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 and this chapter may seem a bit rushed, you tell me xP

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

Claimer: I own Joy, Amy, Cookie, Stacie, Kristina, Jun, Fernando, and Chives.

Thank you for the reviews: -sO-aSiAn-, haru-teri22, shadowoflight22, strawberyla, an anonymous person, Evil-Sama, Minakui, AmyRoseAi, japaneserocker, my friend Marissa, For All The Broken Hearts and Chained Memories.

Go to profile to see what the dorm look likes, the bus seating and the table seating. Really helpful to understand how everything it set up in the story.

Chapter Fifteen
Covetous Actions & Words

"I'm back; how is she?" Olette closed the door behind her and entered her dorm.

Kristina and Stacie were still on the floor, laying out their sleeping bags as Amy continued to sit on the chair in front of the computer, watching the scene. Olette shifted her gaze to the person lying on Amy's bed, Joy.

The pouring rain that continued to tap at the window seemed to reflect how Joy felt that night. It was as if the clouds were crying with Joy as she laid upon the bed, facing the wall, her face unseen by the others in the room. Nevertheless, if they did, they would have seen the silent tears flowing from her eyes full of pain to the soft pillow underneath her head.

Amy turned to Olette and gave her a blank look, "The same as before." She pointed at the sleeping bag in Olette's arms. Catching the hint, Olette threw the sleeping bag to Amy who caught it securely and started setting it up in between hers and Olette's bed. Once she was done, she turned to the girl lying on her bed, "Joy, your bed is ready." Hearing no response, she stood up on her knees and leaned over Joy to find the girl sleeping, dried up tears still close to her eyes while Cookie laid snuggly next to her master. "She cried herself to sleep," Amy informed the others.

"I've never seen her so down like this," Olette admitted, taking a seat on her bed while gazing at her sleeping friend, "not even when she sees Roxas and Jun together…"

"Psh, obviously," Stacie exasperated in a hushed voice, "Roxas said the most stupidest thing in the world."

"Well, Roxas did say he didn't mean it…" Kristina said.

"I meant she would never choose a guy like me."

"Kristina, if he really meant to say something else, he would've said thatinstead."

The girls swirled around to find Joy sitting on the edge of the bed, looking as if she was about to stand up. Her head was hanging, her short sea foam blue-green locks falling before her features in an attempt to cover her tear-stained face.

Kristina gazed at her friend, "But Joy, you know how Roxas is…"

"Yeah, he's a hopeless idiot," Stacie blurted out.

Everyone agreed with Stacie with a giggle. Everyone except for Joy, that is.

The corners of her lips didn't even twitch upwards. All she did was let out a sniffle as she rubbed at her eyes.

"You must really love him, huh, Joy?" Olette asked the girl.

"I don't love him," Joy answered with a slightly annoyed tone.

"Don't lie, Joy," Amy told her best friend, giving her a look, "If you didn't love him, you wouldn't be crying." Amy remembered before they came to Twilight High that every time Joy had been cast off by some crush, she'd end up forgetting about the boy and end up with a smile. But now, she's crying as if Cookie had just died.

The raven-haired short girl put a comforting hand on Joy's, "I've been best friends with you since the first day we met and have lived with you since 9th grade. I know you haven't cried like this for any guy, so why are you crying now?"

"Maybe because Joy loves Roxas?" Stacie hinted to Joy, trying to have her confess her feelings at least to her friends.

Joy didn't give an answer immediately.

But when she did, she looked up and everyone saw another tear roll down her cheek.

"Because he's the first to ever say something like that." And with that, Joy stood up and headed toward the bathroom.

Amy sighed after her.

"She's still lying…"
The morning had finally come.

Today was the day of the Annual Snow Trip.

When everyone was getting their luggage and loading it onto their personal bus, Roxas Hikari laid in his bed, eyes closed but still awake, not noticing that it was already a new day.

He seemed to be in very deep thought. His brows furrowed as if he was angered by something. "Why am I so stupid?" Indeed, he was very angry by something.

His thoughts and feelings were interrupted when he heard a click from his door and he instantly sat upright. His head already turned toward the door, he saw it open, followed by his violet-eyed roommate. "…Joy!"

