A/N: *EDIT* Thank you guys for being so patient. Like I said last time, this has been a stressful start of the year for me. Busy Christmas, friend drama over New Years, and the death of a dear friend who was taken far before his time... Please pray for the family of 18-year-old Nicholas "Doobie" Doub, who died January 10th, 2010 after his car hit black ice on his way to school. It will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to my 'daughter' and my 'ex-husband' for giving the ideas for this chapter. Drama...dramaaaaaa...DRAMAAAAAAAA...*cough* Anyway, hopefully this will make up for the icky filler chapter last time. I knew I had to updates soon; someone threatened to stab me with a tissue if I didn't...true story. :P Oh, and I realized a fluke I made! I realized back in chapter four I mentioned how Axel wasn't very sporty and Roxas was a jock. Then two chapters ago, I mentioned Axel playing volleyball and Roxas not joining in because he wasn't sporty...yeh, I'm cool. Pointing out my own mistakes. DX Sorry...enjoy. lol
DISCLAIMER:
Axel: :(
KHFreakOZoid: ...What?
Roxas: He's mad at you because everyone hates him because of the last chapter. Just like me in the one before that.
KHFreakOZoid: WHAT? You didn't say anything!
Roxas: I'm the suffer in silence type.
Zexion: She does not own Kingdom Hearts or the characters with obvious distain to her.
KHFreakOZoid: ? Hurtful...
AXEL'S POV
Things were...hard.
I told Roxas we were okay, and that we could just get back to our friendship...I even put on my best fake smile, just for him.
But that's all it was. It was fake. I felt so...stupid. So used. I should've known this wouldn't work out... He had never been comfortable with the fact he was with a guy. I should've known he'd end up with some girl in the end...
We sat awkwardly and watched TV for a while, but he left after a little while, claiming he had a bad stomachache. Truthfully, I think he just wanted to get out of here. The little...
No. I can't be mad at him. I don't want to be in a relationship with him if he's not happy. It broke my heart...but his happiness still meant everything to me. And as long as we were still friends...I'd make it through somehow.
I sighed after he left. I went upstairs to my bedroom and plopped down on my bed. I looked at the clock and saw it was only past 9pm, but I was mentally exhausted. I let myself fall asleep without much protest.
I woke up a few minutes before midnight, my cell phone ringing. Damn, I forgot to put it on vibrate. I looked at the screen, seeing Roxas's number.
I heart ached, but reluctantly I opened it.
"Hello?" was my groggy response.
"Axel? It's Sora," Sora's frantic voice replied, ignoring my uninterested tone completely.
"Sora? What is it?" I asked, wondering why he was calling me from Roxas's phone.
"You need to get down to the hospital."
"What? Why?"
"Something's wrong with Roxas."
As upset as I'd been today, none of it mattered anymore. As soon as Sora said Roxas was in the hospital, I hung up the phone, grabbed my coat, and I was gone.
I don't care if he didn't love me...as much as it hurt knowing I didn't have him, I still loved him every bit as much as I always had. I'd be an idiot if I didn't go. I just...I had to see him.
I didn't know if he'd even want to see me...but I told him we were still friends. Best friends. Best friends went to the hospital to visit their best friends, right? Who'm I kidding; of course they do. I locked the door behind me, not even bothering to take the time to leave a note to let my parents know where I went. They'd call me if they needed me. Walking speed wasn't quick enough for me as a sprinted to my car. I unlocked it and barely had enough time to fasten my seatbelt before I pulled out of my driveway.
Luckily, I didn't live too far from the hospital. It was right by the mall, which was about three miles from Wal*Mart (which I was lucky enough to live down the street from). I hung a right down the street and passed Wal*Mart. I kept driving, passing the nearest movie theatre and turned left after passing the mini-mall Roxas and I loved.
I don't even know what's wrong with him... I cursed myself for being so stupid as to not even ask what was wrong. Did it have anything to do with Roxas's stomachache? God, and I'd been insensitive enough to think he was faking...
I turned a sharp right and passed the mall, speeding up as my destination came into view. Yes, I was almost-
Just then, I heard a loud siren behind me. I looked in my rear-view mirror and groaned. No way...this could NOT be happening now... I looked at the hospital parkinglot which was a meer twenty yards away. I had two options.
1) I could pull over and talk to the officer as quickly as possible so that I could get to Roxas. Take the ticket, get yelled at, whatever. Just get it over with.
Or...
I slammed on the gas raced into the parkinglot, ripping out of my seatbelt and racing into the hospital doors, not even bothering to turn off my car or lock the doors behind me. I ran in the front doors and approached the receptionist's desk, which miraculously had no line.
"Please...where's Roxas Strife's room?" I asked panting.
After begging the receptionist to point me to Roxas's room (and having a very nasty conversation with the police officer that'd had the courtesy to follow me in and give me a ticket for speeding and yelled at me for causing a ten-second high-speed chase (Have I mentioned that I hate police officers?), Sora finally came down to my rescue. I looked at him. It was obvious that he'd been crying. Oh no... "Axel!" he said, running over to me.
"Sora, what happened?" I asked, trying to keep him (and himself) calm.
"Roxas came home and kept complaining about a stomachache! I got annoyed and told him to go in his room to lay down if he didn't feel good. I was so insensitive! I was on the phone with Riku and I didn't think he was reallt this sick! But, like, fifteen minutes later I heard a loud thump upstairs so I hung up with Riku and went upstairs to check on Roxas. When I got there, he was doubled over in pain on the floor! I felt his forehead and he was burning up! I called 911 and they sent an ambulance over to pick him up. I followed them here and that's when I called you!" I desperately tried to make sense of Sora's words. They were all running together and I kept getting distracted by the fact that I felt like the biggest douchebag in the world for thinking he was faking...
"So, what's wrong?" I asked, trying to calm.
Sora was panting by now, out of breath thanks to his rant. "When they brought him in and gave him a room...his appendix ruptured. They're taking him in for emergency surgery right now...," Sora eyes began to leak. "Axel, they're not sure if he's gonna make it."
A/N: SO! Sorry for the short chapter with a cliffhanger...again... -.-' But hopefully my schedule's gonna get back into wack and I'll start updating every day life I used too... :D Please, if you have any ideas, don't hesitate to tell me!