Hooray for another update! Im going to try and finish this for you guys, finally, so Ill be updating a lot in the next few days. Sooo, have fun with this one!

Kingdom Hearts...is something that does not belong to me.

PLUM WINGS & A MIDNIGHT DIRGE - UNEXPECTED

It took me a very long time to climb up the cliff, because of how sad I was. When I finally got to the top, I walked through the trees, around the haunted mansion, and all through town like I was a zombie. I just kind of automatically walked, because I wasnt thinking about walking or where I was walking to. Its a good thing I ended up walking home, though.

I came in through the front door, and of course, my parents were inside, worried out of their minds. But they didnt show their worry in that form, not after I told them what happened.

"Oh, Demyx, oh, what happened? Where were you? What happened?" My mom was hugging me and squeezing me, and my dad was sitting on the couch in the living room with his face in his hands, I knew he was relieved. He listened when I started telling my mom what happened, but he didnt say anything.

"I left..." She was quiet and still.

"What...?"

"In the middle of the night, I left. I packed a bag full of things to eat, and clothes for Zexion. I climbed down the steps I made last time when I had to get out of there, then when I got to the bottom it was sunnier, so I could see, and I chipped up the snow to climb down the tree to get to the bottom then used the flashlight to see down in there, because it was dark. Zexion...he was laying, frozen in the middle of the place, away from the shelter we had..." I could feel the tears coming, but I held them back with little effort. "and, he was out cold for three days...I kept him warm...he was barely alive...and when he was sleeping I made a hole in all of the snow and trees to let light inside, and, then he woke up." I stopped there, not wanting to go any further. But, what was there to say? He just..kicked me out, after that. My mom exploded on me.

"Demyx! We, your father and I were scared! How could you do that! Running off like that! God, Demyx, what's so wrong with our household? Are chores too much for you? Are you just that fed up? What the hell!" She continued to yell, but I could only think about Zexion. Meanwhile, my father came up and looked at me, but he didnt say anything, not until my mom was done. She left the room, and that's when my dad talked to me.

"Demyx, is that what happened? Just as you said?" I nodded. He sighed. "We were both worried sick, we were afraid something very bad had happened. We've...been through a lot, all of us. Your mother is just upset. She...Demyx," He put an arm on my shoulder, but I made no move to look at him. "What happened?"

"I told you already,"

"No, you know what I mean." I said nothing. My dad knew me too well. He knew I was hiding something, but he, of all people, I could tell.

"Zexion, after he woke up, he was mad at me."

"Mad?"

"Yeah, that I had come down and saved him..."

"He was mad that you saved his life?"

"Yeah. It sounds like something you wouldnt believe, but it's what happened. You, you should have seen the look he gave me. He was mad, furious, and I...I left. He didnt try to stop me. I waited, wishing he would stop me, but he never even came out of the shelter. He's my best friend, how could he..." I stopped, and my dad got up. I went into my room after a while, and closed the door, shades, and sat in the darkness.

School went on, day after day, as it did in normal life. My mom said I was grounded, and that I wasnt allowed to see any of my friends.

"What friends? The only one I had left is dying at the bottom of a stupid cliff..." I spent a lot of weekends in my room, doing nothing. I hardly ate, only dinner, mostly. I just...had no motivation anymore. The person I loved was dying, and he didnt want me there for him. He didnt want to see me, but I wanted to see him again. I was in love with him, and it was hard enough to know just that. To know that I loved the one who loved me, but chose to never see me. Was it because he loved me? Or...gah, I didn't know.

Life...could not have been worse.

And before I knew it, school was only a month and a half away from ending, and then my boring summer would start, the only boring summer I would ever have. Even still, with nothing occupying my time, with nothing to do, nothing at all, I couldnt forget Zexion. I would think that having nothing would only make you forget, and then you would just remember how much nothing there was in life. But Zexion was my first thought in the morning. He was my last thought before sleep. He was in everything I wanted to talk about. He was...he was gone, dead, probably, and I still couldnt forget him, not even for a second.

