OH JESUS! 3 My sweets, your wait is up! Yay updates! *happy dance* I had to take a few months to get into college apps, get my grades up, etc... but now that holidays are over and all that crud is sorted, I bring you new chapters *u*! R&R for leftover stocking stuffers!

Axel strode up the stairs between the bleachers with a heavy swing in his step, putting forth his best effort to make his hips sway. That's right; he had hips, and he damn well knew how to use them. One fish two fish, left hip right hip… well, you know. Upon reaching the summit of his climb, Axel took a brief peak over his shoulder to make sure he wasn't being watched, and then took off running to catch up with Sora and Riku, who'd left him and his hips in the dust with zero remorse.

"Hey guys, slow down!" Axel wheezed, drawing a reaction from neither of his intended targets. Pausing to catch his breath, he hollered "Even if a teacher does see us, its not like they'd know we're here for Demyx!"

If you asked Axel, he'd tell you that walking fast is pointless. You always ended in the same place, with maybe seconds to spare on a good day. What was he supposed to do with a few extra seconds that could beat sparing his lungs and legs from unnecessary distress?

In spite of his views, the boy practiced the cursed art of speed-walking until he was on par with his companions. This put Riku between Axel and Sora, and he took advantage of his view by glancing sideways at his flushed friend. "Visiting him on his second day of work is bad enough. We don't need to go around causing other people trouble too to make it worse." Axel grinned childishly and tried to mumble a stupid excuse, but Riku simply scoffed and continued relentlessly, his voice straining as its pitch gradually drew itself into higher octives, "And what the hell did you say to that girl from earlier? Larxene I understand, but have you even met the other one?"

The redhead's lips twisted irresistibly. Pointing a finger and chanting a classic 'I know something you don't know!' was what he really wanted to do; but he restrained himself. Sort of.

"Oh, her," he imagined himself beginning, mock indifference seeping from every word, "She was a palpably innocent soul who had virgin written all over her. I could practically smell the delicious, delicious gullibility oozing from her pores. I plan to corrupt her Riku. Don't even try to stop me!"

Aloud, he replied nonchalantly, "I guess you could say we've met." So much for my ballsy and reckless image. If ever there was a time to hold his tongue, it was when Riku would be listening. Less was more with that guy. It gave him less ammunition to screw up your ass and six ways to hell.

Sora peered curiously past Riku towards Axel as he asked "Really? When did you meet? What's her name?"

Axel laughed, "I have no fucking idea. I drove by her on the way to school today. She was running late."

Riku frowned. Sora frowned. Sora verbalized what they were both thinking, "Then you don't know her, Ax. If you'd met you would at least know her name."

A groan emitted itself from Riku, as if he'd predicted Axel's coming retort and had simply chosen to skip forward to the part where he got to be annoyed. Pinching the bridge of his nose he moaned, "Oh come on, Axel, not another one! School just started and you can't even wait a week into senior year to get laid, can you?"

Axel sighed and rested a hand on his silver-haired bud's shoulder. Using his other arm to gesture wildly, he abruptly fell onto the other boy, trusting to be caught, as he cried, "Oh, how I do love to spoil innocence! It's the best of fun," he looked at Riku with eyes that sparkled with mischief, "and this one practically radiates 'never been kissed'." Before Riku could whap him on the head, the slightly taller boy was spinning away and cheering, "It's the best way to challenge a real man! An ebullient way to kick off my ruling year of high school!"

As the trio rounded a corner, Sora inched closer to Riku and whispered, "What does ebullient mean?"

Riku grimaced, still watching Axel dance like a fruit, "I'm not even sure he knows what it means."

Sora silently Oh'd with his lips. Before the thought could sink in enough to confuse him, he grinned and chirped happily, "Well, if you ask me, she looked pretty nice. And being friends with Larxene must mean she's interesting. You should try dating her; as a change of pace, you know?"

Axel stopped whirling through the courtyard they were crossing and looked at Sora blankly. Slowly, he wrinkled his nose as if words could smell funny. "Why the hell would I do that?" he asked, rhetorically.

There was a brief moment of awkward hesitation before Riku piped up, "What about Larxene?"

Axel shifted his gaze to the dandelion that had managed to pry its way free from the cracked cement beneath him. Riku continued, "We haven't seen her in a long time, man. I think you should use this opportunity to be friends again, like it used to be. I know Sora misses her."

Sora pointed at the older boy, as if accusing him of killing the maid with the candlestick in the dining room, and yelled "Riku, you do too!"

