Hey guys, I'm back with another new chapter. I apologize ahead of time for the mass amounts of oocness ahead but I'll try and fix it next chapter. I promise!
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Chapter three: Trying to Solve the Problem
Roxas yawned as he stepped into his science class. He was so tired; he'd stayed up late the night before doing his homework. It may have only been the first day of school but he'd been given a load of maths homework and he'd been so distracted while doing it, thinking up all the pros and cons to becoming Axel's friend or not. An odd thing to do but it had helped him; he'd give the guy a chance as long as he didn't call him cute or anything stupid like that again.
The teacher looked up from his desk. He had long straight blond hair and the iciest blue eyes Roxas had ever seen.
"Name?" the man asked in a dull tone as he stood up, a sheet of paper in his hand. He looked at the paper then back at the young blond with a raised eyebrow,
"Roxas Hikari sir," he answered. The teacher looked back to his sheet of paper for a moment before he pointed out a seat on the middle table. Roxas dropped his bag by the seat and sat down, resting his head on the table while he waited for the others to arrive. After a while he spotted Zexion enter with a blonde girl who had what looked like antenna's sticking out of her head. He raised an eyebrow at the sight but the girl noticed and glared at him.
"Miss Antonies you'll be next to Mr. Hikari," the teacher said as he pointed to Roxas. He then turned to Zexion,
"Mr. Booker you'll be at the furthest seat in the back," the finished. He had a grim expression on his face as the blonde girl grinned wildly at him,
"Looking forward to another fun year Vexen?" she asked. Her voice was sickly sweet but it only made her sound all the more evil. The teacher-Vexen-glared at her,
"No, as I am sure you can guess I am dreading it, at least I escape Mr. Kaji this year," he replied. Larxene sighed,
"Yeah but he just had to do triple science for the specialized chemistry," she said and pouted a little. She then shook her head and took a look at the blond boy she was about to sit next too,
"Hey your name wouldn't happen to be Roxas would it?" she asked slyly. Roxas didn't like the look on her face but he nodded anyway. The girl grinned,
"I'm Larxene," she told him as she held out a pink clawed hand for him to shake. He took it but her nails dug into his hand as he did so. Roxas winced a little, the girl smirked a little.
Larxene had an obvious crush on Axel. She had done for two years now and often flirted with him. She also scared away any possible competition and Axel had taken a definite liking to the small blond boy. It was her job to make sure nothing happened between the pair. She had to admit though, she enjoyed scaring people. Yes she was a little sadistic but it was all part of her charm. She let go of the boys hand before she turned to Vexen with a small grin apparent on her face. She may not be with Axel for science this year but it would definitely be fun.
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The hour dragged by and when the bell for next lesson finally rang Roxas sprinted out of the classroom. That Larxene was insane! He ran straight past Axel who watched the boy amused until he spotted Larxene leave the classroom, a smirk ever present on her face. His face fell and he stalked over to her,
"Larxene, you didn't say anything to Roxas did you?" he asked, a slightly cold tone present in his voice. She giggled,
"Well yeah, I sit next to him, you can't expect me to stay silent can you," she answered before she emitted a quiet cackle.
"He's pretty fun actually, you should've seen his face when I moved the Bunsen under his tie, it actually set alight! He managed to put it out though," she commented. She had a wild look on her face that worried Axel. He pulled his time table out and saw that he had English next, perfect, I better see if he's okay…Larxene's stunts are enough to drive anyone who doesn't know her crazy he thought.
The red head rushed into the class with a nod to Xemnas. The only other person who'd arrived yet was Roxas. He didn't look too bad, his tie was slightly singed and he was nursing his hand with a frown creasing his pretty little face. Gah, I've gotta stop thinking things like that or I'll end up saying something I'll regret! He headed over to his seat and plopped his bag on the desk before sitting next to the blond.
"You okay?" he asked. Roxas looked up surprised but he eventually nodded. Axel raised an eyebrow before he grabbed the boy's hand.
