Warnings - Implied use of the F-word

Chapter 42

Calixa walked into the kitchen for breakfast an hour late as usual. Everyone was eating... But something was off. In her seat beside Neox, was Xacrrie! She marched over to where they were sitting. "Um Neox?" she asked him.

"Morning Cali," he greeted, and then took a bite of his cereal.

"Neox do you find something off about this?" she asked motioning with her head toward Xacrrie.

"What do you mean?" he asked, confused.

"Someone has taken my seat," she hissed out of the corner of her mouth.

"Oh, Xac? Well you got here late, so I figured she could just sit there."

Jealously burned inside Calixa, "Oh I see," she said coldly.

"Something... Wrong?" he asked looking sincerely confused.

"Nope everything is just peachy!" with that she stalked off, and sat on the opposite end of the table.

Neox starred for a moment before shrugging and resuming his meal. From the other end of the table Calixa watched them laugh and share there food. She and Neox used to do that, until she had to go on this stupid diet. After a few moments of talking, she couldn't stand it anymore, so she just stood up and teleported out of the room. Neox didn't take notice.

A few hours later, Calixa was walking down the hall. Neox had gotten a mission, but she had the day off herself. She was having hateful thoughts toward a certain blonde girl. Speak of the devil, Xacrrie was walking down the hall a bit in front of Calixa. The cogs in her mind started to turn as she thought of something mean to do to get back at her for stealing Neox. Without a word, she walked over to the girl, who took no notice of her. Calixa slowed down and held her breath as she approached Xacrrie, and then she did the first thing she could think of.

The sound of buzzing bee's was suddenly heard. Xacrrie screamed and lunged forward, covering her head with her hands to stave off the threat. Calixa smirked, and opened a portal, going through fast. Calixa reappeared in her room and burst out laughing. She now had a new goal; to make Xacrrie's life as miserable as possible. Calixa quickly rolled away the rug on her floor, and moved the loose floorboard which hid her diary. "It was worth it," she spoke to the voice lock and opened it up.

A few hours later, at dinner, everyone was eating as usual. Calixa had managed to sit next to Neox this time, but Xacrrie had sat on the other side of the boy and was taking all his attention. Calixa might as well should have been not in the room at all. The carrot head played around with her food before getting an idea. She finished the meal quickly then walked out of the kitchen. Neox once again took no notice. Calixa then used her power to make an extremely loud, extremely rude sound of flatulence and made it sound like it came from Xacrrie.

"Carrie! Sentímolo-se," Bàli scolded her sister in Gaelic.

All eyes were on the young Scottish girl, who was beat red. "Th-that wasn't me!" she said defensively.

Neox started laughing. Then, everyone else followed, bursting out with laughter as the young girl sunk in her seat. Calixa who was peaking through the doorway smiled triumphantly. After dinner, they were all in the gray area. Calixa simply decided to skip going there. Xacrrie was still embarrassed about what had happened at dinner, "I'm tellin ye I didnae do it," she was telling Neox.

"Its okay, hun. Everyone does it sometimes," he assured her.

The blonde sighed, giving up on convincing him. Calixa, meanwhile, was planning a great trap in Xacrrie's room. She smiled as she admired her work. Xacrrie's shoes were now effectively filled with honey and glue, while her coats had lumps of coal between the seams, which Calixa fixed with sewing kit after she was done. Once satisfied that everything was ready, she teleported out.

"I better shower," she said to herself seeing as her hands were now covered with black coal stains.

The next day at breakfast, Xacrrie wasn't there.

"I wonder were she is?" Neox asked worriedly looking around at the doorway.

A few minutes after Calixa had come, Xacrrie walked in, wearing her pajamas. "Number eighteen you are out of uniform," Xemnas predictably said.

"Sorra sairrr, mah clase waur ruined," she whined making it hard for her to be understood.

"O que pasou coas súas roupas?" Bàli asked.

Xacrrie responded and Xero tapped Bàli shoulder. "Aye?" she asked him.

"What did you say and what did she say?"

"I jist asked 'er wat happen tae 'er clothes, and she say someone put col in 'er clothes and oney in 'er boots."

"Oh. How'd that happen?"

Bàli shrugged and stood up, "Come Carrie, lets see if we can fix any of your outfits," she said speaking in Gaelic.