Riku gave an affirmative nod, "Yeah. I do." The two boys looked to Axel.

The redhead kicked a pebble and mumbled quietly, "Me too…". he didn't say anything else for a long time. The last time he'd talked to Larxene had talked was right after she'd dumped him. They'd been best friends for so long, but a few months of dating and one non-mutual breakup had seemed to throw all of that out the window. It was probably his fault, he having been the one who'd gone out of his way to sabotage her future dates and whatnot; that is, until she told him to get the fuck out of her life, and mind his own damn business, shortly followed by her transfer to the academy. Until today, he'd done exactly as she asked. Well, except for that party sophomore year. That was a night he'd REALLY been trying to forget.

But it was behind them now, right? He didn't have any romantic feelings for her, not anymore, and she'd apparently forgiven him. Probably.

Riku and Sora simply watched him. They'd been there to watch it happen. They'd watched Axel get emotionally attached for the first, and so far only, time in his life, and then blow it to pieces with his own to hands. He'd been petty and needy and controlling, and eventually it all drove her away. They didn't really have much sympathy for him. Not anymore. Two and a half years was plenty long enough to get past his mourning period. Especially when what hurt him so bad had happened in junior high and he'd made no effort since to fix it.

"Maybe we could spend some time with her too," he finally settled on. Now that he thought about it, Axel wouldn't feel particularly comfortable screwing her friend rabid without at least trying to patch things over.

As if reading the boy's mind, Riku commented dryly, "Axel, I don't think Larxene is going to be happy when you have a one-night-stand with her friend. The friend whose name you don't even know, dare I remind your stupid ass." Indeed. Axel pursed his lips in frustrated protest. It was obvious to the redhead that, as one of his closest and wisest friends, Riku was trying his very hardest to poke holes in Axel's idiotic desire for this particular girl because, though he'd never admit it, walking away from this one would probably be in his best interest. Too bad his libido had programmed him to stop at nothing until he found a way around very sizeable dilemmas such as the one at hand.

However, Riku wasn't simply looking out for him in this situation. Axel hadn't been the only one to feel the ridiculous amounts of virgin entities wafting from the poor girl; and she was completely ignorant to the proven fact that Axel would very readily snatch her up as soon as she let her guard down. Riku, being a gentleman, wasn't going to let that happen without trying to stop it. AND he already had a plan; Axel, unfortunately for himself, could not say as much.

Riku smirked, allowing Sora, aka: his plan, to do the talking for him, "Perfect! Axel gets a second chance at having a real girlfriend, and everyone gets to hang out with Larxene again! Yay!" Axel gritted his teeth, knowing that arguing with Sora was like arguing with a fish. You can't possibly win because it will never consciously understand the words coming out of your mouth.

Riku took the opportunity to get the three of them moving again. Class would be over any minute, and they needed to get into the music room before that happened. As he passed the lean redhead, he locked eyes with him seriously and said, "Actually Axel, Sora's right. Some real dating would be good for you. It is senior year. You've already proven that you can get into just about anyone's pants you so choose; why not try something that makes you look like a bit less of a jackass?" And for once, Axel was silent. He followed the other two in quiet defeat as Sora linked arms with Riku and praised his good work for telling Axel to do the right thing. Riku smiled back happily, nodding when appropriate.

The best part? He'd meant every word of what he said. Riku could honestly say he'd seen Axel go through more girls in a week then he'd had in his short lifetime; not that he'd been with many, seeing as he'd been openly gay since he was 14 and madly in love with Sora since kindergarten. Officially only since last year, when he'd finally grown a pair and asked the boy out, but don't mind the details. Point being, Axel was good, and you know the saying. The higher you stand the farther you fall and all that jazz. Riku was convinced that Axel needed to slow down while he still could, and not many chances came around where he'd be able to push the redhead's buttons like he could now.

Speaking of which, he decided to abuse the circumstances and glance teasingly over his shoulder, "Who knows, you may even end up like Sora and me?" at the mention of his name, Sora did the unfortunate thing of hugging Riku while he was trying to walk. They tripped and fell, Sora laughed on the ground while Riku told him to be more careful. Axel smiled sadly, shaking his head. What sort of mental disease had his friend taken on to even joke that Axel liked guys? Since birth, he'd been a smooth-talking machine of girl seeking awesome. That wasn't about to change.

