Xiana: Well, I'm back with more of the story! Today, everyone starts talking to themselves. Or rather, all of the non-entities start talking to their… non-selves. Hm. Also, have all of you guys read my other one-shot, "Your New Nickname?" Cuz I think it's pretty funny. Anyway…

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Schizophrenia Takes Root

Roxas showed up early to 'school' the next day, carrying the lemon meringue pie to give to Axel. He knocked on the door cheerfully, wearing the uniform from yesterday.

When Axel opened the door, Roxas smiled, holding out the pie. "Good morning, sensei!"

"Awwwww, you baked me a pie. Extra credit. But, did you do your homework?" Axel questioned Roxas.

"Oh, of course!" Roxas pulled out the yellow sheet with his own signature and one that might have been Xemnas', except that Roxas had forged it.

"10 points! Anyway, come in, the others should be here soon." Axel waved Roxas in and he took a seat on Axel's bed, waiting for Demyx and Zexion to come in.

As he waited, he eventually shifted his position so that he was lying on the bed. Axel had a solid aqua quilty-thing on his bed, with layers of pastel blue sheets, getting lighter in color the farther they went. It all seemed very warm to Roxas, and he had a fleeting thought about snuggling with Axel in the warm sheets, but he quickly hit himself on the head to dislodge the thought from his brain before subjecting himself to some internal dialogue.

'Stupid brain,' Roxas thought angrily. 'Why did you make me think that?'

His brain responded, 'Because you wanted to think it, idiot!'

'But, but, I don't like Axel that way…'

'Right… then why did you snuggle with him at the movie, and let him sleep in your bed, and bake him cookies, cuppycakes, and a lemon meringue pie, and you daydream about sleeping with him in his bed…'

'No, that's…'

'See, I'm right!'

'Well, even if I did like Axel like that, which I don't, he doesn't like me like that… We're just good friends! And I should really stop talking to myself!' He came back to reality to find Axel, Demyx, and Zexion staring at him.

Axel finally broke the awkward silence by asking, "Uh, are you okay, Roxy?"

"Huh? Yeah, I was just… just thinking about something."

There was a moment of silence as everyone wondered what Roxas had been thinking about.

Zexion thought that Roxas, like himself, was pondering how he had allowed himself to be dragged here in a waste of his life.

Demyx thought Roxas was daydreaming about his Zexion. 'My pretty emo cross-dresser boy! Mine!' he thought competitively. Axel was not going to have any problems teaching this kid the meaning of jealousy.

As for Axel himself, he wondered if Roxas was considering all possible implications involved in the giving of a lemon meringue pie. A thought involving himself, Roxas, and some sort of lemon came into his mind, and he quickly shoved it out, thinking to himself, 'No! Roxas doesn't like me like that! He as much as said yesterday that he doesn't have any feelings for me at all!'

A sly voice in his head whispered, 'But what if he's afraid of rejection? What if he wants you to make the first move…'

'But what if he doesn't? What if I did and I just push him farther away? I'd rather just stay friends than try to force him into a relationship he doesn't want to be part of…'

'If you never take risks, you'll never know. Besides, what's the worst that can happen?'

'I won't do that unless you can give me proof that Roxas has feelings for me as well! And that's that!' Axel thought angrily. He returned to reality to find everyone staring at him.

Before anyone could say anything (or think anything bad, or start talking to themselves again), Axel quickly commented, "Well, anyway, that's enough standing around and thinking, time for class. Roxas sits in the first chair, then Demyx, then Zexion." He started writing on the blackboard. "Our first emotion, envy, is when someone has something that you want. This usually refers to a material possession, but there can also be envy for a feeling or ability that another has." He paused, looking to see if anyone had any questions, which they didn't.

"Anyway, the opposite of envy is jealousy, in some ways. It can be used to describe how you feel about something, and that you don't want others to want or obtain it. It can also be used as a synonym for envy." Axel looked up from his notes to see Roxas looking semi-confused, Demyx nodding his head understandingly, and Zexion with his head down on the desk, sleeping.

