kiss me tomorrow Chapter 2: nyctophobia, a kingdom hearts fanfic

k i s s me tomorrow
o50. night
【nyctophobia】
is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

Night. It was the time of the day, whether just beginning or near end, we rest our eyes and explore our dreamlands. It didn't matter if you dreamt of sugar plum fairies and valiant knights, or if you dreamt of the adventures of a strange boy you didn't know, it was a peaceful time. Usually.

While there are pleasant dreams, dreamland also brought the nightmares. They were the dark thoughts that crept silently through the night and slip into your mind. At the moment, a boy fidgeted in his sleep, twitching and jerking around while his face scrunched up in an expression seemed to he a mix of fear and frustration.

In a split second, his blue eyes fluttered open and he sat up abruptly, wide awake as he wiped sweat off of his brow. Turning to the clock in his bedroom, it read 4:53. His thoughts lingered on calling someone, anyone to talk about it. But who in the world would be awake in Twilight Town at five in the morning?

Just at the moment, the phone rang and Roxas jerked up, scrambling to reach it. Someone was awake at five o'clock in the morning! "Hello?" a voice rang through the receiver, and he recognized the voice to be that of Olette's.

"Yes? Olette?" he breathed, tense as he pressed the phone harder to his ear. Olette was sensible enough to not call someone this early, especially on a school night (or day, if you prefer that), though it was their last day of school. There was silence as he swallowed, she wasn't talking. "What's the matter?"

A few more seconds managed to slip by before her trembling voice spoke again. "I had a nightmare," she finally managed to say though it was barely over a whisper. It was followed by an uneasy giggle, unnaturally high and not very Olette-like. "I suppose it's a silly reason to bother you, isn't it? I'll just leave you alone so you can go back to sleep… I'm sorry," the high-pitched giggle was back again.

Not even hesitating, he almost shouted, "No, no! It's okay, stay. Tell me what happened," as he said that, a single thought darted into his mind. Did he sound too desperate? Were you supposed to sound like this when you talk to your best friend? The blond then proceeded to curse himself silently in his head, all the while holding his breath and waited for a response.

As he was sure that she had already hung up or that this was all happening in his mind, Olette responded in a quiet, almost inaudible whisper, "I saw things… Black things with glowing yellow eyes and they were dark, as dark as night. They were strangling me, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't see." Roxas could almost see the brunette in the verge of tears.

If Olette was afraid of anything, it was the dark. Throughout the years he had grown to know that she had a fear of the black abyss. Hayner, Pence and he had suffered many times where the girl clutched onto them when they went to the beach to watch the fireworks or something similar.

"It's only a dream. Everything will be alright," he consoled, using a hushed tone. Many, many words later, she had calmed down enough to hang up. Lying awake on his bed, Roxas had forgotten about his nightmare. After all, it was just a dream, wasn't it? He didn't believe dreams to be anything important.

Eyes flickering towards the clock on his wall again, it said 6:13, might as well try to sleep for a little before waking up to go to school. As he closed his eyes and drifted off into dreamland, Twilight Town was just awakening.

The perpetual sunset was frozen onto the vast sky and even though the sky stayed the same, nothing else would.

These strange creatures with their glowing yellow eyes and sharp black claws swarmed in vast hoards, blackening the petrified sunset of Twilight Town. It was pandemonium, shrieks filled the air as mothers tried to herd children out of the way. Lost children cried for their parents as one by one the black monsters came and whisked the children's hearts away.

Amongst the chaos stood a girl, green eyes gazed up at the sky, trying to tell herself there was nothing to be afraid of, that this was all just a dream… Trying to believe that it was all just a nightmare her alarm clock would wake her up from.

Yellow eyes bore into her as the black creatures attacked her, and all she could see around her was the darkness she feared so much.

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