Okay so, I updated this story instead of PB. The next chapter of this one (GD) will be up after I upload the next chapter of PB, since I'm like 1/6 of the chapter done and I need to finish it since its the freakin last chapter of the story. So this should hold you rabid fans off till then. lol just playing :)
Disclaimer: totally not mine... if it was Axel and Roxas would have made out in one of Roxas' flashbacks.
Warning: The end is like woahh Axel moving a bit too fast eh? But don't worry... The angst will appear soon. I mean, a story with Roxas has to have angst, even just a little. hehe!
I sat in my bed staring at the clock, wishing the hour to go back to 6.
I, Axel, have a problem.
Rolling over in bed, I stared at the picture that had been there since the beginning of last year. It was a picture of me and Roxas when my mom had more money to spend then normal and sent me on a cruise, saying I could bring one friend. I brought Roxas. I didn't know that in the future I'd be looking at that picture that we got one of the waiters to take while we round up all the people in the Disney costumes and made them take a picture with us. I heard one of the waiters ask if there was something wrong with us.
"What's wrong with having fun?" Roxas had simply replied. The man was surprised that he not only heard him and his colleague talking, but had answered him with such a simple, but obvious answer.
My problem was that I was now growing a small itty bitty crush on my friend. My best friend.
But it would eventually go away wouldn't it? I mean, the teachers are always raving about teenagers and our crazy hormones. This must be some phase I'm going through since I'm positive I'm straight.
"Straight as a corkscrew." Sora had told me one day when he asked if I had a crush on a girl. I told him that I never liked any other girl but my mom, and that was just barely. I, of course, flipped him off and told him we was stupid to even think of that idea.
Now I wasn't so sure.
My cell phone started to ring and I lazily flipped it open. "Yeah?"
"Axel?" I heard Roxas on the other side, my lips turned up into a smile while my mind tried to force it down. I do not like Roxas.
"Who else who have his phone?" I said and there was a pause from the other side. He didn't receive the joke very well.
"Why aren't you at school?" He asked and I rolled back over on my bed to stare at the ceiling.
"I'm sick," I fake coughed into the phone.
"But…I need to sleep over today. Remember? I can't stay home by myself. I need to-"
"Calm down Roxas!" I interrupted him. He really thought I was sick? He was easier to fool than I thought. "I'm not really sick. Mother is out and Dad is who knows where again. The maids don't ask anything so I decided to stay home today." I heard his small 'oh' from the other side.
Roxas couldn't stay home alone. His parents were divorced and his Dad, who he lived with, was constantly away. So he hired a nanny to watch Roxas, Sora and Cloud. But this weekend the Nanny had some family issues and couldn't stay so I stepped in to make sure Roxas had somewhere to stay. Sora was going to a concert with Riku and Cloud was planning on going to Leon's. Roxas had a problem with being alone, and it was a very big problem. Like some physiological thing he had and if he was alone for an extended amount of time he'd get all panicky and out of control. I thought that was kind of funny since when he is with someone, he impersonates a wall for a good amount of time.
"So where are you calling me from? And last I remember, you don't have a cell." I added in, as I slowly sat up in beg and swung my legs over the side. I grinned as I saw my latest fire creation. It was a squirrel that had found it's way into the house by some weird and odd means. The maids were afraid of him so I locked him in my room. He got 'accidentally' set on fire. I am not sadistic.
"Riku let me borrow his. He and Sora got in trouble right after he lent it to me. Something about it was against school policies to do things in the hall. Riku has no restraint over his PDA." He said in a monotone voice that made me laugh. He would say the funniest things but never know it.
"Okay then, you go back to class. Come over around 4. Got it memorized?" I said as I got up and started to open draws trying to find some clothes. Most of them were on the floor, which meant they were dirty. Maybe I should put some clothes in the laundry chute today.
"Okay. See you." He said and hung up, as usual, without hearing my goodbye. When I put the phone down, I suddenly had the urge to find something nice to wear. Well, not nice as in fancy, but something that looked dashing on me. As I started to sort through the countless shirts with sayings like "I was programmed to be awesome" with a robot on it to things that said "Cross my heart I hope you die," but I couldn't find whatever it was I was looking for. I started to get annoyed at the fact that I couldn't just grab a T-shirt and pants, and instead was having difficultly with this daily routine. Maybe, I need to eat something first to set my mind straight.
