"Are you fucking deaf?" Larxene asked and lowered her head to my level, "I said that you can crash on my couch!"
I backed away a little from Larxene as I felt that she was too close. She must have the power to read minds, for her face broke up in that usual sarcastic smile of hers.
"Aww, am I too close to you, little gay boy?" she asked in a fake sweet voice, "Are only guys allowed to be close to you?"
Resisting thee urge to punch her in the face, I grinned my teeth and mentally abused her. She seemed to be noticing this too.
"Jeez, Rox, if I hatched an egg on your face right now it would frizzle like hell and then explode!" She slapped my shoulder as she laughed. I was still annoyed, but calmed down somehow by Larxene's laughter. She laughed for a couple of minutes and at the end I found myself actually smiling and almost laughing. When she stopped laughing, she wiped away the happy tears that had formed in her eyes. Then she put her arm around me. She had really fooled me before with her sober act. It was now I realized that she wasn't drunk, she was god-damn-it-wasted! She started to laugh again. I sighed and hoped that she would say that it was time to go home now. Then she would fall asleep quickly so I could be alone for a while and not freeze my ass off. But instead, she drew me closer to her, which almost choked me to death.
"Hey Rox," she said, "Let's get some food!"
I hesitated, but didn't have anything to come with so she dragged me along to somewhere.
"How about pizza?" she asked me when we had been walking around a while and finally ended up in the town square.
"I don't care Lar!" I replied and tried to save myself from suffocating of Larxene's drunken enthusiasm.
"Oh, come on Roxas! You're no fun!" she said and finished the can of bear she was holding. "You kno', you've gotta make some space for fun!" she said as she threw the beer can on the ground. I thought that I should tell her that she have had enough beer tonight and maybe pick up that beer can she threw on the ground. But I ended up doing neither of those things for Larxene dragged me away to the pizzeria. She must be regular costumer there since the shopkeeper and some costumer greeted her heartily. One who didn't greet her had his face behind a book. His spiky, uncontrollable lilac hair looked very familiar.
"Zexy!" Larxene yelled. Her drunken behavior was embarrassing. He dropped his book in shock. It was Zexion with his reading glasses, enjoying a book. A very common sight. Everyone knew that he was studying for something, but nobody knew what, maybe that Vexen, who's also known as the crazy pharmacist or perhaps Lexaeus. He's an officer who often visits the speech therapist. I've seen Zexion having a conversation with them and he didn't exact to seem to hate it either. It was the completely opposite behavior from him with the hospital's noisiest trio, Axel, Demyx and Larxene.
"Typical, you bookworm!" Larxene said as she took his glasses, "You come to the party, but then you quickly leave when things starts to get more funny!"
Zexion sighed, "Actually I leave when things are out of control."
"Control, toilet roll," Larxene said as she put his glasses on, "And why leave on Christmas Eve?" She was laughing herself to tears as Zexion groaned and tried to get his glasses back. She was actually quite good at finding rhymes even if she was loaded. A fat man approached us. He was holding a pen and a notepad.
"Well, Lar-Lar, you look great in glasses, but why don't you return them to that young man and order something?"
"Oh-kay!" she replied cheerfully and took off Zexion's glasses, "I'll have the kebab pizza with that cheesy sleazy filling inside the crust and Roxy here will have the same thing," she said and passed the glasses to me. I first looked at them and then at her. She winked at me and poked my forehead, "Don't worry slugger, it's on me," and with that she walked away with the fat man and leaned over the desk to have a chat with the shopkeeper. There was "Are you fucking deaf?" Larxene asked and lowered her head to my level, "I said that you can crash on my couch!"
I backed away a little from Larxene as I felt that she was too close. She must have the power to read minds, for her face broke up in that usual sarcastic smile of hers.
"Aww, am I too close to you, little gay boy?" she asked in a fake sweet voice, "Are only guys allowed to be close to you?"
Resisting thee urge to punch her in the face, I grinned my teeth and mentally abused her. She seemed to be noticing this too.
