A/N: Hey! So my 'daughter' Erika and I were IMing on Skype and I told her I had writer's block. So she suggested I make them go in a beach trip and make a new girl come in between Axel and Roxas. So going through my mind was 'beach=Destiny Islands' and 'new girl=Xion.' As you can tell, I changed the genre from Romance/Humor to Romance/Drama. I am a fanfiction masochist. I

HATE reading/writing drama. But I can't love a story without it. So I must torture myself. :'( lol Anyway, I must warn you: things are about to get angsty (But I guess Roku wouldn't be in it if it wasn't a little angsty, huh? :P) Enjoy, and please don't kill the author. That would be bad for kieeping my deadlines. :'# Roxy's POV, people!

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"Hey, guys!" I didn't realize my eyes had drifted shut in pleasure until they snapped open again. Axel quickly retracted his hand from my leg and I suppressed the urge to whine.

I scolded myself internally. This was neither the time nor the place to do that. I sighed nonetheless, unsatisfied at the sudden loss of contact and I could've sworn I saw the corners of Axel's lips twitch.

A bubbly redhead came into view, revealing who it was who snapped me out of my daze. "Hi, Kairi!" (1) Sora greeted his friend warmly. Riku gave a small wave.

"Hey, do you guys wanna head to the beach this weekend? It should be warm enough," she asked them. Despite it being December, Destiny Islands was at least 70 degrees all year round.

"Sure! We'll go, right Riku?" Sora beamed and looked pleadingly at his boyfriend.

Riku halfsmiled. "Sure, if you want to," he replied.

"Yay!" Sora and Kairi cheered. The Kairi turned to the rest of us.

"You guys in?" she asked.

"Yeah, sounds great!" Olette piped in, and the girls smiled at each other.

"Yeah, that sounds fun," Pence said, smiling too.

"Whatever," said Hayner. I wasn't sure if it was a yes or no. He'd been kind of gloomy all day, er...gloomier than usual. I wasn't sure what was with him but with Hayner it was probably better not to ask.

"What about you guys?" Kairi asked Axel and me. I looked at Axel and he smiled hugely at the redhead.

"Count us in!" Axel said. I allowed him to answer for me. I didn't particularlly want to go, but if Axel was there I guess it wouldn't suck too bad.

"Great!" said Kairi clapping her hands. Then she went in to whipser in my ear. "Dont't worry, I didn't tell Nam I was planning this. I wouldn't want things to be awkward for you." I silently praised her. "I think I'll invite the new girl too," she said to everyone.

"Oh, yeah," said Axel. "What was her name again?"

"Xion something. I've been eating with her today. She's actually really nice," informed Kairi. I thought it was odd she wasn't sitting with Namine. The two were cousins and closer than anyone. But then it occured to me that I hadn't seen her at all today...

"Well, I'm gonna head back over," Kairi said, interrupting my thoughts. "See you guys saturday!" We all said our goodbyes and Kairi skipped back to her own table. I saw a short bob of jet black hair sitting across from her. Huh. That must be Xion.

The rest of the day was quite uneventful. Axel decided he'd sleep over at my house for the long weekend. That way we could hang out all day friday and head straight to the beach on saturday. My dad had yet to hear about our newfound...relationship...so he didn't mind. He hadn't put together the fact that Riku and Sora were together wither, which was some kind of miracle.

"Hey, Mr. Strife," greeted Axel and my dad waved at us. Axel followed me into the kitchen and Sora and Riku headed upstairs.

I felt bad not telling my dad I had a boyfriend. I knew I'd have to do it eventually. The cat was kind of out of the bag for my mom. She'd heard him singing outside my window that night. (2) Sooner or later my dad would find out too.

But that was a task for another day. Sora took the liberty to order a couple of pizzas and we watched a thriller called "The New Daughter." It scared the crap out of me, to say the least. Eventually Axel wrapped his arms around me in comfort. I would've objected to being treated like a baby but eventually I was curled up on his lap. So much for my pride...

