Disclaimer: I wouldn't have to put a disclaimer if owned KH, now would I? But I am doing one, which means…
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I was going to meet Roxas. I had this picture in my mind that he would be exactly like Ven. Of course, that would never be the case.
"Yo, Roxas! Man!" Axel ran into the Nomura commons room before us and gave Roxas one of those one armed hugs. "Dude, I haven't seen you in forever!"
"You shouldn't be the only saying that!" Roxas said. He stood next to an atrociously big armchair that was situated next to the fireplace on the far wall.
"Hey, Rox!" Xion waved Roxas over.
"What's up?" He walked towards us, near the center of the room next to the coffee table. Roxas was a spitting of his older brother, Ventus. He had unnaturally spiky blonde hair and cobalt blue eyes. His hair is exactly like his brother's. It must genetic.
"These are my roommates. You know Olette from home. This is Namine, she's from Destiny Islands." Xion gestured to Olette first, then me.
"Yeah, I know Ollie. How's Hayner?" Roxas asked Olette.
"Oh, um…" Olette was caught off-guard by this question and showed it by opening her eyes wide. "He's fine, but I'm guessing you would know already since he's your new roommate."
"Yeah, but I haven't really seen him yet," Roxas said sheepishly.
"Probably still stuffing his face in the dining hall," I said under my breath. "Hi, I'm Namine." I stepped forward to shake his hand.
"Yeah, We bumped into each other earlier. Do you remember?" Oh, so it's that guy. Almost forgot about him.
"So you've met Namine?" Xion asked.
"Not really. I was checking out the dance building when she, uh, how should I put this…
…fell. I helped her back up."
"I did not fall!"
"When you're standing up one second and on your butt the next, you fell," he said.
"Shut up." I stuck out my lower lip and pouted. Xion and Olette giggled.
"What? It's true!" Roxas put his hands up in defense.
"So, Roxas, what will you be majoring in here?" Olette asked. "I remember you used to do some things with music."
"Yeah, I'm still doing some stuff with music," he said. "But I'm really here for the dance program."
"Dance? I didn't know you danced, Rox," Xion said.
Great, this guy dances. I'll probably have to see a lot more of him.
"There's a lot about me you don't know, Xi."
"Lies!"
"Okay, you got me. Now that you know about my dancing, I have no secrets from you," Roxas said. "Yeah! Woo hoo! You deserve a reward just for that! Oh, I know!" He put a finger up. "We can all go out for ice cream tomorrow. The school lets you off campus on Fridays, right?"
"Friday?" Friday's the day of our performance. "Sorry, but don't think we can make it tomorrow. Some us are doing something at Blank Points," I said while I fiddled with a strand of my light blonde hair.
"Even better! You'll be downtown already!" Roxas said. "We can go before or after your thing. And we can bring Sora, Kairi, Axel, of course, Hayner and Pence. God, it will be so good to catch up with everyone."
"Hey, Namine." Olette tugged on my sleeve as I stared at Roxas in disbelief. "It's getting late. We should be getting back to our dorm."
"Huh?" I said. "Oh, right." Xion, Olette and I started to walk towards the door.
"Bye Roxas!" Xion called out before we left.
"So, guys, what did you think of Roxas?" Xion asked once we were back in our dorm.
"Why?" Olette asked. She adjusted her orange pajama shirt before plopping down onto her bed.
"Because he's only my best friend/cousin ever!"
"Xion! I thought that was me!" I said
"Yeah, but you're not my cousin." Xion put her hair up into a ponytail and laid own on her bed that was on the opposite side from mine, under one of the two windows in our room.
"…He's the same as ever," Olette said as she leaned on her arms behind her head and looked at the ceiling.
"What?" Xion sat up.
"Roxas, weren't you asking about what we think of him?"
"Yeah," Xion said. "What about you, Namine? What do you think?"
"Why do you care?" I sat up on my light blue bed.
"Ooh, defensive," Xion said. "Ollie, you know what this means?"
"I think I do."
"Someone has a little crush." Xion said. She and Olette each picked up a pillow from their own beds and started walking towards my bed.
"Oh, Roxas! Oh, Roxas!" They in unison while lifting their pillows to their faces. "How I love thee!" They both pretended to make out with their pillows.
I rolled my eyes. "Olette," I said. "you wish that pillow was Hayner."
"Shut up!" She went back to her bed.
"Xion, honestly?" She looked up from her pillow. "Roxas kinda seems like a jerk to me."