"Jeez, Rox, if I hatched an egg on your face right now it would frizzle like hell and then explode!" She slapped my shoulder as she laughed. I was still annoyed, but calmed down somehow by Larxene's laughter. She laughed for a couple of minutes and at the end I found myself actually smiling and almost laughing. When she stopped laughing, she wiped away the happy tears that had formed in her eyes. Then she put her arm around me. She had really fooled me before with her sober act. It was now I realized that she wasn't drunk, she was god-damn-it-wasted! She started to laugh again. I sighed and hoped that she would say that it was time to go home now. Then she would fall asleep quickly so I could be alone for a while and not freeze my ass off. But instead, she drew me closer to her, which almost choked me to death.
"Hey Rox," she said, "Let's get some food!"
I hesitated, but didn't have anything to come with so she dragged me along to somewhere.
"How about pizza?" she asked me when we had been walking around a while and finally ended up in the town square.
"I don't care Lar!" I replied and tried to save myself from suffocating of Larxene's drunken enthusiasm.
"Oh, come on Roxas! You're no fun!" she said and finished the can of bear she was holding. "You kno', you've gotta make some space for fun!" she said as she threw the beer can on the ground. I thought that I should tell her that she have had enough beer tonight and maybe pick up that beer can she threw on the ground. But I ended up doing neither of those things for Larxene dragged me away to the pizzeria. She must be regular costumer there since the shopkeeper and some costumer greeted her heartily. One who didn't greet her had his face behind a book. His spiky, uncontrollable lilac hair looked very familiar.
"Zexy!" Larxene yelled. Her drunken behavior was embarrassing. He dropped his book in shock. It was Zexion with his reading glasses, enjoying a book. A very common sight. Everyone knew that he was studying for something, but nobody knew what, maybe that Vexen, who's also known as the crazy pharmacist or perhaps Lexaeus. He's an officer who often visits the speech therapist. I've seen Zexion having a conversation with them and he didn't exact to seem to hate it either. It was the completely opposite behavior from him with the hospital's noisiest trio, Axel, Demyx and Larxene.
"Typical, you bookworm!" Larxene said as she took his glasses, "You come to the party, but then you quickly leave when things starts to get more funny!"
Zexion sighed, "Actually I leave when things are out of control."
"Control, toilet roll," Larxene said as she put his glasses on, "And why leave on Christmas Eve?" She was laughing herself to tears as Zexion groaned and tried to get his glasses back. She was actually quite good at finding rhymes even if she was loaded. A fat man approached us. He was holding a pen and a notepad.
"Well, Lar-Lar, you look great in glasses, but why don't you return them to that young man and order something?"
"Oh-kay!" she replied cheerfully and took off Zexion's glasses, "I'll have the kebab pizza with that cheesy sleazy filling inside the crust and Roxy here will have the same thing," she said and passed the glasses to me. I first looked at them and then at her. She winked at me and poked my forehead, "Don't worry slugger, it's on me," and with that she walked away with the fat man and leaned over the desk to have a chat with the shopkeeper. There was an uncomfortable stillness between me and Zexion. I started to roll my thumbs at a time, it felt like forever but it actually only was a couple of minutes. I looked at the clock again to see what time it was. I've spend more than two hours with a drunken Larxene. I now began to question myself how I managed to survive for so long. Unfortunately I got nowhere with that. I now looked at Zexion who was starring back at me. If looks could kill, he would have killed me three times and then play with my corpse over and over again and then finally hung it up on a Christmas tree. That look he gave me made me feel really uncomfortable. I looked away and hoped that in a while he would look somewhere else or go back to reading his book. I decided to look at Larxene just so my eyes wouldn't be on Zexion. Her behavior right now was outrageous, she was yelling and almost breaking stuff. She was so crazy that I couldn't even look at her. I looked at Zexion over my shoulder. He was still looking at me. I was on the edge of yelling at him and ask him what the hell does he want, but then when I was going to I closed my hands and noticed that I was holding something. I looked down and saw Zexion's glasses. I quickly handed over them without looking at him. Larxene was laughing really hard and was close to tears. I wonder how people would react if I suddenly let a little loose and went totally out of character. Now I wonder myself what the hell I must've been thinking if I ever did that. Getting lost in thought for quite a while, Larxene suddenly returned with two red bricks. My mouth started to water as I saw the delicious-looking kebab pizzas. Larxene stretched her arms in the air and did thumbs up to the shopkeeper who waved back at her after he saw her. "Give us some beer, please!" Larxene then said and snapped her fingers. I let out a loud sigh.