"A…Axel what are you doing!" he snapped, flustered as he tried to pull his hand back. Axel rolled his eyes,
"I'm seeing what's wrong with your hand, you keep staring at it," he explained. He turned the small, pale hand over and noticed the visible indents where Larxene had dug her nails in and saw the dried blood that had welled up in some of them. His expression became blank before he looked back up into the slightly widened blue eyes,
"Did Larxene do this?" he asked in an oddly calm voice. Roxas nodded,
"Yeah, I don't know what I did wrong but she seemed to hate me straight away," he answered with a sigh. The red head dropped the blond's hand before he buried his face in his hands for a moment,
"That girl," he mumbled. A moment later Demyx and Marluxia arrived chatting about something until they sat down. They noticed the odd silence and Demyx turned to Axel,
"What's up Ax? You're not still worrying about what I said last night are you?" he asked, obviously worried. Axel sighed before he looked up at the dirty blond,
"no, it's just Larxene trying to fuck things up as usual…she doesn't want me to have any friends apart from you guys," he replied. Roxas looked surprised,
"Is that she was being bitchy? Because we're friends!" he exclaimed before he realised what he'd said. The blond boy sighed inwardly; guess I am going to attempt at being his friend then. Axel's expression brightened considerably. For the rest of the lesson he chatted as much as the others but Roxas was silent. I'm not going to cause them any trouble am I? I don't want to end up doing something stupid again…I'm not gonna lose any friends this time. Who knows maybe I'll even start dating Ax…wait a sec I was not thinking that…yeah I meant maybe I'll get a girlfriend. Gah I'm letting what Sora said last night get to me! What Roxas didn't realise was that while he was thinking this his facial expression was changing with his thoughts and it was pretty funny looking. The other boys chuckled and brought Roxas back down to earth where he proceeded to glare at the other three.
"What are you all staring at?" he snapped at them which cause them to laugh even harder. Eventually Axel managed to calm down a little,
"Sorry…Rox," he apologised though chuckles. Roxas began to sulk as the bell rang before he packed his stuff away and went to catch up with Hayner for break. With both Hayner and Sora doing skill force and being in lower sets then him for almost every subject-it turned out he had PSHE with both boys-he had to catch up with them somehow.
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Break was rather relaxing and straight afterwards he had his first Art lesson. As he entered a young woman with many blonde braids decorated with multi coloured beads was bouncing around. She was wearing an odd attire of a pale yellow spaghetti top and a khaki green skirt and blue and white boots. She also had a long yellow and red scarf which flew around after her. There were a few other people in the room including Olette who was talking quietly to a petite blonde girl. He walked over to them and sat on their table,
"Hey 'Lette…who's this?" he greeted with a small smile. The girl looked up at him and blushed slightly,
"I'm Namine," she answered for herself as she closed the sketch book in front of her.
"Roxas," he replied. The petite girl was pretty with pale skin and white blonde hair which ended just past her shoulders. She had a pair of sparkling azure eyes which were currently watching him. She opened her mouth to say something before a long arm wrapped around Roxas's shoulders, slender fingers tapping his chest slightly.
"Hey Roxy, didn't think you'd be taking art!" The voice then removed his arm and sat on the table next to Roxas. The blond slipped off the table and onto a seat as to have a little distance. That god damn Axel was beginning to piss him off again. He then spotted Demyx behind him with a large grin on his face. Roxas sighed and greeted the pair before he looked around to see their teacher standing on one of the tables. Roxas just raised an eyebrow.
"Hey guys, I'm Rikku and I'll be ya art teacher this year! Now those of you who've had me before know that you can draw, paint, and make whatever you want! As long as you work and let me keep anything really great we'll get along fine!" the woman explained as loudly as possible. Roxas sighed; it looked like he was going to be surrounded by idiocy this year. He decided to start something and grabbed some paper off the large table behind them and pulled his pencil case out of his bag before he began to draw.
The table worked contently in silence for a while before Roxas began to notice something odd. The red head kept looking at him in the middle of drawing and Namine kept looking at them both. He tried to get a peek at Namine's drawing but she shut her sketchbook with a small smile and a giggle,
"Not until it's finished!" she reprimanded. Roxas pouted a little but he turned to look at Axel's sketch and he felt his cheeks heat up. Axel had been sketching him drawing; he'd seemed to put a lot of work in on the content expression on the blond's face. Axel laughed a little nervously,
"Eh heh, what do you think?" he asked with a sheepish grin. Roxas's cheeks were still red but he managed to scowl at the red head before he picked his own picture up and moved to another table to finish it. Axel sighed,
"Ya think he's mad?" he asked the group glumly. Everyone else leaned over to study the image and everyone grinned a little.
"He's just embarrassed, I'm sure he's flattered really," Olette commented. Demyx chuckled and slapped his friend on the back,
"Dude I never knew you were such a sap, maybe you should try just hitting on him instead," he teased. Axel shook his head as Olette raised an eyebrow while Namine giggled a little. She could already tell Axel and Roxas's relationship was going to be interesting to say the least.
