Wind blowing through his hair as he stood atop one of the many balconies of castle oblivion, recently he stood here often, near the edge…
Feeling the wind ruffle his blazing red hair with his arms spread wide he felt insignificant and on top of the world all at once, he did this because it made him feel slightly fearful but also excited…
In other words it made him feel alive…
And anything that could make him feel at all, was worth something to him…
Eyes closed embracing and ignoring the world all at once, like being on the edge of something amazing…
But never daring to step off, only knowing he had the choice to…
How many times had he been standing there only to be almost pushed off by Demyx half wishing he hadn't come at all, or at least succeeded…
/I just want something different… Something amazing…/
He let his feet hit the safety of the balcony again, trying to maintain the feeling he had temporarily captured.
/Just once I'd like to see the sun shine here…/
It was evident that he was not his usual self he had been moping around for two weeks straight, standing out on the balcony, locking himself up in his room. Demyx even left his room unlocked expecting to return to it in flames.
But to no avail…
He would sit in his room for hours just staring into space…
Even when he walked through the halls he'd usually be gazing up dreamily at the high ceilings, now he was walking around with his hood up trying to avoid everyone's gaze…
So when everyone was called to a meeting it was no surprise to anyone that he wasn't there…
He chose to ignore the message and instead lay on his bed, music blaring from headphones into his ears, eyes closed in a meditative state, randomly scratching matches across the packet and flicking them to the floor… Tiles don't burn, so there was no danger…
His room that was usually a mess was tidy and sparse looking… His bed, a wardrobe and a bedside table with nothing but a Zippo lighter upon it.
On top of all this he tried to keep the room as dark as possible, making it quite clear he wanted to be left alone. He couldn't tell his superior he felt lonely and worthless… Because his superior was a grade "A" prick and because rule number one on his agenda when he joined up was "Nobodies do not feel…"
"Welcome to Organization 13…"
The young blonde boy cocked his head.
"I thought it was Organization 12?"
The older man rolled his eyes.
"Plus you makes?"
"Twelve… I saw only eleven people down there…"
The older man shrugged.
"Number eight of the Organization is our fire wielder Axel… You'll find him in there… He treats fire as a toy and tends to be quite reckless in regards to the safety of others… Good luck!"
The blonde turned to see the superior disappear into a portal of darkness.
"Hey wait!"
/He is the leader, he's responsible for me and he abandons me outside the door of a fire obsessed maniac… Yay… Good call boss…/
Slowly he pushed the door, a little nervous that the superior wouldn't even come in with him…
A smell of burnt out matches wafted through the air…
Darkness…
He became alarmed when in the darkness he saw a small spark illuminating a face then the flame extinguishing itself on the floor.
Slowly realizing that his eyes were closed he approached the bed that he was lying on cautiously.
He could make out some band posters on the walls…
Every second or so a new spark would illuminate his face, he noticed the tattoos under his eyes, wild red spikes that seemed to come from everywhere...
Still he stepped closer…
And closer…
And finally acid green eyes that opened upon feeling someone's breath upon his face.
The young teen pulled back realizing how close he'd gotten…
Axel sat up on his bed taking off the headphones slowly summoning fire to his hand to illuminate the face of the person who was invading his room.
For a while both just stared…
Axel confused about who the newcomer was and the newcomer confused about what he was supposed to do now.
They stared in dark silence until the silence was broken with the click of a light switch.
Axel shielded his eyes groaning against the light.
"Ugh…"
When his eyes grew accustomed to the brightness the first thing he saw was the blonde hair, bright blue eyes…
Familiar and yet new…
The blonde now feeling a little awkward held out his hand.
"The names Roxas…"
The redhead nodded feeling a slight smile creep to his lips and shaking his hand said.
"I'm Axel… Got it memorized?"
The blonde boy nodded and stepping backwards left the room again closing the door softly after him.
Axel was now curious…
/Who is that guy anyway? And better still, what was he doing in my room?/
With this thought in mind he left his room quietly following the young teen.
