heckz yes an update in about less than a week! hurrah! i made a couple mistakes in chapter 1, and i finally found out how to fix it WITHOUT having to completely delete the whole chapter and all this weird stuff i tried to do... yeah... anyway, i want to thank ffachick15 and xXRebecca BlackXx for reviewing! im not exaggerating that the entire day i was randomly smiling after i read your reviews xD people probably thought i was going crazy, which actually isn't far from the truth... hehe. i even told my mom that i got two awesome reviews on my story on xD of course i left out that it was akuroku and all... she doesnt need to know that...

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::EDIT::

Hello hello hello again! Thank you for reading chapter one, and I am glad to present you with chapter two! Sadly this is a pretty short chapter, because I felt the need to take out a certain part and didn't really know how to replace it, ehehehe... Sooo I won't keep you waiting, please enjoy!

Chapter 2

Climbing Isn't As Easy As It Looks

Tap tap tap.

I looked at the clock. It had only been ten minutes. Are you serious? Why was it still three? It felt like way longer than that! Ugh, there was absolutely nothing to do. Mom said I couldn't come out of my room for the whole weekend (minus getting food and going to the bathroom, but I had a bathroom in my room), and took away my laptop. She almost took my phone and iPod, but I hid them before she came in because I knew that would probably happen. She couldn't find them so left with that.

I stared down at the blank paper underneath the pencil in my hand, tapping against the paper in a very boring rhythm. Maybe I could ask Sora to come over... he always liked to climb in through my window, and if Mom came to check on me I could just hide him under my bed or in my closet. Wow, that sounded creepy...

Sighing, I set my pencil down and looked at the clock again. Three fourteen. Dammit! Why couldn't it be midnight already? I wanted to see Axel. He was so easy to talk to. It was actually really weird how natural it felt to talk to him. At school, and anywhere really, I was usually quiet. I had about four friends at school, not including Sora, who usually had my and his friends get together. Basically I was pretty anti-social.

I would have to make a mental note to ask Axel for his phone number. Considering he had one... but I bet he probably did. Wow, being grounded was way more boring than I thought it would be. I pulled out my phone and scrolled through my contacts about three times before picking Sora. Not in the mood to text, I called him. What? I was too lazy to put the effort needed into texting.

"Roxas! I thought your mom took your phone away!" Sora yelled, and I had to pull my phone away from my ear.

"Yeah, she just took my laptop... I hid my phone and iPod so she didn't take them. What's up with you?" I sighed, leaning back in my swivel chair.

"Oh I'm with Riku!" Okay, that was a given. When was Sora not with Riku? I was about ninety percent sure that they were dating, but I had no real proof. All the girls agree with me though. Either they were dating, or they were both in love just completely oblivious to the fact. "We're at the mall right now, and then we're gonna get ice cream! Want me to get you some? I could give it to you on our way home."

"Yeah, that would be great." I nodded to myself. "Make it sea-salt."

"I know that, silly!" he laughed. "You always get sea-salt!" there was a small pause as a deeper voice was heard in the background – no doubt his silver haired 'friend'. "I gotta go now, see you soon!"

"Bye" I said, clicking the end button after I heard his farewell and sighed again, leaning back farther. Unluckily for me, it was too far. The chair suddenly fell backwards. "Ack!" I yelped, reaching out for anything to stop my fall.

Too bad you can't grab air...

I climbed into my bed about ten seconds before my mom knocked on the door. "Come in." I called, pulling my blankets up over my neck.

"Good night Roxas..." she said quietly, her voice dull, before she closed the door behind her.

I laid there for about forty more minutes before I threw the covers off and hurried to get my shoes on. I stuffed my phone and ipod in my jacket pockets then – as silently as I could – forced the window open, but I just stared down at the grown that was a couple feet below. Needless to say, I was scared out of my mind. Never once had I snuck out before, so going to meet some guy in the middle of the night was just something I never saw myself ever doing.

Okay... deep breaths... I had climbed this tree thousands of times with Sora, and seen him climb in and out of my room from it even more. Piece of cake, right? Ha ha, wrong. I was able to make it onto the first branch okay, and then down a few more, but once I was close to the bottom (thank god not the top) my foot slipped and I fell the rest of the way.

It took all of my willpower not to scream from that horrible sinking feeling that came over me. I didn't even have time to think about the situation until I was slamming butt first into the hedges beside our house. After a bit of struggling I managed to untangle myself from the bushes and straighten out my clothes. "Fucking tree... fucking hedges..." I mumbled under my breath as I walked away, giving the house one quick glare. I could not believe I was doing this...

..::Axel::..

Twelve twenty-three. I was right on time. I inhaled the light grey smoke coming from the cigarette in between my lips and exhaled the same way, watching as it swirled out of my mouth and around until it disappeared in the slight breeze. I could feel my heart beating in my chest. Sadly it was at the end of the cigarette's life, and I had to discard the bud for a new one. As I was trying to work my lighter I heard footsteps and the sound of heavy breathing. I looked up quickly, kind of freaking out that I would see someone running towards me with a knife or gun or something, causing my unlit cigarette to fall out of my mouth.

"Hey Axel!" Luckily the only thing I saw running towards me was a short, spiky haired blonde waving his hand in the air. Once Roxas reached the bench I was sitting at he bent over with his hands on his knees, panting heavily. "Sorry... I'm late... were you... waiting long..?"

"Not at all." I said, looking him over. Honestly, he looked like shit, from what I could tell. But then again, I probably did too. Which in turn made me slightly self-conscious. "What happened to you?"

"Oh, hehe..." he scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed grin on his face. "I kind of fell out of the tree when I snuck out and fell in a hedge."

