The sky was clear as possible. There wasn't a cloud to be seen. The sun was shining bright and the air was the perfect temperature. Not cold but not to hot either.
Many kids were playing in the school play ground and chasing each other in the field.
But it was, dark, cold, storming and deserted in the eyes of a ten year old girl who sat against the fence surrounding the school grounds.
She had her chin on her knees and a blank look on her face.
She spent all the recesses since the second week of Kindergarten like this. No one even thought to approach her. They didn't even realize she was even there anymore after so many years.
The first week of Kindergarten had been horrible for her. Every kid in her class had teased, bullied and ignored her just because she had blue hair.
She had given up on trying to find friends and to be accepted by her peers after that week. Most wouldn't have given up so easily but she knew she would never be accepted by the kids at her school
Ever since then she just sat at the back of the class rooms and tried her best to not be called on by the teachers. That had also been when she had started sitting this spot.
She never told her parents about her school. She just put on a mask and said that everything was great. They never even questioned it when she never brought any friends home or even mentioned having any.
She did want a friend. It was her dearest wish. She wanted some one her age who would accept her, even though she had blue hair.
She closed her eyes.
When she opened them again, a boy her age was standing in front of her, smiling at her.
"Hi! My name's Ventus! But call me Ven!" He said cheerfully. He had spiky golden blond hair that reached a bit past his ears at the sides and just above his shoulders at the back. His bangs pointed to the right.
"My name's Aqua." She replied back with a smile. It was her first real smile in a long time.
"Do you want to be friends?" He asked putting his hands on his knees
She nodded. "I'd love that!" She said happily in response.
And that was the start of Aqua's first friendship.
Though it's shame that Ventus was only imaginary.
Ventus starred over Aqua's shoulder as she typed her story. He was really enjoying it, but that was because Aqua wanted him to like it. Though if he was real he probably would have liked it anyway.
Aqua stopped typing without warning.
"Why'd you stop typing?" Ventus asked in concern.
Aqua sighed, hiding her shock over the fact that Ventus had done something she hadn't willed him to do. He had been doing that a lot lately. Aqua had guessed that her subconscious had started to control him now.
"No one would like this story." She said, moving the cruiser over to the X. She hadn't saved the word document at all despite having worked on it for a few days now.
He placed his right hand on the hand of her's that was on the touch pad of her lap top and she could have sworn she actually felt it."Aqua. There will have to be someone, other then me, who will enjoy this story too. It's a really great story. You can take all the time you want but please, please, finish it!"
Aqua smiled a little bit.
Ventus slowly removed his hand from hers.
"I think I will continue it." She said, her smile getting a little bigger.
Ventus smiled too.
"But after I get something to eat." She added before getting off her chair.
She went over to her door and opened it. She looked back at Ventus.
"You coming Ven?" She asked.
Ventus surprisingly shook his head. "No, I'm going to stay here. Your parents don't know I'm here remember. They might get the wrong idea."
"Okay, I'll be back soon." She said before walking out the door.
It saddened her a bit that she had him not know that he wasn't even real. She had given him memories of a life and always constantly added more. She had too or it wouldn't seem as real as it seemed.
"So we're moving?" Aqua asked surprised.
Her parents nodded.
"We don't have enough room anymore so we need a bigger place." Her mother said putting her hands to her stomach area.
Aqua knew what they were telling her. She was going to have a sibling.
Ventus was sitting next to her on the couch. Aqua had given him memories of coming up stairs after a few minutes because he was bored and arriving just in time to see Aqua's parents leading her to the living room. He was then noticed and Aqua explained that he was her best friend. They had then all sat down of the couches.
But in reality she was just imagining him there, like she did with him always.
He flashed a comforting smile in her direction, also knowing what her parents were meaning. But Aqua didn't see it because she wasn't expecting him too.
"Our time together seemed so short." Ventus said giving her one last hug. She swore, like so many times before, that she actually felt his arms around her and his breath on her neck. But she knew it was impossible.
She truly wanted to bring him with her but she knew that in the new town she would have a chance for new friends. She had heard that a lot of the kids at the school she would be going to had crazy hair so she wouldn't stick out to much.
He let go of her and gave her a sad smile.
"Bye Aqua. I can't wait till the day we meet again." He said sadly.
"Bye Ven." She said before turning around and stepping into the back seat of her parents car.
Her parents had been too busy talking to notice what she had been doing.
She closed the car door and sat down and buckled herself in.
She glanced out the car window and saw that Ventus was still there but he wasn't looking at her. She willed him to disappear.
Before he disappeared for the final time, though Aqua didn't hear despite her normally hearing every thing he said, he mumbled. "I'll pretend I'm going home and my existence isn't ending."
As the car drove away from the house, and eventually the town, Aqua thought of all the good times she had with Ventus.
'No matter how much I want to see you again I won't bring you back unless I truly need you' She thought finally.
She didn't need him. She was accepted by everyone at her new school and she gained many, many friends.
She continued to work on her story and eventually published it. A lot of people loved it so she wrote more and each time more and more people loved them.
Over the next years of school, she pretty much forgot that she used to be hated at he old school. It didn't bother her so she buried the memories deep. And some of the memories buried were her memories of Ventus so she forgot about him.
It wasn't until she had finished school that something jogged some of her memories.