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Roxas scowled as he stared down at his picture. He'd been drawing a random scene of two people standing in the sunset. The figures didn't have any distinguishing features apart from one was tall with long spiky hair while the other was around a head shorter with hair spiked on one side. Roxas growled slightly Stupid Axel…what did he have to go and draw me for?! It made it look like he likes me or something…maybe he does, I mean he did call me hot last night...oh what do I care! It's just what Sora said to me last night getting to me! I'm not gay and even if I was I would not be into Axel, he's annoying and I don't even know him! As Roxas told himself that he heard a chuckle in his head, exactly you don't know him, he may not be so annoying…give him a chance! Oh great, the stupid voice had returned. Roxas growled to himself again before he stood up and binned his picture. At that moment the bell rang and as soon as he'd grabbed his stuff he ran out. However he wasn't lucky enough to lose to red head chasing after him.
"Roxas…Roxas just stop and listen for one damn second," Axel snapped. Roxas had enough sense to stop and he turned to blankly face Axel.
"Sorry I snapped," Axel muttered before he looked around the corridor a little.
"Look I only drew you because you looked like a good model alright? I won't deny that I'm gay and yes I find you attractive but that doesn't mean you have to over react over every damn thing," he explained. He moved his sharp green gaze back to Roxas but the ocean blue eyes avoided his and concentrated on the ground. His cheeks were slightly flushed pink; the blond didn't know what to say. He knew he was being an ass but he didn't know how else to react. You could y'know tell him you don't mind and maybe flirt with him a little…c'mon you know you like him! Roxas almost scoffed out loud, first Sora and now his own mind was against him! Why didn't they understand he wasn't gay! He had been checking Namine out for god's sake…maybe he could ask her out. Yeah, she was cute and it would get the others off his back as well. At this decision Roxas finally looked back up to Axel and grinned a little sheepishly,
"I suppose I was being a bit of an ass…sorry as well I guess," he mumbled but Axel heard him. A wide grin broke out on his face again as Demyx walked up to them with Zexion who had appeared from whatever class he'd just had. Demyx kept trying to sling his arm around Zexion's shoulder's but the shorter boy kept avoiding him.
"PSHE next for us, what about you two?" the dirty blond asked with a slight pout. Axel grinned at the pair as Roxas pulled his time table out and almost groaned. He had the same lesson as it appeared the other three had.
"Same," Roxas commented before he checked out the room number and began to head down the corridor with Axel trailing. Zexion had some how gotten ahead and was trying to avoid Demyx who was chasing him.
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Roxas slumped into a chair at the front of the room in the hope Axel, Demyx and Zexion would leave him alone and sit at the back. He couldn't put his bag on the chair next to him as he had to leave the seat spare, if he put his bag down both Hayner and Sora would think he didn't want to sit next to them. Luck seemed to be avoiding him today as Axel plopped into the chair next to him and Demyx and Zexion took the desk next to theirs.
"I heard Marly's doing so well in this subject he's gonna be helping out the teacher with the Sex Ed block," Demyx commented with a giggle. Marly…Marluxia that pink haired guy with the flower brooch. Well the class would certainly be interesting but who exactly would their teacher be. At that moment the door flew open and in stepped a grizzled man with blond hair and goggles. He was chewing what looked like a stick as he eyed the class while Marluxia entered behind him with a flourish and shut the door...right in Hayner and Sora's faces. The pushed the door open, Hayner scowling and glaring at the pink haired boy before he spotted Roxas and who he was sitting next too and near. Roxas didn't think he'd ever seen his friend glare so darkly at anyone before as he did at Axel, Zexion and Demyx. However he went and took the desk behind Roxas with Sora without a single complaint. Roxas knew he'd get it at lunch though, he may not have known Hayner long but he already understood his moods and how he worked. Roxas sighed a little and rested his head on the table before their teacher made him sit up with a start.
"The name's Cid and I'll be teaching you ingrates PSHE this year. The little fairy beside me is Marluxia you may know as he should be taking this class with you but for some damn reason he's helping me out with the sex ed unit this year so let's get this started," the blond man grumbled loudly. He then turned around and began to write something on the white board. Axel sniggered, this unit was going to be a laugh…unless Marluxia decided to pick on him and the evil looking smirk he was shooting at the red head signalled that he was in fact going to embarrass him so much. Axel groaned a little but he smirked back at the student-teacher as if he wasn't worried.
The teacher had written SEX in big bold letters on the board. He then turned back to the class,
"Okay this is a simple task, I want you guys to tell me all the different types of sex there are but no shouting out," he told them. The majority of the class stuck their hands up including Axel. Sadly the red head was first picked,
"Anal sex!" He called out loudly. Demyx snickered from beside him,
"Uh huh and we all know who you wanna do that with," he added with an obnoxious grin. Axel grinned back,
"Nah me and Roxy have already been there and done that," he joked. The whole class turned to stare at Roxas while sniggering. Roxas's face turned redder then it ever had before and he buried his face in his hands. He was visibly mortified…well sort of, most people just pegged it down to him not wanting anyone to know that which only made people laugh harder. The class returned to its discussion with many people having the finger pointed at them then being laughed at. Roxas would have joined in if he hadn't still been hiding his face as the others talked.
