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The first day of the school year is always scary. Well at least that's what Roxas Strife has always thought. But don't think of him as a coward since he always looked forward to the new school year back in his hometown, Twilight Town. That was because all of his friends lived there and not where he currently was, Destiny Islands. His father had gotten a promotion on his job out of town, and therefore had to move to another house closer to his work. His mother wasn't bother by moving houses since she had always liked going out on vacations and travel. She hadn't been able to travel since Roxas was born. It seems that was the reason why she doesn't like Roxas very much.
You see, the Strife household has never been peaceful. Roxas has always been excluded from his family. His mother is never there for him and doesn't even acknowledge him sometimes. All of her attention has always been on Cloud, the older son of the family. He is the perfect son in Ms. Strife's eyes. And because of this, Roxas has become very independent. He has even thought about living alone just to get out of the house, but he doesn't want to live his father and brother alone. Yeah, they would be with his mother, but Ms. Strife can become too bothersome after some time with her. She always gets angry and frustrated with everything. One minute she is happy and the other she is throwing pots and pans at your head. So, Roxas decided to stay in the house until he is finished with High School.
Roxas walked to the front steps of his new high school, Destiny High. The school was small and had a sense of unity around it. Roxas, having come from a big populated town was not accustomed to everybody knowing everybody and for the school to be so small. His last school was at least three times bigger than the one that he was looking at right now. It was also full of too many students from all over the town that it was pretty rare for the students to know each other. He only went out with his friends Hayner, Ollete and Pence. Looking to the front he just saw everybody talking and wacing 'hello's.'
"I don't think I'll be able to get accustomed to this school. What's with everybody…do..do they really know each other like best friends" thought Roxas while watching the student interact. There was a guy with brown hair and blue eyes that looked a lot like him that was jumping around and yelling 'Hello!!' at the top of his lungs for everyone to hear.
"Now, where is the office of admissions?" thought Roxas while he walked through the hallways of the school. He had become tired of just looking at everyone outside and had entered with nobody noticing.
Roxas looked at his watch "7:45….great,I still have time to go to the office for my schedule and then go to my classroom…that is if I find that office" he thought while looking around for any sight of said office. "Really, one would think that finding that office would be easier since this school is so small"
After five more minutes of searching for the office without having any luck, Roxas decided that it was finally time for ask for help. Looking around, he saw a person with silver hair and aquamarine eyes talking to the brunette form earlier that day. The silver haired person didn't seem like he was paying attention to whatever the brunette was saying. He just had a bored expression while he watched his friend talking animatedly.
Roxas walked up to them and stopped right beside the brunette, so that he was facing the silver head since he seemed to be more capable of giving him directions than his friend. At least he thought they were friends.
"Mm..Ex..Excuse me" said Roxas with a shy voice while he gave and awkward wave. Neither of the boys seemed to have heard or even noticed him for the matter.
"Hello" he tried again this time waving his arms up and down in a 'I'm here!! Notice me!!' kind of way. And the other boys still didn't notice him. "This is getting ridiculous" he thought. "How can they not notice this" he looked at his arms which were still moving up and down and waving every now and then.
"HELLO!!" he said a little more forcefully. The other boys jump a bit because of the force of his yell and then focused their eyes on him. Unfortunately for Roxas their eyes were not the only ones that focused on him. Everyone in the hall had stopped doing whatever they were doing to look at his direction. "C'mon, I didn't yell that hard!" thought Roxas angrily but a little blush could be seen in his face since he was embarrassed by all the people staring at him.
He decided to ignore the stares and focused his attention in the brunette and silver head. "Can you please tell me where I can find the office of admissions" he said. The other boys didn't say anything, they just stayed quiet still staring at him. "Mm..Hello?...Can you at least point me in the right direction?" he tried again. Time for class was getting closer so he didn't want to waste any of it in the boys in front of him.
The silver head blinked a couple of times and then pointed to a door at the end of the hall. He was still a little stunned by the blond boy's outburst. He had never seen the kid around so he classified him as the new transfer student that he had heard about. "Just go straight down the hall. The office is the door to the right" he said.
"Thank you" said Roxas after finally having someone telling him what he wanted to know instead of just looking at him as if he was a circus freak or something.
