Summary: How long can you deny that you're in love? Joy is going to find out at Twilight High Boarding School.

Genre: Romance/Humor/Drama

Pairings: RoxasOC RikuOC NamineOC SoraKairi HaynerOlette (Other pairings may be decided later)

WARNING: Characters may be OOC xP In this chapter, unexpected mentionings of RoxasNamine and, Roxas and another OC

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts II or any of its characters

Claimer: I own Joy, Amy, and Jun

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Chapter Three
To the Mall !

The bell rang signaling the end of the school day. Students rushed out of their classrooms and there was a mad rush of students down the hallway as they all headed toward the exit. Among the students, was a blonde guy. He was walking fast with the mob of teens; he was trying to rush toward the sanctuary of his dorm. He was going to break for a run when he felt himself being pulled back.

"Whoa, what's the hurry, Roxas?"

Turning around, Roxas faced the people he feared to run into; Hayner was the one pulling him back. His last class was English and he didn't have that class with any of his friends. So, he was hoping he would be able to get away from them fast enough. But, his luck had run out; they were all grinning at him, "Time to meet your girlfriend, Roxas!"

"She isn't my girlfriend," Roxas was once again ignored and was being pushed and pulled toward the dormitories building. "Why do you guys want to see her so badly?"

"Oh please, Roxas," Selphie said from behind him, "if it were anyone else other than you, you would be doing the same thing."

Roxas sighed. He didn't deny that because it was true. If Hayner or Riku had a girl for a roommate instead of himself, he would've been teasing them. But no, the situation was upon himself. Thank the gods for his luck. When they were finally out of the building, Kairi, Namine, and Olette were ahead of the other guys and Selphie. Roxas was putting more weight on himself so the others had to keep pushing and pulling him harder. It took them awhile, but they finally made it to the third floor of the dormitories. Wakka and Tidus had given up and had walked back outside to play some blitzball.

"We'll catch up with you guys later, we're going to check out Olette's new roommate," Kairi said, waiting behind Olette, with Pence, as she opened the door with her ID card and punching in her password.

The rest of the guys and girls continued to push Roxas as they neared the door. "Finally," Selphie exasperated, "dorm #317."

Joy was lying on her bed, leaning against the wall and using her pillow to cushion her back, writing in her little notebook. She was listening to her iPod and her kitten, Cookie, was sleeping in her little basket on the bed next to her. Abruptly, her peace with her music was shattered when her cell phone started beeping, loudly; she had gotten a text. Sliding her phone open, she read 'you have company' It was from Amy. Joy raised an eyebrow at the text and was about to reply back when she heard a click from the door. Turning her attention to the door, she saw the door burst open as it did before, and there was Roxas. With him were all his friends that she saw him with earlier on today. Slowly putting her phone down, she pulled on the earphones making them slip out of her ears and she said, "Hi there?"

It was an interesting site. Roxas was in the center of them, but in front, and his hands were stuffed in his pockets, looking the other way in embarrassment. Another guy to his right had dirty blonde hair spiked messily to the back of him, another with brown hair that was spiked up in all kids of directions, a guy behind him had silver hair with a blue tint to it and he was really tall, and the last people with them were girls, one shorter than Joy and one her height, and one had brown hair that curled up in the back and the other was a blonde that had her long hair all to one side on her shoulder. They were all wearing the school uniforms. But, they all - excluding Roxas - had wide eyes and were staring at her and the brown hair girl was behind Roxas, and being kind of short, she kept jumping up and down.

"You're Roxas' girlfriend?!" They all exclaimed, staring wide eyed at her.

Joy raised her eyebrow at them, "Who told you that?"

"I told you she wasn't my girlfriend," Roxas muttered to them, becoming more embarrassed. "Sorry Joy, they keep assuming you're my girlfriend since you're my roommate."

"Ah, interesting," Joy said. You could hear the laughter in the way she said it. She got up and walked toward them.

"Move out of the way, I can't see!" The short brown haired girl Joy saw pushed pass the other boys and was greeted with a girl with wide eyes staring at her. "Hi there! My name's Selphie, you must be Joy!" She quickly grabbed Joy's hand and started shaking it eagerly.

