A/N: HIYA! Yes, told you guys this would become a story. XD I got enough requests to make this one and plus, I got a couple ideas for it. I really appreciate all of you who reviewed the first chapter. This is still dedicated to my bestest friend, Khobsessed-13 – I love you Amanda-chan!
Chapter 2- The Start
Beep! Beep! Beep! Bee- Smack!
My hand flew from under the checkered covers and onto the alarm clock, yelling for the me to get up. I quickly put my hand back under the covers and got all snuggled up again.
"Roxas, you know you can't go back to bed. Now, get up." My mom's voice said from the doorway.
"Do I really have to go to school?" I mumbled from under the sheets pathetically. I always hated first days of school, well at least it was my first day at a new school.
"Yes, now come on. You can't be late and make a bad impression. I want you to make loads of friends for your first day." My mother said.
"I have my friends back in Twilight Town. That's good enough for me." I said stubbornly. It fell quiet in my room. I was wondering if my mom left the battle for me to get up. Soon, the covers were lifted off of me and the sun light from the window blinded me. "Mom!"
"Roxas, you can't be complaining! Now get up and get ready before I ground you." The woman with dark blonde hair said sternly. Her deep blue eyes were fiercely glaring down at me.
"Okay, okay! I'm going." I sat up and walked into the bathroom down the hall. I hopped into the shower before changing into my school uniform. No matter how hard I tried not to, I kept yawning. Both my parents were downstairs. Dad was reading the newspaper at the kitchen table and Mom was cooking breakfast.
"So are you excited to go to Destiny High?" Dad said from behind the paper. I laid my elbow on the table and my cheek in the palm of my hand. My eyes were starting to close before Mom placed some pancakes on the table that made a 'clink' noise, causing me to jump slightly.
"Uh, yeah... I guess so." I answered pouring syrup onto the gold layers of fluff. My hand grabbed the fork next to my plate and I started to eat up. After I finished eating, I got my bag.
"Have a good first day hunny!" My Mom called to me as I opened the front door.
"Stay out of trouble." Dad added.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know! Bye!" I said as I stepped onto the front step. My legs started toward the direction of my new school. That incident that happened yesterday had to have been an accident. I didn't even know the girl and we were about to kiss! That wasn't like me at all. Now, because of that, I couldn't sleep last night and now I'm dead tired.
The three story school came into view. I couldn't believe how huge this place was. My deep ocean blue eyes scanned the faces to see if I could find that blonde haired girl, Namine. Any of Namine's friends would be helpful too. I continued to walk into the building until I reached the front desk.
"Name." Said a lady from behind the desk. I assumed she was the secretary.
"Hiroshi, Roxas." I told her as she typed in the name into the computer. She printed out something and handed it to me.
"Here's your schedule." She said, again without looking up. My eyes read the writing and looked for my first class.
"English, room 207." I read out loud. "I hate English." I said to myself as I found the stairway. Slowly, I made my way up. Many of the students stopped talking to their friends as they looked at me. How awkward.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
That was the bell. Students broke away from their groups, saying goodbye, and leaving to their assigned classes. 'Oh great. I'm going to be late to my class.' I sighed. The second story came into view. I looked around once I made it to the top of the stairs. Doors were closing and silence was slowly creeping its way down the hall. The first classroom I saw was 290.
"Just my luck." I said aloud, realizing I was on the opposite side of the hall. I started to walk down the long hallway. Suddenly, I came to a four way intersection. I decided to go right. "270. 271. 273. I'm going the wrong way..."
Ding! Ding! Ding!
"Now I'm tardy."Turning around, I sprinted back to the four way and headed right. Finally I came to my classroom. I slowly placed my hand on the handle and opened it up. Everyone's attention switched from the teacher, over to me, standing in the doorway. I hate it when people stare at me and yet, they keep doing it.
"You must be the new student." The teacher smiled at me. She had light brown hair that was pulled back into a twisted braid and a big bow at the top of her braid. She seemed like she'd be nice. I nodded.
"I'm Miss Gainsborough." The teacher introduced herself. She looked down at her clipboard. "You're Roxas Hiroshi?"
"Yes ma'am." I answered, trying to be polite. She smiled in return.
