Authors Note: Hey guys! This is my first story, so please be nice. If you're reading it, I'd really appreciate it if you would review, I'd love to hear what you think. The summery is bad, I know, its annoying how you have such limited space.. Suggestions are always welcome! Thanks for taking the time:) Edit: I changed the summery below a little.

Everything's Magic.

Roxas was just a snob, someone who thought he was better than everyone else. Everyone told Naminé that he would never go back to the way he used to be, but she was never fully convinced. When Kairi and Olette notice that Naminé is having a hard time getting over Roxas, they think of a plan. All of a sudden, Naminé and Roxas find themselves entered in Twilight Academy's annual talent show, together? NaminéRoxas

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Chapter One

"Hmm," She was sitting on a bench, thoughtfully tapping her pencil against the piece of paper she was writing on, using her textbook as a hard surface. Stupid math homework. She thought, brushing her blond bangs out of her face.

A familiar voice sounded near her; a look of curiosity came over her deep blue eyes as she peeked up at the person nearing her. Oh no. She thought as she saw the spiked, carefully highlighted, blond hair, and those distinct blue eyes she'd never gotten tired of, walking with a few other people.

Normally, Naminé's thoughts would be full of ideas on how to get him to notice her. But not today. Today was the day that she decided that it was time to get over Roxas.

So, instead of starring with hope twinkling in her eyes, she looked back down at her math work as soon as she realized it was him, even though it still hurt that he would walk past her without taking a second glance. The blond sighed. He'll never be the same.

"Hey you," A red headed girl said, saving Naminé from her own thoughts.

"Kairi," Naminé greeted. Kairi straightened out her skirt and sat down beside her friend, just as the bell rang, signaling the beginning of school.

"Shoot, I forgot to do my french homework," Kairi said as the two entered the building.

"Good luck," Naminé laughed, referring to the terribly mean french teacher that Kairi had.

"Thanks." Kairi said sarcastically. "I'll see you later." Naminé waved, and entered the music room. But she was surprised at who she saw there.

Everyday, Naminé would come to school fifteen minutes early and finish up some homework, meet up with Kairi, and then go to her homeroom, music. She didn't know many people, her only friend in the class was a brunette named Olette. But to her surprise, it was none other than Roxas sitting in Olette's spot.

Roxas McEvan was only the biggest jerk known to Twilight Academy. He was good looking, athletic, perverted, cocky, and incredibly smug, yet it was easy to say that most girls there had had a crush on him at least once.

Believe it or not, once upon a time, the sweet, shy, innocent Naminé and the selfish Roxas were once friends. Of course, she always thought of him as more than that. Then high school hit.

Twilight Academy was a private high school only for kids whose parents could afford to send them. Basically, it was a prep school. They wore uniforms, which Naminé hated, and slept in dorms with roommates, which Naminé also hated, even thought she shared a room with Kairi and Olette, she hated sharing a room because she enjoyed her own company.

In all honesty Naminé hated Twilight Academy. It was a beautiful school, with beautiful well kept dorm rooms, but the society, and who ran it, ruined the whole experience for her. She could never fully enjoy school while watching Roxas prance around like he was king of the world. Of course, at TA, he was. Everyone idolized him. He'd flirt with any girl he found attractive, he was on the football team (which was a very serious sport at TA), and he had more friends than he could keep track of. Naminé was even jealous of him.

But she hated to think that way, and that was why she was desperately trying to get over him.

"Okay class," The music teacher, Mrs.Okosun, started, as everyone gathered in their seats. "We'll have fifteen minutes of practice time before we start today's song." She walked to her desk and sat down. The class automatically went from totally silent to completely chaotic with voices. Naminé momentarily forgot that Olette wasn't there, and turned to talk with her. the first thing she saw was Roxas, chewing gum and slouching in his chair.

"Hey, Roxas, man," Someone was saying. "Why are you here?"

"I got kicked out of the other music class." He replied with no emotion whatsoever.

"That sucks."

"Yeah,"

Naminé was wondering where Olette was, she hadn't mentioned anything about switching classes. She shuttered when she imagined not having Olette to talk to for the rest of the semester, only Roxas. He probably wouldn't reply anyways. So much for getting over him. With a frown on her face, she took out her silver flute and began to practice. She wasn't surprised that Roxas wasn't playing; he probably didn't even have an instrument. But it was bothering her, why wasn't Olette there? She had to ask someone, and who else would know other than Roxas? And she would seem like a total jerk if she just went up and asked the teacher, when Roxas was there right beside her.

