The idiot who loves a girl with a pretty smile
*I DO NOT OWN ROXAS OR KINGDOM HEARTS OR YOU OR THE SONG*
“She paints her fingers with a close precision…”
Feet kick at the fan, accidently knocking it over with a show of klutziness.
The brown haired girl huffed and crawled over to the fan, trying to right it while not using her fingers so she wouldn’t mess up the carefully and meticulously painted nails.
Kairi laughed from her position on the bed, and only when Kelly looked over her shoulder with a glare that would make boiled water run cold did she actually move to help the obviously struggling girl.
“You’re a goof you know that?” Kairi chuckled as she righted the fan and helped Kelly move into a position that’s not tangled in bed sheets and face planted on the floor.
“So I’ve been told once or twice in my life,” She winked and bounced up onto the bed patting the spot next to her with her elbow. “Come on, Kairi, we’ll do your nails next.”
“I’m not the one going on the date tomorrow.”
“Who said you had to have an occasion to paint your nails with your bestest girl friend?”
The redhead laughed and flopped next to Kelley, digging through the glass bottles of color, “Okay, okay I cave. But only because I really like this color,” she held up a bluish color that reminded her of Sora’s eyes with a mischievous grin.
“You were going to paint your nails with that color anyways, weren’t you?”
“Maybe….”
“He starts to notice empty bottles of gin…”
Roxas leaned against the hard brick wall outside the apartment of giggling girls.
How he found himself here he never really knew. Intuition maybe?
Fear of losing her?
Who knows, maybe someone slipped something in his morning juice?
It was comforting to hear her laugh and giggle though, a pleasure he obtained only to the fact that she had thrown open the window to cool down a stuffy boxed in room—but a pleasure he had none the less.
He didn’t understand anything himself about this girl.
He’d never had this type of nervousness before, what was it about her that made her so different from every other chick in a skirt out there?
Sure she had pretty brown hair and blue eyes but that didn’t make her any different.
Maybe it was her personality?
Hell if he knew what the hell it was.
At the moment all he cared about was hearing that laugh from inside a no-longer -stuffy apartment.
“And takes a moment to assess the sins she’s paid for…”
Kelly was careful not to wake up Kairi’s sleeping form as she peeled herself off the floor and towards the TV that rolled the credits to the movie ‘Alice in wonderland’. Kairi hadn’t even made it five minutes into the movie and she was out like a light, leaving Kelly to her own devices and laughter for the remainder of the movie.
Oh well, it was still fun though.
Grabbing a blanket and pillow she tosses them lightly at Kairi and flops on to the bed two feet away.
But she can’t fall asleep for some reason.
Jitters or something? But what the hell would she have to be jittery about?
Hm.
Maybe it had something to do with the face peering down at her, reaching for her with clawed dark as the apartment complex’s basement at night fingers.
“A lonely speaker in a conversation….”
Picking his phone out of his pocket he pressed the speaker device to his face, “Hello?”
“Are you, Roxas? Kelly’s boyfriend?” The voice was female and familiar according to his creeping outside last night listening to two girls giggling over stupid stuff.
Her friend.
“Yeah, that’s me. Why?”
“You wouldn’t happen to know where Kelly is, would you?”
“Why do you ask?”
The voice on the other line sighed a very shaky breath that sent a chill down his spine.
Her friend was legitly worried; it wasn’t just some stupid prank.
It made the next words even harder to hear.
“Well, it’s just that this is Kelly’s apartment and all and we were having a sleepover and well….she’s not here.”
“What?”
“Kelly is missing.”
“Her words were swimming through his ears again…”
“Hey, you’re Roxas right?”
He looked over his shoulder at the sudden voice, head half tilting to the side in a curious gesture, “Yes, I am?”
It was a girl with pretty blue eyes and brown hair that fit her very well. Her face was red with a heavy blush that suggested shyness and embarrassment, but like her smile—it was cute on her.
“My name is Kelly; it’s nice to meet you!”
She extended a hand that he eventually shook after prodding (elbow-stabbing-into-ribs) from Axel next to him.
But, as soon as he took her hand, he became hesitant to let it go.
Little did he know it wouldn’t take long for him to fall for the girl with the easy sweet smile and cute blush.
Kelly is missing.
The words couldn’t compute with his brain.
