Chapter 3 - The Morning After

Keiko was running through a forest, running away from something but she wasn't quite sure what... but then she came across some sort of mansion, then she was running through a giant corridor inside this weird tatty mansion and she couldn't find a certain room, she didn't know which room she was looking for but she knew she'd know when she saw it. She was completely and utterly lost. There were loads of empty rooms but none of them were hers. Then something next to her let out a loud snort, and it all began to fade, the corridor around her disappeared and she opened her eyes to an unfamiliar room with sunlight gently finding its way through the curtains, she also found herself facing a sort of familiar wall. It certainly wasn't her wall that she woke up to every morning though. As her brain woke up more she recognized the room to be Redd's room...

Fuck she thought to herself as she tried to detect whether there was someone laying next to her without moving a single muscle.
Then there was a low grumble from Redd and she tensed a little. She screamed numerous profanitys in her head. What was she going to do?! She could escape maybe? And he would be convinced it was all a dream and it never happened. She peered down at her body slowly to see what clothes remained - the easiest way to see how far you'd gotten with someone if you couldn't remember what happened the previous night. Nothing. There was nothing on her.
Fuck my fucking life
It wasn't that she didn't like Redd or anything. It was the fact that this had happened before and created an intense amount of awkwardness. They promised each other never to do it again no matter how drunk they were. So what happened?! He's meant to be the least lightweight out of everyone, so how did it happen? Then it came back to her... She sung and he seemed to be in a trance.
"Oh my life... I am some sort of horny drunk siren... Singing to men and getting them in my trap. But aren't they meant to kill their men?" she thought.
After hearing him grunting and snoring for about 5 minutes she decided that he was most definitely not dead. She was in utter panic mode. She spotted her clothes on the wooden floor... But then Redd woke up. She felt the mattress move and she rolled a little as he sat up. She shut her eyes tight and pretended to be asleep.
How could I have let this happen?!
She felt Redd's eyes looking straight at her, she didn't even have to open her eyes to know that he was staring straight at her 'sleeping body'. Her heart was racing and she was getting too sweaty and hot over the covers. After what seemed about an hour (which was probably only 5 minutes) he then heard him shuffle towards the bedroom door and leave. She threw the covers off and sat bolt upright and rolled off the bed to avoid to making any noise. Her clothes were scattered across the floor, she gathered it all in one scoop and threw her clothes on without even looking the mirror – which she never did. She quickly brushed her hair through with her fingers and headed for the nearest exit… the window. Just as she had one leg out the window, Redd opened the door.
"And where do you think you're going?" he questioned.
Why do I always get caught?
After an extremely awkward interrogation and a few awkward meetings of the eyes they were both sat down on the scruffy couch eating some pancakes Redd cooked. Keiko loves pancakes, especially with syrup. Yum.
"Why were you gonna leave?" Redd asked with a mouth full of pancake.
"I just… felt awkward!"
"Don't feel awkward. It was fun."
"Uh… Thanks."
"I must've been so drunk though."
"Yeah… same."
Well… obviously he has no idea about my crazy siren powers…
She kept thinking about the house in her dreams, it felt so real. It made a shiver go down her spine when she thought about it, she decided to distract herself and shove more pancake in her mouth.
She left Redd's house about an hour later and headed home, it was a bright sunny day and it was making her feel sick because the light was too much for a hungover Keiko to deal with. She didn't want to go home; she hated going home if she hadn't been there for a night. It made her feel like something was in there. Since she was in no rush to get home she decided to take a detour to Miya's house. After 10 minutes of walking (and sweating), she arrived outside her house. She looked up at Miya's house, her house was tall and thin and under the windows were little flower boxes. Flowers which she had bought from the florist that Keiko worked. The roof of Miya's house was a terracotta colour, it was all very cute and ditzy – just like Miya. She knocked on the wooden door and waited a while in the summer heat, her mind drifted off again to the mansion she saw in her dream, it seemed like a sort of vision of which she could control, and she decided to walk back through the forest, then to a large crack in a wall which led to a town. Was she making this whole town up? Keiko wasn't the imaginative sort so she had no idea how she was having such a vivid day dream. She walked into some sort of deserted town, it was empty and quiet. Keiko hated quiet. It was always suspicious and freaky. Then it started to fade again, she clenched her eyes shut to stop it fading and looked around to try and rebuild this world she had imagined. Then it was gone.
She heard voices whispering nearby.
"I hope she's okay!"
"Of course, she's probably just dehydrated."
"Ooh check you out Mr Doctor."
"It's common knowledge actually."
"Owpppp she's twitching."
She slowly opened her eyes to see a blur of three of her friends stood above her, staring at her.
Where am I?
She spotted a ginger ball of fluff lingering in the background, as her eyes focused more she could see it was Miya's chubby cat. She looked at her friends; it was Miya, Luke and Leo. She was laid on her friends red and white plaid couch, a couch which belonged to Miya.
"What happened?" Keiko asked.
"Well I came outside and you'd like totes fainted on my doorstep. So I just dragged you inside and put you on my couch!" answered Miya.
"I heard about your cheeky time with Redd last night." Leo piped up.
"OOOOOOH yes you little chica!" squawked Miya before Keiko could ask anymore questions.
"I think you're just dehydrated." Redd said from the kitchen. She didn't even notice he was here. She sat up and brought her a drink.
Cringe.
"I bet she is." Said Luke exchanging a glance with Leo and raising his eyebrows.
Miya elbowed him in the ribs.
In Keiko's eyes, there was nothing worse than fainting. It was so girly and pathetic and made her seem so cliché. But more importantly, what was with that town?

Meanwhile in the Castle that Never Was
"Have you not managed to capture her yet?!" Demanded Xemnas.
"We couldn't find her!" whined Demyx.
"Well try harder! We need to get this one before she knows what she's doing with those powers. She already knows about Twilight Town. We need her now!" he said, raising his voice slightly.
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