Chapter Eight
Happy Birthday
A/N: Hello, I'm home again. (Yawn) I hate planes and jet lag. Eck. It's nice to be sitting in my own computer chair, listening to 'This is Halloween' Remix by Marilyn Manson. Guess what I was left from the old lady? A bloody silver backed mirror. Not that I'm complaining, it's exquisite but it's just creepy. It's like one of those mirrors you expect some debutant in a Victorian horror movie to have. Every time I look at it I feel hollow inside. Creepy.
To the point THANK YOU TO ALL THAT HAVE REVIEWED!!! I hope you all continue reading my stuff and not give up in me!!! I'm still doing one update everyday until I finish this story but between school and stuff it's really hard so please be kind and be patient if I don't update everyday but I WILL!!!
FOUR MORE DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!!! (October 20th,)
Happy reading!!!
.kittykute
All that day Roxas stayed in the library reading through all the books that took to his interest. Thankfully, he had to visions through those eight or so hours he was mesmerized by the old, leather bound books. He also has the chance to delve into an old copy of My Sweet Audrina by V.C Andrews. Olette had shoved it into his face one day and he had read it and was fascinated by it, he preferred the works of Sidney Sheldon and Eric Meadus but this was good as well.
Once he grabbed the old, faded copy from the shelf and proceeded to an old wooden desk pressed up agenst a wall. He sat down on the expensive leather swivel chair and pushed off and spun in three full circles until he put his feet up on the desk and reclined backwards, opening the book and beginning to read.
There was something strange about the house where I grew up, the book read, there were shadows in every corner and whispers on the stairs and time was as irrelevant as honesty. Though how I knew that I couldn't say. Roxas quirked an eyebrow and shut the book with a snap. He tossed it carelessly onto the desk and put his hands behind his head and looked up to the ceiling. It was a 3D textures thing, with intricate patterns and delving volume. Roxas sat up and rummaged through the desk. But before he even got into the contents of the drawers, he noticed a calendar propped up on the desk. The photo was of a beautiful sunset with wild horses running rampet across the way, he took a look at the date.
It read October 19. (Meh, let's pretend Roxas's birthday is my birthday too, hpmh?) He stood up. His birthday was tomorrow! How old would he be turning…? Oh yeah! 18! Man, he was getting old.
He picked up the calendar and then placed it back on the desk then grabbed it up again. He raced out of the library and into the lobby, up the stairs and into Namine's bedroom where she still lay, sound asleep. He rushed through the blinding white room and started to gently shake her awake. She'd been out like a light for 9 hours or so, wake up!!!
Slowly, she jerked awake, frightened that something had happened.
"What happened? What did you break?" She questioned, Roxas shook his head and thrust the calendar into Namine's hands.
"Look! It's my birthday tomorrow!" He cried out, Namine looked at him in dismay then her face brightened.
"Of course! I totally forgot!" She looked outside and saw that it was afternoon, although the light outside was still a rosy color. She jumped from the bed and high tailed over to her wardrobe and opened it. Inside was an array of clothes and at the bottom was a small, hidden drawer. Namine tapped on it three times and it popped up, revealing a hidden, velvet boxed compartment. Inside were jewels of course, a stack of papers, (It's about the size of a shoe box,) and a silver framed picture. Namine took it out and handed it to Roxas. The silver was cold in his hands, and he nearly dropped the picture itself. The picture was of three kids. The tallest a boy with scorching raven hair and deep blue eyes, the next was a younger version of Roxas, and the third was a young girl with beautiful chatlin hair.
"That guy there, yeah that's your brother," Namine said in a matter-of-factly tone that irritated Roxas. He gazed at the handsome guy feeling the memories flood back. Then a sudden thought came into his head. Couldn't Namine just replace his memories? Namine continued to smile as Roxas gazed at the photo, completely drowned in his thoughts.
Namine, on the other hand was forcing a smile. She prayed that he wouldn't talk about the miscarriage again. Oh, how she prayed!
