Chapter Two: Straight...I'm Straight.
"Roxas…Roxas, Man, come on…" A hard duffel hit his face straight on, a grinning cousin standing behind it.
"Sora…" Roxas steamed, his eyes slitting angrily at Sora.
He bent down, picking up the blue duffel with one hand and slung it easily over his shoulder. He glanced once more to the post in the center, turning in the right direction for cabin 4.
The scenery was beautiful, the bright green leaves cast shadows down on the small wooded path to the left of the main road. The small birds tweeted from the branches as leaves fell peacefully from the sky.
"So, Riku, the girls are in Cabin 2 this year…" Sora laughed, catching up with his best friend. The two of them began to chat about further pranks and make-out sessions with Kiari, Namine, and other freshman girls.
Siefer's arm was snaked around Hayner's hip again, his face nuzzled into his boyfriend's neck. He had pulled a normal ski cap over his head, almost covering his eyes.
"Com'on, you girls." A new voice laughed as the inclining hill became steeper. "Slow pokes, it's just over here."
The group turned to the voice's owner, a tall male stood in front of the small brown cabin, the porch neatly swept and the open windows blew with whitened curtains. His glowing green eyes scanned over them.
"I don't know if you know me," The male began, opening the cabin door with a small silver key, "But I'm Axel, Axel Tamari. A…X…E…L? See? Got it memorized already?"
A few snickers arose from the back of the group, all turning to see Riku and Sora, already with a pair of binoculars and staring straight at Cabin 2 through the trees.
"And…I will be your Cabin Monitor and Archery Director for the next two weeks." Axel glared in their direction. "But, if you both don't mind peeling your eyes away from the girls' cabin for, say, three minutes, go inside, pick a bunk, and then we can head down for dinner."
"Not that we're hungry." Tidus scoffed, wiping some blue residue from the ice cream from his cheek. "But oh well!"
They entered the small cabin, greeted by two sections. The middle of the cabin held a small twin sized single bed, a red and black decorated duffle sat on the bedspread, a clean white pillow at the head, and a small bag of toiletries on the bed side table on the right. The two sides of the bed gave way to two rows of bunk beds, five on each side.
The teens quickly entered the room, rushing to chosen beds. Sora and Riku sharing the one next to the window, happening to look right down on Cabin 2. Riku took the top bunk, while Sora took bottom, across from Hayner and Siefer. Then Tidus and Wakka, paired across from Demyx and Zexion. Then, three people who looked completely foreign to me.
"Okay boys. First I need to get all your names, if you don't mind." Roxas felt a pressure beam down on his head as a long pale arm leaned over on him. "Especially yours." He heard a sly whisper echo down into his ear. Roxas leaped, his mouth hanging open as he looked uneasily at the male.
"…Ro…Rox…Roxas…" He stuttered, leaping out of his skin. "My…my name is…Roxas…"
"Okay, Roxas." The councilor smiled, rocking back on his heels and sat back on his black bed spread. "You." He pointed towards Sora and Riku. "Pervs, come on."
"I'm Sora Tenshi." Sora muttered, setting down his pair of red binoculars. "That's Riku." He shrugged over to his silver haired friend.
"Riku…Ariswa, correct?" Axel asked, looking around the room at the other students.
Riku nodded.
"So you're Sephy's little brother. How cute." Axel laughed, pulling out a photo. It included him, being maybe thirteen, in front of Cabin 4, along with two silver and pink haired boys. "Me, Him and Marly."
"Cute." Riku rolled his eyes.
Axel stuffed the picture back turning to the group of boys crowding at the door. "Names! Now! Then you can eat!" He laughed as the shouts began to echo over.
"Tidus!"
"I'm hungry…"
"Wakka, dude!"
"No one cares…"
"Pence!"
"Is this cabin 6?"
"Hanyner!" "Siefer!"
"And I'm Axel!" He screamed, springing from his bed, a bright smirk growing on his face. "To the Cafeteria, Charge!"
He chuckled, grabbing a small black jacket and wandering to where the boys used to be. The cabin was empty, except for Roxas.
"Roxas, you coming?" Axel stopped partially through the doorway, looking back to the lonely blonde teen sitting on a corner bottom bunk.