She took a deep breath. These would be the first words she would have said to him in a long time. After a moment of thought, she put on her most angelic voice and said, "Roxas?" His eyes shot a glare at her immediately. She flinched, but continues. "Why isn't Olette here?" She could feel the heat coming too her face. Right about now, I should be going cherry. She thought with regret.

Roxas shrugged. "I dunno. I guess she took my place in the other class." With that, he turned back and faced the front of the room. Naminé wanted to say 'thanks' but the words wouldn't come out. Her eyes were stinging, just the look he'd given her alone was enough to make her cry, let alone the emotionless, cold voice he used while speaking to her. It was nothing like she'd remembered. She bit her lip. Something even more embarrassing than what she just did would be to cry about it in front of him, and the rest of the class. Naminé kept silent for the rest of the class.

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"Naminé!" A voice echoed through the nearly empty cafeteria (There were a few students). Naminé's head shot up as soon as she heard her name. It was that time before lunch that her english class had to catch up on reading, so they were let out early. Most students just went off and did their own thing, but Naminé would feel guilty if she didn't follow the teachers instructions. The first thing she saw was a boy with spiked brown hair trampling through the room, knocking and shoving chairs as he did so. Sora. She rolled her eyes. "Hey, what's going on?" He shoved away another chair that was in his way, and took the empty seat on the left side of Naminé.

She gestured at her book, with a look that said: what does it look like?

Sora ignored her. "So, I was sitting alone in the library, right? And I was finishing off this huge map assignment for geography that was due last friday." Naminé gave him a sarcastic stare, that caused him to grin sheepishly. "Yeah, I kind of forgot about it, but thats besides the point. This jerk Axel, who's in like, grade twelve, but is stupid and failed geography three times and now has to take grade ten-"

"Sora," Naminé cut him off. "Your point?"

"Oops. sorry I didn't realize I was babbling." He chuckled. "Yeah, so anyways, I was an obvious target like, sitting all alone and stuff, so him and Roxas" He made sure to add extra disgust when he said Roxas' name, "come over and just randomly start scribbling all over my work in red pen. And I was like, 'what the hell?' and they both laughed and walked away." When Sora finally stopped speaking, he look a moment to catch his breath, because throughout his rant, he barely breathed at all. "I'm so mad its not even funny."

Naminé starred at him with her eyebrows raised, in a way that made her look surprised, when really she wasn't. "So do you have to do it all over?" She asked.

"Yes," He groaned. "And I really don't want to."

"Why don't you just tell your geography teacher what happened?"

"Yeah, if I want to get my ass kicked by my cousin and that excuse of a student Axel." He slammed his forehead to the table and kept it there.

"Its okay," Naminé sympathized. "I'll help you, okay?"

Sora's head shot up from the table with a stupid grin on his face. "Really? You will?"

"Yeah, after school." Just as Naminé spoke, the bell rang for lunch. People automatically began leaving their classes and walking through the hall; within a minute the cafeteria was filled with students in line to buy food. Naminé sighed, and put her book away in her backpack. "I have to go meet Kairi," She said to Sora. "I'll meet you at the library after school to help you."

"Bye," Sora waved, with a disappointed look, as Naminé headed out of the cafeteria.

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Kairi was just putting away her backpack and textbooks when Naminé rounded the corner into the drama hall. "Hey," The red head greeted, taking one last look in her locker mirror before shutting it.

"Hey,"

"So where're we going today? Twilight Café? Twilight Library? Twilight garbage can?" She laughed. "Gosh, why does everything here have 'twilight' before it?"

Naminé laughed. "We're going back to"--She out on a dramatic voice--"TWILIGHT CAFETERIA!"

"To infinity, and beyond!" Kairi chuckled. The two friends walked side by side, back to the cafeteria. Naminé was expecting Sora to still be there, but he wasn't, so she didn't bother looking for him. They sat opposite of each other at an empty table.

"Oh, I almost forgot," Naminé began. "I can't hang out after school."

"I thought we made plans to go shopping?" Kairi put on a playful pout, and pretended to be heartbroken.

"We did," Naminé laughed. "But Sora needs help with his geography." Kairi was suddenly intrigued.

