Chapter 2: It's Easier To Run.
~To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you put it~
Sora felt the cold hand on his shoulder and he twirled around with Keyblade at hand. He was ready to fight the thing that had been following them for several blocks. He stared into the hazel eyes of a cloaked figure. Sora jumped back in fright as Donald turned to see what was behind them.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Sora said, sternly.
"I'm sorry I followed you, but we need to talk Keyblade Master to Keyblade Master." He said coldly giving Donald a quick glance.
"Not until you tell me who you are!" Sora said back to the cloaked figure.
"I don't really have a name, but some call me Manic." He said.
Manic led Sora out of the street and into a hotel to talk to him. They stepped into a room with a big couch, some lounge chairs, and a coffee table.
"Now, let's begin." Manic said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Christa felt cold on the floor. But, why was she on the floor? Why was there dirt on this floor? She pushed herself up into a sitting position and realized she had a splitting headache.
"If you're hurt you should lay back down." She heard a voice say to her.
Christa looked up startled that someone else was with her. She saw a girl the same age as Selphie. She had long, auburn hair and bright blue eyes. The girl was sitting against a wall with children's drawings upon them. There were pictures of creatures beyond her wildest dreams and people chasing each other on a beach.
"Where the..?" Christa mumbled beneath her breath.
"What's wrong, Kairupo?" Said a little white ball with wings.
"Whoa!!!!!" Christa screamed as it came up to her to comfort her.
The girl giggled and said, "Migo, leave our guest alone! What's your name, by the way?" The girl said to Christa.
"Um, my name is Christa. And you are?" She replied.
"Oh! How rude of me! My name is Kairi!" She said cheerfully.
"You're Kairi?!?!?!" Christa said in surprise.
"Yep! And this is my moogle friend, Migo. I found him in here after I returned to Destiny Islands." Kairi replied.
"Whoa, everyone is looking for you, Kairi. Your parents are worried sick."
"I knew that would happen, but I needed to stay here for Migo. He didn't have any food here and so I came with food and clothing to wait out the storm with him." Kairi said.
"Does anyone else know about Migo?" Christa asked looking at the moogle happily floating about.
"No, nobody else comes in here. It reminds them of Sora and Riku. I didn't even get to hear his voice before I left. I miss Riku so much. And I realize now that his voice... it's left me." Kairi's cheerfulness disappeared and her expression was mournful and sad.
"Hey, don't worry, I was sent here to find them. Both of them are gonna come back. I promise." Christa reassured Kairi. It looked like she'd been through a lot in the past two years. Kairi has been waiting for so long for Sora and Riku to come back to her. So far, neither showed up.
"Do you know where Sora is? Where's Sora, we must find him." Kairi said grabbing onto Christa's shoulders
"Slow down! I don't know where Sora is right now, that's why I'm here. I have to find one of the princesses of heart." Christa said calming Kairi down.
"Really? Well, your search is over then! I am the princess you seek! This time I'll fight!" Kairi said with her cheerfulness returning to her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He stumbled and fell to the dark floor. The Keyblade made a metallic pang noise as it hit the ground beside him. He didn't bother to get up, but closed his eyes to rest instead.
Then he heard a rustling all around him. He quickly shot up to his feet and grabbed the Keyblade to get ready to fight. The Heartless were coming for him again. One came from behind, he slashed at it knocking the dark thing away.
The other Heartless took the hint and fled back into the darkness. He fell to his knees in exhaustion. Then he saw a boy running to him. His expression was so happy. "Sora?" He said. "Why did you leave me here? Sora.. Why?" Then he remembered the king leaving him too. The mouse showed up next to the boy and led him away. "Your Highness, but why?"
His face hit the ground and he went still. Tears fell from the boy's eyes. And he closed his eyes trying to shut out the memory of his friend. He wanted to run from his problems like he always did. But, there was nowhere to run now. If he ran he'd never get anywhere.
Then a man showed up in front of him. He was cloaked like Manic, but seemed different. The man kneeled down to the boy and touched him on the head.
"May you have the strength to understand your purpose here." The cloaked man said to the kid.
He looked up, startled, and whipped the tears from his eyes. He slowly got up from the ground and looked at the guy.
