Chapter 2: ~Daft~

Last time...

"I'm Roxas by the way." The boy spoke.

I stared in disbelief.

This was NOT the time to introduce ourselves. 'Oh yeah, I'm Namine, nice to meet you, isn't it such a coincidence we met running away from something in the forest? How did you get here? Don't worry, I have all the time in the world to listen.' Is a sarcastic remark I kept to myself in my head.

"Found you." The grinning voice rasped.


I was shaking for a reason. The man before us was so pale and he looked so cold. I kept in my tears in this time. It felt like my heart was stopping. The man was tall and slenderly built, but you could see he was stronger than he seemed. High cheek bones and a very pale white face, but his eyes were so strong yet empty swirling into gray.

"You can't possibly run now, and look at that, you found yourself a little girlfriend too." the creepy man cackled in a bitter tone which made me shudder from head to toe.

Besides the look of him, his remark made me slightly uptight. Roxas didn't answer, he just stood there staring down at the muddy ground.

Biting my lip I step up, march past him and announce "Excuse me but I believe I should be going, I have nothing to do with this boy or you so-".

A strong grip was on my upper arm yanking me back immediately. "Such a little brat, you can't leave now, you left the school as well."

"What school?" I protest and kick my legs wildly.

"Hollow Bastions institute boarding school for delinquents." The man said in a robotic tone. "You escaped along with him, in fact I'm pretty sure you went to our school."

"What are you talking about I go to Twilight towns high school, let go of me!" I scream loudly yanking away from the man.

"RUN!" Roxas yelled and pushed me out of the way, he then tackled the large man.

I stood there confoundedly until I realized it was the perfect timing to run away back home, or even better- wake up to discover nothing was wrong all along.

But my legs took off and my breaths shortening as I pulled myself out from the depths of the woods and out until I hit pavement.


I was a wreck once I snuck back inside of the house, I lost track of time even though it was starting to get light outside.

Once I stared up; my eyes were wide in fear. I stared up at Selphie and her parents, and my father. In front of me my black spray can was dropped.

"Explain this to us." My father crossed his arms glaring.

"I..uhm, well I was just-" I hesitated then hung my head low staring at the ground.

"I don't know what I'm going to do with you..." My father sighed, and I could tell, he was disappointed.

Am I the one you think about when the word "delinquent" pops up? Not really. And that was all that mattered to dad. His only daughter couldn't turn into some evil creature they call "teens" anymore, she's supposed to be a nice little princess forever. I guess I broke that thesis when the spray can was in front of him.

"What kind of drugs are you taking? Who is selling them?" My father starts ranting.

"It must be that one girl on the side of the corner I see everyday, she always smells like pot." Selphies father spoke after wards.

"Oh yeah, she's always near here, Namine must be seeing that girl for her addiction." Selphies mother added.

Rolling my eyes I exhale, "I'm not taking any drugs, dad."

"How do you explain this? You're not like this!" My dad bit his lip and raised his arms up to his sides in frustration.

My knees buckle beneath me "I just don't know..." I mumble quietly.

"Look at your father when you're speaking, that's disrespectful!" Selphies father chimed in.

I shot my head up to glare at him. "And who do you think you are? Why do you think you get to have a say? Huh? What makes you authority?" I wanted to scream so badly but contained myself, digging my nails into my palm.

All I could think of as an answer to my fathers question was anger, pure anger. Being fed up with taking things in all of the time. I didn't want to do this anymore. Don't I get to have a chance to speak? Am I not important enough to listen to?

I never noticed, I'm not amazing.


In the morning I stood up from my bed. I didn't even remember going to bed or falling asleep, all I remembered was just yelling and disappointment.

I rubbed my eyes and groggily walked downstairs towards the kitchen with an empty feeling.

A strange lady in a professional outfit was sitting on my couch across from my dad. She had a skinny body and red hair pinned up. My heartbeat quickened as I approached.

The lady looked up from her glasses and glanced at me with a nice smile. She motioned me over to sit next to my father. "Hello there, Namine, is it?"

I nod and my eyes narrow just the slightest amount before sitting next to my father not looking at him at all.

"I'll just need you to sign these papers." The lady smiled happily.

"Sure." My father gulped and took the papers that were shoved towards him as well as a pencil.

"What's going on..?" I ask with pursed lips staring at the two of them.

The lady with the red hair parted her perfect shaped lips, "We're going over the papers of your transfer."

"Transfer?" I blurt with wide eyes. "What do you mean?"

"It's for the best." My dad sighed handing the off white papers back to the woman. She smiled and closed her brown eyes for a moment.

I searched the papers words, or at least tried to and only got one glance at the few words that would rock my world.

"Twilight institution."