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Ch.3: Holy Emo!

"Ok, this one must be ours" Roxas said with a heavy breath of relief as he and his bouncy cousin came up to a large wooden cabin with the number 13 scrawled onto the door in dark blue paint.
Roxas hesitantly reached up and tapped on the door. He gave a small breath of surprise when the door creaked open slightly at his minimal force on it. Sora and Roxas gave each other an apprehensive look before Sora decided to stick his head in the cabin to see if anyone else was there.

"Hello? Anybody in here?" Sora called out with a slight tremble in his voice as he pushed the door open enough to allow himself to slip in with Roxas in tow. "hmm…I guess I roommate isn't here yet…." Roxas shrugged as he felt around on the wall for the light switch. "I guess you must be Roxas and Sora" came an eerily calm voice from the shadows.

"GYAAAAAH!!" Sora and Roxas both screamed as they slammed themselves back against the wall. Roxas managed to hit the light switch when they jumped and now bright fluorescent light filled the cabin. Sora and his cousin looked over towards where the voice had come from. There in the corner of the room was a boy who looked to be about their age sitting on a twin sized bed reading a copy of "The Tempest". He was wearing a black long sleeve shirt and skinny black jeans and seemed to be rather pale in pigment from what Roxas could see in his partially blinded state.

The boy sat up on the bed and shook his head slightly to brush his overly lengthy dark silver fringe that constantly covered one bluish grey eye. 'Holy Emo! Check out this kid…well I can tell he's gonna be a barrel of laughs' Roxas thought sarcastically as he watched the boy place a slip of blue paper into the book to save his place and stood up from the bed.

Sora righted himself again and exhaled in relief "Oh-EM-GEE! You scared the crap out of us!" the petite brunette sighed good naturedly as he strode over to the new boy. Sora stuck his hand out at the kid and smiled dumbly "hi I'm Sora! This is my cousin Roxas…and you are?" Sora asked. The slightly taller emo looking lad cracked a small smile and grabbed the brunette's hand in a fleeting shake. "I'm Zexion. It appears we'll be spending the summer together" the boy said blandly as he withdrew his hand from Sora. "what was your first clue?" Roxas muttered under his breath earning him an elbow in the ribs by Sora.

The blonde was really starting to get tired of this whole camp thing. Roxas looked over the room and examined the twin-sized bunk beds and single bed that was separated by a wide squatty wooden dresser and a window with dark green curtains. The floor was marginally covered with a large scratchy green rug. Near the single bed (where Zexion had seemed to already make himself at home) there was small faux wooden desk and swivel chair. Beside the desk was a small narrow cove like hallway which led to two doors on opposite sides of each other. Roxas could only assume that one door was a small closet and perhaps the other one was a bathroom.

Zexion noticed Roxas' wandering eye "that door on the left is the bathroom. It's rather small…just a toilet, sink, and a little shower stall. The other one is a closet" Zexion responded to Roxas' unasked question. The dusty haired youth waltzed over to the twin bed and sat down expectantly; as if he expected either boy to question his choice of sleep area. Roxas and Sora exchanged a look before Roxas sighed and walked over to the small ladder attached to the bunk beds "I've got top bunk" he said with a shrug as he patted the top mattress.

Sora seemed satisfied with that and turned to Zexion who was once again engrossed in his Shakespeare. "So…um is this your first year? I've been coming a few years and I don't remember seeing you" Sora asked casually as he walked over and sat down beside Zexion on his bed. Zexion stopped his reading and cast Sora a curious if not amused look "um…no. I came the year before last but I didn't come last year" Zexion answered briefly before returning to his reading. He decided that he didn't really care whether the cute brunette sat on his bed or not.

Sora nodded and tilted his head side to side as he let his feet dangle a bit from over the bed like a restless child. Roxas on the other hand took advantage of the silence to go over to inspect the luggage stashed in the corner. After securing his own two parcels he threw the smaller of the two onto his bed and placed the larger one back against the wall.

"So Zexion, what kind of stuff are you into? Well I know you're into performing or else why would you be here? But yeah, like do you like to dance or sing…oh! Do you like musicals? I love musicals…almost as much as I love Neil Simon. Do you like Neil Simon? My favorite play of his has GOT to be 'Come Blow Your Horn'. They performed it once at my school and…." Before anyone knew what was going on Sora had seemingly lapsed into another one of his long winded hyper active verbal diarrhea episodes. Zexion looked up from his play and gave a quizzical look to Roxas who simply sighed and shook his head before collapsing back on his bed.

