I'd like to start off with a thank you to the readers and friends that have given me the support and the pick-me-ups I needed to make this story better. I have my drive again and I hope you all really enjoy this one. As always, thank you.
Sunday morning finally rolled around but it didn't seem any different than any other day minus the classes. Everyone had made their way outside to avoid being near them. Axel, Sora and Riku sat under the shade of a tree in the front of the school. Two days had passed since Axel's unfortunate night out with Larxene.
"I don't understand why she would have used you of all people." Riku remarked.
"I mean seriously. I'm a hell of a lot hotter than you. And you have red hair." He continued, turning the remark into a joke. Axel rolled his eyes. Riku had droned on about the whole ordeal from the moment Axel had come back to tell them about it. Saying nothing in reply, Axel leaned over and snatched Riku's soda out of his hand. This earned him a startled "hey" just before Axel hucked the bottle across the grass. The result was an irritated glare from Riku to which Axel returned with a half-lidded, unamused stare. Riku stood and trudged off after his drink, muttering something about Axel being a dick-head.
"Was that really necessary?" Asked Sora. Axel shrugged in response.
"If he's focused on picking dirt off the bottle, he'll hopefully shut up about it for a while." Axel replied, taking a drink from his own soda. Riku made his way back to the tree and sat down quietly. Just as Axel had predicted, Riku was too focused on his drink to comment on anything else. This left the trio in relative silence. The surrounding area was filled with life as usual. Nothing was really out of the ordinary. That is until the roar of an engine rolled through the courtyard.
The three friends turned curiously, just like the rest of the school, in time to see a sleek black car stop in front of the school. But that wasn't the engine they had heard. No, what they had heard was what came next. A man in a black motorcycle jacket had just dismounted the most beautiful bike Axel had ever laid eyes on. Slate grey with black racing stripes down either side leading to the rear fender which shot back like a lightning bolt. It was a Lamborghini Caramelo V4 super bike and it had Axel practically drooling. The rider pulled off his helmet to reveal straight black hair smoothed back and cut short to the sides. He unzipped his jacket and killed the engine to his bike before leaving it behind.
The man strode over to the back of the car just as the doors opened. From the front, was a man almost as tall as the biker. He wore a simple button down shirt and slacks. From the back of the car came a woman. She couldn't be older than Axel and was nearly as tall as him. She had blue eyes like ice and long blonde hair that draped down to her waist. She wore a pair of western boots that had obvious signs of wear. Her jeans and t-shirt were form fitting and if one thing was for certain, it was that Axel was no longer interested in the bike.
Back in the dorm room, Axel had been unnaturally quiet. The silence of the room was really starting to bug his friends.
"Dude are you even still conscious?" Asked Sora. Axel nodded and shifted on the bed where he had been sitting.
"Dude I know the bike was nice and all but seriously?" It was Riku this time.
"No, the bike was ok." Axel murmured. Riku and Sora looked at each other in astonishment. Then the two of them, thinking quickly, slapped him clean across the face. This seemed to shake him back into reality because he looked directly at them bewildered.
"What was that for?!" He exclaimed.
"Never in my life have I ever heard you say a bike was 'ok' so what gives?" Riku explained. Axel darted looks between his friends.
"You seriously didn't see her?"
"See who?" Asked Sora.
"The girl that got out of that car?" Axel replied hoping to jog their memory.
"The mayor's daughter? Yeah I see her in town all the time." It was Riku this time.
"Come again?" Axel asked. Riku laughed at this.
"Dude that's the mayor's daughter. She's transferring here. I think she starts tomorrow." Riku explained. When Axel didn't speak he continued.
"She's super rich and she's a model too. She does photo shoots all over the world." It was Sora's turn to look astonished.
"Seriously? How do you know all this?" He asked. Axel wasn't doing much talking anymore so the conversation seemed to only hold the two of them.
"Dude there isn't a living person in town I don't know about. Her name is Rane."
That night, the trio of friends sat in Axel and Riku's dorm as usual as they moved easily through their usual routine, weekend rituals of video games, movies and energy drinks. Sora had opted to crash on the floor that night as his roommate had a visitor. Axel had joked about how Sora secretly enjoyed the thought of a "free show." It was of course a complete joke and made just to get a rise out of him.
"Anyone else want something to drink? I can go to Moogle's corner store." He said getting up to stretch. Riku raised his hand in response, never tearing his eyes from the screen as he hammered away on the game controller.
"Can you grab another pack of Thundaga?" He asked.
"Yeah I drank the last one about an hour ago." Piped Sora beside him. Axel chuckled to himself.
"If you guys drink anymore energy drinks I'm going to have to scrape your charged up remains off the ceiling." He joked. "Anything else?"
"Gummi ships would be great." Sora replied not looking away from the screen either.
A few moments later, Axel climbed out his second story dorm window with a short list of food and various other things they would need to continue on with their weekend. He hopped from the window sill into the tree below, then climbed down the rest of the way. If anyone had seen him, they might have noticed how he completed the whole action with ease as if he had done it often, in which case they would be right. The school had a curfew even on the weekends and Axel, being more agile than his shorter less acrobatic friends, had been voted the designated escape artist employed with the task of late night food runs. A job he had originally protested, but soon enough he came around and hardly thought twice about it but had since remembered to bring a backpack to help carry things back up to the room.
Axel had made it almost halfway across the yard when he heard a familiar sound in the otherwise silence of 2o'clock in the morning. It sounded like something solid grinding across stone. The sound came from behind him and it took him a moment to find its source. After a short moment of searching, he found what he was looking for. Another student was following his lead and climbing out the window of the second story girl's dorm. However this student didn't have a tree to jump into. Instead they were hugging tightly to the side of the building. The sound he heard was boots sliding across the bricks of the building, in an attempt to climb down. Axel had seen this done before and knew what could happen if the student made a wrong move. In fact he knew the outcome on a personal level.
"Left foot lamp post, right foot bricks." He called out quietly as he headed back to the student who in turn froze at the sound of his voice. Then registering the helpful tip, followed the instructions.
"Now left foot archway, right foot drop box." The student continued to follow his directions and soon was on the ground below safely.
"Thanks Axel." Said a familiar male voice. The student flipped back his hood to reveal spiked brown hair and blue eyes.
"Terra?" Axel asked.
"What are you doing?"
"Window washing, what do you think I'm doing? I snuck over to meet the new girl." He said with a small smirk. Axel blinked.
"New girl? Wait, that was Aqua's room." He said doubling back.
"Yeah they're roommates. She's kinda hot too." Terra replied, his smile growing.
"What are you doing here?" He asked. Axel tightened the straps on the empty bag on his back and replied.
"Headed to Moogle's. We ran out of drinks." Terra perked up even more at this.
"Mind if I tag along?"
"It's not like I could stop you if I said no." Axel said with a shrug.