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Nothing Is Going To Change

"Roxas, have you forgotten what today is?"

Spoon halfway to my mouth, I stared at my twin brother from across my bowl of cereal.

My expression told him I had no idea.

"It's the last day we have to ourselves before school reclaims our souls!"

And with another overdramatic statement, courtesy of Sora, I robotically completed my spoons trip to my mouth, and chomped on my cereal.

He had a point. But I also wasn't going to say that. I wasn't going to spend my last day of summer break doing anything differently from how I'd spent the rest of break. Sleep, eat, see friends, have fun, but also sulk in between.

How is it possible to have fun and sulk? Why would I do such a thing as sulk over summer break?

Because personally, I was sick of nothing changing.

Sora wanted to talk about doing something differently before school gave us a more boring way of doing the same thing every day? I could point out that him and Kairi '. They generally acted like they were, though. And that was probably the truly annoying part.

The same goes for the rest of our friends. Hayner pining after Olette but never admitting it. Olette claiming she was going to stop being so uptight and studious. Selphie claiming she'd break her shopping addiction (I was hoping she'd break her being-obnoxious-and-loud addiction but that was probably asking too much). Riku… actually, at least Riku wasn't making promises he wasn't going to keep. He could still out-sulk me any day, though, so maybe he should be thinking about change. I secretly think it has to do with the same thing I think about Sora and Kairi, but for different reasons. Then there's Pence, who we never see. I swear, he's worse than Olette when it comes to obligations and keeping busy and not doing anything remotely interesting. As for Axel… well, Axel's off trying to find a job. He gave up on college, but I'm proud of him for even graduating high school, so of all my friends, I actually take it easiest on him. Go figure. Granted, I can't vouch for just how hard he is or isn't trying to find a job. But I just can't handle any more disappointment. It was like New Year's in August. Everyone making resolutions they weren't making any attempt to keep. I didn't even have an issue with things staying the same up, until everyone started making it seem like things really needed to change. But no one was following through so why even bring it up?

So, no. No one else had bothered doing anything differently. Why would I? What did I need to do differently? Nothing. Especially not today.

Besides. It was already noon.

Sora, seeing that he hadn't gotten a single reaction out of me, huffed and turned his back to me, leaning against the island counter.

"I didn't want to have to ruin the surprise."

I slurped the milk from my now empty bowl of cereal...

"But if it means getting you motivated..."

I pushed myself away from the island and went to drop my bowl in the sink...

"But Kairi's had this pool party planned for weeks..."

And drop the bowl in the sink I did.

"She what!"

As I spun to face Sora, he was already facing my direction again, anticipating this exact reaction. His face told me he'd won, and he had. And I was okay with that.

"When? Where? How? Gehh..."

There were few things that could excite me. I wasn't the most social person in the world, but any event thrown at Kairi's house was just the coolest day ever. Because by house, I mean mansion. And by event, I mean any excuse she could come up with to have people over and give us all free food. Birthday (not even her's, necessarily), holiday, end of summer pool party! Why didn't I see that coming?

So of course, asking 'where' was ridiculous.

"Kairi's house, duh. She said people could start coming over at 3. As for how... well... she's Kairi."

I resisted rolling my eyes at this. It was only the way Sora said it that made me want to. In all actuality, that was a legitimate reason for 'how'. Kairi practically ran her house. Her mother was always off filming or on photoshoots. So although it meant Kairi could be a little bossy (seeing as she ran the house by telling the maids what to do) she was also probably the most responsible out of all of us.

And her parties, were awesome. Not to mention, swimming was one of my all time favorite things to do. I mean, we live close enough to the beach, but anyone can go there. Kairi's house and pool were like... architectural marvels that you felt privileged to be allowed in to. There were enough guest bedrooms for our entire core group of friends, and enough floor space for the rest of the school she'd invite, not that most of the time anyone stayed the night. It was sort of an unspoken rule. Have fun, but sleep elsewhere. Except for, again, us, here true friends, who, seriously, could each claim a bedroom. Of course, judging that we'd all have to get up for our first day of senior year in the morning, everyone would probably go home by midnight. Or... four in the morning.

I took off upstairs, planning to, yes, use all three hours to get ready.

