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I'm just standing there, dumbfounded. As Axel caresses my check trying to get me to clam down. I don't even know why I'm crying in the first place. Why in the hell is it always Axel who brings out all of these emotions I have? Even when I want them to stay bottled up inside.

"Axel?"

It's my turn to be nervous. Just what is he doing? Is he...he can't be.

He slowly leans in. He's so close that I can feel his warm breath on my skin, and...he...he does it. He kisses me. Answering my previous question. Silencing me. Replacing my dumbfounded face with a now shocked one. I don't pull away or resist. Noticing this, Axel slowly licks my bottom lip, begging for entrance. I gasp. He takes his opportunity and starts invading my mouth.

Attacking each and every part of my mouth with his tongue. Like trying to memorize each and every detail of something that you never want to forget.

Then he starts playing with my tongue. Twirling his around mine, inviting mine to come into his mouth, trying to coax me into this passionate thing we call a kiss. It's like he's raping my mouth or something. If their was such a thing as your mouth being a virgin, then Axel would be the one who took my mouth virginity.

And...and nothing has ever felt better. It's intoxicating. I...I want more. So, I start to kiss him back. I start to notice that I'm losing myself in this warm, passionate, cinnamon flavored kiss. Then he does something I'm not expecting. Not that I expected any of this. But...I really didn't expect him to do this. Or for it to feel so good at that. He...he licks the roof of my mouth. Making me shiver. Forget that losing myself stuff.

I'm gone.

We realize that we're losing our breath due to the fact we're stealing it from one another. So we part to get ever so much needed oxygen. Leaving a line of drool still connecting us.

Boy he's sure made a mess of me. I mean just look at me! I'm panting insanely and blushing like a mad person. He must have grabbed my head trying to deepen the kiss at some point because my hair feels different. I don't even want to know what my face looks like. I don't have much time to really processes any of this, though. Not that I really cared about my appearance right now anyways.

Because without saying a word, Axel grabs my wrist, sort of harshly, yet somehow still remaining as gentle as he always is with me. Dragging me away somewhere.

"Um...where are you taking me, Axel?"

"My apartment. It's starting to rain."

Just as he say's that. I feel something drop on my shoulder. Just like Axel said, it was indeed starting to rain. And before I knew it, it was pouring. We were getting absolutely soaked. So Axel, still holding my wrist, starts running, pulling me with him. I stop dead in my tracks bringing Axel to a stop as well.

"What's the matter?"

He shouts over the rain.

"Axel...I...I can't! My parents and Cloud will be worried! I told them I'd be back soon! I'm sorry, but I have to go!"

I yell over the rain to him as I try to pull away form his grasp.

But, he doesn't let go. Instead he pulls me towards the direction we were going before I stopped us. Which is going to lead us to his apartment I'm guessing.

"Everything will be fine, Roxas! Besides, my apartment is much closer than your house! You'll get sick or something!"

He yells to me as he pulls me towards the direction of his apartment.

"Besides...I don't want you to leave."

Because he's not really yelling anymore, any normal person probably wouldn't have heard that. But I did. For some reason, I got butterflies in my stomach and my heart felt like it was going to pound right out of my chest.

'Why does Axel do this to me?'

We finally arrive at what I'm guessing is Axel's apartment. I wouldn't really know since I've never been here before. You think I would since he's my best friend, though huh? Nope. I'm not allowed. My dumb homophobic parents have suspensions that Axel is gay. So they never let me go over. Now that I think about it...I guess they were right. But wait...doesn't that make me gay too? I mean I just...we just...and I lik-

"You coming?" Axel yells down to me.

Snapping me out of my thoughts. I hadn't even noticed that instead of taking the front entrance like normal people would do, we were taking the back entrance. Or that Axel had let go of my wrist, or that he had already climbed up the latter that led to the back door of his apartment. Okay, okay. You get the idea. I didn't notice a lot of things.

"Y-Yeah."

I say awkwardly as I climb up the latter. As I get to the top, Axel offers me his hand helping me up. So I took it.

"Thanks."

"No problem."

He notices he hasn't let my hand go yet. He quickly snatches it away, scratching the back of his head embarrassingly.

"U-uh. Sorry about that."

"It's fine."

