The entire first day at school is now one chapter. Read like a normal person.
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'Shift, AC, off.'
Roxas turned off his calculator and put it back in it case. He sighed as he put it into his backpack, and swiveled in his desk to look at the clock. Time was not going fast enough, and it was only 4th period. He sighed again. It was his first day at Traverse Town Regional High School and already he hated it. It had been years since his mother died, and he had been living well enough off with his grandparents, until his father showed up to ruin his life. He had decided that his bastard son deserved more, a better life than the one he was living in Twilight Town. He pulled the "I'm-his-father-and-they're-to-old" card for the courts and whisked his poor, illegitimate son off to Destiny Islands.
Roxas was automatically thrown into a family he had no desire to be a part of. His half-siblings were insane and he was sure that his presence was the last thing his father's wife wanted. Roxas stared at the chalkboard at the front of the room, his chin on his hand. The physics teacher was droning on and on about momentum and inertia, but Roxas wasn't listening. The Twilight Town High School had already covered this chapter. Roxas slid his schedule out from one of the pockets in his folder and unfolded it. English, Heartless Biology, and Music Theory were the first three classes, then Physics, Lunch, Worlds History, Home Ec., and Roxas' least favorite, Gym. Of course, he wasn't looking forward to any of those classes. Roxas sighed again. He slipped his schedule back into his folder and closed it. He closed his eyes and dozed off.
Previously chapter 2
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Roxas waited until the bell rang again before he entered the lunch room. He realized that cliques usually had specific tables they sat at, and the last thing Roxas needed was a confrontation. He knew that rumors of his fathers fling with his mother probably were circulating around the school, if not the community by now, and he really didn't want to have to defend himself in front of the entire cafeteria. He waited five more minutes just to be sure there were no last minute stragglers, and thanked Kingdom Hearts when he saw a table that was completely empty. Then he cursed it when he noticed it was in the dead center of the room.
He shook his head in frustration, messing his unruly blond hair, and turned to leave, figuring it wasn't even necessary to sit in the lunch room when he hadn't brought a lunch. He was walking out the doors when Roxas was suddenly grabbed by the arm and pulled back in. There were whispers exchanged around the cafeteria, and the volume of the screaming teenagers lowered by two degrees. Roxas turned to face a pair of bright blue eyes identical to his own. They belonged to his half brother Sora, who stood there awkwardly, holding on to Roxas' arm, mouth slightly pen as if he was going to speak. He blushed, looking down, and let go of Roxas' arm.
"I, um, I was looking for you. Dad said that you might…um…"
He faltered, unsure.
"Um, Demyx made you lunch so… I have it and… Um, maybe…would you like to…well, you wanna sit with us? I mean me and my friends?" he asked, eyes hopeful for a reprieve from this uncomfortable situation.
Kids were muttering things to each other under their breaths.
"…lovechild…"
"…cheated on his wife…"
"…how awkward…"
This was one of the situations that Roxas would have rather skipped. It was still a confrontation. Sora's mother was pregnant with him when their father was with Roxas' mother. They were born a month apart. It was as if Roxas was the living embodiment of his parent's sins. He felt guilty, standing in front of Sora like that, the one who was trying to be nice and make him feel comfortable at a new school, when he wanted nothing to do with the new life that was thrust upon him. He looked at the ground.
"Yeah, sure." He said finally.
Sora grinned in relief. He grabbed Roxas' hand and led him to the table, which, to Roxas' dismay, was in the midst of tables filled to the brim with the 'popular' kids. Sora grabbed a seat and literally pushed Roxas onto it. He sat down next to him and plopped a bento box in front of Roxas. He grinned as he began to introduce his friends.
"This is Riku. He's been my best friend since, I don't know, forever."
Sora pointed to a tall, silver haired boy, who nodded at Roxas.
"He's got five older brothers, and all of 'em look like him."
"He doesn't need my stats, Sora. Keep it simple." Said Riku, who rolled his green- blue eyes.
"I have to tell him you've got siblings…" replied Sora, who rolled his eyes right back at Riku.
Sora's other friends laughed.
"Anyway, This is Kairi," he pointed to a pretty, red haired girl. "And this is Namine." He pointed to the girl who sat next to her, who was a carbon copy of the first girl, just blond. "They're twins, and they don't have any other siblings."