"Who are you?" He said.
"I am Nobody."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Nobody?" Sora asked.
"Who is nobody, you ask? They are the nonexistent ones." Manic responded to Sora's questions.
He had told him of what had happened to King Mickey and how he was able to leave with Manic. Riku's heart, however, did not make it out. Which would explain the lifeless look on the Riku that Manic had with him. Sora looked at his seemingly fake friend concerned for Riku's safety.
"This kid right here is only Riku's shell. His eyes remain blank and he stays still most of the time, but he can still handle a Keyblade because the real Riku can. I imagine he's still in Kingdom Hearts alone." Manic continued, looking at Donald, who refused to leave Sora's side.
"What about me? I still wield the Keyblade but I haven't lost my heart? Is that a bad thing?" Sora kept up with the questions.
"That's where you're wrong, Sora. You have lost your heart." Sora's eyes became wide and he looked surprised.
"What? That's impossible!" Sora argued.
"But, it's true. You lost it to Kairi when you gave hers back and fell in love. You're like a Heartless, but you still have something that can be considered your heart."
There was a long silence in which Donald could have sworn that he heard some grasshoppers in the back of his head as they thought.
"My Keyblade!" Sora said suddenly standing up.
"Yes, that is the only heart you seem to have at this point in time." Manic explained to him.
And then there was silence in the motel room. Donald, Sora, and Manic sat there wondering what to do next. Manic didn't want to say anything at all. 'It's Sora's turn to do something with the Destiny presented before him. If he wants to he can open Kingdom Hearts right this second... I've done my purpose for now, time to leave him to think."
Manic got up to leave. And he nodded his head towards Sora and Donald as he turned to go.
"You're leaving?" Donald asked in surprise.
"I have to go and leave Sora to his decisions." Manic replied.
"Before you go, can we see your face? Just so we recognize you on the battle field." Sora asked.
Manic nodded and slowly pulled his hood off. He had hazel eyes and bright blonde hair the color of the sun. Manic's skin was light and his face was heart shaped. His eyes still sparkled with life even though he'd been fighting for so long. Sora absorbed Manic's appearance in case they ever did see him again. And then he left.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"We'll go together!" Kairi shouted in the Secret Place. She accepted to leave with Christa.
"We can't leave here though. This place has been closed off.." Christa's voice trailed off, "Wait? If the entrance is blocked off, then how did I get in here?"
"Maybe it was magic." Kairi said, staring at the ceiling.
"Maybe... not." Christa snapped back. "I think it was my dream that brought me here, right?"
"I guess so, what did you dream about?" Kairi asked.
"Well, I saw a boy with brown hair, a boy with silver hair, and my old best friend. Her name was Ri Ri or at least that's what I called her." Christa told Kairi, "They were chasing each other on the beach. They looked like they were eight or nine."
"That must've been a little girl and my friends, Sora and Riku, when they were little! That was probably before I came here! Did you dream of anything else like that with me in it?" She replied.
"After that, I saw this place.. And Ri Ri was with that Sora person. They were drawing pictures of each other." Christa said.
"That person must have gave Sora the idea of drawing on the walls then!!!" Kairi said, surprised.
"I guess so. But, how can that help me get out of here?" Christa asked.
"I don't know. let's rest and we'll figure it all out tomorrow." Kairi ended their conversation with that last comment.
Kairi lay down and closed her eyes to sleep. Christa watched her for a moment wondering why their stories were so close in details. She soon felt sleep creeping up on her and lay down as well, closing her eyes to the darkness of her mind.
'What's this feeling?' Christa wondered. She saw a bright light that almost blinded her.
'What the hell is this?' She almost said aloud as the light surrounded her and she woke up.
Christa was back in that room where this all began. She was sleeping on a bed again and she was clutching at her chest. 'What happened? Wait a minute, what's this?' She thought as she felt a chain around her neck.
It was a necklace. The chain was silver and dangling down near her chest was a key. The key had a heart in the middle of it where it was connected to the chain and the part at the end (the part that you stick in a key hole) was square with a small heart shape of it's own in the middle.
