Small corner of the roof, Tuesday Afternoon

[palestshadow]

Naminé was sitting on the roof with her sketchpad. It was safer there. She didn't want to start singing today.

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[key_of_heart]

"Hey Naminé," Sora smiled as he headed up onto the roof. He paused and tilted her head curiously. "Are you okay?"

At least he wasn't breaking out into song.

Yet.

[palestshadow]

"Sora," she smiled. "I'm all right. Good enough, I think. How are you?"

[key_of_heart]

"Okay," he said with a shrug and walked over to her, looking at her with concern. "You wanna talk about it?"

[palestshadow]

"I don't know," she mused. "It's a lovely day, isn't it? I seem to be running out of pages in my sketchbook. I should get a new one, sooner or later. I just haven't yet."

[key_of_heart]

"I can pick one up for you at the store?" Sora offered with a smile.

[palestshadow]

She smiled. "Thank you. When do you work? I've been meaning to stop in and pester you. Try some of the strange Squishie flavors and so on."

She paused. "Is Kairi ... happy?"

[key_of_heart]

"Fridays," he smiled back. "I think we've still got some paopu fruit and stuff too that you can try." He paused as she mentioned Kairi.

"Uh, yeah at least as far as she's mentioned besides her normal complaints of me being so far away," he smiled. "Why?"

[palestshadow]

"I guess I'm just wondering," she said, chewing her lower lip. "What it's going to be like. Whether ... we're happy, I mean. I don't like to think about it."

Naminé looked over, eyes sparkling. "You have paopu fruit? At the store?"

[key_of_heart]

"Yeah! i had my mom send a crate over for Valentine's day and then she sent me a few more a last week," he grinned and then looked at her seriously.

"Do you think that's gonna happen for you soon?" He sighed.

[palestshadow]

"I've never had one," she admitted with a laugh. "I suppose I have, if Kairi has, but I've never as myself. And I ... maybe I'm wrong. It seems as though I feel it, lately. Like there's some force nudging us back. Or reminding me of what's coming. I wonder if ... if Roxas felt that, too."

She frowned slightly, hoping he didn't mind that she had brought him up.

[key_of_heart]

Sora reached over and hugged her tightly. "I'm sorry Naminé, I wis there was something I could do so that you could still have your own life."

[palestshadow]

"I know," she said, squeezing back. "And I'm ... I'm sure Roxas knows, too. I wish I could have told him more."

[key_of_heart]

"Me too," Sora nodded and put a hand over his heart. "He's still there, I can kind of feel him when I'm sleeping. Maybe it will be the same for you?"

He was trying to be helpful, he didn't want Naminé to be sad, but he didn't want her to disappear either.

[palestshadow]

"Maybe he's more of a part of you than you even realize," she said softly. "I suppose I'd have to talk to him to know for sure. Doesn't seem as though there's a practical way to achieve that."

She smiled, a bit playfully. "Unless I should wait for you to fall asleep, and try to interrogate you then. I doubt that I'd have much luck with that."

[key_of_heart]

Sora grinned. "Well you could always try, never know until you do," he pointed out.

"I still want to help you somehow. You're giving up so much. You have a real life."

[palestshadow]

She nodded, quickly. "I-if you want to help me ... can you ... watch out for Valentine? It will be hard on him, when I go. I don't know how to make it easier for him. Perhaps I had no right, involving him at all. I may be selfish, that way."