[Day 47]

[coolerthansora]

Who: Roxas and EVERYONE
When: May 17, daytime
Where: Wherever there are people who need flowers. If he knows you feel free to assume he's tracked you down.
Style: I'll match
Status: Open!

It's taken a little time, but now Roxas, too, has fallen victim to the infectiousness of the underwater springtime. There are just so many flowers everywhere! How can he not be cheerful about it?

...and how can he not want to share it with everyone? Normally he moves about the city making no effort to interact with people he doesn't know, but today he seems to have almost the same outgoing nature as the two boys he shares a face with.

Roxas can be found around the city sans coat with an ever-changing collection of flowers in his arms as he gives some away and picks up new ones. There might be someone in particular he intends these flowers for, but he's in no rush to locate him. After all there are so many other people to hand them out to.

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[flared]

...Why are there so many flowers everywhere. Axel wasn't kidding when he told Demyx that he was allergic to them, at least to a certain degree, so he'd been trying his best to stay away from the outside as much as possible. However, with a bit of cabin fever, he chanced it anyway and wandered out, trying to stay as far away from the flowers as he could before he'd either a) sneeze to death or b) have his eyes pop out from being so sick of being itchy.

He's wandering around now, then, hands shoved in his pockets and his legs moving without much direction.

Oh dear what a day.

[coolerthansora]

Target spotted.

Unfortunately, Roxas isn't aware that his best friend is allergic to flowers. It isn't something that ever really came up, although even if he did know he'd probably still feel compelled to give Axel at least one.

Deciding to make a bit of a surprise of it, Roxas gathers up the flowers he's carrying into a makeshift bouquet and hides it behind his back before he approaches Axel. Not that the grin on his face is really hiding anything.

"Axel!"

[flared]

As much as he doesn't particularly like them, Axel suppose that flowers from his buddies can't be so bad, right? Or...maybe. He's still walking along and trying to let time just burn away before suddenly he spots Roxas up ahead and stops to greet him. "Yo." ...Is that something behind his back? He decides not to question it just yet and instead glances around them to point out the flowers that have just popped out of nowhere.

"It's like something straight out of Wonderland, huh?"

[coolerthansora]

Roxas follows his gesturing and nods a bit. "I don't think anyone's been painting these, though."

He looks back at Axel, his smile widening before he pulls out the bouquet and holds it out. "Here. I thought you might like some." Why, he couldn't exactly say, but if he's going to be giving out flowers then his best friend should be at the top of the list, right?

[flared]

He's staring at a couple of the flowers before he suddenly hears Roxas speak up again and when he looks over there are flowers right there. Near his face. Oh. He's not...quite sure what to say about that. For a beat all he can do is rub the back of his neck, perhaps a little more than flustered, before he figures that he shouldn't be rude and reaches out to accept the bouquet.

"Gee. Well--Thanks, Roxas." Now he feels kind of dumb for not getting the kid anything. ...But of course that feeling starts to fade a little once he actually holds the flowers to get a better look at them. "...Heh. Y'know, these are pretty nice, I guess."

[coolerthansora]

Not that Roxas was expecting anything in return; it's not like it's any holiday he knows of. Just springtime. And he doesn't really know any protocol behind giving people flowers anyway.

Mostly he's just glad Axel actually took them.

"Aren't they? They smell pretty good, too."

[flared]

...What is this feeling going on inside right now.

Axel stares at the flowers for a little bit longer before he glances back up at Roxas and in spite of himself manages a smile. It should feel weird, but for whatever reason it's not so bad right now. "Would you actually believe I'm allergic to them?"

[coolerthansora]

And there's a smile. Success! The flowers are doing exactly what they ought to, and he won't have to resort to tickling after all.

Roxas's own smile turns a little sheepish at Axel's remark, though. "Really? Um... You gonna be okay with all those?"

[flared]

Oh god happiness is not something we're used to, at least not this kind of happiness. Roxas, what have you done.

