It has been a while since Axel had seen the soft Melodious Nocturne that he loved so much. Almost a week now, and he wondered what the boy could be doing when he wasn’t around.

“Demyx…?” he called through the halls. “You here…?”

Standing outside the door that read, “IX” Axel rapped his knuckles against it. Hearing no response, he simply opened the door and strode in. The sound of air being sucked from one section of the room was heard almost immediately as Axel strode in. This sound was signaling that Demyx has left the room.

“Are you avoiding me…?” he asked no one.

On the desk where he thought Demyx had just been laid a note. He saw it there and instantly became curious. Going over to it, he sat in the wheeling chair, and picked it up to read.

I’m drowning…
This sea of darkness in my mind,
It’s suffocating me…
My heart has been lost, and…
I thought I knew where to find it.
But
It turns out that it wasn’t there the entire time.
He held something…
Not my heart.
I don’t have one.
It’s gone.
Drowning in the same sea
I float aimlessly in.
My own element
Betraying me?
Do I really have the right to say…
It hurts?
Very lost am I.
Nowhere to find my heart.
He had it.
Or so I thought,
Now it’s gone.
I have to find it.
Have to give it to him.

Axel’s hand shook. Not only had Roxas left, but now Demyx too? He was alone, utterly alone. Lip quivering, Axel’s hand fell limply to his side, holding the poem in his clenched fists.

“Why do the ones I love always leave me?”