Chapter 2-

Tick… tock… tick… tock

Taptaptap… taptaptap

The clock and pencils tapping could be heard in the small classroom. It was fourth period, Math. A few minutes more till lunch. Roxas’s stomach was growling from hunger. Since he only had two pieces of toast for breakfast he was starving.

It turned out that Sora and Axel had all the same classes besides seventh period, which he found out was Literature skills. They had set up that after the last class of the school day they would meet up in front of the school by the brick wall that surrounded the school. They would then head over to Roxas’s house and hang out like normal teenagers.

The bell finally rung. Roxas stood up and quickly pushed his things in to his open backpack. Sora and Axel, who were on each side of him, also stood up and slung their backpacks over their shoulders. Roxas zipped up his backpack and pulled the strap over his shoulder.

The trio walked out of the class together; Axel making a rude comment about the teacher’s large behind, Sora and Roxas laughed like normal people.

They all made their way down to the crowded lunchroom. Students were yelling and running around like five year olds. Roxas snickered as a kid got hit in the back of the head with a piece of bread. “Come on Roxas! We can eat outside today!” Sora urged tugging on Roxas’s shirt.

They got in to the line of students awaiting for their food, trays in hand. Roxas slid his tray down the metal bars in front of the carts of food. One of the lunch ladies scooped up a ladle of a brown lumpy substance. She splattered the mush on to Roxas’s tray, filling every compartment on the tray.

Roxas held back his urge to heave and walked down the rest of the lunch line, Sora and Axel following him along. All three grabbed a carton of milk; Axel got strawberry, Sora got chocolate, and Roxas got plain old skim.

They punched in their six digit lunch codes, which Roxas spent days memorizing. They walked down the narrow space between the two sides of lunch tables that were filled with yelling students.

They made their way out the door connected to the lunchroom. The cool fall air sent shivers up the young blonde boy’s spine. The birds chirped and the leaves shuffled. It was a peaceful day. The sun was shinning it’s dull rays. It seemed they were the only ones who had decided to eat outside.

“What is it?” Roxas asked poking at the mush on his tray with a fork as soon as they sat down on at a picnic table near by.

“Uhhh… I think it’s chili.” Sora replied scanning the brown on his tray.

Axel grinned. “You know what it looks like…” He leaned close to Roxas, who he was sitting next to.

“Axel shut up!” Sora yelled from across the table.

Axel straightened up and rubbed the back of his head. Roxas laughed at the two. “You guys sound like an old married couple.” He laughed out.

“We do not!” Sora defended as Axel blushed a deep crimson color. Roxas only laughed harder.

Axel attempted to calm the laughing boy down, but couldn’t seem to find a way. Then suddenly and idea came to his head. He leaned close to the boy whose eyes were closed from laughter.

“Axel.” Sora warned, who was close to discovering what Axel’s plan was.

Axel smiled at him and grabbed the boy’s chin. Roxas tried to calm down his laughter but couldn’t seem to. He opened his eyes as much as they would open to look at the emerald eyes in front of him.

Suddenly Axel pressed his own lips to the blonde’s open ones. Letting the opportunity get the best of him his tongue found its way in to the other boy’s mouth. Sora gasped at the red head’s movement.

Roxas tried to yell out but it was muffled by the other’s mouth attached to his own. He grabbed on to Axel’s shoulder in an attempt to push him off, but he didn’t

‘Why aren’t I pushing him off of me? My heart is beating so fast I don’t get it. This is Axel the kid I just met today who tried to rape me. I would not have feelings for him already.’

Despite the voice in his head that said to pull him in closer, Roxas pushed Axel away from him. Roxas was breathing heavily and threw himself away from Axel, ending up on the grass beside the table.

Axel looked down at the boy, who was wiping his mouth off with the back of his hand. “Roxas…” Axel started.

Roxas quickly shook his head and got up. He took one more look at the two and ran off in to the lunch room faintly hearing Axel call his name.

“Look what you did!” Sora scolded. “You just wrecked a friendship!”

“I” Axel couldn’t think of a good excuse to cover up his actions. He didn’t feel all that comfortable telling Sora what he really was thinking.

“You what?!” Sora couldn’t understand Axel thoughts. He just didn’t get it.

“I thought it would be funny!” Axel snapped back before standing up and running off after Roxas, leaving the beautiful atmosphere to find the one he had just kissed.