Devi and Paxton

## Daxton

**Daxton** (**D**evi + P**axton**), also known as Devi and Paxton, were a couple, with both of them attending Sherman Oaks High as students. They were in the same History and English classes together for years consecutively. The relationship was apart of the love triangle between Devi, Ben, and Paxton.

They had broken up as of Season 3 in ... had a valentine due to Devi's jealousy and insecurities, which she later maturer out of. Devi and Paxton are currently very good friends, as shown on several occasions in Season 4, and are confidants to one another.

## Relationship Overview

Devi had harbored a crush on Paxton for the longest of times, notably sense grade school, and he may or may not have been aware of her feelings until addressed by her directly during Season 1, when she asked for them to have intercourse. He didn't return her feelings until later, however.

Paxton and Devi's relationship can be described as somewhat chaotic, due to Devi's unpredictable nature and Paxton's tendencies to hide his emotions. Despite this, the two seem to have a heavy amount of respect for each other, supporting each other through tough times. For example, Paxton helped her in many acts such as supporting a sobbing Devi after she and Eleanor had a fight, whereas Devi helped Paxton to gain belief in his academic prowess, which in turn boosted his self-confidence.

Paxton also evens out Devi's ditzy personality with his stern and straightforward approach to things, which ultimately made Devi want to better herself in areas such as being a compulsive person. They worked perfectly together more often than not, both contributing to the other's traits.

Paxton has saved Devi twice while at a party, once when got attacked by a coyote who she thought was her dad, and when she had a fight with her best friends Fabiola and Eleanor and she fell into the pool. When Paxton hits Devi in ...been a perfect girl he was more concerned about her health then she was.

## Relationship Timeline

### Devi Asking Paxton for Sex

Devi has a crush on Paxton since he arrived at Sherman Oakes at the age of nine. Late one evening at school, Devi sees the swim team going home after practice. She calls out his name and introduces herself. Paxton looks at her without saying anything, then she finally asks him if he ever would consider having sex with her. He looks surprised by the inquiry. She apologizes and turns around to walk away. He says okay, and asks her if it is just sex and nothing more. She confirms that it is just sex, and he says to her that he is willing to sleep with her.

After this interaction, Devi and Paxton meet up with each other at his home, where Devi fails to have sex with Paxton as she runs away from his house after touching his bare chest—with the two of them deciding to try another time. However, their second attempt fails miserably as Devi ended up meeting Paxton's sister Rebecca and he misunderstood Devi's intentions whilst talking to her. He goes into overprotective brother mode, thinking that she made fun of Rebecca when in reality Devi found Rebecca to be a really cool person. This left Devi utterly confused and guilty about her actions, wondering if she could be with Paxton again. Devi's friends thought she hooked up with Paxton.

Ultimately, Paxton realized he was very wrong, by misunderstanding Devi, presumably after talking to Rebecca about Devi. At night, he goes to Devi's house and apologizes to her for his actions, telling her he has a tendency to be extremely overprotective of his sister as she was previously bullied by his friends a lot. Devi forgives Paxton, telling him that Rebecca is way more cool and fashionable than her, which makes Paxton smile.

### Developing an Interest in Each Other

Even though everything is fine between the two, he says that things got weird between the both of them so they shouldn't have sex. Despite this, unbeknownst to Devi, he is still interested at her, gazing at her before leaving. Devi continues to make attempts to get Paxton's attention, through posting videos on Instagram, and failing miserably at doing so.

Back at school, Paxton invites Devi to be a part of his and Trent's group assessment, as she will be a "guaranteed A" for them which upsets Devi. During their group assessment, Devi learns about Trent's party in which everyone he knows at school is invited, which includes her. Devi plans to use this party to get Paxton back.

Back at the party, Devi's dreams are seemingly crushed by Ben, as he makes her notice Paxton and Zoe flirting with each other. Upset, Devi gets drunk and gets bitten by a coyote who she secretly believes is her dad. Paxton saves Devi and gets her to the hospital to make sure she is okay.

Paxton makes sure Devi is okay, posting about her being okay on his social media, as everyone thinks Devi died after the attack. After learning, about why Devi went near that coyote, Paxton admits to Devi that he thinks she is crazy, but in a good way and—it makes her interesting, getting Devi's hopes up. However, her dreams are crushed once again as Paxton tells her they are just friends, after which Nalini forces Paxton to leave Devi alone after calling him an "walking HPV infection."

