A/N:
Chapter Two! With Three times the creepy Vexen! =D
I honestly didn't expect the next chapter THIS soon. I hope it doesn't seem to rushed _
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"Talent show!" Marluxia heard Larxene scream from half way across the food court. The usual group of three and the multiple freshmen they sat with turned to watch as she flung herself into her seat at the corner of the table. She slapped a paper onto the table so loudly that the rest of the lunchers turned to look.
She shrugged and waved a hand over her head to dismiss them before brushing her hair out of her face. "They brought the talent show back this year!" She said waving her stolen flier- which was actually a sign up sheet- but no one there felt like correcting her. The talent show had been shut down the year before Marluxia came- according to Axel it was because some one's talent involved a loaded gun. He stared at the paper and shrugged, wincing at the same time. "And that's got what to do with us?" He mumbled, stuffing his face with food.
It had only been two days since his collision with Vexen- but he only had two ways to get food. Axel had to bring it, (Which he forgot to do yesterday) or he had to go eat with everyone else. Which was nothing more than a head ache waiting to happen.
Larxene started talking about how She can sing, which despite her personality was believable. She went on to volunteer Axel for guitar and Saix for drums then frowned at me, who honestly didn't want any part of it. "Lulu's got good lyrics." She pointed out and Marluxia frowned. "How the hell would you know that?" He accused and she pulled out a small black notebook with a rose on the cover. "Read your diary- it was full of them! And something about an extremely odd encounter with your science tea-" He leaned over the table and clasped his hand over her mouth as said "Science teacher" walked by. He gave a suspicious glare, followed it with a smile and walked away. He sighed in relief and uncovered Larxene's mouth before grabbing his notebook back- flipping through the pages with a sigh.
"Anyways... This one was really good!" She puled up a folded piece of paper that was obviously ripped out of his book. The size and the frills of paper on the edge showed that quite nicely. He looked at it and sighed. "I wrote that like a month ago..." He yawned, attempting to seem less interested. Though on the inside his esteem was doing back flips up a latter, he didn't think his little scraps were good at all. Just stories and what not.
She passed him the paper. "You have really nice handwriting too." Larxene stated before smacking Axel in the back of the head for something he didn't catch. He stared down at his paper for a minute before hearing a loud "It wasn't me! He did it!" He looked up to see Axel's finger nearly lodged in his eye. Though as usual- The teacher ignored Marluxia and went for Axel. Larxene shook her head and laughed. "Have fun!" She called and Axel replied- though no one could hear what he'd said.
She turned back to Marluxia. "You just need to write more! I like the idea of it a lot." She said poking his chest. Marluxia nodded. "Yeah alright. I'm gunna take my lunch into my room. I'm getting dizzy." He lied, stuffing his notebook into his pocket before grabbing his food and walking out into the hall. He stared at his food absentmindedly, shuffling down the hallway. Hw was almost to his room unscaved when he heard yelling. He looked up quickly, giving himself just enough time to react to the shiny metal cart that was flying down the hall. He dove out of the way, abandoning his lunch in the process. As the wheeled death trap passed he stuck his ankle out, catching it and bringing it to a stop.
"My apologies!" A familiar voice called out. It took Marluxia a second to put a face to it. Vexen!? He said in his head, jumping to his feet and dusting himself off. "Well now. Don't you have great luck." Vexen joked. "Not much better than yours from the looks of things." Marluxia shot back with a grin. Vexen laughed, grabbing the cart about the same time he made a disgusted face. Looking down at his feet Marluxia noticed that the man was standing on his lunch. Vexen kicked the crushed banana off his shoe and shuddered. "The nerve of some people!"
Marluxia frowned and let his head sink abit. "S-sorry." He half whispered, scratching the back of his neck nervously. Vexen's expression shifted from annoyed to apologetic in half a second and he rubbed Marluxia on the head. "Oh. Again, my apologies then." He mumbled before pulling out a wallet and handing Marluxia a ten dollar bill. "This should replace it. I've got to get to my class. Thank you for your help!" He called, already racing down the hallway again. Marluxia tried to say something about not needing to pay him but he'd already turned a corner.
