Understanding
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"I don't understand," Roxas said. He had his nose in a dictionary. "It doesn't make sense."
"What doesn't make sense, kiddo?" Axel asked. "What's on your mind?"
"I heard a couple kids in town…they said words I don't understand, and they're not in the dictionary."
"What were the words?" Axel said. He had a funny feeling about this. It wasn't quite dread or unease. But it wasn't very comfy either.
"Um…" Roxas said. "Well…see, the thing is, Seifer's the one who said them, and well…"
Seifer was the neighborhood thug. Axel couldn't imagine anything he said would have been good.
"It made Jessie, the girl whose family runs the accessory shop, slap him," Roxas said. "So I wanted to find out what the word meant, so I can make sure I never use it."
"Ah," Axel said. "You know, Roxas, I don't think you have to worry about that. You heard what Seifer said, so all you have to do is not say it."
"It's not that easy," Roxas said. "Sure, Seifer's a creep, but there's lots of things Xion and I still don't understand. Like last week, Hayner said it rained cats and dogs at his cousin's wedding. Xion and I didn't know what that meant."
"That just means it rained really hard," Axel said. "And the reason it gets called that is because…er…"
"Pence said that even the experts aren't sure how that figure of speech started," Roxas frowned. "I don't like it. It almost feels like everyone is keeping secrets from us."
"C'mon Roxas," Axel said. "You know that's not right."
"I know it isn't," Roxas said. "I said it feels that way. There's so much Xion and I don't know, and it's really weird, because it's stuff everyone else knows!"
"Look, buddy," Axel said. "I get it. I really do—being in the Organization made you two miss out on…well, everything. And there was loads I wound up missing out on."
"That doesn't make me feel better, Axel," Roxas said. "Is this the part where you tell me there's a lot of stuff I understand that nobody else around here could ever know?"
Before Axel could elaborate that yes, that was a very fair point—Roxas and Xion had a far greater knowledge of the grand scale of things than any of their peers—the door opened up, and they could hear Xion singing to herself as she kicked off her boots and walked into the living room.
"Hi Axel, hi Roxas." Xion said. "What's going on?"
"Axel's trying to convince me it's okay that we don't understand half of what our friends say."
"Funny you should mention that. Hanging out with Olette was kinda weird. But kind of cool too," Xion said. "We ran into Father Forthill, and they began speaking in Latin to each other. I couldn't understand a word they said."
"Latin?" Axel groaned. Years had passed since he had attended Mass as a kid, and even then he couldn't understand a word of it. "But that's not like Olette. She's more sensitive to you guys than anyone."
"It wasn't so bad," Xion said quickly. "She's offered to teach me some Latin, so we can use it as sort of a secret code."
Axel considered this. In his experience, all girls already had a secret code that came with being girls, but he knew enough not to mention that, since that would only lead to six million more questions.
"Yeah…" Roxas said. "Sorry Axel, I guess I just wanted to vent. It's okay that I don't know what word Seifer used…oh wait, here it is…oh…"
Roxas blushed bright red, and knowing how little he knew about the English language…Axel grabbed the dictionary, yanked out the page and set it on fire. Not that he was one for censorship, but there were things he was perfectly happy the kiddos didn't understand. And if Axel had things his way, he'd make sure they would never understand that kind of icky.
Regrettably, I never was able to grasp foreign languages very well in school. Un-regrettably, I did not understand a good deal of slang either.
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