Artificial Blood Flavoring

Ch 8

Axel POV

After the bell rang, Vexen gave the class some "easy" homework, or so he says. I highly doubt it. I glanced at Roxas when we, meaning Demyx, Roxas, and I, got the 'easy' homework.

He quickly glanced over and smirked at it like he understood it, when he just got here! I looked at the homework and the questions were like superbly duper hard! We haven't even got to the section! The stupid lunatic probably wants us to look it up in the 40 pound book we have.

I grumbled under my breath as I picked up my awesome book bag. It had flames on the fabric while there were loads of pins on the strap and front pocket. My favorite pin was 'I need adult supervision.' I always smiled when I thought of that pin.

"Hey, Axie, why are you so happy? You're smiling." Demyx practically chirped into my ear. I swear one of these days he will make someone deaf.

"It's nothing Dem. Hey, you have P.E. next right?" I asked Dem while looking at him through the corner of eye.

"Yuppers," Demyx said, "Zexy in the class too!" God Dem could practically give another country some of his happiness and still have enough to be the way he is.

As Dem and I walked down the hall, taking a right, heading towards the gym, we mindlessly chatted about what happened during the weekend when Dem wasn't at my house. Dem spends about most of his day during the weekends at my house and sometimes Zexion's. Last week, we went to go see Iron Man, which I enjoyed very much. Zexion, however, didn't like it very much, he said that he would much rather enjoy watching the Dark Knight, which we were going to see next week probably.

"…So then I said, why not use a potato masher on the sucker!" Demyx said, cracking up. I chuckled as we walked into the locker room. The locker room was overly hot, kinda like a sauna caused by all the steam from the hot showers.

I believe, no know, that Dem say Zexion before me because he was running towards him, and basically jumped him. Poor Zexy didn't know what hit him; well he did but wasn't expecting it. I chuckled as they both tumbled onto the floor with Dem on top of Zexy. Dem had a big smile on this kid like face while Zexion was shouting at Demyx to get off of him and stop making a scene.

However a scene was already being made. I saw blond out of the corner of my eye and saw Roxy. I think that suits him well. After all he does look like a girl. I saw that Roxas was turning his head and I quickly turned my head the other way, almost giving me whiplash.

I heard the rustle of clothing and I pulled my shirt over my head while standing next to my locker. As expected I had my locker next to Zexion and Dem. I then pulled off my pants, leaving me in my boxers that said 'hot stuff' and my plain black wife beater.

As I dug through my locker looking for my silver and black uniform, I could feel eyes staring at me. I looked up and saw that no one was looking. I shrugged before I dug through dirty socks and towels again. I found the uniform at the bottom of the locker.

I pulled the silver t-shirt over my head and pulled the plain black shorts up. The shirt went down to the back pockets of my pants if I was wearing them and the shorts went past my knees a bit. I looked at my left and saw the Zexion was already dressed out and the he was waiting for me and Dem, I think.

As soon as I was done I stood next to him and saw the Dem was still pulling up his shorts. He smiled as he was done. He turned his head and looked around and smiled as he spotted it, or should I say them.

"Roxy!" he cried before placing his arm around Roxy's shoulders. I saw Roxy look at Dem in surprise as the arm was placed casually over his shoulder. Probably thinking that no one would be his friend till at least the second day.

"So are you ready to head to class?" Demyx said with a smile plastered on his face.

"Um…I guess" Roxy muttered quietly, slowly trudging toward the door as the annoying, high pitch bell rang, making the whole room seem like we were inside that bell.

"We should go," Zexion said, also walking to the door. I figured that would be a pretty wise idea and headed out with him.

"So what day next week do you want to see Dark Knight?" I asked as we took a sharp turn the left and opened the doors to the gym.

"How does Saturday sound? Because that will give Dem time to try and understand the homework." Zexion said, his voice like a whisper.

"Sure," I replied, smiling slightly.

When I looked up, everyone, including Dem, was sitting on the floor, in a half a circle around a very tall blond with spiky hair. Zexion and I walked near the end of the circle next to Roxas, who was nodding his head to whatever Dem was saying. I heard a deep voice clear his voice before talking.

"Hello class, I am Mr. Cloud Strife. Nice to meet all of you students. Once I call out your name, please raise your hand or say 'here'." Mr. Strife said with a think notebook in his left hand and a nice pen in his other hand.

"David Brockmier?"

"Here!" A young male teenager said, with thick black rimmed glasses. Cloud went down the list, calling people I don't know and/or care about.

"Axel Takeshi?" Huh? He called me? I think I should answer right about…now!

"Here." I said looking up to see Cloud's blue eyes looking at me, or it's more like through me.

He said a couple more names before saying, "Roxas?"

"Yeah, I'm here." Roxas said beside Dem. I could have sworn I heard Cloud chuckle say something about crankiness for lack of…chocolate? What?

Roxas was the last one to be called so Cloud tucked the book under his arm and say, "Ok! To start out for a warm up, you all will run five laps. And you start," he said, pulling his watch out so he could see," now!" Cloud finished, yelling.

Almost everyone groan and complained in some way shape or form except for Zexion and Roxas. I jogged the first lap, getting warmed up and yelled to Roxy who was slightly behind me," Hey Roxy, you wanna race?" I smirked when his face got heated up, or at least looked like it got heated up, and his expression turned from indifference to pissed.

"Whatever," he said to me. I took that as a yes, and quickly went all out. My second lap turned to my third, forth, and finally to my fifth. As I stopped I looked behind me and saw that Roxy wasn't running on the track. He wasn't right behind me, and he wasn't even near me. I quickly looked around and saw that he was on the benches, talking to Cloud.

I jogged over there and said, smirking smugly," You give up?"

Roxas looked up from whatever he was talking to with Cloud and said," I finished when you were on your third lap. You run kinda slow." Then went back to talking with Cloud, like he had never said anything to begin with. I stopped walking towards him and I think my jaw dropped. While I was on my third lap, he had already finished four more laps?!

"Might want to close your mouth before you get bugs in there." Cloud said, with no expression on his face, but clearly laughter in his eyes. I closed my mouth and walked towards Roxas and plopped down next to Roxas, looking out for Zexion and Dem.


A/N: 'ello! Finally the 8th chapter of ABF is up! Yay! Ok, well I went to my thingy for the High School and I have my scheduale! I can't wait to learn French! And I got my like fifty pound books. So High School might be Hell. -insert laugh here-

Anywho, I will update soon.

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