Over My Head: Act I- Part I
It had been two days after the move, and those two days have been murder to Roxas. Why you ask? The heat for one, there was no air conditioning yet, and that's because his mother forgot to call in and tell the people that they were moving in on the weekend and not the week. As it was, it felt like the damn city was closer to the sun. Sora for two, the boy was the freaking energizing bunny from those creepy commercials. He kept going and going and going bugging the crap out of the blonde, score one to hyper pills. Riku, well Riku was an okay guy. Didn't really bug Roxas at all but his mom swore that he had a man crush on the dude. He was handsome yes but he wasn't gay. He was defiantly sure of that. Monday was rolling around and that was going to be Roxas first day of school or as he liked to call it, Judgment Day. To either be welcomed or not to be, yes that was the question.
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'Bleep bleep bleep.'
Roxas rolled in his bed growling at the blasted sound that was ruining his sleep.
'Bleep bleep bleep.'
'Gods, I hate Mondays.' he thought miserably.
'Bleep bleep bleep.'
"Ugh!" he growled grabbing the nearest object near his bed (which so happened to be his Struggle Tournament weapon) and flung it at the wretched noisy thing. Hearing the satisfying crash onto his floor, the blonde happily turned his body to the point where he was smothering himself with his pillow and fell back asleep. That is until he heard his mother hollering from downstairs and the smell of something burning. Roxas quickly fell out of his bed stumbled off the floor only to be back on it after stepping onto the said wretched noisy thing that was conveniently in front of his door.
'How the hell did it end up across the room in the first place?!'
Flashback: Winding up the back of the alarm clock, Roxas placed it on his dresser and returned to his bed.
"There, when I wake up I should be able to just get up and turn it off so I won't fall back asleep." he said to himself as turning off the light on his nightstand.
'Pfft duh.' Roxas snickered as he got into the covers and went to sleep.
End of Flashback
Roxas sighed and got up from the floor. Going down the stairs, he heard pots and pans rattling along with a few murmured curses that his mother was throwing. The blonde put himself against the wall and inched his way into the kitchen.
"Damn pancakes..."
Another clang of a pan falling onto the floor.
"DO MY BIDDING!" Rikku yelled throwing the still gooey mush onto the floor of the living room. Roxas could of sworn he sweat dropped as if like in an anime. At that moment, everything went quiet. Roxas poked his head into the kitchen only to see his mother's back. Then, his heart sank to hear his mother's silent weeping.
"You were the only one who could make a decent pancake, Cloud." The blonde woman said to herself not knowing that her other son was in the other room. Roxas bit his lip to hear her sad words. True, his brother always made him breakfast before school. Never failing, but that was all over, 6 months over. Why was she trying to make anew now?
'So she's still in pain…' he thought sadly.She was trying to replace a memory, for a good cause Roxas suppose but it was still hurting her.
'Well, time to pick up the pieces.' the blonde said silently letting a small sigh pass his lips. He revealed himself from the place he was currently hiding in. Finding the courage and a voice, he spoke timidly.
"H-hey mom, g'morning…"
That startled the blonde woman. Gasping a bit, she dropped the pan that was currently in her hand. Roxas winced at the loud noise it made as it crashed to the floor. Rikku quickly rubbed at her face before turning around giving the other blonde a bright smile.
"Hey there Roxy! Good morning." His mother said cheerfully. A little too cheerfully, if that didn't scream something was wrong Roxas didn't know what would. Rikku bended over to pick up the forgotten pan only to notice all the other pans and pancake batter scattered on the floor. (and some on the walls)
"Err, I was trying to make you something before you went off to school eheheh." she said laughing nervously. Roxas leaned against the door frame frowning a bit. He knew she was trying to be strong for him, hiding her pain. But why? Why from her only son?
"Why don't I give you some money so you can buy some breakfast at school eh?" she said looking through her purse. Roxas snapped out of his thoughts and just shifted in his spot.
"Mom." He spoke up. Rikku stopped digging and looked up from her purse.
"What's up hun?"
Roxas opened his mouth to say something, ANYTHING would have been nice but no sound was willing to come out. The blonde woman blinked a few times.
"Yessss?" she drawled out. Roxas paused before shaking his head giving his mother a small smile.
"Nothing, Ima go get ready." The blonde quickly said running up the stairs. Rikku heard the small blonde's door close. Returning back to her purse, she pulled out 20 munny, with a sad smile on her face. Those kinds of smiles were contagious these days.
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Roxas pulled his green shirt over his head while walking over to his dresser. Not even bothering to comb is his hair, considering the way he slept made his hair stick up to the way it is now and trying to mess with it was not an option; he skipped over that part to start putting on his bracelets. While putting each bracelet he traced the small thin scars that were faintly on each of his wrist. His eyes hardened until he heard his mother calling him from downstairs. He quickly put on his checkered wrist band and grabbed his backpack rushing down the stairs.
"What is it mom?" the blonde stopped at the last few steps to see a spiky haired brunet and a silver haired male on his front door. What really made Roxas stop is what they were wearing.
'Oh gods, are those uniforms?' the blonde silently panicked. He didn't know there was a uniform dress code, and by the look on his mothers face, she clearly didn't know either. He slowly looked at her partially fuming.
"Um, DON'T PANICK!" his mother cried out.
'Yup, she lost it.' Roxas snickered.
"Okay, you go to school" Rikku practically pushed the munny into his hands while pushing him towards door.
"And you two, take him with you! Um make sure he doesn't skip his first day!" she motioned to Sora and Riku. She grabbed the keys to her car mentioning something about 'Aerith' and 'death' in the same sentence. She pushed the three teens out of the house before practically jumping into her car, in nothing but pajamas no less.
