Love & Prejudice
Warning: For those who don't wish to read material that contains male/male loving (but nothing that is explicit), then please do not read this. My story isn't about homosexuality, hetrosexuality, or bisexuality. I am doing my best to try to make the main theme about "Love in general & Life". The relationships between some of the male characters are just there for the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, or anything else from Square Enix and Disney. I am simply writing fanfiction.
Chapter One:
It was 2:30 in the A.M., and Sora Hikari laid in bed, staring at the white ceiling of his new room. Although it was cramped, the room was rather cozy. He turned onto his side, thinking. It would be his first day of school tomorrow at his new high school-Twlight High School. He would be a Sophmore in a new school where he didn't have any friends, nothing familiar, and would get lost several times throughout the day.
Sora sighed, laying on his back again. He knew he really should get some sleep because he would have to get up at 6:00 to get ready, then take 15 minutes to walk to the school before it started at 7:20 A.M.. He really missed his old school now-Destiny Islands School District. His old school was they only one he went to all his life since kindergarden. It was a very small school-he only had had about fifteen classmates at his old school and knew them all well. His childhood friend, a beautiful red-headed girl named Kairi Hikari (no relation), and he would always hang out together with another boy that was blonde-haired and usually wore a yellow vest-all year. His name was Tidus Blitzworth and out of the three, he was always the sportiest. Tidus always tried to get Kairi and Sora into sports and would whine when they would say they didn't want to play sports.
Sora smiled in the darkness of his room when he remembered how Tidus would whine "Why noooootttttt? Sports are fun! Why don't you like eeemmmmmmmmuh." Sora knew exactly why he didn't play sports-he hated them with a passion. He honestly could care less about them because he was always bad at playing them. He also didn't like them because people made fun of him and would laugh at him and his dismal skills. Therefore, Sora tried not to get involved in sports.
It was 2:50, Sora sighed. He didn't want to go to the horrid new school tomorrow. He knew that the jocky people would try to make him look stupid and he never really had learned how to handle that kind of situation at his old school because no one really acted like that at his old school. He felt he would never find a friend here so he decided he would be like an enigma until he graduated. He sighed again, he really didn't want to move to the city, but his mom, who used to teach at Destiny Islands School District, told him that the education was lacking than in the city schools. So they moved to Twilight Town-a place too large to really be given the title "Town". Sora and his mother had moved into the cheapest apartments that were around that also were at least safer from drugs and crime and other grotesque, negative elements of city life. To his mother, life seemed to be getting better for them. Right when Sora's mother had aquired a very rewarding teaching job for the district, however, she had a horrific seizure.
Sora remembered that night a few weeks ago very well and really wanted to forget it, but life had other plans. He was in the living room watching television. His mother was in the kitchen of their apartment cooking a wonderful dinner of grilled chicken, garlic bread, Caesar Salad, fruit salad, and for dessert-a yellow cake with cholocate icing. She wanted to help Sora become more adjusted and happier with his new life by making him a gourmet dinner to cheer him up. She knew he had suffered from Depression from time to time since he was about six years old and was saddened by this because she felt it was her fault-Depression was common only from her side of the family. Her "Mother's Intuition" always was able to tell when her son was becoming depressed. She remembered that the most depressed Sora ever was was when he tried to commit suicide with a kitchen knife after his father died from a boating accident back at the islands. That same Depression seemed to be sneaking up on him again since they had moved.
She went to get a glass of water when her eyes rolled back and she fell to the floor with a loud, blunt clunk. Sora heard it and dashed to the kitchen and screamed at what he saw-his mom was lying on her side, jerking like she was in an electric chair. Her body rocked back and forth harshly, gently banging her head into the nearby refrigerator door, while her fingers and legs twitched and jerked madly. She was making "ugghhh...ughhh" noises when a small amount of blood began to come out of her mouth.
"MOM!" Sora screamed, tears falling from his eyes at the sight of his only caring relative that he knew closely. He quickly put her in the resting position on her side and away from the refrigerator so she wouldn't continue to bang her head. He went to get a pillow for her when she came to.
After about five minutes of Sora's mother's body flailing due to the seizure, she started snoring roughly, still laying on the kitchen floor. After about twenty minutes had passed, Sora's mom finally awoke with a start. "Sora?" she asked, confused as to why she was on the floor when a great pain hit her mouth. "Ahhhhhhh.." she hissed very low. "Are you okay?" he asked. "I'm fine, hun. Just a little tired and achy." she replied "What happened to me?" "You just fell and starting jerking and twitching and blood came out of your mouth! I thought you...were..sniff going to die or something..." Sora began to cry as his mom hugged him. "Shhhhhhh...it's okay, dear I'm alright now...shhhhhh." she soothed. She helped her son up and finished cooking dinner. Later that night, after she finally got her son to bed, she went to her bathrom and looked in the mirror at her mouth. She nearly yelped at the sight-she had nearly bit the left half of her tongue off during the seizure. She gently touched it with her finger, but a very powerful sting reverberated from her tongue when she did that. She decided to put a pea-sized amount of oral gel, the kind that she uses on Sora's canker sores that he gets from time to time, on her tongue to help numb the pain before going to bed herself that night.
Sora rolled over again and again. It was now 3:06 in the A.M. He was really worried about his mom. All well, he would think of something tomorrow morning...zzzzzzzzzz.
Sora awoke, very groggy, to his three alarms(it took THREE alarms to wake him!) It was 6:00 in the A.M. He really didn't want to get out of his warm, comfortable bed. He knew he had to though, so he roled out of bed, grabbed his clothes, socks, and shoes, and locked himself in his bathroom to get ready for the long,long,long,...long day ahead. After about a half-hour, Sora emerged from his bathroom with a faded T-shirt, faded blue-jeans, and white tennis shoes. He was very thankful that this school didn't require a uniform. He grabbed his bag, grabbed a nutrition drink (his mom bought them so he could eat while walking to school), then ran out the door and locked it.
A Word from the Author:
I know this chapter is short, but it shows why Sora is so down and I will do my best to write more in the next chapter. Also, this is my first story so I really didn't want to make this chapter that long. Please review so that I may get an idea as to what your expecting from a story like this. Thank you.
