Complications

I never thought I would have to start over in life, but, you know what they say. Be careful what you say, it just might come to bite you in the ass. I remembered asking my parents if we could stay in our nice home at Hollow Baston. They literally dragged me here. Twilight Town doesn’t seem all that bad but I still hate it! Luckily it was summer so I could relax a little.

I placed my laptop on the desk that was on the opposite wall from my bed. There was a box on my bed that held my black and white checkered bed spread. I grabbed the box and set it on a stack next to the bed, I sat down on the floor and leaned against the bed thinking of my old home. I heard the doorbell go off but refused to get up. I heard my mother from the other room yell, “Roxas, can you get the door?” I sighed not really wanted to get up. I grabbed the bed post for support. I opened the bedroom door and saw my mom trying to keep her boxes from toppling over. I carefully went downstairs and opened the door revealing a boy about my age with brown spiked hair that somewhat feel in his face.

He smiled hugely and spoke, “hi, I’m your new neighbor, Sora.”

I nodded not really caring and stepped aside so he could come in. Sora walked past me and looked around at all the boxes. I walked, making sure he following me, into the kitchen. “It’s mice to meet you Sora, I’m Roxas.” As we got to the kitchen I leaned against the counter and crossed my arms against my chest. “Would you like something to drink?”

“Sure if it’s no trouble.”

I moved to the fridge and grabbed two Diet Pepsis and handed one to him. I opened mine hearing the seal pop and watched as Sora did the same but when he took a drink he made a face like he didn’t like it. “Sorry, we have nothing but diet.”

“Oh!” His face quickly went back to a smile, “it’s alright. Aren’t you bored here?” I opened my mouth to talk but he spoke instead. “If you want I can show you the town.”

I thought for a moment, at least I could stop working fresh air might help a little. I nodded and quickly ran upstairs where my mother was and spoke quickly, “hey, I’m gonna go around town with our new neighbor.” I saw her nod and I went back down to find Sora already at the door, still smiling.

“Come on, let’s go, Roxas,” He opened the door and we walked out to the late morning sky. The sun wasn’t all the way in the sky but it was still sunny and hot. We walked to the sandlot where some kids were messing around but we ignored them. We went over to Market Street where an ice cream and pizza shop were, there was also a couple of clothes shops and I saw a bunch of girls walking out with bags. Sora took me to the park where little kids and their parents were. I dimly heard him say something but my mind took me back to when I was a child in Hollow Baston and how I would go to the park to me alone.

“Roxas,” Sora’s voice pulled me from my thoughts. “Did you hear me?”

I turned to him, “sorry I was distracted.”

“Hey Roxas, can I ask you something?”

I sighed low so he couldn’t hear, “go ahead.”

“Well, I promised some of my friends that I would meet them.” I thought he was going to ask me to leave but instead he said, “Would you like to go to the beach with me and my friends?”

It took me a moment to register what he had asked, “uh, sure, why not.”

He nodded and we walked to the station. I wanted to ask why there wasn’t a beach nearby but thought better of it. When we stepped inside to the air conditioning building, I looked at the ticket counter and saw the price of one ticket. I felt my mouth drop, 900 munny just to go to the beach. I turned and noticed Sora was heading over to two boys who were talking amongst themselves. They were both all so they had to be at least a year older. One had flaming red hair, from what I could see since is back was to me, he was wearing all black. At least I threw in some white and red. He also had spike belts that crossed in the color of metallic red. The guy next to him had frost white hair and blue green eyes, he was dressed in a white and yellow vest with a black tank underneath and his pants wear a solid black. I caught up with Sora before we reached them. “Sora,” I whispered, “I don’t have enough munny for the beach.”

Sora turned his eyes on me but was still smiling, “don’t worry, we’ve got I covered.”

“But-”

“Think of it as a house warming gift.” I nodded as we were close to them, the red head turned and I could see he had blazing green eyes and upside down teardrop tattoos underneath them. Sora stood near the white head and turned to me. “Riku, Axel, this is Roxas. He’s new here.”

The white haired introduced as Riku smiled at Sora, “you seem to know when there is a new kid around, don’t you”

Sora turned to face him and put his hands on his hips,” He’s my neighbor! And I don’t know when every new comes.”

Riku laughed and I saw the red head, Axel, roll his eyes. I got the sudden feeling that he didn’t want me there and I was alright with that. I turned to Sora and Riku and muttered, “look I should go home.”

Sora groaned and moved so he was in front of me, “please stay Roxas.” I just looked at him and saw Axel lean against the wall.

“Let him go if he wants,” he spoke leaning his head back.

Sora turned and glared at his friend, he grabbed my arm. “You just don’t want him to come!” He pulled out a black draw string bag and handed it to Riku who took it and went to the counter to get our tickets. Sora still had my arm and I was starting to hate it. Axel stepped away from the wall and brushed against me as he passed I saw his green eyes slip to my clear blue ones. I glanced down and clearly heard Riku walk back to us.

“Can you hear that guys?”

I didn’t know what he meant until I heard the thunder rumble in the distance. “It’s going to rain,” I spoke softly as I saw Sora and Riku smile but Axel was the one who spoke.

“Yeah, we only go to the beach when we know it’s going to rain. Got it memorized?”

I nodded as we headed toward the train when we took our seats Sora was next to Riku and I was stuck next to Axel. He didn’t look at me, instead we stared out the window. I saw that Riku was watching Sora who glanced at me. “So, Roxas, where did you come from?”

“Hollow Baston.”

I noticed that Riku nodded slowly as the train began to slow down. Quick ride. Alex stood and walked over to the door waiting for it to open. When it stopped we stood and got off to see people waiting to board the train to get back to town. It wasn’t heavy rain just sprinkling as we started for the shore. Axel walked close to the water and sat down, I was headed for the same place and when I got near him I heard, “Can you please move away from me?”

Sora walked up with Riku and glared at Axel, “don’t be so mean, Axel.” He turned to me and gave a small smile, “don’t mind him, he just needs to get used to you that’s all.” The way Sora said that made me think that he thought I was going to hang out with them after today… I glanced at Axel’s back as he looked out on the ocean. I didn’t think that was going to happen.