COR: Dada!
Roxas: Yeah, yeah, you're amazing…
Axel: Extremely...
Riku: Beyond amazing…
Sora: You make that worm look like dirt.
COR: I'm starting to think you guys do not like me.
All: How can you tell? (Beam)
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or this plot and I'm mad because I'm repeating myself from last chapter. Here, some key words. DO! NOT! OWN!
Warnings includes swearing, shounen-ai, mature themes, some OOC.
Addicted to You
Chapter Two: Enter the Love Interest and Problem
Axel. Axel Kaji. He was the guy to whom my heart belonged… damn that sounded really cheesy coming from another guy.
"All right, who is it?"
I snapped out of my daze and met Demyx's eyes from across the table.
"Who's who Dem?" Cloud asked.
"Shut up," he hissed glancing into the kitchen where mom was on the phone. "Not you anyway Cloud, I was asking Roxas. He's got this far away look in his eyes." Demyx added turning his eyes back to me.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about," I replied weakly. I felt my cheeks grow hot so I look down to avoid meeting my brother's steady gaze.
"Oh come on. I know you got the hots for someone. Every time I saw you at school today you looked like you were in daze or you looked like you were looking for a specific someone."
"Oh… I was looking for Jess." I said slightly too quickly.
"Ok, that's a bit… shocking." Demyx told me.
"What is? I thought you thought Jess was alright."
"I do! But the look in your eyes was the sorta romantic look and I know you're gay. Hey Cloud, looks like our brother is now batting for the other team."
"Shut up!" I spat. "You probably wouldn't know him anyway."
"Ha! So it is a guy! For a second I actually thought you were into girls now." Demyx laughed. "Not know him?" he asked as if the words just had just sunk in. "Please, I know almost everyone at our school."
"How is that possible?" I demanded. "There's like three hundred and fifty kids in each grade!"
Demyx shrugged.
"Good one man, now he'll never tell us his name." Cloud muttered. "Come on, you can't know everyone."
Demyx leant back on his chair and bit his lip thoughtfully. "Yeah… yeah you're right. I probably don't know him."
"He doesn't run in your circles anyway." I said quietly.
"Good! So you can tell me his name then! Besides, I probably know one of his friends so I can suss him out for you. I'll try to hook you two up. It doesn't matter if he's straight or not, since you're cute like a girl, he'll probably say yes. Gay relationships aren't really looked down on at our school."
I twisted my fingers underneath the table. "Well…"
"Roxie please. One of my friends had got to be friends with this guy."
"I doubt it," I muttered as my mind flew back to who his group were.
I his group there seemed to be him, that Riku guy who felt me up and an assortment of guys and girls all wearing Gothic type clothing. Their hair was an assortment of styles and colors. I found myself liking them without having a decent conversation with them. As Laxrene was showing me around at lunch I glanced over at the group sitting underneath a large tree. I could have smile at the stereotypicalness of it all.
"Don't look at them," she hissed. "They're social outcasts. You hang around with them then you're deemed as a loser."
"Oh… cool." I said.
"Well I don't," Demyx continued unaware of the playback issued in my head. "Haven't you seen how much my phone goes off?"
"Speaking of which, where is it?"
"Don't change the subject! It's off."
"Off!?" Cloud and I echoed exclamations in disbelief.
Demyx scowled at us. "You know how crazy mom gets if I talk on it at the table. Anyway, Roxas?"
"Well…" I saw Cloud and Demyx both lean forward slightly. "His name… his name is… its ahh-"
"Wait, wait, wait. Do you even know his name?" Demyx asked with a bemused expression.
"Of course I do!" I snapped. "It's Axel Kaji!"
After saying his name various things happened. The first being Cloud – who had been previously drinking – choking on his soda running down his throat and having to thump his chest as he coughed violently. The second being Demyx almost loosing his balance on his tilted chair and his cheery expression gone.
"Axel Kaji!" they cried out in horror.
It was my turn to scowl. "Yes, Axel Kaji. He's a perfectly nice guy."
"Nice guy!" Demyx started, "Nice guy! He's a friggen drug dealing hobo Roxas!"
"No he is not!" I growled back.
"Do you even know him? Wait, does he even know you? He's probably too stoned to even remember your freaking name!" Demyx screeched.
"Why don't you like him?" I demanded. "Is it because the way he's dresses? Oh no he wears black, boo-freaking-hoo!"
"He always wears enough make up to make a drag queen shudder." Cloud told me.
