Chapter One

Roxas' P.O.V

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...

My alarm. Great. Today's Wednesday, the middle of the school week. I heard the shower start up meaning Sora or Cloud were already up. It was most probably Sora as he always meets his boyfriend, Riku, in the mornings. Cloud on the other hand, wakes up 10 minutes before he's due to pick Tifa up for work. So I started getting ready for my 'joyful' day at college. After 30 minutes of eating, showering and dressing I set off for the bus stop.

To get everything out of the way, I suppose I'm different – I've never had feelings for guys or girls so I just consider myself bisexual. Sora came out 2 years ago before dating Riku and everyone just presumes Cloud is straight since he's always with Tifa.

When arriving at the school gates I saw the group in a large circle. This included someone I haven't seen since high school.

"Xion!" I shouted to my best friend of 12 years.

"Hey Roxas!" Xion ran over.

Xion had short black hair – it hung just above her ears allowing anyone to see the endless amount of piercings she had gotten over the years. Her blue eyes were surrounded in thick, black make-up. She wore a short, black dress with two belts just above the hips along with mesh tights. She wore her usual leather jacket and matte black combat boots with at least three necklaces and rings running up and down her slim fingers.

"Xion, why is Axel back? I thought he was in college in Europe," I was puzzled but Xion could see there was a glimpse of hope in my eyes. See, what no one else knew, except for Xion of course, was that I had a crush on Axel for years. Before I knew it, I was with the group, staring at the floor, blushing.

"Axel, why don't you tell Roxas why you're back?" Xion knew how to make me want to bash my head against the wall eight times.

Axel seemed surprised to see me but quickly averted to his trademark smirk. Axel was wearing black skinny jeans with black and white converses as well as a white t-shirt under a black jacket hoodie. His sleeves were pushed up around his elbows exposing a black leather wrist band. The hair was still the brightest red in existence. Kairi and Namine, younger twin sisters of Axel, giggled while observing Riku teasing Sora. Axel sauntered over to me and slung his arm round my shoulders. I gasped and looked up, earning looks from all 5 people in the group,

"Well, you see, Roxas, there was a lot of bad blood. I was dating this bitch and well – she cheated on me. I didn't want to stay," Axel talked so smoothly,

"And Axel's in our year!" Namine beamed "He got held back!"

My face change from uncomfortable to angry to extremely happy.

"So Namine tells me I'm in your first class," Axel smiled and leaned close to my ear so only I could hear, "Looks like we can get close again,"

Shivers ran down my spine as I was dragged off to the Art block.

Axel had happened to be in 3 out of 4 of my classes. Right now we were at lunch. Me and Xion usually went to lunch alone because the rest of the group had the other lunch hour. Today, however, Axel tagged along with us.

"So, Axel what're you doing this weekend?" Xion asked

"Nothing that I know of. I mean I just moved back to town so I was gonna hang down at Reno's shop or something,"

"Axel, you can hang out with me and Roxas!" Xion said.

My eyes widened as I knew Axel wouldn't refuse this opportunity. My head shot up as the bell alarmed, signaling us for class.

"Great, I will! I'll text you later, bye guys!" those beautiful emerald green eyes lit up while his smile grew bigger as he stood up and walked away.

"We're hanging out with Axel this weekend..." I breathed out,

"Err...Yeah...'We' are," Xion said.