Joy laughed at her eagerness and knew she was going to be great friends with this girl. She put her other hand in the handshake and started shaking it up and down just as energetically as Selphie, "Nice to meet you, Selphie! Hope we become great friends!"

They grinned at each other and after awhile, laughed together as both let go of the handshake. Selphie turned around and pointed to each person, "Joy, that's Hayner, Sora, Riku, and of course you know Roxas, and that's Namine. Our other friends are three dorms down from here."

"Oh well, nice to meet all of you," Joy said, shaking each guy's hand, besides Roxas.

As Joy shook Sora's and Riku's hand, Hayner wrapped an arm around Roxas neck (in a guy way) and whispered in his ear, "You lucky bastard, you got a nice catch," and he started elbowing him in the side.

"Shut up, will you?" Roxas whispers harshly, blushing darkly.

After shaking hands with Namine, she noticed something about two particular guys. Looking from one boy to the other, the two boys stared at her in confusion and she continued to do the gesture for a moment. "What are you doing, Joy?"

"Hm," Joy hummed out. Next, she went right in front of Sora looking at his face. Sora leaned back with a disturbed expression and she did the same with Roxas. Roxas stayed the same way when Joy went in front of his face. But, he did stare back at her. It was a little strange to him because he suddenly got the urge again. At last, Joy leaned back and asked, "Are you guys brothers or something? You have the same color eyes, except maybe Roxas' is a little more brighter."

Riku answered for them, "Nope, they're just cousins."

"But, we do get that a lot," Roxas said, grinning at her.

"Hey guys." The group turned around to find Olette, Kairi, Pence, and Amy behind them. More introductions and laughter, Joy and Amy found out that Kairi and Namine are half-siblings - they shared the same mother.

"Hey, any of you guys have homework?" Namine asks. The others shook their head, "How about we show our new friends the mall?"

The mall wasn't a far distance so the gang just walked there. The gang, besides Amy and Joy, went to change into casual clothes before their walk to the mall(A/N:They changed into the clothes they wore in KH2, Selphie wears the yellow dress). Joy and Amy were surprised when they found how big the mall was. Like the school campus, it was humungous. It had four floors and was the length of a baseball diamond.

"Joy, Amy," Sora said, standing in front of them and spread out his arms, "welcome to Sunset Hill Mall."

"This place is huge!" Amy shouted out, staring at the many different stores.

"Yeah, but you get used to it," Selphie said.

"Do you guys usually come here on a regular basis?" Joy asked them.

"Usually. Mostly when we don't have homework," Roxas told her.

"So, where - " Without finishing her question, Joy was jerked forward and the next thing she knew, she was being pulled off to god knows where by Amy, her pulling on her arm, "WHOA!"

"Come on, Joy!" Amy yells out excitedly.

"Well, you guys go after the noobs and we'll go to the game store," Riku informed the others, walking in the opposite direction from the two girls with Sora and Pence.

"Let's all split up and meet at the arcade later!" Kairi shouted out, walking with Namine forward toward another store.

"Okay, see you guys later!" Olette waved them off.

"Come on, we gotta catch up with them," Selphie said hurriedly, running after Amy and Joy.

Both Hayner and Roxas were outside the A.C.M. store while the four girls were inside. The A.C.M. stood for anime, clothes, music store. Once she saw anime, Amy went crazy and grabbed Joy along with her. Olette and Selphie went in because of the other two girls, but also for the clothes. Hayner and Roxas thought the store was more of a girlie store, so they just waited outside.

"Geez, how long have they've been in there?" Hayner cried.

"For awhile, I bet."

"Ugh, forget this! I'm going to the arcade, you coming?" Hayner was already starting to head toward the arcade.

"Nah. Selphie and Olette would get mad if we both left."

"Suit yourself," and with that, Hayner ran off toward the arcade, two floors up. The arcade was on the third floor; they were on the first floor. Riku and his group were on the third floor, and Kairi and Namine were on the second floor.

Inside the A.C.M. store, Amy was ogling at the anime like she would normally back home, "Look Joy! They're even selling yaoi!"

"Oh god," Joy heaved, slapping her forehead.

"What's 'yaoi'?" Olette asks her.

"Trust me, you don't want to know," Joy warned her.

