Chapter 1

Roxas was bored out of his mind. It was late, he had no email, and nothing to do but wait for everyone to leave before he closed the library and went home. Not that he wanted to. All he would find would be Sora and Riku acting all lovey-dovey.
It wasn't fair! Why couldn't he get a girlfriend, he was so much better than that homo brother of his, why do the gay ones always get all the girls attention!

...

"Hey." There was no response from the red head who had his head on the desk and was snoring gently. " Hello? We're closing. Hey, wake up!" He shook the man but that didn't seem to help.

"fshuof…nnn." The guy mumbled which probably meant something along the lines of 'piss off.'

"Yo, Sonic, your hairs turned red." Roxas spat out and instantly regretted when the man glared up at him.

"What did you just say about my hair?" said the half asleep, pissed off guy who didn't appreciate the hedgehog joke.

"Dude, I said, get out. We're closing."
'God how many times do I have to tell this guy.' Thought Roxas.

"I have a name." The guy smirked at him, obviously trying to be irritating.

"Lovely, so do I, now get out"

"It's Axel." Said the guy said with a hint of humour in his tone.

"Roxas." He shot back.

"Nice to meet you." They said at the exact same time, breaking the tension.

Axel chuckled, then something occurred to him, "What time is it?"

"It's eleven." Roxas eyed the guy, wishing he'd just leave.

"Shit, already! No. I've got an exam tomorrow!" Axel was panicking he couldn't fail this resit or he'd be kicked out for sure this time.

"Just get up early." Roxas was sick of this, he wanted to sleep; he hadn't really slept for weeks – why did he do a History major! He groaned internally at his stupidity.
God, all those dissertations, he had to do tons of all-nighters and one of them he had to rewrite completely since it made hardly any sense - caused by the severe lack of sleep in the first place!

"Dude, do I look like someone who gets up early? Just let me stay just for a couple of hours please?"

"No, I have work to do to, y'know. I don't have time to wait for you to leave." Roxas was growing more annoyed with the stupid red head.

"Please, I'm begging you here, would it help if I was on my hands and knees?"

The thought made Roxas laugh a little.

"Fine, but I have to stay here till you're done, so hurry up."

Roxas was about to walk away but Axel caught his hand and said,
"Can you find me some books? I'm completely lost when it comes to libraries."

Roxas had no idea why his face suddenly felt like it was burning or why the hand Axel had caught felt like an electric current was passing through it. He snatched his hand away and went off in the direction of a book shelf he could hide behind. He didn't want to show that guy, wait.. Axel, his face.

"What subject?" His voice muffled behind a bookcase.

"Chemistry."

Roxas was getting annoyed again, all awkwardness forgotten.
"More specifically?" Not that Roxas knew anything about chemistry but he assumed he'd be able to find something of relevance to the topic.

"Em… Demnyx said something about er…"
'I wish I had actually been to a lecture', he thought kicking himself internally. 'Well Saix did tell me to stop partying and start studying but… y'know…'
"Chemical stuff...?"

'How he got into this college I'll never know,' thought Roxas.
"Here." Roxas said averting his gaze.
'What the fuck Rox!
You Do Not Like Guys!
You Are Not A Homo-freaking-Sexual!
It's not your fault that Riku got us confused once.
We're twins; it wasn't your fault, so stop thinking up weird shit.'

Ever since that happened he'd been arguing - in his head - about his sexuality.

'But it was nic…Don't you dare finish that sentence…'

"Are you okay?" Axel asked.
Roxas had been standing there with an angry expression for quite some time.

'Are you gay?' He thought at the exact wrong moment.

"I am not gay!" His face went pale, so pale in fact that Axel got worried he was going to pass out, and put a hand out just in case.
"I-I'm going to the desk." Roxas childishly went to hide behind the library desk, tripping on the way, losing the rest of what little dignity he had left – if in fact he had any.

'Why the fuck did you say that!' He hit his head off the desk a few times - 'Why, why, just why?'

After a while, he thought he might as well get on with his history paper. 'Yeah, Fuck My Life.' He thought, bringing up his notes on the computer screen.

…

Axel went over to see how Roxas was and found him curled up under the desk asleep.
He couldn't help but stare, all of Roxas's defences were gone, his face so cute. Without thinking, Axel bent down and kissed him lightly on the cheek.
He placed his jacket on Roxas, it was cold but he didn't really mind.

…

"Hey, Roxy! Wakey, wakey!" Axel exclaimed cheerfully.

"Huh?" Roxas squinted as the light hit his eyes.

"I brought y' some breakfast." said Axel holding out coffee and a muffin.

"Thanks," Roxas said, sitting up, "Why'd you do that?"

"Yeah, I thought you'd be hungry so… yeah." said Axel awkwardly scratching the back of his head.

It was strange that he wasn't cold, he thought, the heating must have gone off ages ago, that was when he noticed the jacket and thanked Axel again.

"I'll need to make this up to you," said Axel.

"No need, you've already done enough." But inside Roxas wasn't so polite - 'Hell yeah you do, you have no idea what it's going to be like trying to explain why I was out all night to Sora and Riku. I'll never hear the end of this!'

"No, you let me stay here all night so em… er…" Axel's face was going so red it was starting to match his hair, "I'd like to take you to dinner." He said with a sheepish expression.

"Em…" Roxas didn't want to say 'as long as it's not… y'know a date or anything' but didn't wish to have Axel reminded of last night's random outburst….
"Fine."

A huge grin spread across Axel's face, "Okay, I'll pick you up here at seven!" He looked at Roxas for a second, making the blond feel uncomfortable before remembering, "I've gotta go! My exam starts in like…" he picked up the clock on the desk, "Shit, it's started. See ya!" He said bolting it and forgetting to put the clock back.

"See ya." Said Roxas with a smile.