Chapter 19 Experiments

"so why'd you come home so late this time?" I rolled over towards the wall.

"Marluxia if you have any decency you will let me sleep and have this conversation later." I slurred out while getting comfortable again, determined to go back to sleep.

"nope, besides you need to wake up now if you plan on coming to the park with us." I whined sitting up not pleased being woken up at this time. I rubbed at my eyes and yawned shifting my gaze over to where Marluxia was leaning against the bed. He stood up throwing some of my clothes at me. "get dressed and while your at it you can tell me why you were out so late." I held the clothes to my body and shook my head back and forth.

"I'm not changing in front of you." I got up making my way towards the bathroom. Marluxia's voice coming through the door as I shut it.

"you never answered my question!" he chuckled. I sighed while shaking my head. I started the shower to let it heat up and began to undress myself. I looked at myself in the mirror making a disgusted noise. what does he even see in me? I thought while thinking back to last night as I got into the shower.

* "come on Zexy!" Demyx said with a big smile. He grabbed my hand pulling me over to the ticket booth. "two tickets for The Thing." I pulled out my money for my ticket as the lady behind the desk began printing them.

"here" he shook his head at me with a big grin, declining the money I was trying to put into his hand. He paid the lady for the both of us, grabbing my hand afterwards pulling me towards the lobby doors.*

I shook my head out of my train of thoughts making my way out of the shower being finished. I dried myself off, quickly jumping into my clothes to stay warm from the shower. I then examined my wrist while pulling out my razor blade from the drawer. your horrible and disgusting for leading him on I thought to myself pulling the blade across my wrist, not caring about the ones that were still healing from the day before. I deemed it good enough for now and shook my arm for the sleeve to fall back into place.

"so you were saying before you got in the shower?" Marluxia asked from his bed, big grin plastered on his face. I shook my head with a sigh.

"how long do we have before we have to get going?" I asked thinking about how much time it will take to tell him.

"we have plenty of time, now tell me." I nodded realizing he most likely got me up earlier than supposed to for the trip just to find out where I was and I what I was doing last night.

"kinda like them jealous girlfriends, no?" shadow snickered in the back of my head, I shrugged, indifferent to his comment.

* "how bout here?" Axel inquired towards the row of seats. Demyx and Roxas nodded while I just sat down indifferent to where we sat. Axel and Roxas were already making out ten minutes into the movie. I held onto Demyx's hand unsure of what to do. Keep watching the movie, react towards Axel and Roxas, or begin making out with Demyx myself. He squeezed my hand making me turn my attention towards him. I couldn't keep my eyes on him, glancing away every now and then as I felt my face heat up as my pulse quickened. He rubbed my cheek with his palm making me even more flustered but unable to look away now.

He began to lean in, to which I began to lean away but realizing it was inevitable I stood my ground and closed my eyes as he gave me a peck on the lips. He leaned his forehead against mine and smiled.*

"aww, what? That's all you guys did? That's not juicy at all." he began to laugh, my face beat red. I shook my head.

"I made out with him after that first kiss… I couldn't get the feeling of his lips off my mind." I scowled at this. "I still can't." I adverted my eyes from Marluxia's face to the wall.

"stop scowling we both know you liked it. But that still doesn't explain why you didn't come home till five in the morning." he said with a huge grin on his face, I sighed.

"I ended up falling asleep when we were talking on his bed."

"ohhhh"

"shut up!" I yelled while slapping my hand against my forehead. Marluxia chuckled.

"It's cool I know what you mean, no innuendo intended." he opened his mouth to say something else only his phone started ringing and cut him off. He pulled it out of his pocket hitting the call button as he put it against his ear.

I moved towards my bed to give him a false sense of privacy to his conversation even though it was practically five feet away from him. I pulled on my black hoodie and grabbed Hallucination while overhearing Marluxia say into the phone that we'd meet them at their room. I turned to look at him as he hung up the phone while flashing a smile my way.

"we gotta get going now." I nodded grabbing my phone and stuffing it into my pocket before following him out the door.

They were waiting for us right outside their door when we walked over. Demyx smiled at me making my face start to heat up. I smiled back taking a glance at his eyes before looking at the floor from embarrassment.

"alright then, onwards to the car!" Axel practically yelled pointing his arm forward down the hall as Marluxia hung his arm over his shoulders yelling right along with him. Roxas began shaking his head at this but none the less followed them toward the car when they began walking.

"your not excited about going to the park now are you?" Demyx laughed out in more of a statement then a question from right beside me.

"what makes you say that?" he pulled Hallucination from my hands.

"cause you have this tagging along with you." he chuckled while I shook my head. He pulled the book out of my reach as I began leaning over to get at it. "so before I give this back to you I must ask what it's title means." I stopped in my tracks sending him a puzzling look. "seriously what does Ignes Fatui mean in English?"

" I still have no idea what your talking about when you say the book's title is Ignes Fatui but I actually can tell you that the meaning in English is delusions." I stated, the last part coming out strained from reaching up and finally gripping the book's binding, gently pulling it out of Demyx's hands. He sighed making a pouting face at the fact that I had actually got the book back.

"Zexion it's your own book though! How do you not know that Ignes Fatui is on the binding?" He asked incredulously. I sighed shaking my head.

"look I seriously have no idea what your talking about." I looked at the binding then showed it to him while getting in the car. "see? Hallucination: Another Side. No Ignes Fatui any where." he grabbed the book as Marluxia squeezed in next to me, closing the door behind him. I positioned my feet around the center consol comfortably enough that everybody had leg space and wasn't uncomfortable.

