Silent Lights in the Darkness

Here is some background info about your character:

Name: Ashe (Ah-she)

Age:15

Hometown: You mysteriously washed up on the beaches of Twilight Town, where Roxas and his friends saved you. Out of all of them, Roxas had taken you under his wing.

Appearence: A faded black-grey sweater-tee shirt with black sleeves. There is a picture of a red asterick on it. The shirt stops just above your belly button. A red, plaid half-skirt and baggy worn, faded jeans. A single black belt hangs off your side with a pouch attached. Black converse. When you first came to Twilight Town, Roxas gave you his jacket, so the one he wears now is a spare. Bleach blonde hair thats layered (it's spikey at the layered part) Byed black roots and shadowed. Goes down to about the bottom of your shoulderblades, maybe 3 or 4 inches more. You have heterochromatic irises, meaning both of your eyes are different colours. (This case being one is turquoise, and the other is emerald green.)

Personality: You're really shy, except around your friends. Pampered on the outside, your as hard as nails on the inside, making this good when you and the gang go against Seifer and durring the Struggle match. You also like to crack a joke every once and a while. You like everyone to be happy. Sometimes, things get tough, and you feel like only Roxas understands you. Though, your a little more than clumsy...

Family: Is all a mystery. You don't remember anyone from your family, only your twin brother, who has yet to be found.

Dreams: Your dream is to one day meet your father and twin brother, whom you were seperated from at birth.

Other: You are an outsider to most of Twilight Town, so not everyone except your friends accept you. But Seifer still tries to get you to join his gang.

She stood alone, waiting for the night to end. The midnight breeze relaxed her, and the new moon cast a glow onto the dark ocean, giving it a familliar shine.

The waves crashed against the shores on the beach below the grassy, rolling hills.

Watching and waiting, it seemed as though morning would never come. Staring off into the silvery moon for the rest of her life.

She may never see her brother.

"Ashe." she heard.

She turned around to face the voice. It was her closest friend, Roxas.

He walked closer to her and stood on her left side. They stood together, as the black clouds shifted ever so slowly and the stars followed the horizon wherever it lead them.

"You'll find him one day." Roxas said.

Ashe was speechless. It took her a few moments to find the right words to tell him.

"Roxas.. how do you know him? I've never told anyone about-"

"Your brother?" He finnished.

Her eyes widened as she took a slow, steady breath.

"How do you know about him?" She repeated.

"I don't." Roxas responded.

"What?"

He turned to face her and smiled. His ocean blue eyes seemed to fill her with happiness.

"This is a dream... remember?"

-----

I shot up in my bed, tangled in the blankets wrapped around my body.

I stretched my arm to the back of my head and scratched my neck.

"Whoa... how weird..."

Then I suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, crap! The orientation is today!"

I jumped from my bed and rushed over to my buearu. I opened the light, oak-colored doors, and inside were 3 short-sleeved, silk, white school blouses.

In the drawers under it, were my blue, light blue and white plaid skirts. My matching tie was tangled on my nightstand, from practicing to getting back in the habit of tying it.

'School uniforms suck...' I thought. 'Espically when they look like this...'

I pulled off my nightshirt and got dressed for the orientation that my school had planned.

I suddenly heared a knock at the door and I jumped.

"J-Just a second!" I shouted. I grabbed my yellow, one strapped backpack and shoved a make-up bag in it. Olette wanted me to do her make-up before we went to the school.

I grabbed my CD player and shoved it in my bag along with my journal and a pen.

Then I grabbed my house keys and walked out the door to find Pence and Olette standing in front of me.

"Hiya, Ashe!" Pence greeted.

I suddenly laughed. "I forgot what such a dork you look like in that uniform, Pence!"

Olette giggled and pointed to the bag. "Did you remember the stuff?" She asked.

I nodded, but my happy mood changed to angered when I looked at Pence again.

