"Kairi, jump!" I looked at her expecting and hoping that she'd be able to fly into my arms.
"I can't, Sora, it's too far." She looked up at me upset and almost on the verge of tears. I walked back trying to get some space and ran forward, hoping that I'd be able to reach. But, I stopped right at the edge. She was right, there was too much space between us and there was a lot of oblivion to cut through. Who knows where either of us would end up if we didn't make it to each other.
"C'mon, Kairi, you can do it!" I tried to put a confident and supporting smile, but deep inside I was crumbling. Would she make it back into my arms so I could tell her that she was mine? Would she able to laugh with me or smile at me again as we talk about our childhood? Would we be able to be back home at all?
"Sora!" I came out of my trance and looked at her with broken eyes and a confident smile that was almost legit. I reached out my hand trying to shorten the space between us. She retreated back and ran toward me, and then she lifted off the rock. I could just picture in my mind back when we were younger and she'd jump off the island, I in the water, and I'd catch her. But it wasn't the same thing, at least not quite. She was almost in my grasp; it was too late. Our fingertips barely touched so all I felt was the faint wind that came as she tried to grasp my hand.
That was the last that I felt or saw her. She fell back on her rock and looked up at me in distress. This time, I failed to protect her; I had broken my promise. Her eyes broke in front me and so did mine. Everything just seemed to break into shards of glass before my eyes. It didn't matter to me that we were in the middle of oblivion or that both of could die in a matter of seconds. But the last thing she told me was in a whisper as she tried to calm her heart that was overflowing with heartache and terror. I'll never be able to understand why she said it, but it's a surprise I even saw it. "I'm sorry, Sora." For what? That she couldn't jump a couple feet? That wasn't a legitimate reason. I felt as though I should be sorry; I did all I can, but not enough. I knew the seconds were passing by us too fast, even though I wanted it to last much longer. I shook my head and tried to smile through the tears that were running down my cheeks like little rivers. I tried to make her understand that it wasn't her fault. She smiled back up at me. I knew the seconds were dying away so I did the only thing that was left in my heart to do.
I whispered back at her with the most sympathetic smile I could make up and I whispered back at her. "I love you, Kairi."
The seconds flew into the dust and was unreachable to gain again. Yet everything was perfect as I stared at her and she stared at me, tears falling like there was no tomorrow…
"Sora! Sora, snap out of it!"
What? Who the hell is calling me?