In
all our lives, we come across people.
People who impact us, in
ways we could never imagine.
Until the effects are quite set in
place....
Act one: A new day dawns
"If
it where up to me, school would only last a week" The boy with
the blond spiky hair and the beautiful deep brown eyes stated in his
'matter of fact' way.
"Why only a week Hayner? I mean if its
that short...why have any of it?" Questioned the only girl of
the group, with brown hair and green eyes.
"Because" He
took a look lick of his sea-salt ice cream "That's enough time
to see all your friends, get a year book, sign it, make plans, get
phone numbers,
and plan out your whole summer!" He laughed,
and so did the rest of his friends. Hayner glanced over to the chubby
boy with brown hair and brown eyes, asking
"Why are you so
quite today Pence?"
Pence looked up from his ice cream, most
people would see a teenager like Pence and guess he never misses out
on his ice cream, but today it was dripping on the
floor as it
melted. Pence was a deep thinker despite his looks. He was really out
of it.
"What where you guys talking about?" He finally
managed to say.
The girl got up, threw away her Popsicle stick,
and sighed "You've been so out of it lately..."
Pence
looked down, watching without emotion as his ice cream fell to the
floor off his stick.
"Sorry Olette...I guess...I'm worried
about Roxas."
The group looked up. Standing in the doorway
was a short boy, about Hayners height, in a black and white outfit.
His hair hung down in his face, drenched.
A giggle arose from
Olette "Wow it's really raining huh?"
The boy dripped
as he came into the club house, sat on a box next to Hayner and
sighed "I hate the rain...."
Pence handed the wet boy a
towel and smiled "Well at least it's only a few days till
summer! That means the rain is warm right? You know we were worried,
I wish you-"
"Slow down Pence, I've only been here for 2
minutes, can I breath before you start attacking me with questions?"
Roxas cut him off.
The mood in the club house went from somber and
quite to lighthearted and cheerful.
The group just wasn't the
same without him. They hadn't known Roxas for that long but he was
the heart of the group.
"That boy has such a big
heart..."
"For someone lacking one" The man in that
familiar black coat interrupted.
"Why must you focus on that
so much? Be happy you are getting your friend back...Seems like
that's all you care about" His voice was as cold and dark as
he looked, his face wrapped
in red bandage matching his coat. His
orange eyes shown as he spoke to the man in the black hood.
"That
is all I care about...what else is there to live for?" Looking
like a member of that familiar organization that had once imprisoned
Roxas, as it set his heart free.
DiZ, the man in the wrappings,
watched Roxas live his life. He was waiting for the day he could set
everything right again.
But with DiZ, a man in the organization
coats sat, talked, and watched along side him, waiting for not the
day of revenge and pain, but of love and reuniting with the man he
once loved and lost.
Back at the club house, Roxas was dry
and with his own sea-salt ice cream.
"I can't believe
it...It seems like just yesterday I started school with you guys, and
we are just two days away from the first day of summer!!" His
voice was quite but excited.
Pence had risen back from his despair
as Roxas was here; in fact the whole group was much happier.
The
smell of the clean air wafted into the club house. The rain had
stopped.
"You have all the luck don't you little guy?"
Laughed Hayner "You're here for 5 minutes and the rain stopped
and the sun comes out, look rainbows!!" Hayner had almost fell
over laughing.
Roxas gave Hayner his signature "Death Glare"
as they called it "Shut up Hayner...I've had a bad
day..."
Getting up, Olette interjected "I bet! I saw you
in math today, really just wailed on you didn't he? I
mean how are you suposta know how to find X? It not like he taught it
all year to us..."
Another death glare, this time at Olette,
shut her up.
"I mean...I don't know something just doesn't
feel right...Like something's gonna happen or..."
"Or
what? You're just paranoid. Besides, be excited, it's your first
summer in twilight town!" Hayner stood, and raised his fist to
the air in "victory".
Act two: Those who don't have hearts shouldn't feel...
The night was cold. As had
been the day. His whole life was cold and lonely now.
He sat in
that old chamber. The one that he had met his one true love. The
prison that had sunken the soul of his mate. The hell that was made
heaven with one quick kiss.
Staring out the window of this prison,
though all he saw was darkness, he dreamed. He dreamed of the day
they would meet again. He dreamed of that long ago kiss.
He
dreamed, because that was the only joy he had left.
His once lipid
emerald eyes had become dull, and his once glorious smile had became
a perpetual frown.
He no longer talked with a cocky tone. He very
rarely did talk anymore.
