A/N: Some of this is sort of important Umm. I know I said this would probably be called Break Away but… About a day after I started it as Break Away I decided I would listen to some CD'S that I hadn't listened to in forever and this song was just perfect. So this chapter is Somebody Save Me. I have a new story out called Hearts of Deception in case you want to check it out I would really appreciate it. And umm sorry to any Hayner fans I don't hate him really he was just the only person that fit and I know he might be a little OCC but I need him that way. Larxene is also OCC because I don't really know her character. So she is really OCC but it is fun to have her the way I do so hah! And umm when I go to Cloud it will take up where he left off even though time has passed. This chapter took me longer because I went on vacation and then I had Band Camp and then school started and I was reading Eclipse and I had to take a test to get my white slip, Drivers Ed just sucks, I had a short story for English and so on, so umm yeah. Marching band season is over. I am also writing a story about band. That one should be interesting it will be based on my first year in marching band but with Riku and Sora taking my place and the place of people I know. I will tell you when I finish the prologue.
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As The Crimson Tears Fall
Chapter- 4 Somebody Save Me
"I feel the wings have broken in your hands,"
NOT… Roxas's heart clenched as a blond boy about the same height as he was began striding towards him. Not Hayner.
"Hey there." Hayner said smirking. Roxas stared at him. Hayner was just the way he remembered him. His hair was short, he still wore that stupid knowing smirk, and he still proudly wore a sleeveless shirt reveling his tattoo of the Roman numeral XIII. It made Roxas sick.
"What do you want you bastard?" Roxas spoke with no emotion but Hayner could read the emotions in his eyes he always could.
Hayner smirked. This will be easier than I thought. Hayner walked forward and sat on Roxas's bed then leaned in near Roxas's face, "I heard that you passed out and I came to see you."
"NO!"
"No what?"
"No I won't! Nothing you do or say will make me go back to them."
"Oh but Roxey!" Roxas flinched at the name, "You took the oath and you wear the tattoo you can never fully leave us and you know it. Besides don't you want to be with me again?"
"NO. You broke my heart you bastard! Besides I'm finally over it."
"But have you gotten over all your past. Do you plan to never love again I mean would anyone accept you if they knew the truth." Hayner's smirk widened he knew he had hit a soft spot as Roxas closed his eyes in pain. Roxas didn't know why he thought what he did or why it hurt so much. But it felt so real to Roxas the image of Axel. He was clearly discussed and he walked away leaving his life forever. "Murderer."
Roxas even hear it faintly, that voice, that memory. "Roxas. Help me. I'm scared Roxas." Click. And then it was gone but the pain was there.
Roxas felt his heart being torn in two. Hayner slipped something in his hand and wisped in Roxas's ear, "Guess who sends you a little present. If you come back you can always get some more." And with that he stood up and stared to walk out of the room. He stopped only for a moment at the door. "You will come back, one way or another, even if we have to send twenty new recruits, or ten experienced members. You will return to us you don't even have a choice." And then he was gone.
Roxas looked in his hand. He felt half disgusted while the other half screamed at him to roll up his sleeve and stick that needle in his arm. Roxas knew this drug all too well he had it bad way back when, but he had been clean for a long time. But here it was teasing him saying "just do it what will it hurt you have done me so many ways and times all ready. What harm could one more time do?"
Roxas knew it was true. And he knew he was a fool. Roxas couldn't forget those time's. Back when he not only injected but smoked cocaine. Yes he had become that addicted to this street drug. In that way he guessed he was just like her and would end up joining her in the cemetery.
By now he was having trouble breathing. He could remember the wonderful feeling of pleasure when he had used it before. He started to put it near his skin. Then he remembered the extreme paranoia, and how evasively violent he got when he used it. He had always ended up reminding himself of his dad.
That was why he was able to stop in the first place. And here he was fighting over to take it or not. He hated himself for it. It seemed like hours he went back and forth between the pain and pleasure it had brought him. In reality it was only about two minutes.
He was about ready to hate himself forever and stick it in his arm, that he had somehow prepped without even himself noticing, when he hear a voice in the hall. "Look it's not that big a deal I just want to check up on him got it memorized." A small giggle followed from whoever he was talking to.
