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Ch.4: Good Enough To Eat
"FOOD FIGHT!!" the age old battle cry known to public school students around the world rand out across the cafeteria. And almost instantaneously the food began to fly. "Ewww!! Mar-Mar help me! " Larxene squealed as she tried to shield her face with her forearms. Marluxia grabbed Larxene by the shoulders and jerked her in front of him to deflect a flying pudding cup that had been sent his way.
"All's fair in love and food fights. Sorry sweetie" the pink haired boy shrugged before crouching down onto the floor and crawling away underneath a nearby table to shield himself from the tornado of food-like substances whirling through the air. "ooh! I hate men!" Larxene grumbled as she tried to stumble out of the line of fire and towards the doors.
Excited cheers and screams raised over the humming and clacking of food and silverware being tossed through the air. By now a couple of kids had turned their tables onto the side like a sort of fort from which they proceeded to attack other tables. "This is insane!" Kairi yelled in frustration as she ducked down behind the overturned table in front of her. "This is awesome!" Namine and Axel cheered as they both popped up from behind their table to hurl a few handfuls of corn and mashed potatoes across the cafeteria. "Come on Sora! Riku! Get over here" Selphie called out from her peeping position behind the table.
The two best friends were still out in the center of the dinner time massacre and were struggling to make it to the protective arms of their group's mini fort. Sora was on his belly trying to army crawl over to his friends while Riku walked behind him holding up two trays as if they were shields in order to prevent the brunette and himself from being pelted with baked chicken breasts.
Zexion on the other hand had managed to find shelter under one of the undisturbed tables with Marluxia and a few other campers. "Whoa this is so cool! I've never been in a food fight before1 isn't this exciting Roxie?" Demyx asked in high spirits as he threw another handful of green Jell-O over the table fort. Roxas was sitting against the back of the table fort with his knees up to his chin. "Not really" the other blonde teen replied with slight irritation as he reached up to pull a piece of broccoli from his hair.
"NOOO! Riku!!" Sora cried out a bit melodramatically as he watched Riku trip in a puddle of spilled fruit punch and fall backwards. As the silver haired teen fell back he let go of the two trays he had been holding. "Finally! Riku's down, let's get him!" a young girl with short black hair as she and a couple other girls peeked out from behind other tables. The girls came out from their protective hiding spots and began throwing handfuls of corn at the fallen Riku. "Sora just leave him! He's done for but you still have a chance!" Axel yelled out to the brunette as Sora turned around and began crawling towards Riku.
"No! I can't do that to Riku. I'll save you!!" the spiky haired teen declared before diving over Riku's stunned and corn soaked form. "SORA!!" Riku, Axel, Demyx, Kairi, and Selphie cried out as the shorter boy laid over top of Riku and proceeded to take the brunt of the food assault. Roxas peeked out from behind the table and rolled his eyes "oh please. Get a pulse you guys! It's just food" the spiky haired blonde grumbled as he settled himself back behind the table.
The others ignored Roxas' kill joy comment and watched in horror as Sora and Riku were pelted with chicken, puddings, and various vegetable side dishes. Suddenly Demyx grabbed an unopened bottle of soda that was lying near her feet and stood up. "Oh brave comrades, I shall avenge you!" He cried out as she proceeded to violently shake the bottle of acidic sweetened water. And just as he was twisting the cap open a loud slamming noise was heard from the doorway.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?" came a loud and angered voice from the doorway. Suddenly all activity ceased as the campers looked over to see none other than Dr. Saix. The blue haired man glared at the room full of food covered teens and began making his way to the middle of the cafeteria which had currently been serving as the front line of the battle field. Demyx swallowed hard and the hand that was currently positioned on the soda cap twitched slightly causing the fizz to bubble up behind the cap and with an immense force it blew the cap off and right into the face of Dr. Saix.
And for a moment everything was silent. Not a single breath was uttered and not a sound could be heard except for the crackling sound of the fizz shooting out from the bottle and splashing onto the face of the blue haired counselor. Demyx could only stand frozen in wide eyed horror as the soda bottle dropped limply from his hand. 'Oh shit' was the single thought shared by Demyx and his seven companions.
If Demyx didn't know any better he'd say that Saix's eyes flashed for a moment with a murderous glow. But he was sure that it was all in his mind. "Ok, which one of you little skid marks started this disgusting affair?" Dr. Saix asked in his gruffest and most deadly calm voice. All the kids were still frozen in their positions and looked around at one another unsurely. Apparently Saix wasn't a very patient man and he gritted his teeth in irritation at the lack of answers he was receiving.
