HEEEEYYY!! Okay a month wait for an update? That's just unacceptable in my books! So to make-up for my ridiculously long absence I give you Super Mega Chapter!! That's right focks this ones a biggy. So throw on your favorite tunes grab a snack and enjoy. Also thank you everyone for the great support. This story has gotten more love then I'd ever would have even dreamed about. So thank you all very much for that.
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Chapter 10
I don't own anything except some books and a lot of clothes.
There they stood. Neither willing to move or talk, both extremely uncomfortable with the current situation they were unfortunately in. Axel had turned his back to the other boy, pondering what to say next. Riku was starring at the back of the other teen's head, still a little nervous about the conversation that was sure to unfold. Axel looked up to moon, reaching his hand out toward it and made an action to grab the large white orb in the irregularly dark sky. He sighed before turning back to Riku.
They stared at each other for a moment and then Axel walked back across the dock, closing the space between them. He lightly touched Riku's cheek and then placed his hand on the shorter boys shoulder. He took another deep breath and then spoke.
"Riku, I still love you, I will always love you no matter where I am or who I'm with. You where the best thing to happen in my life so far. No one will ever take your place in my heart but there are some things…mostly things to do with myself that make it impossible to be together with you. And to be honest, you deserve way better. I don't want to think of you as something I've lost but something that I've gained and learned from and now…I'm ready to move on." Riku averted his gaze.
"He might not look it, but Roxas is a really great. I want to make him happy and even if he doesn't realize it yet, I'm pretty sure he wants to make me happy too." He looked at the sky grudgingly. "He's a little thick." Riku chuckled.
"I know what you mean. Don't worry I'm not mad with you, I'm glad you've found someone that's made you happy. I've been doing some investing of my own, just incase you were wondering." The silver haired teen smirked at him.
"Sora seems like a really good guy Riku." Axel said a little on the sarcastic side. He wasn't jealous or anything, it was just that he was Axel and Axel was always a little on the sarcastic side.
"You know it's really funny, after you left me I wanted to crawl into a whole and die. I didn't want to ever come here again because I didn't think I would be able to handle seeing you. But I came back and at first it was hard, then after a while I noticed you were having just hard of a time as me and I didn't feel as bad." Axel looked at him and snorted.
"Well jeeze thanks."
"Let me finish. You were having just as hard of a time as me. Then that year ended and Xemnas didn't even looked at me let alone touch me, I figured it was because he found something better, something new. My father was mad because I wasn't serving the purpose I was sent here for…entertaining Mr. Washington's son." He made a face. "And then I was forced to go back again but this time it was different, I wasn't dreading seeing you or him. And then I met Sora. He changed everything for me, I just knew that this year was going to be different…better, I just knew it. And sure enough here I am now, with him. And starting to become happy." He smiled lightly and Axel smiled back.
"Well I didn't pull you all the way out here to get mushy about Roxas. I actually had something good to say."
"For once." Riku joked.
"Better late then never." Axel said between his teeth and rising an eyebrow. "Riku if I could go back to that night, no way before that I would do it all differently. Hell I'd make sure that bastard died long before he even had a chance to think about doing what he did to you. It hurt me so much to know you were hurt and I couldn't help you. I know you probably think I just left you for no good reason but I swear it was the only way too make sure he didn't fuck with you anymore…literally and metaphorically." Riku rolled his eyes.
"Well no matter what the reason it doesn't matter-"
"That's just it, it does matter it. It matters so much. Riku, I would have done everything in my power to stop him if I'd known. Even after I was sick to my stomach because I couldn't do anything. He wouldn't let me see you anymore; he was going to destroy you Riku. Because not only was he completely jealous of you getting to be with me but also because of the reason you were here in the first place." Riku looked at him for a moment. Soaking in all he had said.
"But if that's true then why are you trying to get with Roxas? Won't the same thing happen to him? I know Xemnas is already targeting him so aren't you scared?" Axel held his breath and then closed his eyes and released.
"It's already done. Why do you think Xemnas has been gone? Why do you think I've get myself some shiners? I stood-up for him because I wouldn't-couldn't let it happen again. It just sucks it took me so long to get the courage. Maybe I could have saved you too." He looked at the ground and Riku touched his arm.
"Don't Axel, like I said I've gotten over it and I'm happy for you. But I just hope you know what you're getting yourself into." Axel smirked widely.
"Well no matter the outcome I'll find a way out. I always do."
"Yeah…you do."
They looked at each other again for a long time. Both radiating happiness for themselves and each other. Riku dropped his hand and turned to leave. Axel playfully stuck his foot out and tripped him. Riku flew about 4 feet and then managed to avoid crashing into the water by hooking himself around one of Axel legs causing the redhead to fall backwards. He got up slowly and rounded on him.
"Why the hell did you do that?!" Axel laughed loudly and then got to his feet as well.
"I don't know…this moment just seemed too happy go lucky for my liking." Riku should have known it would have been something like that. He rolled his eyes and then turned to leave again, this time watching his back like a hawk. "Riku wait." He stopped and turned to face him.
"What now?"
"Friends?"
"What?"
"Are we friends?" He wasn't sure why Axel would ask that but he nodded and smiled anyways.
"Yeah I think we are." The taller teens face lit up.
