Axel walked down the street silently, blasting his IPod as to drown out the world. He'd just come from Marluxia's house, the two of them spent most of the morning getting high and talking about their respective problems. Marluxia, complaining about his science professor, Vexen, not paying any attention to his flirting and advances. Axel, depressed because Roxas had tossed his poem over his shoulder like it was garbage.
"Maybe I should try again, something not so sappy." Axel thought of ideas as he walked to the local CD store. Xaldin had asked him to pick up a "The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus" album for him.
"Can't believe he still listens to Cd's, he should just buy a stupid IPod or MP3 player so he drown out people and still listen to music where ever he is."
Once he'd finally come in to view of the store, he stopped in his tracks. There in front of the store stood Roxas. Dressed in a black and white checkered hoodie. He was bent over, it looked like he was tying his shoes, Axel gulped and set to walking again. He walked until he was right in front of Roxas and was about to sidestep past him, when he tripped on the sidewalk.
He tripped into Roxas who, with a yelp, went down with him. After shaking his head a little, Axel looked down. He was staring eye to eye with a surprised Roxas, who looked like he was about to scream for help.
"Oh my god, I am so sorry, here, let me help you!" Axel was practically yelling as he helped Roxas to his feet. Roxas' only response was to look up at Axel with a bored expression on his face.
"Um, are you hurt, should I call someone to come get you like your parents or a doctor, a friend maybe?" 'Oh shit, I broke Roxas! Maybe he's in shock, should I slap him, maybe mouth to mouth, no he's already breathing."
"Hey, will you stop freaking out, I'm fine. If anyone here needs help here, it's you." Roxas grabbed Axel's hand and shoved it in front of his face, "Look at this, your hands dripping blood like a fountain, you probably stabbed it on that nail stuck in the ground." Gently taking Axel's other hand; Roxas led him into the music store and asked the lady at the counter if she had a first-aid kit. After coming back from behind a curtain, she handed a box with a red cross on to Roxas.
Rummaging through the box's contents, he finds some bandages, cotton balls, and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. Pouring some of the hydrogen peroxide onto a cotton ball, he cleans Axel's hand then bandages it.
"Thank you," Axel says, wincing when Roxas tightens the bandage.
"No problem, Axel," Roxas replied with a small smile on his face
"H-how do you know my name?"
"Demyx, he talks about you all the time. You two are cousins, right?"
"Yeah, his dad and my mom are brother and sister; um did he say anything else about me to you, or any of your friends?"
"No why?"
"Oh just curious, so what do you want to do now?"
"Well I did come here to pick up a CD."
"Oh yeah, I forgot that a friend of mine asked me to pick something up for him, guess I should do that then get home."
"Well then I guess I'll walk you home when we're done here. Don't want you getting into anymore trouble." Roxas joked with a wink at Axel, causing him to blush.
After they each had their CD's in hand, they left the store and began the walk to Axel's house.
x.X.x
The walk was an eventful one; they asked questions about each other's favorite things such as the kind of music they prefer and their favorite flavor of ice-cream.
"So," Axel began, "Do you have a girlfriend, boyfriend, anything like that?"
"Well…..I had a boyfriend, but he broke up with me because I said I wasn't ready to have sex, you might know him, his names Josh Adinez."
"Oh I remember him, he sat two seats away from me in math, no offence but he was a jerk. Always making fun of my friend Marluxia because he has pink hair."
"Yeah he was a jerk, I don't know why I didn't just break it off with him sooner, it would have been better that way."
"Well it's his loss, I mean who wouldn't want to date you? Your smart, nice, and really attractive." Axel whispered the last part in hopes Roxas wouldn't here, but to his dismay, Roxas looked up at Axel with tears in his eyes and huge grin on his face.
"Thank you, Axel, no one's ever said that to me before."
"No problem, it was easy to say because it was all true, well this is my house." They walked to the front porch and stood in silence for a few moments." Until Axel started talking, "Look, Roxas, I know you still might be feeling a little beat up about your break up with Josh but, do you want to go out and do something with me?"
"Like a date," Roxas responded with a hopeful twinkle in his eyes."
"Y-yeah like a date,"
"Sure, I'd love to."
"Cool, then can I have your MySpace so we can talk more about this later." So they exchanged emails and said their goodbyes. Axel went inside his home with a small wave to Roxas before closing the door. And Roxas walked home happily, with thoughts of his first date since the break up and the "incident". He couldn't wait until he and Axel talked again.