How many raindrops are in a rainstorm?
It had been a couple weeks since we encountered Xion at the bowling alley. The day after Axel's hangover was the first time he was back at school since his suspension. Axel hung out with me and Xion at lunch, like I expected. At first Xion was very quiet and barely made eye contact. Over the weeks she had lightened up to him and now they were like best buddies. We began hanging out outside of school more often. Seifer came back too. When I was around Axel he pretended that he didn't see us, but when I was alone he would send death glares at me and if I was close he would even try to nudge me.
"Let's go swimming tomorrow!" Since the first day that I met Xion I was addicted to Sea salt ice cream and I had pasted the addiction onto Axel and Xion.
I looked over at Axel and didn't realise that the ice cream was melting over my hand. "Swimming?" I asked. "Yeah you know when you go into the water and move your legs and arms" Axel answered sarcastically. Xion giggled.
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I thought we were going to go to a public pool or something but nope! Axel and Xion made me take the boat out into the ocean until we couldn't see land anymore. Once I stopped the boat and let it drift wherever it pleased we all took our cloths off and were now in our swimming suits. We all stood at the edge of the boat. Boche tried to push through us to get to the water. I had to command him to stay on the boat. His leg was healed up but I didn't want him in the water just in case, besides the last time I tried to get Boche out of the water didn't end very well.
"On three we'll-" And then I got lost in my mind. That feeling that had randomly came when Axel was touching me at the bowling alley came back. What was it? Then I heard water splashing and water sprayed on me. I watched the water ripple and Axel and Xion emerge from it.
"You didn't jump!" Xion yelled. "He was too mesmerized by our sexyness!" Axel threw his arm around Xion's shoulder and they both began laughing. My lip curled up a bit just because it was a bit funny... a bit. I closed my eyes and gripped onto my nose and jumped in.
We swam around, or more like splashed each other in the face with water, for awhile. When it was time to go I got onto the boat and starred at Axel. "Where's Xion?" I looked around. "Probably eaten by a shark" Axel shrugged. "That's not funny" There were actual man eating sharks here. Axel got up and stood just in front of me.
"You wanna hear a story?" Axel began without me answering "No" like he knew I would say. "There was a shark attack last year-actually just over there" He pointed behind himself "There were a couple friends, just like us, swimming around and one of them went to go back to the boat and while he was on the boat a shark jumped up and went...GAH!" Axel leaped with hands and body towards me and I felt something gripping my ankles suddenly. Now how would you react? You wouldn't simply go "Oh, something's grabbing my feet unexpectedly...oh well". No. You'd go:
"OH MY FUCKING GOD!" I kicked whatever was grabbing me and fell on Axel. Since I was panicking I didn't care whether or not Axel was under me. I jumped to my feet and stepped all over him. Then I heard hysterical laughter. I looked behind me to see Xion and Axel laughing their asses off. Xion was hanging onto the side of the boat with a bloody nose and Axel was rolling back and forth saying "Oh my god I can't breath!" while holding his chest and laughing and coughing at the same time. I was not impressed, but the look on my face made them laugh even more.
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I gave Xion my first aid kit and she did the best job that she could do with it. The good thing was that I hadn't broken her nose, but did give her a nose bleed. Axel on the other hand, well we couldn't do anything to him since I had only stepped on his chest and neck. He coughed every once in awhile and even coughed up blood a couple times. We told him he should go to the hospital, but he didn't listen. When we got back we all laid down on the deck of the boat. We were all too tired and injured to do anything else.
"You were joking about that shark story right?" I didn't move my head to look at Axel. He simply laughed and rubbed my head and called me a tourist. Many people had given me that name around here.
Ten minutes after that Axel fell asleep and Xion asked if she could bring something out for us to eat. I let her go. There wasn't much inside. I barely had any money left. I hadn't found a job yet. I think I had twenty dollars left... maybe even less. Xion came back quickly and asked where the food was. I told her that was it. She sighed that told me to go out and buy groceries later today, but I told her why I couldn't. Then she softly kicked Axel to wake up. He got up coughing. Then made a gross regurgitation noise and spit into the water.
"We're helping Roxas find a job!" Axel laid back down "Nobody wants this celery stick to work for them" He pinched my skin on my arm.
Xion ended forcing Axel to come with us as we walked around the whole town looking for a job. During that time Axel was coughing and coughing and coughing. We told him he should really go to a hospital, but he was too stubborn. We walked around for two hours going into every store that said "Now hiring" every time we entered they looked at me and said "We already found somebody" Dammit. Then we found a place.
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"Welcome to *Macy's" I had to most pissed off look on my face. "Aw, cheer up bud!" Axel dragged his two fingers on either side of my lips to make me smile. I had gotten a job at Macy's as a cashier. Within the week that I was there I seen my fair share of weirdos and people that I just wanted to punch...including Axel. This was the first time he seen me work there. I just his fingers off my lips.
"What do you want?"
"Now that's no way to treat a customer!" Axel scolded me but I ignored him. "There's people behind you that actually want something and you're going to get me fired" Axel turned around to wave at the people behind him. Everyone ignored him except a five year old.
"Now then," Axel put something on the counter "I'd like to buy this ever so lovely lamp!" It was the most god-ugly lamp in the world. It was something that my grandmother, who had dead stuffed cats in her house and sometimes put them on top of lamps, wouldn't buy. I looked at Axel stern "Axel." and then the manager came over "Is there a problem?" He asked. "Nope," I grabbed the lamp "he's just buying this lovely lamp" I quickly scanned it and put it into a bag that pushed it towards Axel "That'd be four hundred dollars!...FOUR HUNDRED!" I looked at the receipt again and seen four hundred "I think there's something wrong with this." I told the manager but he shook his head "It's four hundred" Axel gave me the "I am going to fucking kill you when you get home" look. I smile nervously.
When I got home that night I seen a box, a bag and a note on my table. I picked up the note on my table first.
You owe me an extra four hundred now (you can lift up the box now, there's no demons going to eat you).
I lifted up the box and the ugly lamp was under it.
Oh and in the box is leftovers. You can eat them, they're free and no they aren't poisoned.
I dug into the bag and there was Styrofoam containers inside. I opened them up and there was chicken, a salad and some fries. There was another note that said "Don't be lazy! cook the chicken or you'll die!"
Star Notes
Macy's: A large store that has many locations in the United States. Popular for the Macy's parade and for being the store the in classic Christmas movie "Miracle on 34th street".
Windy's Wonders
GAHH! I really didn't want to write this! I was too pissed off the write (which is why it's so short), but you guys will have to deal with it for now until i can't actually think of other things to write. I got the main idea for my next chapter and the one after that I just need to add more to it. GAHHHH! :U
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