Chapter Four

"Really…," The fire head yawned. "History as a first class? I can see myself dropping out already." Axel slumped down at his desk, trying to fall asleep. "It sucks having lower classmen for friends." Suddenly the teen felt a shiver crawl up his spine, and quickly erected at his desk.

Turning around he saw a girl with long sharp nails (possibly faux) looking at him gingerly…and then her face morphed into an evil grin. "What's with the weird look on your face, huh?" She asked, her voice sounding even more annoying to Axel than the nagging parents in his household. She tucked a blonde strand of her bangs behind her ear.

Axel didn't say anything, he just kept looking at her. Truth was, he didn't know what to say. "WHAT THE FUCK! WHO JUST TOUCHES YOUR BACK LIKE THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS!" He thought.

He heard someone else speak and turned to look at them. "Larxene, I think you scared him." A blue haired boy frowned broken heartedly.

"Don't be stupid Zexion!" Larxene spat back at him.

"Maybe this guy is just weird," another blonde spoke. "Like us!" He seemed cheerful.

"Look, just tell me what you wanted." Axel sighed, still eyeing all of them.

"Well, I was just going to tell you to sit somewhere else with your freakishly bright hair. You're blocking my view!" Larxene snarled. She was pretty intense.

Axel quickly stood up; sooo ready to find a different seat that wouldn't have anyone to bother him in his sleep. School to him wasn't anything good enough to stay awake for, unless a certain blonde was in his class with him; and none of those two blondes were that certain one.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The blonde boy swiftly grabbed on to one of Axel's wrists, his face full of snot a tears. "DON'T LEAVE US! WE NEED A NEW FRIEND!"

The red head viciously flailed his arm, trying to get the boy to let go but it was obviously proving to be worthless effort. "Fine, fine! I'll stay, just let go!" If only Roxas were that needy. But hell, Axel doesn't leave Roxas alone whether Roxas wants him to or not.

"Thank you so much!" A smile came to the boy's face through his tears.

"What's your name again?" Who knew the first of Axel's friends in his grade would be these three.

"I'm Demyx Yokushiro." He said. The others thought to introduce themselves as well.

"Larxene Kishimi."

"Zexion Ienzo."

"I've never heard of these people in my life…," Axel sighed, accepting their friendship. "Axel Lea." He's never really had the best of luck anyway.

In the time Sora and Roxas spent looking at their schedule they realized they only had four classes together this year; Art, Gym, Lunch, and English. At this time it was Second Period and Sora was in History with Kairi and Olette.

"So Riku is in your Art class?" Olette bubbled. Girls were always such suckers for cliché love stories.

"Y-yeah," Sora's face flushed red. "And he walked me to class too. But only to-"

"Aweee!" Kairi and Olette cooed. "Sora's got a boyfriend! Sora's got a boyfriend!"

"Shhh," Sora tried to calm the two girls down. "He's not, and he'd literally KILL me if he heard you guys saying that." The brunette frowned, slumping in his seat.

"Okay, we'll shush." Kairi pretended to zip her mouth shut.

Sora was thankful; hopefully he really could trust them as much now as he did for all the years they've known each other…which was all of one. "Do you think you two have any other classes together?" Olette asked as she began to braid her hair into two pigtails. Olette braiding her hair was reminiscent of when Sora use to braid it for her, when it used to be too long for her to do it herself, last year. Kairi and Olette were the ones who taught him during their free period.

"Probably not." Sora murmured.

"Okay class, get a situated please," The teacher walked into the classroom. "I am Mr. Katzroy your sophomore History teacher for the year, so you better get to like me because you can't switch out of this class." As he turned to write his name on the chalkboard a tiny chocobo came out of his afro peeping. It flew itself to the desk and snuggled itself next to a cup of pens and pencils. "Oh, and you'd better get to like this little one here too." A lot of the girls began to awe at the chocobo's cuteness. Yellow chocobo's were native to Destiny Island, seen in almost every tree you look at.

The bird began to look around at all of the students; it then hovered over to Sora's desk bumping into the boys forehead. "Peep peep peep!" Sora caught it in his hands.

"Hmph, looks like he's found a new friend already." Mr. Katzroy smiled.

Kairi and Olette looked over at Sora giggling, the brunette shrugged a bit embarrassed.

"Time to get to business," The teacher pulled out a cart of books from his closet. "Everyone please pick up a book and sit back down in your seats afterwards."

