Roxas woke
suddenly from an excellent dream he'd been having about him owning an
infinite supply of sea salt ice cream. He rolled over onto his back
so he wasn't on his arm any more, then supported himself on his
elbows so he could look around in the darkness of his room.
What
had woken him? The thick, green drapes weren't letting in any light
from the Kingdom Hearts 'moon'. The doors to the hall and his
bathroom were shut.... his closet door was open! He scratched his
head, How had that happened? He was sure he had shut it all
the way before he went to bed, due to an unexplainable fear that
something lurked in there, waiting for a chance to escape at night.
He flopped back down onto his pillows and curled up, not wanting to
leave the warmth of his feather mattress.
Creak. What was
that?! Roxas sat bolt upright, but saw nothing besides the fact that
the closet door had opened a little wider. His breathing became
faster.
"Calm down, Roxas," he scolded himself, "it's
only your imagination." He pulled the covers over his head, then
began to take deep, slow breaths. He soon became sleepy and as his
eyelids shut something large and heavy leapt onto him.
"Augh!"
He screamed, and a keyblade appeared in his hand. He fought to
disentangle himself from his heavy quilt and, once free, slid
smoothly into a fighting stance.
"Hahaha! Your face!"
Axel's laughter greeted him.
"You-" the blonde snarled,
jumping at the pyro who was laughing himself silly on the floor. His
eyes widened when he saw Roxas leap at him and he rolled out of the
way to avoid a blow from the younger Nobody's weapon.
"Missed
me, missed me, now you gotta-" the redhead swooped down on
Roxas, grabbed his face in his hands, and planted a kiss on the
younger Nobody's lips. Roxas relaxed in his grip and the keyblade
disappeared. Axel released him from the kiss and Roxas slumped to the
floor.
"Feel better?" he asked Roxas, grinning like the
psychotic maniac he was. Roxas simply nodded.
"Did you come
in here at..." he checked the clock, "one in the morning
just to scare me?" The pyro shook his head.
"I thought
not, what do you want?" the blonde asked, getting up from his
position on the floor.
"I was bored..." the redhead
trailed off.
"And?" Roxas knew more was coming.
"And
I wanted to see you." Axel dodged the question less than
skillfully.
"Uh-huh. Well," Roxas drew out the
word 'well', "you've seen me, time to go." He knew Axel
wanted something so he pretended to shoo him out of the room.
"Okay,
okay," Axel said, blushing slightly, "I, um, wanted to stay
with you tonight." Ah, so that was it. Why not? Roxas
thought, the others already suspect.
"Okay, but-"
he let it hang in the air a moment before continuing,"you have
to leave before everyone wakes up; we don't want their suspicions
confirmed." Axel's face lit up and he bounded back across the
room and pounced on Roxas' pillows. Roxas shook his head, sometimes
he wondered who was older: him, or the pyro-who was hugging his Roxas
plushie so hard its head bulged.
As he resettled himself on the
mattress, Axel's arm snaked over his waist and pulled him
close.
"Roxas?" Axel whispered in his ear.
"Yes?"
"I
know we can't feel, but...."
"I know, Axel, I love you
too." Roxas rolled over,"But now it's time to go to sleep."
That said, Roxas burrowed into his pillows and fell asleep.
