This is inspired by a situation my bestfriend is going through.

Italics=flashback.
Regular= present.
Bold=usually just is the date or a text message. :P
And if it's bold italic, that means it's important although not being said, it just means something. :P You'll find out. [:
And if there's an italic by itself in a sentence, it's just emphasized.

Enjoy!

The summer of 2009. It was a hot summer, and it was full of possibilities. It was warm. School was just out that day. A redheaded girl was laughing at the boy next to her...the boy with the bright blue eyes and spiky brown hair.

Sora Johns and Kairi Browning. Barely together three and a half months. The "cutest" couple in the school.

The summer looked to be perfect. Positively perfect, because those two were in love. Had great friends. Happiness like this had to last forever.

August 11th 2009:

Kairi pulled down at her t-shirt, biting her lip. The first day of school.

After the longest, and worst, summer of her life.

She couldn't believe she was about to go to school...alone. No friends would be waiting for her.

What friends?

"Ugh." Kairi muttered, lacing up her shoes."I can't believe this."

If she was going to be honest with herself, Kairi couldn't even believe that she would be going to school today.
After a summer spent in bed with her iPod and her tears.

And don't forget the blades.

She stood up, pulling at her sleeves. They were long enough, yes. But she needed to fidget with it to keep her sanity.

And to hide the cuts.

"Fuck."

And she left the safety of her bedroom, past her bathroom, through her whole house before finally,

finally....

going out the front door.

First Saturday of summer:

"This is going to be so perfect, Kairi!"

"Hahah Sora, leave my bestestfriend alone!!" Namine shouted, pushing Sora away.

Namine was older than Kairi and Sora by a year, and was dating Sora's twin brother Roxas.

"No! She's my love, therefore I could tell YOU to leave her alone!" Sora shouted playfully, sticking his tongue out at Namine, who rolled her perfectly made up eyes and turned to Roxas, who was playing his guitar as always.

Roxas swung the guitar over his shoulder, grabbing Namine's hand and pulling her in for a kiss.

"OOOH! Look at the lovebirds!" Kairi teased.

"As if you and Sora aren't the same way!" their other friend Olette said, giving them jealous looks.

Kairi knew Olette liked Sora. She also knew that Olette stood no chance.

Just as she thought that, Sora leaned over and grabbed her hand in his. "My love." he whispered. Kairi stared into his eyes, which were now full of love and looked so beautiful right then, right there.

"I love you."

She'd never been so alone in her life as that day, walking into her junior year at Destiny High.

No one smiled at her or yelled her name.

And she knew everyone. She'd been so popular last year. How did she not have anyone this year?

Then she heard one voice, that one voice she really did NOT want to hear.

"Oh if it isn't Kairi Browning. Happy to be back here....without anyone?"

"Olette." Kairi muttered, turning around.

Olette had a new haircut, some new clothes, and...

She was wearing his bracelet.

Things were awful. She and Selphie kept fighting, constantly. Her mom was beating her.

Although her friends didn't know that.

They didn't know a lot. She wanted to tell Sora. So much. But she was scared to let the secret out.

And lately, everytime she told him about her problems, he took them upon himself and told her he felt like he needed to do more.

As if he hadn't done too much for her already.

She lifted the knife to her wrist. And slit right through the skin.

It burned. Burned SO badly.

Instinctively, Kairi reached up towards her neck for the necklace that was no longer there.

The one she used to wear all the time, that had been put in her bottom drawer.

Where everything from him had gone. Everything that used to make her smile.

Olette smirked, walking away.

Kairi didn't pay attention to her though. She only saw Namine, standing off the court, just like always.

And Sora was right next to her, with Roxas on the other side.

He ran his fingers over the scar."I can't believe I cut."

"Why didn't you tell me you needed to talk to me? I could have helped you far more than a knife."

"I know. I wasn't thinking. And I was so scared to tell you...I don't want you to leave me, I need you."

"I'm here. I won't leave. I promise. We'll get through this. Together."

"I love you, Sora."

"I love you too."

Once again, Kairi pulled her sleeves. And walked away, towards her homeroom, where she could hide her face from most of the school.

At least until lunch time.

"He never talks to me anymore. When he does it's always short and depressingly boring."

"He's treated you like shit lately...all that 'Im going through a lot' bullshit. Ask him. Straight out. What his feelings for you are."

Kairi stared up at her bestestfriend. "But Namine...I'm scared."

"Of the truth?"

"Of losing his love."

How had lunchtime rolled around so quickly??

Selphie saw her. Narrowed her eyes. Whispered a few things to the boy next to her, Tidus.

Kairi sighed and looked away. She had no one.

Then she saw Roxas coming towards her.

"Hey." He muttered, sitting across from her.

"Hi.?"

"Why so surprised?"

"You don't talk to me all summer then suddenly come to me at school and say 'hey'?"

Roxas looked down at the table. "Yeah...I ignored your texts like an asshole. Sorry. I didn't want to get into it."

Kairi frowned. "Yeah." she muttered.

Roxas sighed. "Look. I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"Uhm...Im not sure. Give me a minute." Roxas joked.

"My twin was a bastard to you....with what happened and all..."

Kairi held up a hand. "Please...."

Don't bring it up.

She didn't have to finish her sentence. Roxas understood.

"Right."

The two sat in silence until Roxas went back to where Namine was sitting.

Leaving her alone.

Just the way she liked it.

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Like it, hate it?

Idk. My bestfriend has been going through this since June. When the love of her life gave up on her for being a cutter.

And well...this is based off of her story. Her life.

She doesnt mind that Im writing this, in fact she likes that I am. She says it's my way of showing I care.

I love her(:

Anyways. Please do review. Let me know what you think.