A/N: So, this is the second to last chapter, to be honest I'm kind of relieved. I finally figured out how to end it, and to be frank I don't really like this story all that much, the writing was forced, where normally I get sucked into it. I felt I needed to finish it though, mainly because I hate it when people don't finish the fan fictions they start.
Anyhow, read and review…if you want.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, but Demyx parents and Alex.
It was Friday night, the night that Demyx parents were coming over for dinner. Alex was more than a little nervous, and hell, Roxas and Axel were nervous too. The teen had made sure to remind them of the disaster of the last meal he had shared with them.
Therefore, when the knock at the door sounded all three nearly jumped out of their skin.
Axel stood to answer the door, walking slowly, almost hesitantly. When he opened the door, a smile on his face, he saw two frowns and a nervous smile. The redhead stepped inside to let them in.
"I'm Kaoru and this is my wife Kasumi," the strawberry blonde man introduced.
"Axel, go-od to meet you," he said, quickly changing his words as he felt Alex's gaze on his back. "This is my…roommate Roxas, and of course, you've already met my brother."
The man nodded before he and his wife sat down in silence, Demyx trailing behind them.
"Dinners almost ready," Axel announced, going into the kitchen area, wishing that it was separated by a wall.
"So, the three of you live here?" Kaoru asked, looking around.
"Yes," Roxas answered, regretting it when the brown hues of Kasumi and her husband fell on him.
"It looks a little small to be a three bed room," Kasumi stated, tucking some glossy brown hair behind her ear.
"It's only got one bedroom," Roxas informed, trying his best not make eye contact.
"You all share a bedroom?" Demyx father's eyes narrowed disapprovingly.
"No, no, we don't share, well not all of us," Alex shot up, eyes wide. "I sleep on the lounge and Axel and Roxas share a bed."
"You and Axel are together, then?" Kaoru asked, eyes turning to his quiet son. "You said they weren't together, and why doesn't Alex have a room?"
"Yes we are together," Roxas stated in a quiet voice. "As for the lounge, well, we weren't expecting Alex to be living with us, but Axel and their older brother decided that it would be good for him to spend more time here. As far as I've heard, it's still only temporary."
The redhead at the table looked down; doubting Reno would ever even speak to him again.
"Dinners ready," Axel smiled, though no one felt comfortable enough to return it, as he placed a dish with lasagne in it on the table.
"It looks great," Demyx complimented in a weak voice as Axel placed a piece on everyone's plates along with some baked vegetables.
"Why didn't your brother want you living with him any longer, Alex?" Kaoru asked a smug look on his face. If Alex had to be honest, he could easily say that if Demyx weren't in the room then he would have lunged across the table at him.
"That's a family matter," Axel deadpanned.
"Whatever you did must have been really bad if he felt the need to kick you out," the oldest member of the room stated. "Why don't you live with you parents? Did they kick you out as well?"
"That is another family matter," Axel stated, not liking where the conversation was heading.
"Why all the secrecy?" was the blonde man's next question.
"No secrecy, just a lot of bad memories," Axel responded see in the man what his brother saw. "Tell me, why do you not like my brother?"
"His trouble, he is an extremely bad influence on Demyx," Kaoru answered distain dripping in his voice like venom. "Demyx use to be an A grade student, he never stayed out late, and he never went to parties or got into trouble. That is until he met Alex. My son was actually arrested because of that boy."
"Demyx is a big boy, if he got into trouble then it was his own fault, not Alex!" the fiery redhead lashed out at the older man.
"It only started when he met him!" Demyx's dad snarled.
"Alex has had a lot to deal with, too much for a child to handle and Demyx makes him happy," Roxas stated. "I know that is no excuse, but he is trying to be a better person now, he hasn't gone out to a party or anywhere really, except school and your house."
"That does not make up for it," the man's eyes narrowed on Roxas as he stood. "I never what to hear from any three of you ever again and I do not want any of you to come near any member of my family again!"
With that, he left dragging a crying Demyx with him while his wife followed behind him like a shadow.