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A/N: Okay, i decided to add some on too this chapter, so please make sure you read it...

-o-x-Chapter 8-x-o-

Sora shuffled from one foot to the other as he impatiently waited for Kairi at the front gate of Millbrook High. He hated waiting, and it was even worse when you were waiting for someone you didn't particularly want to see. It wasn't that he didn't want to see Kairi; because he did, she was his other-best-friend-that-wasn't-Riku, but he always felt so awkward around her at the moment. It was probably because he was ever so jealous of her for being with Riku.

What is it with High School? People always seem to split off into couple bubbles and do everything together. At the moment it seemed to be Selphie and Tidus, Kairi and Riku, Sora and no one. And no one wasn't a particularly friendly partner.

He was pretty sure Hayner felt something along the same lines as him due to the fact that Pence and Olette had (finally) admitted their feelings towards each other during the summer and were now dating.

Sora mused over the past few days. He supposed quite a lot had happened but none of it had meant anything to him. It was all to do with other people, and gossip just didn't seem interesting at the moment. The brunette had spent his day thinking about what would happen at Kairi's house that night, day-dreaming and ignoring Kairi's endless chatter. She was probably trying to make up for Sora's silence by talking enough for both of them

The painful nudge of a ridiculously pointy elbow into this side shook him out of his thoughts.

"Huh? Oh, hey Kairi!" He said, turning to grin at the red-head.

She smiled back, "Come on," they started for the busy pavement outside the school gates. "Did you have a good day?"

Sora shrugged, "It was… normal."

Kairi frowned, "You're normally so enthusiastic about everything Sora. What's wrong?"

Sora pondered for a while as to whether he should tell Kairi why he wasn't his usual self. The pro would be that Kairi would jump for joy at the thought of having a gay best friend which, according to Demyx, is every girl's dream. The con would be that she would dump Riku (which would be a good thing for Sora) and be really unhappy which he really didn't want.

On the other hand, she might be disgusted and shun him, but that wasn't very likely. Besides, she was bound to find out sometime. I mean, Sora couldn't keep it a secret forever.

"Well, the thing is-"

"Oh! How could I be so stupid?! I know why you're upset!" The brunette's eyes widened, could she really know? Was it that obvious? "You're upset about your Aunt and Uncle! I'm so sorry… I should have thought."

Sora hung his head, not sure whether to be annoyed or relieved.

"Yeah… It's really weird seeing Roxas and Mum so depressed all the time but trying to cover it up, y'know?"

Kairi gave him a pitiful look and a quick one-armed squeeze. "Try not to think about it too much." There was silence for a few miserable minutes, Sora trying hard not to think about it – and now that the subject had cropped up, Kairi thinking about it lots. "Oh hey, I know something that will cheer you up!" I huge grin spread across her delicate features. She grabbed Sora's left hand and started running down the road, dragging the surprised teen with her.

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"Hey! Roxas!" The blonde turned around to see his older cousin waving manically at him, "Do you want a ride home?"

Roxas nodded and walked over to him. The week seemed to have taken a lot out of him but, as his Aunty Jess had said, 'the day, or week in your case, is always the worst'.

"What's up, Roxie?" Demyx asked as he climbed into the car. "Oh man, that's a brilliant song title."

Roxas gave a feeble smile. "Not much," he replied, untruthfully, sighing heavily, as though he was letting out a breath he had been holding without realising it.

"Eh, don't worry about it. It'll all be fine," said Demyx, who, for all his faults, was smart enough to realise that there was – in fact – a lot up; but, for all his faults, wasn't apt enough to drop it.

Roxas snorted. It didn't seem like it was going to be all right to him, but he'd just have to get on with it like he always did. His father had always taught him to keep his chin up and take whatever came to him like a man.

"The best way to succeed in life is to stay on the straight an narrow." he'd said. Roxas had found it rather amusing as he was gay so he wasn't exactly 'on the straight.' Maybe a satNAV would help... Or a TomTom. You could get funny voices on the TomTom.

"...here. Hey, are you listening? Yoohoo! Roxie?" Roxas snapped back to the present, remembering how he had once promised never to wallow in a my-parents-are-dead-inflicted rant.

"Yea- what?" He said. pushing a stray hair away from his eyes.

"We're here. Come on, get out." Demyx said hastily opening his door and clambering out.

Roxas sighed, climbed out of the car and followed is cousin through the front door.

He watched Demyx disappear upstairs, wondering whether to ask him about what was going on with him and Zexion. He thought better of it. Roxas had already questioned Zexion about it but the boy just, infuriatingly, clammed up and refused to speak for the rest of the day. Which was pretty weird but Roxas just assumed that that was how Zexion rolled.

He declared to himself that the whole situation a mystery and he should just forget about it; it was a lot better like that.

Roxas stifled a yawn as he threw himself down onto the sofa and dropped his bag onto the floor. There was a small chance that someone might trip over it, break their neck and die a horrible death… but Roxas would think about that later. After a nice long nap.

"Roxas?"

Damnit.

"Oh, it is you, Roxas."

The blonde opened his eyes to see his Aunt standing in the doorway. Her light blonde hair was tumbling out of the messy bun and she had thick dough covering her hands. She frowned very slightly, "Are you alright?"

He nodded, stifling another yawn, "Yeah, 'm fine. Just t-tired."

"Okay then… Oh!" Her face brightened as though she had just had a brilliant idea, "I forgot, your friend Rikku rang, she and some others, I didn't quite catch the names, are coming over tomorrow. She seemed very excited!"

Roxas groaned, although he was incapable of wiping the grin off his face because secretly he'd been hoping that they would come and visit him soon. He missed them a lot. He had guessed it would be, but it was strange not seeing the girls every day. Plus, that had a lot of catching up to do.

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Author's note: Uh huh... yes. I hope that was better.

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