[Roxas's POV]

My first week at this school flew by in no time. I wasn't alone when I walked down the halls – even if most of the time it was just Sora accompanying me. But apart from him, I mainly talked to Riku about Sora, to Kairi about Sora, and to Namine about her art. I learnt that Hayner liked fighting with Seifer, Pence liked photography, and Olette liked Pence and teasing Hayner about Seifer.

I also talked to Axel and Demyx a few times and although I wouldn't admit it, they were growing on me – especially the redhead. Sora always gave me a mischievous look whenever he saw me talking to him, and I'm pretty sure I knew what he was thinking. But I just acted subtle – or tried to, anyway.

On the Friday of that week, a particularly strange scene occurred when I was walking to the table that I usually sat at with my new friends. I was walking through a hallway, not really concentrating on my surroundings, when I heard I whisper of "Demyx, shut up! He'll hear us!" I turned around, mentally debating whether to go back, look and say hi, or whether I was just going crazily paranoid.

I stood there for a few moments with my eyebrows furrowed, when suddenly, I heard a somewhat high pitched scream of "Oh my god, spider!" from a familiar voice, and from behind the door stumbled a surprised Axel and a mortified Demyx.

"Demyx! What the hell?" Axel asked the blonde, exasperated.

"It was huge and hairy! What was I supposed to do?" The other exclaimed. And with that, the redhead stepped over to inspect something on the door, and slapped his hand against it. I didn't blame Demyx - I hated them myself.

"All gone!" He said, cheerfully, and the other mumbled something I didn't hear, before they awkwardly turned towards me, pretending to just have noticed I was there. "Oh, Roxas, what a surprise! I wasn't expecting you to be here."

"Yeah, just going to see Sora and stuff. How 'bout you?" I asked with a slight smile.

"We were just going to, uhh…" Axel broke off thoughtfully, and the other had to finish off for him with a wide smile.

"The library!"

"Oh, cool." There was an awkward silence. Something was suspicious about the situation, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I was suddenly reminded of Larxene, and before I could stop myself, I blurted out the question I had wanted to ask him for a while.

"Who's Larxene?" I mentally slapped myself for being so blunt, and his eyes widened slightly before he took a good look around us, suddenly paranoid. Upon not seeing her, his face softened, and I noticed the smirk on Demyx's face.

"My ex… why?" Axel asked with one raised eyebrow.

"Oh, someone mentioned she was a crazy stalker or something like that, and I was just curious, you know…" This elicited a chuckle from either of them, and Demyx happily excused himself, saying that he needed to go to the library urgently.

"He's off to stalk Zexion, I bet you anything." Axel explained when he saw my confused face. I didn't know who Zexion was, but that was besides the point. "I dated Larxene, and then I dumped her when she kept flirting with like, ten other dudes. In front of me. I didn't even like her that much, and it was pretty short. We didn't even really do much. But yeah. That's pretty much it."

"Then… what about the stalker part?" I asked, trying to piece it all together.

"Well… she may or may not like me still… she keeps trying to talk to get back together with me. It's annoying. She keeps turning up at my place, and I don't know how to get it into her head that we broke up. Every Tuesday, seriously." He looked like he was close to shuddering.

"Why doesn't she get over you or something?" I tried to prompt him to explain more.

"Oh, come on. Look at this body. How could someone possibly get over this?" He waved at his body with the Cheshire grin that made me know he was joking. His eyes were really nice. Like emeralds. I wonder if he had abs. Wait, what? I didn't even think I was gay. And now I was staring at him weirdly. Stalkerishly. Is this how Larxene thought of him? I didn't like to think of myself as much of a maniac.

"Anyway, I should probably go find Demyx, you know, make sure he doesn't do anything silly…" He said awkwardly after a moment, and I realised that he may have noticed me staring with an odd frown on my face. I hope not. I really was starting to feel like an idiot now.

[Axel's POV]

Demyx ended up coming to my house after school, since he had so much to tell me. It was about Zexion, not that I minded much. Oh well. He talked about him 70% of the time, yet still denied liking him. While blushing.

