Axel woke up when his phone started ringing. Lying on his stomach and without opening his eyes he stretched his arm trying to find the phone on the bedside table.

Rape me

Rape me my friend

Rape me

Rape me again

His fingers found the cell and he flipped it open holding it to his ear. "Yo." he said sleepily while rubbing his eye.

"Hi, it's me." Roxas' voice said through the speaker. "I... I was wonderin' if ya wanted to hang out today or somethin'..."

Axel smiled at the sound of the blond's voice, but grunted as he saw the alarm clock on the table. "Hey Roxy, I know I'm like the hottest 'n most attracting guy in the world, but are ya really so obsessed with me that ya hafta call me at friggin' EIGHT AM?"

"S-sorry." stammered Roxas and was silent for a moment. "And yes, I am obsessed with you." he added in a lower voice and Axel knew the blond was blushing.

Axel grinned. "Well, if that's the case. Where 'n when?" he questioned, sitting up.

"The square, now?" replied Roxas.

Axel sighed dramatically. "Ya can't be serious."

"Fine, then the square in half an hour?" Roxas asked.

Axel smiled. "Deal."

Roxas closed the silver cell phone and looked at it before walking out of his room towards the kitchen. When he got closer he heard his parents' voices, it seemed like they were talking about something important. He hid outside the kitchen door without knowing why, and listened to the conversation.

"I can't believe it, of all the boys out there it had to be our son." his mum said, sounding crushed.

"Trisha, relax, being gay is normal nowadays." said Cloud, trying to calm his wife down. "It's not that big a deal, half this town is gay."

"I know that, but why? Why my little Roxas?" Now Trisha sounded like she was about to cry.

That almost made Roxas feel guilty, but he quickly pushed the feeling away. If she doesn't wanna accept it then that's her problem. He walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table reaching for a sandwitch, acting as if he hadn't heard anything.

"Roxas." Trisha said after a while and Roxas looked up at her from his sandwitch. "We're both free from work today so your dad and I thought we could go shopping. You need some new clothes."

Cloud made a choking sound, shopping was one of the things he liked the least, and Trisha glared at him before smiling at Roxas.

"Sorry, me 'n my friends are meetin' up today." Roxas said and tried not to smile at Cloud's relieved sigh.

"What friends?" asked his mother and you could clearly hear the cold tone in her voice.

What should I say? thought Roxas, and finished his sandwitch before smiling at his mum. "Sora 'n Riku from my class." A little lie shouldn't hurt.

"Oh, okay then, have fun." His mum smiled and Roxas stood up.

"I gotta go." he said and hurried out from the apartment.

He ran down the stairs and flung the front door open before racing down the street towards the sqare. He couldn't help himself, he wanted to see Axel, now.

Axel stood up from the stone fountain when he spotted the blond. He started walking to meet Roxas who was running towards him at quite a high speed.

When Roxas reached the redhead he crashed into him, almost causing the two of them to fall.

Axel chuckled as Roxas hugged him tightly and nuzzled against his chest. "Did ya really miss me that much?" he asked and grinned down at the blond.

Roxas looked up and his intense sapphire gaze met Axel's emerald before he looked away again.

"Yes, I did." he murmured and Axel grinned widely at the blush emerging on the other boy's cheeks.

"So, whatcha wanna do, shorty?" asked Axel and ruffled Roxas' spikes.

"Well, we could go check some shops or somethin'." Roxas replied, not even reacting to being called 'shorty'.

"Okay, let's go then!" Axel said and pushed away from the blond.

Laughing at the pout the younger teen made Axel grabbed the other's hand and began walking in the direction of the best clothing stores.

About two hours later they stood in front of a clothing rack with black, blue and red t-shirts. Thanks to some... "distractions" they were still in the same small store that they first entered.

"You should try this one." said Axel and gave Roxas a black t-shirt with a blue eye on the front.

Roxas took the tee and watched as the redhead scanned the clothes with his feline eyes.

Axel suddenly grinned and picked up a t-shirt and held it in front of himself. The tee was black and across the chest written in red was the word 'HOT'.

"Perfect, dontcha think, Roxy?" he grinned and ducked as Roxas threw a shirt at him.

"Don't get too full of yourself." the blond said but smiled at the innocent look on Axel's face.

"What? I'm just statin' the obvious." This time he didn't have time to duck and was hit in the face by the shirt Roxas threw.

"You're way too full of yourself." Roxas smiled and turned around, colliding with someone. He blinked in surprise at the boy with steel-blue hair standing in front of him. "Zexio..?"

"Zexy, where'd ya go?" Demyx suddenly walked around a shelf a bit away and spotted the two boys. "Oh, hi Roxas!"

He waved at the shorter blond as he walked up to them and stopped behind Zexion.

"Yo Dem, whatcha doin?" asked Axel and walked closer to the two blondes and the bluenette.

"We're just lookin' for some clothes." Demyx responded and placed an elbow on one of Zexion's shoulders, leaning onto the other boy. "Right, Zexy?" He pecked the bluenette on the cheek which made the shorter boy blush.

