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 TidusSelphie MarluxiaOC AxelLarxene DemyxOC?(Other pairings may be decided later)

WARNING: Characters may be a bit OOC xP

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

Claimer: I own Joy, Amy, Cookie, Stacie, Kristina, Jun, and Ms. Nahine

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Chapter Fourteen
Bonehead

"Well, I think that's everything I need, right, Cookie?" Joy clicked the locks to her suitcase closed and put her purple backpack next to it on the bed. Her kitten, Cookie, jumped upon the travel case and 'meowed' in agreement as her long white tail wagged happily behind her. "Did you finish packing your things Cookie?" Upon the feline's confused reaction, Joy giggled, "Of course you haven't packed anything because I did it for you." Cookie just sat there with her little kitten face before licking her fur. Joy shook her head at her pet and took a seat on her bed.

Tomorrow, the gang would be going to the mountains to live in Kairi's deluxe cabin (which looked like a really big house) for their annual (or in Joy's and her friends' case, first) snow trip. They were going to ski, snowboard, and spend their holidays up in the snowy mountains in the chilly weather.

I took a seat on my bed and leaned against the wall as Cookie took a seat on my lap, staring up at me with those big blue eyes of hers.

"Cookie, do you think Roxas likes me?" The orange spotted kitten stared at her master before mewing at her in response and scratching her ear. I faintly laughed at my pet, "I'm guessing that's a 'no' right?" I leaned my head against the wall, overlooking the fact that it was uncomfortable, and let my mind wander. "His mind seems set up on Jun and I guess he always has been."

I'm not crying, but I feel like crying. Whenever I think of Roxas and Jun, cold shivers run along my body, giving my arms the feeling of goosebumps even if I'm under sun. Whenever I get my hopes up about something like this, it all ends up being the opposite and I'm the one that receives most of the hurt and I still pity myself. I never understood my feelings but I know I've been hurt many times over the average limit. What makes this time any different? This is just like what happened with Ricky; he didn't love me like I thought he did, he loved another girl.

"Hey Cookie, did I tell you that Axel broke Roxas' skateboard?" I tried to laugh at Axel's predicament, but only a small smile formed on my face before falling back into a frown. The thought of Roxas' skateboard just brought me back to thinking of Roxas and Jun.

Roxas and Jun are hitting it off quite well despite what happened to them in the past. Just staring at them together or even catching them glance at each other makes my heart ache… it hurts because you really think that a person feels the same way as you do to them, based on their behaviors and actions toward you, and when you start to get the confidence to do something about it, something happens that just ruins everything and breaks your heart.

I'll admit it: I was planning to tell Roxas how I feel and I kept predicting the out comings of what would happen and most of them were happy ones. But now, every time I even think about the possibilities, it comes out as a painful thought with Jun in it. And I can't shake the feeling that Jun seems familiar to me, when I'm sure we haven't met.

You know what? It doesn't even matter anymore. I'm pretty sure Jun is after Roxas considering she's flirting with him every single second of the day. And Roxas… I guess he likes it and wants it to happen. I can imagine them being together (again). Were all my efforts of being with him for nothing? I guess not. All those times we've been together, smiling, laughing, and the occasional sad moments meant more to me than I ever thought it could. Isn't that what matters most, how I feel? Because it doesn't seem like that. I feel like going -

Joy heard the door unlock and she turned her attention toward it, expecting Roxas to enter. Watching the door open, her expectations were met but she was surprised to see Jun coming in through the door as well. They were both laughing their heads off. Joy stared at thecouple and felt the dull ache in her heart once again, remembering how she was like that with Roxas (emphasis on the was)

Once their laughter had soon enough died out, the two took notice of the other person in the room. "Hey Joy," they both greeted.

"I don't think I want to know what you guys were laughing at," Joy said to them, grinning at them in a teasing manner.

"It was nothing," Jun replied to her, chuckling a bit from earlier, "we're just reminiscing on the memories from last year."

"Ah, walking down memory lane," Joy teases a bit.

"Yeah…"

…Awkward silence…

"Anyway," Roxas announces, "we're going to get my stuff packed up for the trip, want to help out?"

