Chapter Seven - The truth

Writing it down, Sora thought. Was the first step to acceptance. It wasn't as bad as it sounded. Or was it? He had never been sure. It was so long ago that he couldn't remember it all. But it was however, one of the first things he could remember. And that's what made it so significant.

Eight years ago, someone in his class cornered him in the toilets. The boy told Sora that he must do what he wanted. Sora was scared. He had always been extremely gullible and believed his family and baby sister would get hurt, or that Sora himself would be killed, if he did not conform to the boy's wishes. So he did what the boy told him to. And let the boy do things to him. He was scared. But he did it anyway. He had promised he would never tell anyone about it. He felt so dirty and sick when he thought about it. He didn't think they'd had actual sex. But the boy had definitely... touched him. And Sora...the same.

Sora knew the second step was to tell someone. Just one person would do. Then maybe he could finally accept it. So he wrote Tidus a letter explaining what had happened. No details. Just the facts. At the bottom he wrote:

P.S. Please do not tell ANYONE about this. Destroy the letter and no-one will find out. I know I can trust you. Also, I don't ever want to talk about this.

He knew that Tidus would be worried. But he needed to tell someone. Besides, there was nothing more to worry about. At least now Tidus could fully understand what made Sora cry so much. This guilty secret haunting him all these years. He had two reasons to despise the legendary teen question: 'How far have you ever been with someone?'