Letting it Go to Your Head

Chapter 3

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Axel awoke with a start to the sound of a muffled scream. I leapt out of bed and rushed towards the sound grabbing a baseball bat he had by the door. Quietly, the red head opened his bed room door and followed the direction of the sound. It was coming from downstairs. He took the staircase two steps at a time and arrived at the bottom following the cries further. They were coming from the lone room. The door was open and Axel threw all precaution to the winds bounding to the door with a battle cry flicking on the lights and the bat at the ready. Oddly enough, there was no one there; all was calm but Roxas thrashing around in his bed.

The red head relaxed his grip on the bat and heaved a loud sigh of relief and maybe a little disappointment. The adrenaline was still pumping through him as he steadied his breathing. When he was calm enough he redirected his attention to Roxas. The boy was still fighting an invisible enemy in his sleep. As Axel approached the bed he was shocked to see long streaming tears flowing from the boy's closed eyes. He was blabbering incoherently, but in obvious agony.

"Roxas," Axel whispered as he rocked the blonde gently to no avail.

"Roxas, wake up." This time he said it more forcefully and the boy shuddered and started to calm.

"Are you awake?" He probed and had to smile when Roxas's head shook in negative response.

The red head figured he'd done his job for the night and turned to leave but his wrist was caught in a smaller hand that seemed to have a will of its own.

The vocalist leaned down to gently pry the fingers from his wrist and nearly jumped back when the blonde shot up in bed and before Axel knew it, his lips were pressed to Roxas's. That's when Roxas finally awoke.

His eyes opened slowly, groggily and as they focused they widened.

"AH!" He shot back against the wall pushing Axel backwards and hit his head on the wall in the process.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! That was an accident! I had no idea, I was dreaming, I don't know what happened, I just woke up and… I'm so sorry!"

Axel stood bewildered in the middle of the room. He was feeling rather numb from the previous encounter and had to pull himself together just enough to force a chuckle.

"Hey, no sweat. This isn't anything compared to an emo fan I had in the crowd one time begging me to sleep with him."

Roxas's horror-stricken expression gradually calmed and after a moment of silence the boys broke out into laughter.

"I'm still sorry…" Roxas said one the laughter died down.

Axel approached the bed again smirking. Much to Roxas's shock he climbed into the bed and pinned him between the wall and his body. Roxas felt the blood rush to his face all at once and saw the room start to swim.

"Don't be…"

And with that Axel enveloped the blonde's lips in a gentle kiss that lasted only briefly. Axel pushed off the wall and headed out of the room with the bat in hand and waved on the way out.

"See you in the morning." With that, he flicked the lights out and disappeared into the darkness.

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"Hey guys! Guess what?!" Drew came galloping into the kitchen with an excited expression.

Everyone looked up curiously waiting for Drew to continue. "We've been requested in Mexico to perform in Guadalajara as a part of our world tour!"

Everyone beamed. "Awesome! I've never been to Mexico! Where else are we going?" Bree asked.

"As far as I've been informed we'll be going to Canada in the west and in the east, of course a few places here in the U.S., we'll likely be stopping in Argentina and Chile, and we may even go to Germany."

"Not Japan?" Yuki whined.

Drew smiled in her direction. "We can put in a request."

"Whoot! Real Mexican food! It's been a long time since I ate a real taco." Axel said savoring the imaginary taco in his mouth.

The red head's attention was deferred by the appearance of Roxas coming up the stairs.

"Good morning to ya!"

Roxas met the red head's gaze and looked away quickly. "Good morning."

Axel didn't like the reaction he saw. What an ass, he'd gone and made a stupid move again and this soon in the game too. Damn.

"Good morning Roxas!" Yuki chirped as she bounced over to the blonde and hugged him in greeting.

The boy blushed. "Goo'…, g' good morning." He wasn't used to all the attention. He'd started working for the group about three weeks and it had only been yesterday that they'd warmed up to him as a part of the scheme of things.

