A Face From The Past . . . Or Not?
A/N: oh yeah finally posted something here on my favorite website. Idk if it's any good so uhh yeah, enjoy~
Disclaimer: uhhhh i own my drawings and a fake Square Enix business card i made in DDP class xDD; that's about it. oh and the plot.
Prologue: The Incident
"Oi! Lea! Come on, get up! Class ended like ten minutes ago." The spiky blonde said, nudging his sleeping companion on the arm. He clucked his tongue as he realized it had no effect on the other. He searched about the room, trying to find a good enough weapon to use. His eyes landed on the rubber band that laid on top of the desk that belong to their teacher. The blonde grinned evilly as he approached and snagged up the stretchy elastic, getting into position." Ready. Aim. Fire!" He let his fingers go, making the band snap, hitting the sleepy redhead pretty hard on his arm.
"HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING SHIT! I'M UP!"The young teen yelled out, clutching his abused arm. " Dammit Ven, what the hell?"
" You didn't want to get up. It's all your fault, man. Let's go." The blonde, Ven, shrugged innocently as he grabbed his bag and headed out the classroom.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't just leave me. That's like a. . . like a hit and run without a car!" Lea exclaimed, following the other out the class and to outside where they began their adventure home.
Ventus laughed. Lea always did say the weirdest of things. That's what the blonde always enjoyed about him. That and his sense of humor and he found the redhead's absurd attraction to fire to be quite amusing. Like the time he lit his arm on fire by spraying ax on and taking a lighter to it. Definitely not one of the smartest moves, but it was the funniest." Whatever you say, dude."
The two headed to Lea's house where they would "hang out", as they, being now teens in 7th grade put it. "Playing" had a new meaning to it then before and well, it just wasn't "cool" to say "hey, wanna come play at my house after school today?" It was such a childish term kids grew out of saying after entering middle school.
Their conversations reached many topics. Such as events that have happen in school (" Oh man, Terra beat that kid up so badly. Well now he knows not to mess with him!" " Yeah and like, half the school knows now too." "Hell yeah! My friend is awesome." "Hey!" " You are too!" ), to their favorite shows ( " Dude, Ven, did you see that new episode of Pokemon? Kick-ass!" "Yeah but Ash always wins. . ." " Not true! He lost like a few times before!" ), and a typical discussion of growing boys; girls. "Aqua sure looked pretty today. I know i'm such a creep." Ven sighs out.
" Nahhh just shy. Stop that and grow some balls. Talk to her, she's not going to shun you out and crucify you, she's too nice." Lea said as encouragement, if you can call it that?
" Yes but she's an 8th grader, Lea! Besides, I think Terra has it in for her too. There's no way I could compete with that!" The blonde said in his defense.
"Uh-huh, sure that's it." Lea chuckled. He knew he shouldn't be saying it, but he was glad that the smaller blonde was too shy to ask the older girl. Truth be told, he was against Ven having anyone. It was just recently that he figured out why: he was completely head over heals for his long-term friend. He found himself constantly getting jealous over the smallest of things and tended to get slightly possessive over him. He also concluded he was obviously gay and found nobody of the opposite gender attractive which wouldn't go well with the blonde's christian parents. They might think he's "going to infect their son with his gay disease". That known fact lead him to wonder if he ever came out to his best friend, what would he think of him? Would he still want to be his friend? Or be like his parents and shun him out and call him a disgrace? Hopefully it was not the later of the two.
They entered the taller redhead's home and threw their belongings on the ground. Ven made himself comfortable on the couch while Lea turned on the t.v. and set up the PS3." Final Fantasy XII or Devil May Cry 4?"
"What? I don't get to play too?" The blonde questioned.
"No offense Ven, you suck at video games." He laughed out, earning the cutest pout he's ever seen.
" Fine. . . FF XII 'cause Fran and Ashe are pretty hot for game characters." He finally decided.
"Figured you'd say that." Lea said as he put the game in. He grabbed the wireless remote and flopped onto the couch right next to his best friend as the game title screen appears.
"Lea~," Ventus cooed," I'm hungry, make me some food please~!" He half whined/begged.
"What? I just- But I- You- Ug, fine." The redhead gave in. What can he say, Ven was his weakness. He threw the remote control on the couch and sauntered over to the kitchen.
