A/N: Hi! So new story. Well, not completely new. I started writing it about two years ago and I decided to finish it, so here's the beginning of what looks like is going to be a long story. I hope you like it and excuse my grammatical mistakes! And yes, Sora has all these weird qualities about him that most people don't have. I just wanted to make this interesting. Also, the weed stories are true. Both of those things legitimately happened at my school and right now the story is set where I live because that's the place I know best. Anyway, I hope you like it and hopefully the next chapter will be up soon! Feel free to pester me if I'm not updating fast enough (reminders help).
Being the new kid always sucked. Everybody stared and asked questions; the same ones over and over again. Where are you from? What's your name? Are you single? He'd answered the questions so many goddamn times that he almost couldn't take it anymore. Yes, he was from America, his name was Roxas, yes he was single and no he would not go on a date with you! Didn't people get the point? He was a social person by nature but because his family had to move so often due to his father's work, he could never settle in and he got asked those questions on a monthly basis. So, obviously, he was not looking forward to his first day at school, which is tomorrow. This was, however, supposed to be the last city that they moved to, so maybe this time he could get to know people and actually make some friends.
Roxas walked down the halls of the school, ignoring the stares from the other students. He rolled his blue eyes when a student nearby whistled, yeah he was hot, whatever, people needed to get over it already. The blond made his way to the office at the end of the hall and walked up to the front desk where a young woman with long, brown hair and green eyes was standing. She turned and smiled at him while hanging up the phone.
"Hello, you must be Roxas. I'm Aerith Gainsborough, it's so wonderful to have a new student with such amazing comments about performance from previous teachers as yourself attending this school. If you'll just come with me, I'll take you to the principle and he'll give you your schedule and appoint you a guide." The young woman smiled at Roxas before walking away, her light blue dress swaying with every step she took. Her sandals/high-heels brought her to almost the same height as Roxas himself while a scent of flowers wafted up at Roxas as he smiled gently at her. Aerith seemed nice and he hoped that at least half the people here were as nice as her.
Aerith led the blond to a room beside the front desk and gently knocked on the door. A reply telling them to enter came and the two walked into the room. A man with shaggy brunet hair and stormy blue eyes was sitting behind the desk, long, spindly fingers weaved together with elbows resting on the dark mahogany. Roxas trained his own blue eyes on the man before him. The jagged scar reaching from the top of his nose to the corner of his eye added to the handsome, stony features of his new principle. The man stared back at him before letting the corners of his mouth pull up into a smile and his eyes warm up. Roxas was slightly taken aback by the abrupt change in attitude but he guessed that the man was probably trying to see what type of student and person he was.
"Hello, you must be Roxas Strife. My name is Squall Leonhart and I am your new principle. You can call me Leon though, I hate Squall. I don't know what my mother was thinking." The man gave him another smile before reaching into his desk and extracting a piece of paper.
"This is your schedule. If you'll wait a second, I will call in your guide." Leon turned and stood, walking through a side door that Roxas hadn't seen and yelled something incoherent. There was a little mumbling before Leon walked back through. There was supposed to be person with him, Roxas knew it. If only he could just see that person...
"This, Roxas, is your guide, Sora Bellerose." Leon moved out of the way to reveal a petite brunet with spiky, cinnamon colored hair containing gold and honey colored highlights that were randomly flecked throughout the spikes. His petite frame was gorgeous, his luscious thighs encased perfectly with practically skin-tight gray skinny jeans, and a hoodie that had a light shade of green and an even lighter shade striped up the arms and hood. The part covering the chest was a plain, darker green while the bottom of the sleeves were black. The hoodie was unzipped to reveal a tight fitting blue shirt that hugged his lean muscles perfectly. A necklace with a crown pendant on the end hung around his neck, the three tips of the crown decorated with diamonds. He had a round, button nose, with a stud on the side the color of the sky. His skin was of a sun-kissed tone and his lips were a gorgeous shade of dark pink, so plump and full that Roxas had the urge to grab onto those soft-looking spikes and ravish that full mouth until his plump cheeks were stained with red and he was begging Roxas to take him. Though, what really got him, were Sora's eyes. The blond was fascinated with his eyes, for he had never seen anything like it before. See, Sora had two different colored eyes, ones that were framed with thick, dark eyelashes, giving the illusion that the brunet was always casting a seductive glance your way. One was a striking shade of green, a deep sea green with shades of a lighter green towards the iris and gold splattered throughout. The other was a shade of blue, so light, yet so dark. One that looked like a sapphire, the ocean, and the color of cerulean all together. The blue looked so much like Roxas' own blue, yet Sora's was so much more expressive. The brunet was an open book that Roxas was eager to read. The brunet sent a shy smile his way and Roxas' heart swelled while his insides lit on fire. Roxas sent a smile back and smirked as a blush rose on the brunette's cheeks. Oh man, he looked damn good with a blush on his face.
