The area Demyx lived in was a nice quaint and neat.
Roxas saw that the houses were smaller than the one he lived in and didn't change much until Demyx pulled into the driveway of his house. His house was the only one with a bright white picket fence and a coloured tiled roof.
A small electric blue bubble car was parked in the driveway and Demyx sighed, "Ah, well Ma's home." He turned off the car and he and Zexion opened the front doors and Roxas was left for a moment contemplating before he pushed the door open himself and scrambled after his new friends.
The inside of the house was immaculate and pristine and Roxas couldn't help but admire the small comfy house. There were family portraits decorated down the front hallway, mostly of Demyx and his sisters, there was one with the mother and right down the hall was an old picture of a man, which obviously had to be the father.
"Ma" Demyx called throwing his bag into the corner of the door "we're home, I bought a new friend as well."
There was a small bustle from a small room on the left of the hall, a tall woman appeared wearing an apron and her long blonde hair pulled into a bun. She had Demyx's face and ocean eyes.
She smiled and hugged her son, then Zexion and her eyes fell on Roxas and she smiled, "Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Demyx's Mum." She smiled then kissed her sons cheek and said, "So who's your friend, introduce me."
Demyx sighed rolling his eyes and he said, "Ma, this is Roxas, Zexy and I met him in the Plaza, he moved from Radiant Garden." The mother smiled and held out her hand, "Radiant Garden, nice place that is" she smiled, "I'm Sarah."
Roxas shook her hand adjusting Shy "Nice to meet you."
Sarah pulled back and Demyx stomped to the stairs, "Where's Nam"? Sarah paused and said, "She might be back at the park drawing again." Demyx nodded his head and Sarah sighed, "I guess I already know where Larxene is?" Demyx nodded again, "Yup, alright I'm going upstairs Ma."
Demyx walked up the stairs with large thuds and Zexion hissed from behind him, "You really don't have to Demyx." Roxas laughed as he followed behind Zexion and Demyx walked to the end of the hall and opened the door "ta-da" he announced and he disappeared, Zexion behind him.
Roxas walked to the door and peered in and widened his eyes in surprise, Demyx's room looked like a hurricane had ripped through it. Clothes decorated the floor, the bed was unmade, the curtains were shut and sheets of paper littered the area around the desk.
Roxas stepped in further and stood under the doorframe glancing around.
He saw Zexion open the curtains and say, "This is beyond a joke Demyx, is your room only clean when I stay?" Demyx's grin became mischievous "Well you can always stay over and do more than clean my room." Roxas felt the blood rush to his face and he glanced to his feet then noticed a large guitar stood beside the front door.
"Wow" he breathed, Demyx looked up from his computer chair and saw Roxas admiring his guitar and said, "Oh that's Arpeggio, it's my Sitar."
Roxas frowned at the unfamiliar word and the instrument and Demyx laughed spinning the chair around in a circle, "My dad sent it to me when he was overseas, it's awesome." He spun around again and Roxas looked up, "Is your dad travelling?" Demyx sat up and shrugged his shoulders, "nope, my Dad's dead."
Roxas cringed at the last remark, "Oh I'm sorry."
Demyx snorted, "Don't be, my Dad was a Sailor, went out through a storm and never came back."
At this Roxas frowned, how could Demyx be so blasé about one of his parents being killed.
Roxas wouldn't be able to waltz up and just say so blatantly "Hi, my names Roxas, my parents were shot dead by a crazed madman the day I turned twelve."
He blanched at the painful memory and heard Demyx get up from his swivel seat and jump on the bed Zexion had just made.
"Oh for the love of-" Zexion snapped throwing the pillow at Demyx and going to the desk and sitting on the chair the Mohawk boy had occupied. Demyx was unhindered and continued on with his story, "It's hard to get through at first, took me three years to get over the fact he was gone."
He got up, sitting against his pillow, "What are your parents doing? I mean, you were living with your Uncle?"
Roxas blanched and quickly made an excuse, "U-um my parents travel heaps, I haven't seen them in a few months but they visit sometimes." Though it was a lame excuse Roxas wished it was true, because then, his parents would still be alive.
Demyx took it and he slumped back down staring at the roof and Zexion was leafing through scribbled papers that were strewn over the desk.
Roxas stepped in and leant against the door and took the chance to look around a 'normal' teenager's room.
A fish tank flickered on the desk and three fat goldfish swam lazily through the water.
Goldfish, not Tropical Fish.
At the end of Demyx's bed was a small TV hooked up to a battered play station on a small stand.
No LCD screens or Play station 3.
He had a measly collection of movies and games, he had…
Nothing.
Well compared to Roxas, Demyx had nothing.
Through the open curtains Roxas saw a small plain green backyard, no pool. Man how could somebody live like this?
He moved away slightly when Demyx hauled up and grabbed his Sitar and pulled it into his lap and began to pluck the strings. It was soft at first and Zexion held out a sheet of paper with music notes on it, "Play this one for me Demyx, I can't figure the melody."
