"AXEL!"

"Over here."

The redhead in question was busy poking at a piece of corn, wondering if the people who made the giant maze from the staple harvested all of it and then sold the crop once the season was over. It would be a waste if they didn't, but then, was maze-corn different from real-corn?

Roxas rounded a nearby corner to catch his boyfriend slicing off a corn kernel with his fingernails.

"You're not supposed to eat that." He huffed, irritation rising the longer he spent out in the blazing hot sun, lost in a giant corn maze (this year in the shape of a scarecrow with several words which were EVIL) with Axel. Should've been a fun time. Should've been a nice day to spend with his redhead. Until they started wandering in circles. For the past hour. And they'd already been in the stupid maze for four hours before that!

The redhead frowned and flicked the piece of food away. "I wasn't gonna." Which was an out-and-out lie; both he and the blonde knew that. Roxas just shook his head and walked past Axel, intending to finally find a way out. The other followed at a leisurely pace, enjoying the experience even if they were lost. Or at least, he was having fun a right bit more than his partner.

After a couple of minutes, the pair hit a fork, which both led to intersections with at least six different paths leading off from them. Roxas, deciding to do the smart thing, told Axel to stand still and systematically went down each and every path.

Unfortunately, no matter how long and winding and promising they each looked, they all led back to his lover; standing there, hands in his pockets, looking rather content if not amused, if the smirk on his face was anything to go by. Roxas scowled venomously and went back to checking their routes. Axel stood nearby, listening to the blonde mumble away until he noticed something.

"So I've already gone this way."

"Roxy-"

"And those two both connect to that other path which loops back here to that one."

"Roxy-"

"And down the other fork, the one on the left connects to that one there."

"Rox-"

"And then there's also one over there that loops back to the path we took to get here."

"Roxas."

"And then another one leads to the bridge, three of the four paths from there lead to here, and the last is where we came from."

Axel sighed. There was just no helping it. The kid was off on a tangent, trying to figure things out. He'd just have to be left to it. In the meantime…he'd take advantage of Roxas' nickname; it would guarantee his eventual attention.

"Roxie Hart."

"But then if they all loop back, where do we go?"

"And Velma Kelly."

"Did I miss a path somewhere?"

"You can like the life your living."

"No no, I swear I checked all of them."

"You can live the life you like."

"I went down each thing at least three times."

"You can even marry Harry."

"Since I got so goddamned turned around…"

"But mess around with-"

"AXEL!"

Laughing was the only thing that the blonde got in response, until the taller of the two managed to calm down enough to register the look he was getting.

"What?"

Roxas kept staring for a moment longer. "How in the hell do you know that song?"

Axel blinked. "Why? Do you know it?" The only response he caught was an immediate flush, that had nothing to do with weather, swarming his boyfriend's face, and some mumbled words. The redhead smirked, and got punched in the arm for it, before the question of what he had actually wanted finally arose.

"I was just gonna ask you if ya've gone down this one yet." The redhead offered, pointing down a nondescript path. His smirk grew as the blush intensified, even as the blonde blinked and shuffled forward, peering down the trail that he'd completely missed up till that point.

Blaming the heat in his face on the sun, now beginning its descent, and knowing it wasn't true, the shorter of the pair grumbled something and grabbed Axel's hand, tugging him down the new dirt path, his partner following without complaint, just a grin on his face.

They made it out within twenty minutes.

Lyrics from the soundtrack of the movie Chicago

Corn Mazes do exist, and they are very, very fun ;)

-Sable