/Where did he come from and what led him to me…?/
He watched Roxas look up at the ceilings and paintings that adorned the walls of the castle, he seemed both saddened and yet so curious about what had happened to him…
Notes from a piano seemed to float through the air, catching the young boys attention, so he quickened his pace to get closer and listen.
The redhead followed quickening his pace also to keep up with the newcomer…
His robes seemed to flow as he was now running towards the music needing to find out who it was that was playing it…
Stopping dead outside a room Axel had to hide behind a pillar as Roxas peeped in through the keyhole to unveil the secret.
In front of a piano he could clearly see the side of the persons face blue grey coloured hair pulled behind his ear concentrating on every note his slender fingers created on the keys…
"It's so beautiful…"
He heard the blonde sigh out involuntarily to no one…
Fascinated by the boy he listened as the song ended and the boy quickly stepped away from the door as the piano lid was closed.
He watched intently as Roxas made his way quickly down the hall and moments later watched as Zexion emerged from the music room and walked in the opposite direction…
Axel emerged once he was sure no one was around, he made his way back up the long corridors to his room.
He threw himself onto his bed.
/Why did I react like that to him… It almost felt like I was hypnotized… I gotta go find him…/
The castle was huge and he had no idea where to begin looking…
/Maybe someone is showing him around… He clearly had no idea where he was going… But the music seemed to attract him… Hmmm…/
The redhead grinned to himself wondering how he could get the blonde to come to him.
/Got it!/
Looking around him he summoned a flame to his hand and admiring it for a second blew it over to the curtains that hung beside where he was standing.
/That should do it…/
He stood admiring the burning purple velvet curtains and blackening walls.
Gazing dreamily at the flames wondering who would spot it first and how they would react…
/Please don't be Demyx, please don't be Demyx…/
But of course who spots Axel staring dreamily at the flames but Demyx.
"Hey Axe… What the fuck? Why are the curtains on fire?"
The redhead just smiled like he was stoned cocking his head at the sitar player.
"Cause I set them on fire…"
Demyx raised an eyebrow but seeing Axel grinning like a maniac made him smile.
"I'm glad you're feeling better… Don't worry I'll keep walking and act like I saw nothing…"
The redhead grinned at Demyx saying nothing.
Demyx walked along whistling shooting the odd glance backwards at the pyromaniac trying to hide his secret excitement that Axel was:
1: Back to normal.
And
2: Smiling at him.
It wasn't a hidden fact that Demyx liked Axel, not at all…
In fact everyone in the castle seemed to know…
Except Axel that is…
So the fact that Axel was now smiling at him and owed him for something was to him, a BIG deal.
"Uh… Does anyone else smell that?"
Luxord picked up his dice off the wooden floor.
Xigbar raised his eyes from the book he was reading.
"Actually yeah smells like somethings… burning? Awww crap…"
Marluxia looked out the window terrified he'd find his beautiful roses in flames…
Again...
And breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his roses were (for the moment) unharmed.
"Thank goodness…"
Luxord stood up.
"I wonder where Demyx is… Usually he's the one who deals with fires and stuff… But I haven't seen him all day… Maybe we should go see how bad it is…"
Xigbar shrugged.
"Yeah, I guess… Better than sitting here, I'm pretty bored…"
Luxord grinned.
"Race you…"
"You're on…"
Both men began sprinting up the halls causing a reaction from Marluxia who had been too busy admiring his flower garden to hear what they had said and assuming something was very wrong began to run after them.
So by the time they reached Roxas who was checking out his new room, mass hysteria was loose and ten members were talking about "the house burning down" and the fact that "Demyx was sick of putting out all the fires Axel caused and was heading to Hawaii as they spoke."
The young blonde boy being new to all this and not knowing what he should do ran after everyone.
Axel had now caused a proper inferno, the curtains had fully blazed, the walls were blackened and the flames were beginning to rise up towards the ceiling, he had even opened the window to fan the flames with oxygen to make them burn more and poured petrol across the floor.
The floor and the walls were now bursting into flames much to the delight of Axel who was laughing like a maniac.
