To most students Friday's were merely the day before the weekend. Two glorious days of freedom to hang out with friends, sleep and relax. Oh yes, Fridays were grand. That being said, Roxas tapped his foot impatiently under his desk. Blue orbs focused on the silent ticking of the clock, his ears intolerantly waiting for the annoying ringing the symbolized his freedom. The teacher at the front of the room continued droning on about something or other making Roxas wonder why he even bothered taking this class when he never paid attention in the first place.

3….2….1….RIIIIIIING.

As quickly as the bell had finished its annoying ringing fellow students were already bolting for the door, all as anxious as him to escape from the classroom and into their weekend lives. The blond teen practically threw his books into his bag before joining the horde of people in the hallways.

This particular weekend was held in high anticipation for Roxas. This weekend he got to see her. Now this girl wasn't his girlfriend, hell Roxas wasn't even sure he liked girls, but Xion was different. She was his best friend in the whole world but because of family issues she moved 40 minutes away to Traverse Town shortly after becoming friends. He had barely known the girl for a year but she was definitely his best friend. The thought of seeing Xion again after about a month brought a smile to the boy's face.

Slamming his locker shut with a sigh he turned around only to face two grinning brunettes. Roxas blinked, a suspicious look spread across his face at the expressions on his two friends faces. "Uh…hey guys."

Olette's grin spread even wider as she latched onto Roxas' arm, dragging him into the main foyer while chatting away. Pence followed behind them, grinning also. "Hey Roxas! We finally found you; we've been looking all day. What are you doing this weekend?"

Before giving the poor blond a chance to reply about his plans, another blond stepped away from the drink machines and slapped Roxas roughly on the back.

"Aw right 'lette, you found him." Hayner too was grinning. Roxas couldn't help but groan inwardly. When all three of his friends had grins like that then they were definitely up to something.

Hayner proceeded to sling an arm over Roxas' shoulders and took a sip of his juice box. "Alright Rox, you're free this weekend right? 'Cause Seifer challenged me to a Struggle match and you gotta be there as my back-up should things get rough, alright?"

"Sorry Hayner…I'm going to Traverse Town this weekend." Roxas said shrugging his friend's arm off his shoulders.

"Oh…"Olette's and Pence's expressions dropped and Roxas couldn't help feel a pang of guilt.

He hadn't hung out with them in a while, that's for sure. He glanced at Hayner, excepting him to have a similar expression on his face. Instead, Hayner had a look which appeared like he was deep in thought.

After what seemed like an eternity to Roxas, Hayner spoke again. "You're going to see Xion, right?" Roxas nodded as Hayner's face lit up again. "Perfect! The match is on Sunday so you gotta come back to town anyways so just bring her with you. It's at 2 in the Twilight Town Sandlot, alright?"

Roxas sighed. He really couldn't refuse the hopeful faces of his three friends even if it meant cutting out some hang-out time with Xion. "Alright."

Hayner's grin appeared again and he slapped Roxas' back once again. "Aw right man! Well I'm heading off now, our ride is here."

Roxas nodded, waving slightly as his three friends scurried out the doors into a waiting vehicle. Glancing at the watch on his wrist Roxas mentally slapped himself before running in the opposite direction. It was 2:40; he had wasted 10 minutes talking with Hayner, Pence, and Olette. He ran out the back doors of the school only to arrive in time to see his bus driving away.

"Oh come on!" Slamming his bag down on the ground angrily, the blond teen resisted the urge to scream. Things just weren't going his way today, were they? That being said, Roxas began his trek to the closest city bus stop, digging through the pockets of his school's uniform's pants for some spare change.

Despite being called "Destiny Island High School" the school was not in the Destiny Island district. It was pretty much at the farthest edge of town, much closer to the Twilight Town district then it was to the islands. Back in elementary school, Roxas and his friends had decided that whoever named the schools were complete idiots. Out of the 5 districts, only Twilight Town High and Destiny Island High made no sense location wise.

