Hey! Another story I'm posting up. This series is finished on Quizilla, but it's still going to be kinda slow to post on here because I'm planning on rewriting it. This story was from 2 years ago when I was just starting to write and since I've learned a lot since then, I plan on changing the writing style in this story. :D

She couldn't see a thing, not because it was dark. Everything seemed blurry to her and she couldn't see anything well at all. It was like she needed glasses. From what she could tell, she was standing on a floating island of sand and a tall white door stood before her.

She wasn't alone in this strange place. There were others with her. A short boy with spiked brown hair was there along with a girl with short reddish-auburn hair and a tall boy with somewhat long silver hair. There were also animals there too. A large white duck wearing blue clothes and an extremely tall black dog wearing clothes also and was standing on two legs.

Her mind didn't seem to know what was going on, but her body surely did as it would move around without her mind telling it to do so. She ran up to the silver-haired boy and wrapped her arms around his torso while beginning to cry on his shoulder.

The boy put his arms around her also and whispered in her ear, "Kierra, can you promise me something?"

All she could do was nod as more tears rolled down her tanned cheeks.

"Promise me we will never forget each other."

She lifted her head to look into his teal eyes and nodded her head again.

"I promise."

Though she couldn't see well, she could see the smile on his face. They both let go of each other and he walked over to the large door where the other boy and two animals were at. The silver-haired boy walked into the door and helped pull the door shut as the other three pushed it.

Her tears fell faster at that time and she quickly ran over to the auburn-haired girl...

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Kierra hit her alarm clock to shut it off and tiredly sat up in her bed. She stretched her arms up into the air as she let out a big yawn.

I had that dream again...

She hopped out of her bed and quickly changed out of her pajamas into a blue plaid skirt, a white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up a little bit to shorten them, tied a blue plaid tie that matched her skirt loosely around her neck, and hopped into brown shoes.

Usually, it would take Kierra to hit the snooze button on her alarm clock about seven times before she could actually get up. But everytime that she would have that dream, she never could get back to sleep.

After she brushed her teeth and placed her brown hair with natural lighter brown highlights in a high ponytail, letting her bangs to fall to the right side of her face, she went downstairs. Her parents weren't up yet, like usual, so she just took a banana from the fruit bowl that was on the kitchen table and left the house, not forgetting to bring her bag also.

As she walked down the street, Kierra began to look at the silver chained bracelet that was on her right wrist. It had four charms on it; a star, a crescent moon, a dolphin, and a heart charm. It was her most prized possession. Too bad she couldn't say how she got it. She doesn't remember anything. Only that one day her wrist was bare and the next, it was sitting on her wrist.

Since she wasn't paying any attention to where she was going, she bumped right into someone.

"Oh, I'm sorry," she quickly apologized while looking up to see who she bumped into. She saw a girl who was a little shorter than she was and had shoulder-length auburn hair with blue eyes. "Kairi! Hey!"

"Hey, Kierra. I see you're looking at your bracelet, again," Kairi said, cheerfully and putting emphasis on "again."

"Well, I can't remember how I got this so I thought maybe if I stared at it, the memory would pop into my head," Kierra explained. After a moment of silence between the two, she said with a laugh, "That sounded so much better in my head."

Kairi laughed also and said, "It makes sense though. So, anyway, what's up?"

"Nothing. Just totally excited for Spring Break! As soon as school let's out Friday, we are heading to the beach!"

"That's what we do everyday, Kierra."

"So? We're going to be on break now. It's going to be completely different! We can even go onto that little island. We haven't gone to that in forever!" she exclaimed while throwing her arms into the air, taking her bag and banana with them. She looked up and noticed she was holding onto the yellow fruit. "Oh, I completely forgot I had that."

Both girls laughed, Kairi's sounding a little more fake than Kierra's. And Kierra noticed this.

"What's wrong?"

Kairi waited a second before answering. "Have you been getting this feeling that something is missing?"

"Something missing?" Kierra's mind went back to the dream she had the night before. In her dream, she had known the silver-haired boy. She's had dreams before where she's known people that she didn't no in real life, but in her dream, it actually felt like she knew him from somewhere. "I guess so, yeah. A little bit. Why?"

