Chapter 1

Tater tots & Reese's Pieces

Today is my first day at my new high school. I know I have to be strong. I let out a nervous sigh. "This is just gonna be great…" I thought sarcastically. I soon arrived at my destination. It was so big. I walked into the front office.

"Hi, may I help you?" the secretary asked.

"Um…yeah, I'm a new student here."

"Oh, you must be Laxia, here you go!" she said cheerfully handing me my schedule. I thanked her and walked out. I looked at my schedule and it read:

1st: Saix- 9th grade English Room: 100

2nd: Marluxia- Music Room: 50

3rd: Vexen- Chemistry Room: 98

4th: Xigbar- PE Room: 140

I stepped out of the office and saw a man with blue hair and a scar on his face that looked like an 'X'. He was also quite scary looking in the face.

"I assume that you're Laxia Cross?" he asked.

"Y…yes sir." I said.

"I'm your first block teacher, Mr. Saix. Come on, we don't have all day." On the way to class he explained his classroom rules.

No Talking

No Eating/Drinking

No Note passing or he would read it out loud to the class.

We soon arrived at the classroom.

"Class we have a new student." I followed behind him. "This is Laxia Cross," Mr. Saix said, "Does anyone have any questions for her?"

A boy with dark brown spiky hair raised his hand.

"Where are you from?" he asked.

"Sora," Mr. Saix said.

"Yes Mr. Saix?"

"Did I say that you can talk?"

"No, sir"

"Go sign up for Detention."

Saix was harsh.

"Any other questions," Most of the kids shook their heads no. "Good, Laxia please take a seat next to Roxas." Mr. Saix pointed to a kid with blonde spiky hair. I took a seat next to him and sat my stuff down. He gave me a small smile and a little wave. I blushed and waved back at him.

This class took forever to be over with.

I was now on to my next class.

"Hey, Laxia," I heard someone call. It was Roxas.

"H…hi." I said shyly.

"Do you need help finding your class?" he asked. The browned haired boy from before came up behind him.

"Since when were you interested in girls?" he asked Roxas.

"SHUT UP SORA!" Roxas said with a red face.

"Um…do you still want me to answer your question?" I asked Sora. He looked at me confusedly.

"Oh…yeah!" he said.

"I'm from Radiant Garden." I said with a smile.

"Woah…that's pretty far from here." Sora said, "Well I'll be leaving you two alone!" he said winking at Roxas.

Roxas grabbed my arm and started pulling me away from Sora. I noticed that his face was red.

"So what's you're next class?" he asked.

"Um…Music with Marluxia." I said.

"Oh, I don't have that class so you'll be on your own."

"Roxas,"

"Yeah?"

"What's you're relationship with Sora?" I asked.

"Oh, he's my twin brother." He said with a smile.

"REALLY!" I said a bit loudly.

"Yeah, now let's hurry because my class is the other way." He said.

"Oh well I'll figure it out from here!" I said.

"Ok…um…just go strait down this hall and you'll find it, bye!" he said heading the opposite direction.

"Ok." I smiled and went on my way.

I walked up to the music room door. I just hope this teacher wasn't as bad as Mr. Saix.

I walked in and there were about 12 people in there. They were all talking to each other. I noticed a guy was staring at me from across the room. He waved. I waved back. I was still standing. The guy then got up and put a chair down for me.

"Here, you must be new, I'm Dymex!" he said cheerfully holding out his hand for me to shake it. I took his hand and shook it.

"Laxia." I said.

"So what grade are you in?" he asked me.

"9th." I answered.

"Wow…a freshman in this class?" another boy said. He had long silver hair and sea green eyes.

"So do you play an instrument?" Dymex asked.

"I used to play the piano."

"REALLY," He was very excited, "That's amazing! I play the sitar!"

"That's cool."

"Maybe we can rock out some day!"

"How do you rock out to a sitar?" the other boy asked.

"Laxia this is Riku, he's a sophomore." Dymex introduced us.

"Nice to meet you." I said smiling.

"You too…"

"That thing over there is Axel." Now he was introducing me to the whole class.

"What do you mean by "Thing"?" Axel asked offended. He had red hair and green eyes. He also had marks under his eyes.

"Axel's a senior and so am I!"

"No you're not you didn't pass your math exam so you're still a junior!" Axel corrected him. Soon they got into some sort of argument.

"Where's our teacher?" I asked Riku.

"Probably doing some sort of errand," he replied. "So do you like it here so far?"

"Well, I have Mr. Saix for first block." I said. He chuckled.

"You poor thing, don't worry you'll survive."

"I also met two guys named Roxas and Sora; it's kind of hard to believe they're related." I finished.

"Yeah, Sora can be an idiot sometimes. Trust me I know, we're childhood friends along with Kairi."

"Who?" I said.

"Don't worry; I'm sure you'll meet her soon."

"QUIET DOWN PEOPLE!" a man with pink hair has walked into the room. "Now I'm sure everyone did their assignments, put them over here on this chair."