When the movie was over, Sora and Riku said goodnight and went to Sora's room and Axel and I went to mine. I put my effort into not passing out after the scary movie.

Axel and I exchanged small talk and watched sitcoms until about 12:30am and then we decided we'd head to bed. I shyly and awkwardly crawled into bed with him. He welcomed me and wrapped his arms around me from behind.

I'd never imagined him as the cuddling type but I had to admit, it was nice. He nuzzled his nose into the crook of my neck and was out like a light in ten minutes.

Leaving me to lie awake, still frozen in fear in the darkness after that damned movie... After about thirty minutes, I'd almost fallen asleep when I heard something that made my entire body stiffen.

It sounded like the wind howling...only it wasn't windy outside and the sound was more human. And it was coming from inside the house.

I layed there, trembling a little for fifteen minutes before I finally swallowed what little pride I had left and childishly shook Axel awake as the noises (voices?) got louder. "Axel...," I whispered, trying to keep my voice steady.

"Mmm...Roxy?" Axel said groggily, cracking one eye open. "What's wrong?"

I blushed, thankful he couldn't see it in the dark. "I-I think I hear something," I mumbled. He was silent, probably listening. When he heard the suspicious noise, he got out of bed and slipped into the hall. I sat completely still, realizing I was now alone in the darkness.

Axel came back a minute later with a huge smile on his face. I could tell he was struggling not to laugh. Thinking he was laughing at me, I cocked an eyebrow at him in annoyance. "What?" I asked quietly.

He seemed to carefully think over what he was going to say. "Well, I can honestly tell you there is no ghost, but it's certainly something to be afraid of," he said, snickering like crazy.

"Well, what is it?"

"Try your brother and his boyfriend engaging in certain...activities." I suddenly felt very nauseous and Axel went into another laughing fit. We left it at that and eventually Axel went back to sleep. I tried as well, ignoring the urge to throw up when I heard the 'wind' say Riku's name. I swore I heard Axel chuckling quietly in his sleep.

Axel and I got up at about 9am that morning and we went down to make some breakfast, I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me that Sora and Riku weren't awake yet.

I pushed that thought out of my head as I got the jar of peanut butter out of the cupboard and put two slices of bread into the toaster. I filled the tea kettle with water and set the burner on high. I got two packets of hot cocoa mix and waited for the toaster and the kettles to go off. Eventually they both did and I poured the water into a mug and mixed in the cocoa.

I unscrewed the top off of the peanut butter jar and Sora came down the stairs, Riku following soon after. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed Sora's shirt was on backwards, and Axel smirked widely. Oh, no...

"'Morning, guys!" said Sora cheerfully. "How'd you sleep?"

"You know, actually not too good," Axel said, ammusement flooding his eyes and I glared at him. He blatantly ignored me.

"Really? Why not?" Sora asked, curiously.

"I think your house is haunted, dude," Axel started, and I turned away, not wanting any part in the tragedy that was about to occur. Sora just looked at him, confused. "In the middle of the night I swear to God I heard a ghost. It was all, 'ohhhh, ohh,' across the hall somewhere. Did you guys hear it?" Axel was clearly enjoying himself.

Sora started to get pink in the face and looked down. "Uh, no. W-we didn't hear anything," Sora muttered awkwardly. Riku cleared his throat.

I should've known Axel wouldn't drop it there.

"Yeah, man. Riku, I think it's after you. I swear, once or twice it was like, 'ohh, Rikuuu, ohhhh,' Axel moaned, mockingly. The smirk never left his face. Riku rose his eyebrows and glanced at Sora, who was now biting his lip. "Better keep an eye out." Axel winked at him. An awkward silence followed and Sora and Riku looked at me. I glanced between the three of them.

"Alright, uh...well, I'm gonna head upstairs," I said, desperate to get out of there.

