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Chapter 7 Nothing can be explained

-Zexion's PoV-

A series of soft, but firm knocks woke me from that foggy haze you always lingered in during the early morning hours. Not quite awake, but still not asleep. The door creaked open and I cringed internally at the sound, while verbally I could barely muster a groan as I rolled over.

"Up time, buddy." James said as he no doubt stuck his head in the door. Like he did every morning. "Come on, Zex, you don't want to be late, do you?"

I sat up after he closed the door, his footsteps retreating down the hall. I yawned and crawled out of bed, shivering at the ever present cold that came with morning. It also didn't help that it was nearing autumn, making the mornings, and days in general, cooler.

Rifling around in my drawers, I found an outfit, typical black jeans and midnight blue shirt. I snatched up a pair of clean boxers, some socks and left my room. The bathroom wasn't any warmer, in fact, the tiles under my bare feet were freezing, but it served to wake up my still sleepy mind. A quick shower, a change of clothes, and I was fully conscious in a flash.

I blinked up at my reflection as I brushed my teeth, wondering briefly if I should do something, anything with my hair. The way it grew naturally always placed it in my face, so I'd styled it to do so even more. I was growing tired of the mundane, but I couldn't be too bothered by physical appearances. I'm just not that kind of person. I rinsed out my mouth and finally left the bathroom, alert and ready for the day. Unlike a majority of my age group, I didn't stay up until ungodly hours doing who knew what for who cared what reason. I went to bed at a set time, whether I was tired or not, to get a full eight hours. Even if I just lay in bed and stared at the ceiling, I was resting at least. It also served to make mornings easier for me and those around me. After all, how polite was it to growl at anyone who wished you a good morning, simply because you were daft enough to stay awake?

Its greatest perk, however, was the ability to concentrate. One could hardly learn anything when they were dozing on their desktop, no matter how smart they were.

Even brilliant minds like my own need sleep.

I wandered into the kitchen, where James, my foster-dad aka greatest man alive, was piling breakfast on two plates for us. I went to the fridge and poured two glasses of orange juice before sitting down in my usual chair. James sat across from me and we exchanged plates and cups with a laugh. James really was the best. He wasn't very old, somewhere in his early thirties, and he was the only family I knew. Although he was more like a big brother than a father-figure, we still got along fairly well, each respecting the other's privacy, but still able to be open when something was bothering us.

Not to say we didn't have our share of fights. Everybody did. If they didn't, they'd have the perfect relationship. And that…just didn't exist. If people always got along, things would get boring fast. Very fast. And they wouldn't be able to stand each other after a while. No, James and I didn't have the perfect relationship…but we got along.

We ate relatively quickly, both aware that time was of the essence, especially in the mornings when there was school to get to and work to be done. I told him about the theme weeks, since I'd neglected to the night before, and he seemed just as confused as I had felt when I first heard Xemnas announce it.

"They're really shoving that down your throats, now, aren't they?" he asked as we finished and went to wash our plates and cups.

I shrugged. "It's not a big deal. I'll just finish all the work for the theme weeks in class and work on the history project at home."

James turned to face me with a critical eye. "You sure that's not overdoing it?"

"I've done it before." I replied coolly.

He hummed thoughtfully before turning to leave the room. "Well, as long as you know your limits, Zexion, I'm not going to say anything."

I grinned as I went to put my shoes on. Yeah…James and I understood each other.

James drove me to school, something he did rarely. Most mornings together, we found something really random to talk about, and more often than not, we had each other laughing by the time we pulled into the school parking lot. Today, however, was a quiet day. The two of us just sat, off in our own world, thinking about whatever. I know personally that I was trying to come up with some sort of plan. Those daft teachers and their constant assignments. Didn't they realize that the workload was getting too high?

Once we parked, I glanced over at James, watching blankly as he tried to fix his dark hair, frowning at his reflection in the rear-view mirror. Smirking, I unbuckled my seatbelt, slung my bag on my shoulder and opened the car door.

"Ego is the greatest downfall of many a great man, James." I quoted, closing the door on his half confused, half incredulous expression with a laugh. He was too easy sometimes.

As James drove off, I took my time, slowly making my way towards the stairs leading up to the front doors of the green main building. I frowned up at the gigantic letters spelling out the school's name. I'd never understood the need to call so much attention to the school. Then again, with a principal like Mr. Xemnas, it wasn't too much of a surprise.