"Aw, don't say that, Nami." Xion looked at me pleadingly.
"Now, go to bed!" I pointed at her bed. "It's getting late."
"…Fine." She walked over her bed and fell face flat onto it.
"Goodnight!" I crawled over to the foot of my bed and reached for the light switch that was next to the door.
"… I still think you two would be a cute couple."
"Xion!"
"Goodnight."
Breakfast the next day was uneventful, except for the fact the new kid sat with us.
"Hey, Nam. How'd you sleep?" Kairi asked. She, Sora and Riku were sitting at our usual table in the far right corner of the dining hall.
"Fine," I answered. I sat down to her left.
"Hey, I didn't get to go see Roxas last night. How was it?" Kairi said.
"Well, here's the thing," Xion said. She sat across from Kairi. She leaned in and whispered to her. "I think Nami's in love."
"Really, Xion?" I said. "Do you enjoy telling these lies?"
"Ooh, defensive!" Kairi said.
"That's what I said!" Xion sat back down her chair and spread out her arms in an manner that showed her agreement with Kairi.
"Hey guys." Roxas came to are table and dwindled a for bit next to Xion's chair. "Do you mind if I sit here?"
"Do you really have to ask?" Xion gestured to the table.
"What? I'm just trying to be polite!" Roxas said as he sat down.
"Pshh, trying, but not succeeding," I muttered. "I mean good morning, Roxas!" I said.
"Hey yourself." He took about out of his eggs.
"Hey Rox, let me see your schedule." Xion put out her hand.
Roxas dug into his right jean pocket and pulled out a small piece of paper.
Xion grabbed it out of his hand and began to read it out loud. "First period: English with Reese comma Aki."
"Old man Reese? Dude, I feel sorry for you." Riku leaned in a bit from where he was sitting to Xion's left.
"Don't worry Roxas. I'm in his class too," Olette said.
"Olette!" Hayner called out from the entrance of the dining hall. "Hey guys!" He ran over and sat down two seats away from me, next to Olette.
"Hayner!" Pence came up behind him and took a seat next to him at the end of the table. "Gosh, why do you have to be so damn fast?" Pence said as he panted heavily between his words.
"I'm not that fast. You're just relatively slow compared to me," Hayner stated as if it were the most obvious fact in the world.
"As is everyone else," I said. "Hey guys."
"So you guys are doing your thing at Blank Points tonight, right?" Pence asked.
"Are you in it?" Hayner turned to his right and asked Olette.
"I'm never in it. I literally suck at dancing. That's why I'm in the music program!" Olette said.
"Oh… right!" Hayner said while he sheepishly rubbed the back of his dirty blonde head.
"But I'll be there, of course. I have to support Namine and Xion!"
"Oh yeah. I'll be going too. Maybe we can sit together," Hayner said.
"Y-yeah, that would be nice." Olette flushed a faint tint of pink and twiddled with one her dark brown braids.
"Hey! Pass the salt!" Roxas said as he pointed to the stark white saltshaker directly in front of me.
"So much for polite," I said. "Here, chocobo."
"What?" Roxas said as he took the salt from hand.
"Here's the salt bro!" I said louder.
"Oh, I thought you said something else."
"Hey! I was trying to read Roxas' schedule here!" Xion yelled as waved the little piece of paper in the air to get our attention. "Is everyone listening? Okay. Second Period: Algebra with Tuesti comma Reeve. Third Period: Biology with Faremis comma Gast. Fourth Period: History with Ronso comma Kimahri." She squinted at the paper for a little while. "Hey, Nami! You and Roxas have all of the same classes!"
Crap, as if I hadn't had enough of this guy.
"Oh, but you have different dance classes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Oh well!" Xion said as she inspected Roxas' schedule again.
"Breakfast is over in fifteen minutes!" A loud voice came crackling through the overhead speakers.
"Yeah, we should get going." Riku lifted up his tray of food and started to walk up to the food window. We all followed suit except for Sora, who was dawdling near the table longer than one should dawdle.
"Hey, Sora, is everything alright? You haven't been nearly as talkative or obnoxious," I said the last part softly, "as usual."
"What makes you say that?" He looked at me as if I'd told him that his hair was flat today. "Nothing's wrong."
"Yeah, sure."
"Uh huh!" Sora nodded his head once and flashed his signature grin. "Well, see you in class, Namine!"
"Yeah, class," I said wearily. Great, class with Roxas.
A/N: Thanks to DeadRunway and Misfortune XIII for my first two reviews! KYAA!
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