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Say It Isn't So!
Chapter 6: Let's Sell Ourselves Together
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Roxas knew, he just knew, that something bad was going to happen when Axel wasn't sitting next to him during their first period class. It's not to say that he wanted the redhead there, it's just that... Well, when Axel was avoiding him like this, it meant that there was something wrong in the world. Yes, the world.
The blond looked over his shoulder to the seat where Axel had so sneakily stolen from Marluxia, examining the other boy like a specimen. He averted his eyes to Leon then back to Axel, hoping that he wouldn't be seen.
Roxas waited for him. He knew it was just a natural born reflex for Axel to look at him when he his head was turned in his direction. So he waited... and waited...
There!
"Ax-"
The redhead whipped his head away as quickly as it had decided to turn to Roxas. He raised a hand over his head, pretending that he was keeping his hair out of his face, but was really just trying to hide his eyes from Roxas' piercing blues.
Roxas' eyes narrowed. He did not just ignore him.
"Axel..." Roxas seethed as he gripped his lead pencil.
The redhead could feel chills from Roxas' direction, and smartly kept his face down, avoiding any accidental killings; him being the dead body and Roxas being the killer, who for the first time in history, could kill with his eyes.
This was going to be a long period.
Close to five minutes before class ended, Selphie walked in with yet another slip of paper between her fingers. She handed the paper to Leon with a smile and headed out. At least she wasn't going to drag anyone out and send them to their doom like she did with Roxas. Roxas swore he could hear his heart palpitating every time that girl walked in with a piece of paper, calming down only when she left his line of sight.
"Axel!" Leon called, his eyes lifting themselves from the paper. "Get outta here, Mr. President. Cloud wants you."
The redhead nodded a sense of responsibility emitting from him for the first time. It was like seeing the Student Council President instead of Axel for Roxas, a view of his redheaded pursuer he never really saw before.
As Axel passed by the aisle, his hand just barely brushed past Roxas' back and he tugged lightly at the tips of his hair, sending a wave of mysterious relief throughout the blond. As their eyes met, Axel gave him a smirk, not a grin, not a smile, but a smirk that, for a split second, turned Roxas' heart to a liquid pool in his chest. He returned his eyes to his paper and gripped his pencil once again, a smile playing at his lips.
The world was right again.
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"Roxas," Aerith, the history teacher, called gently from the front of the room, "You're wanted in room 813 ASAP. It says to take everything with you."
Puzzled, the blond nodded hesitantly before gathering his things and heading out. He wandered around the hall, looking at each tag for every room.
810...
811...
812...
814...
815...
Roxas stopped in his tracks, reversing his direction and looking over the jump from room 812 to 814. He glanced at the paper again, wondering if they had it right.
"Where the heck is room 813?" Roxas grumbled as he kept switching from 812 to 814.
"Down the hall and out the doors. You'll see a lone building there. That will be building 813."
Building 813? Wasn't it room 813?
Roxas shifted his footing and looked over the person in question. "Zexion." Roxas stated, recognizing the boy to be vice president, how he let Axel become president was beyond him. "Isn't it room 813, though?" He asked skeptically.
The boy shrugged. "Being in Student Council has its nice little quirks." He walked past Roxas, stopping about 2 feet away to glance over his shoulder with a less than excited expression. "Are you coming or not?"
Roxas blinked and jogged up to Zexion, crumpling up the paper and shoving it into his pocket. "Why did you need me?"
"I don't need you."
Roxas tilted his head to the side. "But... I was called to the Student Council room- building."
"Again, I don't need you."
...Axel.
"Heya, Roxas!" Axel grinned from his seat on the couch. Yep, a couch. He had his feet propped up onto a coffee table and in his hands was a controller, a video game controller to be exact. What a perfect image of the model student, right?
It didn't take Roxas long to turn on his heel and head for the door again, saying his 'thank you's to Zexion as he walked past.
"No, wait!" Axel cried as he dropped the controller and jumped over the couch, sprinting for the door. He slammed against the marble, yeah, marble, door, the impact of his arms causing everyone to drop what they were doing. "I really need you to help me out today."
Roxas raised a brow. Now what could the great Axel need from him?
"What is it?"
"We're running low on school funding..." Axel trailed off, as if wary about the other members. "So we need a fundraiser to help things get back to normal..."
"And you're asking me because...?"
Axel took in a breath, then in a fast breath, "Wecan'tthinkofanything, socanyouhelpusout?"
"Why me?" How he managed to catch that, not even he was sure...
His green eyes targeted each member in the room: Zexion, Namine, Riku and Kairi. "They don't like any of my ideas," the president pouted, crossing his arms in a childish manner, "So I suggested we ask you; you wanted to be StuCo Prez before, right?"