"Your damn right we are! Got it memorized?" Riku snorted and finally getting to take his leave, walked up the hill and toward his cabin. He was sure Sora would want to know everything…and lying to the sweet brunette would be hard.
Axel on the other hand walked back out to the end of the dock. He sat down on the edge and hung his feet over the side so they could dip into the cool water. He normally hated water, hell he even hated being in anything deeper then a bath tub full of it but the sensation of having it glide over his skin was wonderful. Not even he could deny that he enjoyed the way it felt. He laid down on his back and looked at the sky. It was dark, hardly any stars where out shining. He closed his eyes and sighed. Then he heard foot steps coming toward him, though he didn't make any effort to move from his current position.
The new comer took up a spot next to him and laid back as well. Axel still didn't open his eyes in hopes of the other mistaking him for asleep and possibly leaving him alone. To his dismay this person only laid beside him in silence. He cracked and eye open to see a set of deep blue pools starring back at him, if they hadn't been so familiar and excepted it would have freaked him out.
"Aren't you cold?" Roxas asked.
"Never." It was true, he was never ever cold. Someone could put him outside in a snow storm and he would fell like he was on a sunny tropical beach. Roxas turned and looked at the sky too. He frowned a little when he saw that there where hardly any stars, even if there were no clouds in the sky. "You know listening in on other peoples conversations is rude." Roxas stiffened.
"How did you know?" He asked nervously.
"I always know when you're around Shortie. You can't stay away from me can you?" Axel smirked and laughed slightly. Roxas stuck out his bottom lip and started to get up. Axel's hand shot out and grabbed his wrist pulling the smaller boy to his side. Roxas struggled to get away but Axel held him firmly to his body.
"Axel you're squishing me! I can't breath." He laughed playfully. The redhead eased up on his hold and Roxas rolled over to his side still facing him. He propped his head up on his hand and looked at Axel seriously. "What happened to Riku?" Axel eyed him and then shook his head.
"Of all things to ask me about after hearing that conversation, you ask me something about Riku?" He was amazed at Roxas's train of thought.
"Oh don't worry; I've got a lot more where that came from." Axel sighed and shook his head again.
"Roxas that's not my story to tell." The blonde made his "pouting gene" face. Axel snapped his eyes closed and started to laugh. "Enough! That's not going to work on me!"
"Then why won't you look at me! Come on tough guy, look at my face." Roxas said trying to pry the hands away Axel had used to cover his face. Their charades soon turned into a full blown wrestling match. They rolled around the dock, both fighting for dominance. Axel being very careful to not actually roll off into the water but just get close enough to the edge to make the blonde lose his cool. "Axel no, NO NOT IN THE WATER!" He screamed and tried to push the councilor away. Axel was nearly in stitches by this time. It was all he could do to keep the boy pinned under him.
"Promise you'll never use that face on me again." Roxas frowned and shook his head. "Promise or I'll make sure u have a nice time in lake." He moved the small teen closer to the edge earning a wimpy scream.
"Okay fine, I promise to never use that face on you again. Now can you get off me? My legs are falling asleep." Axel starred down at him, not moving and not blinking. "What? Don't look at me like that, it creeps me out- OW!" The redhead grabbed Roxas's nipple and began to twist it. "STOP-OW-OW-OOWW!!" He screamed trying not laugh but failing miserably.
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY? SOME PEOPLE ACTUCALLY LIKE TO SLEEP MORE THEN 20 MINUNTES IN ONE NIGHT!" Someone screamed from up the hill, they heard a cabin door slam and Roxas looked back at Axel wide eyed. They both fell into a fit of laughter before Axel stood-up and pulled the blonde to his feet.
"Guess that means our fun is over." Roxas said whispering now. Axel smirked.
"YEAH I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT. WE'LL JUST HAVE TO HAVE WILD CRAZY LOUD SEX SOMEWHERE-" He yelled at the top of his lungs in the general direction of whoever had yelled at them. Roxas slapped his hand against his mouth and blushed a thousand colors of red. Axel smiled innocently and when they heard a cabin door slam open in the distance Roxas took off running. Axel reluctantly ran after him, he kind of wanted to see the look on the kids face when they release they had screamed at a councilor.
Roxas awoke next to Axel; they were still sitting on the cabins blue and black couch. He had his head on Axel's lap, the boy he was using as a pillow was sleeping with his head hung back and his mouth slightly open. Loud snores were erupting right from his stomach and out his nose. Roxas grumbled and reached into Axel's pocket, pulling out his bright red phone. He flipped it up: 5:43am.
Shoving the phone back into Axel's pocket rather roughly, he got up and grabbed his shower bag. 'Mine as well get ready for practice.' He thought bitterly. Truth be told, this was only the third time he'd gone. Since Reno was Axel's brother, he didn't really care if they came. As long as they showed up for the games it didn't matter to him. He looked at himself in the mirror. He still had minor bruises, not as bad as Axel's but they were definitely still there. He wondered why Sora hadn't said anything to him about them. He probably was too scared to bring it up.
He pulled his favorite Forum hoodie on and slipped on his Converse high tops, it looked a little cold out. Slamming the door shut purposely, he started toward to boys shower lodge. The cold air was stinging his cheeks. This had to be one of the crappiest day's weather wise he'd seen at this camp. Even if there were no clouds in the sky it was still not every nice.