“There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you’ve paid for…
Say what you mean, tell me I’m right and let the sun rain down on me. Give me a sign I want to believe…”
“Hey, Roxas, what do you think is in the sky??” She asked him, her head resting against her arms in a casual relaxed pose.
He raised an eyebrow at her, “I dunno, stars?”
She laughed, “Well that’s true but-” She sighed, “Sometimes I’d like to know what flying felt like.”
He looked up at the sky, taking this in for a brief moment before getting to his feet and brushing the grass and dirt off his pants.
Without any warning he reached down and scooped her up into his arms, lifting her as high as he could—which wasn’t very far so he settled for moving her so she sat on his shoulders instead.
“Roxas what are you-”
He cut her off, “We’re going to fly.”
“You’re crazy-” She could only start the sentence before he took off at a flat out run, leaving her to cling to him or risk falling off his shoulders.
And even though they weren’t going very fast- she was higher than the ground, close enough to where if she wanted to, she felt like she would be able to touch the sky.
And so she laughed, and that laugh was worth everything to Roxas.
“You’re right Roxas, there are stars in the sky,” She said, resting her cheek against the top of his head, “There are lots of them, one of these days I want to catch one for you.”
He shook his head and slowed down to a decent pace, tilting his head so hers fell down to his and they were at an awkward face-to-face. “You don’t need to catch one for me, I’ve already got one right here,” He looked at her as he spoke and pressed a very gentle kiss to her cheek.
Kelly blushed and laughed, “That was really cheesy, but totally cute.”
Roxas found himself laughing with her, “Yeah that was. Don’t tell Axel, I won’t hear the end of that one.”
“I won’t, but I’m glad that you said it.”
“Woah, Mona Lisa, You’re guaranteed to run this town. Woah, Mona Lisa, I’d pay to see you frown…”
He didn’t know where to start looking for her; maybe she’d be at his house?
Or at that hill that they ran across.
Or at the bar they first met.
Or at the park where they had their first kiss.
Where could she be?
He had to find her.
He needed to find her.
It’d been only five minutes since he found out.
Then ten minutes.
Then twenty.
Then an hour.
It’s like that phrase, ‘you never know what you had until it’s gone’.
He just hoped he could find her before that saying becomes permanent, and he loses her forever.
“He senses something call it desperation-Another dollar another day…”
His phone in his pocket rings, he doesn’t take time to check the caller ID just picks it up and answers a frantic and distraught ‘hello?’
It’s Kairi.
“Roxas? Oh good, I caught you. I got a lead on her. Where are you?”
He looked up at the street sign behind him, glancing at her apartment only a few blocks down from where he stood. “Three streets down from Kelly’s apartment.”
“Good, go two more blocks and there should be a bar there. A handful of people claim to have seen someone that looks like Kelly walking in there with a tall hooded figure. I’m guessing her kidnapper.”
Roxas felt all his nerves go on edge at the mention of the robed figure.
Whoever it was had Kelly.
And therefore if he threatened her, Roxas knew in his gut he’d be completely prepared to kill them to save her.
He bolted down the block towards the bar where Kairi said Kelly might be.
“And if she had the proper words to say She would tell him – but then she’d have nothing left to sell him…”
She leaned against the wall, listening to him on the other side of the door.
“Kelly, let me in. Stop doing this. She was just saying hi. An old friend.”
“Really?” Her voice was strong but the tears down her cheeks betrayed the voice. It didn’t matter, it’s not like he could see her anyways. He was on the other side of her door; she could hear where his face was pressed against it—where his fists banged dents into its surface.
“Kelly, come on. Please,” It was a desperate plea, his voice rough and hollow—like he couldn’t bear the thought that this was real, that she could really walk out of his life just like that.
She knew he wouldn’t be able to just walk out of her life either.
He was too tied into her heart.
“Tell me something, Roxas, do you….do you-” She choked on the words. She couldn’t say them.
Because what if it wasn’t really that deep?
What if he didn’t feel the same way?
Maybe she was just a quick fling after all.
“Do I what?” He breathed on the other side, forehead pressed to the door in a desperate plea. “Love you?”
She nodded even though he couldn’t see her, muttering a whimper that came out as “yes.”