I reassure him even though my face probably doesn't say the same. I'm blushing so bad that I can just feel how hot my face is.

"Here you go." Axel say's as he hands me a towel.

I'm now in his bathroom about to take a shower. It's a pretty nice bathroom for an apartment. The walls are painted a light blue, the floors white tile, a white porcelain sink with a mirror above it, a white toilet right next to it to match, and a silver walk in shower right next to that.

"Um...if you'll just give me your clothes after you take them off, I'll wash them for you while you're in the shower. They probably won't be ready until tomorrow. But I could at least just put your boxers in the dryer then you can borrow one of my shirts to sleep in."

He tells me as he sits the towel down on the toilet.

"Uh...you don't have to do that. It will take far to long for my clothes to get dr- wait...what? Tomorrow? You mean you think I'm spending the night?"

"Well, yeah. Roxas, it's raining cats and dogs outside! I'd really think it'd just be easier if you spent the night. Besides...I haven't really told you what I wanted to tell you yet. You...you can't just leave."

He stares down at his feet. While seaming sort of...sad. I really hate to see him like this. Where is that smile I love so much that is genuinely Axel's smile?

"L-Look Axel...I really wish I could stay. Really I do. It's just my parents and Cloud. They'll have a search party out or something. Besides...I-I'm pretty sure you've said all you've needed to say."

I blush and stare at anything except for those captivating green eyes.

"I don't want to hear shit about your parents, Roxas! They can go fuck themselves or something, and Cloud can go get fucked by Zack!"

I look at him, straight in the eyes. Stunned. I can't really believe he just said that. Then I finally process what he actually said, blush, and look away again. It looks as though as if he processed it to, because he did the same.

"I-I'm sorry, Roxas. I don't know what came over me. I just...don't want you to leave. Please?"

'How can I say 'no' to that face'

"It's okay, Axel. I-I'll stay."

He immediately brightens up, and gives me a big bear hug. At this point, I believe that this blush is permanent. Because I can't seam to get rid of it. It's not as bright as it was before though. Just a little pink.

Suddenly...there's this...this...itch...I-

"ACHOO!"

I can hear Axel giggle as he pulls back out of the hug. I immediately miss his arms around me.

"I'll just leave you to that shower. I really would prefer you to not get sick on my watch."

He winks at me, as I blush, yet again.

I grab one of the wash clothes that was sitting on the sink, quickly strip, and hop in the warmth of the shower that Axel offered me.

As I hop out of the shower, I notice that my clothes are gone. All except for my black and white checker board boxers that have become dry, and a dark blue shirt with some random band on the front that seams oddly familiar.

'Axel.'

I dry off and put the clothes given to me on.

I walk out of Axel's bathroom, fully clothed, with a towel over my head trying to dry my hair. I look around Axel's apartment wondering where Axel is. I look to my left and I see a small living room with a couch, coffee table, TV, and to many game systems and video games to count. Straight ahead, I see a small kitchen, with all the works, and a small kitchen table and chairs to left of it. There, I notice is where the front door is. I look even farther to my left and I see the room I first walked into as I came into Axel's apartment. I'm guessing it's Axel's bed room. I walk in, still looking for Axel. But no one is in his small, red painted, bedroom except for me.

"Oh there you are, Rox! Have a nice shower?"

I turn around and see that Axel had walked out of a room that was down a hall that was right next to thebathroom that I hadn't noticed before.

'Must be where the laundry room is.'

"Uh...yeah. It was nice."

I beam up at him.

"That's good. Well, I'm just gonna go get a shower myself. Make yourself at home. Oh! And I almost forgot! Your clothes are in the wash."

He tells me as he turns around heading for the bathroom.

"Thanks."

"No problem, Roxy."

He gives me another wink, while he quickly shuts the door behind him. I turn around. Examining his room. The walls are painted red like I previously mentioned, with black carpets, a small closet to the right of the room, a bed in the middle of the room with black blankets, sheets, and pillow cases to match. A nightstand on the right side of the bed, and a desk filled with school books and papers to the left of the room.

I plop down on Axel's bed, noticing that I'm quite tired from previous...events. I hear the water turn on in the bathroom as I start to lose myself, letting sleep take over and engulf my body and mind like a flame.