Roxas had always confided in Pence. Or his vague blurry memories had told him that anyway. Hayner was his best friend, Olette girl friend, but not girlfriend damn it. But Pence was who he could talk to. Completely hypothetically speaking, he bitched to Hayner about their new math teacher and they plotted devious acts of vengeance together. He asked Olette how to gently let down the girl that had taken to gazing at him with longing, batting, fluttering eyes. He told Pence he thought he was going crazy.
"I see this guy when I sleep. And I know I've never seen him before. I mean, come on. There's no way a guy with hair that color exists, right?"
"What color?"
"Red. Bright red. Like fire truck red red. And he's got these insane neon green eyes. God, this sounds so crazy. And, uh, his hair's all spiked out from his head and he these two dark purple tattoos right here."
Hayner would have teased him about watching too many Saturday morning cartoons. Olette would have told him not to worry about it, it was just a dream.
"So are you going to try and find him?"
"Huh?"
And Pence really meant it. He really believed Roxas and this unknown man were destined to meet.
Now Roxas just wanted to cry as Pence told Sora how this Axel guy had dragged Kairi away. Real Pence couldn't even appreciate the irony of the situation.
Tears rolled down Sora's cheeks. Pence understood for a split second before forgetting just as quickly. And somewhere inside Sora, Roxas was howling.