"Zexion It's right there!" I held my head in my hand and shook it back and forth. "Look I'll prove it to you. Axel doesn't this book's binding have Ignes Fatui on it?" Axel gently grabbed the book while closing the driver's side door with his other. He turned it over inspecting the binding.

"Ignes Fatui? Uh, nope all I see is Book of Retribution." He chuckled.

"huh?" Was all that came to mind. Axel started the car, placing the book gently on his lap.

"Not uh, no way!" Demyx complained trying to grab the book back to inspect it again.

"here let me see." Axel passed it back over his chair to Marluxia before starting the car up. Marluxia looked it over turning it this way and that before actually reading the binding of the book.

"Eldritch Esoterica…. What the fuck does that mean?" He chuckled looking at me for an answers. I started to shrug my shoulders only to be distracted by Roxas.

"My turn!" Roxas leaned over the center consol snatching it from Marluxia's hands before sitting back in the passenger seat comfortably. He turned it this way and that, inspecting it more than a normal person would. He finally turned it around to see the binding only caring about the title now after seeing all the different details it held. " uh Otherworldly Tales." He then moved his hand back over the consol handing it to me as I put my lap belt on. I don't get it, why does everyone see a different name for the title? I thought to myself.

"All of you guys must be blind or something because the name of the book is Hallucination: Another Side. It always have and always will be." they began to laugh.

"After seeing it myself, that's going to be hard to believe Zexy." I shook my head leaning back in the seat waiting for the ride to end.

Demyx's POV

"hey Demyx, your staring again." I looked up from staring at Zexion reading on the swings. I smiled at Marluxia.

"I can't help it, he looks so calm reading on the swings over there." I chuckled. Marluxia leaned in closer to me.

"I think you should go over there and spend time with him." I shook my head.

"He looks so peaceful though, I don't want to bother him."

"Go or I definitely will bother him enough to put him in a bad mood for the rest of the day." he began nudging me on the shoulder to get up and go. I shook my head with a sigh.

"alright, alright just stop nudging me already." Marly chuckled as I stood up and pulled my legs out from under the table. I slowly began my walk over trying to be as quiet as I could making sure I wouldn't be bothering him. As I began getting more closer to where he was seated I noticed him sniff at the air. I lightly began pushing him back and forth on the swing. "What's with the sniffing there Zexy?" He shrugged while he turned a page in his book.

"I'm getting used to your scent, I couldn't tell if you were walking over here until then. I don't like that." I began to smirk.

"why not?"

"I'm becoming weak, I need to be able to keep my guard up." He looked up at me with a face showing nothing but all seriousness. He began to shake his head letting out a sigh while doing so. I held on to the chains a little harder as to make it slow to a halt.

"why would you need to do that? Why keep it up? It only hurts people, hurts yourself in the end." he stood up from the swing.

"depending on how its used it can save people too, even if I'm the one hurt it in the end. I'd rather it that way instead of the other." He turned with a smile in his face closing his book while doing so.

Zexion's POV

Axel began to stretch his arms up over his head as we walked throughout the hallways once more. He let out a loud yawn that could only be known as being exhausted beyond belief. My phone began to vibrate in my pocket. I let go of Demyx's hand and pulled in out to check the message.

Received: Tonight, your mom's house. Don't make us wait.

Sent: Understood.

"Who was it Zexy?" I sighed putting my phone back into my pocket while doing so. I shook my head.

"My mom, I gotta go guys. I'll hang more with you guys tomorrow."

"it's cool man we'll catch you later." Roxas nodded in agreement to Axel while Demyx pulled me into a tight hug.

"do you need a lift? I can take you if you'd like. I'd love to meet your mother too." Demyx grinned, I shook my head.

"I'm not sure that'll be a good idea." I joked. "thanks anyway but I can handle myself."

"not." Shadow snickered. Demyx let go with a nodded in understandment before he bent down and kissed my forehead. I began walking fast towards the dorm room with Marluxia right on my tail. When we finally got in I put my book down on my computer desk before I started trifling through my drawers to find extra clothes.

"why is your mom calling so late to come over? You could go in the morning." I began dumping my book bag out in exchange for the clothes, ignoring Marluxia to the best of my abilities. "if you don't answer me I'll just have to assume and if I'm going to assume I might as well take it to the principle or someone of importance so you don't go off with those fucking rapists again!" he started out low ending in a yell, it made me flinch. I stood up my backpack on my shoulder and faced him. I wonder if it was a fluke because he's really starting to get on my nerves now.

"might as well try, the most you can make yourself do if it doesn't succeeded is make him think you're an idiot. Wait no he already thinks that." I shook him out of my head before I walked up to Marluxia, sizing him up.

"you know I'm getting sick and tired of your shit." He hollowly laughed.

"then that makes two of us." His eyes turned into slits to form a more menacing look.

"Marluxia you will forget about everything you've seen in that box, including all the fights having to deal with the contents of said box." I stated calmly holding back the need to just lash out and punch him in the face. I watched in fulfillment as his eyes glazed over just as Mr. Supesu's did when I commanded him before.

"as you wish." I began my walk to my mother's house as soon as it was heard, not even waiting for him to become aware of his surroundings again. two successful experiments. I think its safe to say I have the ability.

Hi guys how have you been? Senoir year is killer but it's almost over so I'll be able to focus more on this. for th time being please enjoy the chapters that I do get out to you.

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