"I said, WHO!!" he roared in anger. Axel squeaked in fear and clung to Roxas' shoulders for comfort which caused the shaken blonde to stiffen his body and blush harshly at the unexpected yet not entirely unwanted contact. Saix gave one last sweeping glare to the fear stricken campers before they all raised their hands to point at the now cowering Demyx. It took Demyx a moment before he realized that his fellow campers had just ratted him out but when he did the blonde nearly choked in shock.
Demyx crossed his arms over his chest and glared back at his friends "thanks a lot traitors" he grumbled as a few of his friends looked away guiltily. But Demyx was brought back to the graveness of the situation when Dr. Saix grabbed him roughly by the back of the collar and pulled him close to his scarred face. Demyx let out a small yelp as the older man gave him a disgusted look "it figures. Well young man I'm going to expect you to stay here and clean up this entire cafeteria as punishment" Dr Saix said with a cruel smirk.
"And you're going to stay here and clean up every little crumb off the floor even if it takes you all night. Understand?" the creepy counselor asked him. Demyx nodded weakly and managed to force out a small "yes sir" before Saix shoved the boy away and looked around at the petrified counselors. "You ungrateful little brats make me sick…" he mumbled as he shook his head at the lot of them. "Ok you unruly heathens…DINNER'S OVER1! GET OUT NOW!" he yelled as the group of campers quickly began to scatter and rush out of the cafeteria to their cabins, leaving Demyx alone to face his fate.
A few minutes after they had all ran out of the cafeteria Sora's group had met up again by the call board. "Aw man, Dem is in big trouble now" Axel sighed sorrowfully. Roxas rolled his eyes at the redhead and jabbed an elbow in his chest harshly "Only because you guys ratted him out. Some friends!" Roxas snapped at the pitiful and dirty looking group. The others all lowered their heads in guilt and suddenly Roxas felt bad for reminding the already self loathing group about their betrayal.
"Well I didn't see you stick up for him either" Marluxia replied smartly as he appeared from behind the corner of the main cabin and made his way to the call board. Roxas felt his cheeks burn red and he turned to glare at Marluxia "what are you doing here? I thought you and that Lark skank were attached at the hip" Roxas bit back defensively. Marluxia shrugged and leaned back against the call board "I'm a double agent" he replied with a wink. Riku sighed and put a hand on Roxas' tensed shoulder "don't worry Roxas, he isn't a threat" Riku reassured the blonde and Roxas just nodded.
Kairi bit her bottom lip "but what about Demyx? Shouldn't we like go back and help him?" she suggested as she looked between Axel and Riku. "Hey where's Zexion?" Selphie asked as she noticed that the silver haired little emo was no where in sight. Sora looked around and furrowed his brow which was a bit hard with all the now hardening mashed potatoes stuck to his forehead. "I didn't see him when we all left…maybe he went back to help Demy" Sora mused. The others seemed to agree. "Well I don't know about you losers but I'm going to take a shower now…I feel totally nasty" Marluxia said with a slight cringe.
It seemed that it wasn't until then that the others remembered that they were also covered in dirt and grime. "Yeah, you're right…I forgot how messy we all got" Namine giggled as she brushed a piece of lettuce off of her right shoulder. The others nodded and murmured their agreement. "Well hopefully Zexion is with Demy so he wont have to clean up alone. we have to remember to make it up to him some how" Sora said with a sad smile. "Yeah, it's getting late we should all go back to our cabins and call it a day" Axel said with a yawn. The others muttered various forms of agreement and the group made to disband.
As they all began to walk off back to their respective cabins Axel grabbed Roxas lightly by the arm. The spiky haired blonde turned around to face the pale skinned teen and he glared at him "what do you want?" Roxas asked as gruffly as he could (which wasn't much). Axel simply looked down at the blue eyed teen and smiled which greatly unnerved Roxas. Axel then began to move closer and closer to Roxas' face and the blonde teen could feel his heart begin to race and the warmth rise in his cheeks. Then Axel lowered his lips to level with Roxas' ear "I just wanted to tell you that you look really cute with that corn in your hair" the tall redhead whispered seductively in Roxas' ear.
Roxas felt his body shiver at the vibrations Axel's thick silky voice produced against his ear. Roxas shook his head slightly to try and regain his composure before yanking his arm from Axel and pushing the redhead away roughly. "Shut up! Idiot…" Roxas mumbled irately before turning around and grabbing Sora's arm. Roxas proceeded to wrench the petite teen away from Riku's side and drag him along as he stormed off angrily to their cabin. Axel watched the boy leave in shock but his surprise was quickly replaced with a big cocky grin. Axel simply chuckled to himself before turning and heading off for his own cabin with Riku. 'What a cutie…and he's playing hard to get. This should be fun!' Axel thought smugly as he all but skipped back to their cabin, much to Riku's confusion and fright.
