Friends Forever
normal disclaimer applies
We can't be together forever, so we better make the time we do have something to remember.
- Hayner "Kingdom Hearts II"
no pairings
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And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same

So maybe you four have been friends for who knows how longer. You enjoy the feeling in the air, the smell of lazy summer days of sitting around the Usual Spot, playing games, talking to your three best friends.

Brushing your hair in the morning and sprinting off into the street once you finish breakfast, you look forward to spending time with them everyday.

Today though, was different. Pence randomly started a discussion about what would happen after you four graduated, your heart starts to beat quicker and quicker, realizing where this was going.

"I would want to travel, to go see what's out there." Roxas, your idiotic blonde of a best friend spoke, throwing a dart at the dartboard. "Maybe settle in with a family, it would be great."

So one of your friends plans on leaving Twilight Town, what are you going to do Olette? "I'm going to college; I hope Bastion accepts me." Pence, the smart guy, much less idiotic compared to the rest of the boys, and ultimately your confidence, spoke.

Wow, so your confidence plans on going to Hollow Bastion, your green eyes turn to your last friend, Hayner, the leader of your idiots. "Who knows? I guess I'll go to college too, but somewhere less fancy, probably Traverse University." He says, and your heart drops. They were all leaving.

"How about you Olette?" Pence says, tilting forward. "I'll be staying here in Twilight Town, find a job. If you guys ever leave, I'll miss you three terribly." You are hugged by all three of them (more like squished between your three best friends as they struggle to comfort you, some things never change), "It's gonna be alright!'" Roxas says to you. "We still have two months and a whole summer to look forward to! And we have to wait 'til they get accepted into college. Don't worry. I would probably find a job here too, and won't be going anywhere."

Things were changing, you felt it.

But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say

The two months were up quicker then you thought it was suppose to, you thought it was only yesterday that Roxas had told you everything was going to be fine and the Gang still had plenty of time.

You sit there, the skies gray and in a deep navy blue robe, your hands folded onto your lap. You glance at Pence, who sits a few seats apart from you, he gives you a smile. Your head turns to look at Roxas and Hayner, who sat only a seat apart from each other. Roxas gives you the thumbs up sign, and Hayner quickly pulls a face, causing you to laugh silently.

All eyes were on the principal as he gave his speech.

You feel your heart wilt a bit, everything was changing, and there was no turning back once this was over.

And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down

You are not in tears as everyone scatters and takes pictures with people they might never see again. You want everything to freeze; you didn't want this to end.

The high school days, of running through hallways because you were always late (Your boys were the ones to blame for that), of the drama, social clichés. You are surprised you haven't been crushed under the Queen Bee's harsh comments.

You remember the days that your three best friends were always there for you, your mind drifting farther down memory lane. Of the first day you stepped in the classroom with a big smile on your face, and being best friends with Roxas, Hayner and Pence.

It had always been you four, Olette, Roxas, Hayner and Pence, in that order, always. You fling your arms around your best friends, hugging them as one of them murmurs something about you choking him. One by one, they hug you back properly.

They take turns wiping away tears that were rabidly dropping from your eyes, and you smile, at least you have memories of them.

These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love

But it came too soon

You spend every possible minute of what time you had left with your best friends the past weeks, hanging around them, playing around with them, goofing off, just being the Twilight Town Gang.

You and your three boys sit on the train station tower, watching the sunset, saying nothing and just enjoying the tranquility of being best friends that might not happen again for a long, long.

Tilting your head, your mind starts to wander again. To the first prom, the boys didn't find dates, so you ended up going with all three of them, one arm around Roxas, the other around Hayner's, and Pence took snapshots of everything.

To the first Sadie Hawkins dance, you end up do the same thing you did at the prom, grabbing your three best friends. The finals, you break down because of the pressure, the boys try to cheer you up and ended the day with bringing you to the beach, telling you to just relax and forget about everything.