Joy looked at the blonde on his bed and for a second, Roxas saw something flicker in her eyes before she grinned saying, "You're not up yet, Roxas? Shame shame!" Doing the shame gesture on her hand, she left the door opened as she hopped to her bed where her luggage and backpack sat upon, "Everyone's already putting their stuff on the bus, which I still can't believe is Kairi's and Namine's, but anyway," strapping her backpack over her head and gripping a hand on her luggage, she headed for the door, "let's go Roxas! Before we leave you!"

As Joy started heading for the door, she heard a "wait!" and something grabbing her arm. Turning around, she found Roxas had stood up and was the one that had a firm grip around her upper arm.

She looked at him in confusion, "What is it?"

Roxas flickered his eyes toward his necklace and found his insides churn a bit when he still found the golden locket continuing to hang from her neck. "About yesterday…"

"What about yesterday?" She asked him innocently. "He's probably just going to apologize, or lie saying it's not true, or something. Oh well, why avoid it? It's bound to happen anyway…"

Roxas' grip loosened as he continued in a low voice, "I didn't --"

"Roxas!" The two looked toward the door to find that Jun had entered in on the scene. She stopped for a second and the grin that was displayed on her features started turning into a frown. "Oh, whoops. Did I interrupt something?"

Noticing the frown, Joy quickly replied, "No, of course not. Roxas, I'm sure Jun can help you get ready with your stuff." Removing her arm from Roxas' grip, she walked pass by Jun and out the door, calling out, "I'll see you two at the bus!"

Roxas stared after Joy as he mentally sighed. "I'm guessing I did come at the wrong moment." Roxas looked up at Jun who gave him a guilty smile and shaking his head, he got his stuff ready.
"Geez Selphie! What do you have in here?!" Hayner complained as he and Riku carried Selphie's humungous suitcase into the bus.

"Just a few of my things," Selphie said from the window inside the bus in an innocent tone.

"And by few, she means 'countless,'" Kairi told the boys while she grinned, also inside the bus.

"I'll say," Demyx agreed as he waited for the two boys to get out of the way so he can load another luggage into the bus.

Inside the bus already was Fernando, Kristina, Stacie, Selphie, Pence, Namine, Marluxia, Larxene, Olette, Kairi and the bus driver. Outside the bus helping with loading the luggage and suitcases were Riku, Demyx, Hayner, Sora, Axel, Zexion, and Amy. Roxas, Jun, and Joy were the only ones not outside.

Scratch that. Roxas and Jun were the only ones not outside.

"I'm here! Here's my luggage!" Joy shouted as she walked quickly to the bus. She dropped her luggage while rubbing her covered arms, "Gosh! It's cold!!" Joy started to shiver in the low temperature climate.

"Obviously, it's winter!" Amy teased her best friend. Joy merely stuck her tongue out. Amy walked up to Joy and whispered in her ear, "Are you okay?"

"Of course," Joy told her. Handing her backpack to Amy, she asked, "Can you put my backpack in the bus for me? I forgot something really fast." Her backpack off, Joy was already running off back toward the school building.

"Don't take too long!" Amy yelled out to her. Amy turned around and shared a look with Hayner before getting onto the bus, Riku following her.

Selphie once again poked her head out of the bus window and had one of her famous evil-scheming grins, "Hey guys, hurry up and get a seat so we can get Roxas and Joy to sit together."

Demyx stared at Selphie in slight confusion, "Why? They'll most likely end up sitting next to each other, won't they?"

Hayner hurriedly started throwing the remaining luggage into the bus, "I agree with Selphie, they need to sit next to each other."

"Why's that, Hayner?" Sora asked as he too started throwing the luggage in.

Hayner didn't answer. "We're here!" Jun and Roxas was running toward them.

"Finally!" Axel exasperated at the two. "I knew you'd sleep-in on an important day as this," he commented to Roxas.

Hayner walked up to the two, "And since you two took forever, we're going to go on the bus while you two load up your own luggage."

Before the two could protest, Hayner, Sora, Axel, Zexion, and Demyx were running inside the bus (except for Zexion who merely walked in). Jun and Roxas stared after them before Jun looked down at her luggage… and bag… and backpack… and purse… and her suitcase. She left all her bags except for her purse and backpack and quickly said, "Thanks Roxas!"

"What?!" Roxas stared after the girl with an open mouth and saw her stick out her tongue playfully before running in the bus. Roxas shook his head and started loading his - and apparently, Jun's - luggage and bags onto the bus compartment.

