Summary: After A Side Episode of Unbirthday, Elliot Nightray has had to deal with a few things, mainly the horrifying idea that he might be in love. Things start to get hectic when he realizes that everyone knew before even he did… everyone except the short blond heir who had been occupying his thoughts. With his best friend (and JUST friend) Reo to support him, and a fangirly Sharon to go to for advice… Will Elliot manage to win Oz over?

Pairing: ElliOz ( Elliot x Oz )

Disclaimer: Pandora Hearts and its characters do not belong to me in any way.

"Elliot?...Ellliiiioooot." Reo called the brunette's name a few more times, raising an eyebrow and chuckling softly at the spacy look on his master's face.

Elliot sat on a chair, a book in hand which he was obviously not reading considering the fat blue book was upside down and in danger of falling right out of the brunette's hand. His free hand was under his chin, holding his head up as he stared at seemingly nothing with a look of both confusion and utter concentration. Reo rolled his eyes, the Nightray heir had been behaving like this for nearly a week now. No matter what he was doing it seemed he'd randomly start staring off into space, this same look in his eyes. Reo wished he knew what Elliot was internally fussing about considering whenever he snapped out of it the brunette boy would shake his head frantically, something he even had a light blush on his cheeks.

"Well maybe you're finally being affected by puberty." Reo muttered, pushing his glasses up and going back to his own book.

"…Huh?" Elliot asked, more confused by the statement than anything else.

"So you were listening after all." Reo smirked, pushing a strand of his black hair behind his ear. The other frowned, taking on his usual appearance.

"Oi of course I was listening, and what do you mean by that?" He glared a little before suddenly remembering something his big-mouthed servant had said to Oz a week back at Oscar Vessalius's tea party.

"Elliot doesn't seem interested in the opposite sex!"*

Elliot's face went bright red suddenly. His glare intensified as he pictured the confused and surprised look on Oz's face.

"AHH!" A frustrated growl left Elliot's lips as he ran a hand through his chocolate brown spikes. "You gave him the impression that I'm gay!" He told the younger angrily. Reo blinked at him then burst out laughing.

"I did didn't I?" He said between giggles. "The look on Oz-kun's face was priceless."

"Tch…" Elliot was deciding between bringing his awfully fat book down hard on Reo's head or just plain biting his head off and beginning the search for a new servant who might know how to keep his mouth shut.

Reo smirked again, knowing that the lack of a retort on Elliot's part just meant he was right so far. He could keep prodding him like this and get more information which he could use to either blackmail Elliot or actually help him out if he needed it. In any case, he could pretty much guess what it was about. It had started a week ago after all. And the only thing that had happened a week ago was…

"Then… Let's work together to change the relationship between the Bezarius and Nightray houses!"

Reo closed his eyes, smiling a bit. It'd definitely been a while since the last time he'd seen Elliot smile like that. He thought… If he could see his best friend smile like that more often he'd be more than willing to help him achieve what he wanted. The smirk suddenly crept its way back into Reo's face.

'What he wants is Oz Bezarius.' He mused, holding back another chuckle. He didn't want to let Elliot know that he pretty much already knew what the fuss was about.

"So… What's been on your mind lately?" Reo asked casually, flipping a page in his book.

"Huh?" Elliot raised an eyebrow, giving Reo a look.

"Well you know, you've been spacing out a lot lately and I've caught you blushing more than a few times." Reo's tone turned a bit more accusing, subtly trying to push Elliot into spilling the beans. Reo was good at doing that, especially considering how long they'd been living as master and servant.

Elliot's face ironically turned a couple of shades redder. "What the hell are you babbling about? You're imagining things." He scoffed and looked away, knowing Reo could read him easily.

"Hm… I believe it started about a week ago…" Reo faked sudden shock. "Don't tell me… You've actually begun to see Miss Ada Vessalius that way?" He said overdramatically, fighting not to burst out laughing at the expression on Elliot's face.

"EHHHHH?!" He yelled, standing up suddenly. "WHO THE HELL WOULD LIKE THAT DITZ?!" He demanded, obviously outraged even by the sole idea of liking Ada Bezarius.

"Oh its not?" Reo once again faked innocence, feeling amused at the twitch of Elliot's eyebrow.

"Of course it's not you idiot! It's… someone else..." He looked away, frowning.

"Then is it Oz-kun?"

"…. SHUT UP REO!"

ACHOO

Oz Bezarius sneezed loudly, dropping the books he'd been carrying.