"He wears black eyeliner and a bit of eye shadow! Get over it! Haven't you seen the boys from Good Charlotte wear make up? Or the lead singer of The Killers! Or what about Green Day!"
"All crappy bands with crappy fashion sense," Demyx spat.
"Says the boys who bought both of their albums!" I retorted.
"I need to know about bands Roxas, I can't go to school behind on info!"
"I stood up abruptly. "You are really shallow do you know that? I'm glad out last names our different, I'd hate to go to school with everyone knowing I'm related to scum like you."
I grabbed my plate and stormed into the kitchen. I dumped it down on the kitchen bench and mom – who was on the phone – jumped in shock and gave me a dirty look. I ignored her and flounced off to my room. How dare they judge Axel liked that way! Granted, I wasn't so sure what he did on his free time. All I knew was that he was hot and I wanted to go out with him. Ok, so I knew where he sat and what classes he had on Monday but big deal! Everyone knows about that sort of crap about their crushes… don't they?
I slumped onto my bed in defeat. I was not a stalker, but I was stupid for considering that I was and I was even stupider to have told Demyx and Cloud that I liked Axel. I growled inwardly, how dare the judge him like that! He was nothing like they he was! Ok, so what if I'd never hung out with him or even talked to him. That wasn't the point. I rolled off my bed and trudged to my desk. Taking out my books I flipped open my math one and stared down at my homework that was set for me.
"I've been there one day and I've got homework," I muttered to myself.
I sighed and stared and stared up at the ceiling. How could I get him to notice me? We had two classes together so far, Music and English. Unfortunately in both he sat in the back row so I was never given a chance to be able to check him out. I closed my eyes and sighed wistfully. How could I get Axel to notice me? I couldn't just come to school tomorrow, dressed up in black, I'd be disowned by Laxrene and Jess and Zach and Tommy… the list goes on. I didn't want to have no friends just to see if a guy liked me. He probably didn't even know my name. Demyx was right, I was pretty pathetic actually. What nerve did I have thinking that he would ever consider me as a potential boyfriend? I don't even know if he already has someone or even if he's into guys. I had seen at least three Goth girls and a couple of guys and all seemed to hang with either him or Riku. In short, I was screwed.
I looked over towards my alarm clock and almost screamed. It was 12:05 at night! I squinted my eyes to double check and yes, it was past midnight. I looked down in dismay at my homework and saw that I had drawn multiple hearts with A.K embellished in them. Groaning I ripped the page out, folded it and put it away in my top drawer. My homework could wait till the morning. Besides, this was a public school. Like they care whether or not I've done a few stupid questions regarding trig or whatever. Glancing over at my bed I decided that I'd have a shower in the morning and gratefully slid in between the cold sheets.
I tried clearing my mind and tried thinking of nothing for a while. My plan however failed when my alarm clock started going off. My eyes snapped open and I swore. Friggen Demyx! He was always messing with my alarm clock. I turned over and swore again, he hadn't played with it at all! It was 7:30 in the morning! I jumped out of bed and grabbed some clothes to wear.
"I must have fallen asleep thinking of Axel," I mumbled to myself.
Unfortunately I didn't feel as romantic as that sounded. And at the moment I blame Axel for making me think such corny things like this. I'm not usually a sap or anything.
I rushed to the bathroom and showered quickly. I didn't feel like seeing my mother or my brothers this morning so when I'd finished in the bathroom I checked the hallways. All clear. I sprinted to my room and quickly applied some make up. Well just eyeliner and not a lot either. I just like how it makes my eyes stand out, though I haven't been wearing it since I came here, mostly because I'm just too lazy. After finishing I gave myself a mental nod of approval and slipped on my black and green adidas skaters. Ok, so I wasn't really Goth looking with my light baggy jeans and tighish dark blue t-shirt but still, I looked pretty good. I threw all my books and my wallet into my bag, slung it over my shoulder and threw open my window.
Lucky for me my room faced the street and right below my window was a bit of roof and right beside the roof was a large tree. I nimbly walked over to a jutting out branch and swung myself down. Thank you father's genetics! I landed a bit roughly on the ground, but I was always a klutz, and casually strolled to the corner of the street where I was told the school bus pulled up. Just my luck it arrived about three seconds after I did. Smiling I hopped on and did a quick survey. No free double seats so I'd have to share.
