Original Summary: Sora and Kairi are teenagers that have nothing to do with each other besides that one motorcycle ride. So why does Kairi's heart keep thumping every time she sees him? And why does Sora keep defending her? Only if they knew how important they going to be to each other in the future...things wouldn't have turned out like it did. SoKai and a little Roxette

Note: I wrote this while hearing, "Teardrops on my Guitar" by Taylor Swift. It's a AWESOME song, and I highly recommend you hear it…the lyrics match exactly to how I'm feeling right now…Okay, I will stop babbling now and continue.

Warning: I'm having a break from happy, funny stories…I don't know why(wait…yeah I do…) I feel so emo, and writing a story that's going to be as emo as me right now…

Updated Note (10/18/08): Okay, yeah. So I'm rewriting chapter 1-7 right now, because I think they're pretty crappy…so this is the new chapter one! I hope this one is tons better than the older one. I thought it was…and I'm listening to "American Boy" right now actually….LOL.

Disclaimer: I'm not anyone, just someone who had their heart broken…Smashed…Cracked…I'll stop now…

Chapter 1- Meeting You

The crimson haired beauty stared blankly at the outside world. The sun was shining brightly, it's rays protruding happily through the tightly closed glass window. It warmed her up, despite the cold winter temperature. Ignoring the fact that she had to head out to school in about five minutes and her friend would be screaming at her to hurry and come out of the house, she just kept staring. She had a feeling something big was going to happen- she felt unusually obnoxious. She closed her eyes, letting the sun bathe her in warmness. It was nice to just…

"Kairi!" an annoying voice screamed impatiently out her name. "Hurry up! We're going to be late…again!" She was right on cue.

Kairi sighed, collecting all her books and essentials for school. School was ridiculous in her opinion, so routine. Especially high school. At least in middle school everyday there was a different schedule. In here, it was the same old, same old. Everyday she would have Math, English, French, followed by Lunch (who was the brilliant one who decided that juniors would have lunch at 11:15?), Double Physics or Gym, Music, AP Euro, and then Numbers in Our Lives. Yeah, she was the unfortunate one who was stuck with math as her elective. Point and laugh, point and laugh.

Kairi took unplugged her charging iPod from her laptop, and rapidly looked for the earphones. She chugged down a glass of orange juice, put on her glow-in-the-dark monkey Converses, and headed out the door.

"Gosh, Selphie." Kairi complained, as she stepped out of her house making sure she locked it tightly. "Could you have been any more louder?"

"I thought it was going to be another century before you came down!" Selphie exclaimed, shaking her hands in agony for emphasis.

Kairi did nothing but stick out her tongue in reply. "Stop exaggerating!"

"I am not!" Selphie argued, rolling her eyes. Kairi rolled her crystal blue with violet speckled eyes back at her friend's emerald ones in a goofy way. Selphie saw her, and started to laugh hysterically. Kairi laughed as well, and they both started to laugh like insane girls who needed a home…pronto.

For two couple of sixteen year olds, they sure didn't act like it.

They then linked their arms together happily and walked down to their huge school, Destiny High. It was literally the school where anything and everything happened. Like those cliché high schools in movies, their high school had cliques too. There were the druggies, the jocks, the popular girls, the gossips, the pimps, the nerds, the outcast, the invisibles, and just the plain losers. Selphie was one of the gossips, Kairi was in between being either an invisible, a nerd, or a loser. It was a wonder why such a popular girl like Selphie hung out with Kairi. Maybe it was because they were friends for four years now? Kairi's chain of thoughts were interrupted by Selphie halting to a sudden stop.

"Oh my god! Oops!" Selphie suddenly screamed. Kairi rose her eyebrows in confusion.

"What…?" Kairi asked, not certain she really wanted to know.

"I just remembered I have to go and do something! I'm so sorry!" Selphie cried out, shaking her head in thought. "Walk to school by yourself today, okay?" Selphie pleaded, before unlinking her arms from Kairi. Before Kairi could ask, she was already sprinting back home.

Kairi sighed in annoyance, as her breath created a cloud of visible air in the icy winter morning. Typical Selphie. Always forgetting "something". Instead of going back to chase Selphie like she did a year ago, she gracefully took out her iPod and turned on some classy music. She walked towards the direction of her school, noticing every small thing around her. When she got to the corner of her street to the entrance of a bridge, she stopped dead on her tracks.

