Author's note: Doods. I am so happy. All your reviews make me want to jump, sing and dance with JOY. Yes, yes they do. Yeah, I'm sorry the updates are getting a little slower, but my teacher are really piling the homework on me. I wish I had taken some easier classes. I really do. ANYHOW. I've got a little competition for you. I want to see who can guess the quote that I have said myself. It's not very obvious but I want to see if anyone can get it. You probably won't but it's all good fun.
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-o-x-Chapter 19-x-o-
Lunchtime was awkward and aggravating. Actually, that was an understatement.
Seifer had 'taken the liberty' of sitting with Roxas, much to the displeasure of everyone on that table. But Roxas was quietly grateful; he didn't want to imagine what it would be like sitting at Seifer's usual table. He would have to pretend not to be feeling nervous and uncomfortable while he was being scrutinised by the other people on the table and being made out with. Hmm. Not a pleasant vision.
Oh yeah, and Sora was describing the going on in his Classical Civilisations class.
"And then I said, 'well, that's Crassus all over!'" He grinned lopsidedly.
"How very witty." Seifer said sarcastically, pulling Roxas closer to him using the arm that was around the blonde's waist.
Sora's face fell and he gave Roxas a reproachful look that quite clearly said, 'get rid of the kill-joy, Roxas.'
Hayner was smoldering silently in his chair, glaring at Seifer as though his life depended on it.
"What's wrong, Hayner?" Roxas asked, partly to break the awkward silence that had settled and partly so he could keep Seifer away from his mouth. For a few seconds at least.
"I'm wondering when Mr. Douchebag here will realise that he is not welcome."
Roxas had been wondering this too. He decided that Seifer was probably just ignoring the looks he was receiving from Roxas' friends. Sora was almost crying which meant that Riku was glaring at the older boy fiercely, with a protective arm around Sora. Olette was consoling an horror-struck Pence and exchanging worried looks with Kairi. Tidus was muttering under his breath and stabbing his piping hot chicken and mushroom pie miserably. Selphie, however, was smiling enough for them all, because she didn't hate anyone.
"Mr. Shower Bag? That doesn't make any sense…" Sora said, looking at Hayner questionably.
"Nah, A douchebag is a dirty vag-"
"We know, Hayner!" Kairi cut across him looking revolted, "Don't ever try to explain these thing to Sora. Especially not while we are eating."
He snorted and grinned before glaring at Seifer, who had (almost) been smiling.
Roxas sighed hopelessly, he really didn't want Seifer to be with them either, but if he expressed this feeling his (or rather, Rikku, Naminé and Yuffie's) plan would be foiled. No. He felt a different tactic coming on.
"Hey, I have to go catch Zexion about our Biology project." He said, playing up to Seifer.
The older boy smirked slightly, "Okay, let's go." He said, making to stand up.
Roxas stopped him, "No, stay here. I need to be able to concentrate and you would… distract me…" he whispered the last bit softly for effect, and it really worked. For the second time that day, he decided that girls really were cleverer than he had once thought.
Seifer smirked his arrogantly inflated face off and kissed Roxas, triggering many groans of annoyance and withering comments from the other occupants of the table.
Roxas stood up and laughed as his 'boyfriend' winked at him roguishly. It was forced laughter.
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"So, basically, when the electrical impulses have to travel over a synapse you add ten milliseconds on to the time?"
"Yes."
"Damn." Roxas crossed out his answer for question 'five b' and began writing the correct one.
He had only been half-lying when he had used need to talk to Zexion about a biology project as an excuse to leave Seifer and his friends. He did need to talk to Zexion about biology; to make sure that he didn't get an F. Again.
"There." He said, throwing down his pen triumphantly.
Zexion smiled and took his own books out of his bag and placed them neatly on the desk in front of him. If Roxas had learnt one thing about Zexion over the few weeks he had known him, it was that he was a borderline perfectionist. It didn't bother Roxas but it was ever so slightly irritating to have someone who always seemed to have an answer for everything.
"So, are you going to tell me where this whole 'Seifer is my boyfriend' situation came from?" Zexion asked, looking at Roxas expectantly.
Roxas seemed to consider this for a moment before shrugging, "Well, he wanted to fuck me behind the bike sheds but I turned him down, saying that I wanted to get to know him better first because Rikku told me too. So he kinda asked me out and… here we are."
Zexion looked dumbfounded, "But… I thought you liked Axel!"
The blonde blinked at him in astonishment, "You what? How did you- I never told you that!"
Zexion chuckled, "I know."
"So… how did you know that then?" Roxas asked, baffled.
"I can read minds."
"Wow. Really?"
"No."
"Oh."
Roxas was surprised, Zexion didn't joke very often. Then again, he had been spending quite a lot of time with Demyx recently; maybe his behavior was rubbing off on him. Speaking of Demyx-
"Hey, are you gonna tell me what's going on with you and-"
"No." Zexion cut across him firmly, " At least, not now, because you are going to explain what is going on with you. Right now."
"I am?"
"Yes, you are." He replied, smiling once again.