For planning on taking all three hours to get ready, we still got there late. And it wasn't even my fault. I was totally ready to go, but of course I ended up having to play the good younger twin, waiting around for Sora rather than leaving without him. Because showing up with out him would mean Kairi harassing me about why I hadn't bothered getting him out the door. Although my excitement had gotten me ready in record time, Sora's excitement had made him slower than usual. So I stood in his doorway glaring at him.

"You're pathetic, you know that?"

I watched him messing with his hair in the mirror. It wasn't doing anything any differently than it normally did, spiked up in more directions than mine, even.

"Shut up it has to look perfect!" He cried exasperatedly.

Like I said, it wasn't doing anything differently, so I didn't know what he was trying to accomplish. But for making us late, I was going to push him in the pool the second he got within two feet of it.

When we did finally make it to Kairi's front door, it was after four, and I was starving. So it was a miracle I managed something like,

"Hi Kairi, bye Kairi!" before charging for the food and completely ignoring what Kairi was trying to tell us.

I was delighted to find my good friend Axel at the food table as well. Wait, did I atually just say that?

"ROXIE!" He almost dropped his plate, but instead managed to not waste any precious food and set it down before flying at me to crush my skeleton. I respected him for this. If there was one thing we bonded over most, it was food.

"Axie..." I managed to gasp into his black shirt, holding onto what oxygen I had until he finally decided to let go.

"Have some food it's delicious!"

I chuckled at him and did as he suggested, of course.

After talking to him about everything but how his job search was going, I remembered. From the window, I noticed Sora had finally made it out to the poolside, talking to Hayner and Riku, and wouldn't you know it, Pence too.

"Hey Axel, wanna help me with something?"

"Why yes, Roxas, I would love to help you put sunscreen on."

While he grinned, I rolled my eyes. Typical random Axel.

"No, I'm good thanks. But there is someone who needs help getting in the water."

He followed my gaze, his joking grin, turning into a maniacal one.

As if we had formed our plan telepathically, we set down our food, gave each other a high five, and headed out to the pool.

Distracted by conversation with the other guys, Axel came up from behind Sora as I rounded on the group to come up in front of him.

With a single nod, Axel yelled,

"S'cuse us coming through!" and as people sidestepped and looked around, we pushed through, Axel grabbing Sora's arms and me getting hold of his ankles. His expression was priceless, and his squirming was useless.

With a few swings, we tossed Sora towards the water, with a warning of "INCOMING!" to those already in the pool.

Kairi had made it over to us just in time to witness the splash, and promptly smacked both Axel and I in the back of the head.

"Ow!" We both rubbed our skulls, but started laughing as we saw Sora come up glaring.

"Worth it." I mumbled as he made his way back to the edge of the pool, towards us.

"Oh, it's on, brother."

But before he could climb out and retaliate, I pulled off my shirt and cannonballed over his head. And so the real fun began.

End Scene.

Ah voila. So um... as I've now completely established, WRC is currently inactive and potentially beyond repair. Maybe in another lifetime, if I had the time, I would work it out but... Maybe I just lost heart in it.

But now, hope is revived elsewhere (ahem, here and in Nami's point of view, 'Hope' =D) for my fanfic endeavors. And I have to give credit where credit is due.

Winter break just passed, and I spent it reading some lovely fics. Namely, I caught up on Teenage Wasteland and well, that's where the inspiration from this story comes from initially. Of course, TW is a SoKai (but features everyone in kickass ways). But the history of Roxas and Namine in that story just had me d'awwing to the twelfth degree. And suddenly they were a pairing I couldn't just overlook anymore.

0Wishful-Thoughts0 Nonexistent was the first RokuNami I went out of my way to discover. And it also let me know that RokuNami day is the 28th of March, which is close to my birthday. And so I thought to myself "I totally have to have to update a chapter on that day". But to do that, first I'd need a story. And then, "the drawing scene" hit me. Which will make sense in later chapters. But until that time, know that Nonexistant has concepts that influenced me greatly and it may be noticeable, but it's still my own story I swear!

Then there's of cours,Spellbound's Angel, Addicted, and Apologize. The 3-way story from each POV is done brilliantly here. This swayed me to do this RokuNami in such a way. And so far I'm quite proud of where it's going.

And so Change and Hope were born. I hope you enjoy and I hope even with second semester starting again, I remain as dedicated to it as I was getting it started over break.

Oh also, I don't know where anybody comes up with the last names for these characters, but I'm borrowing from across the board, where necessary.