The Boy Next Door.

Chapter four- Sexy outfits, nosebleeds, and waffles.

WARNING: Yaoi. BoyxBoy. If you don't like that sort of thing, stop reading. I don't want to hear your rude comments. For everybody else: Enjoy! Rated PG 13 for profanity, and BoyxBoy fluff.

Roxas P.oV.

"Mmmph…" I groaned, rolling over to face my clock, which was blank. i Did I unplug it in my sleep? No… the power went out. /i I remembered, seeing the oil lamp on the table that thankfully put itself out. I don't want another fire. Really.

I begrudgingly got up and shuffled off to the bathroom, running into the wall as I stumbled along. Thank God the water still worked, or we'd have a problem. I turned on the water to the shower, and undressed while I waited on it to warm up. I slipped into the shower, letting the warm water fall over my lightly tanned skin as I started to wake up. As soon as I was done, I grabbed a towel and dried my soaked hair to my best efforts before wrapping it around my waist and headed over to my bedroom.

I went through my messy closet and pulled out some clean clothes. I slipped on my tight black T-shirt, some dark bleach-spotted jeans, and two belts, one being a regular studded belt, and the other being a rainbow-colored studded belt. Hey, everybody's gotta have pride, right? Oh shut up, nobody asked you for your snarky opinions.

I walked back to the bathroom where I properly dried my hair with a hairdryer, combed, and spiked it. Finally I approved of my hair and grabbed an eyeliner pencil, and expertly applied it. I closed the lid and sat it back on my sink counter. I gave myself one final looking over before leaving the bathroom.

My stomach growled loudly signaling that it was time for breakfast. I sauntered to the kitchen and threw open the fridge, to find… no food. Well, no food that didn't need to be cooked. Everything was either frozen, or thawing for that matter. I closed the fridge to conserve what cold was still in there.

"Fast food it is then." I muttered as I slipped on my shoes. "Hmm, maybe what's-his-face would want to go get something. His power's probably shut off too, and I still owe him for helping me out yesterday." I said, thinking out loud. I grabbed my keys and my wallet and headed out the door, locking it on my way out. I went next door, but hesitated on knocking. What if he was still asleep? Oh well, it was worth a shot. I knocked on the door quietly. No answer. Maybe he wasn't home? I knocked louder and pressed my ear to the door to see if I could hear anybody inside. Whoosh, the door opened and…

Axel's P.o.V.

I awoke to my cell phone alarm going off, telling me to get up so I don't sleep in all afternoon. I grabbed some pants and clean boxers and got into the shower, turning the heat up all the way, and letting the water weigh down my bright red spikes. As I finished up in the shower, I started to dry off, but heard a knock on the door. If it was my Ma, she's got a key. If it was anybody else, they could wait. I pulled on my boxers and my pants and exited my bathroom, opening the door after a slightly louder knock came. What I was NOT expecting, was for my little visitor to end up falling on me as soon as I opened the door. "Whoa there! You okay?" I asked, catching him before he hurt himself… again. He just stood there, holding on to my arm for a minute, frozen. He slowly tilted his head up to look at me and nodded standing on his own, his face a bright pink. "So you wanted something?" I asked after a couple moments of uneasy silence. He nodded his head as if he were knocking himself out of a trance and rejoined the word again.

"Y-yeah. I was wondering, since we have no power, if you wanted to go get breakfast. I still owe you for yesterday and-"

"Sure, but I need to finish getting dressed okay?" I replied coolly, opening the door and motioning him in. "I'll be out in a minute, you can wait in here."

He nodded. "Okay." He said, watching me retreat to my bedroom.

Roxas' P.o.V.

I fell forward, right onto something slightly damp. Upon closer examination, it was… Axel. Half naked. And slightly wet. What exactly had I intruded on? I had no idea, but all I could do was stare as he stopped me from falling. Finally, he snapped me out of it and I asked him to breakfast. He accepted my invitation, and let me in so he could finish getting dressed, which may or may not be a good thing. I mentally slapped myself for that one. I looked around the apartment again, it was about the same as it was last night, except brighter due to the sunlight pouring in through the window. On the coffee table, I saw a book called i Freak the Mighty /i and decided to pick it up. I read the first page before hearing a door open. I looked up to see Axel walking into the room. I hurriedly closed the book and sat it back down. Too late though, he already caught me going through his stuff. Great. He chuckled and shook his head.

"It's a good book, a little on the 'For pre-teens' side, but I like it. You can borrow it sometime if you want." He said, grabbing his keys off the bar that separated the kitchen and the living room, and walked toward the door.