What was….was that what she thought it was?

She cautiously got closer to mysterious brown object, as a million thoughts ran through her head. What the hell was he doing here? She widened her eyes as she saw him taking out a shovel…was he burying a dead body? He never did have a great reputation…

Kairi turned off her player, as she got closer and closer to him. Her heart thumped the closer she got…what was he…

Of course, a rock had to be in the way when she was walking and being the clumsy person she was, she tripped on it and bumped right into him. She fell right into his strong arms and he held onto her tightly. When she snapped her eyes open, she was staring right back at a mischievous pair of sapphire blue eyes. His eyes were sexy…very sexy…

Kairi widened her eyes when she realized what kind of situation she was in, and snapped out of the hypnosis his beautiful eyes cast on her. She stumbled to stand up straight, and she could see from the corner of her eyes that he was chuckling softly. She felt her face splash a red color upon her pale white skin.

"What's so…" she started, before her throat grew dry and no words could come out her mouth. This was the first time she ever saw him so close; he was always far away or never at school in general. He was the hottest, sexiest, and perfect boy she had ever seen in her sixteen years of living. It wasn't just his breathtaking lucid ultramarine eyes that made him look so…delicious. He had spiky chestnut colored hair that went great with his pale white skin, he had just the right amount of muscle on his arms (he rolled his sleeves up, his hands were dirty from the dirt), his jaw line was right into place-- his face was a perfect oval shape, and his punk clothes matched him perfectly.

"What's so what…?" he asked, not once taking his eyes off of her dazed ones. Oh, and he had the most seducing, deep yet not too deep voice.

"I…I meant…" Kairi stuttered, desperate to make out complete sentences without trying to sound like an idiot. "I meant what are you doing? With a shovel and everything?" she finally made out. She sighed in relief when he didn't stare at her like she was some unidentified object or something along those categories.

He smiled a cocky smile, as he picked up the dropped shovel from the muddy ground.

"I'm planting flowers!" he told her casually, like it was the most normal thing to do in the middle of the winter when the soil was hard, cracked, and unfertile.. Kairi stared at him like he belonged in an asylum.

"But…but flowers don't grow in the middle of winter!" Kairi sputtered. What the hell was wrong with this kid?!

"How do you know?~" he sing-songed, as he started to hum while digging up holes to plant seeds into the rocky ground. "Anything can happen!"

"Every hot guy has his flaws, Kairi, and being a dumbass is probably his flaw…" Kairi mumbled to herself, reasoning out the story behind why he was planting flowers at such a unfitting climate.

"What did you say?" he asked her curiously, as he stared back into her puzzled ones. Her heart skipped a beat when he turned around. He was so cute…

She shook her head, as she replied "Nothing…"

He smiled at her-- she was seriously about to melt into a puddle if he kept up his cuteness- and asked her, "Wanna help?"

Kairi shook her head in a disapproving manner, but sat down next to him. He smelled like a minty peppermint candy…

"Take out those seeds out of the bag, and drop three to four seeds into the hole I just dug up." he ordered.

Kairi took the seed bags, and started at it curiously.

"…Roses?" she asked, before looking queerly at him. "Uhm…sorry to break it to you, but roses barely grow in the Spring-- when the soil is actually fertile. Do you seriously think that they're going to grow in the winter?"

"Anything can happen!" he chirped back happily, before smiling his trademark goofy grin. This boy was a broken record…she was ready to punch him in the face for acting like an idiot, if it wasn't for his heart melting smiles.

"Sure…why not." Kairi snorted back, before taking out the small seeds and dropping them into the hole he dug up like he commanded her to.

"Oh yeah!" he suddenly said. "I never asked you what your name was! What is it?" he cheerfully asked in curiosity.

"K…Kairi?" she replied. How did he not know her name? They were in the same English class…he was known for being a druggie and a popularette. Every girl that had eyes were crazy over him. Kairi never saw him so close up in English partially because he was never there and partially because he sat in the back, which was why she never did like him all that much. She thought he was way too overrated. But now she saw why he was…he was actually everything all the girls were talking and going crazy about.

"Oh! You're the girl in my English class, right?" he asked suddenly, looking carefully at her face. He actually noticed her?

