Days Do Pass

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About a week later Axel had just taken the last bite of his Chinese food lunch when there was another knock on his door. He got up from his seat in the tiny kitchen, fork still protruding from his mouth, and swung open the door, this time at least a bit ready for the cold with a long sleeved shirt and some slippers with his jeans.

Again, the brunette girl was at his doorstep, and again she had on her faux fur trimmed coat and pink sneakers. "Hi Axel."

The redhead leaned against the doorjamb and took the fork from between his lips, holding it out beside him between two fingers and a thumb as he looked the girl over, suspicious that she'd been drinking again. He didn't reply to her greeting, simply waited for her to continue talking or to turn around and leave, hoping for the latter.

She fidgeted in place and even had the gall to blush. "I'm sorry for before, I really am. I won't deny now that I had been drinking a bit, and I shouldn't have come to visit like that."

Axel was already losing patience with the girl, so when he heard the creak of a door opening nearby he looked away to catch the little blonde just leaving his apartment, sporting the same dark hoodie he'd originally spotted him in and shoving his keys in his pocket like before. As Kairi continued apologizing, staring at the ground and not aware that she was being ignored, he caught the boy's gaze and waved his fork as a silent hello.

The blonde lifted his head back and then raised a delicate eyebrow at the girl in front of the redhead, pointing a finger her way.

With a roll of the eyes the man turned back to his ex and focused half of his attention to her rambling.

"But I want you to know that I wasn't lying. I really do love you."

And then he grimaced. He'd treated this girl like she was made of gold back in the day, but he just didn't want to go through the same conversation twice, so he cut her off there. "I wasn't lying either, Kairi. It's time for you to go home."

"But Axel-"

"No, Kairi, seriously. I don't like you anymore, so leave it alone." He watched as the girl edged on crying again, dragging his free hand over his face and groaning. "Oh come on…"

Her voice was slightly shaky as she tried to make sense of the situation. "But we were so close, I don't understand. I just… Was it something I did? Am I not good enough?"

The blonde boy saw the distress in the tall male's features and decided to call over to them from where he was standing, arms hung casually in the pocket of his hoodie and head tilted just slightly to the side. "He's with me now." Both the redhead and the brunette spun their gazes his way and he shrugged nonchalantly, walking over to stand beside them. "He doesn't need you anymore. You should go home." At that point Kairi had shed a few tears and was positively beat red in the face, looking just about like she was going to maul the blonde right then and there out of anger, but instead of doing just that she wiped at her face like last time but with the opposite hand, and in the meantime Axel was staring at both of them like they'd sprouted a few extra heads.

Kairi let out a high pitched wail. "You turned him gay? Oh god, no, Axel!"

It was hard for the redhead not to burst out laughing, but his fear of the female going off in a rage and slapping him overwhelmed his want to laugh, so he kept quiet and stared acidic eyes at the two in front of his doorway.

The blonde gave him a quick wink before addressing the girl again, shifting his hands from his hoodie pocket to his hips and cocking them to one side to look more flamboyant. "My name's Roxas. You can go tell all of your gossiping friends that he fucks me now, okay?" When she sputtered and ran off he waved after her and added in more before she was out of hearing range. "Oh, and don't forget to add how big he is! Not that you would know, huh? See you later!"

Axel could only shake his head in awe at the boy's antics, a grin splitting across his face as he pointed his forgotten fork at the blonde. "You've got some guts, kid. I wouldn't be surprised if they come back to castrate you."

"They won't even come near me." Roxas slid his hands back in the warm pocket and looked up at the other male with a sly glint to his eyes. "Besides, they wouldn't want to break your little heart, now would they?"

"That's devious… I like it. So are you my new boyfriend?"

He shrugged lightly, stepping away from the apartments and toward the sidewalk. "We could pretend."

The redhead chewed on the teeth of his fork, talking around them. "Like a game?"

"Exactly like a game." Then the blonde turned and walked off further into town, Converse hitting the ground at a steady pace.