"She's not messing," Roxas said a little defensively. "She's just trying to help. And yeah, he does. Why?" Sora had asked her to help reboot Roxas's brain, as Riku put it. Roxas hadn't been amused.
"Well, no," he'd believed Axel when he said it, "But there's a big difference between hearing something and believing it." It was easy to say that you loved someone, another thing to actually have that other person feel it.
"What would you have done?" Roxas asked, turning back around to face his friend, "If you'd never met me?" They could have lived anywhere in the world. It was just luck that they'd met.