Thank you all so much for the reviews. I was actually thinking of stopping my story for a while, mostly because I was lazy, but I continued. Anyway, sorry for spelling mistakes, and uh... lol 411 street. I update so often, mostly because I don't have anything better to do... even though I should be studying, oh well... I hate math...
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Chapter 9

We took our time, slowly walking side by side, stopping to look at the scenery. Axel had the address in his hand.

"Where the hell are we?" I asked.

"Um..." Axel started. "That's a good question."

"411 street." Sora said.

"How do you know that?" I aksed.

"'Cuz there's a sign that says 411 street. Right here." He replied. I sighed.

"Where are we going?" I asked Axel.

"House 11, on this street. Oh, there it is." Axel said pointing to a house. It. Was. Huge. Well, for Twilight Town it was. Three story building, with a beautiful front portch and a bunch of other stuff. I don't know a lot about houses, but it looked like a mansion. Axel rang the doorbell. No answer. He pressed the button again. The door flew open.

"Dammit, you don't have to ring the bell so many times!" Standing at the door was Marluxia, the guy who was at the movie that Friday. And thank God Vexen wasn't with him.

"Wow!." Axel exclaimed. "You live here now?"

"Yep." Marluxia replied.

"It's way better than that dump you used to live in." Axel shuddered, obviously a bad memory came to his mind.

Marluxia continued. "It wasn't a dump, now do you want to come in or not?" Axel sighed, and motioned for us to come in. The inside of the house was even better. The dance floor was right in the middle of what was probably the living room. We were surrounded by flashing colored lights and blaring music. It was a bit overwhelming. Marluxia waved at someone to come towards him. It was Vexen. Dammit. "Our friends are here Vexen." Marluxia said.

'Friends?' I thought. 'I am not his friend, and never will be.' I just smiled and nodded.

*~**~~**~*

It had only been an hour, but it felt like eternity. I danced for a bit, then sat down on the couch for the other 50 minutes. At least it wasn't a really crazy party or anything. No alcohol, and they had a mix of slow songs and faster ones. I saw Marluxia and Vexen run up the stairs together a while ago, *cough* and hadn't seen them since. Demyx was still up on the dance floor with Zexion, who looked bored. Sora and Riku? I dunno. And Axel was walking toward me with two glasses of...punch? Seriously, God knows what's in that stuff. They call it 'punch' so you don't know what's really in it. And it's just lying there in a big bowl on a table, so you don't know how many people could have spit in it.

"Here, Roxas. Punch?" He held out a glass.

"Um, I'm not gonna take a chance on that stuff." I said.

"Ok." He smiled at me. I didn't really think about it until then, but he was really good at hiding his feelings. If he didn't tell me he loved me, I wouldn't have guessed. And it's not my fault, i'm not oblivious. He just does a really good job of hiding those emotions. He probably does it so there's no awkward moments between us. At that moment a familiar song started playing.

Broken this fragile thing now
And I can't, I can't pick up the pieces

That couldn't be just a coincidence. Playing that song. After I... But it had to be a coincidence.

And I've thrown my words all around
But I can't, I can't give you a reason

"Excuse me, young lady, may I have this dance." Axel stood in front of me.

"What, is this our song now?" I joked.

"Only if you want it to be." He said seriously. I laughed lightly and took his hand.

I feel so broken up (so broken up)
And I give up (I give up)
I just want to tell you so you know

I didn't care that people were staring at us. I was enjoying myself, and it seemed to make Axel happy. "You know, I'm amazed that you agreed to dance." He said.

"Well." I started. "Maybe it's because I-"

"Axel!" Sora shouted from across the room. "Axel, how do I get this off?" We both turned to look at Sora. His hands here bound together in front of him, with a peice of strong chain, and a cheap diary lock. Riku, who stood beside Sora, smirked.

"Just a second." Axel said to me. I followed him, wanting to know how that happened to my brother.

"Axel, I can't get this off." Sora whined. "How do you get this off?"

"Like this." Axel grabbed onto the chain, and pulled on it, hard. The chain snapped and fell to the ground.

"I didn't want you to break it."
'Will he ever stop complaining?' I thought.

Sora continued. "I meant to ask, how do you get it off without breaking it?"

Axel replied. "Well, Sora, you would use a key." Sora looked annoyed, while Riku looked amused. Axel turned back to me. "Where were we?"

"You were being a moron."

"Right, I remember now." Axel replied, with a serious look on his face. That made me laugh. I hated how he could always make me laugh, but I loved it too. We sat back down on the couch.
"Do you think this has alcohol in it?" Axel asked, pointing to the punch. "You know, it probably does. That would explain Sora.

"No, he's always like that. But I think it does."

"Should I try some?" Asked Axel.

"Go for it." I replied. "It's gonna be a long night, we still have five hours at this party, and it might help things go by faster. Plus, you alreay act like a drunk, so no one would notice."

"That deeply hurts me." Axel said sarcastically.

