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.
Reno brought me to a sandwich shop where we ordered and took our food to go for a walk in the park.
"So, Roxas… What do you think of me?"
I looked up at him. "You… you're Dad's lover… and Axel's older brother… and…" I glanced away, not wanting to say any more.
"You don't like me very much, huh? I'm a lot like Ax, you know. Not just in appearance. We're really similar in personality too."
"I'm a lot like my dad, too… but that doesn't make me him…" I hissed. I didn't want to be mean to Reno, but I didn't want him trying to say that I should think fondly of him just because I enjoyed being around Axel. That wasn't going to work on me. "You're Axel's brother, but you aren't my boy—best friend… You aren't Axel, and I'm not Dad. Being similar to people doesn't make you rate as high as them on a priority scale. You don't like me either! You just want me to tell Dad how great you are so you can reap the spoils of him being happy. You don't care about me the way I want you to, and I don't care about you the way you want me to. You'll never be a father in my eyes, especially not mine!"
I threw the remnants of my sandwich into a trash can and ran off. I shouldn't have been so cruel to Axel's brother, but I was disgusted by his act. Knowing I had to clear my head, I headed for the Sanborne Pond shore. The path I usually used to get down to a small cove-like area had to be carefully descended to avoid injury, and I knew the roots and rocks and tree branches I needed to use by heart, so I didn't think twice before starting to rush down.
However, I hadn't been to this area in months, my last visit being two days before meeting Axel. The tree limbs were overgrown, and the recent rainstorm had loosened the rocks I used for footholds. Not really trying to think clearly enough to realize this, I stepped onto one of the stones that was normally embedded deeply enough to the cliff-like path for me to use as a mid-step between roots.
But the sand had eroded away and left the rock only slightly in the wall, and it completely collapsed from under me and sent me falling to the brambles at the bottom of the path, but not after hitting a few overgrown branches and twisting my ankle when my foot was caught in a root.
"Roxas! Roxas, are you alright? Hang on!" Reno's voice was very distant, but I heard the sounds of slipping dirt and moving branches before the elder redhead was kneeling beside me. "Roxas, stay conscious, okay? What happened? You fell pretty hard…"
"My ankle… hurts…" I bit my lower lip to prevent myself from crying. It was ridiculous how painful it was.
"Do you need to go to the hospital? What do you want me to do? I can carry you back to the car if you want."
"I want… to go back…" I sniffled.
Reno nodded. "I'll give Cloud a call when we're on the way home."
"Cloud, Roxas got hurt, so I'm bringing him back. Do you want me to bring him home or back to the apartment to stay the night?" Axel's brother spoke into his cell phone. "Then ask Axel. You're so indecisive… can't even tell me where to put your kid…"
There was a pause followed by more sound on the other end of the phone, and when Reno hung up, he turned to look at me.
"You're staying over with me and Axel. Your dad's staying too. Does that sound okay to you, kiddo?"
I nodded. I would get to say 'I love you' to Axel like I meant to… I could even kiss him goodnight… I would happily accept the fact that Reno had just called me 'kiddo' as long as I was going to see Axel soon.
When I limped into the apartment, Axel immediately started worrying over me, panicked at the idea of me being injured in any way, shape, or form. Reno slowly walked over to a fish tank I must have failed to notice before, though it looked new…
"What's this thing doing here?"
Axel looked up at his brother. "That's my seahorse. Cloud found him on the beach and I took him home. He was all alone. Look how small and defenseless he is!" he argued. So the fish tank WAS new… wait... had Axel said seahorse?
Axel's brother glared at my dad. "I thought I told you not to ruin my brother, Cloud."
My father immediately jumped to his own defense. "I did nothing of the sort. HE argued with ME saying that he wanted to keep it. I don't have an iron will, Reno."
"That's true. We'd have no sex life if you did…" Reno muttered, Axel lifting me and lying me on his bed and closing the door as he joined me, pulling me close to his body.
"I missed you, baby…"
"I didn't get to tell you how much I love you before I left," I kissed my boyfriend softly.
"Never too late to start, love…"
"I love you, Axel…"
"Love you too…"
We continued our slow, deliberate kisses, and my entire body was overflowing with warmth at the sweet taste and feel of Axel's mouth against my own. We murmured sweet nothings under our breath to avoid being overheard by anyone else but our beloved.
Bizarre or not, that was a beautiful day.
There you goes! The conclusion to the prelude section! Next is the development section, discovery section, then the fight section. Woot.