"Oh really?" She suddenly turned serious. "Why's that?" Naminé went on and explained what Axel and Roxas had done to his work. Kairi didn't look surprised. "What asses," She commented.

"I know."

"How were you ever friends with him, Naminé? Roxas I mean."

Naminé sighed. It seemed that Kairi reminded Naminé of Roxas more than Roxas did, which really made no sense to her at all. "He used to be different."

"I can't imagine that," She scoffed.

"Hey guys," Olette said, interrupting their conversation (Naminé was thankful for that, she hated talking about the old Roxas, or Roxas in general).

"Hey," Naminé and Kairi greeted in unison.

"What's up?" The brunette sat in the spot closest to her, beside Kairi. For whatever reason, Naminé suddenly felt isolated being the only one sitting on that side of the table. She wished that Sora would come back.

"Not much," Kairi said. Please don't say anything about Roxas. Naminé hoped. "we were just talking about Roxas." Damn it!

"Oh," Olette frowned, and turned to Naminé. "Don't tell me you still like him?"

"No," Naminé said. "I'm getting over him." She added extra emphasis to the ing.

Olette was much more understanding than Kairi was. She was kinder, and a way better listener, so she knew better than anyone how Naminé felt about Roxas, and how much he'd changed. She tried to avoid the subject, but Kairi tended to bring him up a lot. Naminé prayed, like she usually did, that Kairi would drop the topic and move onto something else. But of course, she didn't.

"Naminé was saying that apparently Roxas used to be different,"

"He was!" Naminé defended. Kairi looked stunned at her sudden outburst. Naminé was immediately embarrassed. "I mean, he was different. He was nice and caring, I could even say he was my best friend."

"I remember," Olette said. "In grade seven, you and him were pretty tight."

"I remember you guys being friends," Kairi said, "but I don't remember him being nice. You know, one time, in grade six, me and him were partners for a science project. He wouldn't do anything, it really pissed me off."

"I never said he wasn't lazy," Naminé pointed out. "But he was nice."

"I agree," Olette said. Naminé smiled at her. Unlike Kairi, Olette would stand up for people, even if it were in very minor ways.

"Okay," Kairi said, with a hint of sarcasm. "Whatever you say. But who cares, what matters now is that he's mean."

"I know, I've come to accept that he's never going to be the same Roxas I knew." Naminé said.

"Then why do you still like him?" She really didn't feel obliged to answer that, but she knew that she would never hear the end of it if she didn't.

"Well--"

"I think Naminé is, in a way, living in the past." Olette cut in.

"How do you mean?" Naminé asked, puzzled.

"I think that you liked the Roxas you knew, and can't let go."

"There goes Olette, pulling the physiologist card out again." Kairi laughed. "But you do have a point."

"Well what can I say," Olette grinned. She was studding physiology, which was another reason why Naminé trusted her. Physiologists could never share their patients secrets. "Seriously though."

"That actually does make sense," Naminé agreed. She was actually beginning to feel better.

"So, you need to forget about the old Roxas. Find someone new to obsess over."

"Hey! I'm not obsessed."

"I know,"

"Humph."

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Naminé was racing out of the school. She was already fifteen minutes late for meeting Sora, she couldn't afford any more time. Even though she looked like an idiot, sprinting like that, Naminé really hated letting people down, especially friends. But thats when something hit her. One minute she was running, and the next there was a sharp pain in her shoulder, and she was laying on top of someone, both of their books were laying all over the ground. "I'm so sorry!" She said, getting up. The person got up too, Naminé found herself face to face with Roxas.

"Thats okay." He said. She felt a lump form in her throat as she starred into his familiar sea blue eyes, which seemed to have their old twinkle back to them. He bent over and picked up his books, moments later Naminé knelt down and picked hers up too.

"Sorry, I didn't see you." She said again, hoping that he wouldn't be angry with her. She was half expecting him to just turn and walk away, but instead, he laughed.

"You don't have to apologize, really."

"Okay,"

"What are you doing here anyways? School ended twenty minutes ago, everyones gone."

She wanted to say, "Well what are you doing here then?" but that would be rude, so instead, she said: "My teacher had me help out after class, and I'm supposed to meet a friend at the library." She decided to leave out the tiny detail that she was going to meet Sora, Roxas' tormented cousin.

"Oh, I see."

