Ah. I am most proud of this chapter...more or less because I decided last minute to use not only Riku and Aqua, but Sora and Ventus. The nice thing about BBS is that it gave you an idea of what Sora and Ven looked like when they were younger so you don't have to do any imagining~! YAY ^_^

Care to do the honors Roxas-oh-buddy-ol-pall?

Roxas: 'sigh' Relentless does not own Kingdom Hearts but does own the storyline/plot. Can I go now?

Me: No! Now sit down and shut it!

This chapter will be rated M for brief sexual references (no lemon).

ENJOY

Chapter 3: Pass the Awkward Please?

"Mom…Mom I'm home!" I yelled as I entered through the front door of my house. No response at first until I heard "Roxas! Is that you?" Yes mom, the only son that's named Roxas in this house is here.

I took off my shoes and hung up my hoodie on the rack and made my way into the hallway that leads into the kitchen where I assumed she was. When I got into the kitchen I surveyed my surroundings and saw that the table was neatly decorated with fine cloth over the table itself with fancy glasses and plates to go with the theme.

"Hey mom, what's with the table?" She was bustling around the kitchen sometimes motioning me to move because I was 'In her way of something'. Eventually she stopped what she was doing and looked at me.

"Well Roxas, your father invited an important client over for dinner with his family to better insure that this deal goes through without any kinks." Understandable, that was dad.

"Oh…uhm okay. Thanks for keeping me in the loop mom." I didn't mean for that to sound sarcastic but evidently that's the way she received it.

"Don't use that tone with me, this is a very VERY important client for your father…if he lands this deal…he might even get promoted finally." You've been saying that for the past three years now."Sorry mom. Wait but you said that this guy was also bringing his family too right?"

"Yes. He is bringing his wife, daughter" Oooh daughter, like the sound of that. "and his two sons. From what your father has told me about the man, his two sons are twins and are both ten and his daughter is around your age I think. So that means no flirting and NO attitude mister. I expect you to be on your best behavior tonight."

Just as she was finishing her sentence, my sister Xion appeared in the kitchen without a single noise to be made during her entrance. "Speaking of which, that also applies to you Xion. As I told your brother you need to behave like a well-mannered-young-lady tonight." Xion was always the quite one in the family. She had long black hair and rarely spoke amongst the family. However when it was just myself and her she wouldn't shut up sometimes or if she was out with her friends.

"Whatever." Was all she said as she opened the fridge to grab and water then quickly re disappeared upstairs to her room. I just snickered to myself, she wasn't in the room long enough for mom to even yell at her…lucky.

"So how was your day Roxas?" "Eh you know, same stuff different day." "Does that mean it was a bad day or a normal day?" Here we go again….Oh here it goes here it goes here it goes again. No. Oh here it goes again. I should've known, should'v- Crap now that songs going to be stuck in my head all day.

No mom it wasn't a bad day. I met a really cool chick, got her number. Found out my best friend likes me and then kissed me to which I returned the favor back. Yep. Just a normal day mom.

"No it wasn't bad mom. Just a regular day. Nothing good nor bad. Just a chill day I guess."

"Oh…okay. Well did you have any homework today?"It's Saturday.

"No mom, I didn't because I didn't have school because its Saturday. Remember?"

She became quite flustered now. "Oh right yeah I knew that hon. Why don't you go listen to music or do whatever you teenagers do these days while we wait for your father to return along with the client and his family okay?" "Sure mom. Call me when they come."

I made my way towards the stairs and was startled to find Xion slyly leaning against the stairs themselves.

"What do you want punk." I said with daggers in my voice. "I heard some interesting news about you today Rox."

Crap! Wait does she mean the thing with Kairi or THE THING with Olette?

"Oh really? Enlighten me." "Well Pence texted me that you were with some girl today and got her number. Kairi? Was it?" I apparently blushed because she laughed and said "Knew it! Awe Roxas. You like a girl! It's about time, I was starting to think there for a while that you might even be g-" "Can it Xion."

"Whatever." She scoffed and made her way up the stairs. Apparently that is her catchphrase of the day, or her life rather.

I trailed behind her but not too far to tick her off and make her think I was following her. Opened my bedroom door and looked around. What a mess. Eh, I'll fix it later. I made my way past dirty clothes on the floor and other assorted items. Plopped a seat in the chair and turned on the computer. After a few minutes of it booting up, I plugged in my IPod to sync some new songs I got the night before from a .zip file Pence sent me. He was always sending me emails with files of new music that I "HAVE TO CHECK THEM OUT BECAUSE THEY R AMAZING!" Or so Pence thought at least.