You constantly remind them to do their homework, which they do, after nagging and nagging and more nagging, but deep down; they know you do it because you care about them.

When the Gang was younger, you called them 'brother' and they called you 'sister', you never call them brother anymore, but you still treat them like it, three troublesome brothers that need to be watched over by an older sister.

And there was me and you
And then we got real blue
Stay at home talking on the telephone

You are sad today. One of your three brothers leaves Twilight Town, maybe for good. That brother was Pence; the brother that would always have munny and could always comfort someone when they were down.

You wave at him while he goes onto the ship, waving at you, Roxas and Hayner with his arms out wide, looking like a bird while he flapped his arms at you. You laugh, with tears rolling down you face. "Come back, alright?" You yell, and he nods. "I promise I will, Olette!"

Waving at him until the ship disappeared in the horizon. Today there is was a person missing from the gang; it has brought you closer to the harsh reality that they were all going to leave, someday.

We would get so excited and we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

Hayner prepares to leave today, leaving only you and Roxas in Twilight Town. The leader of the group smiles brightly, and gives you a small hug, telling you he will definitely see you again.

"Remember to write to me, okay?" You chirp, hopeful. "Of course I'll write! Don't do anything naughty with Roxas while Pence and I are away, okay?"

"Hey!" Roxas says, and the Gang burst into laughter.

He disappears beyond the doors of the train. You start accepting the fact that you couldn't stay forever with your best friends.

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?

Roxas didn't leave though, instead, he takes a job at where you are working. He is a waiter at a local café, you are the cashier. You two are still friends, but you are always sad.

Days without Pence's advice, without Hayner just goofing off and making you smack him for no reason what-so-ever, days without sitting on the train station tower, the Usual Spot was abandoned now, too.

You cling onto the friendship you have with Roxas even tighter, because if he left, you think you couldn't take it anymore. Slowly, one by one, the friends you knew in high school fade away too.

Everyone was out there somewhere, chasing their dreams, while you and Roxas stayed in Twilight Town, working in a café.

Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?

In letters and e-mails from all your friends, they tell you what they were doing as of now, half a year after graduation. Lilian was working as a mangaka, struggling with deadlines. Evangeline had made it to Daybreak College… Many of them were in college.

Everyone was expecting you to go to college, but you didn't, you stayed here in the quiet town of Twilight.

I keep, I keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

Pence tells you that college was a bit difficult, but he was doing well. Hayner had trouble getting there on time, but he made it. Roxas stayed Roxas, working hard and smiling at you, talking to you when he and you were on breaks at the same time.

Things were definitely different, you keep on hoping you would see everyone again, but chances are slim. Even the bond between you and Roxas was growing thinner and thinner, because you rarely get to talk to him.

As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together

"Say cheese!" You flash the camera at Roxas, who was on his lunch break, wanting to capture the moment on frame forever. He had accidentally squirted ketchup all over his own face.

Once you arrive home, you stick the picture in your scrapbook. The next day, you ask him to sign it. "What am I supposed to write?" He asks you, you smile, "Anything!"

We'll be friends forever. – Roxas

He scribbles next to the picture in his slanted writing.

And as our lives change
Come Whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

You sit there on your bed, flipping through your scrapbook, because today is your day off. There is a picture in there you don't remember taking.

It was of a bottle of ketchup, and the background of the employee's lounge. Underneath the photo was slanted writing you can't remember, it said, "We'll still be friends forever. – Ro" The other half of the signature was smudged out by ink.

You rack your memory, trying to remember who signed your scrapbook. You look through your yearbooks, but you couldn't find anyone with the same slanted writing similar to that on your scrapbook.

You go to work the next day, there seems to be an employee missing, your heart seems to snap in two. Something was there before, but it wasn't there now.

Friends… Forever…

memos : Written in a manner similar to be your girl. Somewhat of a KH II plot in it, as you see in the end.