Think Twice

~*He never seemed to, and this puzzled her.*~

The first thing Namine noticed about Roxas was he could be determined.

If he decided to do something, you better help or get the hell out of the way.

Right now, for example, he was intent on finishing his Algebra homework. He was scribbling frantically, eyes narrowed, carrying numbers and dividing and adding…

Namine watched from over her boyfriend's shoulder, watching as he added too quickly and missed a number, and ended up with the wrong answer.

However, he was too intent on finishing to notice, and he zoomed right on ahead. She placed her hand on his, guiding his hand back to circle the wrong numbers.

"Do you double check your work?" She asked him, amused. He smiled sheepishly.

"Of course, I was going to finish this first."

He got to work again immediately, getting more than half the problems wrong due to his haste, and she watched with an amused expression on her face as he plowed straight on.

Roxas paused to glance up at her, probably wondering what she was looking at, then looked down and began working harder, dragging his pencil across the paper, scratching loudly.

"Do you need help?"

"Nope." He replied cheerily. He dropped his pencil, looking smug. "Done."

She leaned over, made a face, and started crossing out the wrong answers. The ceiling fan cast around dancing shadows on the walls in his room as she reworked the problems he got wrong, sighing.

"Roxas, Life Lesson number three." She chided him gently.

"Huh?" He said intelligently.

"Think twice! Double check!" Namine handed him back his pencil. "If something looks right the first time, check it again for good measure."

"What if it looks wrong then?"

"Check again and again until it comes up right." She replied with a smile, and he let her help with his math homework.

He wrapped his arms around her shoulders, smirking gently. "Is there a calculator in your brain or something?"

"Possibly. It's the amazing world of studying."

"I had no idea." Roxas replied, just the faintest tinge of sarcasm in his tone.

~***~

The trains screeched into the station, and Namine nervously bit her nails, staring at Hayner who was skateboarding with Roxas near the tracks.

"Oh my God! Guys!"

Olette looked just as worried, and Pence was just staring awestruck.

"Don't go near the tracks! Eek!" Olette panicked. "Please, for real, Hayner, Roxas!"

"Stop being dumb!" Pence shouted.

The duo just grinned, grinding on the tracks not being used, and Roxas flipped on his board.

"Think twice! Remember!?" Namine shouted.

Her boyfriend paused, skating back to her just as Hayner fell and hit his head.

"Oh! Hayner!" Olette ran forward, but he was already sitting up, rubbing his skull.

"Do you ever know what think twice means?" Namine hissed at him as he rolled to a stop.

"Think again?" he guessed.

"It means consider, and then reconsider! Look at everything from every angle! You probably thought the rails would make good practice for your board, but you forgot…" Namine pointed to the trains, then jabbed her finger into his chest, furious for the danger he put himself in. "These tracks are still in use, even if some of the trains aren't here yet! Consider how you could have gotten run over!"

Roxas nodded. "Okay, I get it. I'll think twice. You're getting good at this life lessons thing." He smiled that grin that melted her heart, and she relaxed, knowing the message had gotten home.

Namine watched the sunset bleed red light across the station, casting everything in deep scarlet, generating long shadows.

"That's because you need some serious help, Roxas." She sighed, but her tone was affectionate.

He kissed her quickly, grinning at her blush.

"Good thing you're here then, I really do need help. But I'm a teenager in the summer, this is normal." He rubbed his hair nervously, and then added, "We'll have to help Hayner more than me, though."

Hayner had dropped back again and Pence approached the duo with a sigh.

"We'll need to lend a hand; he went and got a bruise, I I hope it's just that."

"We're on it." They both said at the same time.

As they walked, Namine said under her breath, "Don't freak me out like that!"

~***~

I should just make all of these Roxas and Namine things into a one shot collection.

Yup. Maybe. Next one of these is going to have Roxas with a "Life Lesson" for Namine.

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