Don't hate me! *doges knives of anyone who is actually still reading this* look I have a legit reason for not updating school was crazy and then I didn't have inspiration and now I have summer school and it's just all crazy I will try to make this chapter extra-long though to make up for it

Roxas's pov

Dude me and Sora are going out now :D.

I read the text from Riku.

That's great, but remember for now at school he is me. So no making out in the middle of school.

I texted back. I was on my way home with Axel. The car was pretty quiet.

"Sora and Riku are dating." I told him.

"Bout damn time." He said smirking. "So what do you say? Me and you and him and Riku for a double date?" he asked.

So we were going to act like nothing had happened. That was for the best.

"Yeah right. When hell freezes over." I told him.

"I'll get the ice." He smiled jokingly.

We pulled up to the house.

I got out of the car, and walked into the house, only half caring that Axel seemed to be following me. He probably just wanted to congratulate his best friend on getting together with my best friend.

We walked in and found Sora and Riku making out on the couch. To no one's surprise Riku was on top of Sora.

"You guys know Sora has a room." I said while at the same time Axel was laughing saying, "Get a room!"

"Sorry." Riku said while Sora was turning into a tomato before our eyes.

I just shrugged.

"Well I was going to say we should hang out, but I can see your busy getting tongue rapped so I'll leave you alone." Axel said laughing.

"Actually I need to talk to Roxas for a few minutes, so feel free to play catch up with Sora." Riku said getting off my brother.

I raised an eyebrow at him, but started walking up to my room knowing he would follow.

"I already told you I was cool with you dating my brother so if that's what this is abou-" He cut me off.

"Why would you do it again?" He asked sounding pissed off. I looked at him pretending I didn't know what he was talking about. "Don't give me that look, you're not stupid and we both know it. I'm not stupid either. You only own one long sleeved shirt and you only ever wore it the first time you cut then you got the wrist band. So you must have cut too much to cover with the wrist band." He said.

Well he didn't skip a grade for nothing.

I wordlessly rolled up my sleeves for him to see.

"Roxas . . ." He trailed off.

"Riku I had another fight with my dad, and Cloud hid my razor and I had to wait hours for people to be asleep. The waiting made it worse, so it turned out so much worse than it was supposed to." I explained sitting down on my bed.

"You don't need to tell me I shouldn't have done it. I know that." I sighed. I was still going to get lectured.

Axel's pov

"Hey Ax are you okay?" Sora asked me. I looked away from where they had walked off.

"Huh?" I asked after I looked back at Sora who was still a bit flushed.

"Are you alright?"

Hell no. I didn't even want to think about how much blood Roxas had lost last night to make that many marks. There were light scratches and deep cuts all over his arms. It was horrible that the blond was going through something so bad that he would do that to himself, and I didn't even know what it was to help him.

"Yeah I'm fine." And now I'm lying to my best friend because of it. Great.

"So how's it going with you and Roxas?" He asked sitting up.

I grinned. "He doesn't hate me anymore!" I told him excitedly.

"So he likes you now?"

"To quote Roxas, 'hell no!'." I said laughing. "But he doesn't hate me. It's a step." I told him.

"Considering how you guys started I think it's more of a leap." Sora said laughing.

The door opened and a tall guy who looked a bit like Roxy came in. Right when that happened Riku and Roxas came down. "Hey Cloud." Sora said brightly.

"Hey . . . so is anyone going to tell me who the people in the house are?" He looked at me then Riku. "Wait I think I know. Its Axel," He pointed at me. Well he had seen me before so that was easy. "and Riku right?" He asked pointing at Riku.

"You got me." I said smiling then held out my hand and shook his. It was technically the first time we had met. Riku smiled and nodded.

"Nice to see you don't have a black eye this time." Cloud said smiling at me.

"If you give Roxy the chance you might see me with another one." I said only half joking. Roxas just shrugged.

"So can someone tell me why Sora is wearing eyeliner?" He asked.

"Why did you never ask that when Roxas wore eyeliner?" Sora asked avoiding the question, while I looked away whistling, Roxas looked indifferent, and Riku sat down next to Sora.

"Because I got rather used to Roxas dressing dark and wearing eyeliner, but what I'm not used to is you doing that and Roxas dressing like you." He said narrowing his eyes. "And considering from what I've heard Roxas won't even be in the same house as Axel I've got to wonder why he's in the same room as him and not even insulting him." Cloud said laughing.

