Okay since there is suspected confusion about the last small scene of the last chapter let me clear it up for you by saying yes; there is an initial reason why Sora blurted out that Roxas liked Namine. He didn't do it because he hates Roxas or because he wants to make fun of him. The reason is going to be out there soon enough but you'll have to figure it out on your own.

This chapter is dedicated to Saint Patrick's Day. Yes it's April. Then again, in this fiction it's near the middle of March right now. So you shut your mouth

Thanks for the 1k hits and please enjoy the 6th chapter of WSSAFLC (acronyms are so much fun, right ;D)

It was Saint Patrick's Day. What did this mean? Tourism was coming around.

Lots and lots of damn tourism.

Now don't get me wrong; I know that tourism is good for our town, seeing as it boosts up economy a lot. Why did I hate the tourism so much? In retrospect I don't hate it any other day. On Saint Patrick's Day though people tend to get smashed on hard alcohol, which means there's a lot of screaming, fighting and people swarming around, not even knowing which way they're going. That is until they end up in the police station jail for about twenty-four hours for bar fights or drunk driving. Wasn't this semi-holiday supposed to be about the color green, celebrating a saint from Ireland and eating some kind of grand feast? Maybe they thought of it being an Irish rip-off of Thanksgiving and so they turned it into a beer fest? Whatever the reason I hated this holiday, and I was just damn happy that it's usually celebrated on the weekends.

I felt like I had a hangover and I didn't even drink a single drop of poison liquid. Mom was at work today at Never Was University and Sora was hanging out on the streets with Kairi and Riku. That meant I had the whole house to myself to contemplate my next move. Since a week ago when Sora decided it would be fun to blurt out to Namine that I liked her I think she started to avoid me. A couple times after that lunch hour she didn't even come to school. Olette just told me she was sick with the flu, but I had a feeling she was sick of me. My urge to just pick up our kitchen phone and to call her up to tell her that Sora was an idiot and I didn't like her; then I would just be half-truthful. Lying was never one of my stronger suits.

So doing my best to ignore all the drunken wails of smashed joy I started to play Final Fantasy III on my DS again. This time I would beat that damn Guardia bird. My eyes focused and zoomed in at the game screen as the long-winded cutscene ended at last. He only had 11,000 HP but that cheesy Thundaga rip continued killing Refia, Luneth and Ingus. Arc usually survived because of his magical resistance but he was almost no help at all with combat after his MP was all gone. As I continued the game a light knock came from the door. The first time I ignored it, thinking it was some drunken guy asking for a bottle of beer. Then it came a second time, a bit longer in the echo. My brow furrowed, trying to focus more on the epic fight between Guardia and I.

"Okay I know some is in there so let me in!" Yelped a voice; hints of despair and childish wails boiled in it. That's when the unbelievable happened. I pressed the wrong button the control pad and shut off the power as the final blow to Guardia landed. It was obvious who was behind the door and that someone was about to be brutally murdered with a kitchen knife.

With a groan I suppressed the urge to grab two knifes from the kitchen and staggered to the door. Twisting the knob with no hesitation I opened the door, but not expecting to see a pair of green emeralds in front of me. For a moment I thought some Saint Patrick's day fool came to bug me but then my mind unfazed from my DS game and came to my senses to see who was before me. How the hell did Axel find out where I live?

"Hey Roxy, how're you doing?" The devil grinned out, small tiny drops of water dewing his forehead. Was he just running from something?

"Fine, but how did you find out where I lived?" I asked, arching an eyebrow carefully. In my thoughts I never recalled telling him my address. Of course I continued to deny every fiber in my being that told me to push Axel away from my door, call 911 and tell them that some drunken pyromaniac was trying to rob me. Of course I couldn't possibly do that. My mother always told me to never lie to the authorities apparently.

"Snuck into the school records while that old geezer office attendant was sleeping," he coolly replied, glided his porcupine hair back with a slim hand. Axel must have been talking about Cid Highwind. He's one of three first employees that established Twilight Academy (along with Superintendent Superior and Vice Principal Ansem, General of Darkness) and might have been the oldest. We tend to get most of our lectures from him when he's on a coffee fuel. It tends to be annoying at times.

