CHAPTER ONE

That morning I woke up crying as usual. To be honest, I had forgotten the reason of my tears—whether if I was sad or not; my feelings are disappeared along with the tears. I turned to the side of the window, staring at different shapes of trees passing by. It wasn't snowing, but the road was frozen white. Half of the cars we saw had their chains on.

I turned my attention to the front; I noticed that my father was driving while my brother sat beside him. My mother and I sat at the back. The two in front were conversing about the weather. Would we make it to the airport in time? Would the plane take off on schedule?

My mother and I hardly said anything at all. I breathed out an exhausted sigh and turned back my attention to the passing landscape. Rays of sunlight was hardly seen, yet little specks of it cut through the ever gray clouds. My hands tighten around her necklace, the ever last piece of her with me.

The snow gets thinner as we neared the airport. My father stopped the car and opened the trunk at the back. Ventus turns to me and smiled sadly, before hopping off the car. I didn't budge; I had no feelings to do so. I sighed before stuffing the trinket inside my pockets and opening the door.

" Ventus, make sure to take care of your little brother- " Mom sighed.

"You don't have to say that." I glared at her, tossing my backpack over my shoulders. Ventus simply laughed before shutting the trunk and making his way towards the entrance.

"It's alright mom, Roxas can take care of himself—I trust him."

"Even if you say that.."

"I'll be fine." I exclaimed before walking in to the airport, ignoring anymore further comments from my mother. My mom had been always the worry-wart. But even when she is one, her looks does not say so. Her eyes glimmered a normal hazel tone, yet her hair was dark as night—whereas my father looks like both me and my brother. Despite their differences in looks, my father was much calmer than my mother.

We made our way into the airport, checking our schedule. To pass the time, Ventus and I went for a short walk. The airport was busy as ever, everyone only minded their own business. Looking out of the window, the snow on the tracks was getting cleared off by the workers.

"Thanks." I whispered out loud.

Ventus looked at me and smiled sadly, before stuffing both his hands in his pockets. He stared at my hand, fiddling for her locket.

"It's alright to be honest to yourself, Rox."

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"That little thing you have in your pocket, you're gonna have to get rid of it soon. Or you'll never feel better."

I stared at him for a second before letting my hands out of my right-jeans pocket. He was right. I had to get rid of it, or else I would never move on—move on from her. I sighed sadly, turning away and continuing our adventure through the busy transport-hub.

How long has it been since she was gone. Four months at most judging from the calendars in my room. She was extinct from my life, yet I still remember her. Sometimes I wondered if she was just an illusion, a dream—but she wasn't. Her flaxen blonde hair, her cyan-blue eyes—her radiant smile.

"Namine, she was a kindred spirit wasn't she."

"You said was."

Ventus looked at me and shook his head, "Roxas, she was a great person. And I believe that."

After the plane took off, I fell asleep and had a dream. It was about Namine when she was still up and healthy, and in the dream she was wearing her usual white sundress—smiling at me. She called out to me—"Roxas!" Her voice still lingered in my ears like a melody. I wished that the dream was real, and this reality is just a dream.

But that wasn't the case, And that was why, whenever I wake up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. It was like, when you return from a happy dream to a sad reality; there's a chasm you have to step across. The thing is, you can't exactly cross it without shedding tears—even when you've done it multiple times before.

X

The place we'd left was covered in snow, but the place we landed was a town with everlasting sun. It was as if the god of summer had decided that this was the place they wanted to reside in, Destiny's Island. My heart thumped loudly, remembering how this was the place that I had met Namine.

"It's better than Twilight Town." Ventus said.

To me, the place was cursed. Nothing about it had changed, except for the absence of her. Destiny's Island had lost a beauty. That was all. That was all that happened.

"Yeah, sure."

Ventus smiled sadly at me before patting me on the back, giving me as much support as he could. And I was grateful for that, without him here—I would've just took a knife and stabbed myself immediately to join Namine. But he, like many other people had reminded me the reason—the promises I had with her. And one of them was to stay alive and move on.

"Lighten up lil'brother. We're here aren't we, like we always do each year."

"It's not going to be the same. You know it."

Ventus sighed and raised his hand for a taxi. "Sometimes I wish that we could just turn back time, and maybe we would've warned her about her sickness too. But life is just like that, we just have to move along."

"I wish life would give us more mercy." I laughed sadly.

"I wish that too lil'brother."

We were going to spend the night at a hotel and take a morning train to the main island the next day. There was hardly any time difference, so the time when we left Twilight Town had just continued its flow. After dinner, I sprawled out on my hotel bunker and stared up at the ceiling. Shutting my eyes slowly, reminding myself that Namine is not going to be at the station tomorrow—Namine isn't here.

Our group of friends had come from the same elementary school before me and Ventus had to shift away for our parent's sake. When I'd come to Destiny's Island few years ago, Namine wasn't really the brightest person ever. She was always constantly finding a way to get on my nerves. But after some time, we grew matured and we somehow managed to tolerate each other—eventually we became each other's partner.

We would always fly to Destiny's Island each winter, sometimes even during summer to meet with the gang. That was the only nonstop route, and for this odd reason, this town, this island had become an importance in both me and Ventus' life. I'd thought that it was a beautiful place and that was the reason why I had always enjoyed it here—but it was only because she was here that I had always tried my best to visit. But now, no matter what I looked at, I felt nothing. What was I supposed to do here? What was I supposed to look at?

That's what it meant for Namine to be gone, what it means to lose her forever. I had nothing to see, nothing to hear, nothing to touch. Whenever I do see her, is in my dreams—and it was torment to come back to reality. No matter where in the world I went, it would be the same. Nothing would move me; nothing could make me feel anything anymore.

Two days without her was torture. Four months without her, I felt numb. Everything that had happened in the time where she was still here—one season changes to the next—I had felt different. It was as if the Roxas from years ago was just a myth. I am now in a place where one death had wiped out every emotion from my body.

"Good night Roxas."

"Night Ven."

That was where I was. I couldn't see anything colorful, everything is grey. If I could pay anything to get anything back, I would've sacrificed my life to see her one more time. But was that really what I had wished for?

Where are you now? Where am I?

Hey guys!

It's finally out! First chapter of the Namixas story, Together.
This is probably just a prologue, however since I've been planning on Together for a long time now..
I might be able to upload Together more often!

Hope that you'll all be more patient with me..

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- Fi