Most of the time it was some random band I had never heard of or a dubstep DJ that likewise I had never heard of. I laughed to myself as I stuck my headphone jack into the monitor to listen to the song. It was horrible…I mean this band was horrible. After around ten seconds of listening I took the earbuds out and deleted the file. Whoever this band was should get a new job because music obviously isn't working out for them. So instead I decided to go on YouTube to watch some stupid cat video or something to occupy my time while I wait for dad to get home with his new boyfriend, uh I mean "client" sorry.

Time apparently does fly by when you're having fun, because an hour pasted by without me even noticing until I heard the faint sound of the doorbell ring. He's home. Going against my normal rebel mentality, I decided to change out of my plain shirt and jeans into a nice polo shirt and slacks. I know how much the job means to him so on the rare chance that I look like a respectable young man. Besides, mom said that his daughter was supposedly around my age…whatever that means…so I might as well dress up so I can look good for her. Not that I really care what people think about me but hey, it's a girl!

"Roxas! Xion! Come downstairs for dinner!" A chorus of 'yeah mom coming' emulated from both our rooms.

I opened my door to exit and seconds later I heard Xion's door slowly open. I guess she was thinking the same thing as me…minus the whole impressing someone. She had a boyfriend: Riku. He was a pretty cool guy in my book. They've been together for about a year now and she seems to be in a better mood around the house now that she's with someone. But none the less she put on a purple dress and some make up but gave me a weird look.

"What?" She muttered. "Huh, oh nothing. Just surprised you listened to mom and dressed up a little for dinner 's all. "Why? I can't look good every once in a while eh Rox? I was about to say the same to you. Although that blue shirt kinda makes you loo-" "Don't start that crap again Xion." She laughed. "Gee lighten up alright already. You're always so serious, I was just having some fun. Come on, any longer we wait and mom's going to have another hissy-fit." "Yeah ha you're right. You do look good though Xion." I faked a smile easily. "Yeah likewise." She returned the fake smile back. And that was the kind of relationship we had. Not a bad one but we got along pretty well mainly because we rarely saw each other. Nothing wrong with that right? We must have entered the conversation between my folks and the client's.

"-so honey this is Bill and his wife Sara and their children: the twins Sora and Ventus and last but not least their lovely daughter Aqua." Many 'Nice to meet you' and handshakes soon followed. "And Bill this is my son Roxas and my daughter Xion."

"Nice to meet you...Mr.?" I was not told of their last names however so I didn't really know how to say hello. "Oh it's Mr. Mrs. Strife" "Nice to meet your Mr. Strife." Awkwaaard. Noticing the awkwardness in the room mom broke the silence with "Well let me take your coat Mr. Strife and my husband will lead you all into the dining room.

I noticed Aqua first, she was pretty cute. She had short brown hair that stopped at her shoulders and her eyes were a bright-light blue. Hence the name Aqua I assumed. She smiled at me before following my parents into the dining room leaving me and Xion by the door. "Well this is ganna suck." She said with a pout. "Oh come on Xion I don't know" I smiled "it might not be all that bad." "Whatever, you're just saying that because there's a pretty girl here for you to stare at while the rest of us normal people eat." Couldn't argue with that logic, she got me pegged pretty well. "Oh shu-…yeah haha guess you're right this time." She scoffed once more before mumbling "this time?"

Putting aside our petty agruement if you could even call it that, we both made our way through the long hall-way and into the dining room to mingle with everyone else. Mr and Mrs Strife were casually taking their time to sit down and get situated with the table and such. Dad was obviously nervous about this particular client because it seemed like anytime he would have a conversation with someone he would: stutter, sweat and repeat. And while he was attempting to keep his composure, mom would notice his awkwardness and try and change the subject or just take another swig of her wine. Yep, if the night continued going like it currently was...well dad's shirt would be soaked in sweat and mom would be drunk.

Although, to my unfortunate surprise, the dinner went quite well...actually it was a lot of fun! After we all finished eating, my dad and mom took Mr and Mrs Strife out on the back deck for drinks and a bonfire for us "kids". Xion ended up calling Riku over because she was slowly losing her sanity trying to deal with the twins. Which left me alone with Aqua...in the basement...with dark -lighting and my PS3 and all its glory. Dad kinda tricked out the basement in the sense that he got carpeting and put in a fridge, some couches, two TV's, along with my weight equipment and punching bag.

