A/N: I originally planned for this to just be a oneshot, but then it turned into a two-shot, and now - finally - I'm deciding to turn it into a multi-chaptered fic. I want to try to have regular updates now, something I was so bad at last time I tried a multi-chapter, so let's see if my attention span has gotten better. I just loved this, and couldn't stop writing it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of it's characters.

.:the girl in my algebra class:.

by: shadow vanilla

When you're gone
The pieces of my heart are missing you
When you're gone
The face I came to know is missing too
When you're gone
The words I need to hear to always get me through the day
And make it ok
I miss you

- When You're Gone; Avril Lavigne -

Her name was Kairi.

The girl who always seemed to be so disconnected from everyone else. She never really talked to anyone, and was never focused in class. When I looked over her shoulder in algebra, looking for answers to problem seventeen - she was engrossed in doodling, pictures of giant keys and black cloaked figures and a boy with spiky brown hair and another boy, his hair pure silver.

Who are they? I had asked her one day, when she was drawing the boys again. Only this time they were standing on a beach, spiky-head's hands being held by someone that looked like her, red hair blowing in the breeze.

Riku, she had said with a sad smile, and Sora.

Kairi was an enigma. She was most likely the prettiest girl in the whole school, she didn't have many friends though, but she had guys drooling after her. I saw her in the hallway after school one day, turning down another prospective suitor. And the day after that and the day after that.

Do you already have a boyfriend? I asked her in chemistry one day, after she had turned down a boy before the bell.

We promised each other she had replied,running her fingers over one of the doodles of "Sora."

He's handsome, you know, Sora. I had remembered saying to her after that.

She smiled a little. He is? He's a lazy bum sometimes, but he's my knight in shining armor.

The next day in History she invited me to sit next to her.

Riku's back, she said said, her voice happy for a moment before falling, and Sora didn't come home.

Is he okay?

Kairi seemed upset, and was trying her hardest not to show it – I don't know.

Her doodle in class that day was Sora giving her a paopu fruit. I remember glancing at it at the end of class, and seeing tiny pilps of water on it.

She had been crying.

Our houses were close together, so I offered to walk home with her. Halfway there though, she had stopped, and glanced out to sea at an island in the distance.We used to play there every day, me and Sora and Riku. Just the three of us, no one else.

Where's Sora now?I had asked, truly wanting to know where the boy who had so much effect over the otherwise ice queen Kairi.

Saving us all, had been her definite reply.

She tilted her head up to the sky and said,

Come home soon, you promised remember?

I thought to myself, Sora, you'd better get you're butt back here, Kairi is waiting.