As I shuffled down the hallway with a case of TEFT (too early for this) my mind started to wander back to the blitzball game and the fact that I don't even know who won it. I just know that Roxas scored 3 times and had 5 assists. He also seemed to have gotten better since last year and looked great when he was sweaty and-woah! Axel, pull it together, that thought was never in your mind. I shook my head and yawned as I grabbed the cereal box and poured some Odie-O's. I have no idea why, that stuff had like only one molecule of sugar in it. So as I sighed, and threw those out to get my Lucky Charms, I could tell it was going to be a long day.
I had a case of TEFT for the whole day, and ended up watching T.V. trying to figure out why it took the people in the soap opera marathon 5 episodes to get out of the burning building. Not that I was watching it, I just happened to keep track of how many times I flicked pass the channel. Then because of my extreme luck, the bell rang. I looked at the clock out of habit and realized it was 4:05. Oh shit.
The problem with the situation was that I was sitting in the living room in nothing but by dark blue boxers and my white T-shirt I slept in. Not what I exactly call presentable. But why is that a problem? Plenty of times before Roxas and I have sat around the house like this, so why am I having a problem with it now? I thought I had gotten rid of the problem of looking nice this morning. Jumping off the couch, I started running towards the front door to stop any butler, maid, etc person from opening it before I got up the stairs. Ah, bit like I said, because of my luck the maid just so happened to open the door a few seconds before I came skidding into the room.
"Hey, Axel." Crap, crap, crap!
"Hey, Roxas." I said feeling out of place since he had on my favorite outfit of his-I do not have a favorite outfit! I meant the outfit that looks best on him, no wait, I mean he had a nice set of clothes…oh forget it. Anyways, he was wearing his black and white outfit which consisted of white pants that had the top black, a zipper up black shirt with a white short sleeve jacket over it. He had this cool black and white checkered wristband too and on his pointer and middle finger were a black and white…finger band. That's what I call them.
"Oh, thank you…" Roxas' voice snapped me out of…not staring at him as the maid took his suitcase from him and proceeded up the stairs to my room. My room! It's not clean! But Roxas has seen it like that before what's wrong with me all of a sudden? Everything doesn't revolve around him! I may have an itty bitty microscopic crush on my best friend, but that shouldn't change anything.
"Uh, you wanna go play some games?" Very good Axel, direct the attention away from him and on a video game, good tactic.
"Well, I uh…okay…"
"What?" I asked curiously. Crap, that ruined my plans, he may not want to play them and I just asked him what else he would want to do. Ugh!
"No, it's okay. Let's go." He answered and I grinned. Victory!
No, it was not a victory. Sitting right next to Roxas the whole time as we played Crystal Chronicles was not what I wanted to do. Besides the fact that he looked adorable staring at the screen, intent on not making me revive him again, he had to talk. He had to talk to me about his school day. His voice practically melted me which was horrible, but I stayed strong!
"So what do you think about that?" He asked and returned me to reality as I shifted my eyes back to the screen. I saw a sword on the screen that he wanted to make.
"Yeah."
"You think I should be Namine's partner in art?" He asked.
"No!" I blurted out, earning a puzzled stare from him.
"I mean, well, uh, if you want. I don't really mind." I answered. But I didn't want him to be her partner. He was my partner in art class. It was the only class I had with him so I wanted him to be mine… at least for the class.
"It won't be my fault if you get a bad grade. She doesn't draw so well." Good work, tell him about his grades, that will turn him around.
"Really?" Roxas asked. "Because her art is up in the room a lot."
"Because the teacher pities her." I answered. Roxas looked thoughtfully into space and I was wishing that he wouldn't see though my façade. I didn't want him to work with anyone else, but I couldn't let him know that it was because of my stupid kindergarten crush on him.
"Okay." He replied and bought the sword in the game. I started to sigh in relief but stopped myself so he wouldn't hear. As we continued to play, Roxas started to die more and more often until finally I knew that he didn't want to play anymore. He just didn't want to tell me.
"What do you want to do now?" I said saving the game. He looked at me surprised. Yeah, I'm asking you Roxas. I want to know what you want to do.
"I- I don't care." He said and I knew he just wanted me to pick. But I knew that he wanted to do something and I wasn't going to let him get away with trying to make me pick so he could make sure I was happy. Because that's what he does, he tries to please everyone because he doesn't think he's good enough to make his own decisions.
"Yes you do. You wanted to do something before too, but you wouldn't tell me." I said and stared at him and he started to find his hands very interesting.
"I wanted to watch a movie." He answered.
