Disclaimer that I shouldn't even need to put on here: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

Author's Note: l0l hay guyz. This chapter is very short, I know, others will be longer. Oh, and they'll also flow smoother. Stick with me for a bit. Try to enjoy it anyway. (Thanks to iluvtoady for pointing out the blaring typo on this chapter.)

Intro: Coffee House

Don't you just hate it when everything is going well and then one small, tiny event takes place, and things start going downhill? Yeah, me too. Don't you just hate school, too? It messes up your life. Well, I had a feeling it would. For me. At some point... and that feeling was right, because it did... Just not in the way I expected it to.

Roxas slowly paced his way down the snowy street that lead to the local cafe. It was afternoon, 3PM, Thursday. He turned the corner, and then opened the door to the aformentioned cafe. Feeling a massive rush of heat hit his previously crimson face, the spiky blonde stepped inside and walked over to the counter of the large room. See, this was Starbucks... Not a trashy place where geeky 19 year olds work. Well, they probably do, actually... While Roxas waited at the counter for someone to actually do their job and pay attention to him, he looked around. Lot's of people, busy talking to one another, laughing, one person crying... That was Radiant Garden... A million different drama's happened every day.

Roxas normally goes straight home after school, but he was supposed to meet his brother here today because his mum wouldn't be home until later. No key, you see. Doesn't she trust me or something? God... It'd help if she just put a little faith in m- The teen's thoughts were interrupted when someone came to serve him from the other side of the counter. "Yes?" The woman asked him politely, a most likely fake smile plastered onto her face.

"Yeah, I just want a coffee, please. Normal." Roxas told her, putting his own fake smile on in turn. "Ok, just one moment." She replied, turning away and going to one of the machines. Roxas felt into the pocket of his favourite, trademark cream checkered jacket for his wallet, only to find... It's gone? Roxas started to silently panic, because that wallet had a fair bit of money in it.

"Having trouble?" Asked a mysterious voice, one he'd never heard before. Is he talking to me? Roxas thought, looking around to see a boy, probably 17 or 18, looking down at him with a devilish grin on his face. He had odd, untamed, crimson hair, and green eyes that Roxas swore could pierce straight through you. "I saw you looking a bit... flustered. Here..." He handed Roxas a small yellow and green ball, which of course was Munny. Roxas had always wondered why it was balls, and not just... flat. Before he could even utter a word back, the stranger was leaving through the door. Roxas was quite peeved, mainly because the red haired boy had obviously found his situation amusing. It was easy to tell that from his tone, and Roxas didn't quite like it.

"Excuse me? That'll be 3.50." The woman asked, breaking Roxas out of his train of thoughts. He handed her the Munny and took the coffee, and then sat down at an unoccupied table. It was atleast twenty minutes of looking at special deals in the little advertisement books before his brother came, looking around for a moment before finding him and coming over to sit down next to him... "Roxas, hey." He said, sounding slightly worn out. His name was Cloud. He looked a bit like Roxas, blonde spikey hair, blue eyes... The differences being that he was much taller and much more well built, as he worked out alot.

"So, how long did I keep you waiting?" He asked Roxas while fishing in his pocket for something. "Half an hour..." Roxas replied, looking down into his coffee. "Oh, I'm sorry. Work. Had to do a bit of overtime." Cloud said apologetically.

"Ah, here," Cloud suddenly came out with, handing Roxas a dull metal key. "I have to go back to work for a bit, so... see you later, Roxas." He said, ruffling the other boy's hair up. Roxas hated it when he did that... But Roxas always supposed he had the right to do that, seeing as Cloud was 21, and Roxas was 16.

After a while, Roxas finally found the energy and motivation to leave the cafe. Unlike earlier, the snow was coming down slowly now, and replacing the sleet on the road with new layers of enchanting white. It rarely snowed in Radiant Garden, and with it being such a modern, bustling place it seemed to fit that way.

Just as Roxas was about to turn the corner, he saw him again... That red haired guy... This time, though... He was with 3 other people. A gang? It looked like it. It was far too dark for Roxas to actually make out what the others looked like. What he did see was that the readhead was looking at him. Probably grinning and laughing at him, he thought to himself.

Ignore them, Roxas... Ignore them. And he did, as he walked down the street towards his house, which was almost slap bang in the middle of Radiant Garden. When Roxas arrived, the door was unlocked. If only he'd have left earlier he'd have been able to actually use the key, but atleast he had it for the future now.

As he walked into the living room, Roxas noticed his mum was cleaning everything like she normally does. "Oh, sweetie, you're back..." She said slowly as she dusted the bookcase. She didn't comment about him being home later than herself, but just continued cleaning and payed no mind to him. She wasn't normally like this, but when she's cleaning... She turns into something else. Roxas rolled his eyes and laughed to himself before he went to his bedroom. He could have stayed up longer, but he had alot of homework to do... and he was tired. Very tired.

He did finish his homework, but when he finally got into bed... He couldn't sleep for a while... He was too busy thinking about the various things that had happened on that day. It was midnight when he fell asleep, and he was blissfully unaware of the events that were to come in the near future... unaware he was about to recieve a lesson in life.

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