I sat on a stair, checking my watch and noting that it was about a quarter to eight. Was it really such a chore to get here a little early? It irked me that I always had to sit here for a good fifteen minutes before anybody showed up. Was it really so much to ask to be to school on time?

I'd been sitting there for a good five or ten minutes before Fuu showed up, looking more pensive than usual. I called her name, but she just looked up at me, then looked away. The rejection hurt, and I couldn't help but be concerned as she walked past me up the stairs, mumbling something about going into a class early. I knew it was a lie, but I didn't stop her. She'd been my best friend for years, and it was bothering me that she'd been acting so strangely lately.

Figuring I'd make her talk to me about it later, if for no other reason than to excuse the rude way she'd brushed off my greeting, I rooted around in my bag to look for a book. When there was nothing to do and no one to talk to, read. That was my philosophy…though lately even that had been getting boring. Maybe I needed to find a new subject to read about…

More and more people began arriving, and soon the all too familiar nerdy junior, Sora and his nerdy sophomore counterpart, Pence, wandered over to stand nearby, arguing over…pie? Oh lord, first muffins, and now pie? I groaned through my smile. Those two needed help…soon.

"Pence, chocolate pie is the best ever!" Sora argued, face screwed up in…was that supposed to be a frown? Sora couldn't pull off frowns.

Pence snorted. "I'd disagree, Sora, while it's a very delicious flavour, apple pie is simply the greatest of all time."

"Chocolate!"

"Apple!"

"Chocolate!"

"Apple!"

"Banana!"

I glanced up at the intrusion into the argument, spotting Demyx standing between the two brunet boys, grinning from ear to ear. Sora and Pence just glared at him in a mixture of confusion and irritation.

"You aren't a part of this, Demyx." Sora mumbled. "And banana pie is gross."

"I agree with Sora…for once." Pence added.

Poor Demyx looked so confused, I noted with a grin. "Pie? I thought we were just yelling things we liked…"

Demyx got involved in the argument then, claiming that cherry pie was, and I quote, "Deliciousness incarnate," I didn't even know Demyx knew such words, let alone knew how to use them correctly in a sentence.

"Chocolate, people, chocolate." Sora countered.

"Apple pie, damn it!" Pence growled.

"Cherry!" Demyx shouted happily, nowhere near as serious as the other two with the debate.

"Peach cobbler," I broke in with a laugh. The three of them stopped talking and stared at me. I just smiled at them and sat back. "What?"

Demyx started laughing and came over to sit by me while Sora shook his head, sticking his tongue out.

"Yuck, too much sugar."

Pence stared at Sora in surprise. "There's such a thing as too much sugar for you?"

And there they went, arguing about that. I chuckled and turned my attention to Demyx, who was pouting at me. How very immature.

"Yes, Demyx," I sighed. "What is it?"

"You didn't wait for me. I got up early and went to your place, but you were already gone." Demyx waved his arms around as he told his tale of woe…forgive the sarcasm. "I thought we were gonna walk to school together!"

Shaking my head slightly, I replied, "Demyx, you didn't get up early enough. Besides, James offered a ride, and it would've been rude if I'd turned him down after he went through all the trouble to get up early."

Demyx laughed and smacked me on the back. "You're such a mannerly person…that's cool, but doesn't it get boring always doing what people expect?"

Highly offended by his statement, I raised an eyebrow at him. "I have my own expectations that I live up to, thank you very much."

"I didn't mean it like that, Zexy, I just meant that you should stop following the rules." Demyx advised, nudging me with his shoulder. "Live a little."

"I live quite well," I claimed with a smile. Demyx was always trying so hard to cheer everybody up if they weren't up to his standard of 'happy'.

Roxas stumbled up to us, looking about ready to fall over. Though I wanted to be a friend to the boy and feel concern, I could only stare at his attire and think how 'popular wannabe' he looked. Was he part of the prep group in his old school? I had to wonder now. What did we really know about him? In that moment, I made it my sole duty to find out everything I could. The thought of doing the research perked me up and my morning was back on the good track.

Now I had something to waste my time in the Attendance Office this morning with. After all, it's not like I file and run errands for a solid hour every day. And I usually found someone else to do that for me anyways. Alright, so, my morning would be spent snooping into Roxas' back round. I smiled to myself, the expression fading as I heard a certain, unforgettable, catch-phrase…followed promptly by a curse…

"Watch it, got it memorized, bitch?"