I couldn't help but laugh at his bad luck. "Couldn't you have just walked out the back door or something?"

"My floors are really squeaky, and Mom has ears like a bat. I wouldn't get past the first step without her waking up and questioning my motives." He said, taking a seat next to me.

My foot was tapping furiously against the pavement, and in a sad attempt to make it stop all I did was glare at it. "How did things go when you got home?" I asked, moving my attention back to Roxas, at least until I was distracted again.

"Oh, I'm grounded for a week. And my mom took away my laptop. I was able to hide my phone and iPod though, so I still have them..." Roxas started fiddling with his fingers, and I gave him a questioning look. "Um, I was wondering if I could... get your cell phone number."

I stared. And stared. And stared...

"but you know," he said quickly, waving his hands around frantically and snapping me out of my daze. "I get it if you don't want to since we just met and all and I guess it would be kinda weird asking for your number so, uh, you can forget-"

"Oh, no, sorry, I kind of spaced of for a sec." I laughed nervously, but my throat was dry and I ended up coughing. Wow, that was real smooth, Ax. Real smooth. "ugh, sorry. Cigarette lungs." I took out my phone and lightly tossed it over to him. "Here, put your number in."

"Really?" he asked, looking up at me like he was a puppy and I just gave him the biggest bone ever. He had a cute smile...

"Oh, yeah, no problem." I said quickly, looking away after his happiness faded to confusion. Crap, how long was I staring like an idiot? Hopefully I didn't have some creepy look on my face.

Roxas quickly typed in his number into my phone and did the same for mine on his before he handed it back to me. I didn't look at him as I stuffed it in my pocket and instead hid half of my face behind my hand on my arm that was resting up on the bench. It was quiet for a second before he spoke up. "You like Alice Nine?"

The question caught me off guard. It was random, and I didn't do well with random questions. Okay, I didn't do well with questions period, but random ones were worse. I would just stare like an idiot trying to figure out what was happening until I realized they were talking to me and awaiting an answer. Which happened just now.

I probably looked completely lost because he pointed at my chest and explained for me. "You're shirt, it has Alice Nine on it."

"Oh! Yeah yeah, Alice Nine. They're a great band. You know them?" I asked. Honestly I had never really expected someone would actually know the band here. Everyone seemed too preoccupied in their own worlds to realize that there were other places out there with really cool stuff. Not to mention most teenagers had a pretty horrid taste in music these days.

Roxas nodded. "I love almost anything Japanese. Music, culture, clothes, food, anime... you name it. I'm taking Japanese at school, too, and I have a whole collection of anime and manga series in my room."

Wow. Okay, I think I just found my soul mate. Seriously, Larxene was amazing and all, but when it came to Japan she always hated how much I obsessed over it. Oh shit that reminded me... Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. I needed something to distract me from the growing pit of empty that had formed in my stomach.

"Axel, you okay?" Roxas asked, noticing my sudden change in... whatever you call it. Personality, mood, behavior, whatever.

"I'm fine... just remembered something." I said quietly, looking away and trying desperately to pretend I wasn't clutching at my stomach for dear life. "So is anything fun happening at school?"

"Hh... not really." He said, and I think he noticed I needed a subject change because even though he said that he kept talking. "We have like five tests coming up, and I have to write a narrative story about something that's been happening in my life for two pages or more. I don't really know what to write about..."

"Well that's easy! You can write about how you met some weirdo sleeping on a park bench in the middle of the night!" I joked, trying to at least lighten up my mood a bit.

"Yeah, and then my teacher will show it to my parents and even if I get an A, I'll never be able to come out of my room again!" he laughed, and I do say that really did cheer me up a bit.

..::Roxas::..

Axel and I had been talking for a long time. I noticed that every now and then he would suddenly look really sad, so I tried to keep his mind off of whatever was doing that to him as best I could. I knew he didn't want to talk about it, and that it wasn't in my place to pester him about it, but that didn't mean I wasn't curious. I don't think I've ever talked more in those few hours than I had ever in my life. I guess he just kind of did that to me.

Honestly, on the inside I was jumping around and squealing like a little girl when Axel said I could have his number. I don't know, I was just really happy. It was four ten when I finally checked my watch. Man, time flies when you're actually enjoying it.

"I better get home before Dad wakes up." I said, not even bothering to hide the disappointment in my voice.

"Hey, cheer up Roxy." Axel grinned, ruffling my hair. Roxy? What kind of a nickname was that? Whatever, I'd let it go this time, but he had better not make a habit of calling me that. "It's not like it's forever." Was it just my overactive imagination or did he sound like he was trying to convince himself?

It might as well be... "Yeah, whatever. I'll see you tomorrow?" I asked.

"You bet. Think you can make it back up that tree?" oh he just had to bring up that I fell out of it, didn't he? But in all actuality... I really didn't know if I could.

"If I can't it looks like I'll be sleeping on the porch tonight. Or maybe I'll just find a nearby park bench." I grinned.

"Touché." He waved a two-fingered salute and turned to walk in the opposite direction. "See ya later Roxy."

"See ya Axey." I mimicked the name, and noticed him turn his head slightly as he was laughing to look at me before I made my way down the street away from Axel. I don't think I slept the rest of the night; at least, not completely. If I did I was only half asleep.

lalala... sorry this one is only about half as long... i just thought this was a good place to stop and im already working on chapter 3 so yaaay xD review pleaasssseeeee it makes me happy and usually makes me update faster! if you find any mistakes or whatever please let me know and i will fix them! that goes for any chapter also!

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::EDIT::

Okay, and the edit of chapter 2 is done! Thank you again, and please review!