Demyx didn't even pay half his attention to the two lovebirds, his full attention was directed to Zexion. As his pencil continued moving across the paper, he watched the bluenette. Zexion was sitting on the desk, one leg over the other, reading a book with two pale hands holding a red apple on the front cover. Zexion likes Twilight?

Demyx snickered at the discovery. To think the bluenette read about sparkling vampires. Demyx would've never guessed. Then suddenly an idea popped into his head and he made his way to the teacher's desk. "Zexion, could you help me with this?"

Zexion's head snapped up and he looked at Demyx as if he'd forgotten he was there, which in fact was the case.

"What do you need help with?" asked Zexion and sighed.

"Umm, pretty much everything." Demyx said and smiled.

God he's annoying, Zexion thought, looking up at the tall smiling blond. But he's kinda cute when he's smiling... He shook his head and gestured for Demyx to sit down beside him.

The blond happily did so and opened his math book. "It's especially this part that I don't understand." he said and placed the book on his legs, intentionally touching Zexion's thigh with his hand.

Zexion shuddered at the touch but ignored it and leaned a bit forward to read the instructions. In a few seconds he had the answer calculated. "Show me your notebook." he said.

Demyx looked at him. "Why?"

"So I know if you've done it right or not." Zexion sighed. This guy's just too much.

"Oh, okay." Demyx opened his notebook and searched for the right page. "Here it is."

"What's this?" Zexion asked and pointed with a pencil at something scribbled in a corner. "D, G, D, A?"

Demyx leaned closer so their shoulders touched. "Oh yeah, I came up with some chords for a song 'n had nowhere else to write it."

Zexion sighed and directed his attention to the equation on the middle of the paper. He arched one eyebrow in disbelief. Both the answer and pretty much everything else was as wrong as it could get. We have a lot of work to do, he thought and sighed. This was going to be one of the most challenging detentions he'd ever had to be in charge of.

"Are you sure it's okay to just leave?" asked Roxas as he was struggling to keep up with Axel who was running in front of him.

The redhead glanced over his shoulder at the blond. "Of course, just hurry it up before we get caught."

Somehow that didn't really sound that convincing. Roxas sighed and kept running.

They'd snuck out of the classroom while Zexion was distracted by Demyx, and were now running across the school yard.

They weren't stopped and could finally catch their breath outside the gates.

"Remind me to thank Dem later, got it memorized?" said Axel and looked over at Roxas who was leaning against the brick wall.

"Yeah." he huffed, breathing quite heavily from the run.

"Man, do ya just sit on your butt all day or what?" Axel looked at Roxas who turned his gaze to meet his.

"No, my legs're just shorter than yours, that's all."

"Yeah, yeah, blame your lack of growth, shorty." laughed Axel and placed his arm on Roxas' head.

"Don't call me 'shorty'." Roxas muttered and pouted.

Axel grinned and leaned in front of Roxas' face to press their lips together. "We should go now, right Roxy~?" the redhead said and ruffled the blond spikes.

"Don't call me that either!" whined Roxas.

Axel just laughed and trew his arm around Roxas' shoulders. "If ya say so." He hugged the blonde closer and placed a kiss on his cheek.

"L-let's go get some ice cream." Roxas muttered and turned his head to hide the blush covering his cheeks.

"Sounds good."

Roxas licked on his ice cream and glansed at the redhead next to him. They were sitting on the edge of the fountain in the town square, each eating a sea-salt ice cream, and Axel with his arm trown over Roxas' shoulders.

It was a very hot summer day and the popsicles melted quick in the burning sun.

Roxas felt the melted ice cream running over his hand and chin, and tried to lick it away.

Suddenly Axel leaned in and slowly made a trace with his tongue from the point of the blond's chin and up to his lips. "You missed something." he said and grinned at the blush on Roxas' face as people turned and stared at them.

"Don't do that, people're staring." Roxas muttered and pulled away a little from the redhead.