"Okay." I said, putting the book back down and walking over to him. My eyes scanned over him, he was wearing a plain black wife-beater and some torn, baggy jeans. His hair was spiky again now that it'd dried out. "You look…good." I said, feeling my cheeks grow warm, but keeping as much of a straight face as I could. Maybe he wouldn't take it the wrong way? And if he did, oh well. I wasn't going to tell him that. He seemed like the arrogant type who i knew /i they were sexy and i loved /i people to tell him that.

He gave a devious smirk before letting his eyes wander over me. I just stood there with my arms crossed and my hip jutted out to the side.

"Really now? I think I look pretty plain next to your sexy outfit. Do you wear that kind of thing everyday? Or is it just because you wanted to look good in front of me?" He replied, copying my pose, with his added smirk. I rolled my eyes.

"As a matter of fact, I do wear this kind of- Hey! Did you just call me sexy?!" I all but yelled.

"And what if I did?" He said, his smirk faltering a bit, but stayed in place for the most part. I shook my head not knowing exactly what to say.

"Thanks I guess." I said, walking towards the door. "We better get going before it's LUNCH time." I said, opening the door and waiting for him to follow. He patted me on the shoulder before chuckling.

"Joking little guy. Don't worry, I'm not gonna rape you in my car or anything." He said, following me out and locking his door.

Axel's P.o.V.

Actually, I did kinda mean it. But it's his fault for wearing something like that out to breakfast right? His eyes got big at my last statement, which got me laughing.

"I didn't think you were going to but…" He started, backing away slowly. I chuckled and shook my head. Does he always take things so seriously? I grabbed his arm and dragged him along behind me. Finally he gave in and started walking out to the parking lot. We finally found my little black car and I opened the door for him, bowing like a butler would for royalty.

"Here we are mada-ow!" He smacked me over the head.

"I'm not a girl. No matter how hard it is on you." He muttered, climbing in the passengers seat. I climbed in the drivers side and buckled up. I looked at him and raised an eyebrow. He replied with a confused look on his face. I rolled my eyes and reached across him. "What are you doing?!" He screeched as I grabbed the seatbelt and buckled it. I could tell his face was turning red again, but I didn't acknowledge that fact.

"You're gonna need that." I replied as if nothing had happened, turning the key in the ignition and starting up the car.

Everybody's going to the party have a real good time. Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine. My radio was loud. I saw Roxas reach for the knob and grinned as he turned it up all the way to one of my favorite songs: B.Y.O.B. by System of a Down. You know how hard it is to sit still during that song? Very. Very. Hard. He started head banging, and I took that on as a challenge. We tried to outdo each other, totally throwing my efforts to get my hair too look good right out the window. All of a sudden, he stopped. I thought I won our little "competition" and smirked at him, only to see him holding his hands over his face with blood dripping through his fingers.

"Holy shit! Roxas! What did you do?" I yelled, going through the glove box for some tissues or napkins or SOMETHING. I finally found a travel pack of tissues waaay in the back and handed them to him. He grabbed a few with his bloody hand and tried to wipe all the crimson liquid off himself. He shook his head and then tilted it back.

"Nosebleed." He said, closing his eyes, his cheeks red from both head banging and embarrassment. I'd say more from the latter. I couldn't help but to laugh.

"You know, I think you're the only person I've ever seen get a nosebleed from head banging. I should submit that to the World Record books or something." I joked. He replied by flipping me off and turning the volume back down now that it was a some-what slow song. "Hey! No! That's a good song!" I said, turning it up and singing a few lines to it. "Welcome to the Hotel California. Such a lovely place, such a lovely face." He groaned.

"Stoooop!" He whined, his hands over his ears. "You're butchering it!" He said, finally gaining control over the blood pouring out of his head to stop tilting it back. I chuckled.

"Oh, you think you could do better?" I said, smirking. He probably could, I'm not the best singer in the world. He laughed and waited for the next verse to come up. Now, I thought he'd be better than me, but what I didn't expect was for him to be really, really good. I just listened as he sang.

"Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends. How they dance in the courtyard, sweeeeeet summer sweat. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget." He stopped singing at that and turned to look at me, his face was tinged with pink, but he still had a smirk on his face that said he i knew /i he'd won. I smiled, not a smirk, but an actual smile.

"You're good Roxy." Was all I said before actually pulling out of the parking lot since we'd been sitting there for a good five minutes, and in that time managed to cause bodily damage and teach me a little something about Roxas.

Roxas' P.o.V.

Heh, I guess a year of choir in high school paid off today. You know, I was i going /i to say "Thanks. You know I was kidding about you butchering it, you're not i that /i bad." But then… he called me Roxy. I whacked him over the head for the second time today. "Do not call me that." I said. Crossing my arms and looking out the window, turning my head so that he couldn't see the tiny smile that found its way to my lips.

