"Does this smell like chloroform to you?"
The voice Roxas heard was rough, husky, and a familiar one. In fact, it was a voice he knew well, and he had memorized its pitch, its tone… It was the same voice he had heard six months ago when Sora came up behind him in the airport, wrapped an arm around his waist, and said in a slow drawl, "Hey blondie, what winks and screws like a tiger?" Roxas remembered trying so hard to keep his face blank, to not show that after such a long time he was excited to see his brother. And then Sora had done something which totally unnerved him.
He winked.
"Sora!" Roxas let out a muffled cry through the cloth covering his mouth. Sora released his hold on his twin brother, turned him around and embraced him, giving him a giant hug. "Oh my god! You scared me so much when I thought you hadn't gotten off the plane!"
"I took an early flight," Sora smiled, "I wanted to surprise you."
"Well, you sure did!" Roxas laughed, "That was an awesome pick-up like. Come on, I got a new car! You'll totally love it!" The two boys walked over to Roxas' baby, or so he liked to call it.
"This is pretty cool!" Sora said as he got into the passenger seat of the car, "So how've you been?"
Roxas started the car and used his master skills to back up and not hit anything in the parking lot, "Well, you know, boring. Definitely not as exciting as a city," they both took a moment to have a little giggle, "Kairi hasn't been doing too well, you remember her, right?" Sora nodded as Roxas continued, "Well, she was in an accident a month ago. She just got out of the hospital two or three weeks back, and it's really hard for her to get back to her normal routine, and everybody's treating her like she belongs in the loony bin."
"What happened to her?" Sora said, while he was watching the trees and houses as the car drove past.
"She was over at Selphies, and her dad was supposed to pick her up, and when he did she could smell the alcohol on his breath as soon as she got into his pickup. She didn't want to make him angry so she got in the vehicle anyway, and on the way home her dad was too drunk to notice that he was going on the wrong side of the road, and when his side of the vehicle was on the left side of the road, a van came and hit the truck head on. Luckily, they were right by Tidus' house, so he heard the crash and call 911 quickly."
Sora turned his head to look at his brother, "That's really horrible."
"Yeah," Roxas continued, with a stern look across his face as he kept his eyes on nothing but the road ahead, "Her dad didn't make it, and Kairi came out of the wreck with a broken arm and so many cuts and bruises on her face she looks like a beat up plum. Thank goodness that most of her bruises have cleared up now, and her arm's almost healed. The only problem is, she's been having weird dreams, or so she tells me and the others. In class sometimes she'll just start acting really strange. That's why everyone's treating her so differently now. She doesn't remember you at all, too, or if she does she just has a strange way of showing it. I told her you were coming up for a visit and she just started screaming. It was really weird."
"Yeah, that is really weird," Sora started looking back out his window.