Dedicated to my darling Katscra. Merry Christmas sweetie, even if it is 5 hours late ;)
The building was far busier than the day before and Roxas could guess at understanding. He didn't know though; this was a holiday. Riku was frantically trying to get himself ready and show Roxas everything that Demyx had been a slacker and not shown the poor boy yesterday.
"I'm assuming you didn't see this either?" Riku asked in an exasperated sigh as he headed down the corridor to the Costuming Room. Riku beat himself up inside. He SO had absolutely no motivation to go see Sora right now. None. At. All.
"I've only been on the 4th floor. To see my room. Riku." Roxas glared towards his friend with an annoyed twitch of his blonde brow. He hurried to follow the silver hair that was quickly disappearing in the throng of slightly dressed males. "Jerk..." Roxas muttered to himself.
Riku stopped suddenly in front of a large door. "Sorry. " Riku whispered and opened the door shoving his friend in the door and following. "This" Riku gestured his hand to the large mess in front of him. Roxas' mouth dropped open fiercely. He hadn't realized that everyone in the whole place would be celebrating but it hit him, just then, that he had seen a large amount similarly coloured outfits.
"Oh my god. This is amazing!" Roxas smiled at the shining strands hanging from the ceiling. You could practically see the little guy's eyes light up with happiness. "So coo-"
"Shut the fuck up." Sora growled from his corner. "Here's your little happy fucking elf costume. Get dressed, get out. Go get cute make-up pipsqueak. " Sora held out a hanger holding red and green clothing similar to that of Sora's and Riku's. Roxas cautiously walked through the various piles of red and green strewn across the floors and grabbed the hanger. Sora stuck out a finger and pointed to the wall that held several changing screens his face twisting up in concentration as he went back to fixing up some gaudy-looking blingy santa costume. Roxas screwed his face up in distaste that Sora took personally and went to change. The boy sat his clothing on the floor in a pile as he stripped. The thin material had Roxas' mind going in circles for a second. Just think about the money. Thin clothing is fine. It's fine. Perfectly okay, it is.
Roxas was startled when he heard a sudden scream; quickly looking around the screen he saw that Sora had managed to slit his finger with a seam ripper. Roxas shuddered but noticed the worried look on Riku's face as he hurriedly searched for the medical box close to Sora's work bench and quickly fished out a band-aid. Before Roxas could blink, the silver haired boy was concentrated on wiping the blood away. After the cut was clean, Riku gingerly bent down and wrapped the band-aid carefully around Sora's finger and then bent to kiss the appendage. Suddenly Riku stiffened and stopped mid-action. He quickly got up and turned away from the brunette. Sora hurriedly rushed after the silver haired boy and grabbed his arm, turning Riku to face him. Roxas could see from where he was that Sora was crying from Riku's actions. All of a sudden, when Riku turned and Sora pulled him for a kiss, Roxas felt like he was intruding. He turned back to the clothing he had neglected and tried to ignore the sounds of protest from both sides as he slid on the red shining underwear, red and green striped thigh tights, green elf shoes, the red dress shirt, and a green Santa hat with red fur.
"ROXAS! You so should have finished by now!" The blonde jumped and hurried to grab his clothing when Riku yelled and gave a glare to Sora, rushing out of the room. Roxas frowned with an 'I'm sorry' expression on his face. When the door closed, Sora rushed to lock it and when he knew he was safe, slid down the door and just cried. Blatantly ignoring the shouts for clothing not yet handed out. 'They're lying. They're lying. They're lying. They're lying. They're- Riku. Why can't you see?' Sora screamed inside his head, over and over again. The anguish was too much and he grabbed the closest hard object and through it across the room, shattering the glass of water on the bench next to his chair.
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"Dude. Make up with him already." Roxas said with a pout as they were hurriedly going to the make-up station Sora had told Roxas to go to. Roxas was clearly annoyed with his friend. What the hell could have happened to make two people so obviously in love, so pissed at each other?