"Urrrgh! Why me?" Demyx whined as he slumped forward against the wooden handle of the mop he was now holding. After the room had cleared out Dr. Saix had left Demyx alone with a mop, bucket, and a trash bag. And here he was now trying to mop up a particularly large and sticky puddle near the food line. "Awwww man! I'm never going to clean this all up by myself. I want my mommy" Demyx groaned as he dropped to his knees and tapped his forehead against the wooden mop handle.
"Hey" a calm quiet voice interrupted Demyx's private moment of despair. The latter turned around quickly holding the mop as if it were a sword to face the intruder. "Who the fu…" Demyx began to exclaim but he stopped himself once he realized that the intruder was actually the cute young emo looking boy Sora had introduced to them earlier. "Z-Zexion? Holy crap you scared me!" Demyx panted in relief as he placed his hand on his chest to try and calm his breathing.
Zexion simply shrugged "sorry, I didn't mean to" he replied softly. Demyx felt a smile begin to tweak at the corners of his lips as he noted how silly but absolutely adorable the sullen faced teen looked as his face and hair was covered with chocolate pudding. "It's ok" the blonde giggled as he stood himself up and took a step towards the shorter boy. "What are you doing here? Dr. Saix told everyone to get out, and you don't want to invoke his wrath" Demyx warned the darkly dressed boy as he turned back to his soapy bucket and began dunking the mop into the bucket.
Zexion stood there and watched as Demyx wrung the mop tightly to get all the excess water out and began to glide the mop back and forth over the puddle to absorb the sticky mixture. Demyx continued his mopping. He figured that from the strong silence behind him Zexion must have left. So he went on shlopping the wet soapy mop around on the floor under the tray rail of the food line.
A rustling of plastic brought Demyx out of his concentration and he looked over his shoulder to see Zexion kneeling down near an overturned table while holding the black trash bag and picking up discarded pieces of food and paper cups. "What are you doing?" Demyx asked rather stupidly. And he must have realized the stupidity of his question by the blank look Zexion gave him because Demyx immediately began to blush and shook his head. "No that's not it, I know what you're doing. What I meant to ask was why are you doing it?" Demyx corrected himself as Zexion gave him a small half smile.
"Well I felt that I should help you since I was the one who made you start the food fight in the first place" Zexion replied before turning back to his former activity. Well, Demyx had to admit that he was touched at the boy's sense of responsibility. Demyx watched as the shorter boy picked up a piece of mangled baked chicken and tossed it into the bag. The smile that had crept up on Demyx's face fell slightly as he set his mop aside and walked over to Zexion. The blonde sitar player knelt down beside the other boy and sighed.
"Thanks a lot but you don't have to help me. I'll be fine" Demyx said as he placed a hand on Zexion's black clad shoulder and gave him a somewhat reassuring smile. Zexion stopped his trash picking and turned to meet the other boy's brilliant blue eyes with his own stormy grey ones. "I know" he said "but I want to help" he said with a soft earnestness that made Demyx's insides go numb. "uh…t-thanks Zexy. I owe you one" Demyx said quickly before turning his head the opposite direction in an attempt to try and cool his heated face.
'W-what is it with me tonight? He didn't say more than 8 words and I felt like my heart was gonna explode' Demyx thought to himself as he tried to inhale and exhale slower to try and calm his heart beat down. 'and those eyes…those eyes…god I think I'm going to have a nose bleed' Demyx panicked. "Zexy?" came a slightly curious voice at his ear "did you just call me Zexy?" the voice repeated. And Demyx almost screamed and fell over at the sudden feeling of warm breath caressing the sensitive skin of his inner ear.
"W-What?" The now red faced blonde stuttered as he whipped around to face the as usual stoic looking face of Zexion. "Um yeah…well you see, I always call my friends by nicknames so I just…uhhh. Well I guess I should have asked you if it was ok first but well…I'm sorry if you want I could uhh…" Demyx's rambling was cut off by a finger pressed to his lips. "It's fine, I like it. I think it's cute" Zexion said with a small smile that seemed to light up his entire face.