Finally, Roxas handed her back the picture, but she wouldn't take it.
"You keep it. I have plenty more. Think of it as an early birthday present." She beamed, for the first time in her presence, tears of happiness flooded his eyes. He finally had a picture of his family! He was overjoyed, so much in fact he dropped the picture, making the glass shatter at his feet. Without warning, he draped his arms about Namine's tiny frame and started to cry into her shoulder. Namine clung onto him back, soothing him with sweet whistles and cooing, comforting him.
"It's ok, Roxas… everything will be perfectly fine I promise you…" Namine pledged, she could feel his body warming up to hers and becoming warm.
"I— I want them back, Namine. I want to see my family again." He said the next words without even thinking.
"I want somebody to love me, Namine!" He abandoned his evil, always pissed off exterior and showed the frightened little boy begging to be loved. He dropped his protective wall and let the flood gates flow, showing out his fears and problems to anyone within radius who'd listen. Namine calmly listened to him cry about him being so alone, that he was mad at himself because he was always mad, because nobody would love him. (I had a spaz attack like this after my mum died… I just spazzed out one day while I was with my bestest buddy Kirstjan while we were playing volleyball, by ourselves, sad I know. He rules at it though. And we got onto the topic about my mum and how trippy she was and I started to cry and he, being awesome, comforted me. Yup, we were embraced for about an hour I swear and it was the BEST HOUR OF MY LIFE!!!)
Finally, after a good fifteen minutes, Roxas lifted his head from her shoulder. (totally OOC but hey, I get reviews.) Namine was giving him a happy smile.
"You ok now?"
"Yeah…" He wanted to tell her not to mention this to Axel, but he doubted that she would say anything. Suddenly, Namine perked her head up and smiled.
"Falcon is coming back tomorrow! He said that every year on your birthday he'd return!"
Roxas's stomach churned. Wasn't Falcon pissed off at him for leaving? Would he hurt him? Hell, he didn't even remember his brother's own voice! Roxas stood up and rubbed his eye with his fist like a small child.
"Do you think he's mad at me?" He questioned her. To be truthful, she shrugged.
"I really don't know. Last year he was all laughs and smiles. I don't think he's mad but he wants to see you," Namine explained, relief flooded through him. So he wasn't going to die, not then anyways. Namine shut her wardrobe and put on a pair of white fluffy slippers from the side of her bed and started for the door.
"How about we get dinner started? I'm a little too tired to use magic so you can help me," She said. Grumbling, Roxas followed Namine into the kitchen. For an old looking house, the kitchen was a marvel of electronic gadgets from walk-in freezers to Chinese mandolins. When Namine walked in she clapped her hands and twirled around to meet his gaze.
"So what do you feel like? Stir-fry, spaghetti, ceaser salad, pizza… I feel like lasagna myself,"
"Lasagna sounds good," Roxas replied.
"Good because I wasn't going to make anything else." She tweaked her nose and turned into the freezer and pulled out some ground beef and spaghetti.
"I make the sauce myself, no magic," She added when Roxas looked like he was going to protest. She popped the frozen sauce into the microwave and started to boil some water for the meat to defrost. While the water was boiling, Namine directed Roxas to go into the fridge and pull out a package of spinach.
"Spinach? What the hell does spinach have to do with it?" He demanded, disgusted. Namine laughed and burnt herself while taking the sauce from the microwave.
"You're a meat and potatoes guy, aren't you? Well here you get the real deal. Full balanced nutrition! Not any of that microwave stuff."
"Well whatcha putting sauce into the microwave for then? Huh? Damn right," Roxas teased. Not quite knowing what to say, Namine took the boiling water, plugged the sink and layed the meat inside, then coated it in hot, boiling water. After so she took some cottage cheese3, mozzarella cheese, cheddar and milk and placed it on the island in the middle of the kitchen.