*~**~~**~*

A couple glasses of punch later, me and Axel knew there was definitely alcohol in there. I don't know what I was thinking, but I thought I would regret it in the morning. (The only reason I did regret it, is because it encouraged me to drink after the fireworks too.)
"Roxas, you're too young to drink." Axel reminded me.

"Shut up, so are you." I said.

"You think Leon will be dissapointed in you?" Axel asked.

"Nah." I said. "I remember he told me that if I ever drank at a party not to drive home that night, and if I was too young to drive, don't drive home with anyone that night. I think he was serious." There was a moment of silence.

"Hey Roxas?" Axel finally said.

"Yeah?"

"Will you marry me?" I looked over at him, and I could tell he was joking.

"Sure." I said sarcastically.

"You don't sound convinced."

"Oh, sorry." I said. "Yes, Axel I will! I will marry you! I'm the happiest girl in the world!"
"Is that any better?" I asked. I turned to see Axel smirking at me. Of course. Demyx and Sora were sitting beside me, laughing. They obviously heard that.

"Oh wow Roxas!" Sora said. Demyx was laughing so hard he couldn't say anything. Zexion was standing next to Demyx. He just smiled and shook his head. I hid my face in my hands. Axel kept going, to see how I would react. He held out a small back box.

"Open it." He said. I sighed an opened it. Inside was a small gold ring with an emerald green stone in the center. Very girly. Axel took the ring out of the box and slipped it on my finger. My face turned red as I looked at Sora. He knew how I felt about Axel, which probably made funnier for him. Still, the whole marriage thing was just a joke. Duh.

The rest of the party went by quickly, and soon we were leaving, to go to the resturaunt. "Nice ring." Riku said to me. I blushed again.

"Hey, don't blame me." I siad. "I was drunk."

Riku laughed. "There was no alcohol, Roxas. It was all in you head." I turned to glare at Axel.

"You tricked me! I swear, there was something in that crap! Something!"

"Sure there was." Sora replied sarcastically.

"So much sarcasm tonight." I said. I'd better not see any more!"

~*~~**~~*~

It was about 7:30 when we finished eating, and we decided to just kill some time. "Seriously, what are we gonna do until midnight?" I asked.

"We could camp out on the clock tower! Like camping!" Exclaimed Sora

"That's a good idea!" Said Demyx.

"What are we gonna do?" I asked. "Tell ghost stories around a camp fire?" Axel face lit up when I said 'Fire'.

"Yeah!" Replied Sora.

"I was being sarcastic, Sora. I thought you'd know my by now."

"Well you said you didn't want to hear any more sarcasm remember? And the ghost stories thing is a good idea."

So that's how I found myself sitting in the twilight with Sea-salt Ice Cream, four idiots and Axel. (Yeah, my friends are awesome.) "Hey. Roxas?" I heard Axel ask. "Bet you don't know why the sun sets red. You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest."

"Like I asked. Know-It-All." We both laughed. Axel already finished his ice cream, so when I wasn't looking, he took a bite of mine. "Hey!"
The sun went down and it was dark out. The only source of light, was from a flashlight Sora brought.

"Ok, lets tell ghost stories!" Sora declared. "Roxas, you go first."

"Me? Ok then, uh... It was a beautiful evening. The sun had just gone down and there were millions of stars twinkling in the sky. It was just then, that-"

"Get on with it already!" Sora yelled.

"Some guy got stabbed to death, The end. And his name was Sora." Demyx was clinging to Zexion and shivering.

"That was the scariest story I ever heard!" He said quietly. A bird chirped from somehwere and Demyx screamed. The rest of the night was like that too. Some one would tell a story, and Demyx would get even more freaked out. Axel's story was the best though. It was a scary story, he told it perfectly, and the timing of the birds and other natural sounds were at perfect timings, startling us from time to time.

"It's 11:59!" Shouted Sora. We were quiet for a moment. "I said, It's 11:59!"

"We know." I said. Riku put his arm around Sora's waist and Zexion moved closer to Demyx, which was a bit out of character for him, but it made Demyx happy. I half expected Axel to do something, but he didn't.

'If you feel uncomfortable around me now, because of what I said, I'll try to hide those feelings, 'kay?'

I remembered what Axel said to me. 'I really do love him.' I thought. I smiled and leaned my head against his shoulder. It felt so natural.

"10, 9, 8, 7." I could hear Sora counting down the seconds. "6, 5, 4, 3-." Ding. Ding. Ding. I could hear the clock as the fireworks started. "Dammit." Sora said. He continued counting anyway. "2, 1, happy summer!" He shouted. More fireworks exploded in the sky.

"Happy summer." I heard Axel whisper in my ear. I looked up at him, and his lips pressed against mine. I blushed again, but I didn't care about that.

"I love you." I said. And I knew I meant it.

"I love you too." Axel replied.


Yay. That was supposed to happen sooner in the story, but oh well, it works... please review...or not!