Roxas sighed, "Alright then. I don't really know how to put it but… here we go. You see, I told Rikku that there might be a chance that I liked Axel, and she told Naminé and Yuffie and they all came up with this crazy plan to get us together. It might just be working but I really don't know, I mean- Urg, I'm not making any sense, am I?"
Zexion's smile brightened, "Of course you are. I understand perfectly."
"Err… right, okay." Roxas said uncertainly.
"You know, I think Axel likes you too even if he hasn't quite realised it yet. I know he has a girlfriend and everything but-"
"He what?" Roxas almost shouted, not caring that the girls at the back of the classroom were staring at him in alarm and curiosity, nor that the biology technician, who had been fiddling with something in the large fish tank, was looking at him in a disapproving manner. Zexion's words had ripped through him like a knife through the robes of Julius Caesar. Axel had a girlfriend. A girlfriend.
"I thought you knew…" Zexion said tentatively.
Now that Roxas thought about it, he realised how obvious it had been. Demyx had said, had he not, that Axel couldn't use Larxene as an excuse for not finding some hot sophomore to chase after, Roxas remembered the way the blonde's icey eyes pierced him when he has completed the first stage of Rikku, Naminé, and Yuffie's stupid plan. A plan which now seemed pointless. Why would Axel want to give up his girlfriend for Roxas?
"Roxas…?" Zexion was looking at him in concern, "Did you not know?"
He gulped, "No, I didn't."
Zexion shifted uncomfortably, "Well, I was going to say that he doesn't seem very interested in her."
Roxas glanced up hopefully, "Really?"
He nodded, "Yes, Demyx could tell you more but I've notice while I've been with them that they don't act much like a couple. He doesn't seem to treat her in that sort of way, if you understand my meaning."
The blonde nodded slowly, "Yeah, I get you. So… you think I should talk to Demyx about it?"
"Yes, I do. He'll tell you just about anything. I'm sure. He will just want what is best for Axel."
Roxas sounded a hollow laugh, "You think I'm the best thing for Axel?"
Zexion shrugged, "Well, I don't see why you shouldn't be."
That statement surprised Roxas, but he did not try to deny it. It was a rather good thought to have swimming around his mind. It really was.
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Jess surveyed the three girls in front of her with sparked interest.
"You mean to tell me that my nephew is using this Simon boy to make Demyx's friend Axel jealous?"
"Seifer." Naminé corrected, straightening her skirt, "And yes."
"I see…" Jess scratched her shin thoughtfully, "Yes, I do see that. But, why?"
Rikku rolled her eyes, "Because Roxie really really likes Axel and want to have happy, hot gay-"
"What she means is," Naminé interjected, "that Roxas would very much like to go out with Axel. He likes him. A lot."
"Right. I can definitely see that happening," Jess smiled, "But I didn't know that Roxas was… well, such a girl. I mean, using another guy shamelessly to make someone jealous is a pretty bitchy thing to do."
The three girls shifted uncomfortably in their seats.
"It was Rikku's idea!" Yuffie screamed quickly.
Rikku gasped at her, "I think you mean our idea!"
"Don't try and shift the blame on to us!"
"I'm not, we're all sharing the blame!"
"Stop!" Naminé covered both of their mouths with her hands, they both carried on their now muffled argument, heatedly, "Honestly you two! You're so childish!"
"Hey," Jess interrupted, "I never said I didn't approve."
Naminé's jaw dropped, Rikku and Yuffie stopped arguing and they all started at her, flabbergasted.
"On the contrary," she continued, "I remember doing something similar when I was in college- but that's a different story. No, I don't have anything against it, I just hope it bloody well works!" she grinned frenziedly. They were all still staring at her, stunned it silence, "Alright, snap outta it!" She clicked her fingers.
Rikku suddenly grinned cheekily, "What did you get up to at college, then?"
Jess smiled gleefully, "Well, when I was in my first year, I completely doted on this guy there. And I had a friend called Cloud who everyone knew liked me, except myself of course."
Rikku, Naminé and Yuffie settled down grinning at her joyously.
"Then one day Cloud asks me out. I didn't really know what to say at first, you see, I didn't want to hurt his feelings but I knew that I liked this other guy more. So I said yes and thought I would try it out, deciding that it was a good opportunity to get the other guy to notice me and I could have fun at the same time. It did work, but it didn't turn out like I thought it would."
"What do you mean?" Yuffie asked, frowning slightly in confusion.
"Let me finish. I did manage to get noticed by the other guy, three months later and he showed interest in me. But by this time I had almost completely forgotten about him."
"What did you do?"
Jess smiled widely, "It's not got a happy ending. Are you sure you want to know the rest?"
"Yeah!" Yuffie shouted.
"I married Cloud, had two kids then signed the papers for a divorce."
"But asides from that, it's such a romantic story! And you two don't live together anymore…" Yuffie cried tearfully.
"True. Things just turned out that way. And we're still good friends. It's not a bad thing." She winked at them and walked out of the room.
"Wow. My Mum never tells cool stories like that." Yuffie scowled at the invisible figure of her mother.
"Yeah, same."
"Hmm."
Silence fell. Then Naminé voiced what they'd all been thinking, "What if that happens to Roxas?"
Author's note: What Lols. What Cahoots. I actually love that last section. I don't know why, but I really do. Did you?
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