As I led Aqua down the wooden stairs, she got scared at the first step because it made a loud creaking noise followed by a faint crack. Thinking she was going to fall or something, she grabbed my hand and made me take her down the stairs slowly but still making me hold her hand for the duration. Once we finally made it down the stairs she stopped and almost gasped at the basement. "Wow! This is SO COOL!" It really wasn't much, I mean my dad made really good money and some might say we were rich but we didn't buy expensive things...we were a practical family. "Ha its really not all that cool. All we have is a fridge and some couches and some TV's."

"But still! It looks pretty bomb." Obviously noticing my workout equipment and gear( ie all my weights and dumbells and boxing stuff ), she asked "Oh I see you work out a lot huh?" She made a devilish grin. "Can I see your muscles?" An attractive young girl is asking to see my muscles...of course I said yes! But I had my longsleeve shirt on so I would have to take it off which I really didn't want to do because it is extremely cold in the basement. "Uh sorry I guess I can't cause my shirts too long..." "No biggie." she walked over to me and started to take my shirt off. "Let's get this off so we can see those muscles. Oooh nice abs by the way as well." Look I can't really argue her, I don't get out much like I said so I mainly stay at home and either work out or play video games like Call of Duty and such. She ran her hand down my stomach, "Wow your chest is so tight and muscular!" Okay at this point I'm starting to get 'uncomfortable' if you know what I mean in the downstairs area and she apparently took great notice of this. "Looks like someone's excited!" Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap. Noooo nooo no! Please don't do what I think you're going to do! Sure enough she pushed me on the couch (thank God we were standing in front of one of those couches or else man that would've hurt a lot!) and climbed on top of me and started to kiss me. Okay this..is..actually kinda fun. Take it slow now Roxas. She let out a slight moan and smiled.

Suddenly I heard the stairs start to creak and got up immediately but he had gotten far enough down the stairs to see what was going on. First off: major blockage here man. Second off: crap. It's Mr. Strife!

"What the HELL is GOING ON DOWN HERE!" My shirt was off, Aqua was laying on the floor because she didn't react quick enough to get back on her feet and her hair was messed up...if you weren't actually there to see what didn't happen well I think anyone would put pieces together and freak out. Soon after his loud outburst, my father along with Mrs. Strife also made their way downstairs. "Bill why are you yelling so lo-OH MY WORD!"screamed and dad had his remarks to add as well "Roxas! Explain this RIGHT now!"

So at this point Aqua can't form a complete sentence she's embarrassed so much and well that just leaves me to speak. "Dad, Mr and Mrs Strife, I swear NOTHING happened." "Oh really? Then explain to me why you were both on the couch with your shirt off and underneath my daughter?" Now this is going to be a tough one to get out of... "Honey get down her right now! Roxas was doing 'things' with Aqua in our house!" "No dad please don't get mom down he-" "ROXAS HIKAIRI! WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON!" And there went all hope of me making it to see the sun rise tomorrow. "I'm sorry Mr Hikairi, but I will not do buisness with someone who's son wants to take advantage of my daughter! Aqua get up here this instant! We are leaving." "Yes sir. By Roxas" "Yeah...later."

So the Strife family left the house very quickly for a family of five, and left me to deal with the devil.

"Roxas I am so mad right now that I can't-I-I can't even begin to think of a punishment for you at this moment. But know this: you will never leave that room understand?" "Wh-?" I said do you understand me young man!" I sighed, "Yes sir." "Now upstairs to your room and I don't want to hear a peep out of you for the rest of the night!" "But dad! I swear! Nothing happened! All we did was kiss for like three seconds and then Mr Strife came down and yelled at us!" "Explain it in the morning. I'm done with you." I looked at my mom trying to gain some-sort-of sympathy from her but she just turned away shaking her head. I'm dead. I am literally dead!Not only am I dead, but now I wont be able to ever see Kairi OR Olette again! I mean I have my cell but texting someone is totally different than seeing them in person.

I made my way up the stairs once again or as I liked to call it: 'The Walk of Shame'. I was just about to open my door when I heard moaning coming from Xion's room. OH snap! Her and Riku are totally having sex right now...should I? Yup, a split second later I burst open the door to see Riku and Xion naked underneath the bed sheets. "Roxas!" "What the hell man?" I grinned. "Oh sorry. I could have sworn this was MY room. Ooops. Sorry sis. Hahaha"

Okay that made me feel a lot better now.

I once again plopped down on my computer chair, plugged in my Ipod and started listening to some more dubstep.