Axel's pov

"Hey, Sora I'm going to the mall, wanna come?" I asked after a few minutes of talking about his first day as Roxy.

"Nah I'm good, but thanks for asking," the burnet replied. His loss. I headed out the door and saw Roxas walking away from the house with a hood up.

I started to walk toward him to ask what he was doing, then I remembered my car. I pulled out my keys, started my car, and drove up to him. "Hey Roxy were ya going?" I asked keeping pase with
him. He spared me a glance before walking faster. I sped up the car. "Oh, come on I only asked a question!" he continued to ignore me. That was one of the things I hated most. To be ignored. The only sign he even showed of even noticing me was that he sped up a little more. "Roxy, I'm in a car. You can
increase your speed all you want, but I can keep up with you easily." I put emphasis on his nickname knowing it irritated him. "You can't ignore me forever," I said getting more upset. I was starting to understand why Sora complained about his brother never talking to him if he could avioid it. "Rooooxxxxyyyyyyyyy."

"SHUT UP AXEL! GOD, I CAN'T EVEN HEAR MYSELF THINK!" He shouted.

Wow he was really mad. So of course, being who I am, I had to irritate him more. "You know even
from here, sitting down in my car, you look short!" Then Roxas snapped. He spun on his heel so that he was facing me. His eyes were like blue fire. He didn't say a word. He took three small steps toward my car, reached through my window, and literally tried to ring my neck. Luckily for me, I had the sense to move. "Touchy," I said looking at him with a smirk.

"Just leave me alone. I have to deal with you in school AND pretend like I can actually stand you, but I do not have to put up with it anywhere else. Now if you would leave me alone I have to get to the mall," he then stormed forward. It appeared as though he had forgotten about his wish to strangle me, but I knew he was probably plotting my death at the moment.

Roxas' pov

"Hey, I'm going to the mall too! I could give you a ride," Axel offered. Did the guy not understand that I hated him. I ignored him. I could tell he was an attention seeker, so I figured he hated being ignored. "Roxas, I'm just trying to be nice by offering you a ride if only because Sora is my best friend and, despite the way you treat him, he cares about you." Axel said. He had gotten out of his car, and was now standing in front of me, having to look down to meet my eyes. I didn't know Axel could be serious like this. And so fast too. Wait a second . . . the way I treat him?

"I can assure you that I don't know what you mean," unfortunately though, I did think I knew what he was talking about.

"The way you never talk to him! Roxas you don't know how much that hurts him considering how close Sora says you guys used to be. He
tries to reach out to you almost every day, but you just shove him aside. Then he finds out that you talk to tons of other people a lot more than you talk to him without them even having to force you to talk! Do you know how horrible he fe-"

I cut him off. That was enough. "You don't know what the f*uck you're talking about! You don't know anything about me, or why I do what I do. You have no right to accuse me of things you don't understand!" I practicly yelled at him. It was a good thing we happened to be stopped at a construction site where no one would hear us considering the workers were currently off duty.

His eyes were like green ice. He was furious. "If I don't understand? Then explain it to me. My best friend is hurting because of you. You claim to have a good reason why and I want to know. You've talked more today with me than you usually talk with Sora in a whlole week. The only reason you've talked to him as much as you have the last two days is because you had to for this switch thing to work." He seemed torn between if he was upset about giving Sora the idea for the switch or not.

I narrowed my eyes. "I don't owe you an explanation of any kind," I replied then moved around him, and continued forward. Or tried to, at least. He gripped my shoulder with surprising strength. It hurt, but I didn't think he meant it to.
I didn't say anything.

"Maybe not, but you owe Sora one." He said, seething.

Yes I did. "No I do not!" He couldn't get one anyway. I wished he would loosen his grip, I would already have a bruise later. "Axel, let go of me." I said, my voice completely void of emotion. Damnitdamnitdamnit this hurt.

Axel's eyes widened as he realized just how hard he was holding my shoulder. He let go with an apology, I turned around, ignoring him.

"Do you even care about him at all?" Axel asked in an angry whisper. I then did the only logical thing I could think of. I grabbed Axel's shirt, pulled him down to my level, and punched him so hard I was sure it would result in a black eye by tomorrow. Perfectly reasonable. I then did the only other sane thing I could think of by jumping into his car - the keys still in the ignition - and driving myself to the mall. Nothing wrong with that at all.

*time skip back to the house*

I had gotten a few pairs of jeans, and some clip on earrings at the mall. This should help. "Roxas," I looked -no glared- at my father who was speaking to me, "I just thought I would let you know that Cloud is coming tomorrow." And why am I only being told now? I gave a stiff nod then walked away from him as quickly as I could and still be considered "walking".

It wasn't Sora's friend Cloud that was coming for a vist - though they did look freakishly similar- it was my older brother. I padded up the stairs only to be greeted by Sora expressing his immense joy at our brother's decision to come visit us on the few days he had off from college. I listened to Sora's ramblings for a good ten seconds before pushing past him to my room and closing the door behind me. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with Cloud, but that doesn't mean I need to listen to Sora go on an on about him.

My phone vibrated. I had gotten it back from Sora only once I had gotten home after I stopped trying to kill Axel. I looked at the screen.

To: Roxas

From: Cloud

Does Sora still not know?

I quickly typed a response.

To: Cloud

From: Roxas

No. And I would like to keep it that way.

hey guys ok so first i would like to thank my new beta reader she eddited that last chapter to but i was in such a rush to get it up i for got to mention it but now i have so thanks to baileymermaid95 also im now imagining axel with a black eye like this kid i saw at my hight schools open house yesterday -ima going to 9th grade on monday . . . im on chapter four of my book for school- and my mom probibly thought it rude when i walked up to the kid i had never met before and just asked 'what happened to ur eye' oh well anyway review plz