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Well, have fun. Still no Roxy in this chapter! I know, I'm horrible. I'll add him in the next chapter or the one after that though, I promise. And then...ohohoho! Akuroku! xD

Moving on. You know what to do, read & review! (Man, I get rhymes at the beginning of every chapter don't I?)

Warnings (again): girlxgirl, boyxboy, swearing, cross-dressing, alternate universe, OCC

(Again, Peoples' Ages:
Zexion: 16
Demyx:16
Axel:17
Riku: 15
Sora: 14
Kairi: 14
Namine:14
Larxene: 16
Xemnas: 17
Marluxia: 26)

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Day Two: The "Routine"...And A Discovery?

(Zexion's POV)

I'm not sure what time it was when I woke up the next morning and I don't know how Demyx was up before me because he was playing for hours last night. But he was; this I know for sure. Why? Well, he was directly in front of my face when I woke up. On my bed. Just looking at me. It was far beyond creepy. What kind of a person would just—oh wait, I'm in an insane asylum now aren't I?

Back to the matter at hand, I must have been blinking for at least a minute while I was thinking. "D-Demyx...?"

"Yes?" He still didn't move his head back even the slightest inch. I needed space. Apparently he doesn't know what that is.

"Have you ever heard of personal space?" And that only made him giggle. Jesus Christ, I'm not going to be able to survive here for long...

"You look pretty when you sleep Zexy, that's all." Wait...what? Don'tblush.Don'tblush.Don'tblush. Damn it! I have no freaking reason to blush! Just because some insane kid calls me 'pretty' and and and...oh whatever, this isn't helping.

I'm guessing he noticed though, because he started giggling again, and (finally) pulled his head back so I could actually sit up.

"So, wanna go get food? Or are you gonna try to starve yourself like Namine?" While that did sound like a legitimate way to die, which was beginning to sound better and better, I decided I should probably eat shouldn't I? I don't have the will power to do something like that anyways. So we got up to go to the cafeteria.

When we got there, we got our food (duh), and went over to the same table as yesterday, at which was seated the same people in the same order (talk about lack of variety), doing what he assumed to be 'normal' for them, since they weren't currently receiving any disturbing looks. Axel was...well sleeping in his food to put it quite bluntly, Kairi was attempting (in a very angry tone) to get Namine to eat, and failing, Sora was staring at the two, occasionally trying to contribute to Kairi's convincing—but in a much nicer way—and Riku was just staring at Sora. Well then.

As we took our seats, Axel woke up, screaming something about 'Alice in Wonderland', causing Kairi's...erm...'motivational speech' to Namine to cease, along with Sora's contribution, and even Riku's staring.

"Um...I...uh...Oh shut up, have you people seen how creepy the bunny is in that movie?!" Well...I suppose he does have a point there.

After a small awkward moment of consideration, everyone nodded in agreement, ending that...er...explosion. At this time, Axel was fully awake and began poking at his food, looking rather disgusted (the food really wasn't all that bad...it was actually alright. Pyro's standards must be too high...or something along those lines.) and conversing with the other three even remotely talkative people at the table, Demyx being one of them, not really paying attention to his food, Kairi was trying to get Namine to eat every once in a while—since 'Angry Kairi' had...um...left?—and talking with Skirt Bo—Sora and the other two, and Riku continued his staring. (The whole thing really was obvious. I'd only been there one day. I mean really, if you're going to deny it, at least try to prove people wrong as well.) Leaving me alone with my not-so-deep thoughts.

I'm tired...and bored...there's really nothing to do in this place is—oh! Window! I almost forgot about that...hey a birdie...and a tree...oh another tree...isn't this exciting? And look there's—

"Zexyy? Did you already break from boredom?" There was a Demyx in my face. Again. Plus a Demyx hand this time, waving around.

"...What?—Hey don't call me that!"

"Ooooh, it's already happening!" Stupid Axel and his stupid fake gay-ish, flamboyant, stupid voice and his stupid...stupid! So I did the only logical thing there was to do: glare, of course.