But from the first seven words Axel had said from down the hall Roxas had been able to smash the needle on the wall and pulled his sleeve back down. Axel never knowing how he had save Roxas from reliving the worst memory of his life.
"I feel the words unspoken inside, and they pull you under,"
Sora sat there in his room crying. Cloud's screams of pain and agony had long since stopped but the only thing he heard after that was the opening and closing of doors and a possible siren in the distance but other then that nothing.
In fact Sora couldn't even be sure of those sounds. It was as if Sora's soul had pulled back from the world there was nothing grounding him to reality. A bomb could probably go off and he wouldn't notice. Hell there could be a drive by shouting in his yard people screaming for someone to help and he would just lay there starring off into this dark void. What he needed was something that told him his brother was alive for some reason he just had this sinking feeling that his brother was in danger. But it never came.
There was no Cloud coming in injured, no father screeching for someone to clean up the mess "Cloud" had made. Nothing. And that is what scared Sora the most. When there was no sound it was like the world around you was dead and so it became for him. He had heard the sound of nothingness a lot. The night Cat died, when he saw his mom the last time, and when he had heard about Roxas the other day. Silence was a killer.
Only one of his brothers could pull him back to reality. But neither of them was here with him. The fear keeps coming wrapping around him as if it were a blanket. But defiantly not a comforting blanket, one of those that seem to be suffocating you it was getting harder and harder for him to breath.
Sora was so upset and scared that he didn't even notice the gripping hunger in his stomach. He just curled up in a ball, starred off into space, and wept until he fell asleep.
Everything around him was pith black Sora was scared but not of what he couldn't see but of what he could hear. It was real he knew it was but all he could do was helplessly listen.
"Oh god not him. What is that bastard doing here? I won't return I won't in anyway they can't make me I wont…Stupid annoying name…Hell no… Wait Axel don't leave let me explain please…It wasn't my fault I didn't do it…but I didn't stop it either maybe it is true I am, I am a murderer." Roxas's voice echoed through the darkness. Sora knew these were thought running through his brother's head and they certainly weren't happy. Though Sora couldn't decipher what was going on with his brother. All he knew is it had something to do with the dark shadows of his brothers past.
"Roxas. Help me. I'm scared Roxas." Click Sora wanted to hurl somehow he knew who that was, and what happened now…why hadn't Roxas mentioned this… was it to painful to even tell his own brother…of course it was. But still.
"Thank God he is gone but what did he oh dear Lord. I'm clean I wont do it I wont I wont. God it's like it's taunting me…but it made me feel so good…Who am I kidding it made me act like dad…I wont I wont…So why, I mean how is it so close to my… shit……Axel what are you doing here? Why won't my heart slow down?"
Sora forced his eye's open and inwardly smirking if only a little. He thought his little brother needed some "alone" time. And Roxas had helped him enough just the sound of his voice did wonders.
He sat there alone in the room for a long time but he was thinking happy thoughts. Even after two hours Sora was so preoccupied he didn't hear the door creak open.
"And I will give you anything you want, oh you are all I wanted,"
There Axel was standing right in his doorway. Again. With a blond girl Roxas didn't recognize. A felling shot through Roxas that was something along the lines of jealousy. You could tell just by the way she was smiling that she was close to Axel.
"Hi how are you." Axel said with a worried smile.
"Fine I should be out soon." Roxas replied shooting a glance toward the girl next to him. The girl noticed him looking at her and she squealed.
"OHH! NICE TO MEET YOU MY NAME IS LARXENE." Then she ran up and gave Roxas a hug. And Roxas was of course terrified.
"Yes meet me sister. She suffers from ADD and SKHTSPS." Axel mumbled.
"SKHTSPS?" Roxas asked still in the worlds most scary hug with Axel's sister…How in the world are they even related let alone siblings?
"Yes. SKHTSPS it means sure knows how to scare people shitless." Larxene just glared at him as she let go of Roxas. However this death glare that could freeze hell over twelve time's didn't seem to bother Axel he just said, "Look something shiny in the hall."
And she stopped glaring and ran out in the hall yelling, "SHINY THING!" Axel just quietly laughed as she ran out of the room.
"Umm." Roxas was confused as hell and Axel thought he looked really cute that way.