"We are not talking about this Rox." Riku said viciously from in front of the boy. He was pushing people out of his way angrily.
"We are SO going to talk if it gets you to. Calm. The. Fuck. Down. And explain to me why you are pushing away someone you obviously like." Roxas knew he was being pushy, which wasn't good with his friend's temper.
"Shut the fuck up and I'll talk to you later." Riku growled almost as viciously as Sora. Roxas smiled, he was going to hold that sentence over his head later to find out what was going on, if his Plan A didn't work. Riku pushed his friend into one of the three gigantic alcoves and ran off in the opposite direction.
"Wha-" Roxas looked quickly around and saw a giant table in the middle with copious amounts of makeup on strewn about its surface. He also saw mirrors following the round wall the whole way around with about thirty chairs facing the mirror. Almost all the seats were full at that point.
"Sit down sweetie." A girl with blonde hair motioned Roxas towards a chair between two rather tall men and hurried over when she finished telling a boy how his makeup should look for the night. "Job please." The girl had a soft voice but Roxas couldn't have missed the forceful way of speaking. He frowned.
"I guess...I'm a dancer." Roxas looked towards the girl with a puzzled face.
"Ah. Alright. Turn and face the table in the middle then. Several of the guys near enough to hear turned a curious gaze towards the short, blonde boy with a rather slim body. In fact, he kind of looked like Sora. That revelation only served to make the boys near Roxas shiver and turn around. Sora was a sore subject with everyone as of late. "Congratulations on your job by the way. It's nice to meet you, my name's Namine and you need to get your hair out of your face. Here." The girl, Namine, handed Roxas a band to hold his hair up with.
"Thanks," Roxas said, putting on the hair band. And sitting still as Namine did the boy up with red and green eye shadow to accent the outfit the boy was wearing. By the time Roxas' makeup was finished, most of the men crowding the ways were thinning and Riku was standing near, impatiently tapping his foot on the floor.
"Nah-men-ay" Riku whined, acting completely like a child. It seemed he had calmed down in the time he had been left alone and pampered.
"Oh shush, I just finished, you silly boy." The girl smiled, flipping her dramatically as she backed up far enough to survey her work. Riku gave the girl a thumbs up and Roxas stood, turned and smiled. He saw why this was called the cute station. He looked pretty cute. There was no denying.
"Alright, follow me." Riku started walking off and looked behind him at the petite blonde girl, "You better watch your attitude little missy." winked, and hurried to show Roxas everywhere he needed to know before the meeting.
They took a right and immediately came to a large door similar to Sora's Riku hurried the blonde in. A couple men and two girls looked towards the boys questioningly and smiled. Roxas' mouth literally dropped. The whole room was covered from top to bottom in dry-erase white boards. Holy fuck. That is so...organized. Roxas was completely and utterly baffled how at how this was working out. Riku grabbed the boy's arm and shoved him over to the immediate right side of the door opening.
"Find your name," Riku pointed to his name on the right side, "your symbol," he then pointed to the picture of a star under his name, "The day" Riku pointed to the large 'F' on the far right of the board, "and then your job." Riku slid his finger down from the F until he found his star symbol, then looked on the left where it told the jobs. Riku was to be a dancer that day. Roxas looked to the right to find hi-
"Why am I a heart?" Roxas growled. Really...a heart! Ludicrous! Absolutely and totally silly and not manly at all. The pout was overly evident on his face.
