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Warning: This chapter and/or future chapters may include: Suicide, Self-Inflicted Harm, Alcohol Abuse, Minor Child Abuse, and Minor Profanity

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Chapter 7: A Boy Named Sora

It now has been two years since the accident. As she promised, Kairi returned to the hospital to visit her friend Akio, her one and only real friend in the real world. Though as fate would have it, Akio passed away a month later. She attended the funeral and still visits his grave every now and then, as well as her mother's.

Kairi also continued to see Roxas but soon realized that what they had could never be. They lived in separate worlds, unable to fully be together. She knew that they should say their good-byes soon, before it hurt more for the both of them. He had been her first real friend, liking her for who she was and not for what others thought she was. It hurt so much to do what she knew she had to do, as she awaited for sleep to overcome her to meet him once more. She's only 14.

"You're back!", he says to her, "I started worrying you were gonna stay up all night!"

She smiles just a bit, but sorrow fills her eyes. "I have something to tell you."

A scared expression crosses his face, "Go ahead."

"I've had a great time being with you, but I... I don't think it can work out. I can't just sleep my life away, you know.", she says as her eyes begin to water.

"Don't cry." he says to her as he wipes away the tears streaming down, "I understand... don't worry, we'll meet again soon."

"I don't think you understand...", she begins...

"Oh, but I do, more than you realize.", he whispers. "Good-bye Kairi."

She awakes. Salty dried-up tears cover her face. Her face feels so stiff, she feels so cold. She lays there in her bedroom staring at the ceiling. "What did he mean by that?", she wonders. Did he not understand that their relationship cannot be? She gets up and washes her face then gets dressed. It is a Saturday morning.

She walks outside barefoot, thinking about her life when she hears people next door. There is a moving truck stationed next to the empty house nearby. She watches as furniture, boxes, and other things are brought into the house. A woman and her son are moving in.

Kairi decides to go back into her house and make the new neighbors a cake as an excuse to meet them. "Chocolate," she thinks to herself, "Everybody loves chocolate." She grabs the the box and carefully looks at the directions. She turns the oven on at exactly 360 degrees and begins to mix the ingredients together as directed. She diligently pours the batter into a pan and places it into the oven. Once the timer goes off, Kairi takes it out and covers it with icing after it cools. As she walks to the house, she feels herself overfilled with anticipation, perhaps she'll make a new friend.

"Hello?", a woman answers.

"Hi, I live next door, my name is Kairi, I made something for you.", she says cheerfully.

"Why thank you!", the lady says then puts the cake on a near by table. "Let me call my son, I'm sure he'll be happy to meet you... Sora!"

"Yeah, mom?", the boy answers.

"This is our new neighbor, Kairi, she made a cake for us, isn't that so nice of her", says the mother.

"Hi, I'm Sora."

Kairi takes her sight off the mother and looks at the boy. She feels a strange connection towards the boy, as if she had met him before. His spiky hair and blue eyes seemed so familiar to her. If she didn't know any better, she'd think it was Roxas. "Nah.. impossible.", she thinks as she stares at him. Sora also looks at her in confusion. He had never lived in Destiny Island before so why did she look so familiar? There was a spark in her eyes that captivated him. He didn't want to be rude, but he could help but stare.

"Okay, well we better get back on fixing up the house but thank you so much for visiting.", interrupts the mother.

"No problem.", says Kairi to Sora's mom.

"Come back some other time, dear. Bye."

She walked back home in almost a trance. Sora. She cannot think about anything but Sora. Could he really be Roxas, they seemed so alike. She laid in bed that night thinking about the two. What did Roxas mean when he said he'd see her soon, was that it, did he know? But how could that be? She fell asleep and dreamt about Sora, the new boy next door.

There was something about him...

There was something about her...

Roxas had been visiting Kairi for the past two years. He wasn't part of reality, just simply lived in the world of dreams. Roxas, being a part of Sora kind of like his spirit, was able to meet Kairi. So it was as if Sora had met Kairi through his other self without the knowing. In result, Kairi and Sora shared a connection of which they did not understand.