Chapter 1: New life

I woke up from the amazing dream when my brother, Sora, came bursting through my bedroom door and started shaking me as viciously as he could to try to get my attention. I sigh and rub the sleep out of my eyes so I could see him a little more clearly.

"What?" I say trying not to sound mean but I guess it couldn't have been helped given my current status of sleep depravity

It didn't seem to faze him though, which was a little unusual because he sometimes gets a little offended easily.

"Wake up Roxas, you're going to be late for school. You don't want to be late to school on your first day of school do you?" he says still shaking me furiously.

Summer break just ended and we had to move to another house because our dad found another job in Traverse Town. I didn't have a problem with the move but Sora was about to lose it when he found out because he actually had friends unlike me. I just never thought friends were important enough to have at the time.

I immediately wake up after hearing what my older brother said and start to get ready faster than I ever could before. As I was gasping for breath in my brothers' car, he decided that this was the perfect time to have a nice little chat.

"So, Roxas, are you afraid of what being a freshmen will be like?" he says. I detected a little bit of mockery in his voice but I didn't care.

I shrug my shoulders and try to think about something else by looking outside so I wouldn't be as nervous as I am now when I enter the school building.

Sora parks the car in his designated parking spot that was close to the doors and we get out when the car comes to a complete stop. As we were heading inside a teacher grabs me noticing that I was a freshmen and tells me to go across campus to get to the freshmen homerooms. I look at Sora and he notices that I was kind of scared to go alone so he decides to come with me for the time being.

When I went through the doors of the freshmen building I saw a tall red head dropping off, what seemed to be, his younger brother. They both had blazing red hair and really messy hair. Sora leaves my side and I sit in a corner trying not to be in anyone's way while I was listening to my music. I sigh and I feel someone tap me on my shoulder. I look over to my left to see that it was the redhead who I saw before. I take my ear buds out of one of my ears and he smiles a little bit.

He looks me over quickly before saying, "You're new here aren't you?"

I blush at the fact that he knew that about me, granted that we've newer met before in a class or anything but still.

I nod my head a little signaling that he was right about the whole being new thing. He sits next to me and I thought something bad was going to happen to me until he heard what I was listening to and said that I had good taste in music. I blush a little bit more at the compliment he just gave to a complete stranger and didn't even know my name.

"My name is Reno, my big brother is Axel, you probably saw him when he was walking me over here."

I nod my head a little before saying, "I'm Roxas, I have a big brother named Sora but he's a junior."

Reno's eyes lit up when I said that so I guess that it must have been of some importance to him.

"No way. My brother's a junior too." Reno says amazed at the fact two people would have two of the same class levels.

I sigh and the bell rings and Reno asked whom I had for my first class.

I look at my piece of paper that had my schedule, "Uh, Ms. Julies' class, Biology."

Reno looks at me and I could feel like he was about to hug me, luckily for me he didn't. Instead he told me that he had the same class as me and that his brother, Axel, had her when he was in 9th grade too and she was fun and did a lot of experiments on things almost every day in her class. When we got into Ms. Julies' class we compared our schedules and we had all of the same classes together.

When it was time for lunch we went to the lunchroom and I forgot my food but Reno offered to buy me something to eat. I kept saying no but he kept on insisting, so I accepted in defeat.

When he came back with our food he set my pizza in front of me and I poked it with the fork he got me. He smiles at what I was doing and said that it was OK to eat and that it wouldn't kill me. I disagreed to his statement but began eating my pizza with slight consent.

After lunch we went to our next class, which was gym. I hate gym with a passion, not because of all of the exercise but the time when you have to change in the locker rooms with at most

20 boys in the same room all ready to judge you for how out of shape you are or for other things. As I was looking around the locker rooms to see if anyone was in there, someone throws a sock at my face. I blush and quickly swipe it off and the person who threw it starts laughing a little bit. I come out from behind the corner and see that the person was Reno's' big brother, Axel.

He stops laughing and looks at me and he could tell I was mad a little bit. I blush a little bit and give him back his sock.

I look away saying, "I think this belongs to you."

He takes it and apologizes. I blush by the way he would just apologize as quickly as he did. He gets up after a while and leaves the locker rooms after apologizing a couple more times. As I leave the locker rooms I could see that Reno was talking to his older brother who apparently had the same class as us. I walk over to Reno and ask him why the upperclassmen are in the same class as the freshmen.

"Well, a lot of people didn't really take P.E. in their freshmen year and have to take it in later years." Reno says.

"Oh" I say looking at Axel and we both blush looking away from each other quickly.

