Authors Note: Sorry for the wait, I'm a slow typist. Anyway Italics are generally Roxas' thoughts, in case you can't tell. And I have up to chapter 9 written. They just need to be typed. I'll do my best to get at least one up every month, though my goal is one every two weeks, because I know I hate waiting for the next chapter of a story.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. I haven't even played Kingdom Hearts, I'm working on getting $600 so I can get a Playstation 3, accessories and games since my PS2 craped out.
Hopefully you like it. I know I enjoy writing it.
The Other Side isn't so Green – Chapter 2
Axel's eyes flashed open, his hands clasped over his mouth barely keeping himself from letting out a scream. He hated that he couldn't always keep his screams in while he was sleeping, while he was flawless at hiding screams, emotions and any type of pain when he was awake.
He turned his head to the side to see Demyx still sound asleep. He then turned his head, sighing his relief, to see the clock, 4:02 AM. He pushed himself off of Demyx's floor, and silently folded his blanket. Axel looked around the room for somewhere to put the blanket and pillow, and settled on the desk chair. Then quietly pulled on his long leather coat and climbed out the window, heading home before his parents woke up.
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Roxas woke up to his alarm clock blaring. Dragging himself out of bed he lazily walked towards his desk to slap the alarm off and stop that awful noise. He and Sora both had trouble waking up, so he had moved his alarm clock to his desk which forced him to get out of bed.
Roxas walked into the bathroom that connected his and Sora's rooms to do his bathroom routine. After finishing his shower, drying and dressing Roxas strolled into Sora's room. "Get up Sora!" Nothing, no movement, no sound. Roxas grabbed the ends of Sora's blanket and yanked it off "Rise and shine sleeping beauty!" Roxas sang.
"Mmm…go away Rox…sleeping." Sora murmured sleepily.
Hmm…today's going to be difficult. Roxas leaned over Sora's sleeping body to grab the ends of his mattress. Once he had a firm hold on them he yanked the mattress up sending Sora crashing to the floor.
"What the fu-…" Sora started but was stopped by a slap to the back of his head.
"Now, now Sora, what are you always saying? 'Language'." Roxas teased. "Now get up, we got school. Mom and Dad are off to work, and Greta's got breakfast cooking. Hurry up!" Roxas said walking off.
Sora glared at Roxas, but was too dazed by the slap to say anything, before heading to the bathroom.
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A few houses down, Demyx was beating his own alarm clock into a quiet submission. After finishing his morning routines he went to great his mom. "Morning, Mom!" He sang jumping into his seat at their small table. "I need a new alarm clock."
His mom spun around, her blue green eyes, identical to Demyx's, locked onto his. "Oh… Dem, how many of those have you gone through?" Her fierce stare soon grew soft and she smiled "Good morning, sweetheart." Demyx smiled back.
"Hey I didn't get a chance to tell you yesterday. Axel moved in down the street!" Demyx exclaimed.
"Oh?" Her gaze took on a concerned expression, "How is he? He always seemed sad. I mean you had to look deep, but he was sad."
"Well, he seems the same as usual. I'd say the sadness is still their, I'm surprised you saw it, most people don't." He smiled sadly. "I'm pretty sure he slept over last night. I left a pillow and blanket on the floor for him and they were on my desk chair today. Do you mind?" Demyx asked.
"Of course not, you tell him he's always invited." Demyx's mom reassured him. She knew something was going on in Axel's home life. She recognized it from her and Demyx's own experience with her ex-husband. She just didn't know how to help when the boy wouldn't admit to whatever was happening.
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Roxas and Sora arrived at school relatively early, and Roxas was incredibly pissed when he heard his name called down to the principle's office. Mornings were not his thing. He stomped his way into the office glaring at the secretary who gestured for him to wait next to…Demyx.
"Hi!" Demyx greeted him cheerfully as he sat down next to him. Great a morning person, just what I need.
"Hey," Roxas replied.
"I'm Demyx," He held out his hand.
"I know. I'm Roxas." Roxas took his hand.
