Chapter Two:

Complicated

Axel Lea woke up the next morning to his mother slamming the cupboard doors downstairs in the kitchen. He rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, but a sharp knock on his door startled him out of his half-asleep state.

"Get up, Axel! Your friends called and they're coming over later." His sister barked.

The eighteen year old groaned and stretched. "Fine. Who called?" The redhead questioned, wrinkling his nose when he realized he was wearing the clothes he wore to the club the night before.

"I don't know! I'm not your secretary, Axel." Was the magenta haired girl's snippy reply.

"Bitch." Axel snapped.

"Axel Lea, that is no way to speak to your sister! Now, get dressed and get out here right now! We need to have a talk." Karla Lea reprimanded, somehow appearing silently just in time to hear the worst of the conversation, like all mothers have a talent for.

Axel breathed a stream of curses under his breath as he kicked off his sheets and set his feet on the floor. Axel unbuttoned his shirt and threw it at his hamper, smirking when it sailed in. He stood up and quickly unbuttoned and unzipped his pants, kicking them off his legs before throwing them in the hamper, his socks and boxers following seconds later.

His mother rapped on the door with her knuckles, startling the redheaded teen. "Axel? Are you up?" She asked, grabbing the doorknob and turning it, pushing the door open as she did so.

"Mom, I'm naked!" Axel protested, grabbing a pillow off of his unmade bed and placing it over his exposed crotch. "Get out!"

Karla laughed. "I gave birth to you, Axel. Thirty-seven agonizing hours of labor and for what? A smart mouth who calls his sister demeaning names, abandons his friends, ditches his school mates and breaks promises." The emerald green eyed woman folded her arms over her chest. "There's no way I raised my son to be such an inconsiderate jackass."

Axel blushed. "Mom, I can explain all of that, I promise." Karla narrowed her eyes as her son made yet another promise. "But can you please wait until I'm dressed?"

Ms. Lea shook her head. "No. I don't give obnoxious and selfish children privacy. It's nothing I haven't seen before." She glared at her son and pointed to his clothes strewn all over the room from when he had looked for an outfit to wear the night before. "You'll be cleaning this room after we are done with our discussion. I did not raise you in a barn, young man."

The emerald eyed teenager nodded and quickly snatched a pair of boxers off the floor and had them on before the pillow, that had been covering his genitals, hit the floor. Axel slipped on a pair of black sweat shorts and a plain white T-shirt. Once he was done, he ran a hand through his flattened hair, sighing in relief when the red spikes regained their natural, pointy, positions.

"Alright, mom, what did you want to talk to me about? Besides calling Kairi a bitch. Because she was being one. Not in the actual definition of the word, but the smart-ass-teenage-girl definition." Axel cocked to his head to the side, rethinking his words, before he shook his head and continued, "Anyway, she dressed like a slut last night and I just found out she's dating one of my very best friends. And she's not the cute, little thirteen year old I use to know. She's like, the Queen of Whoresville and reigning mega-bitch of Destiny Islands." Axel crinkled his nose and pursed his lips as his distaste for his sister showed it's nasty horns.

Karla's bottom lip wobbled once before they set in a thin line as her acid green eyes glared at her son. "Axel Lea, you watch your mouth! Your attitude is uncalled for!" She glared at her son once more, then her gaze softened. She sighed, her shoulders slumping in defeat. "As for your sister...you're right."

Axel's glowing green eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "I am? She is?"

Ms. Lea sat on her son's unmade bed. "She's been acting out more and more and Kate," Axel smiled at the mention of his favorite aunt's name, "said she had the same problem with Rikku and promised that it was just a phase and Kairi would grow out of it." Karla sighed again. "However, Kairi hasn't.

"I was thinking about sending her to Radiant Garden to go to Hollow Bastion Academy, like you and Reno did, but I don't think that'd be enough for Kairi. I've looked into some other boarding schools and I've decided to send her to Twilight Institute for Today's Youth. They specialize in rehabilitating their students self-esteem and develop confidence, realize their individual personalities and focus on a creative outlet for the students." Karla's eyes were wet with tears as she finished talking.

Axel sat down on his bed next to his mother and wrapped an arm around her. "I think it sounds great, mom." He waited until he was sure his mother had regained her composure before asking, "Does Kairi know yet?"

Karla shook her head. "No. She would just rebel and act out more. I asked Riku to please return her affections, because I believed she loved him enough to let him lead her down a better path in life, but she got worse." The mother of three laughed bitterly. "I guess I can't blame you for being selfish when I selfishly forced Riku to date my only daughter, huh?"

The second oldest Lea child frowned as he pieced Riku's reaction to Kairi's physical advancements on her 'boyfriend' at the club last night with what his mother had just told him. The redheaded male smiled, pitying his best friend. His very gay best friend.