I hushed a curse under my breath and sighed. "Why are you here?"

"Well my dumb uncle got drunk and left me alone at home, so since I found your records I thought I could stop by," Axel said, using his skinny figure to slide by the wall of the entrance way past me and uninvitingly scampering into the living room. He was wearing something much more different than his usual school attire. There wasn't a trace of green on him (besides his eyes and tattoos) despite the holiday, but he was wearing a baggy red hoodie with his hands in the provided center pocket, formfitting blue jeans and converse sneakers. As always he had two upside down green triangles below his eyes and emerald jades sparkling where his real eyes should be.

"Besides that," he pushed onward before I could tell him to leave, "you seemed a bit surprised. Where you expecting someone else to come to your front door on Saint Patrick's Day?"

"Well I was expecting a friend of mine to come over from Destiny Island today, but I guess his flight might have gotten delayed or something," I responded with a shrug, knowing I would hear a full-blown whiny rant about it when he arrived to greet Sora and I.

"Destiny Island? That place is hundreds of miles from here," Axel sounded, not astonished but more confused. "How could you possibly know someone from there? Is she your secret lover pen pal?" He asked, adding a sly tone to his assumption of Demyx being my secret lover. I would have laughed if I wasn't annoyed at him.

"First off I don't even have a pen pal," I began, holding back a chuckle, "second of all his name is Demyx and he's one of my best friends from Destiny Island."

Axel stared at me for a few seconds, not letting his eyes off me. Why was I starting to feel awkward discomfort? It's totally normal to let your guy-friend that tried to molest you last week to stare at you, right. That didn't even sound like a question to me. "From Destiny Island?" He simply said with a monotone voice. "Did you live there before?"

"Actually I still technically live there. I'm just here for my sophomore year and then I'm going back to live with my dad," I said with a shrug, wandering off during my speech to the couch without even realizing it until I was being soaked into the giant couch with Axel lazily sitting by my side.

Axel just stared at me, eyes fixated on me mysteriously. That's a reason why Axel was always so strange to me in everyway imaginable ripping through my head. His facial expressions and the way he looked at you with his eyes changed from each little syllable murmured through someone's mouth and into his ears. He wasn't a book like anyone else I ever met. Only those that have met him can read properly and sophisticated in a high-class fashion. "So you're not coming back after the summer is over?" He asked more definitely than before, eyes still veiled with mystery.

"Well I'll visit Twilight Town for a month every summer due to child custody laws," I said, brushing several strands of hair out of my face. "But the rest of the year I'll have to stay with my father at Destiny's Island."

Axel didn't reply with words. He just blinked a couple times, perhaps a bit shell-shocked? He then turned his head away looking toward the living room area. "So do you have anything to keep me amused?" Digression seemed to be happily invited into the house.

Stupid airport, delaying my flight because of two little kids. I swear if those two runts were raised by my mom and dad they would be mentally abused for acting like that in the conveyance of an airplane…for four hours (not even including the damn delay). Seriously what do parents feed into their children's mouths these days that they jump around like they're insane? I hope those kids develop diabetes.

Well here I am taking a taxi to my two best step-brother friends. Even on Saint Patrick's Day the place looks as serene as Sora described it in his last letter. Sure there were drunken morons around the street but it was much more pleasant and nicer than Destiny Island was on that day. Memories from a couple years ago flashed back to me now. Sora was out with Kairi and Riku for the parade and festival while Roxas and I were hiding from all the crowds and craziness in the comfort of a secluded part of the beach. We played blackjack and poker all day wrong until the crowds died down. Sora and Kairi still question me if I did anything bad to Roxas but I keep telling them I already have a girlfriend and she would murder me if I ever even thought about cheating on her with someone younger than me like Roxas.

We're still together now and she literally clung to me like some kind of a leech, saying not to forget about her and crap like that. Riku asked me the other day when we were going to the airport to catch our flight (which rudely overbooked me) why I stay with Ritzand I always keep telling him that I love her, despite her tendency to cling on to me. As always he starts to laugh sarcastically at me. It's true though, I do love her.