Olette was looking with Amy for anime, getting interested in the subject, and Selphie had been looking at the anime dolls on display. And, who did that leave? Poor little ol' Joy. Joy loved anime and all, but she wasn't in the mood for shopping. Especially for clothes; she felt she had enough clothes at the moment, so she walked out of the store. She looked around and spotted Roxas sitting on the bench in front of the store. He waved and Joy smiled at him, taking a seat next to him. "Where's Hayner?"

"He went off to the arcade. Didn't want to wait for you guys."

"Really? I didn't know we took that long," Joy said to herself, putting a finger under her chin, thinking of how long they took.

Roxas chuckled at her, "Well, Hayner gets really impatient, especially when it comes to shopping that he didn't even want to come to."

"Oh," Joy laughed, and both smiled at each other. They both talked and joked around for awhile, sharing a laugh here and there. They didn't know how long the other three girls were going to take in the store, but both were hoping for awhile. (A/N:Italic is Joy's P.O.V. and, bold and italic are Roxas' P.O.V.)

"Why did the fish get kicked out of the school?" Roxas asked me.

I didn't know. Curious, I asked, "Why?"

"Because he got caught with sea-weed!"

I laughed. It wasn't a really funny joke, but it seemed original enough. He was funny, though. I liked him for that. He was smiling at me, I guess he was proud that he made me laugh with that kind of joke, "That was soo corny!"

"I know." That made me laugh harder. It felt so natural being with him. We just met, and I already feel like we've known each other for like ever. His smile. He still had his smile glued on his face. His smile made me feel a little funny on the inside. Ignoring the feeling of butterflies in my stomach, I giggled as he grinned.

That was such a stupid joke. I can't believe I even told it. But hey, it made her laugh. She had such a funny laugh, and I loved it. It wasn't loud like Selphie's and it wasn't soft, like she was pretending. And the best thing was that I made her laugh. Not even Jun laughed at that joke.

"You're funny, Roxas," I heard her say.

"Really? Don't hear much of that," I said. It was true, I wasn't exactly funny. The gang thought I should just stick with the skateboarding.

Joy laughed again, "Well, I think you're funny." I looked over at her as she smiled after her little laugh. I saw her eyes twinkle as she smiled at me.

"Hey, want to get some ice cream? It doesn't seem like they're going to be finished any time soon." Roxas indicated to the three girls still in the store that had switched from anime to clothes. Joy looked over at her friends and nodded her head at Roxas. Both standing up, Joy followed Roxas to an ice cream parlor a few stores down. "Ever tried sea-salt ice cream?"

"Nope."

"Well, that's expected. Twilight Town is the only place that would have that flavor."

"Really? Is it that good?"

"Way better than you could ever expect," Roxas said, mischievously.

"Hmm, okay, I'll try it," Joy decided as they walked into the semi-small ice cream parlor. "How much is it for one?" Joy asked, reaching inside for her pocket money.

Before she can get her money, someone had placed a hand on her arm, stopping her from reaching in farther. Looking up, she found that Roxas had stopped her. Joy gave Roxas a questioning look, "It's okay. I'll buy it."

"Oh no, it's okay! I have money," Joy started to protest, but Roxas shook his head.

"Just think of it as a welcoming treat from me," Roxas merely said, walking to the counter. "Two sea-salt ices please!" The woman behind the counter nodded and got the popsicles quickly. Roxas took the popsicles and paid, giving one popsicle to Joy. Joy stared at the popsicle in its plastic wrapper. It was blue, now that was something new to Joy. She had never seen blue ice cream. Opening it up, she pushed the ice cream up and took one small lick of it. She stared at the ice cream. While enjoying his own ice cream, Roxas looked over at Joy. He stared at her in puzzlement, 'She doesn't like it?'. Suddenly, Joy took a bite of the ice cream.

"This is goood!" Joy giddily exclaimed.

Roxas laughed at her, "For a second, I thought you didn't like it."

"No way! It's soo salty - "

" - yet sweet," Roxas said for her. They both laughed and smiled as they walked back to the A.C.M. store, enjoying their sea-salt ice cream.

"So that's why they called it 'sea-salt' ice cream? Because it's blue like the sea and it tastes salty?" Joy questioned the blonde guy.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that."

"JOY!" The two faced forward and found the three girls they left earlier running toward them. "I got like a bunch of yaoi manga and anime!"