"Now Roxy, that was awesome, huh?!" Larxene yelled at me, though I was standing next to her. She had even had more beers at the restaurant and forced me and Zexion to drink. I'm still not used to the shit taste of alcohol and Zexion seemed to have low alcohol tolerance. But maybe that's logical, he's not that tall, thin and hadn't eaten something for a long time. Now I was hanging with two drunken guys against my will. Thankfully Zexion wasn't loud as drunk. He hummed on a strange song and replied to Larxene every now and then. Them being drunk, the stink of alcohol and all the yelling… It was really driving me over the edge. I just wanted to go home now, but since I had a beer and hung out with Larxene and Zexion, I must be reeking alcohol right now. Mom would kill me over and over again if she noticed the smell of alcohol coming from me.
"Hey, Zex;" Larxene suddenly said, "What about going to my place now?"
Finally! Exactly the thing I've been waiting for the whole night. Going home to Larxene's place where there's a couch waiting for me. Not that I would be able to sleep now that a lot of stuff had happened. Huh, that's weird. Being with Larxene for hours actually helped me to get my mind off Axel. I don't really want to think about the party, but it pops up in my head and then I can't stop thinking about it. I guess I kinda have to thank her. But then again, she's really drunk so she probably won't remember so much from tonight. So I guess I can spare myself from getting botched by Larxene's pride. It always happens when I say thanks and when I don't say it when I'm supposed to, she tortures me to do it.
"Tss, yeah, I dunno," Zexion replied after a while, "I'm supposed to have this test tomorrow and it's kinda important since this is this test tomorrow…"
I got only more amazed by Zexion's and Larxene's drunken behavior. It was embarrassing but also quite amusing too. Zexion had problems with his speech and balance and Larxene could barely stand on her own. It had been like a workout for me now. I've been carrying half of their body weight on my shoulder for quite a long time now. I could easily eat a whole bag of chips in the morning without a guilty conscience. The thought of eating made me nauseous. The pizza was so huge and Larxene forced me to eat all of it since she had paid for it.
"Oh well!" Larxene said cheerfully, "Hey Rox, you can stay at my place for how long you want, but if you stay for to long, I'll force you to pay half of the bills!"
"…Sure," I replied and deeply hoped that staying at Larxene's was only a one-time thing. But the more I thought about it I realized more and more that this wasn't going to be a one-time thing. I absolutely had no where else to go! If I got home, mom would nag on me so much that my ears would fall off, Sora's moving to a new apartment out of town, I can't even look at Axel now, Demyx lives with Axel and pretty much everyone else at the hospital's are assholes…
"Well let's go home then!" Larxene said and started to drag us to her left. Zexion was barely awake anymore. We ended up in the middle of the town square again, but now we were waiting for our buss. Larxene sat and sang some random song about fishes and family members and Zexion sat next to her mumbling some physics stuff. We waited for the same buss, but Zexion's stop was two stop before Larxene's.
"Here comes the bus!" Larxene sang cheerfully.
I tried to keep it cool when the bus came, like I wasn't with the drunken guys. It worked fine until I got on the bus. I showed her my ticket that I had gotten from work, it has my name on it and let's me ride the bus for free since I live quite far away from work. The bus driver looked at my card and nodded. "Hey Rox, Zexy just threw up again!" Larxene said as she stumbled onboard the bus. The bus driver looked at my card, probably to see if my name was Roxas. And, yes, it was. The bus driver who was earlier smiling at me was now giving a strange glare as she handed over my card. I mentally abused Larxene again for blowing my cover.