"Bless you Oz-sama." Sharon smiled, playing sweet and sisterly as usual.

"Thank you Sharon-chan…" He muttered, picking up the books.

"My my, someone must be talking about you." She giggled, adding two more books to Oz's already large stack.

The blond rolled his eyes, but smiled kindly.

"Of course." He then sighed as the strawberry blond continued pulling out books. "Why do I have to help you with this?"

"Because you are a gentleman, and my Romance Bible is far too much for me to carry on my own." She answered simply, as if the answer was more than obvious. Sharon pulled out one last book and looked at the cover. "It's a shame you're the only gentleman in this entire mansion that is able to help me. Break usually lazes around and looks through them… the nerve of him. Don't even get me started on Gilbert… I'd rather carry them myself then stand him stuttering and red faced the entire time."

Oz laughed, being careful not to drop the stack. "That definitely sounds like Gil." He smirked.

They laughed for a few more minutes before walking side by side down the hall and towards Sharon's room, Oz being careful not to drop anything and Sharon gripping her harisen*, prepared to attack if one of her precious Romance Bibles even touched the ground.

They entered Sharon's overly elegant room, walking past her purple canopy bed filled to the brim with stuffed animals. Oz sometimes wondered where she fit in there among all the stuffed toys. The blond finally set the large stack down, letting out a sigh of relief at being relieved of the weight because Sharon seriously had WAY too many of these Romance Bibles, and WAY too much free time from what Oz could see.

Said female pulled her long ponytail loose and rolled up her sleeves, sitting down at the desk besides the large stack and staring at the books in concentration. Whatever it was for, Oz could tell she was planning something and needed to consult with the books in order to get everything fairy tale perfect.

"Sharon-chan why do you even need all these?" Oz asked curiously, pushing a strand of his blond hair out of his face. As far as he was concerned, all of Sharon's previous attempts to pair any of their friends up usually ended in disaster.

There was one time where she'd even tried setting up Gilbert and Oz but things went bad quickly for two main reasons. First, Oz never liked Gilbert that way and had been feeling extremely uncomfortable… and second, Alice. The jealous brunette had quietly literally crashed down on their "date" and didn't just ruin all of Sharon's hopes of them being together, but nearly split Gilbert's skull open in the progress.

"Are you crazy?! Can you imagine if my manservant and my seaweed head started dating?! They'd lose sight of the truly important thing… me!"

Oz chuckled at this, then returned his attention to Sharon.

"Oh, well, a certain friend of mine is having some romance issues." She said, smiling slyly. "And a friend of that friend has asked me for help in relieving the poor boy's despair." She said dramatically, as if she were discussing the fate of the world and not some random teenager's lovelife.

Oz laughed again. "So Super Sharon to the rescue?" He smiled, amused by the female's enthusiasm.

"Excuse me I am a lady, we do not need SUPER or MEGA in our names to be amazing." She said, pouting and grabbing a book off the stack. She opened it and quickly began looking for something within the pages.

"Why doesn't he just ask her out?" Oz asked, making conversation since he had nothing better to do anyways except train with Break, but that wasn't for another hour or so.

"It's not that simple dear." Sharon began, suddenly prepared to educate the blond on the matters of love. "His love story is a slightly more delicate one. You see it's the 'forbidden love' kind." She explained, a strange glint in her eyes.

"Forbidden? So what… is it someone younger than him?" Oz asked, tilting his head as he tried to understand Sharon0's fangirl language.

"Not exactly… more like the person he likes is from a family that his own does not get along with." She said simply, slightly surprised at how innocent Oz was actually turning out to be. Then again with this particular boy you could never be completely sure what you saw is what really is. Oz nodded as if completely understanding.

"I can understand that, it's like Elliot and I." He said, trying to compare.

"…." Sharon couldn't help but grin at what the boy had just said.

"…." Oz's face suddenly flushed bright red and he started waving his hands in denial. "I-I didn't mean it romantically! O-obviously Elliot and I aren't... I mean... t-that's weird… what I meant was that our families dislike each other that's all!" He said quickly.

Sharon laughed, grabbing another book. "Of course dear." She smiled to herself as she continued flipping through the pages. The entire situation was extremely amusing, after all, Sharon was pretty sure only Oz didn't know what the Nightray heir felt, and the brunette himself had no idea how to approach Oz, much less did he know if the boy liked him back.

"My my, this is why tsunderes are so difficult…"

"Tsun..eh?"