Demyx felt his stomach jump into his throat as he watched Zexion pull his finger away and go back to cleaning the floor. Demyx felt somewhat light headed as he just knelt there looking over at Zexion. 'Oh my god, oh my god! He's even cuter when he smiles! Oh shit!' Demyx thought with an audible squeak as he felt a faint droplet of something warm and coppery drip from his nostril. Demyx slapped his hands over his nose just as Zexion was turning around to see what was wrong "are you ok?" he asked the blonde with a hint of worry marring his features.
Demyx shot up to his feet and backed away carefully while nodding "yeah I'm ok! I'm great! I just had to sneeze that's all…sorry" Demyx sputtered as he turned his back to Zexion and attempted to go back to his mopping. Zexion just shook his head and smiled lightly at the blonde who Zexion was had noticed was rather cute when flustered. Zexion reached into his pants' pocket and pulled out a pair of earphones attached to the black I-pod nano in his pocket. Zexion reached into the pocket to turn the device on and then placed the pieces in his ears and went back to his cleaning as he listened to his audio-play of "Hamlet" being read by Kenneth Branagh.
Demyx grabbed his mop and wiped the blood trickling from his nose on the back of his sleeve. Demyx cast a glance over to Zexion and sighed in relief upon seeing that he was already contently emerged in his work. Demyx smacked the mop handle against his forehead 'Oh god I'm such an idiot! I'm becoming like Riku now. He must think I'm such a retard…uggh this is gonna be a long summer' Demyx thought gloomily as he went back to mopping.
"Can you believe him? It seems like every time I see him he's leering at me with this stupid perverted cocky grin…it pisses me off" Roxas grumbled as he paced back and forth in their cabin. Sora sighed as he finished toweling off his hair. He had just gotten out of the shower and it seemed that from the very moment they had stepped into the cabin Roxas had been ranting about Axel.
"Uh-huh" Sora replied distantly as he stretched his legs out over the bed and began pulling back the sheets. Roxas still had his towel over his damp hair and was only wearing a pair of white and red stripped boxers. It seemed that in all his frustration he'd forgotten to change into his Pajamas after his shower. Sora yawned as he slid beneath the covers and propped himself up on his elbow to stare at his cousin.
"I mean what kind of guy just smirks at another guy all the time? And then he seems to always be touching me! Did you see him in the cafeteria and at the call board? He's like a leech! A perverted, smirking, pointy haired little leech" Roxas fumed as he crossed his arms over his bared chest and scowled at the thought of the redhead. Sora shrugged "maybe he likes you. He did seem to pay you an extra lot of attention" the brunette suggested casually as he rubbed his steadily drooping eyes.
Roxas went rigid for a moment before turning back to Sora with a look of disgust "that's retarded! If he liked me why would he keep acting like such a cocky ass? No, he's just being a jerk that's all. He's just teasing me because I'm new. Jerk!" Roxas spat back angrily as he stomped over to the built in ladder and switched off the light switch before climbing up to his bed. Sora rolled onto his back and closed his eyes awaiting the serenity of sleep. "I cant believe you can be friends with such a jerk Sora" Roxas grumbled suddenly causing Sora to crack one of his eyes open in the darkness.
'So much sleep…' Sora thought with a small pout. "I don't know Roxie, from the way you keep talking about him I think you might like Axel a little bit too" Sora couldn't help but snicker as he said this and rolled onto his side facing the wall. Roxas shot up from his position on the bed "What!?" he all but shrieked into the dark cabin. "Oh just admit it. I saw how you kept blushing whenever he looked at you. You like him so just stop lying to yourself and just admit it" Sora said in a half yawn as he snuggled deeper into the covers.
For once Roxas thanked god that Sora was on the bottom bed because the blush that he felt heat his cheeks seemed bright enough to cut through the darkness. Roxas was silent for a moment and laid back on his bed and closed his eyes "Whatever Sora. Stop confusing me with you and Riku" the blonde replied huffily before turning on his side and allowing the darkness of sleep to over come him. "What!?" Sora squeaked.
Now it was Sora's turn to shoot up from his bed in shock. Unfortunately the bottom of the top bunk was a bit lower than Sora expected and he whacked his head against the wooden frame of the top bed. "Ow…." Sora whined as he rubbed his head and laid back down on his pillow. The sound of deep slow breathing caught Sora's ear and he realized that Roxas was asleep so Sora just rolled onto his side again and closed his eyes attempting to sleep.
The next morning was warm and silent save for the sounds of the forest. The sun had just begun to rise up above the treetops of the forest surrounding the camp. But still it was silent as all the campers were still heavy with sleep and lost in their own dreams. But sadly all good things must come to an end.