Wait cute? Of all the word's why cute? "Larxene, you get use to her." Axel stated hoping his voice didn't give away the now what other word could I have thought war going on in his head.
"Right…I don't even see how you are related." When Roxas spoke he looked directly at Axel, but Axel could tell his thoughts were elsewhere.
Roxas looked scared and not just by Larxene his eye's looked far off as if gazing in the distance. Suddenly he got the look of not only fear but pain, hatred, and panic as he griped his right arm.
"Are you alright?" Axel was concerned very concerned Roxas on the other hand wished he was wrong but it was like he could feel his brother's emotions. He sure as hell could feel his pain.
"Fine." Roxas said threw gritted teeth. When the pain subsided he quickly changed the subject. "So does she really have ADD?"
Axel gave a little laugh, "No but she can sure as hell act like it sometimes. Not to mention her obsession with shiny things." Roxas thought he heard Larxene squeal shiny things from the hall but he wasn't sure.
"Oh I see. So you and your… sister…are you close?"
"Yes. Larxene is the closest family member to me." Axel looked slightly sad but for the life of him Roxas couldn't figure out why. "So when they let you out of here would you maybe like to…ummm…hang out or something." Axel said staring at the wall his face slightly flushed. Roxas however did not notice.
"We'll just have to see. But I would like to sometime." Roxas replied smiling. Only Larxene from the hall heard the new visitors approaching.
"All my dreams are fallen down, Crawling around and round and round,"
Hayner was not happy, not happy at all. He thought Roxas's eyes, heart, everything still belonged to him. But someone had taken them. Getting Roxas to come back to them would be harder than he thought.
But Roxas would come back. These orders came from the top. Either Roxas comes back to them or Roxas ceases to exist.
Hayner needed to plan. "John!" He barked, "Assemble a team. I need info on a former Organization member Roxas Strife. Make sure you presence is not known. And this mission is top secret report only to me."
"Yes sir." A boy with dark black hair and blood red eyes responded. John was one of Hayner's favorite toys.
He was an expert in stealth and disguise. And his good friend had a photographic memory. They had the stupidest sob story in the organization as well.
Everyone had one, Roxas had family troubles thought he would never tell how bad they were even to Hayner, there leader no one was to sure but there were several roomers floating around, and Hayner himself had killed his own parents. But these kids theirs was that they hated their younger siblings.
But it's not like that mattered to Hayner. "Come Roxas let's see how long you can resist."
"Somebody save me! Let your warm hands break right through it, somebody save me, I don't care how you do it, just,"
Cloud screamed as his arm snapped it was broken really bad of that he was sure. "Do you dare call yourself my son? I will teach-" Suddenly the man let go and stopped yelling. There was a knock at the door.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion. How am I supposed to explain my broken arm? Cloud was only barely aware of his dad picking him up by the hair and dragging him to the foot of the stairs.
Then the man walked down the hall and into another room to answer the door leaving Cloud crumpled on the floor in front of the stairs. Cloud lay there only conscious for the next few seconds.
Mr. Strife opened the door pretending that the stuff with his son never happened. There standing in the doorway was a male and a female both sporting long silver hair.
"Hi umm… we were heading home to see our family and we got a little lost since it has been so long could we possibly use your phone?" The girl asked slightly embarrassed.
Mr. Strife put on a fake smile and responded, "Sure there's one right here in the living room."
As they went into the living room the male was the one who picked up the phone and the female once again seemingly embarrassed asked, "Umm…could I maybe use your facilities?" Mr. Strife pointed down the hall that would go past the stairs. Then turned to watch her husband and waited for her scream.
There it was that high pitched ear splitting scream then the door slammed open and she came running back in the room. She was too frantic to say anything and instead leading both of them to the hall near the stairs. She was pointing, crying, and screaming at the blond haired boy lying unconscious on the floor.
His arm was laying at a weird angle and you could see the bone sticking out of the skin in fact it was literally sticking out of the skin as it was poking out of a long gash in his arm. You could actually smell the blood in the air as it flowed out of his wounds. The arm was such a grotesque sight that she nor her husband noticed. The blood flowing from his hand mysteriously shaped like fork prongs or the other bruises all over his body.