On the other hand, he considered the other part of what Riku had said. Going steady? That was the LAST thing he'd planned for his senior year. Who wants to get serious right before collage? Talk about boner killer. Still though, there was that tiny voice in the back of his head, the one that used to be shoulder-angel Axel but had been beaten down so many times over the past few years that it was now very tiny; it pleaded him to give someone, anyone, a chance. 'If you don't do this for yourself, you'll get yourself hurt someday. Or get STD's. Both of which are BAD', it whispered to him. It didn't make his breath hitch, or have him wanting Jack alive to see Rose's babies after the ship went under, but the minimum he could comprehend was genital warts and how he did not want to get them. Herpes were by far a bigger boner-killer than monogamy and mushy graduation breakups. Heh, priorities. It was amusing to find that even he still had some.

"Okay," he said, having to turn around so the boys would know he was talking to them.

They scrambled to get on their feet, and Riku blinked slowly, "What did you say?"

Axel smiled, pleasant and condescending. "I'm going to make that girl my girlfriend."

Riku felt his jaw drop, but it wasn't until he felt the drool that he made any effort to shut it. "T-That's great! I mean really, Axel; I didn't honestly think you'd go for that bid, even if it was my general plan, but hey! I'm not complaining!" he seemed to pause for a second as something occurred to him. "But Axel, how can you be so sure that you can make her your girlfriend? You still don't even know her name."

Axel let a Cheshire grin stretch across his face. "Watch and learn," He replied smoothly, turning the handle and opening the door to the music room, which Riku, at that moment, noticed they'd arrived in front of.

xxxxx

Demyx had been alphabetizing sheet music when Sora, Riku and Axel walked into the room. Once he saw his friends, his sheet music was abandoned and he walked up to them, beaming with a smile.

"Guys! Its so great to see you!" he said, greeting them with familiar slaps on the back and man-hugs. Because he had been so busy prepping for school, signing contracts, and getting briefed on his job, he hadn't seen them all summer.

"Hey Demyx, you too!" said Axel as they stepped back from some very masculine hugging.

"So, what are you guys doing here? Did you cut class or something?"

"Well, we figured since you were dropping out altogether, skipping one class period to visit you was nothing to sweat," answered Riku. The four of them had all gone to the same high school for three years, but Demyx had never been much of an intellect. He had long ago decided he was destined to make music, so he dropped out of school for lucky a job offer from the academy, where they had desperately needed a new music teacher. The last one had died of old age on short notice.

"Awe, for me? Shucks guys, you'll make me blush," he teased, drawing a small laugh from Sora and Riku while Axel simply smiled. "Besides, I got my GED. Wanna see it?" Before they'd answered, he was trying to unfold a piece of paper he'd pulled from his wallet.

Riku's palm was formally introduced to his face. Axel raised a hand, almost as if he'd try to stop the blonde, before mumbling, "Umm, I don't think you should keep that in your wallet, Dem… really…"

Demyx rolled his eyes, "Hey, if there's a fire, I'll have it on me. When the other teachers have no credentials 'cuz they weren't smart, like me, they'll wish they'd kept their diplomas in their wallets too!"

Riku almost looked like he'd cry from frustration. Was their friend really this much of a dumbass?

Demyx carefully folded the paper and stowed it back where he'd drawn it from. Sora nodded approvingly. Axel comforted Riku, patting him on the back and blaming everything on wax fumes from polishing the Sitar too much.

"So, what can I do for ya, boys? Pop a squat, there's a microwave in the back, and popcorn in the third drawer down on my desk, but the girls will be coming soon, so try not to make too much of a mess.

Axel cleared his throat,"Well, there's one other thing we're here for, aside from saying que pasa to our favorite compadre." Riku to rolled his eyes, but was ignored as Axel continued, Demyx raised a curious eyebrow in response. The redhead grinned, "There's a junior that just transferred here that I have my eyes on. All transfers get this class, right?" he asked hopefully. Sora sighed, and Riku wandered off to find a wall to bang his head against.

Demyx narrowed his eyes, "Axel, I'm a teacher now. That mean's I'm sort of responsible if you come into my class and impregnate my students." Axel opened his mouth to argue, but Demyx cut him off, "Don't lie, I know you well enough to know what you want from her," the sandy-blonde musician sighed. He should have known that Axel wouldn't come here unless it involved girls in some way. He didn't want to start the school year turning in his friend, as tight as they were, but he wasn't about to get fired for him either.