"Right behind you," Axel said, his smirk now triumphant and satisfied. We left the two embarrassed lovers alone in the kitchen. Sora was tomato red and Riku looked over at him with a half-smile.

Axel shut the door behind us when we walked into my room and I plopped onto my bed with a groan. "You're an ass," I stated, matter-of-factly.

Axel just chuckled. "Thanks, honey, love you, too."

Axel kidnapped me later... Okay, maybe 'kidnapping' is an exageration. But he told me to get in the car, wouldn't tell me where we were going, and didn't give me the option to say no. That's 'kidnapping' to me...

So I spent most of the car ride staring out the window, wondering where the hell he was taking me.

It wasn't too long of a ride, but it was long enough to make me complain once or twice. Axel just smirked at me and told me to be patient. Apparently I began daydreaming, because he eventually nudged my arm, snapping me out of the daze I hadn't known I'd been in. "W-what?" I asked him.

"We're here," he replied, half-smiling at me.

I looked out the window, seeing we were in the middle of Twilight Town. "Oh," I said.

"Come on, let's go." I was wondering where we could possibly be going. Normally the only time we ever went to Twilight Town was for school...which was not on the top of my priority list on a teacher-work-day. Then again, we had gone to Twilight Town one other time...our first 'date.' I smiled a little at the memory. I got out of Axel's car and followed him to the ice cream shop and he ordered two sea salt-flavored ice cream bars.

He led me to a building, still not telling me where we were going. It looked like the train station. But instead of buying tickets for a train, he led me up a very long flight of stairs. I was about to complain when he opened a door at the top, ordering me to close my eyes. I rolled my eyes but complied anyway. He took my hand and led me through the door, closing it behind us. Her told me to sit down carefully and I felt my feet dangle off the end of my chair. When I opened my eyes, my heart leaped and I swear to God I would've fallen off the freaking clock tower if he hadn't been holding onto me.

"Axel, why on earth did you take me to the roof of the train station?" I asked irritated.

"For that," he said, pointing at the sky. I cocked an eyebrow but after a second my mouth dropped open.

Oh, my... It had to be the most beautiful sunset I'd ever seen. He took a seat on the edge of the clock tower and handed me my ice cream bar. I took it and we both began to nibble on our ice cream.

"Wow...," I started, in awe of the beauty in front of me. "Axel...it's beautiful." I smiled.

He surprised me by scoffing. "Yeah, it's alright, I guess." I cocked an eyebrow at him and he smiled crookedly at me. "It's nowhere near as beautiful as you." I rolled my eyes, pretending I wasn't blushing.

"You're so corny, Axel." He chuckled. "Not that I don't appreciate this, but why did you bring me here?"

He paused for a moment. "It's where we had our first date. I thought it would be as good of a place as any to do this..."

"Do what?" I asked, looking at him.

He smiled sweetly and looked me in the eyes, holding my gaze. He almost looked...nervous. Huh. That was kind of out of character. "Roxas...I...," he started, pausing and pursing lips.

"What is it?"

He took a deep breath. "I love you...Roxas."

My heart stopped and my eyes widened. He...loved me? He really loved me? Oh, my God...this was amazing. My heart filled with butterflies. But I guess he took my silence the wrong way and looked away from me, blushing a little. "I-I mean, I totally understand if you don't feel the same way, but-"

"Axel, shut up," I said, chuckling. "I-I love you too, Axel," I added, after a pause. The blood flooded back into my cheeks and the smile never left my face.

Axel looked back at me, his smile returning as well. "Y-you do?" I nodded, chuckling quietly. Axel took my face in his hands and kissed me. It was pure love.

Nothing could make this moment more perfect.

A/N: OMG, it's a long chapter! :D The next chapter is gonna be heavy...beware. lol

(1) I hate how I made Namine so mean and Kairi nice. That's the exact opposite way of how I really feel about them. lol
(2) Roxas's parents are divorced! :O