-Oh, how I've been so long/ I'm so sorry I've been gone/ I was busy writing stuff for…YOU.-
-They're lyrics to a song. I know I'm special, shut up.-
-I would like to thank everyone who reviewed the last chapter, and also thank those of you who have stuck with this story. I know, I haven't updated in EVER, but hopefully that will change in the upcoming months. Now that I have a bitchload of time, I should be able to crank out updates, and finish this story, hopefully, by the end of summer.-
Reviewers this chappy were: TetraLink17, The happiest emo on earth, Tokyo-Rose2006, Obsessive Compulsive-KSARA, theIrish, and RyaneNight92. Everyone who reviewed previous chapters- thank you as well! (I'm waaay too lazy to name all of you. xD)
-On with the show!-
I is for Innocence
Axel remembered noting that night how cold it was. Perhaps it was the breeze that frequently whisked by, sending chills up and down his spine. Or perhaps it could have been the fact that not much cloth protected him from the night's chill. Draped over the redhead's body was a silky white blanket, but nothing more.
Perhaps Axel, forty minutes later, was still feeling the chills from his partner's last waking moments.
Axel had heard many times that the night sky was always the most beautiful on cold cloudless winter nights, but he had never fully believed it. "It's an old wives' tale," he always asserted nonchalantly. However, tonight he had been eating his words, for the scene around him was picturesque. He lay on his old junker of a car on top of a grassy knoll. It was the highest point in the city, and probably one of the best views anywhere in the state. Distantly, the urban area of the city lit up the night sky with its unending light, the city that never slept. Between them and the city lay a forest, balancing out the eternal light with darkness. One could barely define trees amongst the pitch black. They rose out of the dark void, standing tall and proud with their heads poking out of the emptiness below.
Perhaps what made the night so aesthetic and great was the boy who lay next to him. After the classic dinner and a movie date, he and Roxas had driven away from the city on impulse, parking the car up on Forgotten Hill, and spent the next couple of hours spending "quality time" together. After they had finished, they had weighed their options, and decided not to return home until the next morning. "Something about the area makes spending the night here seem too perfect," Roxas had said with a grin.
Sure, Axel had a curfew. Sure, his parents would be mad as hell when he came stumbling in the door the next day. Sure, Axel risked being kicked out of the house; Axel had, after all, broken countless rules since falling for Roxas. Sure, logically, it would have made more sense for them to part ways and head for home, but since when had attraction ever made sense?
So, Roxas and he had fetched the white blanket from the trunk of Axel's Volvo, and had curled up comfortably on its hood, the boys facing each other. Roxas had gently rested an arm around the hole between Axel's arm and the side of his abdomen. Axel studied Roxas as the boy drifted off to sleep. Just as Roxas' large sky blue eyes had begun to close, Axel noticed the blonde's lips moving, and had just caught the ghost of the whisper as it fell, almost subconsciously, out of Roxas' mouth…
"I love you."
Axel felt as if he were lying on air. The virtuous scene engulfed him, and he sunk comfortably inside of it. As Axel's eyes slowly closed, he thought that maybe, just maybe, everything would be all right.
-GAAH. I'm so mushy sometimes. I am just in a really romantic mood tonight.-
-Thanks for bearing with me if you were expecting a hardcore secks scene. I'm sure I'll be able to fit it in an upcoming chapter.-
-In the meantime, please review!-