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Me and Roxas got sent to an orphanage when we were six because, well, our Ma wasn't too motherly. She was found to be "unfit" by the law, thus, we were swept away to a place that gave hope that someone else would want us. As far as we knew, we were the only twins there. We sat by ourselves for weeks. We only spoke between ourselves, comforted each other... Then a bully by the name of Seifer and his friend Fuu, roughly two years older than us, started picking on us. Said we were weird because we looked alike. "Two people shouldn't look that much alike. It's creepy," he reasoned. I, of course, started crying. I'd always been a bigger crybaby than Roxas. Always. He, in turn, comforted me and told me not to pay attention to him. "He's just a big bully." We had both looked up to see our saviours. The tallest one that was standing between his two friends, a redhead with the wildest hair anyone could have, just stood with his arms crossed. His hair was massive, really. Hadn't he ever gotten it cut? "Knock it off, Seifer," he'd said with sarcasm in his voice. I'd learned what sarcasm was from my mom. "Take your girlfriend elsewhere, Fuu. Leave them alone." This time it was the silver-haired one to the right of him. He had his hands in his baggy jean pockets. I'd always thought his hair was really pretty. "Yeah. They're cute. I'm glad there's two of them," squeaked a scraggly-looking dirty blond to Axel's over side. His left, obviously. This one's hair was a mess, too, but much shorter. He was also covered in head-to-toe with dirt. He had to have been on the playground for hours before. Me and Rox avoided that playground at all costs. Too many people. Too many stares. Anyway, that blond stood with his hands on his hips, shoulders tensed. Seifer had just given them a dirty look and scrammed with Fuu following slowly behind him. then the three turned towards us. I think all five pairs of our eyes widened at the same time. Demyx's were a gorgeous mediterranean blue that we had never seen before. Riku's were more of a seafoam green. The colour of a beautiful shallow end off of a barrier island or something. Then Axel's. Thos were the ones that took my breath away. They were a striking green. Like acid. They bore into my being, and I could feel the hole getting bigger and bigger... Such as we were mesmerized by their eye colours, they were caught up in ours. Our wide, deep blue eyes and their ranges of greens just stared back and forth until the dirty blond held out his hand with a happy grin. "Hi! I'm Demyx!" he had told us. He was so friendly, we had thought, so I shook his hand and smiled back with a small nod. We soon thereafter had found out that the redhead was Axel, and the silvernette was Riku. Then Roxas told them our names. From that day, the five of us were inseparable. Axel and Demyx had been there for roughly three years. They were nine--three years older than us. Riku had only been there for one year. He was eight. We all shared our stories, then. Riku's parents had been, sadly, killed. He had no more known relatives. Demyx's parents couldn't put up with him anymore, so they put him up for adoption. Axel's dad...didn't like him. He had been brutally abused when the police came after someone called them, hearing his screams. His mother, not being able to afford to feed them both, regretfully put him up for adoption as well. They both loved each other very much, but...there was no other way.

We had always gone and tried to hide when someone came to adopt. We didn't want to be split apart. The five of us always wanted to stay together. It wasn't until two years later that Riku was adopted. Riku and I had grown really, really close. I had been close with the other two, but Riku was my best friend other than Roxas. There was a lot of screaming and crying that day. From both of us. The next to go was Demyx about three months later. Then...the worst happened just two months later. Roxas had been adopted, but...but I hadn't. there was even more screaming then. We were twins, for Christ's sake! How could you tear us apart?! They couldn't afford to have both of us, so they just had Roxas. So then it was just me and Axel. We had grown particularly close after that. He was all I had. I was all he had. It took us two months to get over that. Both of us. I never truly got over it, because he was my twin. We always had each other, and then he was gone. A year after Roxas was adopted, Axel's mother had come to get him back. She had gotten a very stable job, and actually had bought her own house. She got herself back on her feet by herself just so she could have her Axel back. I remember watching with big, watery, lonely eyes as Axel and his mother embraced each other. "I'll miss you, Sor," was all he told me as we hugged. He had looked at me with sad but hopeful eyes before he left with his mother. And then...there was just me. Even Seifer had been adopted. I felt so unloved. From then on, I just sat in a corner quietly by myself. No one ever spoke to me or even looked towards me. Why did no one love me..?

