Hurky: I just had to update because I've got lots of ideas!
Sora: Hurky, is your heater broken? Because there's no heat coming out of the vents!
Hurky: The heater is broken, but you can do what I do! Put on a sweater and drink some nummy hot chocolate!
Sora: But I hate my sweaters. They're all ugly. Plus, they don't keep me warm because Kairi knitted them! there's too many holes!
Kairi: You don't like what I knit? After all that time I put in knitting you that cute little sweater?
Riku: Guess what, Kairi? He uses it as a rag!
Kairi: SORA! I'M GONNA GET YOU! (chases Sora)
Sora: AHHH!
Sora saw that Ryo's house was brightly lit up. The fireplace had a fire dancing in it, filling the house up in a warm feeling, though Sora couldn't feel the warmth due to the fact that he was dead.On top of the fireplace, Ryo had strewn evergreen and holly garlands in front of and around pictures in frames. Sora walked over to the pictures and most of them were of Riku, but there was one of her, Riku, Sora, Kairi, Hurky, and Alexa. It was taken just a few weeks ago. The room also glowed a golden light from the fire. The lights were off and nobody was in the room.
"Looks like one of those boring Christmasy scenes from a storybook, except that there are no milk and cookies left out for Santy Claus." said Joel sourly.
"Will you lighten up?" asked Sora.
"Hey, I was never into the whole Christmas spirit." said Joel.
Sora heard Ryo's voice as soon as Sora told Joel to lighten up. She was on the phone.
"So...how's Kairi?" asked Ryo as she walked in the room with a cordless phone in her hand and she sat down on her big, comfy couch. "How is she taking this whole thing, you know, with Sora? Because I haven't seen her in school."
There was a silence.
"Oh, that's not like her..." said Ryo. "Alexa, next time you see her, tell her that it will..."
"Wait, let's hear Alexa's side of the conversation." said Joel. He pointed a finger at the phone and they could now hear Alexa.
"Isn't eavesdropping rude?" asked Sora.
"Not if you're dead and nobody can see or hear you." replied Joel. "Listen."
"Riku and Hurky already told Kairi that everything will be alright and she just threw things at them and said, 'No, it's not okay, Sora's dead and there's no way to bring him back!'" said Alexa.
"HEY!" said Sora to Alexa. "Wait until I grant the wishes!"
"Besides, nobody's heard from Kairi since yesterday and Hurky told me that when she and Riku saw her, she was a total wreck." said Alexa.
"I better go check up on Kairi," said Sora.
"If you insist." said Joel. He sighed and snapped his fingers and they were in Kairi's room, where Kairi sat crosslegged on her bed, with her photo album on it.
"OMG, she's a wreck!" said Sora.
Kairi's normally neat auburn hair was all messy on her head, her violet eyes were red and puffy from too much crying. It was all she did since she heard the doctor say, "He's gone." She was also in her PJs, the one with the white t-shirt and light pink pajama bottoms with cartoon monkeys all over it. Sora gave her those on her fifteenth birthday a few months earlier because he thought they were funny. Sora didn't know why Kairi was even wearing them.
"Man, I haven't seen her like this since..." said Sora. "Actually, never. At least she's stopped crying."
"For now." said Joel. "She ran out of tears."
Kairi stared at the picture of her, Sora, and Riku from the seventh grade. They were all in skateboarding gear, grinning from ear to ear. She sighed.
"I wish I can grant her holiday wish to have me back, but I have to grant others first. It'll be granted once I come back to life." said Sora.
"Which reminds me," said Joel. "Since your first wish you granted was for an enemy, I have been able to return some life into your body, which makes you barely alive. Your heart's started to beat again, you're breathing, but you can't wake up."
Sora's bright blue eyes lit up. "Are you serious?" he asked.
Joel nodded.
"WOO HOO!" whooped Sora as he threw a fist into the air.
"But!" said Joel. "If you don't grant the other two wishes, and soon, I will just take all the life out of your body and you will be dead once again."
"Oh." said Sora. "But at least I'm alive again!"
Joel sighed. "But you're not up and walking around." he pointed out.