The twins smiled and waved at Roxas from across the table. He smiled back.
"The blond kid over there is Tidus, and the kid with the red hair with the gelled to the point of defying physics is Wakka."
"Hiya." Said Wakka, his voice thick with an island accent.
"There's another girl who sits with us, but she has a lunch lab today. You'll meet her tomorrow." Said Sora, smiling, his hands behind his head.
"If she makes it out alive." Said Tidus, under his breath. Sora smile lost a bit of its brilliance.
"Huh?" Roxas was confused.
"Anyway, we should eat before the period is over." Said Sora, grinning once again.
Roxas nodded, and opened his bento quietly, only to be amazed at the sight that met his eyes. Yesterday, when his father had dragged him from Twilight Town to Destiny Islands, he had been introduced to the siblings he never even knew existed. Sora seemed, well, almost normal, save for his annoyingly cheerful personality. But the older ones, the twins, were nightmarish. Larxene, the eldest, was obscene and sadistic. She wasted no time to start being a pain in the $$. Demyx, when Roxas first met him, looked completely trashed. He was a rock junkie, as obvious by the band shirt he was wearing, and seemed incapable of anything but going to and being in concerts. But Roxas was taken by surprise when he looked down at the lunch his eldest half brother had made and saw a culinary work of art.
"Whoa."
Sora looked over.
"Yeah, he gets a bit extravagant at times, but he says he needs to practice. He got a full scholarship to the Culinary Institute at Beast's Castle, so he cooks all the time."
"Whoa."
"Though I'm surprised he manage to make this, considering how totally exhausted he was from the concert the other day. When he goes to a concert, he really lives it. No drugs or alcohol, thank god."
"Whoa."
Roxas had gotten over the beauty of the lunch before him and had started to eat when a loud explosion shook the building. People started cursing, and Roxas looked at Sora in total shock. Sora shrugged his shoulders and waved it off, shoving a chopstick full of rice and fish down his throat before turning to Roxas and explaining.
"It's Tuesday chem. Lab. Every time there's something flammable in a lab, it's more than likely that it'll blow up."
"Wha?... Why? What so special about Tuesdays?"
Sora looked at his friends, who looked back at him. Tidus stepped up to the plate and leaned across the table toward Roxas.
"Axel. You see, Axel is our resident pyro. He gets mad, somebody gets burned. If it can catch on fire or hold as flame, he'll take it even farther."
"He can even make a candle explode, ya' know?" said Wakka, who had leaned in as well.
"He's a total delinquent. If you're walkin' home, you'd better walk with somebody, 'cause I hear he takes out his fury on the unsuspecting."
Roxas looked from one boy to the other skeptically.
"No way."
"Yes way."
"He'll probably get in school suspension again. I don't see why they don't kick him out of chemistry, ya' know?"
Previously chapter three
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Roxas and Sora both went to Worlds History. After the explosion, they had figured out who was in which classes of Roxas'. Riku happened to be in his English class, while Namine was in his Heartless Bio class. Surprisingly, Tidus, Wakka, and Kairi were all in his Gym class. Roxas was alone only in Music Theory, Physics, and Home Ec., and he was quite relieved. It would be less awkward if his half brothers friends weren't around.
Sora had commandeered a desk next to his and once again had shoved Roxas into a chair. Both of them were waiting for class to start, Sora playing with a spiky brunette lock of hair, and Roxas fidgeting nervously in his seat, hands folded on the desk in front of him. Other kids in the class were yelling and talking loudly to each other. As the bell for the start of the period rang, Ms. Malicefent, their teacher, walked in with a small, malicious smile on her face. The class automatically went quiet. She went to the front of the room and stood, leaning against the side of her desk holding an attendance sheet in her hands. She grinned evilly, then looked directly at Roxas. He willed himself to shrink, and swallowed nervously.
"So you are Roxas?" she asked, a bemused, sinister look gracefully settling across her face.
Roxas felt the pit of his stomach hardening with dread. He nodded.
"Our dear Sora's younger half brother?"
Roxas slid down in his seat. Sora started to turn a bright shade of red. The class, if even possible, became even quieter.