"He's so cool, Ax! I like his hair. It's a pretty colour. And he talked to me!" Demyx exclaimed. But I was surprised – Demyx usually avoided him at all costs, not talking to him at all.

"Oh? What'd you talk about?" I asked.

"Oh, not much. He showed me where a book was. 'Cause I went to ask him where it was, even though I didn't want it, but I figured that he'd talk to me. Aren't I a genius?" He smiled.

"Oh yeah." I laughed. "And how'd it go?"

"Awesome! You know what?"

"What?"

"He like, almost smiled at me! I could've sworn there was a ghost of a smile there. And he looked somewhat happy, too!" He raised his eyebrows now.

"Wow…" I said with a smirk.

"It's weird, because everyone thinks he's such a jerk! But that's just 'cause he doesn't talk much, you know? I bet he would be really sweet if I actually got to know him." He said, blue eyes wide open with honesty.

"Yeah, probably." I didn't really know if I agreed or not, since I had never talked to him myself. But I couldn't break his bubble.

"Anyway, how'd it go with Roxas?" I was surprised by the sudden change in conversation, so for a few moments I tried to think of something to say, which caused him to smile evilly. I didn't like the look of that.

"Pretty good, I guess…" I trailed off without meeting his eyes. I was feeling nervous talking about him for some reason.

"You guess? It was bad, wasn't it?" He said with one eyebrow raised suspiciously.

"No. Just kinda awkward, I guess. I don't know. He started frowning at me weirdly all of a sudden. I didn't know what to do!" I sighed.

"Really, now?"

"Yep. And then I said I had to go and find you."

He frowned thoughtfully for a moment, looking up at the ceiling, before he looked at me quickly. It was like those light bulb moments that people got in cartoons when they got a really good idea. And I never really trusted those ideas.

"Well, what do you think he likes?" he asked.

"Uhh… I know he likes computers. But that doesn't really help me."

"Oh. Yeah. See, with Zexion who likes books, I can read and then we can talk about them or something! Whereas, you're screwed. You know absolutely nothing about computers."

"I do know something about computers!" Bullshit I did. He was absolutely right. I was terrible with them.

He denied this, and the conversation was soon changed. I was slightly worried about how I could find a way to build my friendship with Roxas, but as the saying goes, opposites attract. I just hoped that it would be right on this occasion.

[Roxas's POV]

The Friday night of my first week at school, I was having dinner with just Sora and his brother, Cloud. I had never really been as close to Cloud as I had been to Sora, but I had to admit he was pretty cool. He was four years older than us, in college. Their parents were at some school thing, so Cloud had made us spaghetti bolognaise, and was now asking about my week.

"It's been really good, actually." I replied, thinking back to past first weeks.

"Oh? Made any friends?"

"Yeah. Sora introduced me to couple of people. They're really nice."

"I didn't introduce you to all of them, though." Sora interjected, with a mischievous look that I didn't trust.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well, I saw you getting close to Axel today. Anything going on there?" He asked with raised eyebrows.

"What? No. We were just talking…" I was suddenly embarrassed. Cloud was smirking at me and Sora was giving me a look as if to say 'I know what you're REALLY feeling!', so I decided to try and change the subject. "Riku was talking about you."

Sora paused for a moment and then spoke. "Well, we are best friends."

"Like, a lot…" I smiled slightly, as if trying to imply something.

He blushed very slightly, looked down at his plate for a moment, and then answered. "Well, I'm sure your exaggerating. Anyway, Cloud. When are we going to finally meet Leon?"

"Uhh. I don't know… We've only been dating for like, what, two weeks? Yeah." He said cautiously. I hadn't heard of any Leon.

"Exactly! And I have no idea who he is! Come on. Just invite him to dinner or something!" Sora whined.

"But Sora, he's probably busy, you know…"

"Yes? You'll invite him over? This week? Awesome!" Sora said with a bright smile, and left the table. Cloud chuckled under his breath, and the two of us soon followed suit.

Hey there! So, here's chapter two. Hope you like it! I'd really love to know what you thought about it. If you like it, what I could improve on, etc. Thanks a lot for reading! :D