Hi guys! Jasmine and Cami here! We are so sorry this update took forever to get out - both of us have been swamped with schoolwork but hopefully the updates will come a lot quicker now that the summer is rapidly approaching! Thanks so much to all those who are reading and reviewing - you guys are awesome! We're so glad you love our craziness!

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Larxene jumped as she heard Axel's bedroom door slam, and sat up on the couch, "Axel?"

The redhead ignored her, crossing to the fridge and opening that, pulling out the (rather expansive) collection of alcohol that they kept on the top shelf and dropping it all on the counter.

Larxene raised an eyebrow, "Don't you have work in the morning?"

Axel turned to her, "Do I look like I care?"

"Not really." she shrugged, "What's the occasion?"

Axel just tossed her a beer and headed down the hall to knock on Zexion and Cloud's doors.

"I think Cloud might still be out." Larxene said, swinging herself off the couch and leaning on the back of it.

"Axel, what the hell?" Zexion yelled as he was forcibly dragged out of his room. "I was reading!"

Cloud poked his head out of his room. "What's going on?"

"I'm getting drunk." Axel answered, "Larxene never passes up an opportunity to act like a moron, and I'm not going to start drinking without offering some to you two."

Larxene popped open her can, a knowing look in her eyes, "Figured out he's not your boyfriend?"

Axel turned to glare, "Shut up."

She laughed, "I could've told you that three hours ago and saved you the crash."

Cloud shrugged and left his room, smart enough to close the door behind him to ward off any drunken stumblings later, before heading to grab a beer off the counter and returning to the living room to stand next to Larxene. "So wait, you don't have a boyfriend?"

Zexion rolled his eyes. "Well, if you all insist on getting drunk, I guess I should stay sober to make sure you don't kill anyone or each other. And he thought he had a boyfriend before realizing that spending a few hours with someone does not automatically mean they are now in a romantic relationship with you."

"You all suck." Axel glared.

"Tonight we drink to our oh-so illustrious love lives." Larxene said, raising her can.

Cloud smirked and clinked his can to Larxene's before taking a large sip. Zexion rolled his eyes but went into the kitchen to grab a can of soda so he could join in the toast.

"You're all going to be in pain tomorrow." He muttered.

Cloud just laughed. "That's half the fun!"

"Besides," Larxene grinned, "With us drinking, there's no way you're getting any sleep tonight."

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"WHAT THE FUCK AXEL FIND THE GOD DAMN PHONE!"

"I'M TRYING, SHUT UP!"

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"Got it!" Axel said, flipping it open without thinking, before realizing it was NOT his phone, it was Zexion's. The younger boy must have left it in the living room after everyone else had passed out the night before.

He could just barely hear someone shouting Zexion's name from the phone and lifted it to his ear, "Hang on a sec." he muttered.

Axel groaned as the voice on the other line began to yell at him and rubbed his temple. Larxene snatched the phone from him and stomped down the hallway, throwing open Zexion's door, "Zex! Phone! Here!"

Zexion groaned and was just lifting his head from his pillow when something small and hard smacked him in the forehead as the door slammed. "Ow! Larxene, what the hell? Oh. Um. Hello? Zexion speaking."

He paused, listening to the frantic yelling. "Wait, wait. Slow down. What? What? Oh god, what time does the class start? WHAT? Shit, yeah, yeah. I'll be right there. You owe me." With that Zexion hung up and groaned before forcing himself up out of the bed. He dressed quickly, grabbed his old backpack stuffed with the things he'd need just for an emergency like this, and rushed out of his bedroom. "Gotta go, be back later, don't kill anyone!"

Larxene just groaned and buried her head in one of the couch cushions.

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"Hey, Dem." A black haired girl slung an arm over her blonde friend's shoulders and grinned at him, "I'm thinking of throwing a party this weekend. Wanna help?"

Demyx raised an eyebrow, "Don't your parents have that big, important meeting this weekend?"

"Yes they do." she smiled, "And thus they will do just about anything to get me to promise that I won't mess it up for them."

Demyx rolled his eyes. "You're taking advantage of your parents."

"They're used to it." Yuffie shrugged. "So?"

"Yeah, I guess." Demyx shrugged, "Sounds like fun."

She grinned, "Awesome. Now come on, we're gonna be late to Chem."

Zexion walked quickly down the halls. He did not run; that would be unprofessional. However, he was walking as quickly as possible without actually running in order to make it to the class he was supposed to be teaching in time. Why didn't Principal Marluxia call him earlier to give him more time? He thought angrily.

Letting out a small sigh of relief, Zexion entered the chemistry lab mere seconds before the bell rang. He placed his backpack down on the teacher's desk and cleared his throat, facing the mass of students who were taking their seats at their assigned lab tables.

"Good morning. Mr. Xaldin will not be in today; I will be covering this class for him instead. You may call me Zexion. Can anyone tell me what you are currently learning about?"

Yuffie ignored him, "There's no way you're a teacher."

"Yuffie!" Demyx hissed, "Shut up."

"He looks like he's ten!"

"I'm eighteen." Zexion said stiffly. Ignoring the murmurs and stares, he dug a bag of Cheetos out of his backpack and proceeded to calmly open to bag and take out one of the orange sticks. Going over to his demonstration table, he quickly pulled on the appropriate apron and goggles before starting the Bunsen burner while placing the Cheeto on a piece of cork board and pinning it there.

"Yuffie, was it? Thank you so much for volunteering. Today we will be learning about specific heat. Oh, and just so that we are all clear. I am the substitute teacher for today. I'd really hate to have to call Principal Marluxia down here to prove it and assign the entire class detention, but I will if I have to. I graduated from college - yes, college - last year. My IQ is three figures and larger than several of yours combined. Yuffie? We don't have all day. Kindly place your tongue back inside your mouth, put on your proper protective gear, and aid me in this demonstration." Zexion said, all with a completely serious, no-nonsense look on his face despite the fact he was wearing a lab apron and goggles which flattened his hair to his skull.

