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-x-o-Chapter Four-o-x-

Morning were always bad. For Roxas, anyway. Demyx and Sora never seemed to mind getting up at an un-godly hour. They're the kind of people that seem to spring out of bed fully-clothed, bright eyed, and ready the day ahead. But that was them. Not Roxas.

So when his alarm told him to 'get off his fat ass!' he slammed his hand on it; knocking it of the nightstand.

"Stupid alarm…" He muttered darkly.

Roxas was defiantly not a morning person… Still, it was Wednesday, and he had to go to school. So, much to his annoyance, he had to get up and dressed.

The blond kicked his legs out from underneath his warm duvet, cursing at the sudden drop in temperature. He stood up and grabbed some clothes out of his wardrobe before making his way to the bathroom.

He could hear Sora and Demyx already thumping around downstairs. Seriously, how could they have so much energy at this time?! It's in-human, I'm telling you…

Roxas shook his head and locked the door.

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"Waffles!" Sora squealed, as his mum set a large plate of the said food in front of him. Sora grabbed the plate and started shoveling the holy, waffle, goodness into his mouth.

Demyx was greedily eyeing the mouth-watering treats, that Sora was shoving into his mouth at top speed, from the opposite side of the table.

It was FAIR! Demyx wanted some waffles… But no! He had to have 'brain-fueling' cereal. Also know as rabbit food. Such is the life of a senior, under the watchful eye of his parents.

Demyx pushed the half-empty bowl of 'rabbit food' away from him in disgust. Unfortunately, his mother noticed him and threatened to force-feed him it. Demyx shuddered at the mere thought of being force fed by his mum. He was still painfully scared from the 'here comes the aeroplane' experiences from when he was younger.

Wisely, he picked up his spoon and quickly gulped down the remains of his cereal. He wondered if the other seniors had it this bad…

Sora licked the last crumbs off his plate and started whining for more. Waffles, that is…

A very tired looking Roxas enter the room, rubbing the back of his head. How could he be tired?! He had a lovely plate of mouth-watering waffles to look forward to every morning! Demyx only had rabbit food, yet he still had more energy!

Mind you… Roxas had been through a lot lately, or so his mother kept reminding him.

But Demyx wants SUGGAAARRR!!

That's the best thing you can possibly have first thing in the morning; a sugar rush. A perfect way to start the day. But the only thing Demyx was allowed for breakfast, sadly, contains no sugar what so ever. Not even a trace.

Roxas jumped into the stool and slumped down on the breakfast bar. Yes, he had to jump.

But, as Roxas would always say, 'I'm not short; I'm just… vertically challenged…'

But that was just a cover up.

"Alright, Roxy?" Demyx asked patting his cousin on the shoulder. Demyx awaited the death glare he would normally receive for calling him 'Roxy', but it didn't come. All that came was:

"Uh… mmm…"

Someone obviously wasn't feeling very talkative this morning…

Demyx heard his mother sigh sympathetically. She placed a larger helping of steaming waffles in front of him.

"Here you go, Roxas. Eat whatever you want, and leave the rest."

Oh. That is so not fair.

"Thanks…" Roxas mumbled weakly. He took a small bite out of one of them, then put it back on the plate. He didn't appear to be hungry… Maybe… If he wasn't hungry… Demyx might be able to snaffle a few… But he decided better of it, under the watchful eye of his mother.

Jess A.N Sorry, I hate putting these in the middle of a story, but I thought you might need to know that Jess is Demyx's and Sora's Mum, and Roxas' Aunty of course. glanced up at the clock and rolled her eyes.

"Hurry up boy's! Or you'll be late!"

Sora and Demyx jumped up and ran for the door, not before grabbing their bags, and also a handful of Roxas' waffles. Roxas jumped down off the stool (vertically challenged! Not short!) and swung his bag over his black and white messenger bag over his shoulder. He waved to Naomi and followed his cousins out of the door.

He couldn't help feeling that it was going to be a long day…

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"Sora!!" Sora whipped around in time to see Selphie running at him, at top speed.

"Selphie!" Sora ran up to her. This could be one of those cheesy, romantic films, that Selphie likes, where the two 'lovers' haven't seen each other for… a while, then they see each other and it all goes in slow motion. Then when the girl gets up to the guy he picks her up and swings her around… and it's all very… cheesy…

But it wasn't one of those scenes. Because that would just be wrong… Selphie was about to say something before she got distracted by Tidus, and ran over to glomp him. How could the poor guy cope?

Sora turned around to see a certain red-head waving at him.

"Hey, Sora!" She said walking over and enveloping him in a hug.

"Hey, Kai." He replied, smiling. He couldn't help but like Kairi, even though he was jealous of her… It wasn't her fault.

"Sora, you have to stay at my house on Friday! You haven't stayed since like… before Summer Vacation!"

Sora, reluctantly, agreed. There wouldn't be any point in arguing, anyway.

"Great! It'll be just like old times!"

"Ahee… Yeah… Wonderful…" Sora smiled weakly.

Sora spaced out as his friend carried on babbling about this and that. It wasn't until he heard the word 'Riku' that he came back to this place we like to call Earth. But, much to the brunette's disappointment, Kairi had only mentioned his name during her little speech. Weird how his name could grab his attention like that…

"Sora? Are you even listening to me?" Sora jerked out of his thoughts to see Kairi facing him, with her hands on her hips.

"Uh huh… Sounds great…" Sora mumbled, trying to cover up his lack of attention. Kairi rasied an eyebrow, unfortunately, for Sora, she wasn't easily convinced.

"Sora, I really thin-"

"Kairi, I'm fine! I was just… Thinking, okay?"

"No, Sora! Tell me what's wrong! You've been acting weird around me for a while now!" She said with a hint of worry in her eyes.

Sora sighed in defect. Damn her. Damn her and her stubborn ways. He had to think of a cover up, and fast.

"I-I was… worrying about Ri- Roxas! Yeah, Roxas. You see, I'm really worried about him," This wasn't really a lie. He was worried about his cousin, but he had more… pressing matters on his mind. Like his feeling towards a certain sliver-haired friend of his, "I mean, he's not been himself since… since that happened." Sora didn't like talking about the death of his Aunt and Uncle. He could only imagine what it must be like for Roxas, they were his parents!

Kairi's face softened, "Oh Sora, I'm sorry… I shouldn't have snapped at you like that… I feel really bad now! Of course you're worried about Roxas!"

Sora, quite relieved that his plan had worked, let out a shaky laugh.

"Don't worry about it, Kai…" He pulled her into a hug and Kairi threw her arms around him.

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