Happy belated Akuroku Day!
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Roxas sat on his bed, waiting for his phone to vibrate. It was only a matter of time before he got a reply.
So youre telling me you went out without me?
He rolled his eyes and flopped back onto his bed. I didnt go out. I was walking back from class and Hayner grabbed me.
Zexion always got upset when he lit up without him. He felt entitled, as Roxas' closest friend on campus, to tag along everywhere. Especially when a certain plant was involved.
Im at the door.
The blond sighed and lowered himself from his lofted bed, wondering what his life would be like if Zexion didn't come unannounced whenever he saw fit. Slipping his phone into his back pocket, Roxas shuffled slowly down the hall before descending the three flights of stairs that he hated - traveling down a staircase was always paired with climbing them again.
"Hey!" Zexion was already inside. "Someone let me in."
"Oh, great," Roxas rolled his eyes and turned around to glare at the stairs that he'd just needlessly traversed. The two boys walked in silence back to Roxas' room on the third floor.
"Dude, your roommate is never here."
"I know. And I'm always here. It's perfect. I don't have to see him at all."
His roommate was a guy named Seifer. He was a real dick. They had a lot in common, but they just didn't get along. The longest conversation they had was two minutes and involved safe microwave popcorn procedure.
Roxas sat in the plush chair in the alcove under his bed and left the broken desk chair for Zexion, who plopped in it and threw his feet onto the desk, jostling the papers resting there.
"Do you have to do that?" Roxas mumbled. If he was honest with himself, he didn't like Zexion all that much. The boy was obnoxious, clingy, and boring. The fact that he was the blond's closest friend at university really said something about the student body.
Zexion picked up a pen from the desk began tapping out a crude rhythm. "It's Friday night. We need to go out. Unlike some people in this room, I was in class all day instead of hanging out with Hayner." He switched to clicking the pen. "Now, we agreed we'd both get high today," Roxas had never agreed to such a thing, "So who can we call?"
The thing about Zexion was that he loved pot. But he never liked being responsible for buying it. So he made a habit of smoking with people who didn't ask him to pay. He was notorious for showing up in a group of people who were already lighting up and just joining in.
Roxas sighed, picking at the skin around his fingernails. "I don't know, man. I can't go to Hayner twice in a day. Xigbar isn't even an option; you know how he gets when he's high." He shuddered, thinking about the last time they smoked with the creepy senior. "Ew."
Zexion put the pen down. "What about Axel?"
Shrugging slightly, Roxas considered it. "Why not? I've never gotten high with him before so I don't-"
Zexion was already typing away on his phone. "Great! You text him too, he doesn't always answer me."
"And why would he... whatever." Roxas pulled out his phone and obliged his friend, sending out a quick 'wanna chill later?' For some reason, Zexion seemed to think that this guy Axel liked him more than he really did. They were barely acquaintances. They'd had a total of two conversations max, and even that was a stretch. The only reason Roxas knew who he was is because Axel reluctantly hooked up with Zexion's roommate, Demyx, in October, then dropped him unceremoniously the next week. Zexion was clearly the worst matchmaker ever. Roxas had met Axel while the redhead was on his way from the aforementioned dropping and they had their first conversation - about Lord of the Rings. Their second conversation was a debate about which sushi they preferred while waiting on line to check out.
Roxas had no idea why Zexion thought Axel would-
Yea. Come at 10
Oh.
"Axel!" Zexion pounded the door for a few seconds before it opened abruptly and momentum took him through the doorway. He was promptly yanked back to his feet and thrown out as Axel stepped out behind him and closed the door.
"Chill out, Zexion." Axel adjusted the collar on his denim vest as he turned to face the blond. "And, uh," he reached out to twirl a strand of blond hair around the tip of his finger, "Hey, Roxas." When he received a terse nod from the blond, he let his hand fall to his side and turned back to Zexion. "Come around back, I'll show you my usual spot."
The two freshmen followed Axel down a steep hill behind his building - Roxas cursed as the one of his flip-flops broke on the way down. He picked up the pair and caught up to Axel and Zexion who were making themselves comfortable at a stone table. As Roxas took a seat, Axel silently rolled a joint on the table.
"Is that a blunt?"
Axel glared at Zexion for a brief second before returning to his task. "No."
"Oh. How'd you find this place?"
Axel brought the joint up to his lips and lit it. "Considering that," he pointed up to the nearest window in the building, "is my room? Wasn't that hard to find."
They found themselves up in Axel's room, sitting on the floor staring up at him and he spewed incredible nothings that wouldn't make sense if they weren't stoned.
"-stew in it. Bathe in it. Relax. If you don't think about anything, nothing exists. If nothing exists, then where are we? Do we exist? Are you real? Am I real? Hey, Saix! Are you real?"
Axel's blue-haired roommate called over a monotone "Yes, Axel, I'm real," and turned the volume on his laptop up so that the sound was seeping through his headphones.
Zexion stood up and stretched before repositioning himself up on Axel's bed. Roxas followed suit and climbed up as well while Axel stayed in his spot, perched on his desk.
"Ax? What the hell is wrong with you?" Zexion stretched asked through a yawn. He looked over at the digital clock in the corner. "It's almost 2, I'm leaving." He hopped off the bed and turned to stare at Roxas. "You coming?"
Roxas peeked at him through blurry eyes and shrugged, but made no move to leave. Before closing his eyes he watched Zexion snort, grab his phone, and turn to leave.
"Aye!," Axel exclaimed, throwing a wad of paper at the retreating figure. "You owe me ten bucks!"
"Yeah, yeah," Zexion called over his shoulder as he vanished into the hall.
"I'm leaving too," Saix announced as he stuffed his laptop in a messenger bag. "Larxene wants to get sushi... or something."
There was a minute of silence before Roxas was prodded in his forehead and opened his eyes to Axel's face three inches from his own. "Cool tattoos."
"You tired?" Axel took the blond's yawn as a 'yes'. "Let me just get the light." He straightened and made his way through his roommates mess to the other side of the room and hit the switch, plunging the area into darkness.
Roxas stretched his hand out in front of himself and could only faintly see the outline of his hand.
"Your eyes'll adjust," Axel said, slipping into his bed. They lay there, staring until they'd been there so long that their eyes transformed the darkness into a navy tint over the world. The twin bed forced them to lie nose to nose; their breath mingled in the space between them. Axel smiled slightly. "Hey."
Roxas returned the gesture. "Hi."
Axel leaned forward tentatively and captured the blond's lips. He opened his eyes and pulled away slightly to gauge a reaction but his lips were covered again instantly. Axel wrapped his arms around Roxas, flipping them so the blond was under him. They were frenzied and sloppy, but the lack of finesse didn't seem to bother either of their manhoods, which were quickly standing to attention.
Axel shuddered and buried his head in a pillow as Roxas buried his face in his neck, sucking and nibbling, while his fingers raked gently up the redhead's spine. Axel ground his hips into the blond's and then jumped up abruptly. "Shit."
"What's wrong?" Roxas panted, sitting up and wiping the back of his wrist across his mouth.
"I have to text Saix. If he comes back tonight I'm gonna kill him."
Roxas smirked and fell back on the bed.
I started writing this on 8/13 but I didn't finish it in time! I'm probably the worst person ever. Oh well! Just press the little next button and continue on!