Sorry for the late update. Due to personal and family issues I'm afraid I won't update for a while now, I'm sorry about that.

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Characters belong to Square Enix, story belongs to me.
Inspiration from

"The other side isn't so green" and "Here at the other side" By Sammy-Dee.

Hope you enjoy!
~DSL

The evil behind two faces

Chapter 8

"Making friends" by Demyx Yamanouchi

Somewhere during the second year of high school, two new people joined our class. Zexion and Riku. Zexion was the complete opposite of me, silent, smart and never went anywhere without a book. Riku again was another opposite, he did, or had done pretty much all the sports boys love and was very popular with the girls. When they joined Axel and me, that got less, but they still followed him in flocks.

I guess it was a strange thing they joined us. Of all the people in our class, we were the biggest outcasts. Sure, people would accept me, and whenever Axel wasn't at school I was accepted right away, but whenever I went to eat lunch with them or something like that, and Axel was with me, it was as if they didn't even know us.

Riku seemed to like Axel right away, though Axel didn't say too much to him in the first few weeks. When it appeared they had the same taste for music, they became better friends. Zexion was the most silent one of the four of us, he even said less than Axel, which was a pretty hard thing to do, I can tell you that much. Zexion also was the smartest one of us and so whenever I was having trouble with math or chemistry, he'd help me out. Later it appeared that Axel was pretty good at chemistry as well, but only when he could make things explode, or set things on fire.

Anyway, in the second year of high school our duo became a little group, which grew pretty close and we spent a lot of time together, in and out of school. Soon we learned that Riku lived with his older brother Kadaj, because when Riku told his parents that he was bi-sexual, they kicked him out of the house. Kadaj took him in right away, living in another city and taking care of him ever since. Kadaj got him into a new school, got him books, clothes, a room, some money to save for whatever he wanted. He seemed to do quite well as a parent, and I don't think I've ever heard Riku complain about him. Of course we all got to meet Kadaj some time, he liked the others, but scared the crap out of me. As long as he didn't get too close to me I'd be fine.

Riku told us he was bi pretty soon, he wanted us to know and see if we were okay with it. We all were, as he wasn't the only one. Zexion was the one person of our group that never mentioned his sexuality, but the rest of us was bi-sexual to say the least.

Zexion never told us much about himself, really, he kept to himself most of the time, be silent, thinking, reading or just staring off into space. We knew he lived with his mother and stepfather, but that's it. He never talked about his home situation, we don't know if he has any siblings, what the names are of his mother and stepfather and if he still has contact with his biological dad. In the years that followed none of us ever visited his house, he always came to one of us.

Usually when we came together we stayed at either my or Riku's house, Axel didn't want us around his parents and his parents never let him take anyone home. Riku's brother never had any problems with us running around the house, watching movies or playing games. My mom sometimes didn't like all the noise we produced, but other than that, she always thought it was fine.

I know for sure that Axel always loved the time he spent at our house, he was the most relaxed and himself when he was with us. Also when he was at my house, with just me and my mom he'd sometimes get this little shimmer in his eyes, something I've seen only a few times.

When Axel hadn't been over for a few days, my mom would always ask me how he was, I guess she saw him as her second son, as he saw her as his second mother. When I grew older, we talked about what she called the sadness in his eyes. We both knew what this sadness was, as he had come over often enough bleeding here and there, and we never bought the 'I tripped on the stairs' stories. Most people didn't , and still don't see this sadness. You have to look deep, to see it in his eyes, and most people don't care enough to look deep.

Both Riku and Zexion had noticed the sadness after spending more time with him, and they soon learned that it was something Axel refused to talk about. I wouldn't talk about it either, it was up to Axel to tell them, not up to me.