"What Roxas? You think I'm not strong enough?" Jun joshes with Roxas, pushing him playfully.

"Since when did I say that?" Roxas asked, looking at the girl with a challenging smirk.

"It was implied," Jun countered with a smirk of her own. They have a stare-down for a minute before they're off laughing again. Once again waiting for their laughter to die down, Joy stares from Roxas to Jun. That was what Joy would always do with Roxas. She would always stand up to him even though he was pretty much taller than herself and they would always play around like that, just like the way Jun just did.

After another moment, Roxas turned back to Joy who gave him the faintest of smiles, hurt flickering in her violet eyes, "I'm pretty sure that Jun is all the help you'll need Roxas, she's strong and smart." Taking Cookie in her arms, she got up off her bed and started heading for the door that Roxas left open. "I'm going to Amy's; she wanted to see Cookie but stay in her dorm. That lazy girl," Joy comments, shaking her head at the thought of her best friend. "I'll see you guys later."

"Okay, bye Joy," they both say and they see Joy leave, closing the door behind her.

"Hey Amy," the door opened, and Amy let in her best friend as the feline that in her arms jumped out of the hold and ran toward Amy's bed.

"Hey, what's up?" Amy greeted her, closing the door and returning to the computer.

Joy noticed Olette wasn't present before replying, "Nothing. Roxas and Jun is in the dorm, so I thought I would come in here," Joy answered her, taking a seat in Amy's bed.

"She's in there again?!" Amy exclaimed, spinning around in her seat with an angry expression.

"Yeah, she's in there," Joy answered.

Surprisingly, Amy said, "but she's suppose to be in here!"

Joy looked at her best friend in confusion, "Why is she suppose to be in here?"

"We were going to watch yaoi-ey," Amy exclaimed once for the day before continuing, "she knows this one website with a lot of yaoi in it!"

Joy's face saddened a bit, "Ah, I see. Well, I guess she just wanted to help Roxas with packing before coming here." She didn't know why, but Joy felt she should defend Jun's position before Amy decided to explode on her when Jun did come here. "I'll go and remind her," she finally said, getting up from the bed and heading toward the door.

"Wait, where you going?" Amy asked confused.

"I'm going back to my dorm and then going to the library." Joy looked back at Amy who still looked confused, "I'm going to start doing Ms. Nahine's math packet."

"But we have daysbefore school even starts!"

"Better start now then procrastinate," Joy taunts Amy before laughing and leaving the dorm.

Amy stared at the door. "She left without Cookie…"

"Meow?"
In dorm #317, Roxas and Jun rummaged through Roxas' dresser and closet, throwing what he would need for the trip on his bed. Searching in his closet was Jun, throwing on the bed random clothes. "Why are most of your clothes the same?" Taking out another white shirt-jacket from the closet, she held it against her body and faced Roxas.

Roxas looked at her and stared at the jacket before looking down at his own. Shrugging, he answered, "Maybe because I like it and most of the time, too lazy to put my jacket in the laundry shoot every single day."

Jun gave the boy a weird expression before turning her gaze back to the shirt-jacket. Roxas stared at Jun with a reproachful look when her lips curved up into a chesire-like grin and she started putting on the clothing. "What are you doing, Jun?" After a few more moments, Jun had successfully put on the shirt-jacket and continued to grin at him.

Roxas stared at the girl wearing the jacket, recalling the first person to ever have done that.

"Hey Roxas, is this shirt-jacket really comfortable?"

I turned to my right from my seat at the desk and saw Joy with my favorite white shirt-jacket wrapped around her torso as if she were cold yet it was warm and sunny today. "I guess so, why?"

The unique-colored haired female stared at herself in the mirror with the jacket still on. I liked the way she was wearing my jacket, it gave her a nice look to herself. After looking at herself in the mirror, she walked in front of my closet which I just noticed now that it has been opened and saying, "Because you have like five pairs of the same shirt-jacket!"

"I like that jacket and style, it fits me, so why not buy more?" Hey, I'm a lazy guy, at least part of the time.

Joy looked into the closet before turning back to me, "Since you have so many shirt-jackets," she closed my closet door shut and gave me a toothy-grin, "I'm going to keep one!"

