HI GUYS! Long time, no chapter. I'm so sorry it has taken me this long to update. Honestly, I've been so busy with school and work, and I finally have a day to just sit down and write. I also could not think of where I wanted this story to go, but I think I have an idea now. It's crazy. It was been almost a year since I have updated this story. I apologize again for the wait, and I hope there are some of you out there that are still going to read this. Let me know if you would wish me to continue this story. Because it is kind of pointless to keep writing chapters for a story that has no readers. I hope you enjoy, and sorry if it is not super long.

I do not own anything; that is Square Enix and Disney! (:

At the breakfast table, Kairi barely touched her food. Actually, he hadn't really eaten in the past few days, after she got the news she now only had 3 months left to live instead of a year. What a drastic change. Before Kairi got sick, she always loved to eat. But who doesn't love food? She always loved to eat when she was bored, or really, anytime of the day. She had a major sweet tooth. In fact, her favorite snack was sea salt ice cream. During the hot summer days, her, Sora, and Riku would all sit on the island enjoying sea salt ice cream and talking about anything they could think of. This is how Kairi and Sora actually met each other back when they were young. Kairi had gotten some money saved up from a lemonade stand and wanted to buy some ice cream from the ice cream truck. She spent the little money she had and was so happy about her ice cream that she began to twirl around. Well, she twirled so fast that the ice cream slipped out of her hand and landed in the sand pit.

"Nooooo! Not my ice cream! I worked so hard to get that… Now it's ruined! Stupid sand pit"! Kairi kicked the sand and started to sob. "I was really looking forward to that stupid ice cream." Kairi pouted more and sat down and curled up in a ball. "Life isn't fair."

"Um, excuse me? Are you okay? I saw what happened." Kairi wiped her eyes and looked up and saw a boy who looked around her age, with spikey brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He was actually kind of handsome. Then she noticed something in his hand. A sea salt ice cream, with no sand on it. Kairi sobbed.

"Yeah, I'm so sad. I saved up money for that, and now it's ruined, and I don't have money for another one."

"Take mine. I was coming over here to ask if you wanted it." The boy handed over his ice cream to Kairi.

Kairi shook her head. "No, no. That's yours. I don't want to steal it away from you."

"It's not stealing if I'm giving it to you." The boy smiled.

"Are you sure?" The boy nodded and handed it to her yet again.

"Oh my gosh, you're so nice! Thank you, thank you, and thank you!" Kairi took the ice cream and began to lick the sweet, sweet sea salt and closed her eyes and smiled. Kairi smiled and looked at the boy.

"I know this sounds kind of gross, and you may think I have cooties, but would you like to share this with me? It is yours after all." The boy shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

"Sure! And if I die from your cooties, I'll come back and hurt you."

"Don't worry, you'll be fine."

The boy smiled. "Oh, I'm Sora by the way! Nice to meet you!" Sora smiled that big cheesy smile of his.

"Nice to meet you Sora. My name is Kairi!" The two shook hands and shared the rest of the sea salt ice cream with each other.

"Now that you shared with me, you have to be my super -duper best friend, okay?"

"Of course, Sora. We will be super-duper best friends forever!"

"Yay! Now, I have to introduce you to Riku, my other super-duper best friend. I'm sure you'll like him!"

"Okay! I'm sure I'll like him too, if you do."

Sora smiled at that. "We'll be the three best friends that anyone could have."

Kairi smiled at that thought. She always loved to think about the good old days, when she was young and did not have a care in the world. It also made her sad though. She wanted to go back to those days. You know, when she didn't have cancer and only 3 months left to live. What the hell was she going to do with her time? Just sit around and wait to die? That didn't seem like fun at all, and it would only make her more depressed. She sighed and looked at her plate of food that she had not touched. Her mother walked in the room, dressed and ready to go to work for the day. She looked over and Kairi and walked over and sat down next to her. "Kairi, are you okay? You've barely eaten anything in the past few days. I don't want you to starve yourself."

"Why? I'll be dead soon anyways." Kairi stared straight at the wall with a dead look in her eyes. She didn't even look at her mother. She sighed.

"Honey, I know it was a lot to take in and I'm so sorry this has happened to you, but I don't want to lose you any sooner than I have to. I want to have you around as long as possible. It pains me inside to see you suffer like this. You haven't even gone outside since you got home from the hospital. I'm sure your friends are worried sick about you. You have to face them eventually. I know this is hard for you, but I want you to know that I love you, sweetie." Her mom took hold of her hands and she began to sob softly and rubbed Kairi's hand. Kairi held her hand and looked at her mother. "Mom…"

"My sweet baby girl, you have no idea how much I love and care about you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me, and your father would have been proud of the young lady that you have become. I know that he would help you through this, better than I ever could. God, if only he were here right now. I feel like I haven't done everything in my power to help you. I'm never home half the time and I never get to see you or spend time with you… I- Kairi… I'm so sorry I wasn't around more. I'm trying everything I can, but I feel like it is never enough. You must be ashamed of me…."

Kairi started to cry and got up and hugged her mother tight. "Are you kidding me? You've done more than enough, mom. You act like a mom and a dad; you work three jobs, you always have dinner on the table every night, you take me to all my check ups, you were there by my side when we found out the bad news, and you're helping me fight through this. I could never do this on my own, but with you by my side I feel like I can accomplish anything. You have always been there for me, and I've always been there for you. You're my hero!" Kairi smiled and cried into her mom's shoulder.

Her mother held her tightly. "Oh Kairi, you have no idea what it means to hear that. I love you so much. Please, please don't ever leave me."

"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be here."

Well, until I die that is.

Thank you again for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoyed it. It makes my day when people actually read stuff that I put out. And if you have any suggestions for the story that you would like me to put in, or a suggestion for another story, please let me know!

Have a great day and I hope you guys had a great 4th of July! (: