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Our Kingdom Hearts
B is for Bittersweet
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bit·ter·sweet n 1: A woody vine of the genus Celastrus, especially the North American species C. scandens and the eastern Asian species C. orbiculata, having small, round, yellow-orange fruits that open at maturity to expose red seeds. Also called staff tree. 2: bittersweet nightshade. 3: a dark to deep reddish orange. adj 1: Bitter and sweet at the same time: bittersweet chocolate. 2: producing or expressing a mixture of pain and pleasure: a movie with a bittersweet ending. 3: dark to deep reddish-orange. 4 :pleasant but with a touch of sadness.. 5: sweet with a bitter aftertaste. (After its roots, which are said to taste bitter, then sweet when chewed.)
You would think by now I was used to it. Used to the strangeness of it, the peculiar taste of it all. But I am not, it still surprises me, when I am given the chance of course, but still surprises me all the same. Why is it though, I've never questioned it? Questioned the fact it was it was, and you are what you are? Perhaps it's because I have no complaints, if so, that's understandable. It would make sense to me, and I'd have no trouble with it. But I still wonder, wonder how it is so, how you are so.
I never thought of you as anything else, you always remained the same and in a way…still do. But you've changed. I've changed. We've all changed. For the better or for the worse, I'm still to figure that out. But especially when it comes to you, something's different. You're still the same sweet boy, best friend I've always had and known. It's not that. Your looks remain the same, ginger brown hair; disheveled in strewn masses, big blue eyes and that big smile of yours. Nothing's changed from what I can see. The only thing that has is, you've grown, as we all have.
But there's something there, behind that kind and sweet disposition of yours…there's something. Maybe only I can see it…I don't know. Ironically enough considering how almost opposite we are, besides the fact that we're very close. Everyone knows you're sweet though, Kairi seems to appreciate it. As do the rest of them, you're well known for it.
If I had to give myself a flavour, it wouldn't be anything sweet, that I know. I've prematurely reserved it for you, and you've seemed to take up the offer. I'm bitter. I'm not ashamed to say it, it's known, especially by I. Coincidence seems to have it, that both you and I are connected. Bittersweet. Taboo in its intervention of sorts.
Shame…I still can't figure it out. What is it about you? Something only I seem to notice…
May it end in a bittersweet catastrophe. Where I finally understand and things eventually change once again.
You're a sweet guy, I won't deny that. I'm not bitter for it either.
Riku.