Axel couldn't take his eyes off that kid. Man, he was sexy! With his soft blonde spikes, pale clear skin and pretty blue eyes, there was one word for him: HOT. There was just one thing stopping him. The Organization's code. Rule Number One: No association with nerds. And that boy who Axel was staring at happened to be Roxas Donovan, a big time geek. He was in the highest sets for pretty much everything, and was in the same junior math class as Axel, even though the blonde was still a sophomore.

Axel casually looked around the room while he took a sip of his Coke and his eyes just happened to land on the geek's lunch table and on Roxas again. He could feel Xemnas's eyes burning the back of his head and he quickly turned round. Even he knew better than to anger the leader.

Axel's best friend Demyx looked at him worriedly. Demyx was the only one who Axel had told about Roxas, and he knew Xemnas wouldn't like it one bit. The leader was looking at Axel with some suspicion after staring at the nerd table for so long, so Axel thought fast and came up with a plan. He crumpled his empty Coke can and lobbed it at the back of Roxas's twin brother Sora's head. It missed, but did shower them all with Coke. Whoops, guess the can wasn't empty after all. More like nearly full. But while they were all shrieking, Xemnas gave a satisfied smirk at Axel and he knew he was off the hook.

"Man, that was close! Xemnas nearly had you busted! You seriously have to stop this thing with Roxas Donovan before he kicks you out," said Demyx, leaning on the lockers while Axel got his books out.

"Shut the hell up, Demyx! Do you want the whole school to know!?"

"Oh, soz! But I'm just givin' you some friendly advice."

"Yeah, well next time, maybe give it to me with a little less volume." Axel slammed his locker shut and stomped off to Math. He took his usual seat in the back row beside Xigbar and Saïx's empty chairs and started doodling on the desk before realizing he was five minutes early and the bell hadn't gone. Grumbling to himself, he put his pen back in his pocket and grabbed his bag. He thought that Xigbar and Saïx would probably be smoking pot behind the school again and he was about to get up to go join them when the door opened and a bunch of sophomore nerds walked in chatting, Roxas among them. However, they all stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Axel glaring at them. His friends all left; Roxas was the only one smart enough to be in junior Math class. Axel heard a mixture of "see ya Roxas" and "later Rox" and they all trotted out the room. Roxas kept his head down as he walked to his place, sat down and took his books out. He then proceeded to look around the room at all the dippy math posters, looking anywhere but behind him where Axel was sitting. Axel's eyes never left Roxas. Finally, even the nerd seemed to get bored of math and he started doodling on his desk.

"Tut tut Roxas. You shouldn't be damaging school property," Axel said quietly. Roxas' ears went pink and he dropped his pen but didn't say anything.

After a few moments of silence, the bell went and the rest of the class slowly streamed in, then the teacher Mr. Leonhart. As usual, Xigbar and Saïx came running in late five minutes into the class with the excuse of: "Sorry we're late, we were helping up a freshman who fell over and he had a nosebleed so we took him to the nurse's office."

Mr. Leonhart glared at them and motioned for them to sit down. They grinned as they sat down on either side of Axel.

"Yo man, where were you? We were gettin' totally blazed. This new shit is good stuff."

"I was pissed at Demyx, cos…uh, it doesn't matter."

They shrugged and Xigbar started flicking bits of eraser at the kids sitting in front of them. Axel leaned back and stared at the back of Roxas's head through the whole lesson, not taking in a word of what Mr. Leonhart said. The end-of-day bell went and the teacher handed out homework. Everyone packed their stuff away.

"Before you go, there will be a mid-term test next Friday," announced Mr. Leonhart. Everyone groaned except Roxas, who looked curious at everyone's displeasure.

The class filed out and started walking to their lockers or the nearest exit. Saïx leant against his locker and when Roxas walked past, he stuck his foot out. Roxas was carrying too many books to see his feet, and they all hit the floor as he went headlong. Xigbar and Saïx roared with laughter as he scrambled around, trying to pick them all up. Saïx looked expectantly at Axel and Axel forced a laugh, which was hard when all he really wanted to do was punch him.

"Uh, listen guys, I forgot something in the classroom. You go on without me," said Axel quickly. They obeyed, still laughing as they went down the corridor and out the door. Axel quickly looked around to check the coast was clear before bending down and picking up Roxas's books. Roxas stopped and stared at him.

"What're you doing now, stealing them?" he asked, confused. Axel handed a book to Roxas who took it.

"No, I'm helping you," said Axel, handing Roxas another book.

"But why? You tripped me up in the first place."

Axel sighed and quickly racked his brains for a reason that didn't include the fact that he had been having wet dreams about Roxas for the last three days. Nope, none.

"I didn't trip you, Saïx did. And I'm helping you because…um. Because…" He looked at the math textbook in his hand. Inspiration! "Because I wanted to ask you something away from them. You know this math test coming up?" Roxas nodded slowly. "I'm doomed to fail. Could you maybe…tutor me?" He bit his lip, expecting Roxas to blatantly refuse. He looked up at Roxas after a few seconds of silence.

"Sure. You can come over whenever."

Axel's heart leapt at the thought of spending so much time alone with Roxas. But he would have to be careful that nobody in the Organization found out about this or he would be kicked out for sure. Axel just needed one more thing to know he was in with a chance with Roxas.

"So…can we swap numbers?"