"I'm not hungry." He muttered, not turning away from the window.
"But, Roxy, they've got cute little pudding cups and smiling potato pancakes!" Axel clapped his hands overjoyously at the menu.
"I'm still not…Hang on! Did you just call me…" Roxas stuttered, staring over at the councilor, "…Roxy?"
Axel broke out into a weird cackle of laughter, filling the room with his loud wails. "You…you look like a Roxy. I like it."
Roxas couldn't help but laugh. "Fine. I'll come eat, but no more weird nicknames, okay?"
"Just as long as I get to do this," Axel turned to his bed and picked up a camera. "Say Cheese."
"Cheese." Roxas smiled at the camera in front of him. Holding up a peace sign as Axel snapped the picture.
"Now, let's go get some pudding before its all gone." Axel edged him forward, out of the cabin and back into the rough path to the main circle.
They raced, the wind beating against his red spiked hair, the long flowing mane-like halo. How beautiful he looked.
They approached the main post, Axel running off towards three other councilors that had gathered near an office type building, and Roxas rushed to find Tidus, Sora and Riku.
"Roxas! Roxas! Roxas! Wait!" Namine again. She almost tackled him, grabbing onto his shoulders and wrapping her legs around his waist.
"What Namine?" He growled, shrugging her off as she fell to the ground.
Kiari and another brown haired girl helped her up, dusting her off as she approached me. "Roxas…I…I…I love you!"
Roxas stared in dumbfounded manner at the blonde girl, her blue eyes rushing over his face.
"Will…will you go out with me?" She murmured, teetering back and forth.
"Uh…" Roxas replied shadow-like under his breath. Heck, how'd he get out of this one? He didn't even know if he was gay or not. Namine was like that girl in his class that he tried to avoid. He didn't want to hurt her, Roxas just hated doing that to someone. Plus, he needed to get himself away from the all gay thoughts. "I…I…guess."
"Yay!" Namine smiled, almost tackling him in the process of a hug.
Kiari and the second girl clapped in the background as Namine forcefully intertwined their fingers and drug him off to the cafeteria door.
The room was filled with campers, most of them already sitting at long tables, shoveling French fries into their mouths. The long café like line was set up, the various councilors dishing out food.
Roxas was shoved into the line, squished between Namine and Sora as he picked up an old looking yellow tray and set it down in front of the serving line.
He was immediately bombarded with a pile of hamburger and French fries as he was pushed forward.
"Hey! Roxas!" Axel. Roxas couldn't even make eye contact, he was sure his face was beat red. "Look! I've got pudding!"
Axel pulled up various colors of pudding cups, hugging them joyously. "So, can I hook you up with Chocolate? Vanilla? Strawberry? Maybe Banana?"
"…Um…Vanilla." Roxas said, his face still buried away. Axel placed the white pudding on his tray, smiling as he watched the boy move on.
"See. Marly?" Axel whispered in the direction of the pink haired boy. "He likes me!"
"You're just full of it, Axe…" Marluxia murmured as he pushed a French fry into his friend's mouth. "Look closer." He pointed down to the blonde girl whose fingers were intertwined with Roxas'.
"Awe…" Axel slummed down over the pudding cup mountain, his hope officially doused. "I…he…I didn't think he was straight…"
"Just…stay away from the campers." Marluxia replied, patting Axel's back lightly as he bit down on another French fry. "If you get caught hitting on kids, Xem'll have our heads!"
"Fine." Axel murmured. He sighed, turning back to the line. "PUDDING! FLAVOR! ANSWER!" He screamed, scaring the poor brunet to death.
"…None…" The camper rushed away without looking back at the flaming redhead.
"Axel…just go to the lake. Tell Luxlord he can have your cleaning list tonight. He need to stop gambling with his paycheck anyway…" Axel felt some hand lay lightly on his shoulder as he peeked up from the pudding to see Marluxia pulling him away.
"Fine." Axel shrugged, shooting a quick glance at Roxas who was over trying to shrug off the blonde girl hanging on him.
The brunet Axel had scared away quickly rushed from the line, her curls bounding on her head as she sat down at the long narrow table.
"Hey, Ollette" Namine smiled, leaning over on Roxas again.
