Yay! After much waiting, here is... *drumroll* the THIRD CHAPTER! *applause*
Yeeea... really, there's probably not too many people actually following this story, but in my head there is, so let me live in my little dream world. XD Anyways, this chapter took me a while, because I've been really busy lately. Every time I would sit down to work on it, I would get distracted or something would come up, but I finally did it!
And I've been busy trying to beat CoM! I finally beat Sora's story a few weeks ago, and I've been playing Reverse/Rebirth (Riku's story) and I finally beat it yesterday! I felt proud. haha. Now if only 358/2 was out! haha.
Anyways, enjoy the story! :) And lemme know what you thought. Reviews are greatly appreciated! :D
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I just sat there for a few seconds after Axel walked out, finishing the last of my spaghetti. When I was done I got up and emptied the tray off then set it on the cart that held all the other dirty trays. I went out to my locker, and gathered my books for my next class, Chemistry. The bell ran that signaled it was time to get to class, so I shut my locker and walked to the room. I walked in and took my seat in the back, and when Axel walked in, the teacher directed him to a seat in the back, beside mine. The teacher then waited at the front of the room until the second bell sounded. The teacher stepped up, and started speaking.
"Class, today we will be working in partners, because we are doing an experiment," she told us, and I figured by now, my English teacher had sent around a memo that said I was showing Axel around, so of course, he'd be my partner. She started calling out the names of who would be working with who, and of course when she got to my name:
"Demyx, you will be working with Axel," she said. Axel was already sitting beside me, so he didn't even have to move. I wasn't sure about him right now. Was he mad at me? Or what? He was confusing me, that's for sure.
My teacher wrote the instructions on the board, and everyone got to work, doing the experiment with their partner. I turned to Axel.
"So...let's get started," I said, and he turned to me, looking bored.
"Yea, sure. Whatever," he said, and he picked up some things and started mixing them together. To my immense surprise, he looked like he actually knew what he was doing. I figured I shouldn't make him do all the work, so I picked up a bottle and went to pour it in the bigger bottle Axel had been putting everything else into.
"Demyx! No, don't do-" Axel started, trying to push my hand away, but he was too late. I poured it in, and at first nothing happened, so I assumed I had done something right... Boy, was I wrong. The mixture started foaming and whistling, and spilled out all over on the table we were working on, and all over Axel and I.
"Damn it!" Axel growled, glaring over at me. The teacher looked over and her eyes got wide when she saw the mess we-... I mean I had made.
"Demyx! Axel! What happened?!" She asked, rushing over. She looked at the mixture all over everything, then back at us, eyes still huge.
"Do you two realize that this mixture is poisonous?!" She asked, and when we just sat there, "Well, hurry up! Wash it off!" She shouted, pointed over to the sinks lining the back of the wall. We both stood up and rushed to the back of the room, Axel cursing me under his breath the whole time.
While we were standing there trying to rinse our clothes off, the teacher walked up behind us.
"Now, which one of you did this?" She asked, and I looked back at her guiltily.
"Uhm, I did, ma'am," I confessed. She shook her head.
"You should've been paying attention better. You created quite a mess, and ruined some of my best beakers. I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a week of detention, Demyx," She said. I sighed. Of course. That was just great.
"Ma'am... I sorta already have detention...for the next two weeks," I said, then I remembered: I'd been late to Spanish. "I mean... two weeks and a day."
"Very well, now you'll have detention for three weeks and a day," she said, walking to her desk to get a slip to fill it out. This day was not going well. How did I get so much detention in one day? This never happened to me normally.
"Yes ma'am," I said, taking the slip as she walked back to me. I might be imagining things, but I swear I saw Axel smiling. I went back to trying to wash everything off.
We finally got it all off of all our clothes after what seemed like ages of scrubbing and a ton of water. We surely couldn't have much time left to finish our assignment now. As if on cue, the bell rang before we could even get back to our seats. I looked over at Axel apologetically.
"I... I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to ruin it all..." I said, and he just looked at me.
"Whatever. Don't worry about it. I just love getting poison spilled all over me then not even having time to finish my assignment, which means my low grades will be brought even lower. Really, it's fine," he said sarcastically.
"I didn't mean it... I was just trying to help. I'll make it up to you somehow," I promised, already trying to think of something I could do to make it up to him.
"Please... don't," he said, and walked off. I stared after him for a while, then realized I should hurry to my next class. I rushed to my locker and put my books away, then hurried off to the art room. I went in and took a seat at one of the circle tables we all sat at. I looked around, but didn't see Axel anywhere. Right then the bell rang...maybe he wasn't in this class...
My teacher went over to shut the door, but before she got there, Axel came hurrying in and took the only empty seat left, which just so happened to be at my table, across from me. He looked over at me and glared, then looked back at the teacher.
"Well, hello there Mr....what's your name?" The teacher asked.
"It's Axel. Axel Saguirre," Axel replied lazily, and the teacher nodded.
"Oh yes, the transfer. Well Mr. Saguirre, I don't know if you're aware, but you were late to class today. That's not acceptable, do you have a pass?" She asked, and Axel sighed.
