Wandering the halls really was boring, but Roxas supposed that he didn't have anything better to do. Free periods were always uneventful in his case, since he had so much time during his class to work on planning. The scratching of #2 pencils helped him focus on working.

The blonde teacher was shaken from these thoughts by way of almost getting run over. A woman with black hair stormed past him, seething. It seemed that she had come from Tifa's English class; the door was slightly ajar. Curiously, Roxas pushed the door open more.

And of course, Axel was the first person his eyes found. Strange how life works sometimes. The redhead caught his gaze and smirked, slow and deliberate. Roxas quickly removed his gaze from Axel, surveying the room of noisy students.

"What's going on here?" He asked loudly. The students ignored him, continuing on their rants and chattering. It was frustrating because Roxas knew that they were conversing about what had just occurred, but he couldn't understand with so many people talking at once.

Axel decided to be merciful, just this once. "Shut the fuck up, fags!"

Roxas ignored the profanity, choosing instead to repeat his question to the now-silent class. "What happened?"

"Ms. Lockheart ran out because Axel made her angry." A student spoke, one of the teachers' pets.

Roxas nodded to her gratefully, and then headed over to the phone. As much as he dreaded it, a call to Xemnas was necessary.

None of the kids dared to talk, although some did decide that it would be entertaining to make funny faces at Roxas's back. As if he didn't know that they were doing it.

"Hello?"

"Hello, Xemnas, this is Roxas. Ms. Lockheart ran out of her class today. Do you have another substitute?"

"I'm terribly sorry, but I did not expect this. Perhaps you could take her place, Roxas? It is your free period, after all."

"Um…"

"Is something wrong?"

"No, there isn't…"

"I'll leave you to it, then."

Roxas sighed as the phone hung up. Conversations with Xemnas were always like that, whether on the phone or in person. He could feel the eyes of the students on him as he slowly, thoughtfully turned to face them.

"Well, it seems that I'm going to replace Ms. Lockheart. What were you working on?" Roxas asked, resigned to the idea that he was supposed to teach this room full of rowdy kids.

Roxas really needed to learn the name of that over-helpful student. "We were reviewing plot sequence, sir."

"The let's start over on that, since a lot of you must have been paying attention to Axel instead." A few of the students groaned in dismay, but most appeared to accept the fact that this was unavoidable.

"Basically, plot sequence is the order of events. Can anyone tell me what the first one is?" Roxas knew this by heart, most likely because of his college professor. The girl was psycho.

The girl who had answered his previous question's hand shot up, waving around for good measure. Roxas would give her a chance, but for now, he would call on someone else.

"Sora?" He knew the brunette boy, since he was in one of his writing classes.

Sora jumped, obviously not expecting to be called on. "Um…the…beginning?"

Roxas shook his head, not really angry. "Nope, sorry Sora. It's actually the exposition. Make sure you remember!"

Nodding sheepishly, Sora shot a glance at his friend Riku, who was also in one of Roxas's writing classes. The sliver-haired boy sent only a half-smile in Sora's direction to acknowledge him.

"Anyone know the next one? Yes?" Roxas nodded to the girl, who gave her brightest smile and recited the answer.

"The rising actions."

"Very good. " Roxas praised, moving on to the next question.

He noticed briefly that Axel seemed poised, with his hand halfway raised.

"Alright, what's next on the plot line?"

It would have been unfair for him to ignore Axel's hand as it shot up. Hopefully there wasn't anything that Axel could do for answering a simple question.

"It's…the climax." The redhead's eyes glittered with a different meaning. Roxas caught on, scowling as several students laughed. Axel hadn't really been making his attraction to Roxas a big secret; most likely the whole school knew about it.

"That's correct, Axel." Roxas managed to keep his voice under control, from pitching with his pout.

Someone knocked on the door, and by reflex Roxas called for them to come in. A tall, blue-haired man walked in, a scar slashing an X across his face.

"I'm here to replace a substitute teacher." He informed Roxas, in a low monotone that scared him just as much as Xemnas's voice.

"Thank you." Roxas stood carefully, stepping out of the way to allow the man to take his place.

Letting out a gusty breath, he exited the room, but not before Axel reached across his desk, holding out a neatly folded piece of paper. When Roxas simply stared and didn't take it, he grinned and stuck it in the teacher's front pocket. Seeing the blonde's confused expression, he said nothing, only leaning back and propping his feet up on the desk.

Once outside the classroom, Roxas withdrew the slip of paper and unfolded it cautiously.

A huge heart, with messily drawn letters, spelling out "Roxas + Axel 4eva."

Roxas sighed heavily, grateful that this time it wasn't obscene. Maybe the redhead was starting to get serious?

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Oh my God, it's 3:58 in the morning. My Axel slept over and helped me out with this chapter. Habibanansdsfn, I can't think straight. Let's see…we started around 2:30, and now it's 4:01. That's very early or very late, depending on how you look at it.

[XIIIAnonymous's Axel] She so fuggin insane. She made me sit here for an hour and a half, I wasn't aloud to read. But shes posting it on the internet, so I don't how it makes a difference. She'll let people from Saudi Arabia read it, but not me. I don't give a damn about this mistakes in this paragraph. Over and out. P.S. Is anyone else wondering when they are gonna finally make out?

[Back To Me] Thank God. Sorry you all had to read that. I'm tired, but I still care about getting stuff right. -_- And patience is a virtue.

[Axel] No one gives a damn about virtues, I would just corner his little blonde butt.

[XIII] Well, that's you. I personally wouldn't like to be cornered by some guy who wants to rape me.

[Axel] It's not considered rape if you like it. And that's you personally. I AM AXEL, GOT IT MEMORIZED?

[XIII] Maybe you're right, since there are rabid insane fangirls who would just love to be cornered by Axel. But still.

[Axel] ALL the fangirls reading this chapter, go tell XIII how much you'd love to be cornered by Axel! MAHAHA.

[XIII] Now that's unfair.

[Axel] I'm gonna turn your readers against you.

[XIII] They're gonna see this and be thinking, why the f is it so long? So I'm stopping now. And people, I'm not one of those writers that pretend that they're talking to Axel, Roxas, etc. She's actually over right now.

See you next chapter! :)