"Fishy, Fishy in the brook, daddy caught it with a hook. Mama fried it in the pan; Baby eats it like a man!" Zexion and Larxene sang when the bus started to move.
"I fucking hate my life…" I mumbled to myself.
Yes, I have often thought that my life is pathetic, but for the first time of my life it's so pathetic that it creates a new level of patheticness! Huh, patheticness… Is that even a word? I think not… Yeah anyway, I've never wanted to trade lives with somebody but now I feel like anyone's life would be better than mine. I rolled over again. I was finally on a couch and everything was quiet. Larxene almost fell asleep as soon as she got in to the apartment. It was now the silence that I've been longing for since the accident. A chance to think about what had happened and how this was going to affect my relationship with Axel now in the future. I've never thought that my life would be this complicated. When I was little I thought that it would just be a simple thing like, get a job, meet someone, fall in love and live happily ever after. But then again at that time I thought that I would meet a girl. I guess I started to question my sexuality when I realized that I wasn't attracted to girls like everyone else. The guys thought that I was strange when I told them that I wasn't interested at all in going with them and sneak-peak on the girls in the changing room. Sora and I was actually quite popular with girls and I didn't realize that until Sora told me. I had just thought of them as friends or annoying people. I curled up on the couch and had my arms around my stomach.
"Uh, I feel like throwing up…"
I crept to the floor and then walked to the bathroom. It felt like I crawled on the bathroom floor. I leaned over the toilet seat and hurled. Maybe it was because of the alcohol or because I was so miserable. No, it was probably the alcohol. Damn it Larxene, forcing me to drink even though I didn't want to.
As I woke up, I noticed that I hade woken up before Larxene. Maybe that was a good thing, so I wouldn't have to see a hung-over Larxene. I quickly got up from the couch and made me a sandwich. I quickly put it in to my mouth and grabbed my jacket and bag. After that, I quickly left the building and headed to the hospital.
When I arrived at the hospital I quickly walked through the ER to the lockers. I quickly threw my jacket and my bag in it. As I was going to fetch new scrubs from the shelf I noticed that there were no scrubs on the shelves. As I began freaking out I noticed that there was a new machine next to the lockers. It was kinda huge and there was a metal handle that you could pull down and then it looked like you should put something in it, not coins, but something bigger. Then to the left of the handle there were about 6 small shelves with…
"Scrubs!" I exclaimed as I saw the blue, green and a couple of other scrubs. As I was wondering how to get the scrubs there, I noticed that there was a white note taped on the machine.
'To get the new scrubs, deposit old ones by pulling the handle down and throw them in.'
But, but, I don't have any old scrubs… Oh fine, I guess I have to try to dump something else in it. Maybe it'll work if I threw my t-shirt in? It's not like it's my favorite t-shirt so I won't really care about it. I took of my t-shirt and threw it in. The machine clicked and then I looked to the left and then noticed that the glass that was in front of the scrubs had been removed. I quickly grabbed a pair of green scrubs and quickly changed without going to the changing room. Then I grabbed my papers in the nurse's office and walked down the hall to check on my patients.
"Hiyya kiddo, how are you doing today?" I someone said as he slapped my shoulder. I quickly looked to my right and saw that it was Xigbar. I sighed quietly to myself before I answered.
"Okay," I answered shortly and hoped that he would just walk away as quickly as possible. But it seemed as if he was here to stay and mock me.
"Hey, I only saw you once at the party," Xigbar said, "What happened?"
Urgh, I really didn't need someone bringing up that specific topic. Just go away please, just go away…
"But then again, it was a fucking smashing party, I got lots of numbers from these chicks I talked to, I really think I hit it good!"