Marluxia sighed down at the money and stuffed it into his pocket before cleaning up the mess and returning to his room. He fell onto the bed with his face pressed into the pillow and screamed. As loud as he could. He screamed until his eyes watered and he couldn't breathe. He screamed, and fell asleep.
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He didn't wake up until half way through Axel's study group session. Dispite being a criminal, he was actually extremely intelligent and nice. Every Monday and Thursday he tutored freshmen in the dorm. Marluxia never really cared- but this group was abit bigger than normal. There were three near-identical girls added to the group. And normally this wouldn't matter either. Except for the fact that the black haired one was staring at him.
"Yo! Noise!" Axel snapped his fingers in her face and she shook her head. "Pay attention! Ansem's not a nice teacher. You fail the test there isn't a retake!" He groaned, pushing her book towards her before he went on.
Marluxia shook his head and stood up, stepping over the tiny heads of Axel's students and walked down the hall into the lounge. For some reason the lounge was never popular- except for the few who came in to use the vending machines because they were to lazy to walk to the cafeteria. He plopped onto the tacky pleather couch and flipped the TV on. He flipped through the 12 "Approved" channels and eventually left it on Nickelodeon. He stared at the screen but nothing sunk in.
The door opened and slammed closed, causing Marluxia to jump. "Hey fag! What are you doing in my lounge?" The voice of Hayner filled his ears. He groaned internally, but didn't move, that was until he felt something wet explode over the back of his head. He screamed, half in pain and half because it was cold and Hayner turned to bolt out of the door. "Dude! As cool as they are water balloons aren't permitted in the school..." Marluxia heard Xigbar scold .from outside the hall. "I'll grab him, You check on the kid Vex."
Marluxia's heart raced before the door even opened, He wanted to hide but his head hurt to much to run. Who would have thought a water balloon could be so painful? He heard foot steps aproaching him, then a crunch. "He froze them!?" He heard Vexen groan. He looked up as the man peeked over the couch with a frown. "Hello again... Marluxia..." He sighed and walked around to the other side of the couch, offering the boy a hand.
"Thanks." Marluxia mumbled as he used the extended appendage to pull himself up and blinked a few times. "I should have put up with the freshmen..." He mumbled under his breathe before walking towards the door. He didn't expect Vexen to follow, but that sure as hell seemed like what was happening. Marluxia got to his room with Vexen silently standing behind him and reached into his pocket, trying to find the key, instead pulling out the ten dollars Vexen had given him. He shrugged and turned to give it to Vexen, who was gone now.
Marluxia blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes. "Creepy..." He mumbled, stuffing the money into his pocket again and opening the door. Most of the kids had cleared out of the room, all but the new three. "Hey! Marly!" Axel shouted at Marluxia, even though he was a total three and a half feet away. "It's not nice to ignore your guests!"
Marluxia now had two good reasons to punch Axel in the face. Yelling. And using that dreaded nickname. Though, it wasn't as bad as Larxene's "Lulu"
Marluxia waved and laid back down on the bed, pulling his journal out of his pocket with a sigh. He tried to piece the torn paper back into it's place to no avail. After a few minutes of attempting the puzzle he realized this was a completely different page. "She took more than one." He hissed to himself and rolled back over, snatching a pen off the table.
He read over the song Larxene had liked a few times before transferring it over onto another page in the notebook. He added a few more lines from what he had before and flipped a few pages forward.
He chewed on the end of the pen for a second before scratching something down.
Give
me attention Chasing patterns
I need it now Too much distance
To measure it
out, out loud
Across a personal map
Making pictures
Where the lines overlap
Where the lines
overlap
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Disclaimer: The song isn't mine. Or Marluxia's. It's Paramore's Where the Lines Overlap XD