When I woke, He was sitting at the foot of my bed, legs crossed, as per usual. He had a thoughtful look on his face. "About time you woke up, Aerith's been trying to get you up for ten minutes now. It's already 8:10." I leaped out of bed and threw my uniform on.
"And YOU didn't wake me up why?"
"I figured you needed the sleep."
"It's not like I can sleep through school." I spritzed a little water on my hair and tried to mold it back into place (it never ever stays in place despite the trouble I go through to try to make it that way), brushing my teeth at the same time.
"Your shoes are over here."
"dhanks."
"I don't understand gibberish, monkey boy." He smirked, sitting back down on my bed, playing with his lip ring with his tongue. I spat my toothpaste out into the sink.
"I said thanks, asshole."
"You're welcome."
"Roxas? Are you awake now, sweety?" Aerith's voice was strong but quiet through the door.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Good. I have poptarts for you so you don't get hungry. I put them in your backpack downstairs."
"Thank you, ma'am." He was quietly chuckling at how polite I sounded compared when I spoke to him. I tied my tie and found my shoes right where he said they were and glared when he laughed at my struggle with my jacket (there is a rather long backstory to why I go to a private school rather than public, but that is a different story and I'll leave it at I am a rich orphan). After what seemed like ages, I ran out my bedroom door and down the stairs, grabbing my backpack on my way out the front door to the van.
"Hurry up, Roxas!"
"I don't wanna be late cause you're a lazy bum!" When I finally buckled my seat belt and slid the van door shut, the prostests stopped and He sat in the space between the row of seats I was in and the next. He looked at the girl who was being the loudest and rolled his eyes.
"Stupid bitch. Still wearing pigtails like you're five. Grow up." He pretended to grab her pigtail and pull.
"Ouch! Who did that!" I stared wide-eyed at him and He back at me. He'd never been able to grasp anything before. We all said "Not me," and she scoffed, turning away from us in her seat.
"Wow, Kairi, getting a little dramatic there? Not one of us touched your damn nasty hair," Sora said. He looked like he was gonna give Sora a high-five if he could. Instead, he tried messing with her again. He grabbed both of her pigtails and pulled hard.
"Damnit, if you guys don't stop messing with me, I'll hurt you," she threatened, rubbing her abused hair.
"Bitch, we're not doing shit to you," Riku spoke up. She scowled.
"Grow up, assholes." Sora and Riku started muttering to each other about how much of a drama queen bitch she was, leaving me to my silence with him. I raised a single eyebrow at him, as to say, "Really?"
"Yup."
"Hey, did you say something?" Sora looked at me quizically. "No..."
"Alright, sorry. Kairi's hallucinations must be contagious." He grinned as she scoffed. I gave Him a look that said "Holy shit."

At school, I sat in the deserted boy's bathroom and talked to Him.
"How is that possible?"
"I don't know! I know as much as you do! All I know is everything you know!" I tried to think this through, figure out what had changed to make the change and all I could come up with was his name.
"I have a name?"
"Yeah."
"And you didn't tell me?"
"I didn't really have a chance to." His rising anger suddenly died and ended with a sigh.
"So it's new?" He slumped a little.
"Yes, but it's real."

"Axel." His eyebrows raised.
"Strange name for a stranger 'person.'" He put airquotes around 'person,' sighing again.
"Hey, you are a person, imagination of mine or not." We became quiet when a group of guys came roughhousing in the bathroom.
"I totally got to bang her and she thinks that we're together now because of it!"
"Haha! Doesn't beat my story!" I froze, as well as Axel. "I finally got to fuck this virgin girl who's been claiming she's all about chastity and 'no sex before marriage' and all that bullshit and now she's denying it to EVERYONE. She's a fucking hypocrite and I want to laugh in her face cause she can't even look at me without blushing and denying anything I say, even when I just say she looks nice today." All the guys laughed.
"You have the best luck with the ladies, don't you Axel?" I swear my heart stopped beating for a second cause next thing I knew I was staring at the ceiling. MY Axel was looking down at me worriedly.

"You okay, kid? You look like you saw a ghost." Not... I looked around furiously, searching for him, but to no avail.
"Yeah... What happened?" I decided to play it cool. "I came in here cause I wasn't feeling too well..."
"You should probably go to the nurse's office." I examined him as thoroughly as two seconds would allow. Same laugh lines, same lip piercing, same hair... same eyes.

I nodded, getting back on my feet. I left quickly, trying not to throw up. Axel- really my Axel this time- reappeared next to me.
"What the fuck just happened?" I asked him in a low voice.
"You just passed out all of a sudden. You would have cracked your head open but I guess I was corporeal enough to break your fall. The guy heard you fall and came in as soon as I unlocked the door. For a moment I thought he could see me, cause it seemed like he was looking at me, but his eyes turned to you. You look really, really sick."
"Ugh. I feel sick too. Do you realize he looks...?"
"Like me? And has my name? Cause I was wondering about that."
"It's like you guys are the same person... The resemblance... well, no, there isn't a resemblance because you were exactly the same. If I hadn't realized that he was tangible I would have started talking to him like I would you."

We walked in silence the rest of the way to the nurses office.