Oh joy, Axel was here.

Sora and Pence were back to yelling pie flavors at each other. Though Sora stuck with chocolate, Pence was now trying different flavors to get the spiky-haired brunet to say something else.

"Chocolate,"

"Apricot?"

"Chocolate,"

"Banana cream?"

"Chocolate."

"Strawberry?"

"Chocolate."

"Um…Blueberry?"

"Choc—'' before Sora could starkly finish his one word mantra, Axel broke into their argument, much like Demyx had done.

"I'm partial to grape, myself."

"…grape pie?" Sora and Pence said together, both with the same amount of disbelief.

Axel snorted. "Pie? Hell no, I thought you were talking about condom flavors."

Aaaaand, the morning was officially Axel-ized.

My good morning wasn't going as planned. I sighed as I practically galloped down the empty, echoing hallways, trying to remember where the stupid class was…what class was I even looking for again? I glanced down at the slips of paper in my hand. Oh, right…

Shaking my head, I located the classroom, delivered a slip, and collected the attendance sheet before leaving. It really got on my nerves when the people assigned to deliver the attendance sheet for their classes, didn't do it. It meant more work for me. And I'd much rather just sit in the Attendance Office and do as I pleased.

On my way back to the office, a brightly colored poster caught my eye. I barely glanced at it, noted that it said "Student Spring Play" and tore it clean off the wall in one smooth motion. Stuffing the crinkled paper into my pocket, I kept walking. It probably wasn't the most proper thing to do, but I was in a hurry to get my work done so I could at least start on that background check I'd appointed for myself.

Besides, most of the people I knew were into drama and things like that. Wryly, I reminded myself that none of them, least of all Axel or Demyx, needed drama lessons. They seemed to have a natural knack for it.

Math…boring. It was always the same. Write some new equation on the board, explain said equation, try to convince the students when and how it could be used in real life situations, and then assign pages in our textbooks of repeating applications of that equation.

I jerked up in my seat as I realized I was slumped over, thinking such sarcastic thoughts. I enjoyed math, I really did. And because of the theme weeks, we were working on theoretical equations to calculate the life of an ice berg with the factors of weather, size and temperature. Why was I so off today? It wasn't that I was having a bad day, not at all. In fact, today was actually going fairly well in my opinion. None of my friends had gotten into trouble that I knew of at the moment, I didn't have to be the mediator…yet. And the sun was even making a valiant effort to warm the day.

A glance down at my paper and I balked at the sight of the little doodles there, instead of my work. What was wrong with me today? My mind kept wandering…shaking my head as if that would clear it, I erased the doodles and focused on my school work. I managed to get the class work done along with half of my homework. Not what I'd planned, but at least I didn't have the entire assignment along with the history project to worry about.

The bell rang and I yawned as he packed my bag. I waved at the few people I recognized in the hall as I made my way to Computer 101, a majority of them adults. Oh well, I'd always gotten along better with the older crowd.

I shivered a bit in the chill outside as I quickly made my way over to the old, crumbling building that housed the more…extra-curricular classes, such as drama and fine arts classes. Oh, the school had to keep up appearances and put all the academic classes in the newer buildings. Three cheers for the public school system…

Wow…I was in a sarcastic mood today.

Fuu ended up sitting in the chair next to mine once we arrived in class. It was strange, since she usually liked her space and sat at least one chair away. Today, she just sat, turned on her computer, and started browsing random sites on global warming…which was the only thing we could do for this class. And since Mr. Highwind wasn't one to think too much on his lesson plan, he just allowed us a free period, essentially.

I tapped Fuu's shoulder to get her attention, greeting her nicely. "Good morning, Fuu."

Flicking her hair out of her face, Fuu sighed and turned to face me. She didn't exactly frown, but she didn't smile either. In a prime, rather cold tone, she replied, "Good morning, Zexion."

"What's wrong? Did I do something to offend you?"

Another sigh. She shoved her keyboard away, her expression now more earnest. "Zexion…we're friends, right?"

"Of course," I replied instantly. "Why would you doubt that?"

Shrugged, she went on without answering. "So…that means you like me, right?"

Raising an eyebrow at her question I nodded slowly. "What would be the point in being friends with a person, if you didn't at least like them?"

Fuu seemed to relax at that and she finally smiled at me, though there was a disappointed look in her eyes. "Good point." She turned back to her computer, pausing to glare as Roxas and Sora started laughing over something Pence had sent them. "Ugh, why do these dorks have to be in this class with us?"