"Why, the two of you could practically be twins! Despite, of course the hair color and the fact that you don't share the same mother…" she strategically sighed, looking off in the distance thoughtfully.
Roxas felt the heat on the back of his neck travel to his face. Sora's head was in his hands. It was shocking how guilty thirty-five words could make somebody feel. If Roxas had the ability to spontaneously combust (ha ha), he would have, right then, right there. His classmates (stereotypically) started whispering amongst themselves.
"She's right; they really could be twins…"
"He's his brother? When did this happen?"
"…heard about it last night from my dad, said that's why his mother nearly divorced him after he was born…"
"…when she was pregnant with him, could you believe…"
"…how weird do you think that is…"
"…disgraceful…"
The rest of the period went on, Ms. Malicefent lecturing on some world, and the kids in the class passing bits of information back and forth between each other. Neither Roxas nor Sora was paying attention to either, but were wallowing in their distress. The already strained "bond" between the brothers was being trampled, and neither one of the siblings could look at the other. It was an awkward period.
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Roxas dragged himself to his next period, which happened to be Home Ec.. He sighed, dreading the inevitable gossip that would scatter about the room as he entered, the near doppelganger of his half brother. He walked through the open door of a room in one of the deathly quiet back hallways of the school, and was completely taken by surprise when he entered a nearly empty room. There were only two people in the room, one being the teacher, a gorgeous woman with light brown hair in a long braid down her back, and the other being a teen about Roxas' age, who was tall and had flaming red hair and green eyes. (mwah ha ha) The teacher smiled gently at Roxas from over by the counter at which she was seated at.
"Hello. You must be Roxas. Welcome to home Ec.." she said kindly. "I'm Ms. Aerith. Aerith is fine as well." She kept on smiling at him.
The redhead, who had been leaning heavily against the counter, stood and looked at Roxas.
"Welcome to the most pathetic class ever." He drawled, shaking his head, arms up in a shrug of apathy. Ms. Aerith, or Aerith, got out of her chair and grabbed the redhead in a chokehold.
"Don't listen to Ax." She said, smiling sweetly as the redhead, or Ax, struggled in a futile attempt to break free. "Though many people have dropped this course, it's still a good one…"
Roxas looked at the in total bewilderment. What the hell was going on?
Aerith let go of Ax, and promptly made Roxas settle into a chair at the counter they were all at. Ax sat down on the other side of the counter while Aerith grab cups of apple juice and a bowl of cookies and sat in between the two at the end of the counter. She pulled out napkins and put three cookies on one and placed it in front of Roxas.
"So, how do you like it here?" she asked smiling, picking up a chocolate chip cookie and shoving it down Ax's throat before he could make a smart remark.
"It's…..um…." Roxas started. "It's, well…uh…It's kinda…um…." he searched for the right answer.
"Just spit it out." said Ax, forcefully swallowing the cookie. "It sucks here, doesn't it?" He stared at Roxas, green eyes unblinking.
"Ax…" started Aerith.
"Yeah, it does." said Roxas, looking down at his cookies. "I didn't even want to come here."
Aerith looked at him sadly.
"I was perfectly fine where I was before. But that stupid man they call my father had to take me away to stop his guilt for abandoning my mother when he realized she was pregnant."
"People always try to act sinless, don't they? They always manage to ruin other people's lives to ease their own guilt." Ax sipped apple juice as he said this, still staring Roxas down.
Roxas looked away. Ax leaned back in his chair.
"Well, no point dwelling on what's already done." He said, pushing up his sleeves. "I'm hungry. You guys want any real food, instead of Aerith's cruddy cookies?"
Aerith punched him in the arm.
"Maybe if you actually stopped to taste my cookies instead of swallowing them whole, you be able to appreciate the taste!" she exclaimed.
"Maybe if you stopped shoving them down my throat, I'd be able to taste them!" he cried back, dodging the following attacks she made. Roxas smiled.
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Roxas sat out for gym. It was uneventful.
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Hah hah. Ax. He makes his first actual apperance.
Smiles...
I've gone over this so many times trying to find all the mistakes i've missed...
I have decided that the entire first day of actual school will be one chapter, cause people have been skipping or not reading further and they really should.