Roxas is living the life of finally owning an apartment all to himself. But what he doesn't count on, is the unexpected roommate living with him. Axel x Roxas.
And here we go with chapter ten, the big ONE-OH, brought to you by me and Jessie!
Jessie: Joanne made me write Zexion's hair colour as Silver. WTF?! Am I the only one who thinks that's just wrong? And on another note, I love Weeds! Does anyone else watch it here? Yeah, if you do you'll notice the theme song gave me some inspiration.
Joanne: What's wrong with silver?! You want me to write something gay like…err…periwinkle?!
Jessie: It's more of either a blue or purple but not silver! Wait, are Zexion and Riku brothers? I think I remember why we originally made his hair silver...
By the by people I often refer to myself as Demyx and 'Vittorio' is the name of my old laptop, well sorta I had to have a new ghost put in it so I feel it is now Odette.
JOANNE, JOANNE!! I got zapped!! XD you actually put it in there! (just so you guys know, that happened to me.)
Joanne: Yes, and I laughed my ass off.
Living in an apartment building with Demyx is hard. No wait, scratch that, living in an apartment building with my boyfriend is sheer hell. Hygiene is a nightmare and the laundry never gets done, I cannot begin to think about how many times I've had to wear clean yet non-matching clothes to work because he is too busy 'connecting' with his sitar and writing music to make his way down to the Laundromat. My best friend used to live across the hall and by default for some reason, even when he tried helping me with anything; I'd end up with a 'kick me' sign on my back. Not to mention how Demyx can't even cook one meal without the stove setting on fire and I always pay for the repairs. I seem to do everything in this place with not so much as a simple 'thank you'.
God, help me…
As a ray of daylight dared to shine through the midnight blue curtains and grace its presence on a light haired figure that was clearly not a morning person, a feeble groan of frustration was heard.
But when you had to get up, you had to get up. Life was routine like that.
After properly grooming himself for work Zexion made his way into the main room and settled down in his chair at the small round table for two. Sitting around the table for breakfast was morning ritual for himself and Demyx. This time of the day was probably the favourite time for the pair to be alone to talk about unimportant details of the dealings of each other's lives.
Unfortunately, not today.
Zexion scanned the paper for any interesting piece of news about the world outside their ticky-tacky little box they called home when the creaking of a certain chair someone was rocking on struck a nerve.
"Demyx!" Zexion frustratingly snapped then realised how close Demyx's face was to his own before adding, "May I help you?"
"Well it's just I was wondering if maybe... I could read the paper today?" he asked with an air of uncertainty.
He quirked an eyebrow "You can read?" The older man questioned but only to receive a small slap behind the head from his lover.
Once Demyx was handed the paper, the usual silence, all except for the munching of toast, resumed. After a few minutes Demyx burst out in excitement, making Zexion's eyes widen in shock.
"OH MY GOD, ZEXY! I just read my horoscope and get this: Soon you will find love because Venus is in your presence due to your birthday that is quickly approaching!" As the dirty-blonde haired boy took a breath, all Zexion could do was stare, "Its like, how did they know my birthday's soon?! That's freaky man."
The silver haired man just shook his head and didn't even bother to tell Demyx what star signs actually were.
Eventually, after breakfast was over and done with, Zexion was diligently washing the dirty dishes that had piled up in the sink over the course of a couple of hours due to the laziness of his room-mate slash boyfriend.
Said boyfriend and room-mate was in their shared bedroom playing on his guitar and recording it on his beloved laptop named 'Vittorio' right now.
Demyx has a quirky habit of naming his belongings. Like how his guitar was called 'Melody' and how his sitar was dubbed 'Nocturne'. He liked to call himself the Melodious Nocturne…Although there was absolutely no way for the dirty haired blond to be able to play both instruments at the same time.
Zexion listened to the soft rhythm and the soft voice that accompanied it flowed through the air as he proceeded to wash the soap bubbles off the plates and bowls they had used and stacked them on the wire rack to drip dry for later storing.
He had just turned the taps off and was drying his hands off on a towel hanging off to the side and was about to sit down to read a good book of poems when halfway out of the kitchen, a shrill cry filtered through the air and alerted Zexion of trouble.
He immediately abandoned his thoughts of poems and books as he ran across the living room and into the bedroom which he and Demyx shared.
He stared in horror and worry at his boyfriend, who was sitting on the floor, his laptop in front of him and with the cord pulled out of the socket of where it had been charging itself before.
Zexion walked over and crouched down until he was eye level with the other and continued to furrow his eyebrows in worry at Demyx who had his hands covering his mouth, a pained expression on his face, and a small amount of tears leaking from his blue eyes.
"What's the matter?" he asked as he tried to figure out what was wrong with the dirty haired blond.
The only answer that the silver haired boy got was a muffled reply. Muffled due to the hands that covered the mouth of the speaker.