The phone rang in Kairi's room and she checked who it was on her caller ID. It said Hart, Eric. It was the name of Sora's father, so Kairi picked up the phone.
"Hello?" asked Kairi.
"Kairi?" asked Sora's mother. "This is Sora's mom. I have some good news about Sora."
Kairi sat up from the pillows that she was lying on. "What? You do?" she asked.
"When Sora's father and Ethan went to the morgue to talk to the people who work there about the funeral, Ethan went to go see Sora's body and he found him breathing and his heart was beating!" said Sora's mom.
"Are you serious?" cried Kairi excitedly.
"Mmm-hm." said Mrs. Hart.
"OMG, where is he?" asked Kairi.
"They took him to the hospital and they discovered that he's in a coma. He hasn't woken up yet." said Mrs. Hart.
"I'm going to go see him, right now!" said Kairi. She pressed the end button on the phone, put it in its cradle, ran to her closet, put on a sweater, stuffed her feet into her shoes, and ran out the door.
"Joel, take me to the hospital, and quick!" said Sora.
Joel once again snapped his fingers and there they were, at the hospital.
"Is this my hospital room?" asked Sora.
"Yeah, it is, unless you're not that guy lying in that bed." said Joel.
Sora turned and saw himself, lying in the hospital bed, wearing one of those hospital gowns. His eyes were closed, he had two plugs in his nose, indicating that he was getting oxygen, and he was hooked up to the machines. The heart monitor beeped, showing signs that he was alive.
"I can't believe it..." said Sora amazingly. "I'm alive..."
Right then, Riku and Hurky walked in.
"I can't believe that Sora's alive..." said Hurky as she put down the flowers that she was holding on the table.
"How many times are people are going to say, 'I can't believe it?'" asked Joel disgruntledly (I don't even know if that's a word, lol).
"But...how is Sora alive, after being dead for only two days?" asked Riku.
"I have no clue, but we should be happy that Sora's still alive and he's not dead after all." said Hurky.
Kairi rushed right in, out of breath from running all the way there.
"Kairi!" said Riku and Hurky in unison.
"I came here as fast as I could." panted Kairi. "As soon as Sora's mom called me."
"Yeah, Sora's mom called me and Hurky, too." said Riku.
Kairi pulled out a chair and sat down.
"You know, Rep came home for the holidays a few days ago and was actually dancing around the room, singing, 'Ding dong, Sore-ass is dead, which Sore-ass, Sora-ass Hart is dead!" said Riku as he, too pulled out a chair and sat down. "The nerve of that guy! Wait until his best friend dies!"
"Why? Will you also be dancing around the room, too?" joked Hurky.
"YES!" said Riku.
Hurky and Kairi laughed.
"I can't wait to see the look on Rep's face when I tell him that Sora's alive!" said Riku. Rep was Riku's evil twin brother. An evil genius twin brother.
"You're forgetting that you won't be alive any longer if you don't grant any more wishes." Joel pointed out.
"Oh yeah..." said Sora. "I'm going to grant a wish for one of my friends. Which one of them needs to have a wish granted?"
"Ryo." replied Joel. "She's been wishing that Riku would become her boyfriend."
"Riku told me a while ago that Ryo's a wonderful girl, but he's not ready to be in a relationship yet." said Sora. "He has all these other girls chasing him, asking them to either marry them, be the father of their children, or just be their boyfriend."
Joel snapped his fingers and they were back in Ryo's house, where Ryo was sitting on the couch, watching TV and drinking a mug of hot chocolate.
"Riku should be lucky that Ryo's there for him." said Joel as he dug his hands into the pockets of his jacket/coat thingy. "From what you tell me, Ryo's devoted to Riku and will even risk her life for him."
"Riku did tell me about a week ago that he'd much rather have Ryo around than some other girl who only wants him for his looks." said Sora. "Joel, I want to grant the wish for Riku to be a lot more appreciative of Ryo."
"Why don't you just wish for them to be together?" asked Joel.
"But time has to pass before they get together." said Sora.
Joel clapped his hands, making the wish official...