Gyrraahh!
I'm so, so, so, so very sorry for such a late update! 4th of July, very busy. Helping little brothers, and such!
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I don't know what it was. For some weird reason, all of my friends seemed to be getting more distant from me. Whenever I would try to do something for them, like clean their clothes, they would turn me down, a sad look in their eyes. Had I done something wrong to Master, making him spread rumors about me? I furrowed my brow, absently tugging on the tips of my threadbare gloves.
"Are you for real?" A smooth, purring like voice said to my right, causing me to jump, my heart ramming in my chest at full throttle. Lavi was sitting next to me, looking quite comfortable. Just how long had he been sitting there?
"W-what? I'm sorry, I wasn't really paying attention." I flushed in embarrassment, toying with my collar. Lavi smirked, and shook his head.
"You've been staring at nothing for the past twenty minutes. Were you daydreaming, or something?" His one eye twinkled, a smile never leaving his lips.
"Oh, um, well, I was just thinking." I shifted uncomfortably, not liking the way he was looking at me. He looked like a wild cat, his one eye half closed lazily, and a smile that didn't reveal his teeth bringing up his cheeks slightly.
"Well, you better be thinking about the things you want to pack." He lifted an arm, and scratched behind his head, ruffling the wild red hair.
"Excuse me?" I frowned slightly, not understanding.
"Didn't anyone tell you?" He looked slightly surprise, and then grinned again, as if he was happy to deliver the news himself.
"Tell me what?" This boy kept getting scarier, and scarier. I couldn't look him in his eye at all, I was too scared that if I did, my heart would spasm and stop.
"Well, you see, your Master told Panda about you, and he seemed pretty interested. I mean, who has white hair, and a dead arm that he can still move?" I winced visibly, consciously bringing my arm closer to my chest. I was expecting Lavi to go on, but I was only met by silence. I glanced over at him, waiting.
He was quite close, leaning sideways. His hand was reaching out, and touched my shoulder gently. I tilted my head to the side, wondering what was with this guy. He could be way happy for one second, then another second freaky, and then in the next instant, sympathetic. He probably had a disorder.
"I didn't mean it like that." His voice was low, smooth. I flushed, jerking away from him.
"G-Go on, please." He sighed, and ran a hand through his untamed hair.
"Well, Panda took a liking to you, and well, decided to buy you too." My jaw dropped. I had been bought? Just like an object you can get at a store, just because it looked interesting? Rage surfaced in my heart. It rammed in my chest, and without even thinking, I slammed my fist into the ground. It left a small indention.
Lavi made a sound suddenly. I glared over at him. He had a hand over his mouth, and he was trying to push something downwards on his face. A smile.
"You think this is funny?" My voice rose angrily, my body shaking. I could feel tears coming on. Lavi blinked his one eye, and then looked back at me.
"No, you just look so cute just then." That was it. My hand snapped back, and went forward, connecting hard with the side his face. He didn't move an inch besides his head whipping to the side. When his face turned back to me, he didn't look in pain, more in shock than anything.
Tears began to spill down my face. I leapt up, running off as fast as I could, my breath puffing out in quick pants. Behind our huge mansion we had a never ending looking field, which led to huge rolling hills. Whenever I was upset I would run off to the hills, waiting for night fall. It was the best place to just sit, and watch the stars, looking for a falling one if you got lucky.
I curled up on a ball when I was on my favorite hill. It was one of the biggest, with soft, knee-high grass. It didn't make me itchy, not one bit. The sun was setting off in the far end in the sky, and I would usually watch it, in awe of the pretty colors, but, right now, I didn't care. I just wanted to die.
Now I knew why Jon and Sam had been acting so weird. They knew. They knew I had been sold like some pet dog in an adoption center. I fisted the grass, angry again.
"Ugh!" I threw the chunks I had ripped from the earth as far as I could. That didn't satisfy my anger at all, so I began to hit the earth viciously. I could feel my knuckles crack, and my white gloves stain green, then light red from blood. I was panting. My lungs didn't seem to be getting enough air, no matter how much I tried to swallow down.
"Oi, bean sprout. Lavi's in the car waiting for you." It was the tall, angry looking boy with the long ponytail from before. He stood behind me, arms crossed over his thick looking chest.
"I-I'm not leaving," I managed to get out in between gasps of air. I wiped my dirt encrusted glove across my eyes, trying to stop the tears.
"What did you just say?" My heart nearly stopped at the tone of his voice. I shook slightly, scared. I opened my mouth, but swallowed not trusting myself to speak. I twisted the grass between my fingers, before I felt strong arms scoop me up, and toss me over a hard shoulder.
"Wh-What are you doing?" I squealed, wiggling.
"Bringing you to that stupid rabbit, that's what." I began to pound on the guy's back, doing anything to escape.
"Let me go, you-you-you…long-hared emo looking she-male!" The boy stopped.
"My name is Kanda. And if you ever, EVER say that again, I'll kill you. I'll gut your insides out. I'll wrap your intestines around my ceiling fan, and put it on full power, understand? I'll—" (Btw, that's what my babysitter told me when I was little if I didn't shut up. ;])
"Kanda! Stop scaring him!" I was snapped out of my realm of fear, and back to reality by Lenalee's voice. I sniffled slightly, happy somebody had come to the rescue.
"Keh, stop taking his side. He's the one who called me a name first." I was surprised to hear him sound a little softer than he had been, but he still snorted.
"You're the one who abducted me!" I squealed, my voice rising a pitch higher from strain and fear.
Kanda's thin—and plucked—looking eyebrow twitched, but he kept walking. Lenalee trailed behind him, offering me a sympathetic smile.
"I'm sorry about him, Allen-kun, but we have to do this. Lavi-kun's orders."
Another smile, another huff from Kanda, and then silence.
The thing that hurt me the most? No one came to say goodbye. After every time I had washed their clothes, made their food, helped them with their problems, when I needed their help, they just ditched me. It hurt. Bad.
Not even Sam or Jon. My insides twisted with anger at the thought of them, making my fist clench.
We were now riding in Kanda's rather fancy car back to the disgusting Lavi' house. Ugh. How could you buy anyone just like that without even a pang of guilt? Maybe he was a freak, and needed a friend? No, he was rich. Freaks weren't rich. Freaks live on the side of the road, not in big, fancy houses.
Lenalee patted my fist gently, smiling. I yanked my hand away from her, angry. How could you smile at me like that? I was just a slave being bought around, nothing else.
I rested my forehead against the dark tinted windows. I sighed, letting my eyes slip close for a moment. That moment soon slipped into full unconsciousness as I fell asleep.