"I love the smell of burning curtains in the morning… Ha ha!"
Demyx appeared several minutes later from down the hall where he had been secretly watching Axel happily set things alight.
"Where the hell have you been?"
Marluxia screamed.
"If it had of been my flower garden the whole thing would've been burned to the ground by now! Do something!"
Roxas was terrified and nudging Zexion asked.
"Uh… Is Axel okay?"
Zexion shrugged uninterested.
"This is what Axel's like…"
Roxas gazed at the flames and the smile that they seemed to provoke from Axel…
He looked like some kind of demon, flames reflecting in his eyes, creating and nursing more with his hands and the devastatingly handsome but wicked smile that seemed should never leave his face.
His eyes remained on Roxas as Demyx extinguished the flames.
The redhead passed Demyx and whispered.
"Thanks… I really needed that I feel so much better now…"
The sitar player almost melted as he continued to extinguish the remaining flames in the burnt out hallway and following Axel with his eyes blasted Larxene in the face with water.
"I'm so sorry…"
The woman grinned.
"Yes Demyx… But not as sorry as you will be…"
"Oh shit…"
Axel now once again calm and currently having the attention of the one he was curious about, decided it was a days work well done and walking away from the smoky scene decided he would go to one of the balconies to plan out his next move.
/Ah… Man I feel way better for that… Burning stuff is so fun… I'm a happy Axel…/
Roxas watched him walking away, both excited and unnerved by him at the same time…
But left with one thought.
/I have to find out more about him…/
With that he returned to his room leaving a rather beaten up Demyx (Larxene caught him…) wondering /Does Roxas like… No it must be my imagination…/
At eight o clock dinner was served in what looked like a large Victorian dining hall…
Roxas was a little overwhelmed by everything that happened today, his memories were gone, he had joined this group who claimed they could help him get them back, the hall had gone on fire, and he was slowly gaining an unhealthy obsession with the man who started it.
So when he was allowed to choose a place to sit he chose to sit across the way from Axel…
He figured he could maybe get a little more insight into how he acted, but also make eye contact with him from across the table and see how he reacted.
Axel seeing him look somewhat awkward decided to provoke some conversation out of him.
"So Roxas, where are you from anyways?"
Demyx snarled seeing Axel grinning over at the newcomer.
"Uh… I don't remember…"
He continued to eat.
"You don't remember anything?"
The blonde shook his head.
"Nope…"
Axel nodded sadly thinking of how he could liven things up, he wasn't getting much out of Roxas and everyone else looked bored out of their skull too…
The redhead finished his food quickly and left the room only to feel someone tug on his sleeve.
"Huh? Oh hey Roxas… What's up?"
The blonde looked a little confused.
"Uh… I'm lost… I have no idea how to get anywhere in here…"
Axel nodded.
"Uh ok… Well which floor is it on?"
Roxas shrugged.
"Beats me…"
The redhead laughed.
"That's cool do you want to head back right now, or do you want me to show you around?"
The young teen smiled.
"You're the first person who's offered to show me anything…"
Axel smiled.
"Let's go then…"
Demyx ran out of the dining room hoping to find the two before they went anywhere…
But was greeted by an empty hallway and far off laughter…
After showing him the castle from top to bottom, he moved on to showing him the balconies.
"It's cool cause they all have different views out onto different things… Its nice and all… It's just a pity it's always so dark here… It'd be so beautiful if only the sun shined… But enough of that depressing shit… Tell me about you."
Roxas shrugged.
"I've already told you, I can't remember… Much…"
The redhead grinned.
"Okay, well lets see what you do remember… What music do you like?"
The blonde smiled.
"Well I like a lot of punk rock, some metal…"
"Specific band name please?"
Axel led Roxas out onto one of the balconies and sitting on the railing against the pillar at the side smiled at him.
"Hmmm… Angels and Airwaves are pretty good…"
Axel nodded.
"Now I get to ask you a question!"
The redhead nodded.
"Okay shoot."
Roxas began thinking.
"Uh… Well… What's your favourite ice cream?"
Axel smirked.
