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Chapter 6: The Girl

(Sora's POV)

Location: Sixth Floor

I keep getting these weird flashbacks. They increase in frequency as I progress through the castle. The freaky thing is that I can't remember if any of it actually happened. There's this strange girl that keeps appearing in my thoughts. I have no idea what her name is but I feel as if I know her somehow. Oddly enough, she seems so…so...

Familiar.

She has silky blond hair and the most intense eyes I have ever seen, blue in color. Her skin is pale but her cheeks are a vibrant rosy color and her mouth is pulled into a melancholic smile. She wears a simplistic white dress and pale blue sandals. There is something about her that stands out. She has a certain beauty, it is almost natural. She doesn't try too hard to be pretty, it just sort of works for her. She comes off as fragile, her tiny frame and composure radiate vulnerability. I have this weird urge to protect her from harm as though she were a damsel in distress. Something is so unusual about her and it has me unsure of what is really going on.

In my head, I see her diffidently flip through a wire bound sketchbook. She pulls out her coloring utensils and starts drawing on a clean page. I can't see what she is drawing because the scene abruptly ends only to be replaced with a new one. Now, I am visualizing a scene from my childhood. I am seeing the island along with the younger version of Riku and myself. The two of us are engaged in a play fight. Completely typical, we were always competing. To mysurprise, the mysterious girl is also in this vision. She sits on the sidelines, watching eagerly from afar, as Riku knocks me down. Was she always on the island with us?

I'm not so sure.

I strain to recall my former days but it is nothing more than a blur. I feel like I know her but something isn't adding up.

This can't be right, I would have remembered her. How would I still remember Riku but not her? Surely, this is a mistake. It's official. My brain must be fried or I am suffering from some mental illness that is making me delusional. Insane is probably a better word.

Wait a minute. Suddenly, something dawns on me. I remember what they told me.

To lose is to find…

I'm losing my memories and finding…finding what?

That there was a girl on the island that I never even knew existed?

The frustration is endless. How could I have forgotten a friend? If I do know her then it shouldn't be this difficult. What if she was important to me? She'd probably be upset if she found out that I didn't remember her.

Smooth move.