"Demyx, this time is different," Sora announced, very seriously. Demyx and Axel both turned to look at him with wide eyes, surprised to hear him standing up for Axel's tail chasing. Sora looked up with his big blues, and began to explain as well as he could, "You see, the girl Axel's interested in is friends with Larxene, so in order for us all to be friends again Riku and I convinced Axel to actually date this one." Demyx looked at him dumbly, waiting for the punch line. Sora rolled his eyes, "he's going to make her his girlfriend! Demyx, isn't that awesome?"

After taking a moment to let it sink it, Demyx felt his eyes bug out in shock. Axel? Go steady? He couldn't believe that in a million years! But as he looked from face to face among the guys in front of him, Riku having returned from his masochistic moment to support the claim, none of them seemed to be joking.

"Wow," was all he could come up with. Sora and Riku grinned. He looked to Axel, who simply shrugged, and back to the other two boys, who were still grinning encouragingly. He gave them a skeptical look and asked carefully, "You two convinced him?"

Riku nodded, "he practically made the decision himself."

Axel had wandered off to look around the room as girls began to drift in. The class wasn't large, but the students who came in seemed pretty socially awkward and mostly kept to themselves.

Riku, Sora and Demyx kept talking, oblivious to Axel's disappearance, as he walked into the storage room and decided to wait there for his target.

"So, which one is it? Who's the lucky girl that won the Axel-lotto?" asked Demyx, bursting with excitement. Sora and Riku exchanged a look that made Demyx' smile falter. Chuckling lightly, he slapped Sora on the back and gripped Riku's shoulder friendlily, "Come on, you guys, you can tell me! Axel and I are as close as buds can get, even if I am a teacher! That kind of bro-hood is supposed to give me name-knowing rights."

"It's not that," Riku mumbled quietly. Demyx cocked his head in an oddly bird-like manner, silently pushing him to explain. Riku answered, "the problem is that we don't know her name. Hell, even Axel doesn't!"

Demyx processed the information for a moment before straitening up and rubbing his chin as if he had some sort of invisible facial hair. "Hmmm… interesting, very interesting." He stopped and looked up as if a light bulb went off over his head, "but you must have seen her by now, what does she look like?"

Sora took no time at all to immerse them in what he considered an ideal description, using his hands to help demonstrate the imagery. "Well, she's pretty short; I'd say she's even a tad shorter than me, and I'm a midget! Axel tells me so all the time," Demyx frowned and looked the question at Riku, who simply sighed and said, "Axel told him he has a 76% greater chance of getting into a circus if he just admits to being a midget. I gave up on that argument long ago." Sora frowned at the interruption, but Demyx seemed satisfied enough, and returned his attention to the small brunet. Sora took a deep breath before finishing, "She has blond hair, a little past her shoulders, and blue eyes. Oh! And she was wearing sweats and a t-shirt today."

Demyx grabbed the grade book on the music stand next to him and hit himself in the face with it. From behind its cover, he sighed, mildly exasperated, "Sora… You just described 30% of the girls in this school. I'm not even going to try on the part with the gym clothes. Or the uniform." Sora, seemed dumbfounded at the response, and looked to Riku for assistance.

"Let me try," said the silver-haired boy. Sora grinned appreciatively, and Demyx forced himself to risk lowering the grade book low enough to nod. "Like Sora said," Riku began, "she was small and blonde, with blue eyes. She seemed sharp, but only intelligent in an average upper-middleclass teenager intelligence kind of way. She was cute, not hot, and one of her traits that Axel found most endearing was that she practically screamed virgin. You know what I mean." Demyx had been nodding and giving Riku his undivided attention for the first half of the description, but now looked away as he thought.

Ding. Demyx brightened up like a Christmas tree on December 25th, followed by a heavy slump into what appeared to be frantic panic, grabbing at his fohawk-esque-mullet for dear life.

"Umm, Demyx? What's wrong? Do you know her?" Sora asked, tentatively.

Demyx nodded, "Yeah, and she's in this class".

"Great!" Sora cheered.

"Demyx, what's wrong with her?" pressed Riku.

The mullet-donning sitarist turned to look up at his friends with desperate eyes to notice that some of the students were staring at him suspiciously, so he promptly righted himself and smoothed down his button-up shirt. Looking back to the both of them, he seemed to be speaking directly to Riku as he shook his head and replied, "I don't know, man. She's a nice girl and all, but she confuses me," He frowned and looked up, as if trying to find words to describe his feelings on the matter, "there's something about her that's different from the rest of the girls. I can't describe it, but its like my gut is trying to tell me something."