"...Huh?" Idiot. Demyx only tilted his head to the left and blinked several times, still leaning over the table (was he sitting on it or something? Isn't he sitting next to me?) with his hand still outstretched, head only turned towards the overly-red-head.

"Nothing, nothing at all..." Stupid 'innocent' voice...

I glared for a few more seconds and then turned back to Demyx (who was still somehow in his odd, impossible position). "What is it you wanted then?"

He snapped his head back to me. "Huh? Oh right, umm...I forgot..." He said, looking positively crushed. Dramatica.

For the rest of breakfast, I pretty much just stared off into space, eating a bit here and there, while Namine started drawing (or maybe writing, I'm not sure, I couldn't see in the notebook), Riku continued staring (was that all he did?), and the others talked about absolutely nothing.

After the freakish school-like bell rang, we went back to our room to put on clothes (since I had so kindly been pulled out of bed before I had been able to do so), get ready and such, and shower in the bathroom that our room apparently had (seriously, when did that door get there?!).

After going through said preparations, we went (or more, Demyx dragged me, as always) to some stupid group therapy crap that was apparently going on. There were a lot of hallways in this place...it was sort of creepy...like The Shining or something...

When we walked into the white, windowless room, people decided to stare at me. Well, only two people, the rest I knew; one very...unhappy looking blonde girl, and some creepy dude with silver hair...wow...and then there was Riku and Skir—Sora, but no stupid overly-red-head. Maybe if I was lucky he wouldn't come...it was possible, I'm guessing there were multiple...sessions with different people, because I know these weren't the only people here, there were a hell of a lot more in that huge cafeteria every day.

At that moment, I remembered that I was not a lucky person to begin with or I'd be dead by now. I also realized that my luck would not be changing any time soon since stupid had just walked into the room, followed by some pink-haired...um...person...was that a boy or a girl? Anyways...um...person was wearing a white coat. Which means person is probably running this freak show for the time being. Great. They chose an insane person to attempt to 'cure' the patients at an insane asylum. Smart. I get the feeling that my aunt purposely chose this stupid place just to torment me...

"Ahem." This quieted the few little groups that were speaking amongst themselves; goody, now the whole 'let's talk about our feelings' thing would begin. I was NOT looking forward to this. Yeah, you read correctly, that's 'not' in all capital letters, italics, and underlined, that's how much I am not looking forward to this, I mean it's pretty drastic to use all three of those combined, don't you think?

The next time Pinky spoke, I figured he was a male. I think. "So, I hear we have a new kiddie." You ever been the new kid at school in the middle of the year? You know, when people just sit there and gawk at you for the first week or two, even if they've spoken to you previously in said amount of time? Yeah, I had the feeling this was going to be about seventeen times worse.

"Yeah, this is Zexy!" I'm sorry, did I say seventeen time's worse? I meant forty-seven. Had I not been Zexion, at that moment, I would have simultaneously head-desked and sweat dropped. Yes, simultaneously. I would have done both at the same time, I'm not sure how, but I would have. However, I am Zexion, so I didn't; but god, did I feel compelled to. At hearing this, Axel gave a muffled laugh, Sora, Kairi, and even Namine giggled, Riku smirked and almost laughed, the blonde girl gave a very...evil sounding giggle (was that even possible?), and the creepy silver haired kid gave a full-out evil laugh (seriously, I'm talking like 'MUHAHA' villain triumph laugh here), luckily drawing all the attention away from me for a moment while everyone gave him a funny look. However an awkward moment later, Pinky decided to draw the attention back to me.

"...Zexy?" Kill me.

"It's Zexion." I muttered, apparently loud enough for Pinky to hear since he repeated it.

"Ah, I see. So you've already received a...erm...nickname from Demyx? Hm, that usually takes at least a week or so..." Pinky trailed off. Perfect, I was the one he had to 'nickname' early. Due to this small issue, I had already experienced discomfort from the name itself, been mocked by Stupid, and now, these two...disturbing people sitting in the corner would be able to remember that moment forever and use it against me for all of the days I spend in this godforsaken place. And then I remembered that I was still in an insane asylum. This shouldn't matter one bit, all these people are crazy. But come on, realistically, how long would I be stuck in this place with these people? Exactly. Anyways...