Three years later, I was twelve years old and still sitting in my corner by myself. I was reading a book, though. I had taught myself words to broaden my vocabulary. The caregivers there never tried to teach us anything, really. I was forced to learn on my own. I liked to learn, I found. It made me feel smart. It made me feel above everyone else there so I wouldn't feel so small anymore. I also liked to read to the smaller kids. I liked to help them and feel like I was making a difference. It made me happy, actually put a smile on my face. Three years after that, I was sitting alone again. I wasn't reading this time. No, I was just thinking. I would have been entering high school by then. I knew a lot now. I had self-taught chemistry equations and history. I was great at the English language, I figured out. It was mostly just patterns and memorization. I was really good with memorization. I also started to draw and write. I liked to see my ideas down on paper. I even wrote some of my own books for the kids to read and play with. I would create covers with spare pieces of cardboard and bind it all together with some string or thread I found lying about. They loved them, really. And they knew to be careful. ...Maybe I would do really well in high school. I think I would. It was summer break right now for the kids with families, I had thought. Then I thought about Axel and Demyx and Riku. Axel and Demyx would be going into their senior year. They would be graduating and going to college. Riku would be going into his...tenth grade year? that was my guess. Then I thought of Roxas. Roxas would be going into his freshman year... I would be, too, if I wasn't stuck here, was what had crossed my mind. "Sora," I heard my voice called and looked up at the kind woman I had almost befriended at the orphanage. I blinked a few times and walked to her. "Someone's here to adopt you," she told me with happiness and tears in her eyes. My jaw went slack. Really? "Really? Someone actually wants me..?" I remember whispering in disbelief. I had been in that place for almost ten years, and someone finally wanted me. She had nodded and led me into the small adoption office where two kind-looking woman sat. One had short-cropped silver hair that was kind of fashioned into a mohawk. She wore darker clothes than the other who was very, very brightly-coloured. Her hair was ridiculously long and such a bright blond it was almost yellow. There was an explosion of accessories all over her. Their names were Paine and Rikku. I teared up at the name, remembering my friend... We had been so damn close to each other before we were ripped apart. Then, they had hugged me. Both of them. And they announced that they were going to be my new parents. I was ecstatic and let my genuine smile finally shine through.

I remember saying goodbye to all of the children. I told them to keep the books so they could read them all over and over as I slung my bag over my shoulder. We had a group hug, then I left with my two loving mothers.

All of the memories... Everything flashed through my mind as I walked through the front doors of my new high school. I was supposed to be a freshman, but when they tested me in, they found me to be more intelligent than anticipated. They moved me a grade up. I was a sophomore now, and I was really, really nervous. How the hell did public school even work? I looked down at my schedule in my shaking hand. I had AP Biology first block, honors geometry second, AP English third and AP Art fourth. It was official. I ******** loved my schedule. I squealed on the inside and bounced on the balls of my feet in happiness, grin plastered across my face and eyes shining brightly. Apparently AP Art was only meant to be a junior or senior course, but they put me in it because my moms had told them about my amazing drawing ability. And my AP English class was actually a junior class. I was the only sophomore in there.

I was currently waiting for my "senior escort" to get there to guide me around the school. I hadn't spoken to anyone over the age of seven other than my moms and the wonderful woman at the orphanage since Axel had been adopted. Needless to say, I was nervous.

