Fire & Moonlight, a Kingdom Hearts fanwork: Drabble challenge by Wishing-Fire, written by Raberba girl

36. Bowl of Grapes (ROUGH DRAFT)

Summary: Maybe they should have picked a different elective.

A/N: High school AU.

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The tables in the art classroom were always arranged around the sides of the room, since the stuff they were supposed to be drawing or painting or sculpting or whatever was usually displayed in the middle. Currently, there was a bowl of grapes sitting on the center table for their still life unit, along with a few apples, a pear, a vase of flowers, and a pitcher lying on its side.

'Should have taken a different elective,' Saïx thought as he dutifully sketched out the shapes as best he could. Axel had insisted they take something together, though, and between all of Saïx's honors classes and Axel's practices, it was difficult trying to find something that would work with both their schedules.

Speaking of Axel... Saïx glanced over to see how his friend was faring with the assignment, and accidentally scratched a pencil mark straight across the grapes. "What are you doing?" he hissed.

Axel looked up from his drawing of a wolf gnawing on a chew toy and grinned. "Trying to get your attention."

"Put it away, idiot!"

"But I'm so bored!'

"It's your fault we ended up in this class in the first place, now deal with it!"

They both shut up and Axel flipped his paper around (revealing what looked like a boat with a curly wig, which was apparently his depiction of the grapes) when the teacher passed behind them. "Are you boys having trouble with the assignment?" she said severely.

"No, ma'am," Saïx murmured, at the same time Axel said, "What's the point of drawing fruit? Someone should get up there and pose."

"Oh, so you're volunteering?"

"What? No, not me! I just meant, someone. Who's not me."

"Class," the teacher announced with a wicked little grin, "change of plans. Get another piece of paper, Axel has offered to model for us."

"What! No, I didn't!"

Ten minutes later, Axel was lounging on the center table in a casual-looking pose that was actually quite difficult to hold, nearly crying with boredom. "Ms. Taaaft," he whined, "pleeease, please let me draw fruit again..."

"No!" the girls shrieked, "Stay there!"

"Too late, Axel," the teacher said with relish. "When you ask to change assignments, make sure that's actually what you want."

Axel looked pleadingly at Saïx, but his best friend was merely hiding a smirk. 'Dang it, Saïx, you and your puppy eyes immunity!'

Though he couldn't hold it against him anymore when he saw after class that Saïx had drawn a Bomb in the corner of his assignment. "Saïx, next year we're taking choir."

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Author's Notes: The wolf-with-chew-toy idea is Taliax's. X3 I got such a kick out of that picture! She has it on her art page that's linked on her profile.

This story seems a little off to me, but drabbles are so short and I wrote this so long ago...the concept's a little more important than the realism, as opposed to how I do longer fics.

I honestly could not figure out whether the teacher was an Axel fangirl or not. Up for interpretation, I guess. I prefer her not to be, but it makes a little more sense if she is...?

I'm pretty sure I actually wrote this before deciding that Saïx is a good singer (and before I'd clarified Saïx's immunity to human puppy eyes in other stories). Funny how things work out sometimes...

Complete: 36/101. Next: "Button"