"Because we aren't the only people in the world, and this class wouldn't exist if 'dorks' like them didn't sign up for it?" I ventured quietly, deciding that I'd use this free period with computers to do that research I didn't get a chance to do earlier.

She gave me an odd look, her eyes lingering on me. I just ignored the look as I intently focused on my work. It was always exciting to go where you weren't supposed to go, and the school was so stupid and trusting, allowing free access to all student files from any server in the school's system. I'd almost gotten into Roxas' file when…

I sat back, staring at the block. The library? The library was blocking student files?

"Leon," I shook my head with a smile. "Sneaky. Oh well, I'll do it tomorrow." I closed out and pulled up the internet, just to make it look like I was actually doing something.

"What about Leon?" Fuu asked, looking confused and worried. I shrugged at her question.

"Nothing."

Sora and Roxas were trying to cover up their giggles, but both were staring at their screens and laughing. Hardly inconspicuous. They were going to get into trouble if they didn't…

"HEY! YOU TWO! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Cid screamed from the other side of the room. Sora and Roxas sat up straight, faces still twisted into goofy smiles.

"Yes sir," they chorused as they slowly sank down into their chairs, disappearing from my view behind the tall monitors on the table in front of them.

Just as I had the urge to laugh at them, the bell rang and I confusedly glanced up at the clock. Class was, indeed, already over. It was lunch now.

"Time flies, huh?" Fuu asked as we turned off our computers and stood to gather our things.

"Tempus Fugit." I agreed nodding. Hey, what was the point of knowing Latin if I never used it every once in a while?

Lunch hour. One would suppose it was a chance for students to mingle with friends, eat a wholesome meal to keep their minds and bodies going for the final push through the school day.

Though it was these things, I'd have to say that more than simply eating and interacting occurred during lunch. Namely, this was the time of day where my brood tended to waver and get into trouble. One in particular.

Axel.

I purchased my lunch and made my way over to the table I usually sat at with everyone else. A majority of them were already there. Sora and Pence were still, still, arguing about pie, and I wondered how long it would be until Sora gave up and threatened Pence's technology with an untimely death in order to win. I sat across from them, next to Fuu, who actually gave me a smile. I smiled back and pulled out what was left of my math homework. Hey, less to do when I got home, right?

I'd spotted Axel and Demyx near the cafeteria doors, so I knew they were going to come and sit eventually. However, I didn't expect, and I should have, for Axel to make a detour by the main prep table. The redhead sat in a free seat, earning him strange and angry looks from everyone sitting there. He said something with a rather fake smile, and was up and out of there quicker than a flash as they started throwing things at him.

Demyx sat on my other side, laughing as Axel sat across from him, holding up a cup of pudding that had been thrown as a sort of prize. Roxas showed up at some point, sitting on the other side of Fuu and getting involved in the pie argument.

"What did you do this time?" I asked with a sigh, taking a bite of my sandwich.

Axel shrugged, grinning. "Nothing. I simply shared my opinion…they apparently disagreed."

Demyx's face was turning red as he tried to catch his breath. "I can't believe you actually did that. You don't have to do every dare!"

"What can I say? I'm an overachiever." Axel stated proudly, standing so he could reach over to steal some of Roxas' chips. I couldn't help but smile as he failed when the blond slapped his hand rather hard without even looking away from the two brunets he was debating with.

Shaking the reddening appendage with a frown, Axel sat back down.

"Hey Axel, that reminds me of that one time…you know, when we skipped fourth and went to that park?" Demyx prompted, nudging the redhead across the table.

I watched with interest as Axel nodded with a laugh. "Yeah, except that girl slapped me in the face."

"That's what you get for hitting on her."

"Hey, I wasn't hitting on her."

"Axel! Her husband? Really?" Demyx snickered.

"The guy looked like a total prude, I had to." Axel defended. "And that's nothing compared to that time when you raped the mall's fountain."

Demyx fell onto the table, laughing hysterically, and I watched curiously as he and Axel continued to recall all the crazy things they'd done when they'd skipped class. I sat and listened, my math work completely forgotten. Everything around me dissolved into nothing, and I began to wonder if maybe…maybe I should skip…just once. Just to see what it was like. Maybe build some fun memories like Axel and Demyx.