"Well what movie?" I asked but he seemed intent on not picked one. "Roxas, what movie?"
"I-uh…" He got up and shuffled over to his bag and started to rummage through it. He found it and came over and handed me the box. "I wanted to see a different movie too…but I got this one because I wanted to watch it with you so I got a movie you would like…" He started to trail off in a bunch of mumbles as I looked at the title of the movie- "The Grudge."
"Hey kiddo. I'll watch it come on." I said and got up. I had already seen this movie, but if Roxas wanted to see it, that's fine with me. I just hope it doesn't scare him or anything.
This was not a movie I would want to see with Roxas. During the whole movie Roxas was clinging to my arm. It was very… distracting him being so close. When the movie was over, Roxas let go and got up.
"I'm hungry." He announced and went in the direction of the kitchen. Glancing at the clock, it read 12:30. I wasn't tired, but by the way Roxas stumbled over nothing, I could bet he was. So after he was done stuffing his face with kiwis, he wandered around until he got to my room with assistance. He imminently fell on his sleeping bag and started to snore. Lovely. I got into bed and after a while of thinking how cute Roxas was while he was sleeping, I went to sleep.
But the sleep did not last long. I soon herd some shuffling of feet at the side of my bed. After a few more times and I knew it wasn't my imagination, I rolled over in my bed to see Roxas in the corner of the room, huddling with his sleeping bag and some covers. I looked at the clock and it said 3:30.
"The hell you doing?" I mumbled, not caring about proper English at the moment.
"Remember the attic… where Yoko's jaw was? Well… it looks kind of like your attic…" He trailed off looking around the room and pulling the covers over his head. "I'm just being cautious." He said as he turned on a flashlight.
"Roxas, it's all in your head." I said swinging my legs over the side of my bed while throwing the covers off of me. Roxas didn't turn off the light. Frowning, I walked across the room, threw the covers off of him and grabbed the flashlight. "I can't sleep with this light on." I informed him and turned off the light just before he gave me a look of despair. Stumbling back to my bed, I fell on it and closed my eyes.
Then I felt a wave of guilt wash over me. Roxas seemed so upset- wait. Where did he get the blankets? Did he look in my closet to get them? My closet wasn't clean! I mean he can't see my closet that dirty, not to mention my room isn't clean either with all the clothes on the floor and stuff. Axel, stop worrying, there is nothing to worry about. Are you trying to impress him? No, no you're not. The large empty house creaked and I heard a small yelp from Roxas and the covers were brought back over Roxas' head.
Don't give in Axel, don't give in, don't-
"What will it take for you to go to sleep?" I asked, feeling the guilty wave pass over as I offered his help.
"Well…" The covers came off as Roxas stared at the floor. "When I'm… home… Sora… let's me sleep in his bed… uhm…" So Roxas gets so freaked out that he has to sleep in his twin's bed? Sora must be pissed that he has to give up the bed, and I don't want to give up mine either. I mean it is my bed. Hmm…
"Fine." I sat up and patted the spot next to me. Roxas stared at me blankly.
"Well, I'm not giving up my bed. So either sleep with me or leave it." Actually the idea of- Axel! I scolded myself for thinking such an idea and continued to stare at Roxas, waiting for him to move. He finally got up and walked over; tripping cutely over the covers he dragged with him and stopped at the edge of the bed. He smiled weakly and yawned, jumped into the bed and curling up into his sleeping position next to me. He closed his eyes and sighed as he grabbed the covers and pulled them up over him.
About every bad thought crossed my mind as I realized he was right against my chest. Well now…
But I restrained myself from doing anything too drastic. It was just a crush right?
Yeahhh I wish Axel didn't think it was just a crush, otherwise something mgiht have happened. Nooo! I'm getting a dirty mind! (dies)
Yeah, so that was kind of weird, Roxas I mean. But I was typing the chapter and that just... came out. So yeah... I think it's cute though :)
But if you think taht was too fast or something, don't worry! For a decent amount of angst will show up slowly in the story. Perhaps not in the next chapter or the one after.. or... whatever. Eventually a conflict has to pop up and conflcit causes angsty! Right? Eheheh... But I can't write angst, if you want an example look how hard it is for me to finish PB. (cries) So angst will take up like 1/10 of the story and everything else will be controlled by the inner fangirl. Okay, stop rambling.
So please go review and I'll finish writing the last chapter of my other story, PB, and then I'll get straight to work no the next chapter of this! :D