"Hey," Amy called out from the front seat of the bus, "did anyone bring a DS?"

Axel, Demyx, Stacie, Kristina, Namine, and Sora raised their hands while saying, "I did!"

"Awesome! Picto chat!!" Amy exclaimed, sitting back down in her seat next to Riku.

"Chives, you ready for the five-hour long drive up to the mountains?" Pence yelled to the bus driver.

"Ready as ever!" He replied with a grin, tipping his hat in the mirror to Pence, "But the question is, are you guys ready?"

"You bet we are!" Hayner shouted in glee as he took a seat at the back of the bus in between Olette and Marluxia.

"Meow!" Cookie was sitting on Stacie's lap, agreeing with Hayner as she continued to play with Stacie, who in turn laughed at the cat.

"Cookie's ready!"

"Still waiting for some slow-pokes though," Zexion calmly said.

"I'm here!" Jun shouted as she entered the bus. She started putting her bag in the compartments above and took a seat behind Riku next to the window.

"Where's Roxas?" Axel asked the girl.

"He's still out there, putting away the luggage."

Larxene turned in her seat and looked at Jun, "And you already stuffed your stuff in?"

Jun shook her head with an 'innocent' smile, "Roxas offered to put it away for me."

"He did?" Axel asked with an arched eyebrow. Jun nodded in response and proceeded to looking in her purse. Axel turned back to Larxene who sat next to him and they both shared a look.

"Selphie, stop talking to Tidus!" Olette complained from next to Selphie.

Selphie covered the receiver of her cell phone and glared at Olette, "Sheesh, it's not my fault; Tidus is the one that called me," sticking out her tongue, Selphie went back to her call.

"Selphie, quit talkin' to your boyfriend!" Hayner teased the brunette with the cell phone.

At that comment, Selphie quickly started to turn pink, "He's not my boyfriend!"

Kairi turned around in her seat in front of Olette and said, "That's such a lie, Selphie. Admit it, you like him."

"I do not!" Selphie denied, her cheeks turning crimson.

Kairi poked the girl's cheeks and grinned, "How cute, Selphie's blushing!"

Everyone in the back laughed at the girl as she tried to continue talking to Tidus on her cell phone. Demyx was listening to his iPod, drumming on his knees to the beat while Pence who sat next to him was preparing his camera. Namine was in her aisle seat next to Fernando, drawing in her sketch book to pass the time while Fernando pestered Stacie for her iPod.

"Stacie, please?"

"No." Stacie was becoming irritated.

"Please?" Fernando wasn't about to give up.

"Don't make me hurt you, Fernando," Stacie threatened as she readied to attack the blonde with her travel pillow.

All of a sudden, an iPod was dangling in front of Fernando's face, "Here Fernando, just listen to mine for now." With a grunt, Fernando took Kristina's iPod and started listening to it. "Oh what, no 'thank you?'" Kristina asked him, but he didn't hear her as he was already listening to the music on high volume. Kristina pouted as she sat back down next to Marluxia. Everyone was accounted for except for Roxas and Joy.

"What is taking Joy?" Amy asked herself, impatiently.

"Probably rushing back to the bus right now," Riku replied to her, his eyes still fixed on Amy's DS in his hands as he played a video game.

"I hope so."

Axel who sat in the seats next to Amy's turned around in his seat to face Zexion who was sitting next to the window. "Hey Zexion," he called out to him.

Unclosing his eyes, Zexion fixed his gaze to Axel, "What?"

"This could be trouble," Axel told the blue-haired guy with a low voice, glancing over at Jun. Zexion also turned his gaze to the girl who continued rummaging through her purse, seemingly looking for something within its contents.

"What do you want me to do this time?" Zexion awaited for Axel's plan as he sat back in a comfortable position, closing his eyes as he listened for his part of the plot to come up.
Roxas was closing the compartment of the luggages when he heard the faint voice of Joy, "Wait! Don't leave me!!"

Roxas turned around once he had successfully closed the compartment and grinned at the running figure of his roommate, "In a rush now, are we?" Roxas had noticed something poking out of her jacket's pocket before she reached him, bending over to catch her breath.

"Be - quiet!" Joy replied in between pants as she reached Roxas.

Roxas stared at his roommate, a tentative expression on his face before asking, "Ready to go?"

"Now I am!" Joy told the boy, grinning up at him. "Let's go!"