"What about you?" Naminé was even amazed at her sudden burst of confidence, it seemed that she was having an actual conversation with Roxas. It had been so long.

He chuckled, "I forgot my math textbook in my locker."

"Oh,"

"Yeah, well I'll see you later then, okay?" He flashed her a dazzling smile, the one that used to get her going every time, back when they were friends.

"Bye," She smiled back. I'm sure mine didn't give him the same feeling his gave me. She thought, but kept the smile on her face. A few moments later, Naminé found herself standing alone on campus. She stood there, processing what had happened. It really felt like she had just spoken to an old friend that had gone away for a very long time. But then she remembered. "Sora!"

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Roxas walked out of the school with his math textbook in his hand. For whatever reason, he was in an exceptionally good mood. He even felt like studying, so he went to the library. He had a math unit test the next day, and didn't understand any of it. And its not like Axel would be of any help. He thought. The library was its own separate building, located a little ways away from the school, but closer to the dorms. He entered, it was his first time in there in at least six months. He sat down at an empty table, and began looking through his notes. But thats when he overheard a conversation that sparked his attention.

"Roxas seemed like the old Roxas," A girl said.

"Really," A boy Roxas immediately recognized as his cousin Sora said sarcastically.

"Sora, I'm serious." She said.

"Naminé, I hate to burst your bubble, but Roxas is just as nasty as ever." Gee, thanks cuz. Roxas thought with sarcasm. Why does Naminé suddenly care about me again?

"Maybe, but when I talked to him, he had that same feel to him."

"He's the same." Sora said flatly.

"Fine." Naminé pouted.

Roxas realized that their conversation about him was over, so he left. He didn't feel like hanging around the 'geek farm', as Axel called it, anyways.

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Twilight Academy's Annual Talent Show!

When? October 20th.

Where? The auditorium.

Auditions begin September 30th (friday) and will go until October 5th.

Please see Mrs.Okosun for more details.

grades 9-12 only.

Naminé and Kairi starred up at the piece of neon green paper hanging on the bulletin board outside of the cafeteria. "Naminé, we should so audition!" Kairi exclaimed.

"No way!" Naminé gasped. "What talent do I have anyways?"

"Do I need to make a list?" Kairi said sarcastically.

"Come on Kairi, you know how I get in front of crowds." Naminé said matter-of-factly.

"True." Kairi tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for an idea to come, but nothing came to mind. "Maybe I should just audition then. Or Olette might do it with me."

"A talent show?" Sora said, pushing his way between Naminé and Kairi. "Sweet!"

"Are you auditioning, Sora?" Naminé asked.

"Obviously! I love these things, I regretted not auditioning last year." Sora said. "Are you?"

"No way, but Kairi is." Naminé pointed her thumb at her red haired friend, who was blushing madly. Naminé gave her a concerned look. "Kairi, you okay?"

"Ye-yeah." Kairi chocked out.

"You don't look so well," Sora commented. "Hmm," He reached his hand out, and placed it on Kairi's forehead. She shuttered at the sudden contact, and could feel herself blushing more and more by the second. "You're burning up, you sure you're okay?" Sora eyed her suspiciously.

"Yes," She squeaked.

Naminé, being her normal overly concerned self, linked arms with her friend. "I'll take you back to our room, you can come in when you're feeling better." She said.

"But you'll miss class,"

"It doesn't matter," Naminé insisted, and began tugging Kairi away. "Bye Sora, see you at lunch." She waved back.

"Honestly Naminé, I'm fine!" Kairi said, once they were outside. "I really don't want you to miss music because of me, its your favorite class."

"Not anymore, Olette was switched with Roxas." Naminé suddenly remembered when she had bumped into him the other day, and how normal he was acting. She was instantaneously regretful, she actually was looking forward to seeing Roxas, she had even planned on talking to him. Oh well.

"That sucks," Kairi stopped, and shook Naminé's arm off her. "I'm fine, Nam, really."

Naminé didn't look convinced. "Then what was that back there?"

"Um, don't worry about it."

"Kairi, seriously."

"I was just embarrassed, okay?"

"Why?"

"Don't worry about it!" She snapped. Naminé flinched, and Kairi felt sorry right away. She knew that Naminé only meant to help. "I'm sorry, I'm just a little bit weird today, I'm going back to our room, but you go back to class." Kairi turned and left without a word, leaving Naminé more worried than ever.

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