And since then, she's always had that shirt. If Roxas was to look into Joy's closet (which he wouldn't due to privacy issues), he would find his shirt-jacket hanging up in her closet, slightly used from the times she's worn it.

"Check it out Roxas," snapping out of his thoughts, Roxas turned his attention back to the girl in front of him, "'I'm Roxas, I like wearing this jacket that I hate having to put in the laundry shoot to get washed because I like to be dirty,'" Jun imitated Roxas as she made body gestures to mock the boy.

"Okay, firstly, it's a shirt-jacket; second, I don't hate, I'm just too lazy; and third, I sooooo do not sound like that!" And with that, Roxas darted for Jun. Quick to react, she quickly saw and averted away, laughing. Running around the room and laughing moments later, Roxas finally caught Jun, wrapping his arms around her including her arms. "Gotcha!"

Joy chose that very moment to turn the doorknob and enter the dorm. Looking up, she caught sight of both Roxas and Jun laughing with Roxas wrapping himself around Jun. They didn't hear the door open as they continued to laugh. Joy stared at the two, feeling her eyes watering.

Smirking, Roxas picked up his pace and jumped, "Gotcha!" And they both tumbled to the ground next to each other. Joy's beret had fallen off her head as she and Roxas laughed their heads off.

Selphie, seeing the two first, said to the group in a voice that they only could hear, "hey, check it out! Roxas and Joy fell inlove!" The group laughed silently as they watched the pair.

Holding back tears, Joy walked to her bed and grabbed her backpack which contained her schoolwork. "Joy!" It was amazing that once she had gotten her stuff ready, the pair finally notice her.

Roxas still had his arms around Jun, and Joy felt the tears in her eyes threatening to fall and show the oblivious boy exactly how she feels about him. How hurt she is just by him holding her like that. How she hated to admit that she was jealous, jealous that she has never been held like that to express affection. Roxas has done that to her, but it must've meant nothing to him. And the worst part was that Roxas was so oblivious to Joy's feelings.

Because she didn't want him to know. Putting up a smile, she said, "Don't mind me, I just came here to get my backpack." Slinging the strap over her shoulder, Joy collected her text books in her arms and started heading for the exit.

Roxas unwrapped his arms from around Jun and called out to her, "Joy, this isn't what it looks like."

"It's alright," Joy says, turning around from mid-step out the door, "I won't say anything." Going out the door, she added in a teasing way, "Don't do anything too major!"

'Literally.'

Roxas saw a glistening tear fall from the corner of Joy's eyes as she closed the door behind her.

Silence filled the dorm once again as Roxas and Jun stood there.

Roxas was obviously oblivious to Joy's feelings that were harboring in her heart. But, once he saw that tear fall from her violet eyes, he felt like something had stabbed within himself. Just seeing that one single tear caused his body to feel with guilt and regret. Why?

"Hey Roxas, do you want to wear this for the trip?"

Roxas whirled around to face Jun, who was holding up another one of his shirts next to his bed. "Um, maybe."

Jun shrugged at him and put the shirt in the 'thinking-about-it' pile.

The library of Twilight High was a large room to fit at least one-fourth of the student body containing rows and rows of shelves filled with hundreds, maybe thousands of books: fiction, nonfiction, textbooks, etc. All around the library were tables arranged so they were placed in different areas. This is the kind of library where it crosses between being either loud or silent. Today, only a few students were seated at the tables, wandering around the maze of book-shelves, even the librarian sat at her counter near the library entrance, thoroughly uninterested in being here during school break.

Among the numerous tables near the entrance was Stacie and Kristina, whispering amongst themselves while trying to do their homework, but are easily being distracted from their work as they continued to chat with each other. It seemed that the issue the two were talking about was more important than their schoolwork.

"What should we do about the J.R.J. triangle?" Kristina asked her friend who sat next to her.

Yes; it was an issue that is very appropriate to talk about.

"J.R.J. triangle?"

If only someone would know what they're talking about. Kristina stared at Stacie with a look that mocked her companion.

"Oh! Joy - Roxas - Jun triangle?"