"Ass hole." Roxas said turning to Axel.

"What the hell did I do?" I asked.

"He made a good point. Thought I would fix one of the problems." Roxas said, a small smirk on his face. "Now stop freaking them out. You already know." He said addressing Cloud this time.

"You told him?" Sora asked.

"No."

"It wasn't hard to figure out when I saw the two of you." He said. "So does anyone want to tell me why my brothers have switched places?" He added raising an eyebrow at all of us.

We all looked at each other waiting for someone to come up with an answer. We didn't have to though because Roxy's dad walked in the door. You could feel the awkward in the room. From the looks on people's faces the only one in the room who was happy about Mr. Strife being around was Sora. Riku looked really uncomfortable and a little pissed and worried, Cloud looked like he wanted to leave, and Roxas . . . he looked like he was going to hit someone in the face. I remembered the last time that I had been around Roxas and his dad and wondered if he really would hit someone in the face.

"Hi Mr. Strife." I said to break the silence.

"Who are you?" He asked Riku ignoring me.

"I'm Riku and I'm leaving." He said, and then walked right out the door.

Gee thanks for leaving me as the only non-family member. I thought bitterly.

"I'm going out." Roxas said heading towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Cloud asked.

"The skate park."

Roxas skate boarded? Finally something we had in common. "Can I come?" I asked clinging to an excuse to leave.

"You skate?" Roxas asked raising an eyebrow skeptically at me.

"If I didn't would I ask to come?" I raised an eyebrow right back at him.

He just shrugged and walked out the door. He left it open though, so I took that as a yes. I followed him outside, only to have a skate board shoved into my arms.

"We aren't stopping at your place to get yours; you can use my spare one." He said before getting on his own and speeding off down the street.

I quickly went after him.

He grinned over his shoulder at me. "Catch me if you can jack ass!" He yelled.

"It's on Roxy!" I yelled back.

We kept going. I was catching up, even with Roxas's head start because of having longer legs.

"HEY ROXAS WATCH OUT!" I yelled as I saw a car coming his way when he was crossing the street.

(a/n you guys are so lucky that I promised to make this one long or I would end it right there)

Roxas's pov

I was suddenly crashing onto the ground with the red head on top of me.

"Do . . . you . . . have a . . . death wish . . . or something?" he panted out. It must have taken some effort to get me out of the way.

I just stared at him. He had just saved me.

"Hey are you guys okay?" A worried voice called. I looked over to see someone running out of the car that almost hit me. "I'm Rufus, and god I am soooo sorry about that." He said when he got over to us.

I quickly pushed Axel off of me. "Ow." I heard him mutter. I wasn't feeling so hot myself.

"No harm no foul." I muttered flinching. My arms hurt like hell, and my back, shoulders, and head where not liking the feeling of being tackled onto a sidewalk. But it was a lot better than being under a car.

"Then there is still a foul because there was defiantly harm." Axel said from his spot laying on the ground next to me.

I kicked him to tell him he was being rude. "Do you guys need a hospital?" the guys asked looking worried.

"No." We both said at the same time.

"I really don't want to get up yet so can you tell me if I need to buy new skate boards?" I asked.

He looked behind him. "Yeah probably, they are very broken. I can pay for those though. It's the least I can do." The guy said.

"Uh yeah sure." I said. Usually I wouldn't take his money but come on the guy almost hit me with a car. Plus I was broke, so if I was gonna get a new board I was going to need some cash.

"How much did they cost?" He asked.

"Uh . . . I have no idea." I realized it had been a while since I bought those things.

"Here just take this." He pulled out his check book and started to write a check. "Wait what's your name? So I know who to make it out to."

"Roxas Strife." I told him.

He wrote on it really quickly then handed to me and rushed off to his car saying something about being late to a meeting.

I looked at the check. "Dude he just gave me a check for a hundred dollars." I breathed out.

"Well he did almost hit you with a car." Axel said leaning over to look at it.

"He almost hit you to, but you didn't get a hundred bucks." I muttered.

"He only almost hit me because I literally threw myself at his car to make sure I didn't have to pull you out from under it." Axel said finally bothering to sit up. I realized how fucking weird we must look just lying on the sidewalk. I still wasn't going to get up.

"If you don't like me after that you're never going to like me." He said.

"Fine . . . but only as a friend." I would be the biggest ass hole in the world if I didn't give him a chance after he saved my life.

A/n: Okay that's it I know it's not as long as I planned but I need to get something out