Challenge 234: Aides Memoire
Title: Aides Memoire
Challenge: [234] Coping Strategies
Word Count: 327
Notes: Weird and sad and maybe confusing
Their life is covered in little pieces of paper.
Got in another fight with Riku. Sora sucked on his split knuckles, and turned the note over. He wrote on the back: I don’t want to lose my friends again. Please.
Solve the equation by using the inverse operation… Their schoolbooks and notebooks bulge with sheets of notes, and yellow sticky notes on the notes, and red sticky notes on the yellow ones. Sora’s friends all say he’s a better student now, because he takes notes like crazy and studies them all the time. His teachers ask him why his grades are down. Wish you were here today. Pop quiz. Got a 68. What does “inverse operation” mean, anyway?
Today is Wednesday. The worst part is how Sora’s life doesn’t go in order anymore. He’ll fall asleep and wake up and not know if it’s 5 o’clock PM or 5 o’clock AM or 5 o’clock Saturday. He’ll fall asleep at night and wake up in the middle of a class, in the middle of a game, in the middle of a sentence. I promised Mom I’d eat dinner at home tonight. She thinks we’re moody. Try to smile more, huh?
Find Naminé. Sora watches Kairi all the time, trying to catch her acting differently, trying to catch her “forgetting” things like he does. Once Naminé built a wall in Sora’s mind, and put all the memories that were not-Sora on the other side. She’d had to do that, because he'd needed to heal. But now half of their life was not-Sora and the wall was still there. What if they’re not like us, Roxas? What if Naminé’s just gone?
Their life is covered in little pieces of paper. Some of them are memories. Some of them are messages, letters between friends who live on different days. Somewhere there’s one that says, Are you real? Am I crazy?
A note stuck to that one says, Was I ever real?
Challenge: [234] Coping Strategies
Word Count: 327
Notes: Weird and sad and maybe confusing
Their life is covered in little pieces of paper.
Got in another fight with Riku. Sora sucked on his split knuckles, and turned the note over. He wrote on the back: I don’t want to lose my friends again. Please.
Solve the equation by using the inverse operation… Their schoolbooks and notebooks bulge with sheets of notes, and yellow sticky notes on the notes, and red sticky notes on the yellow ones. Sora’s friends all say he’s a better student now, because he takes notes like crazy and studies them all the time. His teachers ask him why his grades are down. Wish you were here today. Pop quiz. Got a 68. What does “inverse operation” mean, anyway?
Today is Wednesday. The worst part is how Sora’s life doesn’t go in order anymore. He’ll fall asleep and wake up and not know if it’s 5 o’clock PM or 5 o’clock AM or 5 o’clock Saturday. He’ll fall asleep at night and wake up in the middle of a class, in the middle of a game, in the middle of a sentence. I promised Mom I’d eat dinner at home tonight. She thinks we’re moody. Try to smile more, huh?
Find Naminé. Sora watches Kairi all the time, trying to catch her acting differently, trying to catch her “forgetting” things like he does. Once Naminé built a wall in Sora’s mind, and put all the memories that were not-Sora on the other side. She’d had to do that, because he'd needed to heal. But now half of their life was not-Sora and the wall was still there. What if they’re not like us, Roxas? What if Naminé’s just gone?
Their life is covered in little pieces of paper. Some of them are memories. Some of them are messages, letters between friends who live on different days. Somewhere there’s one that says, Are you real? Am I crazy?
A note stuck to that one says, Was I ever real?