"Y…yeah! You…you noticed?" she asked. Kairi could feel her face heating up despite the freezing winter temperature.

"Of course! You're really quiet…but I remember you because you had that amazing unique strawberry straight red hair!" Kairi blushed, as she touched her red hair. Strawberry red? That was a new one…

"And…and you're Sora." she confidently said. He did nothing but nod back in reply, absorbed into his gardening. "How come…how come you're never in English class?" she asked. It was a question she had in her head for a while now.

"School is boring…life is boring." he flatly said, filling up the empty hole back with soil.

'And planting roses in the middle of a cold winter is fun?' she thought. She had to admit though, he was right. School WAS boring. She always did the same things, ate the same things, said the same things. It was like her whole life was a schedule; never was there some kind of change. It was always the same.

"Besides, there's a sort of stalker-ish girl that sort of follows me around everywhere…" he added, once again interrupting her link of thoughts.

"Stalker-ish?" Kairi thought in her head, but not out loud. Sora started to pat the ground, as he took out a bottle to water the plants.

"Anyways", Kairi said, breaking the suddenly deadly silence. "Why are you planting roses in the middle of the winter?"

"Because. My mom used to love roses. She'd plant them all the time when she was still alive. She'd plant them in this exact spot every winter. I told her that they'll never grow…and they never did. But she was stubborn, and still planted them every winter." he explained, his eyes not wavering once in emotion. He was someone who bottled up his hidden feelings very well-- it was all due to many experiences and situations that required him to shut his feelings up from everyone.

"Oh…I'm sorry…I didn't know…" Kairi replied, suddenly feeling very lame. Here she was, thinking he was some mental kid when all he wanted was to express his love for his bother. God, did she feel like a bitch.

"No, it's okay really. She's probably in a better place now." he reassured her. "I want to plant roses every winter, just to show her that I'll never forget her." He was sweet and caring too. What didn't this boy have?

"Why…why did she die?" she asked, unsure if it was the right thing to ask that the moment.

"Cancer. It was incurable." He neutrally replied. He didn't seem at all wavering or sad. Why was he willing to tell her all this anyways? Weird…

There was a complete silence after that, and only the winter winds blowing harshly in her face kept her in company.

Sora then suddenly stood up, startling Kairi.

"Anyways, I think this is good." he smiled. He patted the ground down one more time, and sprinkled some water on top of the hard and rocky ground. Sora held out his dirty hands to help her up, and she took them happily as she blushed a furious deep dark red color.

"Yeah…besides, I better be getting to school now." Kairi agreed, shaking out all the dirt from her skirt.

"Haha. A hour late?" he laughed, looking at his watch.

"WHAT?!" Kairi yelled out in both disbelief and worry. She looked at the watch on her wrist. He wasn't lying. How did time pass so quickly?

"Oh stop panic-ing. So you're a hour late for school, it's not the end of the world. Here, wear this." Sora replied, tossed a helmet at her. He unlocked his motorcycle from a chain.

"What…why?" she inquired, looking at the electric blue helmet she was holding.

"Well, aren't you late? I'll take you there. Destiny High, right? It's ten blocks away from here. I'll give you a ride." Sora bluntly said, clicking his own deep sea blue helmet on.

Kairi just kept on staring at it the helmet is disbelief. Was it even legal to drive the motorcycle at his age?

"What's wrong?" Sora questioned, looking into the face of an auburn haired beauty. A million thoughts ran into his head at the moment, how was it that he never noticed her that much in school? She was gorgeous with silky smooth hair, milky white skin, and beautiful blue eyes with a tint of violet melted into them.

"No…nothing. Just surprised that this helmet isn't pink and has roses all over it." Kairi teased, sticking her tongue out in a childish way.

"Haha. That was so funny, I forgot to laugh." Sora replied unhappily, as his previous thoughts faded. "You do that one more time I leave without you…and you're late as it is." He boldly threatened, tapping his watch as a reminder.

"Okay, okay!" Kairi pleaded, putting on her helmet and sat on the back seat of his motorcycle.

"I go pretty fast, so you might want to hold on." Sora warned her.