"Hey, Sora. I'm Roxas Strife. It's nice to meet you." Roxas sent Sora a bright smile and this time received another one back. The blush was still present though and Roxas had the strange desire to lock Sora away so he would be his forever.
"'Ello, Roxas. My name's Sora, as I'm sure you are well aware. It's a pleasure to meet you." The brunette walked forward and hugged the blond, obviously not having any physical boundaries. The blond just stood there in shock for a moment, willing his cock to go down for it had stood to attention at the incredibly alluring accent. That voice, so angelic and innocent, possessed an accent that made shivers and pure electricity shoot up and down his spine and his eyelids flutter. His breath caught in his throat and he let his eyes shut and breathing return calm once again before wrapping his arms around the petite frame and holding him tight against his chest. Roxas wasn't a really tall guy, so that meant Sora had to be really tiny, for his head only reached the blonde's chest. Sora pulled away and smiled up again at Roxas, and the blond took the opportunity to ask Sora the obvious question.
"So, you're from the south, right Sora?" Sora laughed, the sound beautiful to Roxas' ears, one that made him want to join in. The brunet seemed to have joy and happiness ooze out of his every pore and it was so contagious.
"Sure am! I was born and raised in Georgia, off the coast of Savannah. My folks and I moved here about three years ago, if my memory isn't failing me." The accent brought another shiver up Roxas' spine, although it was unnoticeable this time.
"How old are you?If you don't mind me asking of course!" Roxas rushed to blurt out the last part, fumbling over his words and tripping clumsily over the vowels and consonants sticking to his tongue and the roof of his mouth. He didn't want to scare this beautiful creature off so soon, definitely not when the two were starting off so well. To be frank, Roxas found himself unwillingly flustered by the sight and rich, honeyed sounds coming from a boy. This hadn't happened in, well, years and Roxas, never one to jump in a situation without over-thinking and analyzing every existing and potential outcome to the highest decree, was suddenly willing to walk with this boy wherever he wanted to go just so he could have the chance of being graced with more information about the beauty standing before him.
"Sixteen."
"Ha! I'm older than you by a year." He smirked and then laughed lightly as Sora sent him a pout. Oh god, his pout was even sexier than he'd expected. Those lips were so tempting that Roxas couldn't pull his eyes off of them, and it was only when he began to slowly lean forward without thinking that he caught himself and bolted upright, an embarrassed flush streaking across his cheeks while Sora giggled quietly in the background. Faintly, over the rapid thrumming of his heart steadily pumping blood throughout his body, Roxas heard his new principal shout something at the pair of teens.
"Alright boys, there will be more time for chit-chat later. Right now I need you, Sora, to take Roxas on a tour of the school. It should be about lunch time by the time that you're done so just have Roxas eat with you at lunch and then after you can go to the library and help Roxas catch up. Sound fair?" Sora nodded and absentmindedly tugged on Roxas's sleeve to pull the blond out of the principal's office and into his newly exciting school.
"So, Sora."
"Yes, Roxas" A curious face turned to Roxas.
"Is your nose piercing your only piercing?"
"Nah. I've got two others." Sora held up two fingers and smirked at Roxas lightly, fully turning around so I could no longer stare at his deliciously round bottom anymore.
"Do tell." Roxas was intrigued now, he hadn't suspected Sora to have any more piercings, he'd just wanted to start up a conversation.
