He grasps your small hand, slightly shaking due to lack of confidence
in his promise. He tells you he's going to show you the world... and
everything in it. And he does.
You experience that familiar feeling of weightlessness, unknown to
those who have never dreamt of it. Laws of gravity fade to frivolous
meaning. Time and space and things of importance fall away, until
there is nothing left between you and the endless sky. In seconds you
have all but forgotten everything else, which is exactly what he had
intented. You are not frightened to open your eyes, what would scare
you the most is if you closed them. You're free: No instructions or
commandments are awaiting you in this sky, he tells you. And of
course, you believe him.
He looks back and sees you smiling, a grin filling his own beautiful
face. You tighten your grip on his hand, not daring to let go, and you
both fall. He relaxes as you come closer and closer to the ground.
You, being you, start to panic, yet you cannot bring yourself to close
your eyes. Right before you touch the ground, he pulls gently on your
arm, taking care to never harm you. Once again you rise upwards, and
once again a smile spreads across your face. Your blonde hair whips
around freely, but you make no move to pull it away.
The mid-afternoon sun bathes you and him in a warm, healthy glow, and
you can never dream of it ending.
He takes you to places you've never seen: and places he's seen
everyday. You visit a place with a white rabbit; which, frankly, you
spend a little too much time following. You discover a new world with
glowing fairies, and one of them sprinkles golden dust on you that
makes you cough. Slowly the golden shower of sparkles gives you the
ability to fly on your own, but you still hold his hand anyway. Then
he shows you a dark place, with frightening creatures and a small
ghost dog. You don't like that world very much. Lastly Roxas flies
with you to the most beautiful place you have ever seen, and he calls
it twilight town. There he buys you ice cream: the sweetest (and
saltiest) treat you have ever tasted in your life. And you sit atop
the highest clocktower you've ever seen, and watch the trains commute
back and forth to places you could never even imagine. You realize
that twilight town is your favorite place in all the worlds: you never
want to leave.
Roxas tells you to eat your ice cream before it melts, then he goes to
eat his own and it tumbles from his stick to the concrete below. You
laugh and laugh, he takes your ice cream and smears some on your face.
He laughs even harder as some drips and lands with a blue splash on
your white dress.
Suddenly you stand to wipe it off, and lose your balance. Unable to
find it, you slip from the very top of the tower and begin a
treacherous descent down... and down... and down...
Just when you have remembered you have forgotten to thank Roxas (Of
all things to think of), you feel his strong arms wrap around your
skinny waist, and you are flying again, this time in Roxas' arms. He
sets you down on a nearby roof and tells you if you ever do that
again, he's going to kill you. Then you laugh quietly and tell him if
you did that again you'd already be dead. Roxas places his arms around
your waist and hugs you, telling you he wouldn't let it happen. And
you believe him.
Then you accompany Roxas on one last flight, the flight home. They
enter the familiar white walls of her room, but this time, they look a
little less plain. This time, the small confinements of her room seem
a little bigger, a little less menacing, and a little more like home.
Roxas tells you it's time to sleep, he tells you goodbye, and that
you'll see him tomorrow, and you believe him.
As you lay in your bed, you reminisce about today. Then you gasp aloud
in realization: you haven't thanked Roxas. Tomorrow, you promise
yourself. Tomorrow.
Maybe you and him can do it again someday, you think. You would like
to go back to twilight town and have ice cream again. After all,
you're tired of staying here. Suddenly just the thought of seeing
Roxas tomorrow makes you shake in anticpation, and you smile
uncontrollably. Then you close your ocean blue eyes in hopes of
drifting off to sleep.
It almost seems unfair the way Roxas can make you feel this way, and
you can't give him anything in return.
But you've given him everything, Naminé...
You just don't know it.
Because tonight, this night, Roxas falls asleep thinking about you too.