So yeah. Thank you everybody who read A.E.E (or any of my fics) and an extra cookie for those who bothered to review :) A.E.E was just the prototype for this story, A.E.E unlimited (this story) is the real thing. The 1st chapter of both stories are pretty much the same with some slight changes so yeah please read this chapter before proceeding to the next one. I know 85% of it is the same but please read it k :D If not, you can just skip to ch 2 ^^; I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I did when I was writing it. Please please please review. Arigatou Gozaimasu :D
"Arrgh"
That morning, Allen Walker awoke sweating profusely. Link was still asleep on the bed beside his. He was groaning about things such as why he could not grow a moustache and how he wished he had one just like the inspector, whom Allen personally felt looked too much like a certain German whom he couldn't remember the name of.
In any case, Allen had had a dream, and it was not the usual ones about Mana, Cross or memories of the other self which existed inside his body. It was instead a dream filled with the memories of a small black haired girl with twin ponytails.
Allen knew at once that the girl he was dreaming about was Lenalee. Once, when he was with her on a train, Lenalee had showed him an old photo of Komui and herself. The girl in the photo was adorable, innocent and extremely cuddly. In that photo, Lenalee had only one ponytail and she was literally standing on top of Komui, whose back was bending over. It looked as though he had been giving Lenalee a train ride on his back. Allen laughed at how different the current Lenalee was, with her short cropped hair and mature character. The Lenalee now was still cute though; he always had the urge to cuddle her and hold her close.
In the dream, memories of Lenalee in the shape of puzzle pieces flashed passed him as he stood in the middle of an empty corridor. Memories of what she went through inside the Order.
When puzzle pieces which reflected her happy memories pass by, Allen found himself smiling together with the Lenalee in those pieces.
But when puzzle pieces which reflected her sad memories pass by, tears began to well up in his eyes on their own. He was crying together with the Lenalee of those memories.
His body had reacted to Lenalee's emotions on their own. When she was happy, he was happy. When she was sad, so was he.
Then suddenly, a young Lenalee appeared at the end of the empty corridor. She was petite and small and nearly half of Allen's height. She wore two ponytails, one on each side of her head and was wearing the old exorcist uniform. Without warning, she began to fall backwards… towards the floor. Allen panicked and immediately ran forward to catch her but when he reached her to do so; nothing was caught except for a fist full of air.
"Arrgh"
What was with that dream?
Floods of questions were swarming around inside his head but Allen ignored them and got off the bed towards the study table.
He then picked up a random pen and paper and quickly scribbled his own name along with Lenalee's name.
Allen.
Lenalee.
The 15 years old boy found comfort in seeing his own name next to hers. He disliked the dream. He being unable to reach her seemed to imply that they don't meant to be. Allen didn't like that. He wanted to be next to Lenalee. He wanted to be able to touch her.
Allen blushed slightly at how wrong the last sentence came out. Using his pen, he drew hearts next to Lenalee's name and stared at it as if her name was the best thing in the entire world and it was, or rather she was. Lenalee, his object of affection was the important thing to him in his world.
Suddenly, he discovered something. The letters of his name were also in Lenalee's.
After subtracting away his name, the letters that is left behind is 1 'A' as well as 2 'E'
A.E.E.
Geez, what is that suppose to mean. A puzzled Allen began to scratch his head, trying to think of something to represent the three letters.
"Atrocious, execrable exorcist?" he mused.
Just then, Link woke up and Allen quickly scrunched up the piece of paper and placed it into his pocket.
"What are you doing, Walker?" Link said, examining the bulge in Allen's pocket suspiciously. It seemed as though Link had woken up.
"No..it's nothing…" Allen stammered, his face turning a bright red. If Link were to find out what he wrote on that letter, he would literally die of embarrassment.
After washing up, Allen and Link proceeded to the cafeteria. Like any other fanfiction with the Allen X Lenalee pairing, Allen saw Lenalee in the cafeteria…
Sitting with Lavi and Kanda.
A surge of jealousy coursed through his veins.
As compared to the two guys, he had spent relatively less time with Lenalee and needless to say, the relationship among the three should be greater than his, times two.
"Ohayou, Allen-kun," said the object of his affections once she noticed him.
