She heard footsteps behind her, and soon she was being hauled over to a waiting chair, and soon Roxas had his arms around her waist to keep her from running away.
"Please Kairi, just give it a chance."
"No, I'm getting out of here." She squirmed uncontrollably in his grasp. "I won't let you do this to me!" she yelled, not caring about whom she interrupted or anything.
A person came from the back, and checked her clipboard.
"Uh, Strife, Kairi." She called to everyone. Roxas stood. "Bring her in here."
He pushed her into a hall, and soon a completely white room with nothing but a steel grated window, and a bed. He put her on the bed. "I'm sorry Kai, but this is for the best."
"That's what you said when we left mom and dad!"
He was silent. He stood and left without saying another word.
The woman stayed. "So, Kairi, I see you are…suicidally depressed?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Well, don't worry, you'll get better." She put her hand on her shoulder.
Kairi threw it off. "Go away! I don't need your stupid help in this stupid place, just because my idiot brother made me come here!" she yelled.
"Please Kairi, just give us a chance?"
"No! I give everyone a chance, and they all led up to this! I won't trust anyone anymore!"
The woman sighed. "Come on kid, give me a break. I still have three weeks' worth of labor for school."
"Well, sucks for you. Now go away!"
The woman stood. "Fine, but my name's Aqua. Someone will be in tomorrow to discuss things with you. Please just listen or he'll make you regret it."
Then she left. As soon as the door was closed, Kairi searched frantically for an exit. The door was locked and the window was grated. She couldn't hide digging my way out, and faking her death wouldn't work either. So, she eventually gave up, and reluctantly went to sleep.
The next day, she was shaken awake.
"Yo, get up!"
"Get out of my room." I mumbled, not remembering the past day's events.
"That's not how things work here at REHAB."
Her eyes shot open.
"Good. Now let's get right to the point. Okay, I was here once. It was hell. I don't want innocent people to go through that. That's why you're going to tell me what's wrong, so I can help, and get you out of here."
"Like I should trust you. Why were you in here?"
"Eh, suicidal depression. I got out of it, like you can get out of here."
"What's your name?"
"Terra."
She didn't know why, but she kind of trusted him. Maybe he was trustable, but not yet.
"Fine, I'm suicidal, now get out."
"Okay, here's what you have to do to remedy it."
"I need my parents, not my dumb-ass brother who caused all of this. Wait, did I just say that?"
"Yes you did. It seems to me like you have some, uh, family issues to say the least. Um, your 'dumb-ass brother' said that this was a place to think, didn't he?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"My sister Xion told me that when she sent me here. Anyway, I need you to tell me all about your issues, and I'll tell you how to solve your problems."
"I don't need a life-lesson."
"Okay, kid, get this through your thick skull, because if you don't you're going to spend six months in here like I did: you need to stop this nonsense about bad families, suck it up, and settle your differences."
She was taken aback by his change in behavior. She was a little scared of it too. "And what if I don't?"
"Then you won't enjoy our little sessions together, start talking, now!" he yelled.
She was now scared that he was going to kill her, so she obeyed, and told him her life story.
"Well, I can see your problem, and I agree with you. I wouldn't be able to take it either, in fact, I couldn't but what you need to do is just confront him about it." A buzzer went off. "Speak of the devil. I think Roxas is here to see you."
"I don't want to see him. What time is it?"
He checked his watch. "It is currently 9:37 PM. Now come on, he's waiting."
He pulled her and pushed her back to the front, and there were what looked like stalls, connected by a glass window. It was basically the thing in the jails that allow people from the outside world to talk to prisoners. Roxas was waiting on the other side of one.
Terra pushed her into the chair, and handed her the phone, or whatever it was. She held it to her ear.
"Hey sis." He greeted monotonously.
"…"
"How was your first day?" he asked.
"Why did you get into that fight with mom?"
"Kairi."
"Please answer."
"Kai, our parents were horrible parents. They didn't love us."
"But they did, and…"
"And what?" he snapped. "We abandoned them? Give me a break Kairi. They didn't deserve an angel like you. They were terrible people. The only reason we got around was because our dad was good at gambling!" he yelled.
"But we were happy."
"You may have been but I wasn't so I left, and you followed."
"…"
He sighed. "I'm sorry Kairi; I didn't mean to snap at you." She was near tears. "Please forgive me, for everything."
She stood, and left, leaving Roxas saddened. Why did he say that?
He stood, and left, waving goodbye to Aqua.
When he got home, he didn't know why, but he went into Kai's old room. He had so many fond memories in here. When Kairi got her first phone, when she got her first message from a boy, when we played monopoly for the first time in years, and then this happened.
Why did this happen? Yeah, at first he and Kairi were on the streets, until he scrounged up enough money to buy an apartment, and then he got a better job that paid way better, but that was around the point when Kairi started to become secluded from her friends. She retreated to her room when she got home, and they didn't talk at dinner.
What happened to all that happiness in her eyes? He always looked forward to seeing her after he got home, but lately she's been acting different, and then this. It was just too much. When he saw her cry today, he felt so awful that he'd let her down like that. The next day, he tried again.
He walked into the center. "Hi Roxas." Aqua greeted. "Are you seeing Kairi again?"
"Yeah."
"Listen she's in a kind of state right now. Terra says she won't stop crying,, and she always talks about you and your family."
"Can I just please see her, in person?"
"Uh, that's kind of against the rules. But what the heck follow me."
She led me to the room he left Kairi in. She was sitting in a corner with her head in her knees. She looked up slightly, and buried her head deeper. Aqua left them to be alone.
She didn't want to see him! He was the cause of all this! He kneeled in front of her. "Hey Kai."
"…"
"Please Kairi; I'm sorry for yesterday, okay? I overreacted. I was wrong."
"Go away. I don't want to see anyone."
"Please Kai, I didn't want this. I never wanted this. I wanted us to us live a happy life until we went our separate ways."
"Go away. I don't want to see anyone." She repeated.
"Kairi."
"Go away. I don't-"
"Want to see anyone, yeah, but I'm here. I'll always be there for you, no matter how much you don't want it."
"Go away. I don't want to see anyone."
"Please stop saying that."
"…Go away. I don't want to see anyone."
He sighed.
He stood and left her there. When he got home, he rummaged through her things and searched her phone. Then he saw the number. Oh how he was going to regret this call.