Both Roxas and Axel stared at them for a couple of seconds before Axel grinned widely. "So ya really did end up together, huh." He walked past Roxas and elbowed Zexion in the ribs. "'Bout time, Dem's had a crush on ya for years, y'know."

"I know." Zexion replied quietly, looking quite awkward.

The awkward atmosphere was suddenly lifted as they heard someone calling out something from the other end of the store.

"Roooxaaaaas!" A boy with spiky brown hair waved energetically at them and made his way through the small crowd, dragging a silverhaired boy along by the hand.

"Hi, Sora." Roxas called, just loud enough to make himself heard.

Sora almost bounced the last bit and Riku sighed at the hyperactive boy.

"Calm down a bit, will ya." he said, but his words didn't seem to affect Sora, who ran up to Roxas and the others, almost pulling Riku's arm off in the process.

"Hi, Roxas! 'S so nice to see you again!" Sora grabbed Roxas' hand in both his own, releasing Riku who moved his arm to check if the limbs were still intact.

"Umm, we saw each other yesterday, at school." Roxas said. "We were together the whole day."

"Oh yeah, you're right." Sora said, looking as if he just remembered. He then smiled again. "But it's still great to see you!"

Roxas smiled and shook his head, when he suddenly felt someone wrapping their arms around him. He glanced to the side and saw Axel staring at Sora, something possessive and somewhat protective in his green eyes.

"'N who's this?" the tall redhead asked, watching as Sora started squirming, feeling uncomfortable being stared at by those cat-like eyes.

"That's Sora, he's my friend." Roxas explained, leaning against the redhaired teen. "It's cool, he's together with Riku."

Both Sora and Riku tensed a little at that comment, but Axel relaxed and his gaze softened.

"Well in that case, I'm Axel. Got it memorized?" he said and pointed at his temple with his index finger.

"Aren't ya forgettin' someone here?" Demyx asked and walked up beside Axel and Roxas, Zexion following him closely. The mulleted teen smiled at the newcomers. "Hi, I'm Demyx, but you can call me Dem, 'n this's Zexion. I know he's cute but ya better stay away, 'cause he's mine." he said in one breath and winked at the younger boys.

"I'm Sora." said Sora and smiled.

"'N he's mine." Riku added and put his arm around the brunette pulling him closer.

The presentations were interrupted by a thud, and as the boys turned their heads towards the source they spotted a bluenette and a silverette, kissing deeply beside a shelf were half the items had been knocked down onto the floor.

"Well, if it isn't Sai 'n Xem." Axel laughed.

"Hey guys, come over here!" Demyx shouted and the kissing couple slowly parted with a loud, almost popping sound.

"You guys really know when to interrupt, don't ya." Xemnas muttered before shrugging and walking towards the others, a grumpy Saïx following closely behind.

"Lucky we did, who knows when you'd stopped otherways." joked Axel.

"Great, now we're all here!" Demyx exclaimed happily. "You know what we should do? We should all go get somethin' to eat, I'm starving!"

Axel took a sip from his soda and looked around at the others at the table. Since no other tables were free all eight of them were now squeezed down around a four person table, each with a soda in their hand, and either having someone sitting on their lap or sitting in someone's lap.

The redhead smiled hugging the blond sitting on his lap and felt Roxas leaning against him.

The younger boy turned his head a little to look at him. "You look like you're enjoyin' this."

Axel grinned widely. "More than ya think, got it memorized?"

Then they heard footsteps and looked up to see two more boys. One of them was quite skinny (not as skinny as Axel though) with a long black ponytail with some silver streaks, a scar on his left cheek and an eyepatch over his right eye, and the other boy was more muscular looking with black dreadlocks in a high ponytail, and some black strands in his face along the cheeks, probably growing sideburns.

"Yo Xem, dude, how's it goin'?" said the one with the eyepatch and grinned at Xemnas, who was sitting underneath Saïx with his arms around the bluenette.

"As usual, I guess." Xemnas shrugged.

"You're so borin' sometimes." The boy grimaced and turned to the others. "'S there room for two more?"

Without waiting for a reply he took a chair from another table and placed it the wrong way at the table end. He then sat down on the chair resting his arms on the seat back.

The one with dreadlocks stood quietly beside the skinnier teen with his hands on his back.

"Hello Xigbar, as rude as always I see." Xemnas said, not sounding too friendly.

"Rude? As if." Xigbar replied and grinned mischievously. "You know ya love me anyway."

Saïx tensed at that line and glared at Xigbar, showing his teeth in a low growl. He looked dangerous with his golden eyes gleaming with despise.

"So, who are you guys anyway?" asked Axel trying to change the subject, sensing his friend wasn't in the best mood.

"I'm Xigbar, 'n that's Xaldin." Xigbar responded, pointing with his thumb first at himself and then the other boy. "We're Xemnas' classmates."

