Characters belong to Square Enix, story belongs to me.
Inspiration from"The other side isn't so green" and "Here at the other side" By Sammy-Dee.

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~DSL

The evil behind two faces

Chapter 11

"Meeting the twins" by Axel Nakayama

As the school Demyx, Zexion, Riku and me went to was relatively small, the news that two new boys moved to our town was the best news ever, besides the summer vacation. Everybody was curious what they were like, in which grade they would be and who they'd choose as their friends. The best of all was that they were twins, the only twins in our school. I soon learned that the two boys that moved into the house next to mine were those twins, who lived together with their older brother.

At first I couldn't believe that they were the twins that everybody was talking about. The only similarity I could see from a distance was that they were about the same height. Later on I found out that both have blue eyes, the second and last similarity.

Getting to know the twins, the differences between them got even more obvious. They were like day and night, like the sun and the rain. Like the tides of the ocean, approaching and pulling back.

Knowing Demyx, he'd try to befriend them the moment they would set foot outside their house, or from the moment he'd see them at school. Zexion, Riku and I were curious as well, though not that much as Demyx was. Then again, Demyx gets enthousiastic about pretty much everything.

I first encountered them because of Demyx. Somehow he had found them and asked them to sit with us at lunch. The lunchroom is not where we first met, though. I was changing the books I used in the morning for the ones I'd need after lunch. Standing there with Riku, I waited for Zexion to get back from math and Demyx to get back from his geography class. After a few minutes, Zexion made his way over. I was about to start a conversation with Riku when someone jumped on my back, trying to "glomp" me. I tensed right away, hoping that Demyx would let go soon. I knew it had to be him, because he was the only one who could touch me. But still, he usually asked before touching me, knowing how much I disliked being touched. I knew however that he usually didn't ask when he was hyperactive, which was the case that day. Demyx let go of me after nearly yelling something inaudible in my ear. It seemed that the principle asked him to help the twins out on their first day, he got overly excited and said yes. Which brings me back to the point where I could first lay eyes on the twins from closer by.

Right, so Demyx was glued to my back and I was very tense. From the corner of my eye I saw the blonde one coming closer, giving me a long, confused look. The first words he spoke to me were "You must be Axel. Demyx won't shut up about you.". After saying that, he gave me a strange look. Demyx was still glued to my back and I desperately wanted him off.

'Dem. Off. Now.' I growled through my teeth, trying so hard not to freak out completely. My voice was shaky and the growl sounded kind of pathetic. Demyx made a shocked sound and got off as soon as possible, muttering a soft apology. Right after he got his normal attitude back and overly happy introduced me to the twins, the blonde appeared to be Roxas and the brunette's name is Sora. Right after introducing himself, the brunette decided it was his turn to glomp me. This time my whole body just froze at the spot, I wasn't able to move a muscle. Demyx quickly distracted him and he let go, but I still felt like my personal hell just froze over. Once again, the blonde was watching me with mild confusion in his eyes.

I expected Roxas to question my behaviour, but he didn't, of which I am thankful. I excused myself to go to the bathroom to calm down. Once inside I threw some water in my face, focussing on nothing but my breath.

All too soon though, Roxas came into the bathroom, asking if I was okay. I nodded, trying to act normal, as far as I could. He gave me another confused look, but still didn't ask. I rolled my sleeves back down, covering the cuts and bruises on my arms. The look on Roxas' face told me he had seen them, but once again he didn't ask. When he rolled his sleeves up to wash his hands, I noticed that his arms were a lot like mine, but without the bruises. As he hadn't asked me about mine, I didn't ask about his. That was something I could get used to, him not asking questions about my behaviour and my looks.

'Let's get back to the others... Demyx looked kind of worried.' I nodded and followed him out and into the cafetaria. Once there, I noticed that Riku was staring shamelessly at the brunette, which made me grin. Riku deserved some happiness and I hoped that the brunette would be able to give him just that.

After the lunchbreak it was time for art class, a class Demyx, Roxas, Sora and I shared. The teacher came up with the worst assignment one could have on the first day they met: draw the other's portret. It gave me the time to give the blonde a good look, thoroughly looking into his big blue eyes. There was a sparkle there that I couldn't place. When I took a better look there was a big grief behind the sparkle and something that looked like... loneliness? Soon my portret started showing the emotions the blonde was showing me, and it kind of became a sad drawing.

Demyx and Sora had great fun drawing each other, making weird faces and not sitting still. In the end, Dem grabbed some paint and just made a brown blur on his canvas, telling the teacher that that was the only way Sora had been showing himself, moving too fast to actually capture something.

When the school day was over, Demyx was already at home because he didn't have history, so I had to walk home. Sora didn't take history either and had returned home by bus, something that was too expensive for me. And I didn't really mind the walking.

Roxas and I made our way outside together, and he walked towards the busstop, looking around when he noticed I wasn't beside him anymore.

'You don't take the bus?' he asked, and I shook my head.

'Nope, too expensive.' He frowned at this.

'So how do you get home then?' I shrugged and pointed to my legs.

'Walking.' Roxas shook his head and looked inside his wallet taking out the amount of money the bus ride home cost and gave it to me.

'Today you're not,' he said, giving me a small smile and walking on to the bus stop.