Riku gave Demyx a confused look. The girl had seemed fine to him, if a bit quiet. "I thought she was all right, at least for someone who sits mute and drenched on a field when Axel tries flirt; but Larxene's friends with her so she can't be too crazy," he reassured.

Demyx nodded. The three of them stood in awkward silence for a few seconds until the door was shoved open rather loudly. Sora, Riku, and Demyx looked up; but Demyx' thoughts and confusion were weighing on him, so he couldn't bring himself to smile when in walked Roxas, who apparently Axel was going to make his girlfriend.

xxx

The small boy sighed as he trudged on in the heat. Between the temperature lack of sleep due to alarm clocks and talking with Larxene until it was late, all he wanted to do was sleep in music class, which shouldn't have been very difficult to manage. The pretty Redhead with hips could wait; re-charging his physique could not.

No, he told himself firmly, shaking his head, Larxene asked me to skip seventh with her and I said no because I want to know what will happen. Damn it all if my curiosity isn't satisfied.

He stopped walking and stared at the door to the music room. Suddenly he wasn't sure he wanted to enter it if it would mean more complications. But that stupid, arrogant, flamboyant redhead kept popping up in his head like an add on google. Roxas gritted his teeth, "Damn you, Axel".

Inside the music room there was air conditioning, which immediately lessened Roxas' temper with world. He even smiled at Sora and Riku as they waved at him, but this was all Demyx met him with:

STARE.

Roxas faltered a bit. That was pretty odd behavior coming from the guy who had tackled him in a hug as welcome on her first day, and then immediately become flustered, begging 'her' not to press charges for sexual harassment.

In the back of the room there was a set of double doors that led to the instrument storage room. Roxas headed towards them to put his bag in a locker for the period. He looked over his shoulder, just in case, but no; Axel wasn't with the rest of the guys. Roxas frowned and grumbled to himself over the disappointment this redhead had caused him. So much for satisfying curiosity.

Roxas continued to murmur his confusion and annoyance to himself as he trudged all the way to the back of the room, through those heavy doors, and to the back of the storage room where he placed his bag in an empty locker.

"You're finally here!" Roxas spun around, hands up in case he had to fight back, and froze when he saw whose voice had surprised him. Axel threw himself onto Roxas when he opened his mouth to yell for help, eyes wide with confusion, placing a hand over the smaller boy's mouth in the process. They were now backed into a corner.

Axel looked into the bright sky-blue eyes that stared back at him. He looked for something, anything that would tell him how to do this. If he had learned anything from his past years in high school, it was that simply observing could discover 90% of what a girl will and won't do for you.

Roxas, unaware of Axel's mental assessment, had had enough of standing in a corner with a stranger holding their hand over his mouth. The short-term panic was fading as he realized he wasn't going to be raped or kidnapped, and he was pissed.

It was as if a switch was flipped as Roxas' gaze went from confused and unfocused to sharp and threatening. If he was correct, they had now been standing in that same stupid position for over a minute.

Axel's eyes widened a bit at the dangerous look from the small girl he'd captured. Interesting, he decided. He could feel her jaw shifting under his palm, trying to find a place to bite him, but he was smarter than letting her do that to him.

Axel suddenly released his grip on the blonde, causing Roxas to stagger, and the taller redhead was grinning ludicrously.

Roxas looked up into perfect green eyes that were glimmering in a way he wasn't sure he wanted them to. He met them with a look that plainly said, 'I won't hesitate to maim you if you touch me again'.

The man in question raised his hands in a, 'see? Harmless!' sort of fashion. "Hey, I'm sorry," he rushed out, "I didn't mean to scare you or anything." Scared? Roxas? This delusional redhead thought he had scared Roxas? Well surely being grabbed, hand-gagged, and shoved into a corner is startling; but he wasn't scared. He was livid.

Axel chuckled as Roxas' face grew redder and darker with sheer irritation, quickly on its way to dropping into the realms of anger. What had been a subject of interest not too long ago was now headed straight for getting its ass kicked.

"Come on, I just wanted to introduce myself properly," Axel stuck out his hand, still giving off a radiant smile that advertised his simultaneous knowledge of everything and nothing, "though you've probably got it memorized by now, my name's Axel. What I'd like to know is who you are?"

Roxas looked at his feet for a moment. He could almost feel the steam rising from his head. He had just been practically manhandled, and was now supposed to lightly shake it off as a greeting? Hell no. Being short meant two things; that you have to ask for help to reach the top shelves, and that you're obligated to establish yourself as dominant or else people walk all over you. So that left Roxas with two options: shake the hand like Namine would and then go hide behind Larxene, or put the ginger in his place. Guess which he picked?