A wide grin formed on Axel's lips as he pulled the blond closer again. "Then let's give 'em something to look at." He then pressed their lips together and let his tongue work its way into Roxas' mouth.

Roxas closed his eyes and relaxed, but remembering where they were he opened them again. "Axel!" he said and tried to push the redhead away.

"What?" Axel chuckled and pecked him on the lips, his arms wrapped tightly around the blond.

"Let me go already." Roxas squirmed and tried to make Axel release him from the embrace, but his efforts to get away only resulted in the two of them falling backwards into the fountain with a huge splash.

Roxas quickly sat up again, coughing a little from swallowing some of the water. He then quickly took out his cell phone from his pocket, and sighed in relief as it was still working. "Why'd you do that for, moron?" he said turned to Axel, who was still lying halfway in the water, looking up at the blond with his green eyes and a wide grin on his lips.

"Did what?" he asked innocently and got up to sit beside Roxas again. He then ruffled the blond spikes and rose from the stone fountain, reaching out a hand for Roxas.

"Seriously." muttered Roxas but took Axel's hand, allowing him to pull him up. "'It's thanks to you that I'm soaked."

Axel only laughed at the cute pout Roxas was making and changed his hold on Roxas' hand before they started walking towards Roxas' apartment.

"You're lucky mum's not home, or she'd freaked out." Roxas said while looking for some dry clothes, looking at Axel through a mirror on the closet door.

"I don't get what her problem is." muttered Axel, drying his hair with a towel.

"Me neither." Roxas replied and then quickly changed the subject. "Want some new clothes? You're just as soaked as me."

Axel shrugged. "I guess."

Roxas quickly searched through the closet and found a black t-shirt and some shorts. He threw them at Axel and quickly turned away as the redhead started replacing his wet clothes with the borrowed.

Axel smirked to himself and finished dressing, before he stopped and watched as Roxas took of his own shirt.

Roxas turned his head a little and noticed Axel looking him up and down with a pervy smirk on his face. "Don't look, you perv!" Roxas yelled and threw the first thing he got his hands on, a book, at the redhead.

"Ouch!" exclaimed Axel as the book hit him in the top of his head. He rubbed the sore spot and pouted. "Why'd you do that for?"

"Stop looking at me." Roxas turned towards the wall and pulled the t-shirt over his head before turning back to find Axel sitting in a corner, moping, back facing the blond. "Uuh, Axel?"

"You didn't have to start throwing things at me." Axel pouted, drawing a circle on the floor with his finger. He then turned towards Roxas and his eyes were brimming with tears. "I didn't do anything, you didn't have to throw a book at me."

Roxas wasn't sure how to handle a moping Axel, so he decided to simply try and apologise. "Ok, I'm sorry."

He was startled when Axel suddenly stood up and hugged him tightly. "I forgive you, Roxy~."

Roxas escaped the tight embrace and looked up at the redhead in disbelief. "What's wrong with you? 'N I told you not to call me Roxy."

Axel just chuckled and kissed the blond's forehead. "You're just too cute, got it memorized?"

He then ruffled Roxas' spikes and grabbed his clothes that lay on the floor. "I'll go now before your mum gets here." he said and exited the room.

Roxas stood still for some seconds and then ran after him. He stopped beside the redhead who was kneeling to tie his shoelaces. "Axel, I don't want us to be a secret."

Axel looked up at him with slight confusion. "Whaddaya mean? We're not exactly 'secret' if ya know what I mean."

"No, I mean..." Roxas took a deep breath before continuing. "I'm gonna tell mum. I mean, it's better than if she finds out elsewhere, right?"

"Right." Axel said and straightened up. "Well, good luck with that, 'cause I don't wanna be here when your mum finds out her kid's gay. See ya."

And with that he left, leaving Roxas standing alone in the hallway, trying to figure out the best and easiest way to tell his mum he was into guys.

