WHOOSH! I return! (Mainly because I have been ignoring my duty to study for exams xD) But here is a long chapter for you. Well, I think it's long...it's longer than the last one. And many things happen in this one and this is where the plot thickens! At least I believe that's the right phrase...

It really sucks that just as I go to sleep every idea for my story pops into my head. Then I have to look around i nteh dark for a pen and paper xD I should keep one at the ready.

Disclaimer: The things that would have happened if I owned this game... (insert evil fangirl grin here)

"What a beautiful day!" I heard Cloud say deliberately as slow as he could as he stretched out his arms. Leon slapped his hand over his face and shook his head as Cloud tried to get his arm around Leon's shoulders. Leon got up to get on the lunch line, leaving Cloud to sulk.

I had skipped classes yesterday; today was the important day. It was Roxas' blitzball match. And Sora's too, but Sora wasn't at the table with us. Nor was Riku; something happened while I was on line I suppose. Most likely Riku's seducing tactics had started to wear into Sora's thick skull and Sora might have had an accident as Riku was tickling his ear with his tongue. Rather gross if you asked me. Just bed him. Stop with all this other nonsense.

"Hey, Axel."

"Uh, um…" I coughed to make believe I was eating something and then fake swallowed to cover up my poor attempt at saying hello to the adorable blonde. "Hey, Roxas. Ready for your game?"

"Yeah, it starts right after school, so that's why I'm already in uniform." I took this as a reason to look him up in down without being thought of as suspicious. Our school mascot was – I can't believe I'm going to say this – a butterfly. Yes, a butterfly. There was a butterfly on the uniform and during the game a student in a butterfly costume would wander the stands. Sometimes I felt bad for that guy, because if anyone ever found out who was in it, he would be made fun of for a long time. Our school colors were this ugly shade of orange and black.

Of course, Roxas made that piece of crap look good.

"Um, excuse me," I snapped my head up and I saw her standing behind Roxas. Roxas turned around with a smile.

"Yeah?" Namine smiled at him and I snorted. She glanced over at me before her smile changed to a nervous one.

"My mom wrote down some stuff for you." She pulled a note out of her pocket and handed it to him.

"Oh thanks! This will be helpful later. You are coming over after the game right?" A loud and strange noise emitted from my throat, something like a snarling growl, and both of them looked at me. I narrowed my eyes at her and then stabbed my meatloaf. Namine gulped and Roxas turned his gaze back to her.

"Yeah, I'm coming." He gave her a thumbs up.

"Great! I'll see you after then!" She giggled and as she walked back to her table Kairi swooped in to tell her, most likely, some gossip.

"What is your problem?" Roxas turned to me. I sensed there was something in his voice that wasn't normally there, but I couldn't place what it was.

"She is my problem." Snarling I looked away from him.

"Just because I found a new friend to hang out with doesn't mean I forgot about you!" I snapped my head to him because he did not sound happy at all. But before I was able to question him, his eyes started to squint and he wiped them with his arm and ran off.

I came home late because after the game I went around burning many small animals. Actually the police picked me up. I wasn't paying attention to where I was; I didn't care at the moment. So they took me back to my house where I was to be questioned by my mother.

"I got a call today." Her long red hear sprawled across the couch and almost reached the floor as she sat down in the armchair across from me. "You haven't been to your piano in two weeks now, Axel. Where have you been?"

"None of your business." I was not in the mood for interrogations.

"Dear," She gave me a stern look but I just rolled my eyes and got up from the chair. "Axel, would you like to talk about it?" Her emerald eyes looked up at me.

"No." I walked away, leaving her to start her sighing and pop some pills. That's all she did; pop pills, sigh, and be away from home so much that sometimes it would seem like she went to go see Dad.

"Is it about Roxas?" I stopped walking towards the stairs.

"No, mom. It's not."

"Okay. Well if you want to talk…" She trailed off and I continued walking. How did she guess? Does she know something? How could she know that I-?

"Dear, Roxas did call before," She stopped me at the top of the stairs. I looked over my shoulder at her at the bottom. "He asked if we could pick him up after school. It's supposed to rain tomorrow."

"Yeah? I don't feel like riding my bike back to-" I froze. Wait, she didn't mean me and her. My dad was coming home tomorrow. "Okay… you two can pick him up." I answered and continued down the hallway. I knew that having my dad go wasn't the best thing. He would ask Roxas every question he could think of while they drove him, he was just like that. Needed to know everything about everyone. I knew I shouldn't leave Roxas with him, but my mom will be there. She'll make sure it goes smoothly…I hope.

As soon as I heard the slam of the front door and the feet running towards the staircase, I knew there was something wrong.