"Huh?" Kairi didn't hear the last sentence he just said. She was busy thinking about the always wondered how it felt to be riding a motorcycle, she envied those who had the experience before. Getting on the motorcycle with a hot stranger (well, not really stranger, but yeah…)! Talk about exciting!

"Good." Sora nodded, not really paying attention to the lost girl, while turning on his engine.

Sora wasn't joking. It seemed like he was in a contest, a speed racing contest. Kairi had no choice but to hold onto Sora's waist, which made her blush every time she thought about it. They knew each other for like what, an hour?

"ARE YOU OKAY! WE'RE ALMOST THERE!" Sora's voice cried out above the roaring sound of the engine.

"WHAT?!!" Kairi yelled back, annoyed by the loud roaring of the engine.

Sora turned around the corner, down the block, and after what seemed like 5 minutes, there was the sight of Destinies High.

Kairi got out of the motorcycle as fast as possible. She hastily took of her helmet and shoved it into Sora's hands. Her stick straight hair fizzed up, making her look like a total mess.

"ThankyousomuchIcan'treplayyouenough!" she said, before running to the huge gates of Destinies High.

Sora looked at her as she walked into the huge gates and then smiled when she almost fell on a rock that was in the way.

"Maybe I should…" Sora started to say, slowly turning off his motorcycle and parking it in the lot.

"…go to school today?"

"You WHAT?!" Selphie practically screamed out, so everyone in the whole cafeteria could hear.

"I mean…he was nice and…" Kairi started, a little flustered that it was such a big deal to Selphie that she hung out with a popular kid for a hour or two.

"That's not the point! The point is not that you were hanging around with a dude you met for one day! The point is that you were hanging around with a dude named SORA!" Selphie yelled, extending to "Sora" part for exaggeration.

"Huh?" Kairi looked at Selphie with a confused face. So what if he was popular? What was this, some kind of lame cliché drama when a girl and guy couldn't be friends because he was popular and she was a loser?

"You better watch out for him, Kairi." Selphie warned. " I'm telling you as a friend…but he's dangerous."

"He was planting roses, Selphie!" Kairi argued back, very annoyed now. Why did she have to have such a drama queen for a best friend?

"Those roses could've been poisonous for all you know!" Selphie retorted back.

"THEY WERE ROSES!" Kairi finally screamed loudly-- something she didn't do often. She was often a quiet person, but she had her limits. And Selphie just broke one of them.

"POISONOUS ROSES!" Selphie screamed back. Selphie was always a loud person, and just had to have the last say in things.

By this time, they were both red in the faces and the whole cafeteria had turned their attention to them. They realized and then shut up.

"I heard he skips school all the time, and had multiple girlfriends at one time!" Selphie narrowed her eyes. "You can tell, by those ridiculously gangster looking spikes! I heard the only thing that he wants is…every girl's virginity."

Kairi gave Selphie a cuckoo sign. He was planting roses for Pete's sake! And although he did cut…he didn't seem any dangerous. In fact, he seemed really nice and caring…

"But that's not all…" Selphie whispered. But before Selphie could finish, a blonde chick had made her way through the cafeteria and right in front of their table, flashing off her new Ann Taylor outfit.

"I see you've been trying hard to fit in, Kairi." Naminé smiled her million dollar smile.

Naminé, the average beauty queen, little Miss Perfect every school has. Blonde hair, big crystal blue eyes, slender body, she gave off an angelic look. Need to say more? She was every guy's dream…and more.

"What?" Kairi choked on her turkey sandwich she finally got around to eating. What was today? National annoy-the-hell-out-of-Kairi day? Naminé and Kairi were never on good terms, although Kairi wasn't that sure why they weren't. Was it because their cliques were opposites, like day and night? Kairi never really knew the real reason why Naminé hated Kairi so much, considering she never did anything to Naminé at all…

Kairi brushed away her recap of freshman and sophomore year, moving on to the bigger problem standing in front of her. What did the anorexic spoiled brat want from her this time?

"Sora and Kairi, riding a motorcycle together-- it's all over the school. Is it true?" Naminé questioned, as she picked up an apple from Kairi's lunch tray and twirled it around. Oh…she wanted Sora. Go figure.

"Look, Naminé. I don't think that's any of your-" Kairi started, before Naminé interrupted her.