"Aren't you gay Xig?" I asked without thinking before I spoke out. I was in a really foul mood and just wanted to be left alone. I'm not sure why, but Xigbar stopped walking and didn't even shout something back like, 'No, but you are!' or some sick your mother joke again. I really don't mind them since I don't like my mother. I just hope that I can move out any day now…
The day is going so damn slow. Even the patients were more boring than usual.
At lunch time I headed back to the kitchen and saw that there was a huge commotion at the fridge. I walked up to the crowd and made my way through the crowd to the front row and smiled at my work on the fridge. That would probably be the only time I smiled that day. On the fridge I had written the 12 people I thought about yesterday and something next to their names.
Xenmas – Mansex
Xigbar – Meanie Gun
Xaldin – Reggae man
Vexen – Mad Scientist
Lexaeus - Silent Hill
Zexion – Sexy bookworm
Saïx – Werewolf
Axel – Pyromaniac Stalker
Demyx – Crybaby
Luxord – Viva las gaygas
Marluxia – S/hemale
Larxene – Pikachu
I tried not to laugh but when I looked to the sides, the people's reaction was so laughable. I snorted a little but stopped when I saw another name under Larxene's. I had not written that so I leaned closer to read what it said.
13. Roxas – Axel's bitch
My reaction was now just as everyone else's in the room. I was so frustrated that I had to bite my lip not to scream and ask who the hell did this. Then I realized that there was only one person who could do something like that.
"Larxene..." I said between my teeth. I dashed out from the kitchen and luckily caught up with a familiar figure wearing white and blue scrubs.
"Hey Lar!" I called at her.
She turned around and smiled, "Hey, gay boy," she said cheerfully, "What's up?"
"Oh you know what's up," I said and pointed a finger at her, "You're the one who wrote my name and that comment , right?"
She sticked her tongue out at me, "Well, I figured that it was you who wrote all the other comments so I just thought that I would cover for you by writing your name on there too," she said and walked away. I took deep breaths not to turn around and throw something at her as I marched down to the cafeteria.
"Hey Zexion," I said as I sat down at the usual seat. Zexion turned around and smiled weakly and sighed with relief.
"Well, finally someone who doesn't call me Zexy or Zex..."
I laughed weakly back. It's nothing wrong with Zexion but it gets a little awkward being around him. I can't really be myself as I can around other people like Sora and Axel. I shook my head in the thought of Axel to get rid of him out of my head, not that it really helped or so. I decided to bring up another topic in hopes that it would take my mind of Axel for a while.
"So, how went your test today?" I asked. Zexion looked surprised by my question.
"Eh, how did you know about that?" he asked.
I chuckled a little, "Well, you mentioned it when you were drunk yesterday. It was with Larxene and me."
Zexion turned away quickly and pretended to clean some cups, "Uh, yeah, I don't remember everything but I do remember certain things..." he sneered at me, "Can you promise not to tell anyone?"
I thought for a moment. I really didn't want to sleep at Larxene's tonight and I really didn't have anywhere to stay. Maybe I could ask him if I could stay at his place for the night.
"Yeah, sure. I promise not to tell anyone," I said, "But can you help me out with something?"
Zexion looked at me and blinked a couple of times, "Uh sure, what is it?"
"Well, I currently have absolutely nowhere to stay for the night so I wondered if I could stay at your place just for the night."
There was a silence between us for a while. I guess he had to think about it for a while. Like, if his apartment is untidy, if he got more schoolwork to do and test things. Then he blinked a couple of times again and pushed up his glasses further up on his eyes and looked at me.
"Sure, why not?"
I felt how a light of hope lit up inside and how the awkward chump between me and Zexion loosened up a little. Still awkward, but not as much as before.
"So, I'll meet you after work, okay?" I said as I got up from my seat, "I end in about one hour, you?"
"Same here," Zexion replied shortly as he was cleaning the surface of the coffee machine.
"Okay, see ya!" I said as I walked away.
"I'll meet you outside the hospital at eight, okay?" I heard Zexion call after me.
I waved my hand back at him so he would understand that I heard that.