Chapter 2: No One Can Save Me
"Don't throw up. Just whatever you do, don't throw up." Roxas told himself the next morning as he rested his head against his locker. The previous night's beating was the worst yet and he wasn't sure what hurt the most. All he knew right now that he was about to throw up again and that's the last thing he wanted.
"Are you alright?" a girl asked as she walked out from the room next to his locker. When he looked at her, he realized it was the same girl from the night before. Getting a closer look at her, he realized she was actually kind of pretty. She had blonde hair that came down to her breast, half was thrown over her shoulder, the other half in the back and ocean blue eyes. She was wearing her blue and white plaid mini-skit with a matching tie and a white t-shirt.
"I'm fine." Roxas snapped, slamming his hand on his locker then walking away.
"But your all bloody and bruised." she protested, running up to her.
"I said I'm fine!" Roxas yelled at her. He didn't want to be mean to her but he didn't know how to make her leave him alone any other way. "I fell on my face, you were there remember?"
The girl just nodded and kept walking with him, even though she seemed hurt. "but all those cuts weren't there yesterday."
"You weren't that close to me yesterday either." Roxas muttered.
The girl just smiled a little, "Actually I was, you walked right past me remember?"
He just rolled his eyes at her, "Yeah, whatever."
"Roxas?" she called out when she stopped walking. He turned around and looked at her. "Your name's Roxas right?"
"Yeah, I suppose that it is." he answered as he swallowed back a metallic taste in the back of his throat. All morning he was throwing up vomit and blood, looks like it was back to blood.
She smiled kindly at him, she liked the fact that he wasn't pretending to be a jerk. "I was just wondering if it really was. The police officer asked if that was your name but you said no, I wasn't sure. Why did you lie anyway?"
"Long story." he said as he turned away.
"What class are you going to?" the girl asked as she caught up with him.
"Me? Umm... economics." he answered her. It was hard to believe that anyone was talking to him.
"Awesome, my class is right next door. I'm Namine by the way."
Roxas gave her a playful smile. "Okay Namine. Do you have mental issues or something?"
She gave him a weird look, "No why?"
"Because you only want to be my friend after you've seen me get chased by a police officer when I've been in a lot of your classes. Most people after seeing someone they don't know get chased by the police avoid them." he laughed.
Namine gave him another odd look, "Well...sorry I didn't notice you sooner."
"It's alright." he answered eyeing the sketch pad. "Do you like to draw."
"Huh?" She said as she looked down at her sketch pad. "Yeah, I do. I'll show you some drawings at lunch since your class is right here." she said.
"oh...ummm...okay." Roxas said scratching the back of his head.
"Promise?" Namine asked as she held out her pinky.
He sighed. "I promise." he muttered as he locked his pinky with hers.
"Good, see you at lunch." she smiled as she ran to her class.
Roxas made it through his first two classes okay, but half way through his third class he felt really sick so he ran to the bathroom. After throwing up quite a bit of blood, he walked out of the stall and sat against the wall next to the sink and closed his eyes. His breathing was rough and his body was covered in sweat. He stayed like that until the bell rang and it was time for lunch.
Even though he felt a bit better, Roxas only took small amounts of food and a small bottle of water. "Over here." he heard a voice call as he looked for a place to sit. Namine was sitting by herself with her sketch pad.
He smiled slightly and took a seat next to her. "I guess you weren't going to let me get away were you?"
"Not at all." she laughed as she opened her pad to the first picture. "Some others are going to join us in a minute...are you alright? You're really pale."
"I'm fine." he said as he took a bite of food and leaned in to look at the picture.
"This is Sora and Kairi." she said pointing to the couple in her drawing, "they'll be here in a minute."
"So, you draw people?" he asked as he took a sip of water.
"Yeah, and everything else that interests me." she smiled as she flipped through her drawings until she came to a picture of Roxas. "That's you from last night."
"I interest you?" Roxas laughed, which made Namine smile.
"yeah you do. I like it when you laugh, I mean really laugh." she said.
"What's up Namine? Looks like you got a new friend." A guy with brown spiky hair and deep blue eyes smiled as he sat down.
"Sora, this is Roxas." Namine said pointing to Roxas. "Roxas, Sora."
"Nice to meet you." Sora smiled holding his hand out. Roxas took it and gave him a friendly handshake.
Shortly after a girl with shoulder length red hair and blue-violet eyes came behind Sora and hugged him. "Hello there stranger." she smiled at Roxas when she saw him.
"This is my girlfriend Kairi." Sora laughed as Kairi sat down next to him. She was followed by a boy with mid-back length silver hair. "And that's Riku."
"Nice to meet you all." Roxas smiled. All through lunch everyone talked and laughed. Luckily nobody asked Roxas about his bruises which he was thankful for in a way. This was something entirely new to him, but in a strange way he could grow to accept this. Maybe they could actually help him. Roxas decided he could trust them for now, but for now he was going to take this one day at a time.
