[KH] Fire and Moonlight: Chance Meeting (theme 14)

Fire & Moonlight, a Kingdom Hearts fanwork:  Drabble challenge by Wishing-Fire, written by Raberba girl
14. Chance Meeting

Summary:  Bonding over literature.

A/N:  Random modern AU.

The first time, it was just a chance meeting at a party where they happened to be the only teenagers.  Axel was tired of adults gushing over how big he was, as if they expected him to stay the size of a little kid even after ten years or however long it had been since they'd supposedly last seen him.

Wandering around with a plateful of snacks in utter boredom, he caught sight of the blue-haired boy in a corner, and marched over without hesitation.  "Hi.  I'm Axel."

The boy made no response.  He was curled up in an armchair with piles of schoolwork perched precariously around him, scribbling so furiously that he might not even have heard.

Axel finally picked up the copy of Lord of the Flies that was teetering on the arm of the chair.  "Hey, I know this book.  My brother made me read it so I could do his homework for him."

The boy finally looked up at him with strange golden eyes through a pair of narrow-framed glasses.  "How many reasons can you think of to support Simon being a Christ figure?"

Axel blinked.  "Uh...what?"

"...I'll take that as zero."  The boy flung down his pencil with a frustrated sigh.  "I need a break."

"Great!"  Axel shoved a pile of junk off the arm of the chair and plopped down on it comfortably.

"...That was my homework you just tossed halfway across the room."

"It was in my way, and it's not halfway across the room.  Want a cookie?"

The other boy sighed.  "Sure."

He reached out, but Axel abruptly held it farther away.  "You can have it if you tell me your name."

The boy blinked.  "Oh.  It's Saïx."

"Cool."  Axel handed the cookie over.

The next time, it was at school when the English teacher announced a transfer student.  A blue-haired boy with golden eyes walked in and introduced himself, hesitantly met Axel's gaze, then smiled when Axel waved enthusiastically at the empty seat beside him.

"Now, class," the teacher declared once everyone was settled, "we're going to start a new literature unit today on a novel by William Golding, called Lord of the Flies."

"Aaahhh!"

"Is there a problem, Axel?" the teacher asked coldly.

"No," Axel groaned, as Saïx facepalmed beside him.  "Just that me and Saïx here are gonna ace this unit, that's all...."

Author's Notes:  This theme was really hard.  I wrote, like, six or seven later drabbles while I was trying to figure out this one.

Complete:  14/101