Chapter 14: The Start Of… Something
"That's it! Game over! They think we're fucking insane. They're gonna call someone up to put us in an asylum." Axel rambled on as he pulled at his hair. Zexion walked beside him unamuzed.
"Maybe if someone had not so ridiculously claimed we left a pie in the oven. We wouldn't be in this mess." He replied. Axel glared back at him.
"I had to do something!"
"Something not stupid, yes. That was stupid. We were actually talking to them and you made us run off."
"What has you in such a shitty mood? At least we found them." Axel replied. Zexion's scowl only deepened in response.
"Because you twit we're in a foreign place we do not understand nor know how to live in. Because the 'nice' woman we are residing with will not stop throwing herself into my lap. Because Tryxel and Rexial do not know us… Because Tryxel doesn't even know who I am. How am I supposed to bring back her memories! I was lucky landing her once…Twice will be damnably impossible..." Zexion ranted.
Axel stopped walking looking down at his friend his eyes softening.
"Hey man…I know all right? I don't even know how we're gonna pull through this. We just gotta believe that our girls will remember. They're smart. It'll all work out. It has too." Axel's tone taking on a desperate edge.
"What if it doesn't?"
Axel turned to Zexion grabbing his face and turning it to face him, looking him in the eye.
"It will work. I promise." Axel assured him. Zexion nodded slowly.
"Right, of course."
Axel smiled and the two continued walking. "If Samantha tries anything else I still have my chakrams." He said and winked. Zexion chuckled.
"I wonder who they are." Tyler wondered. They were back home and the two decided to think about what happened earlier by playing video games. It was kind of their thing.
"I don't know, man. That red head has definitely been dream walking in my head though." Ariel replied as she threw a grenade.
"And you actually talked to him! Since when do you even know how to respond to normal human conversation?" Tyler joked. Ariel swatted at her best friend.
"I totally know how to talk to people. Sometimes…sorta…maybe."
"Exactly. I feel like I know him. Zexion, it's so familiar." Tyler mused.
"Well that's almost normal. Least you don't have a dream walker. I might need to break out the salt."
Tyler rolled her eyes. "God not that again. Your mom was so pissed the last time you put salt everywhere."
"And we're alive as evidence it worked!" said Ariel, "I wonder if they have phones. I bet they don't. How are we supposed to find them?"
"No clue." Tyler's phone began ringing. "It's my aunt." She answered the phone and hung it up almost as quick.
"Great, her and her friend are going out. So she wants me to go house sit because her friend has some people over." Tyler complained.
"It's funny that you think you're going anywhere alone." Ariel said as she gathered up some of her stuff. Tyler laughed.
Nothing would ever separate them.
"So a friend and I are going out. She's having her niece come over and make sure you two don't wreck the place." Samantha told Axel and Zexion. Axel rolled his eyes.
"No way ma'am!" He said while saluting her.
"Oh here they are! See you boys!" She left and winked at Zexion.
As the door was closing it opened to reveal Tyler and Ariel.
"You two!" Ariel pointed.
"You two!" Axel mimicked. Ariel glared and turned to Tyler.
"How does Samantha come by these weird people?" She whispered. Tyler shrugged. T
he four of them then stood in awkward silence for a couple minutes. Zexion elbowed Axel to do something.
"Right! Well how about we watch a movie?" Axel said while scratching the back of his head nervously.
They then walked into the living room. Tyler sat down and Zexion immediately sat down next to her. Ariel went to complain but Axel was suddenly in her way.
"So what kind of movies do you like? Seems like Samantha has them all." Axel pointed to the movie collection. Ariel went to look and turned to Tyler.
"She has-"
"I'm not watching Lord of the Rings or Star Wars." Tyler cut her off. Ariel pouted and continued looking. Axel and Zexion exchanged a look. Nothing between them has changed at all.
"Batman? Pirates? Underworld?" Ariel called out.
"Something you haven't seen at least five times."
"Blah! Fine. We'll watch Chronicle. You like that one."
Axel sat down next to Zexion while Ariel put the first movie in. She turned the lights off and sat next to Axel. The couch wasn't so large so it wasn't very spacey. It was…cozy.
For the whole beginning of the movie they all sat rim rod straight but then Ariel's back started to hurt and she relaxed, so Tyler did also. This in turn made the boys feel calm.
When the movie was halfway through Tyler and Axel were both yelling at the screen. Ariel was laughing at them and Zexion was having a hard time holding back a smirk. Soon the movie was over at around midnight and Axel was complaining about the end to Tyler.
"It's horrible I know." She was telling him. Ariel had gotten up to pick another movie and Zexion was taking a bathroom break. Ariel barked out a laugh and held up a movie.
"Megashark versus Giant Octopus!" she cackled.
Tyler groaned. "Not another shitty Sci-Fi movie."
"Not shitty! Great! Where's the shorty? We're getting this party started." Ariel declared.
Zexion walked into the room and she cheered. They returned to their normal seats as the movie started.
"I don't understand. It's impossible for any animal to be as large as an airplane hanger." Zexion said when the shark began attacked a ship.
"Don't question it. Ariel can have a pretty shitty taste in movies when she wants to." Tyler mumbled. He chuckled and Tyler smiled at him.
Ariel was too into the movie to hear them. Axel was watching her smiling. That was his girl.
The movie was over and Tyler and Zexion had fallen asleep leaning on each other, at some point they had begun holding hands.
"Holy Hell if that isn't the cutest thing ever." Ariel said while snapping a picture. "And you sir deserve an award. No one ever finishes watching my Sci-Fi movies with me."
"Not a problem. I actually kind of liked them, you know for the laughs." He replied. Ariel beamed at him and he had to resist the urge to kiss her. Instead he yawned and stretched.
"Me too, man. I think it's time for lights out. Samantha won't be back tonight."
Zexion and Tyler had basically taken over the couch and there was only a chair left in the room.
"You take the chair I'll sleep on the floor." Axel said.
"Are you sure?" Ariel asked. He nodded and went to get some blankets. When he came back Ariel was sprawled sideways on the chair and pointing at the floor in front of her shyly.
Axel grinned and after covering Zexion and Tyler up, handed her a blanket and lay on the floor by Ariel.
"Goodnight, sweet dreams." He told her.
"You too, Axel." She replied. They were fast asleep moments later.
Samantha opened the door to her house quietly.
It was still early in the morning and she didn't want to wake anyone. She walked into the living room and glared at what she saw.
Zexion was curled up with Tyler on the couch, the girl's head laying on his chest.
Jealousy was a bitch.