On being accepted!

[dividedright]

Look, just because you want me to go doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.

[ Someone's a grump today. Not that the mun can blame him. ...Not that she'll change her mind. And that gets him sighing and shaking his head. How'd he ever get stuck with her? ]

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[replications]

It won't be that bad, though, right?

[dividedright]

I don't know a-... [ There's a flinch as the sound of the voice registers and he looks back sharply in surprise.

...And then his face falls. Something between uncertain, uneasy. Perplexed, too, definitely. Maybe even a little hint of defiance. ] ...Xion.

[replications]

[She blinks at him, a little baffled by the response.]

Yes?

[dividedright]

[ Your confusion isn't helping, not!BFF(?). He looks a little taken aback, but... but maybe she's just trying to play it off as nothing. He... doesn't know, but. Eyebrows knitting slightly. Don't act innocent. Or maybe she was. ]

There's something I've been wanting to ask. [ Needs to ask. And he doesn't look like he'll be taking 'No' for an answer. ]

[replications]

[Her expression dissolves into a soft smile.]

You can ask me anything, Roxas.

[dividedright]

[ There's that smile. Familiar but yet he knows it shouldn't be. They were... They were just... or was that really...? His expression hardens. ]

I want to know. Was everything in that fake Twilight Town- [ This friendship. ] -Was all of it a lie?

[replications]

Fake Twilight Town? [And she's right back to being confused.

Why is Roxas...looking at her that way?]

I don't know what you mean. [Twilight Town wasn't fake, right? She was pretty sure that world had been real.]

[dividedright]

[ What?

Color him... all kinds of thrown completely for a loop. It's written all over his features before he's throwing those formerly controlled, cautious words to the wind. ]

What do you mean 'what you you mean'? You know exactly what I'm talking about! [ Don't lie to me! ]

[hiddenlight]

...It's better than being nowhere, Roxas.

[dividedright]

[ Naminé... He ducks his head slightly. Voice a little more than on the cusp of frustration. ]

But we just found Lea and... [ And you're with him, too, you know. ]

[hiddenlight]

[Aw, don't do that. She almost brings a hand up to reach out to him. Almost.]

There's... some things that we can't always control. We'll find him again.

[dividedright]

[ But he just did. Sorry, Nams. It's been a rough ride. You know this. Which might explain his almost scoff. ]

Will we? [ There might be a bit to his tone. Not that he means to get snappy on you. He's just... Yeah, combing a hand through his hair now. ]

[hiddenlight]

[You see this face? It just fell.

But it doesn't stop her from reaching out and clasping that hand in her's either. The smile and the tone of her voice is confident. Have a little faith, bro.]

We will.

[dividedright]

[ ...A-Ah... He really doesn't mean to... Yeah, his own falls with hers.

At least until he feels the touch of her hand on his, collecting it with a smile on her face. She's trying to be strong, something he should be doing. He's the reason they're in this whole mess anyway. At least what's what he thinks. And... But he's so frustrated. Even as his hand grips hers, he frowns again. ]

But why didn't he say so in the first place? He should have came with me to Traverse Town! [ And that way, they could have been together and- and, okay, so maybe things would have still been pretty crazy, but... ]