"So Riku's not bi? He's still as straight as a fucking rainbow?" The teenager asked happily.

"Language." Ms. Lea admonished before nodding. "Yes. Riku's only dating Kairi upon my request. He's still gay." She glanced at her son, whom still had a wide smile on his face. "Why, honey? Are you interested?" Her bright emerald green eyes sparkled mischievously. "He is quite the brilliant, handsome young man, isn't he?"

"Yeah, of course. He would have to be hot to even be associated with me." Axel grinned. "He's just not my type. I knew he was still in love with Sora."

Karla sighed. "Speaking of Sora, we need to discuss what exactly happened at the club last night." The playful gleam in her eyes was gone and had been replaced with a stern, reproving glare.

Her son gulped. "What does last night have to do with Sora?" The teenager asked, confused. He removed his arm from his mother's shoulder.

"Well, not Sora exactly, but last night does have a lot to do with his twin brother, Roxas." At the mention of his childhood best friend, Axel's blood ran cold and he froze.

"D- Do we really have to talk about him, mom? Can't we talk about Sora? Or Riku? How about Kairi? How are you going to get her to go to the new school?" The redhead tried desperately to change the subject.

Karla shook her head. "No, Axel, we can't. Because, I've been thinking," Axel groaned and slumped over, but sat up straight again when his mother smacked the back of his head. "As I was saying, I've been thinking and I remember how you, Riku, Roxas and Sora had a sleepover that you four always had at the end of the school year and then you came back early and begged to spend the rest of summer break at your father's house. When summer was over and it was time to come home and return to school, you refused, saying you needed to have a male's influence and pleaded me to let you attend Hollow Bastion Academy with Reno."

"I know." Axel clenched his teeth together. "What does all of this have to do with Ro- with Sora's twin?"

The redheaded male's mother turned her body to face her second child. "I want to know what happened at that sleepover, Axel."

The teenager sighed dramatically and fell backwards on his bed and stared at his black ceiling. "Well, we were-"

"Hold on," Karla interrupted her son, ignoring his annoyed huff of impatience. She pulled her legs up and crossed them pretzel-style and smiled at her son. "Sorry, wanted to be comfortable." The green eyed woman gestured with her hand to the male next to her, an open invitation. "Please, continue."

Axel opened his mouth, but before he could speak, his mother interrupted once again, "Should I make popcorn for this?"

"Mom! I'm not going to tell you if you don't stop talking!" Karla's second born child snapped.

The short, young woman held up her hands innocently. "I apologize. Go on."

Axel narrowed his acidic emerald orbs, waiting for any other interruptions before starting his story once more.

"It was the last day of school, the end of me and Riku's ninth grade year and the end of the Tenshi twins last day of their eighth grade year. They were really excited to be heading to the high school division of Destiny Preparatory, and me and Riku were excited for all us to be together again.

"Anyway, we were going to have the sleepover on the beach, but we decided to have it at Riku's house instead. Anyway, it was really late and Riku and Sora were asleep and me and um...Blondie...were the only ones awake. And I'd been in love with Blondie for years and I decided to tell him and then, well, things got out of hand."

"Oh my worlds! Axel! You didn't rape Roxas, did you?" Ms. Lea interrupted her son, her eyes wide with panic.

"Mom!" Axel exclaimed in a high-pitched voice, "I- he- we just-" Axel's stammering was interrupted by the doorbell.

"Your friends must be here." Karla glared at her son. "As soon as they leave, you and I will continue this conversation, is that understood?" The mother of three was more than slightly disappointed she wouldn't be able to hear the rest of the story.

The redheaded male jumped to his feet and strode toward the front door. "Gotta go!"

"We will continue this discussion later, young man!" Karla shouted over her son's thundering footsteps as he jogged down the stairs.

"Okay!" The tall teenager shouted back, thanking his lucky stars for getting him out of the sure-to-be-disappointing conversation with his mother. Axel grabbed and twisted the brass doorknob and yanked the door open.

However, the two people standing on his front porch had Axel mentally cursing his bad luck.

ARARAR

I'm sorry to leave you guys hanging, but this is just a filler chapter. This chapter was originally one chapter, but it was so long that I had to split it up. Sorry!

Also, I know I haven't updated this in almost a year, and I'm really sorry about that. I can't say I'll be updating more because I doubt that's the truth. I'm writing so many more stories than this, which have not been updated a lot longer than this one. Regardless, I'm sorry and I hope you all bear with me! Thank you!

Thank you to all of those who reviewed the first chapter. Hopefully, I won't take so long to update. :P

This chapter is named after Bon Jovi's song Complicated.