Mr. Strife pretended to be horrified and said in a fake worried voice, "He must have fallen down the stairs! Hurry call and ambulance!" There he had done it the perfect ruse who would suspect a loving father to have done such a thing. The wife ran off to make the call and the man talked with Mr. Strife as the devil was pretending to comfort his unconscious son.
"How do you think it could have happened?"
"I don't know maybe…maybe he feel and cut his arm open on a nail or broken glass or something…… then when the fall ended he landed on his arm wrong… and he was probably conscious for long enough to roll over before he passed out…. I don't know… Oh I should have come home from shopping sooner I knew he was the only one here but I thought he would be fine by himself being 17 and all. I would have never thought…" His voice trailed off as the ambulance arrived.
"Stay (with me), stay C'mon, I've been waiting for you,"
The man stood in the doorway Axel saw Roxas visibly stiffen. "How are you son?" His voice we gentle, caring, and soothing. Axel couldn't explain why but there was something he just didn't like about this man. Maybe it was the fact that Axel had been here twice and never once had he seen one of Roxas's parents excluding this instant.
Aren't parents normally handcuffed to there kids when the kids were sick, hurt, or the hospital? The Hospital for Christ sakes! And I have seen neither head nor tales of this man even when Roxas was being questioned about how he was hurt. Wouldn't he have at least been here for that to know what had happened to his youngest child? Or what about the way Roxas stiffened? And where was his mom?
Simply put this man seemed (to Axel anyway) to be surrounded in an aura of evil. Axel suppressed a hiss of hatred. Roxas suppressed a whimper of fear. There is no reason for my dad to be here in my hospital room. The man put me here himself for Christ sakes! "Fine." Roxas had meant for this to come out strong but it came out a whisper instead, the man inwardly smirked.
"That is good because the doctors said you could come home now, but you have to stay home from school and avoid anything strenuous for your ribs and lungs to recover. I am late for work so just walk home I guess that far should be fine. Sorry but I missed enough work from this mornings horrors. I'll be home tomorrow." The way the man said horrors made Roxas shudder there was a hidden satisfaction in his voice and he knew it couldn't be good the pain he had felt earlier had been proof of this. Something had indeed gone wrong. Very very wrong. "Oh stop standing on the other side of that door embarrassed just get in there and help him home. I have to go to work now goodbye."
The man left the room and during this conversation Larxene had come in the room and moved next to Axel grasping his arm as if her life depended on it. Axel really didn't like this man. If he was enough to make Larxene uncomfortable then this man was really fucking twisted. Larxene had a sixth scene about theses things and that scene made her nerves she hated it.
Axel was too worried about Larxene to notice it right away but horror, pain, fear, and anxiety flew across Roxas's face and stayed there. Entering the room was his older brother Cloud. Cloud looked extremely pail like he had lost a lot of blood or something and seemed really frail. He was holding on to the wall with his left had as if to stop the room from spinning and his right arm was up in a sling. When Axel became aware of his surrounding's he too stared in horror.
"Hey there Ro don't look at me like that, I just feel down the stairs cut my arm open enough to get stitches and then broke it. It's me for crying out loud you know I'm clumsy." Cloud said with a strong confident yet embarrassed voice. Man I should try out for the drama club.
To Axel it appeared as if he had said all this while looking directly at his brother only Roxas noticed the side glance he was throwing Axel and Larxene. Roxas knew clearly that his brother was lying their father had done it there was not a doubt about it in Roxas's mind. So he just slowly nodded with full intent of interrogating his brother latter.
"Well I can't really help you home with this arm of mine, so I guess since you have some friends here," Cloud said eyeing Axel and Larxene suspiciously Roxas inwardly groaned, "then they can help you home and I'll see you there I guess."
"Cloud no! We can all go home together please stay with me." Roxas knew what his brother had been thinking Axel and Larxene looked like those in the organization might look like. Normally this would infuriate him but right now he really didn't care he needed his brother. Cloud slowly nodded.
"I see the world has folded in your heart,"
"Right… right… I got you… normal spot…ok…I'll meet you there…ok…don't forget normal fee…alright…bye." Then there was a soft click in the cradle. Riku turned to stair at his brother not really wanting to know what sort of trouble Sephiroth was trying to get into now. But shear boredom can lead to curiosity and eavesdropping. And hey there is always a chance of hearing some pretty good blackmail material.
