I am soooo sorry! I'm back after God knows how long... I hope those of you added this to your watch thingy ma jigger haven't given up on me yet! I had a list of you guys to thank but I losted it... _ _||| So I present you with a cookie and the next three chapters of Rain!
Zexion walked out towards the school parking lot in a daze. After having spent the last hour talking with Demyx, the mulleted musician gave him his number and left saying he had to meet someone.
The teenager pulled out his phone and flipped it open, just to make sure what had happened was in fact real. He clicked through his contact list and sure enough, these was Demyx's name with a little smiley face next to it.
"It's okay Zexion. You're not gay and you have no attraction to Demyx what so ever." Zexion told himself, taking a couple of calming breaths and putting his phone back in his pocket.
"Where the hell have you been?" Roxas appeared in front of his path. His winter sky blue eyes were bright with fury. The blonde's hands were on his hips, a stance he often took when he was a bout to yell at Zexion.
"In the music room, talking to the new student teacher." Zexion said calmly, unlocking his car.
"Do you have any idea how- wait, you talked to someone?" Roxas's jaw fell open.
"Yes, I did. Are you getting in or what?" Zexion asked as he slid into the driver's seat.
The spiky-haired blonde stood there a moment or two more, gaping at Zexion. Then he hurried to the other side and got into the passenger seat. "You're telling me," he began, "that you had a conversation with a human being, and you didn't get bored?"
"Yep." Zexion said, popping the 'p' as he pulled out of the parking lot. He kepy a nervous eye on the sky, which was becoming darker and darker. "I have his number too."
Roxas stared at him for a moment more. "His… Number..?" he repeated. Then he pointed a finger at Zexion. "Ho, shit! When did you come out of the closet and why wasn't I informed?"
"I'm not gay! He's just… Interesting." Zexion defended himself.
"You are too! At least for whoever this new student teacher is. You never call anyone interesting!" Roxas, said bouncing up and down in his seat. "Zexion is gay, Zexion is gay!" He added in a sing song voice just to irritate the slate-haired teen.
"If I buy you ice-cream, will you shut up?" Zexion growled, gritting his teeth.
Roxas though a moment, tapping his chin as he did so. "Hmm… Make it a double scoop of sea salt ice-cream and you've got a deal!"
"Done. Now can we please talk about something else?" The seventeen year old pleaded.
"Sure… I, uh, almost talked to Axel after school…" Roxas said, squirming in his seat a little.
"Almost?"
"Well, I was sitting next to the car when he spotted me… He started walking towards me when I made a run for it…" Roxas stared down at his hands.
"Why'd you run?" Zexion asked.
"Well, I guess I got…" The blonde trailed off.
Zexion nodded in silent understanding. Hayner had hurt Roxas pretty bad, emotionally. Zexion would have been shocked if Roxas wasn't afraid of getting into another relationship.
"Wait for me ice-cream, I'm coming!" Roxas said as he jumped out of the car.
As Roxas ran into the ice-cream shop, Zexion allowed a small smile to make itself known. After talking about Axel, the two friends had not spoken for the rest of the car ride. It was always during those silences that he wished he had the ability to read Roxas's mind. It pained him to see the normally happy blonde distraught.
It was only his quick reflexes that made the smile disappear as Roxas poked his head out the front doors. "Hurry up Zexion!" He called out to him.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Zexion replied in mock annoyance. He walked up to the doors, then turned to look up at the sky. Clouds were gathering and darkening the sky. A shiver rolled its way down Zexion's spine as he stepped into the little shop.
It wasn't terribly crowded, thank god, when he and Roxas went up to order their ice-cream. Roxas got his promised double scoop sea salt ice-cream and Zexion ordered a single scoop of vanilla in a cup. They sat down in their usual booth, the one closest to the old-timey juke box.
"Why did you let me get this?" Roxas demanded as he tried to lick the ice-cream off his fingers. "It's melting faster then I can eat it!"
Zexion merely chuckled and said nothing.
"Looks like you've got quite an issue there." A rather familiar red head came over to their table. "Need some help?" Axel Redd grinned flirtatiously at Roxas.
Roxas turned nearly as red as Axel's fire truck red hair.
"Axel, don't tease the poor child." A pink haired man with a strangely feminine voice stood behind him, texting on his iPhone.
"Who said I'm teasing?" Axel retorted. "Scootch over." He told Roxas, who was to embarrassed to resist, as he sat down. "I'm Axel. Axel Redd."
Yes, I know who you are… Zexion thought as he said aloud, "Zexion. Zexion Munni. And this is Roxas Hikari."
"I'm Marluxia Green." The pink haired man looked up from his phone to give Zexion a blindingly white smile. He pulled up a chair and sat.
Axel proceeded to help Roxas with his melting ice-cream. The blonde sent Zexion a look that said Help me! and Oh god, there's a red-haired sex god sitting next to me and eating my ice-cream!
"So this must be the person you ran off to go look for." Axel said, pausing to look at Roxas.
If it was possible, the blonde blushed even redder. "Y-Yeah…"
Demyx bounded up to their table, planted his feet on the ground and placed his fists on his hips. Looking off in the distance he cried "Have no fear! Mullet Man is oh there are other people here…" He trailed off, looking at Roxas and Zexion, the latter nearly choking on his ice-cream.