-Chapter 1-

-Mackie's POV-

"Mackenzie, hurry up!" My mom yelled. We were moving back to the other side of the Destiny Islands, where I was originally from. I missed it there so much. I grabbed my phone, and dragged my bags downstairs, and into the car. I sat with my head against the window, watching all the passing objects. We finally pulled up to our old little house. I got my bags out of the car, as I stumbled a little bit.

"Whoa," A red-headed girl let out a small laugh walking by. "Do you need any help?" She smiled, grabbing one of my bags.

"Thanks." I smiled, as she helped me lug my stuff into the house. We walked back out, and she looked at me.

"I'm Kairi." She extended her hand and arm towards me. I grabbed her hand, and she shook it.

"I'm Mackie." I smiled, as we both pulled our hands back to our side.

"Do you wanna go sit on the beach? I could show you around a little bit?" It's been years since I've been here, I was already fifteen, and I lived here when I was about five, so I forgot mostly everything.

"I've lived here before, a long time ago, but sure." I smiled, and peeked my head through the door.

"Mom! Dad! I'm going to walk around with Kairi!" I shut the door and nodded. We began walking, and she showed me the Secret Place. It was a little cave, where her and her friend used to go all the time.

"I don't remember this being here..." She looked at the drawing on the wall strangely. It was her, and her friend, and...

"What's that?" I pointed to the star shaped figure.

"That's a papou fruit." I smiled as I remembered now. The star shaped fruit, papou.

"I remember papou... I haven't had one in so long." We left, and sat on the beach nearby. I sat in the sand, and rubbed my hand around in it. I missed this place so much. We went up onto higher elevated land on the island. We walked across a short bridge, and sat on the small island like thing, with papou trees. We sat on the trunk of it, and watched everything around us. I slight clicking sound got louder and closer to us.

"Kairi, you know this is-" I turned and looked at the bright blue eyes.

"Riku?" He froze, and looked me dead in the eyes.

"Mackie?" I jumped up, and wrapped my arms around his neck. He hugged me around my waist, and I squeezed him.

"I've missed you so much." We seperated from each other, but his hands remained on my waist.

"What happened to you? Where did you go?"

"I grew up," I let out a small laugh. "And we moved all the way to the other side of the Islands." He looked me up and down in disbelief. Kairi hopped up, standing at our sides.

"So I see you two already know each other." I combed my hair behind my ear with my fingers, and looked at Riku.

"Haha, yeah. I've known him practically my whole life." I tried so hard not to look into his eyes.

"So then you must know-"

"Sora!" I cried, as I saw him walking towards us.

"Mackie! Where did you come from?"

"I moved back." I looked down realizing my fingers were locked between Riku's, but I tried not to draw too much attention to it. I looked back up at Sora.

"It's been a long time... You already met Kairi?" I nodded and smiled. Kairi moved next to Sora, and smiled at me.

"We'll leave you two alone." Kairi grabbed Sora by his wrist, dragging him away from us. I watched them, trying not to make any eye contact with Riku.

"So..." I looked back at him, and we went back and sat on the trunk of the papou tree Kairi and I were sitting on. My hand slipped out of his, but as soon as we sat down, he secured my fingers between his once again.

"Did you ever try sharing a papou with somebody?" I looked at him strange, and shook my head.

"No, why?"

"They say whoever you share it with, your destinies become intertwined." He climbed up the trunk a little more, letting go of my hand once again. He picked on of the papou's off the tree, returning to my side. He took a bite out of the papou, and handed it to me. I looked down where he took a bite, and back at him.

"I don't know..." He laughed.

"Don't worry, I don't have germs, go ahead." I looked back at the fruit, taking a bite out of it. We both continued taking bites out of the fruit until there was nothing left. He layed back on the trunk, as I layed next to him, and my head on his chest. I drifted off, and woke up the next morning, still on the trunk of the papou tree. My eyes were squinted, as I looked around, trying to figure out what happened, and how I was still here. I put my hand on Riku's chest, shaking him a little bit.

"Riku, wake up!" I never went home last night, my parents were gonna kill me. RIku's eyes opened, and he looked at me.

"Good morning beautiful." He smiled, and I gave him a little shove.

"Come on, what time is it?"

"Noon." Sora's voice came behind us.

"Oh my god!" I jumped off the trunk, and ran back to my house. My mom was sitting in the living room.

"Hi honey."

"Mom! I'm so sorry!"

"Why?"

"I never came home last night."

"I know? You stayed at Kairi's. She called us last night, you fell asleep there." I sighed, and nodded.

"Oh yeah. I forgot what happened. Bye now!" I ran out the door, and back to the papou tree, where Riku still layed.

"Kairi told your mom you stayed at her house last night." I smiled.

"I know, thank you so much Kairi." She stood next to Sora, and laughed a little.

"You're welcome."