DAY ONE

"Riku, what's up with you?"

Riku was broken out of his reverie when Kairi's voice rang through the air. Riku whirled around and faced his friend, who eyed him curiously. Riku looked down and realized that he had been holding the phone for 15 minutes. Laying the beeping machine down, he stood, turned and faced Kairi, face paler than usual.

"I...I..."

"Riku, damn, you looked like something scared the shit out of you..." The red-head muttered, looking over her distraught friend.

"Um... it's nothing!" Riku laughed, setting the phone down on the hook.

"Oh... I just wanted to show you something weird. Remember the picture we took with Selphie outside of that McDonalds two days ago?" Kairi asked, reaching into her pocket. She drew out a photo and handed it to Riku.

Riku took it, and he didn't think anything was wrong until his eyes fell on Selphie's face... or what was left of it. Her face was blurred, kind of twisted sideways, whereas the rest of the picture was normal.

"Weird, huh?" Kairi shrugged. She sadly sighed and took the picture, sliding it out of Riku's hands. "Good times, though... good times..."

Riku didn't reply.

"Must have been some error... but only on Selphie's face. Maybe it was some sort of weird prediction..." Kairi continued to muse, ignoring Riku and looking up to the ceiling.

Squirming now, Riku dared to look up to Kairi, who was oblivious to everything. Normally, Riku was not too superstitious, but something in his brain screamed at him to take a picture. Take a picture, and see.

"Kairi, do you have your digi-cam with you?" Riku spoke, determined to convince himself everything was a coincidence.

"Yeah, sure." Kairi nodded, reaching through her small handbag. She pulled out the camera and slipped in a diskette, then flipped the switch. The blue screen faintly illuminated her face.

"Take my picture."

Kairi gave Riku a weird look. She studied the look on his face, which seemed scared, yet determined. Deciding it was better she didn't ask, Kairi brought the camera to Riku's face and her finger fell on the shutter.

Light.

Pressing her thumb on the keypad, Kairi flipped to Riku's picture. Her eyes suddenly grew wide and her mouth slightly dropped open as she scanned the picture.

Seeing the look on her face, Riku rolled his eyes. He didn't need to know, did he?

"Riku... Riku... you... you... LOOK GREAT!" She cackled, turning the camera around and lo and behold, Riku's face was untouched. But his hair... well, it was something else.

"YOU!" He growled and grabbed a nearby pillow and flung it at Kairi, missing horribly. She shrieked playfully and threw the camera down on the couch, running as Riku chased her with the pillow, intent on causing her much pain.

As the camera bounced noiselessly on the couch, the TV switched on and static blared once more. Riku's face on the camera slowly started twisting itself.

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"I said I'm sorry!" Kairi grumbled, stomping back into the room. She picked up her camera and snorted. The screen was blank. "Batteries ran out..." She grumbled. They have been gone for about six hours.

"Holy crap, I left the TV on..." Riku grabbed the remote and flipped the TV off. He saw the tape on the floor and those horrible images returned to his mind.

Kairi seemed to have noticed the tape too, as she prodded it with her foot.

"What's that?"

"Um... it's this weird tape, has some disturbing images..." Riku muttered, grabbing it. He placed it on top of the VCR, sliding it in the far back.

"Let me see!" Kairi protested.

"No..."

"Oh come on, it won't scar me for life, will it? Unless it's porn..." She giggled at the mere thought. Upon receiving Riku's glare, she giggled some more.

"It's late... I'll show you it tomorrow..." Riku told her. This seemed to satisfy Kairi and she shrugged. She replaced the batteries and took a look at the pictures in the diskette to make sure they were not deleted as she walked out.

"Damn!" She muttered in frustration.

Riku's picture was deleted.

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Bleh. Really short. Ya know, I wondered how people thought this could be scary. But I really hate this fic, it scares ME when I write it. I really don't like it, but I really wanna finish it, so I'll just have to deal with it. Listening to 'Hikari' seems to help ^_^