Axel looks down at Reno, "So, what's your friends name Reno?"

Reno smiles and introduces me to Axel, which made me blush.

Axel smiles, "Oh, so your name is Roxas eh? Well I know of someone that you know and his name is Sora," he says slyly

His tone sent shivers down my spine. Why did he have to say it like that? Who tells someone they know their brother like they just kidnapped them or something? I sigh and look at Axel and see that the sun was shining on him in just the right way and his eyes looked so perfect it was like I was looking at emeralds.

Axel looks at me and waves a hand in front of my face to try to bring me back into reality. I jump back a little bit and blush at how close he was to me, even if it was his hand.

Axel looks at me, "Hey Roxas, want to come over to our house after school?"

I blush, "Uh sure, but what about Sora?"

"He can drive you there. All he has to do is follow Reno and me to our home while he is driving. I also talked to Sora and he was OK with it as long as you were ok with it." Axel says a little shyly.

I blush and look down and start to play with my fingers a little bit before I say, "Uh sure, if Sora is OK with it I guess I am too. What's the worst that could happen?" I say with a slight chuckle at the end.

Axel smiles "Cool, tell Sora to meet me at the front entrance of the school so that you can follow me and my sorry excuse for a brother." Axel says laughing at the end because Reno started hitting him in the arm and kept complaining about how their parents loved him more than Axel.

I smile a little but only enough to where no one could see that I'm showing actual emotion. I don't like emotions a lot.

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The school bell rang and I met up with Sora at his car like I said we would meet up. I tell Sora where to drive and he takes us to the front of the school where I saw Reno and Axel starting to get into their car after putting their school stuff in the back seat. Sora starts to follow Axel in his car until we reach Axels' house. I get out of the car to get a better view of the giant structure in front of me. Sora and I came walking to the door and Axel unlocks it for us.

As we step into the house, I could smell a light scent of citrus fruit in the air and a lady comes out of the door to introduce herself. She said that she was Axels' and Reno's' mother but she looked too young to be a mom. We all go into the living room to talk about how we like the school so far.

"I honestly think that it is a big step up from my last school. That place was more filthy than a gas stop restroom." I say sounding a little too harsh for my old schools sanitation records.

Axel chuckles lightly and pats me on the back, "I didn't know that someone could sound so mad about a schools cleanliness but you have done so Roxas."

I blush a little bit and look down, "Well, it just wasn't very clean." I say meekly.

He smiles and I saw Sora run upstairs with Reno, probably to play some games or something like that. While I was trapped in my thoughts Axel picks me up and starts taking me upstairs to his room. I blush and try to resist but Axel was too strong for me so I just let it happen.

When we reach his bedroom he opened the door and put me on his bed saying that he was going to give me the same treatment that Reno was giving Sora in his room. I blush a lot and I see

Axel pull out a PS3 out of his drawers under his T.V and gives me a controller after setting up the console. I sit at the top of the bed with the pillows while Axel sat at the foot of the bed.

Axel had started the game and it was Mortal Kombat. I chose sub-zero as my fighter because I like to have ice powers whenever possible, and Axel chose to be Johnny Cash. I found that pretty funny given how Axel lives in a small mansion with a pool, bar, and games like table tennis. The point is, is that his parents have a lot of money.

After a terrible losing streak for Axel was over he told me to ask Sora if it would be OK for me to spend the night? I sigh and go to Sora who I found in Reno's' room watching T.V and eating.

I approach him and ask, "Hey Sora, would you mind if I stayed the night here. Axel told me to and I didn't want to seem rude or anything for not asking but-"

"Sure Roxas I was planning on staying over here too." he says cutting me off in the middle of my sentence.

I sigh and go back into Axels' room and say that I could stay over after lying down on his bed. It oddly smelled like burned lavender flowers.

Axel smiles and starts searching through his drawers.

I sit up, " What are you looking for?" I ask in curiosity.

He looks at me, "I'm looking for some P.J's for you Roxy."

I blush at the name and when he finds them I go into the bathroom to get them on. When I came out of the bathroom I was wearing a loose shirt that probably Axel grew out of a couple of month ago. I was also wearing some loose pants that are a little bit too big for me. I guess I must be wearing Axels' old clothes.

Axel smiles, "Come Roxas, lay on my bed so you can have a comfortable place to sleep. I don't mind sharing."

I blush at the thought of sleeping with Axel and hesitantly get under the sheets of Axels' bed. Also right before I went to sleep I could feel Axel kind of cuddling with me.