Chapter One:
There I sat. In my senior high school "Creative Writing" class. Now when I say creative writing, I think all of us in that class knew that the creative part was wasted on us as a class trying to figure out how to get out of doing the writing part that was a part of the syllabus .
I rocked back in my chair and looked back at the black haired kid who sat directly behind me who was sitting there wondering how in the world he was so lucky as to be the oldest in his class due to his late birthday, but also be held back a year making him the oldest and wisest ass of us all. "Yo Xiggy whatcha doin?" I chewed on my pencil and batted my eyelashes at my friend.
"What the fuck does it look like I'm doing Red"?
"I don't know, I'm just so goddamn bored. Wanna watch me put a pencil in my ear lobe"?
"That's discusting".
I rolled my head over to the brunette next to him, "Selphie why you so fine?" I winked at the girl I've known for years but never really cared to get to know.
"Well thank you sir!" Selphie responded to me with a smile and a laugh all her own.
I looked over to my right at the blond haired blue eyed child who I knew as my best friend since the eighth grade, Roxas. He was talking to our friend Namine who sat directly behind him, the fellow blonde beauty in our class who we began to form an out of school relationship with along with her boyfriend Seifer. Roxas looked over at me, "Do you wanna go over to Namine's tonight"?
"Yeah of course," I looked over at Namine, "sleepover"?
"Yeah, Seifer's having Rai come over anyway so we'll probably just all hang out or something". Namine said looking down at the picture she was drawing on her hand out from class that day.
"We should probably have a fire". I looked at the girl from under the hair falling in my face with a grin my friends knew all too well.
"We'll see". Namine said seriously.
"Actually Nam he might have a point for once in his life. Maybe that would be fun." Roxas spoke up from his work.
"It's the perfect weather for it! Come on Namine!" I looked at her with a puppy dog pout no one in their right mind would fall for.
"Come on guys," our teacher finally spoke out, "do I need to separate you"?
"We're collaborating on our work, Miss A." I lied with a sarcasm that even she could read. I wondered how it felt to know your class was a joke. Ironically enough, it was my favorite class. Not just because it was a 45 minute block of socializing, but when we actually did have to do assignments I enjoyed to do them. I figured out a lot in that class, and my passion for writing was only a part of it.
Sitting around the fire at Namine's house was like being out camping with the luxury of a quality toilet a few feet away. Her mother liked to garden and the back yard with the exception of the small patio was covered with all kinds of plants and garden decorations. In the dark you wouldn't even know that you were in the middle of the small suburban city.
Seifer and Rai we sitting over on one side of the fire laughing about something on Seifer's phone. Now I don't want to say I didn't like them, but Rai was about as bright as a fuckin black hole, and if there was a class in douche baggery, Seifer would have an A. Sometimes they were alright, but I never understood how Namine put up with dating someone like him, and if I spent more than 48 hours with either of them, I was ready to blow my goddamn brains out and splatter them all over their faces as a thank you for finally giving me a reason to be put out of my misery.
I was sitting next to Roxas of course, who was in the middle of me and Namine. The blondes were chit chatting about something and giggling as Namine was imitating Seifer.
Roxas always looked great. Sometimes I thought he tried way too hard to look presentable at school, but the blond in front of the fire with the contrast of the dark yard made him look almost otherworldly.
"Axel!"
"What?!" I turned my face right into a soft pelt of marshmallow coming from the direction of Seifer and everyone broke out into laughter, including me. "You little fucks".
"Pay attention then man" Seifer said with a smirk on his face. "Rai forgot to get skewers for the marshmallows, will you take the Aryan club to go get some"?
"Look who's talking blondie, but anything to make up for Rai's consistent stupidity." I got up and bowed to Rai. "Come on losers we're going shopping".
"Did you just reference Mean Girls?" Namine looked at me with an eyebrow raised in suspicion.
"Why yes, yes I did. Now let's go"!
When we got back from the grocery store the two boys we left alone were nowhere to be found.