Destiny Island High was in the small area known as Twilight Town, which was part of the Sunset Hill district. And Twilight Town High was in Sunset Hill. All the other school's made sense; Traverse Town High was in Traverse Town, Radiant Garden High was in Radiant Garden and Hollow Bastion High was in Hollow Bastion. At the time logic had escaped him and his friends, thus coming up with the reasoning that people are idiots at naming things. End of story.

Roxas stepped onto to city bus, deposited the proper fare into the fare box and proceeded to sit in the seat in the farthest corner of the bus, away from all the screaming infants and panicked parents and the old ladies that smelt like prunes and cats. Resting his head against the cool window, Roxas sighed. He hated the bus. Simply hated it. He closed his eyes, allowing his mind to travel away from the hideous confinements of the metal contraption.

After about an hour of bus travel and putting up with the screaming children, Roxas had finally arrived at his stop. By this time his patience was running quite thin and he felt a wave of relief getting off the stop only to be welcomed by the sight of colour as the sun started to begin its descent.

Adjusting the bag on his shoulder, the blond walked towards his home which was just down the street from the bus stop. A fancy looking car was parked in the driveway but Roxas paid no attention to it. It was probably a rental for his parents anyways.

Opening the door of his house, Roxas noted that his twin brother Sora was already home and since there were extra shoes lurking around, his friends Riku and Kairi were probably over as well.

"I'm home!" Roxas yelled out, adding his shoes to the ever-growing pile.

Flinching at the excited call of "ROXAS" and the user of the call practically tackling him in a hug, Roxas' headache felt worse. He groaned, pushing his excited brother off him. "Yeah, yeah. I'm home. Were there any phone calls?"

The blond walked into the house, straight to the fridge, Sora following behind him like a puppy. Roxas glanced up from his focus of the contents of the fridge and glanced at the TV screen at some poor horror movie. Kairi was at one end of the couch, laughing hysterically and Riku was at the other, looking like…well…Riku.

Roxas raised an eyebrow questioningly at Riku who was looking at him, wondering how in the world he had convinced Sora to watch the movie. Riku shrugged and returned his focus back at the TV.

Roxas glanced back at Sora, who was babbling away. "Get this Roxas, Riku and Kairi came over with this movie insisting it isn't scary at all and within the first few minutes someone was run over with a car and threw-up blood into someone's mouth! Isn't that gross?! Riku and Kairi are so mean!"

Roxas sighed, closing the fridge door after finding nothing edible in it. Cold blue eyes stared into equally blue eyes. "Sora. Phone calls. Did anyone call?"

Sora stopped his babbling and looked at Roxas, thinking for a moment. "Hmm….Mom called. She said both her and dad won't be home until Tuesday."

Roxas groaned. Now how was he supposed to get to Traverse Town to see Xion. His brother looked at him, confused. Usually Roxas was happy when his parents were gone.

"Roxas….?"

"What Sora?" he snapped. His patience finally having run out.

Sora jumped back, looking slightly terrified. "Um…nothing." He then proceeded to jump over the couch and landed between his two friends.

Roxas merely glared, grabbed some aspirin from the cupboard and headed for the stairs. "I'm going to my room; let me know if Xion calls."

Sora nodded while letting a terrified squeak as something happened on the movie. Roxas turned to head up the stairs to face the solitary confinements of his room. When he opened the door however, the teen practically jumped out of his skin. Sitting on his bed in the fetal position; reading a book contently while looking completely at ease was Xion.

She glanced up, her blue eyes meeting with Roxas' blue ones and smiled. "Yo."

Roxas placed a hand over his heart, breathing in deeply trying to calm his racing pulse. "X-Xion. H-How…? When…?"

The girl giggled, jumping off the bed to wrap her friend in a hug. Roxas returned the hug and looked at the shorter girl. She was still in her school uniform, the yellow pattern of her skirt and tie brought out her black hair and blue eyes.