"Well, I have a tongue ring and a belly button piercing. Pretty standard stuff." Sora shrugged his shoulders and turned around, gesturing to a potted plant and beginning to recount his 'favorite' story about when this one guy tried to stash his weed in the plant and the whole hallway reeked of pot for the entire week. As interesting as the story was (police dogs became involved immediately and had found more weed on the floor from a student who had freaked out when his stash fell out of his locker after the potted-plant discovery and ran), Roxas couldn't give it his full attention. Bits and pieces of the story stuck in his memory, yet all he managed to grasp was 'weed,' 'cutest police dogs ever,' and 'it smelled like armpit,' which Roxas had a suspicion was not the key points he should have been getting from the smaller boy's tale. Roxas was too busy focusing on the idea of a tongue ring on his dick, pressing against the enlarged vein wrapped around the shaft, making Roxas cry out and buck up in a desperate attempt to feel more of that warm, tight heat viciously surrounding and relentlessly teasing him. Sora would laugh, his hands would gently grab his hips to keep them still while he dragged his tongue and the small ball of metal in a blazing trail up to mushroom head where his tongue would halt and retract, only to come back for more, dipping into the slit and running across it painfully slow. Roxas would beg and grab at Sora's wild locks, letting his head thrash from side to side, crying out as Sora chuckled and the vibrations rang through his cock and left a pulsing need in their wake. Sora would bring his hand up to tenderly rub against-
"Well that's it I guess!" Sora sang and spun around on his heel to look at Roxas "lunch should be starting real soon and I want you to meet my friends! Just to warn you beforehand Roxas, they can be a little crazy, but I swear they're the greatest people you'll meet, honest to God. I'm sorry 'bout this tour, I know it probably bored you to death, but I think you'll like it here, no matter how boring the students can be!" Roxas was, thankfully, pulled out of his fantasy and into reality where he was sporting a semi-hard erection and the hottest, cutest boy in the world had just invited him to hang out with his group of friends (Roxas chose to overlook the fact that the principal had all but ordered that Sora let him sit with his friends, choosing instead to focus on the fact that Sora had invited him). Roxas was about to thank Sora, or maybe kiss him, or do both when a deep voice boomed from down the hall and a body came barrelling towards the teens. All Roxas could see was a head of silver hair before the strange person was in front of Sora and circling him slowly, lifting up his bangs and chin and arms, carefully inspecting every inch of bare skin as he frantically shouted words so quickly that Roxas could barely understand them.
"Sora! Oh my god, where were you?! I was so worried!" The head of silver turned out to be a tall, handsome teenager that looked to be about the same age as Roxas. The (supposedly) 17 year old had shiny silver hair that reached just passed his shoulders and sea green eyes. His muscled arms were wrapped tightly around the petite brunet, and seeing as he was even taller than Roxas, he towered over Sora. The brunet just smiled and wrapped his arms tightly around the young man's back as a response before pulling away.
"Riku, Riku calm down, I'm fine. I was escorting the new student here around the campus! This is Roxas, who is very nice and you better treat him well. Roxas this is Riku, my best friend." Sora moved out of the way and allowed the two teens to look at each other head on. Riku extended his hand and waited until Roxas took it before speaking.
"Hello Roxas. I'm Riku, as Sora has already pointed out. It's a pleasure to meet you. I can tell that you and Sora are becoming friends already, so I'll warn you. If you ever hurt Sora, I will chop off your balls and tear you limb from limb." Riku smiled at Roxas, a twinkling gleam in his eye telling the blond that he was just joking about the intensity of the threat, however he had no doubt that if he even made Sora frown, Roxas would be the devil in Riku's eyes. Riku seemed like a nice enough guy, a little over-protective, but nice. Maybe he and Roxas could be friends. From his side Roxas could hear Sora sigh loudly and turned just in time to witness him sending Riku an intense glare.
"Roxas, pay no mind to Riku, he's just kidding with you. He's a nice guy and he certainly does not mean a word he said because I would never allow him to-" In the middle of Sora's rant to Riku he dropped to the ground and laid there, his eyes closed and chest rising and falling peacefully. Roxas' mouth dropped and his heart thumped louder than it ever had.
"OHMIGOD! Sora are you okay?! Riku, We've gotta do something! Here, you grab his feet and I'll-" A pale hand clamped over his mouth and amused green eyes stared into his blue.
"Calm down Roxas, this is normal. Sora has narcolepsy, meaning he just falls asleep anywhere for any amount of time." Riku removed his hand and smiled at the blond. As soon as Roxas calmed himself down he almost felt like laughing. Sora was so interesting, he was French and had two different colored eyes and now he was narcoleptic, Roxas was sure his life would never be boring with Sora around.
