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-x-o-Chapter Three-o-x-

Next lesson was Biology – Roxas' least favourite subject. And it went by, mediocre, and he made three new acquaintances. Their names: Hayner, Pence and Olette. And by the end of the lesson Hayner was already acting as though he and Roxas had been best buddies for ever. But, Roxas didn't seem to mind – in fact, he rather enjoyed the notion that he had a pretend best friend. Or maybe it was for real...

"Soooo, Roxas, what do ya have next?" Hayner asked looking over Roxas' shoulder. Roxas brought out his time table and set it down on his desk for Hayner to look at. "Aww, man Phys. Ed! That was first/second period for me! I guess I'll see you around, then! Bye!"

A chorus of 'goodbye!' came from Olette and Pence as they hurried off after Hayner, and Roxas was left alone. Yet again.

He sighed, and made his lone way to the Sports Hall.

A half dirty kit was shoved into his hands before being was pushed into the boys' locker room. If the clothes smelt bad, if was nothing compared to how the room smelt. It was like a mixture of mouldy cheese and sour milk. Not the most pleasant scent to be forced upon on a Tuesday afternoon.

"Roxas!" A massive glomp hit Roxas' direction, causing him to stagger backwards a few paces. His head hit the locker room's evil wall and made Sora look up sheepishly, rubbing the back of his chocolate-like head.

"H-hey Sora." Roxas replied, wincing.

"Come on!" Sora grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him over to where he had been changing. Because of course it only took him a few seconds to get over Roxas' head pain. Too bad Roxas knew it would take himself a lot longer.

"This is Riku," He told me pointing to a guy with a bit over shoulder length slivery/white/blonde hair (rather odd, I know) and a 'cool' pose, sort of leaning back but then again, sort of not. "And this is Tidus!"

Riku nodded and went back to getting changed. Tidus, who seemed in a similar state to Sora, skipped over to Roxas, prodding him suspiciously, as though he may be a bomb... or something.

"Hi! You're Sora cousin!"

Roxas mentally whacked himself on the forehead. What a retard. And just then, as if right on cue, Tidus' head crashed with the wall, and he screamed in pain, clutching his newly bruised head.

Roxas winced. How could someone have so much energy?

"Uh, yeah…"

He dumped his bag and kit on the bench. Roxas pulled his shirt off, dumped it on the bench and replaced it with the mangy P.E one. He could practically see the fungi growing in clumps on the worn away 'cotton'.

Roxas always hated getting changed surrounded by people – there was always that strange shaky feeling in your stomach telling you that someone's secretly perving on you, or laughing at your bad physique. Something like that.

When he'd finally finished with the horrid changing process, he along with Sora and his friends, ran out onto the field.

"Track!" The teacher barked, "Track running today! Just run around the track until I tell ya to stop. Got it?"

He didn't wait for a reply. He went and sat down on a bench and chewed his smoking stick.

Track running.

What. Fun.

-x-X-x-

Demyx was a lot better off than his brother and cousin. His best friend was by his side, headphones dropped casually to his shoulders as he stared out the window, grimacing.

"Hey Demyx, is that your brother out there?"

Demyx looked out and saw his brother rolling on the floor, wheezing, his face red from exhaustion as Cid shouted at him. His cousin was leaning over him, hand outstretched. "Yes, it is actually."

"So it runs through the family, eh?"

Demyx smacked him over the head. "Shut up, Axel," he laughed, watching as Axel rubbed his head in a jokey manner. "You're no better than me, anyway."

Axel stuck out his chest, "And how would you know, Demyx? The last time we were in the same Games class was two years ago! Have you not seen my amazing body and its perfect shape?" Axel ran a hand through the air, gesturing his "amazing body and its perfect shape".

Demyx giggled, leaning an arm on Axel's shoulder, letting the red-head pet his head. "Coming to my house tonight, Axey?"

Axel shrugged, "Guess," he raised the headphones over his ears, "so, I had German today with Moley. Did you hear about that school trip she once went on and she was doing the checks in the rooms for any contraband? She went to this girl's room and looked into the kid's drawer and stroked her underwear!" Demyx gagged.

"No."

"Oh… okay. I think she likes Roxas, you know that new kid," Axel was unaware of Demyx's wide eyes and shocked appearance as the red-head bent his head down to do what you were meant to do in a Study Hall. Demyx shook his head.