I made my way to roughly about the middle and chose a seat at random. Before I could even properly sit down I heard hushed whispered and in took voices. I looked over to see whom I was sitting with and was greeted by a pair of very dark lined deep eyes.
"Is anyone going to be sitting here?" I asked politely.
The Goth shook her head and smiled. She was extremely cute. Her hair was long and a dark reddish brown and her short skirt revealed slim legs – albeit clad in fishnet stockings. And her eyes were almost the same shade of blue as mine, but lighter.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?"
I looked up at her in surprise. "Excuse me?" I asked. Some horrible images of her telling me that Axel knew I liked him flashed though my head.
"Sitting with me, are you sure you want to?"
"Of course, why wouldn't I want to sit with you?" I asked in confusion.
"You do realize that when you're new to a school the first few weeks determines the friends you'll have for the rest of your schooling life right?" she said raising an eyebrow. "Sitting with me could ruin your… reputation."
"I don't really… care," I told her simply.
She raised her other eyebrow then turned to look out the window.
"Why would you say something like that to me? Of all people?" I asked curious.
"I saw you hanging with Laxrene Hunter and Demyx Lovell. I don't think they'd be too happy if their new 'friend' was seen with the likes of me."
"Well Demyx my brother so yesterday I really had no choice but to hang with him… he was like the only person I knew."
The girl spun her head and regarded my replied seriously. "Demyx Lovell is your brother? But your last name is Shizuko1 isn't it?"
"H-how did you know my last name?" I asked slowly seriously considering getting up to change seats.
She gave me a small smile. "You're in my English class."
"Oh… oh I'm so sorry. I didn't realize," I apologized
.
"I'm Kairi, or Kai, which ever you feel more comfortable with." She offered.
"Oh, I'm Ro- oh, you, already know that don't you?"
Kairi smiled and shrugged. "Mr. Fischer put your name up on the board."
"Oh yeah," I laughed out.
Suddenly my heart skipped a beat. That would mean Axel knew my name! Yay!
"Kai is a really cute nickname," I muttered cheerfully at her. She smiled in response.
"Yeah well, I think Sora's nickname is even cuter, with a cute history behind it. His nickname is Vogue. A friend name Riku gave it to him. He goes to our school, do you know him?"
"Riku?" I repeated scoffing. "Why would he do a thing like that?"
Mr. Riku Conrad was in short, a self-assured little asshole. And I hated him.
Kairi narrowed her eyes dangerously, "because he is both Sora's and my best friend."
"Oh," I said silently, feeling like an asshole myself. "Oh I'm sorry. Umm… what made him call Sora that?"
"Well, Sora might not like it if I told but, he got asked to be some model for some big name company and when he was approached his friends totally ditched him. He kept hanging by himself at school until one day Riku came over and started to talking to him. He invited Sora to sit with him and his friends and asked him why he was always alone all of a sudden. Sora told him the story and he nicknamed him Vogue. It stuck and they've been best friends since."
"That's really sweet, not the friends bit I mean. What Riku did was. God, what dicks. Who was he hanging out with back then?"
Kairi gave me a twisted smile. "Laxrene Hunter and Co."
I was rendered speechless.
"Be careful hon," she said before getting up and leaving me alone.
I looked out the window and saw that we'd arrived at school. I shook my head, grabbed my bag and followed the flow of the bus catchers off and onto the front lawn.
Ok, I said to myself. Where did Laxrene tell me they met up in the morning? I looked around casually as I started for the main building. I remember her saying something about the quad. That's right, they sit right there in the center don't they?
Taking my own advice I headed for the huge expanse of grass in between the various buildings. When I got there I was surprised to see so many groups of people milling about. I couldn't help but look over at the large tree where Axel was sitting yesterday. My heart sunk in my chest, he wasn't there yet. I started focusing on each group looking for Rene or at least one of the girls or guys I hung out with yesterday.
"I think you'll find they're still in the bathroom, the guys are probably getting pissed at the girls by now," said a familiar voice.
I turned around to see Kairi and another platinum-blonde haired Goth looking at me.
"Hey Kai," I said. "Hi, I'm Roxas." I told the other girl while extending my hand.
The girl tilted her head and looked at me with a critical eye. Without a word she brushed past me. I followed her with my eyes and saw her collapse underneath the oak, another Goth joining her a few moments later.
"Don't mind Namine, she gets like the around preps." Kairi told me drawing my attention back to her.
"But I'm not a prep," I complained almost compelled to huff and cross my arms.
