Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. Everyday I sat by the window and waited for him, hoping for some sort of sign. But nothing ever came. No clues as to where he might have gone. No one at school knew anything. They assumed that he disappeared, just like he arrived. Pretty soon they just forgot all about him. But I didn't.
A day didn't go by that I didn't think of him. The summer vacation that I was so looking forward to came, but it wasn't the same. I went to work and I went home. I watched everyone else in Twilight Town go on with their lives. I just sat there, stuck in time. For some reason that I couldn't explain I went that Struggle match. Not to enter it or anything, just to watch.
I was sitting in the shop a couple of days before school was supposed to start when I saw Hayner walking across the Tram Common. He was the only person I hadn't asked about Roxas. I was always too scared to talk to him. I don't know what made me get over my fear, but I did. Jumping over the counter, I ran after him. "Hayner! Wait up!" He probably didn't know anything, but I had to try, didn't I?
"What do you want?" He was alone. It was the only time that I had ever seen him without his friends, Pence and Ollette.
"Um…I was…um…" I shuffled my feet. I couldn't even form the words in my head. Asking him had to be one of the hardest things that I ever had to do.
"I don't have all day, Dexlin." He crossed his arms, impatient. I had to get this out or I would never get another change.
"Have you heard from Roxas?"
The look in his eyes changed immediately. He didn't look mad or annoyed like he usually did when I was around. The mention of Roxas must have struck a nerve. He looked down. "No. I haven't."
"Do you know what happened to him?"
"Why do you care so much?" He was starting to get angry again. It's only natural. He didn't know anything about how close Roxas and I were to each other.
"Please, Hayner." I could hear the crack in my voice.
His face softened again. He looked like he was might feel sorry for me. "I don't know what happened to him exactly, but some weird things were going on a couple weeks ago. This boy named Sora showed up in town. He kind of looked like Roxas a little. I don't know what happened to him either. He went into that old mansion and never came out."
"Never came out?" Could the same thing have happened to Roxas? Would he even have gone near that mansion as scared as he was of it? It was the only clue that I had gotten since he left. That had to be the answer as to where he went. "Thank you."
I turned around to run toward the hole in the Tram Common wall. "Dexlin." I turned around to find Hayner standing there with his hand stuffed in his pockets. "If you do find him, tell him I said hi."
I ran away, faster than I ever had before. I was going to find out what happened to Roxas. After months of not knowing, I was going to get some answers. Somewhere Roxas was waiting for me. I just knew it.