"Sea salt ice cream of course… My turn… Uh… Worst fear?"
Roxas thought for a moment.
"Hmmm… Uh… I wouldn't call it a worst fear, I don't fear it, I just hate it…"
Axel looked interested.
"I don't like being left alone…"
He nodded in agreement.
"I don't think anyone does…"
"What's the worst thing you've ever done?"
"Well Roxas why do you ask?"
The blonde smiled.
"Because you seem like a hell raiser that's why!"
"Oh Roxas you do charm me ha ha!"
They stayed out on the balcony until late into the night.
"Oh man I dunno what to ask you now… Actually what time is it?"
The redhead looked upwards…
"Hmmm judging by the moon I would say it is about… 3 am…"
"3 am? Where'd all that time go to? When we came out here it was like 11 pm..."
Axel jumped off the railing of the balcony back onto the safety of the concrete giving Roxas a cheeky smile.
"They say time flies when you're having fun, come on I'll walk you to your room…"
The blonde nodded.
"Okay…"
They made their way through the castle quietly.
"Best be quiet at this time of night, there are a few of them here that get highly aggravated when they don't get their sleep like, for instance Larxene…"
The redhead motioned at a door and before Roxas could reply kicked it as hard as he could and began running grabbing Roxas behind a pillar to hide and watch.
A sleepy blonde woman answered the door growling.
"If I ever find out who it is that keeps doing this I swear I'll rip your testicles off and ram them down your fucking THROAT!"
With that the door closed and after a few seconds of silence both teenagers were in a giggling heap on the floor.
"She… She said…"
Axel couldn't hold it in any longer.
"TESTICLES!"
The red heads outburst had caused stirring in the woman's room and lowering his voice whispered to Roxas.
"You any good at running?"
The younger blonde raised an eyebrow.
"Uh… Why?"
Axel looked slightly fearful.
"Because if she catches us she will fucking kill us… In every meaning of the word…"
Roxas nodded slowly.
"Oh… I understand…"
Realizing what Axel had just said and seeing that he was currently sprinting up the hallway and also the the woman's door was opening he began to sprint too.
"God dammit! Wait on me it's my first day here I don't wanna die!"
Suddenly he felt himself being dragged aside and felt a hand over his mouth.
It was dark here…
Very dark and he had no idea who was behind him.
"Mmmhm…"
"Shhhh… She'll catch us…"
A familiar voice whispered.
They stood in his small space for what seemed like an hour Axel resting his back against the wall and Roxas resting against him.
"I think the coast is clear…"
The red head announced peeping around the door.
"Yeah… She's gone… I'll bring you to your room now, sorry about that… Couldn't resist!"
Roxas just smiled walking in silence beside the taller teen they walked like this until Axel came to a halt and Roxas bumped into him.
"Huh? Why'd you stop?"
The taller teen looked down at him.
"Uh… Cause we're here…"
The blonde looked in at the darkness of his room.
"Oh… Okay..."
Roxas began to make his way into his room and Axel began to walk away.
"Uh… Axel?"
The red head turned.
"Yeah?"
"Uh, what happens tomorrow? Like what time do we get up at and where do we go and… Stuff?"
Axel laughed.
"No one explained anything to you did they?"
Roxas shook his head innocently.
"Well don't worry too much about it… My room is just over here…"
He said pointing down the hall.
"So if you need anything I'm not far… Ok?"
The blonde haired boy nodded.
"Ok… Night Axel…"
Axel smiled waving at Roxas.
"Goodnight."
He watched as the door to Roxas' bedroom closed and walked down to his own room the door click closed and he let himself lean against it.
/Maybe the sun does shine here sometimes after all…/
Removing his coat and clothes he pulled the blankets over his head and silently prayed that he would wake up tomorrow and this wouldn't all be a dream.
Slowly his eyes shut and he felt himself drift off into a deep sleep, his dreams were full of tomorrows and for the first time in quite a while he felt good about waking up in the morning.
Blue eyes blinked open observing the ceiling…
/Is it morning already?/
The light creeping in from behind the velvet curtains told him that it was.