He thought long and hard, and when he finally came up with an answer, it was not a very positive one. And his answer was; There is no 'best' way, and there's certainly NOT an easy way...

Roxas looked up at the clock on the wall in his room. 9 pm. He'd stayed in his room thinking about how to tell his mum, but he still hadn't come up with an answer. He sighed and got up from the bed, walking through the hallway and into the kitchen.

Trisha was sitting on a chair at the table, reading one of those 'How to be a better parent' books.

Good, that shit might actually be of some use for once, thought Roxas and sighed a bit from relief. He'd flipped through one of those books while they were moving, and he was pretty sure that somewhere among all that 'Family time' and 'Family activities' crap there was something about 'Accepting and Loving your child regardless of their sexual orientation'.

He could hear sounds from the living room, probably his dad watching TV. He sat down on a chair across from his mum and took a deep breath. "Mum..." he started, not knowing how to put his words so she wouldn't freak out.

"Yes, dear?" Trisha replied and Roxas groaned inside, that phrase was definitely something she'd picked up from that book.

He thought a little more and decided to simply say it out straight. He straightened up in his chair and took a deep breath. "I'm gay."

In the silence that followed Roxas could clearly hear what the guy on TV was saying, but the look on his mum's face kept him from registering what he was talking about.

She looked like she'd seen a ghost.

After what felt like an eternity Trisha stopped staring at him and instead glanced at the book she'd dropped on the table. She took a deep breath. "And you're certain?" she asked, and Roxas nodded. Trisha closed her eyes and then opened them again, a faked smile on her face. "Well, as long as you're happy dear, that's all that matters."

Roxas smiled. "Thanks, mum." Then he quickly got up and left, closing the door behind him as he entered his bedroom.

He slumped down onto the floor and leaned his back against the wall, trying to hold back the tears threatening to fall. He pulled out his cell phone and took some deep breaths before pressing the 'call' button. He pressed the phone tightly against his ear and listened to the beeping signals, counting them to try and calm down. After only three signals someone answered.

"Yo, 'sup?"

Roxas' tears started falling as he heard the familiar voice. "Axel..." he sniffled, his nose was starting to run.

"Rox, are you crying? What's wrong, you okay?" Axel sounded really worried all of a sudden.

"I... she..." Roxas attempted to explain, but he coldn't form a decent sentence.

"Meet me at the square." decided Axel.

"O-okay." Roxas replied and stayed still for a couple of seconds, staring at the phone and already missing the sound of the redhead's voice. The he put the cell back into his pocket and got up from the floor. He walked out into the hallway and put on his shoes before silently leaving the apartment.

Even though it was almost 9.30 pm it wasn't really dark, so there was no problem finding your way to the square. When Roxas got there Axel was already standing at the fountain, and the blond ran up to him and threw his arms around him, hugging the redhead tightly. "She... just... I..." Roxas tried to explain, but just burst into tears again.

Axel looked down at Roxas with an affectionate smile and held the crying boy gently.

They stood like that for a while, the only sounds were Roxas' now decreasing sobs, while Axel slowly cradled the blond and stroked his hair.

At last Roxas took a deep, shaky breath and looked up at the redhead. "Sorry."

"No sweat." Axel looked at him with such a caring look that Roxas almost felt like crying again.

"Axel, she didn't... she just pretended to smile, it was fake, she doesn't like me being gay." Roxas sniffled, finally able to talk somewhat coherently.

"Well, at least she pretended, that's more than ya can say 'bout my parents. They don't give a damn what I do."

Roxas wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. He felt kinda stupid.

"Feelin' better now?" Axel asked in a gentle voice, so different from his usual cocky way of speaking.

"Yeah." replied Roxas and loosened his tight grip around the redhead's middle a little before letting go completely. Truth was, he now felt really stupid.

"Well, see ya later then." he said and stood on his tiptoes to place a quick kiss on Axel's lips before turning and running towards home.

Axel slowly shook his head and walked in the opposite direction, a caring smile still on his face.