◆36◆ A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me

Roxas stared out of his bedroom window down at the driveway in front of their house. The red, rusty pick-up truck was there like it was everyday, waiting to take him to school. He could see Axel's hands drumming on the steering wheel, to the beat of some song probably. He looped his arms through his backpack and ran downstairs. Staying out of sight of Sora and Cloud, he dashed through the back door and hopped the neighbor's fence. He scratched off some leaves and kept running. He climbed over the next fence, a chain link fence that was taller than himself but lost his hold at the top and fell into the bushes on the opposite side.

Roxas stood up immediately and brushed as much mud as he could off of his clothes. Since having the experience of having to run away from Sora so many times before (he tried not to remember though), he knew where there was a gap large enough for him to squeeze through just in between the evergreen trees. On the opposite side, he dashed through some unexpected sprinklers and finally made it out onto a busy street. From there, he hopped onto a trolley and rode to the stop just across the street from Destiny Islands High. He paid his fee and ran past the other students who were sauntering lazily into school on that Wednesday morning. On the tiled floor in the building, he skidded into the boy's bathroom and collapsed in a stall. He caught his breath after a few moments and walked outside of the stall to the mirror. His reflection showed that he was a mess with leaves, twigs, and mud in his clothes and hair and some smudges on his face. It did not help his appearance that he had been sweating on the run and had caused his hair to stick to his forehead. Roxas turned on the tap and tried to fix up his appearance with water but finding that it was of no avail and that the bell just rang, he ran out of the bathroom and into his first class.

"Roxas! Why are you late and what is with your appearance? This is no way to come to a math class!" Luxord slapped a ruler on Roxas' desk by the door.

"I'm sorry sir, it won't happen again sir!" Roxas stared up at the blond man.

Luxord stared at him.

Roxas stared back.

"I had some pie for breakfast!" Jimmy Miller screeched from the back row.

Roxas blinked.

Luxord narrowed his eyes and turned back to the board.

Roxas sighed and relaxed in his chair. Luxord was a fucking psychopath. And Jimmy Miller for that matter.

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After sitting through a math class- the whole time keeping an eye on Luxord- Roxas dashed out of the classroom first. Of course, he immediately bumped into Axel. The redhead grabbed his shoulders to stop his from falling down and took a few steps away from the door.

"Whoa, slow down there Roxas!" Roxas blinked and struggled in Axel's grasp. Surprised, Axel let go of him and watched him run down the hall, around the corner and out of sight. Axel stood there with one hand clutching his backpack on his shoulder and frowned, his heart sinking.

Did I do something wrong?

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At lunch, Demyx, Axel, Riku, Zexion, Leon, Aerith, Yuffie and Cloud were sitting at their normal lunch table.

"Hey, have you guys seen Roxas?" Axel piped up from behind his almost untouched tray of food. What the hell was going on? After that first incident after his math class, Roxas had ran away from Axel every time they met without saying a word to the redhead. Now he was really worried he had done something that he couldn't remember.

"Or Sora? I haven't really seen either of them all day." Riku looked around the lunchroom. After their first date last Friday, they had been comfortable around each other but hadn't really discussed the actual date. Or planned any more for that matter.

They got a round of 'no's from the whole table except Cloud. They glared at him and he shrank.

"Uh… I don't know where they are." Still receiving death glares from the table, he shrunk again. "Honest, I don't!"

"Well do you know why they're avoiding everyone at school?" Zexion added his two cents. He hadn't really interacted with the Strife twins (or Cloud for that matter) but he had learnt enough about them by listening to their conversations and watching them interact with others. It was obvious to him the Axel and Roxas were truly in love but to others, it wasn't. It was also obvious to him that Demyx was completely oblivious and Riku only had a slight suspicion of it. As for Sora, he could see that he and Riku had at least come into contact with a 'love' situation such as a date or a kiss or something but that it hadn't gotten very far yet.

It was weird how observant he was sometimes. The talent had also been a curse in the past. Always knowing how people really were beyond their masks had made it hard for him to become friends with people. That's why he loved Demyx so much. He didn't hide very much and was so unpredictable so everything in their relationship was pretty open.

Cloud stood up. "Umnoidontknowwhytheyreavoidingeveryonegoodbye." He strode over to an empty table on the other side of thee lunchroom and his friend's eyes followed him.

"O-kay…" Demyx cocked his head.