He laughed, “Is that what you’re worried about? Stupid, jumping to conclusions that make your heart hurt is something you like to do? Kelly, I love you. I bleeping love you. There isn’t a girl in the world that can make me say that except for you. Only you. So please, please open this door.”
She scrambled to her knees, flinging open the door before he could process what was going on and tackling him in the most desperate hug she’d ever needed. “I love you too.” She whispered into his neck, laughing on her tears, “I love you so much it hurts, Roxas.”
He laughed and wrapped his arms tightly around her, “You don’t have to be jealous or feel threatened of anyone okay? Because I love YOU, got that? There isn’t anyone else who can exist in that place in my heart.”
“Promise?”
“Cross my heart and hope to die.”
“I hate that saying.”
He laughed, “Me too, but all the more reason to say it if it’ll show you proof of just how much you mean to me.”
It was her turn to laugh.
“Mona Lisa wear me out, Please to please ya, Mona Lisa wear me out……..”
He picked up his phone again; dialing Axel’s number in case he needed back-up.
Why wouldn’t his feet move any faster?
Kelly, his mind spun around and around her name, circling all of his thoughts on every aspect of her. To those eyes and her hair and her face and her smile and her laugh….anything that would push him faster.
“DAMNIT, Axel! Answer your PHONE!!” He screamed into the phone, pressing the end call button to send the annoying voice mail just as he burst through the doors of the bar.
“Woah, Mona Lisa, You’re guaranteed to run this town. Woah, Mona Lisa, I’d pay to see you frown…”
“Kelly?” He asked her, lying next to her on the floor of their apartment while some favorite rock band of hers (Escape the fate or something along those lines?) played a song that made his foot tap to the beat.
She turned her head to look at him, smiling with those twinkly happy eyes of hers, “What?”
He smirked, touching her lips with his fingers and watching the blush dot across her cheeks.
“Always keep smiling okay?”
She laughed, “Well I’m going to be sad sometimes. That’s just life.”
“Then I’ll kill whoever makes you sad.”
She raised an eyebrow, “And if it’s you?”
“Then you’ll get my heart on a stake for your birthday.”
She wrinkled her nose and chuckled, “Cheesy and…..gross…. how about you just stay whole and in one piece and make me a cake however terrible and that’ll be the best birthday gift ever?”
“As long as you’re smiling I don’t care.”
“Stupid,” but she was still smiling when she insulted him.
God, how he loved that smile.
“Say what you mean, tell me I’m right—and let the sun rain down on me…”
He looked around the bar, glancing every which way until his eyes alighted on a figure with brown hair sitting next to a robed person.
His feet moved of their own accord, every step towards their table filling his heart with more and more hope that this was actually her.
“KELLY!” He called out, not caring how crazy he looked, just wanting to see if it was her.
If it really truly was her.
And if it would be okay to bolt towards her and pick her up in his arms and carry her far far away so he could give her whatever her heart desired and just BE with her.
Be with the girl he forever loved.
Kelly.
“Give me a sign…..”
Slowly the head turned around and pretty blue eyes met with his own, lips forming his name on a question mark.
But he didn’t care, he was already running towards her; already wrapping his arms around her waist and peeling her from the booth—already leaving a trail of kisses up her neck and to her lips and on her arms, wherever the hell he could.
Because she was here.
She was safe now.
She was with him.
“I want to believe…”
“Roxas? Are you okay? You seem….weird?” She said a little bit breathlessly after he set her back down, pulling her close to him and confronting the robed figure in front of him.
He ignored her and glared at the figure’s back; watching as the person slowly turned and looked at him with a mixture of amusement and desperation to hold back laughter.
“Hey, Roxas. How’s it going? I was just having a talk with your girl for a while, that a problem?”
Kelly slapped a hand to her forehead, “Oh god, Axel, seriously? You dragged Kairi into this too? You’re a jerk you know that?”
Roxas looked between the two, confusion masking his relief for her safety and dissolving it completely.
“What?” He asked stupidly.
Axel laughed, “A harmless prank, my friend. Little Kairi and I thought it would be fun to see how desperate you would get if your girlfriend went missing. Little to say other than you played right into our hands. You must love her a lot to go insane in a bar.”
Roxas looked calmly at Kelly, kissing her cheek quickly and gently pushing her out of the way before reaching for Axel with the intent to kill.
Needless to say Kairi would be next.
