Musebox

[heartismyown]

 I need to practice with Roxas! Please drop me a line.


Roxas finished smashing the computer, the one that ruined his life. He swung around angrily and stalked off into an unknown room where he found Sora, fast asleep.

DiZ appeared before him. His eyes narrowed, his hand clenched tightly around the keyblade as he swung it back and forth wildly, attempting to attack him. He was familiar. He was the one who did this to him. It was all about that Sora!

"My heart is my own!" Roxas cried, spinning around. Everything has gone white.

When Roxas awakened, he found himself face to face with....

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[heartismyown]

[He grins at him.]

Hi Lea!

[He makes no move to get up though, he's reading a very interesting book after all, wouldn't want to get distracted.]

[by_heart]

Yeah, hi yourself. I hope you like my portion of the couch over there, 'cause I'm gonna eat your half of this over here.

[He gets a fork from the kitchen and comes back into the living room so he can lean on the wall and be annoying while he eats what seems to be some sort of potato salad. He can't get within view of Sora's house without getting saddles with some sort of leftovers and it just happens to be on his way home...if he takes a slight detour.]

[heartismyown]

Yep, the couch is comfortable.

[He grins.]

Maybe I won't give it back!

[He stretches out as long as he can, although he's not as tall as Lea. His homework book falls to the ground with a clatter. Oops. He rests this current book on the floor and sits up to clean up his mess. The title of the book he's reading is 'A Guide to Dating and Sex'. Such a thoughtful gift Riku gave him.]

[by_heart]

[To his credit, he doesn't choke on the potato salad or spit it out. In fact, he's actually quite proud of how he manages to just lower the fork back into the container, chew, swallow, take a deep breath, and try to talk without dying of embarrassment.]

Riku gave you another book, didn't he?

[Because it's ALWAYS. RIKU.]

[heartismyown]

[He fixes his school books and flops back down again.]

Yep! He said it would explain what he and Sora are doing.

[by_heart]

[Okay, that's...keeping things sort of on the safe side for now. At least it's a book and not Sora and Riku filling his head with nonsense. Breathe, Lea.]

He better not have highlighted anything. I don't wanna know what they get up to.

[heartismyown]

Nope, no highlighting!

[He smiles a little picking it up and turning a page. He waits a minute or so, it's probably safe to take another bit before he speaks again.]

He said it would tell me what to do after kissing you too.

[by_heart]

[One of these days he and Riku are going to have a talk. And by "have a talk" he means "set Riku on fire." His face must be beet red by now. He can just feel it.]

Tell him he needs to butt out! That's none of his business, the little perv.

[heartismyown]

Why? Do you have a better idea?

[Roxas gives him an innocent little look over the arm of the couch.]

[by_heart]

[Lea shoves a forkful of potato salad in his mouth so he doesn't have to answer. Yeah, he has a better idea and it's "no one tells Roxas about these things ever." Well, maybe not ever, but at least not until he's ready to hear it. Lea has no idea when that will be, but as far as he's concerned, it's certainly not now.]

[heartismyown]

It's okay Lea, I can let you read the book too!

[He smiles and opens it up again.]

[by_heart]

I don't need to read the book!

[Well, apparently he could blush harder.]

[heartismyown]

It's really interesting! There's more than one way to kiss, did you know that?

[Totally oblivious to your discomfort Lea.]

[by_heart]

[Yes, he knows that. No, he wasn't going to TELL YOU he knows that. Still not going to. So he just glares and eats more potato salad.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas glances at him and catches the glare. Lea seems kinda mad about the whole thing so he doesn't say anything he just sighs and turns the page. Oh well, information is still information.]

[by_heart]

[Okay, the fact that Roxas is just reading the book like it's one of his textbooks isn't helping matters. Shouldn't he be blushing at some of the stuff in there? What stuff is even in there? What if he doesn't know that he's supposed to be blushing at that stuff? That's just going to make things even worse.

He's going to set Riku on fire FOREVER.]

[heartismyown]

[Roxas doesn't know it's supposed to be embarrassing, and in a book it's pretty clinical. You go out places, you spend time together, sounds a lot like what he does with Lea.]

Are we dating Lea?

[by_heart]

[Lea nearly chokes on a potato. Now he's red from blushing AND from coughing and it takes a few seconds before he can splutter out an answer. Or something like one.]

Wha-- I don't-- I just-- Roxas...

[That last bit is kind of a pathetic little whine. How did he get himself into this mess?]

[heartismyown]

[He knows that tone, when Lea says his name like that, he's asking something he shouldn't.]

Okay, okay. I won't ask.

[by_heart]

Hey, don't start that, it's just...

[What is it? He sets his fork down and just stares into the container like there's some sort of answer somewhere in there amongst the potatoes.]

I don't know. It doesn't sound right to me.

[Not that he's really ever dated anyone, not the way that book is probably talking about. Yeah, there was the dumb middle school "going out" sort of thing, but that hardly counts. During the time he probably would have been doing the sort of things described in the book, his life was a bit too complicated...]

[heartismyown]

It's okay, I know that tone, you don't want to talk about it.

[Roxas isn't sure what to think about things honestly. He likes Lea the best out of everyone and that's not going to change anytime soon.]

[by_heart]

[Lea walks over and sits down on the arm of the couch, solely because he hasn't smacked Roxas in the head in a while and now seems like a pretty good time.]

I don't, but you do, so talk.

[heartismyown]

[Roxas gives his knee a shove.]

It's okay, I don't need to talk about it. I'm reading this book.

[by_heart]

[Yeah, that's not filling him with a whole lot of confidence or making him feel any better about the situation, Roxas.]

Oh, so you're gonna be an expert now.

[heartismyown]

I don't think so, but I'll read it. I haven't done any of these things.