"Sorry. Usually when someone keels over, it's not a good thing. I'm not really used to people fainting and it being a regular thing." Roxas scratched the back of his neck, a nervous habit, and trained his eyes on the sleeping brunet. Sora looked gorgeous even when he was asleep. His dark eyelashes formed crescent moons on his tan cheeks that still held the remnants of baby fat, and his plush lips were parted slightly to allow soft breaths to escape his mouth. The brunette's shirt was riding up slightly and it showed off the piercing placed in his belly button that was so close to his hip bones that formed a 'V', his pants hanging slightly down more than usual because of the abrupt fall. Roxas tore his eyes away when he heard Riku chuckle from beside him.
"You, my friend, are falling hard for Sora aren't you?" Roxas felt heat spread over his cheeks and knew that he must be blushing extremely hard, causing Riku to laugh even more.
"I...I don't know what you're t-t-talking about." Roxas flinched when he was done he hated to stutter and it only happened when he was nervous or embarrassed.
"Whatever you say Roxas." A wink, "If you'll carry Sora, seeing as I have school books to carry, I'll show you to the lunch room where you can meet the rest of our friends." Riku grabbed his school bag and text books off of the ground from where he'd thrown them when he came running at Sora and leaned up against the wall, waiting for Roxas to pick Sora up. Since Roxas didn't have anything else to carry, picking the petite brunet up was easy because he was just that, petite. Sora seemed to barely weigh anything and he fit perfectly into the blonde's arms, his head resting on Roxas' chest and feet dangling over his arm. The blond smiled down at the sleeping teen before following Riku through the labyrinth of halls to get to the cafeteria and meet his so-called friends.
"This, Roxas, is Axel." Riku made a sweeping motion through the air at a tall redhead with a cat-like grin. The fiery red hair was in spikes at the back of his head, different from Sora and Roxas, who kept their wildly spiked hair safely secured on the tops of their heads and not the back. Axel's eyes were a captivating shade of venom green with two upside-down triangles underneath both eyes. His lean arms were placed on his fairly woman-like hips (although they weren't quite as womanly as Sora's) and his smile had changed to one of fondness at the sight of the sleeping body held in my arms.
"Well hello Roxas, I see you've already met our sleepy friend Sora here." Axel pointed to the brunet and Roxas nodded, not quite sure of how he felt towards this man yet.
"Sora's my guide, he showed me around the school since I'm the new kid and all." Roxas sat down and gently placed Sora's head in his lap, taking the opportunity to run his fingers the soft cinnamon locks. The spikes weren't hard at all- quite the contrary actually- and Roxas could tell that they were natural; no hair products were used in the making of Sora's ridiculous, bird's-nest hair.
"So, Roxas, I'm sure that Riku has already informed you of how precious and important Sora is to all of us, and if he hasn't he's at least told you what we, Sora's friends, will do to you if you ever hurt him, right?" a nod, "Good. I just wanted to make sure. That stand for every single one of us you know, Kairi, Demyx, Tidus, Hayner, Wakka, Zexion, everyone. Just so you know." Axel smiled at him before sipping his lemonade innocently and starting up a conversation with someone at the other table.
Roxas just stared at the place where Axel's face used to be and wondered to himself. Why were Sora's friends so overprotective? Maybe Sora was picked on frequently? It was a possibility, he did have a completely different accent, two multi-colored eyes, and a disease that makes him fall asleep randomly for undetermined amounts of time after all. Speaking of his narcolepsy, wouldn't it make it harder for Sora to do the school work? Roxas turned to Riku, who was slowly eating his disgusting cafeteria and winking at some girls across the room, before thinking about it and closing his mouth. It would probably be rude to ask that question when Sora was asleep and couldn't answer it for himself. Roxas felt Sora shift from his position on the blonde's lap and heard a groan. When Roxas looked down, Sora's eyes were opening slowly to reveal the brilliant blue and blue-green orbs while his mouth opened in a yawn, pink tongue sticking out cutely.
"Hey there sleepy head." Roxas smiled down at the waking brunet, who jolted at the sound of his voice and quickly vaulted out of his lap, landing with a painfully loud smack on the linoleum floors. Roxas scrambled to get up and help Sora off of the disgusting floor, stammering apologies and feeling like absolute shit for scaring the boy to that extent.
