Roxas dozed off on the drive back, without any music to keep them company. He woke as the lights of Twilight Town sunk through his closed eyes. They hadn't stopped for food, but Axel took him through the McDonald's drive thru before making his way back to Roxas's house.
"You need to eat, Axe," Roxas pointed out, concerned.
He shrugged. "My uncle is taking me out to a late dinner." Roxas doubted that. Only the really fancy places on the other side of town were open late on Sundays, and Axel wouldn't be caught dead in one of those places, even if his uncle could afford to take him to one. But if Axel didn't want to eat, you couldn't force him to. Roxas knew that first hand.
Axel parked outside the small townhouse Roxas lived in with his family: his dad, Sora and his parents, Sora's little sister Xion. Ven had lived there too, before he went away to college. Roxas liked to joke with his cousin that the reason he had a boyfriend and a girlfriend was so he always had somewhere to escape the house even if he was having a fight with one of them - Sora retaliated by joking that Roxas paid off Axel in orgasms to let him stay in an apartment that the redhead practically lived in alone.
The windows were lit up, and there was talk and laughter inside. It was such a sharp contrast to the quiet, sombre tone of the rest of the day. "You sure you don't wanna come in?"
"No way," Axel laughed. "Go home, Rox. I'll bring your new phone to school tomorrow."
"Mm, okay." He leaned forward to kiss him softly. He must've gotten coffee at some point during the drive. Roxas could taste it lingering in his breath. He parted just slightly, giving him a smile. "See you tom-"
He didn't get to finish. A shocked "what the fuck?!" sounded behind them.
Axel shifted his head to look and groaned. "Evening, Naminé."
Crap. He turned to give Naminé an easy smile. "Hey, what are you doing here?"
She looked mad. "Apparently I'm watching my boyfriend cheat on me with his trashy best friend!"
"Cheat?" Roxas echoed, confused, just as Axel cried an outraged: "Trashy?"
"Well what else do you call it when your boyfriend ignores you the whole day and then makes out with someone else?" She snapped.
Axel raised his eyebrow. He gave Roxas a look that clearly said: 'you better go deal with this.'
Roxas groaned. He grabbed his bag of food and stood out of the car, not saying a final goodbye to Axel. It would only get Naminé even more angry. As it was, her glare followed the faded red old car as it drove away and turned a street out of sight.
"Nam," Roxas said quietly. "Can you c-"
"Don't you dare tell me to calm down, Roxas!" she said impatiently. "I've been calling all day! I was worried about you. You couldn't even text me and say you were spending the day with Axel."
"Everybody knows I spend today with Axel," he replied. "You could've just asked Kairi. She would've told you I was with him."
"Sunday is our date day! You spent it with him instead, you…you… You cheater!"
"It's not cheating," Roxas defended himself at a mumble. "We never agreed to be exclusive. You just asked me to be your boyfriend."
She silently fumed for a minute, her hands clenched. "You and my sister and all your friends are so fucked up!" she hissed. "How can none of you freaks understand that when you're someone's boyfriend or girlfriend you're committed to that one person and you don't cheat on them with anyone!"
Roxas gave a tired sigh. Sometimes it hit him strongly that she was two years younger than him. They might as well be ten, since she was acting like a child who was being asked to share her toys. "Naminé. I get you're mad. But don't be nasty."
"Nasty?" She repeated angrily. "You're nasty!"
"It's not my fault you assumed being my girlfriend meant that I was only going to do stuff with you." He folded his arms. "You should've told me if you didn't want me hooking up with anyone else."
"I asked you to be my boyfriend! That's exactly what that means!" she snapped, folding her arms as well.
"I just told you it doesn't!" Roxas replied, losing his temper.
"Don't you dare yell at me, Roxas!"
"You're yelling at me!" A long, angry silence settled down. Had he been this annoying when he was sixteen? But she was right, he shouldn't have lost his temper. "...I'm sorry."
"Oh, Roxie." She threw himself into his arms. "I forgive you."
Was she serious? Just like that? "...what?"
"We can sort this out," she was continuing, relieved. "You just have to stop cheating on me, and we'll work out fine."
He wasn't… He gave a heavy sigh. "Nam," he said carefully. "I'm not sure being exclusive is going to work for me. You know? All you want to do is kiss, and I need more than that."
There was that angry look on her face again. "You jerk! Suddenly I'm not good enough for you because I'm not easy like Axel?"
"Easy?" Roxas echoed, half-laughing. Absolutely no one in their group would call Axel easy. He was the only virgin, the least easy out of all of them.
"Are you laughing at me?" She demanded.
He sighed. He didn't want to set her off again. "Look. Why don't we try for a bit? Being exclusive."
There was a slight pout. "We were supposed to be already. But okay. Thank you, Roxas."
Thank fuck that was over. He offered her a quick kiss. "Come on. Why don't you come inside?"