The shower lodge was completely empty when he walked in. His shoes made slapping sounds against the damp floor and there was the faintest smell of Mr. Clean: Citrus. He picked the last shower stall on the left, making sure it was indeed empty. He walked in and closed the door behind himself. After stripping to his birthday suit, he turned on the water and walked under the flow. The water felt good on his skin, it left a tingly clean feeling after rolling down his body and onto the floor.
The conversation Axel and Riku had came back into his head, plaguing him with images of the two together, touching, kissing, love making. He crumpled his nose in distaste, boys shouldn't hold each other so tenderly, and they shouldn't look at each other with such lust. It was wrong and unnatural. But even if his mind and morals told him that, he couldn't help but be jealous.
He knew that he shouldn't be feeling the way he was feeling right now. Especially since he was feeling it for Axel. Ever since he'd come to this place, it had been nothing but trouble and heart ace. Despite all that, Axel had managed to provide a some what save and trusting environment. Roxas knew why the red head was doing what he was doing. And he'd be lying if he said it wasn't at least some what flattering but it still confused the hell out of him. Axel was so straight forward about the way he felt.
What he did know was that he felt neglected when Axel wasn't at his side. He felt betrayed when the he was talking to someone else. When Axel touched him, even if it wasn't sexually suggestive in anyway, it made shivers go up and down his spine. And when he spoke his name in that sweet, deep, seductive voice it drove his nerves crazy. Roxas chuckled to himself.
"I sound like a love struck school girl." Maybe that's what he was. "No, love is not the right word." He thought dismissing the thought.
"The world your looking for is infatuation." Roxas jumped at the sound of someone's deep very dramatic sing song voice next to him. He was so caught-up in his thoughts he didn't even hear someone get into the stall next time him.
"Who the hell-" Before he could finish his rant about privacy and listening in on other peoples conversation, even if they were conversations with themselves, a pair of light green eyes and a mass of mullety hair peeked up at him from under his stall. "WHAT THE HELL- DEMYX?!" The accused sandy blonde eyes widened and Roxas covered himself and blushed.
"Wow Roxy, didn't know you were packing so much heat!" He laughed and slide all the way under the shower stall wall. Luckily for Roxas, Demyx was wearing boxers. "Does Axel know about?" He pointed to his lower half. This made Roxas blush even more.
"Better question: Why the fuck are you in my shower?!" He asked angrily. He reached over and turned off the tap, a cold draft soon swept across his body making him shiver and his teeth chatter.
"Weeeeellllll, you see, I actually hate showering by myself-" Roxas rolled his eyes and tuned the rest out. It had been becoming a daily occurrence to see Demyx. The sandy blonde was just always around now. Even if Roxas didn't agree with most of his mischievous adventures and all the promiscuous sex he seemed to be having with everyone and there grandmother, he had to admit the guy was pretty cool. "- so after that extremely traumatizing experience, I never had a shower alone again."
"Uh huh."
"Yup!"
"So….want to tell me the real reason your in my shower now?" Roxas raised an eyebrow. He was shivering like a cocaine addict going through withdrawal.
"Well you just sounded so lonely I thought I might come over and-"
"Demyx!"
"Alright! I came to remind you that today's theater class is mandatory. So if you and Axel don't show-up I'll have to tell Saix on you. And I really really don't want to do that. I love you guys too much" Roxas did not want that either. Since that blue haired maniac was supposed to be in charge of the discipline that went on in the camp, it was safe to say that everyone stayed out of trouble. Well mostly everyone, and since he had only seen Xemnas when it came to the subject of discipline, he could only imagine what Saix used as his methods of justice. "I mean everyone's been really good about you and Axel not ever showing up to things, so please just this once, come to the practice." Demyx made his eyes wide and stuck his bottom lip out. Roxas was sure he had some pouting gene in him too.
"Fine, I'll come but you're going to have ask Axel yourself." The mullety haired boy smiled brightly.
"All ready done!" Roxas looked at him confused. "What? Did you honestly think I'd come into your shower without his permission first? Do think I want to get killed?" He laughed loudly and started to slide back under the stall to the one he was in before. Leaving a very surprised, cold Roxas to think of ways in which he could hurt Axel very much.
"Okay people! Line up so I can put you guys into teams!" Reno yelled at the players in the field. Roxas had been passing the ball back and forth between himself and Xigbar. They gave each other a look and then rolled there eyes. Reno or "Captain R" as he liked to be called was trying very hard to fill the roll of soccer coach first class. So far it was looking like he was handling things quite well.
They ran over to the line that was now being formed. Roxas noticed that most of the good soccer players had lined up together so they could get put onto separate teams. Since he was pretty mediocre when it came to sports he stood beside a girl with long black hair, he couldn't remember her name, in the middle. Axel had gone down to stand by Riku and Sora, who happened to be the first two in line. Roxas knew Sora was wonderful at sports, everyone in there family had always commented on his more then capable abilities in the sport department.
