How did this happen?

"I can't anymore. I don't know where she is..."

Four months. It had been four months since Naomi had disappeared and Hitame didn't know what to do anymore. Since she gone missing, everything went downhill for her family. Even more so than it already had a while ago. Xemnas was acting more like a jerk every day and Sora was even more detached from everything and everyone. Hitame had retreated even more into Spice, like it was going to give her some kind of clue that as to where Naomi was. But she knew that was far from true. It wouldn't help her find her sister. All it did was help her forget what she was worried about for a little while. That was probably why she refused to stop using it. It gave her a sense of security, but it was even worse when she returned to normal and she realized that Naomi was still no where to be found.

How could she cope with the disappearance of her sister any other way? She was always so anxious and no one tried to help her. She was on her own, and Spice probably wasn't making her anxiety any better but she needed it. That's why she had gotten out of the house for a while. At home she couldn't do anything without someone else realizing what she was doing. And if anyone found out about the Spice she would be in a lot of trouble. At this point though, she didn't care if she got in trouble. All she really cared about was preventing her family from finding out about it so they wouldn't try to run to it like she had.

Hitame sat on the Shrieking Shack floor, staring down at the almost empty bag of Spice she had just dropped in front of her. She coughed and looked around. The entire room had begun to spin and she didn't feel so good. Maybe she shouldn't have used as much Spice as she just had. The Gryffindor held her head tightly, it was hurting too much, and she closed her eyes trying to keep herself from throwing up. This had never happened to her before and she really didn't like how she felt right now. This time she also hadn't been able to forget that Naomi was missing and she started crying.

"Why can't I ever do anything to help you Naomi?" she asked softly. "Where are you...?"

Before she could do or say anything else, she was suddenly surrounded by darkness and she didn't know what to do. She couldn't see anything but black and she fell back onto the floor, finally passing out.

Wally was pissed.

Why was it that every summer she was forced on an outing with her older siblings to go school supply shopping? Even though both her brother and sister had now graduated, she was being dragged with them as they bought new robes and whatnot with money from their summer job. Wally had money from her parents to get her essentials - not that she needed the help. She had quite a trove from all of the Spice business.

Needless to say, this shopping trip ended as all the others did - with Wally stomping off from her siblings, promising them that the next time they saw her it would be from under her boot. Rid of their presence, Wally lightened considerably, though her need to act out was still very much alive and well. She decided a trip to the Shrieking Shack couldn't go amiss, and immediately headed to the edge of the small village.

She jumped the fence, the town's feeble attempt to keep troublemakers out, and headed down the path, her hands deeply pushed into her pockets, her backpack lightly bouncing against her back. She looked up and jumped onto the porch, shouldering her way into the house.

To find she was not alone.

Right in the center of the floor was a slumped figure. Wally lept in surprise, letting out a small scream. She paused and peered forward, before taking small, uncertain steps towards the seemingly unconscious figure. She moved forward and pushed the figure with her toe - it fell onto his back and Wally recognized it.

Hitame Higurashi was a returning customer, so it did not take Wally much to guess what had happened - still it was the first overdose she had dealt with. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small candy - a Puking Pastille. She quickly tipped it into Hitame's mouth. It would wake the girl up and force out the drugs.

She didn't know where the sudden darkness around her had come from but strangely enough she managed to find some comfort in it. The outside world couldn't reach her there. She didn't have to worry about anything anymore, but she couldn't help but continue thinking of her sister. Just what had happened to her? She was there one minute then the next she had just disappeared. At first it seemed like she was just doing it for attention and she was probably at a friend's house. But then, when a week passed and no one had seen her everyone had gotten worried. She wouldn't be gone for so long, especially not four months.

Hitame had been so helpless, and she still was. She couldn't do anything to help her sister. How could she? There was no trace of the girl anywhere. Xemnas had looked, even Sora had tried to help. But none of them came up with anything. All they were doing was driving themselves insane because of her disappearance. The darkness that surrounded her was now anything but comforting, it had suddenly become like a prison keeping her from finding Naomi. But she didn't know how to get out, there was nothing just darkness.

Then the darkness was suddenly beginning to lift and she could see a light. The light that was seeping through cracks in the wood of the Shrieking Shack's window were on her and she slowly tried to open her eyes in the midst of the light hitting her. Hitame tried to sit up and as she did so she was overcome with a feeling like she had to vomit. Soon after the feeling showed up, that's what she did. She covered her mouth and turned to the side, not even noticing Wally and she began to vomit on the shack floor.