Fast Food Madness: The Epic Return V2

Kairi opened her eyes, but stared at the floor. "I really need to talk to you, but you said you didn't want to come over," she explained. "It was my last resort." And it was true. She would never take things to such a level unless she was serious about something, and she was definitely serious about talking to him. That is, if Sora was still willing to talk to her after this.

 

Sora lowered his hand from his forehead, his head tilted to the side slightly as he looked to Kairi. "Alright, what did you need to talk to me about?" If she lied to get him to come, then it must have been very important. Still, he had no clue what that was; what she had said at first had made no sense to him, and he knew that trying to figure it out by himself would be meaningless. Instead, he would have to let Kairi explain what prompted her to bring him here.

 

"...What you told Roxas," Kairi said after a second's hesitance, lifting her eyes to Sora finally. That was what she wanted to talk about. What she heard had been frightening and terrible, and as hard as it was going to be to discuss it, she wanted to. Sora seemed very uptight about it, and upset. Kairi wanted to help in any way she could.

 

Sora's fists came undone, surprise appearing in his eyes as well. "What I told Roxas?" he repeated, deciding that he would speak instead of dwelling on his own thoughts. "What do you know about that? How do you know about that?" He felt his heart beating quickly now, and he couldn't help but get an awful feeling in the pit of his stomach. Roxas hadn't had time to call Kairi and fill her in completely...had he?

 

"I was on the phone with him when you came over," Kairi started to explain. She lowered her eyes to the floor again, linking her fingers together in front of her. "And we were talking about you. I asked him to talk to you for me...and I guess he hid the phone." She had heard everything, even the thud of Sora being pushed into the wall.

 

Sora turned his back to Kairi immediately, a soft groan leaving his lips. Kairi...you weren't supposed to know about any of that, he thought, sadness surfacing in his heart. She...had heard what he said, then. All of it? He couldn't believe it. This was all very unpleasant to hear, even if it was the truth.

 

"I'm sorry," Kairi said again, having heard Sora's groan. She knew that wasn't going to help anything at this point, though. Sora had never actually gotten mad at her before, but she could see that he was upset with her. She felt sad at the realization, but it was her fault.

 

Sora turned around at the apology, his bright blue eyes finding Kairi. "I...He...But you..." He trailed off on every sentence he tried to form, feeling a new kind of anger rising up inside of him. It wasn't specifically at Kairi or Roxas, but at the actions they had performed. They had done something that he hated more than anything else: Manipulation.

 

Kairi met Sora's gaze and immediately bit on her lip, nervous from the look in his eyes. She could see the expression on his face changing along with the color in his eyes, and she knew this wasn't going to be good. She'd taken notice that his eyecolor grew darker whenever he expressed negative emotions, and she felt it was going to turn that way now.

 

Sora's hands turned into fists and he turned to the side so that Kairi wouldn't see the raw anger written on his face. "Darn it, Kairi! The way you two manipulate me!" He gritted his teeth together, having spoken the word "manipulate" with the disgust he felt inside. He was tempted to punch the wall, but knowing how strong he was now, he would either break his hand or break the wall. And even in his state of mind, he knew he didn't want either of those things to occur.

 

Kairi winced slightly at Sora's tone, but she didn't say or do anything; she simply stood there. She was shocked that he had actually yelled at her so harshly, and she could see, even from the side-view of his face, that he was very angry with her. Kairi didn't speak, mostly out of surprise, but she knew she deserved whatever was coming to her. Manipulation. It was exactly what they'd done.

 

Sora clenched his fists more tightly, feeling more feelings rising up in his heart. Hurt. Sorrow. Sadness. And he couldn't restrain it, it all came to him so quickly. "I can't handle that. Not from you two," he said more softly, turning his head and looking at Kairi as the new emotions replaced the anger.

 

Kairi pressed her lips together once her gaze met Sora's, the girl seeing what emotions were in his eyes. She felt her heart squeeze at the sight, but she knew there was nothing she could say to make up for it. Not even the truth. But, she couldn't help but say something, at least. "...This wasn't supposed to happen," Kairi told Sora softly, her voice weak compared to the way his had been just a few seconds ago.

 

Sora shook his head, lowering it as his shoulders slumped. He didn't know what was supposed to happen; he honestly didn't care any more. Roxas had brought these things to the surface, and even though he tried to get rid of them again, Kairi had brought them up again. He knew now that there wasn't any hope of him just leaving it behind him like he had before.

 

Kairi felt her own expression change as she continued to look at Sora, the guilt rising to the surface, as well as regret and sorrow. She hadn't meant for Sora to get so upset, or for the things that happened at Roxas's to even take place. I'm sorry...

 

Sora exhaled a breath, his fists slowly uncurling as the anger disappeared. He would surely get angry later about the stunt that Roxas and Kairi had pulled. Right now, all he could feel was the sorrow and pain of having this all brought up. He had told himself that it was forgotten and it didn't matter to him, but this moment right now was proving that he had been wrong.

 

Kairi took in a breath and hesitantly took a few steps forward, growing closer to the boy in front of her. "Sora, please understand..." she tried, but she knew it was no use. She'd done a terrible thing by manipulating him the way she did. And she wasn't afraid to embrace the truth; that was what she'd done, even if it hadn't meant to be that way.

 

Sora stayed where he was, hearing Kairi's words but not responding to them. Even though his eyes had closed a few moments ago, he heard her take a few steps to get closer to him. Whatever; it didn't matter any more. One of the secrets he had tried to protect both of them from was out in the open now, and there was no way to take it back and hide it.

 

Kairi let her words linger in the air around them, the girl not moving from her position just a few feet from Sora. She didn't want to touch him in case he was infuriated with her, and she didn't want to speak if he wanted silence. She would just wait.

 

Sora was aware that Kairi stopped a few feet away, though he didn't open his eyes and look at her. He heard the silence surround them, and he wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. Kairi had trailed off, and he had been silent waiting for her to finish what she was saying. That, and he really had nothing to say anyway.