Summ.
Roxas never cared what his dad did with his life. Until he fell in love with the boyfriend's younger brother. They're engaged to be married, but will the young lovers stand up for their relationship? I mean it's not REALLY incest!
It is written in first person, chapters switching viewpoints from Axel to Roxas. Axel for odd numbered chapters, Roxas for even numbered chapters.
Reviews tell me to hurry along to the sex! *sniggers*
I never talked to my dad. I never had a reason to. Mom died when I was still small, so I never felt the need to seek comfort. I didn't really notice the difference. In reality, I never really noticed anything. When I wasn't at school or doing my homework, I would sit on the grass and stare at the pond at Sanborne Park in the center of the city I lived in with my dad. We lived in the expensive part of the city, the part where people lived in real houses instead of apartment complexes. It was just a small 3-bedroom, two-floor, cream-colored house with a rusty-brown roof that sometimes leaked when it rained.
Everything was bland and normal. My dad approached me and tried to tell me things, to engage in conversation, but I never answered him.
Oh, by the way… My name is Roxas S. Strife. My birthday is on June 3rd, making me a Cancer in the zodiac. I have the blood type AB, and my dad is constantly saying that I need to grow a heart. I never really cared about anything, so he tries to get me interested in things, but by that point he had gotten nowhere.
My dad's name is Cloud Strife, and one day he approached me with that 'I have something important to tell you' look on his face. Why did he always give me that look like he's afraid I'll take the news badly? I never did, if anything I just nod or shrug.
"Roxas, I have something important to tell you."
Called it.
"I've started dating a man named Reno Corre. Okay?"
"Why did you bother to tell me?"
"Because you have a right to know when something significant is going on."
"You dating a guy counts as significant?"
Dad sighed. "Roxas…"
I hated when he sighed my name like he was disappointed. It was infuriating. I didn't do anything but be honest. And honestly, he can do whatever he wants as long as I'm not involved. Even if I was involved, I generally don't give a shit. So I decided to mock him. "Dad…" I copied his tone.
"Why do you have to be like this, Roxas? You could at least say something about it other than 'whatever'."
I didn't reply. That was the most we had talked in at least two years and it was making me sick. I stood and went upstairs without another word, walking into my room. Dad continually tried to get me things I might end up liking, but it all ended up neatly put away and never touched again.
But one month into their relationship, dad came to talk to me again. He opened my bedroom door and walked in carelessly, knowing full well that the worst thing he could possibly walk in on me doing was my homework. I wasn't interested in sex and the like. It seemed odd for a fifteen-year-old boy, which I was at the time, but touching myself sounded more disgusting than pleasurable. Why bother?
"You know, Roxas… Reno has a brother about two years older than you."
"What's his name?" I asked, trying to sound disinterested, but I was actually curious.
"Axel."
I simply nodded and went back to my science formulas.
Another month passed, and he walked up to me when I got off the school bus. "Roxas, Reno and his brother are coming over for dinner."
"Okay."
"Be on your best behavior, please."
I adjusted the shoulder strap on my bag and walked past him into the house. That night, he brought me downstairs to the front door to meet them.
They both had ridiculously bright red hair, looking like their heads had been dipped into a bucket of fire-truck paint. The shorter one, who wasn't actually all that short, he was at least a head taller than me, had a long, spiky mess of hair that reached his shoulders, and two upside-down violet teardrop tattoos under his eyes. I assumed that he was the brother, Axel. The older one had his somewhat messy hair pulled back into a ponytail and also had tattoos under his eyes, though his were red and shaped differently than Axel's. That one was Reno, then.
"Reno!" my dad said happily. "I'd like you to meet my son Roxas. Roxas, this is Reno."
Reno cheerfully reached out his hand in greeting. "Hey there, Roxas!"
I stared at the offered hand. No. I wasn't going to touch a stranger. I turned on my heel and went back to my room.
It confused me for some time that my dad was dating such an immature-looking guy. It turns out that his hair was naturally like that, and he had gotten the tattoos when he was younger. But at the time my only focus was waiting out their visit so I could go to bed.
Dad came into my room not even ten minutes later. "Son, we're having dinner now. And I really hope you don't dislike Reno. You haven't even given him a chance."
I looked at him. "Did I say I disliked him? No, I did not. I just didn't want him to touch me or try and talk to me. I don't want anything to do with your personal life."
"Roxas, you know that I just want you to accept my decisions, and voice your opinion if you don't. You blindly brush off everything I say, and it's really hard to tell what you're thinking!"
"I don't bother thinking about what you do. It doesn't concern me."
I stood up and walked into the dining room, sitting across from Axel, not wanting to have to look at my dad or his boyfriend. And upon closer inspection… Axel was attractive. I had never thought of anyone as attractive before. I'd never even looked at someone long enough to really get an idea what they looked like, apart from my dad.
Part of me wondered what he was like. He had a similar bored look to my own, but he hid his disinterest behind a smile as he ate. His hair looked soft in the lighting of the room, and I had the urge to touch it. It looked so vibrant it was enticing. Until that point, I hadn't noticed his glowing green eyes… that were literally glowing. Everything about Axel had part of me entranced from the start. I didn't know it at that point, but I was under his spell.
I finished eating and stood silently, returning to my room. Somehow I had the feeling dad would try and coax Axel into trying to befriend me… and for some reason… I was looking forward to it.
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