Hello there! Welcome to Abandoned, which is the rewrite of Bruises and Bitemarks. If you wondered over here from that story then I'm glad you decided to give this story a chance and if you're new then u hope you like it.

shadowofmyself435 came back as my beta so I'm very happy about that. And she should also get credit for naming this story since I was having a hard time.

And I'm sorry about how short this is but I wanted to keep it the same as the first chapter of Bruises and Bitemarks while showing that this is going to be a different story. So I was having a hard time with that. Hopefully the rest of the chapters will be a lot longer.

Once upon a time, there was a young boy named Roxas Jecht. He was the third child out of four. He had an older brother named Cloud, an older twin named Sora, and a little sister, Naminé. Roxas lived in a small house with his siblings, parents, and uncle.

The blond's parents' names were Tidus and Yuna. The two were high school sweet-hearts. At the age of sixteen, Yuna found out she was pregnant with Cloud. Both of them dropped out of school to support the baby. Yuna became a full time stay at home mom and Tidus took on odd jobs. A couple of years later, when Yuna and Tidus were eighteen, they got married and soon after the twins were born.

With three little babies and not enough income, Tidus went to his wife's father for help. Braska's idea was to send his longtime friend, Auron, to go live with them. The older man was retired so he offered an extra hand to Yuna with taking care of the babies and offered them his pension to the family every month to help pay bills.

Being the youngest, Roxas had been picked on by his brother. When, on his eighth birthday, his mother announced that she was going to have another baby soon, he excited not to be the baby of the family. And five months later baby, Naminé was born. The little girl was doted on by all three of her brothers and they became over protective of her.

Years passed and Roxas led a very simple life. The young blond, sixteen, was in his second year of high school. He made C average in all of his classes and didn't do any sports, the complete opposite of his twin. Sora, while making B's in class, was on the soccer and swim team. But there was no rivalry between the two. Roxas was content with doing the minimum and Sora was pleased with doing the best he could.

The youngest twin was lying on his back outside and watching the clouds. It was warm outside for being mid fall; all that was needed was a light sweater to keep the chill at bay. It was Saturday so Roxas didn't have to worry about finishing up his homework till tomorrow. He was just enjoying the slightly warm day.

"Roxas!" A high pitched yell came from near the house. The blond rolled over to see his sister running towards him. When the little girl was a few inches away, she stopped and lay down beside her brother. "Tell me a story, please?"

Not able to resist her big blue eyes, Roxas sighed as he thought of a good story for the girl. "Once upon a time, there was a girl. The girl had a favorite coat that was a deep red. Now she wore this coat everywhere and got the nickname-"

"-Little Red Riding Hood," Naminé finished. "If you're going to tell me a fairy tale then at least make it more interesting than a girl's grandmother getting eaten by a wolf," The blond girl huffed.

Something more interesting...? Roxas lay back down and ran his fingers through his sister's long golden hair as he thought of how to change the story.

"So, one day Little Red had to take a basket of food and medicine to her sick grandmother, who lived on the other side of town. When she left her house, she came to a fork in the rode. She could go to the right, which was the long way and went through the whole town. Or she could go left and cut a good hour out of her trip. But the left went through the woods, and Little Red's mother always told her never to go there."

"Like our forest?" Naminé questioned. She moved so she was using her brother as a makeshift pillow.

"Yes, like our forest. Now are you going to let me tell the story or not?" Roxas took her silence as an answer and continued. "Thinking the faster she got to her grandmother's place the better, Little Red took the short cut. While she was walking on the overgrown path, a big scary-"

"If you say wolf I'm going to leave and bug Cloud for a story."

The older blond groaned. "Fine, it wasn't a wolf. It was a man. He was big and scary. Little Red tried to run away from the man but he was faster than her and caught her. She didn't even stand a chance..." Roxas paused as he thought of what would happen next.

The pause annoyed Naminé. "That's it? That's how you're going to end it? Little Red dies?" Her brother just nodded his head. Naminé started to laugh so hard that she started to cry a bit. "You're a horrible story teller, Roxas!" And in a blink of an eye she ran into the house, most likely to bug a story out of Cloud.

The blond sighed and looked back up at the sky. "How should it end?"