"Hey Joy?" Roxas called out to her, stopping her from running into the bus. Joy looked back at him in confusion, "Sit with me?"

Joy tilted her head a bit before replying, "Oh, uh, sure?" Joy shrugged her shoulders before starting to walk into the bus.

Roxas frowned a bit, "She's avoiding looking into my eyes… she's acting as if yesterday never happened…"

"Ah, here are the slow-pokes!" Chives, the bus driver, exclaimed, letting the teens in the bus know that they were finally about to depart. At that moment, Amy warned Axel as he handed Zexion some cash before he and Amy sat back down in their seats.

Joy laughed and started to apologize as she climbed in the bus, "Sorry guys, I went to check my mail."

"Don't want to leave Joy behind," Roxas said after, following behind her.

"Joy! You're finally here!" Amy shouted happily with a grin.

Joy and Roxas noticed the only available seats left were next to Jun and the seat next to Zexion in the second row. Joy looked from one seat to the other before turning around to face Roxas. "Um… well, I guess we can - whoa!"

Zexion had all of a sudden pulled on Joy's arm and had - in a way - forced her to sit down next to him. Both Joy and Roxas looked at Zexion in mild surprise. He just gave both of them a blank look before saying, "Just sit down so we can go."

The blue-green haired girl sweat dropped at that comment and looked back at Roxas, "Maybe on the ride back or something?"

Roxas watched as Joy shifted to a more comfortable position as she poked Axel in the head playfully and when he looked back at her, she merely grinned innocently. The blonde still standing up gave Zexion a slight glare who was merely facing the window with unopened eyes.

"Come on, Roxas! This is your seat," Jun informed the blonde as she yanked him down into the seat next to him.

"Everybody ready?!" Chives shouted, his hand already on the stick-shift.

"YEAH!"

"Off we go!" Chives pushed the gear-shift and the bus growled as it turned on.

VROOOMMMMMM !

And as the bus started to move, the teens awaited for the events that will happen on snowy Mt. Radiant.

"Hey Joy, I have your DS," Amy gave Joy's white DS to her.

"Oh, I was looking for it," Joy said, reaching for it. "Are you playing tetris?"

"Yeah, wanna play?"

"Okay."

"You two going to play tetris?" Axel asked.

"Yeah, want to play too, Axel?" Joy asked the red-head in front of her as she turned on her game.

"No, but I bet Larxene would," Axel turned to his bus-buddy and nudged, "huh, Larxene?"

Larxene stared at the DS in Axel's hands before grabbing it and saying, "Shrimp, shortie, you're both going down!"

"We'll just see about that!" Amy exclaimed and the three girls were off playing their little tetris tournament.

After a few moments, Zexion has opened his eyes and registering what's going on, he looked over at Joy's DS and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Playing tetris, obviously."

Roxas was quite bored on the bus since it had been an hour since they had left the school. Jun was talking on her cell phone at the moment, so he had his eyes close, but when he heard Zexion talking to Joy, he snapped his eyes open and turned his head a bit to see Zexion looking at the handheld in Joy's hands closely, too close for Roxas' liking.

"That wasn't a smart move, Joy," Zexion told the girl.

"Be quiet," Joy merely said to him, laughing a bit knowing that he was probably right.

At that moment, on Joy's screen, it read 'You Lose'.

"NOOOOO!" Joy exclaimed, pouting a bit.

"Told you."

Joy turned her head to her seat-mate and glared at him. Zexion merely looked back with the same smirk he had on when she made the wrong move in the game. Seeing his smirk, Joy ceased her glare and instead, pushed him playfully, saying, "I hate you, Zexion."

"Of course you do," he replied sarcastically.

"Yes I do. See? Even you agree with me," she said to him grinning.

Zexion stared at her with a fixed expression before responding, "You keep telling yourself that." Patting her head as if she were a cat, he turned back to the window and crossed his arms once again.

Joy pouted at him once more and then turns back to her game.

Despite what normal people would think, Roxas knew Zexion. And he knew that Zexion was flirting with Joy. And that was the reason why Roxas' hands were in small fists at the moment. He was going to keep an eye on those two.

"Roxas!" The blonde boy abruptly turned his head - almost causing him whiplash - to Jun to find that she was off her cell and now facing him. "Are we going to do Secret Santa like last year again?"

"Yeah, we do it every year. Why?"