" Sucker. . ." The blonde snickered as he took the control and began to play the game himself.
Before the other teen in the kitchen could stick the hot pockets in, he heard battle sounds coming from the room he left out of. He let out a groan. Of course it was a trick. ' That sneaky little. . . '
He put their food to heat up in the microwave to drown out his footsteps as he made his way back to the living redhead suddenly popped up behind the couch, looming over the blonde who was deeply enthralled by the game. Quickly, he snatched the remote and hid it under the couch. He went back to the other room to retrieve their food when he heard the beep, leaving his friend on the couch, completely flabbergasted and a screen with ' GAME OVER ' written across it.
" You suck." Ven crossed his arms and made a scowl at his friend as he reappeared with food.
" Oh really now? I thought that was your job." He replied with a wink as he handed Ven his food.
The spiky-haired teen grabbed his food with a faint blush making its way upon his features. " You would probably like that, huh?" He said, sticking his tongue out before taking a bite out of the breaded pizza goodness.
" Damn straight! Oh wait. . . if it's you and me, that wouldn't be straight at all~. Then again, you're pretty girly, Ven." Lea teased, reclaiming his spot next to the blonde on the couch with a smirk.
" You're so messed up in every sense of the word, Lea." Ventus laughed it off even though he himself thought the same thing if they were. . together; he'd definitely be the woman in the relationship, as degrading as that is to admit. Not that the blonde thought about them being a thing or anything. . . .
After that the boys just continued the day doing nothing but playing video games and being stupid, like most boys their age would. As time passed, it soon became closer and closer to when the blonde had to go. Lea's uncle had arrived home as well as his sister, who was also at a friend's, sometime during their play date er- hang out session.
Lea was tempted to tell his friend about his sexuality but failed to do so many times in fear of what the other would say. Even as they said their goodbyes, the redhead stopped the other to tell him but ended up saying, " Um, see ya at school," instead.
The ginger-headed teen watched as Ventus' figure disappeared into the distance." You should just tell him or else he'll never know," said his little sister, Kairi.
He jumped at the sudden presence of the evil younger. " I'm not going to take advice from some lowly 5th grader, 'Kay? I'll do it eventually." The taller sighed out, heading back inside.
" Eventually might be too late. Then you'll live in regret, " said the smaller redhead nonchalantly as if she knew what was going to happen that dreadful walk home for the blonde.
"Whatever. . ." He replied dully as he headed off to his room, away from his pestering sister.
If only he knew. If only he didn't punk out and did speak out to him. Maybe things would have been different. Ventus would be still around. He wouldn't have gone through such a great depression. They wouldn't have moved for him to escape the past. He could have stayed ' Lea ' instead of becoming ' Axel ': the kid who shut out everything and everyone. Continuing day by day with fake smiles and happiness. He blamed himself for the the accident.
He loved Ven. Now he was in a coma, hit by a drunk driver and there was little chance of him waking up. Lea, no, Axel did regret it. He regretted his past and wondered if he could ever get a chance to fix it, make things right. Well, maybe a run-in with a familiar face his senior year may just be what the redhead needed. . . or not?
A/N: woot~ finished it~! that was fun writing, typing, not so much. . . lol my friend knows, i complained to her about fifty times while typing it up xDD; sorry about that amiga!
Anyways, yeah. I had this and two other ideas in mind. Omg. . . 3 stories at once? Insanity. . . but there's authors out there who write more at a time. which boggles my mind -
So uhh, tell me what you think~ Drop a review or at least alert or something. I need some motivation guys :D!
Axel: . . . . . Seriously? I did all that. . over love. That's some legit shit. Love is so screwed up.
me: BU Oh trust me, you don't know the half of it. . . my family have done some crazy things over it.
Axel: i don't even wanna know. . .
Ven: I'm unconscious . . DDD:
me: it's 'kay i still love you. You just had to for this to work out hun. -huggles-
Axel: Whatever.
Ven: Damn drunk drivers. B(
Vanitas: Read and learn kiddies. No driving while under the influence or you'll end up sending poor Venny into a deep sleep. -snickers-
me: WTF? howdidyougetinhere-
Ven: i'm scared. . . o-O
Axel: Just do what you gotta do readers and see you next chapter. Adjö ( Swedish: Goodbye ).