Disclaimer: Well, let me put it this way – If I did own it, there'd be a little more than necessary amounts of cross-dressing.
Note: FF may delete spaces, punctuation marks, letters, etc. from the story... So if there's something there that I don't catch, sorry!
Warning: Boy-Love/Yaoi
Title:
Broken Clockwork
Chapter: 14; No-no Drama
Summary: Roxas was always on top of things, following time down to the second. Until he met Axel, carefree and fun. What happens when you mix two opposite elements of life together?
luluNOTE:
Oh god Oh god – please don't kill me. I have been gone for… a very long time, now. To tell you the truth, I think this is the first time I've ever hit a writer's block (since I'm not exactly all that great of a writer and all) so please forgive me. I had to put this on the backburner AGAIN so I could focus on my studies and go to Las Vegas (spring break) and midterms and all that… Sorry…
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"Haha," Roxas deadpanned. "You're a riot, Axel."
Roxas had been on the phone with Axel for a while now. He was sure that he was using up quite a lot of his family's minutes on his cell phone, but he didn't really care at the moment. When had he ever cared anyways? His family had enough money to keep him talking for ages.
"No, seriously, though! I thought it was a pretty funny joke!" Axel was saying on his end of the line.
"I've heard that joke so many times," Roxas was still sitting on the same carpeted floor as he was about 20 minutes ago, chatting away.
"Okay, okay. Fine, what about this one? Knock, knock," Axel began.
"Oh, come on, Axel! A knock, knock joke? Okay, fine. Who's there?" Roxas replied reluctantly. Well, he actually wasn't that reluctant. He was curious about what other stupid kind of joke Axel could come up with next. After all, who wouldn't be? He was sitting on the ground, lost in his own house, for Pete's sake. He had nothing better to do, anyways.
"Interrupting Cow," Axel continued.
"Interrupting Co—"
"MOO!!" Axel practically screamed into the phone. Roxas started to laugh.
"Haha…" he chuckled. "That one wasn't too bad, I guess."
"See! I told you I could make you laugh. Oh, dude, I'm almost at your house. Remind me which ginormous mass of bricks is yours again?" Axel was walking down the smoothly paved sidewalk in Roxas' quiet neighborhood.
"The one with the big huge lamppost thing outside. Oh, and all the flowers, too," Roxas added.
"Oh! I think I see it," Axel said as he approached the massive house. He put his finger to the doorbell.
"Is that you?" Roxas asked. Axel replied with a 'yeah' and waited at the door. "Oh, wait…" Roxas mumbled. "Who's going to open the door…?"
"Oh, it's opening," Axel said. Linda came to the door and cracked it open for Axel.
"Hello, sir," she said, interested in what such an eccentric man was doing on the house's front steps.
"That's Linda," Roxas sounded. "She's the main maid of the house. Be nice to her."
"Hello, ma'am," Axel replied rather courteously. Roxas was giggling from the other side of the phone. "I'm here to find Roxas."
"Find… Roxas?" Linda was a bit confused with the use of the verb.
"Yeah. I'm actually on the phone with him right now," Axel began to explain. "He got lost in the house, you see. I'm here to help guide him back to the front door. Then we can go out to eat."
"Oh, alright. Could I just verify it?" She said, motioning towards the phone pressed against Axel's ear. "I can't let just anybody walk into the house, after all."
Axel handed Linda the phone and after hearing her ask if it was Roxas or not and recognizing the voice, she handed the phone back to him. "Thank you. You can go ahead and come on in," she invited Axel as she closed the door behind him and he took in the enormous living room a second time. It really was quiet humongous to him – no, to anyone, really.
"You still there, Rox?" Axel talked into the phone.
"Yep. Let's get going!"
"ROXAS!?" Axel screamed at the top of his lungs. Roxas heard the voice not-too-faintly and grudgingly got up from his spot on the ground with a 'umph'. "ROOOXXXAAASSS!!" The small blonde began to make his way towards the voice. As he moved, the voice became louder and louder, closer and closer. Rooms passed by and sections of the house were moving behind him as he made his way towards the redhead.
Axel decided to sit down on the couch for a while and shout from there. "ROOOXXXAAASSS!!" he yelled again. This time, he got a response.
"AXEL?! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!"
"LOUD AND CLEAR. KIND OF!" Axel replied. Roxas' voice was booming and loud. The boy could seriously belt it out. After a few more shouts and a bit more yelling, Roxas finally made a dynamic entrance into the main living room. He squealed upon finding his way back to the 'safe zone' and clicked his phone shut. Axel did the same.
"Yesss!!" Roxas cried out. "I'm BACK!!"
"WHOO!" Axel jumped up from his spot on the couch and both boys ran towards each other. Roxas latched onto the skinny stickman without hesitation and Axel wrapped his lanky arms around Roxas' back and head. Just about to snuggle his head into the taller boys chest, Roxas realized what he was doing and quickly pushed the man away. Awkward silence ensued.
