The next morning when Axel got to the square, Roxas sat there waiting, with a smile on his face. Axel smiled a little as Roxas got up and started running towards him. The blond stopped as he reached Axel.
"Umm..." said Roxas, not knowing what to do next. "Hi, I guess."
Axel smiled and leaned in to the blond, gently pressing his lips against the other's.
Roxas closed his eyes, and when they parted a slight blush spread across his cheeks.
"Hi." Axel said with a smirk before kissing Roxas again.
Roxas wrapped his arms around Axel, who pulled him closer while deepening the kiss.
Eventually, they let go of each other.
"Well, better get goin', don't ya think?" Axel said, looking down at Roxas, who nodded in response. "Okay then, we're off." He put an arm around Roxas' shoulders and they started walking towards the school builing.
Roxas felt the glares of the other students as they walked through the school gates, Axel with his arm around his shoulders and Roxas' arm wrapped around Axel's thin waist.
He glanced at Axel, who didn't even seem to notice the cold eyes that watched them walk across the schoolyard.
"Our classes are in opposite directions." Axel said as they reached the stairs. "See ya!" He placed a soft kiss on Roxas's lips and walked away, leaving Roxas standing alone in front of the stairs.
Almost instantly he was surrounded by pretty much every person in the schoolyard, looking at him with mixed expressions, mostly jealousy and anger. They started yelling at him, asking him questions and threatening him all at the same time, until Sora and Riku came running over and pulled him to safety.
"What was that all about?" asked Riku once they had shaken off the other students.
"It seemed as if they were upset about something." Sora said.
"But what could you've done to make them that angry?" Riku asked.
Roxas looked down, blushing. "I'm...kinda...going out...with Axel..."
"SAY WHAT?" Riku and Sora yelled.
"No wonder they're mad, Axel's one of the most popular guys in school, everyone wants to go out with him." Riku said. "But he's a hard one, he's turned down everyone that's asked him without even considering it once."
"So now that you and him are together, everyone he turned down got mad at you." Sora said, clearly stating the obvious.
"Yeah, I've noticed that much." said Roxas, not looking up.
"So if you wanna stay out of trouble, I'd say you break up with him." Riku said.
"I'm not sure..." Roxas said quietly. "Don't you think they'll just cool it?"
"Yeah, in like ten years or so." said Riku, a little sarcasm in his voice. "Listen, just forget about him, it's easier that way."
"Hi, Rox!" Axel said as they met at the school gates. "How's your day?"
Should I tell him? Roxas thought. No, it's probably better if he doesn't know. "As usual." he said, a smile on his face. "And yours?"
"Fairly good."Axel smirked and pulled Roxas close to him. "But it just got much better." He pressed his lips against Roxas', who wrapped his arms around Axel's neck, forgetting all that's happened during the day as Axel's tongue slipped inside his mouth.
After a while their lips parted, and without letting go of each other completely they started walking towards the square.
As they reached their destination, the square was filled with people, due to the beautiful weather. A woman stood in the middle of the square in front of the fountain, selling ice cream.
"You want some ice cream, Rox?" Axel asked.
Roxas felt a slight flutter in the bottom of his stomack as he heard the nickname, it was the first time he'd been given one. "Yeah, ice cream sounds great!" he said, smiling.
"Wait here." said Axel and walked off to the woman selling ice cream, soon returning with two popsicles wrapped in a white paper. He gave one to Roxas who opened it, revealing a blue popsicle.
They walked over to the fountain and sat down on the edge, starting to eat of the ice cream.
"Wow, it's really good!" Roxas said, licking on his popsicle. "What flavour is it?"
"It's called sea-salt. Got it memorized?" said Axel, smiling. "Wasn't sure if you'd like it or not, but the seller claimed it was good."
"Sea-salt. I'll remember that until next time." Roxas said, continuing to eat off his ice cream.
Axel sat quietly, looking at the smiling Roxas sitting beside him, watching his blonde hair glowing in the afternoon sun with an almost golden shine to it.
