"BEEEEEEEEEEP"
I leaned over groggily and silenced my annoying alarm. 6 A.M. This is the time I usually got up because at least then I could get some peace and quiet. I gracefully set my feet down on the cold hard ground of the basement floor. I felt a slight shiver go up my spine. Today was one of those days that I just didn't feel like getting up at all….the only upside was that I would be able to go to school to escape the insanity of my…..could I even call them family? Most of the time they acted like they hated each other, said words to each other that were so vile and cruel at times you could see the acid from their lips.
I slowly made my way over to my closet, I grabbed the first thing I saw, a dress similar to my pink one but definitely more casual. As I walked out my door I took a look at the face looking back at me in my green and pink floral Victorian mirror. It looked pale, worn out, and to me absolutely disgusting. I'd never had a whole bunch of self confidence. Maybe that was due to my sister…..Sayu…..she was all that you expected from a cheerleader. Tall, slender, blonde, beautiful. Every single guy in school wanted her. And at times she let them. But eventually she always broke their heart. She usually had a date every single night of the week, and I would have to sit on our tan sectional and watch her walk out with the unsuspecting prey. I had to admit I was a little jealous of Sayu, but I mean what girl wasn't! Every girl at school wanted to be her and every guy wanted her. That was the way it was, and how it always would be. Not that I wanted any of the guys that Sayu would go after, but it would be nice to feel wanted.
As I headed for the door I heard a familiar voice call out behind me. "Hey Kai!" My mother shouted from behind. " I'm heading off the work and I was wondering if you might wanna pick upTaiki from school today?" I looked back at her with my wide blue eyes and put on a smile. "Of course mom. I'd be happy to." The fake smiles and laughs seemed to come easier and easier to me with every passing day. My parents both worked and I had to be the support system a lot. Which wasn't always easy with my 7 year old brother , Taiki, being autistic, having a 10 year old sister, Nana, being overemotional due to the fact that she was at the threshold of puberty, and Sayu being well….Sayu. But I was happy to do it cause that's just who I was. I knew I had to be there for my siblings with my parents being so unstable with their marriage.
I opened the blood red front door and the bright sun shone in my eyes. That was a typical day on destiny islands. The sun was shining the sky was blue it was beautiful. I walk slowly down the concrete path then I saw an eager hand waving at me. It was Sora, of course who else could wave that energetically. "Hey Kai! So how goes it?" I looked back at Sora his bright blue eyes gleaming back at me and he had his usual wide grin spread across this face. It was almost impossible for me to not smile. "Well as well as can be expected" I let out a slight giggle.
The road ahead of us seemed to stretch on forever, which I didn't mind to much. Being around Sora just seemed to make everything better. I felt like all the problems I had to deal with at home didn't even exist anymore. That was just how happy he made me. I looked ahead towards the blinding sun, and saw four figures. "Hey! Riku! Namine! Roxas!" Sora shouted at the top of his lungs, even though they were only 3 feet ahead of us. Riku started to yank on his ear, "You know Sora, we're only 3 feet ahead of you. You don't need to shout" Sora's smile started to turn into a perplexed upset sort of look. "Well….you're lucky I didn't ditch you! You know me and Kai could've just left you behind and walked all by ourselves" Sora let out a hearty laugh and pulled me into his big broad shoulders.
"Yeah well if we don't hurry you guys we're gonna be late. So come on!" I preceded to drag Sora by the collar down the long winding road. Within a couple seconds I drifted back to walk with Namine and let the other three walk ahead. We then began to babble about just nonsensical things. Namine and I had met over a year ago and had been best friends ever since. We had almost everything in common that it was so easy for us just to talk about everything and nothing at the same time! Without Namine I would definitely had gone insane!
As we continued to talk, we approached the big brick building that was Destiny Islands High School. As we got closer I saw a tall, dark figure with medium brown hair waving at me shouting my name. As I got closer I could see his face more clearly. It was Takumi Sasaki.