Before I even knew it the orange to yellow gradient taxi van pulled over on the street by Sora's new house and Roxas's temporary home. Wow that felt weird to say. I gave the taxi driver, some weird perverted guy named Desch. Something told me in my buzzing head that my money would get him hookers at some cheap place downtown in who-knows-where. He literally jumped out his car window and started towards the trunk as I pulled myself out of the van. The weather here was much warmer than I expected it to be. It was as hot as Destiny Island was in the summer! Desch started to pull out my two suitcases but then I quickly stopped him before they reached the ground.

"Isn't this your stop?" Desch asked, raising an eyebrow at me.

"I just want to see a couple people in this house before I go to my hotel," I quickly explained, waving a hand widely, "is that okay?"

Desch frowned at me for a few seconds and then loaded back my suitcases to the ground. "You got ten minutes. If you don't then I'll be meeting you at that hotel."

I made a small gulp as his words, wondering if he would really leave me here without my stuff. That's when I remembered my ten minutes were slowly ticking away. With a small eep I rushed towards the house, watching Desch reenter the van with my peripheral vision. Arriving at the giant oak wood door I knocked a couple times, ignoring the yellow doorbell right by my side. As I stood there waiting for either Sora or Roxas I kept twisting my head back to Desch, who was waiting impatiently by the side of the van. There was an anxious mouse in my head saying not to even let Desch out of my sight or I would regret it. Yet before that voice could continue onto what could possibly happen to all my personal belongings (it started to say something about Ebay) the door opened and some tall red-haired guy that I never seen in my life was standing behind the door. "Um…" I nervously stuttered out as I stared at him. He was staring at me with curiosity with green dots for eyes. "Is this Sora and Roxas's house?"

"Sure is," the guy said with a smug voice. "Name's Axel, Roxy's friend." He quickly snatched my hand and flimsily shook it. Before I could ask him why he was here I was pulled into the house and didn't even check back on Desch. I had to make this quick or I would regret it.

"Sorry if you came here for nothing," Axel said, scratching his neck calmly. "But Sora is with two girls and Roxy is sleeping on the couch. Poor kid fell right asleep while watching Collateral," Axel made a light sigh, dragging me into the living room. Roxas was hugging one of the two dark blue couch pillows as he napped on the couch laxly. "I don't blame him for falling asleep, seeing as the shortest man alive was supposed to be the threatening killer and his co-actor was taller than he was."

I couldn't really comment on Collateral since I never seen it before, but Sora's location was a bit more perplexing to me. "Sora was with two girls?"

Axel made a haste nod, wandering to the kitchen as he talked. "One was a red haired chick but the other had long silver hair. Is this town filled with weird colored hair people, or what?" Wait, long silver hair?

I started to holler out a laugh but was smacked in the head by the porcupine to remember that Roxas was in the other room sleeping. "That wasn't two girls. One of them was a guy," I chuckled a bit.

Axel stared at me for a minute, resting a hand under his chin. "So the red haired girl was a guy? Just when you think this town can't get weirder." Okay now I just think he wants me to wake up Roxas.

I suppressed another over exaggerated laugh, clutching my chest to push it down. "W-what! No, I mean Riku, the silver haired guy!"

"What he's a guy? Who has hair that long?" Axel asked, opening the refrigerator and quickly grabbing a can of either Sprite or Pepsi.

"Well," I started and quickly paused, pondering on a good comeback, "well who has hair that red?" I asked, pointing at his hair with a wagging finger.

Axel stopped halfway in opening the can of caffeinated soda and made a Cheshire grin. "Touché…er…what's your name mullet-head?" Mullet-head?! Now that was insulting.

"It's Demyx, for your information," I whined, crossing my arms and glaring at Axel. Man I was acting like a little kid.

