Chapter 2: Dead flowers
I have been trying to find this guy, not an ordinary one, but a ghost who is different from the rest. Kind of off at points telling me that he's not dead. But I have no idea.
"Hey, Kairi!" I hear the silver haired boy call to me when I was, again alone in the library.
"What's up?" I ask not really wanting to know but thinking it would be nice to at least ask.
"Oh, nothing, what're you doing?" He asks looking down at a stack of yearbokks before me. They were the real old ones...the one's from 1967 and up.
"I think it's interesting to lok at who was at this school." I lie, I just want to sense who is dead or not.
I can do that.
I swipe a finger over a picture and I can sense if they're alive or dead.
"Those aren't interesting anyways." He snorts picking up one of the yearbooks from last year. He flipped through it and stopped on one page and stared at a picture. I could see his face becoming lightly red as small signs of tears form in his eyes.
"What is it?" I ask furrowing my eyebrows, I walk over to him and bend over him from his left to see what he was looking at.
The boy. That ghost.
He went here last year?
"Who is that?"
"My best friend..." Riku whispered chocking on a little lump in his throat.
"What is wrong with him?" I ask wanting more info.
"He's...he dissapeared." Riku looked down.
"Dead?"
Riku shot me a sad look, "No, he just dissapeared, no one knows if he's dead. He just vanished." Riku muttered closing the book before I remembered the page number, 32.
"Are you okay? I know it's hard." I say to him and give him a small hug that he returns eagerly. After a awkward pause between me and him he gathered himself and waved while blushing a bit before he stormed out of the library, leaving me.
On my date with page 32.
I flip it open and skew through the names,
Sora...
I touched the picture and brushed over it multiple times, but,
nothing.
What if he's only lost? What if he keeps slipping into death and that's why I see him?
That must be it. It's the only reasonable answer or solution to this. He must be somewhere...
"Why did you hug him?" I hear and shriek as I turn around to see him standing there with crossed arms, looking like he was actually there, it's just that only I can see him.
"He was uncomfortable." I nod to myself.
"I'm uncomfortable." He says appearing in the chair next to me, "Do I get love shown to me?" He asked with his long eye lashes batting slowly when he appered sitting on the table with crosssed arms.
"You need to stop doing this." I tell him.
"Doing what?"
"You're not dead, right?"
"Yeah." He answers tilting his head to the side.
"You need to stop getting here. Coming here, near anyone."
"Why? I like everyone."
"You're slipping in and out of death, Sora."
He sighed and appeared only centimeters away from my face, "Can you say my name again?" He smiles closing his eyes.
"Sora." I say and he smiles with his eyes closed at my voice.
"I love that."
I blush turning away for a second I could feel his hand through my hair as he almost seemed like crying. "How do you get here?"
"I see this dark color, then I talk to a girl and she lets me come here until she says it's time to go back. Then I leave."
"Where are you when you're not here?" I narrow my eyes at him.
"I...I-I don't know." He shakes his head looking at me, "She's calling me. I need to go."
I hesitate, "Uhm, my name is-" I start.
He cuts me off, "Kairi." He says and vanishes.
I search the internet, the books, old newspapers.
Nothing of Sora. No news no article no papers, no words. I don't know how to find him if I know nothing about him. So I ask my dad and in moments he whips up a whole entire file of Sora. From his birthday to what his favorite color was.
"Dad, is this legal?"
He laughed, "I really dont think so."
"Think, or know?"
"Know." He says and walks back into his study room.
Sora Skylard
Age: 17
Wow, 17? He seems so young and acts so childish I would've guessed 15...
I read about him over and over again until my eyes hurt and I absolutely had to get some sleep. But heavens no did I close that page.
When I woke up I was greeted by a ordinary spirit. With black long hair, she was shy and followed me for a while and then dissapeared after I walked out of the door to get to school.
My dad wasn't home and I learned my routine of the day.
1. Wake up.
2. Get dressed and etc.
3. Eat breakfast.
4. Lock the huge wooden door and walk to school.
Yep, walk. In the middle of no where in trees, in the freaking forest which I could not believe was even near civilization.
I looked up at the green trees letting in small streaks of sunlight in the mild blue sky. I felt so degraded in such a repulsive place, with the tree's glaring down on me and being able to see nothing but bushes and green and brown, it was like some kind of dream that you would go through.
A simple wish.
But then I stepout of the wish and find a trail that I follow and it leads to a road, which leads to another, and a sidewalk, and then eventually school. It was such a long walk I would think about getting a bike but I wouldn't want to hurt any plants or kill them.
"Kairi! Hey, what's up?" Riku jogged towards me with enthusiasm.
"Nothing really interesting, " Except for going through a forest like it was an adventure, you know, the usual. "I searched Sora's vanishing on the internet yesterday, but I found nothing at all, I hope we'll find him." I sigh.