Intrigued, Roxas edged closer, watching Namine doing whatever she was doing. From under the island, she took out a wooden spoon, a metal bowl and a cheese grader.
"I forgot to defrost the spinach, Roxas put it in the microwave for about a minute would you please?" she asked nicely. Roxas took the packaged vegetable from Namine's hands and walked towards the mic. (Wouldn't that be a stupid mission for Kingdom Hearts? 'Defrost Namine's Spinach'. Haha, that's funny!!!) After that annoying task was completed, he came back. NAMINE HAD MIXED THE MILK AND COTTAGE CHEESE AND MOZZARELLA CHEESE TOGETHER!!!
"What the hell are you doing?" Roxas stipulated and grabbed the wooden spoon from Namine's hand.
"Hey!" She cried out and grabbed the spoon back from his hands. In one swift movement, she tore open the warmed pack of spinach and tossed it in with the other things. Roxas looked appalled.
"Are you trying to kill me?" He demanded.
"If I were, you'd know it." Namine retaliated back, and she started to mix the spinach and cheeses together. Roxas let a single tear pour form his eye.
"You're ruining it! It's supposed to be meat and cheese and noodles!!!" Namine laughed at his idiocy. Just because he was a sarcastic smartass didn't mean he was exactly smart. No pun intended.
"Roxas why don't you go and boil the noodles and get out of my face!" Namine dictated, Roxas hunched up his shoulders and turned his back and walked towards the pantry. Namine had the biggest urge to kick her foot up his ass. (SO OOC, but hey, it's funny.)
Roxas slumped over to the pantry and took out a cardboard box of noodles. He flipped it over and read it. Boil water at medium temperature and add pasta. Cook for another 10-12 minutes, drain and serve. Seemed simple enough. From under the stove he took out a large pot and filled it half way with water. He added some salt and some olive oil and turned it on. Now what did he do next? Oh yeah. Wait.
Namine was humming quietly to herself while mixing her shrewd concoction together. She dipped her pinkie into the batter and tasted it. She seemed happy with her kill. As she turned to take the frozen ground beef from the sink, Roxas heard the snapping and laughing of bubbling in the pot behind him. That was fast, a little too fast for Roxas's slow and unsteady hands. Without thinking he dumped the whole entire thing of pasta into the water, (Including the package itself,) And slammed the lid on tight for Namine was behind him.
"You did something, didn't you?" Namine cooed.
"No I didn't," Roxas defended quickly. Namine had to fight to conceal her smile.
About an hour or so later, (After Namine discovering the package in the pot and got pissed,) the lasagna was ready. (YAY! CONFETTI!)
Roxas sat at the dinner table, waiting for his hard earned dinner with mixed emotions. When Namine came out from the kitchen wielding two plates heaped full of lasagna, Roxas's mouth started to water and gush with saliva and when the plate was placed in front of him, he picked up his fork and pleaded to God above that it would be good. Slowly, with his silver fork, he cut off a piece of the ooey-gooey pasta and placed it in his mouth. Namine sat beside him with her hands rested on folded hands, he started to chew.
And after a couple seconds, he beamed.
"Who was right?" Namine asked.
"Namine was," Roxas agreed. Roxas was about to shovel another heaping forkful into his mouth when a loud bang was issued that rocked the entire house. Roxas dropped his fork and stood up Namine sat up straight.
"What the hell was that?" Roxas pleaded, Namine stood up and in a flash was out the dining room door and into the lobby. Roxas followed like a little puppy. When Namine stepped out, she instantly came back and pulled Roxas back.
"Go hide in the kitchen." She commanded. But Roxas pressed on and besides her orders, he ventured out into the lobby and stopped dead.
