Bloom Into Love
Chapter One
A/N: Yay! I just thought of this one recently! Please review and enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Kingdom Hearts.
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Naminé sketched out the petals on the flowers she drew on the sketchpad. If there was anything she loved more than sketching, it was flowers. Flowers, along with trees, surrounded the mansion…Well, her parents' mansion. But she was limited to a small green house in the back.
She finished the drawing rather quickly, but if her subject was more complex, she would spend hours getting the details just right.
Her room was a pretty neat and tidy place. Dozens of sketchbooks aligned the shelves of her bookcase, some half the age as she was.
Maybe she drew the outside world the most because…she desperately wanted to be a part of that world, she thought as she looked at the slowly fading swelling that covered her left arm.
Her mother never let her beyond the gates of the mansion for it was 'too dangerous.' But as her mother grew weak and feeble each day, Naminé snuck out to the Twilight Gardens at night and returned before dawn. Her mother…Naminé swore she was sick and every time she would try and comfort her, she would just shoo her daughter away.
So why doesn't she sneak out during the day? Her father of course. The moneymaker and the stressful one. He'd abuse Naminé for the simplest of things, so she stayed out of his way most of the time.
Did her father and mother team up to make Naminé miserable? No. Her mother was never 'around' when her father would start pounding on her. She never 'noticed' and commented on the bruises on Naminé's arms and legs. The only thing she was grateful for…was that her father never hit her in the face.
Naminé couldn't wait to move away from her parents and go to college, but that was still one whole year away. But would her parents let her go to college? She prayed for the best.
Naminé stared at the tree branches outside her bedroom that stiffly swayed with the breeze. How she wished she could see the world beyond this stupid house and escape. No. Too risky. Her father had close ties with a lot of people in Twilight Town and if one of them saw her…well she didn't want another swollen arm.
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"Okay it should be right here." Pence said to Roxas as they approached the mansion gates. "Rumor says that dude in a white jumpsuit should be here."
"Yeah you keep thinking that." Roxas looked around. "Now hurry, this IS private property. I don't wanna be chased by rabid dogs or anything." Pence nodded and started searching through the bushes.
Roxas noticed a pale girl staring at him from an upper window. It didn't seem like she would harm him in any way, she just seemed…well, lonely. Even that far away, he saw her stunning blue eyes that seemed to greet him with a shy 'Hello.'
"Ugh. Well, we should cross that one off the list. Just another phony." Pence said as he walked up to Roxas with a few leaves stuck to his hair. He turned towards the window. "Great! C'mon Roxas, before she calls police or something!"
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'Who is that?' Naminé asked in wonder as she stared at the blonde, spiky haired boy outside the gates. Then another boy appeared, stared at her for a second, and started running towards the woods. He motioned for the blonde to hurry and disappeared. But he gave a small smile to Naminé before he too disappeared.
Naminé quickly flipped up a new page in her sketchbook and started drawing. The curves that appeared on the paper were not to her liking and kept erasing them over and over again. After many tries, she finally got the eyes perfect.
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"Okay Roxas, it's your turn. Pence and I already did our rumors." Olette said as she sat next to Hayner on an old beaten up couch in the Usual Spot.
"So what do we have to do?"
"Well they say at night—" Pence tried to make his voice sound more creepier. "Midnight to be exact. An angel wanders around the Gardens."
"An angel? Aww…I have to wait until midnight? Can I have another?"
"You can't switch now." Hayner added in. "Besides an angel? C'mon yours isn't even scary. Olette had to check out the reflection in that weird fountain thing. It seemed like there was actually someone there!"
"Roxas is just afraid of the dark." Olette giggled.
"I'm not. Besides why do we even play this game?"
"To stop the stupid rumors that spread around Twilight Town!" Pence said proudly.
"And plus there's nothing to do in summer break besides eating ice cream." Olette pointed out. "I'm glad we decided on doing our summer essays at the beginning of summer!"
"I didn't like it, but it was a load off. Besides this is our last summer together before college! We should make the best of it." Olette leaned on his shoulder.
"Like doing what?"
"Uh…"
"…I'm bored."
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Naminé worked especially hard on this picture. She was now sketching out something that would be a hand. Not even close to being done.
After she hand cramped in pain from holding her pencil too long, she walked to the green house connected to the back of their home. Her mother had always taking care of the flowers here, but now Naminé was the only one to step foot in this place. She watered the tiny plants and rearranged them in the sun. Man, she was bored.
When the clock struck 11:00 P.M., Naminé headed for the front yard and climbed the lower pillars and leaped over the gate. She dusted herself off and entered the woods.
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A/N: So please review! Sorry this was a little short but the next should be longer.