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A knocking at the door woke them. Axel rubbed his eyes and grinned through his sleepy haze and a shyly smiling Roxas. He left a kiss on his cheek as he went over to the door, straightening his clothes along the way.

"Axel?" Zexion stepped into the room brandishing two cups of coffee. "Why was the door locked?"

"No idea." He winked surreptitiously at the blond and left the room.

Zexion sat in the chair next to the bed, and Roxas couldn't help being disappointed at the replacement.

"Hi Zex."

"Hey Roxas. You feeling alright?" Roxas nodded. "Well I'm not going to bug you then, I'm sure you're tired of the questions." He pulled on his earlobe in an extremely awkward fashion. "I'm here if you ever want to... talk. Remember that."

Roxas smiled. "Thanks."

"I have to admit something."

Roxas sipped at the coffee Zexion offered him. "Shoot."

"I really like you." The scalding hot coffee seared it's way down the blond's throat. "I can't even tell you how distraught I was when I saw you laying there unconscious. I couldn't help thinking, 'what if he dies? He'll never know how I felt.' And I don't want to wait anymore. I need you to know that I really care about you, and I want to be with you."

Roxas' jaw dropped and his eyes widened to almost comical proportions. "Uh-"

Zexion leaned in and captured his lips tenderly, but Roxas immediately yanked his head back.

"Zex, I'm sorry-"

"Axel, right? Of course." Zexion nodded curtly in frustration and got up, roughly wiping a tear from his face. "See you around, Roxas."

"Zexion!" He called out. The door slammed shut. Roxas put a hand over his lips in confusion, then brought his hand down to the bed in a fist. "Shit."

Axel returned a few minutes later holding a bottle of water in one hand and a bag from the local taco place in the other.

"Brought you stuff."

Roxas greedily took the food from him, finally realizing just how starved he was.

"Why are you all red? Still thinking about me?" Axel chuckled at his own joke while Roxas shifted uncomfortably. "Graduation is in two weeks, Rox," he said, sobering up.

Roxas swallowed a mouthful of water. "I know. You'll be leaving and I'll be taking the year over."

"Look on the bright side: you'll have a great second senior year. You won't seem quite as young this go round, and Riku won't be around."

Roxas blanched at the name. "You wouldn't happen to know where Ri- where he is going?"

"He's going to Destiny Islands. That fucker got a full scholarship to their best university and he's been rubbing it in all our faces." Roxas let out a breath he hadn't realize he'd been holding. "And that twit Kairi is trailing behind Riku as usual, like he shits a trail of bread crumbs for her to follow. I don't know how she's going to make it, she's dumb as a rock." He watched as Roxas took a hugely unattractive bite from his taco. "You know that kid Sora from the team? He's going out there too, that's where his family is from. Cool, huh?"

Roxas took a moment to take in what he'd just heard. Riku was going to Destiny Islands. Riku was going across the country. Riku would be out of his life. Riku would be out of his life.

"Can you get me a ticket to graduation?"

Axel grinned and pulled one out of his wallet. "I've got it covered."

Roxas smiled back. "Can you kiss me again?"

Axel chuckled deep in his throat. "I think I can handle that too."

"I don't want to be here."

"You have to tell me what you're thinking."

Roxas crossed his arms, wincing slightly when he put too much pressure on his hurt arm. "I'm thinking I don't want to be here."

The woman sitting opposite him pursed her lips in annoyance. "We've been at this for days Roxas. You know if you don't cooperate you can't go home. So let's just cut the nonsense here, okay? Why did you hurt yourself?"

Roxas stared at her stubbornly.

"Why did you hurt yourself?" She repeated.

"I didn't."

"Roxas, work with me here."

"What do you want me to say?" He screamed.

"I want you to answer my question and stop behaving like a child. Why did you hurt yourself?" She asked, exasperated.

"I... I can't tell you."

The woman relaxed in her seat with a sigh. "Why not?"

"Because I can't."

She tensed again - so much for progress. "Roxas, please."

Roxas sighed and ran a hand over his face. "I was sad. Everything was going wrong. So I tried to kill myself."

"Why did you feel this way?"

"The guy I liked didn't want me. That's all." That was not all.

"So you're homosexual, okay, now we're getting somewhere. Were you bullied because of this?"

"No one knows."

She jotted down a few notes on her pad and Roxas wondered what she was writing. "And the boy you were attracted to, does he know?"

"Yes."

"And is he homosexual as well?"

"I'm... not sure," he admitted. "I guess he likes both."

"Okay, okay," she paused to write more things down. "So you weren't bullied at all?"

"Not for being gay."

"Were you bullied in general?"

