A/N: It's so short. Sorry guys :|
49.
Axel didn't actively notice the way Roxas never looked into his eyes again. Not when they left the cafe, not when he drove the boy back home, but he did feel something weird when Roxas just stared striaght ahead of him, muttered a light 'thanks' and exited the car. Maybe still lingering on the unfamiliarity of where he then went 'home' to? That's what Axel told himself before he backed out of the driveway and went on with his life.
He'd set the rest of the day aside to hang out with Roxas but the boy had understandably declined, telling Axel thanks for taking him away from the house when it got to be too much, and for offering to help with anymore unpacking or organization required, but that just being there with himself in that new home was what was needed.
So he called Demyx:
"Yeo, Ax! Waguan?"
"Not much, b. Wa you sayin'?
They talked like this sometimes, making fun of the social circle they were assumed to be in by age, yet not by chosen circle. Really, they were just being idiots like friends usually are to each other.
"Jus on ma way to de 'aspital."
"Oh shiet." Axel tried to remember what day it was, slipping in his 'accent' as he did. "That weekend already?"
"Naaah, b." And with that, he dropped it too. "I'm on call and some guy called in sick. Haha, yeah right? At a hospital! Anyway, they're low on man-power right now so, whatevs. Get me my hours faster, right?" Cuz, fuck, they still had three more months of high school left and had a hard-ass principal who would refuse to let you graduate if you didn't have your mandatory forty hours of community service hours done by June.
Most people just called up family member or friends who would sign their slips for them regardless of whether they did jack shit or not. Kind of what Axel was doing with his father, but he did help Zack out at work when he had time or when there was work that he could legally do as a volunteer.
Demyx had to go and Axel had to put his cell phone down before a cop car drove by him, because God knows it's only a matter of time before shit blows up. And Axel never liked getting caught.
It was almost two o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. So he headed home, thinking it a good a time as any to spend time with momma Aerith and Zack.
After all, it wasn't as if he was someone to forget the people who loved him.
No one kill me XD
Back to school today for me!
YHS
xDelfin