Even after I was off being grounded, I did the same thing, just sit alone, in the dark, eating little to nothing every day. My marks were high, but that was because I had nothing else to do bu study and do homework. There was nothing else to life.

My parents tried to talk to me, to try and see what was wrong, but I only gave the same, simple worded reply that I always did whenever they asked me, ever since I came home the second time, anyway.

"Demyx, what's the matter?" "What's the problem, Demyx?" "You seem down, what's the matter?" And my reply was always the same.

"He's always on my mind."

They tried therapy, even, but the therapists couldnt really get anything out of me.

"How have you been, Demyx?"

No answer.

"Have you done anything new lately? How have your days been? Did you find a job? How is school? Find any new friends?" All of these questions got no answer. Then, I was asked about the ravine. And that's when I would talk, because then, I was allowed to talk about Zexion.

"The ravine was cold, always cold. Zexion always warned me towards the end that the snow was coming, and that if we didnt get help we would surely die. But they didnt help him. No, not for two weeks, they didnt even try anything. Then there was snow, and he almost died down there. I was the one who saved him. I risked my life a second time for him, no, it was more than just the second time. He was almost dead when I found him. He was so cold to touch, I felt like I was going to burn him if we touched. I kept him warm, and he slept for three days. And then he woke up." I always stopped after the point in which he woke up. I didnt even say how I got out, or any questions relating to that part. I always told the same story. Eventually, they said I was depressed, but with reason, so medication was not an answer, my parents said. If there was a reason, there was no need to panic. I guess I have to thank them, for that.

It was the last day of school. I finished my finals that I had that day, and I knew I passed them all without effort. I walked home, as I usually did, and gave my parents another simple answer when I walked through the door, on my way to my room.

"Hi, Demyx, how was your day at school?"

"Educational." I closed my door, threw my bag against the closet, and stared at the ceiling. There was a knock at my door, but I dont know how soon after I got there. I spaced out.

"Demyx?" I rolled over, and my mom opened the door and came inside. "We're heading out, so I just wanted to say good-bye and I love you,"

"Bye," She sighed after a minute, and then came and sat on my bed. I was facing the wall, so she couldnt see my face.

"Demyx, you'll be okay here, right? I just want to make sure,"

"Ill be fine. It's not like I have any sort of motivation to do anything besides lay here, anyway..." She sighed again, and then my dad called for her to go. She patted my back, and got up, leaving me there alone. Alone in my room, alone in the house, alone for summer.

Soon enough a full week had passed, and I hadnt stepped out of my house the entire time. It would be another two weeks, maybe three, before my parents were going to come back, and I was left in boredem. Then again, I had wanted nothing more than to be alone. And boredem was an understatement, now, anyway.

I was laying in my room when I thought I heard a knock on my door. I waited for a minute, listening. Then there was the sound of four knocks against my front door, and I got up to answer it. Luckily, I had chosen to shower that day, so I was at least looking clean to whoever it was at the door. I turned the knob, itching my head and pulling the door open. There was that awkward silence that there always was when you open the front door, to see someone standing there, whether you know them or not. But this...this awkward silence was different. The person at the door was a face I never thought I was going to see again. But seeing him made me angry.

"What are you doing here?" I was heartless, cold, but I could feel the emotion in me filling up.

"I came back," he said simply.

"Why? Why did you come here, instead of home, first?"

"Home is where the heart is, Demyx," I felt butterflies, but ignored the feeling. That is, until he finished what he was saying. "And my heart is with you." That was it, the finaly breaking point in me. I was overwhelmed, and I couldnt help it. I lunged at him, putting my arms around Zexion and feeling his arms around me for the first time in what felt like a lifetime. I held him tight, and he was holding me just as strong with the one arm he could. It was the best feeling, and if there were words to describe it, I would tell you how it felt.

Im sorry that those words dont exist.