Can you feel it coming?? It's coming closer!!


It was unknown to the red head where Roxas lived until his mobile phone was conveniently left forgotten back in the apartment of where he stayed.

It was a mere five minute walk away to university. Roughly the same amount of time it takes Axel to get from his own apartment to the campus as well.

Except, the only difference was that they lived on opposite sides of the university.

"Just err…make yourself at home or something." Roxas spoke as he waved his hand as a welcoming greeting before he scuttled towards his bedroom.

Axel stepped inside and watched as the blond disappeared down the hallway into another room, "For a grand total of thirty seconds." He smirked as he looked around the place.

It was a small apartment, fit for two people to live by comfortably, equipped with a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room, and a bedroom. The laundry room was separate and was most likely located on the lower levels of the apartment complex.

The place was clean. Much cleaner than his own apartment that he shared with Reno. The carpets were vacuumed, the kitchen tiles swept and mopped. The table tops were sparkly and de-cluttered.

The kitchen counter would make a good spot to do homework and assignments on too if he wanted to.

The fridge door was free and clear of magnets (unlike Axel's own fridge back at home) except with a few post-it notes here and there to remind Roxas of what to buy next time he went to the supermarket.

Axel's fingers inched towards the door of the appliance and pulled it opened to reveal Roxas' daily diet.

A carton of milk, yoghurt, eggs, butter, jam, a half finished loaf of bread, and leftovers from some sort of Chinese takeaway.

'This kid needs a little more variety.' He thought to himself as he raised an eyebrow.

Seriously. Where are the microwavable meals? The whipped cream? Cheese sticks? And the random jars that had stuff in it that nobody knew what it was despite what the logo said?

Axel shook his head as he closed the refrigerator door and moved his hand up to open the freezer.

'Oh…There's the microwavable meal…' and beside it, there was a container of ice cream, a couple of ice trays and a box of fish sticks.

There was a curse from somewhere behind him and the red head turned around and closed the door of the freezer, "Need some help?"

"No, I'm good. Just…keep doing whatever you're doing. I forgot where I left my phone."

Of course, Axel would've offered to call up the damn thing, but when he went to get his phone checked, he found out that the stupid thing couldn't send and/or receive phone calls and messages. Damn piece of shit…He was better off throwing it in a dumpster.

But then again, he could always use the phone that was connected to the wall just by the entrance of the apartment to help assist the blonds' search for the handheld device.

Or he could just prolong the item being found and explore the place a little more. Come on, this was his first time in Roxas' apartment. It's not like Roxas hasn't gone to his apartment before.

The red head walked down the small hallway and stuck his head through the doorway into the blonds' room which was currently being turned upside down for the phone. The blond cursed and started for his desk which was the messiest part of the room. Papers, books, pens and pencils were lying on top of the table. There was a digital alarm clock on the edge of the table closest to the bed for easy access to be shut off in the mornings.

"You need some help?" Axel offered as he stepped inside, careful not to trip himself over on the random pieces of clothing strewn all over the floor.

"Erm…" the blond stopped and looked around the room with a hand scratching behind his head, "I didn't think I would actually lose my phone in my own apartment." He let out an awkward laugh, "Where…did I last put it?" he asked himself as he stepped over to his bed and sat down on top of it.

"Backtrack your steps and you'll find it in no time." He grinned as he walked over towards the closet and took a peek inside. He furrowed his eyebrows in shock and confusion and pulled the door opened a little bit more.

On one side, there were the lighter colors of shirts, and on the other, were the darker shades. On the bottom shelves had a light color of pants, and the darker color on the other.

He never figured Roxas to have such an interesting order of things and he couldn't help but laugh a little.

The blond noticed the way Axel was looking through his closet with such glee and barely suppressed the laugh that was coming out.

"Hey Axel."

"Hmm?" the red head replied without turning his head as he stood on his tip-toes to see the top shelves to see sweaters, scarves and winter clothes.

"How do you do the laundry? Do you separate the colors?" he asked out of curiosity as Axel moved his head left and right to get a better look inside.

The red head smiled as he opened one of the drawers inside the closet and raised his eyebrows at the colorful assortment of boxers, "Nice…"

The blond blushed then forced a cough to get his attention.

