Moments of Bliss
—Chapter One—
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
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"You are never to associate with a girl named Na—" A tiny boy with golden-blonde hair yawned long and hard for he hadn't slept for a while. "—ever in your life!" She wagged her finger at the small boy, confusing at her mother's words. "If you ever meet one, just...just walk away!"
"B-but why mommy?"
"Because of complicated reasons!" Her voice was shrill now and it frightened her son even more. "Just remember this when you grow older…"
"And what won't your hair ever stay down, Roxas?" She said in a calmer tone as she brushed the small blonde spikes down with her fingers. When she left the room, Roxas quickly brushed his hands through his hair so it stood up again. He hated it when his parents ordered him around.
Roxas was now sixteen and remembered exactly what his mother said ten years ago. He didn't know why he remembered that part with his hair; he always shrugged at this and thought that was why his hair was naturally spiked. He rose from his bed and walked over to his closet and slid one of the doors open.
He put on a black and white button shirt and looked at himself in the mirror. Today was the first day of his junior year in high school.
If I find that girl this year…I'll be best friends with her. Roxas said this to himself at the beginning of every school year, but never met one. He didn't exactly hate his parents, they just embarrassed Roxas way too much than parents should normally do. But this year won't be any different than the others.
He put his backpack over his shoulder and headed for the door. "Mom! I'm gonna go to school now!"
"Okay!" His mom shouted from the kitchen. "Be back for dinner! It's your dad's time to cook!"
"Uhh—fine." And left and shivered at the thought of dinner. Last time his dad cooked, Roxas had food poisoning for about a week. He slammed the door behind him.
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"If you meet a boy named Ro—" Naminé stirred in her sleep. "In your life—" Naminé's father said quietly to her.
"Slap him in the face hard!" Her mother angrily interrupted.
"But why?" She stared at her parents, obviously frightened of her mother more.
"Because his family's full of backstabbers!" Her mom stormed off and her father followed his wife, thinking all was already said.
Naminé woke up from her dream. She had not had this dream since she was six or five or something like that. She could never remember his name though…strange, kind of.
She rubbed her head. "Maybe I just had too much cake." Naminé had just turn sixteen yesterday and a heaping helping of chocolate cake before bed.
"Honey!" Her mom knocked on the door. "Wake up! You're going to be late for your first day of school!"
She looked at the clock 7:45A.M. "Dang it!" She hopped out of bed and into her closet. It took her 10 minutes to dress and about 15 minutes to walk to school and her new school started at 8! Naminé thought as she shuffled through her clothes, looking for something to wear. If I ever meet a boy who seems like the guy, I'll slap him in the face REAL hard!
Although she never met that boy similar to that which her father and mother spoke of, after awhile her parents hatred towards him and his family rubbed off on her. Sometimes she believed this 'guy' was nothing more than a dream.
After about 7 minutes in her closet, Naminé ran out wearing a light blue polo and a white skirt and sandals. She quickly put her bag over her shoulder and down the stairs.
"Mom…gotta go…gonna be late!"
"Have a good day at school, sweetie!" She quickly ran out the door after that.
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"Another year of school!" Olette said brightly.
"When will it ever end?" Hayner complained.
"Another six years including this one!" Olette shot back at him. "No wait, Hayner, two more years for you since you're too lazy to get your butt to college!" Roxas and Olette laughed a bit.
"Ha-ha. Not funny." Hayner said sarcastically.
"Well at least the best thing about school is having your friends being tortured with you in piles of homework." Roxas said as they headed for homeroom.
"Nice. This year's gonna be a real blast, huh?" Hayner droned.
"As long as my friends are right beside me—" Roxas put his arms around both of them. "I'll survive!"
"I don't see how you can be so cheery..."
They entered the classroom with only about 5 students present and few of them chatting with each other. Roxas sat in the farthest corner from the teacher near a window and Hayner and Olette sat ahead of him. As the minutes went by on the clock, more students entered and took their seats. To Roxas, that seemed forever, so he turned on his iPod and listened to his music.
He heard the faint sound of the bell over his music, which meant class had just started. Roxas looked out the window and his eyebrow rose as he saw a girl with blonde girl frantically run up the large, gray steps of the school front and into the building.
The teacher entered the room and began talking about something that Roxas paid no attention to. The first days are always full of teachers introducing themselves to new and old students and other junk like that. From the corner of his eye, he saw the teacher began to write his name on the white board when she entered.
When Roxas turned his head toward her, she quickly looked away from him and to the teacher. It was the same girl from about a minute ago outside and Roxas saw her lips move as she spoke to the teacher and he answered back with a not so happy look on his face. He pointed her to a seat next to Roxas and she followed his order. She dragged the chair out of the desk and sat in it, placing her backpack on the back of the seat.
Roxas examined her as she tried to unpack some things out of her backpack. She had layered flaxen hair that swept to her right shoulder and a pair of beautiful sapphire eyes that focused on what she was looking for. Her clothes were a bit wrinkled and looked as if she was in a rush. When she retrieved a notebook and a pen from her backpack and turned back to the front of the room, Roxas looked at his window once again as if nothing had happened.
"Roxas? Did you hear me? ROXAS!" The teacher bellowed, becoming clearly impatient, but Roxas remained looking at his window. "ROXAS!" The teacher walked over to the back of the classroom and snatched away the iPod.
"Huh? What?"