Slowly, and gently, Zexion raised his hands and pulled away at the arms. He asked again softly, "What's wrong?" his eyebrows continued to furrow in ever-increasing worry.
It took a moment for the dirty haired blond to calm down, and with a deep breath, he spoke, "I got zapped."
Zexion blinked. And if he wasn't so good with words or was lazy with them, he would've said something unintelligent like, "Say what?" but the silver haired boy settled for a simple, "I'm sorry?"
Demyx started again, "I got zapped. I wasn't thinking."
The silver haired boy nodded his head very slowly and waited for the dirty haired blond to continue.
"I was charging the laptop. And then I pulled the cord out because I wanted to sit on the bed instead. So while I was moving, I stuck the cord in my mouth and I got zapped." he sniffed once he finished retelling what happened to him and then he stuck his tongue out, "Ih hurs sho bad rai noa…"
Zexion lowered his head and fought back the urge to laugh right there and then at his beloved boyfriend and room-mate, but once he calmed down; he looked into Demyx's blue eyes and smiled, "You're stupid. Only you can do that." and he caught the look of hurt being reflected through those blue orbs and he continued, "But I love you anyway." he spoke with a smile as he leaned forward to capture the blonds' lips with his own, and ran his tongue lovingly over his lover's before he retreated and rested his forehead on the other's own, "Do you want some ice cream?"
The silver haired boy caught the smile through Demyx's blue eyes and he knew the answer.
"Yes please." he grinned as Zexion stood up and he got up to follow the other into the kitchen towards the fridge where the icy, cool treat was stored.
Demyx's laptop was left forgotten back on the floor in the bedroom, and was slowly wasting its power source away.
Zexion called in sick for work. Faking a cough and a cold while Demyx tried to hold back his laughter in the background.
"Pass me that bowl please." a blonde girl asked as she gestured in the general direction of said bowl without looking up from whatever she was doing.
"Which one?" the blond stared in confusion at the assorted bowls in the direction that she was pointing at.
"The blue one."
"Naminé…" he started in a deadpanned voice, "They're all blue."
"Never mind." she rolled her eyes as she looked up from the bowl where she had been mixing eggs into the ingredients for whatever they were baking and reached for the blue bowl with the chopped peach pieces.
Roxas rolled his eyes, "You could've just said you wanted the peaches you know?" he couldn't help but shake his head a little while Axel laughed at the TV in the background.
She merely stuck her tongue out in retaliation.
The blond shook his head again as he continued to fill the muffin trays with individual white paper muffin cups. There should be enough batter for 12 good sized muffins.
"And now we scoop!" she grinned once she finished mixing in the peach pieces and then tapped the plastic spatula on the rim of the bowl, threw it into the sink before she walked over to the drawers to pull out two spoons.
It was a fairly messy job, and the batter sometimes flew off to the side like it always would when they spent time together to bake. But once it was all over and done with, Roxas pulled the oven door open and slipped the muffin tray in to be baked.
"And now we clean up." the blond spoke as he moved over to do the dishes in the sink while Naminé started to clean up the counter top for the next item on their agenda.
Axel stopped watching TV, it was on commercials now, and walked over to the kitchen to lean on the messy counter top, "Have you guys ever considered owning a bakery?"
"A bakery?" Roxas turned his head around to the red head and raised an eyebrow in question.
Naminé continued to go about her business. She was used to being left out of their conversations, but sometimes, she could still eavesdrop a bit.
"Yeah." he shrugged, "You and Naminé would make good partners." he grinned, "I mean, with her looks and your skills-"
Roxas cut in with a soapy hand, "Hold up, are you saying I don't look nice?" he stared at the red head in disbelief.
The blonde failed to suppress her laughter.
"Well, no, not that, but, she's a girl!" he cried out, as though with that it would explain everything.
The blond merely scoffed and continued doing the dishes with renewed vigor.
Axel chuckled, "Come on Rox, I didn't mean that."
Roxas continued to wash the dishes in silence, ignoring the noises that came from the TV, the slight giggle from his cousin as she began measuring ingredients for the next item, and the occasional chuckles from the red head. He stacked the soapy dishes to the side until the whole sink was done before he proceeded to start washing the soap off and then he stacked them on the wire rack to drip dry.
"Aww come on, don't give me the silent treatment." he rolled his eyes as he pushed away from the counter top and walked through to stand by the blond, "That is so third grade." he scoffed in disbelief, "Come on Rox, talk to me." he offered a half smile as he leaned down until he was eye level.
Roxas pretended not to see Axel as he cleaned up the last of the dishes.
"Fine, if that's how you wanna play it." he spoke with a smirk as he brought a hand up to the blonds' face.
Roxas watched and blinked in confusion at the hand as the cold tap water continued to run and drizzle over the already cleaned bowl as Axel's hand started its slow descent down. And the blond didn't get it until it was three-quarters of the way there. He dropped the bowl into the sink and jumped away with a shout.