"Shit, Sora, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you like that. You fell asleep and Riku asked me to carry you so I did and there was no room or safe place for you to sleep where you wouldn't fall and hurt yourself so I just kept you in my lap but you obviously fell and got hurt anyway and fuck I'm sorry I swear I didn't-" Roxas was babbling on, his words coming quicker as his breath ran out. Sora was on his feet and had placed a hand over Roxas's mouth while trying to hold back laughter.
"Roxas it's fine, no worries! I'm just dandy. My butt's a little sore but that's normal." With this comment, Sora winked and slid into a chair next to Riku, who was observing their conversation with muffled laughter and a twinkling spark in his eyes. Roxas could feel the heat rising to his face as his brain registered what Sora said and began to make sense of it. He was so embarrassed. The table was laughing and Sora was smiling along with them, his cheeks a rosy color and his eyes sparkling with something that Roxas could quite place but he knew that it took his breath away. Sora was flirting with him. Sora was gorgeous and crazy and diseases and he was flirting with him. It had been less than a day, hell less than three hours and Roxas was falling head-over-heels for the teen he knew practically nothing about. He was in love with his wind-chime laugh, the way it burst out of him like a firework and twinkled in the air like a wind chime. He was in love with his narcolepsy and his pout and the way that he looked at his friends with such care in his eyes. He also was really in love with Sora's fantastic ass, but that would ruin the cheesy swell of emotions stirring in Roxas's abandoned heart, so he left the subject quickly. While Roxas wouldn't admit to himself the full extent to which this boy had Roxas wrapped around his finger, he couldn't deny his feelings of attraction and lust for Sora. Well… At least he knew Sora was gay, right?
The shrill sound of the bell harshly rang in Roxas's ears as he jolted awake. A strand of drool was strung between his mouth and cheek while his hair was flattened down to the right side of his face from sleep. Roxas felt a little bad; he honestly hadn't meant to fall asleep on his first day of school, but his teacher was the definition of boring and with nothing to stay awake for- he fell asleep. There was a sudden burst of noise as the students collectively jolted out of their seats and made a mad dash for the door which resulted in a traffic jam where nobody could leave the room because the students were shoving and pushing and were all completely stuck in the doorway. Roxas just stared at them as one person fell forward and the rest dominoed over the poor kid on the floor and ran to their lockers in the hallway.
Roxas moved slowly, gathering his books and bookbag that he had to cram under his desk. The school hadn't been able to assign him a locker yet and Roxas was forced to carry his bag every with him. Unfortunately for him the school had some crazy rule about bookbags needing to go in their lockers and Roxas had had to explain to every single teacher he passed in the hallway that he didn't have a locker so he had nowhere to place his backpack. In the end Roxas had snapped, a vein pulsing at his temple, and yelled at the last teacher who confronted him (a small woman with crazily wide eyes and too much mascara who looked cute from far away and slightly less cute close up and then not cute at all after she opened her damn mouth). The woman had warned him to control his mouth and his temper before whirling and stomping off to a chorus of claps and whoops from students milling around the hallways- Roxas could assume at this point that she was as crazy as she looked and he prayed that he would never have her as his teacher.
As Roxas walked out the front door of the school he spotted Sora, who happened to be leaning against a wall with Riku and a redheaded girl named Kairi. Roxas debated going over to Sora and hanging out with him, but that might be rude as they didn't know each other that well, and just as Roxas had made the decision to turn around and walk away, Sora waved and jumped up and down screaming his name.
"Hey Roxas! Hey Roxas come over here! Roxas! Roxassss!" Sora kept shouting as Roxas slowly shuffled over to the trio. He stopped when Roxas reached them and beamed up at the blond.
"Hey Sora." Roxas let a small smile grace his face as Sora's grin stretched further and further across his cute, round cheeks. The blonde's heart thumped against his ribcage at an increasing tempo and his cheeks began to flush at the continued smile Sora was giving him. The brunet was just so damn cute and he was giving Roxas his undivided attention and Roxas was getting flustered quickly.
"Hey Roxas! Do you wanna hang out with Riku, Kairi, and I? We're gonna go to the square! You don't have to come of course but I'd sure enjoy having you there." Sora's smile was more subdued now, his eyes soft and gentle and wow. Roxas's heart skipped a beat and fluttered helplessly against the confines of his bones, threatening to break through with the force it was currently exerting. This kid was so gorgeous.
