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The Silence – Chapter XIIIIt was all Axel's fault that I was on edge, biting my fingernails so much that I thought I would start to cut through my skin at any minuet. Why was this all Axel's fault? Well basically he had opened up the gates to my past and had allowed it to freely wrap itself to tighten around my throat once more…I wanted to know about the parents that had given me up. A pointless thing to be wondering about seen as though I kept on asking myself why the hell I would want to know these horrible human beings who gave me up, I had been told that they didn't want me.
"V-Vexen," I still stuttered when talking to anyone but Axel, though the smile on Vexen's face told me he didn't care.
"Yes?" Vexen stirred our coffee as he poured the milk in and then placed a cup in front of me, which I cupped quickly as soon as it was on the table.
"Could…could you tell me about my…" I cleared my throat as I stared at the table, poking my coffee cup, "my birth parents?" I finally finished and cringed as a horrible silence loomed over us and I dared to look up at him, coming face to face with a distressed expression.
"What's brought this on?" Vexen asked calmly and rubbed the back of his neck as if he was nervous.
"It's been r-rattling around for a while," I muttered, taking a sip of my coffee and smiling slightly at Vexen, "I love y-you but…" Vexen put his hand over my mouth.
"Every child deserves the right to know where they come from, you don't need to explain," he smiled warmly at me as he moved his hand from my mouth, "I'm just sad I have to tell you sad news," I felt my heart stop as I saw the faintest flicker of tears echoing in Vexen's eyes and I braced myself, "unfortunately…your mother, Aqua, passed away last year," his voice cracked a little and I frowned, usually you wouldn't be that effected by a death unless you were close with them.
"Oh," I whispered feeling a little empty …even sad because I never got to know…never got to hug her or anything, "A-and my dad?" I saw Vexen's hand twitch and I blinked a few times as his eyes met mine.
"I don't know where he is," he was lying, his eyes were almost deliberately showing me that he was lying and I wanted to ask him why he was hiding it from me, but I didn't want to distress him.
"Tell me about mum," it felt strange calling Aqua 'mum' when I hadn't even met her.
Vexen smiled as I he thought about her and I took a large mouthful of coffee as my stomach began to tingle with curiosity.
"Well you and her could be twins," he laughed and I smiled slightly, "she had short blue hair and … well aqua blue eyes, thin and tall, but not too tall if you understand?" I nodded to show I did, "she was extremely kind, always there to help someone out when they needed it, she even made a scrapbook of photos of you," he looked at me to see my reaction as my eyes widened.
"W-what?" I whispered as I smiled even more.
"I sent her photo's every school term to show how much you had grown, she wrote back saying that you were the beautiful son she had always hoped for," I blushed heavily, she cared, my mother Aqua cared enough to create memories of me.
"Did…did she ever want to come and visit me?" I had to ask it, there was nothing else that had been on my mind apart from the fact I needed to know whether my mother or father had wanted to see me.
"Of course she did, but she thought that after giving you away and knowing how well you were getting on here, that you wouldn't want her to come and visit," Vexen sighed and rubbed his temples, "I tried to tell her that you would love to see her, but she thought I was just saying that to make her feel better," he snorted and the last part and shook his head, "she loved you," he finished and reached over to pat my head.
"W-what did she do for work?" I frowned as I tried to piece a picture of her together in my mind and I saw a grin appear on Vexen's lips.
"She was an author, but you should know that," he was hinting something in his tone and I jolted up in my seat before I rushed towards my bedroom, pushing my door open with unfortunate force which caused the my door to smack hard against the wall as I lunged for my pile of comics and rifled through them.
'Aqua Corazza' it was such a strange feeling to see my last name written on a comic my own birth mother had written, when I had bought it I hadn't even batted an eyelid and thought it was cool to have such a talented writer and artist have the same last as me.
"You're mum is Aqua Corazza?" Axel nearly shrieked as we walked into the school grounds the next day, our hands linked tightly which was a pleasant feeling especially since it as so cold.
"Vexen told me," I whispered so I wouldn't be heard by the other students, I wasn't ready for others to hear my voice yet.
"Man," Axel sighed and shook his head, "my mum is just a store owner, your mum wrote the 'Dark Days' series, that's like…one of the biggest comic book series in the world!" Axe was such a nerd at times that I wondered why on earth he acted as if he was as cool as Bruce Willis.
"Axel," I blushed and hid my face in his arm as we finally got inside the building, both of us relishing in the warmth of the school as they had finally noticed that for their students to be happy they actually had to turn the heating on.
"Did I mention I love you?" Axel grinned as I whined into his arm and then stroked my hair, "I'm sorry that you never met her Zex," he sighed and I looked up at him smiling which caused him to frown.
"In a way she was already in my life don't you think?" I pointed out and I cringed at how cheesy I was sounding, why I had to go off on a crappy memory lane thing, I'll never know.
"I gu…" Axel's voice got drowned out as yells began to echo down the still almost empty halls, as it was still quiet early in the morning.
"Why is it such a big deal for you?" I knew that voice and judging by the way that Axel was staring down the corridor, he did as well.