Demyx leant over, grabbed the paper and said, "Well I did write it for you Zexion."
He smiled and sat the paper beside him and started to play a unique melody. It got louder and louder and Roxas was enthralled at how talented Demyx was.
As the song blared on Roxas saw Shy shuffle, "Kupo, Kupo look!"
The Moogle pointed towards the fish tank and Roxas was able to see the tank water bubbling and spiralling upwards. Tiny whirlpools danced on the surface and the fish spun around in the circles being sucked into the miniature whirlpools. The water was responding to Demyx's music.
He was unsure whether or not to point it out, when he made the decision to point Demyx's music was interrupted by a shrill ringing sound.
Roxas jumped and Demyx dug through his pockets and took out his phone.
"Hello?"
He was silent, before his face broke into a grin,
"Yo Seifman, how's it going?"
He listened some more then smiled again and replied, "Sure, seeya."
He threw the phone onto his bed and Zexion looked up from the papers, "Is Seifer back in town?"
Demyx nodded, "I can't wait until everybody starts coming back, it will be so good to be together as a group again." He got to his feet, walked to the end of the bed moving the small TV stand aside, and opened the dresser.
Gaping Roxas saw the entire cupboard filled to the brims with music and DJ Mixes. On a shelf in the center, a laptop blinked to life and beside the computer, a docking station with an Ipod Touch came into view.
It was a music shop housed in a cupboard.
Roxas let go of Shy and crowded over, "Wow" he gasped, "This is so awesome, you even have a DJ mixer and everything."
Demyx smiled and said, "well it seems now that I do have things that amuse you and I." Roxas blushed going red and Demyx laughed clapping him on the shoulder, "Don't worry Roxas, though I'm sorry about my room, it's not every day that I get a mega billionaire rich kid come and visit."
Roxas quirked his mouth to the side and Demyx leant down onto his knees and said enthusiastically "Get a load of this."
Demyx played some remixes and some of his own songs and had Roxas immediately hooked. He dug through his pockets and pulled out his battered silver Ipod Nano.
Demyx eyed it with a weird look in his eye before he asked the question Roxas was waiting for, "Dude? You have a truckload of cash at your door and you have that?"
Roxas bit his lip then said quickly, "Its special to me" was all he said and Demyx knew he was treading steep ground and shut his mouth.
He took Roxas' Ipod and connected it to his laptop.
Eventually the two boys ended up sitting on the floor glued to the laptop listening to various melodies and mixes made by Demyx. Roxas showed off his music and the boys laughed hidden by the bed.
Zexion grew bored after a while and resorted to going to Demyx's bed and turning on the TV.
The long forgotten Moogle Shy ventured over slowly and peeked to see what Zexion was watching and Zexion said kindly, "it's all ok Schylar, you can come and watch TV with me if you like."
Shy hesitated at first and went to fly right to Roxas, but his best friend was busy with another friend and Shy just swallowed his fear and looked to Zexion. He seemed kind enough to Shy went over slowly and sat on the bed beside Zexion, not talking at first.
After an hour, you could have mistaken Roxas and Demyx as lifelong friends. They had a lot in common and Zexion couldn't help but feel a little pang of jealousy, Demyx better not replace him with Roxas.
The day dragged on and Zexion watched two movies until Roxas' phone began to ring.
He jumped a foot in the air before touching his phone to answer it.
"Hello?"
His face instantly brightened
"Hey Rikku"
He was silent for a second before his face crumpled into a grin. "I knew you didn't do that assessment, it was a waste of time for me since I'm not going back there this year." He shut up for a second then said, "Ye-Rik- ah"
He was continually being interrupted, and Demyx was able to hear a jabbering voice on the other end of the line.
Roxas was silent before he said, "Alright Rikku, stress less princess, Yuffie has my assessment, Vincent makes us do all our work at the start when we got them, so mine would be different from Yuffie's."
He smiled again, "Don't let Ven catch you talking to me about handing my assessment in as yours."
There was a laugh at the other end of the line that even Zexion could hear, Roxas said, "Alright Rikku, I'm over a friends place- yes I made friends, I'm not that bad, alright Rikku I'm going, I'm- no seriously."
He laughed, "bye-Rikku- I said bye." He listened for a moment more before shutting off his phone and apologised, "Sorry guys, that was Rikku, a close friend from Hollow Bastion."
He continued to grin and Demyx held out his Ipod, "Alright you are all ready to go." Just as Roxas grabbed his Ipod his phone rang again and Roxas sighed smiling answering the phone.
"Rikku, I'm not going to live your life-…oh it's you."
Roxas' voice instantly became flat, "I'm over a friend's house, what does it matter to you?"
He frowned his smile dissipating, "It's what you wanted wasn't it?" He scuffed his feet over Demyx's carpet, "Sora is a squealer" he snapped, "Why should I listen to you? I don't want to go back there."