That meeting with Kairi must have unlocked something deep within her to bring this key out and around her neck.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"What do you mean you are Nobody? You can't be Nobody.. That's not even a name!" He argued with the strange, cloaked man.
"I have no other explanation for my name other than that I'm really nobody. There are others like me with the same name though." Nobody said.
"Do you have a face at least? And what was that thing that you said? Understanding my purpose here?" The boy asked.
Instead of answering his questions, Nobody asked, "Do you remember your name? Your past?" Silence. "I didn't think so. Your name was and still is Riku and you lived on an island before all this."
Riku had a vision, a flash of light and color. He remembered everything. He remembered his life at Destiny Islands and his friends who cared for him. His whole past was revealed to him in one stream of light.
Then, he asked Nobody a question.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Christa got up out of bed and walked over to the trunk that was sitting on the floor.
"If you want," said a female voice, "There are clothes in there that may fit you." A girl said to Christa.
"I didn't see you there. Have you been watching me?"
"Of course not! I was just coming in to wake you." The girl said. Christa figured she was only 15. The girl had straight black hair that fell a little above her shoulders and purple eyes. "My name is Nova." She said extending a hand to Christa.
"And I'm Christa." She said taking Nova's hand and giving it a shake.
"What brought you here?" Nova asked.
"It's a long story!" Christa said.
"Well, I've got enough time on my hands." Nova convinced Christa to reveal her story.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Manic walked with the fake Riku at his side.
"How did it go, Manic?" A shrill voice said from the dark.
Manic stopped walking and turned towards the figure holding the voice. "It went well, Your Majesty." He replied with exasperation in his voice.
"Good. At least now he knows the truth." King Mickey said stepping out of the shadows.
"Well, that's what he really needed to hear. Now he has to figure out what to do with his destiny that has been placed before him." Manic said.
They walked on with the silent Riku behind them.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Now what? What else can I do?" Riku said to himself after Nobody left. "What should I do?" He paused. "Nobody said that there were other Nobodies here. Maybe if I find them they'll tell me how to get out of here?" Riku said aloud.
He got up with Keyblade in hand and continued on into the darkness. He tried to follow the path that Nobody had gone to. Maybe he'd be able to finally leave?
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Kairi stared at the wall where Christa had been sitting the night before. She twirled her long Auburn hair and wondered.
"Migo, we did had a visitor last night, right?" She asked the moogle who was happily stuffing himself.
"Yes we did, Kairupo! Her name was Christa, kupo!" he cheerfully replied.
"Then where did she go?" Kairi said to herself.
'I know I've seen her before.. didn't she say that she was from Hallow Bastion?' Kairi wondered to herself.
'Maybe.. But.. No. it can't be Chris? Can it?'
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I have no heart. I can't believe it!" Sora said out loud.
"Well, you gotta. You have no choice, Sora." Donald quacked.
They were heading back to the hotel for the night. Sora trudged along, now with even more stuff on his mind. He didn't want this, this destiny thing has screwed him before and it'll do it again.
First, he had to leave the thought of saving his friends behind. Then, he had to pretty much leave Kairi on her own. He also had to fight and destroy his best friend. Lastly, he had to lock that same friend in eternal Darkness. His life was really taking a turn for the worst and there was nothing he could do about it. It was destiny and, of course, fate that sealed him into this chaos.
Donald was once again, puzzled. He stared at his friend wondering what was floating around in his head. It was true; Sora really couldn't hide his emotions!
Donald laughed at this thought and Sora turned to him.
"What's so funny?" Sora said, annoyed.
"He was right!" Donald said hysterically laughing, "You can't. you can't."
But he couldn't finish. He couldn't stop laughing at his friend. It was too much to handle and all Sora could do was pout.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Nova listened to Christa's story of Hallow Bastion and her Uncle Ansem. How those horrible nightmares were really her memories of a past she wanted to forget and knew she couldn't. Nova was the first person to ever confide with Christa on her past.
Christa had never told anyone about her past and the problems it caused her now. But, for some strange reason she trusted Nova.
"I don't know why I'm telling you about all my problems like this." She said after her depressing story.
"Maybe it's because I'm just like you?"