"Looks like you'll be sitting next to Sora. Sora, can you please raise your hand." Miss Gainsborough said looking at the class that lay before her. My eyes averted towards them too. A boy with chocolate brown hair that were spiked a little more than mine, raised his hand. I remembered him from yesterday. He was one of Namine's friends. I made my way down the rows of desks and sat next to him.
"You look really familiar." Sora said as soon as I sat down in the plastic seat next to him. Miss Gainsborough went back to teaching grammar.
"How?" I asked.
"I don't know, you just do." Sora answered as he switched his attention back to the whiteboard. 'Right...' I sat there trying my best to just listen in on what the teacher was talking about. I just couldn't keep concentrated! I was starting to get restless.
My hand reached in my bag and took out a piece of paper and just started to doodle. Anything that came to mind was drawn before me on the white and blue stripped piece of paper. The led started to form a thick round tube shaped object with a handle. It was met up with another one with a sound effect by it. 'Whack!' I started to smile.
"What are you drawing?" Sora, who was looking at the drawing I had just created, asked.
"It's a club. We use them for a battle, called 'The-."
"The Struggle."
"How'd you know?" I asked in a whisper.
"I've heard about it. Have you competed in it?"
"Yeah, my friend and me have been champions."
"Cool." Sora smiled. I smiled in return. At least he seemed like a cool person. Class carried on for about another hour. Once the bell rang, we all arose from our seats. My new classmates took their belongs and headed out the door to their next class. The one who could practically pass as my twin, looked over at me. "What class do you have next?"
"Uh..." I took out my schedule and read what it said. "P.E."
"You must have it with Riku. Okay, the gym is on the ground floor, off at the far end of the hall, past the cafeteria." Sora directed me.
"Thanks."
"Not a problem. Later." With that said, Sora walked out of the classroom. I grabbed my bag and walked out into the crowded hallway. Once again, people were staring at me. 'What, have they never seen a new student before?' I headed down the stairs and past the cafeteria. The big double doors were wide opened. Walking through them, I made my way into the boys locker room and into the coach's office.
"New kid, right?" A tall man with blonde spiky hair said. His blue eyes were looking at me.
"Yes, sir." I answered. 'Wow, I sound like a real suck up.'
"I'm your P.E. teacher, Mr. Strife. Your locker is number 120. Hurry up and change. Class is starting soon." Mr. Strife said as he handed me my locker combination. I nodded and walked past the dark blue lockers. Once I reached my locker, I looked at my locker combo and entered it in the lock. I pulled down on it and pulled open the metal door. A black and blue P.E. shirt and black basketball shorts were folded neatly on the bottom of the locker. I held up the shirt and read, 'Destiny High Physical Education.' I hurried and changed into them and ran out to meet up with the class.
The class was co-ed. The girls wore shorter jersey shorts but the same shirts. To me, I felt so out of place looking at the groups of people talking with each other. I slowly made my way to a spot on the wall, casually leaning on it and crossing my tan arms. As long as it looked like I could careless, I figured I'd be okay. Mr. Strife walked out of the locker room and into the large gym.
"Today class, we're going to run the mile." He told us. Groans were heard, making echos vibrate between the gym walls. I was a pretty decent runner, so it didn't bother me too much. The class made their way outside to the track. We all lined up at the starting mark. "Four laps and then you're done. On your mark, get set, go!"
A stamped was created by large group of teenagers. We slowly started to open up gaps between us as the faster runners made the way around the first turn, while the slower runners were still in the long stretch. I was up near the head with a few other people. I glanced back to see the other half the class way behind. Before I even realized it, I was behind only one person. He was a tall, silver haired guy. He was running really fast. His deep aqua eyes met up with my ocean colored ones as he looked back. His eyes lowered into almost a death glare as he sped up. 'What was that for?'
I started to run a little faster to meet up with this kid. Once he noticed, he started to pick up the pace. The two of us were so close, we were no further than a foot apart. We made our way past the finish line three times at this pace. We passed each of our classmates over and over. I was getting worn out but I couldn't let the silver haired teen beat me with the attitude he was giving me. We were getting closer to the end of our mile. I managed to run next to the other guy. The line, it was right there!
