Sydney: Hello! It is me with chapter eighteen. We get a little character build with me and a little bonding time with me and Sora.
Sora: Yeah, so not a lot of SydneyxRoxas action today. Check back Tuesday or Thursday or maybe later. She starts school tomorrow.
Sydney: Yeah, and I had English 30-1 now which means Hamlet.
Sora: So Sydney does not own anything except her memories and herself. Enjoy, rate, review, favorite and do whatever you guys like to do.
Chapter 18: He kinda… What is that?
"Sydney, what happened?" Sora asked once him and Hermione reached me in the hall. I opened my mouth but the words didn't come out. All that really came out was was a shaky breath.
"Sydney, did something happen between you and Roxas?" Hermione asked as she place a hand on my shoulder. At that point, I gasped before slowly falling to my knees. Hermione came down to the floor with me and I start to sob and leaned into her.
"Damn it!" I heard Sora say from behind us and I felt one of Hermione's arm leave me to take out her wand. I couldn't tell what was going on around us but I knew that it wasn't good.
"Sydney! Oh snap!" I heard Roxas say and I panicked. He wasn't suppose to be here. I got up and started to run the other way. I didnèt know what happened behind me and I didn't care. All I did was run, running straight to Gryffindor Tower and into my bed that was protected from the outside world. Once I was in the dorm, I crawled under my covers and refused to changed.
"Sydney, would you just talk to me?!" Roxas asked/screamed at me once we got on the gummi ship sometime after the dance. We didn't have to returned to Hogwarts until the second task so we could continue on to different world. I ignored Roxas since the kiss last night and I was slowly starting to regret that decision. I walked right past him and into my bedroom. Once I closed the door and locked it, slid down against it and rested my head in my hands. I felt like crying my eyes out since I didn't do that last night but I really couldn't do it. If I cried, I showed weakness and if I did that, then I really shouldn't be the Card Keeper. I should have been left alone at home where nobody can hurt me and I wouldn't feel this.
"Sydney, please… please just tell me what I did wrong." I heard Roxas beg from the other side of the door but I couldn't bring myself to say anything. I wanted to talk to him, I wanted to tell him what bothered me but I couldn't do it. It was like something in the back of my mind stopped me from telling him everything.
"Donald, Goofy, and I have decided that we are going separate for the moment. Roxas, you're going with Donald and Goofy to that tower place and Sydney, you're coming with me." Sora said. I heard Roxas start to complain but was quickly taken away. I sat there for a couple of minutes before I got up and unlocked the door. Standing right across that hall from me was Sora who was leaning against a door. He smiled at me before standing up straight and headed towards the control room. I looked at the both of the hall, expecting somebody to be standing there, waiting for me to come out. Once I was sure that nobody but Sora and I were on the ship, I moved towards the control room. Sora was sitting in his chair so I moved to sit next to him.
"So how was the dance?" Sora asked without looking up at me. I looked over at him and raised an eyebrow at him.
"It was nice. We danced, dealt with you, continued to dance until you left then we left and sat by the lake." I told him as I remembered the night perfectly. Sure it may have only been twelve or so hours ago but it was still kinda magically.
"So happened while you guys were sitting at the lake?" Sora asked as he hit a button and the ship started moving.
"We started talking and then… hekissedme." I said, whispering the last part, hoping that he wouldn't hear me.
"Sorry, he did what?" Sora asked as he accidentally steered us off course.
"He kinda… What is that?" I started to repeat what I had sad but then I noticed the light purple/orange cloud heading right for us. Sora seemed to just notice this because he attempted to drive away from it.
"I have no idea but it could very possibly be dangerous." He said as he steered us to go up in hopes that we could avoid it. The giant cloud seemed to have followed us. We looked at each other in worry as we started to enter it. The ship must have hit some kind of turbulence because stuff started flying across the room. Sora and I gripped onto the armrests of the chairs which seemed to upset the cloud because it started shaking the ship harder and faster. After a few minutes the two of us had to let go of the chairs. In worry, I grabbed onto Sora's arm as we flew across the room. My head hit the back wall first, making this pain appear in my head. I looked over at Sora to see that he was passed out. As I turned my head once more, I saw that the ship had stopped moving around so much. Black spots started appear as I attempted to stand up. When I realized that a shelf had collapsed on my right ankle, I blanked out.
I opened my eyes to see that we weren't on the gummi ship anymore. We were sitting on the floor of my living room which was completely strange but the thing that made it worse was that I was sitting on the couch with my twin brother James, my younger brother Jason and my younger sister Melody. We were watching Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives while my older sister Rory and older brother Logan were in the kitchen cooking supper.
"Sydney, is that you?" I heard Sora ask me. I let out a deep sigh as I realized what night this was.
"Yeah, sadly that's me when I was thirteen. This was one of the worst nights of my life." I said as the doorbell went off. Thirteen year old me got up from her spot on the couch to answer the doorbell. I could hear the fast run of her feet against the stairs and chime of the alarm system as the front door open.
"You're flinching. Who's at the door?" Sora asked me as my blood turning scream filled the house. Rory and Logan came running out of the kitchen and towards the front door where I managed to fall in on myself.
"It was a policeman. He came to tell us that the plane my parents were on crashed and that there were no survivors of the crash. They were suppose to be back in time for Melody's fourth birthday which was in a few days." I said and I felt Sora wrap his arm around my shoulders, pulling me into a hug. It was nice when you had somebody to care about you.
"It's okay. You are fine." He whispered as he hugged me. Around us, the scene changed. It was two days before Riku took me away and we were standing in the middle of my high school. The past me was wearing a black sweater over top of a white tanktop, blue jeans that were torn at the knees and dark blue sneakers. They were all hand-me downs from Rory. People were pushing me from side and side as I tried to get to my next class. Suddenly, someone stuck their foot out and tripped me. I heard Sora gasp next to me as the past me got up and collected her books that were thrown out of her hands.
"What a loser." One of the mean girls said as they kicked one of my books down the hall. I looked down at my things as I started organizing what I had in my hands. I quickly got up and moved to get that one book.
"This was your life before?" Sora asked and I just nodded.
"I had no life. Nobody wanted me. I took my parents' death the hardest out of my family so while they moved on, I just didn't. I still haven't. When I met you guys, I thought it was a chance to be somebody that I wasn't. Somebody that wasn't afraid to do anything. I just didn't realize that it was going to be heard than I thought." I said as the scene switched to last night where Roxas and I were sitting by the lake. Sora and I watched as Roxas kissed the past me and then past me ran off. Roxas stood up and followed her into the castle.
"You ran away from Roxas because you were scared of being happy. You felt like getting attached was a sign of weakness and with your past, you felt like you couldn't afford to be weak. But the thing is, you have already been attached to him. You've gotten attached to all of us. But the thing is, having friends is not a weakness, it's more of a strength because we can help you. When you are down, we are around to pick you right back up. Roxas loves you for you. He doesn't care who you were, he cares about who you are right now and what you plan to do with the rest of your life." Sora said and I nodded as I smiled up at him. I don't know what this cloud is but it did something good for me. It got me to believe in myself and that I needed people in order to move along with my life. I needed to let go of all this sadness and anger that was inside of me and focus on the world around me instead.