Chapter 3: Separation
About an hour after class started Sora's head began pounding out of nowhere. The pain was so unexpected and sever that he fell out of his seat.
"Hey Sora, are you okay!?" Tidus asked as ran up to help his fallen friend. He helped Sora to his feet; Sora had been holding on to his head the entire time.
asked if he would like to go home, like Sora would pass that up. She wrote him a pass to the nurses' office and asked if he wanted any help.
"No thanks I'll be fine" he told her trying to smile but was unsuccessful. He packed up his things and left the room.
He walked about halfway when he needed the walls support to keep him from falling again.
"Hey, are you okay?" Roxas asked when noticed sora up against the wall.
"D..don't worry so mu-…" Sora told his nobody before collapsing on the floor and passing out.
When he awoke Sora was lying in one of the beds in the nurses' office.
"How did I…?" Sora thought to himself as he tried to remember what happened.
"You awake?" a voice at the end of the bed asked. Sora through himself into a sitting position to find Roxas standing in front of the bed.
"Y-yeah. What happened to me?" Sora asked his nobody confused.
"I don't know why but you where on your way to the nurses' office when you collapsed. I to over your body long enough to get you here. When I walked in the nurse must have gone to lunch because there wasn't anyone here. I laid you done on the bed and waited for you to wake up."
The two were quiet for a few minutes until Sora finally broke the silence. "I wonder what happened that made my head hurt so much." Sora and Roxas thought about it for a couple more minutes but couldn't come up with anything.
Suddenly Sora's hands shot up and clenched hid forehead, which was now resting on his knees.
"H-hey, what's wrong? Does your still hurt that much?" Roxas asked concerned. "D-don't worry, I promise I'll be fine." Sora told his nobody as an attempt to calm him down.
"Okay if you're sure, but you aren't going to push yourself this time!" Roxas told Sora, knowing how he is.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked while looking blankly at his nobody.
"Don't pretend you have no idea what I'm talking about" Roxas scolded. "I know how you push yourself and tell everyone that it's nothing. Listen even though you don't want to worry anyone you have to know when to take it easy."
"Okay, okay I get it." Soar replied. "How about I go home and take some medicine and a nice long nap? You can even watch me so you know I'm not goofing around." Sora suggested, still holding his head.
Roxas nodded in agreement vanished back into Sora. As soon as the nurse returned and found Sora lying in the bed he handed her the note the teacher had given him.
He told her about his head and called his mother, who was currently at work. She talked to the office staff and signed Sora out over the phone and promised to come and fill out the forms when she got off work around 2:30 in the afternoon.
She told Sora to be careful on the way home and to give her a call as soon as he walked in through the door. He told her he would and began the 5 block walk home.
Usually the walk was nothing and didn't take very long, but today it seemed to take forever. He had only walked 2 ½ blocks when he decided to stop and take a break.
While he was sitting on the curb watching cars go by he was caught by surprise when a pair of feet appeared in front of him.
"Whoa- "Sora yelped in shock. He looked up to see who they belonged to. Roxas was looking down at him with a blank look in his eyes.
"What..out of breath already? This isn't like you at all, your usually the one leaving everyone else behind." the nobody said half smiling.
Sora looked up at him pouting; he opened his mouth to protest but didn't make a sound as the world around him began spinning around him.
He tried his best to keep conscious but in the end his attempt failed. The last thin he saw was Roxas becoming farther away as Sora fell back into darkness.
He awoke to find himself getting a piggy-back ride, but everything was still blurry so he couldn't tell who it was or where they were going.
He blinked a few times as the world around him came back into focus. He could now make out the street he was traveling down as a block away from his house.
Sora looked down to see hoe was carrying him and found himself staring at a spiky blonde head.
"Huh?" was all Sora could manage to say before being dropped on this back into the grass.
"Glad to see you're finally awake; now you can carry your own weight." Sora looked to see whose voice it was talking to him.
He gasped when he looked up and found Roxas rubbing his shoulders. "You've got to cut down on your sugar obsession" the nobody said kidding around.
Roxas looked down to see Sora looking up at him speechless. "What?" Roxas asked giving him a confused look.
"H-h-how are y-you.." Sora tried to speak while still in shock. "Oh! Guess you noticed." Roxas said smiling but not making eye contact.
Roxas was no longer transparent but standing, solid, right in front of Sora. "Your mom's probably getting worried, we should get home" Roxas said holding out his hand to help Sora to his feet.
The two then made their way to Sora's house not saying a word the whole way.