A/N: Hello there! :) So I'm starting this off as a T rated fic, but it might get bumped up, I'm really not sure. This is the first fic that I'm actually publishing so please bear with me; reviews and criticism would help a lot and probably get things moving along a lot faster. In short: If something I wrote looks retarded or jacked up, go ahead and say "Excuse me author, but you wrote something retarded and jacked up, here's how to write it properly." I promise I won't bite if you're nice about it. Anyways, none of you want to read my rant, on with the story!

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"My name is Roxas Strife." I started, "I'm sixteen..." I frowned, trying to think of more to say, "I...Like cats?"

Blue eyes rolled as my brother crossed his arms over his chest, looking frustrated, "Roxas! You don't have to give anybody a detailed report about yourself the first time you meet them! Just...Say...Hi, my name's Roxas, what's yours?"

That's right, my brother was teaching me how to introduce myself to a person. Our entire lives he'd always done it for me, we were in classes together starting in preschool. My friends were his friends. I hadn't ever needed to make any on my own, Sora was quite the socialite so it was easy enough to find people I liked somewhere along the line.

But that proved to be a problem over time.

You see, for our entire sixteen years we lived in Twilight Town, a sunny little place where you couldn't go anywhere without seeing somebody you knew. It wasn't until our freshman year of high school that the possibility of moving even entered our minds. Apparently, living in Twilight Town was expensive, and my mom just couldn't afford it on her own. So, as it turned out, she had to sell her flower shop-her pride and joy-and get a job in Hollow Bastion, where it was cheaper to live.

So there I was, starting at a new high school, with no idea how to make friends. And now I didn't have Sora to help. As my luck would have it, the only time we would see each other was lunch, and that didn't leave much time for me to squeeze myself into his circle of friends.

"Besides-" I looked up at the sound of Sora's voice, I'd all but completely forgotten he was there, "-As soon as you invite some people over, they'll see Duchess and the kittens in your room and they'll probably figure out that you like cats. It's pretty obvious, Rox. You have a kitten sticker on your binder."

I crossed my arms over my chest, "That's not fair, Olette gave me that. It'd be rude to just throw it somewhere and forget about it!" Okay, so that was only partly true. Olette did give me the sticker, multiple actually, but I didn't put it on my binder to be polite. I put it there because, yes, I loved kittens. And I still do. I mean come on, kittens? You can't not love kittens!

But I digress. You're probably more interested in my first day of school at Hollow Bastion High School, right?

Right.

But I wasn't, not when I found out about the move, not a month before, not the night before, and definitely not during the short walk there. I was dreading it with all my heart.

I never liked school, no matter where it was. It was boring, I just couldn't pay attention. I guess I didn't really like being crowded either, it was annoying to have to shove through hoards of people five days of the week.

Maybe I was just negative. Sora seemed to be happy enough, if his excited chattering was anything to base my theory on. I really wasn't paying attention, my focus was on the school laid out in front of us. Looking over at my brother, still going on about some boy he'd met while we were moving our boxes into the house, he didn't seem to even notice that we'd gotten to school.

"Earth to Sora?" I waited until I had his attention, "We're here." He stared at me for a long moment, his blue eyes uncomprehending. I pointed at the school, his head snapping around to see what I was talking about and his mouth popped open into a small O shape.

"Sorry, Roxas. I got kinda carried away." My brother rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, chocolate brown locks ruffled already by the wind. I felt myself frowning, we didn't have wind in Twilight Town.

I sighed, "It's fine. Just pay attention today, okay? Hollow Bastion schools are ahead of everybody else, you don't wanna fall behind because you're thinking about Ricky."

"Riku." Sora corrected, his hands on his hips, trying to look intimidating.

"Right. Riku, sorry." I pushed open the door to the office, the beginnings of a headache pounding in the back of my head, "It's going to be a long day."

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A/N: Okay so that was kind of short, I promise I'm gonna try to make the other chapters longer!