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"No way!"
"Yes way." Me and Xion were standing outside of Axel's building.
"But how! I didn't know he was rich!"
"It's a long story." I entered the building, hoping I remembered exactly where Axel lived. The lobby had a lot more people then the last time I was there. The elevator was also crowded. That's what I get for excepting to go to Axel's on a holiday. We got off on the last floor...that's the only directions I knew.
"So where do we go now?" I had to think "Uhhhhhh...". We ended up walking around knocking on doors, none of them being Axel's, until we just asked if anyone knew where he lived. Most of the people shut their doors on us but eventually somebody told us.
"Man, what happened to you guys?" Me and Xion were tired from running around and looking for him. "Shut up." I bit my tongue. Xion entered. Her jaw dropped.
"Oh. My. God!" She turned around to Axel "Do you really live here!" Axel smiled. "Hell yeah."
"But how? These apartments must cost a fortune!"
"They're actually condos and it's a long story."
"Why does everyone keep saying that?" I had to explain to Axel.
We all sat down on the floor, since Axel didn't have a table because he lived alone, in a circle...triangle, ok? For Axel being rich and all, I thought he would have a table or at least a decent turkey at that. Axel had a chicken not a turkey, a fat one though! Either he forgot that you were supposed to have turkey or there just wasn't any turkeys left at the stores. The potatoes were cold, the carrots had dirt on them and the peas were half frozen.
"Sorry, I'm not the best cook."
"I noticed. OW!" Xion elbowed me in the rib. This was the only moment I wished I could be with my mother since I moved to California. We always had the best Thanksgiving turkey. The best smashed potatoes, the best peas, carrots and apple pie. The thought made my mouth water.
I poked at my food. Axel realised I wasn't enjoying it "You don't have to eat it." I pushed my plate in front of me, but Xion pushed it back at me and starred at me. She didn't want me to be rude. Hell, she might as well have been my mother. I had to deal with it. I closed my eyes and shoved the food down without chewing and washed it away with my coke (Another fancy part of this day!).
The food really wasn't setting well in my stomach. We sat around watching TV and movies for awhile until Xion went home. Right before she left she whispered "Tell him." in my ear. I was debating on leaving after Xion but I had to get it done.
Axel was in the kitchen cleaning dishes. He seen me coming. "Can you put these away?" What was I supposed to say? No? I grabbed two of the dishes and opened the cupboard. The dishes went on the very top shelf. I was too short to reach it. I heard Axel sigh. Axel stood behind me and grabbed the dishes and reached up to put them in the cupboard. I hated being short. He looked at me. "You'll do the things that are closer to the floor." He smirked.
I looked at the clock and there wasn't much time left until dusk. He passed me a few more dishes. "So did you tell Xion?".
"Huh?" I had totally forgot about that. "Oh! Ah. She said that she thought of me more as a friends and I agreed." Wait I was supposed to be depressed and desperate "But I'm sad that I was rejected." Good enough.
"Well at least you did it. My little Roxas is growing up before my eyes!" He dug his fist into my hair and moved it in a circle, ruining my hair. I fixed, or at least tried to, my hair. "Well there's more fish in the sea."
"Well... that's kind of what I wanted to talk to you about." Axel looked at me. "Axel, I-" I barfed. On Axel. I barfed on Axel...I. Barfed. On. Axel. SHIT! Axel stepped back. I was so embarrassed! I covered my mouth and starred with the most shocked and embarrassed face ever at Axel. "Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" I felt like dying.
"That's ok..." He held out his shirt and nearly barfed. He rushed down the hall. I felt like pulling my hair out strand by strand. God didn't want me to tell Axel. I cleaned up the barf that landed on the floor. I heard the shower going. I didn't blame him.
About fifteen minutes later Axel came out with only his jeans on. His bare chest and large muscles shined with cleanness. I had to look away.
"Sorry about that, I have a weak stomach."
"It's ok. Well at least I know how my food tasted now." He laughed. I dragged my fingers between my eyes. I definitely couldn't tell him now.
"So what were we talking about before you showed your feelings for my food?"
"Uh, I don't remember." I got up off of the coach and made my way to the door.
"You leaving?"
"Yeah." I didn't let him say anything else and left
-x:X:x-
"You WHAT!" Déja vu much?
"I didn't mean to barf on him! Hey! You were the one that made me eat the food, which made me barf!" Xion shook her head.
"You have one month to do it! Tell him before Christmas or at Christmas. After that I will band you from telling him." Xion only said that because she wanted me to get it done quick.
Me and Xion sat at the mall in downtown LA with our *Candy cane hot chocolate, which by the way was nasty. We sat there in an awkward silence for five minutes. During that time I pretended to drink my nasty crap that was called hot chocolate, when it really didn't taste like it at all, to look like I wasn't participating in the awkwardness.
