Namine's POV
"...So seriously, whoever the fuck it was that forgot to pay for their weed if going to fucking get it..."
Some people were just so good at making speeches.
Seifer wasn't one of them.
Especially in this semi-drunken state.
Actually, I don't think it was humanly possible for him to even string a sentence together without hurling a dictionary full of swear words into it.
"Oh yeah...so...WHAT THE FUCK PAINE? STOP FUCKING LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT YOU WHORE. HAHA YOU'RE GOING TO GET REALLY FAT FROM THAT BABY, SUCKED IN...Yeah, as I was saying, I locked to door to where Blondie is. If anyone goes near him they'll fucking deal with Rai afterwards" he rocked back and fourth on his heels and smirked evilly.
Roxas-
"Oh and we have a special guest here too" Sudden character change much? Must have been all the drugs in his system... "Marianne Akata"
What the-
That was.
My.
MOM.
WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE DOING HERE? HOW WAS SHE EVEN INVOLVED IN THIS GANG?
"Don't faint now" Zexion murmured in my ear. "You need to listen. Keep you're head down so she doesn't see you"
I felt like I was going to throw up.
"Silence"
She spoke only once. She didn't need to repeat herself.
No one dared to talk.
Her shark-like eyes combed over the hordes of people several times before she chose to speak.
She cleared her throat "As you all may or may not know, we are holding a hostage here at the moment" she purred, as though we were in some sort of fancy tea-house discussing polo cross and expensive types of cake, instead of some rapist tumble-down old house that was full of criminals and prostitutes. "As Seifer said, refrain from going anywhere near him. Why we are holding him hostage is because he is a disgusting cretin who manipulated my daughter into unwanted sexual activity-"
Ok.
First of all, you're a completely insane bitch.
Second of all, Roxas didn't actually DO anything.
And third of all, it wasn't unwanted.
I couldn't take any more of this insane woman and I didn't want to stick around for this horrible speech.
I had to get out of there as fast as I could before I got some sort of weird energy burst and jumped up onto the table she was standing on and stabbed her eyes out.
I just needed to clear my head before the hysteria set in. This sudden shock was just destroying every fragment of courage that I had so far conjured up, and I had to get out of here.
So, making as little impact as possible, I inched ever-so-carefully away from my group.
I pushed through the crowd, trying not to cause any disturbance or draw any attention to myself.
Eventually I made it to the front door.
And I only got semi-groped.
New record.
The weather had gone from that generic temperature that is neither really warm nor cold, to absolutely freezing.
The disturbing memory of running away from Roxas and Sora's party re-appeared in my mind, but I shoved it away.
I scurried idly around the corner of the building, trying to find a safe spot to sit and plan out what I was going to do next, even though I had absolutely no idea what to do.
I didn't even think that Axel and everyone even noticed that I had gone. They were so engrossed in what mom was lecturing everyone about that they didn't even really notice that I had slipped away. I wasn't angry at them or anything. In fact, I felt horrible because I knew that they would all freak out as soon as they noticed that I was no longer with them.
My stomach felt like someone had filled it up with acid, and my heart beat at an alarmingly fast rate. It felt almost like it was out of rhythm, but then again, I felt like my whole life was pretty out of rhythm at the moment.
Strangely, I didn't feel betrayed or hurt at all really, by my mother. It wasn't like she was ever nice to me, or interested in my life or interests or anything to begin with.
She was just a horrible big barrier who made me feel awful about myself for no reason, and who actually wanted to completely ruin my life for no good reason at all.
In fact, now that I thought about it, I wasn't even suprised that she would plan something as evil as what she was doing to Roxas...
I shivered and sat down next to what I thought was just a pile of old clothes, which probably discarded from some sort of date-rape or something.
Until they moved.
I repressed a blood curdling scream and sprang away from the mystery pile, my heart practically humming it was beating so fast.
If ever I thought I was going to have a heart attack, it was going to be now.
Wait.
Clothes don't move by themselves.
Thanks for that reality check there, brain.
Either that or I've inhaled too many bad fumes from being inside that awful building too long…
Swallowing my nerve shattering fear and hysteria, I took a step closer to the mystery blob.
It was a person.
Who was looking up at me like a lost and frightened puppy.
It was-
"Nami...Namine?"
That boy.
That boy who wasn't Roxas.
DIE.
He held his hands up in a defensive manner before he spoke to me.
"Listen. I know you want to kill me but please, just-"
I kicked him as hard as I possible could in the shin.
"Want to kill you?" I hissed, barely realising the tears that had started to escape my eyes "I want to murder you!"
"They're-they're the same thing..." he pointed out quietly.
Good point.
"But please...I...listen. I think I can help you find Roxas...if you will just..."
"Not kill you?" I suggested bitterly.
"I-I think that would help" he stuttered, and shrugged meekly.
I debated the situation in my head.
Hmm.
No dice.
"Wait. I'm not trusting you. Look at what you've done" I growled "You honestly expect me to put my trust in you, of all people? Wow. You must be really screwed up in the head" I laughed humorlessly and put my hands on my hips. "This is just getting way too weird for me. Nothing even feels real any more. I mean, I can't even feel my arms. What's your name?"
