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Thirty-Seven days later

Christmas vacation was drawing closer and the weather was definitely getting colder, but Roxas didn't feel it as bad as he usually did. Dazzling white snow fell quickly and thickly in the mornings, but the evening almost all of it would have turned to a dirty grey slush except in a few sacred places.

It had been five glorious weeks, two majestic days, eighteen wonderful hours and thirty seven sumptuous minutes since that fateful day Axel and Roxas had started dating. During this time, Hayner had started to become even more nervous whenever Seifer's name can up in conversation, Sora had finally gotten over his discomfort for showing his affection for Riku in public, Kairi had given up gambling, Pence had managed to accommodate the fact that it was true that one in five people were actually gay whether they chose to admit it or not, Demyx had crashed the janitor's trolley into an exam hall full of students sitting a Psychology exam - Zexion had pointed out that he might have, in fact, been quite useful had anyone sitting the exam been stuck for something to write about - and received two weeks worth of detentions, Olette had taken to quoting anything embarrassing someone would say that no one except the person it was intended for should hear, Axel had turned out to be the closest to perfect a boyfriend could be. Perfect for Roxas anyway. And Roxas, he had been positively buoyant.

Roxas grinned across the room at Demyx at the sound of him whining about Zexion eating the bigger slice of cake.

"Well, you did offer it to me." Zexion reasoned, pretending to be serious, a ghost of a smile gracing his features.

"Yeah, but you were supposed to politely refuse it and take the smaller slice. That's what you would have done in a dream." Demyx complained.

Zexion rolled his eyes and pretended to smack the sulking Demyx over the head. The blonde pouted before grinning and kissing Zexion brightly on the cheek as he whispered something in his ear. Roxas smiled blissfully.

"Hey, Hayner, "Axel called from behind Roxas, "has Seifer gotten into your pants yet?"

Roxas snorted and laughed as Hayner flushed an unflattering shade of puce and stammered that there was nothing going on between him and Seifer and that there never would be because he wasn't gay, oh no, not in the slightest.

"Yeah, sure." Axel said sarcastically, smirking widely.

"I do not like Seifer." Hayner insisted through gritted teeth. "Every time I see him I just get the urge to-"

"Shove him up against the nearest wall and have your wicked way with him?" Riku suggested, a smirk growing on his face.

Most of the occupants of the room broke into fitful laughter - excluding Hayner, of course. Roxas thought that the poor guy must be getting a bit fed up with all these jokes about him and Seifer (okay, really fed up) but, to be honest, they just couldn't get old.

"No!" Hay protested hotly. "I was going to say that I-"

"Wanted him to shove you up against the nearest wall and have his wicked way with you." Axel supplemented, grinning.

Hayner huffed and crossed his arms, clearly annoyed, but the laughter continued.

"I guess we know who would be the bottom in that relationship now." Pence commented laughing. This earned him a glare from the sulking Hayner.

"We've always know that Hayner's a bottom, "said Axel. "Where have you been, Pence?"

"He's a straight man, Axel," Roxas defended. "Forgive him."

Pence's face fell and everyone laughed, including Olette who pinched his cheek patronisingly.

Axel's warm breath tickled Roxas' pink cheek as he kissed it. Roxas smiled and laid his head back down on Axel's shoulder. The redhead shifted him slightly so his head was on his warm chest. Kairi and Olette 'awwed' and share a quick giggle.

"Oh my gosh, can we play Never Have I Ever?" Kairi squealed, pointing to the drinks cabinet excitedly and bouncing in her seat.

Zexion shook his head, "Wait 'till Selphie and Tidus get here." He grinned. "They always say the most interesting things and then end up getting into arguments about whether they have to drink or not."

Riku snorted. "Last time Tidus played he threw up on my Mom. I don't think she was too happy about it."

Kairi pouted, "Oh, come on guys! They can join in when they get here." She whined."Roxas, you want to play it, don't you?" She looked at him pleadingly.

"Why are you asking me? It's not my birthday for another few hours. He grinned at the thought of midnight. He would actually be legal. Excellent. "Besides, all I want to do is-"

"Get off with me." Axel finished, grinning widely.

Roxas snorted. "I wasn't going to say that but, hey, sounds good to me!" He laughed and leaned over to kiss him.

"Hey, as hot as you guys are, I don't think my Dad will appreciate walking in on you guys doing anything on the couch." Demyx said with a touch of logic.

"Yeah, you're right. Come on, Ax." Roxas grabbed the red-head's hand and pulled him out of the room, a whopping grin plastered on both their faces.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't!" Hayner yelled after them, recovering from his 'depressed' state.

"And what does that mean? They both have permission to fuck Seifer anywhere at all?" Riku said, snickering.

Hayner went back to his corner, sulking.

Two figures watched the scene, one with amusement and delight and the other with confusion and worry.

"Seriously, Jess, what happened?" Cloud asked, bewildered and ever so slightly anxious. "At the funeral everything was normal - well, as normal as it gets - and it's only been, what, three months?"

Jess smirked. "That's what you get for going away on business trips, hun." She said sweetly. He would never go on one again, and if he did; he would ring at least five times a day for updates on what was going on.

"I guess…" he mumbled. "So… what did happen?"

"Girls." She replied simply. "That's what happened."

"Don't you mean boys?" he chocked on his laughter. "Or boyfriends for that matter…"

"Nope." She patted him on the shoulder and smiled. "Definitely girlfriends."

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Author's Note: Oh. My. God. I didn't want to finish this story. I wanted it go on forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and- yeah, you get the picture. I'm sorry for how short this is, by the way. But, you know what they say: keep it short and sweet. :3

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