Roxas smirked at him, a satisfied expression on his face. It was like a dream com true: having everyone realize that he was way more suitable for StuCo Prez material and Axel wasn't fit. Hah! He was right all along! "Alright, so what did you suggest?"
"A fireworks sale!" Axel exclaimed with half-glittering eyes.
Roxas, narrowing his eyes at him, asked, "How would you manage to do that?"
"No idea, so they said no to that... I also suggested cookies."
"That'll get you a good $40." Roxas snorted, laughing at Axel's elementary ideas. "Do something high school students would be interested in."
"Like?" Riku, the historian, questioned, coming up from behind Roxas.
Roxas' pressed a finger to his lips as he shifted his footing to the other side. He 'hmm'ed a bit before continuing. "Like... When I say 'teenagers' what do you think of?"
"Money." Namine, the treasurer, replied from the couch.
"Drugs." Zexion cringed as if the word was poison.
"Chocolate...?" Kairi, the secretary, said rather unsurely, probably still thinking about other answers. "Oh! Love!"
"Axel?"
"Sex."
"Someone throw this guy in a closet." Roxas deadpanned, shaking his head and walking away from the man that had once made his heart flutter... Though that was only for a second. Roxas would only ever admit it was for a second. Not even a second and a half. Just a second. One second. Honest.
Axel's jaw dropped slightly as he raced to Roxas, capturing him in a hug. "Sorry, sorry, don't throw me in a closet!" He rubbed his head against Roxas, practically purring at the softness of the smaller boy's hair and the scent of his body wash on Roxas' skin. "I'll be good; I promise!"
"Let's have an auction." Roxas decided with a grunt, still trying to rid himself of a certain leech on his back.
"What kind of auction?" Kairi asked as she jumped onto the couch.
"A boy auction."
The whole student council froze, all eyes honing in on Roxas' face, trying to decipher his frustrated expression. Even Axel stopped his harrassment to listen in on what Roxas' had to say. It took a moment for anyone to say anything, even Roxas, who began to glow a pinkish color, wondering if he had said something weird.
"Are you kidding?" Riku laughed as he took a seat on a bar stool by the kitchen counter.
Roxas strained a nervous laugh and shook his head. "No, not really."
"Explain." Zexion said, sitting gracefully on the armrest of the couch.
The blond, with an Axel still attached to his back, began to describe his idea, despite the many shifty glances being passed around the room. "Kairi said 'love' right? Well, how hard is it to find a good guy?" He didn't exactly have interest in that area, but from what he's heard around school, it seems pretty hard...
"Very." Kairi let out, earning herself a few narrowed glares from the other three men in the room. "Well, it is!"
Roxas continued to elaborate, "So we'll get a number of guys to participate, volunteers of course." Kairi nodded with approval. "Then, they'll show their talents, share their interests, stuff like that." Zexion nodded hesitantly.
"Girls... or guys even, can anonymously place bids; it can be a masquerade type thing one night." Riku nodded, slightly smiling at the idea.
"Each winner gets a complementary box of chocolate, or something of the sort just in case y'know..." Roxas paused for a bit, trying to recollect his thoughts and not get lost in the possibility of a poor guy being won by some scary girl. "They get one date with their guy and..." He looked at Axel and Namine, trying to figure out how to appease the two. "As a motive... the guy'll get 50% his earnings? And the label, 'Sexiest Man on Campus' with bragging rights for a whole year?"
Axel grinned. Namine frowned.
"...10% his earnings?"
The blond smiled.
"So it's decided?" Axel chuckled, a bit of a dark aura rising from behind him now. "A boy auction?"
"One more thing-" Roxas paused for everyone to look at him. "I think... every male member of student council should be the first volunteers to show that there's no shame in this."
Zexion and Riku exchanged wary glances, a small frown already forming at the edges of their mouths.
"I will if you will." Axel whispered mischievously as he leaned in close to Roxas' ear, a pleasurable fear lumping itself in his throat. "Let's sell ourselves together, yeah?"
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TA: Y'know, I'm surprised with myself! I've been updating weekly! That hasn't happened since... 2006! ...No, I'm serious. o.o;
I find it funny how I can't decide on how I want Axel to act. He's like a crossover between awesome 'n' cool and cute 'n' cuddly. One moment he's all "Yeah, I know I'm hot. -licks lips-" Then the next moment he's all "Wahhh! Roxy, you're da bessstest! -huggle-" I'm slowly trying to rid myself of a plushie Axel running after Roxas (The Dollmaker). Yeah... it's harder than you think. o.o