A/N: Ne, some characters that were floating in my head and I used them for an english assignment that was due the last days of class. I wasnt sure If Id post it or not, but I decided to..just because it's different from what I normally write and I like certain aspects of it. It's a bit corny and there might be a few errors in it still, but oh well lol If you see any that are really bad or extra confusing, let me know so I can fix it please~. Hope you enjoy it ^^.

Xavier is six years old when he sees the boy with the puppy dog eyes for the first time that he will really remember. Their parents think Sören is the cutest thing with his little black curls and his big blue eyes. Xavier can only think that the boy reminds him of a puppy; like the one his mommy got him for Christmas. Whenever his parents meet with Sören’s so that they can have a play date, he tells him just that. Sören always giggles and drops to his grubby hands and knees to bark and bounce around like the puppy he resembles. This makes Xavier laugh a little, though he can’t help but think the boy is only going to make himself messier than he already is and doesn’t understand why Sören would want to do that. Afterwards Sören always tells Xavier that he has pretty eyes and Xavier only shakes his head and goes back to playing with his blocks while Sören picks flowers to decorate them.

Sören is four years old when he meets the boy with the icy green stare. Their parents always say Xavier will be quite the Lothario once he’s older, but Sören doesn’t know what this means and he just thinks that Xavier has pretty green eyes just like Xavier’s mommy. He tells Xavier this every time Xavier calls him a puppy, because he thinks that it is only fair to say something nice back when someone says something nice to him. He also thinks that the face Xavier makes when he says this is funny, and it is only fair that he get to laugh since he makes Xavier laugh by acting like a doggy. Xavier always builds little castles, or not castles but ‘buildings’ if you ask Xavier, and Sören always finds the prettiest dandelions to add to them. Xavier says he doesn’t like them there, but he never makes Sören get rid of them. Sören thinks that maybe Xavier likes the flowers too and just doesn’t like to say because he likes his not-castles to be his own creations.

Xavier is ten years old when his dog, Belle, is hit by a car. He sits by her grave for hours after his daddy buries her in the rose garden on the side of the house. Sören sits by his side and cries. Xavier loved Belle and it feels like his chest is going to burst, but he does not cry because he knows that animals don’t last forever and sometimes they have accidents. He will always remember Belle, because she was his first puppy. Sören tries to tell him reassuring things between his own tiny sobs but Xavier just continues to sit in silence.

Sören is eight years old when Belle is hit and he can’t believe the dog is gone. He sits with Xavier by her grave and he cries, because he loved Belle too and he’s going to miss her. He thinks it’s nice that at least she gets to be in the center of the rose garden now, and that it’s very pretty there so she will be happy. He tells Xavier this too, and that he thinks now Belle is in heaven and she’s happy. Now she’ll get to play all the time and have all the yummy people food she never got to have before. Xavier listens quietly to Sören’s words and says only that Sören is being silly; but Sören thinks that maybe Xavier will feel a little better now, and he hopes so because even though Xavier is not crying he knows that he is hurting.

Xavier is fourteen when he gets a valentine in his locker from Ginny. Ginny is a sweet girl that has the same math class as him. He isn’t sure what to think and when she works up the courage to talk to him in the hall at the end of the day he still isn’t sure, but he smiles and tells her that of course he’d like to go out with her. He tells Sören after school and as he tells his friend about what Ginny had said, he smiles because he really does like Ginny and he’s finally decided he’s glad she talked to him. Sören teases him and he shrugs it off because it’s silly just like Sören and it doesn’t much matter. Xavier’s just glad he has someone to talk things through with so that he can get a better grasp on them.

Sören is twelve when Xavier tells him about the girl from school, and he is happy that Xavier got a card today because it made Xavier smile. Sören sees Xavier smile just like anyone else, but this one was a special one because Xavier was glad about making better friends with a person instead of just good grades and new books. Sören teases Xavier and tells him to make sure he still saves time for Sören because they are best friends. Xavier waves the comment away and ignores the teasing, but Sören still trusts Xavier not to forget him, because they are best friends and best friends are always there for one another.

Xavier is eighteen when he tells Sören that he cannot come stay with him that night because he has a date with Hannah and he cannot break it off. He doesn’t know why Sören called so suddenly, and he doesn’t listen long before he hangs up the phone because he has to hurry or he’ll be late. He’s only been seeing Hanna for a week and he knows she is going to break up with him soon because he spends too much time studying and ‘playing’ with Sören and not enough time with her. He wants to get one more good night out of her before he has to ask a new girl, maybe he'll be lucky and get her to hold out for another week. He will call Sören to apologize the next day, but not until the afternoon because he wants to go to the library first to do some research for a project that is due in four weeks.

