How many raindrops are in a rainstorm?

"Axel, we need to talk." It had been two weeks since I talked to Xion. During those two weeks I tried to tell Axel but I couldn't even get a word out.

"Now what kind of talk is this? Is it the 'I don't wanna be friends' talk or the 'I have super powers and I want you to be my sidekick' talk?" Oh he was a real comedian. I didn't answer. "Fine what is it?"

"Well I can't tell you over the phone."

"Why not? It's the same as talking while we're in the presence of each other."

"No it's not." Our conversation went on with talk of the difference between talking over the phone and talking in the presence and how I should get an IPhone if I wanted to talk to people while I was looking at them.

"Axel!" I had to cut him off "Can we just talk in person?" Axel sighed "Fine, will we be long?"

"Maybe...why?"

"Because if we're going to be long I'll pick you up and bring you to my house." And so he did. Axel picked me up in his fancy red Camaro. I guessed, once again, that it was his parent's car. Axel drove into LA. It was dusk and the lights of the city and the black building complimented the dark blue and pink sky. We drove around the city silently. I kept my head looking at the sidewalks and building, while Axel kept focus on the road. Eventually Axel slowed down by a tall building and turned to the back of the building and parked the car in a gated parking lot.

"Axel..." He looked at me while he got out of the car. "What?"

"Seriously?" Axel looked confused "What?" I shook my head. "No seriously what?" He wasn't getting it.

"What's with the fancy car and building! You don't need to pretend!" Axel laughed. I was confused as to why he was doing that. He punched me, playfully, in the shoulder as he walked past and out the gate. Axel entered the building and I followed. Seriously, I didn't know if he was playing a trick or what. The inside of the building was huge. The lobby was white with chairs, fish tanks, plants and paintings. I was stuck in awe when I noticed Axel was in the elevator. I rushed towards it hoping to get in, in time, I didn't want to be stuck in this big building I didn't know, alone. I managed to get in, but ran too quick and smashed into an older lady that was also in the elevator. The lady scolded me like I was her son. Axel held back his laughter until she got off, two floors up. Axel kept laughing until somebody else got on, but you could still hear him chuckling. On the last floor the doors opened and Axel grabbed my wrist and he told me to follow him...did I have a choice? Axel dragged he through a couple turns and we were eventually there. He opened the door and allowed me in first. There was no way Axel lived here. The living room was huge. There's were fancy coaches with fancy red and black pillows, fancy wooden coffee table, couple paintings and other decorations and a huge TV hung on the wall. The whole back wall was windows. You could see a couple buildings and if you were to look down you'd see the giant pool on the top of part of the fourth floor. I entered further and looked around. On side was a hallway and the other was the kitchen. The kitchen was like a closet. It was a hole in the wall.

"Seriously!"

"Seriously." Axel laughed. "Here I'll clear it up." Axel told me to sit on the coach while he went into the kitchen and got to kettle going. He began yelling the story to me from the other side of the room.

"My mother and father didn't get along when I was a kid so they divorced. My aunt, on my mother's side, wasn't happy because she said that they should have worked out things just so that I could grow up with both parents. Well my mother didn't like that and they got into a big brawl and my mother decided to take custody of me. The rest of my mother's side agreed with what she was doing except my aunt so they were all against her and disowned her. I never seen my aunt since then. She loved me though. Every holiday she'd send me things but nothing for anyone else. A couple years later my aunt married some rich European guy, but seven years later he died and he had no family so all of his money was given to her and the family became more jealous and wouldn't allow her to talk to me on the phone or send presents. I was pretty mad. Then about two year ago she died and left everything to me, since I was the only one in the family that she liked. So, I got a couple pieces of property, some cars and a bunch of other stuff. I got some money, but the other money I'm not allowed to have until next year when I'm 18. Members of my family got mad and jealous and I couldn't stand them so I left and stayed here. So now I live alone. Tada!"

