It was 5 in the morning. Roxas lay in his bed staring up at the ceiling. The sound of his mother rushing getting ready for work had woke him up. He'd always been a light sleeper.

Axel on the other hand, slept like a log. A dead log. A dead log that could not be moved by any human force.

He tossed minimally in his sleep. You'd almost think he was dead if it weren't for the snores or occasional sleep-talking.

Roxas listened to the sound of Axel's breathes. In... out... In... out... grumble... snore...

Then he heard something that he probably wasn't meant to.

A moan.

That alone he could handle. What came next, he could not.

"Mmmm, Roxas."

Roxas's eyes bulged out of his head and he threw himself into a sitting postion. He stared at his best friend. Who by the sounds of things, was having a dream about him.

A very non-hetero dream.

"I love you Roxas."

At that, Roxas snapped. "What the hell, dude!" he shouted. At the very, very loud exclamation the previously sleeping redhead jumped awake and blearily sat up.

"What, what, waht?" he grumbled tiredly.

"YOU JUST MOANED MY NAME AND SAID YOU LOVED ME WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING!"

At that second very loud, loud shout, Axel instantly became alert- all signs of drowsiness gone. Then a blush began to stain his face and an immediate shocked expression marred his features.

"Rox, I can explain!" he quickly tried to calm the situation. Neither Cloud nor Aerith was home at the moment. Things could get ugly.

"THEN EXPLAIN!" the blonde had backed himself into the corner and had a look of confused horror on his face.

Axel quickly searched his brain for a logical explanation why he would be confessing his love for another male while dreaming. Any explanation? At least an excuse?

Axel's expression quickly changed to a very scared look. He knew why he had had that dream. He'd been having it for a while now. He just didn't want Roxas to find out like this.

Time to suck up what little pride and manliness he had left...

And tell the truth.

"Roxas, I love you."

No response was given.

Axel took another deep breath and then proceeded to pour his heart out.

"I love you. I-I have for a while. Remember when you found me at the park? I don't know what happened... but after that I couldn't get you out of my head. I would dream about you, I'd notice every single little thing you did. And every time I saw you my heart would do this weird flippy thing and I'd start to feel nervous. After a bit... I realised... that I love you. Maybe I always have."

Axel paused in his rambling to gauge the blonde's reaction. Still none. His face had turned deathly pale though. Not a good sign.

But every word he had said was true. On that day in the park, when Roxas had rushed out of class to search the entire town for him Axel's heart had, for lack of a better word, melted. He started noticing the little things. He started to take note of his own feelings. Who knew how long he had been truly feeling like that? But he noticed on that day. And every day since then, the feelings have grown.

It was frightening to realise you are head-over-heels in love with your best friend... of the same gender.

Axel stared into Roxas' eyes waiting for his response. He prayed that it would be a positive one. He didn't know what he'd do with himself if he drove of the one person who cared for him immensely. The one person he had ever loved.

They sat there for what seemed like hours but was really only a few minutes. Axel sat nervous, palms sweating, heart-in-throat.

Roxas sat knees under his chin defensively. His face remained a strange confused scared and pale.

Then he broke eye contact and looked down.

Axel waited for an answer. When none came he sighed dejectedly.

"Well I can see that you don't want to talk to me... so I'll just... leave," Axel whispered miserably.

He then stood up and left the room, his whole body showing his utter heart-break.

"Wait!"

A familiar heavy weight made its presence known on Axel's back. The teenager then fell to the living room floor from the pure force of the impact. He then realised he had a rather lively blond sitting on his back, pinning him to the floor.

"Do you really mean it?" said attacker asked.

"Yes, Rox, every word." Axel mumbled to the floor his face was currently pressed into.

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Really, really?"

"Yes."

"Really, really, real-"

The blonde's pestering was interrupted by an annoyed voice. "Yes Rox! Every single word! I love you! But I will set your teddy-bear on fire if you say 'really' one more time!"

The redhead then found himself flipped over so his back was on the floor. Had he been able to he would have been desperately searching the blonde's expression, looking for an explanation to his utterly random behaviour.

But he couldn't read the Roxas' face.

Because he was being kissed senseless by said blonde boy.

It took him all of 2 seconds to attempt to process what was going on before he gave up and simply responded to the kiss.

It was Roxas who broke the kiss first laughing softly, while still remaining in such close proximity Axel could feel his breath on his face.

"I love you too, you pyro."

xxXxx

And as cheesy and as corny as it sound, they truly did live happily ever after. Because everyone knows that the best of friends can become the best of lovers.

Axel and Roxas continued to date throughout high school, throughout college and for about 2 years after they graduated.

At that point, after 10 years of dating and 21 years of being together...

Axel proposed.

And they are still living in a small shared apartment, married, and completely happy.

THE END

Longest Author's Note in the history of Author's Notes: Last chapter! O:

I am finished! Oh man, this story was so much fun to write. The people who are reading this author's note are so great for sticking to the very end with this incredibly looooooong story. Haha I hope it was worth your time!

Sooooo :3 I was thinking of doing two separate stories. Side-fic kinda things. Stories about the misadventures of Demyx and Zexion (at the prom) and one about Cloud and Leon (at the party).
Review and tell me if you'd like that idea! =D

So thank you so much to every single person who reviewed or added me to Author's or Story Alerts! *hugs each and every single one of you*

And of course thank you to Kirkysaurus, bloodysword99 and Ldrmas who reviewed last chapter!

Kirkysaurus: hahaha nope sorry no shower scene for you! xD I'll leave that up to your imagination ;) And if you think my friend is fun you can have him xD *ships him off via large crate* Teehee :3

Bloodysword99: You read my mind! Well, there was a dream. I'll let everyone decide for themselves what was IN said dream ;)

Lrdmas: haha yehp :3 Cuz I'm evil and like to torture imaginary characters that aren't even mine xD

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