Hey. At least Kelly is safe and not in danger. (Not that she ever was in the first place)
“There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you’ve paid for.”
Feet kick at the fan, accidently knocking it over with a show of klutziness.
The brown haired girl huffed and crawled over to the fan, trying to right it while not using her fingers so she wouldn’t mess up the carefully and meticulously painted nails.
Kairi laughed from her position on the bed, and only when Kelly looked over her shoulder with a glare that would make boiled water run cold did she actually move to help the obviously struggling girl.
“You’re a goof you know that?” Kairi chuckled as she righted the fan and helped Kelly move into a position that’s not tangled in bed sheets and face planted on the floor.
“So I’ve been told once or twice in my life,” She winked and bounced up onto the bed patting the spot next to her with her elbow. “Come on, Kairi, we’ll do your nails next.”
“I’m not the one going on the date tomorrow.”
“Who said you had to have an occasion to paint your nails with your bestest girl friend?”
The redhead laughed and flopped next to Kelley, digging through the glass bottles of color, “Okay, okay I cave. But only because I really like this color,” she held up a bluish color that reminded her of Sora’s eyes with a mischievous grin.
“You were going to paint your nails with that color anyways, weren’t you?”
“Maybe….”
“He starts to notice empty bottles of gin…”
Roxas leaned against the hard brick wall outside the apartment of giggling girls.
How he found himself here he never really knew. Intuition maybe?
Fear of losing her?
Who knows, maybe someone slipped something in his morning juice?
It was comforting to hear her laugh and giggle though, a pleasure he obtained only to the fact that she had thrown open the window to cool down a stuffy boxed in room—but a pleasure he had none the less.
He didn’t understand anything himself about this girl.
He’d never had this type of nervousness before, what was it about her that made her so different from every other chick in a skirt out there?
Sure she had pretty brown hair and blue eyes but that didn’t make her any different.
Maybe it was her personality?
Hell if he knew what the hell it was.
At the moment all he cared about was hearing that laugh from inside a no-longer -stuffy apartment.
“And takes a moment to assess the sins she’s paid for…”
Kelly was careful not to wake up Kairi’s sleeping form as she peeled herself off the floor and towards the TV that rolled the credits to the movie ‘Alice in wonderland’. Kairi hadn’t even made it five minutes into the movie and she was out like a light, leaving Kelly to her own devices and laughter for the remainder of the movie.
Oh well, it was still fun though.
Grabbing a blanket and pillow she tosses them lightly at Kairi and flops on to the bed two feet away.
But she can’t fall asleep for some reason.
Jitters or something? But what the hell would she have to be jittery about?
Hm.
Maybe it had something to do with the face peering down at her, reaching for her with clawed dark as the apartment complex’s basement at night fingers.
“A lonely speaker in a conversation….”
Picking his phone out of his pocket he pressed the speaker device to his face, “Hello?”
“Are you, Roxas? Kelly’s boyfriend?” The voice was female and familiar according to his creeping outside last night listening to two girls giggling over stupid stuff.
Her friend.
“Yeah, that’s me. Why?”
“You wouldn’t happen to know where Kelly is, would you?”
“Why do you ask?”
The voice on the other line sighed a very shaky breath that sent a chill down his spine.
Her friend was legitly worried; it wasn’t just some stupid prank.
It made the next words even harder to hear.
“Well, it’s just that this is Kelly’s apartment and all and we were having a sleepover and well….she’s not here.”
“What?”
“Kelly is missing.”
“Her words were swimming through his ears again…”
“Hey, you’re Roxas right?”
He looked over his shoulder at the sudden voice, head half tilting to the side in a curious gesture, “Yes, I am?”
It was a girl with pretty blue eyes and brown hair that fit her very well. Her face was red with a heavy blush that suggested shyness and embarrassment, but like her smile—it was cute on her.
“My name is Kelly; it’s nice to meet you!”
She extended a hand that he eventually shook after prodding (elbow-stabbing-into-ribs) from Axel next to him.
But, as soon as he took her hand, he became hesitant to let it go.
Little did he know it wouldn’t take long for him to fall for the girl with the easy sweet smile and cute blush.
Kelly is missing.
The words couldn’t compute with his brain.