"Xion, have you ever liked someone?" Xion starred at me with a cookie hanging from her mouth. I must admit it was cute, it reminded me of a cat. She took the cookie out of her mouth and thought. "Not really, I mean when I was a kid and everyone liked someone because we didn't understand love back then, but no, really."
"Did you know Axel before we started hanging out?" She looked at me probably wondering why I was asking this. "Well he was in some of my classes before and seen him in the hall, but I never talked to him or made eye contact. Why?"
"Just when I first met you and told you about Axel, and when we first started hanging out you seemed a little...turned off, I guess you could say. I mean I know you're shy and all-"
"I am not shy!" I laughed a bit because she knew she was kidding herself. "I'm not shy!"
"Ahahah." I stopped laughing "What do you want for Christmas?"
"Well no more Candy cane hot chocolate." Xion had the same opinion about it as I did. "A monster hoodie!"
"A what?"
"Monster hoodies! You don't know what they are?" I shook my head "They're hoodies with designs of random monster things. Like on the hood there'll be teeth and eyes!" Never heard of them.
"And what do you want?" I really had no idea what I wanted for Christmas. The only thing I really wanted was that Axel knew how I felt and that he felt that same, but I think Xion would have a hard time wrapping that. "Anything really, or money, that's fine."
"Money's not a gift, you can't wrap it and anything isn't an answer." God, she was actually making me think of something. "Chocolate.".
"Fine I'll just find something."
-x:X:x-
I had to look all over the place to find one of those Monster hoodies. I even got Axel to drive me to San Diego, which was a two hour drive just to get down there, because they told me they had some down there but they lied. I eventually found out that the store that I worked at had them since the day I got hired there...fuck my life. I still couldn't find a present for Axel. Until I remembered something. I got them both some small presents too. It was the eighteenth and I hadn't told Axel how I felt. I had all the opportunity in the world but I didn't take it. There was only one week left until I had to tell him. One week 'til Christmas.
"Hello?" I heard two voices at once. "Yo Roxas" and "Hey Roxas" Axel and Xion.
"So why'd you phone us Xion?" I heard Axel say. "I can't go to your house for Christmas." Axel gasped. "Why?" We both asked at the same time.
"I have to babysit for one of my parent's friends. Normally I wouldn't take it but I'm getting paid two hundred dollars per day that I have them and they need me to babysit on Christmas eve and Christmas day, sorry." Four hundred dollars for two days... Why couldn't I make that just for looking after a kid?
"Well you can bring them over my place for Christmas."
"No Axel-"
"No, nos!" Ok then. "But-"
"No buts either! You're going to bring them over and we're going to spend Christmas together! capeesh?" Xion sighed. "Fine but don't say I didn't warn you."
Christmas came quickly. Before I knew it I was walking to Axel's with my hands full of presents. Walking to Axel's wasn't fun, but at least I didn't have to walk all the way. I took the bus three fourths there and walked the rest. I was about to knock on Axel's door when I heard screeching that made my ears bleed. From the corner of the end of the hallway I seen two kids, one boy, one girl, the boy was about 7 and the girl maybe 6. They were dressed up in deer antlers and had flashing noses. They ran down the hall at me screaming until their lungs burst. Why did kids do this? From the corner I seen Xion, or at least what was left of Xion. She was dragging a huge bag of presents behind her. Big black bags dropped from her eyes. She looked like she hadn't got any sleep.
"STOP!" She screeched at kids. They didn't listen. Xion walked up to me. "Axel's going to freak out at them you know?"
"I tried to warn him." She yelled at the kids to come by the door. She put the bag down and knocked on the door. Axel opened the door and his body tensed up when he heard the kid's screams. The kids ran past him and into his condo. "I tried to tell you." She stuck her tongue out and walked past him. I laughed. Axel glared at me and I shut up.
The kid's stopped when they got in a went "Wowwwwwww." Have you ever seen *Elf? Well remember the store after will Ferrell decorates it? Well Axel's house looked like that. The smell of Christmas hit your face as soon as you stepped it. It didn't feel like California anymore. It felt like Christmas. It felt like New York, where the lights shined down and lit up the snow and you'd see your breath, in Cali there was no snow or breath seeing but the way Axel decorated it, it felt like it. Xion's face lit up too.
"Did you do this?" I looked up at him.
"No, well kind of, I had the whole idea and everything, but I got people to come in and put it all together, and I even got cooks to do the food so now you won't barf." Axel laughed and put his arm around my neck. I laughed a bit too. We put the presents under the large lit up tree and formed around Axel's new table, Axel realised he had to get a table since the last time that we were there. A nice juicy turkey was sitting in the middle of the table. Many other foods were surrounding it, but my eyes were set on the delicious turkey. When you lived alone in a boat with the salary of Macy's you didn't get to have food like this, you had ramen and Kraft dinner...that's it! We all helped ourselves. The kids, who were once yelling, were now quiet with food in their mouth. The only sounds we could hear were the sounds of our forks and knifes against the plate and the Christmas music playing. When we were done it was time for presents.
