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Warning(s): Drama, Yaoi, possible Mature Content (Lemon). Ratings might go up.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is an AU (Alternate Universe) fic, meaning the story will NOT be following the game (canon) timeline and characters' ages. Ages will be disclosed later on in the story.
Summary: Roxas is trying to start a fresh page in his life, a normal page. What he didn't expect to get was a thriller of a lifetime. Lightly based off of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight.
Chapter Three
The next day was much better, but also much worse. I woke up with a feeling of foreboding, I didn't want to get up or go to school. However, having a cousin like Sora, entitles one hyper-active morning wake up.
Every. Day.
So thus we caught a ride with Riku, again, and went to school. My first classes of the day went by smoothly, without a peep of Axel. In fact, it went by too smoothly. By lunchtime, I was getting pretty paranoid.
I sat with Olette, Pence, and Hayner at lunch time. Sora had a different lunch period that day, so he couldn't eat with us. I got acquainted with the three and we made plans to meet on Saturday and get some ice cream and hang out. They apparently, knew a place that sold sea-salt ice cream. I hadn't eaten sea-salt ice cream in ages! Salty but sweet, I loved the stuff.
As I sat with them I noticed the 'X' group (I had dubbed them thus for all their names had an 'X') sitting away from the others as usual. However, I noticed Axel was nowhere to be seen. I made an annoyed face, which caused Olette to shoot me a concerned look. I just shrugged and mumbled something about expired milk, and went back to my thoughts.
Did Axel dislike me that much that he would refuse to come to school? The thought made me seriously angry. What was his deal? It wasn't like I was going to jump him, and yet he acted that way! He had no reason to dislike me in any way! I stabbed at my lunch angrily, imagining little Axel heads screaming and begging for me to stop. Weird, but stress relieving.
As the bell rang, I dumped the rest of my lunch in the garbage and left with Hayner. He had the same classes as me for the rest of the day, so we just hung out until the last bell rung.
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"Mom! We're home!" Sora exclaimed to the empty house. I rolled my eyes at him and proceeded to drop my bag onto the couch.
"She's away on a business vacation, remember? She told us this morning Sora." He laughed sheepishly.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." I just plopped onto the couch as Sora made his way to the kitchen for a snack. Pulling my laptop out of my bag I checked my e-mail…five new e-mails? All from Cloud.
Hey Roxas,
How are you? Did you make it to Sora's alright? How are they? You have a nice flight? Reply when you can, I'll be waiting.
Cloud.
P.S. Leon says hi.
I rolled my eyes at his letter but let a small smile show, at least someone could remember I was alive. I clicked on the next one that was sent eight hours later.
Roxas?
Why haven't you replied yet? Haven't you reached Twilight yet? I thought the flight was only a few hours or so. Are you ok? Did you get into trouble? E-mail me back please.
Cloud.
I thought back to two days ago, I was completely beat from the flight and fell asleep right away. Then the next day I had school with Axel. I shook my head with a sigh, trying to rid myself of the weird red-head. I pulled up a new e-mail and replied quickly, before he did anything drastic.
Calm down Cloud, I'm fine. I've just been busy with moving in, starting school, etc. I haven't died or anything. Sora and his mom are great, they're really welcoming me into their house, it's nice. Tell Leon I say 'Hey'.
I'll write more next time, once there's more to write about.
Roxas.
As soon as I finished sending the e-mail, a crackling sound came from the kitchen, and a small plume of smoke wafted through the living room.
"Sora?! What did you do??" I exclaimed and ran towards the source of the smoke.
"I was just trying to heat up the dinner mom left for us in the microwave!" It smelt HORRIBLE in the kitchen. I tried not to gag as I made my way towards him.
"Did you take the tin foil off before you put the food in the microwave??" Sora passed me some tongs and I tried to extract the melted…thing that was in the white microwave.
"Do you think I broke it?"
"…Do you want to try heating something else up in there?"
"…No…"
"Then I suggest we wait for your mom to come back next week before we try heating up anything else." Sora nodded in agreement. He grabbed the phone and turned back to me.
"Chinese food? Pizza? Sushi? What do you feel like?" I shrugged in return and left the choice up to him.
"Pizza it is then!" I laughed silently and went back to the living room to watch some TV.
Ten minutes later the pizza arrived, a weird concoction of pineapple, sausage, pepperoni, peppers, tomatoes, and cheese. Surprisingly it didn't taste bad. We decided to eat in front of the TV for lack of a better thing to do.
"Why did you betray me? Why?"
Click.
"There is a 95% chance of snow next week so-"
Click.
"No one would miss me."
Click.
"F is for friends who do stuff together, U is for-"
Double click.
"The cartoons that kids watch these days…"
"Yeah. I know."
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The week passed by quickly, and uneventful. By Friday I knew the names of all my classmates and almost everyone in the school. In Gym they soon found out my talent at Blitzball and I was welcomed to first or second pick each time. I happily joined in knowing that I wasn't alienated anymore.
Axel Odoru didn't come back to school.
Each day I'd glance over to their table waiting to see the red-head laughing amongst the others but as per usual, he was absent. At least with him gone, I didn't have to keep my guard up against his piercing glare. I could actually join in the conversation that was going around me. The get together Hayner, Olette, and Pence were planning had been pushed to next week for Pence had a photography exhibition he wanted to go to and Olette had to work.
My weekend passed by quickly and without any excitement. I was planning on getting a car soon, just some cheap used one that could handle getting from the house to school. I didn't want to keep catching rides from Riku, just watching him and Sora flirting in the front everyday was too much too handle. And perhaps I should look around for an apartment, for privacy purposes. Not that living with Sora and his mother was bad. It was actually quite refreshing, the happy atmosphere. A breath of fresh air from the life I'd been living before.
Too soon, Monday came along.
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Oh dear, it has been a while hasn't it?I apologize for the horrible update. From here on I'm going to try and distance myself from the Twilight plot and try to incorporate more of my own into the story. I have a basic outline of where I'm going with this, with a few minor details I need to work out. Well, I think I will try to update sooner. Until the next one~
-chan