"T-the square?" Roxas stammered and cursed under his breath, his eyebrows furrowing gently in frustration with himself and confusion. Roxas had no idea what 'the square' was. It sounded kind of sleazy in his opinion. 'The square.' Roxas had no idea what that could mean. Maybe it was like in New York with the main, big part of the city? Or possibly it was a strip-club. Roxas doubted Sora would invite him to a strip-club but he didn't know the brunet very well and seriously 'the square' did not sound like an innocent place.
Sora smacked himself lightly on the forehead and groaned. "Oh my gosh I completely forgot that you aren't from here Roxas, I'm sorry. Okay so the square is the downtown area of this town and it's big stoned-in area is in the shape of a square. There's a fountain and a gazebo and lots of picnic tables and it's kinda the place to hang out after school. Most of the shops around it are locally owned and like boutiques and stuff so there's lots to do and see!" Sora threw his hands up in the air at the end and Roxas watched Riku stifle a laugh from behind the brunet. Riku apparently sucked at hiding his laughter and Sora turned around quickly, pushing Riku to the side and pouting, which caused Riku to laugh even harder. Kairi was standing off to the side, texting someone with a fond smile on her face as she pulled her head up to watch Riku taunt Sora, and consequently Sora get increasingly frustrated.
"Um well I'll have to ask my mom if it's okay and if we have to drive there then I can't go." Roxas spoke over the two teens' continued sparring and snorted as Riku held Sora in a headlock and smirked at Roxas once he heard the snort. Riku knew he had the upperhand against Sora here. Compared to Sora, Riku was practically a mammoth or a wall of muscle.
"Oh no dude it's right up the street. See that large building up there? That's a section of the courthouse and right beside it is the gazebo and the subway station, which are all a part of the square. This town is only 4 miles all around. You really don't have to drive anywhere." This time Riku answered him, as Sora was stuck with his head under Riku's muscled arm. "And it's chill if you have to ask your mom. Kai has to ask her dad and text him whenever we change spots at the square, even if it's just us moving to another table." Roxas could see the angry blush rise on Kairi's cheeks as she lunged for Riku, shouting insults and hissing at him from between her teeth. Riku dropped Sora and took off, running around the front of the school in circles with Kairi chasing him and gaining ground on him- fast. Roxas was surprised at how fast Kairi was running, her red hair whipping out behind her and her sandals clutched between her fists (Roxas had missed when she took them off). She caught up to Riku quickly and tackled him to the ground, smacking him repeatedly in the side with her pretty sandals while Riku begged for mercy.
Seeing the slightly terrified look on his face, Sora laughed, a bubbling noise that rumbled from his core and popped from his mouth in a light burst of sound. "Oh don't worry, Roxas. As long as you're nice to her, Kairi won't do anything to you. She's just kidding with Riku anyway. She's plenty more horrifying when she's pissed for real." Sora patted Roxas's arm and smiled. While Roxas appreciated the gesture but that did absolutely nothing to quell his fear of the petite redhead who was now standing up and brushing herself off. Roxas hoped to God or whoever else was listening that he never pissed off Kairi or had the bad luck to cross her path while she was pissed. Sora tugged his arm and began walking away from the front doors of the school and up the path that lead to the PAC (or the performing arts center where Roxas had Spanish and P.E. in the basement with no windows).
"Come on, Roxas! I'll lead you there and you text your mom, alright? If she says no then you can always just walk home from there, it's no big deal. The square is in the center of everything." Sora smiled and tugged his arm lightly again, resting his hand in the crook of Roxas's elbow as the walked together up the hill to the branch of the courthouse. Sora was babbling about something or another but Roxas wasn't paying any attention. Instead he was focusing on the warmth of the Sora's hand that was seeping through his jacket and shirt and spreading lovely tingles up his arm and into his shoulders. Roxas breathed deeply and exhaled slowly to calm his heart, which had been going into overdrive non-stop since he'd seen Sora for the second time that day.
Kairi ran up to Roxas and Sora and linked arms with Sora, using her other hand to continue the texting she'd been doing before. Roxas reached into his pocket and got out his phone, texting his mom to see if she would let him hang out with his friends (or what he really hoped were his friends). His mother would most likely be thrilled that Roxas was socializing and gladly agree to let him do whatever he wanted. Roxas's mother had grown stressed and older the past few years because of her two sons' behavior. Cloud, Roxas's older brother, was loud and overbearing and while Roxas loved Cloud very much, he made Roxas's life a little bit harder than he realized. Roxas was no rose either though, but at least he realized it and vowed to change. For his mother's sake.