"It's not fair you guys can choose whatever pants you want and we're stuck with these lame-o skirts every day." I said.

Pence quickly changed the subject. "So uh, Roxas and Hayner are waiting at the usual spot. We should get back. We've got about an hour or so before the orientation starts."

"Okay." Olette and I said. Then we all went off to the usual spot.

- The Usual Spot-

Me, Pence and Olette walked in as Roxas and Hayner were playing a regular game of darts.

"It's about time you showed up." Hayner said. "I thought i'd never see you again if you were picking up Ashe, cause she takes forever to get ready..."

"Here we go..." Pence whispered to Olette.

Me and Hayner always argued about the stupidest, and the littlest things. According to our friends, the fights were as predictable as gravity, very often, and they seemed to be entertaining.

I licked my lips and made a smacking sound with them. "You know what?" I asked.

I snatched a dart from Hayners hand and threw it at the bullseye that he'd been trying to get the past few days.

"Face!" I laughed.

Hayner rolled his eyes. "Lucky shot...!" He said angrily.

"Lucky or not, I still got it and you didn't, admit it!" I shot back.

"I don't have to admit anything." He said.

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, except that your listening skills suck."

"Excuse me? I listen just fine." Hayner said.

I faked a laugh. "HA!" And I walked closer to him and popped his collar on his white shirt. "No tie, eh?... So, you're still not listening."

Hayner hit my hand away from his body. "Just so you know, I CHOOSE not to wear the stupid tie."

I smiled quirkily and rocked back and fourth on my heels. "Uh huh... suuure..." I said sarchastically.

Hayner was now short on words. "Yeah? Well, Roxas isn't wearing his dumb tie and you're not getting on his case about it!"

That made me madder than anything Hayner had said today. "Don't bring poor Roxas into this, it's your fault!" I poked his chest knocking him off-balence.

Hayner shoved up the sleeves that went slightly past his elbows up to his shoulders. "Now you're just asking for it, Ashe!"

"Bring it on, 'bad boy'!"

Olette came in between us and pushed us apart. "Okay, guys. Thats good, Ashe and I are busy anyway."

Hayner and I were set in a glare before I swiped my thumb across my nose, a symbol to me as, 'This isn't over'. And walked to my favorite couch with Olette.

-Me and Olette-

"This is all his fault and everyone knows it..." I mumbled to Olette as I started applying eye liner to her eyes.

She sighed, as she always did when Hayner and I fought. "It's no one's fault, Ashe." she whispered.

We were trying to keep our voices down so the boys' wouldn't hear us.

"No, he always starts everything and we end up fighting..." I clenched my teeth. "He makes me so mad i could just-"

"Ow!" Olette cried. I pulled my hand away from her face as she blinked rapidly.

"What?" I asked concerned.

Olette laughed lightly. "You went a little overboard with the eye pencil..." she said.

'Crap,' I thought. 'I must've poked her eye.'

"Y'all right?" I asked her.

She nodded and smiled. We both continued.

I put away the eye liner, thinking that'd probably be enough for today.

Olette tried to cheer me up, as usual. "Listen, Ashe... you and Hayner always fight, and you may think it's the worst thing in the world, but if you look at it another way, you and Hayner are really close."

I raised one of my eyebrows. "Heh?"

"Yeah. You and Hayner have a special relationship that the rest of us don't. You're closer to him than you think."

"Really?" I asked.

Olette nodded as I pondered. I finally came to the conclution that it could, in fact, be possible and smiled.

"I guess your right." I said.

She smiled and said, "That's better. Now let's finnish this before we gotta go. Pence said we got a half-hour left when we came in."

"Okay..." I mumbled as I glanced over at Hayner.

- Roxas, Hayner and Pence-

Hayner threw a dart at the dartboard and it landed on the 2. "She's so uptight, isn't she?"

Roxas and Pence looked at each other. No doubt they were both think the same thing. 'Hayner, you're an idiot.'

