Hi!!!! Here it is, the second chapter :) I couldn't decide whether or not to add more or take something out, but I realized it worked the way it is. I haven't even attempted to work on chapter 3, but I'm sure it will come to me soon. I'm kinda in a writing mood sooo I might be working on it tonight. My computer is being STUPID!!! AHHHH I hate technology and it hates me :( well happy reading and if you don't comment I'll send my Larxene plushie to tie you up and throw kunai at you...I hear she has perfect aim sooooo good luck with that :) Also I do not own any Square Enix and/or Kingdom Hearts character I just use them for fun :)
As I made my way to second period, I found myself admiring the endless posters adorning the walls of club announcements and art posted from the Art Club. I never exactly found my niche in this school and it was beginning to bother me that I wouldn't find something that made me happy in this God forsaken school. I remember a previous talk Axel and I had about joining the same club. He's into cars and pyrotechnics, and I'm more into writing and electronics. So you see me and him always gave up on finding a club we both liked so we just dropped the subject every time.
After I composed myself from the deep thought I was in, I looked down at my watch and realized the bell was going to ring any second. When I made it to the fork in the hallway that separated into its two adjacent hallways I caught a glimpse of him.
My heart stopped as I saw the fiery red head close the door going into Mr. Robinson's classroom. I stood there for a split second trying to talk myself out of the madness of him being alive, but I ran towards the door anyways. I saw it more as a false hope and I kept practicing what I was going to say when I burst through the door.
When I reached the door I felt the hard metal door knob as I turned it in my hands. Without thinking I flung it open, and the first words uttered out of my mouth were, "Axel! You're alive I missed you soo much!"
I stood there taking in what I had just done in horror. I scanned the room for Axel, but to my misfortune he wasn't there it was Mr. Robinson finishing up his lecture. All of his homeroom freshmen were staring at me with mixed faces. I felt so ashamed because Mr. Robinson was one of my favorite teachers since freshman year and I just ran in his room screaming like a banshee over a boy he never knew and a boy that was dead.
"Ms. Smith are you okay?" asked Mr. Robinson staring at me ever so intently.
The only thing I could form to say was, "Yes Mr. R I'm okay...sorry for interrupting your class like that...I thought this was your free period, and I wanted to play a little prank on you."
I quickly slammed the door behind me, and at that point all I could do was just walk. I was so ashamed of what I had just done; I just wanted to die. As I made my way to the fork in the hallway again the bell rang, and I just stood there hoping someone I knew would recognize me and make me forget about it.
The crowd around me seemed like an endless sea of nothingness, every few seconds I was receiving angry faces for standing still and the other times I was being knocked out of the way. I wish he was here to take my hand and just take me somewhere. When I snapped out of my deep thought three familiar faces began walking towards me.
"Hey! Larx! Stay there we'll come to you!" screamed Rikku to which I received an array of faces looking at me.
I had somehow backed myself into a corner in the hallway while I was in my deep contemplation. In a way I prepared myself for the concerned questions, and the embarrassing comforting that was soon to ensue from my friends. I hated to be pitied, and I was about to get a large dose of it.
"Larxie! Hey what's up?" spouted the very bubbly blonde.
I always admired Rikku's spunk and childlike personality in many ways I wish I could face any obstacle or task like her. I always told her I kept her around because not matter how bad of a day I'm having she always cheers me up. But today I don't think even she could lift me out of the rut and emptiness I felt.
"Rikku...you really have to tone it down or I might have to hurt you. So Paine, Yuna other than being bugged by this loser how's your day been going?"
"Hey! I'm not a loser I'm a winner because I'm awesome." retorted Rikku sticking her tongue out which was an odd color of blue.
"What did you have for breakfast today a Smurf?"
"For. Your. Information! I had a blue Airhead in first period today."
"Oh God, who gave you sugar I might have to go kill them." I said giving my trademark smirk.