"I'm running off to get you uniforms!" the woman yelled through the window trying to start the car.
"So just go to the office and tell 'em you're new and what not! Something that will get you off the hook until tomorrow. Iloveyoubyee!!!"
And just like that, the woman drove off. Riku Sora and Roxas were all trying to compute what exactly happened, and Roxas just came to one conclusion.
'Obviously Auntie Aerith forgot to tell her about the details of the school.'
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Roxas wanted to die. Literally, he wanted to drop dead.
Riku told him that it wouldn't be so bad, that 'no one would notice'. His ass no one would notice. He was the only one with a green shirt and jeans. Out of a million wearing white shirts, kakis and or plaited blue skirts and a tie. A blue tie. Sora wanted to point that out.
Oh yes, no one would notice.
Roxas thought he might as well wear a sign that said 'THE OUTSIDER'. The bell rang as they neared the front doors, everybody started piling inside. The day had barely started and Roxas had already started hearing the snickers and whispers of 'the new kid'. He groaned inwardly.
'This is going to be a looong day.'
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Roxas walked into office quite quickly after hearing a couple of girls giggle. Seeing the secretary, he went up asking to see the principle only to hear that he was busy at the moment. Roxas sat there a good thirty minutes until he got called in. He walked into the office to see a man with blonde hair sitting in the front desk.
"Close the door and sit kid." the man said curtly. Roxas did what he was told and sat down on the chair provided. Just then the man pulled out a cigar and lit it. Roxas wrinkled his nose.
'Aren't those not allowed on campuses?'
"Okay kid, my name is Cid Highwind; I'm the principle of this hell hole. You're obviously new so I'll run this by fast." the man stopped to puff his stogie.
"Tomorrow I expect to see you're uniform on, no piercings other than the ones on your ears, no skateboards, no liquor, cigarettes, drugs or any of that crap, are not allowed on campus or in front of me. I will confiscate it." a small cough came out with that last statement.
"Your name and where you're from?" he continued pulling out a piece of paper.
"Um I'm Roxas Higure and I'm from Twilight Town." Roxas said meekly. Principle Highwind quirked an eyebrow at him before writing on the piece of paper.
"Well I don' know your reasons coming to Radiant Garden from such a nice place but that's not my place to ask eh, welcome to Hollow Bastion High kid." He said holding out his hand, Roxas took it as a friendly gesture and shook it. Then there was a knock on the door.
"What is it now?" Principle Highwind bellowed. The door opened barely to show the secretary from the front desk.
"Um, Mr. Hinotama and Mr. Horiwari are here now." she said handing the man what seemed to be a pink slip.
"Ugh, This early into the year? Dammit. Send 'em in Yuna." he said rubbing his forehead in frustration.
'Am I supposed to go now?' Roxas thought, he was clearly invisible right now, he didn't know if he should feel relived or agitated. Just as Roxas was about to get up the door happily busted open.
"Yo Cid! Had a good summer vacation?" a joyful voice boomed from behind the chair. Roxas felt obligated to sink lower into his seat.
"Don't you try pullin' that sweet-talk shit on me Axel where's that partner-in crime of yours?" the principle said in a casual voice still puffing away at the stogie.
"Present and accounted for sir!" a bright voice popped into the background.
"Yeah yeah yeah. So, I see here that you lit Vexen's coat on fire and soaked the whole room." The principle said scanning the pink paper.
"In less than three minutes no less! My my. I'm proud of you two." he continued in a sarcastic manner.
"It's not like we did it on purpose Cid, the man's coat was oh so conveniently near the Bunsen so it lit." the first voice said.
"Yeah, I mean he was on fire, what? You expected us to see him burn? Ha." Said the second voice started up. Roxas snickered, the principles eyes met onto the chair. Just then Roxas felt a couple of eyes looming over his head; he looked up to see jaded almond shaped eyes peering at him.
'Oh crap!'
The blonde could only see red all over the place and a bright ass grin.
"So you're the new kid." said the first voice's owner. Roxas shot out of his seat real quick like facing the boy, who was quite taller than him. And who was a twig too Roxas took a long look, he had long thick red spiky hair and what seemed to be diamond shape tattoos above the prettiest green eyes Roxas had ever seen.
Roxas mentally slapped himself again; he really needed to stop saying girly things.
Right next to the red head was a boy with dirty blonde hair in a mullet and ocean blue eyes, a little darker than his own.
"Err, how did you know?" Roxas asked. Axel looked up and down the smaller blonde and snickered.
"Lucky guess. Had a good look? Like what you see?"
"BACK TO OUR STORY AXEL, DEMYX!" Cid bellowed. All three current boys flinched at the sudden loudness. Axel and the other boy, who Roxas now knew was Demyx were looking at Cid, where as of Roxas was glaring at the red head.
"So you say that it was all an accident yes?"
The two boys (not including Roxas) nodded. Cid glared a bit then sighed.
"Alright, you two are free to go, ONLY with a warning, next time I'll pummel both your asses got it?" the man sneered. Roxas saw both teens give mock salutes before heading out the door. As a result, Roxas' left eye twitched.
'What the hell just exactly happened?'
"Don' worry kid, those two are normally in here they aren't really that much trouble."
The blonde turned to Cid who was currently lighting another cigar.
"Jus' stay clear of them and you'll be fine." He continued. Roxas stayed standing in his spot for a few more seconds until.
"Well? What ya standing there for? Get!"
That's when the blonde dashed out of the room only to hear the man's laughter.
'Oh gods I am in hell!'
tbc