"Well then, if you've been introduced to Demyx at such an early time," huh, sounded sort of sympathetic. So I'm not the only one pitying myself, "I'm assuming you also know Riku, Sora, Kairi, and Namine?" I nodded.

"I see, then you two, introduce yourselves."

Blondie spoke first, sounding like she was becoming more and more likely punch a hole through someone's head as her sentence went on. "Larxene. My idiot family threw me in here because they think I need 'anger management'." Gee, where on Earth did they get that idea?

And then Creepy Guy said something. "I'm Xemnas, they said I have too many mood swings and the people I hear all the time aren't real." ...Erm...wow...way to make a good first impression, I mean even at an insane asylum.

"And I am Marluxia." Pinky—er, Marluxia said.

"So who wants to talk about something?..." Nobody spoke up; Pinky sighed. "Nobody ever wants to talk about something do they...?" He muttered to nobody in particular. "Fine, if no one's going to sacrifice themselves, I'll just go down the list and question all of you."

He started from the person closest to his right in the...almost circle-ish square.

"Sora, how've you felt today?"

"Happy!" Skirt Boy—SORA said, taking the term 'smiling from ear to ear' to literal terms.

"Really? All morning? And why's that?"

"Because the people here finally let me have a camera and my brother brought me a new skirt!" That was the most interesting and yet disturbing sentence to hear a boy say ever. And then Larxene snorted. And Sora went from happiest kid alive to one of those little kittens left in a cardboard box in the rain. Really, his hair wilted like it was wet and everything. He then gave the most unintimidating glare in the world.

"Well Kairi liked it..." He muttered.

"Yeah, that's because she's a girl."

"Larxene!" Apparently Pinky wasn't much of a threat to her (I wonder why), because she just ignored him.

"You're a boy, idiot." What a bitch! The kid looked like he was about to cry, and I'm guessing everyone else was either wide eyed or glaring with all their might, I don't really know, I wasn't looking, but I know Riku was about to kill the girl, because the glare he gave her was so indescribably awful, it was making me feel like wincing on the other side of the room and far out of direct line of the boy's eyes. Yeah, that made her shut the hell up.

"It's alright Sora, it's pretty on you..." (AN: Ok everyone, come on, you know you want to: AWWWWW!...-Ahem-...right, sorry about that.) He didn't speak very loud, but I still heard it, and it looked like it made the brunette feel a lot better, because the tears that seemed would fall at any moment immediately cleared and another grin came across his face as he looked up at the other sitting next to him.

"Really?" His face looked like one of those little smiling sunshines on a kid's drawing, except, you know, not like some little kid drew it...

"Y-yeah..." Was that a blush?

I'm guessing Marluxia had told Bitch-pants McGee to leave or something because she began walking towards the door and after I looked back at her spot, Pinky was making his way from kneeling next to said spot back to his own.

"Anyways, are you alright Sora?" He turned to Pinky with his huge eyes, still grinning, and nodded like a mad man. Well then...

"Well, Riku, how do you feel today?"

"Now? A little pissed off, but other than that, fine." Holy fuck! Did he just speak more than two words directed at someone other than Sora or someone whom responding to would please Sora in some way, shape, or form?! I think he did!

Pinky looked surprised, like the boy had never spoken before, and I guess he decided to leave it at that, as if encouraging another word out of Riku may be pushing it a little far (which it probably would).

"How about you, Namine? How have you felt?"

"Fine, I suppose, happy to a decent extent." She said in that quiet voice of hers.

"That's good," Pinky smiled for the millionth time in the past fifteen minutes or so, "did you eat anything today?"

She only shook her head, causing Kairi to frown a little, as she always did in that situation (it seemed).

"I see; drawn anything?" Huh...well at least this guy didn't harass you about your 'issues' like most of them did.

Namine nodded, smiling a little.

"Really? Mind showing me later?" She nodded again, still smiling; Pinky smiling back.

"Kairi, how have you been?"