Later in the afternoon, Xacrrie was playing marbles by herself, still in her pajamas. Bali, Neox and Xero had missions but she didn't. Sadly for her, neither did Calixa. The carrot head was currently looking in her diary for more idea's. She was walking down a hallway, but stopped when she saw Xacrrie and smirked. She was lying on her belly, not facing Calixa, completely vulnerable

"Ah your too easy," Calixa whispered to herself smirking.

She snuck up behind the younger girl, before grabbing her underwear and wrenching up hard, then putting them over her eyes so she couldn't see. Xacrrie screamed out loudly. Calixa smirked at her childish smiley face panties, before hurrying through a portal.

This continued for the rest of the week, and Calixa was surprisingly getting away with not being seen. "Thes is a bampot! who's daein' thes tae me?" Xacrrie whined, sitting with Neox on the couch.

Neox kept his mouth tightly shut. The pranks were all way too familiar. He knew exactly who was doing it. He just wasn't sure how to handle it. "Neox? Ur ye listenin'?" she asked annoyed.

"Um- yeah I have no idea who's doing it," he quickly replied not wanting a tempered girlfriend on his hands.

"Ur ye lyin?"

"I would never lie to you," Neox smiled at her. "But don't worry, I'll do everything possible to figure out who's doing this, and make them pay."

"Carrie! Veña acá!" Bali called out.

"Benvida!" Xacrrie called back. "Got tae go, talk tae ye later," she said and left.

"Later." Neox replied waving. He waited until he was sure that she was no longer in sight range before teleporting to Calixa's room. Calixa was laying in bed reading something when he came in. "Cali we need to talk," he said coldly.

"About what?" she asked, sitting up. "Let's drag it out. We haven't talked in forever. What with that Scottish b***h taking up your time." she responded, equally cold.

"That's what I want to talk about. I know you pulling endless pranks and making her life miserable," Neox growled, "And dont call her a b***h!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about," she replied sarcastically.

"Come on Cali, leave her alone. What did she ever do to you?"

"How about steal my damn best friend?" she growled before getting up and shoving him out. "No scot lovers welcome!" she said, slamming the door.

Neox's face darkened angrily, "Like I'd want to be friends with something afraid of dirt! Your worse then Bàli! Even she's not pissing her pants over a bit of mud!" he called through the door.

"... F**k off!"

"You should take your own advice Cali, that could do you some good!" Neox yelled. "And stay away from my girlfriend!" with that he walked away fuming.

Calixa sat on the floor of her room in tears, his words had cut deep. For the first time ever, Calixa hated herself. She was suddenly aware of all her faults. It was stupid that she feared dirt so much. She sat and put her hands over her face, crying.

The next day Neox was at breakfast, when Xacrrie came in and sat next to him. "Nae one pranked mi in th' middle of th' night dis time. Maybe whoever it was decided tae bak off," she said to him.

"I bet," he replied, smiling a bit.

All through breakfast Calixa didn't show up. Neox sighed. Maybe he had been a bit too harsh on her. "Ye ok?" Xacrrie asked him, "Ye look kinda down."

"Huh? Yeah, I'm f-fine."

She shrugged it off and continued eating. After Neox finished eating, he went to pay Calixa a visit. He knocked on the door, "Cali?" he called, but no reply came. "Cali," he knocked again, and then opened the door walking in.

The room was empty. "Cali?" he called, then ran out of the room and to the gray area, calling Calixa's name as he went.

"What's wrong Neox?" Roxas asked, as Neox ran toward him.

"I can't find Calixa; she's not in her room and didn't show up to breakfast."

"I saw her heading outside," Roxas replied.

"Do you know where she was going?"

"Not sure. She was looking at the skyscraper funny though."

Neox's blood froze. It couldn't be true, she wouldn't... He immediately opened a portal and ran through. He reappeared at the bottom of memory skyscraper. Calixa wasn't at the bottom and he couldn't see her on the top. "Calixa!" he called looking around.

He got no answer and then looked up before opening a portal to the peak of the building. He walked through and reappeared at the top. Calixa was up there, but didn't look like someone who was about to jump. However she didn't look like she was in a healthy state of mind either. "Cali, what are you doing up here?" he asked.

"I'm just thinking," she replied. What scared Neox the most was how mechanical she sounded.

"Thinking about what? And why do you need to do it on this insanely tall building?" She didn't answer either question. "Calixa this is ridiculous!"