"Oh, just wondering." Jun turned back to the window, but she still glanced back at Roxas as she pondered aloud, "I hope someone gets me a really great gift this year."

Roxas arched his eyebrow at the girl. Noticing Jun's strange behavior, he recognized her actions and knew where she was going with this, "What kind of present would that be?"

"Uh, I don't know, maybe something like a - "

"NOOOOOO!" Amy's voice was heard throughout the entire bus.

"And that is how you play tetris," Larxene boasted as she smirked, giving back the handheld game to Axel.

"Wow Amy, you got owned!" Axel exclaimed, laughing at the raven-haired girl.

"Shut up," Amy whined, stomping her feet in anger. She was usually an expert at this game, but Larxene had beaten her like it was nothing.

"Calm down, Amy, it's just a game," Riku cooed to his girlfriend in an attempt to make the girl at peace once again. He was failing.

Amy continued to complain, "No! Not until I beat Larxene!"

"Forget it, once is enough. Besides, I'm pretty sure Joy doesn't want to play anymore." Larxene didn't take a glimpse behind her but when Amy looked back to check it out, she found that Joy had fallen asleep in her seat, her DS on her lap, loosely held in her unclenched hands.

"Dip!" Chives warned as the bus reduced speed, dropped into a dip and back to level.

That little drop had caused Joy's head to wobble before falling onto Zexion's shoulder, and that's the reason why Roxas felt his fists clench tightly. He started to feel his blood burn up inside him as he glared at Zexion out of the corner of his eyes. Zexion felt the glare on him and smirked inside, as well as Axel, and started running his hand gently through Joy's hair, making the sleeping girl doze off peacefully.

The beast within Roxas roared in his heart as he glared at Zexion's affection for Joy. But when the angered blonde glanced over at the sleeping girl, his rage started to lessen upon seeing the young girl at peace.

Joy's unique blue-green hair fell around her face in a way to show that she was at peace. Her closed eyes and her lips parted, her even breaths in sync with her rising chest. Joy's eyelashes quavered prettily; she was too gentle, too soft, too secured.

This was a rare site for Roxas for he was usually the one to fall asleep first since Joy stayed up on the computer in their dorm. Roxas didn't exactly know when she fell asleep or what she looked like when she was already sleep because she was always awake before him.

Roxas was captivated. His bright, immature yet mature, innocent unique-colored friend now looked dangerously fragile, as if a single touch would shatter her into a million pieces.

Just staring at this girl, Roxas suddenly felt something stir in his gut; he felt protective, possessive over her, because he didn't want anyone to see the way her parted lips quiver with her soft breaths, or the way she started to curl up defensively, or the way that her hair reflected against the snow in the background.

The harmony radiating off the girl made the corners of Roxas' lips twitch up and would have turned into a smile if he hadn't seen the hand upon Joy's hair. The hand that ran down her shoulder-length hair. The hand that ran its fingers along her mane and then back up to do again. The hand that made Roxas' smile turn upside down into a frown, his fists clenched once more. The hand that he envied.

Many people in the front few rows of the bus saw this and one of them smirked as they thought, "Keep going, Zexion. It's working!"

Not taking notice of the little event happening behind him, the bus driver informed the passengers, "Two and a half more hours everyone!"

"We're here!" Chives alerted the teenager passengers, waking them up from the silence.

"Already?!" Amy exclaimed whilst stopping in the middle of her DS game and looking out the window. "It's only been half an hour!" She yelled astonishingly.

"Actually, it's only been like an hour and a half," Axel told the girl.

"Whatever!" Amy exasperated with a huff.

"Keep your pants on, Amy, we're only having a breakfast stop," Axel explained to the dumbfounded girl. "None of us ate breakfast this morning." Getting up from his seat, Axel started to stretch as well as half of the others on the bus.

"We do this every year, Amy," Riku told his girlfriend, also standing up.

"Oh…" Amy responded quietly, giving him a sheepish look.

Riku chuckled at her and patted her head, "It's okay, you'll get used to it."

Larxene turned in her seat to look at Joy and smirked at what lay before her eyes, "Hey Zexion, you seem comfortable."

The front rows that were paying attention turned to the aforementioned boy and found that Joy was still asleep on his shoulder, him in a very comfortable position. It seems Chives forewarning did not wake her up from her slumber. Zexion was sitting there, with Joy's head on his shoulder, while he read in his book.

