I woke up the next morning to feel warm arms wrapped tightly around me. I moved myself backwards to snuggle into the warmth of the body behind me. I heard slight laughter. I gently took his arm off of my waist to roll over to face him but his arm felt strangely furry. I wondered if he had put a jumper on during the night. I had left the window slightly open so it was pretty cold. When I turned around I was greeted by the face of a giant teddy bear. This shocked me so much that I scrambled out of bed. I stared at it for a second with a confused expression coming onto my face. I heard Axel burst into laughter. I looked at the door. He was stood in the door frame covering his eyes while he laughed. I'm guessing this was because he found it so funny he actually might cry. I was completely un amused. I stared at Axel noticing how he was still only in his boxers so it must have been recent. I stood with my arms folded waiting for an explanation of how he had managed to sneak a giant teddy bear into my bed. After a moment of holding his stomach from the pain of laughing too hard he wiped laughter tears from his eyes and walked over to me. He extended his arms as if to gesture he wanted a hug to apologise. I turned my head away from him.
"Awwhh, I'm sorry Rox…But…You…You shoulda seen your face" He smiled trying to hold back his laughter once more in between words.
"Well you should of recorded it. Then maybe I would of seen my face…" I said in an annoyed tone.
"Sorry…I'll remember that next time" He smiled.
He turned his attention to the teddy bear. I regretted giving him ideas because I knew one day they would be followed through. He was distracted so I went to push him on the bed. As I pushed him I felt a searing pain rush through my right hand. He fell on the bed and laughed as I felt the pain rush through.
"You're gonna get it now!" He smiled. He forced himself off the bed and came towards me with an evil smile. I lifted up my left hand.
"No, Axe! Please just wait a sec!" I pleaded. His expression changed. He was genuinely worried about my suddenly serious attitude.
"What's wrong Rox?" He asked.
"It's nothing" I replied with a small smile. The pain was starting to fade slightly.
"Then why did you use your left hand when your right handed?" He asked. I was amazed at how observant he actually was. He looked down at my right hand.
"Holy Shit Rox! What did you do?!" He asked. He went to reach for it but I called out.
"NO! DON'T TOUCH IT!" I screamed. He seemed shocked at my concerned behaviour.
"Just let me look at it, Rox…" He ordered softly. I lifted up my hand and it hurt almost as much as when I had pushed Axel on the bed.
It was almost black. All of my knuckles were black and my fingers were purple. My wrist had gone a diluted yellow and green which also showed signs of bruising.
"Damn, Rox! We're going to have to get you to a hospital…" He said. I shook my head in denial.
"No it's fine!" I shouted.
"Rox, look at it! If I didn't know any better I'd say it was about to drop off!" He said gesturing to my hand.
I winced at the pain. I looked at it for myself and came to the realisation that it really was as bad as Axel was making out.
"Look, wait here okay? I'm going to walk to my friend's house and ask to borrow his car okay? I'll be 20 minutes maximum but we need to sort this out…" He informed me. I simply nodded.
He went into his own room and came back out 5 minutes later looking as great as ever. He was fully dressed with his hair spiked as usual and he smelt great. He gave me a quick hug where the fumes from his deodorant gently entered my nose.
"I'll be back soon okay?" He smiled and kissed my forehead as I nodded.
He walked away and a few moments passed before I heard the door unlock and heard Axel shut it behind him. I thought about what to do and realised I still wasn't dressed. I used my left hand to open the drawers to get my clothes out. I pulled out my black skinny jeans and my red baseball top. It has a white torso and red short sleeves. Getting dressed proved to be a task. I found that I could only really get my left side of my body dressed. The pain from my wrist was far too much to even attempt getting my clothes on. It was a depressing fact that I now had to deal with for the next 20 minutes. I stared at my bed realising it was still unmade. I walked over to it and using my left hand I shoved the teddy bear off of the bed. I grabbed the corner of the quilt which was folded into the middle of the bed and placed it back into the left corner of the bed. I walked over to the teddy bear and placed it between the pillows. The bed looked so comfy that I decided to lay on it. I sat with my left hand behind my head and my right arm laying straight beside me. I went into a deep thought.
'What if Seifer does tell people at school me and Axel are together? Would it be the end of us? Would Axel still like me? Would he pretend it's a rumour?' I wondered.
There were so many question being unanswered for me and honestly I wasn't so sure I actually wanted them to be answered. The worst part was that I actually knew that I was going to find out at school. However, there was the advantage that summer break was just around the corner. Just then a knock at the door startled me. I didn't want to answer it because of how I looked in my half dressed state. Also I came to the realisation that it couldn't be Axel because surely Axel would of just let himself in? This left me wondering who it was and why they were here. The knock came again startling me even more.
'Fuck! Now I have to answer!' I rushed down the stairs trying not to move my arm too much.
When I got down the stairs I opened the door. There was no one. I stood there for a few moments as fear rushed through me. I peered side to side to make sure there was no one. There wasn't I took my key from my pocket and locked the door. Leaving the key in the door I began to walk up the stairs when I heard the terrifying knocking again. I paused on the first step. I turned my face slightly to watch the door. I saw nothing through the vertical blurry windows. This terrified me. Just then I heard the back door open in the kitchen. I froze. I felt as if my body had become paralysed. I could do nothing except wait as an intruder entered my house. I managed to begin to move my feet. I made my way to the kitchen and saw someone in my fridge.
'What kind of intruder is this?! A homeless one?' I thought to myself. I was still petrified. I grabbed a knife quietly from the wooden holder and prepared myself. The fridge door shut and I raised the knife quickly to guard myself. I quickly lowered it and sighed with relief as I saw Axel with a sandwich triangle from yesterday in his mouth. He turned to see me. He took the sandwich out of his mouth casually.
"Oh hey Rox. Whoa! What the fuck is that for?!" He asked gesturing to the knife.
"I thought you were an intruder!" I explained.
"Would an intruder be able to let himself in?!" He asked.
"Well why didn't you come through the front door?!" I asked.
"I tried my key but you left yours in the lock so mine didn't work!" He explained.
I froze. The blood drained from my face as I became pale.
'He had his key…he wasn't the one knocking…' I realised.
The thought terrorised me. I turned slightly to the door of the entrance to the kitchen. Axel's face softened when he saw my expression.
"You okay, Rox?" He asked seeming concerned. I did nothing. I neither nodded nor shook my head. I was frozen.
"Roxas?" He asked again.
Again I did nothing but stared straight ahead scarred by the thought of what could of happened. Then I realised. The kitchen door was unlocked. I grabbed Axel's key from the side and locked it immediately. He gave me a strange look. I'm positive at this point he thought I was crazy. He began to laugh but I found none of this funny.
"Come on, Rox. Let's get this sleeve sorted out." He offered.
I simply glanced at it and realised how stupid I looked. I smiled slightly and decided not to burden Axel with worries. It was probably nothing anyway. I decided to forget about the situation and placed Axel's keys back on the side as Axel helped me dress myself.
"So did you get your friend's car?" I asked.
Axel nodded.
"Sure did! Demyx said we can borrow it for today and he says he knows some people who can fix the car so he's doing that for us today" Axel smiled.
"Awesome" I smiled happy that we had something good going on.
"Lets get you to the hospital then!" He smiled taking his keys back off of the counter.
I nodded and we headed for the front door. After locking up we jumped in Demyx's car and headed to the hospital.
'I really hope it's not too bad' I thought to myself sighing.
