"I can't believe summer vacation is over," Hayner whined, his feet propped up against his desk and his arms behind his head.
"At least we got to go to the beach," Olette said, her arm propped on her desk to support her head. "I bet Pence ended up taking some nice photos."
"Yeah, if he'd let us actually see it," Roxas said, turning around only to be met face to face with Hayner's feet. "Dude!" He yelled, aggressively shoving Hayner's feet off the desk. "It sucks sitting in front of you." The group laughed with the exception of Roxas, Hayner and Pence high-fiving each other.
"I want the album to be perfect," Pence explained. "Did you guys hear we have a new kid?"
"What's the big deal?" Hayner yawned. "I feel bad for whoever even wants to live in this boring town."
"I heard some people on the blitzball team say that it's Vanitas's younger brother," Pence said, leaning back against his chair.
"No way," Olette gasped. "The Vanitas?"
"You'd think two years after graduating that people would have forgotten about him already," Hayner groaned.
"People in a town as small as this don't just forget someone like Vanitas," Roxas said. "He had a pretty big reputation."
They turned their attention towards the door, their homeroom teacher entering and the whole class shuffled to their seats. "I hope you all had a wonderful vacation," she greeted. "Before I start class, I want to introduce you all to our new student." The class's heads turned towards the door, a mess of spiky hair entering the room. "This is Sora, and he'll be joining you from now on. He's come all the way from Hollow Bastion."
Sora flashed a smiled, "Nice to meet everyone." The whole class started a frenzy of whispers. Mostly talking about how cute the new kid was.
"Yup, he's Vanitas's brother alright," Hayner sighed in defeat. "Damn it, I was hoping he came out ugly." Olette took her notebook and used it to smack Hayner's knees. "Ow! What? I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one thinking that."
"The resemblance is uncanny, that's for sure," Roxas murmured.
"Hey, doesn't your brother still hang out with Vanitas?" Pence asked.
Roxas turned to look at Pence. "Uh...not as much since they graduated. Why?"
"You should ask him to hang out with us," Olette chimed in.
"Yeah. Besides, if he really is Vanitas's younger brother, I can rub it in Tidus's face," Hayner said. The whole group groaned in annoyance.
"Okay, first of all. We should be friends with him because we want to." Olette lectured. "And second of all, I can't believe you're still not over that!"
"It's been two years dude," Roxas complained. "Let it go."
"No, I will not let it go," Hayner said, his eyebrows scrunching and a pout forming on his lips. "He beat me at the Struggle tournament once and he thinks he's better than me."
"Um, that's your fault that you lost. You insisted on going to the tournament even if you were sick." Pence scolded, sighing.
"At least you learned your lesson," Roxas consoled.
"Yeah, after he vomited on Tidus's shoes." Pence rolled his eyes.
Hayner glared at them, crossing his arms. "Okay, okay. Weren't we talking about the new kid just a few seconds ago? Let's go back to that."
"Anyways, you should go talk to him, Roxas," Olette encouraged. "He probably doesn't know anyone. He'd appreciate it."
"Why me?"
"Well, your brother and his brother used to be close friends." Olette paused. "You two automatically have something in common."
Roxas sighed in defeat. "Fine. I'll talk to him after class."
"Okay, class. Welcome to Literature. As most of you know, I'm Mrs. Belle." Belle walked around the classroom, hanging out the course syllabus. "For the first few weeks, we'll be looking at the works of shakespeare. Isn't that exciting?" The class groaned in response.
The class dragged on, at least in Roxas's mind. He didn't mind it but it wasn't his first choice. The only reason he picked it was because his friends decided it was a class they should take together. After the bell rang, he sighed in relief. Olette poked him with her pencil, signalling him to talk to Sora, who was busy packing up his stuff. He stood up and walked over to Sora, clearing his throat. "Uh...hi, I'm Roxas."
"Sora," he replied, flashing a smile. Roxas blushed. He never knew a guy's voice could sounds so sweet. God, he was so fucking gay.
"So, uhh...Sora...My friends and I were wondering if you wanted to eat lunch with us later. Or not. I mean you don't have to if you don't want to." If Sora wasn't in front of him, he would have slapped himself on the face.
Sora tilted his head, blinking a couple of times before chuckling. "Yeah, sure," he said. "I would love to. Um, the thing is...I haven't actually gotten the chance to tour the school so I don't know where anything is."
"That's okay!" he said. "Since we have a 15 minute break before the next class, I can bring you to your next class and show you around during lunch."
"That would actually be amazing," Sora thanked. "I was worried I was going to be late to all my classes."
Roxas chuckled. "Hey, it's okay. I get it. What's your schedule look like?"
Sora took out a piece of paper from the back pocket of his pants.. "Um, I have History next, then Gym and Biology." He read.
"History with Eraqus?" Roxas asked.
"Yeah! How'd you know?"
"I'm in the same class. Let me just grab my stuff and we can head out." Sora nodded, grabbing his stuff and slinging his backpack on his shoulder.
"Sooooo...I heard the new kid's pretty cute" Riku and Wakka looked over at Tidus, staring at him in disbelief. They stood by Riku's locker during breaks as it was the one closest to their next class."What?" Tidus asked.
"You have a girlfriend, doofus," Wakka scolded. "Remember Yuna? The girl that you spent ages trying to confess and when you finally did, you ended up tripping over a trash can and got a concussion?"
"I know that," Tidus retorted. "Thanks for bringing up that painful...painful memory by the way. But I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about Riku."
"Excuse me?" Riku asked. Tidus patted his back, wrapping an arm around his shoulder.
"You can't play the single brooding hunk of the blitzball team forever, right, Wakka?"
"He has a point," Wakka agreed. At that moment, Kairi and Selphie made their way towards them.
"What are you girls gossiping about?" Kairi asked, raising an eyebrow.
"We're trying to set up Riku with the new kid," Tidus explained nonchalantly, making Kairi and Selphie chuckle giggle.
"You'll just scare him off," Selphie laughed. "Maybe if you smiled a little bit more, you wouldn't look so intimidating." Wakka and Tidus snickered, earning a punch on the arm by Riku.
"Why don't you ask him if he wants to hang out with us at the mall later?" Kairi asked. "He's new and he doesn't know anyone. Besides from what I hear, he's quite the looker. He might give you a run for your money, Riku."
"That's what I said!" Tidus exclaimed.
Riku sighed, "If I see him and ask him, will you guys shut up?"
"I will, but I don't know about Tidus," Wakka smirked. "The kid never keeps his mouth shut." Tidus, in the process of drinking from his water bottle, glared at Wakka.
"I wish I had a class with him," Selphie whined. "Word is going around that he's the younger brother of Vanitas.". Tidus choked on his sandwich, Wakka violently patting his back.
"No fucking way!" He yelled, standing from his seat and slamming his palms against the table.. Everyone around them turned their heads, looking curiously at Tidus. He laughed nervously, slowly sitting back down. "Nothing to see here, folks."
"Nice save," Kairi said, rolling her eyes.
"Duuuuuuuude, his brother's a legend!" Tidus whispered harshly, his eyes widened as if it was ready to bulge out of its sockets.
"Yeah, no kidding." Wakka chuckled. "Tidus and I saw him at the grocery store one time and he almost pissed his pants."
Tidus elbowed him on the chest, "Shut the fuck up, dude."
Riku sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose with his fingers. "You're embarrassing."
I tried to make up the last chapter by making thing a "long" one v-v Pretty sure I failed. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to leave a review :D
