So, I am rather sorry for the lack of updates this past year. I know that I've been missing several of them and I have a surprise for you all!
There is going to be as many updates as I can possibly manage this year during break. Seeing as it's my Senior year of high school, I can't QUITE promise that I'll be doing my updates even as frequently as I have... (Although if I manage to get more reviews on these chapters I could have more feedback to go off of ^_^)
Also~ I must say that in TWO DAYS is the one year anniversary of this story. It's gone pretty far from where I had no clue what was happening. And to somewhere that I have character bios written out for 25 people, I pretty much have the story fleshed out from beginning to end, and I have all the maps of The Club(which I realized just now that I have never actually said the name of the club yet, XD) and most of the town finished. :)

We begin tonight's tale with Demyx who is currently about to collapse from exhaustion in an empty dance room. You could tell he wasn't dancing to look beautiful yet it was, in its own way. The harsh movements and angry pounces he were producing kept even the stupidest people away from the man. Yet the smartest of them all, the one who should have known better was the one to approach the blonde.

Demyx didn't look when the door opened, he most likely hadn't heard the shorter man even enter the room. I wonder... He was never in this area of the building. Ever. And as he watched Demyx dance his anger out, he wondered what could possibly ha- no. He knew why the blonde was upset. He knew why the man he loved with all his heart was grieving. Why the usual smiling face was shrouded in hair that hadn't been bothered to be kept up with. Why should he. He wasn't working that night. As the song ended, the man watched Demyx fall into a heap on the middle of the floor, and decided to silently walk over.
The man leaned down onto his knees so he was close to Demyx and just waited. He knew the blonde had seen him.

"What do you want?" Demyx said with a heart wrenching bitter tone. "Are you just here to tell me 'I told you so.'?" Demyx looked up with angry eyes.
"No." Zexion just bent down and hugged onto the blonde. He was caught up in how the body below him shuddered with dry sobbing. 'I'm going to kill Cid.' Zexion swore to himself.

Demyx leaned into the warm embrace of his long time friend and just blanked out. He didn't want to think about someone who decided it was okay to just hurt him whenever he wanted. Instead he focused on how many amazing times he has had with the man holding him. How many times he cheered the blonde up when it felt like he was being torn apart. How much he, himself, cared about the ot- 'O-Oh my god...I...'
Demyx's eyes widened momentarily with the realization that had finally bothered to hit all the way past his thick mane of hair into his head."Zexion, answer me...You like me." Zexion was taken aback by the statement , his mind reeled but he grinned all the same after the initial shock.
"I can't answer a fact." He replied and looked down to watch what the other man was going to do. All that happened, though was Demyx decided to simply look up.
And maybe, attack Zexion. Demyx was suddenly on top of Zexion, kissing him like no other. A desperate, needy kiss that showed the love he felt towards the other man. His love and thanks, which when Zexion started responding, Demyx knew was shared.
Of course, because this is a public area that many use, this guarantees no privacy. And speaking of no privacy, Roxas grinned as he slowly closed the door he had just opened in favor of heading back up to his room to practice later. 'Well, guess they finally got together.' Roxas grinned to himself as he climbed the obnoxious spiral stairs to the fourth floor. He greeted everyone he saw on his way, trying to be someone that everyone at that place loved.

~-X-~

Axel grinned with anticipation. He had just managed to cajole Marluxia into letting him take Roxas off the flowery man's hands for the night, and still have the boy get paid for working. Not that this wasn't coming out of Axel's personal paycheck but he made too much money in his own opinion so he didn't care either way.

~-X-~

"Well, don't you look all happy." Riku said, slyly glancing over towards his best friend as they were both undressing for the showers. Or rather, Riku was undressing and Roxas was happily throwing his clothes off and bounding towards the showers. 'weirdo' Riku glanced back over and shook his head as his tiny friend disappeared behind one of the stall doors.

Riku was immersed in his thoughts after a while in his own shower. 'I can't possibly believe this is happening to me! Who would even do this? Oh wait... I forgot who was doing this. Makes total sense. But why me?' Riku grabbed his shampoo and squirted a large bit on to the top of his head and just mechanically started to swirl his fingers to spread it around. 'I don't want to-'

"Riku!" Roxas singsonged from his own stall.

