"I should have switched partners when I had a chance! Jeez! Who thought this was a good idea? Not me! They could have picked anybody else- anyone else!"
"Hey, could you quit whining over there?" Xigbar called from the other couch. Demyx had spent a good part of the evening sprawled out in the lounge mumbling to himself. "Oh, here comes the kid. I'm out." Xigbar lifted himself from his seat just as Roxas stopped in front of Demyx.
"Whhhhhhhhyyyy meeeeeee?"
Roxas looked down at him, looking blank and slightly curious as usual.
"Hey, you're friends with Saix, right?"
"WRONG." Demyx flipped over dramatically so his face was facing the back of the couch. Roxas seemed unperturbed.
"But you're his partner, right? There's something I want to ask you about."
"Ugh. No. Talking to you is boring and hard. Go away."
Roxas didn't say anything, but he didn't go away either. Just stood there and stared. And probably wasn't going anywhere until Demyx said something.
"... Fine. No one listens to me anyway."
"Well, Axel said that Saix was upset that he wasn't partners with Axel, and I asked him why but he wouldn't tell me."
"Well, because those two were friends, duh!"
"Saix has friends?" A bit of muffled laughter could be heard somewhere in the room.
"Hey, I thought you said Saix was my friend!"
"Oh, right. Sorry." This kid had a way of never looking sorry.

"Okay so here's the story with those two. I don't actually know much about it because it was pretty much done by the time I showed up. So, like, you know how eight and seven come before nine?"
"I can do math."
"Just trying to make a point, jeez!" Demyx had rolled around again to face Roxas, and now he was lifting himself on an armrest to gain some height. "Okay... now how many members were there originally?"
"Six. I thought this was going to be a story, Demyx, not a math lesson."
"Geez! Here I am answering your question and you keep sassin' me!" Roxas looked like he wanted to retort, but realized how hard it was to get Demyx to do anything and held in his comment.
"Right, so Axel and Saix showed up together, and they were the first newbies to show, right? So all of the original six just kinda stayed in their group, and those two never left each other's side. There were supposed to be inseparable, always really anti-social and whispering to each other and stuff. Lucky for them they had somebody to talk to, when I first joined the didn't let me into their little group- oh no!" Demyx saw Roxas's face change to impatience, clearly saying 'less you and more axel'. Demyx sighed. "So yeah, when I showed up the originals were thinking they were up to something, and pretty soon after that Saix started rising through the ranks and those two stopped associating so much."
Roxas just nodded. Maybe he was planning on even adding a 'thank you', but he didn't get that far before someone entered the lobby.

"Funny, I thought I thought I heard my life story and here I find you two chatting.""Bye, Demyx." Roxas was on the retreat.
"Waaaaaaitt, Roxas, don't leave me alone with him, he'll eat me!" Roxas showed no concern for Demyx's plea, and continued to power-walk out of the lobby so it was just Demyx and Saix by the couch.
"So, are you going to offer any explanation? I'm pretty sure my personal matters don't concern you."
"Ask him, not me." Demyx scowled at the armrest on the other side of the couch. So this was it, they were back to square one. It was like all that work they did together didn't mean anything anymore.
That was it- work. It was work's fault.