"You know why!" I knew that voice too, too well for my own liking and I gasped as Axel was suddenly storming down the corridor, pulling my harshly by my hand towards wherever our friends were having an argument.
I had never seen Demyx looking so upset, tears were streaming down his face endlessly as his face was bright red with what I could only determine was either anger, upset or both of them mixed together.
"I can't believe you kissed Vanitas!" Demyx practically screeched and gritted his teeth as Roxas's face creased up in confusion.
"Why the fuck are you so bothered Demyx, I can do what want with my life!" Roxas snapped back and curled his hands into fists as he glared up at the lanky musician who was crying even harder now.
"Because you knew how I felt and fucking went and made out with that jackass anyways!" Demyx shouted with his face right up to Roxas's before he stormed away from us, leaving Roxas with an odd look on his face.
"Roxas," Axel grabbed the blonde by his shoulder to snap him out of whatever trance Demyx had put him in, "what the hell are you playing at?" I knew there was something between Roxas and Demyx, I just never realized how much Demyx cared for Roxas.
"I don't know!" Roxas yelled and took in a deep breath trying to calm himself, "I just…I don't know," Roxas muttered and his blue eyes met mine, which made me jump for no apparent reason.
"Why Vanitas of all people, doesn't Demyx have a big problem with the guy?" I rolled my eyes at his stupidity and I wasn't going to hide how disappointed I was in him because he didn't actually deserve an easy way out.
"He thought I was Ventus," Roxas shrieked and rubbed his face with his hands as I noticed the glittering tears starting to form in his eyes, "An-and then Demyx walked in a saw us, I don't even know why he's so pissed, we're not even…" he let out a shaky breath as he closed his eyes tightly, clearly not wanting to cry in front of us.
"What are you blind?" Axel snorted and tapped his finger onto Roxas's forehead, "haven't you seen the way that Demyx looks at you?" I nodded in agreement with whatever Axel was saying, my fingers playing with his.
"Why should I?" Roxas snapped, "he never fucking listens to me, he never takes notice of what I want so why the fuck should I take notice of what he wants?" Roxas pushed passed us roughly and I hissed as he hit my still bruised shoulder from Marluxia's attack.
"Oh boy this week is going to be tremendous fun, don't you agree my beloved?" Axel said in a sarcastic tone and turned to me with a worn out expression.
"Oh the best," I replied with the same tone before we lazily leaned in towards one another and brushed our lips together.
"Mmmh," Axel moaned as he pulled away from me, "you even taste like lemons," he laughed and kissed my forehead, licking his lips afterwards.
"You taste like toothpaste," I said in a dry tone and snorted as Axel mocked being hurt by my comment as we entered my History class where Terra was sitting behind his desk, black rimmed glasses sitting on his nose as he continued to read a very thick book, obviously not expecting students to come to class this early.
"Bit early aren't we?" Terra chuckled as he glance dup from reading and watched us as we hurried to our usual desk.
"It's too cold outside and the canteen is full," though we hadn't actually checked the canteen, I nodded to what Axel was saying.
"I see what you mean," Terra lightly laughed and his eyes moved to mine making me feel uncomfortable, "Vexen said that you've started to speak?" he smiled and I groaned at how unbelievable my foster father was at gobbing off to his friends about me.
"Yes," I muttered to make him happy and Terra grinned.
"In all the years I have been teaching you, I never expected your voice to be that deep," he sniggered and I glared as Axel joined in.
"Neither did I," Axel smirked as he rubbed my lower back.
"Shut up," I muttered as I hid my face in my hands, knowing what a long day this was going to be, I needed a few minuets to prepare myself.
I trudged up the stairs towards my room completely exhausted from the day's events. I had had to fight with Axel to try and actually force his hands to stay to himself for a few minuets, talk to Roxas without being seen by Demyx and talk to Demyx without being seen by Roxas like we were in some shitty high school drama and I also had to deal with Terra constantly checking up on me due to orders by Vexen.
I chucked my bag across my room and sat down on my cushioned computer chair, starting my incredibly slow computer up as soon as I sat down.
Whilst I was waiting for everything to load, my eyes glanced at my mother's comic that I had left on my computer desk and I picked it with a smile erupting on my face once more. I never knew her but yet I admired her so much, most of my own written works had been influenced by the Dark Days series and my own bloody mother had written the thing! I just wanted to know more about her and if she was a famous comic book writer and artist than she would surely be easy to read about on the Internet right?
Eventually the search engine appeared on the screen and I type in her name, clicking 'search' quickly after and browsed through the options that it gave me, finally coming across 'Aqua Corazza's Official Site'. There were so many pictures of her on there and Vexen was right, my mother was beautiful and there were so many messages posted on her chat box saying how they were going to miss her works now that she had unfortunately passed away so suddenly, how they adored her, how much they had wanted to meet her. I felt guilty for not knowing her for I knew I would never be able to grieve for her properly as a son should for their mother.
I sighed as I searched through the site trying to find her life story and I finally did from a comment someone had made with a link leading to an article about her.
Black and white text started to form on the screen and my eyes flew over the words quickly, smiling and laughing at some of the things my mother had done when she had been a child… but that smile feel dramatically as it came up to when she had gotten married to my father.
Terra.
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