"Never did the laundry." He answered as he closed the drawer and peeked into the other one to reveal a range of different colored socks, "Well, actually, I did them before, but I mixed in a err…" he paused as he tried to remember what colors they were, "A hot pink shirt in with a green shirt." He let out a laugh, "The shirts both have swirly mixes of both colors along with everything else." He closed the closet door and then walked over towards the bed to sit down on it, "I let Reno do all the laundry stuffs now."

"Your brother?"

"Yup, he doesn't trust me with any of his work clothes. He doesn't wanna go to work with his business shirt all pink and green and shit." He laughed at himself and then stopped when he remembered something, "Oh, there was also the toothbrush incident."

"Toothbrush-You accidentally used his instead of yours?"

"Yeah, silly us, we bought the same brand of toothbrushes, so I couldn't really tell with the colors."

Roxas started laughing, "You always blame the colors."

He waves his hand nonchalantly, "Hey, can't help it. I'm cursed I tell ya."

"It was your own fault to begin with." He retorted with a quirk of an eyebrow.

"Yeah, yeah." He smirked as he lunged towards the blond and they fell on top of the bed with a laugh. And after a while, they laid beside each other in a comfortable silence.

"We have to meet them in five minutes." Roxas brought up as he stared at the ceiling, his fingers intertwined with Axel's.

"We have an excuse."

"Which is?"

"We are on an adventure to find the missing phone." He smiled as he gave the blonds' fingers a small squeeze. The blond snorted and lightly elbowed the red head. "It's true! We're just taking a break before we continue the hunt again." He grinned as he turned his head to look at Roxas.

They stared at each other. Blue eyes looking into green, green eyes looking into blue. And then Roxas leaned over.

At first, Axel thought that the blond wanted a hug, so he shifted position until his other arm was wrapped around him.

"Err…Axel, what are you doing?" Roxas asked quizzically as his free arm reached for something behind the red head.

"Um…I'm…hugging you?" Ok, maybe Roxas didn't want a hug but he didn't move to let go of him.

"Ok…?" he offered a half smile before he reached over, down the side of the bed and pulled out something, "I remembered where I left my phone."

Axel released the blond and looked at the handheld device, "Now, how the hell did your phone get over there?" he asked with a half smirk.

"I must've fallen asleep after our phone call last night." He replied with a sheepish grin as he tucked the mobile into his pocket.

"Oh yeah…Reno was seriously pissed off at me for using up all his free minutes." He had the decency to look a little guilty. "Oh hey, you know once, Marly bought me pink shoes."

He cut in with a mixed look of confusion and shock, "Wait, didn't you already return that?"

"Oh yeah, but this one was a totally different time. Happened last year."

"Oh, ok, go on."

"I swear that guy has an obsession with the color pink. And he's not gay either!" he laughed at himself then shook his head to continue, "Well anyways, he told me it was green, said that it matches my eyes or something like that. And being the appreciative person that I was, I wore it for two weeks straight before I decided to go up to Demyx and ask why people were laughing at me."

"Poor you." He spoke sarcastically and smirked, "Your friends took advantage of you."

"Don't get me wrong, they still do." He laughed at the fond memory, "Anyways, at first, I thought I had dog shit on it. But it was actually because it was pink and clashed with everything I wore. Not to mention it made me look gay."

Roxas laughed and then patted Axel on the head, "There, there. It's all in the past now."

"Not like you never tried to do something weird with me." He smirked as he raised a hand and poked the blond on his forehead.

"But I thought I was allowed." He pouted as though a toy was being taken away from the child.

The red head scoffed, "Only because you're too damn cute." He smiled as he snuggled the blond closer.

After a short bit of silence and a sigh of peace, Roxas mumbled into Axel's shirt, "I don't wanna go now."

He smiled, "Ring them up and tell them we're busy."

"We're just talking though." He was feeling sort of tired anyway.

"For now." He smirked as he wiggled his eyebrows up and down and Roxas barely held in a laugh before he cracked and laughed to his heart's content where tears of joy streamed down his face.

Once Roxas calmed down, they rested their foreheads together and stared at each other through contemplative orbs of blue and green.

"Roxas?" the red head quietly inquired.

"Hmm?"

"I love you." He whispered carefully.

"I love you too." He smiled as Axel leaned in for a sweet, passion-filled kiss.


And it's just around the corner now, I swears! Lawls.