Chapter 1: Same old day…kind of

My alarm clock has been playing the same tune it always had for the past five minutes before I decided to care enough to reach out and press the snooze button. A ray of sunshine had fallen against my face from the open slit in the curtains. I strained open my eyes from the discomfort of having a bright light being the first thing I would see with my tired eyes. I sat up slowly in bed with the shoulder of my shirt falling carelessly down my right shoulder and my hair was a mess like usual.

I turn around on my bed to have my feet hanging off of it and rub the side of my head. Every inch of my body knew not to get up and face another day at that school I despised and everyone inside of it. The only people I could tolerate were my brother, Sora, and the large group of friends he'd usually bring over one by one every day.

"Roxas, wake up already we have to go to school sometime" I hear my brother yell from the other side of my door and knocking on it.

I groan lowly as I get up from my bed and walk to the door. How could he even be so awake to be yelling at everyone to wake up, it's too early for this. I open the door to reveal my brothers brown eyes looking down at me.

"Come on Roxas, you can't sleep all day" My brother says still staring down at my tired, yet irritated state of mind.

"Sora, we still have an hour to get to school so shut it and let me get ready" I close my door in front of his face and sigh tiredly.

It didn't take me too long to get ready; I was in the kitchen looking for a pop tart to eat as Sora drove us to school. We went to his car shortly after we went out the front door and I sat in the passengers' side of his car.

We had a long and silent ride to school with the slight rustling of my pop tart package being opened and occasionally being rustled by the cars movements. Sora drove through the half empty parking lots isles to find his designated parking spot.

I step out of the car and into the fresh air. Sora walked over to me to place a hand on my shoulder, "So I hear theirs going to be a new kid in your class today."

I look up at him quizzically, "How would you know when and if my class has a new student in it, you're in a higher class than me."

He ruffles my hair and continues walking to the front stairs of the school, "I have my ways little brother, I have my ways."

I scoff at his show off attitude and walk past him, "Well quit stalking me and my classes."

"No promises little dude," he says as we go our separate ways to our specified classes

I open the door to my classroom to find that no one was there except for one tall red headed kid with spikey hair sitting in the back corner. As the door closed behind me he could tell I had walked in and looked over at me. His eyes were a bright emerald color that could cut through the darkest of corridors.

I walk nervously to the front of the row he was sitting in because that was my assigned seat according to the teacher. It didn't take long for the rest of the room to be filled with the students that shared the class with me. The teacher had walked in a couple of minutes after the students did and sat down at his desk waiting for the noise from the students to quite down.

As the random chatter of the students excluding to their friends about how their weekend was dies down, the teacher had walked to the front of the room. "As some of you may know, we have a new student that has arrived in our class today."

The room had filled with quite murmurs about asking their friend if they had known who this new student had been. The teacher points to the back of my row and motions for the red spikey haired new student to stand and walk to the front of the room. It didn't take long for the new kid to walk in front of the class.

For a sophomore in high school, he was tall and what seemed to be blue tattoos that looked like tears were drawn from his eyes and down his cheeks.

"Introduce yourself young man," the teacher had said to the student that was now standing by his side and seemed to be almost as tall as the teacher.

"Gladly," he said, his voice coming out in a soothing yet clearly controlled voice, "I am Axel." A clear form of superiority could be heard from his voice and I actually envied that about him seeing as how I'm the shyest person in my class with only a select few of friends.

He clearly glanced over in my direction with a sly grin plastered across his face, which I just looked away and could feel a slight blush creep its way onto my cheeks in response. He went to go sit back down at his desk and I could tell his smirk was still there with the intention of embarrassing me more than he already has.

The faint squeak of his chair being scooted back gently was heard as he sat back down in his chair. The rest of class dragged by slowly and I could feel what little energy I had being drained from me. The teachers voice was monotone and that didn't help anything either.

The class had ended shortly after the seemingly never-ending note taking was drawing to a close. As the rest of the students were starting to file their way out of the classroom, I saw Axel looking down at his phone in the back of the crowd while following mindlessly to the lunchroom. I had been walking down the hallway peacefully when I could see the big brown locks of my brothers' hair on his way to the cafeteria like everyone else. I kind of liked the idea of all the grades in school having the same lunch but some got it earlier than others because they split people into three groups to eat at separate times.

As I went through the line I felt a presence come up behind me. I looked back to see if it were my brother coming to bug me but to my surprise it was the new kid, Axel. He was leaning against the wall waiting for the line to move when he noticed I had noticed me.

"So kid, you gonna tell me your name or just keep staring at me like someone just saw the presence of God?" He let a small smirk come across his lips and points in front of me, "And kid, the line's moving without you."

I look back behind me and noticed that the line had moved like Axel said and hurry to catch up to it again while putting some food on my plate. I could see from the corner of my eye that Axel was following close behind me filling his own tray with food. We made our way out of the line and Axel had ended up following me to my brothers' table where I normally sit.

Sora was sitting at the head of the table with two of his best friends, Kairi and Riku. I had sat at the other end of the table with Axel taking a seat next to me.

"So kid, you still haven't told me your name," Axel said to me while pointing his fork at me for emphasis about whom he was talking to.

I had just taken a bite of my food before I was caught off guard by his sudden realization I haven't told him yet. "Woxas," I say blurting out without thinking with my mouth still full of food.

He lets out a small chuckle seeing how flustered I have gotten from his sudden question and his sudden interest in me. "Well allright, Woxas," he says mockingly and I swallow my food down the rest of the way before looking down and blushing in embarrassment.

"I meant Roxas," I say still looking down, trying not to make an even bigger fool of myself in front of my brother and his friends.

He chuckled and ate some more of his food while leaning back in his chair, "Nice to meet you too, Roxas."

I felt a shiver run down my spine as I heard my name roll off of his tongue in such a way that it made me try and hide deeper into my jacket to try and escape my embarrassment.

He smirks and goes back to eating as if my embarrassed state was giving him an amusing show.