Theme 97 –Beach
"We should all go to the beach!" Roxas head Hayner's voice in his head as he and Sora and Kairi and Namine wandered around the beach. He and Sora and Riku had just gotten home today. He knew Sora was glad to be back as they padded through the sand, but his mind was elsewhere.
He knew this beach wasn't anything like the one he and Hayner, Pence, and Olette would have gone to. For one thing, it was real, not data. It was hard to accept that that friendship had been completely fake – a computer program.
This beach was also a lot bigger than the one they would have gone to. Roxas didn't have his fake memories from before that week as data, but he had seen a map with the beach on it. It was tiny, but still would have been fun. Anything with them would have been fun.
"Roxas?" Namine asked, turning towards him. Sora and Kairi weren't very aware of their nobodies, and probably couldn't see them most of the time, but Roxas and Namine could always see each other, super-imposed over their other's image. Roxas shook his head, as if clearing it, and then looked at Namine.
"Yeah?" he asked, still feeling far away.
"Who are you missing?" Namine replied, her tone soft and gentle as the waves nipping at their feet. Roxas looked away with a small sigh.
"Hayner, Pence, and Olette. We said we would all go to the beach… but we never got to."
Namine put a gentle hand on his arm. "We can always go back and visit."
"It's not the same."
"I'm sorry." She looked away, dropping her hand. Faking a smile, he turned to her and said,
"It's not your fault." Namine shook her head. Roxas took her hand, and stared out over the waves.
"Maybe we should just enjoy what we've got, right now."
"Okay."
A/N – I didn't mean to make that so sappy! Sorry!