In the door way was what looked like two 20 year old males. One had dark onyx colored hair and bright, almost aqua colored eyes. His physique was strong and muscular, yet his body was tall and skinny, he carried with him a long samurai sword, which was battered and old looking, he held it in a warn looking silk sheaf tied to his rainbow studded belt. (Yes, 'rainbow'.) He had heavy looking metal buckled boots that looked like they had seen much, much better days. His baggy dark blue denim jeans had various holes in the thighs, kneecaps and legs and his shirt… well, it wasn't exactly a shirt. It was a cape like thing, tattered and worn that had seen many thunderstorms, slurries and scorching heat waves. The shirt itself was a black muscle shirt that looked like wool if anything. It was ribbed with a turtle neck. Around his neck was a gaudy, cheap looking pocket watch, even from afar, Roxas could hear it tick.
The other that was with him had fiery red hair, and a grimish face, as if he was trying to scare you even with his perky smile. His hair, was blades on his head, with a long pony tail swinging from the bulb of his head down his back, his eyes were of the brightest green Roxas had ever encountered. He wondered if he was related to Axel some way. He too wielded a weapon in the form of what looked like a swampy green saber tucked away in a black sheaf. His attire proved to be posh looking, white dinner shirt, black jacket and matching pants and clickidy black dress shoes.
The redhead took a look around and whistled.
"Holy crap this is your digs? Sweet!" (I do not know if this guy is out of character, because I've only seen Advent Children once in a hurried way,) The black haired guy sighed helplessly and dropped his sheaf, which fell down heavily on the floor, a little too heavily for a sword of that size. Roxas gasped and quickly withdrew.
"NAMINE!" bellowed the onyx haired one and stepped forward, the wood floor groaning in protest under his boots. From his hide-a-way in the dining room, Namine whispered.
"That's your brother, Falcon."
The saliva and taste of the lasagna drained from Roxas's mouth.
"Namine!" He shouted again.
"I'm home! Where is Roxas? Has he come home this year?"
"Jesus, Falcon! You're scaring the poor girl away." The redhead chimed. Falcon grumbled something incoherently and started to walk towards the stairs, at this point Namine stepped out from the dining room and ran to meet Roxas's so called brother.
"Namine!" Falcon cried in surprise, and rushed to pick her up into a hug, drowning her in his heavy, old cape. After the embrace ended, Falcon dropped her down nicely and looked around at the place.
"Man, it's gotten a lot more dead looking then last year. So, Namine, is Roxas home this year?" The smile on Namine's face dropped.
Roxas took a step backward. He needed to get away. The floor board creaked and Falcon was off like a dart into the room, where the door was closed. Roxas stumbled backwards and tripped over his own chair and fell backwards. Falcon ripped the door open and stared in wonder at what lay before him.
The sense knocked clean out of him, Roxas sat up and groaned. He had hit his head on the floor with a passion and crossed his legs and rubbed his head. He didn't even notice Falcon standing above him until he heard his silky voice sending shivers down his spine.
"So you're finally returned, Mr. Lollipop."
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A/N: Salutations! It is I, your Master!!!
Yes, throw some rotten vegetables at me for I have sinned. I didn't update for how long… three days since I got back? I promise I'll do better!!!
Umm… anything new in my life? Oh yeah SATURDAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!! Yay!!! I'm turned 16! (But in reality I'm turning sixteen negative three, but who cares?) Me and my friends are going to Rock N Ride at West Edmonton Mall and having a blast. Ashley pledges to come home with at least one guys phone number. Yeah…
Other then that… whooo Mr. Lollipop! You'll figure out what that means in the next chappie.
See you on the flip side AND REVIEW!!!
Lurve and Fairies,
.kittykute
OH yeah, I forgot.
BID ON A DATE WITH AXEL, DEMYX, SORA or ROXAS!!!
HIGHEST BID FOR MISS LEBREZIE AT TEN COOKIES!!!
I'll show you a poll or something but here it goes.
The dates go like this.
DEMYX: 0 cookies
AXEL: 10 cookies
SORA: 0 cookies
ROXAS: 0 cookies (And it better stay that way)
Pledge cookies for your lover! Max number of cookies per vote: 10!!!
HAVE FUNNERS!!!
.kittykute