Full synopsis: Roxas Strife is a high school student in Twilight High. Within its halls, a rumor has spread: If you stand on top of the town's clock tower and watch the sun set for 51 days, your feelings of love for someone will definitely be returned. Driven by desperation, he dragged his childhood friend, Sora Fair, to the top of the clock tower to follow the rumor. It just so happened that Sora was the one he wanted to tell his feelings to, and it also just happened that Sora seemed to be dating Kairi Hikari, the girl his crush seemed to know since forever. Standing on top of the clock tower, all Roxas wanted was to let his feelings soar and reach that sky... (Main plot line based on the Vocaoid song Osanana Blue (Childhood Blues) by Last Note and sung by the Vocaloid GUMI)
Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick Tock. The monotonous and seemingly endless ticking of a clock was the only sound heard as time marched on into the night. On a bed, two heads of spiky blonde hair poked out, the aquamarine sheets rising and falling out of sync as the two sleeping boys slept. Suddenly, one of the two shot up, wide awake and panting heavily. Pushing away the thick sheets, his face was flushed and dripping with sweat, he clutched at his plain blue pajama shirt as his azure orbs looked around nervously, as if he thought he was about to fall down a cliff, looking for something to steady himself with. Realizing he was, indeed, safe on top of his bed, he sighed and rubbed his eyes of sleep. He looked to the top of the bedside drawer which had his and his brother's phones, a digital alarm clock which shone through the dark room with a green light to display the time, a lampshade with star patterns, and a framed picture of himself, his brother, and their childhood friend. As soon as his vision adjusted to his surroundings, he looked at the clock which displayed 3:45 am. 'Way too early,' he thought grimly. 'It's the same dream again…"
He was broken out of his musings by a stirring from the other person who shared the bed with him. Slowly, the other boy spoke, tired from being disturbed from slumber. "Roxas?" the boy called out groggily, starting to sit up as he, too, rubbed his eyes. Said boy looked at the other apologetically before smiling the same uncomfortable smile he always showed the other when he had nightmares and whispering, "It's alright, Ven. It's nothing, really." He then insisted the other go back to sleep.
Ven looked over to the same clock. He raised an eyebrow at Roxas. "'Nothing' wouldn't wake you up at 3 in the morning all panicked and bothered," he retorted, scratching at the skin of his lower back through his plain green pajama shirt. His eyes were wide awake now and were focused heavily on Roxas, as if trying to force the answer from him. "We're twin brothers, Rox, you don't have to hide anything from me. You've been waking up in the middle of night like this for a few days now. Just what's been bothering you lately?"
Roxas looked away, his face staying red but said nothing else. He couldn't bring himself to say anything to Ven, even if he is his twin brother. It's not that he couldn't trust him, he's just too embarrassed to say what was on his mind. Ven pouted at his brother's silence, eyes adjusted enough to the dark to notice his twin was red in the face. Ven crosses his arms at this as he was left by his brother to figure out what his problem was. Roxas was the younger between the two of them, but he was seemingly the more mature one and only ever got embarrassed if it has something to do with…
Putting two and two together, he leaned over a bit closer to Roxas and whispered, "This is about Sora, isn't it?"
His eyes widened, shoulders stiffened and head turned quickly and suddenly toward his elder brother, Roxas tried to put together the words he needed to say to deny what Ven had just said, but the only things he spewed from his mouth were incoherent ramblings and a few drops of spit. Realizing he just dug himself an even deeper grave, he just opted to say, "H-how did you…?"
Heaving a sigh and closing his eyes, Ven rubbed his left cheek from a bit of his brother's saliva before saying, "Rox, I already know you like him. You've come out already, haven't you? Mom and dad didn't seem to mind, and neither did Cloud. Why are you so embarrassed to admit you were dreaming about your crush?" Ven asked. Roxas then heaved a sigh of his own, bowing his head and covering his face with both hands from the embarrassment of being called out by his own twin brother and the fact that he just accidentally spit on him.