*~*
~It's too much to take in~
*~*
~To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you put it~
Sora felt the cold hand on his shoulder and he twirled around with Keyblade at hand. He was ready to fight the thing that had been following them for several blocks. He stared into the hazel eyes of a cloaked figure. Sora jumped back in fright as Donald turned to see what was behind them.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Sora said, sternly.
"I'm sorry I followed you, but we need to talk Keyblade Master to Keyblade Master." He said coldly giving Donald a quick glance.
"Not until you tell me who you are!" Sora said back to the cloaked figure.
"I don't really have a name, but some call me Manic." He said.
Manic led Sora out of the street and into a hotel to talk to him. They stepped into a room with a big couch, some lounge chairs, and a coffee table.
"Now, let's begin." Manic said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Christa felt cold on the floor. But, why was she on the floor? Why was there dirt on this floor? She pushed herself up into a sitting position and realized she had a splitting headache.
"If you're hurt you should lay back down." She heard a voice say to her.
Christa looked up startled that someone else was with her. She saw a girl the same age as Selphie. She had long, auburn hair and bright blue eyes. The girl was sitting against a wall with children's drawings upon them. There were pictures of creatures beyond her wildest dreams and people chasing each other on a beach.
"Where the..?" Christa mumbled beneath her breath.
"What's wrong, Kairupo?" Said a little white ball with wings.
"Whoa!!!!!" Christa screamed as it came up to her to comfort her.
The girl giggled and said, "Migo, leave our guest alone! What's your name, by the way?" The girl said to Christa.
"Um, my name is Christa. And you are?" She replied.
"Oh! How rude of me! My name is Kairi!" She said cheerfully.
"You're Kairi?!?!?!" Christa said in surprise.
"Yep! And this is my moogle friend, Migo. I found him in here after I returned to Destiny Islands." Kairi replied.
"Whoa, everyone is looking for you, Kairi. Your parents are worried sick."
"I knew that would happen, but I needed to stay here for Migo. He didn't have any food here and so I came with food and clothing to wait out the storm with him." Kairi said.
"Does anyone else know about Migo?" Christa asked looking at the moogle happily floating about.
"No, nobody else comes in here. It reminds them of Sora and Riku. I didn't even get to hear his voice before I left. I miss Riku so much. And I realize now that his voice... it's left me." Kairi's cheerfulness disappeared and her expression was mournful and sad.
"Hey, don't worry, I was sent here to find them. Both of them are gonna come back. I promise." Christa reassured Kairi. It looked like she'd been through a lot in the past two years. Kairi has been waiting for so long for Sora and Riku to come back to her. So far, neither showed up.
"Do you know where Sora is? Where's Sora, we must find him." Kairi said grabbing onto Christa's shoulders
"Slow down! I don't know where Sora is right now, that's why I'm here. I have to find one of the princesses of heart." Christa said calming Kairi down.
"Really? Well, your search is over then! I am the princess you seek! This time I'll fight!" Kairi said with her cheerfulness returning to her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
He stumbled and fell to the dark floor. The Keyblade made a metallic pang noise as it hit the ground beside him. He didn't bother to get up, but closed his eyes to rest instead.
Then he heard a rustling all around him. He quickly shot up to his feet and grabbed the Keyblade to get ready to fight. The Heartless were coming for him again. One came from behind, he slashed at it knocking the dark thing away.
The other Heartless took the hint and fled back into the darkness. He fell to his knees in exhaustion. Then he saw a boy running to him. His expression was so happy. "Sora?" He said. "Why did you leave me here? Sora.. Why?" Then he remembered the king leaving him too. The mouse showed up next to the boy and led him away. "Your Highness, but why?"
His face hit the ground and he went still. Tears fell from the boy's eyes. And he closed his eyes trying to shut out the memory of his friend. He wanted to run from his problems like he always did. But, there was nowhere to run now. If he ran he'd never get anywhere.
Then a man showed up in front of him. He was cloaked like Manic, but seemed different. The man kneeled down to the boy and touched him on the head.
"May you have the strength to understand your purpose here." The cloaked man said to the kid.
He looked up, startled, and whipped the tears from his eyes. He slowly got up from the ground and looked at the guy.