When it came to him most of the time he was ignored or scolded. He could even remember their grandmother once saying that he should try and become more like Sora. Naturally he told her fuck right off. He laughed to himself, man had that been quite the Christmas dinner:
"So Sora dear, what have you been doing lately? Any more awards grandma should know about?" Theiru rather fat grandmother said as she grabbed another helping of mashed potatoes. The brunette looked up from his Christmas dinner and smiled brightly. She smiled back and waited for him to finish chewing his over cooked chicken (There other cousin was a poor cook).
"Well I started soccer again this semester, and I just won MVP for tennis. I passed all my exams too!" He said excitedly.
"Oh how wonderful Sora! Isn't that wonderful Tifa! Aerith your son is so talented." She turned her blue beady eyes on Roxas, who at this point was looking at the table bored out of his mind.
"What about you? Won anything yet?" She asked half heartedly, the annoyance was clear in her dry, old monotone voice.
"Nope." He said simply and shrugged without looking up from the table. She grunted.
"No surprise there, what about your schooling? How was your exams?" He shrugged again and his grandmother made a cocky laugh sound through out the dinning room. "Well they can't all be shinning stars can they? If only he was more like his cousin Sora." She half whispered to Aerith who looked completely humiliated by her mothers behavior. Tifa just rolled her eyes and shook her head. Sora had sunk so low in his seat they would have had to stand up just to see him over the table.
"You know I always wonder where you went wrong with him Tifa, when he was first born I would have pegged him for a great boy. Now I'm not so sure-" Roxas jumped up and slammed his fist into the table. He swatted a bowl of gravy into her lap and watched her jump up and give him an outraged look.
"You know what old bitch! I'm more then happy with my life and so is my mom. So if you don't mind I'm sure we'd all appreciate it very much if you'd just hurry up and dig your own god damn grave!" Everyone was silent and he took that as sign that now was a good time to leave. He could have sworn he heard Sora giggling under the hand that had been slapped over his mouth.
He was pulled back to reality when Reno yelled his name and pointed to a team that was wearing red mesh muscle shirts. Just his luck he was on the same team as Sora and his boy toy. His falling mood was lightened considerably when he saw Axel take off his shirt. There were a few cat calls and swoons from some of the other players but Reno silenced them with a quick glare.
Roxas looked over at the councilor that was going to be playing forward. The redhead smirked and winked at him making it hard not to blush. Great just what he needed, another thing to make it nearly impossible to play soccer right. Axel bent down to tie his cleats; he had such a beautifully built body Roxas couldn't look away. His long slender legs toned and acquiring a nice tan. His lanky but muscular arms, flexed slightly from his position, where enough to make Roxas faint. When the thin teen stood up, his abs rippled in all their glory. It was defiantly a wonderful sight for anyone looking.
After everyone was at their respectable position, Reno blew the whistle and the game began. As soon as the ball was dropped Axel had it and was half way to the other goal already. Of course this was cut short by the sudden slide tackle he received from a certain silver haired beauty, who just so happened to not be wearing a shirt either. Roxas looked over at Sora, who like many others, was starring at the scene before him. Actually the guy hadn't even moved from his starting spot yet.
For the first part of the game it seemed like Axel and Riku were the only ones playing. It wasn't until Reno started to yell at everyone that they attempted to join. Roxas was trying very hard to be invisible, and so far it had been going pretty well. That is until someone other then the two stars got a hold of the soccer ball. That someone was Kairi and she was hell bent on out shinning Sora. That wouldn't be too hard if Riku kept his shirt off.
She was running right toward him like a speeding train, at first he wasn't sure what he should do. And then came the screaming, not just from her but everyone on his team as well.
"Run to the goal Roxas! RUN SO I CAN PASS!!" She shrieked.
"HURRY ROXAS RUN!" Someone else yelled. So he took off, only looking back to see when Kairi would kick the white and black ball at him. They had people chasing after them now, one of which was Axel. Demyx was close behind him probably enjoying the view. Roxas stopped in front of the other team's defense line and turned just in time for the ball to fly at his leg. He didn't waist time with the defense players and past them like they weren't even there. Roxas was best at ball control.
He could hear someone closing in on him. One glance over his shoulder and a flash of red caught his eye. This only made him run faster. The goal was so close now all he had to do was aim and kick. Aim and kick. Aim and kick. Aim and….
"KICK IT ROXAS!!" Sora yelled from down the field. So he did. The ball lifted from the ground as Axel slid in for a tackle. Roxas was knocked sideways but it didn't matter. The ball flew into the net like a string was pulling it in. He hit the ground as loud; ear ringing cheers erupted from his team. Axel groaned from under him and rolled onto his back.
"Good shot Blondie." He sighed out. Roxas hoped Axel was in as much pain as him.
"I'd say thanks but there's dirt in my mouth." Axel chuckled and then held his side.
"Maybe that wasn't necessary."
"Maybe?! You nearly took my legs off." By this time his team had gathered around him in celebration. Sora hung back, still a little uneasy about where his and Roxas's relationship stood. Riku was the first to touch him. He grabbed the boys arm and pulled him form the ground, pushing Axel off of the blonde with his foot. Roxas scowled at him and pulled his arm away.
"That was really good. Sora told me you were bad at sports…I guess he was wrong." Riku pretended not to notice the daggers that were being glared at him from both Roxas and his cousin. Axel was on his feet now too, brushing himself off.