"Yo Allen, it's BREAKFAST TIME!" greeted the cheery Lavi, teasing him about his diet as per usual.
"Tch." Needless to say, this came from Kanda.
Being the good gentleman that he was brought up to be, Allen smiled and waved back at all of them.
Lenalee noticed that Allen was acting weirdly that morning. Instead of his usual hearty diet, he only ate a bowl of cornflakes and 2 pieces of toast. Not to mention he was not engaging in any of their conversations.
"Allen-kun, are you okay?" asked a concerned Lenalee.
"Yeah," replied Allen. He suddenly remembered the link between their names and thus his face started to turn a deep red.
"Are you sure?"
This time, Allen just nodded. If he tried talking, he was bound to start stammering. So, all of them resumed eating their meals.
Lavi and Kanda finished their breakfast first and headed towards the training grounds while Link rushed to use the gents, leaving Allen and Lenalee behind.
There was an awkward silence between them. There was nothing to talk about after all.
"Hey Allen, what's that in your pockets?" said Lenalee, breaking the awkward silence. She had noticed the bulge in the white-haired exorcist's pockets. Furthermore, he had constantly checked his pockets while they were eating, as though he was making sure that whatever was in his pockets was still there.
"Nothing much," said Allen. Lenalee finding out the contents of the paper was even worse than Link finding out.
"Hmm, I see. You don't have to show me if you don't want to then…" Lenalee said sadly.
Lenalee had said something like this to Allen before. When they shared the dream together as Lenalee was falling into the ocean and Allen was recuperating at the Asian branch. In the dream, Allen's left eye was throbbing painfully but he hid it away from Lenalee who asked him about it. Lenalee had said, "It's okay if you don't show me, just please don't go towards the darkness anymore."
It hurt Lenalee to know that her companion was once again hiding something from her.
Seeing the sad look on Lenalee's face, Allen began to get a horrible feeling inside.
Guilt.
"I guess it's okay if I show you," Allen said, but the moment those words came out his mouth, he immediately regretted it.
"Really, Allen-kun?" exclaimed an excited Lenalee.
"On second thought, forget about it." Allen said shyly but Lenalee had already helped herself to the contents of his pocket.
She unfolded the paper and stared at the contents of the paper.
Lenalee – Allen + AEE
Allen.
There was an odd and painful silence.
"Erm, Allen-kun. Just what's the meaning of this?"Lenalee asked.
Luckily for Allen, he already erased away the hearts that he drew beforehand.
"I..I..just realized your name actually contained all the letters to my name." Allen said quickly. There was nothing wrong about their names being linked together. Coincidence. That was all.
Lenalee looked up from the paper. "What does AEE mean?"
"I... I don't know. I haven't thought of that actually." Allen said sheepishly.
Another long while of silence passed.
It was Lenalee who broke the silence again. "How about Angels Exchanging Embraces?"
Both of them started to blush deeply.
The phrase sounds utterly embarrassing. Allen have to hit himself in the head in order to stop imaging images of him and Lenalee spouting wings and flying together like angels in the skies.
Just then, Link came back from his business. He frowned at Allen.
"What's going on Walker? Why aren't you done with your breakfast yet? We have things to do."
A very embarrassed Allen immediately grabbed the opportunity to make his escape. He couldn't hold in his feelings for Lenalee any longer.
"Err, we are going Lenalee. See ya around." Allen grabbed Link's collar and lead the way out of the cafeteria hastily.
After Allen and Link left, Lenalee picked up the crumpled piece of paper on the table.
Angels exchanging embraces, she thought.
Unknown to Allen, she really liked that phrase. She was imagining these images of Allen and her spouting wings and flying together like angels in the skies.
She slowly processed the 3 letters in her mind "A, E, E" and that was when she realized it. Allen had made a spelling mistake.
Her name was actually just 2Es without Allen's name. The mistake was just so typical of Allen-kun.
She smiled and after making sure no one else was looking, place the paper close to her chest.
There was a strong emotion raging within her and her heart thumped against her chest like it never did before.
"I think… I'm falling in love with Allen-kun"
Tada, that's the end of ch1. Credits goes to Emm297 for editing once again. Please review :D
A.E.E unlimited ch2: Angels