"Seven minutes and twenty seconds!" Mr. Strife called as we both passed the finish at the same exact time. (A/N: I wish I could run that fast!) The silver haired guy and me both bent over, putting our hands on our knees as we breathed heavily out of exhaustion. I truly just wanted to fall to the ground.
"You're a good runner, you know." I looked up to see my competitor looking at me.
"Yeah, you too." The taller one out of the two of us stood up, causing me to as well. He held out a hand.
"The name's Riku."
"Roxas." I shook his hand once.
"Takashi, Hiroshi, go get the basketballs for the rest of the class." Mr. Strife said to us. We both nodded and headed inside the gym. Riku and I walked into the supply room. Different sports equipment were all put in their designated places. We got the bags of basketballs and headed back out to the track.
"I've heard about you." Riku said as our feet clamped heavily onto the asphalt.
"From who?" I asked curiously.
"People." He replied bluntly as he walked ahead of me to meet up with our coach. (A/N: No, Riku isn't going to be a jerk... I know it seems that way, but trust me, he's not)
"Wow, that's a lot of help." I replied sarcastically under my breath. As we reached Mr. Strife, the other students started to finish their laps. Riku and I got basketballs out and started to play basketball with the others. After class finished, I changed out and hurried off to History. Luckily, I got to class on time and before a lot of other students, that way no one would stare at me.
"Class, we have a new student." My History teacher said as soon as the bell rang. 'You've got to be kidding me.' I sighed to myself. Mr. Leonhart pointed in my direction. "Roxas Hiroshi." It happened again, everyone's eyes were staring directly at me. I don't mind being the center of attention every now and then, but this was just getting ridiculous.
"Hey, aren't you the one who was with Namine after school yesterday?" The girl sitting next to me asked. I turned to face her. She looked almost identical to Namine. I remembered seeing her yesterday, she must be Kairi.
"Yeah." I answered to her question. She smiled at me and held out a hand.
"I"m Kairi Hikari."
"Roxas, as you heard the teacher say." I smiled shaking her hand. Kairi laughed.
"Well, welcome to Destiny High, Roxas." She nodded before turning her attention to the front of the class, along with me. Okay, so far I've met nice people and semi-rude people. Sure sounds a lot like back home. Too bad Hayner, Pence and Olette aren't here and good thing Seifer, Rai and Fuu aren't here. Actually, I haven't seen those three in a while, no skin off my back though.
After class ended, I went to Math where I met the bubbly brunette from yesterday with the group Namine pointed out to me. Selphie seemed pretty nice, kinda hyper, but still nice none-the-less. Soon after Math ended, it was lunch time.
"Roxas, you want to come to lunch with us?" Selphie exclaimed as soon as we walked out of the classroom.
"Uh, sure." I said looking around as everyone looked at us do to Selphie's energy.
"Great! Let's go." Selphie grabbed onto my wrist and yanked me down the hall. As the two of us made our way down the stairs to the first floor, people stopped their normal conversations to whisper things as we passed by. I eyed them funny.
"Selphie, what's up with people staring at me?" I decided to ask. She suddenly stopped outside the cafeteria doors.
"Well, you see... uh...hum... how do I put this..." She said thinking to herself.
"Just tell me." I persuaded the emerald eyed girl in front of me.
"Let's just say someone's been talking about you before you arrived. Luckily for you, they're not here today." We opened the door to the cafeteria. Hundreds of teenagers were chatting continuously as they stuffed their faces. You could see what clicks were here do to where they were sitting. On the far left of the large room, sat the people with books and their homework. On the far right, sat the jocks and cheerleaders. How stereotypic.
"Who was talking about me?" I asked as we sat down at a table where Riku, Sora and Kairi were seated with a few other people near the middle of the cafeteria.
"Selphie, you didn't say anything, did you?" A guy with dirty blonde spiky hair asked.
"No Tidus, I didn't." Selphie answered.
"If he found out, I think he'd die from shock, ya?" A guy with flaming red hair said in accent. I raised an eyebrow.
"Wakka! You guys, stop." Kairi said in a serious tone.
"Roxas will just get more curious to know if we keep talking about it." Sora added.
"Does someone want to tell me what's going on here?" I questioned, getting slightly angry that the whole table knew what was going on and not me. They all looked up at me.
"Don't mind them." Riku said waving his hand off to them. I plopped down onto the bench. "So how do you like it here?"
