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[Riku on the phone] "Well, Axel I just don't think I can handle staying here any longer."
"Yeah that's what I was thinking. I am actually planning on moving back to Destiny Islands…" I said as I walked over and put the bathroom towels in a box.
"No, I don't think it's a big move. I'm just sick of living here in Hollow Bastian. Yeah I will miss Leon and them, but I miss the gang more. Yah know?"
"Plus, my mother has just reached the point of unbearable. So she called me last night to say goodnight and-"
"Yeah"
"Uh-huh." Axel can be a big talker when he wants to be.
"And yeah I told her that that was unacceptable. That she can call when it's necessary. I'm not a child anymore, and she needs to recognize that I am grown up."
"Well for the most part okay! I know I still act like a child okay, but your waaayy worse than me man!"
"Ha-Ha yeah. Well you think it's okay if I move back right even after 6 years?"
"Oh okay good! I was just a bit worried for a second."
"Well that's the funny thing… I'm almost done packing now. I've called the apartment complex there and I've paid the initial fee and everything. So I'm moving in on Tuesday."
Axel then screams into the phone and I have to pull it away in order to keep my ear from hurting.
"Yeah well I knew you would be okay with it and I figured the sooner the better."
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you right away but I wanted it to be a surprise and I didn't want anyone to talk me out of it."
"Well I'm glad your excited! And yes it will be great! And no I haven't told my mother…yet."
"I was planning on telling her when I got there so she couldn't come over and try and force me to stay."
"Ha-ha yeah I told her to call me on Saturday."
"Oh okay. Yeah I should probably finish packing the last bit of stuff. I will talk to you soon. Okay Bye."
I hung up the phone and took a breath. Just one more day left and I will be out of here. I laid down on my empty bed. I already packed most of my blankets and took apart my bed frame. It feels like a ghost town in here.. I leaned over and grabbed the photo on my nightstand, and absentmindedly rubbed my thumb over the image. It was the last, umm, picture of.. of.. Sora and I.. I remember that day very well because it was perfect and yet it was the day before one of the worst days of my life…
We had been sitting on this metal park bench 3 years ago in Hollow Bastian Central Park, and this woman had come up to us and had taken our picture. I hadn't even realized it. After she had taken the picture she had apologized and said that she had to take the picture because if she hadn't, an important moment would've "fluttered away". She told us that she would send me a picture and asked for my address. Sadly, Sora had left before he got to see the photo. She sent me the photo a week later. I was shocked when I opened up the envelope to find this random photograph. It came back after a few minutes of trying to remember something I had wanted to forget. The picture was of Sora appearing to be looking at his hand on the bench, and biting his lip. His face was angled away from me but enough where his eyelashes had caught the sun and you could slightly see the blue of his eyes. Then next to him in the photo, I was sitting forward with one arm resting on my knee and the other sitting on the bench between my leg and Sora's hand. The thing that really got to me (after of course how Sora looked) was how I was looking at him; Like he was the only person in the park. I just had this look of wanting to move my hand onto Soras, of longing and.. Love.. I remember wanting to take Sora's hand and just ask him never to leave. Of course that isn't what happened. It never probably would happen. I just don't understand why he left like he did..
I looked up out of my thoughts and grabbed the phone. I starting typing in Sora's number and stopped. I've been doing this all week. I wish I could just pick up the phone and call him like I used to be able to. But things are different now. I'm different, he is different and I just can't talk to him without being nervous. Besides he wouldn't answer anyway. I've tried and now I've given up on trying to call him. If he didn't answer those two weeks then he isn't going to answer now. I just can't get up the nerve to call him and tell him I coming back. Partly because I think he won't care and the other being that I would rather let him know when I see him.
It actually didn't take me very long to pack up I confess. I sold most of my things. If I am going to start fresh, I really want to start FRESH. All this furniture my mother had picked out but now I want things that she didn't want. I'm sick of being told what to do. It's just what I was saying to Axel, I am not a little kid anymore. It is time to start officially living on my own (I already do now but my mother tends to come over almost everyday). It is time to start my freedom. It is time to win back Sora.