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Chapter 6: "Jealous Celebrations"
Kairi sighed and flung yet another shirt over her shoulder, onto the bed. She placed her hands on her hips and turned angrily to face the already towering pile of clothes upon her mattress.
The party was in three hours precisely. It was to be just a casual welcome home sort of party, nothing at all formal, and Kairi usually would have felt it easy to find a suitable outfit. After all, she had spent the last year hardly noticing what she put on in the mornings, and certainly not caring what other people thought. But suddenly all her clothes seemed too skimpy, too loose, or just too childish to wear tonight.
'How the hell did I get so many clothes?'
Kairi exhaled deeply and let herself fall backwards onto the soft garments that covered her bed. She felt angry at herself. She wasn't like this. Selphie was the kind of girl who got worked up over clothing, not her. What was wrong with her?
Kairi's mind wandered, and in a moment she was reflecting on that morning again. She smiled softly, a slight blush spreading over her cheeks. Closing her eyes, she could still remember the pounding of her heart while he held her; her racing pulse as he moved closer and closer…
Kairi frowned through her daydream. "Dammit Selph…" she murmured quietly, "Why couldn't you have waited? Chiyo wasn't that important… he could have met her tonight…like Madoka…"
That's right. Sora would meet Madoka in just a few hours. Kairi smiled at that thought. Oh dear - Sora was definitely in for a shock. Kairi giggled, but on the inside, she was worried. Worried about the harm Madoka could cause with only a few careless words or gestures. Thinking of the worst, Kairi dreaded the party, and felt a surge of frustration at Madoka for being what she was.
Kairi sighed, and blocked both Selphie and Madoka from her thoughts, allowing her mind to wander blissfully on those precious seconds before Selphie trespassed on their secret cave.
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Kairi's eyes flickered open, and she sighed happily. She could easily remember every detail of her dream, and doing so, blushed again.
'Sora…'
Shifting uncomfortably, Kairi realised she'd been sleeping on a heap of clothing.
'What the …?'
Kairi clamped a hand over her mouth as she remembered. Clothes for the party!
'Dammit!'
How could she have just fallen asleep like that? Cursing her sleeping habits, Kairi flung herself out of bed, bringing a few items of clothing with her, and sprinted over to her dresser, grabbing her alarm clock.
6:37 PM
The red-head heaved a sigh of relief. So she still had a bit of time. But she'd have to hurry, especially with the next task ahead of her: actually deciding on an outfit, instead of throwing them around the room.
'No more fooling around,' she told herself irritably, turning to the crumpled pile on her bed.
With another glance at the clock, she hurriedly picked out a pair of casual jeans. Nothing she was content with, but it would have to do.
'At least it's not a skanky mini-skirt …' she thought to herself consolingly. She paused for a moment, trying to imagine the look on Sora's face in he'd seen her in one of those…
Grinning and shaking her head, she grabbed a few, less crumpled, different coloured shirts and held them one after the other up to herself in thought. Her eyebrow twitched.
"Why do I only ever look good in one colour?" she thought angrily, throwing her hands up in frustration.
"White it is then!" she called out in triumph, and spun around in front of the mirror.
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Later…
Kairi sipped routinely from her glass, and looked sleepily around at the crowd. Practically the whole of the island had turned up at the mention of a party, even those who hardly knew what it was for. They loved an excuse for celebrating. With so many people around, she and Selphie had retreated to a small group of trees further up the shoreline than the main party, which was held on the beach of the mainland.
As Selphie began yet another predictable sentence, Kairi again glanced around and tried to block out Selphie's droning voice. She'd heard the story a million times before, and Selphie never got tired of telling it in her annoyingly hyper tone.
"So yeah and then Kai ran up and got me and I was like 'Oh mah gawd!' 'cos I mean it's been years since that last happened!" At this point she paused to wink happily at Kairi. "And then later we woke them up and they couldn't remember like, anything about where they came from, or..."
Sora was looking very interested, and kept nodding her on. Kairi rolled her eyes.
'Typical Keyblade Master…'
"… well Chiyo had a bit of a weird memory," Selphie continued, "but it doesn't tell us anything about where they're from ... just an island of some kind… Sora what do you think? 'Cos I mean you've been like everywhere! I mean, Kairi told us about your…" Selphie trailed off, looking expectant.
Sora blinked, looking as though he'd caught about three words in the whole speech.
"Uhhh…"
Kairi turned to him disinterestedly. Could he really know something about were the two newcomers came from? There was a lot he'd learned in the past year, and a lot of that knowledge had changed him as well. Selphie's eyes lit up in anticipation.
"Ooooooh, how? How? Tell meeeeeee! How'd they get here? Soraaaaaaaa!"
But Sora did not answer. His eyes were gazing, spellbound, past Selphie into the crowd behind her.
"Wha…" Selphie turned.
"Oh no…"
Sora stared, open-mouthed, as a girl strode into their midst.
Kairi turned as well, and felt like smacking Sora for the look on his face. Well, at least she'd known it would happen.
The girl was very thin, and wore an extremely low cut sleeveless shirt over her slim figure. A short, tight mini skirt partly hid her slender legs, which donned a pair of high-heeled leather thigh boots. To top it off, her long black hair hung quite seductively over her deep green eyes, which now glanced around at the company before her.
Hey Selph, Kai, haven't seen ya in a while! You know you ought to come visit us more often! Just because we live over the other side doesn't mean you can neglect us!" She nodded at them, then grinned around at Sora.
"Sora, I presume?" she asked, smirking.
Sora blinked.
"Yes," Kairi answered for him, frowning.
"Jeez Sora, get over her…" she thought jealously.
Selphie laughed. "Sora, this is Madoka Maboroshi!" she smiled cheerfully, introducing her the same way she had with Chiyo.
"Nice to meet 'cha, Sora!"
"… hi…" Sora said weakly.
"So you're the almighty Keyblade Master, eh? Skilled at swordplay, a quick mind, eh? Kairi's told us all about you!" she smirked, "And by the way," she nudged Kairi, and her voice dropped to a loud whisper, "He's just as cute as you said he was!"
Kairi went brick red and stared at the floor, finally understanding the feeling of wanting to disappear into the floor. Everyone had heard that. Why did Madoka have to be so damn outright?
Madoka winked at Sora, who just blinked cluelessly again, completely lost. He wasn't used to having so many girls around, or at least, girls who acted like this. In the back of his mind he suddenly appreciated Kairi's personality.
Madoka suddenly stopped, and looked up, her eyes caught on something in the crowd. She looked intrigued.
"Oooh, who's that?"
Kairi turned just in time to see a lock of silvery hair disappear into the crowd. She rolled her eyes.
"Come on Selph, you can introduce me!" giggled Madoka, "Better leave these two alone, eh?" she winked at Sora again, and skipped off with Selphie.
"Bye Sora!"
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Sora stared after them.
"She's…"
Kairi's eyes widened, and she turned fearlessly to face him.
"…weird."
Kairi snorted, and put her hands on her hips, looking scornfully at him.
"What's with you?"
"Huh?"
Kairi looked at him hurtfully. "I'm going to get another drink," she waved her empty glass at him.
"Bye."
A/N: Once again, so sorry for the shortness, and strangeness...just the beginning of the party and introducing Madoka… who now that I think about it, is kind of like Yuffie. Haha. How useful.
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