61. FAIRY TALE - Dear diary:

Hi! My name is Kairi. How are you today? (Grandma says that's what I'm supposed to say when I meet new people. I think I have it down now, but you'll need to help me sometimes, okay, diary?) It's my birthday today! So I got this diary for me to write in. Grandma says it's so that I can write better and understand my feelings, which I think is kind of silly because how can you not understand things in you like feelings? But it looks like fun to write in this every day so that's what I think I'm going to do. I might even be able to show it to my teacher at school and get extra credit at the end of the year! She likes to see us writing too. So I think if she sees me writing she'll be happy, and when she's happy she gives people extra credit. (When she's not happy she hits people with rulers, which hurts.) So I think I'm going to take this to school sometime!

Dear diary:

We're in school! Isn't it nice, diary? I like it. People in my class are nice, and I have friends here. Do you want to hear about my friends, diary? Well, there's Rolie, who really likes sports and things. She plays soccer. Sometimes I play soccer with her too, but she's faster than me so she usually wins. Though afterwards she says that it's okay because she trained more, and then her mom makes us cookies and so everything is okay. Also, there's Michelle, who has a really big house and lots of close and stuff. So whenever I go over to her house we always play dress-up with her older sister (who makes a really good super scary witch!) where we're the princesses who got locked up in the evil witch's castle and had to get our way out. When we do that, we can make things from thin air, like keys (to open doors) or swords (to cut down big trees) and stuff. So that's always fun. Also, I just met a girl named Fuu. She's kind of shy so I don't think she talks much, but she's nice, and when she does talk she usually has good ideas. And she's okay with Rolie and Michelle too so I think that we're all friends. There are lots of other people in my class too but they're not as good friends as Rolie, Michelle, and Fuu, so we're the best friends there is in the class, I think. Rolie, Michelle, Kairi, Fuu. Our names sound nice together, don't you think?

Dear diary:

I found out today that not all of my friends know Radiant Garden. That's where I live. Well, okay they all know it because they all live there, but I know where the roads go and stuff. All they know is how to get from school to their house. So when we all decided to try out going home as a group, we walked all over Radiant Garden and people pointed out where their houses were and I was the one who could go around and know where everything is. Grandma calls that kind of person a 'navigator'. Don't you think that's a cool title, diary? Navigator. Though somewhere on an island super far away, Grandma says that people make little charms out of seashells and those act like navigators so that they help people on the ocean come back home. I think that's nice of them!

Dear diary:

I'm sorry I didn't tell you that I met someone new a few days ago, diary. Please forgive me! But I can tell you about him now so you can know. I don't know him very well because I don't see him in school which I don't get because everyone has to go to school or else they're dumb. He's a little scary because he doesn't talk too much, but Grandma says that you shouldn't judge people from how they look because maybe he's really just super nice, but shy like Fuu is. Maybe I should take Fuu to meet him. I think they'd be friends. He doesn't like talking though, even less than Fuu. And I think he's a ghost! Because he moves his mouth but sound doesn't come out. That's creepy. Even though I'm not supposed to say people are creepy just because they look creepy, I'm saying that he does something creepy so that's okay. But Fuu and Michelle and Rolie have started calling him Book Boy because he reads ALL THE TIME! That's crazy. No one can read that fast. He kind of looks like a cheater. Cheater, cheater!

Dear diary:

Grandma says that calling people ghosts isn't nice. So I don't think he's a ghost anymore.

Anyway, I met someone else today. She's a lady with blue hair and a fancy sword like the ones Michelle and I make up when we do dress-up and it's so cool! She let me touch it. It's pretty. Actually, she's pretty too because she has these things on her arms that are kind of like sleeves, except they're attached by metal armor instead of shoulder cloth! How cool is that? I think she's really cool. She called herself Aqua, so I told her that my name was Kairi, and I was lost then so I was kind of scared but she met up with a nice-looking mouse and I went off with him so he could help me find Grandma again. So I was happy about that because I missed Grandma, but I miss Aqua too because she was nice and I miss her.

Also, Book Boy didn't come back today. I wonder where he went?

Hooray, we're finally done with Hollow Bastion Revelation Committee! Sorry this came so late; all of these oneshots were meant to be submitted as a school project (our English teacher had this thing called a 'freewrite' where we were supposed to submit written works in different formats, one per marking period) and never collected the last fourth. But this was planned from the beginning... and so of course you all get to see Kairi being cute. Actually, writing this oneshot was a great stress reliever... now I need to get back to all of the other stories I left hanging... whoops. xP Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this little collection!

- Gira