"Zexion! Wake up!" Axel yelled. No response. "Come on Zexion, please!" In a last-ditch effort to wake him up, he yelled, "Zexion! Marly made waffles! And I'm going to eat them all!"

In a flash, Zexion was awake. Marluxia's waffles were worlds-famous and he had won two prestigious awards for them recently, the Traverse Town Best Breakfast Award and the Best Waffles in the Known Universe Award/Commemorative Plaque. Waffles were almost the only things that motivated Zexion, and Marluxia's were the best ever, so naturally Zexion would do almost anything for them.

"Waffles? Where, where?" Zexion asked eagerly.

"I'm just joking, there's no waffles. I just had to WAKE YOU UP! Because you were ASLEEP! in my CLASS! Now, pay attention. Demyx, you understand this, right?"

"I sure do!" Demyx responded, glaring at Roxas, who looked back at him with a puzzled expression. 'How dare he think about my Zexy like that? Grrrrr…'

A calm, reasonable voice that was usually on vacation on the deserted tropical beaches of Demyx's mind came out to question him. 'You know, he probably wasn't thinking about Zexion. He was probably just daydreaming about cuppycakes or something. Maybe he was thinking about Axel.'

'Well, maybe… I have always thought that those two would make a cute couple… but still! Only I can daydream about Zexion! My Sexy Zexy! Hey, that rhymes! I should write a song, and call it, "Ode to Zexion!"'

'Demyx, I'm getting the feeling that Zexion doesn't like you at all. He doesn't exactly enjoy spending time around you at all…'

'Awww, he's just shy. Give him some time.'

'Demyx, get it through your head! He only thinks of you as an annoying idiot put on this world to torment him!'

'Does not!'

'Does too!'

'Does not!'

'Does too!'

As they argued back and forth, Zexion was about to fall asleep again. 'Dammit,' he thought, 'why don't I have voices in my head like all these other people? Why do I get the Weather Channel?' He listened as the voice of a boring weatherman droned on about the cold front that was hitting the U.S. 'What is the U.S. anyway?'

'As a cold front sweeps in, you can expect showers in Spokane. Temperatures are up there, and it's hot in Topeka.' The voice lectured on about Kansas, whatever that was. It sounded boring. This, of course, was the real reason Zexion fell asleep in class and was so emo. He couldn't take it anymore. He snapped.

"WHY THE HELL DO I CARE IF IT'S GOING TO BE HOT IN TOPEKA?" he screamed, making Axel and Roxas flinch. Demyx was still arguing with himself, and didn't notice.

'Does not!'

'Does too!'

'Does not, and I'll prove it!' He turned to Zexion, who had wide, blood-shot eyes and was rocking back and forth in his seat, muttering something about "Topeka" and "Make it stop."

Demyx smiled sweetly. "Oh, Zexion! Do you mind if I ask you something?"

"YES!" Zexion practically screamed into Demyx's face.

"OK, then, I just wanted to ask you how you feel about me!"

"…You really want me to answer that question?"

"Yeah, of course!" Demyx said, confident in his ability to be right.

"I HATE EVERYTHING IN THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD, AND YOU MOST OF ALL!"

"Yeah, that's what I thought… you'd… say…" Demyx's lower lip quivered as he took in what Zexion had said. "D-do you… really… mean it, Zexion?"

Too late, Zexion realized that he had gone too far and had really hurt Demyx. "No, wait, I didn't…" he called out, but Demyx had already thrown himself out of the room in despair, trailed by his sobs. "I'm sorry…" Zexion quickly followed him out of the room, trying to catch up and apologize.

Roxas and Axel looked at each other.

"So… what now?"

"Why don't I help teach you about envy and jealousy in greater detail?"

"Sounds good to me!" They set to work, but they could still hear Demyx's sobs and the futile pounding of Zexion's footsteps as he ran to catch up.

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Xiana: Oooh! Cliffy again! Will Demyx get back together with Zexion? Will everyone confess their secret love for one another? Will there be pizza? Of course! Review to motivate my super duper typing fingers!