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Chapter Fourty-Five: Decisions

"Roxas, do you know why the sun sets red?"

Ventus looked out towards the sun. It wasn't red and it wasn't setting. "Why?"

"That's the question."

Ventus hugged his knees to his chest thinking about the question. He then reached into his pocket for his phone. "I'll ask Shiri*!" He put his thumb on the home button.

"No," Axel quickly snatched the phone from Ven's hands. "That's cheating!" He laughed.

"I didn't know this was a game!?" The blonde explained, pursing his lips.

Axel hugged his stomach, hunched over laughing.

"What's so funny?!"

"You're face," the redhead pointed at the boy. "Only Sora does that!"

Ventus laughed, beginning to move his lips like a fish towards Axel.

"Ahh, no get away!" The other joked, pushing his arms out at the blonde playfully.

"Ven, I'm home!" Roxas yelled as he entered the house, throwing off his shoes by the door. The blonde look around noticing there was no response. "Are you here?"

The doorbell rang behind him. 'Who could that be?' He stood on his toes, looking through the peep hole. He frowned upon seeing who it was. "Why are you here?" The blonde said unwelcomingly, opening the door to Terra.

Terra sighed, his hands deep in his pockets. "Where is Ven?"

"I don't know," Roxas replied. "I came home and he wasn't here. I'm about to call my Mom-"

Terra chuckled, shaking his head. "I can't believe this."

"What?"

"You don't know?!"

The blonde's brows furrowed. "No?" Roxas began to think of all the possibilities of where Ven could be. "Is he okay? He's not at the hospital or anything, right? I didn't get a call or-"

"Your brother is full of surprises," Terra cut Roxas off from his worried ramble. "He's with Axel."

"You're lying."

"Where else would he be," Terra leaned down face to face with Roxas. "And y'know I thought this was one of your ideas. But it was his."

"Ugh!" Roxas scowled, his previously worried feeling leaving his system. He pushed the brunette away from him and quickly began to dial Ventus' number.

Axel felt Ven's phone begin to vibrate. "Someone's calling you." He quickly tossed it over.

"Huh?" The blonde held the phone in two hands, looking at the caller ID. 'Thank god he didn't look…' Ven thought, reading the caller ID to be Roxas. He ignored the call.

"He ignored my call!" Roxas steamed.

"Probably trying not to out you."

"Why are you even here," The blonde asked. "You knew where he was."

"Because I thought this was all your doing," Terra explained. "I came here because I was pissed at you."

"You can leave now then." Roxas began to push the brunette towards the door.

Terra sighed. "You play guitar?" He asked, not being moved at all by the blonde's efforts.

Roxas stopped. "Yeah, why?"

"Who taught you?"

"I taught myself."

"How come you played Blitzball?"

"What do you mean?"

"You just don't seem like the type."

"What is this some questionnaire?" Roxas asked. Terra didn't answer. "I played Blitzball because of Sora."

"Do you ever think about what would Ven be like if he was never sick," To Roxas' annoyance Terra walked over to the living room area, sitting himself on the couch. "Would he be like you? Would he have liked Blitzball? Would he have been a complete geek?" The brunette laughed on the last one.

"Stop trying to play games," Roxas said. "And who invited you to sit on the couch?! The door is right over there."

"I'm going to wait for him."

The blonde walked over to Terra. "Who said that was okay?"

"You should calm down," the brunette smirked. "After all, this was your game anyway."

Roxas rolled his eyes as he closed the front door. He leaned against it while sending a text to Ven: 'Idiot.'

"You can stay down here, but I'm going to my room." He told Terra before running upstairs, bringing his belongings with him. Terra responded by flipping through the channels on the television. When the blonde got to his room he sat on the edge of his bed.

He had this uncomfortable feeling in his head, beginning to make his heart race. He tried to calm his thoughts by playing with his fingers. There was no ceasing it. He lay back on his bed, rubbing his eyes in frustration. The blonde felt like he was in a silent war, one that was only in his head. 'Don't think so depressing…' He told himself as he closed his eyes. He remembered that day he cut himself, how…relieving it felt. He opened his eyes, looking at his scarred wrists. 'I promised Axel I wouldn't…he'll hate me.'

