The morning where summer finally came to a close and the semester began was strangely enough just another morning for Roxas. Until he arrived at the school.
When he had woken up, he had simply rolled out of bed and headed for the shower. After his shower he had gotten dressed and went to Sora's room to force him out of bed.
He had gotten breakfast, and checked his email. There had been one from Axel, wishing him good luck on his first day. As Roxas had shut his computer he wondered if Axel ever left the computer.
During the last few weeks of vacation Axel had sent Roxas random emails about almost anything. The first one explained he wanted to be on a certain level of friendship with him so that when the time came and Roxas did need someone to come to, he wouldn't be worried about asking him anything. Roxas thought it was a good idea, so he replied to the emails. He never once sent one by himself, though. It was always a reply.
As he pulled into the school parking lot, he felt his heart beat pick up. There were at least ten times more cars there than there had been during his orientation. Living so close to the school he had seen the parking lot this full before, but had never actually given thought to it. But now that he was here, and this included him, he was almost shocked by how many people actually went to this school. Without even a second thought, he went directly towards the parking garage.
Even that was full for the first few levels. Finally, he found a spot on the last section before he reached the roof top. Grabbing his bag, he made his way towards the elevator and to his first ever college class.
His stomach was doing flip flops for some reason, even though he knew there was actually no reason for it. Provided he kept up his act of looking calm and collected, no one would even know he was a freshman. If they even cared. This wasn't a big university. The dorm rooms were new, so it was just recently that people had started going to the school. Since it wasn't as popular, and almost every single student who attended lived at home and worked as well, they were more serious. He wasn't at a party school where status was everything. He was at a branch of a huge name school, where the students were serious and actually studious. Parties were almost nonexistent.
In the end, it appeared his stomach had gotten all worked up for no reason. His first day of college classes had gone almost exactly how his first day of high school classes used to go. Professor enters the room, introduces himself, hands out syllabus, goes over the syllabus, and then makes you play a ridiculous self introduction game that everyone secretly hates. Then they let you leave. So much for that high school fairy tale about how down to earth and serious college is.
He only had two classes that day, and they had both gone about the same. He had spent his hour and a half break between the two of them getting food with Sora and Riku at what appeared to be the most ridiculously priced school cafeteria ever. He had made a mental note to bring stuff to snack on next time, but was happy about the break between class regardless.
When he had gone home he just lay He had no homework, and he had requested off work for the day in case he somehow ended up extremely tired, so he lay on his bed with his lap top rested up against his knees messing around on the internet and playing a few games before Sora got home. He sort of wished he had scheduled classes for the same times as his brother.
If this were two years ago he could have called Namine and gone to hang out with her, but he didn't have that option anymore. Well, he did, but it was awkward.
The two of them had dated. They broke up on good terms, both of them deciding it was just a little strange and that they were better off as friends. And then one night their friendship went more than a little bit too far.
Roxas wasn't even sure how it had happened. They had been talking, which really had been no big dead since they were basically best friends, and the subject of kissing came up. Namine said something that irked him, and the next thing he knew he had been kissing her and she was kissing back…and they just hadn't stopped.
It was kind of a taboo subject for the two of them. They didn't bring it up. Which would have been fine for Roxas, but the fact of the matter actually was that just because they weren't talking about it…didn't mean they didn't end up doing it again.
A few times he had found himself wondering how they had gone from friends, to a relationship, to just friends again…to friends with benefits. But he didn't fight it. He was a guy, after all.
He had been playing a card game online when his e-mail alert went off. Axel wanted to know how the first day had gone. Roxas smiled. Somehow he had known Axel was going to ask him about it, so through out the day he had noticed a few random points he could bring up when telling Axel about it. He was actually shocked that the email reply to sent to Axel was officially the longest one he had ever sent.
Axel replied instantly, and Roxas found that he enjoyed talking to his new found friend so much that he lost track of time and the next thing he knew Sora was pounding on his door yelling for him to come eat dinner.
Much of the rest of the rest of the night had gone similar to his afternoon, and around midnight Roxas found himself telling Axel he had to get offline as he had classes early again the next day.
He was significantly more relaxed the next morning when he arrived on campus than he had been the day before. He found his classroom with ease but was shocked to find out the majority of the class was already there. Glancing around quickly he noticed two empty spots next to each other in the back corner of the room. Going to the last row of desks and squeezing his way all the way down the row he claimed the back corner seat as his own. He had been in the process of unzipping his backpack and digging out a notebook and pen when he saw someone take the previously empty seat next to him. Glancing up his eyes widened when he saw it to be the guy with the red hair he had ran into outside the video store.
For some strange reason his heart skipped a beat.