AN: Chapter two. Fast updates: the pro of having short chapters. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: No owno (my attempt at Spanish).

Chapter Two: Somewhat Friends

AXEL POV

The redheaded teen was starting to get fidgety. He wasn't in class, though. Oh, no. He was in the principal's office for being "loud and disruptive." Honestly, what the hell kind of school did he go to? He merely had asked a question, something he did profusely. It was something all students did profusely! But the teacher was totally anal about asking a question without raising your hand. Vexen. Oh, how Axel hated him. He loathed him; he abhorred him.

Axel was somewhat a bully. It gained him something: respect from others. Mostly everyone who he beat up or watched him beat someone up revered him. Maybe not as much revered as feared, but it was close enough for him. That is, everyone, except for his parents. His father, who was a drunk, beat him and gave him bruises everywhere. His mother was impartial to everything that his father did. Axel still hated her guts. If she loved him enough as a mother should a son, she would have done something to stop it. She should have at least tried. But alas, she did nothing.

As Axel sat idly in from of the principal's office, he thought once more about the blonde he had met last night. Roxas, the boy he knew nothing about. Roxas, the beautiful teen with beautiful eyes and beautiful hair. Roxas, who had seemed a bit shy. Roxas. He let out a happy sigh as he thought about him.

Suddenly, the principal burst out of his office and looked at who it was he would be lecturing today. He sighed, seeing that it was Axel again. He should have, would have, known. "Come on in, Axe," the man, Mr. Leonhart, said resignedly.

The teen sluggishly dragged himself in and sat on the pretty chair in front of the desk as Mr. Leonhart, or Leon, sat in his chair.

"So I have been informed of your disruptive behavior."

"Hey, it's not my fault Vexen has a stick up his ass."

"You need to speak with more respect about Professor Vexen."

"I apologize. I love Professor Vexen with all my heart. He is a wonderful teacher who isn't totally anal about speaking out of turn and asking a mere question." Sarcasm.

"Stop being sardonic, Axel."

"Whatever."

Sigh.

"I'll let you go with yet another warning."

"Cool ass beans."

Another sigh.

"Leave my presence now."

"Gladly."

The principal was normally not one to be so tolerant. The only reason he was so lenient with Axel was because they were somewhat friendsAxel had been to his office so many times in the four years he'd gone to Hollow Bastion High that they'd become a bit close. Not in the icky, pedo-principal way, but in the friend-ish way. When Axel was being sarcastic and a bit mean to Leon, it was in a joking way.

Another reason Leon was lenient toward Axel was because he knew of his home issues. The teen had never told him, but it was pretty obvious. Axel just seemed tattered, torn…abused. Sometimes Leon would even catch a glimpse of the bruises, those horrible, horrible bruises and cuts. He knew something bad would happen to Axel if he gave him as much as a detention: something probably worse than the beatings he was already getting, because now, his father would have an excuse to hurt him. He couldn't live with the guilt of causing that kind of acrimony.

Axel was glad the principal was his 'somewhat-friend.' It helped him get through school without getting into as much trouble as he would have gotten into if the principal had been someone else.

Instead of going back to class, Axel decided to skip…again. It's not like Leon will do anything, he thought with a smirk. It was his signature smirk, a smirk that all the girls drooled over when they saw it.

Last night, Axel had given his number to the beautiful boy he met; he had also received the blonde's number. Strangely, he hadn't taken him home to violate. He felt that this boy seemed a little…delicate. He wouldn't dream of doing anything like that to him. He was too chaste, too pure. Axel couldn't ruin that pureness by taking him home and using him as he had done to many other younger boys.

He hadn't missed the slightly surprised look on Zexion's face last night when he came back without his arms over a kid's shoulder. Am I that predictable? Wow. Still, he wanted to have a real relationship with Roxas. He'd have to text him to set something up. Maybe he'd do a little stalking and they could 'coincidentally' meet somewhere. That would be cool, cause then Axel wouldn't seem like the uber-desperate teen that he currently was. It had almost been love at first sight with Roxas. Well, except the redhead refused to believe it'd been love.

Axel was a total badass! He couldn't fall head over heels in love with anyone, especially a pure kid like Roxas. However, the other side of him just wanted to jump at him and make sure he was his, no one else's. He wanted to make his claim on the boy he adored so much, though he had known him for only a couple of hours.

This was going to be a difficult decision. He totally didn't want to ruin his reputation. He'd have to consult Zexion on this matter.

He and Zexion, though an unlikely pair, were best friends. They were mad different, though. Still, he gave awesome advice, and they'd been through thick and thin together. He knew a side of Zexion that no one else knew: -gasp!- an emotional side. Axel had seen the kid hit every emotion that a human could hit and then some. Everyone else who saw Zexion just saw him as some emo kid who was bored with life itself. Axel saw the real him. He understood him.

The slate-haired teen understood him, too. They had mutual respect for each other. After all, Zexion's parents had abused him too. That was why he was so quiet and drawn back from the world. It was difficult for the teen to open up to people, but Axel had successfully caused him to open up to him, of all people. He was thankful to have such a friend. This was a friend who would never abandon him, a friend who would stand up for him any time…a friend who he'd have to ask about the Roxas issue soon.

AN: Woo! Chapter two done. Chapter three will be Demyx's POV. You'll get to learn everything about him. I'm a bit nervous for that because I don't think I'll be able to portray Demyx well. This was originally going to be Demyx's POV but I changed it to Axel's because it was too badass and OOC to be Demy the softie. Hope you liked. Reviews get me going! 1,180 words.