"Yeah, and I found out what you meant earlier," Olette said, almost gagging behind Amy.

"I warned ya," Joy told her, grinning.

"Eh? You two got ice cream without us??" Selphie cried.

Amy finally noticing the ice cream in their hands, she grabbed it out of Joy's hand, "New flavor?" Before she could take one lick of the almost half-eaten ice cream, Joy quickly took it back from her. "Mine!"

"Ehh? But, Amy wants some," Amy whined childishly.

"Come on, the parlor's just right there," Joy leaded Amy to the ice cream parlor that she and Roxas went to.

Selphie, Roxas, and Olette followed shortly. Roxas was in the middle and still licking at his ice cream when he was suddenly nudged in the side, "So, Roxas," Roxas looked at Selphie, "how was your alone time with Joy?"

Roxas nearly chocked on the bite of ice cream he took, "What?"

"Oh, spill it, Roxas!" Olette speaking up on the other side, "We saw you two laughing together outside on that bench."

"Yeah! And when we saw you two walking, I bet your hand was just itching to hold hers!" Selphie said excitedly, becoming really hyper.

Going back to eating his ice cream, Roxas sighed, but then he remembered something and looked over at Olette, "So, you ever going to confess to Hayner that you like him?"

Olette blushed immediately, "Shut up."

"So, what do you guys think of Joy and Amy?" Riku asked to break the silence between the trio.

Looking at the back of a random game, Sora said, "They seem friendly."

"Roxas seems to really like Joy," Pence says, taking on a thinking pose.

"It's kind of obvious, the way they kept messing around with each other on the way here. It's like they've been friends for forever," Sora assumed putting away the game he had in his hand. "You guys think he forgot all about Jun by now?"

Pence stared hard at a game, "I don't think so. This is Roxas we're talking about. And you know, Jun really did hurt him."

"I never really liked her. She was a little too different," Sora felt a chill go up his spine, and he shuddered.

"Tell me about it. Just thinking about her gives me the creeps, I don't even know why he liked her."

"I know…think Joy's better for him?"

Pence thought about it for a moment, "I guess. At least she doesn't give me any weird feeling."

Noticing his silver haired friend leaning against the wall staring at the floor, Sora called out to him, "Hey Riku?"

The boy looked up at the mention of his name and suddenly asked, "What do you guys think of Amy?"

"Huh? Amy? Joy's best friend?"

"Yeah…"

"She seems like - in a way - a more matured version than Selphie," Pence answered, looking at the games on the shelves.

"Why do you ask, Riku?" Sora went up to his best friend.

"Just wondering," Riku replied back.

Sora didn't believe it. "You like her?"

"…No…"

"That's a lie," Sora declared and started grinning. "Riku's got the hots for Amy!"

In an instant, Riku put Sora in a headlock, "Oh really? What about you, Sora? Ever going to admit that you like Kairi?"

"I - don't - like - her!" Sora struggled in Riku's hold.

"Now that's a lie," Pence said, staring at the two. He laughed at the scene and took a picture. Pence had his camera everywhere with him.

Kairi and Namine had done their shopping for the day and were heading toward an escalator to get to the arcade. "So, you ever going to tell Sora?" Namine asked Kairi. Being half-siblings, Namine noticed Kairi having interest in the boy.

Kairi's cheek reddened. She's had a crush on the boy since freshmen year, when she first met him. She'd always be planning to confess to him, but she always found herself chickening out. "I will, sooner or later."

Namine gave a small laugh, "It's funny how Sora still hasn't found out that you like him."

Kairi smiled in laughter, "Yeah, he's an idiot like that." After awhile of comfortable silence, she asked Namine as they entered an elevator, "You give up on Roxas?"

"Yup. When Roxas and Jun got together, I just gave up. And, its just stayed that way, even after they broke it off."

"Why is that?"

"I don't know really." Thinking for a moment, Namine said, "I guess it's because he acted more like a brother toward me."

"Ah, I see."

"But, you know," Kairi looked at the blonde artist, "I hope Roxas and Joy get together."

Kairi smiled at her and said, "They will, eventually." And with that, they exited the elevator toward the arcade. "You think Olette and Hayner will ever confess to each other?"

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