“There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you’ve paid for…
Say what you mean, tell me I’m right and let the sun rain down on me. Give me a sign I want to believe…”
“Hey, Roxas, what do you think is in the sky??” She asked him, her head resting against her arms in a casual relaxed pose.
He raised an eyebrow at her, “I dunno, stars?”
She laughed, “Well that’s true but-” She sighed, “Sometimes I’d like to know what flying felt like.”
He looked up at the sky, taking this in for a brief moment before getting to his feet and brushing the grass and dirt off his pants.
Without any warning he reached down and scooped her up into his arms, lifting her as high as he could—which wasn’t very far so he settled for moving her so she sat on his shoulders instead.
“Roxas what are you-”
He cut her off, “We’re going to fly.”
“You’re crazy-” She could only start the sentence before he took off at a flat out run, leaving her to cling to him or risk falling off his shoulders.
And even though they weren’t going very fast- she was higher than the ground, close enough to where if she wanted to, she felt like she would be able to touch the sky.
And so she laughed, and that laugh was worth everything to Roxas.
“You’re right Roxas, there are stars in the sky,” She said, resting her cheek against the top of his head, “There are lots of them, one of these days I want to catch one for you.”
He shook his head and slowed down to a decent pace, tilting his head so hers fell down to his and they were at an awkward face-to-face. “You don’t need to catch one for me, I’ve already got one right here,” He looked at her as he spoke and pressed a very gentle kiss to her cheek.
Kelly blushed and laughed, “That was really cheesy, but totally cute.”
Roxas found himself laughing with her, “Yeah that was. Don’t tell Axel, I won’t hear the end of that one.”
“I won’t, but I’m glad that you said it.”
“Woah, Mona Lisa, You’re guaranteed to run this town. Woah, Mona Lisa, I’d pay to see you frown…”
He didn’t know where to start looking for her; maybe she’d be at his house?
Or at that hill that they ran across.
Or at the bar they first met.
Or at the park where they had their first kiss.
Where could she be?
He had to find her.
He needed to find her.
It’d been only five minutes since he found out.
Then ten minutes.
Then twenty.
Then an hour.
It’s like that phrase, ‘you never know what you had until it’s gone’.
He just hoped he could find her before that saying becomes permanent, and he loses her forever.
“He senses something call it desperation-Another dollar another day…”
His phone in his pocket rings, he doesn’t take time to check the caller ID just picks it up and answers a frantic and distraught ‘hello?’
It’s Kairi.
“Roxas? Oh good, I caught you. I got a lead on her. Where are you?”
He looked up at the street sign behind him, glancing at her apartment only a few blocks down from where he stood. “Three streets down from Kelly’s apartment.”
“Good, go two more blocks and there should be a bar there. A handful of people claim to have seen someone that looks like Kelly walking in there with a tall hooded figure. I’m guessing her kidnapper.”
Roxas felt all his nerves go on edge at the mention of the robed figure.
Whoever it was had Kelly.
And therefore if he threatened her, Roxas knew in his gut he’d be completely prepared to kill them to save her.
He bolted down the block towards the bar where Kairi said Kelly might be.
“And if she had the proper words to say She would tell him – but then she’d have nothing left to sell him…”
She leaned against the wall, listening to him on the other side of the door.
“Kelly, let me in. Stop doing this. She was just saying hi. An old friend.”
“Really?” Her voice was strong but the tears down her cheeks betrayed the voice. It didn’t matter, it’s not like he could see her anyways. He was on the other side of her door; she could hear where his face was pressed against it—where his fists banged dents into its surface.
“Kelly, come on. Please,” It was a desperate plea, his voice rough and hollow—like he couldn’t bear the thought that this was real, that she could really walk out of his life just like that.
She knew he wouldn’t be able to just walk out of her life either.
He was too tied into her heart.
“Tell me something, Roxas, do you….do you-” She choked on the words. She couldn’t say them.
Because what if it wasn’t really that deep?
What if he didn’t feel the same way?
Maybe she was just a quick fling after all.
“Do I what?” He breathed on the other side, forehead pressed to the door in a desperate plea. “Love you?”
She nodded even though he couldn’t see her, muttering a whimper that came out as “yes.”
He laughed, “Is that what you’re worried about? Stupid, jumping to conclusions that make your heart hurt is something you like to do? Kelly, I love you. I bleeping love you. There isn’t a girl in the world that can make me say that except for you. Only you. So please, please open this door.”