An awkward silence wraps itself around the two, before Ven shook his head, stretched his arms out and said, "Well, if you don't wanna talk about it, then I understand." Roxas looked up at him in slight confusion. Ven ruffled his hair and smiled at his younger brother. Roxas averted his eyes from Ven's sight and pouted a bit at getting his hair tousled as the older crawled out of their shared bed. Breathing out a heavy puff of air, Ven turned to the other blonde. "I'm gonna go downstairs to get some water. Want some, too?"
Roxas finally smiled up at his brother before shaking his head and answering, "Nah, I'll go down and get a glass myself. I'll catch up with you." Ven nods and heads out the door. When he was sure that his brother was no longer within earshot, he picked up the framed photo him, Ven, and their shared childhood friend, Sora. Raising his other hand to caress the slightly tan face and spiky chestnut locks of Sora in the picture, he closed his eyes as he let the memories flow through him.
'We were always together weren't we?' I thought to myself. 'We promised we'd be friends forever.'
Taking his fingers away from his crush's photographed face, he set the picture down and headed for the door to grab a glass of water with his twin. Just before he got out and closed the door, he looked over his shoulder and at the picture standing near the bright green glow of the clock. He let another deep, longing sigh from his mouth before muttering to no one in particular, "Friends, huh?"
The mutter was not lost, however. From the room across the twins', he had heard the words. His usually stoic eyes narrowed ever so slightly into slits, worry starting to slowly creep up on him for a second. He pushed the thought away. He knew that whatever it was, Roxas was probably strong enough as he was now. Opening the door, he soon started to follow his younger brothers down the stairs.
Roxas arrived downstairs to see his twin sitting on a chair in their dining room, a notebook spread on the table with his back to him. He was drumming a pen in on hand and resting his chin on the other, eyes trained on the open notebook in front of him, not noticing the other blonde approach him from behind. The younger of the two gently pat the other on the back once, and the older immediately jumped in surprise, whipping his head back and abruptly closing his notebook to see his twin snicker at his reaction. Pouting just a little bit, he shot a half-hearted glare at him. "The heck was that for, Rox?" he said, a tad bit annoyed at his brother for doing that. Said brother merely ignored him as he noticed the pitcher of orange juice and the half-empty glass of the said drink in front of Ven. "I thought you said you were gonna get water." He only got a grunt and a shrug from the blonde, however, those azure eyes once again going back to burn holes into that now re-opened notebook. "What's with that notebook?" Roxas asked, just a bit curious.
"Oh, this," Ven started, "It's just some assignment due today for Mr. Xehanort's class. I forgot to do it last night, see." He looked up at the other with a sheepish smile." Roxas got out his own glass and filled it with juice. "What's it about?" The younger asked, sparing a glance at the upside-down words written on the pages. "Just have to practice writing short stories for English class," was his response. "What's kind of story is it?" a voice deeper than that of Roxas' suddenly spoke, and another blue-eyed, spiky-blonde haired male then walked into the room. "Cloud?" Ven started, "What are you doing up so early?" finished the younger. His blue eyes reflected those of his twin brothers'. His golden locks were spiked without a trace of bed hair, implying that he had fixed his hair before coming down. He tugged on the sleeves of his plain black jacket to straighten himself up, then brushed down his black jeans with both hands. "I'm just gonna go out," he answered plainly. "Besides, I could ask you two the same thing," he said, casually walking over, he stopped right behind Ven and lightly skimmed through what Ven had written on the pages of his notebook. Ven's face flushed and he quickly shut his notebook. Roxas chuckled lightly at that, always getting a kick out of seeing his older twin being flustered over something like this. "What did you write about that's making you so flustered?"
"Nothing yet, really," he said, looking down at the closed notebook and pouting. "I keep trying to think of a plot and all, but I'm just ending up writing down the first things that come into my head."