"Why? Why are you interested so much?" He raised a gorgeous eyebrow curiously.
I press my lips together until the impact hurts, "I just think, that...he's out there, missing." I say to him.
I unexpectedly get pulled into an embrace by him and he's warm..."Thank you." He whispers. "Thank you for believing me, that he's not gone." He lets go of me and turns around to walk to school with me.
I had this weird feeling that Riku liked me in a way that I didn't. I was completely okay with that but I didn't think that he would be once I tell him, which will be telling him some other time.
"Sooooo, Kairi, I heard, you and Riku, huh?" Selphie poked me and I jumped turning to see her.
"What? Who told you that?"
"Oh, just everyone." She smirked, "So, do you want me to set you two up? Because I can do that." She continued to smirk at me with a dirty look in her eyes.
"No, no. I don't like him, I mean, he's my friend, but I don't like him like that!" I try to explain to her thick head.
Selphie frowned and rolled her eyes, "I think it's a great idea! I bet he likes you like that though." Selphie linked her arm with mine and skipped as she pulled me along to 2nd period.
Really, I didn't like Riku that way. He was a nice guy and anyone would be lucky to have him and all but I just didn't like him like that, instead I pulled interest in his best friend who just happened to be half way dead at the moment. Riku is super nice and cool, he looks good too, but I don't attract towards those kind of types of guys. I hardly even knew him anyways so what does Selphie mean? I personaly think that she would look good with this guy named Tidus but she refuses to believe me even though she knows she likes him. Why are people so complicated? I never got to learn about them so much since my only friends were always the dead.
"Now, let's go on with dance!" My gym teacher roared confidently. "We have a dance coming up soon and we all don't want to look foolish dancing with your partner."
The whole class nodded silently and paired up in partners, and what did I know? Riku came to be mine. I had nothing against it. He's my friend, and if he believes he's more than that to me then he is wrong and I will correct him sooner or later.
"Guys, stop acting like the girls are going to give you a disease, you're a sophmore in highschool already so act like one! You shouldn't be afraid of women unless they're 22 and up. Or you ocassionaly forget and don't listen to what she's saying." My gym teacher mumbled, "ANYWAYS!"
"He has a bad love life." Riku whispered to me and I giggled quietly.
"Now, girls, put you right hand on his shoulder. Boys, put your left hand on her WAIST! That does not include the butt! Leave your other hands down until I tell you what to do."
I placed my hand on his shoulder and he placed his hand on my waist. Damn, he was kind of tall...
"Now, guys pull the girls towards you and put your other hand on her lower back." He instructed watching us like a cat, "Girls, place your other hand on their shoulder."
When we were positioned and I was closer to him than I ever wanted to be I searched and looked around to see everyone struggeling a little and I felt bad for being able to do this with Riku so easily.
"I will put on some music now and expect you to dance back and forth slowly first, only."
He put on, to my surprise, the instrumental version of 'Crawling' , by 'linking park'. It was to my surprise it was actually played softly and all.
I swayed with Riku in a small paste until the teacher instructed us to let the guys twirl us under their arm which worked well with me since he was as big as a tower, then I just went in the lead of him and waited until all of this was over because I wasn't that comfortable with it after a while.
As soon as the bell run, I ran for it grabbing my bag and running to my next class, I was the first one out of the door and the first one in my class.
I hardly ate in lunch as always and hurried into the empty library where Sora was sitting in a chair pouting at me.
"You hugged him, again." He said to me crossing his arms, "You danced with him."
"You saw that?" I gasped sitting down in a chair.
He appeared righ in front of me, "Of course I saw it."
"But why does it even matter to you?" I ask slowly trying to make sure that he wasn't jealous since I've personally never met him in flesh before. I disliked the word 'flesh' it sounded so icky and gross, so painful, you know.
"I just do, okay?" He snapped a little too quickly.
"Okay then, Sora. So, I've been trying to find you."
"I am easy to find if I don't talk to the girl in the darkness."
"Where are you?"
"I don't know." He let his head fall down as he sat on the ground before me.
"Then, what was the last thing you remember?" I try, I have to get something from him.
"Green, the color. Everything was so green. Then there was wind and air rushing through me, a scream, blue... then...there was nothing left." He said sounding confused.
"So, colors? Only colors? And a scream?" I think about the colors, how do they match up?
"Yeah, colors, I saw them around me, a scream, and then there was nothing left."
"Well, then I'll look into it. I am looking for you." I say slowly not knowing if he wants to be found in the first place...
He smiled as I said that last line. He got up, "Thank you Kairi. You're looking for me!" He cheered.
"Good." I smile back at him, toothy.
He turned searious staring at me, "Promise me something."
"Yes?"
"Don't fall for him."
Then Sora vanished. Leaving me eagerly to find him with all my might. I will look into the colors and the connection to the scream or whatever he heard.
I want to find him and help him.