"Great!" I'm guessing this was currently Happy Kairi, aka Normal Kairi...yes.

"That's great; have you been Happy Kairi all morning then?" She nodded happily. Huh. This was...interesting...I don't really see how this is supposed to exactly 'heal' anybody...

"Demyx, you?"

"Awesome!!" Jesus, still too fucking early for that level of loudness. It was always too early for that level; seven p.m. was too early; why did he not understand that?!

"I...see that...Heheh..." Pinky said, holding his probably damaged ear, as the idiot continued to grin. "And what has made you feel this extreme extent of 'awesome' today?"

"Well, last night I actually felt like playing my guitar for the first time in a few months, I mean I'd played it since then, but I actually wanted to this time, and then this morning, I saw Zexy while he was sleeping and he looks really pretty!" Idiot. Idiot. Idiot. IDIOT. And he just sat there grinning, as if it were the most normal thing in the world; this time I slapped my forehead when all the giggles started; Riku even laughed a little this time. It's all because of those god damned pills; why the HELL couldn't they have worked? Why? I then had to remove my head from my palm in order to stare at Axel, since he was having a laughing fit on the floor. And Demyx just looked confused, eyes curious and head tilted to the side, staring at Axel. Even Pinky was smirk-smiling. I hate you people.

After a few moments of this, my humiliation finally ended, even if I had to talk about my feelings now, it was a hell of a lot better than that.

"Alright, alright people. Now, Zexion, why exactly are you here?"

"Attempted suicide." I muttered.

"Ohh, well, how have you felt today?"

"Mostly embarrassed, humiliated, and a little suicidal."

"Yes, well...I guess I can see why, but don't feel suicidal," pfft, asshat, "we were more just laughing about what Demyx said, not at you." I just gave him a 'yeah, that sure was convincing' look; Pinky closed his eyes and sighed a little.

"Axel, how have you been?"

"Eh. Bored." He signed again. Apparently Axel didn't contribute to the conversations much either.

"Xemnas, how about you?"

"Good!" Huh...he didn't exactly seem to be the 'happy' type of person...

Needless to say, the rest of the 'session' went on rather boringly and unpleasantly, just as I had predicted, with one or two more little…complications here and there after Larxene was let back into the small room, joining the circle again.

After that stupid school-like bell rang once more that day, we all headed towards the cafeteria. Again. Sitting down in our correct spots. Again. And lunch went on like the other meals had; Kairi and Sora talking, trying to get Namine to eat every once in a while, Riku also contributing to the conversation occasionally, Namine resisting, drawing, and also speaking up at times; Axel and Demyx talking to whoever would listen, usually each other, and bugging me every ten minutes or so, making sure I didn't get too involved in my own thoughts (god forbid). It just went like it had previously; and it felt almost...normal already, like I had been doing this for years, and it just felt so natural. It's rather funny, I'd only even met these people yesterday, and I'm already going on about how normal they feel—even if I don't know anything about them.

Once again, I heard that damn bell ring, signaling the end of lunch.

"Hey, Zexy?"

"Zexion." Of course he didn't listen. He never did.

"Do you care if everyone comes back to our room?"

I gave him a sort of funny look. "Um...sure? Why...?"

"Well we always go to each others' rooms after lunch, you know, just to talk, and I'll usually play my guitar since we have no other source of music, heh..."

So, now Kairi, Namine, and I were lined up, sitting on my bed, Axel and Demyx on his, and Riku and Sora sitting in the space in between the beds; the spiky haired brunette had only moments ago finished taking pictures of everyone several times with his camera that he 'was finally allowed to have', leaving us all as good as blind due to the flash (I don't know if they should have let him have that thing, it seems a little unsafe now that I've experienced his use of it...).

"Oh man, you guys will never believe what I found!" I suddenly got the feeling that Axel was going to be the cause of my next near-death experience.

"What is it, what is it?!" Demyx was still hyper as ever, even after the continuous blinding flashes.