"I don't care what you say, I don't want him in this house!" I tore my headphones off just in time to hear the banging on my door. Running over, I opened it up to a drenched Roxas who clung to his book bag and art supplies. He rushed in and shut the door before I even said anything.

"You are so heartless sometimes!" I herd my mother shout. This was a conversation I didn't want to hear.

"I don't want someone like that in my home! I don't care who it is!" My father yelled back I heard something smash against the wall. Yeah, home sweet home.

"I got the information for the project," Roxas said, obviously not wanting to hear the conversation.

"-selfish pig!" I caught the end of my mom's sentence.

"It's not selfish to not want a faggot in my house!" I froze, the paper I had taken from Roxas slowing floating to the ground.

Did they find out? How could they? Did someone at school find out that I liked Roxas and told them? Did something happen in the car that lead my father to believe I liked Roxas and my mom confirmed his suspicion by saying I had been skipping piano for his blitzball games? Did my mother watch me or something and see how I had been so glad that it was Roxas on the phone the other day? I have told her about how Roxas is on the blitzball team and I was planning on going to all his games…

"-care who it is! I don't care about him if he's like that!"

"Axel?" Roxas said anxiously as he picked the paper I had dropped.

"So you're fine with him being a fag?" He roared down the stairs.

"Yes I am." I heard my mother's firm response and then there was no more yelling. There was stomping up the stairs and down the opposite hallway to my parent's bedroom.

Roxas shuffled some papers and then I took some colored pencils and paper. We worked in silence the whole time. When we finally finished the pharaoh's tomb, Roxas sighed heavily and looked at me. I looked away and got up.

"Axel, I-" Roxas frowned as I refused to look at him.

"Do you need a ride home?" I bit my lip.

"…yes." He answered. I nodded and we headed out of my room in silence.

My dad left home the next day. My mom told me that he said it was an emergency business trip, but I knew what it was. He didn't want to be anywhere near me.

It was exactly one week until my birthday, the 31st. Halloween. I went to school most of the week, but was only disgusted by Roxas talking to Namine. He wouldn't look directly at me when he talked to me. It was always to the side or he'd start to doodle in his notebook.

"Axel." I opened my eyelids to a slit to see Professor Zexion standing there in front of me. To the side was Professor Demyx who was having fun putting many different chemicals into test tubes.

"Demyx stop that." Zexion snapped at him, but I saw a smile tug at his lips.

"Sorry, Zexy." He grinned and ran over to the cages to harass the frogs. He took one out of the cage and put it on the table.

"You slept the whole class." Zexion said sternly.

"So?" I lifted my head from the table. It was the day before my birthday. Friday. I wanted to go home and sleep.

"I feel as also being the school guidance counselor-"

"Even if he does a bad job at helping kids. Most of the time I think he scares them. You know some of the students think you're like Cyclops and shoot lasers out of your eye." Demyx pointed to the eye that was covered by his hair.

"Thank you, Demyx." He twitched his eye and turned back to me. "That I should assist you in your problem."

"I don't need your help." I groaned as I still felt groggy from sleeping.

"I believe you do. Demyx has recently told me that during his class this morning you did nothing but stare at Roxas."

"And then you would glare at Namine." Professor Demyx put in as he grabbed the gerbils from their cages now and started to gleefully watch them run around in the plastic balls.

"So what?" I snapped.

"We may not seem it Axel, but we are very knowledgeable in what happens in the student body."

"Like how Cloud and Leon are making out behind the lunch room right now." Demyx wickedly grinned.

"Curiosity killed the cat Demyx."

"Good thing I'm a mongoose!"

"…anyway, for your own good, we feel it necessary to inform you that Roxas has no feelings for Namine." Zexion said and I raised an eyebrow at him. "After all my years of teaching, I know when someone has the 'hots' for someone else, Axel. Teachers know more than you think they do."

"And I say that since Roxas does not like Namine, since we figured this out by close observation. Actually I did the observing because Roxas is so depressing I find him interesting to watch and that girl Namine may like him but Roxas is totally telling her to back off his grill. Wait what was I saying? Oh yeah, I think that you, should totally ask Roxas out. 'Cause he digs you."

"Wait, so you guys actually watch us? Like, stalkers?" I raised my eyebrow again.

"We do not stalk. We just like to talk about our students during our meetings. We don't really refine our teaching during those meetings, we talk about our students." Zexion said.

"It's so interesting! We could write a very very very very very very very-"

"Demyx." Demyx cringed at Zexion.

"very long soap opera about this school." Demyx smiled at Zexion. Getting up from my desk, I started to think about everything they said.