"We don't have a choice. Marluxia decides what everyone's symbol is." Riku sighed. "Do you think I'd really be a star otherwise? Anyway, come on!" Riku literally sprinted out the door, took a right, and then an immediate left at the first corner. "Locker room and showers!" Riku yelled as they ran past the first two rooms. "Sleeping areas and workout room!" Was the next three on the left and the one on the right respectively. "Storage and dancing room!" Riku said as they raced past the last two and headed towards the metal spiral stairs to take them up to the fourth floor. Riku easily bounded up the hard steps, silver hair bouncing on his shoulders and Roxas did...not. He huffed the whole way up there and barely managed to keep pace. Riku was waiting at the top and Roxas tried hard to make it up the last twenty steps without panting. He looked disgusted as he hit the landing and wiped a small drop of sweat from his brow. Definitely going to be using that gym. Roxas hurried down the more familiar halls of the top floor towards the huge room that Demyx hadn't shown to him the night before when he'd asked. "And this," Riku pulled the door open a crack, "Is the Meeting Room." He whispered in his friend's ear as he shoved the boy into what more closely resembled an auditorium. There were eight rows, all filled except for a couple spots in the back and front. Roxas tried to sit in a chair but his arm was harshly dragged back upwards by Riku who hurried them down the side aisle towards the first row. Almost everyone was glancing back at the pair as they made their way. Marluxia, who was standing on the platform, smiled as he watched and Roxas noted that Sora glared back towards him until he finally got fed up and turned around in a huff. There were, inconveniently only two spots open. One was on the end next to Zexion, and the other was next to Sora. Riku took the spot next to Zexion and Roxas glared at his friend as he awkwardly took the spot next to Sora. The tension was practically palpable.
"Hello!" Roxas jumped and Sora snickered as the talking died down to a minimum and everyone looked towards their employer. Roxas suddenly recognized the gaudy outfit he had seen on Sora's bench and had to admit. For some reason, Marluxia somehow made the outfit look good. "Welcome everyone and a very Merry Christmas to you all!" Marluxia smiled out at everyone and you couldn't help but smile back at the charismatic man and choruses of 'Merry Christmas' were called back for a good minute.
"You made his outfit right?" Roxas whispered towards Sora and received no acknowledgement. He continued anyway. "Well, it looks absolutely fantastic. Very cool." Roxas awkwardly leaned back to his normal sitting position. Roxas missed the slight grin from Sora at the acknowledgement.
"Thanks everyone. Well, I've got a bit of news for you all!" Murmurs went through the crowd of men and women. Surprisingly a good fourth of the pink haired man's audience was women. All had behind the scenes jobs, of course. "Congratulations are in order to our new Exclusive member of the staff and the two boys who decided to join us in the normal occupations! Give them a round of applause!" After the clapping subsided Marluxia started again. "Alright everyone, I'm loving that enthusiasm. Tonight we're going to be really busy. Now, everyone, remember to stay after tonight! We're all going to have a nice Christmas Breakfast to thank you all for your hard work and determination. Also, in case any of you were wondering I was too busy to update any of the charts except the Exclusives. So, starting at the back row, go to your normal areas but get the special holiday themed items ready in each of your rooms. Row seven, go help row eight and keep watch at all doors after you're finished. Dismissed. Row six, start on sound check and dance room floor prep. Dismissed. Row five..." Marluxia looked down at Xaldin for some confirmation. Roxas strained his neck to look to his right. The whole time Roxas was too short to see, the rows dismissed were filing out of the auditorium, starting at the bac-"Row five needs to go the kitchens today. Row four needs to go to the kitchens, grab the holiday themed alcoholic items, and head to Cid for confirmation of working stations. Dismissed. Oh, row four, be cautious, he's in a bad mood." At that, Marluxia winked at his workers. It was a grand sight to see. It really was. Varying outfits of red and green were roaming around, some elf themed, some with only Santa hats, others still sitting were wearing suits with Christmas colors and other random items. "Row three please head to the dance floor and decorate the Christmas tree. Row Two please head to the storage room on this floor and grab the candy canes. Set up dishes in every possible room, several on the counters of the bars one on each table and then head outside and give one to every person waiting in line. The right half of you will also be hosts tonight. Dismissed!" And with that Marluxia jumped down off the stage, his pink hair flying and somehow floating back down into its perfect place. "Now, my darlings." Sora rolled his eyes and Roxas smiled at the man. "Now, as several of you have probably seen, Roxas, our newly acquired worker," Marley winked at the blonde. "Sora, Riku, and Demyx are working as Dancer-"
"HELL YEAH!" Demyx interrupted with excitement.