"Okay everyone back to your positions!" Reno yelled with his back to the field, he was busy chit chatting one of the cooks that had decided to drop by. He probably missed the whole thing.
The team continued playing like that for the rest of the time they had. It was a land slide of scoring, cheering and a rather distracting display of soft nudity….not that anyone was complaining about that. Roxas got 2 more goals but was blown away but Sora's amount, of course. Kairi even managed to get a few in. Axel and Riku were no doubt the day's biggest winners. Roxas was surprised no one stopped playing to start taking notes. After practice everyone shuffled their way toward the showers, except the girls, who went toward their own.
Roxas was trying very very hard to not stare at his cabin mate. Axel still felt the need for skin exposure and unlike before on the soccer pitch, thought that even less clothes was now necessary for the short walk to the showers. He had completely stripped to his boxers now and was purposely trying to get his little blonde friend's attention.
"You did really well today Rocks Ass. I was actually amazed." Roxas rolled his eyes.
"Jeeze Asshole, that means so much to me."
"Also I'd just like to say I'm very sorry for Demyx's behavior this morning…must have been traumatizing."
"The only thing that's traumatizing is you choice of clothing right now….or lack there of." Axel sighed in mock hurt.
"Awe come on Roxas, you can't be mad at me forever!" He wined and then stopped right in front of him. He put both hands on Roxas's hips to make sure he didn't run away.
Roxas closed his eyes; there was no way Axel was getting him to look at that god like body of his. "I can try." Axel shook him gently and then when he realized Roxas was actually going to try to ignore him, he pulled the smaller teen against his hard stomach. Roxas froze in his arms and then relaxed. "I hate you." He mumbled into his chest. Axel released him and began to walk toward there previous destination. A sly smirk arranged on his features.
"What a wonderful turn out today!" Demyx yelled from the stage so his audience could hear. The auditorium was so large and grand that Roxas felt very under dressed just being in it. Red velvet drapes hung from the ceiling and fell down along the walls, the stage was painted in a dark wood finish, the chairs they were sitting on where like regular theater chairs except the arm rests were stained the same color as the stage and were carved into a Victorian style.
"Oh this makes me even more excited then before! Okay everyone we have so much to do…auditions, stage preparations, costumes, oh this will be extremely satisfying!" It sounded like he was talking more to himself then anyone else now. "But I still have my doubts about some things. Of course last years production was beyond what anyone had expected but that means nothing. This year might be a bomb-" Someone in the audience of performers cleared their throat. "Anyways let's get started with a warm-up! Everyone to the stage please."
There were a few grumbles and groans but for the most part everyone was happy to participate. Roxas had been avoiding Axel like the plague since the soccer innocent. He was now on the complete opposite side of the stage as said red head and seated beside Namine. Axel kept glancing his way with a strange look on his face…one that only a tiger would give it's pray when it was about too rip it's head off. It was down right unnerving. It was all Roxas could do to not scream out something about stabbing his lovely green eyes out.
"Right! Now that you're all up here get yourselves into a circle." Everyone did as they were told. Roxas noticed Kairi was practically sitting on Riku…that girl just did not get what was going on. Whatever, her own embarrassment. "Good okay will start off with a little game I like to call Cat and Master." Roxas snorted and then fought off a loud laugh. He could only imagine what Demyx had been doing when he came up with that one. Demyx glanced at him with a smirk that confirmed his assumptions.
"In this game a person will be called upon and they will be the cat. Once they have played around with her feline character for a moment someone else will be chosen to be the master. This person will then try their hardest to get the cat to meow…." He paused for and out break of snickers. Mostly from Roxas. "And by meow I mine laugh."
He closed his eyes and then randomly pointed to a person in the circle. Kairi. She smiled devilishly and then walked to the center of the circle. Once she was on all fours, which looked strangely suitable for her, she began to crawl around like a handicapped cat women. Did she honestly think that looked good? Roxas was left fighting even more laughter.
Axel on the other hand had no problem showing his amusement. "Wow…I didn't hear Demyx say anything about the cat being run over." She only slightly acknowledged him and then continued her less then good acting.
"MeeeHOOW." She half crocked half purred. And that was it, Roxas was done. His laughter erupted and filled the whole building. Some others joined in on his hysterics and even Demyx had to smile. This was just so pathetic. Riku hadn't even looked in her direction since this whole thing had begun but now he was openly mocking her too.
"Okay…well thank you for that wonderful….Roxas if you'll please become the master now." Demyx said. Roxas stopped laughing and looked shocked. Him? With Kairi? He looked at Demyx to see of he had misunderstood. Axel smirked and then lend back on his elbows, anticipating the show to come.
"Me?" He asked nervously. Demyx nodded and motioned for him to go to the center of the circle. Roxas reluctantly got to his feet and slowly began to walk to Kairi, who was sitting and looking serious. He sighed and then just when he thought this couldn't get any worse, his feet caught a lose cord that was taped across that stage. He had no time to react, his face smashed into the ground. The building was once again filled with uncontrollable laughter, even Kairi had cracked up.
"Well done Roxas! I believe that's a new record!" Demyx clapped and then helped him up. A red mark was started to show on his nose and forehead. Axel smiled brightly at him. He only scowled in return and took his place back in the circle.