"Damn it! Where did they go?!" Namine rolled her eyes and groaned. "He's always doing stuff like this, seriously I –"
"AHH!"
Namine screamed at the top of her lungs as Seifer jumped down next to her from a tree in her yard, "Jesus Seifer!" she smacked the man in the chest, "don't do that"!
Roxas and I were dying in a fit of hysterical laughter along with Rai who was still stuck up in the tree. "Guys I can't get down, yo".
"Oh dear god, hold on". I barely take care of myself, but here I am climbing up a tree to get a muscle head with the brain the size of a dust mite out of a tree.
"Axel be careful, if you get stuck up I'm not saving you asshat" Roxas looked at me from down below with a grumpy look on his mug.
"Don't worry princess I'll be fine". I climbed farther up and heard a scoff from my little blond companion, "Rai give me your foot".
"What"?
"Did I fuckin stutter? Give me your foot, I'm gonna help you with your footing to get down".
"Alright but if I fall I'm blaming you ".
"Deal".
I positioned his foot on some of the stable branches, and as he got closer and closer to me I felt a big meaty paw grip the top of my head as the shaky meat head climbed his way down. "Watch it".
"I got this now yo". Rai climbed down far enough to jump and let out a big sigh of relief. "Never again".
I jumped down from where I was and was greeted back to planet earth with a punch to the arm. "Call me princess again and I'm going to cut your hair off".
"So uh, Rox," Seifer started sitting back down in his place by the burning out logs, "you uh, you ever give some thought into getting back together with Kairi"?
My ears perked up like a dog at the sound of that name, "Why would he? Isn't she dating someone now anyway"?
"Yeah, we dated in the ninth grade, she's not someone I really give much thought to anymore." Roxas shrugged.
"That's interesting considering she sure still gives a lot of thought to you still".
"No kidding," Namine groaned, "at track practice all the time, 'Oh hey how's Roxas doing? Is Roxas seeing anyone? I haven't talked to Roxas in a while.' It's a pain".
"Yeah I'm great we had this talk, are you cold Rox? You're shivering." I rolled my eyes and looked at Roxas.
"Yeah actually I am, but what else is new".
"Here take my jacket I'm sweating." I shrugged my jacket off my shoulders and tossed it to him. He put it on, threw up the hood, and zipped it up all the way, "Dude that looks like a dress on you".
"Maybe if you weren't so freakishly tall" he grumbled.
"So grumpy all the time".
"Well hey that's our Roxas." Namine added smiling at our friend. "But seriously Rox, don't listen to Seifer and Rai just because they're friends with her, don't go back out with Kairi, I don't even know what she's doing with her boyfriend, sometimes they're together sometimes they aren't, it's just a trainwreck".
"I agree with Namine, you probably should just not talk to her". I said with enthusiasm looking at Nam.
"She's not that bad guys." Seifer said leaning back in his chair, not looking so sure of himself, "she just doesn't.."
"Crazy, okay it's settled." I looked at Roxas's baby blues directly with a serious look on my face.
"Yeah we don't want your boyfriend over here to get upset" Rai patted me on the shoulders and laughed.
Roxas groaned loudly, "He's NOT my boyfriend, I'm NOT gay! Fuck our whole high school thinks we're together, there's just no one I want to date in our damn school, and that's pretty much everyone I know".
"Yes oh mighty straight boy," I bowed and put my hands out towards Roxas, "may one day you find the glorious pussy you're looking for and all your prayers will be answered".
"Oh shut up," he looked at me, "just because you don't care who you're putting it in doesn't mean that it also transfers to me by association".
"Always so angry Roxie. And everyone doesn't know that so that's not my fault" I narrowed my eyes at him as he returned the gesture.
"Boys calm down Rai's just a moron." Namine finally spoke up and glanced at Seifer.
"Babe, don't look at me! I didn't say anything"!
"Yeah, I know" she sighed and put her hand on her head. "All these fucking boys I swear".