~X~x~X~x~

"You know what we need? Sea-salt ice cream!" Roxas's best friend, Hayner, yelled as soon as the group of friends managed to get out of their school. The other three agreed. "Let's make this interesting; last one there has to pay!" And before anyone could register what the dirty blond had said, he took off.

Olette pulled her hair into a ponytail so it wouldn't get in her way. "I think he forgot his wallet again." Once her hair was secure, she took off after the boy with the other two close behind her.

Roxas quickly passed Olette and was close to Hayner when something caught his eye. Well, it was more like a someone. He was tall with vibrant red hair that stuck up in weird directions. His back was facing the blond. The man must have felt Roxas's eyes because he turned to stare back at him. Once they made eye contact, the man took Roxas's breath away. The stranger had bright green eyes and there was something different about them that Roxas just couldn't put his finger on. Under his eyes, there were dark purple triangles tattooed under both. The sexy grin the exotic looking man wore just completed his look.

The grin parted as the man tried to say something but Roxas didn't catch it since Pence had successfully passed him. And as much as Roxas wanted to stay and stare at the man, he didn't have enough cash on him to pay for four ice creams. So, as quickly as he could, the blond took off after his friends. He quickly passed his chubby friend with a cry of "Hey, no fair!" from the other boy. By the time he got to the parlor, Hayner and Olette were already there.

"Hey man, what happened? I thought you were right behind me," The dirty blond said with a smile.

"He...he stopped to stare at someone like a creeper," Pence panted out. He just got into the shop, was sweating heavily, and was having a hard time catching his breath. "I didn't get a good look at her but by the look on Roxas's face I bet she was pretty."

A blush formed across Roxas's face and he was so embarrassed he felt like he could explode. The only good thing in this whole situation was that his friends thought he was checking out a girl but, in reality, the blond was gay. He was only out to his siblings; well, he only told Cloud and Sora, Naminé figured it out.

Three sets of eyes were on the blond and he had to think of something to say. "She...was really pretty. I've never seen anyone who looked like her before." His mind drifted as he thought about those green eyes and wild red hair.

"I wonder if she's new around here." Olette said as the group made their way from the entrance to the counter so they could get their ice cream.

~X~x~X~x~

It was dinner time and Yuna had made homemade spaghetti with fresh sauce, which was Roxas's favorite. Between Cloud and Sora's bickering, Tidus and Auron talking about work, and Yuna banging pots around as she set the table, the table wasn't close to being quiet.

"So, Roxas," Tidus addressed his youngest son once the food was served, "Have you decided to join any sport yet?" The older blond had been the captain of the blitzball team when he was in school and ever since his boys were little he pushed how important sports were on them. Cloud did wrestling and archery and Sora did his thing, but Roxas never showed the same interest as his brothers.

Roxas took a big bite of his meal to stall for time. "I haven't." His blue eyes moved from his plate to look at his father but quickly darted back when he saw Tidus's disproving look. "I'm sorry I'm not athletic. I just don't see the big deal."

A loud clank from Tidus banging his silverware on his plate echoed throughout the room. "And what's more important? School? You can barely make a passing grade!"

"Tidus, that's enough!" Yuna yelled at her husband. She was getting tired of this. This would happen at least once a week. She knew Tidus was only doing this because he wanted his kids to have the life that he couldn't.

Roxas had had enough of it and dismissed himself to his room, which he shared with his brothers, down in the basement. The blond grabbed his homework out of his bag and started to work on it. The class was working on quadratic functions. And Roxas didn't understand any of it.

Identify the vertex. Y= x² + 18x +64. What the hell is the vertex? Blue eyes crossed as Roxas scanned over the worksheet. They just went over this today in class and he couldn't recall any of it. Math wasn't really his strong point. He was better in English and art class.

After staring at the problem for a few more minutes, Roxas gave up and pulled out his notebook. He flipped to the page that had his Red Riding Hood story and he tapped his pen against the page impatiently. There still wasn't an ending and it was driving the blond crazy. Little Red couldn't die. It was a fairy tale and she was the heroin. Maybe the man can be the hero and not Little Red. Roxas thought. Naminé did say she wanted something different.