"Hi, my name's Demyx! It's nice to meet you," Demyx said as he held out his hand to his new coworker. Demyx had dirty blonde hair that was styled into some sort of mullet shape. He had on a short sleeve shirt with a band logo on the front and skinny jeans. On his wrist he wore some punk rock style bracelets and he had a single piercing on his right ear. Demyx just got a new job at the dollar store a month ago and was now being introduced to a new ex- employee.
The new ex- employee had slate hair that ran over one blue eye and ended at his chin. He wore the denim apron that all employees were required to wear. Underneath he had on a black long sleeve hoodie and skinny black jeans. Although, Demyx was only able to see before the shorter turned and walked away. Demyx was left standing there, with his hand held out, until he was promptly hit on the back by his other fellow coworker.
"Don't worry about Zexion, he's always been like that," A red-head said as he put his arm around the other's shoulder. "But, I don't think he has ever ignored someone this much. He probably is just ill towards you 'cause you stole his work hours."
Demyx turned on his friend and yelled, "What!"
The taller man held up both hands as if the cops just caught him red handed and replied, "He quit just before you came here and you got his hours. Now that he's back, he wanted them back, but since you're here. That's not happening."
Demyx turned away from his long time friend and coworker, Axel, and headed towards the cash register, where Zexion was currently counting people's items and sticking them in bags.
From what Axel had told Demyx, Zexion quit a couple moths ago because he found a better job. Now, he is back and no one knows why. Axel said its 'cause he lost his new job, which is most likely true, but you never know in this day and age.
Demyx walked up to the cash register and put on his matching denim apron. He then started to help the next customer in the newly fabricated line that went all the way down the side of the store. The store was located in the town shopping center; right next to Walmart and across from Mcdonalds.
When Zexion finished with the last person on line, he walked past Demyx and started to blow up balloons. Demyx wondered why he was blowing up balloons if there was nobody to take them—seeing as the store was now a barren wasteland. Then he remembered that they had an order to fill—94 balloons by 4 0'clock. They were for a wedding and needed to be perfect.
Demyx walked up to Zexion and watched him for a bit. Blow, tie, curl, cut, curl. He repeated this again and again with perfect precision and practice. Blow up the balloon, tie the end, curl the tip, cut the string, and curl the end. Demyx was just about to ask if he needed any help when he was interrupted by his manager.
"Hello~ My minions of Darkness! How is the blow job going?" The guy to be referred to as Xemnas the manager asked as he walked up to the counter as if to pay for something. Demyx moved, from where he was watching Zexion, to behind the counter facing his manager.
"What are you doing out here, Mansex?" Demyx asked with a smile. If Axel hadn't come up with that ingenious nickname, then the whole world would have crumbled to pieces.
"Ohohoho~ getting spunky today, now are we? Why aren't you helping the other one blow, darkness?" Xemnas asked as he leaned over the counter.
"Um…" Demyx started, his eyes wide with realization. How could he have been so stupid as to not help out the sexy—err new—err old? Ex? Man! To not help the other man! Demyx sighed at his own stupidness and turned to the shorter man.
"Need any help?" Demyx asked as he held out his hand for the balloon. Zexion gave him a side look and moved around the mullet haired man. Demyx was about to question the action but stopped when he was pushed to the helium tanks and handed a balloon.
"You blow, I'll tie," Zexion said the first thing he had said to Demyx that day and started to tie the balloon he was still holding.
The two continued to tie the balloons till Axel came down the aisle and told Demyx to go on his break. Demyx was more than happy to comply, as his nervousness was getting the best of him. Demyx ran to the back room and grabbed his coat. Since it was in the middle of December, Demyx was forced to carry around a down coat for warmth. Demyx also realized that there was only one other coat, and that belonged to Axel—being it was bright red. Demyx left the room and headed out to McDonalds.
As Demyx walked across the street, he remembered how many times he and the non-talkative man's hands touched. Demyx started blushing just thinking about how hot the man was. His hair moving every time he looked over to see what Demyx was doing when he took to long. Demyx accidentally hitting heads with him when one of the strings fell on the ground—
"Demyx, are you okay?" A voice asked from in front him. Demyx had been distracted and didn't realize he was already standing in line for food. Demyx looked up and saw the familiar spiked blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes that belonged to none other than Roxas. Roxas worked at McDonalds and was a good friend of Axel and Demyx.