"Fuck!" Riku was startled by the sudden sound of his name, feeling guilty about his thoughts, and had dropped the conditioner he was holding. After he finally regained his composure, he heard snickering through the wall.

"What?" he barked out with annoyance.

"Oh, don't be like that. Reeree." Roxas grinned at the childhood nickname with amusement. He wasn't surprised when there was pounding on the wall connecting their stalls.

"I'm gonna punch you, brat! Get on with it!" Riku shouted above the sounds of the falling water. He may have sounded angry but he was thankful at some level, for the welcomed intrusion on his blackening thoughts.

"I've got a date." Sang the blonde haired boy and you could just envision the lopsided grin as he twirled around under the falling water.

"Oh, really now?" Riku asked with mild sarcasm and interest in the comment. He leaned his head back and rinsed out the suds from his long hair.

"Yup!" Roxas ecstatically replied and turned his water off, grabbed the towel hanging over the door and dried himself slightly before hooking it around his waist and opening the stall.

"Well... I guess I'm happy for you?" The boy called as he heard his friend prance off to his room. 'At least some of us are finally happy. . .' Riku sighed and stood there for a long time, thinking of other things.

~-X-~

The only other thing that Axel was charged with doing before he got to take Marluxia's new money earner was to change out some of the lights in the ceiling of the dance room. He walked up to the second floor and used the small door near the elevator to walk down into the dimly lit, hidden, catwalks above the first floor.

Axel, being the graceful man he is, barely moved with sound, despite the heavy box of light bulbs in his arms. He wound his way, knowledgeably through the cords and metal walk ways. He smiled at the thought of his date tonight. He started to whistle before he turned round a corner of dangling wires and saw another person. Usually no one else is around this area, so he walked back behind the wires to find out exactly what was going on. He couldn't pin the shape of the person to anyone he knew, so he vaguely wondered if they even worked here. Looking closely, he saw the man was twiddling around with the area that Axel knew as the Chandelier's main attachment bracket. He backed up slowly and stepped on a screwdriver that had been left by someone else. The man was startled and looked around wildly, Axel set the box down quickly, quietly, and backed up as fast as he could into the wires behind him. The figure quickly raced past him and he caught a glimpse of tanned skin and short blonde hair.

He looked back at the man and then frowned deeply. 'What's going on...?'

The question weighed in on his mind the whole time he leaned over the railing to pull up the strong cords holding the oversized lights, changed said lights, and slowly lowered them back down to their normal place among the air above many party-goers' heads.

'Maybe Marley just forgot to tell me that someone else was gonna be down here... I mean, he does have a lot going on.' Axel's brows furrowed as he let his legs lead him to his room to get ready. He pulled his mane back into a pony tail and freaked out for about a half hour, trying to find out which pair of pants made his ass look best. Becoming desperate, Axel slammed his door open and grabbed the first person who walked by that he knew. This happened to be Riku, just coming up from the showers. "Riku! Help me!" Axel pleaded as he grabbed the boy's wrist and hauled him into his room. "I can't pick out what to wear for my date with Roxas!" Axel sat down next to the man with a face of anguish and put his head in his hands.

Riku sat there in silence for a moment before looking at the red head next to him and the almost palpable amount of anxiety he was experiencing. Riku got up, made sure his towel was hooked tightly and went to go mess around in the walk-in closet. "Roxas really likes the colour of your hair so I think we need to accentuate that with something simple so it doesn't distract." Riku slid the coloured clothing together and looked at what the man had for black. "Simple...simple...simple..." Riku muttered under his breath as he made two piles of clothes on Axel's floor, one for shirts and one for pants.

Axel sat and wiggled around on his bed as he watched clothing be thrown on the floor. He had to remind himself not to say anything, he was really picky about things be neat and orderly. But he smiled as Riku brought out the two stacks of clothing and ordered Axel to find the nicest fitting piece from each pile.

After ten minutes of Axel putting shirt after shirt after shirt over his hair and constantly being told "Too tight.", "Too loose.", "Not right." or "Eh." he finally found the right one. A nice pitch black long sleeve shirt that hung a little short and was a little tight, but not much. "Perfect." was Riku's final approval. Axel sighed happily and sat down on the bed.

