chapter one - introduction

quick note and disclaimor: This first chapter is a bit dull, but it'll get better I promise! And I do not own any of the characters or the game or all that jazz so please read on! :)

dedication: zestychicken2, this is for you, thanks for inspiring me to write something again, i'm actually really liking this story so far and hope that you do :)

She opens up the blinds to let some light in her small two room apartment. Her nightshirt tucks underneath her knees as she sits on her bed watching out the window at all the people hustling about despite how early it is. She looks at her running shoes on the floor and thinks that maybe she should go out for a jog, just to get a closer feel for everything, after all she didn't have to be to work for another two hours. She yawns, brushes her hair behind her ears, and walks into her bathroom, grabbing a ponytail and pulling almost every blonde peice back. Her day was routine, it was this every morning, and would remain that way till something or somebody came along to change it; so far that didn't appear to be happening anytime soon.

She hears the door open in the background but she isn't alarmed. She knows it's just Kairi, here to try and force some weekend plans down her throat in attempt to make her life a little more exciting; she usually went with, but the excitment always fizzled before it even started.

"Namine!" the redhead calls, noticing her shoes still on the ground, and the bed still unmade which was a sure sign that she was still around.

Namine cracks open the door, "In here!" She shoves a toothbrush in her mouth and starts scrubbing.

"Good morning!" Kairi waves at her, "Since you're... busy and can't talk, i'll talk first, do you have any plans for tonight, I do, and I want you to come with?"

Namine spits out the paste and chuckles to herself, "Well i'll have to check my planner to see, aside from my five dates, red carpet event, and huge house party, I think I'm pretty much free."

"Ha, ha!" her friend laughs sarcastically, "Since you're not too busy, I guess you'll have to come with me!"

Namine groans knowing what this could lead in to, "To where? To do what? Please say over to your house to watch a movie, or maybe get a nice cup of coffee and talk about mindless stuff, or, or something like that?"

"Actually... I thought we should meet up with some friends! You don't have to do anything, or pay for anything, just bring your cute little butt over to my house in a cute little cocktail dress, like..." Kairi runs over to her friends closet and starts throwing clothes onto the floor.

"You better reorganize that in the correct way!" Namine yells, grabbing the clothes as they fly through mid air, carefully brushing out the wrinkles in each shirt, sweater, and dress.

"Like this!" Kairi holds up a sexy little dress that had been buried behind various other clothes in Namine's closet.

Namine smacks her forehead. She may have struck a lot of people as a prude, but she really wasn't, she just didn't want to look like a hooker everywhere that she went; she didn't like attracting the wrong attention, or any for that matter. All of her good friends did enough of that to go around so it was easy for her to hang back and just watch them, that was enough fun for Namine. She was in no way ugly, in fact she was pretty cute, but she always came in second best because she lacked personality compared to Kairi.

"Depends on where we are going!" Namine sternly says, as she pulls empty hangers out from the closet and starts replacing their missing garments.

"A party... this guy I met just moved into his new place so he said to come over and bring a few friends! Come on Nami, save me from getting raped by some strange man, you're like my wing women in this!" Kairi started to beg, her eyes doubling in size, and her bottom lip starting to quiver.

Namine sighed dramatically, "Only because I don't want to hear about you tomorrow on the news talking about how you were cut into peices and thrown into an alley."

Kairi claps her hands together and tackles Namine into a hug, "I love you! I expect you to wear that tonight, actually come by after work, and i'll take this with me, and we'll go from there?" Kairi's smile widens, "Have a good day!" As she exits the apartment Namine starts to regret ever giving her a key to get in, sometimes these escapades were a bit too much for so early in the morning.

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Namine walks into work, greeted by two familar faces. She sets her stuff down on her desk and grabs an apron from the rack throwing it over her clothes. The two girls are talking a mile a minute and welcome the blonde into their conversation with open arms, but she has nothing to say on the matter, so she just grabs a bag of icing and starts frosting one of the pans of cooled cupcakes and listens to them. She finds it interesting how melodramatic these two girls are, always worked up about petty things, mindlessly complaining instead of enjoying themselves like they should be. It reminds her why they're only work friends and not outside friends, she couldn't listen to them bitch for any longer then she does.

She hears the bell ring in the front of the store and sets down her icing, walking out to the register to start taking some orders. Her day is beginning, and honestly, she's actually looking forward to the party tonight. Although it will probably end up with her sipping sugary beverages while munching on way too many carbs, not dancing away the building calories, and then going home feeling like a whale, she ponders the thought of something actually exciting happening, and really, it could happen.

quick note: you made it! hope it wasn't too bad, it was just the introduction, this actually has a plot and interesting things will happen like in the next chapter, i promise :) review please?