Zexion turned to face Sora's profile and blinked slowly "Shakespeare" Zexion replied quietly. Sora stopped mid sentence and turned to Zexion "Huh?" the brunette asked. Sora felt his breath hitch in his throat as he noticed just how close him and Zexion's faces were to each other. Zexion seemed unfazed by this and simply blinked his long dark lashes at the Sora "I prefer Shakespeare's work to Neil Simon. He's a bit overdone, no offense" Zexion answered the slightly red brunette that sat wide eyed and facing him. "Oh…" Sora breathed out in response.

Just then Riku and the others barged in through the half opened door, "Hey Guys! Did you get unpacked yet we…" but Riku trailed off as he eyed the horrifying sight before him. There was Sora (his cute and adorable Sora) sitting quite red faced on a bed with some strange pretty boy leaning in to him just a bit to close for Riku's liking. "Um what the hell is going on here?" came Kairi's shrill and very un-amused voice from the doorway.

Roxas rolled over on his stomach and peeked down from his bed 'Ooh some thing's going down' Roxas thought as he looked down at the scene unfolding. Kairi looked pissed to the max and Riku was steaming a bit as well as he stood gaping at Sora and Zexion. It was then as he was looking at Riku that he noticed two other figures lingering in the doorway. One he recognized as Namine but the other was a girl of similar build but with light brown hair that was flipped up at the ends and fell just to her shoulders.

Sora nearly squeaked in surprise as he jumped back away from Zexion and fell back onto the floor "Um…uhh…hi guys…this is Zexion, our roomie" Sora managed to groan as he lifted himself up on his elbows and looked up at his shocked friends. Zexion nodded curtly at the group and looked over at Sora on the ground "that looked like it hurt" he responded obviously. Sora whimpered and blushed with embarrassment as Kairi and the new girl went over to help him up.

"Sora you need to be more careful. You're such a klutz" the new girl said with a grin as she helped dust the boy off. Kairi scowled over at Zexion 'damn it! What's he doing so close to MY Sora? who is this kid? He's hot…in a girly, emo sort of way' Kairi thought with malice as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I'm Kairi" the brunette said icily to the thin darkly dressed teen. Zexion looked her up and down with out a hint of emotion "um…that's nice" he replied with obvious boredom as he returned to his prior reading. Kairi was utterly mortified 'Why the never of that…that jerk!' she steamed internally as Sora began chatting with the new girl who Roxas eventually found out was named Selphie. "Hey, are you guys settling in ok?" Namine asked Roxas as the spiky haired blonde began to climb down from his perch.

Roxas smiled at the other blonde whom he was starting to think may become a good friend to him over the summer. "At least I know this wont be a boring summer" he replied as he gestured towards the fuming Kairi, the oblivious Zexion and his flustered cousin. Namine giggled and leaned in slightly to Roxas "yeah. Poor Riku looks like he just had a heart attack …Sora doesn't seem to realize the effect he has on him" she whispered and Roxas smirked.

"Yeah. I think we'd all benefit if those two ould just suck it up and confess already" Roxas sighed as he rolled his eyes. Namine looked a bit shocked "what? You can see it too?" she asked him curiously and Roxas rolled his eyes. "Please, anyone with eyes can see those two are coo coo for coa-coa puffs over each other" Roxas replied nonchalantly. Namine and he shared a secret giggle over their gossip as Riku looked down at his watch.

"Hey guys, we should head down to the mess hall and meet up with the others before it gets crowded" the tall silver haired teen announced. Sora nodded and "yeah, come on guys! It'll be great to see everyone again" the blue eyed boy beamed. Roxas and Namine both nodded to each other and headed out of the cabin chatting together about their dense friends. Selphie grabbed Kairi by the arm and dragged her along "come on Kai-Kai" she goaded as she dragged the still fuming girl from the cabin.

Riku and Sora followed after them but Sora stopped just as they reached the threshold of the cabin. Before Riku could question his friend Sora turned around and walked back over to Zexion's bed and extended his hand to the stormy eyed youth. "Come on Zexion. We cant leave with out you" Sora said cheerfully as the darkly dressed teen looked up at him. Zexion's usually stoic appearance gave way to a slight passing of confusion in his eyes as he sat his book down and looked from Sora to Riku.

Riku stood by the door looking a bit miffed but shrugged "come on you guys. All the good tables will be taken" Riku replied with a small half hearted smile. Zexion looked back up and the smiling brunette in front of him and he gave him a lopsided half grin in return as he took the brunette's hand in his own pale delicate palm. "Sure" he murmured as he got up off the bed and allowed himself to be dragged out to the mess hall with Sora and Riku.