Everyone but me did so.

"I see we have a new student! What's your name child?" he said.

"Laxia Cross," I said shyly.

"And where did you come from?"

"Um…Radiant Garden,"

"AH! WHAT A MAGNIFICENT PLACE! Is it pretty there?"

"Y…yes sir."

"Oh how rude of me, I didn't introduce myself, I'm Mr. Marluxia," he said giving me a rose.

"WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM!" I thought thinking of the rose.

"Now let's get started."

His Class wasn't so long or it felt that way. I guess it's because I like music. I was off to my next class. Riku showed me the way since we had it together.

I entered the classroom and an old guy with blonde hair came up to me.

"AH! YOU MUST BE LAXIA!" he said.

"Y…yes."

"What are you doing with HIM!" he asked pointing at Riku.

"I was showing her the way here, Mr. Vexen." Riku said coldly to him.

"Alright both of you have a seat while I call role!"

"Olette?"

"Here"

"Hayner?"

"Here"

"Pence?"

"Here"

"Riku…" he was cut off by the bell. Everyone got up and started leaving for lunch.

"FINE, THEN JUST LEAVE!" Mr. Vexen yelled.

(Lunch)

I followed Riku into the lunch line. He told me what was good to eat here and what wasn't. Though he was really quiet, I followed him toward the lunch table. There I saw Roxas, Sora and some other people. I sat between Roxas and Riku and pulled out my Reese's Pieces from my purse.

"All right it's time to introduce you to everyone!" Sora said in a goofy tone. "This is Kairi, Namine, Olette, Hayner, Pence, Axel, and Dymex!"

"It's nice to meet you." I said shyly.

"You to!" Olette said happily.

"I'll be right back," Roxas stated, "Gonna get some ketchup."

He got up and bumped into someone.

"WATCH OUT, LOSER!" The guy Roxas bumped into had a belly shirt on, a trench coat thing, and a hat. Right behind him was a big guy, and a girl with silver hair.

"Hey, leave him alone Seifer!" Sora and Hayner yelled.

"Yeah what are you chicken wuss's gonna do about it!" he argued. And then he looked at me.

"Why hello there…what are you doing with a bunch of losers like them?" Seifer asked me.

"Well…first of all they're not losers. The only loser I see here is you! So if you don't mind, step off!" I exclaimed. Everyone seemed a bit taken back.

"Whatever!" Seifer then went on his way while his followers followed.

"Wow Laxia that was amazing!" Kairi said.

"Right when I was about to get up and smack him you jumped in!" Hayner said happily. I blushed at the praises I was getting.

Roxas went to get his ketchup and came back. We all had short conversations and laughed.

"Ok let's get down to the 411." Kairi said, "Over there are the 'popular' people." She pointed to the table Seifer and his gang was sitting at, another girl was sitting there as well she had blonde hair with "antennas".

"Which reminds me," Dymex butted in, "where's Zexion?"

"He's in the library." Axel answered, "Got it memorized?"

"As I was saying," Kairi declared, "Don't trust them."

"I won't," I said with a smile.

"Hey you guys wanna hang out after school?" Olette asked.

"Can't" Sora said, "me and Kairi are going out."

"I have homework," Riku and Namine said in unison.

"Rita and I are going out to." Axel said.

"Who's Rita?" I asked him.

"Rita is the best damn thing that has ever entered my life! She's beautiful, independent, smart, fun, artistic, loving and…"

"ALL RIGHT WE GET IT!" most everyone said. He mumbled something to himself.

"Well I'm not doing anything…" Roxas said eating a tatter tot.

"Me neither…" Hayner and Pence said in unison.

"What about you, Laxia?" Olette asked me.

"Well I guess I'm free for this afternoon." I said thinking if I had anything to do.

"All right! We'll meet at the station at our usual time!" Olette said.

"Where…and when?" I asked.

"Don't worry we'll get someone to take you." Roxas said.

"Thank you!" I said.

Soon the bell rang and we were off to class. Riku and I went back to chemistry.

"Alright class, open your books to chapter 7 and outline the whole chapter!"

Everyone did as they were told and nothing much happened.

When the bell rang my hand felt like jello. UGH! I soon walked to room 140, P.E., the thing that I loath.

I walked into the gym. Everyone was sitting in the bleachers. I noticed Roxas, Sora, and Kairi were sitting together. Sora noticed me and waved at me to sit with them. I walked over and sat down next to Roxas~.

"Hey." He greeted.

"Hi."

"You probably won't have to do anything since you don't have your gym clothes yet." He smiled.

"All right everyone, get dressed!" the coach yelled.

"Well, see you later!" Sora said. Kairi waved and so did Roxas. Coach Xigbar asked me for my name and then told me that for today I can sit out.

So basically the guys played basketball and the girls played volleyball. I just sat and watched. I just watched and for some reason I couldn't keep my eyes off of Roxas.