"Ugh…Nam…get off…" Roxas pushed her off again. He took a bite of his pudding, which tasted quite good. He looked back up to the line.
No Axel.
"Where…Where'd he go?" Roxas murmured under his breath.
"Who, Roxas?" Kiari asked, her bright violet eyes looking around to see where he was looking.
"No one…nevermind." He sighed, closing his eyes for a second.
"Okay." Kiari shrugged, piling a peanut butter sandwich into her mouth. "Somwatchawgoawnado?" She asked, trying to speak through the peanut butter.
She swallowed hard, "So what are you going to do?"
"Nothing." Roxas muttered, wiping his mouth with a napkin as he stood up. "I'm going to bed."
"Good night Roxas." Namine smiled, kissing him sweetly on the cheek.
Roxas said nothing, just picking up his tray as he left the table.
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"Lux…Luxlord?" Axel knocked on the door of the Dock Shop. "LUX! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!"
No answer.
"Luxlord. Stop gambling in there, you and me are switching cleans." Axel pushed roughly through the door.
"OH! OH GOD!" Axel screamed, shielding his eyes. "SAIX! GET SOME CLOTHES ON!"
Saix quickly moved over and pulled a towel around his body as Luxlord stood up.
"What're you doing here, Axel? We were in the middle of…" Luxlord began, cleaning up the cards sprawled around the floor.
"…Yeah, yeah, I know…Strip-poker again." Axel murmured, still holding his hands over his eyes. "Marly said that you'd switch cleans with me."
"Fine." Luxlord grumbled. "Just as long as you drag the lake and tether it off for me."
"Tethering, I can do. But I am not dragging the lake." Axel rolled his eyes, even though he still had them covered.
"Fine, you pansy." Saix murmured, pulling on a pair of jeans. "Just grab the rope," He pointed over to the yellow rope hanging from the hook near the door.
"Thanks, Luxlord." Axel smiled, reaching over to the rope and pulling it towards him. "Now, no more gambling."
"Yes sir." Luxlord chuckled, leaving the small dock shop after Saix. "I'll be a good boy…"
"Oh yeah…" Saix laughed, Axel tried to be free of any and all perverted thoughts traveling through his mind.
"Ugh." Axel gagged, watching the two walk off as he tied the yellow rope to one pole on the right side of the lake's dock.
The sun was slowly sinking on the waves of the lake. Roxy…he couldn't help but sighing. He wanted the boy to notice him, but of course, if the boy had a girlfriend, he was just trying the unattainable.
He stepped away from the water, his eyes traveling over the path as he began to trek back to Cabin 4.
The owls were noisily watching him from the branches overhead as the loud chatter of the campers emanated from the sand volleyball and concession stand.
"Roxas…Roxas…Roxas…" Axel thought out loud. "He won't notice me…I know it…I'm just an obnoxious councilor…he's a straight camper…It doesn't work."
He shrugged, approaching the Cabin and touching his fingers to the doorknob. "But of course…he could be bi…"
"…What am I saying? He probably thinks I'm weird…especially from what I said in the convenience store earlier…" He didn't bother turning on the light when he entered, he knew where the bed was.
He walked slowly over to the bed, laying down, and staring at the ceiling. "Roxas…"
He stopped eyes wide as he sat up from thinking. "Rox…Roxas?" He murmured, as he looked to the lone bunk next to his bed, a covered figure slowly moving up and down in innocent breathing.
He slipped his legs over to the other side of the bed, placing the soles of his feet to the floor and stepping forward.
The picture in front of him was gorgeous, the peach face of his camper sat in front of him, the blue orbs cleaned over with seamless eyelids. Axel sighed, reaching down, placing the tips of his fingers to graze across the pale cheeks in front of him. "Roxas…" He reached to the windowsill, picking up the gray camera that had been placed there earlier. "Say cheese." He smirked as he snapped the photo, Roxas not stirring an inch. "Goodnight." He leaned down pressing his lips to the cheek every so lightly. " Sweet dreams." He smiled as he returned to his own bed.
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Uh--oh...What'll happen now. (I'm not a very big RoxasxNamine Fan, so its not going to last too long.) Namine is gonna get a better image next chapter.
Bye for now.
-Orina