After a couple minutes of contemplative thoughts he went into the bathroom. He found one of his mother's new razors and broke off a blade from it. He placed his hands on the counter, taking a breath before lifting his shirt. The blonde put the blade to his hip and looked at himself in the mirror. He frowned. 'I can't do it.'

He took the blade to his room, putting it in a drawer before going downstairs.

"Terra," He walked over to the couch to see the brunette sleeping. He shook him by the shoulder. "Hey, this isn't a hotel you know!"

"Is Ven here yet?" Terra asked groggily.

"No, he's not. He's probably having way too much fun with Axel than he does with you." Roxas grinned.

"Ouch," Terra put his hand over his heart. "That almost hurt."

"Maybe we should do something." Roxas suggested.

"Are you trying to get me to take you out on a date?"

"I actually don't know what my brother see's in you."

"I'm better than your pot smoker of a boyfriend."

"How do you know he used to do that?" Roxas sat on his knees, leaning on the back of the couch looking at Terra whom was still laying down.

"He's been to some parties I've went to before," Terra answered. "He's done way more than weed I can tell you that. Always the life of the party too. I haven't seen him at any for a long time now though."

"He stopped because of me," Roxas said. "If you don't want to do anything then that's fine. But I'm gonna go to the town. I'll be back in like an hour or two."

"What would we do?"

"I don't know, but we could try and get along better."

Riku stood by Selphie's bedroom door, waiting for her to change her clothes. He was texting Sora, checking up on how he and his cast were going.

'They're putting a new one on rn,' He read Sora's text. 'My ankle looks so gross L! Do you want a picture?'

'No.' The snowhead quickly responded. 'I'll probably puke.'

Selphie opened her room door. "Come on in Riku!" She bubbled.

Riku followed her into her room, throwing himself on her bed. "We have to talk about the ceremony." He groaned.

Selphie sat on her rolling chair at her desk. "This is the first year we aren't doing the winners speech." She pulled one leg up, hugging it to her chest.

"We still have to have one for placing second though right?" Riku sat up on the bed.

The ceremony was held every year after the Blitzball tournament ended. It was where all the teams got together to congratulate the winning team.

"We're getting a silver trophy you know."

"It'll feel so weird up there," Riku said. "When you write the speech you should-"

"Oh noooo," Selphie waved her finger. "You weren't there for about half of the game. You're writing it!" She hissed.

"If I wasn't the one who lost then why am I the one who should write it?" The snowhead retorted.

"Because if you stayed maybe we wouldn't have lost."

"…My dad reminds me of that almost every day."

Selphie sighed, lifting her other leg up to her chest to hug her knees. "You shouldn't let him dictate you."

"That's really hard considering I have nowhere else to go and three brothers who are always against me," Riku explained. "He's probably going to love Seph even more now."

"Maybe that's a good thing," Selphie said. "He'll probably forget you exist and stop treating you like poo."

The snowhead let out a fake laugh. "I wish."

"Isa," Kairi flipped through a pages of a book the bluenette owned. She lay next to his bed on the rug between the bedframe and the television. "How come you believe in these things?" She asked with a smile on her face.

She had been looking through Isa's werewolf books lately. There were many of them. Some old and some quite new she was surprised people could still write about them.

"I promise you," Isa began, walking over to the girl. "They're real!"

"They can't be. It wouldn't make any sense."

"And why not."

"Isa," Kairi looked up at him sitting down in front of her. "Are unicorns real?"

"They could be." The bluenette answered stubbornly.

"Isa!" Kairi laughed.

"Okay okay, no they aren't," Her boyfriend agreed. "Butttt…"

"Buttttt?"

"I've seen one."

"Oh really?"

"Mhm," Isa nodded his head, a confident grin on his face. "There's this mansion in Twilight Town. I've been to it before with Axel actually and these other guys. And I swear to you I saw one."

"Did Axel see it too?"

"No, just me."

"Then it can't be true!"

"Awe c'mon you don't believe me, Kai?" Isa pouted.

Kairi sat up on her knees. "We should go see it then." She was a little interested. Why would Isa lie about something like that after all?