My god that was like some soap opera. Well now I knew me and Axel had some things in common. 1) We both lived alone 2) We both weren't very fond of our family members. Axel came back with coffee. "You spill, you die." Fair enough warning. We both took a couple silent sips. Maybe now wasn't a good time to bring it up.

"So now that I've told you my story, why don't you tell me why you're living in a boat?" True. I never told Axel... or Xion for that matter. I starred into my coffee.

"We..." I tried to think of a way to start it. "Our...no... ummm. We were always a nice ,happy family. I was the most spoiled and happiest kids that you could find on earth." I let out a bit of a laugh "My mother and father had good jobs which let us have a nice amount of money, I mean we weren't rich, but near it. Umm... When I was ten...um...my father died." I breathed in and out heavily "Murdered, really."

"Sorry." I heard Axel say. "Why are you sorry? You're not the one that flew the plane into the tower or the one who planned it." Axel knew what I was talking about. He couldn't really say anything, he just dropped his head and put his hands on his knees.

"Yeah...after that my mother was pretty depressed and so was. My mother distracted herself with work over the years. Then I found out I was coming here and I was upset because I was close with a lot of people in my school and I felt like she wanted to leave to forget dad and...yeah. So a couple days after I got here I told her how I felt and it just kind of escalated and I decided I didn't want to be with her anymore so I just moved into the boat." We just sat in silence for awhile while I finished my coffee. Axel finally spoke.

"Well at least there's one good thing about you coming to California."

"What's that?" I asked.

"I got to meet you." He smiled. I blushed rapidly. I didn't want him to see so I got up and went to put my cup in the kitchen. Axel got up and followed. "I'll take it." Axel stopped me. I was half way there. "I can do it. I have legs. God gave me them for a reason." Axel looked down at me "Well he didn't give you much for legs" He laughed and grabbed my cup. Axel shooed me back to my seat. When he came back he sat down and looked at me. "So what do you want to talk about?" I looked confused at him then remembered why I was there in the first place. I didn't want to but I had to get it out or it'd be gnawing at my brain all day.

"I like Xion!" Wait...what? XION! WHY'D I SAY XION! I twitched my eye. "Did you tell her?" DID YOU TELL HER! I CAN'T EVEN SAY THE RIGHT NAME!

"Ahhhh...ah..ahhhh." God I was an idiot.

"I'll take that as a no." No, take that as a "I don't like her, I like you!". Axel sighed. "It's like a band-aid, you have to do it fast and it won't hurt as much." I had to play along "What if she doesn't like me?"

"Sucks to be you!"

Axel gave me a big lecture about women, as if he knew them from the inside-out, and I had to sit there and pretend to listen. The whole time I was thinking about how to explain this to Xion.

-x:X:x-

"You WHAT!"

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to! My brain chickened out at the last second and the first name that came to mind was you." I couldn't see Xion, since we were talking over the phone, but I knew she was mad. She didn't say anything for a couple seconds.

"So he thinks you like me?"

"Yep... Oh he also wants to know if you want to come over for *Thanksgiving." Thanksgiving was only a week away and axel had invited me over. "It's not the time to bring that- Wait! Perfect!" Xion was going crazy. "I got a plan! When we go over for Thanksgiving you can say that I rejected you and now you're sad and desperate for love and that's when you tell him that you like him! and if he rejects you, you can just say that you were so desperate for love that you weren't thinking straight!" I think the last part was a pun.

"Geez thanks"

"Hey, you're the one that screwed it up!" She hung up.

Star notes

Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated, mainly, in North America (USA and Canada). But Thanksgiving in Canada take place on the second Monday of October, while the States' is on the fourth Thursday in Novemeber.

Windy's Wonders

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I'm going to see Harry Potter (say that in a heavy half british half french sounding accent :P) TONIGHT! I was supposed to go see it on Tuesday but they were all sold out! :O Then me and my BFF got into a brawl because she wouldn't phone me back so now she's not going :/ Oh well!

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