She scrambled to her knees, flinging open the door before he could process what was going on and tackling him in the most desperate hug she’d ever needed. “I love you too.” She whispered into his neck, laughing on her tears, “I love you so much it hurts, Roxas.”
He laughed and wrapped his arms tightly around her, “You don’t have to be jealous or feel threatened of anyone okay? Because I love YOU, got that? There isn’t anyone else who can exist in that place in my heart.”
“Promise?”
“Cross my heart and hope to die.”
“I hate that saying.”
He laughed, “Me too, but all the more reason to say it if it’ll show you proof of just how much you mean to me.”
It was her turn to laugh.
“Mona Lisa wear me out, Please to please ya, Mona Lisa wear me out……..”
He picked up his phone again; dialing Axel’s number in case he needed back-up.
Why wouldn’t his feet move any faster?
Kelly, his mind spun around and around her name, circling all of his thoughts on every aspect of her. To those eyes and her hair and her face and her smile and her laugh….anything that would push him faster.
“DAMNIT, Axel! Answer your PHONE!!” He screamed into the phone, pressing the end call button to send the annoying voice mail just as he burst through the doors of the bar.
“Woah, Mona Lisa, You’re guaranteed to run this town. Woah, Mona Lisa, I’d pay to see you frown…”
“Kelly?” He asked her, lying next to her on the floor of their apartment while some favorite rock band of hers (Escape the fate or something along those lines?) played a song that made his foot tap to the beat.
She turned her head to look at him, smiling with those twinkly happy eyes of hers, “What?”
He smirked, touching her lips with his fingers and watching the blush dot across her cheeks.
“Always keep smiling okay?”
She laughed, “Well I’m going to be sad sometimes. That’s just life.”
“Then I’ll kill whoever makes you sad.”
She raised an eyebrow, “And if it’s you?”
“Then you’ll get my heart on a stake for your birthday.”
She wrinkled her nose and chuckled, “Cheesy and…..gross…. how about you just stay whole and in one piece and make me a cake however terrible and that’ll be the best birthday gift ever?”
“As long as you’re smiling I don’t care.”
“Stupid,” but she was still smiling when she insulted him.
God, how he loved that smile.
“Say what you mean, tell me I’m right—and let the sun rain down on me…”
He looked around the bar, glancing every which way until his eyes alighted on a figure with brown hair sitting next to a robed person.
His feet moved of their own accord, every step towards their table filling his heart with more and more hope that this was actually her.
“KELLY!” He called out, not caring how crazy he looked, just wanting to see if it was her.
If it really truly was her.
And if it would be okay to bolt towards her and pick her up in his arms and carry her far far away so he could give her whatever her heart desired and just BE with her.
Be with the girl he forever loved.
Kelly.
“Give me a sign…..”
Slowly the head turned around and pretty blue eyes met with his own, lips forming his name on a question mark.
But he didn’t care, he was already running towards her; already wrapping his arms around her waist and peeling her from the booth—already leaving a trail of kisses up her neck and to her lips and on her arms, wherever the hell he could.
Because she was here.
She was safe now.
She was with him.
“I want to believe…”
“Roxas? Are you okay? You seem….weird?” She said a little bit breathlessly after he set her back down, pulling her close to him and confronting the robed figure in front of him.
He ignored her and glared at the figure’s back; watching as the person slowly turned and looked at him with a mixture of amusement and desperation to hold back laughter.
“Hey, Roxas. How’s it going? I was just having a talk with your girl for a while, that a problem?”
Kelly slapped a hand to her forehead, “Oh god, Axel, seriously? You dragged Kairi into this too? You’re a jerk you know that?”
Roxas looked between the two, confusion masking his relief for her safety and dissolving it completely.
“What?” He asked stupidly.
Axel laughed, “A harmless prank, my friend. Little Kairi and I thought it would be fun to see how desperate you would get if your girlfriend went missing. Little to say other than you played right into our hands. You must love her a lot to go insane in a bar.”
Roxas looked calmly at Kelly, kissing her cheek quickly and gently pushing her out of the way before reaching for Axel with the intent to kill.
Needless to say Kairi would be next.
Hey. At least Kelly is safe and not in danger. (Not that she ever was in the first place)
“There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you’ve paid for.”