"What was that all about?" Riku's response was a harsh glare from his brother, as it normally was, before Seph pretended he didn't exist and stormed upstairs. "That is fascinating glad you told me."
A few moments later the phone rang. "RIKU! GET THE FUCKING PHONE OR I SWEAR I WILL SHOVE YOU ASS OUT THE WINDOW." Sephiroth yelled from upstairs.
Riku rolled his eyes but answered none the less. "Hello Seph's man whore service how may I help you."
"RIKU I AM NOT AFRAID TO CASTERAT YOU BITCH!"
"Ok, ok world's best hearing I got you. Hello Crad residence how may I help you."
Riku then noticed the soft giggling on the other end of the phone. "Wow Riku that is a good one."
"Yeah I thought so to."
"Ok Riku here's the thing I need a favor."
"Of course Air anything you want."
"Really well now that you say that I don't know, this favor is sort of illegal and oh never mind."
"Spit it out Aeris!"
"Could you sneak into the school files and find out where Cloud lives?"
"……Ah…… Aeris PMF… Out of your two personalities you are by far the scariest. Now you have stalker like tendencies."
"Oh I knew you would say that just forget it."
"No, No I'll do it Air." Riku didn't even notice through all this his brother had slipped out the door carrying a suspicious package.
"I feel the waves crash down inside, and they pull me under"
Sora jumped as he felt a hand fall on his shoulder startled he wiped around to see two smiling faces. "ROXAS! CLOUD!" He cried flinging himself as this twin. Then with caution because it didn't take a genius to know Cloud was hurt, hugged his older brother and cried. So happy to know his brother was alive.
Roxas was getting it as least a little on his own. Sora had defiantly been in here when Cloud was being hurt and no hint but the screaming of what was going on. But then he guessed that much was already obvious since Sora was not at the hospital with Cloud.
"Come on the food's getting cold." Roxas commented holding up two bags of take out from the Queen.
Sora gasped, "Where did you get the money for take out."
Roxas smirked and almost let out a giggle. Cloud sighed but he too was also very amused, "Roxas's new friend asked if we wanted to go out to eat and Roxas turned to him with those big sad eye's that you taught him and said 'you treating?' that Axel guy gave in instantly. That reminds me Roxas who was he? He wasn't one of those…"
"NO HE ISENT! DO YOU THINK I AM STILL THAT STUPED AND IMECHURE! I meet him at the lockdown and then again at the party…" Roxas angrily interrupted.
"Right he just looked like some of those people in the…"
"Drop it Cloud."
"Right…ok…Let's go clean my room." They walked into Clouds room and locked the door. Cloud was very shocked to see his room clean. Sora beamed a smile. "Ok then lets put these pages in there right place."
And so they spent the rest of the day together as brothers. Locked away from the outside world in one of there rare moments of happiness they all missed so much.
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"And, I would give you anything you want, oh you are all I wanted,"
Oh lunch hour the savior of life. Axel thought to himself as he sat under his favorite tree in the front of the school. "Is this seat taken?" Axel turned to the sound of the voice shocked to see it was Roxas's twin brother Sora.
"Umm…no…go ahead." Axel watched as Sora took a seat next to him.
"I wanted to thank you."
"Umm ok for what?"
"Being there for my bother when I couldn't…" Sora trailed off wanting to say more but knew he couldn't.
"Oh well your welcome. It was my pleasure really…Say do you know when he will be coming back it's been three days now and I was…"
"Yes he should be coming back soon." He shouldn't but he is. Then stood and began to walk away but then turned his head, "Axel don't hurt him. Don't ever hurt him." And then Sora left.
Axel sat there confused as he watched Sora walk away and even though he knew he couldn't hear him he whispered, "Of course I wouldn't. I don't even think I could… it would probably kill me from the inside out."
"All my dreams have fallen down, Crawling' round and round and round,"
Riku sat there nervously waiting for Aeris. Finding the info she wanted was easy what he found by accident he didn't understand. Nor did he really want to; he saw no reason to tell her. Yet he wondered if by not telling her if he would be doing the right thing.
He guessed that Cloud's had been longer however he had only glanced at all of the brothers papers. Though he guessed when it came down to it he couldn't even remember what little words he did remember went where.
