I stormed down the stairs that led to the basement of the Watanabe house. Yes, I was mad that Olette was taking pictures of Roxas. But that didn't make it any less funny. We were already aware that Olette was a creepy, stalker ass bitch, but whatever. Now I find out she was also taking pictures of me? She was taking this way too far. She was that obsessed with Roxas?
Probably.
I hopped off the second step to the bottom, quickly landing and whipping my head around to figure out where Riku was. I could hear that Roxas was hot on my tail, though he wasn't rushing like I was. I figured that he didn't want to see the pictures that much. I didn't blame him. In the corner of the basement next to a couch was where I found the group. Riku held a box in his lap, Polaroid pictures strewn all around. Kairi held some up as Sora leaned over her shoulder and pointed. Axel was propped up against the wall eating a slice of pizza. Hayner was still glancing through some boxes.
"Now, what the hell are you all talking about?" I asked, arms crossed and hip cocked to the side. I was not in the mood to be messed with. I could hear Roxas came to a stop behind me, a heavy sigh coming out of his mouth.
"Like I said, she's got pictures of you in here," Riku repeated, unfazed by my anger. He held out a stack of pictures and I shuffled through them, Roxas leaning over my shoulder in a similar manner to Sora's.
In this stack of pictures were pictures of me. Some of them had Roxas in them, but a large majority of them were just of me. They must have been taken around a year ago, I guessed. My hair was longer then. Some of the pictures were me hanging out around the school after classes, laughing and talking. If Roxas was in them, they were of us walking home together, out on dates, or even kissing, which made me squirm a bit. One of the pictures had 'bitch' scrawled onto it.
"This is completely ridiculous," I sighed, attempting not to crumple the pictures. "She was that obsessed that even I was a potential target?"
"Apparently," Kairi growled from a few steps away.
The Aoki brothers took a few steps back.
When Kairi and I got mad, it was best to stay away.
"This is definitely going to be shown to her parents," I said, waving one of the pictures around. There was no way I was letting her get away with this. This was a great piece of evidence that I couldn't let slip away.
It was quiet for a moment among all of us before I handed Riku the pictures back. He was about to put them away before Kairi stopped him.
"Hell no, we are taking those with us," Kairi scolded, ripping the box away from him.
"But what if she notices it is gone?" Hayner said in a panicked tone of voice.
"Considering they were packed away in the basement, I doubt it. But there is no way we can allow the possibility of these getting destroyed or thrown away. No way."
It took a bit of convincing, but everyone agreed and handed the box over to Kairi for her to keep. She would be the best at keeping them safe. I knew I would misplace them somehow and the boys were out of the question.
"Well, we found one piece of evidence, let's clean up and head out for the day," Axel suggested.
I appreciated that too. I was too angry to be able to do anything anymore. I would have just sat in a corner thinking of all the pretty ways I could get back at Olette.
The rest of us cleaned up our mess (all the food and shit that we left lying around) while Roxas finished watering the rest of the plants and dusting whatever the hell he was supposed to dust. The house was left in the exact same condition that we arrived in.
Minus one little box.
"Sorry," I muttered into the blanket that was wrapped around me. I was trying to get rid of my anger, but it was hard. I was legitimately mad and offended.
"It's fine, Nam," Roxas said, rubbing his hair with a towel.
After we left Olette's house, everyone wanted to get together and have a movie night. I was in far too bad of a mood to agree to that, so I left to go back home and take a nice, relaxing shower. Roxas didn't want to leave me alone while I was in such a bad mood, so he skipped out on the movie night as well. He waited long enough for me to get out of the shower that he decided that he was going to spend the night and hopped into the shower once I was done.
He glanced at me through his bangs that were in his face now due to them being weighed down by the water. I pulled the blanket tighter around myself as I stared back at him.
He sighed before throwing the towel on the floor and taking a seat in front of me on my bed. He raised his hands and pushed my cheeks together, kissing me on my lips.
"It's okay to be upset, Namine. I know how you feel. I guess I've just gotten used to it. Granted, I didn't know about the pictures, but it doesn't surprise me at all," he told me softly.