"Alright I guess." I said looking off to the side at the ground.
"Sorry I'm late. I had to talk to Cid about that science homework." I looked up to see Namine smiling. She sat down and noticed me. "Roxas..."
"Hi Namine." I said quietly. Either it was the whole awkward scene yesterday or it was something else that made her seem kind of nervous to talk to me.
"H-how are you?" Namine stuttered slightly.
"Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I- I'm fine." She smiled.
"Not this conversation again..." I said looking off. "What's with this school. Everyone knows something I don't. Obviously it involves me. I don't know how considering it's my first day here." I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see who it belonged to. Namine frowned slightly.
"We can't exactly tell you right now, but you'll find out soon. I promise." She said quietly.
"This can't be good."
"Try not to think about it right now. You still have two more class periods to go to before you should start thinking about anything." Kairi said.
"What classes do you have next anyway?" Sora asked me. My hand reached into my pocket and I pulled out my schedule.
"Fifth period, Science with Highwind." I read first off before getting interrupted.
"Kairi, Sora and I have that class next." Namine said. I looked up at her. I smiled faintly before reading my last class.
"Sixth period, Art with Kisaragi." I finished.
"That's Yuffie! I'm in that class with Namine!" Selphie cheered.
"Heh, great." I said with a quivering smile, kind of nervous. Selphie's hyper self made me nervous. Once the bell rang to get to class, Sora, Kairi, Namine and I went to Science.
"Ah, you must be Roxas Hiroshi." Mr. Highwind said as I walked into class. The others went to their assigned seats. I nodded. "Call me Cid."
"All right."
"Go ahead and have a seat, right there next to Namine." He pointed by the window where the blonde sat smiling. I made my way and sat by her.
"Lucky us, we get to sit next to each other." She smiled. I nodded with a slight smile as Cid started to talk about the homework from last night. Since obviously I didn't do it, I stared out the window. Little black birds were flying around, dodging some of the leaves that were falling from the trees. The sun was gleaming off the blue ocean. My eyes switched over to the sidewalk. Someone was walking down it. They looked really familiar, but I couldn't tell who it was; however, I had some idea.
"No... it couldn't be..." I said very low.
"What couldn't be?" Sora asked who was sitting in front of me. I quickly looked at Sora.
"Oh, uh... nothing. Just thinking about something." I laughed hesitantly. After he turned back around, I looked out the window quickly. The person was gone. "It can't be -."
"Roxas. Come on!" Namine said cutting me off.
"Wha?"
"We're supposed to be working on a project." Namine pointed to herself, Kairi, Sora and me. I nodded and we worked on the science project we had assigned to us. They explained it to me since I wasn't paying any attention when it was explained.
Sixth period soon started up. Namine and I met up with Selphie. The two girls introduced me to Miss Kisaragi, who wanted to be called Yuffie. What scared me more was that Yuffie was almost as cheerful as Selphie.
"Don't worry, only when Selphie's around, Yuffie's like that." Namine whispered in my ear as she noticed me staring wide-eyed at the two chatting what seemed to be gibberish in to my ears.
"Well that's good... I think..." I said. The blonde haired beauty laughed next to me.
"Come on, let's go sit down." She pulled me off to a table. We both sat down. Namine reached into her bag, pulling out a drawing pad and a pencil. I started to tweedle my thumbs since I didn't have any supplies and what not. "You know, there's some drawing pads over there. Yuffie doesn't mind if you take one." Namine pointed to a cabinet with paints, paper, drawing pads, pencils, pastels, and all sorts of art stuff.
"Thanks." I nodded standing up. I walked over to the cabinet and took a pencil and a drawing pad. After sitting back down, I flipped open to the first blank page. Lightly tracing a base, I started to sloppily make the trophy from The Struggle. Namine peaked over.
"What's that?" She asked tilting her head. I looked down at the drawing. It looked more like a dead tree with four huge apples or something.
"Er... it was supposed to be a trophy. It obviously didn't turn out as planned." I said. Namine giggled.
"Do you have the trophy?" She asked.
"I let my friends back home keep it. We each have a part of it though." As I said that, I pulled out a sapphire colored, semi-see through, ball that was the size of a large marble.