He walked down the hall slowly at his own pace without paying any attention to the stares that followed his back all the way to the door. The stares only stopped after he entered the office and closed the door with a quiet 'slam.'
The hallway stayed in silence for a couple of more minutes until someone sneezed and everyone started to move and go to their classrooms, new blond boy forgotten.
"Riku, do you know who was that?" asked the brunette to his silver head friend now known as Riku. It appeared that not everyone had forgotten about the blond boy. Riku just shrugged his shoulders in a 'I don't know' motion. "Beats me. I've never seen him before, but it seems that he is the new transferred kid Kairi and Namine were talking about" he answered.
His brunette friend had a confused expression in his face that then changed to a awed expression after hearing what he had said. "You're right Riku. Wow, you really know everything" he said. They soon decided that it was time to go to their classrooms and started to walk in the opposite direction of the admissions office. "See ya later Riku" said the brunette while waving his hand animatedly. "Yeah, later Sora" answered Riku with a two finger salutation.
Meanwhile in the office, Roxas was trying to get the secretary to give him his schedule. It seemed that they were not ready for the new student and had not taken out his schedule for him to pick up. Roxas was staring to get irritated since he wanted to get to class in time and he had yet to find his classroom.
"How long can it take someone to find a little piece of paper" thought Roxas while he crossed his arms and started to move his feet in the 'I'm waiting, so hurry' motion.
"Ah! Here it is" said the secretary after looking into a drawer and retrieving the schedule. "Roxas Strife from Twilight Town I presume?" she asked. Roxas nodded his head but then said a soft 'yeah' after he noticed she was not looking at him. The secretary handed him his schedule and then turn away from him.
Roxas took the schedule and looked at it and then at the secretary. He didn't want to stay in the office any longer but knew that he needed help to find his classroom "And who would be better than a secretary at helping new students" he thought. "Excuse me" he said in the same soft voice. He waited for the secretary's attention and then continued "can you help me find my classroom. I'm new here so I don't know where everywhere is" The secretary looked at him for a moment and then at the stack of papers in front of her. He was deciding what to do. It seemed that the paperwork won since she took the paper from his hand and then told him some directions.
"Thank you" said Roxas to the secretary and then got out of the office. He walked through the halls according to the directions he was given. He found his classroom and knocked the door three times. He waited for a reply but it never came so he knocked again. The teacher came out this time and just looked at him. "Yes?" asked the man with white hair and orange eyes. Roxas just handed him his schedule and told him that he was a new student. The teacher took the schedule and confirmed that Roxas was indeed in his class and from the looks of it, he was also new.
"Come in, I'll introduce you to the class" said the teacher while holding the door open for Roxas. He then turn to look at Roxas once again and said "I'm your new Literature teacher. You may call me Mr. Xemnas." Roxas nodded and then they stepped into the classroom.
"Class" said Mr. Xemnas "this is Roxas, he is a new student here in this class as well as the school. Make him feel welcome" he continued. Roxas just stayed at the front of the class without knowing what to do. Mr. Xemnas seemed to notice him and told him "You can sit in the desk beside Sora" he pointed at the desk beside the brunette form that morning.
Roxas walked to his desk and sat down after placing his things on top of it. He was about to turn his attention back to the teacher when he heard a voice talking to him. He turned his head to the side and noticed the brunette. He was the owner of the voice talking to him.
"Hello, I'm Sora. If you have some free time I can show you around school" said Sora with a happy voice.
"Yeah, that'll be great and really helpful" answered Roxas. "Thanks" he said after noticing the brunette still looking at him as if he was waiting for something.
"No problem, I'll see you at break time okay?" Sora said and then turned his head to the front of the classroom after seeing Roxas noddin his agreement.
"Well, at least now I have someone to show me around this school. Not that it'll take long" thought Roxas while he also turned to pay attention to Mr. Xemnas. He didn't want to miss anything since he had transferred at two weeks after the actual first day of school.
Well, that's the first chapter. Hope you liked it and ill comment on it. I'm open for opinions and new ideas for this story since I just wrote it in school during my not so free time. I'll try to upload soon if I see that people are reviewing this story. Until next time…^^