Sora was still rambling on about something as they reached the top of the hill. Roxas heard a thumping noise and turned to see Riku jogging to join them, his demeanor back to normal and his eyes filled with a mischievous glow. A buzzing against his thigh brought Roxas's attention to his phone and he pulled it out to see that his mom was calling him. Roxas sighed and grudgingly touched his finger to the green square on his screen that would accept the call.
"Hey mom… Yeah I met some people at school and they wanted to know if I could hang out downtown with them." Roxas could hear a sharp squealing noise coming from the other end of the line and he winced, pulling the thing device away from his face slightly. His mom was yelling now, not at Roxas, but to Cloud somewhere in their new house about how he 'finally made some friends oh Cloud I'm so proud of him!' and Roxas quickly clamped his hand over the speaker to muffle his mother's gushings. Riku was giving Roxas an inquisitive look while Sora was pressing his hand to his mouth to stop the giggles from reaching Roxas. Kairi was too busy texting to care and Roxas wished that the two boys would follow in her example. A shout of Roxas's name from the phone drew his attention back to his mom and he once again placed the phone against his face, listening as his mom said he could go and gave him instructions on how to get back home. Roxas turned to the still giggling Sora. "She said I could go."
"Oh yay! This is going to be so much Roxas! You're gonna love it I promise! Oh I bet your family will love it too. Y'all could go to dinner or shop or dance in the gazebo at night when the fairy lights are all strung-up and turned on or maybe get dessert at one of our three frozen-yogurt places or…" Sora continued to list breathless suggestions, pausing only once or twice to gulp in air before starting up again as the teens made their way across the street and onto the grass surrounding the stoned-in square area of the square. Roxas was stunned by how cute and quaint this area was. There were a few teens milling around, and all of them were in tightly packed groups, some smoking at the picnic tables and some laying on the grass and listening to music. There were a few skateboarders who were lazily skating around the fountain but they soon stopped and joined a group of people nearby. There was a small gazebo where a little girl and a woman were running around inside making airplane noises. The main courthouse was huge and regal, a statue in front of it honored the fallen soldiers of the Revolutionary War. There were shops across from the side of the courthouse with restaurants, a bookstore, and Starbucks there as well. On the side of that building was a gorgeous mural painted with rich, earthy oranges and browns of a man's face. Across from the mural and on the other side of the actual square was a line of restaurants and a convenience store, as well as a frozen-yogurt place and a boutique. There were birds singing everywhere and the sun was shining brightly in the sky, illuminating the buildings in a warm glow. Roxas felt great. Roxas felt safe. This place was cozy and he liked it a lot, especially when Sora squeezed his arm gently and smiled at him from his side.
"It's nice, isn't it? I love coming here. It's a lot different than where I lived before." Sora swayed gently with a rhythm unknown to Roxas, his voice soft and quiet enough where Roxas had to listen intently to hear and he found himself wrapped up in the soft and thick tones of that voice. Sora was staring thoughtfully at one of the trees nearby now and Roxas noticed as Kairi patted his shoulder and walked off, joining a group of people standing by the bushes and wheelchair ramp. Riku moved to stand next to Sora now, his hair flowing gently and sparkling in the sunlight.
"So Roxas. Why'd you move here?" Riku addressed Roxas and looked at him with genuine curiosity.
"Oh well my dad's job requires him to move all the time and he kind of drags us along with him every time so here I am. This was supposed to be the last move though so hopefully I'll be staying here." Roxas supposed he wasn't lying. He didn't just move because of his dad's work, but right now Riku and Sora didn't need to know about any of that. He'd save those stories for when he knew they wouldn't leave him.
"Oh that reminds me. Why'd you move here, Sora? I've been to Savannah and it was wonderful. Not that this town isn't, but why'd you leave Savannah to come to a small town?" Roxas cocked his head to the side and watched as Sora and Riku both tensed up considerably. Sora dropped his head and Roxas could see his muscles bunching up under his shirt while Riku's fists were clenching and unclenching, his jaw tight and his gaze unfocused.
Shit. Roxas had asked the wrong question.