And then Stupid pulled out some matches. He was good as gone now. Everyone was just gaping at him—including Riku and Namine—as if he were about to jump off a giant cliff, holding some fish, into a fiery pit of lava that coincidentally had some sort of newly bred lava sharks, looking very hungry. (AN: Don't you just love my little metaphors? xD)

"OmigodAxel,they'llkillyou!!" This was the first time Sora wasn't actually overreacting.

"Not if they don't find out." Stupid winked. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

"What makes you think they won't you idiot?!" Kairi whisper-screamed.

"Because they haven't yet and you guys aren't gonna tell."

"Well yeah, but...what if they do find out?!"

"They won't ok? Calm down, sheesh..."

"He's right you know, if he keeps them on him all the time, there's no possible way for them to find out." Bingo. Riku, one of the few that was actually capable of thought.

"Oh, whatever, it's still possible you know!" As the others continued arguing about how long Axel would live, I looked over to my right. Apparently Namine was asleep. Huh. How'd she do that so quickly? And at this time? It was only about four p.m. now, but she was still sleeping. On Kairi's shoulder...like I said, it really is obvious, all of them are, talk about denial...

...She was thin...like a lot. Man...how was she still alive? She must have been alive for something...right? Oh...duh. I was just thinking about the obviousness...maybe that really is the only reason she was holding on to life...or maybe she wasn't trying to hold on at all. Nah, that didn't sound right...it just didn't...

"God...when was the last time she ate?" Only Kairi heard, the others were still too involved in the stupid matches conversation.

She looked up, a little surprised, and then smiled sadly. "She's only actually eaten once since she got here...it was after my mom died and I was bawling for hours, she even ate to make me smile a little." The auburn-haired girl laughed a little, looking at the sleeping form on her right shoulder.

"But...how's she alive then?"

"Oh, nurses always come in our room at night with an I.V. after she falls asleep; luckily she doesn't wake up easily...but she always ends up yanking the thing out right after she wakes up in the morning...I'm honestly surprised even that's kept her alive..." Kairi frowned a little, looking down. "But whatever miracle is keeping her alive, I hope to god it keeps working..." There's too many sad stories here...—

And then I heard that noise again; his guitar. Huh...

"SHHH!!" Demyx had a big grin on his face, giggling a little, holding his guitar; Axel had moved on the floor in front of him along with Sora and Riku. And after a moment, he started playing and...singing...

"She said let's change our luck,
This night is all we've got,
Drive fast until we crash
This dead-end life.

Sweet dreams that won't come true,
I'd leave it all for you.
Brick walls are closing in,
Let's make a run tonight.

Blinded by the light,
Hold you through forever,
Won't let you go.

Cause if you jump, I will jump too,
We will fall together,
From the building's ledge,
Never looking back at what we've done.
We'll say it was love.
Cause I would die for you on Skyway Avenue.

She said don't change your mind,
Let's leave this town behind,
we'll race right off the cliff,
They will remember this.
It all got so mundane,
With you, I'm back again,
Just take me by the hand,
We're close to the edge.

Blinded by the light,
Hold you through forever,
Won't let you go.

Cause if you jump, I will jump too,
We will fall together,
From the building's ledge,
Never looking back at what we've done.
We'll say it was love.
Cause I would die for you on Skyway Avenue.

Where are you guts to fly?
Soaring through, through the night?
And if you take that last step, I'll follow you,
Leave the edge and fly,
We're finally alive.

Cause if you jump, I will jump too,
We will fall together,
From the building's ledge,
Never looking back at what we've done.
We'll say it was love.
Cause I would die for you on Skyway Avenue.
So what's left to prove?
We have made it through." Wow...dude...Yeah, I just said dude. Me; Zexion. That takes some major wow-ness, ok?

And then someone was waving their hand in front of my face...Oh, only Kairi this time...and again with the giggling.

"...What? Why're you...giggling like that?"

"Because, you were just staring at him with this...look." Damn it, blushing! I turned away, hiding it behind my hair, but her laughing only increased.

A few more hours passed, pretty much only involving talking about nothing in particular, Namine continuing to sleep, and Axel staring at his matches every several minutes...it was love at first sight.

And then, once again with the school-ish bell.