"Presents!" The kids yelled and ran towards the tree. Most of the presents that were in Xion's bag were from the kid's parents to their kids. They began tearing open their presents and showing them off. We all passed each other's gifts around to one another. We tore them open as if we were kids. I had one from Xion, Xion had one from Axel and Axel had one from me. I got a nice black and white checkered watch, Xion got a camera and Axel's was a replacement shirt. We said we'd open our best gifts last so that's what we did. we opened up the other gifts then it was time for the best one.
"I'll be back in like fifteen minutes." I said and walked outside without letting them say anything. Fifteen minutes later I came back with a box with holes in it. I rushed it into Axel's lap and told him to open it quickly. "What the hell is this?" He examined it. "just open it." He took the cover off of it and gasped. He put the box on the ground and a puppy walked out.
"Puppy!" One of the kids yelled.
"He's actually one of Boche's puppies. Back in New York we bred him a bit and I remembered that one of his girlfriends, shall we say? had a litter not too long ago and they were selling them so I got him shipped down here, which was a pain by the way! But I figured you liked Boche so much, why wouldn't you want one of his puppies?" Axel picked him up and held him by the shoulder and looked him in the eyes.
"He looks just like his father, thank you, this is the best gift!" I blushed with happiness.
We opened up all the other gifts and then it was time for my gift from Axel. It wasn't in a box, it was in a card. I opened up the card and read it.
Sorry for being such an ass when we first met. I hope you can forgive me. And no this isn't my big gift, an apology, look inside the envelope that this came in.
I opened it up again and dug out two pictures. One of a car and one of a house. I began reading since I was even more curious.
Get it yet? Probably not. Anyways I'll say it in pure English. I know that living in a small boat can't be fun, so remember how I said I got a couple pieces of property from my aunt? Well I sold some of them, but kept a few. This is one of the few that I kept and don't use. It's located, maybe five minutes from here. It's just sitting there collecting dust, so now it's yours.
Wait! What? I re-read it. It's yours.
Oh and so is that car! I find it ugly, not like I'm giving it to you because I think it's ugly, I was going to sell it anyways. I don't need this stuff and you do, so don't you dare and try and reject it! Take somebody's help when you need it. It's not charity.
~Love, Axel.
Oh shit, was this a joke? I looked up at Axel across the room, but he was too involved with his new puppy, so I texted him instead. He felt his phone vibrate and read the message I sent, which read "Can we talk somewhere?". He looked at me and gave his puppy to Xion to hold. As Axel walked past me he tapped my shoulder as a signal of "Follow me". I followed him into his bedroom. He closed the door behind him and I sat on the bed. He stood in front of me with his arms crossed. Axel knew why we were talking.
"Didn't you read the last part?"
"Yes, but-"
"Just take it, will you!" Axel threw his head to his left. I had to think about it for awhile. I dropped my head down and played with my hands. Could I really except it? I took a deep breath. "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure."
"Thank you!" I jumped up to give him a hug, but ended up doing something else. I kissed him...
I quickly pulled away when I realised what I had done. I covered my mouth with my hands. Axel was beyond shock. There was no word for the look on his face.
"Oh my god! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to! It's just! I-I-I- It was instinct! I didn't mean to! I'm so sorry!" Axel expression changed into something else, something that did not have a name either. "You sure that was an accident?" I backed up. I was caught. Busted. Dead. Did he know all along?
"Because I wish that wasn't an accident."
"Huh?" Wait! Did he just say that! "Because I wish that wasn't an accident.".
"Wait! Does that mean-" But before I could finish Axel grabbed my head and kissed me...Axel kissed me! A guy! I was too shocked to digest this. Axel's lips were against mine. Was he teasing? It wasn't funny if he was. Axel's tongue slid into my mouth. I freaked out. I pushed Axel off of me and stepped back landing on the bed.
"What the hell was that?" I was shaking. I wanted Axel but this was too much. I didn't know what he was doing. Axel was too hard to figure out.
"Sorry I-" Axel chest moved up and down heavily. Axel couldn't look at me. This reminded me of someone...me. Was axel gay? "Axel are you gay?" Axel didn't look. "You're gay!" He was, I knew it. "Just- I!" He began walking away "Pretend it didn't happen."
"No wait!" I got up and grabbed Axel and turned him around. "You're really gay?" Axel still couldn't look at me "I don't know" I began laughing. Axel looked angry and began walking away again "Wait no!" I pissed him off. He thought I was laughing at him. "I'm laughing because I'm gay too!" He turned around. "What?"