Sören is sixteen when his mother has a heart attack and he has to stay home while his father goes with her to the hospital because they do not want the house left empty and his father promises to call him if things don’t go well. Sören is scared for his mother and he does not want to be alone because it’s driving him crazy to be in that empty house and think his mother may be dying. But when he calls Xavier to ask him to come stay the night with him Xavier doesn’t give him time to explain and tells him no before hanging up. Sören doesn’t know who else to call, because his girlfriend’s parents wouldn’t let her come and he doesn’t have any other friends who would stay with him. So Sören sits by himself and stares out the window at the flowers in the yard and tells himself that if things go wrong, at least his mother will be in a better place. The next day Xavier calls him and he accepts his apology because Xavier couldn’t have known and it’s okay because his mother didn’t die and everything will be alright again.

Xavier is twenty years old on the day he let Sören talk him into driving up into the mountains near their hometown. He rolls his eyes and leans against the side rail of the bridge, looking back at his new car that is pulled to the side of the road a little ways away, wishing he could sit inside and finish programming the GPS. Beside him Sören is trying to tell him about how he thinks their shadows on the water might really be another kind of people that are simply looking back at them from their own world; just like he used to think their reflections in the mirror were really ‘mirror people’ from another dimension when they were little. Xavier has never understood how Sören can have so many ridiculous notions in his head and still have room for the rest of his brain, but it seems like he does. Xavier sighs and shakes his head, but he smiles a little because he hasn’t had as much free time and he misses his friend’s silly ramblings sometimes.

Sören is eighteen when he convinces Xavier to spend the day on the mountainside with him; and he’s glad because even though Sören likes to come out by himself to watch the little minnows in the water, he likes spending time with Xavier too and he hasn’t had as many chances to do that lately. Sören knows that Xavier has never really believed in anything that he can’t learn from his textbooks, but he still likes sharing his thoughts about the river people with Xavier because it makes his friend smile, and Xavier should learn to smile more.

Xavier is twenty-four when he gets the call from Sören’s father saying Sören’s been in an accident. It makes his heart sink and he stays on the phone long enough to find out where they’ve taken Sören before slamming the receiver down and racing to the hospital. Sören’s parents are crying when they meet him outside Sören’s room, and he suspects the worst, but they assure him Sören is still alive. Inside the cramped hospital room, Sören is hooked up to a number of machines, all of which would have fascinated Xavier normally, but when the wires and tubes are running into his best friend’s body they only make him feel sick. Sören is still breathing, like his parent’s said, but the doctor’s say he is in a coma. For the first time Xavier finds himself saying a silent prayer.

Sören is twenty-two when he is walking back to his dorm from the coffee shop on the corner. He has walked this way so many times that he hardly has to think to make the trip. Sören is sometimes careless, and today the driver in the black pickup is being careless too. Sören does not see the truck, nor does the driver see him, until it is too late and the bumper connects with his body. There is an explosion of white before Sörens eyes as his head connects with the concrete, and the only thing he thinks before he blacks out is that Xavier is going to tease him endlessly for his carelessness after this.

Xavier is twenty-five when he sees those big blue puppy dog eyes for the first time in a year. Sören’s parents cry as they hug their son and pet his tangled black curls, they can hardly believe their baby is awake. Xavier sits quietly in his chair, and he does not seem to notice that he is crying because he’s too busy thinking that Sören still looks like a little puppy; especially now when Sören’s eyes still seem so bright after being closed for so long. When Sören’s parents finally settleand allow Xavier his turn with Sören, while they go fetch a doctor, he tells Sören that he even though Sören says there is a better place waiting for the people who die he couldn’t let him go there. He tells him how everyday he demanded for them to kick Sören out. And then he tells Sören that he still looks just like a puppy and Sören laughs softly and barks at him. Xavier thinks Sören must not know that he’s been sleeping for so long because he seems so at ease.

Sören is twenty-three when he wakes up, and he understands that he’s been gone a long time. He can remember hearing his parent’s and Xavier’s voices as he slept and he remembers that they were worried; and he knows it’s been a long time because he’s never seen Xavier cry. Even though Xavier is crying, and he looks like mess because he’s obviously spent far too much time in the little hospital room, Sören still thinks Xavier has pretty eyes. When his parent’s leave, Xavier tells him that he would not let Sören move on because he demanded he be kicked out of the afterlife and this amuses Sören because Xavier has never believed in ‘silly’ things like the afterlife; so he knows his friend has been very worried about him. And when Xavier tells Sören he still looks like a puppy, Sören laughs and barks; and when he tells Xavier that he thinks he has pretty eyes Xavier laughs softly.

A/N: Different style is weird, I know, and I don't plan on writing stuff like this from now on or anything lol. It was just something I felt like playing with, I'd like some feedback on what you think about the writing though. I might do more with these two. If you choose to see Romance between them, that's totally acceptable, I'm still not completely certain what type of relationship they hold. We'll see where it goes if I write more with them ^^

As always, reviews/concrit appreciated~!

And I do plan on continuing Fabricated, it's just taking me some time to get back into gear T__T Dont lose hope!!