I begin my life anew

Chapter 7

The day after the unexpected reunion with Sydney, I was released from the hospital. I still didn't know how I was to get home to Baruch from here, I seemed to have waited for hours outside aimlessly hoping Serah or Snow would take me home, my hopes were raised for nothing.

"You waiting for someone?" A familiar voice caught my attention. I turned to see Sydney walking up from behind me; she looked up to the sky admiring the abstract clouds and stopped at my side.

"What are you still doing here?" I asked.

"I was visiting a friend," She said optimistically with her hands behind her back, still admiring the clouds. "Are you getting picked up by somebody?"

"No," I looked up at the clouds with her. "They were suppose to but, I don't think they're showing up."

"Were you waiting for a miracle to happen or something?" She said with a slight grin. "A magic flying carpet was gonna' stop by and air lift you home?" She chuckled.

I smirked at her remark, "I wasn't but it would be nice."

Sydney glanced at me with a smile, "I can help you home." She kindly offered.

"My home is all the way in Baruch, I doubt you could."

"I have an ark," She said in a bashful sort of way. "It flies, almost like a magic carpet."

I looked over at her in disbelief. "How do you have an ark?"

"Claimed it."

I shook my head lightly and smiled, "Your ark can fly us all the way to Baruch?"

"Well no, that's the thing I left out." She admitted. "My ark is impounded because of damages I made while trying to land the damn thing..."

"Why did you bring it up then?"

"Just thought I'd start a conversation."

My smile turned back into a slight frown, "Well thanks for getting my hopes up."

"Ey, don't be like that," She turned to me. "I'll get you home safe, we don't need an ark to do it, most of the trip will be by train anyway, plus that ark would probably crash into something anyway."

I shook my head and began to walk towards the nearest train station. "Ey, where are you goin'?" Sydney called out.

"You said you were going to get me home safe," I restated her words. "Do what you do best then."

Sydney rushed up behind me as we began walking towards the station, on our way there she seemed oddly quiet, and the only words she spoke were about her flying ship but other than that she was silent.

The whole trip to Baruch contained very few words, what had gotten over Sydney was beyond me, her attitude was the complete opposite before we began our trip. Something fishy was going on with her. While we walked she would trail behind and I would have to stop and wait for her to catch up, other times she wouldn't even listen to me and stand around staring into space.

By the time we had arrived in Baruch, I was exhausted from walking and traveling that all I wanted to do was go to rest in my bed, I didn't ever care what happened to Sydney after a while.

"So Lightning," The first words from Sydney's mouth finally escaped after so many hours. "How come you don't have your spouse picking you up from places?"

"What spouse?" I asked.

"The one that impregnated you."

I bit the side of my mouth with anger, Caius was to me, less than a father figure he would have to be really freaking special to be nominated for the 'spouse' rank. "I don't like talking about him," I scowled, noticing my home in the distance. "He's scum to me."

"Oh, did he do something?" Sydney began to act like a child with her endless questions. "What did he do?"

"That is none of your business." I kept my head down.

"Well I wanna' know why he's scum," She whined. "If you want I'll tell you about scum; this guy he keeps breaking onto my ship and snatchin' up my things-" ...And thus the endless babbling began. I had tried to tone out Sydney's constant annoyance, but she produced a flow of never ending words from her mouth, her changes of mood were daunting and I could only wait and fear what the next change would be.

It was dark by the time I had returned home, I had walked more than I should have and I was tired from it. Sydney had ceased her babbling when I first entered my house, she stopped at the entrance and didn't move. I turned to her to see her stare at me with her arms stationed at her sides. "Aren't you going to enter?"

"I actually should be heading on my way now," Sydney turned away. "Perhaps I will encounter you in the future again, some day." She then proceeded to walk down the dirt road we had spent a few hours traveling on, trailing behind her I noticed, were droplets of what looked to be water falling from her fingers. I didn't stop her to ask, I didn't want to reenact the hospital room again.