"Uhh…" Roxas darted his eyes everywhere but at Axel. "Soo…" he tried to make small talk.
"Dude, I'm hungry. Want to get something to eat?" Axel broke the awkwardness of the situation without really realizing it. The eighteen-year-old was probably used to people hugging him. He did look like a pretty huggable guy. Kind of. Not so much 'huggable' as 'sexy', but whatever.
"Um, sure," Roxas laughed nervously. He shook it off and walked over the kitchen to grab his wallet, keys, etc. from the table. "Where to?" Axel smiled and the both of them walked out the door side by side.
Roxas didn't even care what time it was.
oXoXoXo
Meanwhile…
"HELLO!? CAN ANYBODY HELP US!?" Sora yelled into the air as he and Cloud continued walking down millions and millions of hallways.
Don't worry. They made it out eventually.
oXoXoXo
"Where are we going?"
Axel had dragged me down to the subway station without really saying where the we were going to eat. I was getting a bit worried about my crisp white jeans getting muddy as I was tugged along by the wrist down the street. It really was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon, with the sun all high in the sky and everything. The weather wasn't too bad for the impending doom of winter. Winter always did start a bit later in Twilight Town than in, say, Hollow Bastion. The snow was still coming down lightly even a few days before winter break started. Oh! That's right! I suddenly remembered. Winter break starts soon! Finally a good two weeks away from school…
Life was so much better without school. Anybody, except maybe those dorks who sat at the front of the classroom and were teacher's pets, would agree. I, personally, sat in the MIDDLE of the classroom if I had the choice. I did want to hear what the teacher said, but didn't want to be called on in class, so the middle was a rather reasonable place to sit. I wouldn't call myself a bad student at all, and I could even brag that I was a straight-A student. A few classes skipped couldn't do any harm… The homework was always posted online, anyways, so I could always just check there. The internet was one of the most useful sources of information in my life. If it hadn't been invented, I guess I wouldn't have the chance to skip school with Axel.
Not that skipping school was a good thing, because it really wasn't.
"We're going on an adventure!" Axel said cheesily. I just stared back at him with a 'no, seriously' look on my face. "Okay, not really, but you'll see."
The next thing I knew, the train had pulled to a stop and the intercom sounded. "We have arrived at Twilight Town, Avenue 8. Twilight Town, Avenue 8. The doors are about to open. Please step away from the doors. Thank you."
Avenue 8? The name sounded so familiar… Where had I heard it before?
"Come on, it's our stop," Axel tugged on my wrist and pulled me out of the train. The train station looked ragged and worn down. There were people rushing to get on the trains in every direction you looked and hobos were sitting on the ground, playing instruments or pretending to have an injury.
"Where is this?" I asked the redhead.
"This is Avenue 8, Roxas," he said, smirking. Suddenly it hit me. This was the street that Axel lived on! Was I finally going to get to see his house?! I opened my mouth in a gasp as I was pulled along up the stairs and down the street. Axel never let go of my wrist the entire time until we reached a rather large apartment complex. It was all metal-y and dirty and there were plenty of bums sitting on the street, begging us for change. Axel didn't even seem to notice them as we walked towards the first flight of stairs.
"Are we here!?" I exclaimed excitedly. It looked a bit more beaten down than I had expected, but nonetheless, you can't judge a book by its cover! I was trying my best to be optimistic as hell. I think it was working. Kind of.
"We are here…!" He stuck his key in the door and cranked it in the lock. He looked at me and smirked before opening the door. "You ready?"
I nodded excitedly and Axel pushed down on the doorknob, letting the door swing open.
"…BROWN! I COULD BE BLUE! I COULD VIOLET SKY!!"
"What the…" I let confusion take over his face. Axel laughed and led the way into the humble apartment. A girl and a boy about Axel's age were jumping on the already beat-up old couch, singing to a song on the stereo.
"I COULD BE HURTFUL! I COULD BE PURPLE! I COULD BE ANYTHING YOU LIKE!!" The boy screamed, but still hitting the high notes straight on. I recognized him as the mullet-man that was with Axel the day we met in Cloud Café.
"GOT TO BE GREEN! GOT TO BE MEAN! GOT TO BE EVERYTHING MORE!" The girl yelled back, letting her voice dip up on the 'more', just like in the song. Who was she, though? Unless… She and Axel were going out!? I suddenly got a bit worried, but didn't let it take complete hold of me just yet.
"WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME? WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME? WHY DON'T YOU WALK OUT THE DOOR!" Axel sang the last part of the chorus with his roommates.
"Getting angry doesn't solve anything," The girl mouthed to the woman's voice in the track, exaggerating the face of a rather annoyed woman.
I just stood next to the now closed door, dumbstruck. What was going on!?
