A/N: Wow, like a month and a half or so since I last updated...
I'm SOOOOOO sorry!!!! I just...ugh, I dont know, its a long story.
Please forgive me!
Well on the bright side, school ends on the 16th, so I'll have tons of free time then.

So my proof reader hasnt read this yet, so...I dont know, sorry for mistakes.
And I'm sorry again...
Enjoy! Or at least try...

"Where could he be?" Roxas thought to himself, silently crying, back to the stone wall of his school.
Maybe he left, or was fired. Maybe the school didn't want someone so…outrageous as their playground monitor.

Did he quit? Did he hate seeing Roxas so much that he wanted to quit?

Roxas drew circles on the ground, his finger mindlessly keeping the shape.
He didn't think he could miss someone he hardly knew.

"Are you crying kid?"
He looked up in hopes of it being Axel. In hopes of seeing that burning hair, and those eyes, and those…
No, it wasn't Axel. Much to Roxas' dismay, it was the mean kid from class.

Hayner.

Roxas wiped his eyes, and sniffled, "No…I wasn't."
He stood up and stared at the ground, "What do you want Hayner?"

Hayner shoved a red rubber ball into Roxas' chest, "You were playing with it yesterday. I thought you would want it back…"
Roxas held it, shocked, "Uh…Thanks…"
"Don't thank me, if you play with that then you wont want to play with us. Later." Hayner tossed a hand in the air as he left. A semi-wave.

Roxas played with the ball the rest of recess. Axel was still no where to be found.

O.o.O.o.O

Roxas didn't eat at dinner that night. He wasn't hungry. Which was surprising, since he didn't eat lunch either. His parents didn't question it, they were really wrapped up in some news scandal.

Someone breaking into…Something.

So soon he was off to bed, to dream about things that would never happen.
Like happiness.
For some reason, he had this…Sinking sensation, this hole where his happiness should be.
He didn't know how to describe it.

He didn't dream, like he wanted.

O.o.O.o.O

School the next day wasn't much better.
He had woken up with an even worse feeling then when he went to sleep.
Something was….amiss.
Not just with him, but with Twilight Town.

Everything seems…skewed. Off.
The sky had more clouds then normal, the grass seemed a little long, and he noticed some paint chipping off a few houses.
On his way to school, he even saw a broken down car on the side of the road.
Did all this have something to do with what his parents were talking about last night?

O.o.O.o.O

His teacher, Ms. Gainsborough, wore her hair down, it was long and frizzy.
Her dress was a dull blue, and her eyes seemed…Like someone turned them off.
That was the best way Roxas could describe any of this.
It was like someone turned Twilight Town off.

Even Hayner was acting off. He didn't insult Roxas. He didn't even talk.
In fact, Roxas didn't think he heard anyone talk all day.
Except his mother, who told him to have a good day half heartedly.
Was he missing something?

O.o.O.o.O

No sooner did the recess bell ring, when Roxas was grabbed by the wrist and pulled out of his classroom.
He protested the whole way until he saw who was grabbing him.
Red hair.
"Axel?" He asked, looking hopeful, "Where were you yesterday?"
The man let go of his arm and sighed, "I didn't work yesterday. Sorry."
"Its fine but…" He looked up at Axel, he had dark shading around his eyes and he looked…overly tired.
"Are you okay?"

Axel patted him on the head and smiled, "Of course I am, I'm with you now, so everything's peachy."
He made an "O" with his thumb and forefinger, and laughed.
Roxas really liked his laugh.

All recess they played ball, and Axel told Roxas a story.
A story about a terrible place called Hollow Bastion.
He told him how the rain would pelt the people on the streets mercilessly. And how one year, the pollution in the sky got so bad, people would get burned by the rain. Roxas asked what "pool-uu-shin" meant.
He told him about these things called "gangs" and how they beat up innocent people for money.
Roxas didn't understand why they didn't just use their own.
Axel told him about the worst part, about the "accident" that happened, and about how everyone had lost something.
Roxas said he would be sad if he lost his home, his parents, or Axel again.

Soon recess was over, and Roxas had more then enough to think about.
"Will you be here tomorrow?"
"I can try." Axel patted him on the head, "Don't worry okay kid?"
Roxas nodded and looked up at his eyes.
Green. Something about the colour green…

O.o.O.o.O

At dinner that night, Roxas told his parents the story that Axel told him.
There was a long silence, and his dad told him not to talk to Axel anymore.
"You shouldn't talk to strangers son…" His voice was low, and dark.
"But he's not a stranger, he's my friend." Roxas was hopeful.

He went to bed without a dessert that night.

O.o.O.o.O

Roxas woke up to the sound of rain.
Hard rain.
Harder then it normally rains in Twilight Town.
In fact, harder then its ever rained.
His mother made him to go school with an umbrella.

Everyone was quite, like the day before.
Everyone was still…off.
Although, he did like Hayner being quite.

Recess came.
Roxas stood in the middle of the playground, alone.
All the other kids found cover to play under.
But he stood there, with his umbrella, waiting for Axel.
When he felt a drip.
Of water.

He looked up. There was a hole in his umbrella.
The rain pierced a hole it in…
How strange.

Soon Axel found him and brought him somewhere dry to play.
They talked, Axel told him more stories about Hollow Bastion.
Axel was really good at telling stories, he made it seem like he had actually been there.

"What happened to the restoration committee then Axel?" Roxas laid on his stomach on the ground, looking up at his friend.
His hair was flat today, it was wet, so its normal spikes all were plastered on his back.
He must have been in the rain for a while.
But…Roxas had seen him with an umbrella of his own…

"Well…" Axel began, he leaned back, resting on his hands, "The few members that are left kept trying to restore the town. I mean…where else would they all live? They wanted it to be like it was…"
"What was it like?"
"Oh, a beautiful place. Flowers, sunshine, colour, it was…wonderful. It was once called 'Radiant Garden', until the accident at least…" Axel had a dreamy look on his face, like he was reminiscing.
How could he do that about a fictional place?
"Why did they change the name after that?" Roxas stared at him, his dull brown eyes staring deep into a vivid green.
Axel sat up, "I guess…It wasn't Radiant anymore…and all the plant life died so…It wasn't a garden."
"That makes sense. Is it a Hollow place?"
Axel thought, "Yeah…It is. You know Roxas, some people call it 'the place where dreams come to die'."
Roxas sat up like Axel, "Dreams don't die silly." He laughed, "I can tell that part of your story is fake."

Axel smiled at Roxas.
The bell rang, and they stood up.
"You need to get to class, kid."
Roxas nodded, "I know."

Axel ruffled up his hair, and smiled even wider, "You know Roxas…"
"What?"
"You looked a lot better with blue eyes."
"Blue? Axel what do you-"
Axel's voice was cracking, "Please don't take to long, to make them blue again…"

A/N: So...I hope that chapter kinda makes up for being so late and lame?
No...Okay well...
Sorry it was so short, it has been awhile since I've written anything real.
So i'll try to make these more reguler and I hope I still have readers.

Sorry again it took so long and its so short...

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