Dinner went on, obviously, as the others had. Nothing out of the ordinary about it; except Demyx had been gone at the beginning for a little while...

After eating, the normalcy continued (well as normal as a routine can be considered when taking place in an insane asylum...), we all split up, went back to our rooms, and went to bed.

However, at midnight, I was oh-so-kindly woken up by an way overly-excited Demyx going on and on about...something...

"Zexy! Zexy, wake up! Come on, you have to help me get the others, you guys have to see this!!" He was whisper-screaming directly in my face.

"Demyx, what the hell are you talking about?"

"Just get up and sneak out with me to go get the others, ok?" Of course, since my blankets had already been taken away and I was not yet fully awake or totally in my right mind, I followed him out into the hall and towards the direction of the stairs.

First stop: floor two, room 114, people needed: Sora and Riku, aka: Skirt Boy and Druggie.

Demyx burst through the door as quietly as possible, which, surprisingly enough, turned out to be pretty quietly.

"Ok, you wake up Riku, he doesn't fling himself around like Sora does." ...Ok then...works for me.

First Stop: Success.

Second stop: floor two, room 138, people needed: Axel, aka: Stupid.

"Axel!!" Demyx was whisper-screaming as loud as possible and it still wasn't working.

"Come on Demyx, what's so important that it couldn't wait until morning?" A very groggy looking Riku asked. All of us were basically falling asleep as we were standing up.

"You'll see ok, I can't show you in the morning, but you'll be real happy that I did wake you up at this hour, I promise."

After finally getting Axel up, after some minor arguing, we moved on to the third floor.

Second Stop: Success. Minor injuries to Demyx's ego obtained.

Third/final stop: floor three, room 215, people needed: Kairi and Namine, aka: Ms. 'Personality', and The Skeleton.

Kairi wasn't hard to get up, but surprisingly enough, Namine was, and when she did wake, she pulled that I.V. out of her arm as quickly as physically possible; which Kairi was not happy with us about.

Third/final Stop: Success. Minor physical injuries to Demyx's body.

And then we went to the stairs. Again. Up to the nineteenth floor.

"Seriously Demyx, what the hell are we doing? We're gonna get caught." Axel had not been happy since the moment his eyes opened. At all.

"Just hold on, alright? I swear on my life, it's amazing!"

"I don't know, you sure don't value your life much Dem."

"True...ok, I swear on my guitar and Zexy's life."

"Why my life?!" I whisper-screamed.

"Just be quiet and come on guys."

After going down narrow hallway after narrow, forbidden hallway, we reached a wall. A wall. I was going to kill him! It was one in the fucking morning!

"This is it?!"

"Oh, keep your pants on, no this isn't it."

Then he stepped on some box, and pushed up on different parts of the ceiling until one part...moved. He pushed it to the side at the top of...whatever was up there.

"Hey, people, come on!" What the hell was he doing...? But I did it anyways, it was rather difficult to climb through, especially since I was a little...untall. But I managed, and then we...we were all on a rooftop...

It was covered by fences that were far, far too high to climb, and even if we did, someone would see us from the street and people would be up here in about two minutes. Sure the fences were ugly, the top of the building was cold, the other buildings weren't so pretty either, but...you could see the sky. The starry sky. All of their faces were just amazed; as if they'd never felt the wind on their faces and they'd forgotten that there was an outside...but that all makes sense doesn't it? They'd been in there for so long, with only that one little window that they hardly got to see in the cafeteria; it only makes sense that this would be so amazing and breathtaking to them.

And we all just stared, nobody said a word, we just looked.

After about an hour, we decided we should probably go back before we got caught...

I don't think any of us slept that night.

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And that's why it's called Skyway Avenue. :D

I don't know how happy I am with this chapter; I think the song was a bit much, but I didn't know what else to have him sing, heheh...

And I was a bit reluctant to put the discovery of the rooftop in so soon, but it would be so unbelievably boring without it, you know? Ah well. I just didn't want to make the people that might actually want to read this wait.

So, what 'dya think? Reviews?

Disclaimer: Song, 'Skyway Avenue', not mine.