"Dude! You did not just try to-" he flicked his eyes over to his cousin who was staring at him in shock. He didn't finish whatever he wanted to say as the red head laughed at him.
He valiantly tried, but failed, to push Axel to the side as he went back over to the sink to finish up the rest of the dishes and start helping Naminé with the cheese cake.
"You guys are so amusing to watch." she giggled behind a floury wooden spoon.
Roxas refused to dignify that with an answer as he picked up a bowl with a couple blocks of cream cheese in it before he started mashing it up to a smooth texture.
Axel smiled, and with a shake of his head, he went back to the couch and continued on watching a program on silly home videos.
Almost fifteen minutes later, after they filled a spring pan with a cookie and butter base then tamped it down to a nice thick crust; they filled it up with the cream cheese batter, gave it a tap on the side to get rid of air bubbles and then gently slid it into the oven to bake off and check the muffins while the door was open.
The peach muffins weren't done yet.
"Ok, so that's four out of the five ingredients gone that you told me to buy." Roxas sighed as he settled down on the same couch that Axel was on once he was done with the dishes.
Naminé eventually joined them but sat on the opposite couch, "What's the last one?" she asked curiously.
"Beef gravy sauce. Instant, just add water."
"Oh Roxas." she scrunched up her nose in disgust.
"Hey, don't look at me. He's the one that asked me to buy it." he spoke as he nudged his head towards the red head.
"But it's nice!!" the red head protested to the blond with both hands in front of him.
"You should've said no." she spoke with a half smile.
And then the red head turned to the blonde, "He couldn't resist my kicked puppy look." he smirked as he turned his head to regard Roxas.
"Shut up Axel."
The conversation eventually stopped when Naminé started laughing at some guy who had been trying to ski off his snow-covered roof onto the ground below. The whole thing collapsed and caused a small avalanche.
They watched the last of the home videos before the program ended and another one, something about funniest pets, begun.
They laughed to their hearts' content.
Half an hour later, the muffins were done and were tipped out of the tray onto a cooling rack. And half an hour after that, the cheesecake was ready and good to come out of the oven to cool down in the spring pan.
They went down to visit Demyx and Zexion after the cheese cake cooled down a significant amount and was given a good sprinkle of icing sugar.
"Man…" Axel started as he stared at the plate of peach muffins and the cheesecake, "You guys just love to torture me don't you?" he whined a little and resisted in trying to grab himself a muffin.
"Whatever do you mean Axel?" the blonde laughed as she took out the whipped cream from the fridge. The ones you have to shake and squeeze out.
The said person pouted while Roxas picked up the plate of muffins and started out of the apartment, "Come on, let's go see Zexion and Demyx."
"What if they're not in?" Naminé started as she picked up the cheesecake in one hand while the other held onto the whipped cream.
"If they're not in, then they're not in." the blond shrugged as he walked out and waited for his cousin to come out before he closed the door and locked it, "More for us."
They took the elevators down, not because they were lazy, but well, it was probably safer for the muffins.
And as soon as they got up to the front door, Axel went in uninvited and not five seconds later, he came back out again with a slightly haggard look.
Roxas furrowed his eyebrows in disappointment, "They're not in?"
"Oh, they're in alright…" he laughed a little nervously, "They're busy, so why don't we just head on-"
The red head was cut off by a guttural moan that sounded through the air and the cousins stared in shock at the door that belonged to a certain dirty haired blond and a silver haired boy.
"Err…" Roxas started very slowly, his cheeks turning into a very pink color, "Why don't we go see Hayner, Pence and Olette huh??" he suggested as he made his way back towards the elevator.
"What a lovely idea!" she nodded enthusiastically and followed her cousin out of the apartment complex that continued to moan to the white car that he owned.
Axel almost laughed at their expense. Poor kids were probably scarred for life.
"How about you guys go visit them and I meet you back at the apartment?" Axel trailed off with a dazed look at Demyx and Zexion's apartment wall.
"Axel, you wouldn't. Axel, don't you dare! Axel, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THAT WALL!!"
By Roxas' third attempt, Axel followed the two in tow but Naminé and Roxas swore they could still hear it even though they were a fair distance away from the apartment block, although they didn't say anything to each other.
"Why don't we all go out to dinner tonight?" he suggested as Roxas turned the steering wheel around the corner and stopped his car in front of the double garage that belonged to his best friend. "You know? A reunion thing."
"That sounds great!" she nodded her head enthusiastically, her cheeks still stained pink.
I guess you could consider this just a filler chapter eh? What do you reckon Jess?
Jessie: Yes, yes I do. But I wrote quite a bit in there! You know how much I like Zemyx.
Joanne: Indeed you do. Almost as much as AkuRoku. Lawls. (Psst…I has a new poll; vote please?)