Chapt. 2

"Shizu-Chan," Izaya whined as they exited the tent.

Shizuo ignored him, cursing under his breath. "Stupid gypsy. She can't even remove her own God damn spell? What kind of..."

Tom sighed. "Well, maybe you could just try to maybe...kind of...fall in love with him?"

Shizuo stopped in his tracks. "Are you fucking serious?"

"I don't see any other way to get him to stop liking you."

"I'll never stop loving you," Izaya interrupted, quickly latching himself onto the blonde's arm.

Rolling his eyes, Shizuo gestured to him. "See what I have to deal him? How the hell do you expect me to fall in love with this?"

Izaya frowned and looked up at him. "You mean, you're not in love with me too?"

"No, oh God, no! Now will you stop clinging on to me?"

The brunette considered it for a moment, then shook his head. "Nope. I'll work hard to make you love me back."

"Look, flea, you are under a SPELL. Do you know what that means? Your feelings are not real."

"They're definitely real, Shizu-Chan."

"Do you even remember what we were doing before you 'fell in love' with me?"

"I've loved you from the moment we met so I don't think we could have been 'doing anything'. "

"So you have no recollection at all?"

Izaya shook his head.

"Well, we used to hate each other. In fact, I still hate you."

"I never hated you," Izaya gasped.

"You did, you just don't remember," Shizuo explained before an annoying beeping sounded from the confines of Tom's jeans pocket.

"Oops, that's mine," he announced sheepishly. Flipping open open his phone, he turned away to take the call. All three males were quiet for a moment save for the occasional oh, yes and mm hm's that Tom let out. After a minute or two, he hung up and turned back to the two. "Uh, I have some business to attend to."

"What?"

"I mean, I have to leave. Now. You two love birds can go run around the carnival, alright?"

Shizuo gaped at him. "Wait, no Tom you can't-"

Before he could finish his protest, Tom was already running off in the opposite direction, waving to them. "Goodbye!"

"Wow, how exciting. This'll be like our first date then," Izaya remarked, beaming up at the blonde who had a stricken look plastered to his face.

"No. No no no. I am going home."

"Oh. Then I'll follow you."

"No, you're not. Go away."

"I'm following you wherever."

Shizuo took a deep breath, rubbing his temples with his forefinger. "Look, Izaya, you love me right?" He waited for the brunette to nod before he continued. "Then listen to me now and go away."

"No," Izaya argued back. Oh great, he was a non-passive kind of lover. Shizuo was still kind of hoping he would be a quiet, obedient type who shied away from public acknowledgement and shit. He was upfront as an enemy, so maybe he would be more idle as a lover, Shizuo thought. He was wrong, however, again. Now, it seemed he would either have to bring the flea around the carnival or bring him back home, neither which was a good option for him, but the former was definitely the better choice.

So, sighing, he finally agreed. "Ok, louse. We'll walk around the damn carnival. But this is NOT a date, got it."

Izaya, though, seemed to have only heard the first part of Shizuo's reply because he got excited right away, grabbing his hand and pulling him roughly to the heart of the event where there were rides and entertainment.

"Do you want cotton candy?" Izaya asked, nudging his partner lightly. Shizuo shrugged. "Ok, then." He made his way to the candy floss stand where a man was spinning the sweet. "Two, please." He watched wide eyed as the man began to make it, the solid sugar turning into fluffs of pink floss. "Wow, I didn't know cotton candy was made like that," he said in amazement, turning to the blonde behind him.

Shizuo sighed; he seemed to be doing a lot of sighing today; and forced out a smile. As much as he hated Izaya and the fact that Izaya was in love with him now, he knew that this wasn't the flea's fault. In fact, it was his own fault. So maybe he should try not treating the raven like shit and punishing him that way since that would in no way seem fair. Although he wouldn't fall in love with him as Tom suggested, because that was truly impossible, but maybe he could try being nice for a change. "Yeah, it's cool."

Izaya grinned, obviously pleased that Shizuo had actually given a proper answer. "It is."

When the candy floss was done, Izaya took the two sticks and passed one to Shizuo who dove into it immediately. The raven ate his delicately as they continued walking around the carnival, Izaya constantly stopping to look at all the entertainment. Magical acts, jugglists, circus animals, he laughed at them all, and Shizuo joined in despite himself. The bustling of the crowd, the upbeat music, and Izaya was getting to him, but he didn't mind. In fact, he liked it. He liked this new Izaya a lot better; without his snarky responses to everything and clinging onto Shizuo instead of running away, making the blonde chase him, he was a lot easier to talk to. It was hard to believe this was the same person he had tried to strangle just a little under 10 minutes ago. If anything, Shizuo was actually glad Izaya was under the spell.

Though he still wasn't that used to it. When they went into a haunted house, or tent, more appropriately, Izaya had grabbed on to him everytime he got frightened and Shizuo had gotten the urge to swat him away but controlled himself by clenching his hands into fists.

They went on rides and played carnival games in which Shizuo won a blown up orca toy and handed it to Izaya after he called it cute, insisting that he keep it.

"But don't get the wrong idea. I just don't want it to go to waste," Shizuo had said after he saw the huge smile perpetually plastered on the raven's face.

"Ok, Shizu-Chan, whatever you say," Izaya had replied, still grinning.

When they went into the bouncy castle; Shizuo had finally agreed only after a lot of persuasion; it was swamped with kids. Izaya had no problem with that though, it seemed he was as good with kids as he was with riling Shizuo up. When they were done with the bouncy castle, they went onto the paddle boats. Shizuo was hesitant at first, seeing as most of the people who went on them were couples, but caved in when Izaya begged. It was fun, surprisingly, and Shizuo could feel himself start to enjoy it.

It was sunset when they finally left the carnival, both dizzy from excitement and running around on unstable, inflatable grounds. They walked a stretch of the road before Shizuo turned to the raven.

"Izaya, you're not following me back."

Izaya turned to the ground. "Why?"

"Because I don't want you following me everywhere," Shizuo said as if it were the most obvious thing ever.

"...Can I at least get a goodbye kiss?"

Shizuo felt his face contort in disgust. He knew that was an effect of the spell, but he couldn't help it. "Fuck no!"

Izaya looked up then, face blank. "Just one?"

"Mm mm. Not in a million years. Look, once the spell wears off, if it does, you're gonna regret ever asking me that, ok? This isn't really what you want."

Izaya sighed. "Alright," he compelled, must to the blonde's surprise. Then he started smiling, hugging the inflated orca to his chest. "Well, at least I got to spend the day with you today."

Shizuo nodded, smiling slightly. "Well, goodbye louse."

Izaya walked away slowly before realizing that Shizuo wasn't going to call out to him to lengthen their time together and fading quickly into the darkness.

Shizuo went off as well, muttering a silent 'don't get too used to it' under his breath.