"Since you won't be so preoccupied with this anymore—" He held the electronic device in front of Roxas's face. "Now you'll have time to show Naminé around the campus, since she has such a hard time getting to class early." Naminé stuck her tongue at the teacher behind his back.
"Na-minn-who?" Roxas asked, scratching his head. The teacher rolled his eyes.
"Our latest student," He stepped to the side so Roxas could see Naminé. "Who apparently was late this morning…Understand? Okay." As he walked to the front of the class again, Naminé stuck her tongue out at him again.
About five minutes into the lecture, Roxas caught Naminé doodling in her new notebook and gently tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up from her doodles, her glittery blue eyes upon Roxas.
"So you're Na-minn-eh?" She giggled quietly.
"Umm…sort of. More like Naminé." She answered in a soft, whisper-like voice.
"Pleasure to meet you, Na-min-é." He still had trouble pronouncing her name, which make her giggle more. "I'm Roxas, if you didn't already hear." He extended her hand to her.
"It's a pleasure." She shook his hand with smiles on their faces.
"THERE WILL BE NO CHATTING IN THE CLASS WHILE I AM TALKING!" The teacher shouted, directing 99.7 percent of it towards Roxas and Naminé. When the teacher turned away from them, they looked at each other and blushed from embarrassment.
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After class, Naminé and Roxas went off in their own ways. "Gee and I thought Roxas was supposed to show me around campus." She walked through the halls with a tiny piece of paper in her hand, looking at each of the lockers at each side of the hallway.
After about a minute, she had found her locker and crumpled the piece of paper and shoved into her bag. She turned the knob on the lock to the corresponding numbers that she had memorized before. 10…3…21… Naminé pulled the locker door, but it would not open. She tried again…and again...and again.
"Hey there." Naminé jumped a little and looked away and saw it was Roxas.
"Heh, thought you were supposed to show me around." She tried pulling her locker open another couple times. Stupid, evil locker... Naminé thought angrily.
"Sorry, although I only left you for like 2 minutes, I had to get my books for the next class, math."
"Really? I have math next, too!"
"Cool." Roxas replied. He watched Naminé's attempts in opening her locker in interest. "Do you need—" Naminé lifted up the small handle on the locker door and pulled it open, smacking Roxas right in the face.
"Oww..."
He fell to the ground and Naminé quickly bent over him. "I'm so sorry! Are you okay, Roxas?" He rubbed his nose, which was turning a nice shade of pinkish red.
"I'm okay, I'm okay." He said as Naminé helped him up. "It was just the shock of it all, you know."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes positive." He tried to reassure her. "Seriously. Go get ready for the next class or something." She gave him a worried look, but unpacked some other subject books and loaded them into her newly opened locker. "There's no blood stains on the locker, right?" He joked, swinging the door a bit to look at the front.
"Roxas! You're already making me feel bad!" She was now adding the finishing touches to her locker, like slapping on some decorative magnets and putting a mirror on the locker door.
"Okay, okay. I'm sorry."
Naminé slammed her locker shut. "Well you're not forgiven!" She said in a childish tone. Roxas just laughed.
"Well anything I can do for you to forgive me?" He played around. They started walking to their next class. "I'll hold your books—" He grabbed her book and binder from her hands. "Want me to punch that guy over there?" He randomly pointed to some guy walking near them. "Want me to jump of a cliff?"
Naminé giggled. "No, no. I SHALL think about it later. But until then you're not forgiven."
"Darn it."
"And geez, Roxas, give me my books! People might think we're a couple!" She tried to reach for her books, but he held them away from her.
"Why—you don't want people thinking we're a couple?" Roxas replied in a sarcastic voice.
"Hmmm—rriiiiggghhhhttttt…since we've only known each other for less than an hour." She reached again, but Roxas only held the books farther from her.
"You're so hurtful…Why can't people just think that I, Roxas, am being a gentleman for once! Huh? Huuh?"
"Because the world and this school are full of morons and idiots! Now gimme my books!" She said, becoming impatient, unlike Roxas, who was still enjoying teasing Naminé.
"Whose an idiot?" Hayner ran up to Roxas from behind. He looked at Naminé for a couple of seconds and then back at Roxas. "Whoa Roxas, almost one hour into the new year and you already got a new girl?" Roxas sighed, while Naminé laughed quietly.
"Hayner, this Naminé, not my girlfriend just a friend. Naminé, this is my best friend and idiot, Hayner." He said monotonously.
"What?" Hayner questioned.
"Nothing, nothing. Inside joke."
"Well Naminé, if you ever need help and Roxas isn't around—" He suddenly pulled Olette out of nowhere from the passing by crowd.
"Hey! I was trying to get to class!" Olette complained.
"Me and Olette are happy to assist. Olette, this is Naminé, Roxas's friend not girlfriend. Naminé, this is Olette, my girlfriend."
"Nice to meet you." The girls shook hands.
"Sorry to rush this, but Hayner and I should really get to our class now, it's all the way on the other side of the building and there's only two more minutes 'til the bell."
"See you guys at lunch!" Roxas yelled over as Olette dragged Hayner through the hall. She simply waved back and continued to drag Hayner over.
"They seem really nice." Naminé said as they reached the classroom.
"Yeah, but sometimes they can be really annoying. But you gotta love them for that." He placed Naminé's books on a desk next to his. Naminé just smiled. Wow, one hour into the new school year and I've already made friends. So cliché, huh?
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