"So the first thing you think of for your story is a couple dwarves chasing a boy out of a mine for trying to steal their jewels?" questioned the eldest, seemingly trying to keep that neutral face he always had on. Ven's face heated up and unconsciously pushed the notebook slightly away across the table, the look on his face became downcast. "Sorry I'm such a no-good writer," he grumbled.
"Sorry, that's not what I meant to say," Cloud apologized and pat his younger brother on the back, "You'll be able to get there, I'm sure of it," he added, trying to cheer him on. Roxas agreed with the oldest blonde in the room. "You just need a little inspiration is all," the youngest added with as bright of a smile as could. "Yeah, you're probably right," Ven said, looking down at the notebook before deciding to put it away for now. He stretched his arms out, with grunting as he did so and turned to his brothers. "Yeah. Inspiration. Right," he said as if he was trying to convince himself to just drop it for now. Now, with a brighter smile and cheerier voice he exclaimed, "I got dibs on the TV!" and ran to the living room the three brothers shared. "Ah, no fair! You never want to watch what I want to watch!" Roxas shouted as he chased after his twin.
"That's 'cuz I'm not into horror, Roxy!" Ven shouted back at him, grabbing the remote and settling himself down on the couch in front of the television, his twin following suit, landing on top of the older, and attempting to wrestle the remote out of his grip. "C'mon, Ven! It's like, 4 am! It's the perfect time to watch some good horror!" The younger said, still trying to pry the remote out of his twin's hands until a hand ruffled the hair of both twins and they both jumped back shot glares and nearly screamed at their eldest brother, "Don't touch my hair," at the exact same time. Cloud merely chuckled at this, before he grabbed his helmet from a table to the side of the living room. "I'm gonna head out now. Don't skip school. Mom and dad won't be back till tonight so don't destroy the house, alright?"
"'Kaaaaay," came the bored sounding reply from both younger blondes, now over their wrestling fight, settling for some cartoon that caught the older one's eyes. With that, the eldest let himself out, got on his motorcycle and drove away.
After a few hours of mindless television, Roxas finally got up and started walking to the bathroom after telling his twin that he would take a shower for school today. Ven followed soon after Roxas was finished.
Another hour passes and Roxas and Ven now both stood in front of a mirror to the side of the room that they shared, fixing their hair to make sure their spikes look alright before patting down their cream-colored sleeveless cardigan on top of a short sleeved plain white button up polo shirt, then proceeding to tighten their blood-red necktie around their necks and fastened black leather belts around the waist of their plain black pants. Deciding that their clothes look satisfactory, they finally headed out of their room and proceeded down the stairs where both their book bags were sitting on the coffee table between the couch and the television. Roxas picked up his bookbag and watched as his twin double-checked the things he needed for school. Ven sighed a bit, looking troubled by something. Roxas walked over to see that his twin was holding that notebook in one hand and was staring at it tiredly. "Will you be able to finish that assignment before Mr. Xehanort's class today?" Roxas asked, concern laced into his voice as he looked his twin in the eye. "Probably not," came Ven's downcast reply. There was a quiet pause for a moment before the older put the notebook away and smiled at the younger, not wanting an awkward air to hang over them. "It's alright," he said, his smile not wavering, "Mr. Xehanort said the deadline won't be till two weeks from now."
The two put on their matching white rubber shoes they use outdoors and have exited their home, locking the door as Roxas asked his twin, "Well then, why were you so bent on finishing this today?" Ven shrugged. "Well, I kinda suck at English compared to our other classes, so I asked Mr. Xehanort for additional work. He agreed and gave me this assignment. I just wanted to finish my work early and beg Mr. Xehanort for a higher grade," he said, holding the back of his neck with both hands, his book bag hung loosely on his shoulder as he walked side by side with his twin. As the two walked, they see the school building come into view. Their house was not even a 15-minute walk to their high school. "Wow," Roxas began, "Way to be a teacher's pet, Ven," he deadpanned, acting unamused by his brother. "Pot calling the kettle black, Roxy," Ven teased back, sneering at his twin. "You suck up to Mr. Vexen almost all the time, don't you?" Roxas chuckled at that. "Only because I can't really understand the things he lectures us about."