"Hey Roxas! When did you get here?" Demyx smiled and asked, suddenly realizing how stupid the question was he continued, "Oh my gosh! You will never guess what happened today at work! I'm now working with The hottest guy ever!"
"Demyx, please just tell me your order and tell me about this later," Roxas said as he tried to keep calm.
"Oh yeah! I will have a number one, medium please. OH! And an apple pie!" Demyx said as he practically jumped on the counter. He pulled out his wallet and gave Roxas ten bucks. Roxas was about to hand him his change when Demyx told him to keep it and went to go wait. Roxas shrugged and pocketed the money, wondering what was going on in the dirty-blonde man's head.
Demyx ate his burger and thought of how he should approach the slate haired man till Roxas took off for his break and sat with Demyx. The two boys chatted about college classes and whatnot till Demyx looked at his phone and saw he only had three minutes left. He cursed and threw out his tray. He waved goodbye to the surprised blonde and quickly ran back to work.
Demyx clocked in and realized he had forgotten his jacket. Hopefully Roxas would bring it for him later. He slowly walked back up to the register and noted that Zexion was now tying the balloons into bundles of four. He was about to walk over and help him when an arm swung across his shoulders and pulled him to the farthest aisle.
"What are you doing hanging out with him?" Axel asked as he let go of Demyx and let him stumble around a bit till he regained control of his balance.
"Umm I'm hanging out with him because he's super hot," Demyx said as he looked over to see Zexion eying the two boys from afar, but he caught Demyx's eye and quickly went back to work. Axel could only stare at him in disbelief.
"What? But he is the biggest dick I have ever met! How could you have fallen for someone as non-emotional and dicky as that guy!" Axel practically yelled till Demyx jumped on him, covering his mouth. When Demyx deemed it safe he removed his hands and crossed them.
"He is not a dick. You just don't know him very well," Demyx said.
"Yeah well what if he isn't gay hmm? Then he will think you're gross and never talk to you again."
"Whoever said I was going to tell him I was gay?" Demyx asked incredulously.
"Who's gay?" A voice said from behind Axel causing the two boys to jump nearly ten feet. Axel whirled around only to find sweet Roxas standing behind him.
"Oh thank god it's just you Roxy," Axel said as he leaned down to hug the shorter blonde. Roxas swiftly evaded Axel's hug and held out a coat to Demyx.
"Here, you forgot this," Roxas said as Demyx took the coat and thanked him. Roxas turned to see Axel looking hurt. Roxas took pity on him and leaned up to kiss his boyfriend. He patted his arm and bid the two goodbye as he headed off to work. Demyx huffed and ran to the backroom while Axel was still distracted by his tiny blondie. Demyx put his coat up and turned around only to come face to face with Zexion. Demyx squeaked and held his hand to his heart.
"Holy shit! When the hell did you get here?" Demyx exclaimed as Zexion cocked his head to the side. Choosing to ignore the mullet haired man, he clocked out for his obvious break and left the boy to mumble out little prayers to himself.
The rest of the day went on without much else happening. Zexion and Demyx both worked to finish the balloon order while Axel glared at Demyx from afar. The two finished just in time and helped bring the balloons out to the car. Demyx noticed that Zexion didn't wear a coat and by the mere second batch of balloons; he ordered Axel to help him bring the rest out and told Zexion he could help the customers. Zexion shrugged and went back inside, shivering a bit.
Demyx walked down the aisle—already clocked out and waiting for his sister, Larxene, to come pick him up at five o'clock. He grabbed a box of pretzels and headed for the checkout counter.
"I have to pay for my college tuition, all by myself. Not have my father pay for it," Zexion said as he leaned against the counter, arguing with the other red haired boy.
"My father hasn't bought me anything," Axel stated as he put his hands on his hips.
Demyx watched all this, wondering if he should split them up when a voice came from behind him.
"Your dad bought you the car," Demyx quickly turned around and gave Mansex a questioning look for comment that now egged on the two rivals.
"Yeah but that was it!" Axel said as his eyes went a bit wide at the newly added information.
"I never had a car, I had to come here using the bus, remember?" Zexion simply said, his chin now rested in the palm of his hand.
"Well I had to pay for all of my textbooks," Axel said exasperated as he held out a finger towards the sky.
"I had to go for two semesters having to borrow and photocopy the other student's books," Zexion stated, his voice starting to rise as he was getting fed up with the useless argument. Axel wasn't going to win.
