(AN: Okay, this is my last Larxel for a little bit. I just had to do this one though. XD Twelve Times Eight is gonna be a two or three chapter story, so don't kill me If it's a bit long X_X)

Axel woke up at the same time he regularly does. His alarm clock buzzed as he sat up and stretched his arms and looked around his room for a moment. It was still dark, and the bright glow of his alarm clock told him it was 5:47. Today wasn't just any day though. Today was December 12. This was the day Axel planned to talk to Larxene, which he had actually done before, but not in a way he would have liked to.

--Flashback From Yesterday--

December 10. It was the time that 3rd period bell just rang, and the halls were flooded with people in seconds. Lockers swung open hard as students threw things into their bags and backpacks. Axel strolled down the hall, and he seemed to be looking for something. Or someone. He tapped people's shoulders and asked them where he could find this matter of which he was looking for, but they all shook their heads. He gave a big sigh and moved up to the top floor. The top floor looked basically the same-kids running around in hurry to get to their classes. So then as he was looking around, he saw. Standing by Mr. Landen's English class was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. He just sat there as he stared at the girl for moments and seconds that turned into almost minutes. People walking by either giggled or tried to mess with him while he was his his trance-like state of mind. The girl looked over at him finally, and gave him a "What are you staring at?" look. Axel shook his head and pushed out a sheepish smile and moved on. "Who is that?" He thought to himself. "Damn. Haven't seen a girl like that since.... well......ever." As he came down the hall, he saw Marluxia down by the stairs. Now, Marluxia seemed gay, but that was only the half of it. No one could tell if he was straight or not. He was a very upbeat person, and carried flowers around everywhere. He had lots of girl-friends. But he actually admitted to liking some girl that know one knows sophomore year, so people are still pretty confused.

"Hey Marly." Axel said to him as he was ready to go downstairs.

"Hold it right there." Marluxia said, and Axel froze on the stairs.

"Axel, do you think my looks better this way?" Marluxia shook his head and his hair shifted to his left side, so he looked more emo-ish. "Or the other way? Zexion said it looked better the other way."

Axel rolled his eyes, as his friend asked him questions like this almost every day.

"No keep it he other way...Marly, are you sure you're not gay?" Axel asked, and Marluxia could answer, a teacher pulled Axel aside for a moment. It was Ms. Tanner, the science teacher. Axel looked over the teacher to notice that Marluxia was gone.

"Axel, have you finished that report yet on molecular structure? It's due today." Ms Tanner asked and looked up at Axel with a stern look that most teachers get.

"Report on what?" he asked lazily.

"Well I'm going to fail you again now, Axel. I'm really not surprised. You better step up and get some work done or you'll fail my class." She said, and went back into her room across the hall.

Lucky for Axel it was before school right now, and he can just roam the halls until the warning bell. Otherwise, he would have been long late to class. He turned and saw that basically no one was in the halls now. He sighed, deep in his thoughts and jumped down to the bottom floor to his homeroom.

Axel had all of his friends in his advisory or homeroom class, whatever you want to call it. He had Demyx, Roxas, Marly was just across the hall, and there was a new foreign exchange student he had gotten acquainted with. His name was Luxord, and he moved into Axel's neighborhood all the way from England. Though he was a Brit at heart, he always enjoyed a good American baseball game. So when Axel got up to get a pencil, Luxord waved to him across the hall with a face much like the ones you can make on computers with a colon and a capital D. Axel waved back, and the teacher scolded him to sit down. Coincidentally, the girl he saw earlier was also in his advisory, but he was too shy to try anything. Axel slipped into his desk and fiddled with his pencil. Now, the entire day will not be described because that would be boring, besides the fact that Zexion threw up in English. So now it was lunch time, and Axel spotted the girl he saw earlier over at a table all the way across the room, sitting with her friends. Axel sat with the "cool" kids, if that's what they're called nowadays. Axel leaned over Marluxia's chatty head to gaze at the girl. She was leaning over the table to whisper to one of her friends, and Axel noticed they were looking straight at him. He shook his head and snapped out of it, returning to what he was doing.

"Marly, tell me...are you gay or what?" Demyx asked, slamming his fist on the table.

"I told you people, you'll find out when you're ready to accept the answer!" Malruxia slammed his hand down in return to Demyx.

"Hey guys, have those young women over there taken an interest in Axel here? Luxord said and pointed to the girl's table. Axel took a bite out of his sandwich as the girls giggled and stared in admiration at the laid back red-head. The only one not looking at Axel was the girl he wanted to look at. She just sat there and was acting as if nothing was happening.

"I'm gonna go over there and say hi." Axel said, and got up from the table and began to walk over to her table. As we walked over, the girl finally turned to him as he was walking over.

"Hi there. My name's Axel." He said with a friendly smile across his face. The girl seemed to be more laid back now as he introduced himself.