"Axel? What's wrong?" Roxas asked, waking the redhead from his daydreaming.
"Oh, nothing." Axel said and smiled.
Roxas finished his ice cream and looked at Axel's. "Your ice cream is melting." he pointed out and Axel looked down at the half melted blue popsicle, a blue puddle of melted ice cream forming at his feet.
He felt something warm against his hand and turned his head a little to see Roxas licking of the half melted ice cream.
"What're you doin'?" Axel asked.
"Saving your ice cream." Roxas responded, making Axel smile.
"You can have it if you want." he said, holding the popsicle out to Roxas, who happily accepted it.
Axel smirked and kissed Roxas on the cheek just as the blond took a bite of the ice cream, making him bury his teeth in the still freezing cold ice cream. His sapphire eyes widened and he froze still.
Axel laughed softly while leaning in to Roxas and licking some ice cream off his chin, causing the blonde to blush. Chuckling, Axel ruffled Roxas's hair, messing up the natural spikes.
"Stop it." Roxas said, no real sharpness in his voice.
Axel lowered his hand and placed his arm around Roxas's shoulders instead, watching him finish the ice cream.
"I better head back home." Roxas said, getting up from his seat.
Axel looked at him with a mixed expression on his face, then slowly stood up.
"Bye." Roxas said, nervously looking around him before placing a fast kiss on Axel's lips, then turned around and ran off.
Axel sighed and looked towards his own house, not wanting to go there. Last night his parents had invited some people, which as usual resulted in the apartment smelling twice as bad as it did otherwise. He slowly started walking home while dragging his feet.
As he opened the apartment door the familiar smell of alchohol, smoke and vomit filled his nose, and he covered his mouth and nose with his hand while stepping over a vomit directly in front of the door. He pulled up his room key and unlocked his door, entered the room and quickly locking it again.
He sat down on his bed, his back against the wall. I wonder what Rox's doin'...
"Axel!" Roxas called, running towards the skinny redhead. It was sunday, five days after him and Axel started going out, and they'd agreed to meet at the town square.
"Hi there." Axel chuckled as Roxas hugged him. He pulled Roxas even closer and kissed him while stroking his back.
Roxas closed his eyes and tilted his head back a little when Axel deepened the kiss.
"Well, that's gotta be the best greeting this far." Axel smirked when their lips parted.
Roxas smiled and shyly pressed his lips against Axel's again, before leaning his forehead against the redhead's shoulder.
"So, what do you wanna do, Rox?" asked Axel while stroking the blond's hair.
"How 'bout showing you my house?" Roxas suggested looking up at Axel, who met his sapphire gaze with his emerald.
"You sure that's okay?" he asked.
Roxas looked at him with a confused look. "What do you mean? Of course it is." He smiled and grabbed Axel's hand. "C'mon!"
"Here it is!" Roxas smiled and led Axel by the hand towards an apartment building. He opened the front door and they walked up the stairs two floors. Roxas unlocked a door and dragged Axel inside.
They removed their shoes and Roxas dragged Axel through the hallway and inside a room. The room had light grayish-blue wallpapers covered with some posters and a soft white rug lay on the floor. In one corner was a bed, in another a big wardrobe, and in front of a big window there was a desk and a chair. On the table stood a blue lamp shaped as a star.
"Well, this is my room." Roxas said. "What do you think?" He looked at Axel, a happy and at the same time almost nervous expression on his face.
Axel smiled. "It's nice." He slowly walked towards the bed and sat down on the blue sheets with his back against the wall. "C'mere." he called, patting on the bed next to him.
Roxas smiled and sat down beside him, resting his head on the other's chest.
Axel put an arm around Roxas' shoulders and pulled him closer, leaning his chin against the blonde spikes.
"Roxas, are you in there?"
As they heard the voice they straightened up and when the door opened, they sat in each end of the bed.
The blonde young woman who had come in smiled. "Oh, Roxy, you brought a friend home! How...nice."