They walked into campus and saw that a handful other students have already entered the school building. Small groups of boys and girls all chattering amongst themselves as they, too, strolled into campus. Walking into the school entrance, the twins headed to their designated shoe lockers and exchanged their outdoor shoes for their indoor ones. They then started to walk to their classroom. Unsurprisingly enough, when they got there, there were only a handful of their other classmates inside; they did arrive earlier than usual, after all. The only person present in the room that the blondes are relatively close to is a boy around their age named Zexion. His pale face buried in a thick book, as usual, those aqua blue eyes never lifting their gaze from the novel he held in his hands. Roxas remembered Sora calling him an emo once because of his long layered steel-blue bangs that cover the right side of his face, and Sora got a book thrown in his direction, only for it to be dodged and hit his tall best friend square on his face.
Just when Roxas and Ven were about to greet the quiet male they considered a friend, the door to the room opened to let in three very familiar faces. Ven had already greeted Zexion and was attempting to talk to the quiet boy, but Roxas found himself staring at the three that had just arrived.
The first to come in was a short girl with red hair that just barely reached past her shoulders. She wore the same colored cardigan for their school uniform and a plain white blouse with the sleeves rolled up to her shoulders. She held the straps of her book bag in one hand as it hung on her shoulder. Her necktie was tucked inside her cardigan, but was loosened. She wore a short skirt that barely reached her thigh, and black socks that reached above her knees. She was talking to the second person to come in, although she never once looked up from the phone she held in one hand, fingers expertly typing a text to send to her other friends while talking to the other two that she was currently with. He was a tall male with silver hair that almost reached his shoulders. Oddly enough, he was carrying two book bags, one on either shoulder. He didn't bother wearing the cardigan, his short sleeved shirt tucked out and his necktie loosened. He wore the same black pants all of the boys at their school wore. He had a bored look on his face, a dull look from his blue-green eyes telling everyone else in the room that he'd rather be anywhere else but here. The two paused for a moment, waiting for the third one to come in the room. Then, a head of spiky chestnut hair walked in with a wide grin on his face and a mischievous glint in his bright blue eyes. Hands in his pockets, he leaned forward with teasing eyes and a cocky sneer at his silver headed friend, a silver chain tied around his neck with an image of a crown made of silver dangling in front his chest as he did so. "Aww, thanks for holding my bag for me, Riku."
The tall young man he was referring to merely gave a seemingly annoyed grunt in reply as one of the bags he hung on one shoulder was lowered on to the shorter brunette's grip. "Carry it for me again later, 'kay?" the brunette said, that cocky look on his face still there. "Carry your own bag, Sora," the red headed girl chimed in, eyes still focused on her phone. "But Kairi," Sora tried to pleadingly say, but Riku interrupted him, "I only did it this time because you won't stop complaining about your damn stomachache." Sora's eyes seemed to start to water, and he dropped his bag on the ground, face red and clutching at his stomach. "Ow," he grunted out, eyes closed and body trembling. "You reminded me that my stomach was hurting…" Roxas would normally want to rush over and ask the brunette what's wrong, if only he didn't know that the brunette was somewhat of a skilled actor. Besides, his two other friends scared him a little-not that he would admit that.
"Oh, drop the act, Sora," Kairi scolded as both she and Riku headed towards the back row where the three of them would always sit down, the tallest of the three just kept quiet as he followed her. Sora's pained expression dropped at that, still clutching his stomach, this time with a disappointed pout on his face. "Geez, Kairi, thanks for letting me know that you won't help me in my time of need," he stuck out his tongue at both his friends, raising his arms to rest the back of his head on both hands as he walked over to them, sitting on top of Kairi's table, getting a weird look from the tall silver-haired teen standing behind her. The girl who was assigned the seat didn't seem to mind, however, as she just continued to tap away at her phone. Roxas blinked. Sora was staring at him. And he had been staring at the brunette the whole time, too. Face burning and suddenly feeling flustered, he whipped his head back and away from Sora's nearly piercing gaze and decided to look at the front of the class where the blackboard was. That was when he noticed a discarded book bag on the floor. He remembered that Sora had dropped his bag when he was trying to fool Riku into carrying it for him again later. Almost unconsciously, he got up from his seat beside Ven and in front of Zexion and moved to the front, slowly grabbing the bag, and then meekly walking over to Sora and his friends, and handing the boy his bag, face flushed and eyes averted the entire time.
