Decisions: A Larxel
Ch.1
---The "Prank"---
It was a cold fall night, and Axel was up to no good as usual. The streets were quiet…too quiet. Two silhouettes creeped upon the road, moving carefully, and sprinted across a lawn and tiptoed softly onto someone's back porch. It was none other than Axel and his best friends Roxas, intending to play another prank on their usual prey, Zexion. Zexion was normally a feeble person whom Axel and Roxas loved to torture, but tonight was a special night. Tonight Zexion was completely home alone, and he never locked the doors when his parents went out.
"Bingo." Roxas said quietly as he slowly opened the back door just a crack. He and Axel wore dark black sweatshirts and dark blue jeans. He peered into the dark den of Zexion's home, and could see him watching his favorite TV show, Dr. Phil playing on the screen. The controversy of this episode was about some weird family with a deformed dog or some junk.
"What's he doing??" Axel asked, trying to look his over Roxas's head, which was blocking the door.
"Shut up, he'll hear you!" Roxas whispered, and again peered into the door. Zexion looked up into the hall from where he was sitting, and Roxas could hear footsteps coming form down the hallway. Zexion seemed to begin to say something, but stopped when he heard a THUD from outside. "What was that?" The voice of a woman came from the hall.
"I dunno…" Zexion replied. "I'll go check it out… he began to walk slowly to the door, unable to see Roxas frozen behind the curtain, not knowing what to do. He turned around to see Axel sprawled on the porch deck, with a glass table and an umbrella piled on top of him. "What are you DOING?!" Roxas barked, sweating profusely form his forehead due to the fact that Zexion was drawing closer to the door every second.
"I tripped over a table, duh!" Axel gave Roxas a dumb look as he struggled to pick himself up over the now broken table and snapped umbrella. Roxas could hear Zexion drawing closer and closer….
"Damn that kid walks slow..." Roxas thought to himself. "But that's not the point...if he catches us we're dead!" Roxas now looked frantic as he jumped up from his position. Axel finally got himself up from the wreckage and tried to hop over the rail on the staircase.
"Haha! I'm too smart for you, glass table of injury!" Axel said triumphantly. His cockiness ended when as he was sliding down the rail, the post hit him in his sensitive spot, and he fell over on the driveway, doubled over and rolling around.
"Oh God Axel…" Roxas smacked his forehead and tried to pick him up."
"Go…..on…without me…." Axel groaned, refusing to get up. "I'll only slow you down…" He tried to sound heroic as he winced in pain.
"Okay, suit yourself." Roxas shrugged, and dashed off across the street, into the darkness.
"I WASN'T SERIOUS!" Axel screamed. Suddenly the door on the porch opened, the light from inside the house lit up the backyard. Axel looked up in fear as a figure stood atop of the stairs, but it wasn't Zexion. It was a girl, she looked just about Axel's age with blonde hair that went down shoulder-length and two bangs that stuck up and stretched back, to portray the appearance of a bug almost. She had light blue eyes, and looked down at Axel indignantly, with a deep scowl. There was something about her that sparked an interest in axel, but he didn't know what. She came down the steps and stood before axel clad in blue sweatpants and a wooly pajama shirt with lighting bolts embroidered on it. "May I ask what you're doing laying in the driveway?" She asked, and crossed her arms with a scowl. "I dunno, why don't you come down here and find out?" Axel smiled evilly. The girl did not move.
"You know, I've been talking to you for five seconds and I can already tell you're a total perv. Get outta here before I call the cops." She ordered.
"How about you call me sometime? Then you'll know what it means to have a good time." The girl grunted and kicked axel in the stomach. Right then Zexion came outside and hopped down the steps, walking over in confusion. "What's going on here? Axel? What are you doing at my house?" Zexion looked at axel with the same scowl as the girl, both now like clones. "Uhhh….well I thought you're driveway looked pretty comfy, so I decided to take a nap, and here we all are." Axel smiled as he gestured to Zexion and the girl. "By the way…" Axel trailed off, his eyes brightened as he looked up at the girl, still unmoving as she still glared at him from her seemingly tall height. "What's your name, little lady?" Axel tried to sound as innocent as possible, and apparently it worked. "Larxene." She replied, giving Axel a suspicious look in her eyes, but then a little smile showed on her face. "Okay then Larxene, whaddya say we go out sometime?" Axel grinned up at Larxene, who put a hand on her hip and narrowed her eyes again at Axel. "I don't think so." Larxene shook her head as she rejected Axel, who now could finally stand up after his "accident."
"Well don't tell me you're interested in this panzy over here." Axel gestured to Zexion, who looked in surprise for a moment, but stood his ground.
"I think it's time for you to go Axel….NOW." Zexion was getting mad now, something the likes of which Axel has never seen.
"Awww I can't go just yet…"Axel replied, waling towards the two. "Not until I get a goodbye kiss from this girl right here." Axel's bright green eyes grew even brighter, now looking at Larxene, waiting for a reply. Larxene gave him an innocent smile and decided, "Okay, close your eyes…" Axel nodded, unable to believe his luck, and closed his eyes and waited to plant his lips on Larxene. Nothing happened, but just then Axel felt a throbbing pain in his nose and forehead. He fell back to the ground, rubbing his face from the agony.
"What the hell did you do whack me with a book?!" Axel demanded, his eyes still closed as he rubbed his head where a bump was beginning to form. He finally glanced up to see one of Zexion's giant 1800 page books in Larxene's hands.
"Now get out of here before you get a worse beating." Larxene remarked, her voice more stern than it has been.
"Geez…" Axel whined as he stood up, his forehead throbbing. "You just had to hit me?" Axel looked confused, but it soon changed to a look of confidence. "Alright I'll leave you two alone…" He winked at Larxene, who looked embarrassed as her face grew pink. Axel waved goodbye, and rushed into the dark night, tripping over trash cans in Zexion's driveway as he ran with his head still turned to them.