The teacher cleared his throat when he was sure there were enough words and phrases on the spider diagram he'd been writing on the board.
"Now this unit will be a little longer then usual, we'll be discussing straight sex, then gay sex, then STD's, then other repercussions so prepare to face the facts of life kids," he told them. For the rest of the lesson they had to fill in a quiz to see what they knew about the law and sex which would be marked for next lesson.
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After what felt like hours the bell finally rang and Roxas ran out of class. It seemed like it would be a tradition for him to do so every lesson where he had Axel or one of his friends in the lesson, they were all so annoying and frustrating. What had Axel and Demyx thought they'd been doing! It was not funny to make jokes like that, it was mortifying and he'd seen Namine had been sitting in one of the back corners. She hadn't been laughing but it was still embarrassing. He headed into the cafeteria and slumped down at the table the group had told him they sat at the day before. He wasn't hungry but he didn't know where else to go.
A few moments later Hayner, Sora and even Namine joined him. Hayner was glaring daggers at him as he sat down in front of the shorter blond.
"What was all that about? First you let those idiots sit next to you and then their making jokes about you fucking that red head…what the hell is going on?!" Hayner demanded with a small growl. Roxas couldn't understand what Hayner was so upset about but he glared at him anyway. He was about to say something when he felt a hand on his shoulder,
"What does it matter…Hayner wasn't it? Have you thought he could be friends with us? Hell did you even think he may not be a prejudiced asshole like you are? Why don't you just give him a break…unless you want to start something," Axel's voice calmly threatened. The red head was glowering at Hayner, a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Hayner stood up as if he wanted to fight him but he just huffed and stormed off.
"That guy's all bark and no bite," the red head commented before he took a seat next to Roxas, Demyx and Zexion taking the seats next to him.
"You guy's don't mind us sitting here do ya? It gets a bit boring sitting with our other friends all the time," Demyx chirped. The others either shrugged or nodded, Sora didn't look too sure about them sitting with them but he nodded anyway. He was far too nice to deny them; they hadn't done anything drastically bad to any of them so he had no reason to hate them. The brunet couldn't really trust them though.
Slowly Olette, Pence, Kairi and Riku joined them at their table and Selphie and Yuffie joined them for a few minutes as well before going off to find some other people to bother. The groups got chatting to each other and neither group had a problem with the other in the end. Roxas was even starting to relax until Demyx just had to bring up the last lesson.
"You guys should have been in PSHE! It was so fucking funny, we were listing sex stuff and Axel came out with anal sex and he made a joke about Roxas. You went as red as Axel's hair Roxas!" Demyx exclaimed with a large grin but it immediately fell silent when he felt Roxas glaring at him. If looks could kill Demyx would be five feet under. The rest of the table apart from Roxas and Demyx burst out laughing.
"C'mon Rox, you really can't take a joke can you…I'm like that with all my friends," Axel commented with a grin. He patted Roxas on the head before he stood,
"I'm gonna go find Marly and Larx, anyone wanna come?" he asked. Everyone shook their head before Axel headed off. He had a bone to pick with Larxene.
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Axel found Larxene hanging around an empty corridor, smoking as Marluxia walked off somewhere. He probably had gardening club or something. The blonde didn't notice her red headed friend until he cleared his throat and she turned to him with a grin.
"Hey Ax, I thought you'd have detention or something," she commented. Axel just shrugged and walked over to her took the cigarette straight from her mouth and dropped it on the ground before he stamped it out. He growled slightly at the girl,
"You will leave; I will repeat-leave-Roxas alone if you know what's good for you. I don't care whether you're my friend or not, if you harm one hair on his head I will come after you and make you regret it," he breathed into her ear dangerously as he stepped even closer to her. Larxene nodded in agreement before he turned and stormed off out of the building. He needed a smoke now himself.
Larxene growled a little as Axel walked out. The blond kid had more of a hold over Axel then she'd first realised.
"Oh don't worry Axel, I won't harm a hair on his pretty little head…well not physically anyway."
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By the way last name explanations-
Larxene Antonies-My little sister's idea due to her having antenna hair.
Zexion Booker-His weapon is a giant book in the games so . .
Axel Kaji-Kaji is Japanese for fire.
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