Sorry this took SO long D: btween the holidays, sitting around doing nothing, hanging out with friends and sewing my Marluxia cosplay I had no real time and motavation to write. This story has gotten over 2,000 views I was so happy when I saw that. Thank you guys for all the lovely reviews 3 !! So anyways here is the long awaited chapter 10 ENJOY!
Disclaimer- I'm still working on taking over Square, but so far I have yet to succeed *shakes fist* therefore I own nothing but the writitng.
Chapter 10- Toilet Brushes and Hair Nets
"Scrub, scrub, scrub, scrubbing the toilet~ it's so fun. Scrubbing along with Roxy and Zexy~."
"For the love of God! Will you shut up Axel!? Singing doesn't help AT ALL!"
I gripped the toilet scrubber in my hand tightly, trying not to beat Axel over the head. Axel, Zexion and I had been put on bathroom cleaning duty, random tasks duty, and whatever the hell Marluxia wanted us to do duty. We were in the counselor's bathroom, cleaning the stalls while our cabins were out with Kairi and Namine's cabin on a field trip to the zoo. They have everything on this island, don't they? Zexion poked his head over my stall with a displeased expression.
"Hey Roxas, I know you and Axel are getting along again, but you could maybe make him be not as annoying." Zexion said.
"Zexion, can I ask you a question?" I glared up at him, scrubber still in hand.
"Yes…" Zexion replied with a raised eyebrow.
"What makes you think that I forgive you for what happened last night?"
"It was for your own good, I hold no guilt." He said simply, disappearing back to his stall.
"Whatever." I scoffed, returning to the task at hand. No matter how disgusting it was to be on my hands and knees in an almost public bathroom, it did help me forget the terror of last night. It also helped me forget, for at least a second that I had pretty much told Axel that I liked him. My cheeks burned up at the memory. Ah! How could I be so stupid!? He hasn't been acting any different to me, but that's not the point! It could have been a pleasant situation where I shyly reveal my feelings, but no, it had to be in a dark, creepy old house, didn't it!? My teeth were grinding and I busied myself with stabbing the closest tile with the back of the scrubber.
"I don't think that's how it works." I gave a scowl and looked up slowly. My eyes rested on the smirking red head peeking over the stall opposite from where Zexion had appeared.
"Really Axel, I wasn't too sure. Thanks for telling me." Axel's smirk only widened at my snide remark.
"Have I ever told you that you look extremely adorable when you try to act angry?" He said silkily. My pissed off façade crumbled and was replaced by a wide-eyed embarrassed look. At this point I could have reacted in two different ways 1) make some flirty comment and have Zexion appear again and tell us to get a room, or 2) throw a damp sponge at Axel's face. Considering my mood, I chose the latter. The sponge made a squishing sound as it nailed Axel between the eyes.
"S-shut up!" I retorted, my face a bright red. The sponge slid down Axel's face and landed on the floor with a small damp thud. Axel sputtered, getting the dirty water away from his mouth and used his hands to wipe off his acid colored eyes.
"Why'd ya do that, Roxy?! I was just giving you a compliment!" He whined, grasping on to the wall of the stall to keep his balance.
"Well, sorry if being called 'adorable' doesn't seem like a compliment to me." I turned my face away from Axel hoping, he wouldn't notice my blushing. Too late.
"Then why are you blushing like a little school girl?" I assumed that his Cheshire cat grin had come back because his voice returned to its silky teasing tone. Shit he saw. Aw well, lets try option one this time and see what happens. I tilted my head to face him. I was right he is smirking. I put on what I thought was a slightly hurt extra cute pouty look.
"Maybe because there is an extremely smexy red head calling me adorable and teasing me." I batted my eyelashes and a little part of me died on the inside. There was no witty comeback from Axel, he merely stared at me blankly, mouth slightly agape. Now I was confused. "Axel…?" He suddenly disappeared from my view with many loud banging's and a crash. "Wha-" I spun around as the door to the stall burst open revealing Axel, arms spread wide with a ridiculous look on his face.
"ROXY!" He yelled pouncing on me, from behind. I let out a strangled cry trying to free myself from Axel's death hold. "You're just so cute!!" He yelled, rubbing his cheek against the side of my head.
"Axel! Sto- ARGH! Where do you think you're touching!?" I heard the stall creak open and the next thing I knew we were both drenched in ice cold water. Axel stopped molesting me to push his sopping hair out of his eyes and look to the entrance of the stall where Zexion was standing, a bucket in his hands and his expression less then pleased.
"Even though I am extremely glad you guys are on good terms again, we have a job to do. So Axel, get off of Roxas now." His words were so deadly that Axel immediately released me with a look of loss written all over face. He stalked out of my stall, passed Zexion and returned back to his. Zexion gave a sigh. "After we finish these stalls we're done, and we can get out of this gross place." He left me to wallow in my soaking wet stall. The good thing was the water had washed away the suds from my previous scrubbing and all that was left was to dry the place. I picked up the towel and began to wipe the floor.
There was complete silence for the rest of our time cleaning, that is if you don't count Axel's random whimpering and Zexion growling back. After about ten minutes of this, I wiped my brow of imaginary sweat and stood up admiring my work with a pleased look, collected my cleaning tools and products leaving the stall; now I was mostly dry after Zexion's water attack. As far as I could tell Axel and Zexion were still cleaning. I decided I should deposit the chemicals I was cradling in my arms back in their appropriate home.
