Chapter Four---Prelude 21/12

Riku debated on whether or not to answer his phone. That scum didn't deserve it...Riku sighed as he let his conscience get the better of him. He flipped open the phone and sighed.

"...Hello?" The voice that faded through the line seemed worn and relieved. But things were never what they seemed. Riku had learned that lesson far too well...

"Riku! Don't hang up!" Riku sneered at his phone.

"Just who do you think you are?! You do...that to me and then you call and demand things?! Give me one good reason Seifer! You were the only friend I had, the only one I trusted and you threw it away! For what? A few pictures in the papers? You stabbed me in the back, Seifer and you don't want me to hang up?!" Riku's emerald eyes were dark and sparking in anger. Even the red-head that was coming his way had enough sense to move his prescence to the other side of the hall.

"...Riku please...I didn't...it's not what you think...I never meant..." Seifer sighed. Riku rolled his eyes.

"What Seifer?"

"I'm sorry, ok? I'm sorry. I don't know what happened." Riku stood in the middle of the hallway, mouth agape and eyes wide and incredulous.

"You're sorry?! Sorry?! Is that supposed to make it all better Seifer? Cause it doesn't undo the fact that everyone in Traverse Town thinks I'm a fag. It doesn't undo the fact I had to move and it doesn't undo the fact that I hate you. So don't give me that 'I don't know what happened' load of shit. You knew exactly what you were doing and you didn't care."

"No! Riku, listen--"

"No. I'm not listening. Don't call me again Seifer."

With that, our dear friend Conversation died.

"Axel...Axel...Sora...Axel...SORA!" Sora's bright blue eyes snapped up to the teacher and he blushed slightly while his brother remained blissfully unaware of his surroundings.

"Axel? Are you with us?" Axel looked up leisurely, glanced around the classrom with painfully obvious disdain and contempt before looking back at the teacher and returning his peridot gaze to whatever it was that had entranced him so.

"I guess not. No surprise there..." The teacher muttered, satisfied with at least one victory for the day.

Axel: 1, Teacher Man: ZERO!!!! Take THAT District Educational System!

Sora smiled at his brother's antics and returned his attention to Mr. Xigbars' lesson on...oh, look, a new kid!!!

"Well, Mr. Prelude, you've finally decided to join us?" The silverhaired boy snarled at the teacher, found a seat by Axel and sat down with a vicious glare that even Xigbar did not meet for long.

"Care to tell us a bit about yourself Riku?"

"I'd rather not too." Mr. Xigbar smiled with false empathy and motioned for him to continue.

"I'd rather you did."

"There's nothing to say." The class snickered and Sora stared at the boy with a sense of awe.

"I'm sure there's something you'd like to say." Axel raised his hand enthusiastically, waving it back and forth like a kindergartner with a bladder problem AND the answer to 1+1.

"Yes Axel?" Xigbar sighed. It was one of those mornings, however, Leon had called and given him fair warning.

"I have something I'd like to say." Xigbar threw up his hands and went back to his desk so Axel proceeded.

"I think...that's Riku Prelude is talentless, pansy-assed pretty boy and I can't believe any self-respecting agency would hire a qu--" Axel never finished his sentence because before the last syllable even left the red-head's mouth, Riku's fist connected with it, effectively halting all conversation.

(Remember readers, Conversation is dead.)

But of course, as with all childish displays of manliness, things did not end there. Oh no, Axel was not one to be bested by the Pansy. So he got back up and tackled Riku to the floor, throwing sloppy punches to the pale boy's ribs, the desk cracking and splintering around them.

It was right about then all movement stopped. Well...it was more like Mr. Xigbar grabbed each of the 'disrespectful ruffians' by the shirt collar and hauled them off the ground. And off their feet. Meanwhile they continued to throw punches at each other.

"Prelude. Loire. Xemnas' office. Now." He threw them both out the door and flat on their bums intot he middle of the hallway. Axel sat up and smiled brightly at Riku. Then he began to sing.

"I WANNA GIRL WITH LIPS LIKE MORPHINE!!!!!" Sora's clear voice joined him from the classroom before he too was thrown out. Riku looked between the two, shurgged and joined in. What the hell?

" I WANNA FEEL HER KISS JUST CRUUUUSSSH ME!!!! AND KNOCK ME OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!!!!"

The trio never did make it to Xemnas' office.

A.n: muwahaha -falls over laughing--- So we've got a weee bit of dramma mixed with laughs and our two worlds collide finally. Yeaa... ooh controversy, what will happend with Seifer next? What is he feeling about this..What is Trista up too? What in the world does a swingset, five dollars in change and wallmart have to do with anything. Tune in next time for... (drum roll)

CHAPTER FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!

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