The medium sized cafeteria was buzzing with activity as campers sat around at the tables chatting or stood in the food line awaiting their poison…err dinner. All around there was a buzz of voices and silverware clanking. Well, all except one rectangular table where a very frustrated Demyx sat on the edge of the table beside his own tray of lukewarm food looking sulkily at his red headed friend.

"Axel? Hello, earth to Axel! What is wrong with you dude?" asked the tall dirty blonde teen as he reached over and waved a hand in front of his pale lanky friend's face. Axel was sitting at the table poking a fork at his suspiciously firm mashed potatoes with a very dreamy far off look in his eyes. Demyx rolled his eyes when he got no response, "Answer me!" the faux hawked blonde groaned as he grabbed his friends cheeks in his hands and pinched them tightly.

"Yikes! Dude what's your problem?" Axel snapped as he pulled back from Demyx's pinching grip. Demyx rolled his eyes "what were you thinking about hmmm?" Demyx asked playfully as he leaned back on the table and jiggled his foot restlessly over the edge. Axel narrowed his eyes slightly and turned the other way with an air of indifference "no body" the red head answered curtly.

At this Demyx turned to his friend and leaned down until he was mere inches from his face and smiled "really? I never asked if you were thinking about a particular person I just asked what you were thinking in general" Demyx replied smartly with a wide grin. Axel winced as he realized his own mistake and he blushed a light dusting pink "damn it" the red head cursed. Demyx giggled maniacally and turned his body so that he was on his hands and knees on the table and leaning expectantly into Axel.

"Ok. I caught you so just spill it, who is he?" Demyx asked eagerly as he awaited the juicy gossip he knew his friend would eventually divulge. Demyx hadn't hesitated in assuming that this mystery crush that his friend was fawning over was a guy. Him and Axel had been best friends for years, in fact Axel had been the first person that Demyx had told when he first suspected he might be gay back when they were in 7th grade.

He had been scared of his friend's reaction at first but Axel had taken it welcomingly. And from such a cool excepting reaction it was no surprise to Demyx when Axel 'came out' freshman year. It had been significantly tougher though for the redhead, especially with his mom and dad having divorced around the same time. But after finding out that they shared yet another thing in common it only brought the friends closer.

"Well?" Demyx asked impatiently as he watched his friend turn slightly redder with embarrassment and annoyance. But Demyx couldn't help but be excited at the news. Even though Axel had been 'out' (to friends and his mom at least) for about two years he'd never actually had a relationship with a guy before. Sure he'd hooked up at the occasional party but he'd never been serious about liking some one before.

"It's no big deal, you don't even know the guy" Axel sighed as he scratched the back of his head trying desperately to think of a way to segue into another topic. But Demyx wasn't satisfied at all. The thin blonde scooted off the table and crossed his arms over his chest and scowled at his BFF. "And your point is?" Demyx replied a bit impatiently. Well Axel had to admit that there really want any logical reason not to tell his best bud but for some reason he felt kind of…nervous about it.

"Hey Axel! Demyx! What's up?" came a pleasant and very welcome voice from the doorway. Axel smiled inwardly to himself 'thank you God…thank you so much' Axel prayed thankfully for the distraction to his nosey but well meaning friend's prying questions. Demyx sighed in defeat and turned to greet Namine as she, Roxas, Selphie, and Kairi approached the table with their treys in hand. "Hey! Over here we got a table!" Demyx called out happily as he flagged them over. Axel looked up to greet his friends "hey ladies what's shakin?" he asked with a cocky grin as he saw them approach.

Then suddenly his eyes caught sight of a very familiar and very adorable little spiky haired blonde accompanying Namine. When Axel and Roxas' eyes met both boys let out a pretty audible gasp as they recognized each other immediately. Demyx heard his friend inhale sharply and turned to see what was the matter but his words stopped short as he saw the wide eyed look of shock/happiness/confusion on his friend's face.

Demyx snapped his attention over to the new blonde member of their party and noted that he held the same, if not slightly more subdued look of shock. "You again?" they both breathed out at once, and immediately a ruby tinted blush found it's way to both their cheeks as they realized that they'd both yelled out the same thing at once. It only took Demyx a second to put two and two together 'wait…could Sora's cousin be the guy that Axel was…' Demyx thought giddily. "No way!" Demyx exclaimed in acknowledgement as he turned to look at Roxas as if he'd just met the boy.