Marluxia chose to ignore his blonde friend. "Dancers tonight. Me and Lux are going to be hosts." At this, Marluxia motioned to the British man in a matching, just as gaudy, Santa suit. They made a cute, well, more like a sexy Mr. And Mrs. Santa couple, Roxas had to admit. "And Axel, the bum who isn't here, is going to be working as the platform dancer tonight. Now off with you all, and good luck Roxas. Make us proud!" Marluxia said and literally pranced out a side door with a slightly less excited Luxord mumbling behind the, excuse the pun, gay man with a smile on his face. Roxas leaned forward and looked questioningly at Riku who was down the row. Riku was grinning ear to ear and Roxas started to head over to his friend as he got tackled by a blonde, red, and green blur.
"Hey Dem. Where do we go now?" Roxas smiled and pushed the man off of him, attempting to ignore the skimpily clad lower region rubbing against him.
"Well, You" Demyx grabbed Roxas' arm and pulled him close," Riku and Sora" he grabbed them both respectively and pulled them in to the little huddle, "are going to come with me downstairs to the choreography room. The faster we learn our routine tonight the more time you can have learning how to improve!" Roxas got a slight thrill at Demyx's stare at them all. He had such enthusiasm. You could tell he loved his job. "Come on!" Demyx said, pulling Sora with him, leaving Riku to tell Roxas exactly what was going on with the boyfriend Roxas had heard Riku gush about for three months.
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"Sora!" Demyx shouted at the boy and stopped the music in the middle for the ninth time since they had started. "You need to get over your little attitude problem and be a mother fucking sexy bitch. We are not going to get any extra money tonight if you're being a prissy douche!" Demyx shoved Sora closer to Roxas. "You need to be here when we start our partner dancing. NOT WAY THE FUCK OVER THERE!" Demyx gestured wildly to a random corner of the room the anger was evident on his face. "We are restarting and you better do it right this time." Roxas had been doing his best and only gotten called on issues twice. Riku once. And Sora...well, Sora's gotten in trouble with Dem a good six times now.
Demyx went back over to the music and started it from the beginning, the delay allowing everyone ample time to get back to their spots. Roxas glanced warily towards the blonde. Plan A was perfect for right now. Roxas grinned and decided that now would indeed be the best time for such a thing.
The music started and Roxas side stepped to his right, as Sora side stepped to his left. Both were now about two inches apart. Roxas faced Sora as Demyx and Riku moved up behind each smaller man respectively. The taller men started a slow grind half the time of the beat while the younger men slid their hands behind them, resting them on the bare hips and sliding down, caressing the heated bare skin as they went. They slowly slid back up and both Roxas and Sora went forward to the pole in front of them. Both hooked their right legs around the pole, effectively mirroring each other without hassle. "Sora. You didn't do what they said you did right?" Roxas whispered in the brunette's ear so that no one had heard and then they both twirled away on their free leg so that it looked like a ballerina move more than a stripper's dance.
Sora's twirl was filled with a vicious anger and he practically stomped his foot down when he ended that particular move. Sora was known for being a rather graceful dancer too.
Well, I guess this is better than him just flopping around everywhere. Demyx chuckled to himself and let the boy tromp to the right as Riku came to him so the two cute boys and the two sexy men were together for a moment. Demyx fisted his hands in Riku's hair and pulled back to expose the skin of his neck and pretended to lick down all the way down to his rim of the pale boy's shorts. Demyx glanced in the mirror, the two boys were taking turns viciously dominating the other. Demyx's eyes widened and he came back up to whisper in Riku's ear. "Dude. Look at them." Riku cracked an eye and immediately both shot open. "Told you!" The blonde whispered.
"I don't think your talk got Sora that enthusiastic. What the fuck is going on?" Riku whispered back, trying not to attract the attention of the two boys. Roxas was currently dominating and had Sora's arms pinned behind his back.