Slowly he sat up in bed and pulling the blankets from his body he slid his feet onto the cold marble floor.
He wiped his eyes and pulled his blankets off his lap.
/It's cold…/
He reached out for his t shirt only to have Axel burst through the door.
"GOOD MORNING!"
Roxas froze holding the t shirt over his bare chest as if Axel had just witnessed him getting out of the shower.
The redhead realizing they had just met yesterday politely turned around.
"Uh… Sorry…"
The blonde boy pulled the t shirt over his head feeling slightly pissed off at the red heads intrusion.
"You can turn around now…"
Axel turned around beaming.
"Did you sleep well?"
Roxas nodded.
"Yeah I guess…"
"Cool get dressed and I'll show you what I didn't get to show you last night!"
The blonde raised an eyebrow at this comment.
"I mean the castle!"
Roxas sat on the side of the bed laughing.
"Sure you do…"
The red head ran his tongue across his teeth.
"Well if you want to see it that bad…"
Axel began to pull down the zip of his coat revealing a tightly fitting black tank top.
Roxas began to protest.
"No no! I was kidding I was kidding!"
"Oh fine then… You're not really my type anyway… You blonde squirt!"
With that he grabbed Roxas in a headlock and started giving him noogies.
"A-Axel! Stop it!"
"Well what's in it for me if I stop?"
"WHAT! You sick pervert! Get off me!"
Axel stopped and pretending to cry sobbed.
"Why do you think I'm such a pervert?"
Roxas put his hand to his chin and letting himself fall back onto his bed replied.
"Perhaps its because you busted into my room while I was preparing to get dressed?"
The red head protested.
"Listen kid your door is not transparent how was I to know that you were getting changed?"
"Hmmm… Well Axel most people knock first…"
The red head looked embarrassed.
"Well… I'll do that from now on…"
Roxas could only smile at the red heads enthusiasm.
"Okay, well you wait here and I'll go get changed…"
"Cool…"
The redhead planked himself on the bed sliding his feet back and forth along the tiled floor his boots making an odd squeaking noise against the tile…
He flinched slightly at the noise of it but kept doing it in the name of "grossing himself out" in fact he got so into it he didn't even notice Roxas coming out of the bathroom and there he was pulling both his feet across the floor and pulling faces like he was sucking on lemons…
Roxas slightly amused at Axel's odd behaviour watched, until Axel turned mid squeak to notice him.
"Axel?"
The redhead looked up sheepishly smiling.
"Yes Roxy?"
"What the hell were you doing?"
"Would you believe me if I said nothing?"
"No…"
"Then you're not gonna get an answer then are you?"
Laughing Axel ran out of the door.
"Come on if you don't run we'll miss breakfast and we've already missed the morning briefing…"
"What! You said you'd wake me up on time?"
"Please… I always miss the morning briefing… Its just Xemnas moaning and being all hormonal about people leaving the toilet seat up and stuff… Oh and the odd thing about the key bearer yadda yadda yadda! In other words who cares? You came here to have fun right?"
Roxas put a finger thoughtfully on his chin…
"I dunno… Probably…"
Axel shrugged smiling.
"Well then! Now hurry up! They're making pancakes!"
"Pancake eh?"
"Yeah now hurry up I've wasted enough time getting you already!"
Axel began to sprint down the hallway.
"Oh you've wasted time have you?"
The redhead laughed back towards him.
"Yes Roxy you're a complete waste of space! No you idiot! I wouldn't have bothered coming to get you at all if I felt like that!"
Roxas stopped, watching Axel sprint ahead black coat swinging behind him it looked like he was running at 90 miles an hour down the hallway in slow motion.
"Hey wait!"
The young boy ran after him only to run to an intersection of four hallways.
"A… Axel?"
Roxas looked puzzled before catching a glimpse of red on a nearby staircase.
"Hey get back here! Stop running off on me!"
He shouted running towards the staircase.
"Do you want me to get lost? I don't even think you're bringing me anywhere near breakfast!"