"No, Stacie!" Kristina sarcastically replied.

Stacie glared at the girl, "Shut up." Returning back to her paper, she asked, "What can we do about them?"

"Well, we can try to convince Joy to confess to Roxas before anything serious gets in between him and Jun."

"Think about it, Kristina; this is Joy we're talking about. It'd take her forever just to admit to Roxas, and especially what's going on with the whole Jun thing, she's really not going to say anything." Stacie laid her head on her hand, in thinking mode, "Would Roxas even let anything happen between him and Jun?"

"Hm…it's a possibility."

A pair of textbooks landed on the table and the two girls faced forward and saw their unique-colored haired friend take a seat in front of them while placing her backpack upon the table as well. There was no greeting from the usual joyful friend; just silence as she took out her materials from her bag and quickly looked down on her work.

"What, no 'hi'?" Kristina asked her friend.

"Hi." Just like that. Her voice held no happiness and her tone didn't detain its usual cheeriness.

"You okay Joy?"

"Yes, I'm fine," Joy lied, looking up to her two friends with a smile.

Kristina and Stacie stared at their friend in confusion.

That smile.

There was something wrong with that smile.

Unlike Joy's genuine smile that showed teeth and made everyone else smile with her, the smile that was displayed on her face was … fake. No glee, no bliss, no content… nothing. It contained no trace of joy whatsoever.

It was a broken smile.

A smile that had never been present on Joy's face. Ever.

And they both knew that.

"What's wrong Joy? Did something happen?" Stacie asked.

Joy shook her head whilst giving her a confused look.

Don't lie.

"Come on Joy," Kristina said this time, "We know something happened. Is it Roxas again?"

"Speaking of Roxas!" Joy exclaimed but was hushed by the librarian. Lowering her voice, she continued, "I think Roxas and Jun are getting together."

"What?!"

"Sh!" The librarian hushed to Kristina and Stacie. They quickly apologized.

"What are you talking about, Joy?" Stacie questioned her.

"Yeah! I just saw them have another one of their little moments together in the dorm. I think that one sets off the sparks once again; Roxas was holding Jun behind her around the waist, and they were laughing. Now that says something."

Just going back on the memory of seeing the two not long ago, Joy felt the chills run down her arms as if a rain cloud was over her head, rain pouring out of it onto her. "Oh… look; it's raining outside. That's weird; does it usually rain in the winter during the afternoon?"

Neither Kristina nor Stacie answered her. Instead, Kristina said, "Joy, you know that Roxas likes you, right?"

Joy faced Kristina, "Of course I know that. That's why he's my friend."

"No Joy." Stacie bluntly said, "Roxas really likes you."

A dash of hope filled her heart before being covered with her painful truth. "No, he doesn't! Weren't you just listening to me?"

"But, he does like you Joy! He's like obsessed with you!" Kristina tried to convince her friend.

"Would the three girls please be quiet and remain quiet, or else I will kick you out of this library!" The librarian warned the girls' table.

The three girls nodded at the woman and Joy turned to her friends. Whispering, she said, "I don't think you can really make me believe what you're telling me. So, forgetting about that, let's leave before we get in even more trouble."

Kristina and Stacie sighed at the stubborn girl and followed her, putting their stuff away and getting ready to leave.
Roxas hurriedly walked down the halls to the library, his best friend Hayner at his side. Roxas needed to see, to see if Joy was alright. He did not miss that tear fall from her eye, he felt the pain in his chest, and he knew that she's crying… at least he thought she was.

"Roxas, you need to tell Joy," Hayner advised to Roxas. Hayner knew what's been happening and he wants something happening before Roxas even thinks about Jun being back in his life. Hayner admits that Jun is way different than the year before, but that doesn't mean anything. That was the past, and so is she. Joy and Roxas have been so much more than Jun has ever had with his best friend. In the last three months, Roxas and Joy have gone through so much together; those three months of memories equal one year of memories between Roxas and Jun.

Even though Roxas knows almost everything about Joy, Hayner knows one thing the girl. She's been hurt before. Unlike Roxas who was accepted by Jun in the beginning, Joy has been rejected and hurt from the very beginning. And if this Jun problem continues, then Joy will be hurt in the end as well. And Hayner… no, everyone doesn't want to see Joy get hurt once more.