"I'm Larxene." She said, and smiled at him. Just when Axel thought he had something good going, his luck ended. He turned to look back at his table, to notice everyone was gone. There was a lunch lady carrying a big stack of cakes on a tray. Some of the punky-kids tipped up the tray, sending everything flying. Axel, being the good Samaritan he is, tired to catch the tray is it was flying in the air. He caught it perfectly, and let out a big sigh. But just then one of the other kids knocked the tray out of his hands to make it look like Axel dropped it purposely, causing it to drop on Larxene's head. Everyone laughed, except of course, Axel. He was horrified at what just happened. It was a nightmare-the last thing he wanted to happen just happened. Larxene looked up at him with the signature Death Glare.

"Leave. NOW. Before I rip you in half." Larxene said, her hand balled into fists. And without a word, Axel ran out the lunch room door. So it was official: Larxene now hated Axel's guts after knowing him for 2 minutes. And Axel planned to talk to her today about what happened.

--Present Day 12/8--

(AN: That whole flashback took me like 4 days to write X_X)

Axel stared out the foggy window of the bus on way to school, deep in thought. Roxas was talking to Demyx and Luxord about the new goatee Luxord just grew in a few days ago. Axel just sighed and stared out the window for 20 minutes.

"How could she hate me for an accident? I really hope she doesn't just give me the cold shoulder when I try to talk to her.."

Marluxia got on the bus with a few other boys and girls at his stop, and sat next to Axel. At first he didn't notice anything, but as he turned to Axel, he noticed how distant his eyes were.

"Still thinking about the whole Larxene-thing?" Marluxia asked, and Axel lifted his head to see his friend.

"Yeah...I'm gonna talk to her today. Try to tell what really happened." Axel said, and at the thought of it he smiled a little bit. Marluxia smiled in response and out a hand on his friends shoulder. There was a long awkward pause of smiling and nodding, until when Roxas, Luxord, and Demyx started to stare. Axel pushed off Marly's hand.

"Dude stop that, it's gay." He joked, and Marluxia laughed in return. So for the remaining 6 minutes of the bus ride, they talked about boring classes, teachers, and Demyx's uncoordination that he has recently shown. When they got off, Axel rushed into the school to his locker. He literally threw his books into his backpack and ran down to homeroom. His room was 108, Mrs. Hall's room. He ranin to notice that he was one of the few in there. Mrs Hall was sitting in her chair at the front of the room, correcting papers. "Mrs. Hall, have you seen Larxene today?" Axel asked.

"I haven't seen her all morning, Axel. I don't think she'll be coming to school today though."

"But she has to come to school! I need to talk to her!" Axel put his hand over his face and ran out of the room. He looked around anxiously as he roamed the hall, searching for any sign of Larxene. Some of the girls looked really pissed at him. They would give him dirty looks or just completely ignore him as they passed by. He could see people whispering to each other and looking at him when he walked by them. Apparently, just about everyone at who saw what happened t lunch believed he did it purposely, and it's spread to other people as well. Axel stopped at his locker after exploring the first floor and going up to the second. Just before he reached it, he stumbled to the ground. He looked up behind him to see the kids that ruined everything for him with Larxene the other day. He felt a surge in his body to get up and kill them, but he didn't want to worsen his case by beating up other kids, so he let it go. He just got up and continued walking, as if it never happened. The kids laughed at him when they tripped him again, and people started to look out from what they were doing to see the conflict. He got up again, this time he was angry.

"Look, I'm gonna give you guys one last warning. Leave me alone." He said, and the kids realized how stern his expressions were. They seemed to back off, then again, they seemed to. One of them jumped in front of him and pushed him back, and another tripped him again, causing him to fall into a trash can. Of course, everyone including them found this hilarious. Axel got up and this time, didn't go anywhee.

"You lookin' for a fight?" He asked, his fists clenched and red.

"Ohh you're tough." One of them remarked. "There's five of us and one of you. Besides, if you keep tripping all the time, how will you even stand up to fight us?"

"You know what, you're not even worth it. Eat shit shit and die for all I care." Axel said, and turned his back on them. He walked faster to avoid getting involved with them, which is just what they wanted. Axel felt a big bump from behind him that sent him crashing to the ground. Apparently on the of the bigger kids of the group had checked him to the floor. He got up again, with one final warning. "Do NOT piss me off." He said with a fiery hatred in his eyes. They didn't budge. A circle of onlookers surrounded, starting to urge them to fight one another. Axel had nowhere to go. And even though the punks were the lowest of the low at the school, the crowd cheered them on, just because of yesterday. It made them look cool, and Axel like a jerk.

"Alright you asked for it.." Axel said, dropping his backpack. There he was; surrounded by people who hated him up against five annoying punks. Just how Axel wanted to start his day.