"Who are you?" He said.
"I am Nobody."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Nobody?" Sora asked.
"Who is nobody, you ask? They are the nonexistent ones." Manic responded to Sora's questions.
He had told him of what had happened to King Mickey and how he was able to leave with Manic. Riku's heart, however, did not make it out. Which would explain the lifeless look on the Riku that Manic had with him. Sora looked at his seemingly fake friend concerned for Riku's safety.
"This kid right here is only Riku's shell. His eyes remain blank and he stays still most of the time, but he can still handle a Keyblade because the real Riku can. I imagine he's still in Kingdom Hearts alone." Manic continued, looking at Donald, who refused to leave Sora's side.
"What about me? I still wield the Keyblade but I haven't lost my heart? Is that a bad thing?" Sora kept up with the questions.
"That's where you're wrong, Sora. You have lost your heart." Sora's eyes became wide and he looked surprised.
"What? That's impossible!" Sora argued.
"But, it's true. You lost it to Kairi when you gave hers back and fell in love. You're like a Heartless, but you still have something that can be considered your heart."
There was a long silence in which Donald could have sworn that he heard some grasshoppers in the back of his head as they thought.
"My Keyblade!" Sora said suddenly standing up.
"Yes, that is the only heart you seem to have at this point in time." Manic explained to him.
And then there was silence in the motel room. Donald, Sora, and Manic sat there wondering what to do next. Manic didn't want to say anything at all. 'It's Sora's turn to do something with the Destiny presented before him. If he wants to he can open Kingdom Hearts right this second... I've done my purpose for now, time to leave him to think."
Manic got up to leave. And he nodded his head towards Sora and Donald as he turned to go.
"You're leaving?" Donald asked in surprise.
"I have to go and leave Sora to his decisions." Manic replied.
"Before you go, can we see your face? Just so we recognize you on the battle field." Sora asked.
Manic nodded and slowly pulled his hood off. He had hazel eyes and bright blonde hair the color of the sun. Manic's skin was light and his face was heart shaped. His eyes still sparkled with life even though he'd been fighting for so long. Sora absorbed Manic's appearance in case they ever did see him again. And then he left.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"We'll go together!" Kairi shouted in the Secret Place. She accepted to leave with Christa.
"We can't leave here though. This place has been closed off.." Christa's voice trailed off, "Wait? If the entrance is blocked off, then how did I get in here?"
"Maybe it was magic." Kairi said, staring at the ceiling.
"Maybe... not." Christa snapped back. "I think it was my dream that brought me here, right?"
"I guess so, what did you dream about?" Kairi asked.
"Well, I saw a boy with brown hair, a boy with silver hair, and my old best friend. Her name was Ri Ri or at least that's what I called her." Christa told Kairi, "They were chasing each other on the beach. They looked like they were eight or nine."
"That must've been a little girl and my friends, Sora and Riku, when they were little! That was probably before I came here! Did you dream of anything else like that with me in it?" She replied.
"After that, I saw this place.. And Ri Ri was with that Sora person. They were drawing pictures of each other." Christa said.
"That person must have gave Sora the idea of drawing on the walls then!!!" Kairi said, surprised.
"I guess so. But, how can that help me get out of here?" Christa asked.
"I don't know. let's rest and we'll figure it all out tomorrow." Kairi ended their conversation with that last comment.
Kairi lay down and closed her eyes to sleep. Christa watched her for a moment wondering why their stories were so close in details. She soon felt sleep creeping up on her and lay down as well, closing her eyes to the darkness of her mind.
'What's this feeling?' Christa wondered. She saw a bright light that almost blinded her.
'What the hell is this?' She almost said aloud as the light surrounded her and she woke up.
Christa was back in that room where this all began. She was sleeping on a bed again and she was clutching at her chest. 'What happened? Wait a minute, what's this?' She thought as she felt a chain around her neck.
It was a necklace. The chain was silver and dangling down near her chest was a key. The key had a heart in the middle of it where it was connected to the chain and the part at the end (the part that you stick in a key hole) was square with a small heart shape of it's own in the middle.