"No. I don't, but you see, I was supposed to be shown around by one of the students here, but it seems he...forgot, so I was lost and couldn't find the classroom," Axel said, looking innocently at the teacher. Man, he was quick... but it wasn't my fault! He'd stormed out of the room, and I didn't see him after that!
"Well, then you're excused. What student was supposed to show you around, dear?" Axel looked around, his eyes landing on me.
"Him," he said, pointing right at me. I felt my face flush. This wasn't my fault!
"Demyx! You should know better than that! Why did you leave Axel alone to wonder the halls? Surely it wouldn't be too much trouble to help direct him to the class, especially since you were headed to the same place," she said, and I just looked away.
"B-but... I...yes ma'am," I sighed.
"I'm afraid that I do not tolerate rude behavior such as what you did to Axel, so I'm going to have to give you detention for tonight," she said. Oh great. Just what I needed. This woman was crazy, and I did not want to have to explain to each teacher that I had detention already, but if things kept going the way they were, I'd have to.
"Uhm... ma'am? I already have detention...for three weeks...and a day," I said, and she looked shocked, but quickly recovered.
"Oh, well then just add this to your total," she said, looking slightly apologetic...but apparently not apologetic enough to not give me detention. I sighed as she handed me yet another detention slip to add to my total. So now I have detention for three weeks and two days...which is seventeen days total. This was just great. Although, I guess, compared to Axel's two months, my detentions weren't that bad.
"Now, back to class," the teacher said. "Today we will be painting portraits of another student, so get together in pairs and get started. You will be graded on how hard I think you worked."
Well at least I was being forced to work with Axel again. I'd probably just screw that up too somehow. I looked around trying to see if anyone would work with me, but of course I had no friends, so I also had no one to work with... I looked over at Axel to see if he'd had any luck, but he just sat lazily in his seat, looking around, as if daring one of us to be brave enough to ask him to be our partner.
Everyone scrambled around and eventually found partners...except for, of course, Axel and I. I tried to half smile at him.
"Well...it looks like we'll be working together again," I said. He looked over at me with a bored expression all over his face.
"Yep. We sure do," he said.
"Okay well let's move our chairs to that paint easel over there," I suggested, pointing. He nodded slowly and stood up, walking to where I had suggested. Axel took the seat behind the easel, which meant he would be painting me first. I sat on the stool, and straightened up. Axel picked up the brush, and looked at me. I felt uneasy. I didn't like being stared at. He started painting. Everytime he looked at me, it looked like he had something to say, but wouldn't say it. Finally, as if he couldn't hold it in any longer, he spoke.
"You...have nice...eyes," he said grudgingly, acting like he regretted each word. My face flushed bright red. For some reason, I got embarassed whenever someone complimented me. I didn't really like it...
"Oh...uh, thank you," I said. He looked back at me and took in my embarrassment.
"Yea, yea. Whatever," he said. He went back to his painting and finished it without another word. When he was done, he got up and we switched seats. That's when I saw his painting.
"Axel...how did you do that?! It looks amazing!" I said, and I meant it too. He painted better than anyone I'd ever seen.
"I dunno... I just painted it. It's no big deal. Hurry up and paint me," he grumbled. I nodded and picked up the paint brush. I painted his face, and when I went to paint his hair, I wasn't sure what color to use. I went for the cherry red. Right as my hand was about to dip the brush, Axel spoke up.
"My hair isn't that color," he said matter-of-factly.
"What? Yes it is. It's practically the same," I said offended.
"No. It's not. My hair is more... firetruck red," he said.
"Your hair is closer to this cherry red, right here," I said. When he was about to protest, I dipped my brush in the cherry red and held it up beside his head.
"See? It matches almost perfectly," I said. Right at that moment, Axel sneezed, jerking his head. He looked back up me, both of our eyes huge. He put a hand up to his face.
"Oh. My. God." He snarled, attempting to wipe the red line of paint across his face off. Apparently when he'd sneezed, his face had swiped right across the paint brush.
"Axel! I didn't mean it! I'm so sorry! It was a complete accident!" I said. Axel glared over at me, and I could already guess what he was going to do. He reached in front of me, and grabbed a bright green bottle of paint, flipped the top open, and squirted it on my head. The thick, liquidy paint oozed down over my face and dripped onto my clothes.
"Axel!" I shouted. I wasn't one for revenge, but I couldn't just let him do that to me! I dipped my paint brush in the blue paint in front of me, and flicked it at him, splattering his whole front with paint. For a second he didn't move, and just closed his eyes. Then he opened them slowly. Quickly, he reacher for the plate that had all my paint on it and smeared it in my face like a cream pie. That's when all hell broke loose. Everyone decided that since two people were throwing paint at each other, why couldn't they?
Within five minutes, the whole classroom was covered in paint. Of course, the teacher had tried to stop everyone, but it was all in vain. Only when all the paint plates were empty and the bell rang did everything settle down. My teacher had, sadly, seen the whole thing, and knew who started it all.
"Demyx. Axel. Principal's Office. Now." She growled through gritted teeth.
We sighed and headed out the door.
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