Namine's POV
"Kairi..." I sniffed.
"Tell me Namine! What is wrong?!" Kairi asked frantically, her nails digging into my arm and she stared at me with confusion in her eyes.
I blinked back tears.
"Roxascheatedonme" I replied, half choking on my words.
It took Kairi a couple of seconds to make sense of what I just blurted out.
"Roxas...cheated...on...you?" Kairi's eyes glazed over and the blood drained from her face. She did a double take and looked completely shocked.
"Are you positive?" she asked quietly, unmoving.
"I s-saw him on his bed...with S-SELPHIE" I started to cry. My cheeks felt icy as the hot tears trailed down them.
Kairi pulled me into a hug, and I could feel eyes just staring out into space.
"Ok..." she breathed and shook her head "God..."
"And I got this message off him..." I inhaled sharply as I handed her my phone.
Her eyebrows crept together as she read the message.
Kairi usually dealt with extreme situation like this, by just shutting down completely, which was what she was doing now.
"I need to talk to Sora" Kairi said quickly and got up off my bed. "He said that Roxas had been acting weird lately and he didn't know why..." She turned around to face me. "I'm going to Sora's house. You'll be ok Namine" she assured me in a robotic tone and walked out of my room.
Axel's POV
"Do I have to come? Why can't I just wait here? I hate you all" Larxene growled and sulked in the van, refusing to get out.
"I'm leaving" Zexion replied bluntly and walked away.
"Since when don't you feel like bashing people up? That's kinda out of character" I stated, raising an eyebrow.
"It isn't that; I can't freaking walk. Idiot" Larxene eyed me like I was as stupid as Demyx.
I looked away awkwardly.
Just what the hell am I meant to say to that?
"You can do anything if you try!" Demyx piped up.
I facepalmed.
And just why was Demyx still even here?
He was meant to be patrolling.
Well actually, when I thought about it, Demyx was meant to do a lot of stuff that he never did.
And I didn't need him and his tacky inspirational quotes with me right now.
"Demyx, how about you go find Zexion and do some work" I said in a forced-nice tone.
"He's boring" Demyx whined.
"I'll stab you in the THROAT, IF YOU DON'T FUCKING LEAVE, MORON" Larxene barked at him.
Demyx skipped away quickly, (actually skipped) and I was just left there with Evil Woman.
"Well" I said after a few seconds and leaned against the door of the van. "This is fun"
"Ya know what would be more fun..." Larxene lowered her voice.
For the love of god.
"No. Not in the van. Just no" I winced.
Larxene rolled her eyes.
"Oh god I was only joking. What are you, some sort of horny freak?" she sneered at me.
Ahahaha.
I inwardly groaned.
"You know, Larxene, what about we just stick around this area? Then you don't have to do much" I reasoned.
"Maybe" she sighed haughtily, looking away and completely disregarding me.
"I'm sorry, but I'll need a more definite answer than a 'maybe'" I did a bad imitation of her voice, then quickly grabbed her around the waist, causing her to suddenly scream profanities out into the night and set her on the ground next to me. "I'm taking that as a yes" I smirked at her, ignoring the deathly glare she was giving me that could make a small child cry.
"Where is Zexion? This sucks. I'm cold, I hate you..." Larxene mumbled to herself as we walked.
"Well One, Zexion is standing right over there waving at us. You can see him if you stop looking at the ground" I pointed out in a smartass tone. "Two, tough shit, and three, your jacket is around your waist, where you left it" I grinned.
"Axel!" before I could even turn around, Demyx jumped on my back, scaring the crap out of me and making me momentarily wonder if got shot, because he choked all of the air out of me.
"WHAT THE FUCK DEMYX?!" I shook him off and scowled at him.
"Shhh! There's a Death Element member over there" he kicked me lightly in the shin and looked at me intently.
"Well then why alert me in the least subtle way?" I growled at him.
Idiot.
We quietly made our way over to where Zexion was standing, Larxene grumbling some sort of inappropriate word every couple of meters.
"What were you three doing?" Zexion spun around to meet us in all his angry midget fury.
"Playing house" I replied sarcastically. Larxene snorted a laugh, and Demyx went to say something but I cut them both off "But seriously, we all have to shut up, because there are members of the Death Elements over there and we need to hear what they are saying" I whispered.
"Spotted by yours truly" Demyx announced proudly, causing eye rolls from everyone.
We all squashed against the side of some random building, listening out for any type of conversation that we could use against them.
Usually all they talked about was who they slept with last, drugs, or occasionally one of them would be completely drunk off their face and blurt out some sort of information that we could use against them.
There were three members, just random followers really, and I heard one of them mention their 'club house' (which was an old abandoned two story house, not too far from where we were) something about getting paid from a woman and about someone who they kept referring to as Ven. I thought I might have even heard them mention Roxas. But I doubted that he'd be in that stupid gang...
Just what was all this?
The next day
Namine's POV
Today was Monday.
Which meant school.
Which also meant that I wasn't going.
Because I'm a rebel.
Actually, I just don't think that I could cope with seeing Roxas, or anyone at all really.
Plus, I felt sick. So I didn't want to go anyway. I just wasn't in the mood.
