It was right after dinner that night when Axel e-mailed him back. Roxas hadn't been expecting it at all. Part of him assumed Axel would ignore him until the semester started. The part of him who had been hoping he would e-mail back eventually hadn't been expecting a reply so soon. After all, the guy had told him that he was busy. He must have a free night or something. Roxas was sure he had simply gotten lucky and caught Axel at a good time.

Regardless of what the situation actually was, Roxas found he was pleased. He wanted to hear about college from someone other than Riku.

Riku, as much as Roxas didn't mind him, lead the ideal life. Great looks, great personality, he'd always been popular, did all sorts of sports when they were in high school… And was currently doing excellent in all his college courses.

Roxas wanted to hear about college from a normal persons point of view. Someone who actually had to study. Someone who would be like him, and pulling out their hairs around the time of their first midterm exam.

Not like Riku, who had spent the entire week of both midterms and finals at their house hanging around with Sora. Although, when Roxas brought this up with his mother once during conversation one morning about school, she had promptly suggested that perhaps Riku had been relieving some pre exam stress with Sora, if he knew what she meant. Sora had promptly turned red and began to immediately protest, and Roxas swore that was the last time he tried having a serious conversation with his mother.

Smirking at the memory, he clicked the e-mail open.

Roxas, Roxas, Roxas. I doubt you can annoy me. It's my job, you know? So, kid, why don't you tell me a bit about yourself?

Roxas sighed, and minimized his web browser. He didn't even know how to do that. For some reason talking about himself was one of the hardest things to do. All he ever knew how to say was 'Hi, I'm Roxas. I'm this many years old, and have a twin brother who is the exact opposite of me personality wise.' Not exactly thrilling. None of his interests were things he just out and told others right away, because then he was pegged as the nerdy kid and people teased him. He didn't know if it would be that way in college or not, but decided he didn't want to find out just yet. Closing his lap top, he came to the conclusion that he would come back to it later.

Getting up off of his bed, he made his way out of his room and into the room next door, which was essentially identical to his own, expect considerably more messy.

He didn't even bother to knock, despite the fact he knew full well that both Sora and Riku were in there. Throwing the door open, he found the couple sitting on Sora's bed battling it out over a video game.

Stepping over the wires stretching far across the floor connecting controllers to the counsel, he dropped himself in between the pair. "Hey guys."

"Hey Rox." Sora replied, while Riku nodded not taking his eyes off the game.

Roxas watched them play in silence for a few moments. They were playing a fighting game. His moments of silence were mainly because he was trying to figure out who was playing which character, as it was always more entertaining to watch people play video games if you knew who was responsible for which characters actions.

Once he had figured it out, he leaned up against the wall behind him, and spoke without his eyes leaving the screen. "How would you guys describe me?"

Sora didn't miss a beat. "Clean."

Riku, on the other hand, waited a moment to answer. "Focused. Goal oriented. "

Sora glanced at Riku. "Goal oriented? Who talks like that in every day conversation."

Roxas sighed. "So, I'm pretty lame, huh?"

"Nah," Riku responded. "There's nothing wrong with knowing what you want."

Roxas nodded. He didn't say anything.

"Why?" Sora asked. "Oh, dammit, Riku!"

Roxas watched as his twin, older by a matter of minutes, threw his controller down into his lap and turned to glare at his boyfriend.

"It's not my fault you can't talk and play video games, Sora." Riku laughed, setting his own controller down on the bed beside him.

"Whatever." Sora pouted, crossing his arms over his chest and sending a small glare towards the older boy, then returning his attention to Roxas and asking again. "Why, Rox?"

Roxas shifted. "No reason, I guess….What time is it?"

Riku picked up his phone and pressed a button to light it up. "Almost right."

"Ugh," Roxas moaned quietly, draping an arm over his eyes dramatically. "I have to get ready to go to work."

"Work?" Sora blinked. "But doesn't the store close in like two hours?"

"Yeah." Roxas sighed. "But I have to go in tonight to help with inventory. You know, Sora. I've done it before. Where we have to scan every movie after the store closes and make sure everything is accounted for and see what the general public managed to steal from us without us noticing?"

Riku laughed. Sora rolled his eyes.

"Right, right. Shoo shoo." Sora said, motioning at Roxas with his hands in attempt to 'shoo' him from the room. "Go get ready for work. I can't kiss Riku with you in here, anyway."

Roxas snorted. "Since when has that ever stopped you before?"

"Good bye Roxas! Have a great night at the video store!" Sora called, getting off the bed and ushering his brother from the room.

Roxas laughed. "Oh, I will. Behave in here. Don't do anything I wouldn't."

Sora rolled his eyes again, before smirking. "Oh, I'm sure we will. Bye!"

And Roxas found himself shut out of the room. Entering his own room, he pulled his uniform out and changed quickly. If he got there quick enough, he'd be able to charge something to drink to his employee account and not have to actually pay for it at the moment.

Exiting his room, he make his way towards the stairs -but not without pounding his fist on Sora's door as he passed it- and out of the house.

Inventory wasn't necessarily a bad thing, it was extra money and quite a bit more than usual, as it usually took three to four hours to scan in every single movie in the entire store. He really wouldn't have ended up doing much else that night anyway, so why not spend it with his coworkers making a little bit of extra cash?

Putting the car into drive, Roxas changed the radio station at least three times before he reached the end of his street. The movie store was about the same distance from home as his soon to be university, so it only took him a few minutes to get there.

Parking the car in the closest parking spot he could find to the store, not bothering to worry about the 'employees park at the back' policy as the store was closing soon anyway, he got out of the car and paused to make sure his shirt was straightened before closing the car door and locking it behind him. As he went to round the back end of the vehicle and make his way into the store, he literally collided right into someone.

"Ah, sorry!" Roxas cried, stumbling backwards a bit and looking up at the person he had walked into.

The guy had to at least have been an entire foot taller than him. His appearance was almost unreal. He was dressed normally enough, jeans and an old rock band shirt, but his hair.. The man had incredible long red spiky hair. Roxas had never seen anything like it before.

"You okay, kid?" The man asked.

"I'm fine." Roxas said quickly. "Sorry about that. I wasn't expecting any one…. The store is normally pretty dead by now and I-"

The guy laughed. "Whatever. It's cool. Have a nice shift, blondie."

Roxas stared in disbelief at him as he grinned a large toothy grin and then turned and walked away towards his own car. He was carrying a bag from the video store, but Roxas was sure he had never seen him before. He was either a new customer, or he was always in on days Roxas wasn't. Which would be really weird if he had managed that, somehow.

Deciding that it really wasn't that important, Roxas turned on his heel and began to make his way into the store. He had a drink to obtain before they closed the register.