Axel took no hesitance in kicking his friend's ankle from under the table to stop him from exclaiming any further discoveries. Unfortunately for Axel Namine had also seen the exchange between the two couldn't help but pass Demyx a sly grin. "Um…did we miss something?" Kairi asked cautiously as she sat herself down on one of the built in bench like seats of the table. Selphie sat down with her as Roxas and Namine stood behind them. "Hey Guys! We're here! And we Brought someone!" Sora's voice called out through the hub-bub of the cafeteria as he came jogging over with Zexion and Riku in tow.

Demyx and Axel exchange greetings with their two friends. "Oh…by the way, this is my cousin Roxas" Sora introduced the uncomfortable looking blonde to the table. "And this is our roommate Zexion. He likes Shakespeare" Sora added for no particular reason as he introduced the silent handsome teen to the others. Axel quirked an eyebrow at the newcomer " wow you look really emo" Axel observed a bit rudely. Kairi snickered a bit and Demyx sent Axel a glare and the redheaded began to regret his thoughtless observation.

Zexion looked at the green eyed boy and smiled a small eerie smile "um…thanks?" Zexion shrugged unsurely as he stood there looking a bit out of place. "Axel stop flirting with Zexy, you're going to make me jealous" Demyx teased as he gave the green eyed teen a faux pout. The others at the table laughed and rolled their eyes at the two. They always joked like that, really it was quite boring after a while.

Unfortunately Roxas didn't really get the joke and thought Demyx was serious about him and Axel. 'Ohh…so they are like that…' the blonde thought to himself as he snuck a quick glance at Axel. Unfortunately for him Axel looked up at just that moment and caught Roxas' gaze with own piercing emerald eyes.

Roxas felt like a deer in headlights as axel seemed to look through him with his gaze. 'w-what the hell? His eyes…they're so…intense. I feel like I might melt if he doesn't look away' the blonde thought. Then suddenly Axel smirked and winked at him, causing the 'staring contest' to end and Roxas abruptly averted his gaze to his plate. Roxas felt his cheeks begin to heat in a blush as he looked up to see if anyone had noticed their split second eye lock.

Roxas quickly looked around at his new friends and saw that they were all to caught up in their own conversations to notice the exchange between the two teens. The blonde sighed in relief and tried his best to regain his indifferent composure while deftly avoiding Axel's gaze for the rest of the time being.

"Hey Riku where are you going?" Selphie asked mid chew as she looked over and noticed the tall silver haired teen beginning to shrink away from the group. Riku looked over at her and then at the others "I'm getting in the food line before the food has a chance to mold" he replied with a smirk as he placed a hand on Sora's shoulder. The shorter boy blushed wildly at the sudden contact "you coming Sora? Zexion?" Riku asked the two teens sitting down in front of him.

"Yeah" Zexion answered as he rose from the bench. "S-sure…yeah wait for me" Sora finally replied as he got up as well and followed after the two other boys. As soon as the brunette had caught up to his friends at the line Demyx sighed dramatically and shook his head "he's so hopeless" the usually hyper sitar player chided as he gestured towards the brunette with his eyes.

The others at the table all nodded in agreement. "Wow I guess Sora must be the only one who doesn't realize how obvious he is" Roxas rolled his eyes before taking a sip of his iced tea. Selphie and Namine giggled while Kairi chose to take great interest in her macaroni to avoid the conversation. Selphie took this opportunity to turn to Roxas (who was sitting one person down from her) "um…Roxas right? I didn't really introduce myself properly before but I'm Selphie" she said with a toothy smile.

Roxas gave her a polite smile in return "hey…" he replied a bit awkwardly. At this point Namine (who sat to Roxas' right) leaned across the table slightly towards Axel "oh yeah, Axel that's Roxas…he's Sora's cousin" Namine told the red head. At the mention of his name Roxas looked up just in time to once again meet Axel's intense green eyes. Roxas gave a slight frown while Axel grinned playfully "yeah. We've met" they both replied at the same time.

The others at the table went silent and gave each other varying looks as Roxas turned away from Axel's face with a look of mild disgust and embarrassment. "Wow, you were right Mar-Mar. He really does look like Sora" came a slithery female voice that caused the whole group to turn and face this new arrival. There standing behind Namine and Roxas was a tall thin faced girl with short bleached blonde hair with two long antenna like strands slicked back.