Roxas who had been staring at the two almost the whole time continued to glare at him icily. Black eyes next to him noticed the ordeal and her lips turned a very deep frown.

Axel also smirked on the inside as he saw Roxas' reaction and looked toward Zexion, "Great job, Zex, finally getting yourself a girl?"

Zexion looked up from his reading and stared at Axel for a moment. Taking a glimpse at the teen on his shoulder, he shrugged his shoulders and put his book down. The shifting caused Joy to stir a little until she suddenly made a low groaning noise.

When she didn't open her eyes, Zexion poked her forehead. Fluttering her eyes open, she discovered that everyone was staring at her. Sitting up properly, she started rubbing her eyes, "What happened?"

"Well, we're here at Seven Wonders about to eat breakfast," Axel answered her.

"Seven Wonders?" Joy turned her to the window to find a small restaurant open.

"It's the restaurant we always go to before our snow trip," Larxene said, stretching her arms.

"Oh, okay," Joy quietly responded as she stood up and started to stretch as well.

"So, Joy," Amy slyly said, "did you have a nice nap?"

Joy looked at Amy with a suspicious look before saying, "Yes…why?"

"Ah, I see," Amy nodded with a knowing grin. "So, Zexion's shoulder must be really comfortable, ne?"

Joy looked at her confused before realizing what she was implying, she quickly turned to Zexion who had his arms crossed and his eyes were closed. It seemed he was going to get up once Joy had moved out of the way. "Did I really sleep on your shoulder, Zexion?" Zexion shrugged his shoulders. "Did I??"

Before Zexion had to answer, Larxene intervened, "Calm down, shrimp, it doesn't even matter," she told the girl as she waved at her.

"Yeah, come on Joy, breakfast!" Amy exclaimed as she grabbed Joy's hand and dragged her out of the bus, running to the restaurant.

"What just happened?" Pence asked as he started walking to the open doors of the bus.

Roxas stared after Joy before shrugging his own shoulders at Pence and walking out of the bus.

"Wait up Roxas!" Jun called out to him as she followed after him.

Pence shot Axel a look, indicating to his camera that was hanging around his neck. Axel gave him the thumbs up and looked at Larxene. They both shared a look.

Riku looked from Axel to Larxene to Pence to Zexion and then to Roxas who was being followed by Jun. "Oh no… Axel," Riku said in a firm tone.

Axel knew that tone. He looked back at the long-hair guy and gave him an innocent grin. "What?" He asked innocently, the innocent grin still on.

"Wow,all of you are going to the mountains?" The manager of Seven Wonders asked the group of twenty.

The waiters and waitresses all had assemble four tables together to fit the teenagers. The restaurant was quiet for the moment, not many customers dining. The manager, Yuna, was a good friend to the regular teens and was a lovely woman of twenty-one.

"Yes, we all are," Kairi told the manager.

"How've you been, Yuna?" Namine asked the brunette.

Yuna turned her head to Kairi's sister and replied, "I've been okay. Business has been a little slow because of the season, but we're all okay. Rikku and Paine are in the back."

"Oh! Has Rikku beat my high score yet?!" Sora asked eagerly from his seat next to Kairi.

Yuna giggled at the energetic boy before answering, "No, she hasn't yet."

"Awesome! I'm still the best!" Sora jumped in his seat enthusiastically.

On the other side of the table, the teens were looking at their menus. Jun had to share a menu with Roxas since the "waitress forgot" to give her a menu.

"Roxas, I can't see the menu!" Jun whined cutely, leaning on Roxas shoulder more to "look" at the menu.

Roxas didn't say anything as he stared at the menu. He looked over his menu and across to Joy to find her staring at him before she looked down at her own menu. What was Roxas suppose to do? He knows that she's been seeing Jun's actions toward him, and he's starting to notice what Jun is aiming for. He was getting smart, but not at the right times. Roxas wanted to just comfort his roommate, to let her know that she was still in his heart. He felt as if he had pushed her away without knowing it. He was the villain in this story and he wish he wasn't.

"Zexion," Joy called to her seat-mate, still looking through the menu, "what should I get?"

"Food," he bluntly replied, his menu unopened in front of him. He already had the order he wanted in his brain, so he just rested his head on his hand as he waited for everyone to pick what they were going to order, a bored expression on his face.

Joy gave him an annoyed look, "Obviously!"

"You asked."