I turned my attention to Yuna and Paine who was watching our little spat. Yuna was so pretty, her beautiful skin matched with her beautiful blue and green eyes. And the amazing thing was that the outside beauty could never touch her inner beauty. I always envied her looks and her heart of gold. Paine, on the other hand had a cold demeanor and could stare at you with a gaze that could make your skin crawl. Don't get me wrong she was beautiful and nice, but if you ever got on her bad side you would rue the day you did. Paine and I have been friends since kids, in a way we're exactly the same. Our sarcastic and apathetic demeanor make us two of the same. I swear even though we look nothing alike, I still say we were separated at birth.
"Are you two kids done fighting? Or do we need to make a trip to the bathroom to change your diapers?" said Paine with her arms crossed and hip poked out.
"Now, now Paine let the girls have their fun." said Yuna who was generally amused by our little bickering.
As long as I can remember we've been friends. In the beginning it was just me and Paine, but then Paine moved away. So I was left to pick up the pieces and find new friends. I remember the first day I met Yuna in the lunchroom...
"Hi, is there anyone sitting here?" asked the beautiful brunette, as she sat next to me without allowing me give an answer.
"Well you're sitting here now, why move?"
"Haha you're funny!" giggled Yuna who's eyes were intriguing and pulling me in to them.
"It really wasn't that funny, you look like you're an easily amused kind of person." I don't know why she was talking to me, I mean the lunchroom was full of more popular and outgoing people than me.
"I'm Yuna by the way-"
"-I know I've seen you around." I interjected becoming more and more intrigued by this situation.
"Why are you sitting alone? You seem like a really cool person, where are you friends?" she said smiling at me with such warmth.
"Well my friend moved away, and I'm kinda an outcast here. Everybody thinks I'm weird and there's even a rumor that I practice witchcraft. All because I wear too much black, and keep to myself a lot."
I couldn't believe I was talking to this girl whom I've seen many times before, and actually talked about behind her back to Paine. But as I sat next to her I began to realize she wasn't half bad.
"That's horrible! I hate how in our society we put down and make up rumors about someone just because someone is different. Well, from now on I'm going to be your friend."
"Don't you have to ask someone if you can be friends with them first?"
"Well if you don't want to be my friend, I'm still going to talk to you every time I see you in the hallways regardless."
"You're definitely not the girl I expected. I always thought you were stuck up, and you've turned out to be pretty cool."
"And I thought you were a crabby loner who didn't want friends. I guess we're even then."
"I guess we are, and by the way you've got to stop laughing at everything sarcastic I say I'm really not that funny."
"Sure thing new best friend. Wait! I don't even know your name."
"The names Larxene. Larxene Smith to be exact."
After that moment we became the best of friends, and were inseparable. Yuna soon after became friends with Rikku and she joined our group. Then the next school year Paine moved back, and even she clicked immediately with them. And that's how our little family came together.
"We only have a few minutes till the bell rings. We should start heading to Ms. Pink's room." said Paine always being the voice of reason.
"I really don't wanna go...she's so perky and annoying even to Rikku's standard. Plus, I'm really embarrassed and I just want to go hide somewhere."
"Oh Lar-Lar, it can't be that bad, and plus you've missed three days for Axel's funeral, and- Oops was I not supposed to say his name? Sorry Larxene."
"It's okay Rikku, for once you're right. And don't ever call me Lar-Lar again or I will have to rip your vocal chords out so you can never speak again...actually that's not a bad idea."
Rikku backed away from me holding her throat, and eyeing me with a concerned stare. We made our way to second period, and we sat in our assigned seats. Lucky for me, I had all of my friends sitting beside me and I had the cute red haired slacker in front of me. I always had a thing for red heads, but this guy reminded so much of Axel that it was scary the only difference is the hair style. They speak and act the same way.
"Yo Blondie, you made it back. Where did you go? I missed you." as I looked into his emerald eyes I froze and blushed, and scrambled for something to say.
"You couldn't have missed me you don't even know me. And I was...sick I had a bad cold, but I'm better now." I hated lying to him, but I just didn't want to say Axel's name. Plus, he didn't even know Axel and I didn't want him pitying me like everyone else.
"I really did miss you. Ms. Pink's class isn't the same without your cute little tick you get every time she speaks. I swear it's hilarious how you twitch every time she talks, and that face you do is priceless. I think it actually seriously pains you to be in this classroom."
