Okay, from here on, Homely and I are working on this together...it's now a collaboration. which will be good, I think. =)

Xion walked home in the cold alone, since Riku had been sick today and un-able to come to school. The chilly December winds were blowing in with vengeance. Xion shivered as she pulled her coat tighter around her petite body, thinking of her warm home and thanking God that it was only one more block away.

"Xion!" a voice called. The small girl turned to see Rikku. Rikku smiled and zipped her bright blue jacket up the rest of the way. "I heard Zack's home." she said, grinning in a mischeivious way.

"Yeah." Xion replied, sounding slightly bored. She was sick of girls hanging on her brother, especially when they were her friends.

"Cool, I'm coming home with you." Rikku said.

"Yeah just invite yourself over, blondie." Xion mumbled. Rikku smirked and shoved snow into Xion's hood, then ran ahead. " You bi-" Xion started to yell, before realizing they were at her house already and shut her mouth. Rikku shook her head at her innocently.

"Why Xion, such a mouth! Your mom would be ashamed!"

Xion ignored the preppy blonde and let herself in, Rikku close behind. Kairi and Namine were on the couch, sitting with their legs under their bodies, reading. Xion rolled her eyes. Naturally they would be reading.

"Zack! Xion's here!" Kairi called up their stairs.

"And I care why?" Zack called back.

"Because one of your admirers is with me.." Xion said, grinning at Rikku's fallen jaw, before Rikku dashed out of the house. The three girls shared a laugh, reminding Xion of the days before her disappearance.

Disappearance? What disappearance? Where the hell did that come from? She thought, shaking her head. The cold is messing with my head...she decided.

Long after Rikku had left, a call came in for Xion. It was Riku.

"Hey." Xion said happily, glad to hear his voice.. Although he sounded nasaly. She said so, too. He laughed at that.

"Yeah, I know I sound gross. My whole family told me." Riku said. Xion nodded, though Riku couldn't see her. She sighed. It would be nice to talk to him face to face, even if he had some nasty cold.

Xion told Riku he should go to sleep and hung up the phone. She sighed and glanced over at her sisters, who were both still reading. She wondered how anyone could read on such a beautiful day.

She climbed the stairs to her room, and shut the door, wanting to block everyone out.

Black coats. A long staircase. A tall, gray castle.

"You are nothing now. Your new name shall be: Xion."

"Xion...?"

"Yes. Your new name. Your new..identity."

Xion sat straight up in bed. What the hell had all that been?

Her new name? What had the person meant?

"New..identity?" she muttered to herself.

Sorry about the shortness of this chapter....writer's block Dx

I hate that. I always want to write but then when I start to, I have no ideas. None.

The next chapter will come quicker than this one did!