He shrugs and waves the bouquet around a little bit. "Yeah, I should be. But if I do collapse or something because of them, I know that I can blame you." Axel laughs and ends up plucking off a couple of petals from the flowers to toss at the other's face.

[coolerthansora]

It is not his fault for being high on flowers, okay? Just enjoy it while it lasts.

Roxas opens his mouth to reply just as those petals come fluttering into his face. He sputters one back out of his mouth and laughs. One or two landed in his hair but he doesn't notice those.

"Well, if you collapse, I'll... drag you home?" Because Axel may be freakishly skinny but he's still got to be too heavy for Roxas to carry.

[flared]

Lucy in the sky with daisies, as they say.

Axel can't hold back his laugh when Roxas gets a face full of flowers and, no, he won't mention the petals still stuck in his hair. Dare he say that they suit the kid in some odd fashion. Or maybe he's just a little nuts; who knows?

"Drag me? Like that'll do me any good." He looks down at the flowers in his hand and starts to trace his finger over some of the petals just because he can. "With all these flowers around, you might drag me through a rose bush. Then what happens?"

[coolerthansora]

"Don't rose bushes have thorns? I'm not that mean." Roxas looks around thoughtfully, as though trying to spot a bush that would be nicer to be dragged through.

"I could get help. I'd just need someone to get your legs."

[flared]

Axel scoffs softly. "Now you're just being rude." Come on, he can't be that heavy, can he? He's not angry about it, though, partially because of the effects of the flowers.

[coolerthansora]

"How is that rude?" Roxas is genuinely confused. Axel has to be a good foot taller than him, and it isn't like Roxas is all that muscular either. "I thought you didn't want to be dragged."

[flared]

"Because you're practically calling me fat." Axel glanced down at the flowers again and fiddled around with them, gently tugging at some of their petals and stems.

[coolerthansora]

"What?" Roxas said, unable to help an incredulous laugh. "Who'd ever call you fat?" For emphasis, he prodded Axel in his skinny, skinny stomach.

[flared]

Ow. Axel hunches over a bit when Roxas pokes him like that before he makes a move to try and poke him back. Doesn't matter where, just so long as he can poke him. So there. "You, obviously."

[coolerthansora]

At the poke, Roxas makes a sound that is suspiciously like a stifled giggle. Please stay away from the ticklish spots.

"I'm not calling you fat, you're just a lot bigger than me." A pause. "I mean, taller. You know."

[flared]

Oh-ho. Ticklish spot, you say. Axel noted that laugh about to come out and with a grin he reached out to prod at Roxas again in that same spot. "And that makes me heavier?"

[coolerthansora]

"S-shouldn't it?" He's sure there's some sort of math involved here but he's getting poked again. He grins involuntarily even as he tries to shy away from it.

[flared]

Axel's not even paying attention to the conversation anymore; he's just focused on tickling Roxas. After all, he said that he'd get the kid back for tickling him before, didn't he? He keeps going, poking more frequently at Roxas' sides now.

"You don't even know?"

[coolerthansora]

"Well, I--" All right, his last attempt to continue whatever this conversation is dissolves into laughter. He tries to push Axel's hand away. "S-stop that."

[flared]

There we go. Axel manages to set the bouquet of flowers down before he proceeds with this because for one he doesn't want to damage them and two he wants to have both hands available at the ready for this attack. "No way." And with that he uses both hands to tickle Roxas' sides. Hey, you deserve it.

[coolerthansora]

Oh, no. It was supposed to work in his favor that you only had one hand free. "Ahh- A-axel, wait a--!" Nope. All the laughter and ineffectual flailing. It's the best he can do to try and back away... although thanks to the flowers for some reason he doesn't mind the invasion of his personal space so much. It's actually kind of fun.

[flared]

Nope, not gonna happen, sunshine. Axel laughs a bit darkly as he tickles Roxas more and moves towards him to aim for different spots. He's so going to take advantage of this moment, just you see. "Sorry, didn't quite catch that!"