[Roxas' POV]
The Thursday after being accepted into the Struggle team, I managed to convince Demyx and Axel to come to my house so that I could introduce them to Tidus. Demyx was happier than usual, which probably had something to do with his date with Zexion, and Axel seemed to be pretty keen about it.
I also told Sora what would be happening, but he was going to be at Riku's house once again. He was really making it hard for me to believe him when saying that there was nothing going on between the two – especially when he blushed slightly after saying it.
"Hey Rox," Cloud said as he opened the door, "Demyx, Axel. Tidus is already here. Where's Sora?"
"At Riku's." I answered as we walked in "So, you've met Tidus, then?"
"Yeah, he seems pretty cool. By the way, mum and dad have gone shopping. I'm gonna meet up with Leon now though, see you later."
"Bye." I had this weird mental image of Cid trying on dresses for a moment, but tried to wipe it from my memory completely. This didn't work, so I walked in to the living room, followed by Axel and Demyx, and said with a smile, "Hey, Tidus!"
"Hey, Rox! How's it going?"
"Pretty good, and yourself?"
"Same."
"That's good. And um, this is Axel and Demyx." I motioned to them both.
"It's nice to finally meet you both, I've heard a lot about you," Tidus stood up and gave them both a handshake
"You too." Axel smiled.
"Hey!" Demyx said in his usual happy manner, "I've seen you struggling with Rox, Hayner and Seifer a week or two ago. It's nice to meet you!"
"Oh, really?"
"Yep!"
The conversation consisted of just small talk at first, but then Demyx was asked about his date with Zexion, and he was all too happy to tell us all about it.
"It was so good! Except we got there really early and were the only ones in the movie theatre for like, ten minutes, I think, and I ended up spilling skittles on him! So I tried to pick them up and then realised it was on his crotch—"
"Smooth, Dem." Axel interrupted, and the rest of us chuckled.
"It was an accident! Anyway, I sort of panicked, and we were both blushing, but he said it's okay. And you know what he did? He leant on my shoulder! It was so cute. He just sort of nuzzled on it while the movie was going." Demyx was happily rambling, and we all smirked at him.
Conversation continued, and soon we were playing racing car games. While Axel and Demyx were playing against each other, I stood up and went to the kitchen to get a drink, followed by Tidus.
"So, Axel seems pretty nice." Tidus started with small talk.
"Yeah. He's pretty funny, you know." I could say more, but I giggled unexpectedly.
"Yeah," he laughed, "and Demyx is pretty crazy, too. But that Zexion dude seems pretty nice."
"He is pretty nice. I only met him the other day. How's school going for you and Yuna?"
"Pretty much the same. But there's this chick that keeps like... hitting on me? I don't know. Her name's Selphie. Yuna doesn't like her. She seems to get edgy around her or something." He sighed, "but she keeps like, hugging me and stuff. It's weird. I don't even know her."
"Aww, you have your own stalker!" I teased, and he lightly punched me on the arm. "Or maybe she's part of your fan club now that you're on the Struggle team?"
"Oh yeah, I've got all the ladies following me, you know," Tidus joked with raised eyebrows, "You can't blame them for obsessing over a body like this, though."
"You wish." We laughed.
"Oh, wait, I just need a..." He muttered to himself and before I realised, he reached over me to open a cupboard. We had been friends for a while, so the closeness didn't really matter to us.
[Axel's POV]
Roxas and Tidus left the room to get drinks, leaving Demyx and me to chat in living room.
"So, got any plans to ask Roxas out?" He said.
"Not yet, I don't know." I replied. "But I'm committing so well, and he doesn't even notice!"
"Well, duh, he's only been here for like, almost three weeks now." He laughed.
"I know, but still! I mean, what if he doesn't even like me?" I whined, now looking through the doorway into the kitchen the short blonde boy in question. Demyx followed my gaze as the other blonde came into view, and they talked for a while.
They looked like they were joking about something, but then Tidus leaned over the other, and, hey—
"Oh, mygod... Is that... No. It can't be." I heard Demyx mutter, and I couldn't believe it myself.
I could have sworn that Tidus was kissing him. At the time, I didn't consider any evidence showing that this wasn't the case, but all I took in was their closeness, and how I couldn't see Roxas's head while the other's was leaning downwards slightly.
"That little bitch just kissed Roxas..." I said in disbelief.
"I'm sure it wasn't like that, I mean, why would he?" He tried to reason.
"That whore."
"Axel, he has a girlfriend, I mean, you can't even see them all."
"Exactly! He's a two timing whore!" I was outraged.
"Axel. Calm down," He forced me to face him, and I couldn't remember a time when I had ever seen him this serious, "You really shouldn't come to conclusions so easily."
I stared at him for a moment before deciding, "I'm leaving. I'll see you tomorrow."
Ignoring his protests, I strode over to the door, gave him a nod while opening it and left, not really considering if there would be any consequences. I felt somewhat bad for leaving Demyx on his own like that, but was too annoyed to really do anything about it.
[Roxas' POV]
Before entering the main room again, Tidus checked the time and realised he had to be somewhere soon. I walked with him to the door and said bye, then went back to Demyx and Axel to find that something was wrong.
"Where's Axel?"
"He, uh, had to do something." Demyx replied nervously.
"Oh. I see. Well, then." I was pretty disappointed that he left without saying bye or anything, but I talked to Demyx for a while instead, until he got a call from his mum and had to leave.
The next day at school, I knew that something wasn't right.
When trying to walk to Axel to greet him, he sneered at me, turned and walked off, avoiding me for the rest of the day. It didn't help that the weekend was the next day, or that I was nervous about the Struggle tournament that would be on Wednesday.
Sora explained to me about how he had tried to ask Axel about what was wrong, before being ignored himself. Demyx also wouldn't tell me, saying that I should ask him myself.
On the Tuesday afternoon before the tournament, Hayner was still nervous about confessing, but figured that Olette wouldn't do anything too bad. I was pretty confident about it, until I arrived home, surprised to find an anonymous letter in the mail for me, which said:
"Don't think you can just steal my boyfriend and then get away with it. You've got something coming for you.
—Larxy."
Larxy? What sort of stupid nickname was Larxy? It made her sound like a sadistic type of butterfly or something. And if the bitch thought she was intimidating me or something like that, she was wrong. Reading the note made me feel pissed, and in an angry rage, I stormed through the house, found what I was looking for, and did something I told myself I wouldn't do ever again.
Dun dun dun~ ...I also got a mental image of Cid trying on dresses. They were blue with cherries on them. :3
I was hoping this would be a little longer, but nooo. Anyway, this is going to be the third last chapter, I'm pretty sure. I also didn't mean for there to be a cliffhanger, but it just... happened. Anyway, I'd love to know what you thought of it, thanks a lot for reading! :D