The brunette merely blinked at the blonde's actions, taking his bag before his lips twisted into his signature grin, giving Roxas a genuine sounding "Thanks!" There was a brief pause, Kairi still on her phone but was well-aware of the situation in close proximity to herself, Riku staring at the two who were holding onto the straps of the bag, Sora tilting his head a bit, looking at his childhood friend curiously, and Roxas standing there, red-faced, eyes refusing to meet with Sora's. The brunette was first to break the awkward atmosphere. "Uh, you can let go now, Roxy," he said with a bit of a smile. Roxas jumped a bit upon hearing his voice and silently let go before quickly running back to his seat, nearly tripping on his own feet halfway, and sunk into his chair. Ven had noticed this, and was immediately beside his brother, patting his slumped back soothingly in an attempt to bring his twin out of the feeling of embarrassment. Even Zexion looked up from his book to spare the blonde a glance of slight worry.
The flustered blonde was so tense that he'd avoided eye contact with pretty much everyone in the room. He didn't notice how the brunette he'd wanted to talk to after so long was reaching out to him, wanting to talk to him, but decided not to disturb him because he'd seemed too upset. Riku stared at his best friend, before directing his gaze toward the girl who, for a brief moment, stopped tapping her fingers on her phone. Using only her eyes, she looked at Roxas with his head down on his desk trying to will his embarrassment away; then Sora, who was staring Roxas down with a serious face that was unlike his usual cheerful self; then Riku, who was now staring blankly back at her. Looking back at her phone, and quickly scanning the new contents of her inbox that had arrived over the time she spent scanning her surroundings, she came upon a text that was interesting for her, and, for the first time in a long time, she formulated her own plan—one that Sora was not aware of. One glance toward Riku, and he knew she wanted him to play along with what she's about to say.
"Say, Sora," she began, returning her gaze to her phone, "Have you ever heard of that rumor?" Sora broke out of his trance of staring at Roxas to direct his attention to the redhead. "What rumor?" Kairi merely tapped away at her phone, replying to her texts as she talked to her friends, "You know, about the clock tower in the middle of Twilight Town."
Sora blinked, "Oh, that? How does that go again?" he crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow, looking like he was trying to think. "If you stand at the top of the tower and watch the sunset for 51 consecutive days while wishing for your love, then your feelings will definitely be returned," Riku said leaning back, away from the other to, making sure his voice was loud enough to heard by the people who he wanted to hear. "Yeah, that," Kairi agreed, the index finger of her free hand tapping her desk rhythmically, "See, Selphie texted me saying she tried to do this, and it actually worked for her."
"What? That rumor is just superstition," Sora pointed out. "Then how do you explain what Selphie just told me?" Kairi shot back, not looking at anyone or anything but her phone. "She's with Tidus now, see," she said, looking up at Sora before nearly shoving her phone's screen in front of the brunette's face. Sora squinted a bit; the phone's brightness was cranked up to its maximum level, and it hurt his eyes. But in the moment it took to adjust to the bright screen, he saw a picture that Selphie had sent Kairi and it showed her holding hands with the boy in question. They did, in fact, look happy together. Just before the brunette expressed his disbelief over the rumor, he noticed that Roxas had raised his head, and was looking at his redheaded friend with an emotion that Sora was not sure how to describe. He looked away from his childhood friend at that, and just as he did, the teacher had arrived a good fifteen minutes early, making all students present in the room scurry about, trying to seat themselves as the teacher took attendance and started to discuss the lesson for the day.