Everyone got a chance to participate in the game Demyx had made-up. Soon it was time for the next group activity. They were instructed to split-up into groups of 4. Naturally Roxas stayed with the group Namine had put together. He watched as poor Riku (heh) got pulled into Kairi's group. To his surprise and that evil bitch's dismay, Axel also joined. Roxas couldn't help but feel at little jealous. Axel would rather put up with Kairi then be in a group with him? Even after the near groping fest that had happened after soccer? Even if the blonde with ignoring him, that was a bit much.
Demyx passed out a very thick script to each group; it was a play Roxas had never heard of before.
"Royal Ace?" Namine said quietly beside him. "What is that? Last year we did Wicked. This seems very…indie." Roxas nodded. He had done a few plays before and this was defiantly not a mainstream production.
"Okay I want everyone to do a quick read through of the rest 5 pages. Choose your own roles, this is a practice run. Nothing special." Demyx called over his shoulder as he jumped off the stage and took a seat in the first row. Roxas proceeded in reading the summary page. A few paragraphs in he realized he really like this play.
He read farther:
Setting: 19th centenary London.
….Dominic, a small, sly, mischievous boy, whose life seems to consist of cheating, lying, backstabbing, and well thought out screw overs, has just met his match. A smart, nicely dressed, professional poker player who loves to read people and pick them apart…
That didn't sound so bad.
…This poker player, also known as Ian, has an eye for liars and when he gets tricked into buying Dominic supper he decides to get him back. He becomes Dominic's teacher, the lesson? Professional poker…
Also no that bad.
….A strange relationship of like and dislike, deception and trust, grows between them and soon Dominic finds himself playing the most complicated game of all. The game of love. Not even the greatest of tricks can get him out of this one….
Okay now that was just over the top ridiculous. This had to be a joke. Who ever wrote this must have known something about him because this was sounding a lot like his life right now. He leered over the top of the paper at Demyx. The sandy blonde looked back wide eyed and questioning. Roxas motioned for him to come back on stage with his index finger. Demyx complied and came and sat next to him. The rest of Roxas's group was too busy to listen to their conversation.
"Demyx…who wrote this?" He whispered quietly. Demyx covered his mouth and shook his head. Roxas glared, now he knew something was defiantly up. "Tell me." He growled.
"It's not important! Can't you leave a little mystery in your life?" he asked still covering his mouth. Roxas harshly pulled his hand away and threatened to smack him with the thick script he was holding in his other. Demyx raised an eyebrow challenging him…he knew Roxas wouldn't actually do it. Well at least not when he had his teacher mask on. He watched as Roxas look behind himself at Axel, then the spiky haired boy gave him a meaningful look.
"It was Axel wasn't it?" There was almost a tone of sorrow in his voice. "I never knew he was such a…"
"Creative writer?" Demyx tried. Roxas shrugged, he didn't know how he was going to finish that sentence. So many things could fit when it came to Axel. Such a flirt? Jerk? Pain in the butt? Smart-ass? Sexy Devil? Demyx could see the indecisiveness in the other boys' eyes. He knew how he felt. When it came to not making up your mind, Demyx was practically the poster child. "Why don't you just talk to him? It would make your life so much easier."
"There's too much to say though. I don't even know where I would start…so many things I want to talk to him about. You wouldn't understand Dem." Roxas looked down at the ground. Demyx couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Here was a boy in front of him, who up until this point figured he was straight. Then all the sudden he meets Sex Pot Axel and doesn't know left from right. Well then who better to help Roxas then himself!
"I have an idea!" He announced. The short blonde looked up at him nervously. "Tests." He said simply. "Come to my cabin after supper tonight, don't tell Axel."
"Demyx that's really not necessary…really." He replied, clearly very put off about this idea of his.
"You're coming." Demyx said and before Roxas could argue, the councilor had walked off to go help someone. Roxas scowled and then turned his attention back to his group; Namine was looking up at him curiously. He smiled weakly at her and then went back to reading the script, this time with a bit more criticism. This was turning out to be a very very long day.
Roxas' art class went smoothly; Namine was also in that one. He was grateful only one of the sisters enjoyed art as much as him. Having Kairi in that class would have put a damper on his already stressful day. He still had a half an hour until supper was going to be served. He had been itching to go read the rest of the script since he first had it in his hands. Of course he'd have to find a place to do it alone, the last thing he wanted was Axel knowing how much he had like the piece he wrote. Like he needed anymore reasons to be smug and big headed.
Roxas tried to think of a place that would be secluded but wouldn't make him go missing for 2 days. He was a professional at getting lost and this camp just screamed labyrinth to him. He thought of the kitchen, that place seemed to be were people were doing their dirty work…well Demyx was anyway. But it would be full of cooks and god knows who else. There was the beach but that was a prime spot it seemed. The cabin was off; Axel could walk into it at any given time. There was the now locked art building….now that he thought about it, the window had looked a little flimsy.
But the teacher, Larxene, would probably rip his balls off and feed them to him for dinner if she caught him in there. She just seemed psychotic like that. As he was walking and thinking it hit him, literally. He tripped over a tree root that was out of the ground and hit his head against a large sign. It read: Volleyball Club Activity Planning Room. He frowned; why in the hell would they give them something like that. Ridiculous. Never the less, he wouldn't kick the messenger horse in the mouth. Volleyball didn't have meetings everyday like the soccer team. And if he remembered right they only got together on Tuesdays…today was Friday. He started down the path toward the unnecessarily large building.
