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Lock and Key-Rikai

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Published: Nov 18, 2011

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As I reached for my books inside of my large, metalic locker, I heard a group of girls giggling behind me.

"Aren't boys really cute when they have journels?" One, Selphie, asked, giggling so much that I almost got a migraine from the high pitched noise.

"Yeah!" I heard a girl say, along with murmurs of agreement.

With that, I found myself blushing extremely hard, for in my hands, I held my journel.

"Riku!" A voice called out directly behind me.

Quickly, I covered up my journel with a math textbook. Then, I turned to the voice.

Behind me stood a boy with his hands wrapped together behind his head. He wore a large grin, as always, and looked to me.

"Hey, Sora," I said, closing and locking my locker as loose papers flew out.

"Hi! Ready to go?" he asked, gesturing towards the exit door of the school.

"Nope. I have detention," I said, sighing at the thought of abandoning my friends on the school bus.

"What for?" Sora asked, tilting his head to the side.

I just yawned, not really wanting to tell him.

"I'll tell you later," I said, thinking that by then he would forget. "See ya."

"Well, okay," Sora said, frowning slightly. "Bye, Riku!"

Sora walked away, heading towards Kairi's locker.

I grinned with only the thought of her name, leaning against my locker for support from falling to the ground.

I grinned wide, something I would usually find hard to do in public.

I slid to the ground anyways, now sitting down. Swiftly, when no one was in the halls anymore, I opened my journel and I wrote in it.

"Tuesday.

I can't stop thinking about Kairi.

Am I in love?"

Then, I closed it and ran towards the room where my detention awaited.

~~

"You're late, Riku," my science teacher snapped, his arms crossed as he sat in his desk.

"Sorry," I said in a small mutter.

"Take it," He said, looking to a small piece of chalk on the table. "-And write what you won't do in class anymore one hundred times on the blackboard."

~~

"I will not draw pictures in class," I wrote.
"Number 89," I counted mentally.

By that point, he had fallen asleep.

Tiredly, I decided to pretend that I wrote the sentence one hundred times.

"He won't seriously count them all, right?" I thought, snickering to myself.

As I silently stepped out of the room, I opened up my journel and wrote:

"-Just ditched detention. I finished my punishment. Most of it, anyways. He made me write a sentence on the board. I draw one picture and this is the result? They couldn't decide whether or not to give me detention or send me to the counseler's office... In the end, they chose detention. Clearly. Lol.

I drew...

...Kairi in a wedding dress."

Then, I shut the book close and walked out into the schoolyard.

~~

The next day was normal, as was the day after that.

Though, that next day was a little diffrent.

I wrote in my journel.

"I'm so sleepy. I couldn't sleep at ALL last night. I couldn't stop wondering if Kairi likes me as more than a friend... I know what I'm feeling is more
than that..."

I chuckled dryly, just wanting to sleep a little bit, then I closed my journel.

Then, I saw Kairi.

Today, I thought, would be the day I told Kairi everything I felt for her...

I opened my mouth to talk, but then I saw her outstretch her arms as she ran towards me.

"She wants a hug?" I thought to myself.

Out of instinct, I outstretched my arms as well, ready to hug her as she came. I was smiling the slightest, prepared to let her see everything I had written in my journel.

She ran right past me, hugging Sora in the distance.

I felt dead, broken, emotionless.

Slowly, I lowered my arms as if nothing happened, but a frown took over my smile.

"Oh..." I thought, looking back to them.

Sora was laughing, and so was Kairi.

They seemed like the happiest couple in the world, maybe even all the worlds.

So I walked away.

~~

I flipped through the pages of my journel.

I never noticed before, but it dated back all the way back when I was only five years old.
That surprised me, only a little though.

That's the year I met Kairi.

I quietly read my entries in a small whisper.

"I can't sleep!"
"I'm so sleepy. That girl told me her name today. It's Kairi. Except I think she doesn't like me..."

"Kairi's spending a lot of time with Sora..."

"Haha. I taught Kairi (sorta) how to fish today. She fell into the water."

"Are there other worlds? I dunno. But I'd like to."

"Where does Kairi come from? Another world?"

"Why did we end up in this world?"

"Are there others?"

"I need to know."

"I'm thinking about making a raft with Sora and Kairi. We could find new worlds that way..."

"I'M SO SLEEPY!"

"Valentines Day is tomorrow. Uh oh."

"I gave roses to Kairi. She smiled and gave me a hug. <3"

"I think I like Kairi..."

"I'm...in love."

"I love Kairi."

"I love Kairi."

"I love Kairi."

"I love Kairi."

"I love Kairi."

"I love Kairi."

The entries continued all the way up until my most recent one.

It broke my heart in pieces writing that simple sentence in the end of the book.

Still, I closed my journel, and now, I
locked it. I would never have to open my journel ever again...

I held the key to the lock in a fist, my vision becoming foggy and blurry.

My tears were wiped away with my wrist, though my heart remained forever shattered.

"Kairi loves Sora." was the last sentence in my journel.
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