I was silent for a moment before asking the question that I really didn't want to know the answer to. "Roxas, has she ever forced you to do anything with her?"
"The relationship."
I rolled my eyes.
Smartass.
"You know what I mean."
"I know. Everything about the relationship is forced Namine. It's not like I wanted to spend all that time with her or kiss her. I just had no choice."
I bit my lip. I think he knew what I was going to ask.
"If you're referring to that, no I haven't had sex with her."
Relief rushed over me.
"She's tried, many times. When we're alone, she always tries to escalate things. I'm already not comfortable kissing her as it is, but I won't go that far. She tries to use the excuse that I'm a guy so I should want it, but that's a load of bull. I want to do it with someone special just as much as a girl does."
"Just the thought of her, touching you, makes my skin crawl," I shuddered.
Roxas laughed quietly. "Don't worry," he said, "she's never touched anything besides my lips. That's a privilege reserved for you only."
A dark blush crossed my face and I hid inside my blanket.
"What? Namine embarrassed? No snarky comeback?" He called, yanking on the blanket. But I wouldn't let go.
This tug of war went on for a while before I surprised him by quickly pulling the blanket off and pouncing on him, knocking him over onto his back. My arms were on either side of his head and my blonde hair was falling over my shoulder.
Roxas raised an eyebrow playfully.
"I love you, Roxas," I said seriously.
He stared back into my eyes with such intensity that it made my heart race.
"I love you too, Namine."
I let myself fall onto him with a smug grin on his face, the impact of me falling on him causing him to grunt loudly.
"Was that necessary?"
"Completely."
I rested my head on his chest, listening to his heart beat evenly. His hand ran up and down my spine in a soothing manner. Things were quiet between us, and if I was tired at all, I could have fallen asleep just like that. But, Roxas tapped my back, snapping me back into reality. I raised my head to meet Roxas's eyes.
"What?"
"Want to put that lingerie to use?"
Once again, my face darkened to a deep red.
"What? You think I forgot about that?" he laughed.
I buried my face in his chest as he let out a series of loud laughs, enjoying my embarrassment. Part of me wanted to punch him and part of me wanted to take him up on that offer. My heart was beating widely in my chest.
"Let me go get it then," I said, butterflies tripling in my stomach.
It was Roxas's turn to blush.
"How about no?"
"How about I punch you in the face?"
Sora glared at my response. I didn't care. Bitch needed to do my bidding.
"Please Sora? I'll never ask you for anything ever again!" I held my hands together in prayer.
"You and I both know that's a lie."
I glared at him this time before huffing and crossing my arms.
Sora was curled up on his living room couch while I stood in front of him, ready for the day. The boy was still in his pajamas. I had to go to work in 20 minutes and if Roxas found me standing here, he'd drag me out before I got what I wanted.
"Just go in my place! I forgot I had to work today!"
"And risk dictator Kairi? Hell no, I'm staying home. She's been in a pissy detective mood ever since we found those photos. If I see her, she's going to drag me over there. We aren't supposed to go back till tomorrow and I'd like to enjoy my day off from sleuthing, man."
"Do you even know what sleuthing means?"
"Yes!"
I let out a groan before stomping my foot angrily. If Kairi was forced to go Christmas outfit shopping alone, that meant she would buy me an ugly sweater and force me to wear it on Christmas. That was something that I had no plans to take part in.
"How could you let me suffer?" I whined.
"How could you want me to suffer?" Sora countered back.
"This is a lose/lose situation, you two, just shut up," Roxas said, walking around the corner. He threw my parka in my face before giving me the 'I'm your boss get out of this house' look.
"Fine! If I look ugly on Christmas, you can't complain. None of you can complain!" I declared before grabbing my keys and walking towards the front door.
The Aoki brothers stared at each other before Sora raised an eyebrow.
"Jeez, what did you do to her that she's in this kind of mood?"
Roxas chuckled. "I guess you can say she's really pleased with me, that's all."
It took Sora a couple of minutes before he pieced it together.
"Ooooohhhhh," Sora drawled out, eyebrows raised suggestively.
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