Seeing only one door he ran towards it shouting.
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW!"
Before landing on top of a rather shocked looking sitar player.
"Demyx? Oh sorry… I was looking for Axel…"
Demyx shot him a look as Axel helped up the newcomer.
"Roxas you have to learn to keep up!"
The young blonde got up laughing.
"You asshole its your fault I plowed into Demyx here…"
Demyx pulling himself up off the floor didn't get as much as a glance from Axel.
/I have to find a way to get rid of this new kid… Or at least get Axel away from him…/
"Don't you think you should give the new kid a break Axel? I mean he isn't even here a day and you're already pulling him into games of chasing around a castle he's not familiar with?"
Axel rolled his eyes.
"He's fine… Right Roxas?"
The young blonde nodded smiling.
"Thanks for looking out for me though…"
The redhead looked thoughtfully into space.
"All that running has made me kinda hungry though… Wanna go get breakfast?"
Roxas nodded.
"Cool lets go then!"
Demyx now feeling rather left out ran after the two and decided that he would make it his mission to make sure that they were nothing more than friends... And hell if he could prevent that too so much the better!
Just seeing the two of them near each other made his blood boil and he could only begin to wonder what they were up to the night before…
/Axel's supposed to be mine… He may not know that yet… But he will…/
"Crap…"
"What's wrong?"
The redhead raised a hand to his forehead.
"Its your first day here and due to my stupidity we missed breakfast… BUT…"
The blonde boy cocked his head to the side.
"But?"
The redhead grabbed Roxas hand making the young boy blush and Demyx almost shoot fire out of his ears in pure anger.
Axel led them to the freezer.
"I've been saving these…"
He announced opening up the freezer and reaching to the back pulled out the last of his sea salt ice creams two to be precise.
"Awww… Ah well…"
The first one he handed to Demyx and the second he handed to Roxas.
"Eat up! Ice cream part of a not so nutritious breakfast!"
Demyx opened his up and looking rather satisfied with himself sat up on the countertop.
"Thanks Axel!"
"No problem Demyx…"
Roxas stood staring at it for a moment.
"It's not fair that you get none they're yours."
He said holding it out towards Axel.
"Dude its cool… I've raided this kitchen many times!"
While the pyromaniac was thinking of his many mischievous adventures into the kitchen during the night the young blonde shoved the ice cream into his mouth.
"Mmmph…"
Getting off the counter where he had sat himself next to Demyx he jumped on Roxas and pinning him to the checkered tiled floor shoved the ice cream into his mouth.
"Now Roxas… When I say I'm giving something to you from now on you're gonna take it!"
The blonde boy laughed at this comment.
Axel realizing what he had just said laughed too…
"Okay… Well… Maybe not… Can we at least share it?"
The blonde nodded trying desperately to think of something to stop him from feeling what he was FEELING and pushing Axel off him settled beside him on the kitchen floor sharing the fast melting ice cream in front of a very unhappy Demyx who shoved the remains of his ice cream into his mouth and then ran off with a very bad case of brain freeze.
Later on a very confused and worried Axel burst into Demyx's room.
"Ah Demyx you're awake!"
"Uh... You know most people knock..."
The redhead went into a dreamy daze thinking.
/Ah thats what Roxas said earlier.../
"Dude what the hell is wrong with you and why are you coming here at this time of night?"
Axel sat himself on a chair near the sitar players bed.
"Dude... I've got a serious problem... But I don't know who to turn to..."
Demyx smiled to himself.
"Yeah? Well you know you can tell me anything Axel... What is it?"
/He's gonna finally tell me that hes totally in love with me and then he'll hop on me and jump my bones! EEEEEE! Remain calm Demyx.../
Axel put his head in his hands.
"Ugh... Its so hard to say this, cause I've been thinking about it for ages and I've thought it for ages but like now its just like fuck... It's here it's real like... No more ignoring the fact that I have feelings for him..."
Demyx almost exploded and managed to squeak out of him.
"Oh yeah? I hadn't noticed..."