"Thanks... a lot..." Axel grinned and clapped the silver haired man on the shoulder before looking at the pile of pants. "Alright! Let's go for round two!"

Riku watched the man just pick through the jeans and throw them all off before going through the considerably smaller pile of nice slacks. 'He is really wanting to impress, isn't he...' Riku took in the giddy smile and happy way Axel was working on picking out the outfit. When Axel finally got an outfit and declared his amount of sexy to the mirror, Riku laughed along with the man. Completely forgetting every time he thought that Axel was just a cocky bastard 'Maybe he's not so bad...'

Riku got up and walked across the carpeted floor, his hair was almost dry from the amount of time he had spent there. He opened the door and then looked back at the grateful smile Axel was giving him. "You really like him...don't you?" Riku narrowed his eyes at Axel, scrutinizing his face.

"Yes, Riku. I like him a lot." Axel's eyes softened and he couldn't stop the loving smile that passed over his face. "I don't... I don't just want in his pants. I want to sit and get to know him. You know about my conquests, and this isn't that. I've never taken someone I wanted for a one-night stand, on a date." Axel let his shoulders droop as Riku looked away and closed the door. "Darn it... I really hope he doesn't-" Axel was interrupted as the door was cracked open a couple inches. And Axel heard Riku's voice.

"I'll make sure he's in his room in ten minutes." And the door closed again. Axel couldn't believe it, by acting kind, he had managed to get someone who didn't like him, to be kind as well. 'How...nice...'

Axel waited the ten minutes impatiently as he paced around his room. When it was about time, he anxiously walked around the outside of his room a couple times then found himself slowly walking in the direction of Roxas' room, every step letting butterflies hatch in his stomache. Past Demyx's room, past Riku's room and all the way down and around Sora's room, the long way, before his nervous steps led him to Roxas' door. Axel took a deep breath, tried to let his cocky grin come back before he knocked on the door.

"One second!" Roxas yelled from inside. "I'll be right there!"

Axel's nervous flutters came back anew as he heard footsteps walking closer to the door. 'Chill down, man. You can do this. Chill...chill...'

"Yes...?" Roxas looked out of the door and smiled when he saw who was knocking on his door.

"I'm ready to pick you up for our date, my dear." Axel bowed and came back up with a grin as he grabbed Roxas' hand and kissed it. "Would you like to join me tonight?" Axel asked as he wrapped his long arms around Roxas' waist and pulled him closer.

"I would, indeed." Roxas blushed when Axel kissed his hand and let himself be led, hand in hand, by Axel downstairs to the third floor where they made a quick stop and checked out with Marluxia.

Axel cracked the door after knocking and peaked his head in. "We're leaving now, Mar. I promise not to keep him out late." Axel winked and Marluxia grinned at the small amount of protest from the tiny blonde behind the door. As Axel went to close the door he looked back at the pink haired man, noticing his smiling face as he had on his tiny, rimmed, glasses and looked at his paper work. Axel left Roxas standing at the door as he went to talk to the man, quickly. "I have two questions." This caught Marluxia's attention and he looked up from his work with a cocked eyebrow and nodded his consent while taking a drink from his coffee . "First, are you getting banged, finally?"

Marluxia sputtered as he inhaled his lukewarm coffee and started coughing. "Sorry...but I'm sure that's none of your business. Yes. I am, though, you nosey brat." Marluxia ruffled Axel's hair lightly and laughed along with him. "What's the next question?"

Axel was still grinning as he looked at Marluxia and asked his last question "Was there supposed to be anyone else up in the rafters today?" he was heading towards the door because Roxas had poked his head in to see what the noise was all about.

Marluxia looked up quizzically at Axel, his pink hair falling in his face and it could have been Axel's imagination but the man's face looked foreboding "No, why?"

Axel paused in his walking before he continued."Oh... no reason..." he said in a slightly shaken, sullen, voice and through it from his mind as he went on his date with Roxas.

Thanks for reading everyone, don't forget to review and give me feedback on the writing style and tell me if things seem to be a little scattered or moving too fast.
(Which is almost exactly what I feel like this chapter is, even though it needed to be OTL )

Again, Thank you all so much for reading my story.