Everyone is trying to make this right.

Everyone except the three important people that this problem is centered on: Roxas, Joy, and Jun.

"That's why I'm looking for her!" Roxas exclaimed at his best friend, "To tell her what happened in the dorm - "

"No, that's not what I'm talking about Roxas!" Being four feet away from the open-door entrance to the library, Hayner grabbed his friend's arm to stop him, "You need to tell her how - "

"Well, look here," the two best friends turned their heads and found Seifer and his friends walking toward the two with the overconfident smirk plastered on his face, "Roxas out and about without his girlfriend." Seifer had not yet seen Jun anywhere or heard of her.

"Leave us alone, Seifer. We have no time for you," Hayner spat as he glared at his enemy.

"No need to be jealous of Roxas, Hayner just 'cause you can't get a girl," Seifer remarked with a laugh, his goons behind him laughing along.

"Me jealous? I think you're the one that's jealous, because you wish you had a girlfriend," Hayner countered, taking a step toward Seifer in a challenging way.

"Hayner," Roxas warned his best friend, putting a hand on Hayner's shoulder to stop him from stepping farther.

"That's right Roxas, stop him. I'm sure you're girlfriend, Joy wouldn't like any violence."

"She is not my girlfriend." He replied coldly, glaring at Seifer. "We're just friends."

"Lies," Fuu inputs in the conversation.

Rai agreed with Fuu, "Yeah, ya know!" Vivi nodded his head as he continued to remain silent.

Seifer smirked, enjoying watching the blonde boy grow more and more flustered under his taunting. "We all know you like her."

"Lay off Seifer!" Hayner angrily yelled at the senior boy.

Seifer ignored the dirty-blonde, "You're just too chicken to tell her you'refeelings."

"Tch. Like I would really end up with her." Roxas narrowed his eyes. His words, as much as he hated to admit it, were true. Joy could be with any guy she wanted. It didn't make sense to him that she would choosehim.

Joy froze, about to take a step out the door from the library. A pained expression was present on her face and Stacie and Kristina had equal looks of shock on their own. Joy's lips were parted as if words were to escape from her mouth, but instead, her bottom lip started to quiver. It wasn't exactly the words that hurt her, but the way that it was expressed. The words weren't spoken in a way of denial that Joy wished they were… no… this was cold, straightforward, and most of all, painfully honest.

"Roxas!" Kristina exclaimed, causing both groups to finally take notice of the three girls standing at the door.

The aforementioned person took one look at Joy and in the next five seconds, heard his words echo back at him. Realization dawned on him as he winced at the double meaning of his words; not that she would never want him, but that he would never want her. Kristina's and Stacie's gaped mouths were the only things that made Roxas know instantly that he was in trouble. Turning his attention to the smaller girl, he flinched at the sight of her.

Joy was looking at Seifer with a small smile, eyes glistening and clutching her books tightly against her chest.

Pretend.

Roxas had never seen Joy like this.

"Seifer, you should know we're just friends." Closing her eyes in attempt to show she wasn't about to breakdown, she continued, "Besides, he has Jun, so don't try to twist things around from past observations." Starting to walk away from the scene, she tried to threaten Seifer like she would normally do, but this time… her voice held no intimidating tone (even though Seifer never was intimidated by the shorter girl), "If you do, you'll e-end up being six…feet under…" She finished, her voice quivering at the end. Sticking out her tongue at him before whirling around, a tear escaping from her eye, she scurried off.

"Joy!" Roxas tried to call after her.

The girl turned around with closed eyes and a smile was once again on her face.

A broken smile.

"I'll see you later, Roxas," she simply said in a sweet tone before walking face-forward away.

It hurt, seeing her walk away like that. And it hurt even more knowing that he was the one that caused that pain on her. Roxas was about to run after Joy if Hayner hadn't grabbed his arm another time. Roxas looked at his best friend who shook his head, signaling for him not to run off after the girl.

"Jerk." Roxas and Hayner turned their heads back to their rivals, Fuu the one to make the comment with her emotionless expression.

