8 DAYS EARLIER
Axel ended up staying round with Xion. Sora was with Riku and Demyx was perfectly happy to still have his old friend.
"So guys, Axel said yesterday that we should go to the cinema today. All nine of us," I woke fully from the couch I was sharing with Axel. It's nice to know whose foot was up your ass all night,
"But I'm working today!" Demyx complained looking like he had been shot,
"We'll just go without you. Maybe next time Dem-Dem," Axel sounded… Huskier when he's just woken up. Or sleepy for that matter. Or both,
"What?!" Demyx's mouth dropped wide open as his eyebrows furrowed together, "That's not fair. You have to wait for me to finish work!"
Xion laughed before she piped up, "Of course we're going to wait for you, Dem. Axel was just teasing you. It's what he does best,"
The four of us – well three –set out on a mission. We rang the others and asked as Demyx reluctantly got ready for work. Everyone was able to come as well as Seifer so we decided to meet at six outside the cinema. Demyx had requested we walk him to work today – which we did so we were now standing outside the music store.
"So," Xion looked from me to Axel and back again, "Where to now?"
"Ummm…" I had no idea and by the sounds of it, neither did Axel,
"Oh well, we can go shopping! You can help me!" Xion squealed with excitement and dragged us away.
Me, Xion and Axel arrived at the cinema at ten to six. We had spent SIX hours shopping. Why? We saw Kairi, Seifer, Sora, Riku and Namine standing near the wall outside. We walked over, everyone greeting one another before Namine spoke up, "I guess we're just waiting for Dem and Zexion now then," that girl always speaks so softly.
When Demyx and Zexion finally arrived we all waled in and had debates on what to watch. Namine and Kairi wanted the romance – typical. Me, Axel, Demyx and Riku all wanted to watch the new horror out. The others couldn't really care less. We bought the tickets and popcorn and headed inside the room.
Nearly an hour later and the movie was finally beginning to get really interesting. I was sitting next to Axel which happened to be behind everyone else. Typical. Since we both loved the horror genre we were whispering the whole movie – discussing theories of how the movie would finish. The woman was crawling through these secret tunnels inside her house to escape from this supernatural being (or something) that was invading the house. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Axel's head turn to look at me, I continued to watch the movie because it was just too compelling. Suddenly the supernatural being smashed through the wooden walls and started clawing at the woman's body. The woman was screaming and I was being defended but Axel was still looking at me.
Tearing my eyes from the screen I looked at Axel. He simply smiled, I smiled back. Simultaneously, our heads turned back to the screen to watch the horror but I could no longer concentrate since a warm, slender hand had wound itself into mine. It's alright to hold your best friends hand, right?