"Oh, wow." Namine said breathlessly as I handed it to her. "It's so pretty..."
"Hold it up to the light." I instructed her. Slowly, she lifted the small ball toward the window. Light shined through it.
"Wow Roxas, this is amazing." She handed it back to me and I stuck it back in my pocket.
"It's a reminder of home." I picked up my pencil and turned the page to a new one.
"You miss your home, don't you?" Namine asked quietly. My eyes slowly looked up at her. She looked at me sympathetically. I didn't like sympathy too much.
"Yeah, but I'll be fine. Don't worry about me." I said reassuringly. It took Namine a second until she nodded and started to draw again.
"I wish I could tell you..." Namine said so low that I thought it was something I imagined. I started to doodle, but barely looked up to see what the sky blue eyed girl in front of me was doing. She seemed really concentrated on whatever she was drawing. Without looking up, she asked, "Roxas, can you get me some color pencils from the cabinet?"
"Sure." I stood up walking over to the cabinet with the supplies. I whispered to myself as I placed my hand on the colored pencils, "Despite how much she avoids the situation I've been trying to deal with all day... and how angry I'm getting at everyone for not telling me... I can't get mad at the girl..."
"Hiya Roxas!" Selphie suddenly chirped from behind me.
"Wah!" I yelled. Pencils flew up into the air from my hand as I quickly spun around and leaned back onto the shelves. My hand fell over my rapidly moving chest. Selphie started laughing.
"Sorry about that." She apologized as she started to pick up the pencils that fell to the ground.
"Uh... uh, that's all right Selphie." I said as I bent down to help pick up the pencils that I dropped.
"So who were you talking about?" Selphie asked.
"Er... I wasn't talking about anyone..." I replied.
"Then what was with the 'I can't get mad at the girl'?"
"You heard?"
"So you were talking about someone!"
"Er... no?"
"Yeah, huh!"
"Prove it."
"But you just-."
"What happened?" Selphie and I looked up to see Namine looking down at us.
"Roxas was just saying that he can't-." I quickly covered Selphie's mouth with my hand and smiled like nothing happened. She kept trying to talk, but it only came out as mumbling.
"Heh, she doesn't know what she's talking about." I said with a cheesy smile. Selphie glared at me and pulled my hand away from her mouth.
"Roxas!" Selphie crossed her arm. "Stop being such a meanie head!"
"Um, so what happened?" Namine asked again.
"Well Roxas-."
"Okay, the bell's about to ring guys. Let's clean up!" Yuffie called from the front of the class. Namine bent down to help with the pencils. With in seconds we finished and the bell rang.
"Saved by the bell!" I cheered as I grabbed my things. Namine laughed slightly as Selphie eyed me funny with a curved smile. I walked out of class feeling relived. I survived my first day at Destiny High. The school started to slowly lose each student as we made our way out the doors.
It was nice outside. For some reason, I was feeling more cheerful compared to annoyed. People started to head their own ways just like I saw them yesterday afternoon. It was defiantly more peaceful. I suddenly saw Riku, Sora, Kairi, Namine, Selphie, Tidus and Wakka walk down toward the beach. I figured this would be a good time to show them the real me, after all I was in a better mood.
"Hey guys!" I called out to them. They must not of heard me because they kept on walking. I figured I'd see where they were going, so I followed. The group walked past the railing Namine and I had met yesterday. In a way, I just wanted to stay in the spot but my curiosity was getting the best of me. A few people were starting to follow. This was getting weird.
"I was beginning to wonder who'd show up." I heard a familiar voice said from the beach. My stomach did a twist. I walked down the stairs to see a few more people standing by a large rock. Namine and the gang walked up to the rock. "Ah, my beautiful Namine."
"No way..." I whispered to myself. There on the rock was a guy, my age. He had a black beenie on his head. Evil was planted in his green-blue eyes, a smirk planted on his face. "It can't be -."
"Seifer!" Someone called. My eyes lowered. My worst enemy had moved here just before me to tell people something that obviously wasn't true. This couldn't be real!
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A/N: There ya go! Chapter 2 of Alluring Beauty. XD So now Roxas has found the source of who's been talking about him. What has Seifer been saying though? Hum, guess you'll have to wait till the next chapter! Reviews would be great to see in my inbox.