"Who's the lovely individual I'm set to escort?" called a grown, sarcastic male voice smoothly as he rounded the corner into the lobby. He stopped in front of me, then, eyeing me down. "You the kid?" he asked with a grin. "You look a bit too happy to be here, so I'm guessing...so..," he said, trailing off a bit slowly at the end. "Uh...why ya starin' at me like that? I mean, I know I'm gorgeous and all, but--" "There's no w... A-Axel..?" I had asked, my eyes wide as I stared up at him, jaw slack. Yes, he had the bright red, wild (yet slightly more tame) hair I remembered. Yes, he was still really freakin' scrawny. But what really made me know it was him were the acid-like green eyes looking back at me. "Wa-- Sora?" he asked, suddenly taking in the eyes and chocolate hair, I had guessed. And the bubbly disposition. "Oh, my god! Axel!" I squealed, jumping up and hugging him tightly, allowing him to spin me around as he squeezed me tightly. I could only laugh happily, hysterically, and let the tears pour down my face. He set me on my feet and grinned down at me. "When the hell'd you get adopted?" he asked excitedly. "Like, two weeks ago! God, I love my moms so much, too," I told him in excitement. Then we shared another tight hug. We were like long-lost brothers, man. Speaking of... "You...you haven't seen Roxas any, have you?" I asked him softly. He got this sad smile on his face and shook his head. "Sorry, Sor... I still say it was a b***h move on their part." I knew he meant Roxas' new parents. I smiled slightly and gave him a shrug. "It's okay. I'm sure he's happy with his family. So...what a coincidence it is that you were set to be my escort." He grinned and nodded. "Where would you like to go first, good sir?" he asked me with a smirk. I couldn't help the light pink tint my cheeks had that went unnoticed by me when he gave me that look. He linked his arm with mine. "Oh, wherever shall we go?" I asked in a soft, mock-southern bell voice, waving at my face with my schedule. He snatched the paper up from between my fingers then. "Hey!" I yelped, trying to get it back, only to have my hand swatted away as he looked over the thing. "Damn...you're smart, kid. You learn it all yourself? God knows that place didn't teach you s**t." He gave me a s**t-eating grin. I returned it. He continued. "They bumped you up a grade and put you in higher-level classes. You're a ******** genius, I swear." He ruffled my hair. I knew it brought back memories for both of us. "Well, since I'm a lazyass and decided to wait 'til senior year to finish up my maths, we just so happen to have honors geometry together, Sor," he told me. It made me smile. "There's also someone else in there with us I'd like to...introduce you to," he said in a tone of voice that made me suspicious. "Speak of the Devil..," he mumbled as a voice suddenly began singing a song at the top of its lungs. It sounded male and...familiar. I listened...and listened some more...then my eyes got huge and a grin spread across my face. I scurried to the end of the hall the voice was coming from and looked down it, seeing a retreating dirty blond. "Demyx!" I yelled before running towards him. Startled, the blond "eep!"ed and turned around with wild, confused eyes. He actually kind of had a hairstyle now, I mused as I ran to him. About ten feet from him, his eyes finally lit up in recognition. "Sora!" he squealed, and we did the same thing Axel and I had done just minutes ago. "We have geometry together!" I told him excitedly as I was being set down once again. "Sweet!" he exclaimed, hugging me again. I loved this feeling. I loved havivng friends that still remembered me even after years had passed. "Dem! You should totally ask Mr. Baron if you can walk with us," called Axel's voice as it neared us. Demyx nodded hyperly and grabbed my hand, dragging me across the school with Axel jogging behind us to the band hall. He poked his head in with a grin. "Mr. Baron?" he asked his teacher, "Can I help my friend show my friend around? He's new, and I haven't seen him in years. Pleaaaaase?" he asked, almost pleading. I heard a laugh then an acceptance to the idea. "Thanks, Mr. Baron! You're the most amazing choir teacher ever!" he squealed. He shut the door then turned and grabbed me and Axel into a group hug. "Axe! Where's Riku first block?" he asked. No way! Riku was here, too?! "Physics, I'm pretty sure. He took it with Zexion, I think." I was being dragged again. This time, in the opposite direction. I had a feeling I would have to get used to this. Demyx was much more hyper than he used to be. Which was crazy. "Mrs. Neal? Can we see Riku, please? We're trying to help escort a new student around and don't know where all of the AP classes are," asked Axel this time, a warm smile on his face. He, apparently, loved this teacher. And the teacher loved him as well. Total teacher's pet. Riku walked out of the classroom. "What the hell do you guys...want..," he started before trailing off as he saw me. "Riku..," I whimpered as tears welled up in my eyes. I flew at him and hugged him tightly around the neck, feeling his arms wrap back around my waist and hold me for dear life. I felt him bury his face in my shoulder. Then I felt his body shaking with sobs. "I-I missed you, too, Riku," I sobbed as well, tightening my grip on him.

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