The next morning Roxas insisted he and his brothers went home. "I'll be fine, Cloud will protect me. And I have to go home, we have school tomorrow. I'll text you when I get home." Axel sighed but nodded.
"Fine. But if he so much as tries to put a hand on you, you tell me okay?"
"I promise." Axel smiled and hugged the blonde. "Thanks for everything." Axel kissed Roxas' forehead. Roxas smiled and walked to the car where Leon was sitting in the driver's seat. When they arrived home Roxas got nervous but knew it was now or never. The three Strife's stepped out of the car and walked up the walkway; Roxas seemed to walk slower than his two brothers. When Cloud opened the door the house was even messier than it was the night before and their father still hadn't bothered to clean up Roxas' blood in the kitchen. Sora made a gagging sound when he saw the blood, but he stayed strong for his brother.
"Where the hell have you been whore?" Their father yelled coming down the stairs, Sora and Cloud protectively got in front of Roxas. Their father looked at them with murderous eyes. "Cloud, Sora, get upstairs, I need to talk to your brother."
"No." Cloud said firmly.
"Cloud, I don't want to hurt you, I love you. Please get upstairs. You too Sor."
"No." Sora said just as firmly as Cloud had.
"Sora, my baby, please go upstairs." When Cloud and Sora looked at their father he got angry. "Why are you protecting that boy?"
"Because he's our brother!"
"But that's just it! He isn't part of this family."
Roxas looked down. "Why is it so hard for you to think of me as your son? Me and Sora are twins! We even look alike! You can't say I'm not part of this family!"
"You are not my son! You are the devil!" their father yelled furiously.
"Why?"
"I hate you!" the older man yelled and pushed past Cloud and Sora throwing them against the wall, he reached Roxas and tightened his hands around Roxas' neck choking him.
Roxas couldn't breathe, he couldn't fight back his father had his hands so tight around his neck he couldn't move, he lost his breath within seconds. The only thing Roxas could do was claw at his father's large hands. Cloud was the first to stand up.
"GET OFF OF HIM!" Cloud yelled trying to pull their father away. Sora finally stood up and all cheerfulness was gone from his eyes, his once brightly shining dancing eyes were gloomy cold and dull. Sora walked slowly over to their father and with a strength no one would believe belonged to the 100 pound 16 year old. He punched his father in the face making the older man let go of Roxas' throat and rub his jaw. Sora continued to punch his father making him bloody in two minutes.
Cloud was too shocked to say anything, as soon as Roxas got his breath back he yelled at Sora. "SORA! STOP!" Roxas grabbed Sora as the older twin started to shake. Their father lay unconscious on the ground.
"I hope he's dead." Cloud said his voice thick with hate.
"No! Don't say that Cloud, he's our father. Sure he's done some terrible stuff to me and maybe he wasn't the best father in the world but he wasn't always like that and you know it. There was a time he loved us all." Roxas said. He shocked himself. He was sticking up for the man who had abused him for ten years and rapped him. But even with all the terrible stuff he's done, Roxas couldn't help but love him at least a little bit. Roxas did remember a time his father told him he loved him and a time when their father was a better man. Roxas wasn't sure what made him change but it was when he was six his father started to reject him.
Cloud and Sora both looked down remembering what time Roxas was referring to. Roxas walked into the kitchen and wetted a washcloth and got an icepack out of the freezer, he walked back into the living room and wiped off his father's bloody face when his face was clean Roxas placed the washcloth on the top of his father's head and handed Sora the icepack. Soras' knuckled were killing him.
"Hey, where's mom?" Cloud asked randomly wondering about their mothers' absence.
"That's a good question." Roxas walked up the stairs and saw all of their mothers' things gone. "She left us?" he asked hurt. That would explain all of the beer their father had drunk and all of the broken pictures. "No wonder why he was in such a bad mood." Roxas said mostly to himself. He walked into his room and changed into his own pajamas. He laid down on his bed and started to cry. Somewhere along the way he fell into a deep sleep.
Cloud walked in Roxas' room and smiled at the sleeping blonde he walked over to Roxas' bed and pulled a blanket over his younger brother. He sighed and walked downstairs and the saw the troubled brunette on the couch. "Sora?"
"He has a big heart." Sora said, he sounded far away as though he was lost in thought.
"He sure does. I don't think I would even be worried about our father being alright, I don't think I would care too much if he had died." Cloud said. There was a small knock at the door and Cloud walked over and opened it to reveal the familiar red-haired man. "Why are you here?"
"I called him." Sora said behind Cloud. "Come in." Cloud and Sora moved out of the way and the redhead along with a silverette walked in the house. Sora smiled a bit and hugged Riku.
"Where is he?" Axel asked, referring to the blonde.
"He's sleeping upstairs."
Axel nodded and looked at the still unconscious man on the floor.
"Roxas cleaned off the blood of him." Cloud said. "He pulled Sora away from beating the crap out of him." Axel scowled and walked over to the man
"Touch Roxas again and I swear to God no one will stop me from killing you." Axel said in a low growl. Axel stood upright and kicked the man in the stomach and walked up the stairs. He saw the sleeping blonde and he smiled a sweet smile. "Hey Rox." Axel saw marks on Roxas' neck that were in the shape of hands. Axel growled and felt like going downstairs and chocking the man, the only thing stopping him was the sleeping angel. Axel went to the bed and kissed Roxas on the forehead. He was about to leave the room when the blondes eyes fluttered open.
"Axel..?" The blonde's voice was low and groggy with sleep.
"Yea Blondie?" Axel asked with a small smirk.
"What are you doing here?"
"Sora called me. He was afraid you wouldn't be okay."
Roxas smiled a bit and vouched for Axel to come over and lay down. Axel smiled and laid down next to the blonde.
"You were worried too." Roxas said.
"Yea. I was."
Roxas wrapped his arms around the redhead and cuddled with him. His head was on Axel's chest. "Night." Roxas said while yawning.
"Night Rox."
Before Roxas fell into a deep sleep he breathed in Axels scent. He smelt like cinnamon and Axe, go figure. Roxas fell asleep with a smile on his pale lips.
'I can't believe I fell in love with this kid after three days. Is that even possible? Why is it he seems so damn familiar?' Axel thought as he drifted to sleep. 'Who are you Rox?' was the last thing he thought for the night.
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sorry this is late and it might not make any sense lol I'm not very good at writing stories I usually venture off and turn the story into something different than it was supposed to be so if you see that happening here or in future chapters let me know and I'll fix it. I don't mind critisim if it's to help make the story better, what I mind is someone being rude and saying something like I don't even know lol just something really mean or something that doesn't even pertain to the story. Like if someone were to be like 'change the name of the band' or something I think that's a pointless thing because the band's name doesn't matter in the story what matters is what happens to Roxas and the other characters. Right? Idk I'm not good with this ^-^ Well now I'm just rambling so just review thanksss! 3 I love you guys I'll try to get the next chapter out REALLY soon because I feel awful about the lateness of my updates :D lol
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~Alexis Laura.