"I don't know. It's just a feeling I've been getting."

Suddenly, the a loud bell began to ring. The two girls looked at eachother with wide eyes before they screamed "We're late!" and began running to the school.

.: - :.

During class, Kierra couldn't keep her mind off of that dream. It never bugged her this much before but after the conversation she had with Kairi, she was beginning to think she actually knew the two boys, and animals, in her dream.

While the teacher was lecturing about something in history, Kierra was doodling in her sketchbook. That was what she did when she had something on her mind. Some people played sports. Some people would read or write. Kierra would draw. It was like she was in some other world when she drew and everything that surrounded her disappeared. But sometimes, being in another world can be a bad thing.

"Kierra!"

"What?" she said startled by hearing her name being called. She looked towards the front and saw that her teacher was now glaring at her.

"I've called your name about five times now," the teacher said, obviously angered at her. "What is the answer to the problem on the board."

"What?" she said again and looked at the math problem that was shown. She could have sworn she was in history. And there was one of the many side effects to being in her own world. "Um, 23?" she answered in a questioning manner.

"You're lucky, Kierra. That is correct," the teacher stated and started to explain why she was right.

.: - :.

After school, Kierra hurried home to change out of her school uniform she hated so much. She changed into a dark blue miniskirt (with shorts underneath), two tank tops (a light blue over a dark blue), and a short sleeved denim jacket with the bottom hem ending about a couple inches above her belly button. Then quickly, she put on white tennis shoes and ran to the beach.

That day was one of the days that she and her friend Tidus agreed to spar with each other. They would spar about four times a week when Tidus wasn't practicing blitzball with the team at their high school.

When Kierra finally got to the beach, Tidus was all ready there with two wooden swords stuck into the ground beside him.

"Ready?" he questioned while his arms were crossed over his chest.

"Ready as I'll ever be," she mumbled loud enough for him to hear.

"Is something wrong?" he asked, noticing the strange tone in her voice.

"Nah. I just have a lot on my mind right now," she told him. "It's all right. I'm fine as long as we spar my way."

"Fine," he said, smirking. He wasn't very good at hand to hand, which was what Kierra liked, but he was confident enough that he knew he was going to win. "Just don't cry when you lose."

"Ha! You forgot all ready!" Kierra stated cockily while taking her position in the sand and lifting her fists into the air. "I never lose."

.: - :.

"Ah!" Kierra screamed and she flew back and landing on the sand, hard. She lifted her body up a little bit, leaning on her left arm, and used her other arm to rub the side of her head. "Ow. That's definitely going to hurt tomorrow."

Tidus ran over and offered his hand to her to help her up. She gladly took it and started to brush the sand off her clothes.

"When you said something was on your mind, you weren't kidding," he joked as he crossed his arms again. "You should always have something on your mind. That way, I'll win all our sparring matches."

"I'll get right on that," she said sarcastically while rolling her eyes. "I'm gonna head home. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye!"

Kierra ran home, leaving Tidus on the beach by himself. When she got home, her father was setting the table for dinner while her mother was cooking.

"You're home. How was school?" her father asked her when she walked into the room.

"Boring, like usual," she said, slightly distracted. She was looking around the room for something. "Do you know where my school bag is?"

"I put it in your room," her mother answered.

"'Kay. Thanks!" she said and ran out of the room to the stairs.

"Don't get comfortable. We're eating shortly!" her father called after her.

"Not hungry!" she called back and then the slam of her bedroom door shut.

Kierra walked around her room until she saw that her school back was placed nicely on top of her desk. She quickly rushed over to it, opened it up, and pulled out her sketchbook. Moving her bag to the floor, she placed her sketchbook down on her desk and flipped to the page of her last drawing.

There wasn't a clear picture yet, still being that there were lines everywhere on the page. She could have finished it in class but with her teacher looking at her every fives seconds after she got in trouble, she was somewhat scared to continue it.

Taking out a pencil, she continued to draw her unfinished masterpiece.