"Well I—" Axel started but was interrupted.
"Haha I think that's enough! You both have had a bad college life so let's just work hard and get more money!" Demyx said as he walked in between the two—a smile radiating from his face to try and help clear the situation. Zexion frowned and decided to help a customer who had conveniently appeared. Axel gave Zexion a bad look, then turned to go start on a project on the other side of the store.
Demyx sighed in relief and walked up to Zexion to pay for his pretzels. Zexion eyed him suspiciously as he finished up with the first customer, but quickly looked away when Demyx's eyes caught his once again.
"Just pretzels?" Zexion asked mostly to himself as he rang Demyx up for the employee's discount of no tax.
"Yup! It's just a snack for the road," Zexion sent him a questioning look and Demyx decided to continue, "Yeah my sister is a talker and she likes to tell me all about her day, but I just want to go home. The sound of me eating pretzels, added to the beating of my music blaring in my headphones, help drone out her monologue."
Zexion nodded as he gave Demyx the box, figuring he wouldn't need a bag.
"So… you've had a hard college life?" Demyx asked trying to make more conversation. He hated when the air was filled with silence.
Demyx loves sounds in general. Be it music or just plain talking. When the air is empty, Demyx can't help but feel a little empty himself. So, in order to fix this, Demyx is known for being a big talker—like his sister, but for a different reason. When he is in class taking a test he will usually tap his pencil to an imaginary beat or hum a melody to an unknown song. It would usually get the mullet haired boy in trouble.
Zexion gave him a look of confusion before turning back to his register, realization taking over.
"Just like every other college boy," Zexion said matter-of-factly as he shut the register and leaned against the counter in his normal fashion.
"…My life, is good. My parents, they're really strict. The only reason why I am getting through college is because I have my music to help me," Demyx said. Zexion gave him a look as if expecting him to continue, which Demyx complied too. "They said, the only career I could get, was to take up the family job. You see, my dad's a doctor, so he wants me to be one as well."
"…You don't want to be a doctor, do you," Zexion stated more than asked.
"…No," Demyx said as he shook his head.
"Well, what do you want to be?" Zexion asked. The mullet haired boy was really starting to intrigue him. Before he had been so happy but now at the topic about his parents, he had turned so sullen. For some reason, he wanted to find out more about the music loving blonde.
Demyx looked up with a surprised look on his face as if he hadn't expected the normally silent and unbecoming man to answer. He then looked back down and mumbled something.
"What do you want to be Demyx?" Zexion asked once again. Why was the boy ignoring his question? Why did he want to know so badly? Zexion decided to turn around and head out into the aisles to help clean up but was stopped when he heard the boy speak.
"An Entomologist," Demyx said proudly. Zexion turned around. He was not expecting that answer.
"Do you know what an Entomologist is?" Zexion asked as he walked to the boy. Demyx nodded rapidly.
"It's a bug specialist! They specialize in insects and sometimes even get to help out in crimes!" Demyx said. This was the most he had ever been excited. He had never told anyone of what he truly wanted to be. Not even Roxas!
"That's, actually a really good career—" Zexion said in disbelief but was cut off when a girl with short blonde hair stormed into the store and grabbed Demyx's ear. Demyx yelped in pain and attempted to resist.
"Ow! Larxene! That hurts!" Demyx said as the blond swiftly let go and grabbed the boy's arm.
"Come on! Dad said he wants us home now!" Larxene said as she practically ran out of the store, dragging Demyx with her. Demyx attempted to wave to Zexion and the door closed behind the two. Zexion sighed. Why had he come back to work again?
Sound good? yes or no? umm i guess i didn't give y'all a heads up with PM so here Zexy is gonna have a little unstable problem? that a good warning? yeah. its rated humor cause i believe humor makes all!oh yeah! idk wth is going on with pm so im really sorry about that!
Also! if you have notived this story is EXTREMELY *cough* roughly~ i meant roughly! off of my work at yup! you guessed it! a dollar store! anyway! i act like Demyish and my coworker(exact same conditions) acts exactly like Zexion! then there is also and Axel employee too! Xemnas, im sad to say, was made up! uhhh and so was roxas. i swear! and half of the conversation are legit ppl! so like don't be like yeah i give up!
im also in the middle of writing a one shot that i hope you guys will like cause i'm really loving it!
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