That meeting with Kairi must have unlocked something deep within her to bring this key out and around her neck.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"What do you mean you are Nobody? You can't be Nobody.. That's not even a name!" He argued with the strange, cloaked man.
"I have no other explanation for my name other than that I'm really nobody. There are others like me with the same name though." Nobody said.
"Do you have a face at least? And what was that thing that you said? Understanding my purpose here?" The boy asked.
Instead of answering his questions, Nobody asked, "Do you remember your name? Your past?" Silence. "I didn't think so. Your name was and still is Riku and you lived on an island before all this."
Riku had a vision, a flash of light and color. He remembered everything. He remembered his life at Destiny Islands and his friends who cared for him. His whole past was revealed to him in one stream of light.
Then, he asked Nobody a question.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Christa got up out of bed and walked over to the trunk that was sitting on the floor.
"If you want," said a female voice, "There are clothes in there that may fit you." A girl said to Christa.
"I didn't see you there. Have you been watching me?"
"Of course not! I was just coming in to wake you." The girl said. Christa figured she was only 15. The girl had straight black hair that fell a little above her shoulders and purple eyes. "My name is Nova." She said extending a hand to Christa.
"And I'm Christa." She said taking Nova's hand and giving it a shake.
"What brought you here?" Nova asked.
"It's a long story!" Christa said.
"Well, I've got enough time on my hands." Nova convinced Christa to reveal her story.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Manic walked with the fake Riku at his side.
"How did it go, Manic?" A shrill voice said from the dark.
Manic stopped walking and turned towards the figure holding the voice. "It went well, Your Majesty." He replied with exasperation in his voice.
"Good. At least now he knows the truth." King Mickey said stepping out of the shadows.
"Well, that's what he really needed to hear. Now he has to figure out what to do with his destiny that has been placed before him." Manic said.
They walked on with the silent Riku behind them.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Now what? What else can I do?" Riku said to himself after Nobody left. "What should I do?" He paused. "Nobody said that there were other Nobodies here. Maybe if I find them they'll tell me how to get out of here?" Riku said aloud.
He got up with Keyblade in hand and continued on into the darkness. He tried to follow the path that Nobody had gone to. Maybe he'd be able to finally leave?
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Kairi stared at the wall where Christa had been sitting the night before. She twirled her long Auburn hair and wondered.
"Migo, we did had a visitor last night, right?" She asked the moogle who was happily stuffing himself.
"Yes we did, Kairupo! Her name was Christa, kupo!" he cheerfully replied.
"Then where did she go?" Kairi said to herself.
'I know I've seen her before.. didn't she say that she was from Hallow Bastion?' Kairi wondered to herself.
'Maybe.. But.. No. it can't be Chris? Can it?'
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I have no heart. I can't believe it!" Sora said out loud.
"Well, you gotta. You have no choice, Sora." Donald quacked.
They were heading back to the hotel for the night. Sora trudged along, now with even more stuff on his mind. He didn't want this, this destiny thing has screwed him before and it'll do it again.
First, he had to leave the thought of saving his friends behind. Then, he had to pretty much leave Kairi on her own. He also had to fight and destroy his best friend. Lastly, he had to lock that same friend in eternal Darkness. His life was really taking a turn for the worst and there was nothing he could do about it. It was destiny and, of course, fate that sealed him into this chaos.
Donald was once again, puzzled. He stared at his friend wondering what was floating around in his head. It was true; Sora really couldn't hide his emotions!
Donald laughed at this thought and Sora turned to him.
"What's so funny?" Sora said, annoyed.
"He was right!" Donald said hysterically laughing, "You can't. you can't."
But he couldn't finish. He couldn't stop laughing at his friend. It was too much to handle and all Sora could do was pout.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Nova listened to Christa's story of Hallow Bastion and her Uncle Ansem. How those horrible nightmares were really her memories of a past she wanted to forget and knew she couldn't. Nova was the first person to ever confide with Christa on her past.
Christa had never told anyone about her past and the problems it caused her now. But, for some strange reason she trusted Nova.
"I don't know why I'm telling you about all my problems like this." She said after her depressing story.
"Maybe it's because I'm just like you?"
*~*
~It's too much to take in~
*~*