Yuffie glanced at Demyx before standing up and walking over to Zexion, muttering under her breath about stupid teachers and their stupid Cheetos.

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Yuffie let some of her anger go as soon as she realized that they were literally lighting Cheetos on fire for class that day. She didn't LIKE Zexion, but she didn't hate his guts anymore either.

"I don't get how your entire opinion of someone can change based on whether they let you light things on fire or not." Demyx rolled his eyes.

Yuffie waved one of her Cheetos in his face, and the blonde laughed, pushing back in his chair to get away from the artificial orange cheese.

Zexion nodded his head encouragingly at a lab group before making his way over to where Yuffie was waving Cheetos in the face of some blonde kid.

"I believe you are supposed to be determining the specific heat of each Cheeto instead of waving them in your lab partner's face." He said, frowning at the girl. He had a feeling she was one of those people he would just never get along with.

Yuffie raised an eyebrow, "We've got one burning." she said, "Until it's ashes, we can't really do anything else."

Demyx snatched the Cheeto out of her hand, kicking her under the table, "Sorry." he mumbled to the teacher, putting the Cheeto down and glaring at his friend, who rolled her eyes.

Zexion raised his eyebrow at the antics while thinking to himself that the boy in front of him had very vivid eyes. "What is your name? I am trying to learn all of the students' names as I don't know how long I will be teaching this class until Mr. Xaldin returns."

"Huh? Oh, I'm Demyx." he said, "I'll try and keep Yuffie out of trouble." he smiled.

Zexion allowed himself to briefly smile back at Demyx before he nodded and headed over to the next table of students who were in danger of lighting themselves on fire as well as their Cheetos.

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Riku stifled a sigh as he entered the Box Depot. Sora had convinced him that he should probably show up to work every once in a while if he didn't want another close call like the other day. He smiled at the person behind the register even though he had absolutely no idea who the hell it was as he quickly made his way into the Employees Only area in order to clock in. He punched his time card and was just pulling his apron with his name tag pinned to it on when the door opened behind him.

Axel walked in, rubbing his head and looking up to see who was already there, "Oh, hey Riku." he muttered, crossing over to clock in.

Riku blinked. Then he blinked again. Nope, Axel was still there, clocking in. Which meant that he had somehow beaten the redhead to work.

"You okay?" Riku asked, skeptical that this was even happening and he wasn't dreaming at this very moment. (Although, if he was dreaming, why he wasn't dreaming of his sexy Sora instead was beyond him.)

"Headache." Axel grumbled, "Need coffee. Don't want to be here."

"Ahh. Too much partying last night?" Riku asked, quickly crossing the back room to the coffee pot and starting up a fresh pot.

"If you consider drinking with my roommates partying, then yes." Axel said, leaning against the wall, "If I hadn't skipped out the other day when I was supposed to be firing you, I would've called out."

"Okay then. And hey, thanks for that, by the way. I owe you one." Riku said, handing the redhead a fresh cup of coffee as well as offering him a smile. Since he hardly ever came into work, he didn't really know Axel that well, but could tell he was basically a good guy.

"Thanks." Axel said, raising an eyebrow, "Is my not firing you prompting this, or are you typically not an asshole?"

"I like to think that I'm not an asshole, but I'd be lying if the whole not-firing-me-and-covering-for-my-ass thing didn't play a factor." Riku responded with a grin.

Axel chuckled, "Thanks, then." he said, raising the coffee cup and taking a sip before leaning his head back against the wall and sighing. "So," he said, eyeing his coworker as an idea began to formulate in his head, "How close are you with that Sora guy?"

Riku stood there for a moment just staring at Axel. "Well... he's my best friend." He answered carefully.

Axel raised an eyebrow, wondering if there was more to the question he asked, "So, you know his brother pretty well too, then?"

"Roxas? Yeah, I guess. I mean, I'm pretty much always at their house." Riku answered, wondering why Axel was asking in the first place.

Axel smiled, "Great. Then you can make up for the whole not-firing-you thing by helping ME get to know Roxas." he said with a smirk, "Sound okay?"

"As a friend or something more? 'Cause I don't know how well Sora'd take it if I started trying to set up his brother with my much-older coworker." Riku said, eyeing Axel.

"I'm not going to answer that question." Axel shrugged, "That way, if it ever comes up in conversation, you have no idea."

Riku tilted his head. "What makes you think Roxas would be interested in being more than friends with a guy?"

Axel's face fell, "Oh."

Riku chuckled. "You fell hard, didn't you." He murmured, before putting his hand on Axel's shoulder in a gesture of comfort. "Since you don't seem like a self-centered jerk who wants to only use Roxas, I'll take pity on you and let you know that the kid is at the very least bisexual. He checks out more guys' asses than I do, and I'm 100% gay."

Axel chuckled, "Well, that's something, I guess." he said, "So... is that a 'yes, Axel, I'll help you'?"

"What the hell; sure, I'll help you." Riku said. He stepped up into Axel's personal space, looking him square in the eye. "But if you hurt him in any way, I'll have to kill you." Riku stepped back and got his own cup of coffee. "Okay? How about you come back to his house after work with me? Meet you back here at the end of your shift? Awesome, see you later Axel!" Riku grinned and left the break room.

Axel allowed himself a smile before wincing and cursing as his head began to throb once more.

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Well, what'd you think? By the way, in case anyone is wondering, the experiment that Zexion teaches is an actual experiment that I (Jasmine) have done before - it is an experiment on finding the specific heat of something.

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