The students followed orders and each got a History textbook. The trio each grabbed a book and sat down, waiting for everyone else. "These books are pretty small compared to the ones last year," Kairi began flipping it around in her hands. "I'm actually able to lift them!" The book was red and seemed to be new. The lining had some white reflects on the cover read 'World History' in bold golden text letters. There were a couple chocobo birds on the cover, but these ones were fully grown unlike the one sitting upon Sora's shoulder right now.

"Now that everyone's got their books, say the number inside the front cover when I call your name," Mr. Katzroy held a notepad in his hand. "Rose Abarai."

"C-307." A girl from the side of the classroom answered, then returning to talk to her friends.

"I'm so glad I got a class with the two of you." Olette exclaimed, her face showing relief.

"We were just in chem together, Olette." Kairi pointed out.

"Yeah, but another class together; how great a chance is that," Their first class was Chemistry with teacher Vexen Evens. "It's like, one in a hundred."

"Roxas is in three of my classes this year," Sora held his head up with his palm. "Well…four if you include lunch." He then paused to say the number of his book, Kairi right after him.

Kairi put her palms together. "That's great! Roxas needs to get pushed more out of his angry box!"

Olette and Sora giggled at Kairi's statement. "I think that only Axel would be able to do that." Sora said, putting a finger to his lip as if in deep thought. Olette said the number of her book to the teacher and then stuck her tongue out at Sora. "Maybe only Riku could get you out of your comfort zone!~" She teased, Sora's cheeks turning a bright red.

The bell then rang, signaling passing time. The trio said their good byes and split off from each other. Sora began to head to the main gym for his PE class, meeting up with Axel on the way there who told him a crazy story about these three juniors he met in his history class.

"I swear, they probably do voodoo in their spare time!" He bashed. "But actually, I guess they're pretty cool if you think about it."

"They seem to match you perfectly Axel." Sora laughed. It was the truth, and nothing but. Who else would fit in with a fire haired guy who had upside-down tear drop tattoos on his face? Well, then again his sophomore friends were close to normal.

The two reached the gym, meeting up with their class that sat in the bleachers. Other classes from different years sat in different sections of the indoor bleachers. "I guess it's just us." Axel closed his eyes and sighed, missing the 'oh-so-young-and-beautifully-joyous' Roxas.

"Actually…"

"No, no, NO!" Roxas yelled, his signature angry yet cute look on his face. Sora nervously laughed as Axel opened his eyes and swiftly reached over to embrace the blonde whom quickly dodged it having Axel trip over his feet.

"Sweetie I know it's been an hour and some, but don't resist me!" Axel joked as he resituated himself.

Roxas pouted furiously. "This isn't cool."

As Roxas and Axel were arguing, Sora's brilliant eyes quickly caught onto snowy hair and a slight blush appeared to his face. "No way…" He rubbed his eyes, trying to see if he was hallucinating. Riku, in two of his classes (technically even though he was in the junior gym class), last year he wasn't even in one; it must be some sort of sorcery. If sorcery were real.

But no, his eyes were not deceiving him. Riku was in the same gym as him, sitting next to his friend Selphie who happened to be in the junior class as well. Their teacher was their coach, Snow Villiers.

As his thoughts cleared, he noticed that Selphie was pointing at him from the other bleachers, Riku then looking at him too. He quickly turned away, more embarrassed than ever. "Oh no…" He bit his bottom lip.

Selphie waved down to her coach. "Woo hoo," she called. "Coach Villiers!~"

"Yeah, Selph?" The coach responded. Selphie pouted, she hated that nickname. She quickly rebounded, her smile turning a bit sinister.

"Do we get to work with the sophomores anytime this year?" She asked.

"In team games, possibly."

Selphie giggled. "Okay," she nudged Riku in the arm. "We might get to play against the dunce."

"I care why?" Riku questioned.

"Because he totally feels something towards you. Maybe a crush!"

"Look Selphie," Riku sighed. "I'm not interested in whatever game you want to play with him." He rolled his eyes.

"Hmph! We'll see." The pigtailed brunette smiled, writing something in her journal.

Pretty quick chapter update, yeah? ` u ` I figured out more of what I want the story to evolve to, so I guess I have a bit more motivation. Comments/reviews are always liked!

P.S. I know i'm not the best writer, but hope you enjoyed OTL