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He sighed quietly under his hood, he was such a coward, scared of the world and just waiting for someone to come and show him it wasn't all that bad… if that person would ever come. If that person even existed. He shook his head feeling the fabric weigh his movements down a little bit. He walked at a slow pace beside his sister, it didn't matter though, the girl didn't mind.

Kairi messed with her fingers as she tried her best not to draw any attention to herself and Axel. She loved her brother so much. It ate away at her to see the state he was in. All she had ever wanted was for him to be happy. She wished she had been the one born with the wretched allergies and skin issues. Her brother was singled out in the entire family; no one else had the allergies, Eczema, or asthma that plagued Axel throughout his life. She hated the way she could sometimes hear him crying from his room. The sounds of despair would make her want to cry too; sometimes she did. That's her brother, her own flesh and blood. And she can't do anything for him because she can't control his health. All she can do is just try to be a great sister to him, helping him if he needed it. Of course that never happened though. He acted so strong, acted like all of this was no big deal. That he wasn't in so much pain. She felt terrible whenever they had dinner and he would end up eating something different because of his dietary restrictions. She hated how helpless she felt. How she had to stand there on the sidelines and watch as Axel's self esteem fell slowly. How she has tried to get him to talk but he just wouldn't and would blow it off with some off handed comment that attempted to change the subject. How in his years of high school he hasn't once gone to a dance. How he's never had a friend. How he's locked in his room constantly and never leaves unless it's to go in the game room, "To save Princess Zelda, got it memorized?" as he would say a lot. This wasn't fair! It wasn't fair the way he lived feeling like he was worthless cause of how he looked. She felt like crying once more.

She was okay though. She let out a laugh, what a loser she was. Her brother was there; the one with all the problems and she was just about to break down. Ha. It was sort of ironic really, how stupid of her. She really tried to be a good sister. She hoped her efforts weren't completely fruitless. She hoped maybe something that she did made Axel's life a little bit more bearable… somehow.

Axel kept his hood over his head, creating a shadow over his face as he looked down at the cold, hard, solid ground. He glanced at Kairi as much as he could from beneath the cover; she was staring ahead with a gloomy look on her face. A soft frown was bestowed upon her with eyes that held the expression of sadness. He could see her petite fingers fumbling together as she was in what looked like an unpleasant deep thought. Axel didn't say anything about it though. He didn't really have a right to. He wasn't a good brother to Kairi. She had reached out to him countless times, trying to get him to talk about his issues, but he had just tried to be cool and collected and would make some smart comment. He did play his role as overprotective though; this made him smile proudly under his barrier from the world. He always made sure to drop Kairi off at school instead of letting her walk alone. He always tells all of her guy friends (without her consent, mind you) to protect her and not to do anything stupid or bodily harm will be in their near future. It's funny, he can remember when he told Sora this when he and Kairi had first become friends. The kid flipped and rambled very loudly about how he promised he wouldn't let anything happen to her and that he didn't want certain parts of his body gone when he woke up in the morning. Axel wanted to laugh at the memory but suppressed it; he definitely did not need any unnecessary attention. He pulled the front of his hood up a little and saw that they were close to the park entrance. He saw Riku and Sora arguing about something while standing in front of the monkey bars. At least that's what it looked like with them both flailing their arms around and talking at a particularly large volume that was just too soft to hear what they were actually saying but loud enough to know what they were talking very passionately about whatever it was. Then as his eyes drifted over the park that was unoccupied and he saw a blonde boy. He was sitting on the swing and was staring at Sora and Riku in annoyance, or at least it looked like annoyance, one could only be so observant from a distance. Axel studied the boy as they got to the entrance, he must be the guy Kairi said might come with them. Axel thought a second trying to remember the name she gave him; it had started with an R, hadn't it? Eh, he'll just learn it when he gives the boy the 'Bodily Harm' talk. He looked him over, sizing em' up silently. He looked pretty short for his age, maybe he was a little younger than them? The way he looked from a far, he kind of resembled Sora. The way he carried himself though, it wasn't loud and sweet like Sora was. This kid looked like the quiet type. He had nice blue eyes though. The boy covered his eyes as he looked up at the sky, seeming fascinated with it, this made the eyes take on a darker shade than they really were. Axel looked at the boy's skin, it was creamy and most likely smooth to the touch. He envied him. How lucky, to have someone be able to look at you without disgust and maybe even want touch you. The redhead could only dream of that.

"Axel! What are you doing? You gonna say hi or are you going home already?"

Oh, he could stay; he needed to talk to the other kid. He knew he wasn't a good brother, he could pretend like he was though, ne?

I'm sorry I know this is short! I might update this one again in the middle of the week, if I have time. I'm still trying to get the hang of having 2 stories up and running on here. The update will be the normal amount of around 2,000 words like normal.