Chapter 1

"Stars? What about the stars?" I asked my prince in shining amour before me, staring intently up at the sky trying to find anything unusual.

"They're pretty are they not?" He replied, his voice gentle, yet so familiar. I blinked and returned my gaze back at the twinkling dark sky.

"I suppose so." I breathed as he started to disappear. "Hey wait!" I called after him, but it was already too late.

"Wait!" I repeated and jolted up, sitting up in my bed, surrounded by my familiar room, no stars in sight. Releasing a sigh, I forced myself out of bed and stole a glance at my black cat alarm clock. Shit, 6:30 already. With another sigh I grabbed a black shirt and a pair of jeans from my closet and quickly dressed. "God I hate Mondays." I murmured, exiting my room and heading down the stairs, my cerulean eyes barely opened.

Down in the kitchen, my two roommates, Jacob and Rose, were sitting at the Maplewood table bickering about something as usual. Rose stopped arguing midsentence as she spotted me out of the corner of her grey eyes.

"Morning, Roxas." She greeted cheerily. I mumbled somewhat of a greeting, grabbing my black and white checkered backpack from the closet. Rose was just one of those people who you couldn't help, but like. She's helpful and cheery, much unlike Jacob. Jake's pretty pale like me, but he has ebony black hair and doesn't talk to people very often. I still thought he was pretty cool though.

"Woke up late again?" Jacob said, turning his icy eyes my way. I nodded, slinging the bag over my shoulder.

"I was having a weird dream." I admitted opening the door, the two of them behind me.

"Again?" He asked. "That makes it two weeks straight now." Rose stated, picking a flower from the bush out front.

The cool spring air felt great on my skin as the three of us made our way to school. Rose and I were in 9th grade; Jacob in 11th. The schools pretty new and nice inside I guess, but I still wished they had a bigger library. Because of that reason, every day after school I go to the library a few blocks away from our place. It has every book you can think of; it's around 5 miles total on the inside. Three floors too, not bad for a local library. A few freshman works there. Rose's friend and some other kid with chocolate brown hair, who's in a few of my classes, works there. He's always pretty quiet in the library though while he's working.

I just never got him, always so loud in class, always smiling and laughing with his friends, but every time I ask him something, he gets all quiet. Maybe he hates me or something. I never did anything for him to hate me though, but whatever. Hopefully he won't be at the library after school today then.

After school, I walked back home with Rose and Jacob, waving goodbye as I passed our house. I made sure I had all the books I needed to returned before I walked inside the enormous building. Gently pushing open the front door, I stepped inside, welcoming the warmth that came with it. My eyes traveled over to the librarian's desk and a sigh escaped my lips. Of course he was here and how the hell did he beat me here? I left like five minutes before him, I'm pretty sure I did anyway. I slipped three books from my bag and slid them into a slide labeled 'Returns' in bright, bold red letters, ignoring the brunette who was working feverishly on his laptop. I took my usual seat in the corner and pulled out my own laptop from bag and placed it on my lap. Turning it on, I glanced over at him working. On the back of his computer there were four letter stickers that spelled 'Sora' in a cool font. His gaze traveled over to mine, blue eyes locked for a moment before we both looked away at the same moment. I shook my head and returned to my homework, wanting to get it done before I browsed for any books.

A half hour had gone by as I finally finished all my assigned work that I needed to finish. I looked over at Sora, I'm guessing that's his name because of the stickers anyway, again. He was currently putting a group of books away on the shelf. I didn't know why I even cared what he was doing, just curiosity I guess. Slipping my laptop back into my bag, I decided to find out whether Sora hated me or not. I walked over next to him .

"Excuse me, your work here right?" I asked, twirling a strand of my blonde hair between my fingertips. Sora stared at me for a few seconds, almost as if he thought I was a hallucination or something.

"O-oh uh yeah." He answered, laughing a little nervously. "Great." I said flashing him a warm smile, his tan face tinted pink.

"Do you know where the Anne Rice novels are?" I questioned him even though I already knew.

"They're on the second floor, close to the café." Sora told me as I just blinked. "Just follow me, okay?" He said, placing the last book on the shelf and walking up the spiral staircase close to us. I walked close behind him, still smiling.