I still had two classes before school was out. Then again, I didn't have to do it today, I could do it whenever, right? But my restless mind, the way I'd been off all day…maybe I needed a break, something different. Break through the mundane. Find excitement. Or even just the knowledge that I'd done something against the rules for once in my life.

Now that sounded like an adventure in and of itself.

xXx

As I was walking down the corridor of the mail building Demyx's words from this morning haunted my brain

"I just meant that you should stop following the rules."

Maybe he was right; maybe I am too uptight. It sounded kind of fun to just skip a class and see what the others would say. Question is; which class? Gym is about as pleasant as getting a lobster down your boxers. Psychology though is like getting Axel in there. Eww, there's a mental image I seriously didn't need. Psychology it is. Which gives me about… three minutes to get off school campus before someone finds me.

I left the campus quickly and walked around town for a while before I found a Starbucks not far from campus. I entered, ordered a Mint Mocha Chip Frappuccino and sat down in a corner by one of the windows. Don't really know why, but I like observing people who walks by. Time passed as people did. There came what I supposed to be a mom, hurrying down the street, probably to pick up her kid. A business man, complete with suit and portfolio came in and ordered a coffee-to-go and exited again. A bunch of girls walked by, all dressed in short skirts and I presumed they were the freshman preps in school. My thoughts were interrupted by a light, feminine voice.

"Excuse me, can I sit with you?" I looked up and was met by a pair of the palest blue eyes and palest blonde hair I've ever seen. I nodded towards the girl and continued to stare out the window. We sat in silence and I took a sip of my coffee. After a while the girl spoke up again.

"You don't recognize me, do you?" My gaze fell on her again, and I got to admit; there was something vaguely familiar with her but I couldn't quite place her and I told her so. She just smiled shyly towards me.

"I'm Naminé, I spent the other day with you guys, Axel and Demyx brought me in." When she said it, it hit me and I fully recognized her.

"Oh yeah, sorry." Her smile became polite.

"It's okay. So… What are you doing here?" I shrugged at her.

"Not much… Skipping psychology. You?" Her head tilted to the side.

"Why are you skipping? I had a free period, and I was the only one from my group who had it, so I just figured I was in the mood for a Frappuccino." I nodded. There was something about this girl that made me wanted to spill my guts about why I skipped. She seemed reliable and really easy to talk it was the blue eyes...

"Well… My friend thought I was being so uptight always following the rules, and he and this other friend always go out and do weird stuff, like skipping, and my friend, Demyx, thinks the other friend, Axel, is really cool. And I guess I want him to think I'm… I don't know… I just don't want him to think I'm some tight ass prude or whatever." She took a sip from her Styrofoam cup and nodded slightly.

"Do you have special feelings for Demyx, or are they just friendly feelings?" This statement caught me so off-guard I almost tipped my cup over.

"No! I'm not gay!" At least I don't think I am…

"Is he?"

"I don't know. I think so, yeah." She nodded again.

"Why is it then so important that he doesn't think you're a 'tight ass prude'?" I drank the last of my drink and rose.

"It was nice talking to you Naminé, but I really need to go to my gym class now. See you some other day." I quickly left the small coffee shop and walked back to school. Stupid girl. Of course my feelings towards Demyx are only friendly… Right?

xXx

I walked out on the football field and met Roxas and Fuu. Fuu looked at me.

"Where were you during psychology?"

"I skipped it…"

"WHAT!" Roxas was more reasonable.

"You shouldn't skip Zexion… It's habitual…" Yeah, like you're one to talk.

"Relax guys, it was a onetime thing." Roxas crossed his arms.

"Yeah, that's what you say now. Soon you'll end up skipping every class like Axel." Fuu snorted.

"No, next thing he know he IS Axel." I rolled my eyes.

"Guys, you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Relax." Roxas snickered.

"Nobody is Axel but Axel." Fuu grunted.

"Oh, go shove it Blondie, for someone who claims to hate that redhead so much, you talk an awful lot about him." She glared at him.

"Shut up!" Roxas spun around and walked away with those words. Fuu and I looked at each other, each with one eyebrow cocked, before Yuffie came out on the field.

"Come on, we're going to the running tracks." We followed her and then lined up.

"Okay. Here's the deal kids; as you all know we have these little theme weeks right now. Personally I hate them, but I gotta follow them, or I'll get fired… So you just run around the tracks, pretend you are the earth revolving around the sun." A black haired girl in the back of the crowd raised her voice.