When he looked up, Axel was still standing there with his hand out, looking like an open invitation for dinner and a movie. Roxas met the taller boy's eyes, and the know-it-all smile faltered. Not so tough now, was he?

Roxas swaggered forward and pivoted his foot, throwing his arm forward and smashing his knuckles into Axel's jaw as if he would punch through it. Axel spun from the momentum, and landed face down on the tile floor with a loud slap. He was going to hurt later, but Roxas wasn't quite finished.

The small blonde took two steps forward and knelt down next to Axel, who was still lying motionlessly in shock from being hit by a girl. Roxas saw the perplexed look blatantly in pretty green eyes as he leaned in and whispered, "Don't underestimate me. I hate it when guys like you do that. Keep in mind that I'm FAR out of your league. And if you touch me again, I'll send you to the hospital. Consider this your warning shot."

Dropping the boy like a dirty sock, Roxas stood to walk away, leaving the rattled flirt behind like trash waiting to be picked up. Taking a step forward he smirked, feeling a bit of a power rush from having handled the situation so smoothly. But then, he heard a noise from behind him, and a hand brushed his ankle.

The blonde turned and looked down at Axel, still on the floor, lip split and already starting to swell. Axel's eyes were wide in awe as he gasped, "Tell me your name."

Roxas blinked, before answering simply, "Namine."

He didn't look back this time when he turned to leave. Without so much as a flitting glance, Roxas collected his bag and left the music room leaving an utterly confused teacher, Sora, Riku, and the rest of the class behind him. Yuna was just walking in, and upon seeing Riku and Sora her eyes widened. She turned to ask Roxas something, but he simply shook his head, blonde hair waving behind him, and walked out of the classroom. He hadn't been out of line; Axel had threatened him, and he had put him in check. Roxas smiled at himself as he walked towards the dormitory. Hopefully that dumbass ginger would think twice before cornering him again. As for his curiosity? Write it down as satisfied.

xxx

They'd all been equally confused at first. Just what did Axel say that was so awful it would drive the petite girl out of the classroom? Yuna marched up to Riku, Sora and Demyx before waving her hands and huffing, "Just what did you do this time? First Axel had to fuck with Larxene, now you guys are messing with Namine? Men! You're all scum!"

Sora looked like a kicked puppy. Demyx looked very pointedly at his grade book, which was upside down to boot, and Riku looked between the two before growling, "You're out of line, Yuna. We just came to see Demyx. Axel was the one who-" and then they heard it. A moan, low and painful, coming from the storage closet.

The girls in the classroom whispered furiously, trying to push someone to go see what was making the pitiable noises. Riku took a step forward, purposefully moving towards the room in the back, when Axel nearly fell through the doors, blood smeared over his face.

"Axel!" cried Sora and Riku collectively, both rushing to their friend's aide. Yuna stood, silently frozen, with her jaw hanging freely in astonishment. Demyx was the only one laughing. Actually, he was crying, from laughing so hard, but he was bent over so far that no one could tell, not that they were looking at him anyway.

Axel had managed to get himself upright again by the time Riku and Sora got across the room. The taller of the two tried to wrap an arm under Axel and help him walk, but the redhead shook it off, having eyes only for the doors where Namine had left and limping a bit as he walked back to the front of the room. Everyone watched him do so.

Demyx had finally stopped laughing, and stood up to slap Axel on the shoulder, "Good one, Axe. I never thought I'd see you get decked by a target. Especially not one shorter than Sora!" Yuna was staring at him wondrously, as if he'd been cursed or touched by an angel or something. Riku and Sora were watching him from behind, waiting for him to say something.

Suddenly, Axel switched the full weight of his gaze onto Demyx, who was trying his hardest not to start laughing again. After allowing himself a moment to cough and compose himself, Demyx asked carefully, "What are you thinking Axel?"

The redhead blinked, face blank with shocked astonishment as he answered simply, "I just found the girl I'm going to marry."

oooooooh I'm excited! I don't thin its just me here, but I personally think the best fics are the ones that have the author spazzing just as much as the reader because they wrote something great, or clever. Like how I was nearly doing flips when I thought of the name "Cross My Heart" because it was so deliciously punny and awesome... Just me? Haha... right... R&R plz! I love you AAAALLLLL!