"Hey guys, I'm gonna go put my stuff away, I'll be back in a bit." I called to the stalls.
"Have a nice trip~" A sing songy voice issued from Axel's stall, Zexion's reply had been drown out if he had replied at all. I headed for the door of the bathroom pushing it open with my back; on the side of the building was a locked wooden box where the cleaning supplies were kept. The padlock was currently hanging unlocked as there was nothing to steal from the box at this moment. I walked up to the box; I had to set the supplies on the ground before opening the container. After I had placed the stuff back in their storage area I headed back into the bathroom, but before I got to make it more the a few steps a pink blur had appeared in front of me, grasping onto my shoulders. Hello, Marluxia.
"Roxas! Guess what!?" I had never seen someone so giddy in my life. Marluxia was grinning like an idiot, bubblegum hair a mess from what I assumed was running here. He was bouncing up and down his hands still gripping my shoulders.
"You're drunk." I replied bluntly. He stopped bouncing and his grin turned into a skeptical look.
"No. Well at least not right now." He grinned once more. "Try again." Hell no! I've always sucked at guessing games, but Marluxia was currently the one who would decide if we had to go wash dishes or not, so I thought I'd play along.
"Somewhere a puppy has broken a leg or been hit by a car, either one."
"I wonder about you sometimes."
"That's what you get for making me guess. Just tell me already."
"Okay." He said with a dramatic flare. "Vexen is coming this afternoon." It seemed like he was going to explode and flower petals would rain down everywhere. It wasn't that I wasn't happy for Marluxia, but one thing confused me.
"Marluxia?"
"Yes?"
"Why are you telling me this?" He looked down at me and released my shoulders to give his head a small scratch.
"I actually have no idea." Silly Marluxia.
"Hey Marly! What's up?" Axel had rounded the corner with Zexion at his heels; both had their arms full of the cleaning supplies. Axel's hair was still not as spiky as usual due to the water damage.
"Just telling Roxas here that Vexen is coming to visit this afternoon." He turned to them with extravagance.
"Vexen?" Zexion asked.
"Yup! He's my husband!" Marluxia said happily. Both let out 'Oh' of acknowledgement, neither seemed shocked that Marluxia was gay, or married for that matter. It's probably the pink hair. "So you guys are done with cleaning." He said returning down to earth to give us more assignments.
"Yea, just finished." Axel replied, unceremoniously dropping the products in the box.
"Then you guys can go help prepare lunch." Man he changes tact extremely quickly. "Anyways, I'll bring Vexen by later, see ya." He finished with a wave disappearing around the building.
"Well that was random." Axel said looking where Marluxia was previously standing. Zexion closed the padlock with a click and straitened up.
"Let's go to the cafeteria." He said simply, walking away.
"Alrighty~" Axel replied, grabbing me by the arm and followed after Zexion. Thankfully all previous attempts at molestation seemed to be long forgotten by Axel. As we entered the cafeteria I spotted Saix sitting in a corner flipping through some papers. He glanced up as we came in but returned to his papers almost immediately. Some greeting there, Saix. The lunch lady ushered us into the back and gave us each a hair net and told us to put them on before bustling around, getting pots and pans out. I put the hair net on with some difficulty, my spikes posing a problem to get in the hair net. I looked over to Zexion and Axel to see how they were doing.
"Pfft, Axel you look –snicker- look." I tried to stifle my laugh at the sight of him; his red spikes looked as if they were covered in spider webs.
"I look awesome, almost as awesome as you." I gave a small flush; I knew I looked terribly stupid. "How are you doing Zexion?" He turned to look at him and his jaw dropped. "Zexion?"
"Yes?"
"You have two eyes…"
"Axel, did you seriously think I had only one eye?"
"Maybe…"
Zexion had his hair pulled back under the net, both eyes now visible. We all look ridiculous, don't we? The lunch lady yelled at us and we all hurried to help her cook. An hour later we were done cooking aka heating up prepackaged food. The rest of the camp filed in and grabbed some of the packaged goodness. We were dismissed by the lunch lady, after we had washed all of the dishes. I ripped of the hair net and grabbed an apple on the way out not wanting to clog my arteries just yet.
"So I guess now we have to find Marluxia and ask him what's next." I said, taking a bite of my apple.
"Guess so." Zexion replied flattening his hair over his eye, it had been sticking up ever since he had removed the hair net.
"Maybe he is meeting Vexen or something." Axel said with a shrug. "We could wait outside the cabin and see if he shows up."
"Sounds good to me." I answered, starting towards the cabin.
"We can wait by Josephine." Zexion said directing this comment at me.
"Zexion, don't even joke about Josephine." I replied simply leading the way.
"Yea Zexy, what were you thinking?" Axel said jokingly.
"That means you too Axel." I warned.
"Roger."
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Almost Vexen time!!! But not right now. Thank you for reading this story reviews are welcome! And that means any type of happy, spazztastic, random thing you have to say about the story so far *mysterious fog appears* or the furture plot DUN DUN DUN!! Anyways~ stay tuned for the next installment in When Hell Freezes Over!
-Tsubaki-kun