"You really want to?"

"Yeah, why not?"

"We should bring your friends again. They were fun last time." Isa smirked.

"Alright, I'll ask them about it!"

"Get Sora and Riku to come this time. Last time they weren't able to."

"Hmm, well Sora's ankle is broken from the game," Kairi started texting some of them. "He might not be able to since he's on crutches."

"All the more fun though."

It was around six in the afternoon when Axel decided to bring Ventus back home. They had stayed up at the cliff for the whole day, talking and joking. The blonde had reached home at around seven and after saying good bye to Axel, who had insisted on a kiss but Ventus nervously refused, he entered the house to hear Roxas and Terra yelling at each other.

"Ha! I beat you!" He heard Roxas exclaim.

"You're still behind on our score board though!" Terra retorted

"One more win and we'll be tied!"

"Terra's here?" Ventus thought, he felt his heart palpitate. They hadn't heard him enter but once he closed the door the two ignored the video game they were playing to see who it was.

Ventus instantly became scared when he saw their expressions go from happy to angry in mere seconds. "I see you two are getting along well…" He said, breaking the silence.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Roxas fumed, about to jump over the couch. However, Terra grabbed the blonde by the back of his shirt stopping him. "Let go of me!"

Terra ignored him. "Ven we need to talk."

"Right now?" Ven knew that even though Terra was acting calm that was definitely not the case. Especially considering what had happened the night before between them.

"Yes right now," Terra let go of Roxas and went over to Ven. "I have to get the bus with my team in an hour."

"But I'm tired and-"

Terra grabbed the blonde by the arm firmly, intending to bring him outside. "Roxas you can kill him later," He said opening the door. "And I'm definitely better at Tekken than you will ever be." He was referring to the game they had played for the past couple hours after they had had no luck in finding anything to do in the town.

Roxas sighed.

Terra and Ven began to walk outside in the night. Ven kept quiet, looking down at his feet as Terra held onto his wrist. They had gotten a couple blocks down from his house by now.

"Are you going to give me any reason as to why I shouldn't break up with you right now?"

"…I'm sorry…I-"

Terra turned to face the blonde, becoming agitated. "You think an apology can fix this?!" He yelled.

"I just-"

"Do you even know what you've been doing?!"

The blonde began to feel cornered. "I do!" He finally got out a couple words. "And I'm sorry, just please let go of me."

"You're not worth it." Terra let go of the blonde's wrist, turning away from him.

"You know, you always tell me what to do," Ven said. "You and Roxas! I can make my own decisions!"

"You can make your own decisions but you're not making the right ones!"

At this time Riku was finally walking to Sora's house from Selphie's. He began to hear the yelling from afar. 'Why am I always in the wrong place at the wrong time?' He thought. The snowhead began to see the figures of the two arguers from afar and decided it would just be fine if he went on the other side of the sidewalk. As he got closer and closer he began to recognize one of the voices. 'Is that Roxas?' As the couple came into view he realized the other man was Terra. 'Ven..?' Just then, he saw it. He saw Terra raise his fist and punch Roxas, Ven, whoever it was in the face as hard as he could.

Riku ran over to the scene, going by the blonde's side. He heard Terra say something, but he wasn't paying attention. He just focused on the sobbing blonde who sat on his knees on the pavement. "Ven? Are you okay?"

He realized the blonde was bleeding profusely through his nose, drips coming through the cracks between his fingers.

Riku stood. "What the hell, Terra?!" He shoved the brunette by the chest.

"I have to go." Terra said. He turned and walked away.

Riku sighed, he really had no intention of fighting Terra anyway. "Riku." Ven's voice cracked through his crying.

"I'll take you home." Riku knelt down, helping the blonde up.

"No, I don't want to go h-Ow!" Ven screeched in pain, accidentally touching his nose with the hand he used to cup his face.

"Let me see your nose."

Ven removed his hand.

"It's not broken," Riku said in relief. "It must just be swelling."

The blonde covered it again. "It won't stop hurting. I feel like I'm getting a headache."

"You'll be okay."

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*Shiri - Basically Siri lol