The words were all a jumble but he didn't want to sneak back in and try to understand the evaluations. But those few words he saw were ringing in his head. Multiple Personality Disorder, Memory loss, failed suicide attempts, witness of grotesque murder, drug rehab, slightly distorted logic, inferiority complex. For the life of him he couldn't remember what names these had been under. But they were there screaming in his head along with two names he didn't recognize and the crushing words below each of them. Andereal and Cat deceased.
Feet slapping down on the pavement alerted Riku of Aeris coming to collect the info and he had already decided that was all the he would tell her.
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"Somebody save me, Let your warm hands break right through, Somebody save me, I don't care how you do it, just Stay(with Me), stay C'mon, I've been waiting for you,"
Roxas body squeezed in pain or more precisely his ribs did. It was very obvious to both his brothers that he should still be home. But would Roxas admit it no. That would mean he was wrong and Roxas was by no means wrong.
"BRRRRRING BRRRING BRRRING!" The bell rang loudly three times over. Oh sweet. Wednesday. That means advisory. You know I think I'm just going to skip. Roxas hummed to himself.
Gathering his stuff he slipped out of class and snuck out of the freshmen wing. It surprised him sometimes how easy it was to sneak out of the building. He keeps walking forward heading toward the track.
A pang of guilt went through him when he remembered something that he wondered how he knew in the first place.
"Hey moms guess what."
"What Cloud."
"Some day I want to be a track star. I will run the falsest and then when I'm famous I will buy you a really pretty necklace. Oh and I can get dad…"
Roxas stopped and shook himself a little slapping his hands on his cheeks trying to figure it out. Why in the hell would he want to get something for dad? Is it possible he wasn't always like this…no there's no way…Right?
Roxas didn't have long to ponder. It was getting cold so he made his way over to the bleachers. At least the stupid watchtower had some use it was a great wind block. Roxas sat there waiting for someone or something. What he wasn't quite sure, though he wasn't sure of much lately.
"Hey Roxas looks like you love skipping just as much as I do." Axel said coming up the stairs on his right. Roxas turned slowly to look at him a small smirk on his face.
"Of course. What do those damn teachers know about real life anyway? Besides its advisory and I don't care to meet all the dumb asses in this school." Axel nodded as he walked up and sat down next to Roxas.
"So I guess you found my secret hid out. As I say always hid in the wide open it's the last place they will think to look." Axel looked over and saw Roxas shivering from the cold. So he reached over and wrapped his arms around him.
In that moment all of Roxas's pain, fear, and guilt seemed to wash away. It was as if Axel's warm hand had shattered some invisible barrier that Roxas had built up over his emotions. Roxas unconsciously snuggled closer into the embrace. Slow and surreptitiously he wrapped his arms around Axel and they both sat there holding each other.
"All my dreams are on the ground, Crawling' round and round and round, Somebody save me, Let your warm hands break right through, Somebody save me,"
Sora wiggled in his chair. He had been felling cold, freezing actually. Then all the sudden warmth washed over him like a fire spreading though a forest. Just what is Roxas up to? Sora pushed that thought aside he guessed it really wasn't his business.
"Mr. Strife." Sora jumped and turned and saw a girl at the door, "Mr. Strife, your father is here. He said he came to pick you up for an appointment."
Dread and horror filled his body. What appointment. My appointment of death. Did I do something to make him mad? Oh lord, somebody save me!
Sora felt a gentle and warm hand wrap around his wrist. "See you tomorrow…Promise."
"I promise Riku………umm…and could you tell my brothers…that dad came to get me," with this Riku frowned in confusion, "it's just that…I forgot to tell them about my appointment I don't want them to…" take there time getting home, "…worry. Bye Riku and thanks see you tomorrow." Sora said running off in fear of being in more trouble for making his dad wait.
The thought he had been having of his brother now far from his mind. Possibly forever. And little did anyone know Riku wouldn't be able to find either of the brothers.
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"I don't care how you do it, Just stay, stay(with me),"
Roxas wasn't sure how long he was there with Axel detached from the world. But he knew that advisory was well over and school was probably going to be let out soon. But he really wasn't ready for this to end.