"Really? Cause I feel like its been so obvious... But then I've never had any response to anything I've done or anyway I've tried to show my feelings... So its kind of irratating me... I need a straight answer at this stage... Do you think I need to be straight out and just ask? Or do I wait and see what happens?"
"Oh you should definitely be very straight about it... Like next time you see him just approach him and be like 'HEY YOU! Yeah you! I wanna jump your fucking bones! Now bend over!'"
"What?"
"Well maybe not THAT straight forward but you get the idea..."
"Yeah... I mean the worst that can happen is he says no right?"
"Exactly and I think I have an idea who you're talking about, I would place a bet with Luxord on the fact that I think he will say yes!"
"Wow really?"
Axel with this thought in his head began to blush and approached Demyx.
/This is it Demyx, hes coming for you... Pucker up!/
But what Demyx got was a hug.
/What the fuck!/
"Thanks Demyx you're a great friend, I'm gonna go tell Roxas how I feel right now!"
Demyx sat back down on the bed.
"Although Axel..."
Axel turned smiling.
"Yeah?"
"You know Roxas has only been here a few days... He might find it a bit freaky that you like him SO much already..."
The redhead sat back down on the chair.
"You think so?"
"Uh huh... Yeah... I know if it was ME I'd be a little put off by the whole thing..."
Axels face fell a little.
"Oh..."
"But... There is hope..."
"You think I should wait a little while before approaching him about it?"
"Well you could do that... OR you could ignore him... Playing hard to get is what most people go for, you know treat em like crap and next thing they're all over you like a rash..."
Axel nodded wondering.
"You think that'd work...?"
Demyx lay back on his bed lazily.
"Oh definitely! Its a tried and tested method!"
The red head nodded.
"Okay cool starting tomorrow... I'll begin playing hard to get!"
"Thats it! Now you're set! Right now you need to sleep you need to look your absolute best tomorrow! No stop offs now! Straight to bed!"
"Okay okay!"
Axel walked towards the door smiling.
"Hey Demyx?"
"Yup?"
"Thanks, you're a really good friend."
"No problem Axel... No problem at all... Heh heh heh!"
So when Axel had promised Roxas that he would drop by that night to "discuss something important" he decided to ignore it and begin playing hard to get tonight instead.
"Where is he?"
Roxas paced his room impatiently.
/He was supposed to be here half an hour ago.../
So when he opened his room on an empty corridor again for the fifteenth time that night he had had enough.
/Where is he? That bastard.../
Roxas left his room to search for Axel who was now busy making himself pretty for tomorrows hard to get plan.
He stopped outside his room and was tempted to knock on his door but left it assuming he must be out and if he wasnt in he really didnt wish to know what had prevented him from coming...
Instead he dropped into Demyx's room where Demyx was sitting on his bed strumming his sitar.
"Uh... Hi!"
"Hey Roxas what brings you by here at this hour?"
"Oh uh sorry... Its just that I was wondering if you had seen Axel about?"
Demyx nodded.
"Yeah he was here... He left about twenty minutes ago... He said he was totally wrecked and that he needed sleep..."
Demyx gave a suggestive smile.
Roxas nodded taking the bait.
"Oh... Ok... Well alright... Guess I'll just head to bed then... Night Demyx..."
Demyx grinned as he watched the broken blonde teen leave his room.
/Perfect.../
Roxas began walking back to his room passing Axel's room, then walking back...
/Maybe I should just burst in and tell him how I feel... But... It kinda seemed like him and Demyx... But he dived on me in the kitchen today... Maybe he was just kidding?/
He walked by Axel's room for maybe fourty minutes coughing and stomping by in the hope that he would wake up and answer the door, after fourty minutes of not having the courage to ask the truth he walked sadly back to his own room.
/I should've known... Him and Demyx are here ages together... I'm just a newb... Why would he... Ah man, now I feel so dumb.../
Roxas walked into his room and threw himself onto his bed with his head muffled into the pillow he screamed.
"! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
Demyx down the hall smiled when he heard his cries...
Axel on the other hand was too busy with the hairdryer to hear anything...