A/N: My computer crashed just as I was finishing the last sentence…go figure. So here, my best re-creation of the sad, sad lost chapter. Always save your work….

OH, yeah, and I wanted to add something I found that was absolutely hilarious:

Roxas: (singing to tune of Milkshake) My keyblade brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, Mine's better than yours! (points at Sora)

Sora: Yeah, well, my keyblade brings all the girls to the yard.

Hehe…yes it does. Anyway, on with the story! The song is Over It by Anneliese Van Der Pol. Not mine. But I wish it was…its totally addicting.

When they first told me I was an accident, I thought they meant I was an accident in that gross way they teach you in Health class (yuck!). But I would have preferred that to the truth, honestly.

Because the truth is, I wasn't born. I was created.

Like, in a lab. With test tubes and chemicals. By weird, lab coat-wearing scientists who wanted to experiment with me when I came out. And, it turns out, they had. They'd shot chemicals into me, to make me faster and stronger and smarter. And taller. But when the shot for making me taller failed, I was supposed to be destroyed. My eight-month life was supposed to have ended there. But then the Humane Department came in and told them they couldn't do that. So I was placed here, with my parents. Or rather, with my government-assigned guardians. Oh, GOD, what happened to my life?

I ran upstairs after sitting through that whole speech given to me by my dad. My mom had sat there sipping away at her coffee and pretending her 13-year-old wasn't breaking down in front of her.

Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess.
If I lighten up a little bit,
then I will be
over it.

I sobbed as I ran upstairs, half-blind. I slammed my door shut. Sobbing, I threw myself onto my bed. After another hour, I wasn't fully okay but I wasn't hysterical anymore. So I got up, and I walked downstairs to the kitchen. I opened the door and my mom called out, "Well, well! Look who it is! Miss Emotional calmed down yet?"

I glared at her, my hand still on the doorknob.

She shut the door and smiled at me. "Dearest, you know that ever since you got into those fancy-schmancy AP classes you're loaded with homework! No time for a social life, my dear."

I glared harder.

"Why don't you go back upstairs? You shouldn't go out while you're so stressed, sweetheart." She beamed at me. "Really, be a good little super-smart experiment and go upstairs and do your AP homework."

I get everyday
Too much work and not enough play
Over and over
It's always the same.

I opened my mouth to say something, but what came out certainly wasn't a word. It was a long, endless scream. I put all my pain and tears and frustration into that scream. It came out as a wordless, inhuman sound. How appropriate, considering the circumstance.

"Now, now! Just because you're not one of us doesn't mean you get to forget everything we taught you!"

With that, I slammed the door in her face and ran down to Yuki's house. I needed my friends, and I needed them now.

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When I got to Yuki's house, she threw open the door before I'd even rung the bell. "Ariana! What happened?"

I blurted out the whole thing to her. The whole thing made me start sobbing again, and I was sure I sounded like a whining little baby. But Yuki nodded, and when I was done she said, "OH, you're one of us too?!"

"What do you mean, one of us?" I gasped at her.

"Well, my parents told me I wasn't human years ago. I just assumed you knew too."

"NO, I didn't!"

"C'mon. Let's go get A and K. They'll know what to do."

"Like they know anything about this," I sobbed.

Yuki looked at me. "You'd be surprised."

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We got to Kaede's house quickly. We went right in, like we always did, and found them on the couch playing Kingdom Hearts. They had steaming Starbucks cups next to them, the cardboard rings wrapped around their upper arms.

"Look, Ari! We're Starbucks Nazis!" Akako waved and smiled at us.

"Akako…" Kaede paused the game, so Sora was across Akako's half of the screen showed Sora with his keyblade raised and about to strike Akako. Kaede looked at our faces. "Shut up."

"What?" Akako looked up, too. She saw my streaky face, my scraped knee, and my tear-soaked shirt. She saw Yuki's panicked eyes and wildly gesturing hands, trying to tell Akako to shut up. "Oh."

"Ariana, you had to find out sometime." Kaede looked at me. "I mean, you're not human. Don't you think you'd want to be told?"

"No," I said through gritted teeth.

Take a day off
Give it a rest
So I can forget about this mess
.

The four of us looked at each other. We all realized that none of us would have wanted to know. But the others had been given time to get used to the fact that they weren't all human. I hadn't. They had loving, supporting people raising them. I didn't. Instead, I had a normal dad and a psycho mom.

I took a deep, shuddering breath. "I need to stay over at someone's house."

"What?" They looked at me. I was in the middle of a crisis, and I was worried about where I would sleep?

They must have thought I was crazy until I said, "I can't go back to those liars."

Ever.

And when the world is closin' in
I can leave it all and just walk away.
I can always start all over again
I am closer to a better day.