She grinned. "I drove here of course silly." She glanced around his room, Roxas flushing slightly when he realized how much stuff he had all over the floor when compared to how spotless Xion's apartment always seemed to be. She looked back at him. "Are you ready to go?"

Roxas snapped back to reality, returning his gaze to the girl. "No…I need to change, pack and have a shower still."

"Well get to it! And you can have a shower at my place. I'm sure you don't smell too bad." Xion demanded, returning to her place on his bed while covering her eyes. "You know I'm not going to peek so hurry up and get changed. And don't tell me to go downstairs to see Sora, he scares me."

Roxas grinned. Last time Xion was here, Sora was so happy to see her he ended up tackling her into a wall and gave her a mild concussion. He looked at the girl before proceeding to take off his uniform, adding it to the growing pile of clothes and putting clean ones on. He grabbed some more clothes and shoved them into an overnight bag.

"Alright. Done."

Xion practically launched herself off the bed, attaching herself to Roxas' arm and began pulling him down the stairs. "Alright, let's go then!"

She dragged him past Sora who had a confused expression on his face as to why Xion was there. Roxas quickly bade a farewell to his brother as he was dragged out the door towards the fancy car. Xion had already taken her place in the driver's seat.

The blond boy gaped. "You're not serious, are you?"

Xion blinked and nodded. "Yeah….Are you getting in….?"

Shaking off his stupor, the teen threw his bag into the back of the car and sat down in the passenger side seat. Xion smiled and started the engine as Roxas looked out the window and gulped nervously. I think I'm going to regret this decision….

True to his prior thought, Roxas definitely regretted getting in that car with Xion. The girl had sped along the highway to Traverse Town, narrowly avoided hitting two other cars and made the usual 40 minute drive shorter by about 15 minutes.

As soon as the car had finished being parked in the underground lot of Xion's apartment building, Roxas scurried out of the car as fast as he could. He leaned against the car, face considerably paler than when he had first entered the vehicle.

"I think I'm going to be sick…"

Xion scowled at him, throwing his overnight bag at his head. "Oh come on Rox. I'm not that bad of a driver."

She walked into the building and headed straight for the elevator, holding the door open as Roxas followed slowly behind her.

"Where did you even get that car?" he asked. It certainly didn't belong to her brother; he was more of the motorcycle type.

The girl shrugged. "I borrowed it from my producer."

Roxas glanced at her, the elevator had began rising up to Xion's floor. "Producer…?"

She nodded. "Uh huh. Zexy. You know how I told you I was in a band and we got a break right? Well Zexy's our producer and I borrowed the car from him. He's getting it tomorrow I think."

"Huh…." That was all that Roxas could think of to reply to the girl's comment.

Sure, he knew she was in a band and they were pretty popular at a couple of the Traverse Town clubs but he didn't know about the break. He followed Xion nonchalantly as she pranced down the hallway towards her place. No matter how many times he came here he still felt out of place. This place looked more like a fancy hotel then an apartment building.

She opened her door, room 1414, and walked in ushering Roxas in behind her. "I'm home~" she sang out. When no return cry was heard the girl shrugged. "I guess he's not here…"

Roxas looked at her assuming that her brother was home for once. The girl merely smiled. "Can I take my shower first?"

The blond looked at her. "Um..sure."

She nodded and gave him a quick hug. "You know were to put your stuff. Just watch some TV or something. I won't be long."

Roxas nodded and sat down on the large leather couch in front of the TV. He grabbed the remote and flicked through the channels. In the other room he heard the water going off as Xion took her shower. The boy sigh contently, Xion's place was practically a second home to him.

That was until some loud clattering was heard from the door as it swung open. Roxas tensed and sat forward, half expecting to see Zack; Xion's brother. But it wasn't Zack who opened the door.

Suddenly, blue eyes met stunning green ones.

Roxas held his breath.

It felt like time had stood still.