"GOOD MORNING CAMPERS. I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED YOUR FIRST NIGHT HERE AT CAMP SPOTLIGHT." The loud muffled voice echoed from over the loud speakers outside each of the cabins. "Ehhh…what the hell? What time is it?" Roxas mumbled as he began to toss his head from side to side attempting to grab back onto the last remaining coat tails of sleep.
"BUT NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO AWAKEN TO A BRIGHT NEW DAY! AND REMEMBER BREAKFAST WILL BEGIN AT 10. CHECK THE CALLBOARD TO SIGN UP FOR YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES. THAT IS ALL" and with that the booming voice was gone and replaced with music over the loud speakers.
The blonde groaned as he slowly pried one blue eye open and immediately shut it again as it was assaulted by an excess of sunlight. "Roxie? Roxie are you awake yet?" Sora whispered slowly as he stood on his tip toes on the edge of his bed and leaned up to hover over Roxas' face. The blonde grumbled as he slowly opened his eye again trying to adjust it to the light. "Roxie? Are you still sleeping?" Sora asked as he began to poke Roxas' nose with his index finger.
Roxas let out a low growl before arching upward and catching the tip of Sora's finger in his teeth. "YOOOOWWW!!!" Sora shrieked as he pulled back his finger causing him to loose balance and fall back onto the floor. There was a loud thud and Roxas sat up bleary eyed on his bed and scratched his unruly blonde locks. "What do you think bone head?" Roxas grumbled as he threw the blanket off of his body and began to crawl down the ladder to the floor. Sora sat in the middle of the floor holding his sore finger as Zexion appeared from the bathroom wearing black jeans and a short sleeved black shirt.
"Are you ok?" the darkly dressed teen asked Sora as he sat back on his own bed and began to tie up the laces of his black hiking boots. Sora nodded as he nursed his sore finger "no! Roxas bit me!" Sora whined as Roxas zipped up his khaki walking shorts. "Well you shouldn't have been poking me in the face!" Roxas snapped back as he began fishing around his bag to find some toiletries. Suddenly he stopped and looked down at his pocket and frowned "what the?" Roxas mumbled as he reached into his pants' pocket and pulled out his cell phone which was currently vibrating "I thought I couldn't get service here…" Roxas mused allowed as he flipped the phone open and put the receiver up to his ear.
"Who is this? Oh…um…hi. Yeah we're up…..oh ok….15 minutes? Ok….wait…how did you get this number….oh…um…bye" Roxas ended the awkward conversation with a flip of his phone. "What? Who was it? Is something wrong?" Sora prodded anxiously as he stood himself up and walked over to Roxas. The blonde haired boy looked from Sora to Zexion and then back at his phone "it was Demyx. He said he remembered my number from yesterday when he was looking at my phone…weird" Roxie said with a shudder.
"What did he say?" Zexion asked as he finished up his last boot. "He said for us to meet him and the others at the call board to sign up or something" Roxas shrugged. Sora nodded and smiled "oh ok! Well then hurry and get ready so we can sign up for the good classes" Sora seemed to be returning to his normal cheerful self. Roxas gave him another odd look "classes? I thought we were at camp not summer school" the blonde replied a bit hostilely.
"Well this is a performing arts camp so while we're here we take workshop classes in whatever our fields of interest are. Each day the campers go sign up for different workshops at the call board. It's a first come first serve type of thing" Zexion answered the blonde with his usual melancholic voice.
Roxas rolled his eyes at his two roommates and grabbed his bag before turning to the bathroom "whatever. I might be a while, so you guys can go on ahead if you want. I'll just sign up for whatever's left" Roxas shrugged as he sauntered off to the tiny cabin bathroom. Sora pouted slightly in the direction his cousin had gone "aww but that's no fun" he whined. Zexion simply placed a hand on Sora's shoulder and motioned for them to leave. "Don't worry he'll be fine…I guess." Zexion shrugged as they exited the cabin to go meet the others.
T.B.C
A/N: well this chapter was kind of pointless and filler-ish except for a little Zexion/Demyx fluff at the beginning. Don't worry next chapter will be back to good stuff. We get to see more interactions with the instructors and maybe even some Axel and Roxas centric fluff and eventually we'll get to Sora and Riku.
Have no fear I shall update eventually! But I just got into a new play so I may start getting a bit busier around February. I'm Cobweb in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Yay! I love that play! Well don't worry I'll be back soon so just leave me some reviews and show me what you think of the story line so far.
Oh and I was wondering how you guys feel about me adding a smidge of Yuri in here. I was thinking a little Selphie/Kairi just to spice things up. It wouldn't be a central part of the story but maybe I may add it in later. Well anyway…REVIEW PLEASE!!! - Chizz