He sighed, "Fine! I will be home soon, yeah whatever."
He hung up and the sour look remained on his face. Demyx stood up and winced complaining.
"Ouch pins and needles."
He tapped his foot against the carpet and Shy said from beside Zexion, "Was that Identical Kupo?"
Roxas sighed, "Sorry guys my idiot brother called, I have to get going."
Demyx pursed his lips and said, "Its nearly five Roxas, here I will give you a lift home." He strode to his desk and grabbed his keys and Zexion got off the bed, "I will come."
Roxas grabbed Shy and the three walked down the stairs.
Being the typical idiot Demyx was, he slid down the banister calling out, "I'm taking Roxas home Ma, I'll be back in a sec."
He pulled open the door and Roxas heard Sarah exclaim, "Bbye Roxas, don't be a stranger, you're welcome here any time."
He smiled as he walked out to the path and Demyx turned his head saying, "Ma likes you Roxas, welcome to the family."
Roxas couldn't help but blush as they piled into Demyx's piece of junk.
Demyx pulled out of the driveway and asked, "So where do you live Roxas?" The blonde looked up from Shy and said, "I live on Sunset Boulevard."
He noticed Demyx exchange a smile with Zexion and asked, "What, what's the matter with that?"
Demyx chuckled, "Oh its nothing, one of my friends live on Sunset Boulevard, you wouldn't have met him yet."
Roxas cocked his head slightly before Demyx stretched and said,
"Hey Roxas, today was fun, we have to meet up again sometime this week before the hellhole opens its fiery jaws."
Zexion shook his head sighing before reaching into the cup holders between the front seats. He pulled Demyx's phone out and handed it to Roxas,
"Here put your number in, he will forget otherwise."
Demyx pouted, "Aw Zexy, I'm not that bad."
Zexion scoffed rolling his eyes, "Dem, you would forget your own head if it wasn't screwed to your shoulders."
Roxas put in his number under Roxas, Zexion handed his phone over and he repeated the actions.
Then he handed over his Iphone and got Zexion's and Demyx's number. Zexion handed his phone back as Demyx pulled up into Sunset Boulevard and Roxas pointed out his house.
The car rolled to a stop and Roxas saw Cloud out the front with a motorbike that had been hidden in the garage. Demyx pulled up on said, "Wow, are you sure he isn't your twin Roxas?"
Roxas scowled and opened the door and shutting it before leaning in and saying, "Thanks for the lift Demyx, can't wait to hang out again."
To his surprise, Shy held out a tiny hand to Zexion who shook it. Shy said in his chiming voice, "Farewell Zexion, Shy will see you again."
Demyx waved and pulled away from the gutter and drove down the street and Roxas said down to Shy, "I know you would like Zexion Shy, I told you he was nice."
Schylar simply said, "Zexion is very much like Genesis back at home Kupo, Shy likes intellect minds."
Roxas rolled his eyes and walked over the grass until he was stopped at the front stairs by Cloud looking livid.
"Who were they?" He demanded
Roxas frowned looking up at his brother, "That was Demyx and Zexion, they are my new friends, do you have a problem with that?"
Cloud went to say something further but Roxas answered the question that was going to be said, "Sora didn't like them, they were nice to us but being the sook he is Sora walked away."
He pushed past Cloud saying, "You don't dictate me Cloud, at least I had the initiative to stay out in the Plaza and actually make friends." He let go of Shy and felt his phone vibrate.
He pulled it out ignoring the looks Sora gave him from the doorframe in the lounge room. He got a text from Demyx already and Roxas felt loved.
Hey Roxas, just got a call from a friend, they're back in town and want to hang out tomorrow, if you want to come meet us at the park a couple of blocks down from your place, sorry I forget the name (: - Demyx
Roxas smiled shutting the phone off before saying to Cloud as he walked in. "You wanted me out of the house, so I bloody well got out."
He stomped up the stairs with Shy in tow and as he approached his room, he slammed the door shut.
He wanted to be left alone.
Cloud tried not to get angry in front of Sora, but Roxas was frustrating him to the maximum and all he wanted to do was kick the shit out of his brother.
He turned to Sora, "He went out and made friends Sora, why did you just walk away?"
Sora scowled looking down at his feet, "Those kids are bad news Cloud, I just know it, I'm not going anywhere near them."
He turned around, "All I want is to go back home to Destiny Islands and be with Riku, Kairi and Aunt Lucrecia." He went to walk into the kitchen and Cloud snapped, "Not you too Sora!?"
Sora paused, "I tried to have good spirits about this Cloud, but I can't. Roxas has changed, I have changed and maybe it's better if we give Roxas back to Vincent." He felt betrayed and walked through the lounge room and through the kitchen.
Cloud heard the back door open and shut before he lurched to the wall and smashed his fists against it. He couldn't handle these brats, what was he supposed to do? How the hell could he keep this up until he got the money? The boys were driving him insane.
Eventually he would snap.
And he didn't care what twin got in his way.