Again with the twisted smile, "then do you want to sit with us till classes? You've got fifteen to kill."
"Yeah!" I said enthusiastically. "I mean… cool," I added on sounding less wound up and more laid back.
Kairi laughed and we started over. I looked up and my heart froze. There was Axel! And he was standing right at the tree looking directly at us!
"Umm…" I said my heart starting to beat a million miles per hour. "I have to go… go… go call my brother! Yes! My brother, I forget – I mean- I forgot to tell him I caught the bus. Bye." I said quickly and without another glance back I rushed off to my locker, my heart and adrenalin pumping.
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Kairi watched as Roxas disappear amongst throngs of people with a slight frown on her face. Shrugging mentally she continued heading towards her friends. Before she had even sat down Namine spoke up.
"What was that all about?"
"What was what all about?" their friend Sora mumbled.
"Not you asshole! Kairi?" Namine snarled.
"What do you mean?" Kairi asked as she sat down next to Sora who was happily destroying a textbook.
"'Hi, I'm Roxas'," Namine repeated in a false high voice. "Fucking preps."
"He's not that bad Min, he's actually really nice," Kairi told her.
"How can a fucking prep be nice? They're all backstabbing sons-of-a-bitches!"
"Get over it Namine," Sora piped up, stopping his fun for a second to stare up at the blonde.
"Get over what? Get over the preps and their whole way of living? I don't think so! You think I'll just drop it?" Namine demanded, uncharacteristically furious.
"If you're going to dwell on that for the rest of your life Min, then you're not worth my anger," Sora told her coolly.
"And what is that exactly Sora? Why not remind everyone of how I got fucked over! Oh wait, because it reminds them of what a fucking slut you are too!"
With a vile glare in Sora's and Kairi's direction, Namine got up and stormed off. Woe to any who stood in her way.
"Oh well," Sora muttered going back to his 'fun'. "She'll be fine once she smoke some dope," He said idly while scrawling 'fuck goths' over his textbook cover.
"What exactly are you doing?" Kairi asked with a small smile on her face.
"Well – I keep getting in trouble for not having my homework done, so, if I ruin my textbook I can blame it on somebody else and not get in trouble this time!" Sora said proudly while leaning back to admiring his handiwork.
"That's about as effective as burning the book and dumping the ashes on Rexford's desk," Axel spoke up.
Sora's grin widened. "Dude," he said slowly. "That has got to be the best fucking idea I've ever heard!" He thrust into his pocket and withdrew his lighter.
"Sora!" Kairi scolded as she snatched the lighter away from him. "Axel you know better that to encourage him!"
Axel laughed and wiped a false tear away from his eyes. "Hey, what were you and Min arguing about?"
"Oh, on the bus this morning I talked to that dude Roxas and I asked him if he wanted to sit with us this morning."
"Oh, so that's why you two were talking to him," Axel said. "Why didn't he?"
"He said he had to call his brother or something. I don't know. He said yes then went full strange on me."
"Once a prep always a prep," Axel sighed.
"Nah, he isn't a prep,"
"We're talking about the guy who was hanging out with Lovell right?" Sora asked eyeinh his lighter that was still held in Kairi's black nail polished hand.
"Yeah,"
"And you're trying to tell us he's not a prep? Shit, that's like… like criteria if you want to hang out in Lovell's posse."
"Dude, Demyx is his brother," Kairi yawned.
"His what?" both Axel and Sora asked.
"His brother, he told me this morning," Kairi said and leant back against the grass.
"But don't they have different last names or something?" Axel asked vaguely remembering a different name being scrawled up on the board.
"Yeah, I'm not sure how it works."
"Holy fuck," Sora swore. "This is the same dude whose pants Riku was talking about getting into right?"
"And if he's Lovell's brother that means he's Sp-"
"Sephiroth Lovell's cousin," Axel growled.
"Fuck," Kairi cursed. "He seemed real cool too."
-
Roxas: Woooooooo Cliffie! What's going to happen, why does the Goth group hate Sephiroth, will our hero's have a happy end? I DON'T KNOW BUT YOU SHOULD BE PSYCHIC!!!
COR: You need to stop watching those superhero shows…
Axel: And eating candy.
Roxas: NEVER!!! (Jumps on the top of a tree with a bag of M&Ms)
Sora and Riku: …
Axel: (Sigh) I'll get a ladder…
COR: And I'll call the fire department…
1 I believe this means "Quiet or shy girl" in Japanese and I thought it was kinda funny...