"Heyyy Axel!" cried Marluxia as he entered the grey area. "Oh, God…" whispered Axel as he rolled his sea-foam green eyes up to the ceiling. "You'll never guess what I just did!" continued Marluxia as he plopped down on the couch next to Axel. Axel folded his Playboy magazine in his lap and said, voice heavy with disinterest, "What- or rather who, did you just do?" Marluxia grinned and tossed his pink hair out of his eyes and said, "Oh, just a little friend of ours that starts with an R…" and then he got up, and skipped out of the room, petals drifting after him, while Axel's mouth hung open. "He didn't….there's no way….", he thought. "Why would he even think about doing that to ME? ME. A-X-E-L. GOT IT MEMORIZED?!" He then jumped up, knocking over a vase of Marluxia's flowers and darted out of the grey area, ignoring Saix's yelling at him to pick that up he'll make him pay for it. He passed Demyx and Zexion grappling each other on a wall, and quickly shifted his gaze to the other wall….and immediately wished he hadn't done so. Xigbar and Luxord were banging the life out of each other on the floor in Luxord's room. Axel felt sick to his stomach but quickened his pace and resorted to shutting his eyes entirely. Blind as a bat, he was walking like a determined woman at a shopping mall in December, and he walked smack into Roxas, sending him sprawling on the floor. Axel's eyes flew open and he cried, "Oh! Roxas! I'm sorry, man! I didn't mean t-", he then stopped apologizing, and glared at Roxas. Roxas got himself up, dusted the back of his cloak off, and met Axel's penetrating gaze with a raised eyebrow. They stood there in silence, staring at each other, until Roxas' patience was finally tested over its limit. "What?!" The question seemed to explode out of him, with a greater degree of force than he had intended. Taken by surprise, Axel flinched and backed up a pace. His glare returned when the shock wore off 2 seconds later. "You've been sleeping around on me, Roxas.", he accused darkly. Roxas' eyebrows drew together into a V. "What?! Who have you heard THAT from?" Axel crossed his arms and replied, "Oh, just a friend of ours that starts with M." Roxas then let out a huff. "You mean Marly?! That lying little…." Axel raised one eyebrow, still unconvinced. Roxas looked up. "You don't believe me?" Axel tossed the hair out of his eyes and said, "It sounds like Marly to do that sort of thing…but still. It is like you to blame Mar-mar to get yourself out of trouble." Roxas sighed, exasperated with his lover. "I've always been true to you, Axel! And you know it. I may not have a heart to love you with…but…I can pretend that I love you… I can pretend that I love you so much that it hurts to breathe whenever you're around. I can pretend that I love you so much that when I look up at the night sky and see the stars, I give each star a reason for why I love you, and I would be doing great until I ran out of stars. I can pretend to love you so much that-" Roxas was cut off by Axel speaking, with cheeks as pink as Marluxia's hair. "Roxa…I don't know how I could have ever doubted you. You've always been mine, and I've always been yours. I don't think it's possible…but…Roxas, you'll have my "heart" for all eternity. I'm so sorry….I…I don't know what else to say…." Roxas stepped forward and cleared the distance between them in one stride. He put his right hand on Axel's cheek and whispered, "Then don't say anything at all.", and then brought his lips to Axel's, a long, harmonious kiss goodnight.