"Axel... all this time I've been stressing out." I had to take a breath of air. I couldn't believe it. "I-You." I couldn't think of words. I was too happy.
"You...like me?" Axel had a sudden shocked look on his face. "Wait! But Xion and... You're making my brain hurt Roxas, explain." I explained everything. I explained what happened after the party, the thing about Xion, everything. Axel starred at me with a smile and got down to my eye level. He didn't say anything. He went back to kissing me. This time I let his tongue in. We made our way back to the bed. Axel pushed me down on my back and he was on top of me. His tongue traveled down my neck and his hands slid over my chest. He got his chest off of me and took his shirt off. I did the same. Axel continued to kiss me and undo my jeans. I didn't resist. I had been waiting for this. Axel hands moved over my hips. I forgot everything. Everything leading up to this day. All the stress had paid off. And it was ruined in some mere seconds. We heard the door crack open. We froze in position and looked at the door. Standing there were the kids.
"Don't be snooping around!" I could heard Xion getting closer. We still couldn't move. Xion seen us. She froze.
"Xiny," That must have been her nick name "What are they doing?"
"Wrestling practice!" Xion grabbed both of the kids and slammed the door. Axel sighed and got off of me. He silently put his shirt back on. So much for that. I did the same. We both walked out of the room silently at different times. Axel went first then some odd seconds later I followed.
Xion was on the coach and wouldn't look at us. There was a knock on the door. Axel answered it. It was the kid's parents. Xion lead the kids out and went outside to talk with them and got her money. While Xion was outside we hadn't said a word to each other. Xion came back in.
"Um... I should go" Xion grabbed her things and headed towards the door "Thank you for everything, everyone." As soon as Xion was about to open the door Axel said "It wasn't what you thought it was. It was a one time thing." Huh? Was he just saying that to Xion so she wouldn't say anything? But she already knew. Axel didn't make any sense. Xion didn't turn around or say anything, she left.
"I should go too." I grabbed my things, like Xion had done, and headed towards the door.
-x:X:x-
I had quickly moved into my new place. I would miss my boat, but I'd still go there every once in awhile. It was new years and the last time that I had spoken to Axel and Xion was Christmas. Or at least until today. I heard a knock at the door. "Coming!" I yelled and opened the door. Axel was standing there with his new puppy.
"Axel!" I surprised to see him there at such later time in the night. "Hey! Yeah I know it's late but can we talk?" I let him in. Axel let his dog off the leash and he went straight over to his father.
"It's like he knows he's his father even thought they never met." We starred at them touching noses "Yeah, What did you name him?"
"Supertramp!" I starred at him. He laughed "I'm joking. I named him Derby. Thought I'd keep the weird name linage going." Derby's mother's name was Garbo... sounds like garbage.. I know.
I walked towards the coach "I think I love you!" I heard Axel yell. I froze then turned around slowly. "Love? Me?" I pointed to myself. Axel nodded and blushed. I blushed too. "And not just one of those stupid loves." Axel began walking towards me "Love-love. You know?" Axel grabbed my shoulders "The one were the get excited and the tingly feeling just thinking about them. The one when you can feel them running through your blood stream." Axel was getting deep. Axel whispered in my ear "You know?" I did know. Axel was that feeling.
"I love you too."
Things went further then last time. I think you get the point of what went on. Until dawn we starred at each other. It paid off, it really did. Every bad that that happened paid off. Coming to California, running away from home, having a fight on my first day of school, everything paid off. Every bad thing turned good in time, and it was damn well worth the pain.
Star notes
Candy can hot chocolate: Some stores (Like cafés) do sell this around Christmas. Last year in Canada they sold them and they were pretty good, but it made you want to barf when you were done since it was so filling.
Elf: A movie released in 2003. It became a popular Christmas movie due to it's comedy and originality. The comedian Will Ferrell had played the main character perfectly which made it even better.
Windy's Wonders
Holy lord mothers! 9 pages! god knows how many pages and like 7 hours! WOOT! Things will change BIG time after this!
HARRY POTTER WAS AWESOME! OMG I LOOOOVED it! *Spoilers start!* My friends were crying from the part of Snape's memories until the end of the movie XD I was like "OMFG! they're crying!" EVERYONE heard and I was sooooooooo embarrassed! There was like an awkward silence and you could hear my friend so i start shaking popcorn around to cover up their crying! XDDDDDDD I had to laugh a couple times! and at the end when their kids go to Hogwarts they weren't crying i was like "WTF it's the ending you're supposed to cry now!"*spoilers end* The only time that I cried was before the movie when a commercial for a movie called War horse came on...I cried like a bitch XD
Sorry for the quick updates. I had the other chapter finished quick but I couldn't upload it until yesterday.
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