"Are we gonna run for the whole period?" Yuffie crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.

"Longer if you don't shut up and start running." We all sat off, running in different paces to get around the stupid tracks. God this was annoying. Why didn't I skip gym instead? Right… Lobster or Axel… LOBSTER, LOBSTER!

My friends sat off ahead of me, but I kept a steady pace. Why rush it? I can just run around, think about other stuff.

20 minutes later

I swear; if I have to do one more lap, I'll kill myself. I checked my wristwatch. Ho shit, are you kidding me? 40 frigging more minutes? No way. How can I get out of this?

I pondered this while I ran around. Then I had an idea.

If I pretended to stumble and fall, then I have to go to the nurse and I'll be excused. Unfortunately it didn't end that well; I fell straight on a rock and wounded my knee pretty badly. Fuu came running up to me, as well as Yuffie and some of the other students. I think I saw one girl fall over and faint when she saw the blood flowing out of my knee, but her friend took care of her and she soon came back to consciousness. Fuu flailed her arms.

"Oh my God, Zexion, are you all right?" Yuffie took a look at me.

"That doesn't look too good. Go and wash it off or something and then go by Aerith." Fuu rose.

"I can follow him." Yuffie waved her off.

"Aw, hell no, you have to run. Besides; he's a big boy; he can take care of himself." I rose and limped towards the main building to find the nurse office. On my way over I got assaulted by a blond shadow and I almost fell over again. I screamed at the pain and the person flew off me.

"Oh my, I am so sorry Zexion. I didn't see you were hurt, what happened?" Of course. No one else would jump on you from behind but Demyx.

"I fell over in gym, and got a pointy rock straight in my knee, so I'm on my way to Aerith." Demyx nodded and I started walking again. He came up beside me.

"I'll follow you there."

"You don't have to. Don't you have a class right now?" He shrugged.

"Not really… We got out early. I had music and my teacher thought I'd done well so he let me go."

"Where's Axel then?"

"Raping a violin somewhere I guess." He laughed at me and I just smiled slightly. My knee was seriously getting the better of me. We reached the nurse office and I knocked while Demyx sat down in the waiting room and, low and behold, pulled out a book. By Paulo Coelho! Oh dear. Take cover, the apocalypse is near.

Aerith opened the door and gasped when she saw the blood.

"Oh dear. Come in Zexion." She opened the door and let me inside. I saw down on a britt while she searched for rubbing alcohol and some cotton. When she found it she poured some of the alcohol on the cotton and started to clean my knee. It stung. A lot. I scrunched my eyes close and looked away.

"It burns."

"I know, I'm sorry honey, but it is super effective." I bit my lip at the pain. This was even more painful than getting that stupid wound in the first place. When she was done she put some bandages around it and then she patted my knee.

"Alright, you're good to go." She smiled at me as I rose and limped (slightly thank you very much) out of the room. Demyx rose when I came out, Aerith, who had followed me to the door smiled at him.

"I don't even wanna know how many times I've seen you waiting out here." Demyx laughed and scratched his neck.

"Well… Better out here than in there, right?" She smiled again and nodded before she closed the door with a "Be careful now boys." We waved her off and walked out of the waiting room. Demyx looked at me.

"Wanna go and get your stuff? The others should soon be let out and then we're going to Axel's place." I nodded and we went to the changing rooms where I quickly got dressed and we went out and waited on the bleachers. Demyx sent a text message to Axel, telling him where we were and we waited for the rest of the gang.

xXx

When we came to Axel's place we walked to the living room and sat down in our usual seats. Fuu had left us, with the excuse that she needed to do some homework. Axel rose and went in to the kitchen to get something to drink and I followed him. We worked with finding glasses, and making juice. Naminé's words from earlier haunted me.

"Axel… You're… gay, right?" Axel dropped the glass he was holding.

"Excuse me?" He started sweeping up the glass shards from the floor.

"You're gay, right?"

"Yeah, but where the hell did that come from?" I waved him off and continued.

"How did you… figure it out?"

"I was in… I dunno.. Freshman year? And then I met Demyx. He was fun and care free. Not to mention super hot." It felt like rock to the stomach.

"Oh."

"Yeah... Why did you ask?" Just at that moment said blond showed up in the door way.

"Jeez guys, what's taking you so long?" I turned my back to them both and left the room with my hands full of glasses. Demyx looked after me before he turned to Axel.