Axel was going to respond back to me but then a loud honking noise came from outside. Oh crap I forgot about Desch! Axel was motioning towards the window to probably scream at Desch for beeping his horn, scared at Roxas would probably wake up from the noise. As he started to yell at Desch for 'disturbing the damn peace' I quickly slinked out of the house and ran to the taxi, afraid it would leave any second now. Luckily for me Desch wasn't a total ass as I thought. As soon as I ran out the house he stopped beeping his horn and I hastily let myself into the back seat of the car. An empty wave was all I left Axel with as Desch drove me off, going over the speed limit.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...

After the weekend ended everything had returned back to normal. At least I hoped it would. Namine was still avoiding me, but when I did catch her in brief eye contact she seemed to lightly brush and then scurry off in her white sandals, bumping into a few people carelessly on her way to class. Larxene and Seifer were back in action and as annoying as ever. First off she went on a rant on how idiots in the class were given an unexpected extension and still didn't finish the paper and then collected the ones that did come in both delayed and on time. Seifer was just being his annoying bastard self. As for Axel…

"C'mon Roxy, you might as well tell her now that you want to go to the dance," Axel pestered; poking my spikes playfully as he watched me cringed from the uncomfortable touch. I swatted his fingers away from my hair again and got back to read 'The Crucible' for the second time. When Sora came back from the parade with Kairi and Riku we watched some of the chick flicks Kairi brought with her from the islands (I was literally pulled back from going into the kitchen and bulging my eyes after watching the first twenty minutes of Bewitched) and then Axel asked why I wouldn't ask Namine out to the dance yet. So Sora decided to basically explain his idiocy from when he literally blurted out that I liked the blonde girl to the last week of her avoiding me at any given chance. Now he was as annoying as ever, yet I had a feeling he was forcing this out to me. "Soon enough you'll have to tell her"

"No I won't have to tell her," I grumbled, putting my book down to scan the classroom. We were in our final period class, Biology. Our teacher, a dark pink haired guy named Marluxia was reading a book without a cover name, while everyone immersed themselves in their given free period. For some reason Marluxia came in late today and said he 'wasn't in the right mood to teach'. Usually he was much more energetic although with quite an evil side to himself but today his hair was tangled up, blue eyes baggy from a possible insomniac night and he couldn't even focus on his book. "Besides, she probably hates me now. It would explain her avoidance."

"Well," Axel said with a click of his tongue, slouching down in his chair to laxly lay his slender arms on the wooden desk, "either you go out with her…or you can go out with me."

My cheeks tinted lightly at his response. Okay now this simple teasing was becoming unnerving. Wait why the hell am I blushing? I'm not gay or bisexual at all! "Damn your motivation," I grumbled under my breath, putting down the book as it got to the dramatic courtroom scene, and walking towards Namine's desk, as she was buried nose deep in her sketchbook. From across the room I could hear a light chuckle from Axel boasting his pride but it had recoil of something much deeper in the aftermath. Disappointment felt lingering around his voice and I wondered.

"R-R-Roxas!" A petite familiar voice squeaked out tensely, a light slamming sound banging on the wooden desk. In the midst of thought I didn't even notice I was right by Namine. Oh great, too late to go back now. I looked across the room again to find Axel's head was turned to the blackboard of the room, staring at the empty space left on it. Just perfect, I had no backup what-so-ever. Might as well negotiate with her.

"Hey…Namine," I paused with a final reply. There was no going back now.

What the hell was going through my mind when I actually pushed him to confess to her? What the hell is going through Roxas's mind that he can't obviously see that I like him? My emotions are all against me, I just have this feeling they are. This shouldn't be happening. Yet who am I to say that. He loves her and only sees me as an annoyance. So why should it matter if I lead him to going for her when he wants it. I know I should be happy because he'll be happy…but there's an empty pit knowing that it won't be true.

It was stupid to think I could even be with him. Not only am I sure he's straight but he always watches her. He always talks about her and smiles with purity whenever she's around. So what if I saved him from Seifer that day in the rundown park? It doesn't mean he's going to think about me. Hell he probably didn't even know it was me that saved him. What a fool I am.

My head was still turned to the empty blackboard, occasionally letting my eyes turn to see Marluxia reading some girly romantic book and even letting my peripheral vision lead me to see the back of Roxas's spiky hair style. Then my ears continued to cringe as her nails scraping on a wall voice came down on me. A light slamming sound of her sketch book was heard from a short distance as she continued to hopelessly stutter at his glorious sight. Pathetic worm.

