
For the rest of class I stare at the back of Sora's head, just wondering how in the world he could of got those scratches from falling off a bike-how is that even possible. He must have flipped his mountain bike, and landed on his neck or something like that, but even trying to imagine Sora and his quick reflexes falling off of a bike seems impossible.
Mrs. Will's hands out a reading assignment that were supposed to read, and instructs us to write a three page article about. Yippee for me.
The final bell rings, signaling the end of my second first day at school, and I begin picking up my things. I'm actually surprised when I see Sora standing at the door, looking as if he's waiting on someone. I walk up beside him and show a small smile, as he bows down as to escort me out the door-what a gentleman! We walk down the hallway together until we get to my locker, which somehow Sora already knows where is, since he stops and leans against one of the lockers that neighbor mine.
"Hey," I say, leaning against my locker as he looks over at me with a smile, "thanks for walking me to my locker, and being really nice to me today. You boys sure know how to pamper a girl."
He smiles even bigger, which makes him so much hotter, as he replies, "It's no problem, after all, you are new, wouldn't want a pretty girl like you ending in the wrong part of school, am I right?"
I give a quick nod, and a little laugh, "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Sora bites down on his flawless looking lips, before giving me a quick wink, "See you later, MJ."
I give him a breathless smile, as he calls me by the nickname he had given me earlier, " Nice meeting you too Sora."
With that he brushes past me, making my body turn with him to watch as he strolls down the hall. He walks down a little ways, until he gets to Riku, who was also watching him come down the hallway-only, I don't think Riku looked as happy as I was. No, Riku looked pissed. I see start talking to Sora with an angry look smeared on his face, his hands giving off some gestures as his posture looks strict. Sora then looks to say something back to the boy, causing Riku to slams his locker and start in the direction that I was still at. I quickly get back to opening my locker as he walks past, not even acknowledging me, which for the moment I'm okay with. I wouldn't like to be the next guy who bumped into Riku. I quickly undo my locker combination, and try to pull open the rust door, but it doesn't budge. I grab into the lock and pull hard a couple of times, but still, nothing happens.
"Damn thing." I mutter, as I attempt to try and yank the stupid lever again.
"Need some help sugar?"
I turn, almost colliding into Lea's face, because he is clearly, way too close for comfort-if i had to be honest. I quickly take a step back as he leans against my neighbor's locker, his body almost forming a small cage around me, as I try not to look at him directly in the eye.
"Um actually, I think I got it." I try to say as politely as possible, while I can now feel his breathe push up against the skin of my neck and face.
I grab onto the lock and pull with all my might, but the damn thing won't open still! That's great.
"Step aside," he pushes me to the side, and grabs onto the locker, he puts his left foot against the bottom and pulls up, his muscular arms becoming tense and hard. The locker makes a noise and swings open, just as Lea releases it. "Ta da."
"Oh my god, thank you." I turn to him, while trying to grab my backpack that easily slides out into my arms. Clearly in the moment of relief, I forgot how creeped out i was of the guy-the only thing I wanted to do was thank him as much as I could.
He smirks, "You're welcome Kairi, mind if I walk with you outside?"
"Well, you do deserve a reward." I sigh, closing my locker with a bang, as we begin down the hallway. We pass Sora, who was leaning against, what I would presume to be, his locker now-looking as if he was waiting for another person-when he spots the two of us walking together. He shoots Lea an almost snarling look, which Lea just brushes off, as if he wasn't bother at all by Sora's glare.
After walking past Sora, now heading down the stairs, Lea decides the ask the obvious question on his mind, "So you and Sora huh?"
"We're not actually dating," I wave my hands out infront of me, "we've just met, and he has a girlfriend."
He hops off the last stair, quickly turning towards me with a smirky smile, "Yeah, but Sora always seems to get what he wants-if you're picking up what I'm putting down."
"What?" I ask confusingly, as we continue down the main hallway, Lea taking larger steps than me while I try to catch up with him, "Do you have a problem with Sora, or something?"
"Me? Have a problem with Sora? Pssssh, of course not." Lea wraps an arm around me, putting me in a tight side embrace, once again, "I'm just looking out for you Kairi. You new here, and you don't know about the any of the people you have met today. Just listen to me, you're in extreme danger-"
"Ok, enough bullshit." I growl, pushing his arm off of me, as I take a step back away from the buy, "I don't care what you have to say, I literally just met you like two hours ago, and you're already telling me things that I don't care to hear. Sorry not sorry, but I have my own problems to deal with besides you antagonizing me."
"Kairi, you've got to listen to me-"
"Shut up! Just leave me the hell alone, you stupid bast-"
"Kairi!" A voice shouts behind me, causing me to jolt around to see Roxas walking with Sora towards my direction. "What's going on, I heard you shouting."
Sora comes up and walks in between Lea and I, my eyes catching on Sora's hands, as he squeezes both in a tight ball, his arm muscles bulging out. Roxas quickly takes my hand, and pulls me away from the two, leading me away from the scene and out the front door of the school.
"What were you thinking Kairi? Naminé warned us not to mess with that Lea guy, and now, here you are walking with him having a not-so-quiet conversation." Roxas asks with his teeth tightly clenched, as he released my hand from his sweaty grip.
My nerves kick on, and I can feel my defensive mood turn on from 'somewhat annoyed', "Hey! He helped me open my locker, and then he asked me if he could walk out with me. What's the big deal?"
"What's the big deal! Kairi!" Roxas shouts grabbing his head in his hands, as I slam my own hand onto my forehead.
"Hey, you guys okay?" Sora asks coming out of the school, as Roxas tries to recover his quick meltdown.
I nod, "Yeah, we're fine." causing Roxas almost go crazy, on how calmly I said it.
Before Roxas can say anything though, Sora starts walking and calls back to him, "You coming, Roxas?"
"Wait," I ask confused, not getting where the "you coming, Roxas?" had came from, "YOu're who Roxas is hanging out with tonight?"
Sora nods, "Yup, is there a problem with that?"
I shake my hands in front of me, "No! Not at all, I just thought it'd be someone-yanno-different."
"Well, it's not." Roxas grouches at me, as he runs to catch up with Sora, shouting over his shoulder, "Later, Kai."
I awkwardly stand there, still trying to figure out what the hell just happened, when something else pops into my head.
"I wonder what Lea meant by me noting knowing about any of the people I met today?" No, no, that was a stupid thought. Lea was just a weirdo, and I was just psyching myself out. Of course I didn't know those people, I had just met them. You have nothing to worry about Kairi, absolutely nothing. Nothing.