Like he had expected it was empty and unlocked. Against his better judgment he yelled out once he got in. "Hello?! Anyone else using this place for anything they don't want someone to find out about?!" There was no answer. He just didn't want walk into another Demyx, Zexion moment. He closed the door behind him and switched on the lights. He laughed in amazement. It looked exactly like a meeting room in a office building. Rolling his eyes, he took a chair and slapped the large manuscript on the table.
'Now Axel…just how good of a writer are you?' He thought opening the script to where he had stopped reading it last time.
Axel slumped down into his seat at the councilor table. There were still only 9 members present, but even that fact could not ease his mind. Three things were wrong right now. One: Demyx was gone. Two: Roxas was gone. Three: He had caught their little conversation during theater. Even if he couldn't hear what they were saying, he had seen Demyx's face. Axel knew Demyx only made that face when he was scheming. That worried him… a lot.
He looked down the table; among the missing members was Zexion. The only reason he ever missed anything was because of Demyx. His foot started to bounce up and down from the anxiety that was building in his stomach. What was that little mullet man up too? He knew he should have never let that perv see Roxas in the shower.
"AXEL WOULD YOU STOP! YOU'RE SHAKING THE WHOLE DAMN TABLE!" Yelled Xaldin from the far end of there long medieval style table. Axel shot him a look that said "shut your mouth or I'll shove that stake down your throat and make you choke to death". He couldn't stand it anymore, he had to go and find them. It was bad enough Roxas was ignoring him…that big brat, he couldn't handle if anything else bad was to happen to him. He shot up from his seat and speed walked out of the dinning lodge.
Across the camp, in a dark, hot cabin sat Roxas. While actually he was laying down at the moment. Demyx and Zexion…mostly Demyx had him strapped to the bed. Three large pillows propped him up so he could see straight. A look of complete disbelieve mixed with rising anger was arranged on his face.
"How is this going to help me again?" He said pulling on his roped legs. Demyx had tired him up so there was no hope in getting free. Zexion looked at him apologetically…well as apologetically as he limited emoish facial expressions would let him.
"Yes, this is just the thing you need to help you sort out the things you got going on in your cute spiky head." Roxas raised an eyebrow.
"I'm sorry but I don't remember saying-" Demyx cut him off with a mother hen look.
"I can tell, now be quite for a second." He turned to his dresser and started to dig through it. "Ah! Here it is." He pulled out a DVD case and Zexion looked at it and then at him with wide eyes. A light blush was forming on his cheeks. "It's called "Plumber Boys" and it's the first part of the test." Roxas was shocked.
"You know what Dem; I think your test has really helped out a lot! I've got everything sorted out so if you will please untie me now-"
"Stop being a baby. Just trust me; this is going to make things waaay better for you in the long run." He took the DVD out of its case and popped it into the DVD player. Two men appeared on the large TV screen. One dressed as a business man the other a slutty looking plumber. They were talking about a leak in the business man's bathroom.
"Demyx please!" Roxas wined. "I really don't want to watch this." He shut his eyes. It didn't matter he could still hear it, Demyx made sure it was on nice and loud. Even if he couldn't see it directly the sound was enough to make pictures flow through his mind. He mine as well have been watching it. The sound of the two actors lips crashing against each others made him wish someone was kissing him. Not just someone, a certain someone.
'No! No! No!' He thought desperately. 'This is so wrong!' But even internally yelling at himself wasn't making it any better. He eyes opened and he looked at Demyx. Pleading to make him turn it off.
"Awww Roxie you look so cute like that." He laughed. The DVD continued. Roxas tried not to look but he ended up anyways. They were now slowly undressing each other, only parting from lip too lip contact to take their shirts off. The plumber got on his knees and started to take the other mans pants off revealing a large hump in his boxers.
"Oh how nice. I can't wait." He purred up to him.
Roxas snapped his eyes closed again, still the sounds of oral sex betrayed his senses leaving him wishing he could have to same experience.
"I think it's working…." He heard Demyx whisper to Zexion. The TV was suddenly silent; Roxas opened his eyes very slowly. Demyx had paused it and was now looking at him curiously.
"So….?" Roxas looked back at him and then looked at the floor embarrassed and blushing. The sandy haired blonde clapped his hands together. "Prefect, now for test number two!" Roxas groaned the first one was enough. He knew exactly what he wanted now, anything more to further that point and push him over the edge. "I call this one scenery overload." He grabbed Zexion by the hand and started to whisper into his ear. Making the smaller boy blush even more. The TV was un paused and the two councilors began to push their bodies together. Or rather Demyx was pushing his body against Zexion's against the wall behind him. Not that Zexion seemed to mind in the least.
The blonde strapped to the bed was trying his hardest to not watch any of it. It was just so hard to ignore, and his body had long since been reacting to everything. His breathing was becoming shallower, more needful. His heart was racing and the more he tried to push the sounds Zexion was now making courtesy of Demyx's hand down his pants, the more they became louder. He thought of the time Axel had tried to seduce him in the kitchen. They way his hot breath made chills go down his spine. Or how it felt when his legs gave out from the sensation of having his ear bit.
