Day 1: When Christmas comes to town

It was a cold snowy morning. Tiny white flakes fell to the ground covering it in heavy blankets. The icy breeze whistled through the bare trees. Decorations of red and green covered the streets. Music played all around for the strange festivities that were going on.

The short spiky haired sixteen year old blond waited patiently for his best friend at the park. His carefully coordinated outfit consisted of a white winter jacket with black pockets and a black hood. With that were his matching black snow pants and white winter boots, complimenting along with his black gloves and earmuffs.

Finally his best friend showed up wearing a black jacket with white faux fur trimming. He wore black snow pants and with fuzzy white boots and matching white gloves. On his head was a black hat with the same white faux fur.

"Roxas, aren't you a bit early?" He grinned at his best friend while ruffling his bright blond hair.

"No Axel… you're just late as always." He sighed while pushing his best friend's hands away.

Roxas started walking down the sidewalk expecting Axel to follow beside him. Instead, Axel stood there with a saddened expression letting a traditional puppy dog pout form on his bottom lip. Roxas stopped in his tracks and noticed this.

"What's your problem?" He scowled at Axel. "Are you coming with me or not?" He finally turned and heard Axel whimper.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" He held out his arms, hoping it would give his best friend the idea.

"I don't have any idea what you are talking about." He continued to star blankly at Axel, dumbfounded by his strange gestures.

Axel sighed and placed his arms around him, pulling him closer into a tight embrace. Roxas started to blush as he was forced to place his face into Axel's chest. Axel was snickering a bit as he placed a kiss against Roxas's forehead.

"What are you doing?" He pushed Axel away and wiped his forehead. "That was not something I had in mind."

"Aw, come on! That's what best friends do, silly." He smiled at Roxas. "Besides, it's the first day of Christmas, don't you think you should be happy?"

"Christ… mas?" He formed the strange words with another dumbfound expression. "I've never heard that before."

"Geez, Roxas… don't tell me you don't remember Christmas! Why do you think the streets are covered with red and green decorations?" He pointed to each street block. "Doesn't that give you the slightest idea what is going on?"

"Not really." He shrugged in confusion. "I told you before, I have never heard of this… christmas you speak of."

"Man… what am I going to do with you, little Roxas?" He sighed as he started to think of an explanation for his best friend. "Christmas is the time of giving. We celebrate it because well… hm... how do I even explain this?"

"But Axel… why do we celebrate Christmas?" He looked into Axel's sea green eyes. "That's what I really want to know."

"We celebrate it because it was the night our savior was born. He was born on christmas day and well… in order to continue those traditions… everyone buys presents for friends and family." He explained. "That's why you see all of these presents wrapped in red and green decorations."

"Oh." He couldn't say anything else about what he was just told. "There's still so much I don't understand though."

"You'll get it in time. If there's anything else you want to know you can always ask later." He placed a kiss on Roxas's cheek. "For now, you should think about what I've already told you."

"Fine." He sighed. "What should we do now?" He looked up at his best friend. "We could go ice skating or we could just hang out or something."

"We already are hanging out, silly." He smiled at Roxas. "I wouldn't mind going ice skating but we shouldn't rush things either."

"What else can we do?" He was getting bored of walking around. "Do you think you should go into some of these stores and look around?"

"Do you want to?" He looked at Roxas and smiled. "You and I need to get some Christmas stockings and other decorations."

"Is it even necessary?" He didn't want any useless things like that in his house.

"Of course it is. Everyone does it and I think we should too." He pulled Roxas into one of the stores. "It's the best way to get into the Christmas spirit."

"Oh." He poked at some of the different Christmas knick-knacks. "Are you sure this is completely necessary?"

"What did I just say?" He laughed at his best friend.

After buying useless decorations, Axel and Roxas managed to finally get home. Roxas helped Axel with the decorations.

"Now it really feels like Christmas in here." Axel grinned as he finished wrapping green and red garland around the railings.

"Yeah… sure." He shrugged.

Axel placed his arms tightly around him, almost toppling him over. Roxas collapsed into the couch as his best friend refused to let go. Axel kissed Roxas's forehead, while his cheeks had turned a bright red.

"Axel, stop…" He was getting annoyed by his friend's odd affection. "You're getting carried away with all this."

"Roxas, are you ticklish?" He started to snicker.

"Why do you want to know?" He frowned and hoped his friend wasn't getting ideas. "I'm pretty sure I'm not ticklish."

Axel started poking at his best friend's stomach, hearing his loud laughter. Roxas was blushing again and couldn't get away. Axel was smiling as he placed another kiss on his best friend's forehead.

"Hey Axel… what's a christmas tree?" He asked his best friend, while resting his head against his broad chest.

To be continued…