I just want to say thanks for all the reveiws. I've never really had a successful 'story' before, if that's what you could call these things, but maybe there's hope for my writing style after all! I'd reply to them all here, but I'm pretty sure I did that already indivdually... Still, thanks so much!

Selphie
I Wonder Why… She Fell to the Ground.

Kairi has always been… odd. I suppose that's because she's from somewhere else. Maybe where she was born she's perfectly normal. I don't think it's all right for her to be collapsing like that though, no matter what planet she came from.

…Not that I think she came from another planet, of course! I mean, that'd be crazy. …Then again, it is Kairi. If anyone could have been from somewhere in space, it's her. It's not like people come washing up on shore every day, y'know?

I should probably stop while I'm ahead. I think I'm confusing myself with all this talk about her. Not that she, as a person, is all that confusing. She's very straightforward. Until you try to get deeper in. Then everything goes to pieces.

I kneel down, now. It'd be no good for her to just lie there, but I'm only one girl! It's not like I can lug her all the way back into town. So I'll just sit here and pretend I know what the hell I'm doing…

You know, now that I think about it, Kairi must be the most complex person ever, even if she seems so simple. For example, I'm supposed to be her best friend, right? Well, lately she's been talking about Riku and some other kid. Riku I remember, how could I forget? He was the islands' favorite hottie, and his hair was so amazing! Far be it from me to turn into a drooling fanatic, mostly because I was close enough to call him an acquaintance rather than an impossible goal, but still, it was an amazing sight. I wonder what ever happened to him anyway?

Kairi keeps telling me he just went off for a year, but even his parents don't know what happened to him. Except for her, the entire island thinks he's dead. After all, that raft he and Kairi had been building went missing the same night that he did.

Of course, every time I remind her of that, she gets this awful look on her face. Like she wants to be mad at me for saying something like that, but that she can't, because something is telling her it's not my fault. I'd give anything for it to be my fault, though, because whoever's fault it is, he's driving her insane.

It must be a he, after all, because that's how she talks about him. Kairi remembers a boy; he used to hang out with Riku. I don't remember anyone who hung out with Riku. He barely even put up with Kairi, and she was the closest thing to a friend he'd ever had. And I'm certain that his once-crazed fangirls would remember anyone like that. No one knows him, except Kairi. Which brings me back full circle.

"Are you okay?" She's back up now. It's weird, like she never even fainted.

"Maybe…Maybe waiting isn't good enough."

And there she goes, off like a rocket. And she's back on about the kid, too.

The girl is crazy. She must be. Because she swears up and down that this kid existed, and she desperately wants me to believe her, she wants everyone to. I can tell, even if they can't, because I'm supposed to be her best friend, right?

But I'm not. I know I'm not. Riku understood her more than I do, even through his disdain. And what about the kid she swears exists? I can't remember anyone like that, but… Well, what if we did all forget? I mean, Kairi is the one from the outside. If anyone were going to survive a bout of island-wide amnesia, it'd be her, wouldn't it?

Maybe she isn't quite as crazy as I thought. Or maybe she's just that radiant. It's hard to disagree with her on anything, really.

Why are we going to the shore anyway? What's she doing? …A message in a bottle? What does she think that'll achieve?

"Do you really think it'll get to him?"

"I know it will."

She's got her heart set on it. Pure and totally, she believes it's going to get to him. Who am I to interrupt her dreams like that? Best friend or no, I haven't got the right to interfere. Even if she is crazy.

"Isn't that right, Sora?"

Blue eyes. Too blue.

Brown hair, defies gravity; more than mine, even.

Wooden swords.

Paopu fruits.

They watched the sunset.

Secret place, they had one.

Built the raft.

Gone with Riku.

Who is he? Is that the name of the boy Kairi swears existed? Did he really exist? I don't know… I'd have to ask. But I can't. Because she doesn't deserve that. She doesn't deserve to know that everyone still doubts her. It's unfair to her. Besides, I'm beginning to think maybe he did. That he wouldn't have, if just one last heart had given up on him, but now he does again, because of her.

She may be crazy, but it doesn't mean she isn't right.