His name is Roxas
All my life I've felt like an outsider. I'm different from everyone else. Not only because I am a nobody, I have this fiery red hair that people always glare at. And my eyes have this weird shade of blue. I guess my looks made people dislike me. Not my problem. Just a bit irritating. Not that I really felt it, but I guess it was a bit lonely too.
I was walking down the street in the World that never was one day. Sure, everybody here are nobodies, but I just can't get along with them. Most of them are just plain idiots. People were glaring at me as always, looking 'down' on me I s'pose. I'll get them for that one day.
Anyway, this guy bumped it to me.
"Watch it!" I snapped at him. I hate it when people bump into me like that. Like they have no respect for me, like I'm not worth shit.
"Sorry" he said. It sounded genuine, and he smiled at me.
There was something about that smile. And those blue eyes. It took all my 'anger' away. I know, I know I don't really feel anger... But I have to call that imitation of an emotion something, right?
So anyway, I looked into those skyblue eyes. Something inside me felt alive, probably for the first time in my life.
"New around here?" I asked, casually. I knew I would've remember his face if I had seen it before.
"Yeah..." he answered. He looked so sad. I got this... desire, maybe?, to take that sadness away.
"Everybody seems to avoid me" he said and looked up with me. I swear, if he had a soul I would see it in his eyes. They were just... I don't have words for it – I'm not very articulate. This is going to sound really bizarre, but it's what happened. I blushed. I mean, not really blushed, but my heart pounded harder and my face got hotter.
"Happens to me to. Noone seems to care about me here." I muttered. "Name's Axel by the way" I continued.
"My name is Roxas..." he said and smiled again. A smile that penetrated my heart, and if he had smiled any longer I would've... Melted or something.
"Well, if you need someone to hang around with..." I was trying to keep my cool act, but I wanted to get to know him better.
"Sure" he answered. "Wanna go eat some dinner?"
"Sure" I said and... felt happy. I've never been offered dinner like that... and I've never felt happy before either.
That's how it all started. My first friendship. We never talked about the past. We didn't have much of it, and what had happened didn't matter anymore. We only looked forward. To finding kingdom hearts... and becoming whole. Whenever Roxas was around me... I felt so alive.