I lied to mom and said that I had a migraine, and she was going out for the entire day again (god knows where), so she amazingly let me stay home.
So screw school and my social life.
I didn't know what I wanted to do all day, and I was in a pretty bad mood from when I got up (PMS-ing contributed to it, but I was sad and angry anyway).
All of this added up to me being in a total bitch-fit.
So, I did what any depressed and pissed off person would do. (Well me anyway).
I got out all of my romantic animes, created some sort of tent/sleeping bag thing on the lounge out of my doona and made a massive bowl of popcorn.
I laid there all day, being lazy and stuffing my face, but it still didn't take my mind off Roxas.
Because on whatever I was watching, whenever someone did something stupid, or really sweet, Roxas' face always flashed before my eyes.
Stupid anime.
Stupid brain.
Stupid-
Why the fuck was there someone knocking at my door?
Go away.
The knocking got even louder, and more irritating.
So before I popped a vein and ripped the door off the hinges, I angrily sprang up and marched over towards the door.
It flew open, and standing before me was none other than Riku.
"What" I greeted him angrily, immediately feeling like a total bitch and wanting to take it back.
It wasn't him that I was angry at, I was angry at someone else.
He raised an eyebrow at me, and I immediately wanted to die.
I was still in my daggy pyjamas with my hair messed up and all over the place, with my glasses on at some weird angle.
Attractive.
"You have popcorn in you hair" he stated, looking like he wanted to laugh.
"Thanks. You want it?" I asked in a monotone, holding it out to him.
"Well actually, I wanted to find out about what happened to you and Xion. Mind if I come in?" he walked through the doorway and into the lounge room, raising an eyebrow at what I was watching.
"You bag it out and I'll shoot you" I warned him.
God. I really am a bitch today.
"Ok, well, how about you turn it off so I can talk to you" he replied calmly, surveying my bed thing I made on the lounge.
I paused the TV, and led him up into my room.
"Namine" he sat down on my spinny desk chair. "Can you tell me what happened to Xion? She can't tell me. She is just...I don't know. Panic stricken"
I took a deep breath.
I got a horrible feeling in my stomach, as I described what happened with Seifer's gang, leaving out the Roxas scenario, before he cut me off.
"Wait, wait, wait" he shook him head and brushed his bangs out of his eyes. "You two slept at Axel's house? As in Axel-I-shall-rape-you's house?" he asked, bewildered.
"Actually, he is a really nice guy and not creepy in the slightest" I grumbled. "And some guy he works with fixed Xion up. He was kinda weird, and I got the feeling that Axel didn't really like him...but other than what I've told you, that's about it. Xion walked me home after that, and then she went to your house" I concluded.
Riku looked pained. "...She just turned up on my doorstep and started crying. I didn't know what to do. I was so happy to see her, but she was so..." darkness washed over Riku's eyes. "She was broken. They did that to her Namine. They hurt her. And I want to do something to hurt them"
His suddenly menacing tone caught me off-guard.
"But Namine" Riku added quickly. "Why did you leave Roxas' house early anyway? I mean, he's your best friend and stuff..." he trailed off.
Yes.
He was.
In a perfect world.
But now he was my least favourite person on earth.
"I felt sick" I answered a little too quickly, starting to feel tears spring into my eyes.
Do not cry do not cry do not-
"Are you ok?" Riku asked quietly.
I just realized that a massive tear had over flowed from my eyelid and was rolling down my cheek.
Stupid emotions.
Everything today was just stupid.
"I-I just...I just need...he…" I couldn't even make a proper sentence.
"Listen, I'll go because I don't want you to be upset. But I want to know why you're crying, and I'll find out eventually, I guess" he shrugged and started to walk out of my room. "Bye Namine" he waved.
I sniffled some sort of reply and curled up on my bed, trying to ignore the current sensation of my heart being ripped in two again, just from those horrible memories.
Roxas' POV
"Roxas honey, are you sure you didn't get in a fight? You know you can tell me..." mom examined my black eye for the millionth time, the second I got home from school.
"No...I don't know. I probably just walked into something..." Yes. Walked into someone's fist. Or something. And I didn't want to upset mom by saying that I woke up in a forest.
She'd have a heart attack.
I'd get some sympathy ice cream out of it.
But still.
"Hey Sora, do we have soccer training tomorrow?" I asked him, downing a glass of juice.
He just gave me an annoyed stare and stalked off into his room.
It was weird. Sora and Kairi had completely ignored me today. Whenever I asked them something they'd just glare at me and continue whatever it was that they were doing.
And Namine wasn't at school, so I didn't even have my best friend to hit them over the head with something and say how stupid they were acting.
In fact, I haven't even heard from Namine since my party (which wasn't even fun seeing that I was knocked out for all of it), and that was pretty strange.
She never replied to my text message either, which kind of worried me.
When I asked Kairi why she wasn't at school today, she just continued copying her work off the board and said in a really pissed off voice that Namine was 'sick, and she didn't want to see anyone.'
Which meant that I was going to see her right now, whether she wanted to see me or not.
I changed out of my school uniform, put on a t-shirt and shorts, and started to head for Namine's house.
I missed her so much, and it had only been a matter of hours.
Author Note:
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