Joy huffed at him and stuck her tongue at him before looking down at her menu on the table. Zexion sighed as he lifted his head and pointed his finger to a breakfast dish on the menu. "…Shooting Star?"

Shooting Star

A slice of french toast cut up into a shape of a star, the cut up pieces trailing behind it. One of our special wonders. Also served with two eggs and hash brown (or bacon or sausage).

"Wow, Zexion actually taking some time away from his 'mysterious-aura' to helping someone, that's rare." Joy turned her head to find that a waitress was standing behind her, "Oh! The Shooting Star? Nice choice, it's one of my favorites on the menu!" The woman, with tied up blonde hair with a blue bandana-like material, was bending over and looking over Joy's shoulder, a pen and notepad out. "I also suggest the Chocolate Falls with that."

"What's that?" Joy questioned the server.

Rikku beamed at her customer and replied, "It's kind of like hot cocoa but even better!"

"Oh! Make that two!" Amy exclaimed from next to Joy.

Writing down the order, she heard someone call for her, "Hey Rikku!"

The blonde turned her head and grinned once she saw the pyro. "Ax-el! My home-boy!" She exclaimed and went to him, doing a little handshake in the process.

BANG!

Everyone turned their heads to the seats of Stacie and Kristina who were laughing along with Demyx, Marluxia, and Fernando (who was at the other end of the table). They saw Kristina holding her forehead in pain, yet still laughing her butt off. Stacie and Demyx were pointing at her while laughing hysterically.

"What happened?" Joy asked perplexed. The unique colored haired girl cocked her head to the side as she continued to stare at Kristina in bewilderment.

Kristina's laughter hadn't died down until after a few moments later as she still continued to hold her forehead. "Demyx was telling a joke, and like, it made me laugh so hard that I banged my head against the table."

Stacie and Demyx laughed once again, recalling the moment, but everyone else just continued to stare at them. It's like they say, 'you need to see it to believe it,' and in this case, it was 'you needed to see the moment in order to laugh at it.'

"Okay…well, how would you like your eggs?" Joy turned her head back to the server and found that Rikku looked back at her with a beaming smile.

"Over-easy please," Joy replied, smiling back.

"Okay then!" Rikku exclaimed enthusiastically.

I couldn't help but look up from my breakfast to the girl across from me. She was happily eating her breakfast, no troubles shown in her attitude. It was as if she had forgotten about the events of yesterday. Or maybe she was trying to forget them? I've known her for awhile. I know she doesn't want troubles getting in her life, and she doesn't want them burdening her shoulders. Is that what she's doing? Trying to forget what happened yesterday by trying to ignore me?

She just glanced at me. I stare back at her. She looks away.

It's been like that for awhile now. I would catch her taking a glance at me and when she noticed I saw her, she would look away. What did that mean? Was she just looking up from her food or was she trying to see what I was doing? I don't know.

But, she's always looking up right when Jun is doing something to me: stealing bits of my food, poking me in the head, trying to feed me, just trying to get my attention. It's kind of starting to bug me because… Joy use to do that to me. Emphasis on the 'use'.

…I miss her…

"I'm going to the bathroom," Joy told Amy as she got up.

Amy turned to her and ready to get up, she asked, "Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, it's okay," Joy shook her head and was about to walk away when she realized something. She turned to her blue-headed friend with an embarrassed look.

Before a word came out of her mouth, Zexion said, "That hallway over there, the second door on your left."

"Right," Joy replied, "thank you." Now, she was starting to head in that direction if someone hadn't stopped her.

"Wait, Joy!" She turned around to find that Jun had gotten back up and walking over toward her, "I'll join you." Joy nodded and the two girls proceed to the restroom.

Joy sat in her stall, doing her business as Jun was in front of the mirror, putting on her make-up. There was a silence between the two as both did their restroom needs quietly.

"Hey Joy," Jun called out to the girl on the toilet.

"Yeah?"

Taking out a pink lip gloss, Jun continued, "Where'd you get your necklace from?"

Joy immediately put a hand to her neck and found the locket still hanging. Walking out of the stall and toward the sinks, she answered, "From Roxas, why?"

Jun didn't answer but applied to the lip gloss to her pink lips. Smearing the gloss on, she took her time before actually answering. "It's mine." The applied lip gloss made the girl's lips shimmer a shiny pink.

"Huh?" Joy asked, not catching the last bit Jun had said as she wiped her hands on a paper towel.