Axel's fiery glare met with Yuki's back and the girl felt goose bumps travel up and down her spine. She gave a nervous laugh and moved away. "I'm making pancakes, so I better not let them burn…" She didn't even bother turning to look at the red head.

"Hey Rox, I have some new lyrics I wrote out. I was thinking maybe you'd like to take a look at them?" The suggestion sounded innocent enough, but Roxas knew what the words truly meant.

"Of course," He answered without looking Axel in the eyes.

Axel led the way and Roxas followed feeling butterflies tangled in his stomach. Once they arrived at the room Axel let himself in and expected the blonde to follow. The boy stepped into the room and instinctively closed the door behind himself.

"Did I do something I shouldn't have last night?" Axel asked with his arms crossed over his chest.

Roxas wouldn't meet his gaze and made a point of staring out the window in the room admiring the view of the country-side.

"No, you didn't."

Axel almost fell over in confusion, "So why all the awkwardness?"

Roxas continued watching the window seeing the sun rise higher into the morning sky creating an amazing green glow in the trees and plains outside.

The red head became impatient and strode over to the blonde tilting his chin up and kissing him again. The boy went stiff and then fell to his knees out of Axel's grasp with his face pointed at the ground.

Feeling absolutely useless, Axel looked around the room for something that might help the situation and found the perfect thing.

Roxas heard the strumming of a guitar and looked up slowly to see Axel playing a slow and calming tune. He strummed watching the guitar and only the guitar not brave enough to meet the blonde's gaze. He just hoped beyond hope that what he was doing would be enough to break the silence and hopefully get an answer out of Roxas.

The blonde felt the strength come back into his legs and disgust rushed through his veins at his own stupidity. He stood and walked over to the red head standing before the vocalist playing his guitar on the black leather love seat. He closed his eyes and listened to the melody swaying slightly with it. When it finally stopped, he opened his eyes again and smiled warmly at the red head.

He took a hand and cupped one side of Axel's face, leaned down and paused only a few inches away.

"I've always thought I make a better friend than a boyfriend is all." And he breached the distance between their lips once more. It was a long and gentle kiss that seemed to have lasted hours. It was sweet and honest without any further pretenses.

When the two finally broke apart Axel was for the first time speechless. He just let his head fall onto Roxas's stomach and closed his eyes. The blonde hesitated at first but then caressed Axel's hair gently moving through it's thickness and gently massaging as he went.

"Sorry for being so sudden Rox. I just… When you kissed me last night I was overjoyed. I had liked you from the moment I'd laid eyes on you."

Roxas sighed and picked up Axel's face to meet his eyes. "The feeling was and is mutual. However, the kiss was an accident. Although, I suppose it wasn't such a bad one seeing the results it brought, right?"

Axel smirked. "Right; so, care to explain what it is about you that keeps you so cold and distant?"

Roxas's eyes iced over. "That's a story for another time Axel. I promise I'll tell you, and it's not really as bad as it may seem through my reaction, but there are some memories that are more painful to speak of than others…"

The vocalist watched the icy gaze absolutely mesmerized by it and absent-mindedly pulled the blonde down to sit next to him. By this time the sun light had flooded the room and illuminated everything creating a fairy-land quality to it. The guitar sat reflecting the light, the unmade bed revealed all its creases in the sheets, the computer cast a shadow over the wooden desk and the posters around the room shone radiantly regardless of their depictions.

Roxas smiled warmly once more. "You don't seem to be here."

The red head shook himself of the daydream and smirked back. "Just admiring everything is all."

"So, are we going to give "us" a chance?" Roxas enquired.

Axel didn't even bother answering. Once again, just to keep up with clichés, he captured Roxas's soft lips with his own and kissed gently. He twined his fingers with the smaller boy's and stroked his hand with his thumb. Roxas smiled into the kiss and leaned in closer fighting to keep from having to crane his neck too far due to height difference. He didn't care as long as he could savor this moment.

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Okay! Three chapters and I'm on a roll. Don't worry, they band comes into this more and more as the story continues. I'm on it, I'm on it.

Until next chapter

Creep!