"Aww come on Roxy. Don't be that way." He said, as failed attempt to get me to turn around. The only person I'd ever let call me Roxy was my twin brother Sora. And that's only because he wouldn't stop, so eventually I gave in.

Axel reached over to me again, but instead he ran his fingers lightly down my sides, making me giggle and squirm. Damn it, how'd he know I was ticklish?

"Hehe, got you to laugh." He said, focusing his acidic green eyes back on the road. I glared at him and crossed my arms again.

"But that wasn't fair!" I shouted as we pulled up to McDonalds. I waited for Axel to park his car before jumping out. He shuffled to the front doors and went in. I read the menu, and much to my horror, they stopped selling breakfast two hours ago. I groaned. "I knew we should have left earlier!" I whined as Axel turned around, pulling me by the arm back to his car.

"It's okay Roxy, I know a place that sells breakfast no matter what time it is!" He smiled and dashed to his car, me right behind him, letting the "Roxy" thing go for the sake of me eating before I died of starvation. As soon as we got in the car, he started it and took off down the road to the part of town with the older stores and restaurants.

"And just exactly what restaurant are we going to?" I asked, my question quickly answered by a big yellow sign that read "Waffle House". "Ohhh I haven't been here since I was little!" I squealed, unbuckling and hopping out, him laughing at my excitedness. "Oh shove it. I'm hungry."

"Me too. But I come in here all the time." He walked in, me trailing behind him.

"Axel!" I heard a girl squeal as he was glomped to the ground. I couldn't help but laugh.

"Falling. Get. Off. I. Can't. Breath." He said, prying the light brown haired girl off of him. She stood up, offering a hand to him, which he took and stood up.

"Right. Sorry 'bout that." She said, grinning. Her glance fell to me and she giggled, nudging him in the arm. "So who's this cutie? It's been a while since you brought anybody here. Last time it- mmmph." She couldn't finish because Axel had clamped his hand over her mouth, which she bit causing him to let go.

"This," He said, motioning towards me. "is Roxas. He lives in the apartment next door." I gave a small wave before scanning the small place. There were about fifteen tables and the kitchen was right where everybody could watch the chefs cook. For some reason I hoped that she would be our waitress rather than the cook.

"Here, you can be my customers!" She said, pulling us both to a table she was assigned to. We sat down, and I picked up a menu. Axel seemed to already know what he was getting, so he didn't bother. "Do you need a minute to decide?" She asked. I nodded. "I'll be back in a few then!" She said, speeding off to another table where a couple people were seated.

"Why do you call her Falling?" I asked Axel, who sighed as if he were getting ready to tell a long story. He thought about it for a minute before explaining.

"Well. You see, her and her friend, Random are the only ones that know each other's real names besides the manager, and he's sworn to secrecy. And trust me, you don't want them to have a reason to want revenge on you." He explained, and looked around as if he were looking for something. "Falling!" He called.

"Yeah?" She asked, right behind him, making him jump. Thus, causing me to laugh. He shook his head, most likely all too used to that.

"Is today Random's day off?" He asked her. She nodded, pulling out her cell phone.

"It is… but it won't be in a minute." She speed-texted Random and put her phone back in her pocket. She smiled and turned to me. "So you know what you want yet Rox?" She asked, pulling out a pad of paper and a pen. I shook my head and glanced down at the menu again while she jotted down Axel's order. I finally decided on two chocolate chip pancakes and hash browns. Once she took our order, she left. Only to be replaced by another squealing girl.

"Axel!" She hugged him and sat down in the seat next to him. "Who's your friend here?" She asked, pointing to me. Falling walked over to us with our drinks and sat them down on the table.

"This is Roxas!" She said, walking over to Random and whispering something in her ear that apparently made them both squeal and giggle before they walked away. "Your food will be out in a bit!" Falling said before returning to her job. Well, as much of her job that she can get done while she was talking to Random at the same time. I turned my attention back to Axel, who was staring at the table with a light blush on his cheeks.

"What did she say?" I asked curiously. He just shook his head.

"You don't need to know just yet." Whatever it was, I didn't feel the need to ask any further. Finally, our food came. My mouth started watering when I saw the giant chocolate chip waffles that were set down in front of me. I put butter on them and drowned them in maple syrup before scarfing down my food.

"You're gonna get a sugar coma ya know." Axel said, watching me stuff my face. I was too hungry to really care, but he just laughed and started eating his own waffles.

"At least I'll die happy." I said, after I downed half of a waffle. He laughed again and poured lots of maple syrup on his own waffles.

"Now I can die happy too." He smiled and started eating again. Really, you know how much sugar is in that stuff? A lot apparently, because after about ten minutes, we were more hyper than Falling and Random. And after we paid and left, we decided to go someplace to spend all our extra energy. We left the car where it was, and started walking around the old part of town.