"Look, Kairi. I've been keeping a eye on Sora for months now. If you dare take him…" she gritted her teeth, "Then the next remaining two years of high school will be a living hell hole for you." Naminé then took the apple, and crushed it with the palm of her fragile-looking yet strong colorless lucid hand.

"Got it?" Naminé innocently asked, smiling her smile which made all the guy's in the cafeteria heart melt. She then twirled back to the "popular" table and sat down. The whole time, Namine's eyes were boring into Kairi's.

"…That was the other thing I was just about to tell you about…" Selphie whispered, as Kairi stood up to throw out the remaining pieces of her apple. Kairi paid no attention to Selphie, as she looked miserably at her crushed up apple. She wanted that apple…

English class was a total and complete utter surprise...not to mention a miracle. It was an excellent twisted turn of events that made Kairi's whole day.

Kairi was getting into her assigned seat, ready to have the most boring time ever. The English teacher was late again, so everyone was gossiping around. Selphie had been excused from English to go to some club, so she had no one to talk to. She was drawing doodles on the front of her notebook cover when a familiar velvety voice asked,

"Mind if I sit here?

Kairi's head immediately shot up. Was it…Could it possible be…?

"Sora!" Kairi said, a little too loudly and happily. It was him! It wasn't just her imaginations after all! Every girl in the class shot up their heads from the popular name, and the amount of gossip suddenly rose. Kairi could even hear a girl squealing in the back. She ignored the dirty looks some girls were giving her and then whispered, "I thought school was boring. "

"It is." he flatly replied, taking what was actually Selphie's seat. Kairi remained quiet though, observing the young brunette like some new type of specimen.

'Then why…?' Kairi wondered to herself and then stopped. 'Well, at least now he's actually coming to school…'

"Hey! Pst! What was the English homework?" Sora asked, a bit too loudly. He ruffled through his book bag, looking quite annoyed.

"Find out for yourself!" Kairi whispered back, much more softer than Sora did. She knew the meaning of being subtle.

"Damn! So mean! And all we've been through..." Sora teasingly replied, smiling his familiar famous mischievous little grin. He emphasized "all", which made it that much worse.

Kairi could feel her face redden and she could actually hear her heart thumping loudly. Her hands started to get sweaty, and she refused to look back at the cobalt eyes that were mischievously looking at her.

Yeah, it was that bad.

"What...what are you talking about?" Kairi said, through gritted teeth, trying to give him a warning. Either he was slow and had no brains, or just wanted to die by the wrath of Kairi, he replied with a unsatisfying answer.

"Oh you know, when you had your hands around my waist and.. "Sora started, glancing at Kairi and few times to see her reaction.

"You say anymore and I'll.." Kairi started, but never finished. Of course, this was the cue when the blonde tramp made her way to the class. "Fashionably late", was what she called it. "Cutting like a dumb ditty" is what Kairi called it. Either way, she brought attention to the class by coming extra late.

She trotted along to her seat, the class in absolute silence. She flipped her hair a few times, before finding her seat in the back. It wasn't long before she realized that Sora was in class today.

"Sora?!" Naminé exclaimed in a high-pitched "cutesy" sounding way. Truthfully, it burned in Kairi's ears.

Sora turned around with a pained expression, looking back at Naminé. Kind of like she was some alien or UFO, or whatever the heck the scientists were all crazed up about.

"H…hi?" he smiled, in a questioning way. He turned back to stare at a curious looking Kairi. His face screamed out "help", and he mouthed one word to her- a word that she would call Naminé for the rest of her life.

Stalker.

Kairi couldn't help but burst into a fit of girly giggles, earning a few curious glances from her classmates. She didn't do anything but fall into another heap of laughter-- she couldn't help it! He totally deserved it. After all, he kept talking about how…they…she…forget it. Her face was red enough…

'It was a motorcycle ride. If you didn't hold onto his waist, you would've feel and cracked on your head, and died. At least at the speed HE was going" Kairi reassured herself.

Kairi had turned her attention back on Sora and Naminé. Naminé was fluttering her fake eyelashes at Sora, and looked at him in a adoring way. Sora looked at Naminé nervously before looking back at Kairi a few times back and forth for help. Every time he did, she stuck her tongue at his face and smiled.

Sweet, sweet revenge.