He bit his lip to keep the sounds in that threatened to erupt from his lips. He watched as Demyx slowly licked down Zexions collarbone and saw Axel doing the same to him. When Zexion greedily rolled his hips against the others hand and moaned into his kiss it was him doing to same too Axel. All the emotions that had been building up until this point were starting to spill out. Like a volcano, Roxas was going to explode.
Demyx gave the boy a cross glance and smirked against his lover's neck; He knew his idea was great. Axel would surely thank him after this was all said and done. That thought was thrown aside when Zexion started to rub his inner thigh.
Axel hurried down toward Demyx's cabin. The thought of Roxas bound and gagged again was more then he could take. He was so close now he could almost hear the moans of pleasure being cried out from behind the cabin door. He picked up his pace, fuming now. No one was aloud to make Roxas moan like that, especially since he himself hadn't yet. No one touched his Roxas. He was on a full out sprint. The sounds he once thought were just his imagination before, were clearly being heard now.
He didn't bother knocking (well duh); instead he kicked the door open almost ripping it from the hinges. The site that met his eyes made him see pure red. Roxas tired to a bed, very very loud porn, and Demyx and Zexion dry humping on the floor. If that wasn't enough to send him on a killing spree the little blonde's face was. He looked in pain, almost like his head was going to blow-up. After all the time he'd known Dem, he'd never thought the sex addict would sink so low.
Roxas cracked an eye open. The sound of the door being blown apart must have been his imagination again. It wasn't. His gaze met with Axel's. The redheads face surprised him. It was like Satan himself had possessed the tall teen's body and had come to kill him for thinking such sinful things. Maybe if he bagged he'd be spared. Demyx and Zexion on the other hand would probably be lit on fire and kabobed right then and there.
Demyx looked up at Axel and several things flashed across his face. First was surprise, then excitement and when he realized how this situation must have looked to an outside party plus taking in Axel's own expression, fear. "Uh Axel…hey." He said, standing up and smiling timidly.
'This is it...' Roxas thought. '….Demyx's life is over.' Even after that, he still couldn't bring himself to say anything on behave of the others. To be honest he kind of hoped they'd got murdered. This had been the most embarrassing, eye opening, night of his life.
"I know this must look bad…but it was for Roxas's own good." Axel didn't say anything so Demyx continued. "You see he was a little confused about…things and now he's all better. Right Roxas? You're all better, Right." It was a plead for help. Not a question. Roxas opened his other eye and took Axel in again. Then suddenly a tight pit formed in the bottom of his stomach. He was boom barded by the pictures from before. Axel noticed the change in his face and walked over to him.
"Are you okay?" His voice was shaking, he was still furious. Roxas nodded. His body was slightly trembling
"Yeah I'm fine." It came out in one long seductive groan. Everyone in the room started at him surprised. He was even surprised he could a sound like that. "Please can you untie me?" He said again in the same tone. Axel blinded and then shook his head.
"What did you do to him Demyx?" He demanded. The mullety haired boy smiled smugly. All fear had washed from his expression.
"You'll see." He said simply.
"I swear to god Dem, if you touched him-"
"He didn't Axel; he didn't touch me at all. Well he did when he tied me up but that's it. Please just get me off this bed. Please" Roxas breathed and looked up at him with big pleading eyes. The look was so meaningful, so longing. Something in Axel clicked then and he didn't need to be asked twice. The rope was undone in record time and Roxas was in his arms and out the door even faster. Axel had no idea what Demyx had done but it didn't matter anymore. Roxas was fine, he was safe with him now.
When they got back to cabin Roxas wiggled out of Axel's bridal style carry and flipped the light switch on. Axel watched as he began to clean. Roxas made the bed, picked-up all their clothes, cleaned the mirror and swept the floor. Axel would have stopped the little cleaning spree but it just meant he didn't have to do it. Something was defiantly off though, Roxas never cleaned anything. Not even seeing Demyx making out with someone or watching porn could do this to a person. No, this had to be running deeper then that.
"Roxas are you sure you're okay?" The blonde stopped what he was doing but didn't turn around. "You can tell me if Dem did something to you. I won't be mad…at least not at you" There was no movement from him. "Please Shortie; just tell me what you thinking." Before Axel could say anything else, Roxas had closed the distance between them. The short teen grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him down so they were looking straight into each others eyes.
"You tease me, you abuse me, you play with my emotions and I can't take it anymore Axel. I don't know what to do with myself when you're around me. I see you with someone else; anyone else but me and I get jealous. I think about you all the time. I imagine you touching me like how Demyx touched Zexion and it drives me even crazier. I want you so bad but…it's like my mind wont except it. Then tonight, with that psycho Demyx's plan, I figured out it didn't matter. No matter what my mind says, I'm just gonna follow my heart." And with that he swiftly pulled Axel down, smashing their lips together.
Muahhahahahaahha! Yes yes I'm evil for ending it there. All I'm gonna say is this scene is far from being over! Demyx successfully made Roxas Super Hyper Horny, which translates into "Holy shi- Axel better be prepared." Anyways. Please let me know what you thought about this chapter. It might be the last chapter to be this carefree and light. Thanks again. Peace.