"I just want to make sure that you're not going to hurt my best friend!" Roxas said to Sora in hushed tones.
"And I wanted to make sure you weren't fucking my boyfriend! I didn't know you were his best friend. He didn't tell me you were working here now!" Sora replied in the same manner, flipping Roxas around and crossing both of the blonde's arms in front of his chest in an 'x' pattern so the blonde could hear him without anyone else doing the same.
Roxas managed to slip one hand out and had grabbed Sora's hair, yanking it forward so his ears were close when the blonde's head was turned. "Okay, well. Now that we have that settled, tell me. Did you cheat on him. I want an hone-"
"No!" Sora cried and the anguish could be heard under the large tones of anger and annoyance. "The fuck. I wouldn't dare. I love that man." Roxas just about rubbed his ear. He believed Sora. He had believed Sora since he saw the incident in the brunette's work room but he needed a verbal confession. Roxas sighed and a smile replaced his serious face and he gingerly twirled Sora around, the boy going with the flow since he was so startled at the change from savage beast to loving friend.
"Good. For the record. I believed you the whole time and Riku didn't want to believe them but he wanted proof that you'd still love him with all his jerky tests." Roxas ended with letting go of Roxas' hand and letting the brunette twirl into the awaiting Riku. Roxas just winked and gave a thumbs up as Sora smiled up hungrily at Riku.
"Oh." Riku said in understanding and went off to start their own lust dance off to the side, leaving a bewildered Demyx and a grinning Roxas in their wake.
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"So... you think I'll be okay?" Roxas asked, nervously looking out of the balcony between the first and second floors towards the throng of Christmas Dancers below and the DJ booth that Xaldin was working in with Zexion. They were currently playing a modern version of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Roxas was cracking up at some of the stuff they were using but it didn't ease his nervousness of the first time at his first job.
"Psh. You'll do fine silly." Sora had gone back to what Demyx deemed the 'Normal Version'. I think I like him better this way. The blonde smiled as Sora pulled him over for a reassuring one-armed hug. "Thank you by the way." Sora whispered to Roxas and the boy smiled, his fear melting away quickly when he looked at the smiling faces surrounding him.
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This didn't, however stop the vicious struggle going on between Riku and Sora as they practically had makeup sex on the stage for the VIPs. Yeah, sure, they were getting tips right and left and Roxas could have sworn he saw a hundred dollar bill get thrown in the tip area when Sora had teased everyone by pulling the male's boxers down with his teeth just far enough to make everyone want more but not able to see anything. Demyx and Roxas didn't let them steal the show though.
"Don't freak out." Demyx whispered with a smile when Demyx dropped his head and licked from Roxas' collar to his jaw. Normally the Tanned blonde would do a full on licking showing but Roxas was new and there was no way in hell he was going to interrupt the show in front of him unless those two interrupted it themselves.
Roxas, not having had that kind of attention lately, let out a loud gasp, not unnoticed by the men next to him. The only, only, reason Roxas was okay with this was because Cloud and Leon had already come and gone back down to the dancing below. Roxas could care less about Reno's bulge since that man had been watching the ridiculous moving mass of red and green dancers that had grown larger as the hours hurried towards midnight.
As Xaldin smoothly transitioned from 'Rocking Around The Christmas' at two minutes before midnight to a faster, more techno version of 'Carol Of The Bells' by Trans Siberian Orchestra that replaced all the drums with an intense heart piercing bass pounding in the background of the melodic technic bells.
That was practically sex to Roxas' ears. That had been his absolute favourite instrumental song since he'd heard it when he was five. Demyx's faced mirrored that of Roxas' as both blondes began to sensually move their hips to the song, eyes closed, and just feeling the beat. Riku and Sora looked at each other, grinning widely. Roxas didn't even jump when he felt hands ghost down his sides, leaving goose bumps in their wake. He only opened an eye a little to see who it was and smiled when he saw Riku. His best friend knew exactly what this song did to him. It was literally an aphrodisiac to the blonde, not even his grandma could stay the need for a good fuck at that point. Was he hard, no. That was unacceptable to the blonde. He refused to get hard while people could clearly see every curve and outline of his junk. Even a twitch wouldn't go unnoticed in those tight shiny red bottoms.