Saïx moved a little in Xemnas' lap, while continuing to glare at the ponytailed teen.

"Chill out dude, will ya?" Xigbar sighed, still grinning. "Seriously, that guy gets jealous so easily."

"'N why's that?" asked Demyx, resting his chin on Zexion's shoulder.

"Well, it's a kinda funny story actually." Xigbar started and took a sip from Xemnas' soda, ignoring Saïx' murderous glare.

"It was bout... three years ago I think. I'd been in a few relationships by then, but it never lasted more than like a week or two. 'N then one day someone at school dared me to stick with one person for a whole month. So, I started askin' random people 'n then I asked Xem. Turned out someone dared 'im to do the same as me. So we teamed up 'n stayed together for a month, then broke up. Nothin' more to it."

He laughed and pointed at Saïx with his thumb. "But this guy has a hard time lettin stuff like that go."

Saïx growled again, he hated it when people laughed at him.

"Well, what's really important is now, right Sai?" Xemnas asked and hugged the bluenette tighter. He then started placing small kisses on Saïx' neck.

Saïx' golden glare softened at the feel of the other's lips and he closed his eyes tilting his head to the side, moaning a little.

Xigbar laughed again. "Xem's got that dude wrapped 'round 'is little finger."

The golden eyes snapped open and Saïx once again glared and growled at the irritating teen.

"This is gonna last forever." Demyx whined, expressing what they all thought.

Roxas smiled up at Axel as they walked towards the town square, close to each other and holding hands while swaying their shopping bags absent-mindedly.

Axel smiled back at him, the nearly setting sun making his hair glow and his eyes sparkle, and then turned his head forward again and they continued walking in silence.

They had parted ways with the others after doing some more shopping, and the silence felt kind of nice after the many sounds that had surrounded them during the day.

They reached the square and Axel leaned down to press their lips together, letting go of Roxas' hand and the shopping bags to wrap his arms around the blond.

Roxas also let go of his own bags and wrapped his arms around the taller teen's neck.

"Night, Rox. See ya later." murmured Axel into Roxas' ear and the blond shivered at the other's hot breath.

"Yeah, see ya." Roxas whispered, and Axel let go of the smaller boy and picked his bags up again.

He kissed Roxas on the lips again before walking away, and Roxas stood and watched the tall boy disappear.

He glanced down at his watch and stared at it in shock. "Fuck, it's already this late?" he exclaimed before he turned and started running towards his own house, only to turn back and grab his bags before running towards home again.

Roxas carefully opened the apartment door and peeked inside before entering. He quietly removed his shoes and opened the door to his room.

"Roxas?"

Roxas groaned inwardly before walking into the kitchen with a smile on his face. "Hi mum." he said and sat down on the chair closest to the door.

"How was your day?" Trisha asked rather coldly.

"Great, I met up with some friends from school." Roxas continued smiling while talking, god that smile felt so fake.

"You don't say..." Trisha looked him in the eyes, a stone hard gray stare. "Because I saw you at the shopping centre."

Roxas tensed. How much did she see? But after looking at his mum he knew she hadn't seen them doing anything... gay. He relaxed a little at that.

"Who were those boys? I haven't seen them before." asked Trisha, a suspicious tone in her voice.

Roxas hesitated before spilling it all out in one breath. "Well you already know Axel, 'n the spiky haired brunette is Sora, the guy with silver hair with bangs covering his eyes is Riku, the one with the mullet is Demyx, he with long bangs covering his right eye is Zexion, 'n then there's Xemnas 'n Saïx, 'n then we met two guys called Xigbar 'n Xaldin."

"And the girl?"

Roxas looked at her with confusion. What girl?

"You know, the one with long, blue hair."

Roxas couldn't help himself and bursted out laughing. She thinks Saïx is a GIRL?

Seeing his mom's puzzled face he calmed down. "Mum, Saïx is a guy." he explained, still laughing a little.

"Then why was he clinging to-" Trisha stopped mid-sentence when she realized the answer.

Roxas's laugh caught in his throat.

"He is... homosexual... right?" said Trisha, almost spitting out the word.

Slowly, Roxas nodded.

"And the others?"

Roxas nodded again. "All of them."

His mum looked like she was going to start yelling or crying, or both.

Roxas squirmed on the chair. Now this was just the kind of situation he'd wanted to avoid.

A wellknown slam in the apartment door signaled Cloud was home. He walked right into the kitchen with his shoes on and stopped for a moment inside the kitchen door. Then he smiled and started walking again. "Rox, you done with that essay yet?" he asked in a casual tone and strolled through the kitchen towards his chair.

Roxas thankfully stood up and hurried into his room.

He closed the door before sliding down along the wall, sitting on the floor. Dammit, dammit, dammit, DAMMIT! He slammed his fist down on the floor and hissed at the pain. Dammit... he thought, curling up against the wall with his arms around his legs. Dammit... dammit... He felt something fall from his eyes and making wet traces down his cheeks. Dammit... dammit... dammit!