"Why the fuck are you sending me here? I'm not a bad kid... I wont do it
again I promise... Please!"
"Its for your own good... We can't stand to see you like this any longer..."
"Please, I'm not a bad kid... MOM! MOM COME BACK! PLEASE!"
He ran after the car towards the gates but the car was too fast and he lost
her.
"Mom..."
Someone touched his shoulder from behind him.
"You must be Roxas then?"
The blue eyed boy looked up to meet caring brown eyes behind glasses.
"Uh huh..."
"Let me help you in with your bags..."
His eyes took in the country manner, the ivy growing up the walls, the
gravel and the courtyard.
"Roxas come in out of the rain before you catch your death."
Looking towards the tall gates he realised even if he ran for an hour there
was no way he'd catch his mother now so he reluctantly followed the doctor
in through the large wooden doors.
After laying his suitcase down on the marble checkered floor he began to
speak again.
"Right, your mother has explained everything to us and due to the nature of
your problem it would be unwise for you to be left alone, or with another
person who has the same obsticals to overcome... So on that note I'm pairing
you up with someone quite different from you... Would you like to see the
place first? Or shall I bring you straight to your room?"
The blonde shrugged.
"My room I guess..."
Nodding the doctor led him up some old stairs that creaked when you stood on
them and led him down a corridor.
/This is more like a country hotel than.../
"Heres your room, you'll be needing this..."
He handed Roxas his suitcase.
"We would give you a key to lock your room, but as you know, we need to keep
an eye on you... Understand, its not for invasive reasons I assure you."
The blonde teen nodded dully.
"Well lets head in and introduce you to your room mate shall we?"
Pushing the door the doctor greeted a teenager probably not much older than
himself who was lying across his bed.
"Hello Axel, this is Roxas your new room mate and Roxas this is Axel."
The young blonde boy raised a hand and waved as did the red haired teen
sitting up on the bed.
"Axel if you want I was hoping you could show Roxas around later on?"
"Yeah... Sure..."
"Thank you, I'm sure you two will be fast friends, dinner will be served at
8 so I'll see you then."
With another short click the room was empty.
Axel sat on the edge of his bed staring over at Roxas.
The blonde feeling somewhat annoyed and tired just let himself fall over
onto his bed.
Shifting across his bed so that he was closer to Roxas Axel stared a little
longer before beginning to talk.
"So, if you don't mind me asking, what are you in for?"
The blonde breathed out slowly his exhaling breath making a low whistling
sound.
"I'd rather not talk about it... Why don't you tell me about you and then
when I can piece the story better together in my head I'll tell you mine..?"
"Still bummed out about being left here huh?"
"Not bummed out, just sad I guess... How is this supposed to help me... I
feel more depressed here than I did at home..."
"Depression eh?"
"No there was a lot of stuff... You say first and then I'll tell you..."
Axel sat back on his bed.
"Okay then, my parents sent me here for quite a few reasons but the main one
probably being the drugs I started doing and the second being depression...
Now its your turn to tell me."
Roxas rolled over onto his stomach to face Axel on the opposite bed.
"Well my parents sent me here because they think I exercise too
excessively... They see it as some kind of problem truth is I just like
keeping in shape..."
Axel raised an eyebrow.
"Is that all?"
Roxas nodded and then shook his head.
"They caught me uh... In the bathroom... They freaked out..."
The red head nodded in understanding.
"So do you want me to show you around?"
Roxas nodded.
"Sure..."
They walked through random corridors full of doors to bedrooms...
"Some of them are empty... They just have beds... Others are full... In fact I think all of them along this particular corridor is full..."
"Uh huh..."
Axel led him through some more corridors down some steps and then out through what was like a glass door was a swimming pool covered by something very like a greenhouse...
"Heres the pool... People tend to be very impressed with it at the start... And then they kinda stop using it... Except a few people who come and swim everyday... I tend to use it in summer really..."
The redhead walked around the edge taking in his reflection and the depth of the pool until he came to another door which seemed to lead out to the garden...
Roxas watched his child like behaviour in slight amusement.
Axel motioned to his blonde companion.
"Well you coming or what?"
He simply nodded and walked to the door.
"You might want to pull up your hood, its still raining..."
"Out here is the tennis court and the basketball court..."
The young blonde teen nodded sighing like he really didnt want to be there...
"And over there..."
He pointed off into the distance.
"Theres a field over there with long grass that most of the people in here go on nice days... To smoke... To make out... It has many uses I guess..."
He laughed to himself thinking about some times he'd spent there.
Suddenly he turned around pointing at a window in the opposite direction.
"See that window? Thats the games room... Well like theres a tv, a snooker table and a playstation... People usually just go there to chat... Or gamble... Hey you look kinda tired... You wanna head back?"
Roxas feeling a little light headed from walking around so much nodded.
This wasnt an unusual thing for him to experience, pretty normal in fact...
He didnt care though...
He was going to get his weight down if he was here or not...
They arrived back in their bedroom within a few minutes...
Roxas suitcase still lay by the wardrobe...
He looked at it frowning, the black shiny surface threatening that he might actually be staying here for a while...
If he liked it or not.
Sighing he kicked his now wet trainers off his feet sitting on the edge of his bed.
The redhead sat on the other bed.
"Its not so bad you know..."
Roxas looked up at the cream coloured wallpaper to the blue bedsheets...
It felt kind of like summer camp...
For psychos...
The blonde teen let himself fall backwards feeling the bed cushion his weight comfortably his hand reached up and he pulled a pillow over his face.
Axel commented sarcastically.
"Trying to smother yourself eh? You know if you dislike me that much you can ask to be moved to another room..."
Roxas muttered something about sarcastic bastards... Or maybe puppies... Axel wasnt too sure, the guy had a pillow in his mouth.
"You know its really not that bad... I'm sure its not looking too nice, its raining, your mom probably gave you the 'Im doing this for your own good rant' and now you've been thrown in with a random stranger... It's not easy... But it's doable..."
The redhead stopped dead on the sound of sobs coming from under the pillow.
"Rox-Roxas?"
No answer, apart from muffled sobs.
He stood up from his bed and put his hand on the pillow to take it off, his hand however was quickly thrown off by Roxas...
So he sat down beside him instead and placed a hand on his shoulder words were not what he needed right now, so they sat, in silence.