"What's up with him?" Axel shrugged his shoulders before he shoved some more glasses to Demyx and took the containers with juice to the living room. We played video games for a good hour or two when I remembered the note I found earlier in the corridor about the spring play.

"Hey guys… I found this note earlier…" I pulled it out of my pocket and showed it to them. "It's about some student spring play and I thought that some of you might be interested." They flew over each other to get the paper out of my hand. Demyx won, but to my great despair he landed over my lap.

"A play, which one?" He read it and Axel just laughed.

"What is it this time? Macbutt?" I sighed and smacked him over the head.

"That's Macbeth you freak show." Demyx, who still were lying sprawled all over me, looked at him.

"No it's not decided yet… They're gonna have a meeting the first Monday after the theme weeks, to see who's interested and then they're gonna decide which play they're gonna do. The teachers who's gonna help are Leon, Cloud and Tifa. Well it might be fun. I'm gonna join." He smiled.

"Mm, that's great Demyx, now would you please get off me?" I sighed and Demyx rose with a pout.

"Your lap is nice to lie on." He laughed; just as the others did and I looked down to hide any eventual blush. Sora giggled.

"I wanna join too. It could be fun." Demyx nodded.

"Yeah, come on Axel, you too. It's our senior year; we gotta do something to make them remember us."

"I think you've managed with that already guys." Roxas muttered but Axel just grinned.

"Sure, it could be fun." Demyx smiled.

"Great." A slight jealousy crept over me when Demyx asked Axel to join too. Demyx had made Axel gay… What if he had feelings for Axel too? No, shut up Zexion, back to focus. I am not gay, and especially not for Demyx. He is annoying, too loud, too skittish, too jumpy, and too intrusive. No, I am not falling for him. Nuh uh, no way. To my great luck Roxas changed the subject.

"You have no idea what Zexion did today." I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. What the hell had I done? Demyx looked at me, eyes huge.

"Except falling in gym?" Roxas shook his head.

"No.. that little bastard is trying to be like you guys. He skipped psychology today." Demyx flew on me again.

"WHAT! Oh, I am so proud of you Zexion." Oh. My. God. He's hugging me. Axel looked at me as if I were some kind of UFO.

"Seriously?" I nodded.

"What did you do during that time then? I didn't see you anywhere around school?" I shrugged (which, I may add, was a little hard with Demyx clinging to me).

"I went down to a nearby Starbucks, where I by the way met that Naminé-girl who followed you guys around the other day." Demyx looked at me.

"How was she doing?"

"Fine I guessed. She had a free period, and she was the only one from her gang who had it so she went to that Starbucks too. Now can you please release me again?" He did as I asked and we continued with the video game and just hung around. After a while Axel rose.

"What do you say guys? How 'bout a smoke anyone?" We all rose and headed on out to the balcony. They lit their foul cancer sticks and Sora looked over the rail.

"This is actually pretty high." Axel grinned.

"Yeah, you don't wanna fall over." At the words he grabbed Sora's waist and started tickling him, cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth. Sora screamed out of laughter and we all smiled.

"Alright Axel, that's enough, don't kill your friends." We all looked at Reno who stood in the balcony entrance.

"Oh hi Reno." The older redhead waved to us all before he closed the door and joined us for a smoke of his own. We stood out there for a good fifteen minutes, just talking and enjoying the fresh air. After a while it got chilly though and I decided that it was probably time to head home. I told the others so and we headed in again. Demyx decided to join me and head home too. Roxas and Sora was going to hang around for a while longer.

"Hey, by the way guys… This Friday, we're having a party here." Reno inquired. We all nodded. That sounded like fun. Demyx and I took our stuff and left the house, and outside I waited for Demyx to get his bike and we were on our way. For some reason the walk was awkwardly silent. I just didn't know what to say. I was so stuck in my thoughts, and Demyx seemed like he had a lot on his mind also. Every now and then he tried to stir up a chat, but I just wasn't in the mood. Naminé, that little witch, what had she done to me?

When we finally reached my house I turned to Demyx.

"Oh well, I'll see you tomorrow. Bye" I ran in to the house before he even got a chance to say a word. I closed the door behind and took a deep breath. Everything was going to be just fine.

Hopefully.

xXx

Outside Demyx just stared at the closed door and his friend who just ran away.

"What the? Oh well. If he got a problem he'll hopefully tell me…" He walked his way home, mind occupied with a pair of blue eyes, partly covered by long dark bangs.