Both Axel and Roxas noticed the sudden hesitation in her voice as she saw Axel, the black tight fitting low waist leather pants, the tight low-necked red T-shirt, the piercing in his left eyebrow and those in his ears, five in each ear, the purple up-side-down teardrop tattoos under his eyes and his red, spiky hair.
"Mum, this is Axel." said Roxas.
"Yo." Axel said lifting his right hand in his usual greeting gesture.
"Yes, that's...very nice." Roxas' mum said, not sounding as if she really felt that way.
There was an awkward silence, Roxas and Axel sitting on the bed and Roxas' mum standing in the doorway.
At last the blonde woman left the room, with a nervous look over her shoulder and leaving the door open.
"Well, she didn't seem to like me that much." Axel stated, almost sounding a little sad.
"I'm sure she was just a little surprised, that's all." Roxas said.
"Yeah, right." Axel said. "Just face it, she hates me."
Roxas moved closer to Axel and hugged him tightly. "Don't worry about that, I know you're not a bad person."
Axel stroke Roxas' hair and twisted one of the longer spikes around his finger.
They let go of each other when they heard footsteps outside the door and when Roxas' mum looked inside, looking as if she feared something had happened, they sat in the exakt position as when she left them a while ago.
"Would you want something to drink?" she asked.
Roxas looked at Axel.
"I guess." the redhead said, shrugging.
"It's all in the kitchen, you can come in there." Roxas' mum said and left again, the same nervous look over her shoulder.
Axel and Roxas slowly got up and walked through the hallway towards the kitchen.
They sat down at the table where two glasses stood, but they didn't even touch the glasses.
Roxas' mum stood by the kitchen sink washing some dishes, watching them every now and then as they simply sat there, looking down at the table.
After maybe ten minutes Roxas rose from his chair, hitting the table. "This is ridiculous. C'mon, Axel, let's go."
Axel stood up and followed as Roxas put on his shoes and exited the apartment.
"I can't believe her!" Roxas said, steaming with anger and frustration. "She's never acted like that before, what the heck's gotten into her?" He walked back and forth in front of the fountain at the town square, Axel sitting on the fountain edge.
"Hey Rox, calm down will ya'." Axel said, but with no effect.
"What right does she have to just judge you like that?"
"Rox, chill." Axel tried again, but the steaming blonde didn't even seem to hear him.
"NONE! She has absolutely NO right to treat MY Axel that way!"
"My Axel?" Axel repeated, and Roxas stopped, his cheeks turning a light red tone.
"That's not what I said." he mumbled, looking down at his shoes. "Or...I mean..."
Axel got up and put an arm around Roxas while lifting his chin with his other hand. He placed a soft kiss on the blonde's lips and smiled as the already pink cheeks turned a bright red.
"I'm yours if you want me to, Rox. Got it memorized?" he said kissing him again, smiling as Roxas blushed an even brighter red. "Soon your face'll be redder than my hair." he laughed, ruffling Roxas' hair. "Even though that'd be pretty hard to accomplish." He shook his head so the red spikes stood out in every direction possible.
"Don't do that, or you'll put out someone's eye." Roxas said laughing, twisting a red lock of hair by one of Axel's pierced ears.
"Like you're one to talk." Axel said, pretending to sting his finger on one of Roxas' blonde spikes.
They both laughed and sat down at the fountain edge again, their arms around each other.
"I like your hair." said Roxas suddenly, and Axel looked at him with a surprised look. "Promise you won't cut it."
Axel smiled. "If you don't want me to, then I won't." Then he grabbed Roxas and before the blond could react he was sitting in the redhead's lap, Axel's thin but strong arms around him.
Roxas leaned his head against Axel's shoulder and closed his eyes, the redhead's scent filling his nose with every deep breath.
Axel looked down and smiled when he noticed the blonde had fallen asleep. He stroke his blonde hair gently and placed a soft kiss on his forehead.
"Axel..." Roxas whispered in his sleep, cuddling up against the redhead's chest. "My Axel..."