Chapter 06

"Alright, we're here on KWSA with the new upcoming band Bizarre Twilight," the radio DJ said into his microphone with a lot of enthusiasm. He smiled at the band and continued. "And you know me, DJ Heartless." He cleared his throat and turned to the band. "So, how did you guys start your band? What was the meaning behind it?"

Everybody looked over to Roxas, who was kind of the leader of their band, and he gave a smile, which sort of seemed forced and he cleared his throat before leaning towards the microphone that was in front of him.

"Well, originally, I really wanted to be in a band," Roxas replied with a little laugh. "My dad was in one, actually, and I used to follow him around, watching him play the guitar all the time. And when I was six he got me my first guitar and we started to play together." He hesitated for a second before continuing. "He really pushed me to be able to play well…and I don't blame him for that." He swallowed hard. "Because of him, I was able to become a really great guitar player."

No one dared to say anything about it because they all knew what really happened between Roxas and his father. They all knew that he didn't even want to relive it, but they couldn't help but think about it. Roxas frowned and cleared his throat loudly, causing his friends to jump.

"Right," Sora grinned. "And after Roxas got into playing the guitar, he went and looked for people to be in a band with him. Well, me, my friend Riku, and my now girlfriend, Kairi, had been playing and singing together for a while, but just practiced with each other, we didn't really feel that we could be in a band." He nudged Roxas and his smile grew wider. "But then this goofball came along in our freshmen year of school and he asked us to be in a band with him and we agreed."

"Unfortunately," Kairi broke into the conversation. "Riku decided that he wanted to pursue a few things in college and quit the band a short while ago. But he's still our friend and we know that he'll come and support us when he needs to."

"Riku was probably my favorite person in the band," Demyx joked and then cleared his throat. "All of these people are my friends and we've gotten to know each other really well, but I got to know Riku the most. He was the one that recruited me as the bass player for our band. I had been playing bass for about two years when he came up to me and asked me if I wanted to be in a band." He laughed. "It didn't take much to convince me to join the band. So here we are now."

"Uhm," Naminé blushed and suddenly became very shy as Demyx turned the microphone towards her. "I was the last one to join the band. I was new in sophomore year and was kind of shy, so I didn't have a lot of friends but Roxas and I argued a lot." She ignored his gaze as she continued. It was hard for her to explain everything that had happened between the two of them without feeling sad. "But then they wanted a singer and at first I didn't want to. I flat out refused to sing for them, but then I did a practice run and they liked my voice so much that they asked me to stay." She giggled softly. "I had so much fun that I agreed and we started to work together."

Roxas grabbed back the microphone and started speaking again. "Then we got a gig on the show Drive by Music Lounge, we played well, and the rest is history."

Roxas swallowed hard as he thought about what had happened that night.

There was a knock on the door and Roxas let go of Naminé and went to answer it. As soon as he opened the door, his father barged in, knocking his son out of the way. Naminé watched as Roxas stumbled and fell to the floor. His father started to turn towards him, but stopped when he saw Naminé.

He surged forward and grabbed her arm, painfully pulling her forward and into his chest. She cried out in pain and wrinkled her nose when she smelled the alcohol that was on his breath.

"Who are you?" he demanded, his breath overpowering her.

"Naminé Tanashi." She squeaked in reply as she struggled to pull her arm away. "Please, let me go, you're hurting me!"

"Let her go!" Roxas demanded as he got to his feet, rubbing the back of his head. Naminé looked over at him, through the tears that had gathered in her eyes, and was surprised to see that he had a dangerous look on his face. "I swear, if you even hurt a hair on her head, I will kill you."

"Is this your girlfriend?" Mr. Hokkaido asked as he tightened his grip on her arm. "Huh?" he snarled into Naminé's face. "Have you been fucking with my son?"

"LET HER GO!" Roxas ran forward, brought back his arm, and threw it forward, hitting his father squarely in the face.

Mr. Hokkaido let go of Naminé's wrist and fell back against the couch that was in the room, but didn't go down completely. He stood up and faced his son, blood was dripping out of his nose, his face red with fury, and his eyes locked onto his son. He growled and charged towards his son, grabbing Roxas in a headlock and started to attack him.

Naminé was frozen, lying on the floor where she was thrown. "Roxas!" she cried desperately.

"Naminé!" Roxas called back and coughed as his dad started to choke him. His face was steadily turning red, and he gasped for air. "Naminé, get out of here!"

"But-"

"JUST GO!"

Naminé got to her feet and ran towards the door. She screamed when she felt Roxas' father grab her on the foot and she kicked her leg wildly, trying to get him to let go. She felt her foot hit something and the grip on her foot was released. She went scrambling into the door, almost hitting it with her face, and pulled it open.

"HELP! HELP!" She shouted as she ran off down the hallway.

He shook his head and forced a smile as DJ Heartless turned back to him and his friends. "Well, that was Bizarre Twilight, thanks for coming in you guys."

"It was no problem." Sora replied cheerfully. "It was fun."

"If you want to get to know more about their music, request them," DJ Heartless smiled as he gave a friendly wink their direction. "And go out and buy tickets to their concert. The next one is tomorrow night in the town square. Thanks for tuning in."

A/N: Sorry it took so long, to get this chapter up. It's kind of short because I just wanted to put the interview into it. School work really takes a lot of your time, ugh, I'll update again as soon as possible. Thanks for waiting guys. And I'm sorry that I said that this chapter was about Roxas, it's not. The next one is going to be about Roxas.