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Roxas waited in the boy's locker room for his brother during the lunch hour. It seemed like forever in the stinky jock temple but Sora soon burst through the door carrying two bags of potato chips and some sodas.

"Finally, I'm starved." Roxas grabbed some chips and stuffed them into his mouth.

"Well the way you ran away this morning didn't exactly let me remember to prepare any lunch or grab our lunch munny." Sora crunched on a BBQ chip.

They sat there in the corner of the locker room behind the farthest lockers from the door for a few more minutes, eating their chips and drinking their sodas.

"With everything that's happened in the past year, I wasn't sure that we'd make it but look at us. We've survived to 16." Roxas smiled.

Sora raised his can. "Cheers for sixteen!" They clinked their cans together and drank them dry in one gulp.

"Let's see… now we can get a driver's license, obviously…" Roxas pondered out loud.

"We can join Myspace legally!"

"Already done that illegally so it wouldn't be fun, sorry."

"Ok, well we can… drive…"

"I already said that."

"Well what else is there that we can do now that we're sixteen?"

"…" Roxas blinked. "We can say that we've had our sweet sixteen's…"

"Oh, wooooooow."

"I know, right?" They stared at each other and broke out laughing.

Sora ended up laughing so hard (from joy rather then humor) that grape soda came out of his nose.

This just caused Roxas to laugh more at his brother's expense.

Sora slapped him.

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"Chhk. Blue Emo, come in Blue, Emo. Chhk." Demyx peered around the corner of the school to the field.

"I'm right here, Demyx." Zexion stood behind him at full height whereas Demyx was bent.

"Haven't you ever played spy?" Demyx stood upright and turned to Zexion, putting his hands on his hips.

"Sorry, I don't recall ever pretending to be a spy." Zexion studied his fingernails, wishing Demyx would bend over again. The view was rather nice after all.

"Well, then just go with it!" Demyx turned back to his original position and Zexion had to use all of his self control not to pull his pants down and fuck him right there. He had decided sometime in the past week that he was in fact, ready and wanting to have sex with his boyfriend but he didn't know if Demyx would so he had kept his mouth shut along with his pants.

It was a hard thing but if no sex for now meant a happy boyfriend, he'd have to deal with it.

"Chhk. Blue Emo, are you there? Chhk."

"Chhk. I'm here Sexy Mohawk. Chhk." Zexion slapped his mouth when what he's just said finally made it to his brain.

Demyx giggled and shook his ass the slightest bit.

"Chhk. Do you like the view, Blue Emo? Chhk."

"Chhk. Very much so. Chhk."

"Chhk. Save it for later, we're on a mission. Chhk."

"Chhk. Meanie. Chhk." Zexion crossed his arms.

"Chhk. Blue Emo! Target in sight! Chhk!" Demyx pointed out Sora and Roxas running out of the gym and to the trolley stop outside of school.

"Chhk. What do we do now Sexy Mohawk? Chhk."

"Chhk. We trail them. Chhk." Demyx started to dash around the corner and hid behind a tree. After a moment, he rolled across the ground to a neighboring tree. Zexion sighed and walked to the unoccupied tree.

When the twins got onto the trolley, Demyx took off sprinting after it and Zexion followed as close behind as he could. He wasn't in shape as much as his boyfriend was after all. They ran after the red and yellow trolley until it passed three stops and Roxas and Sora jumped off. They dashed into the house that Demyx and Zexion assumed was the Strife residence and they saw a light turn on in an upstairs window a few minutes later.

Out of nowhere, Demyx pulled out a pair of binoculars. Zexion slapped his eyes and started to walk down the street.

"Zexy where are you going?" Demyx called after him.

"I'm am not helping you peep on our friends." Zexion stopped a few steps away from where he started.

"Hmm, ok." As fast as the binoculars had appeared, they were gone. He trotted over to Zexion. "Then what are we gonna tell Bitch and Axel? They wanted us to find out why they're acting so funny and all."

"If I had to guess at why they're avoiding people I would have to say that it was their birthday and they hate birthdays or that they are in some illegal drug business or that they're deeply and madly in love with each other, more than just brothers."

"That's what they call incest right?"

"Uh, yeah but that option's on the bottom of the list." Zexion cocked his head in the direction he had started going. "C'mon, let's go do something."

Demyx trotted over to him. "Like what, sexy Zexy?"

Zexion blushed. "I don't know…"

Demyx entwined their fingers. "Let's go."

They started walking away from the Strife house.

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