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Chapter 1: Music, Movies, and the New Comers

'This is the last crate to open, and then I just have to unpack it. Man, I need to find something to do with my life……' Roxas thought to himself as he opened the last crate of the shipping. 'I have no more feeling in my hands as of that last crate. Why must Father order so many things per week?'

The time is 9:45 pm, and Roxas was in the back storage room of his Father's CD store. He had been unpacking crates of new things for the store since 2 that afternoon. As he set the last of the crates contents out into the store and in their places, he sighed as he remembered that only three customers had come in that day. It wasn't much of a surprise because it was a Tuesday afternoon. But profits had been low, and he needed more money, or his Father would flip.

'Two came in and bought some CD's and movies, and the other came in for directions to the subway, but also decided to buy some headphones for his IPod. That made 102.76, but not enough for Father to be satisfied.'

Roxas had been working at his Father's store since he was 10, and now he is 18. In all his years, this month, September, had been his lowest paying time. That was an adding of a fowl mood he had been in all day. It seemed today was just not his day at all.

But the big reason for Roxas's foul mood is that it was closing time. Nothing makes Roxas more unenthusiastic as closing time at the store. The store closed at 10:30, Sunday through Thursday, and at midnight Friday and Saturday. Since it was Tuesday, he had 40 more minutes until he had to lock up.

He went over to the store stereo, and put on one of his favorite bands, 'Avenged Sevenfold'. He went behind the counter, and bobbed his head to the music. He stopped when he heard the customer bell on the door jingle.

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"Dem, why are we here? You said we were going to Starbucks! And where are we anyways?" said one of the incomers.

Roxas looked up, and his eyes went straight to the guy's hair, which was flaming, fire truck red, and spiked out in many directions.

'Now that's what I call a freak show! I wonder what type of dye he used…………'

After he finished being mean to the guy's hair, he saw the guy's eyes. He looked into them, and was just about tranced by those piercing, green-yellow, cat like eyes. It seemed as though the other noticed Roxas looking at him, because he smirked at him. But as their eyes met, neither could look away.

'Whoa! He looks completely too cute to be alive! That beautifully straight, jet black hair that accents his perfectly shaped face, and then those blonde tips on the black with the blonde bangs make it just even better! Then those eyes, those trancing, crystal blue eyes! I must be dreaming!' the redhead thought to himself, resisting from drooling over the other.

Both boys just stared at one another, tranced by how the other looked. That is, until Roxas began to blush the color of the older male's hair, and maybe even redder. This made the older of the two smirk and look for his friend who he had referred to as 'Dem'.

'I have never seen either of them around here before... But the blond does look vaguely familiar. Probably from school, I suppose.'

Just like that, Roxas swept them both from his mind, and started to clean off the check-out counter.

"Dem! Why. Are. We. Here?!" sounded the redhead again, voice showing irritation.

The blonde, who was just addressed, looked up from a rack of music he had been looking at, and popped his head up from behind it.

"Well, before we go to Starbucks, I thought we'd check this place out. I've never noticed it before. They have every CD and movie ever made!" said blonde replied, sounding all bubbly and cheerful, sounding almost like a girl. "I think I'm in heaven!" With that, he squealed like a teenaged school girl when they see a picture of their favorite celebrity.

Hiding his face, the redhead dragged his hand down his face from embarrassment of his friend. "Demyx, you're such a girl!" said redhead scoffed mockingly, putting an emphasis on 'girl.' He then made his way over to Roxas, hoping to get a name, let alone a conversation, from said emo.

"Hey, kid. You work here?" the redhead asked.

'Great observation, dude. Isn't it obvious that I am? Where do you work? A Halloween store?'

I couldn't help but smile at my own thoughts, which h earned me a weird look from the redhead. But instead of asking what I had thought, I decided to act polite. "My name isn't 'kid'. And yes, I do work here. Is there something that I may help you with?"

'Good thinking, Rox! Just don't sound enthusiastic 'cause then he might not leave!'

"Nah, I'm just bored, and was kinda hoping to find something to do. So, you got a name, kid?"

'And of course he ignores me for telling him to not call me kid…….'

"My name is Roxas, and I haven't seen you or your friend around here before. Are you both new to Twilight Town?" Roxas replied, trying to be nice, and also because he was curious.

"No, we just haven't seen this store before, and apparently Demyx, my friend over there, wanted to check this place out. How has it been here?"

"Well, I've worked here for 8 years, so it's been here around 20 years, I suppose."

"Whoa, 8 years? 20 years? How old are you, and I can't believe we haven't ever noticed this place before now! Oh, and by the way, name's Axel. Got it memorized?"


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