Roxas looked up at the peach skinned girl who looked about their age if not a year older 'who is this? And what's with all the make up?' he wondered as the girl gave him a chilling smile that was meant to be friendly but couldn't quite hide the crueler intentions behind it. "See I told you! And isn't that blonde hair super cute" replied her companion. He was about her height with brown eyes and shoulder length feathered pink hair. Roxas hadn't noticed him before but now that he did he was shocked that anyone could miss this handsome but flamboyant looking young man in the tight dark denim jeans, white wife-beater and matching hooded short sleeved denim half jacket.

"Oh great…it's the diva squad" Axel mumbled under his breath earning him a hard jab in the ribs by Demyx. "Well…aren't you guys going to introduce us to your cute new friend?" Larxene asked the group in her dangerously sweet voice. They all gave each other pensive looks before finally Roxas spoke up himself "um…well I'm Roxas. And it seems you already know who I am but just who exactly are you people?" the blonde asked coolly.

I saw Larxene's eye twitch and her smile faltered a bit "well, aren't we catty? Hmm…well Roxas my name is Larxene and this is Marluxia" she said gesturing to the pink haired boy who winked in return. "And if I were you I'd watch who I decided to get smart with around here, Rox" the nymphish girl replied in an icy yet haughty tone. It was obvious that she was trying to intimidate the natural blonde but unfortunately The blonde quirked an unimpressed eyebrow "ok, first of all my name is Roxas…and secondly, is there any particular reason why your existence should matter to me?" Roxas replied with equally icy calmness.

Axel, Namine, and Demyx all snickered under their breath as Larxene's face grew red with anger and effrontery. "Why you little…" Larxene practically hissed as she clenched her fists at her sides but she was prevented from any further action as Marluxia placed a hand on her shoulder to brace her. "Oh come now…don't be so mean Roxas! We just wanted to be friendly…you'll mar your cute little face with wrinkles if you keep glaring like that" Marluxia intervened with a well practiced flash of his brightest smile to try and defuse the situation.

Roxas was about to say something but he decided that maybe this wasn't the best time to start making enemies "whatever…as you can see my interrupted dinner made me a little bit edgy. It was nice to meet you Lark bean. You too Marcus" Roxas lied as even tempered as possible before turning back to his meal.

Roxas went back to eating but Larxene was livid now "Hey!" she growled as she reached over and grabbed the front of Roxas' shirt and pulled his face to hers. "Larxene. The name is Larxene! You'll do best to remember and respect it!" she hissed with blatant fury as she dug her long acrylic nails into Roxas' shirt. Axel griped the edge of the bale harshly and stood up "hey! Leave him alone!" Axel said to Larxene in a strained and supremely pissed voice which caused Demyx to look up at his friend strangely. He'd never seen Axel look so pissed. And especially not over someone he's just met.

"Bitch, you better not scratch up my $40 Hollister shirt with those $3 drugstore press on nails" Roxas warned Larxene as he narrowed his ocean blue eyes at her. "Hey guys what's going on? I heard some-EEEEEEP!" Sora squeaked as he came running over to the table with his tray in hand, only to trip over his own two feet and land very ungracefully on his face.

"Sora are you ok?" Riku called out as he rushed to his secret crush's aid. Sora lifted his head up and nodded to show Riku he was ok. Unfortunately the same could not be said for Larxene who was now covered with the gooey lukewarm contents of Sora's dinner. Marluxia jumped back from his friend to avoid getting splashed and could hardly contain his laughter as he watched Larxene blink through the stream of gravy descending from her hair "a-are you ok Larxy?" the pink haired boy was able to sputter out.

Larxene was frozen in silent fury but slowly began to shake with tremors of rage as she looked down and saw her new white skirt covered in chocolate pudding. Larxene was looked over at the now standing Sora and took a dangerous step towards him as she reached out a shaking yet tense hand towards his throat.

Riku took a step in front of Sora to shield him from the girl's attack and just as she was about to lunge Zexion grabbed a hand full of mashed potatoes and flung them at Demyx's face. The faux hawked blonde gave a squeak of surprise before catching the wink that Zexion had sent his way. And Demyx smiled impishly before grabbing a handful of peas from his plate holding it high up in the air ready to pitch it.

"FOOD FIGHT!!" Demyx shouted. And then all hell broke loose.

T.B.C

A/N: AGGGH!!! Sorry about the long wait! Um how was everyone's holiday season? My Christmas was pretty good…sadly school starts Wednesday. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed that chapter!

Next chapter will be full of fun, food, pissed off counselors and some sparks may fly for one of our impending couples. But please stay tuned. And remember, I care what you think so please REVIEW!!