A/N: A special dedication to my friend and reviewer Sango Higorashi. Happy birthday I appreciate your friendship, your support, your witty advice and your never ending supply of slushies :)
Dear Alex,
Dear breadsticks please don't use that many exclamation marks it hurts my eyes. I'll even stop with the excessive dotting? My advice isn't always the best but please follow that bit, your "friends" don't all sound like they have your best interest in mind.
They could pretend to be playing around or very well wait until after I get out and am out of the building. Something tells me they'd at least point out my lack of muscles and while this diet thing is slowly getting rid of fat (not that I was fat) I suck at building muscles. I'm not exactly the most confident person in the world.
We'll see because I'm actually off to the gym right now. Wish me luck? Also, just to note it, this still sucks so I'm not running around naked.
Hopefully not dead anytime soon, Riley.
P.S She sounds a bit like one of my friends. I'd love to see them get into a burping competition. It would be interesting to see who would win.
"Am I an idiot? I must be an idiot.. god Roxas why are you such an idiot. Now you're talking to yourself, just shut up now Roxas. Turn around. Why do you even want to go anyway? Stop talking to yourself!" Roxas mumbled under his breath before chuckling. He was being childish, he knew; but he wanted to work on building muscle, maybe impress his friends.. and other people. He wasn't sure why he was taking Alex's advice, but for some reason the guy seemed trustworthy.
"Oh suck it up, Roxas!" He chuckled, half tempted to slap himself as he flashed his student card to the poor sucker bored out of his mind behind the desk at the entrance to the locker rooms.
Looking around he quickly changed into his swim trunks along with a tank top, grinning to himself as he put a small gem inside the locker with his street clothes before snapping the lock shut.
It wasn't until he turned around that he let out a low, depressing groan. No, there wasn't any body there with him, which could have been worse. No, there were several sets of all too expensive and recognizeable shoes along the side of the benches.
"Just my damned luck." Roxas sighed. "What was it he said? If you love swimming, go anyway?" He nodded to himself, keeping his penpal fresh in his mind among other things so he didn't chicken out.
Striding as confidently as he could he walked into the gym. On the left was a large swimming pool with many pool exercise things laying around. There were two large dryers off to the side of it near many towel racks before the tiled floor slowly transformed into a carpeted weight training area. Roxas let his eyes travel quickly away from there and the all too familiar beany and red hair before seeing the new area they had recently added on.
A gaming area, filled with excersize games like dance dance revolution, xbox connect games and wii games. Just to the behind that was an always moving rock climbing wall before it moved back into tiled flooring leading to the sauna and message rooms. It was a top notch place and Roxas was all too glad for their student discounts. It was actually his mother that constantly kept his membership intact. Probably for missing his last birthday.
Quickly, and hopefully inconspicuously, Roxas made his way over to the pool, dropping his towel off along the way before slowly and quietly sinking into the not so warm water. He let out a sigh of relief, a grin covering his features as he could just imagine the sand between his toes and the sea breeze ruffling his blond spikes. Twilight Town needed a beach, with a little dock and island with a big tree. Then maybe it would feel a little more familiar.
Quickly ducking under the water he hissed, watching the bubbles float to the surface, as he opened his eyes. That's one thing that was no different, whether it was salt or chlorine, opening your eyes hurt. He ignored it with a grin, moving his arms and resisting the urge to laugh as he propelled himself forward, relishing in the feel of the rushing water around him.
He was kind of regretting not joining the swim team now that he was back in the water. Quickly reaching the end of the pool before flipping underwater and using the edge of the pool to send his body shooting back towards the opposite end. He loved this pool because of the small step like ledges at the ends of the pool.
Instead of just shooting straight underwater like you would in most normal pools Roxas could use the ledge to shoot himself upwards out of the water for a few moments before gravity brought him back under.
It wasn't long before hours had passed him by. Time always seemed to go quicker underwater. He sighed, getting out of the water and standing under one of the large dryers, laughter bubbling in his chest as the pressure from the blowing air caused indents in his skin.
He was just grabbing his towel when he noticed, much to his distaste, the group of teenagers that were in the gaming area.
"So they never left?" Roxas muttered to himself, questioning when this talking to himself thing had become such a bad habit.
"Oi, shorty. Like what you see?" A voice called over, shaking him from his trance like state.
"I-uh.. shut up.." Roxas grumbled, barely loud enough for Axel to hear him.
"Well don't just stand there, c'mere." He smirked, instantly starting an internal war within Roxas on whether or not he felt like taunting the grim reaper today.
In the end he sighed before shaking his hair and slowly making his way over. In the gaming section, Seifer and Vivi were in a terribly one sided dance dance revolution match in which Vivi was stumbling over his own feet. Fuu and Rai cheered-well not really cheered in Fuu's case as she spoke in monotone-for the two from the sides. Axel grinned as the blond approached, casually leaning against one of the DDR support rails.
"So what brings you here? Or rather, come here often?" Axel asked, raising an eyebrow as Roxas scoffed.
"The pool, and no, no thanks to you." Roxas grumbled the last part under his breath.
"You're a good swimmer? Why didn't you go for the team?" Axel asked, his eyes drifting to the gaming screens as Seifer half-heartedly bragged at another victory.
"I.." Roxas paused trying to figure out whether he should be honest or not. Alex would probably say some stupid motivational thing telling him to just be himself.. but Alex didn't know what Axel and his friends were like. "Demyx is on the swim team." He finally sighed out against his better judgement."
"Demyx? What's wrong with Demyx? He's like the friendliest guy I know." Axel looked a little stunned.
"Your friends with Demyx and it's no secret that you and your friends don't like me. The idea of another shower stall incident is kind of making the swim team sound just a little less friendly." Roxas scowled.
"You have your mind made up about us already..? but Demyx wasn't apart of that.." Axel questioned.
"What's your obsession with bothering me anyway? I just want you people to leave me alone!" Roxas spat out.
"First day, you mocked Seifer. He holds a grudge.. you get on his bad side and he does his best to destroy you."
"Ya well, like any of you would care.. I should go I'm going to be late." Roxas snapped, spinning on his heal and quickly making his way to the lockerroom so he could leave.
"That's not true... I do.."
A/N: Ten points and a e-cookie to the person who got the quote :D