"Hell-o...?" Hayner said more angrily.

"You're just mad, dude. Ease up on Ashe just a little bit." Roxas said.

"Why should I?" Hayner retorted. "She started it, she always starts it..."

"Uhh..." Pence uttered.

"What is it now?" Hayner asked.

Pence sighed. "You kinda started it, Hayner."

Hayner seemed taken aback, not usually blamed for the arguments. "What?"

Roxas stepped closer to Hayner. "You heard him. You're just mad you didn't get the last word in."

Hayner clenched his fists around the darts. "I'm not mad 'cause of that! I don't always have to get the last word in!"

Roxas narrowed his eyebrows. "Yeah, you do. You always do"

"I do not! I--" Hayner stopped. He knew he'd only be proving Roxas's point, which made him angrier that he was wrong.

He mumbled some words to himself that no one heard and threw a dart hard at the wall, where it got stuck.

Hayner growled, but something hit him on the back of the head.

"Ow..." he said, and looked around for whatever hit him. When he looked down, he saw an ice-cream bar.

He wondered who threw it, then he saw me throw one to Roxas and one to Pence, and I handed one to Olette before grabbing one for myself.

I looked at Hayner, innocence drowning in my 'unique' eyes. When I spoke, there was a mixture of sadness and apology, and I could almost bet Hayner saw it. "It's sea-salt... you like it..."

Hayner looked at me for a moment before picking up the ice cream. Roxas the crossed his arms in front of Hayner.

"Feel bad, now that she still gives you something even though you treat her like dirt?"

He was silent. He all of a sudden tore the wrapper off the ice cream bar and stuck it in his mouth. "No." He said flatly.

But he didn't fool Roxas, or Pence, or Olette. He didn't even fool himslef. He was only able to fool me.

- Usual Spot: After Orientation-

I walked in first, and threw my bag by the sofa before plopping down on it. I brought my hands behind my head and sighed.

"What a day. That speech that Mr. Keryagi gave was like, over 2 hours." I said tiredly.

Roxas came in after me, and sat down next to me on the couch. "Seriously."

I punched his shoulder with a laugh. "How would you know? You, Pence and Hayner slept the entire time!"

Olette and Pence walked in. "You fell asleep too, Ashe." Olette said.

My head sunk into my neck. "Only for about 20 minutes..." And my voice trailed off.

"Try 45." She corrected with a laugh.

I looked around the room. "Hey, where's Hayner?" I asked.

Roxas rubbed his chin. ".. He said he wanted to be alone for a while."

I rolled my eyes and crossed my legs. "Than that means he's at the station tower."

"We should leave him alone." Pence said.

But I hatched an idea too good to pass up. I leaped from the couch and grabbed my backpack and ran for the door.

Roxas, Pence and Olette blocked my path. "Where do you think you're going?" Olette asked.

'Uh oh...' I thought.

I tried to give a believeable smile, but no luck. Those darn eyes of mine gave me away. I even shrugged for special effect. Those darn eyes.

Roxas shook his head. "Just leave Hayner alone. He probably feels bad enough for what happened this morning."

I bit my bottom lip. "Aw, come on guys. I gotta get home... pleeeeease...?"

I clasped my fingers and quivered my lip. Roxas's emotion lightened.

"Okay, but i'll go with you."

'Crap.' I thought.

Roxas moved away from the door and we walked out together torwards my house, while Olette dragged Pence to go shopping with her.

"Uh, Roxas...?" I said.

He raised his eyebrows and mumbled. "Hm?"

"Do you think maybe, we could stop at the accessory shop? In the Tram Common?"

"Why do you need to go there?" He asked.

I had to think of a good excuse, and fast. I then pulled a pendant from my neck.

"I was gonna ask Jessie to polish this for me, I just know i'll mess it up."

Roxas shrugged. "I guess so."

'Score!' I thought. 'Now to get Hayner.'