Suddenly, Joy was forcefully turned to face a furrowed brow - angry - girl. Joy had a look of surprised shock contrary to Jun who had an infuriated look on her features. "That necklace," she pointed to the golden jewelry around Joy's neck, "is mine. And I'm going to take it back, so you better give it back to Roxas… or else."

If this was Amy or Kristina, or just someone else, Joy would be laughing taking it as a joke. But this was no joke, and that forceful jerk just reminded her of that night when the hostage came. And to know that the locket hanging from her neck was actually given to someone else before her made her heart jerk a bit. She thought that that necklace that had been hanging from her neck for weeks was made for her and only for her.

"That necklace is rightfully mine," Jun continued, taking the locket in her hand, "Roxas gave me this exact necklace right when we got together. That's why there's a 'J' engraved on it in the first place. It was for me. Not for you. Roxas only gave you that necklace because you reminded him of me." Jun gave Joy a smirk as she released the necklace from her hands, "But now I'm back, and I want him back." She jabbed a finger into Joy's chest, her height over-towering Joy's small figure, "So, quit making him look your way. Because of you, Roxas isn't thinking straight. Roxas doesn't need you, a small scaredy-cat," pointing to herself, she gave off a simper, "he needs a grown-up woman. I know you're past Joy, and Roxas doesn't deserve a loser like you. He's mine."

That made Joy rather upset. "Roxas is not an object--"

"Stay away from him," Jun intercepted with a venomous tone.

That tone was enough to scare the other girl in the room. The frightened look on Joy's face said it all. She was afraid of Jun. But more importantly, she was surprised. Joy slowly took in Jun's threat, taking in all the hurtful words that were just thrown at her like a nuclear bomb. That's when she realized something…

To Roxas, Joy was only a comparison of Jun?

Joy couldn't ponder on the answer. Jun gave a sneer to Joy before going to her purse that was perched on the sink counter, clicked it close and headed for the door. As she opened the object, she stopped for a second and finally said, "No one will like you, Joy. Oh, and don't tell anyone about our little 'meeting.'" And with that, Jun closed the door behind her leaving Joy still in shock in the lavatory.

A few moments passed as Joy continued to stand there. Shaking a bit, Joy reached a trembling hand to the locket.

"Not for you."

Feeling a tear waiting to fall from her eye, her hands reached behind her neck and unhooked the locket. The tear that had threatened to fall finally fell from her eye and slid down her soft cheek. Holding the locket in her hand, she stared down on it.

"No one will like you, Joy."

"This locket represents our golden friendship."

"Why…?"

Why only friends?

Why is it always only friends?!

Clutching the locket in her hand, she fell to her knees and felt the golden jewelry slip from her hands as she cried into her palms. Silent sobs was heard in the bathroom, yet reaching no one's ears outside of the door.

Roxas sat at the table, bored out of his mind. Jun and Joy were taking quite awhile in the ladies' room. Hearing a noisy purse, Roxas turned his head to find that Jun had claimed her seat back next to him. Looking across from him, he found the chair opposite him was still empty. Turning to Jun, he asked about his roommate.

"Oh, she's still in the ladies' room. Doing business," she replied, giving him a sickened look.

"Oh," Roxas merely said, ignoring the last bit of her answer.

Suddenly, Roxas felt a wave of distress. "Something doesn't feel right," the boy thought as he stared at the empty seat across from him. Another moment later, he felt sorrow fill his heart. Clutching his shirt where his heart would be, he felt himself feel nervous. "What's going on?"

"Roxas, what's wrong?" The blonde turned his head to Jun to find that she had latched onto his arm like a dog. "Do you need anything?"
Jun's words still ringing in Joy's ears as she continued to cry on the floor. She had broke down crying for the first time ever in her entire life. This was new to her, and she didn't even know what to think.

So, all those times of our spending time together only reminded Roxas of the times he spent with Jun? No wonder he said he wouldn't like me…

Ohohohoho! Bet you didn't expect that:) Hehehe... I know, this story seems like it's going toward Zexion, but it's not, I assure you. Also, you know, when I said 'Zexion' to my friend, she's all like 'Sexy?' and I'm like 'No! Not sexy, Zex-i-on! So funny xP

Sorry it took me forever to write this chapter! School problems (I'm failing english... weird huh?) and other problems. Also XMAS too!!!!

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