10 : Aimee+
"Today's the fourth of July. Another June has gone by, and when they light up our town I just think, 'what a waste of gunpowder and sky.'"
There aren't many advantages, Roxas thinks, to being Number XIII, but one is certainly that he isn't next to Demyx's room. The man is constantly playing that noise he calls "music".
"I'm certain I am alone in harboring thoughts of our home. It's one of my faults that I can't quell my past."
Actually, it probably isn't on constantly. It's probably only to drown out the noise he and Axel make when they're in the redhead's room. They go there almost solely to fuck, and a few minutes after they start, without fail, music starts drifting through the wall.
"I ought to have gotten it gone."
Roxas thrusts into Axel harder, hoping the thumping of the headboard against the wall will mask the words, until it's just muffled bass.
"Oh, baby, I wonder if when you are older, some day, you'll wake up, and say 'my God, I should have told her; what would it take? But now here I am and the world's gotten colder, and she's got the river down which I sold her.'"
Because he can't stand it. Because sometimes it gets to him.
"So that's today's memory lane."
Because the songs are always about love.
"With all of the pathos and pain."
And more often than not, they're also about loss.
"Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless, and they're always the same."
Maybe Demyx is trying to muffle the noise, or maybe, he thinks, Demyx is trying to stop him.
"A verse, and a verse, and refrain."
But that's silly. No one knows that he's leaving.
"Oh, baby, I wonder if when you are older…."
I had to do something with this song or it would never leave me alone. It's "Fourth of July," by Aimee Mann. It's not really very Axel/Roxas at all, but it's still about loss.