"Why do you care anyway!" her voice suddenly went back to more normal. "You don't need me, you got Xacrrie now."

"What...?" he asked confused. "Y-you're jealous?"

"Not anymore," her voice went to being mechanical. "You don't need someone who's so cowardly they're afraid of dirt..."

"... Calixa, I didn't mean that…" he said, ashamed.

"It doesn't matter if you meant it or not, what matters is that I know it's true. You don't need me, I'm a useless coward."

"Yes I do... You're my best friend..." he said, close to tears.

Neox gasped as Calixa started taking steps closer to the edge. "Someone once told me that you don't need friends when you've found the one..."

"... And just who said that bullcrap?"

The red head was silent for awhile, finally she admitted. "I can't remember," Neox sucked in his breath as she took one more step closer to the edge.

"Then don't believe them!"

"It was something I was told all the time. I didn't believe it until now... Helcopai kotomac enusl," she suddenly trailed off and started speaking another language. She took one more step toward and was now at the edge. If she went forward one more inch, she would fall to her death.

Neox swallowed hard. How he hoped this worked... He ran forward, off the building. Calixa grabbed his arm before it was out of reach, and she went flying on the building as well. They went freefalling for several intense moments, until Neox created a portal beneath them which they both fell through it. Neox started gasping and wheezing for breath when they were on solid ground. "Th-thank heart that it worked..."

Once he got his breathing under control, he looked over at Calixa. She was panting just as heavily, holding her head before punching him hard in his arm. "What the hell was that?"

Neox was speechless. "I-... I just saved your f-ing life!"

"By nearly ending your own damn life?" she scolded. "You're a freakin' idiot!"

"I'm an idiot? Who was the one standing at the edge of the skyscraper speaking gibberish, and about to jump?"

"I was- wait, speaking what?"

"I mean some strange language, it sounded like gibberish."

"There you go again with that bullcrap," Calixa said, rolling her eyes.

"Its not bullcrap its true. One day I'm going to tape-record you," Neox promised, "That is if you're still alive." Calixa was quiet for a moment, "Do you need to be put on suicide watch?" Neox continued after a moment.

"...No... I'm good." she answered.

Xacrrie and Neox were on their way to Calixa's room. "So wat are we doin exactly?" Xacrrie asked him.

"We're going to see Cali. I told you," the boy replied.

"Why do I needa go? I always got de feeling she didnae like mi."

"Well we can change that," Neox assured.

When they reached Calixa's door Neox knocked. Calixa opened the door and gave a confused look, "May I help you?" she asked glaring coldly at Xacrrie.

"Cali, we all got to talk about something," Neox said

"I'm not becoming friends with Bàli," Calixa said at once.

"Wha-? Nobody asked you to!"

Xacrrie however glared, "Wats wrong wit mi sista?" she asked angrily.

"Xac, no arguing," Neox ordered, giving her a look.

Xacrrie just glared at him, but didn't say anything else. They walked in and sat down. "Okay, now listen. Calixa, I want you to open up to Xac and confess everything that's happened. Then tell why you did it," Neox said.

Xacrrie and Calixa still glared at each other. "No way, I'm not saying anything to that pipeblower."

Neox was suddenly holding his keyblade and radiating with darkness. "Either open up or I open you up. You two WILL get along, dammit," he said in an evil tone.

Xacrrie freaked out, but Calixa just glared not afraid of him. "Fine, I will tolerate her, but I refuse to be friends with her sister."

The darkness around him grew and started moving like fire as he turned to her. "Nobody asked you to. Now open the hell up!"

"Fine," Calixa then rudely explained everything she did in the worst possible way. By the time she was finished Xacrrie looked hurt and deeply offended.

"Did you understand?" Neox asked Xacrrie, back to normal but still having his keyblade out.

Xacrrie nodded slowly tears falling from her eyes. Neox hugged her a bit and then looked at Calixa. "Now sum it up in one, polite sentence."

Calixa scoffed, "Would you please not take up all of Neox's time. I'm still his friend too."

Xacrrie looked at her. "Fine," she replied glaring coldly at Calixa.

Neox sighed, yes it looked like his two best friends can barely stand each other, but it was better then nothing.

Well we've probably seen Neox and Calixa's worst argument yet. I guess thats just what love does to you :P

This isn't one of our best, good enough though. Sorry it took so long hopefully it wont be that long before next chapter is up.