How To Save A Life
Chapter 1
"Kairi?"
"Hmm?"
"Kairi, wake up."
"Why?"
"He's dead."
"Who's Dead?"
"Roxas."
That's the kind of awakening I got at two-thirty this morning and now I'm walking down a cold empty street with my sister to my old friend's house who is now dead. When I looked over, her face looked sickly pale and lifeless, it was really hard to believe this bluenette beauty was my sister. There was no conversation between us during our fifteen minute walk and honestly I didn't want to go. What was the point of going, he was dead and there was nothing anyone could do now, plus I had to get up for school in a few hours.
When we arrived at the house there was a boy with brown spiky hair dimly lit in the porch light. His hands we're clasped together and resting over his nose and mouth, his eyes closed. I quietly made my way up the porch steps but as Aqua passed me, his blue eyes flew open and caught mine.
"I'm so sorry about your brother Sora." I said as I sat beside him and pulled him into a hug. He just sat there lifelessly, not hugging back. Once I let him go it was quite between us, so I just watched our breath rise up in the cold mid November air.
"He was a great person, it's not going to be the same without him." Sora told me after a few minutes, not looking at me. It was as if he was talking to himself or someone else.
All I could do was look at the ground. "I wonder why he did it." I mumbled.
"Nobody really knows why, but I think it's because he never got over Namine's death." he answered me. I nodded in response and then he continued. "Sure we all had a rough time getting over it, we all cared about her, but he loved her. He just didn't have the strength to get over it so he took his own life to get rid of the pain. Nice pajamas and hair by the way."
I jumped a little and looked up to see that he was looking at me with a faint smile on his face. My sister had made us leave quickly so I didn't have time to fix my hair or get clothes on, so now my hair was puffed up a little in the back and I was still in my red pajamas with hearts on the bottoms. Sora on the other hand, Sora's hair was as neat as it could be and he was dressed in black jeans and a black hoodie. "Umm...thanks, my sister kind of made us leave in a hurry." I explained.
He just nodded a little. "We should go inside, the ambulance are probably almost here now."
"Wait...you mean...Roxas's body's still in there?" I asked slightly surprised as the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I really didn't want to see a dead body.
Sora just stood up and held out his hand to me, which I quickly grabbed onto and he helped pull me up. "It'll be fine." he said as we walked to the door. He quietly opened the door, and held it open for me.
When I was inside I looked around to see the first floor was completely empty. "Where is everyone?" I asked.
"Probably up in Roxas's room. C'mon let's go." he said as he climbed the stairs.
I just looked at the stairs not moving, "But I really don't want to. I don't want to see another dead body of someone close to me." I said. It was already bad enough that I watched Namine die in the hospital after the accident, she didn't even look like herself, she was too pale and fragile...and broken. She died back in May when she was walking to the store and a drunk driver ran her over. It was something none of us could ever forget.
Sora came back down the stairs and waited for me on the bottom step. "You'll be okay, I'm here with you this time." I sighed in defeat and walked up the stairs by his side. Once we got to Roxas's room Aqua and a man who had blonde spiky hair stood on opposite sides of the room. It wasn't until I looked down on the floor that the reality of Roxas actually being dead hit me. Tears stung my eyes as I saw the blonde spiky haired boy around Sora's age laying on the floor lifeless, gashes running from his wrists up the the creases of his elbow.
"Oh my god." I gasped as I covered my mouth and hot tears started running down my face. I didn't want to believe this was real, I wanted this all to be a dream. Nobody said anything to anyone, but Sora's older brother looked at me as if he hated me, like this was my fault.
When lights started to flash outside the house, he walked out of the room. "Looks like their here." he said more to himself. I walked over to Aqua and she hugged me.
"It'll be alright" she comforted as Sora and his brother led the ambulance in the room. They quickly put Roxas's body and a body bag and they were gone.
"Thank you for coming." the blonde haired man said.
Aqua smiled a little. "Not a problem Ventus."
"Please just call me Ven." he said. "Come on you two, I'll take you home." he offered as he pulled his car keys out of his pocket.
"Thank you so much." Aqua said and we both quickly left the house and got into Ven's Mercedes and we were off. We barely made it halfway down the block and I was out.