"Hey Axel…what are you doing after school?"
"Nothing really why." Axel's heart rate increased slightly.
"Oh no reason really its just I thought I would take you up on you offer to hang out…not that this isn't hanging out just umm…"
"Sounds like fun. Only one question."
"And what's that?"
"Why wait till schools out." Axel said with a sly look.
Roxas rolled his eye's but agreed none the less, "Ok then lets go."
They left the school and walked along the town square. Not for any particular reason but Axel figured that Roxas didn't want to go to the park. And there conversations were really about nothing also.
Roxas was for sure school was out and he was sure Sora would be worried. So he decided he would open a mental connection with his twin. So he could be calmed and conformed by feeling Roxas's emotions.
Roxas suddenly stopped walking, either Roxas couldn't get though or Sora was in an emotionless state. Funny is he asleep or something? "Hey Roxas is something wrong?"
"No everything's fine." At least I think it is. Well I'm not sensing pain…Oh I bet that jackass is blocking me I remember when he did that during that test. Damn fucker fine you want to be mad go right ahead!
"Ok then let's go eat some supper my threat. How about the Chinese place?"
"Sounds good."
Roxas didn't even think for a second about how wrong he could be about his brother.
"I made this whole world shine for you..., Just stay(with me), stay C'mon,"
"CLOUD! HEY WAIT UP!" Aeris yelled running up to Cloud waving at him.
"Hey Aeris what's up."
"Oh I was just wondering if you would…ummm…" Aeris blushed a little, "You see my parents are out of town and I don't want to eat supper alone…and I know this little umm…" romantic, "beautiful restaurant. And I was hopping you would come with me?"
Cloud's pulse increased, "Like on a date."
Her blush was in full force now, "Not if you don't want it to be."
"No I would love it to be." A huge smile broke out over her face and her heart warmed. Her smile warmed Cloud's heart as well.
So they went downtown to this restaurant she had mentioned. Cloud was breathless.
It wasn't beautiful it was absolutely gorgeous. The ceiling was decorated to be like the night sky stars or more precisely the lights tinkled brightly. The room smelled of flowers and the sound of a river trickling over rocks. The tables were much like picnic tables but seemingly more fancy.
This place was exactly two definitions of Cloud's. Romantic and pricy. He was beginning to feel very guilty for agreeing to let Aeris pick up the tab. She however didn't seem the least bit bothered about the price in fact she was ecstatic that she could do something special for him.
They had and enjoyable supper and after it was over they went to the park in downtown and Aeris pulled him to a remote area he hadn't ever found there before. Not that he had ever really been to this park that much but still.
Aeris laid a blanket out by the lake; in all truth this spot reminded him a lot of the restaurant she had taken him to. Although instead of tables there was a blanket laid out so they could look at the stars.
Little did Cloud know but on the other end of town his little brother Roxas was doing the same thing. Both ended up falling asleep beneath the stars forgetting any family altogether.
"I'm still waiting for you"
Notes:
"Roxas. Help me. I'm scared Roxas." Click- I will slowly be showing you the flashbacks that Roxas had in chapter three most of them were very important. So keep an eye out for them I wont announce them every time.
SKHTSPS- Sure knows how to scare people shitless yeah I don't know where this came from but it is fun and awesome and totally describe her I think.
he was the only one here- I guess I should point out that there dad had no idea where Sora was he thought this was true if you care.
Aeris PMF- Psycho Mind Fuck (addressed in the final authors note you better read it.)
open a mental connection with his twin- the brothers all have a strong connection a sixth scène it you want to call it that but its strongest between the twins they have learn how to control it.
Well there you go chapter 4. Yeah I think I like cliffhangers. Sorry if that bugs you. On a IMPORTANT note. To any reviewer who can guess where Aeris PMF and Larxene's ADD attitude comes from I will write a one-shot. The reviewer who guesses correctly gets to chooses from one of these three options AxelRoxas, LeonCloud, or RikuSora. Or if they want I will rewrite History Major. So leave your guess and the one you would like and I will get on it! Just remember everyone Review. Tell me what you think of this story. I love your support it gets me out of my writers block. So please Review. I have no idea of what the next chapter will be called sorry. And please forgive grammatical errors. Reviewers get to chose what they get if they want anything.