"Um…Hi Roxas," she chimed out her hideous voice, "w-what are you doing here?"

"Namine I want to apologize for Sora last week," he kindly said to that she-witch. That was the kind of person he was. Sometimes arrogant and stupid but when he meant something he said it in the most sincere way imaginable. Pure and tender in so many ways that I could never even come close to counting. Yet he'll never look at me the same way he looked at the devil and I know it. "What he told you was both wrong and right."

"What does that mean, Roxas?" She curiously asked like the little fool she pretended to be everyday in front of him and her friends, as if she didn't know already what he meant. It was simply a matter of toying with his feelings until she could get him to say those crushing words.

"Well…Namine, Sora was wrong to simply make an outburst saying that I liked you," he started, unseen azure moving down to his sneakers. "Though he was right…I do like you." That sound made me cringe inside from a blizzard chill. My eyes clenched shut tightly, trying to wake up from the images in my head.

I didn't see what happened next and my thoughts blocked out all outside sound. I was incredibly frightened and I don't think I would be able to bear it. A knife inside my throat was literally stabbing back the sob inside of it. No way could I ever let Roxas see me like this. I was supposed to be happy for him, not be depressed because I couldn't be with him. Why is everything so wrong with me?

A light tap disturbed my restless thoughts. "Axel…are you alright?" It was his voice again, ringing through my ears. Oh Roxas if you only knew how I was dying inside because of you. How I was stabbing myself without a reason because you were trying your best to chase after someone that would never be me. I can't hate you though and I can't be like this when you're so overjoyed.

"Y-yea I'm fine," I said with a fake cheery disposition, putting my head up and plastering that smile that I always put on for him. I didn't turn to make eye contact with him, but I knew he was smiling with succession at nothing. "I just didn't get enough sleep, is all?"

"Oh," he simply huffed, most likely blinking in confusion to my statement. Yes it sounded so much like the occasional riddle for him to solve. To figure out its' deep meaning but you could never even scratch the surface of the words. It was incomplete until you picked up the glass again. "Well I talked to Namine," he continued, a sardonic hint of succession in his voice happily dinging in his voice.

"So what did she say?" That's right; ask the stupid question to him so he can answer the obvious statement. Please amuse me into thinking that I had no idea what she wanted or what she would say. It was all just a silly lie anyways.

"She said that she likes me too." The bliss in his voice was not hidden at all in that sentence. My heart was cringing. "I also asked her if she wanted to go to the dance," he continued on. I was feeling light headed now. Don't say anymore, Roxas. Please I'm begging you. "She said she would go with me!"

My eyes bulged open and I clutched my sweater. Something happened and then I fell from my chair with a slam. There were some cries and someone was yelling at Marluxia to alert the office and call the hospital.

"Axel…Axel wake up!"

Am I still sleeping? Or am I just waking up?

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Don't you just love plot twists? Seriously I know you do.

References:

Luneth, Ingus, Refia and Arc- The four main characters from the Final Fantasy III DS remake

Ritz Malheur- Female Protagonist from Final Fantasy Advance Tactics

Collateral- The worse movie ever staring Tom Cruise. I literally slept through the whole movie from start to middle and then middle to finish. If I sleep through a movie the whole way through then it is no good at all in my opinion (I didn't even hate Tom Cruise that much back then)

Note: I am currently looking for a beta for my next story. It's a Sora/Riku pairing fiction (other multiple pairings will be included) and I have already finished the first two chapters. You must be good with grammar and must look out for mistakes that word would not find. If you're interested please email me (my email will be displayed during this time) and include a short paragraph on why I should let you beta for this story. You don't need to be a writer or have submitted any stories on the site but if you have I will most likely go through some of them just to take a sample of your writing (big brownie points if I like it). By next chapter I'll tell if I have decided on a beta.

Sorry it took so long by the way. School really got in my way but I'm on Spring Break now (hurray) so I'll work more on the next chapter this week. Ta for now.