"I think you're in one of my classes, Roxas."
"Yeah, advanced algebra." Roxas drawled. He didn't want to be rude to Demyx but he really wished the boy would just shut up. It was way to early for this crap.
"Hmm…Sora's your twin, right?" Roxas nodded in answer, "Why isn't he in our class?"
"We're younger than you, I was moved up in most of my classes because they were too easy for me." Roxas explained, "I'm a sophomore but I'm taking junior classes."
"Wow, that's cool. So are you like a genius?"
"No." Roxas said shortly.
"Demyx, Roxas." The principle walked out of his office with a wild looking redhead. There's no way that hair is natural. It was crimson in color and spiked out everywhere reaching just past his shoulders. He had the most gorgeous emerald green eyes Roxas had ever seen and a seemingly permanent evil smirk. Underneath those breathtaking eyes sat two diamond tattoos. Face tattoos? He must think he's a badass. And his clothes, what the hell? Destiny Island was a generally warm, if not hot, town, and this jackass dressed like it was the middle of winter. He was wearing a gothic styled blazer over a band t-shirt and several decorative scarves hung around his neck. His pants were tight and black with a couple of chains hanging off of them, and he was wearing a pair of red doc martens, which matched his hair, a few of his scarves, and his fingerless gloves.
The butterflies that gathered in his stomach did nothing to improve Roxas' mood. Why the hell would the appearance of this tall redhead affect him? Damn! He's at least a foot taller than me. That'd make him 6'4", 6'5". And that's without his hair. Why did he feel so nervous all of the sudden. Like he wanted to make sure he was perfectly clean, and his hair was spiky, and his clothes looked appealing. He never before cared what anyone thought of his appearance. But he wanted this redhead to look at him, he wanted to show off how smart he was, how cool he could be. Goddamnit! This is what you're supposed to feel around girls. This was pissing Roxas off.
"This is Axel, Demyx I believe you've met," the principle pointed to Demyx, "and this is Roxas."
"Why are we here, Sir?" Roxas demanded, patience running thin.
"Because Roxas, you are a good student and share all your morning classes with Axel. You will help him to all his classes until lunch then Demyx will take over. This is not an option you are doing this."
"Fine."
"Oh gee, I feel so fucking loved." Axel said in the most amazing voice Roxas had ever heard. It wasn't too deep nor to high, it was sexy, sultry, and perfect. Damnit! Roxas clean up your thoughts. Axel is a man, an incredibly sexy one, but a man, and so am I. And Roxas was not gay, he had no problems with gays, but he wasn't gay. A bell rang in the distance. Roxas came out of his thoughts to see the principle yelling at Axel for swearing.
"Come on Axel, I don't want to be late." Roxas groaned.
"Cuz it's all about you," Axel said, "See ya Demy." Roxas walked out of the office closely followed by Axel. That beautiful voice was still echoing in his head.
"So have you always lived here?" Axel asked Roxas.
"Listen, Axel, I don't want to talk and I don't want to hear you talk," that's a lie you never want to stop hearing his sultry voice, "So let's go to class quietly and I'll wait for you at the end." Roxas clarified, despite what his thoughts were saying. "Kay?"
"Fine." Axel said all emotions gone from his face but his voice sounded sad. And it bothered Roxas, it made him want to fix it. Which pissed him off to no end and he stalked off towards class, Axel on his heels.
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When they entered the Physics classroom Roxas went straight to his table while Axel introduced himself to Professor Vexen, who told him to sit next to Roxas. Perfect, this is just great now have to sit next to the sexy redhead, so I can feel funny throughout the entire class. Fantastic. Luckily Axel seemed to have taken Roxas' earlier hint, and sat as far away as the table would allow. However, Roxas could feel those intense green eyes on him, "What!"
"You look, kinda cute, all angry like this." Axel grinned.
"…" Roxas didn't know what to say. Mostly he wanted to throw something, but Professor Vexen was talking now and would defiantly catch him. He settled with glaring at Axel before continuing to ignore him. Didn't he know that you just don't go and call other guys cute?
