Chapter 5: Uncertainty

Previously: "Hello Roxas."

The entire table stiffened as their eyes snapped over at the sound of Naminé's voice. Roxas licked his lips once, trying to force his mind to function again, but fear paralyzed him.

What if she had heard what they had been talking about?

Naminé's smile widened as she began to appraise her blond crush. Sandy blond hair, grey tinted ocean blue eyes, and his smile. Naminé's lips pursed as she noticed her favorite crooked smile was missing, and was replaced with a nervous straight line. She didn't like that, at all. I mean she was here with him now, he should be beaming, he should be smiling crookedly for her!

Yet, in Naminé's mind she understood or at least thought she understood his odd behavior. 'Must be afraid of looking stupid in front of me,' Naminé concluded in her mind.

"Talk about irony," Terra laughed bitterly. His sudden comment bringing the attention of the entire student body on his stoic figure.

"What was that, Terra?" Naminé asked in a sweet but mocking voice as she held a ringed hand to her ear.

Terra's fists clenched underneath the table. Oh, how he wished to smack that pretty little face of hers! Terra, still to this day had no clue why he had even dated the air head! She was such a spoilt, self-centered, snob that thought that whole world revolved around her!

Not that Terra would ever say that of course. To have the majority of the student body want to try and kill you wasn't something Terra planned on. So, instead Terra forced the corners of his mouth into a stiff smile, his tone light. "Oh nothing, just saying it's ironic because we were just talking about you and now here you are."

Naminé's cherry red lips pulled into a satisfied smile, throwing small imperceptible mocking glares at Terra, "Here I am."

Roxas pulled at his collar nervously, while keeping his gaze cast down, "S-So Naminé, what brings you over here?"

The ice in Naminé's eyes melted as her eyes flickered to his, giving a small giggle "To see you silly!"

Terra snorted, glaring at the blond girl. Naminé, returned the favor with her own hate filled glares back at the bronze haired senior before fixing her gaze on Roxas again.

"Me?" Roxas repeated. His heartbeat, started to gradually fade back into its normal rhythm. So she didn't know. Roxas inwardly sighed in relief, finally allowing his signature smile to capture his lips once again.

"Who else?" Naminé let out another giggle and for some reason Roxas couldn't help but blush.

Roxas shook his head, "Must be the heat."

"You okay?" Naminé's voice chimed beside him. Startled the blond boy gave a small jolt, not having heard her come over to him.

Roxas let out a slightly shaky breath, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, "Yeah, I'm fine, I uh... just spaced back there."

Naminé giggled once more, letting one slender hand fall on the boy's shoulder, and again Roxas could feel the heat rise in his cheeks. Yet, Roxas shook it off. He didn't like her like that did he?

"Do you want to go now?"

Roxas blinked, realizing Naminé had just spoken to him again and again he had failed to respond. Roxas swallowed, feeling like an idiot for not paying attention...again, "Sorry, what?"

Naminé was the one to blink this time, though she surprisingly wasn't upset by her crush's lack of response. She merely thought he had not said anything because he had lost himself in her beauty. Which, of course, was a completely venial excuse to the blond girl.

"I said do want to go now...to see your other friends?" Naminé repeated sweetly and she could tell everyone especially Terra was shocked at her response. Everyone was expecting her tone to be much more...harsh, or at least show some sort of displeasure through her face. Yet, she just...couldn't. Naminé didn't quite understand why, but something about him prevented her from lashing out.

Roxas lit up instantly, pushing aside the heat in his cheeks as he snatched the hand Naminé had put on his shoulder, and looked up at her eagerly, "Let's go!"

Naminé's face suddenly began glowing red as she looked at his hand covering her own. The jolts of electricity racing circuits through her veins buzzed, but Naminé regained her outward composure quickly. She had to. "Alright."

Roxas grinned as Naminé lead him across the cafeteria, ignoring both the envious chatter of the other students and the strange sensation flooding his body.

The blond boy could only imagine the look on his friend's faces when he came to see them. Although, Roxas did secretly hope they hadn't changed too much since junior high . If Hayner still slacked off during school, or if Pence still wanted to become a photographer.

But, the one big question that crossed Roxas' mind was if they would still accept him...being...blind. They, including Olette were his only friends that didn't know about the...incident. Not that Roxas minded...at all.

So many of his other 'friends' couldn't quite grasp the concept and either avoided him or treated him like the local charity case. Which inevitably led him to transferring schools. The pity...it had been too much. He hated the thought of people only being his friends because they were afraid of hurting his feelings. And he was afraid-Afraid that they would be the same.

Roxas bit his lip, unintentionally squeezing Naminé's hand as she continued guide him through more rows of cafeteria tables.

He blushed immediately, hoping she hadn't noticed, but being blind Roxas couldn't read her face.

But if he could have read her face he would have found her normally pale porcelain skin tinted with several hues of red, and yet he would have also seen her face still holding its usual Queen Bee authority despite that her heart was in a frenzy.

Naminé inwardly scowled, why couldn't she control her own heartbeat? Why did she keep getting these new feelings?

It was so...strange. She had been this close boys before, many for that matter, but something. There was something just different about him and Naminé wanted so badly to know how he made her feel this way.

What was his secret?

'Maybe when he's mine, I'll finally know. After all he will be my boyfriend, eventually.' Naminé thought, a small satisfied smile playing across her lips.

Naminé's crystal blue eyes then scanned the cafeteria once more until finally she found the desired(though undesired by her) table. The very table where Hayner Yamada and his chubby loser friend Pence Ikeda sat. Both boys had been facing each other talking animatedly, but both stopped when they felt the chillingly presence of Naminé Misaki enter their atmosphere.

Hayner rolled his brown eyes at the blond girl, and sneered, "What do you want?"

It was clear to anyone that both boys thought Naminé Misaki was the center of all evil at Twilight High. Despite that a little over a year ago they had both been drooling over the icy girl. It was only when the blond decided to target their other best friend as her new 'BFF' did their feelings change.

It was sort of like a big smack across the face for both boys as they suddenly realized Naminé wasn't really all that sweet and angelic, but really a stuck up selfish monster that ruled the school.

Naminé flipped her pale blond hair over shoulders with her free hand, "It's not what I want."

Hayner gave a mocking gasp, "Not what you want?"

The corners of Naminé's mouth twitched, threatening to pull down. If there was one thing Naminé hated it was mockery from one of her subjects. She was their Queen after all and as their Queen she demanded respect...along with admiration.

Naminé smiled stiffly trying to maintain in control of the situation, because if she cracked. She lost. And Naminé Misaki did NOT lose.

"Not for me at all," She responded coolly, the fake smile still intact.

Pence looked up from his meal, curious, "Then, for who?"

Naminé stepped back, reluctantly releasing the blond boy's hand. Roxas cautiously stepped forward, his smile hesitant along with the small wave he greeted them with,

"H-Hey guys."

"R-Roxas!"

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