"Yes. I'm younger than everyone. Smaller than everyone. People think I'm weird. It comes with the territory."

Her eyes widened a bit. "You shouldn't just accept that, Roxas. Have you told the administration at school?"

"They know."

"And they do nothing to stop it?"

"Nope," he answered, popping the 'p' in boredom.

She huffed and wrote some more. "Okay, so you were victimized, and the person you were attracted to didn't reciprocate. Can I asked what those people did to you?"

Roxas repressed the memories of his more recent encounters with Riku. "Nothing out of the ordinary. I got beat up a lot, is all."

"And you're sure that situation didn't contribute to your hurting yourself?"

"Positive. That situation had nothing to do with it."

"Well then, tell me more about this boy you like."

Roxas sighed and looked past the woman, focusing on an obscure point on the wall behind her. "He's two years older than me, he's new in school this year, and we met over the summer. He's my best friend."

She nodded, urging him on.

"We spent a lot of time together at first. Then he started seeing this girl." He bit back his dislike. "She already had a boyfriend, so they snuck around a lot. He deserves better than that." He stiffened as he though about them together. "Stuff came up and we didn't talk as much. I tried to tell him I liked him, one day, but he rejected me."

"And how did you feel about that?"

Roxas rolled his eyes at the cliche. "Sad. I don't know."

"And is that when you decided to end your life?"

Roxas nodded. He was wasn't about to tell her about Riku. "Yes. A few days after that, I did it. Time's up." And he got up to leave.

The woman glanced at the clock and sighed. "That it is. Well, we made a lot of progress today, Roxas. I'll see you again tomorrow." And with that she called for an aide to escort Roxas back to his room.

Axel walked up to Namine's door and waited impatiently for her to answer it. He fidgeted, bouncing from one foot to the other, wringing his hands together until she opened the door.

"Axel! Hayner's coming over in a bit... what are you doing here?"

Truthfully, he didn't know what he was doing there. He told himself he was coming over to tell her about Roxas, but he had no idea why. He didn't owe her that information or any sort of explanation.

She frowned slightly at his lack of an answer and led him inside. "What's wrong?" She sat on the white couch and he sat on it as well, but on the opposite end.

"Roxas woke up yesterday."

"That's great! How is he?" She scooted towards him, and he moved to armchair across from her. She pouted.

"He's fine." Then he gestured between the two of them. "But we're not."

She leaned back and crossed her arms. "What do you mean?"

He rolled his eyes. This was why he came over; because even after he'd told her all that time ago that they were through, she just wouldn't let it die. She kept trying to weasel her way back into his life, and while admittedly he'd almost given in a few times while Roxas was in his coma, he just wasn't into her in the same way anymore, and she couldn't seem to grasp that concept.

"We're not together anymore, Namine."

Her eyes narrowed. "I know that. I'm not stupid." She brushed a strand of hair behind her ear and pouted. "But we were so -"

"I kissed Roxas."

Namine's jaw dropped, her eyes widened, and her hands fell to her side. She felt like she was drowning. "Excuse me?"

"...I kissed Roxas."

Her face warped into and expression of complete fury as she she rose to stand over him. "You. Did. What?" Her teeth were clenched and Axel shrugged.

"I kissed him."

She pulled her arm back and slapped him. His head shot to the side and he glared back at her, ignoring the pain and the knowledge of the red handprint that would appear on his cheek within the next ten seconds. He stared at the tears in her eyes and couldn't tell if they were sad or angry.

He got up, towering over her petite frame, and she stumbled backward. "Don't touch me."

"Namine, calm yourself." He stepped towards her again but she backed away.

"Get away from me!"

"Oh my god, Namine shut up!"

She froze, shocked - he had never yelled at her before.

"The entire time we were together, you were constantly with Hayner. You were all over him all the time doing who knows what -"

"Yeah but that's not the same thing!" She interrupted.

"You're right! It's not! You made out with a dude the entire time we're together, I kissed a guy once, after we've broken up."

"A guy, Axel! You kissed a guy!"

"So what?"

"So you're just like R- you're a fag!"

They stared at each other, chests heaving. Namine was staring at him with wide, disbelieving eyes while Axel glared daggers at her.

"Well there it is then. Bye Namine."

And he walked out, passing Hayner who was just walking up the driveway.

"Hey man, what's up?"

"Your girl's been cheating on you." He answered nonchalantly. "See you later."

"Wha-"

Axel smirked as Hayner took off into the house and he heard the yelling begin.

I'm sorry for the long wait, university is super time-consuming and stressful. When I did have free time, I spent it sleeping. So yeah, that's my pathetic excuse, my apologies.

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