Roxas saw movement out of the corner of his eye and turned to look at Axel. He had placed his Doc Martens on the desk, arms behind his head, and his eyes were closed. Roxas stared at him in disbelief. He was so obviously sleeping in class, the teacher would see. Roxas hated getting in trouble with his teachers, and he hated slackers, and Axel was a slacker, he was going to get in trouble, this is Vexen, you don't mess with him. Right now Vexen's back was turned as he explained the examples on the black board that would help them with their homework, which included a ton of complicated math. Axel had caught several other students' attention, including Riku. This was going to cause trouble Roxas had to wake him up.
"Ax-" Roxas whispered but was interrupted.
"Axel!" Professor Vexen's cold voice exclaimed, as he stomped towards the. "Am I boring you?!"
Axel straightened up, feet still on the desk. "No, no, of course not. I just think you should double check your answers before you waste my time on an inaccurate lecture." Axel stated calmly.
Vexen slapped Axel's feet off the desk, "Excuse me?!"
"Your excused, it has to be difficult doing physics all day long, I'd assume it to be quite common to make a mistake, or three." Axel's ever present smirk grew. Then he ripped a page out of his notebook handing it to professor Vexen. "You'll find your mistakes fixed and explained there. No need for apologies or gratitude." His smirk grew again promising more trouble.
"Detention, Axel, after school with me."
"I can't, I have to get home." Axel pleaded.
"Maybe you should have thought about that before-"
"Before I corrected your mistakes saving these students the trouble of doing it wrong." Axel said coolly.
"Do you want another Axel." Vexen asked.
"I think one of me is just fine thanks." Axel commented.
"Keep your mouth shut, and take notes." Vexen finished.
"Roxas watched as Professor Vexen fixed his problem and continued the lesson. Then he turned his head to see Axel doodling rather than taking notes. He shook his head; Axel's last school must've already gone over this.
After class Roxas couldn't help himself, "Are you insane?"
"Oh, you're talking to me now." Axel turned his head down to smile at Roxas. "To answer your question, yes, what was your first clue?" a mischievous grin covered his face.
"No one interrupts Vexen, and no one talks back. It's your first day and you got detention."
"What can I say; I live my life on the edge."
Axel displayed the same uncaring, slacker attitude in English. Though, Roxas would give him credit, he didn't snore or drool. Since he was sleeping he didn't talk out of turn, therefore avoided more detentions. When the bell rang Roxas slapped Axel awake, and was surprised to see him wince and his eyes fill with fear, only to see it hidden just as quickly. "You okay, Axel?" Roxas asked.
"Mhm…you surprised me," Was all Axel answered with before moving to the door. Roxas followed, quickly taking the lead, escorting Axel to art class. To Roxas' surprise Axel didn't sleep through art. It seemed as though he actually enjoyed it. And he was good too. Portrait drawing was not Roxas' specialty, but Axel excelled. His drawings were so realistic, Roxas was awed.
"Wow, Axel!" Roxas exclaimed, looking at Axels finished drawing. "That's amazing."
"Thanks Roxy." Axel beamed. "Am I growing on you? It seemed just this morning that you hated me and wanted nothing to do with me."
"I'm sorry, Axel." Roxas apologized. "I was having a bad morning, actually every morning is bad, and I was taking it out on you." Mostly because you're seriously confusing me. "I'm not a morning person."
"Oh good, so I get you at the best time of the day." Axel teased.
"Ha, ha, ha." Roxas said, hiding his true amusement. Then the teacher walked up behind Axel placing a hand on his shoulder, this caused the redhead to intake a breath of air and wince violently, fear briefly returning to his face and vanishing.
"Wow, kinda quiet ma'am." Axel recovered.
"I'm sorry; I just came over to see your progress. This is wonder full Axel." The teacher cooed.
"I don't know, it could always improve, but Roxy agrees with you." Axel stated.
"Hmm…continue working boys, less talk more draw." She smiled before walking away.
