[ He doesn’t want to, doesn’t need to know much else about her. At some point, she made Roxas happy -- happier than sea salt ice cream on clock towers? Who knows -- and that’s what counts.
So Axel nods along to the rest of the exposition, appearing to take active interest. That’s what good best friends do, right? Still, while he hopes it isn’t as obvious as it feels, he keeps intermittently glancing back to that particular photo; the expression of real, true joy on Roxas’s face.
I’d say I feel pretty down. But why?
It doesn’t matter -- those are just thoughts. He can say he feels any number of things and still, his heart just wouldn’t be in it, no matter what kind of strange magic this world employs. ]
Roommates, huh? Explains a lot. Speaking of...
[ He should excuse himself. Still, he’ll throw in a playful elbow nudge here, just to continue the ruse that nothing’s changed between them, because rightly, it shouldn’t have. He’s got to figure out why it... doesn’t feel that way. ]
I should probably finish moving in, y’know.
[ Move in what, Roxas could ask; it’s not like Axel had come to this place with luggage in tow. His worldly possessions here amount to all of about a handful. And a white envelope. But, no time for a Q&A now; he’ll make sure of that. ]
no subject
So Axel nods along to the rest of the exposition, appearing to take active interest. That’s what good best friends do, right? Still, while he hopes it isn’t as obvious as it feels, he keeps intermittently glancing back to that particular photo; the expression of real, true joy on Roxas’s face.
I’d say I feel pretty down. But why?
It doesn’t matter -- those are just thoughts. He can say he feels any number of things and still, his heart just wouldn’t be in it, no matter what kind of strange magic this world employs. ]
Roommates, huh? Explains a lot. Speaking of...
[ He should excuse himself. Still, he’ll throw in a playful elbow nudge here, just to continue the ruse that nothing’s changed between them, because rightly, it shouldn’t have. He’s got to figure out why it... doesn’t feel that way. ]
I should probably finish moving in, y’know.
[ Move in what, Roxas could ask; it’s not like Axel had come to this place with luggage in tow. His worldly possessions here amount to all of about a handful. And a white envelope. But, no time for a Q&A now; he’ll make sure of that. ]
I’ll catch ya around, Roxas.