"Day…number…70…There!" The blonde boy smiled down at his scrapbook. His summer homework was to document seventy days of his vacation. He got the information about it at the beginning of the summer when his mother enrolled him in the new high school. He didn't think he would get it done. That was until he met his three new 'friends'. He met them while they were working on their project. They were making a scrapbook of their 'adventures'. When he told them he was new to Twilight Town and he hadn't started the project they offered to help him. As the days went on they ended up becoming relatively good friends. They worked on the scrapbook together and they helped him with all the other summer assignments they were required to do. Not everything they put in the scrapbook was too terribly exciting. One day was a picture of the four of them bonding; sitting in a circle with their DS's out as they played four swords. Another was them working on other summer work around a kitchen table, and the only exciting thing about that was the face the brunette boy was making at the camera. He closed the cover of the book, the title 'Pence, Olette, Hayner, Roxas: An Awesome Summer or Awesome!' shined in the silver glitter Olette had expertly glued. The boy grabbed his checkered backpack from under his bed and dropped the book in to it carefully like a treasured relic, zipped it up and slung it over his shoulder.
"Rox, where are you going?" His older brother asked as he passed by the living room.
"Usual spot, Sora." He replied without looking back. "Tell mom if she gets home and cares to notice." Roxas grabbed his skateboard from next to the front door and rode off down the sidewalk. The sun beat down hotly on the back of his neck. He turned down a side street and rode up to a large open fence. Kicking off his board and catching it in his hand, he walked through the gate to a curtain that hung down in maroon rags, it didn't look like much from the outside. The inside had been cleaned up really nice. The concrete floor had a large square rug covering it. They put up posters and a dart board on the wall and they had put some odd chairs, boxes, and crates around to sit on.
"Hey, Rox!" he was greeted by a small, cute brunette girl with soft pink lips and friendly eyes. "What took ya song long?"
Roxas sat on a crate next to a dirty-blond haired boy who sat with one knee up and his arm resting lazily on it. "Sorry Olette, I had to put the finishing touches on the last page." He replied, putting his backpack on his lap and taking out the scrapbook.
"Alright!" The dirty-blond boy said, snatching it away and flipping it open. He snickered. "Really? You put purple trims around the picture?"
"Shut up Hayner," he laughed, snatching it back. "The assignment said to decorate!"
"Well, said the pudgy brunette boy as he walked over and leaned in to see it. "I like it. It's better than letting him put checker boarding around everything. Am I right?"
"Oh, shut up, Pence," Roxas laughed again.
"Alright guys," Olette laughed as she walked to the corner of the room where a large metal ice box that came as high as her hip sat. "I think completion of our summer work warrants,-"she pulled four wrapped ice cream popsicle out of the box. "-A treat!" They cheered as she passed one out to each of them.
"I'm going to miss this summer," Pence sighed.
"It's because I was here, isn't it?" Roxas joked.
"Oh, totally."
"Me too…but we still have today! Let's make the best of it," Olette said optimistically."How about we share our goals for this year?"
"Huh?" Roxas asked, feeling stupid.
"Oh, every year on the last day of vacation, we all make goals for the school year!"
"Well!" Hayner interrupted, standing up and holding his ice cream like a sword. "My goal is to be both captain of the struggle bat team and a part of the foot ball team!"
"Yeah, good luck with that," Roxas laughed, pushing him with his foot, easily knocking him off his balance.
"Mine is to get straight A's and get my first kiss," Olette proclaimed with a slight blush.
"Bleh…" Pence pretended to vomit.
"Oh, if that's big of a deal," Hayner said, going over to Olette and putting an arm around her waist to pull her in. "I'll kiss you right now."
"Ew! Gross!" She laughed, pushing Hayner away by his face. "It has to be romantic Hayner, and let's face it, you're about as romantic as a garbage can full of six month old lunch meat."
"Ow!" Hayner histrionically exclaimed, grabbing his chest. "Right in the feels, Olette!"
"My goal this year is pretty simple. I'm limiting my 'sick days' to ten." Pence said proudly.
"Yeah, ten per quarter." Hayner said sarcastically.
They all laughed. Olette looked over at Roxas. "What about you Rox? Got any goals?"
Roxas raised his eyebrow. "Um…" several things came to Roxas' head. Not a single one did he feel confident to share. "No…I can't think of one."
"Oh, come on!" Pence whined. "You gotta set some kind of goal! Better grades? More friends?"
Roxas shook his head. "I always make good grades…you guys are all the friends I need."
"Well…what about your old town? Got any friends there you want to make a goal to visit?" Olette said hopefully.
Roxas bit his lip. "I didn't really have any friends there, I was kind of a loner…I'm not interested in sports... I've had my first kiss…" He shrugged. They all looked at him sadly. "Hey…I'll think of something." He smiled up at them.