"I'll think about it," I answered them. I stopped at the front of the door and turned around, smirking.

"Oh yeah, I got some advice for you Professor Zexion."

"What is your advice, Axel?"

"Professor Demyx 'digs' you. You obviously like him. So before he gets away, bed him." Demyx's face turned a bright red and Zexion's mouth was a hard thin line.

"You have detention next Monday."

"Glad to help," I smirked as Zexion glanced over at Demyx who turned even redder than before.

I didn't really know if I should take their advice. I mean, it was Professor Demyx. He was a bit…out there. But then there was Professor Zexion who was a bit too serious for his own good. So they balance each other out- I guess I can trust them. But I still didn't know how Roxas would react if I asked him out. Did they notice the fact that Roxas wouldn't look me in the face? Or was that some kind of secret message the Professors had figured out that secretly meant "bang me?"

As I walked down the hallway, pondering what could I could do, I happened across Roxas at his locker. I stopped in the middle of the hallway and cleared my throat loudly. The blonde's head shot up and he smiled at me. Woah, Axel, get that heart beating again. Putting on a smirk I walked over to him and leaned against the locker next to him.

"Getting ready for your after school art?" I asked as I saw his drawing notebook on the floor.

"Yeah." Roxas said but his voice had an edge to it like he wanted to say something else. I kept looking at him, making him fidget as he went back to shifting through stuff in his locker.

"Axel-"

"Roxas-" We both stopped.

"You go first." We said again in unison. I crossed my arms in annoyance.

"Roxas go." The blonde shifted from his spot on the floor again and the reached into his locker. He got up and closed his locker door and turned to me, blood red roses in hand. I instantly thought of Namine and cursed the teachers for being so wrong and getting my hopes up. That was until Roxas thrust the roses in my face.

"Namine helped me change the color. If you had noticed the roses she gave me were at first white. Her mom, she's a florist, didn't have any more red ones but Namine came over to help me get the dye and stuff to change the color." So, Namine went over his house to help him change the rose colors? But what are the roses…?

"I can't see you tomorrow for your birthday. Our mom is coming to take Sora, Cloud and I to a baseball game. So these are part of your present." I took the roses, not really getting everything processed into my mind. So, he didn't have Namine coming over because he liked her? It was for me? The teachers were right?

"Wait, part of my present?" I blinked, holding the roses away from my face so I could see his very red face. Why was he blushing now?

"Well, remember last week when…your parents had a fight…" Roxas trailed off and paused.

"Roxas about that-"

"No, I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier. Your parents just kept talking and eventually your mom made me spill it out. I'm sorry your dad got mad, but I wasn't planning on telling you any time soon." Wait what is he talking about? Does he mean that…oh my God. My dad and mom were talking about him and not me? I stood wide eyed at him, making him uncomfortable but nothing my brain told my body to do would happen. I thought this whole time they were talking about me and now Roxas was upset about it!

"Axel I- well, I…what I mean my part of your present I meant that…I wanted to give you something else…"

"W-what?" I felt my heart beat faster as my mind tried to figure out what else he would want to give me as he stepped closer. But then my heart stopped all together as his lips touched mine.

But as soon as that happened he pulled away.

"I-I'm sorry Axel!" Roxas flushed, grabbed his books and started to stumble and run down the hallway.

5…4…3…2…1…

"Roxas? Roxas, wait!" But even running as fast as I could, when I reached the school doors he was already vanishing down the street and around the corner.

Whoo I re read that twice and my beta read it so I hope there aren't any mistakes. Because I doubt there are any really major ones. :D

Soo Demyx and Zexion got their spotlight. Hehe I love them so adorable. But you could either take that coversation as a pairing or, you could take it as Zexion getting made at Axel for saying something like that.But seriously, it's wayyy better if its Zemyx. (drool)

So, we got some more people in here. We got Axel's Dad, Axel's Mom, soon Sephy will pop up because everyone loves his cookies... lovely cast of people neh? Yeah I just read a book where the main character's mom takes drugs and stuff so that she doesn't become emotionally 'unstable.' That's why Axel's mom is like that.Not entirely sure why yet,but from teh way I had her and the dad argue it must have something to do with him. A lot happened in this chapter, but that's because if I had decided to cut it into two, it would have been too short I think. Yeah, and also it's better this way I think... mmhmm...

So, what will Axel do? Will he stalk Roxas down and profess his undying love for him? What will happen on Axel's birthday?

All this and more in the next chapter of GD!

Please review:D Can't tell you how much all the reviews make me want to hug you all and give you imaginary cookies! (throws cookies in air) They are baked from Sephy so they are extra yummy:)