Roxas sat on his usual spot in the school cafeteria with his brother and their friends from class. Zexion went off to return the two other books he had finished reading to the school library. Ven was able to make friends with a couple of their upperclassmen—something Roxas was secretly a little bit jealous of but would never admit—while he made a couple friends from the same year, but in different classes. He silently brooded, playing with the lunch his twin brother had made while he was in the shower earlier. 'Really, happy couples should just fall off a cliff and die,' he thought, trying his hardest not to stare daggers at his friends who seemed to be enjoying themselves despite the brooding emo impulses Roxas might have had.
"Say 'aah'," came the sing-song voice of the girl he considered his best girl-friend by the name of Olette. The young brunette woman was trying to feed her boyfriend, Hayner, who sported the same blush as his girlfriend. Ven's upperclassman friends, Terra and Aqua, were sitting next to each other, and even though they were much, much, subtler about it, the fact still remains that the two were also happily dating. The brooding blonde sat next to the two other single guys in their group—his other friend besides Hayner and Olette, Pence; and his twin brother, Ven. The other two didn't seem to be as bitter as Roxas was right now. In fact, those two didn't seem to care about romance at all. How he envied that. At this moment, he remembered what his crush's redheaded friend had said earlier. "I wonder if all that's true," he mumbled to himself, eyes looking to the side and away from all his companions at the moment. 'If it was,' his eyes narrowed into seemingly angry slits, 'Why was Kairi asking Sora about that? Aren't they dating already?'
"What did you say, Rox?" Ven had asked, being the only one close enough to his to actually hear what Roxas had said. Now suddenly, all eyes were on him. He shifted a little bit under their gaze, not really used to having any sort of spotlight on him—he considered himself a nobody at their school, after all. "Oh, uh, n-nothing," he was able to stutter out, face turning pink, earning him a look of slight confusion from their friends and a pout from his twin. "Was it about this morning?" Roxas crossed his arms. His twin may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but he sure is perceptive when it came to his brother. "What about this morning?" Olette chimed in, wanting in on the conversation. "If it's bothering you," spoke the gentle blue-haired Aqua, "then maybe we can help," she said with a hand placed on her chest.
Roxas slowly looked over at his friends, who all looked a bit concerned for him. So he spoke, "Well, you know that rumor? About the clock tower at the center of town?" he began, Olette's olive eyes suddenly getting noticeably excited "Oh, oh, I know about that! The one where if you watch the sunset on top of the tower for 51 days straight, then your love will be returned or something like that?"
"Yeah, that one," Roxas confirmed. "This morning, a girl from our class, Kairi, asked Sora about it and I thought it was a bit weird because she was talking like she wanted to try that rumor with him, but they were already dating," he explained, as the six other people listened, the girls and his brother a bit more attentive than the other guys were. "What," Olette nearly screamed out, startling the people on the table, as well as a couple other people who were in close proximity. Apologizing quickly to the strangers she disturbed with a slight blush of embarrassment on her face, she turned to Roxas and used a quieter tone of voice, "What made you think that those two were dating?" She said, almost making sound like Roxas was insane for saying that. "I… heard rumors," he said, looking straight at his friend. "What, am I wrong?" he asked, an eyebrow raised. "Well," she began, taking out her phone and scrolling into her inbox, "I asked Kairi herself about that," she showed the screen to her blonde friend, "and this is what her reply said," Roxas squinted his eyes at the message.
