After last chapter's cute little ending, I decided to give you a nice upsetting chapter! This chapter's actually really short. I wrote it last night and I'm pretty happy with it. It adds another problem to Axel's life! I think I'm going to keep switching between his Larxene problem and this new one. Hopefully I can pull it off!
Also, next Thursday will be my one-year anniversary on FanFic. See my profile for a special update!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. Sadie's character is mine though!!
I was falling. I couldn't see anything around me. The space around me was darker than black. I was dying. And I was falling.
That's when I hit the water. I couldn't see it. It was as dark as everything else, but I could fill it soaking my hair, pulling down my clothes, forcing its way into my lungs. I kicked trying to pull myself up, anything to keep me from sinking, but the motion pulled me down. I frantically flipped around looking for anything to help me, looking for anything other than darkness.
I jerked up in bed, gasping for air. After surveying my surroundings, I buried my eyes into the palms of my hands and let out a sigh. It had just been a dream. It wasn't real. I was okay.
I looked up and over at my alarm clock. 10 o'clock in the freakin' morning. Nobody in their right mind would be up now, but I didn't want to try and go back to sleep, so I stretched and got up to get some breakfast.
"Oh my god, it's the apocalypse! I never thought I'd see the day when my son would be up at ten on a Saturday!" A very excited Xigbar cried and attempted to flip a pancake.
"Great to see you too, Dad." I grumbled.
"Do you want a pancake?" He asked offering me a plate of burnt pancakes.
"Honestly, I wouldn't eat those if they were the last things on Earth." I said cringing as the smell of burnt pancakes hit my nose.
"The dog wouldn't eat them either." He said picking up a second plate of equally appetizing pancakes up off the floor. "And if you two won't it them, I doubt anyone else will."
I looked over at the spotted Great Dane. He had a point; whatever the family wouldn't it was given to me. If, by chance, I turned it down, Sadie got it. And then if Sadie didn't eat it, it probably wasn't eatable.
"We'll take that as a compliment." I said, "Come on Sadie, let's go upstairs."
Happy that someone was paying attention to her, the giant dog barreled up stairs nearly taking Namine out on the way.
"Whoa, girl!" Namine said, moving her cell phone away from her ear long enough to yell at the dog. "Oh, Axel, you're up?"
"Not for long. I'm about to back to bed." I said truthfully. There was nothing important that goes on at ten o'clock in the morning.
"Well," Namine said, pushing her cell phone at me, "Say 'hi'."
"Who is it?" Curious to why one of Namine's friend would want to talk to me. Oh, God I hope it wasn't Kairi. What if she'd said something to Namine? Did she know about the camp thing? Oh, God, she couldn't know.
"Hello?" I said, praying it wasn't Kairi who answered.
"Hello? Axel? Is that you?" A female's voice, but definitely not Kairi's, though it did sound uncomfortably familiar. But at the same time, I felt myself wishing she'd speak again.
"Yeah, um, who is this?"
"Axel? Oh, sweetheart, you sound so grown up! I haven't heard from you in forever! Oh, honey, I've missed you so much, and when I got in touch with your sister I was so excited –"
I pulled the phone from my ear in disgust as I recognized the voice. I snapped the phone shut and threw it onto the kitchen table.
"Hey, do you know how much that thing cost me? Don't go tossing it around!" Xigbar called from his third batch of pancakes.
"I'm going for a drive." I said pulling the keys for my car off the hook by the door. "I'll be back."
I needed to clear my head, but not here. Not at home knowing she could call back at any second. Knowing that Namine was talking to her, had forgiven her.
I couldn't take it. She'd ruined my life and just when I was finally over it she tried to come back into my life. Things had finally started to look up. It had taken me nearly eleven years to be able to handle everything.
And now she was back, trying to pretend everything was alright. I absolutely hated her.
And I would never, ever, forgive my mother for what she did to me and Namine.
Ha, I tied the first chapter into the story! Go Shay! Anyway, hopefully next chapter will be happier...
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