The organizations leader, Xemnas, had
none punished him like he had thought. Even if he had, Axel would
have liked it.
It would have given him something to fill the void.
Maybe Xemnas would have even turned him into dusk. Then he knew he
wouldn't be able to feel.
Or so he thought.
Still, with all
this rushing through his mind, he still dreamed of only the boys'
smile and the blue eyes that had given him so much hope. Hope, he
would one day see the sky, grass, trees, and life, as
he did when
human so many time. He never knew how much he took for granted in his
last life.
Demyx had told him that few nobodys where lucky enough
to remember lives as human. Nobodys that did, where special. Special
enough to join the organization.
That's the line that had made
him join. But Demyx had told him many times since then this same
line.
That line once gave him hope to. Although it seemed
childish to him, he didn't care. He thought maybe he would become
human again. Get back his heart.
Then he walked into that prison,
with that hot dinner, for the man of his dreams.
The day they
kissed, was the day he learned that he didn't need a heart to feel
love. He had learned a lot of things being with Roxas. Today, and
every day since he lost him, he reviewed them in his mind, as he
stared into the darkness of the window...
As Axel pondered his
life and what was to become of it, Demyx walked into the door.
He
stood tall, with blond hair. He was never the quite one in the
organization, always telling everyone his own opinion, as if anyone
wanted to hear him.
This was not one of his "quite days" and
Axel was about to hear all about it.
"Your
such a little fagot" he told Axel, who was still dreaming out the
window "I can't believe you miss that little runt, besides" He
sat with Axel, who was still not looking up "It's your fault he's
gone now anyway."
Demyx's voice was very upsetting to Axel. It
wasn't what he said that angered him, it was the tone, and Axel was
all about tone of voice.
Rising to his feet, the old Axel would
have socked Deymx in the face and walked out without a word, but that
was before he got his heart broken.
Axel simply looked at the
blond devil and walked away, angering Deymx more.
Also standing
with Axel, Deymx took what the old Axel would have done and turned it
on him, punching him in the back, a kidney shot.
With a grunt of
pain from Axel, Deymx felt victorious, that is until he saw Axel
swing back around for what will be another black eye for Deymx.
As
Deymx fell, the nape of his neck collided with the steel bed frame,
as his world went black he heard Axel, in his old smug voice, say
"Don't mess with me or Roxas, got it memorized?"
Act three: Summer boys
Finally the first day of summer had
arrived. The gang was ecstatic, all but Roxas.
He was dreaming,
as was his soul mate in a far away land.
Hayner and the gang made
plans to get their favorite ice cream and sit atop the twilight
tower, the tower over the train station.
Roxas wasn't really
into it; he had things to think about. He had been having weird
dreams for the past month. Dreams of a dark castle, and a man with
deep green eyes, and flowing red hair.
In his dreams he felt so
happy with the man, all they seemed to do was walk and hold hands or
talk, and Roxas loved every minute of it. Then he woke up and he
became more depressed then he ever had. Somehow he kept getting worse
every time he woke up. Late in the last week of school, he started
taking unnecessary sleeping drugs. He started showing up later and
later for seeing his friends, he was even skipping his first few
morning classes. If you where Hayner or Pence, missing school wasn't
a big deal, but Roxas had always been perfectly on time and always
tried his hardest.
Roxas' dreams are what kept him sane, and
alive. If he couldn't see that man in his sleep, he didn't know
what he would do.
Atop the tower, the gang and the ever so
reluctant Roxas ate ice cream in silence.
They all had questions
they knew they shouldn't ask.
That is, until Hayner blurted out
what everyone was thinking "Roxas what has been wrong with you
lately? Are you going to go like emo or something?"
Watching his
ice cream melt as he always did when thinking, Roxas didn't look
up. He didn't need to.
"I'm…Going through something ok?
Don't bug me…"
Biting down on his own sea-salt ice cream
Hayner snared "Well you know what? I care about you! WE care about
you! You can't be so selfish as to not let your friends in when
something's wrong!! You've been acting like a complete attention
whore for like 2 months now and you don't give us any reason, well
I'm sick of it! Tell us what the hell is wrong before I shove you
off this tower and give you a REAL reason to be upset!!" Hayner was
out of breath after this.
There was a long pause. Roxas slowly
finished his ice cream and got up.
"I don't need this."
He
started down the tower, Olette called after him "Where are you
going!? This isn't helping anything you know…"
Stopping only
for a moment, Roxas replied "I'm an attention whore remember, I'm
going to get myself some more attention…"