From: Kairi Hikari
Subject: Rumor about you?
wat r u talking about?
kai and i aren't like that
im into guys anyway
this is sora by the way
Roxas widened his eyes as he read the text. "See?" Olette said with a smile, "They couldn't be dating if Sora's into other guys!" she exclaimed a bit to cheerfully for the other guys in the table. Ven nearly choked on his drink of orange juice, "He's what?" he asked, rubbing his chin of the orange liquid that had spilled from his lips. "I know," Hayner said, arms crossed and eyes closed, his eyebrows knitted together as if thinking about something unfathomable. "I never really noticed before," Pence said, sipping a little bit of his own drink of chocolate milk. "Well, there's nothing wrong about that," Terra said, helping Aqua who was starting to clean up after themselves. "As long as he's not hurting anyone in anyway, right?" he said, turning to his girlfriend, who nodded at his words. Roxas didn't hear any of them. Right now, he was having a mini-panic attack. He felt a rush of hope that had long since have been pulled from his chest. 'I might actually stand a chance?' he thought to himself, sounding more like a question than anything else, as he felt a lump he had to swallow in his throat. 'But… how do I know that he really was the one talking in the message?'
He was brought out of his thoughts by the school bell, signaling that it was time to return to class. The six teens finished cleaning up after themselves and headed back to their classes.
Roxas could not focus on what the bald headed dark skinned, amber-eyed, aging man in front of him was talking about. He was looking in front of him, and he could hear what their elderly-looking teacher was saying, but he just couldn't process the words enough to make sound the slightest bit coherent in his head. All he could think about was how Sora, the boy he had longed after for years, could actually be gay as well. He had a chance. He kept repeating that to himself the duration of the lecture. Then he remembered that rumor. He knew that there really is just a very miniscule chance of that being true, but… What if it was? It wouldn't hurt to try, right?
The lecture finally finished as the final bell rung before Roxas had the chance to even begin to understand what Mr. Xehanort had been talking about in front. The students started to pour out of the room, some staying behind to perform their cleaning duties. Roxas, Ven and Sora were left behind, tasked to arrange the tables and chairs and make sure that no pieces of trash were littered along the floors. As the three finished, Ven lifted the trash can with his bag hanging loosely on one shoulder and told the other two that they can go ahead because Mr. Xehanort apparently wanted to talk to him for a bit about his assignment. The two who were left then started to gather their things in an awkward silence, before the blonde, without giving it much thought suddenly spoke up to call the other's attention. "Hey Sora, about that rumor-" he caught himself. What was he thinking, suddenly mentioning something like that? "You mean about the clock tower?" Sora questioned, holding his bag open, looking like he was double checking to see if he had all his things. "Y-yeah," came Roxas' stuttered reply. "I was wondering if you'd want to come with me to see if it's real, y'know?" he said, not making eye contact with the brunette. Sora blinked at that, not really knowing how to respond. "That stuff is never gonna be real, Roxy; it's just superstition," Sora pointed out, trying to put on that cheerful tone and smile he always showed everyone. "Y-yeah, but kairi said that Selphie and Tidus are together because of the rumor right?" Roxas pointed out. "And besides," he continued face getting even more flushed than they already were. "I… have this person I like, and I want someone to be with me, y'know."
Upon hearing that, Sora stared at Roxas for what seemed like an eternity. His face was wiped of any false smiles and cheer that he was trying to put on. It almost seemed that he was glaring at Roxas before he looked to the side and mumbled out his approval at Roxas' plea. The blonde's eyes lightened up as he grabbed his bag and walked to the door with the brunette.
As they reached the school gates, Roxas noticed that Sora's friends had been waiting for them. Ven wasn't there, however. 'Did he already go home?' Roxas questioned himself as Sora went over to his friends to tell them about his plans with Roxas. The blonde noticed that Kairi actuallty looked up from her phone and gave Sora a look, making the brunette flinch a little and nodded. Roxas subtly looked away from that, raising an eyebrow. Are they really not together?
As soon as Sora said his goodbyes to his friends for the day, the two childhood friends went on their way toward the clock tower in the middle of the small town. As they walked, the tower soon showed itself in the distance. That was when it hit Roxas. This was real. He was actually going on top of that tower to watch the sunset with the Sora Fair, one of the most popular kids in their school. His childhood friend and his long-time crush.
No going back now.