Axel was grinning as he walked over to the small stereo system and turning it off. Cue groans of disappointment.
"Everybody," Axel turned around to face the rest of the people in the room. "Meet Roxas!" He made a large hand gesture towards the small blonde boy standing at the door. I waved meekly, a bit shy. "Roxas, this is Demyx," he punched the boy lightly in the stomach, "and Larxene!" He was about to punch her but all she had to do was glare and he retreated his fist to his side, chuckling.
"Hi!" Demyx jumped off the couch and said brightly. "I remember you from the Café! Axel hasn't been able to stop tal—" Axel came up behind Demyx and clapped a hand over his mouth, smiling widely. "Mmph!" Demyx squirmed underneath Axel's hand.
"Dem…" Axel sighed. "You know I don't mind if you lick my hand, so that's not going to work." I laughed a bit at this then looked over at Larxene. She stepped down from the couch and walked over to the rest of us.
"Pleasure to meet the blonde we've heard so much about," Larxene said, her tone undecipherable. She had weird hair, I noticed. How did she get those 2 strands of hair to stay up in the air like that? Did Axel go for these kinds of girls? I temporarily forgot Axel was pretty much as straight as a circle.
"Pleasure to meet you, too," I said, noticing her checkered suspender shorts in the dead of winter. "Nice pants," I said sincerely. They were quite stylish with the suspender strings hanging down from the belt of the pants.
"I know," she smirked. "I got them for 10 bucks at a garage sale."
After introductions, Axel suggested that we all go out to eat somewhere. He was starving and so was I, as well as Demyx and Larxene apparently. I kind of wanted to eat at the Golden Dragon, but decided to keep my mouth shut. I didn't want to scare away my new friends. It was a rare occasion that I got to meet somebody new – why ruin it with my expensive tastes? Plus, I figured, I wanted to try living a day with the common people! Okay, so it sounded bad to call them the common people, but what other name could I give them? Urban goers…? Urbanites…? I furrowed my eyebrows. That sounded even worse than the 'common people'.
Soon, we were headed to one of the local fast food restaurants that Axel apparently used to work at and I got to experience the homeliness of the city-dwellers (was that a better name than the 'common people'?) and their fast food chain managers. Axel's group was most likely a regular to The Chicken Bucket seeing as some of the workers knew them and they ordered so quickly. When asked what I wanted to eat, I just told them to get me whatever.
"I've never been to… um… The Chicken Bucket," I told them. "I've never even heard of it, actually." I shrugged.
"What?!" Demyx whined. "That's unacceptable! The Chicken Bucket is one of the most prestigious buckets of chicken out there!" He turned around and looked at the electric menu hanging colorfully from the ceiling. He tapped his chin. "We need to give you a very good first impression… What to choose… What to choose!"
After ordering me one of the "Classics" from the menu, the Chicken Bucket (go figure), we sat down and dug in. It was a totally different taste with all the oil and chemicals entering my body. I knew I was probably going to bloat myself to death the next morning, but it tasted so good.
"This is so… mm… Good…!" I exclaimed between bites.
"Hahaha! I TOLD YOU SO!" Demyx cried. I looked at him.
"I never said it wasn't," I raised an eyebrow and started laughing. Axel and Larxene joined in and I felt so happy… It was like flying! Who knew friends could be so, well, friendly?
The rest of the day passed by in a blur, but I'll never forget the feeling of warmth it left in my stomach and heart when I was dropped back at home by Axel, who was being eerily responsible that day. I got home around 11 PM but I didn't both to check the exact time. It didn't matter to me anymore.
That night, I laid in bed, staring up at the ceiling like I always do, but this time, a small smile sat on my lips and I had the best night of sleep in a long time.
oXoXoXo
"Roooxaaas," a small voice whined from the door.
"Hnngh?" I groaned as slowly turned my head to the bedroom door. I squinted. "What the – Sora? What the hell are you doing up…?" I averted my eyes to the bedside clock. "It's fucking 3:42 in the morning!" I was often told that I swore a lot when I was grumpy,. "Goddammit… Go back to bed…"
"I just got myself unlost and I'm so tired…" Sora complained. "Can't I just crash here?" Suddenly another body appeared in the doorway and it slumped against the wall.
"Cloud?! Ugh… Jesus Christ you guys…" I was pretty much awake at this point, so I threw my covers off and walked over to the door, rubbing the back of my head. "You're damn bedroom is right down the fucking hallway… Get out of here," I rolled my eyes.
"But Roooxaaas," Sora griped. "Come ooonnnn!!" He jutted out his bottom lip and looked up at me with glistening blue eyes. They were shining even in the dark.
"This is bullshit…" I palmed my face. "Ugh… Alright, get in here…" I turned around and went back to the bed. I sat down on the soft sheets and Sora and Cloud followed suit.