"That's gross, man," he commented. "Roxas is my cousin."

Axel's head turned so fast that his headphones slipped down to his neck again. "Roxas is your cousin?!" Demyx nodded, grinning.

"You know him?"

"Sit next to him in German – that's how I know she likes him, she kept giving him funny looks. I didn't want to mention it though; might scare him." Demyx nodded.

"Oh well, I'll just tell him what to say to stop her from liking him in any way!" Demyx laughed. "Anyway, Axeeyy, you have to tell me: who's it this year? And don't say that Larxene's the only one for you because I know you hate her!"

Axel grimaced, "No," he swallowed an unwanted gulp, "one. No one this year."

Demyx narrowed his eyes in a conspiratial manner. "We'll see, Axel, we'll see."

.x.X.x.

Roxas sat down heavily, breathing at inconsistent points.

Roxas had (was forced) to have a quick shower before getting changed. He didn't take very long getting changed but Sora was mucking around with Tidus and Riku and took much longer.

When they finally started their way home. Demyx had already left in his car so they had to walk. It wasn't far, but they were both pretty worn out after P.E so it took them longer than it probably should have.

"Hello boys!" Sora's mum said warmly as they walked in, "Did you have a good day?"

They both nodded and Sora yawned, expressing his exhaustion, "T-tired though… We were doing track last thing."

She shook her head, laughing. "Oh! Poor you!" she said mockingly, "Anyway, go on; I need my space!"

Sora and Roxas scurried into the next room before both being attacked by a massive cuddle.

"HIYA ROXY!" Demyx had appeared out of nowhere. Roxas attempted to breathe normally again. His older cousin started dragging Sora off by the arm and signaling for Roxas to follow. "C'mon! You've gotta help me interrogate!"

He saw red hair bobbing about from behind the sofa. Roxas slapped his forehead, groaning inwardly. "Hey little buddy!"

"Piss off…" Axel had stood up and was towering over Roxas, pretending to pout though Roxas could definitely see that smirk slipping through his disguise.

"Aww… That's not a very nice way to talk too your German buddy!"

"Urg." Roxas suddenly found that he could no longer speak to this boy without resorting to caveman like speech. Speech was only a short step from instinct and then Roxas didn't know what he'd be doing to his "German buddy" – hitting him over the head with a club was his guess.

"Roxy?" Demyx laughed, obviously enjoying his cousin's mild peril.

"Wha- Oh… Sorry…" Roxas shook his head, smiling slightly.

"Whatever. We're interrogating Axel!"

Axel smirked, "Or trying to…"

Demyx cackled. "We're going to get it out of you!" he said tapping his fingers in a very Mr. Burns-ish way, "anyway! I think Axel's met some hot sophomore! And I want to know who it is!"

Sora smirked, or tried to at least, "Demyx is JEALOUS!" Then suddenly slapped a hand over his mouth, giggling, remembering that Demyx could well be jealous. "Sorry, Dem."

Demyx went over to Axel and started stroking his hair in the way that people do when they talk about how much you've grown. "Don't be, I do want my Axey all to myself!"

Axel ducked away from Demyx's hands.

He bit his lip. He knew Demyx was just mucking around what with his grinning face but there was a problem: there was a possible chance that Axel had met someone – and normally when he didn't he knew that it wouldn't last, the feeling wasn't in the pit of his stomach and neither was the person stopping his heart every now and then. He could just be imagining it. It probably wouldn't be the first time

But this time… he wasn't sure.

.x.X.x.

Demyx turned the TV off, sighing and rerunning his previous train of thoughts over again. Axel had met someone, he knew it. And that only meant hell from Larxy. But, the question was who had he met? Because the way Axel looked at Roxy and the way he turned his head when the blond's name was mentioned. Then he reminded himself, for the eighty-ninth time that night, Axel was straight, dumbass!

Right?

.x.X.x.

Roxas' journal

September 3rd

Well… I started my new school today… and before you ask no. I didn't like it. Though, I made friends with these people called Hayner, Pence and Ollete. They seemed nice - I spent lunch with them, and I have two of my classes with Hayner.

And then there's Axel... There are no words to describe Axel. And there are no words to describe how I feel towards him. So I'll leave it there.

x.X.x.

AN: yippee! We're finally finished! xP Please review guys... they make me happy. they also make me update ever so slightly faster... btw, demyx IS gay

Beta: Finally, it is DONE. .o