"So you dumped Joy for your ex…" Seifer started.

"That's pretty low, ya know?" Rai crossed his arms in a disapproving way, shaking his head at Roxas, a surprising look of solemn across his tanned features.

"That is low, even for you, Roxas," Seifer pointed at Roxas, giving him a shameful look. "You dump a girl like that for a girl like Jun. For a second, I thought you were getting smarter, but it seems you were the same bonehead as you were before."

In a sense, Seifer wasn't insulting Roxas, he was scolding him.

Everyone knew the feelings that connected Roxas and Joy to each other, and that included Seifer and his gang. They know when something's right and they know when to stop, even if it is they're rivals. Joy (they had to admit), she was different than the others. She took their bullying and made it into a joke that made them laugh as well, some of the times. And she had an influence on them, even the emotionless Fuu.

Having the final word, Seifer and his gang took off, leaving Roxas hanging his head in shame and Hayner standing there for the first time, letting Seifer have the last word.

"How could you, Roxas?" Kristina scolded the blonde boy, walking up to him.

Stacie followed after her, "Yeah! And what did you mean that you wouldn't end up with Joy?"

"I didn't mean it like that!" Roxas protested.

"Well, too late for that now," Kristina said.

"What do you mean, 'you didn't mean it like that?'" Stacie asked Roxas.

Roxas sighed before answering, "I meant she would never choose a guy like me."

Kristina punched Roxas in the arm, causing Roxas to grab his arm in reaction (she wasthat strong), "Why didn't you say that in the first place?!"

"Ow! I don't know!" Roxas rubbed his arm in the area that Kristina had hit him.

"Geez Roxas, think next time!" Stacie lectured him.

Hayner put a hand on Roxas' shoulder gaining his attention, "I'm going to repeat so it really nails you in the skull; you're seriously a bonehead, Roxas."

Joy hadn't come back to the dorm. Her bed all nice and neat, her suitcase and travel bag ready for the next day's trip, and Cookie's bed unoccupied. Roxas stared at Joy's side of the room from his seat on the bed. He had screwed up and he knew it; heck, he had to have Seifer rub it in his face as well. It was already nightfall and Joy still hadn't come back from wherever she had gone to. An apprehensive look overtook Roxas' features as he tried to forget the ideas of Joy being kidnapped again and the other idea of her running away from here.

Roxas felt so guilty about earlier. It was as if something was eating at his heart as punishment for hurting a girl like Joy. He knew that Joy had taken his words opposite of what he meant to say. He saw that tear in her eye and that one little tear, once again, made him feel so stupid. He had hurt the girl twice on the same day, and he knew Joy was a fragile girl.

Joy was a strong girl, but she always kept things bottled within herself. And one day, she's really going to breakdown… or maybe she already has. The thought of her crying off somewhere made Roxas feel like a knife had stabbed his heart. The thought of her being sad because of him made him feel useless.

Click.

Roxas quickly sat upright in his bed and turned his attention to his door. The object slowly opened and before Roxas could fully see the person, he called out, "Joy?"

The door widened and there was standing Olette in her PJ's, "It's just me, Olette. Joy is sleeping in my dorm tonight." Roxas didn't need to ask why; he knew the answer already. Roxas watched as Olette walked over to Joy's closet and reached up, grabbing the sleeping bag that was rolled up neatly. Closing the closet door, she walked toward the dorm's door. Turning around, she said, "Roxas, you're a bonehead." And with that, she left the dorm, leaving Roxas to fall back onto his bed, guilt once again filling up his head.

I hope this chapter made you feel like crying : That's what I was mostly aiming for xPP Sorry for updating so late, I've been sooo busy and it's really hard to find the right words to describe what one is feeling. Authors, like me XP, really kill to put in the right word. So, hoping you likedthis chapter ! I enjoyed writing it! hehehe...Sorry there hasn't been any chapter previews; it's really unnecessary for me to put a preview because most of the time, what I put in the chapter preview doesn't happen really in the next chapter. So, sorry for that little mess up. Anyway, keep waiting for the next chapter! Keep thinking 'what's going to happen with Joy and Roxas!??!?!'

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