"I'm so glad you are amused by my misfortune of having to listen to that lady speak for fifty minutes every day. I really want to find her college professor and hit him in the head with a bat for giving that lady her P.H.D in Biology."
His smirk was exactly the same as Axel's and it was beginning to bring back memories of him, and I had to look away so it wouldn't overwhelm me.
"So, what are you doing this weekend?" inquired Reno gazing at me with such a cool manner.
"I'm busy." I quickly answered without hesitation.
"Oh, well I wanted to see if you wanted to catch a movie with me this weekend. I'd really like to get to know you outside the classroom on a personal level you seem like a cool ass chick."
"I'm really not that great. I would bore you to tears and you'd wish you wouldn't have wasted your money on a movie with me."
"I beg to differ." He said getting closer to my face.
I began blushing but tried to retain my composure so he couldn't see that he wasn't getting to me.
"She'll go!" said the trio sitting around me, who had been watching the whole conversation unfold. They gave him my address and cell number.
"You can't give that information out! He could be a serial killer and could come kill me in my sleep tonight!"
"I only do my serial killing during the week, I like to have fun on the weekends just like everyone else lets be practical here! I'll pick you up Friday at seven sharp." He said quickly turning around knowing he had gotten what he wanted.
"Thanks guys I have something for you." I snapped angrily giving them each the middle finger to which I ended by slamming my head down on my desk in agony groaning as I banged it a few times.
The class went smoothly other than the fact that she made me stay after so we could talk. It's not that I hate her it's just I think she's just too perky and I seriously think she takes happy pills everyday for breakfast. She gave me my missed homework and class work assignments, and asked me how I was doing to which I wanted to respond how would you feel, but I just let her talk. She tried to tell me how when an animal loses it mate it moves on, and that I should too. After our little chat she sent me on my way and we all walked to third period. When we got to the foyer Yuna and Rikku turned right and Paine and I continued forward.
When we made it to our hallway, I caught another glimpse of him walking to the exit at the end of the hallway.
"I know I'm not crazy, Paine... look there's Axel!"
"What? Where? Larxene he's dead sorry to put it so bluntly."
"No he's not! He's clearly at the end of the hallway! Just look!"
She scanned the hallway with a concerned look, and then turned back to me.
"Larx, are you okay? I mean I know it's hard to believe he's gone, but when you start seeing visions of him it means you've obviously not completely coped with the fact he's gone."
"I know I saw him, maybe you just overlooked him he just went out the door you know he always went outside to skip class and smoke."
I felt her hand slap my face, and with disbelief I pressed my hand to my cheek to reassure myself that it just happened. Tears began to fall down my cheek as I had realized what I was saying. I just told Paine to look at Axel whose funeral we went to two days ago. She was there holding my hand the whole time during it, she was even there the night he died to hold me as I cried. I looked at her with embarrassment and mouthed the words I'm sorry. She nodded and took me into a deep embrace. We stood there in the hallway with her hugging me, and me sobbing into her black band t-shirt. I could faintly hear a teacher tell her to escort me to the counselor's office.
We made our way to Mrs. Heart's office, Paine not letting going of me for one second. Paine had gone through this whole ordeal with me, and it just showed how great of a friend she was. Paine sat me in a chair across from Mrs. Heart, kissed my forehead and left.
There I came face to face with my biggest fear, talking to a counselor. I said not one word as I sat there sobbing, and she left some tissue for me and said she'd call my mom.
When my mom arrived Mrs. Heart gave her card to her, and sent us on our way.
"She said you can stop by her office any time you wanna talk honey."
"Mom, I don't wanna talk to her."
"Well I think its an excellent idea, it will give you a way to let out everything you have pent up inside you in a warm, friendly, and understanding environment."
"Mom, can we just not talk about it? I just want to go home and sleep this off I'm tired."
"I knew it was too soon for school, but your father insisted! You can go back to school when you're ready honey bee."
"Thanks mom."
Once we got on the main road to leave the school I closed my eyes, and fell asleep.
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