"Yay!!" Sora cheered. He grinned and crawled over to the other side of the bed. He started burrowing into the covers.
"Sora! Take off the dirty clothes," I said, annoyed. "You're going to get my bed all gross and dirty," I pointed out. "You, too, Cloud."
Sora sighed and complied. He stripped down to his boxers and started digging a hole into the covers again. Cloud threw his own clothes off to the side and snuggled into the sheets next to Sora on the farthest end of the bed. I climbed back into bed on the other side of my brother and turned on my side, closing my eyes.
"Oh, wait, dude," Cloud spoke up. God… What is it now…? "Isn't Sora gay?"
"Like I give a crap, man. He's my brother, he's not going to try and fuck me, okay?" I growled. I didn't say anything about myself since my gay-evity wasn't exactly public yet.
"But what about me!? What about my safety!?" Cloud gasped. I sat up in bed and glared at the other blonde.
"Look, you two are probably both gay here, so it doesn't matter," I paused. Wait – that didn't make any sense at all. Pause. "Agh! Whatever, you guys! Just go to sleep. I'm too tired to be thinking this early in the morning…"
"You know I wouldn't try to bang you guys, right?" Sora peeped.
"GO TO SLEEP, SORA," I barked.
"But what about –"
"AND CLOUD."
Cloud mumbled as he pulled the covers tighter around his body. Sora just sighed and closed his eyes. I laid back down and turned on my side again, finally getting back to my good night's sleep.
oXoXoXo
"Riku!" Sora called as he ran down the hallway. "RIIIKUUU!" He screeched to a halt when he saw, next to Riku, another boy. He put a hand shakily to his mouth as he watched the boy walk away, smiling.
"Anytime," Riku smiled as he pat the unidentified boy on the shoulder.
"What do you think you're doing, Riku!?" Sora sprang into action.
"Hey, Sora!" Riku grinned and went in for a hug, but Sora jumped out of the way. "What's wrong?"
"HOW DARE YOU FLIRT WITH ANOTHER MAN!" he huffed.
"What? Oh, Zack? He's just a friend. Chill, So," Riku put up two hands, trying to calm down his boyfriend.
"Just a friend – riiighhht," Sora raised an eyebrow. "You idiot!"
"Doofus!" Riku immediately countered.
"Dork!" Sora shot back.
"Pretty-boy!"
"Whipped cream!"
"Sex God!"
"Uke!"
"Seme!"
"Sex cutie!"
"Sexy beast!"
"Give me a kiss!" Riku dipped Sora and landed a mouthful of gorgeous onto his boyfriend's lips. Flashes went off from all directions and blood started to pool around them. It wasn't even that long of a kiss! Sheesh!
"Do you believe me now?" Riku was breathing a little heavier than before. Sora nodded enthusiastically, grabbing the silverette's head and bringing it back to his own.
Riku pulled away after a few more camera flashes and fainting girls and finally said, "Come on, Sora. Not in school." He picked up chocolate-boy bridal style and carried him out of the mob of fangirls and to the lunchroom. "What were you trying to do back there, Sora?" Riku chuckled.
"Well, I thought our relationship didn't have enough drama," Sora replied simply. "We need drama!"
"No-no drama. You don't want no drama drama," both of them sang in unison. They both laughed and Sora placed a peck on Riku's cheek.
oXoXoXo
I shot my head up from taking notes in class. "OH MY GOD!" My pupils shrunk and my face was full of shock and fear. The teacher stopped talking and turned around.
"Do you have… a problem, young man?" She most likely didn't know my name. She raised an eyebrow in an irritated manner, obviously unhappy that I had interrupted her boring lecture on limits in math.
I shook my head hastily and heard some girls giggle from around me. "I-it's nothing… ma'am," I tried the Sora trick. Maybe saying ma'am really did help.
The teacher flicked her eyebrows up once and turned back to the board to continue. I put my head against the table and groaned quietly. That son of a bitch, Sora was going to get it from me! Wait – if he's a son of a bitch, then so am I… Well, then – That bastard! He never returned the film of me playing 'Beautiful Soul'! Grrr… I needed to get that thing back…
Revenge was definitely in order…
oXoXoXo
luluNOTE:
I hope this wasn't too bad of a chapter… ehehehe… -gets stoned-
Okok! I'm sorry!! I know it took me forever to get this down and up. TxT
It's just – I was busy! Really busy!
(and lazy)
but I was mostly just really busy! But now that break came along and I got back from Las Vegas and all that jazz, I got to finish this chapter. -smiles nervously-
Well… Stay tuned…?!
PLEASE REVIEW! -runs away-
oXoXoXo
Songs:
"Grace Kelly" by Mika – The song that Demyx and Larxene were singing to when Roxas and Axel arrived at the apartment.
"My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas – Part of the bridge that Sora and Riku sang in the fluff of the moment.