Although, much to her delight Paxton finally liked her thirst trap and started following her on social media. The next day at school during her presentation she is called "Coyote Girl" by the whole class, where Paxton supports her into taking this positively by hyping her up, much to her delight.

### Turnover

The next day, after a tough day due to Ganesh Puja and not able to impress a college counselor, because she didn't want to sell the story of her father's death to make herself stand out more as a scholarship candidate, Devi meets Paxton at her locker, where she is kicking lockers in anger. Paxton says that he is there for swimming practice, and Devi explains the traditions of Ganesh Puja to him, where Paxton jokingly asks if kicking lockers was a part of Ganesh Puja. Devi shares her pain of other people misunderstanding her all the time, with Paxton telling her that it doesn't matter what other people think—telling her she looks great in her outfit, making Devi believe she wasn't as friend-zoned as she thought.

Later on, during her model UN trip, Devi is shocked to know how other people think she had sex with Paxton—as it was a rumor spread around by Ben. However, in her pursuit of popularity she continued to spread the rumor even more. Eventually, an annoyed Paxton discovered Devi spreading the false rumor around, calling Devi for her behavior in private. However, he doesn't disclose the truth to the whole school as he forgets about it, much to Devi's relief.

### Photoshoot for Rebecca Hall-Yoshida

Despite her actions, Devi wanted to redeem herself in front of Paxton, who refused to talk to her because of her lies. While things are looking grim for Devi as her friend has been abandoned by her mother, Paxton decides to call Devi for a favor, saying it is an emergency. After some difficulty Devi decides to go to Paxton's house, as she wants to get closer to him and she owes him for saving her from the coyote bite and not exposing her for her lies.

Much to Devi's shock, this emergency was a fashion shoot in which she is a model, for Paxton's sister Rebecca. Paxton and Devi enjoy each other's company during the photoshoot, as the former enjoys the latter's company. After the photoshoot, Paxton thanks Devi for helping, and forgives Devi for her actions, deciding to be friends with her again. Much to her shock, after her invitation to Ben's birthday party, her friends decide to take a "friend break" from her for not being compassionate to Eleanor's pain dealing with the repercussions of her selfish actions.

### Ben's Birthday Party

Arriving at Ben's birthday party, Paxton sees Devi and her best friends in a conflicting discussion, standing there he hears his name, that Devi only cares about popularity and him. Devi falling into the pool he helps her to get out and let her borrow his sweatshirt and pants.

He offers Devi a ride home, because she's supposed to be home by 11 o'clock. During the ride, he asks her if she is okay about her fight with Fabiola and Eleanor. Telling him that she feels like everyone in her life is done with her, he looks at her saying nothing and she asks him to forget what she said. Paxton interrupts her by reaching out to her and kissing her, much to the latter's surprise.

### Paxton Meets Nalini Again

After Devi left her dress in the car, Paxton got the dried up dress and went straight to Devi's home to give her the dress. However, much to his shock he is confronted by a furious Nalini who relentlessly insults him just because he kissed Devi, with Devi not saying much for him. However, Paxton finally reaches his breaking point when Nalini taps into his biggest insecurity about being "stupid" which makes him leave. Feeling agitated, Paxton makes the decision to stay away from Devi.

Meanwhile, a furious Devi immediately confronts Nalini for her rude behavior. Devi and Nalini's loud talking on the porch bring out the others who have heard everything. Back into the house, Aravind tells her that her unruly behavior will be put to bed when she and her mother move back to India. Devi really devastated runs to her room and as Nalini tries to convince her by telling her that she wants to move because she is tired of raising Devi alone. Devi with tears in her eyes after everything that happened says to Nalini that she heard what she had said on the night of her father's death, "that Devi was no longer a daughter of hers”. She closes the door in Nalini's face saying she wished that she had died that night.

### Trying to Patch-Up

They later get together in ... been a perfect girl and carry on dating into *S3.* Their developing relationship is shown to be rocky and Devi uncomfortable with having sex, making various excuses to get out of sleeping with Paxton. He finally convinces her he is fine if they just take things slowly.

### The Break-Up

They break-up due to Paxton saying although he likes Devi, she needs to develop confidence and like herself before they can be committed to each other, or he can be with her.