I was taken aback by how insane I just sounded, but then again-
Who actually cared about what this weirdo thought of me?
"I'm Roxas' brother, Ventus" clone-boy ignored my ramblings.
Oh this was just dandy now.
I rolled my eyes at his lame attempt to introduce himself "Roxas doesn't have another brother. He has a twin brother called Sora and that's it" I scowled "You must be some sort of weird doppelganger or something. I'm leaving" I turned away but 'Ventus' put his hand on my shoulder.
I yelped in suprise and nearly jumped twenty feet in the air.
"Don't touch me" I snapped, spinning round to give him a death stare. He hesitantly removed his hand from my shoulder.
"Sorry..." he mumbled "But please, can you just...can you please listen to me for just a second? I know how much you hate me but...please?" his voice cracked and he looked at me with such sad eyes that it made me want to kill him ever so slightly less.
"Fine" I pouted, not happy that I had given in.
"Wait...you want my jacket? It's pretty cold..." he offered.
"No" I replied bluntly, ignoring his unwanted chivalry.
"Ok..." he swallowed awkwardly and gestured for me to sit down next to him. I reluctantly took my place and curled into a ball. It was absolutely freezing now, but there was no way on earth that I was taking this guy's jacket.
Ventus coughed and looked at the ground glumly "Well...uh…here is what has happened..."
Axel's POV
"Hey Axel?"
Go away Demyx.
Why did all of our conversations have to start with Demyx asking me something?
"What?" I whispered back to Demyx sharply.
"Namine's been gone a while. You think she's ok?"
I spun around like I had been tasered and bent down to look Demyx in the eye.
"What?" I whispered furiously. "What do you mean by she is 'gone'?" I queried warily.
"I mean she is gone as in 'she is no longer present'. Haha Axel, you're really dumb. I can't believe that you didn't know what gone me-"
"Did you see her go?" I growled.
"Yeah" he answered simply, like I was the biggest idiot on earth.
"Then why didn't you stop her?"
"I thought she might have needed to pee" Demyx replied in a 'well duh' tone.
I stood back up and groaned in frustration.
Never work with children or the (possibly) mentally challenged.
Or better yet just don't work with complete dip-shits.
That category applies to Demyx pretty well.
"...I will now pass this over to Fuu, who will discuss..." Marrianne (about time we learn bitch number one's actual name), stepped down from the table and some scrawny looking girl who was apparently called Fuu, stood up and didn't say much.
"Ok-Larxene" I nudged her.
"Hmm?"
"Namine's gone"
Larxene swore slightly too loudly, catching the attention of Riku.
"Namine is what?" Riku snapped his gaze away from the table and looked at us in absolute horror. Xion practically turned translucent white.
"Ok. Everyone, we need to get outside now...without being noticed..." I bit my lip "This is gonna be kinda hard..."
"Or not" Larxene rolled her eyes and sighed haughtily. "Just shut your mouths, follow my lead, and no one will give two shits about us leaving"
Oh Larxene, how I love you and your savage bluntness-
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PUTTING MY ARM DOWN YOUR TOP-
"Riku, pick Xion up in some sort of suggestive manner" Larxene turned around to face Demyx and Zexion before they could protest. Not that there was any point in actually going against her.
Unless you wanted a life enemy.
"And you two, just act like gang-rapists or something. I dunno" She bored her bright teal eyes into Demyx and Zexion, who quickly adjusted the way that they were standing into a more gorilla-like pose.
"Let's go then" I sighed.
Namine's POV
"So wait..." I shook my head, trying to wrap my mind around the whole situation. "She got you to pretend to be Roxas, do all this horrible stuff so that he would break up with me? And you did it?" I asked Ventus in exasperation, ticking all the horrible events off on my fingers.
"Dad and I are really poor...his job is so hard" Ven explained "And your mom promised that she'd give me money if I did what she said...I just didn't know that it was going to be this...bad?" the last sentence came out like a question.
If I wasn't so furious I might just shed a tear.
Apparently, from what Ven had just told me, Roxas and Sora actually had another brother (Ven).
So they were triplets.
Except when Ven was born, he wasn't breathing, and Ven's father (who Roxas and Sora haven't ever actually met) grabbed him and just...ran away with him. Then cut off all contact with Sora and Roxas' mother and kind of went into hiding.
Ven didn't know why.
But did Roxas and Sora even know that they had another brother? Did Aerith know that she had another son who was actually alive?
And how exactly did my mom even know about Ven?
All these questions swirled around in my mind and I started to feel a headache coming on.
"Ok Ven just - just how can we get Roxas back?" I asked, wincing.
"It'll be tricky, but I think that we can do it Namine" he replied in a grave tone "Follow me".
Author Note:
IMPORTANT: I'm going on a short holiday soon (just a few days) so that means that I will be unable to write for a couple of days, and that the next chapter may be posted later! So so so sorry!
If I screwed anything up/forgot something/made a mistake with this chapter, PLEASE tell me so I can change it! It was quite hard to remember absolutely everything D:
I'm going to explain things more in the next chapter, I just wanted to get this one posted as soon as I could, so if it all seems like a blur, hopefully the next chapter will clear things up :)
Please review!
~Claudii