"It's all over the bathroom stall, the kitchen tables, the chalkboards, the bulletin board, and even on some of the windows! 'Sora likes loser girl better than Naminé, prom queen!' " Selphie gasped in astonishment or disbelieve. Whatever it was, it was pretty stupid.

"Gee, thanks Selphie." Kairi flatly replied, walking down the hallway.

"Huh?" Selphie looked confused for a minute before she replied, "Oh no no no! I didn't mean it THAT way! It's just that you are sort of not that known, and Naminé is really that known, and.."

"Selphie, you're not making any sense again." Kairi said annoyed by her friend's bluntness.

"All in all, I'm just saying that it seems like Sora liked you much better than Naminé! Either that, or he really hates Naminé. It's all over the school! Exactly what happened in english class?" Selphie finally asked, realizing that petrifying her friend for answers were annoying her to no extent.

"Selphie! How do you know.." Kairi wondered out loud. Selphie was supposed to be in English class with her, but somehow Selphie got excused.

"English class? It was in the bathroom stall, 'Naminé gets humiliated in English class!' The print couldn't have been any bigger. I can't believe I missed it! " Selphie regretted bitterly.

Kairi sighed, typical Selphie; a perfect Gossip Girl. Need news source? Call Selphie! Need information? Text Selphie! Best time to be reached at: 24/7! Then she thought about the losers who were writing useless crap on the bathroom walls. What was wrong with teenagers these days? Sure high school was boring, but stooping down low as to writing what happened in English class in bathroom stalls? Pathetic.

Then Kairi thought of everything that had happened, which made her grin a little. Scratch that. Her smile was the size of Utah. English class. The best 45 minutes of her life.

Naminé annoyed Sora to the point of him moving his desk all the way in the front. Naminé laughed it off, saying how he probably couldn't see the board all the way in the back.

"Sora, honey." Naminé purred, "If you need glasses, just say so. I can get you a pair of…"

Sora shook his head. "It's not my eyesight that's really bothering me Naminé, it's you."

Naminé turned a bright color of red.

"Haha, that's really funny, Sora. You mean, Kairi is bothering you. The girl with the ridiculously reddish hair's name is Kairi." Naminé twirled her hair in her pinky finger. She had a innocent grin on her face. "Right?" She looked at the around the class for support. Everyone enchanted by her charms nodded their head back and forth.

"No, I already know that. I actually like Kairi- she's fun. You are the one that's bugging me. You, Naminé." Sora stated. He then looked at Naminé's face in horror.

Did he go too far?

But before that, the teacher came and everyone was silenced. You could still hear whispers if you tried hard enough.

"Naminé just got rejected! For Kairi!"

"I definitely need to tell this to Tifa! Let me text her."

"Kairi does sort of look better than Naminé..."

"Nah, Namine's much prettier."

"It's only because she's caked in make-up to hide her pimples and she wears brand clothes."

"Wait! Who is this Kairi girl? She was in our English class?"

But Kairi wasn't eavesdropping. She was grinning the whole time. Sora had said he…

"KAIRI!" Selphie practically screamed in Kairi's ear. "Can you please tell me what happened?"

"Later, today I want to go home and mark this day." Kairi replied, still not able to hide her smile.

"Mark it? Oh, your calendar?" Selphie inquired, interested in her friend's private life.

"Sort of. I need to go home early, Selphie. You have GGGG Club today, right?" Kairi reminded her, trying to loose Selphie as soon as she could.

"Of course! I'm the leader after all. Gossip Girls Go GO! And the topic would definitely be about you and Sora. I can sense it from a mile away. Maybe I'll get some information out of them, since my so called 'best' friend isn't telling me."

"Ha, ha. Fair enough. See you tomorrow!" Kairi waved. Selphie waved back unhappily, before rushing to get to her club in time.

Kairi smiled, as she rushed down the hallway of the long school's halls. She just had to mark this day.

Every important day, Kairi marked it down on a little booklet on her drawer.

Today she wrote,

A Day to Remember:

Meeting You.

Note: Oh my. This chapter was far more childish than I thought it was…I wrote this in 9th grade, the time where I SUCKED at everything. LOL. Well, I still suck at everything but still…I'm not THAT bad anymore…right? (Someone help me out here.)

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Love, simplyjennxd

Yeah, I changed my username. "xheartsparklex" was simply just too…much for me.