Somehow, though, Roxas had managed to keep his red shirt on and he wasn't surprised in the least when he felt Sora practically rip the fabric away from him so the brunette could really feel the bare skin in front of him that had been hidden for the last several hours. Sora set his hands on Roxas' hips and moved with them, setting his body into the same pattern of movement as the blonde's. Roxas lifted his arms behind his head and wrapped them around Sora's neck, effectively closing the distance between the two boys. Catcalls were rising rapidly as it looked like the male behind each blonde had a writhing mass of sexy male in their hands' that wouldn't object to anything at that point. Both were just entranced by the beautiful sounds flowing through the club.
It was the same for the mass below. They all had turned into a sensual, fast moving mob of people. The platform dancer below was having a hay day. He was throwing out candy canes and twirling like a mad man, occasionally glancing up to see the show in the balcony. It was quite obvious that they were having fun tonight. Even Xaldin and Zexion were glancing up now and then during the song to watch the faces of the boys; it was quite entrancing watching them he dared think at one point.
Soon, the song reached its climax and a couple seconds before midnight the whole entire building was writhing, whether from sexual pleasure or the music it depended on your section of the building. As soon as midnight hit, the music dropped off abruptly in a way that just fit to a chorus of bells tolling twelve times to signal that it was now Christmas day. Everyone threw up shouts and cheers and Marluxia stood up on the platform for a couple seconds while the AV workers shone a light on him.
"Merry Christmas Everyone! One free Christmas drink to everyone over eighteen!" Marluxia smiled and quickly stepped off the stage smiling at the shouts and cheers coming from the crowd as a good percentage rushed to the bar to grab one of the hundreds of premade drinks sitting on the bar. Cid had an army of men standing on the front lines between the alcohol, stamping hands to keep track and turning away anyone with a wristband or a hand already stamped.
Roxas smiled, that was the signal ending his night of work. He walked out of the room, smiling. He had done a pretty good job he'd like to think. Riku patted him on the shoulder and Roxas smiled, linking arms with Demyx as they all took the elevator to the fourth floor, grabbed their clothed from their rooms and headed back down a flight. All four had decided that it would be a good time to shower. Everyone had their own individual stalls but Roxas didn't feel quite safe when he heard a small moan escape his silver haired friend in the stall next to his. Roxas' face blushed, connecting why he had heard the door closing again, and hurried to get clean so he could head to his room. By the time Roxas had gotten out and put his normal clothes back on, he had learned a little too much about how his best friend liked his hot and steamy shower sex.
Roxas cringed and the blush on his wasn't going to go away any time at all, let alone the problem that was growing in his boxers. Roxas couldn't help but only think about getting to his room. Only his room, up the stairs, one foot, then the other until he was all the way up and heading towards hi- "Oof!" Roxas fell backwards onto the floor painfully. "I'm so sorry!" Roxas immediately apologized and looked up and up, and up. In Roxas' opinion he had just seen the most devious, plotting green eyes they would ever see, framed by flaming wild red hair and a cocky as fuck grin.
"Here." The man bent in half and pulled Roxas up from the floor, which accentuated the fact that Roxas was barely two-thirds the man's height. "I'm Axel." And sexy as fuck. "You are...?"
"Thanks, I'm Roxas, the new Exclusive." The blonde grinned back and looked up at the red-head's face.
Oh, the new boy? This is going to be fun. Axel practically purred at the new conquest.
Merry Christmas everyone!
HOLY HELL. This took forever to write. I do not kid.
This chapter has more words total than the whole fiction so far.
Tell me if there's any obscene screw ups
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