E/N: I know It's been along time since I've wrote anything so I figured I'll get started back on that. I apologize for the long, ridiculous absence. I've been busy with school almost being over and I just went through a really bad break up with my ex. But thing's will get better. So enjoy.

Chapter One

Roxas drew back the tan curtain's that draped in front of his window making them flair out like silky waves around him. Ray's of the early morning sun were painting the skies of Twilight Town as he unlatched the window and pushed it open. He leaned out the window to get a better view of the town around him and could smell the food that the shops in the main district were cooking. He let out a long, drawn sigh and leaned back into his room, sitting on his bed. Out of nowhere, a rock landed with a thud into his lap. Confused, he leaned back up and put his head through his window. Below him, he could see a guy standing nonchalantly by the front gate with red spiked hair and emerald eyes. The other guy noticed him at once and raised his arm to wave at Roxas. A happy smile lit his face.

"Yo Roxas! You coming down?" The boy called.

"Morning Axel! Yeah. Be there in a sec." He called back.

"Okay!" Axel laughed.

Roxas leaned back into his room. He excitedly jumped off the bed, threw off his pajama's, and rummaged through his closet to find fresh cloths. He pulled on a white stripped T-shirt and a pair of khaki pants. He walked quickly over to his bed and grabbed his shoes from underneath it. From his bed side table, he got his two matching rings and put them on. He looked in his mirror that was leaning against his wall and fixed his hair.

"Roxas! Hurry up!" He could hear Axel call from outside.

"Just a minute!" Roxas called back.

He flung open his door and ran downstairs. He met his mother in the kitchen who was washing the dishes.

"What were you yelling about up in there?" She asked, slightly confused.

"Axel's waiting for me outside. Mind if I go out today?"

She thought for a second while scrubbing a plate.

"Hmm...alright. But be back by sunset."

"Thanks!"

Roxas gave her a quick hug and ran toward the living room, yelling a quick 'Bye!' before leaving.

Roxas walked down the driveway to the front gate. He saw Axel dressed in a black Alesana band T-shirt and bluejeans. Roxas walked up to him.

"Hey Axel!" Roxas said cheerfully.

"Yo. So what time do you have to be back?"

"Before sunset."

"Awesome!"

"Yeah. So.. what are we doing today?"

"Well, Sora and Kairi wanted us to go shopping with them but I figured I'd like to see if you wanted to do something else first. They wanted to go early to get it out of the way."

"Shopping with Sora and Kairi doesn't sound bad as long as Kairi doesn't pick out a hundred pairs of underwear again to show Sora, seeing if he likes them." Roxas shuddered from the thought of seeing multicolored and designs of panties all day long again.

"Well...Sora did say that he was gonna take Kairi to look for some lingerie..."

"Ugh...I don't think I want to go shopping anymore." Roxas felt his pockets "plus, I don't have any money."

"What would you be buying at a lingerie store?" Axel laughed.

Roxas glared at him. "Haha, very funny!"

"So..." he repeated "what are we doing?"

Axel thought for a moment.

"Hmm...how about the usual?"

"Usual?"

"The Clock Tower. It is still early in the morning."
"Oh yeah. That's a good idea."

"Good. For a second there, I though you had forgotten about it."

"How could I forget the place we've hung out at since kids?"

Axel laughed and ruffled Roxas' hair.

"Hey!"

Axel continued laughing and started walking toward the station.

Roxas laughed lightly to himself and followed him.

"How long have we known each other?" Roxas asked as they were walking up the hill.

"I'd say about 8 years." Axel looked over at him.

"That's cool." Roxas said, looking ahead.

"Yeah." Axel smiled at him.

Roxas noticed him smiling at him from the corner of his eye and turned and smiled back.

The both bust out in laughter.

They both got to the station and there was an ice cream stand on the other side of the street.

"Want to go see if they have any sea salt ice cream?" Axel asked.

"Sure!" Roxas replied.

They both ran over the the stand and were lucky. Roxas put a dollar on the stand table and the owner handed him two sea salt ice creams.

Axel looked over at Roxas.

"Let's go up to the top of the tower now."

"Yeah."

The morning sky looked beautiful from the top of the tower. Colors of tan, red, brown, and orange mixed together perfectly. Roxas and Axel watched the sun rise higher and higher while eating their ice cream and laughing about old times with each other. Roxas had lived in Twilight Town all his life but Axel moved here when he was only 9. The two boys became close really fast and spent everyday they could together.

Before Axel came to Twilight Town, Roxas was a lonely child. He had no friends. The local bullies would constantly pick on him all the time. When he'd try to make friend's they'd always reject him. Until Axel came along. Roxas didn't give up or really care what other people said or did to him but he could tell Axel was a lonely child too. Roxas first saw him at the sandlot drawing picture's on the sidewalk. Roxas had walked over to him and had asked if he could draw with him. Axel shyly nodded and moved the chalk toward him. Roxas gave a weak smile and sat on the ground beside him. Roxas noticed that Axel's drawing's were a bit disturbing seeing as they looked like alien life forms with very flexible bodies, but Roxas just ignored it thinking that Axel had a very creative imagination.

Week's went by and slowly, Roxas started to make more friends. Roxas started to think of Axel as some kind of good luck charm that came out of nowhere seeing as he never explained his past to him. But Roxas knew better than to be rude and decided all those years to not ask Axel about his past. The only thing Axel ever really said about it was that it was a very dark world filled with hatred.

The sun started to set but it was not yet night time. Roxas and Axel had been sitting up on the clock tower all day reminiscing about the past. Somehow, they always found stuff to talk about old or new.

Axel took a sigh and looked over to Roxas.

"Shall we get you home?"

"Yeah. I don't want my mom getting mad at me haha. Today was a lot of fun!"

"Sure was. Got it memorized?" Axel laughed.

Roxas laughed at the ridiculous catch phrase Axel would always use.

"Sure do." Roxas knocked on his head, smiling.

They both walked to the gate of Roxas' house and said their goodbye's and both agreed to make plans to hang out tomorrow.

"See ya later Roxas."

"Yeah. Bye Axel." He waved, turning around to open the gate and go into his house.

"Bye." Axel turned to walk the other way.

Inside, Roxas' mother was sitting on the couch watching television. She heard him come in and called for him to sit down by her. He waled over by her and sat down.

"So how was your day?" She asked, eyes still glued to the TV.

"Good. Me and Axel were gonna go shopping with Sora and Kairi but we decided not to. So we went to the clock tower and got ice cream and hung out there all day."

She smiled.

"Well that's nice."

"Yeah. Well I'll be in my room if you need me, okay?" Roxas got up and started heading upstairs.

"Alright." She said over her shoulder.

Roxas closed his door and took off his cloth's, replacing them with his pj's. He walked over and got on his bed to close his window. As he sat on his bed, he started to feel tired. He got back up and crossed his room to turn off the light. Moonlight instantly filled the room. Wow, that looks so beautiful...He thought with a yawn that followed shortly behind. He crossed his room back to his bed, climbing in and getting comfortable. He finally fell asleep thinking about the current days past events.