I know some of you might not bother to read this disclaimer part (I don't), so just skip this & get on with the story :D
disclaimer: DGM belongs to Kat Shino. Lavi does too. *wails*.
contains: LaviXOC-ness, very mild vulgar, hot guys.
other crap not worth mentioning: Reviews are appreciated, but not necessary. It'd be mind-blowing awesomness if you just read. :D
Chapter 3hree.
Reiniko's POV
Shutting the door behind me, I hung my keys on their usual hook. Lavi had already settled down on my sofa, bag on the floor. "Your house is smaller than Allen's." he pointed out, glancing at me. "I live by myself, Lavi. And I don't expect to have a party anytime soon." I said, walking to the fridge. Coke in hand, I grabbed the bag of chips sitting on the small kitchen counter and tossed it to Lavi.
"Arigatou!" he exclaimed, tearing open the bag of chips and devouring them. "You're pronouncing it all wrongly." I laughed. "And half of that's for me." "Oops, sorry." He apologized, his mouth full of chips. "Hey, can I see your room?"
I walked up to him and took a chip. "It's just as boring as Allen's room, but smaller." Lavi ignored me. Bag of chips in hand, he tried to find the door to my room. "That's the toilet, Lavi." "Oh. So I guess this is your room…" he said, opening the other door.
I cracked open the Coke and gulped it down. I heard my bed creak as Lavi plopped himself down on it. Muttering about a certain redhead who took people's beds for advantage, I walked into my room, leading against the doorframe.
"You do this to Allen's bed too." I said, jerking my head towards his sprawled figure on my bed. He was still eating the chips. I walked up to him and snatched the bag from him, scooping up a handful of chips and pouring them into my mouth. " Aww… I wasn't done eating." I shot him a glare. "These cost me $1.90." We stayed like that for a while, the only sound was the crunching of chips and the slurping of Coke.
"How long are you gonna stay on my bed?" I asked. "Hmm…" he said, not answering my question. "Can I ask you something?" I looked down at him. My legs were getting tired, so I sat down and leaned against my cupboard. "What?"
"In that note-" I cut him off, pulling the note out of my pocket. "This?" He glanced down at me. "Yeah, that. You said something… About nothing scaring you. That you've seen every scary thing. Were you kidding?"
"No." I answered, without hesitation.
"What are the scary things you've seen?"
"Most of it was before I met my guardian. Five years before I met my guardian." I muttered. "Guys raping little kids, thieves forcing money out of an old women, and then killing her. Even the supernatural. I traveled around a lot, even before I met my guardian."
"Is it because of what you've seen… That you don't open up to anybody?" he asked, twirling his headband on his forefinger. I stared at him. Silence ensued. After a few minutes, he rolled over onto his stomach and stared back at me. "I was right?" I looked down at my Coke can, pretending to be interested in the redness of it.
When I looked up again, he was grinning at me. "What's that grin for?" I asked, throwing the can at his head. He caught it. "Hey, what's the time?" Glancing at the clock, I said, "7.30pm." Lavi's eye widened. "Shit! I gotta go. That panda's gonna kill me! Thanks, Niko." He said, grabbing his school bag and opening the door. I followed behind him slowly. "See you at school!" he sang, closing the door behind him.
I walked along the dark streets. The wind blew softly. I didn't have my dinner yet, and my stomach was hurting like hell.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps behind me. I spun around, coming face to face with a lady. She had blonde hair, and a scar covering half her face. An odd looking monkey was perched on her shoulder.
She smiled at me.
"Who are you?" I hissed at her. "Get away from me." I saw her dig into her pocket, retrieving a ball of rice wrapped in plastic. It looked like she had gotten it from a convenient store. "Here," she said, tossing it at me. "You look hungry."
I caught the rice ball, staring down at it queerly. "I don't need your pity." I spat.
"Trust me, it tastes really good." She assured me with a small smile. Glaring at her, I unwrapped the ball. Staring at it for a few seconds, I saw the lady nodding at me in encouragement.
I bit into it.
I woke up with a start. I hadn't had that dream in years. Looking up at the clock, I saw that it was 6am. I was still early for school. I shuffled to the toilet and did the usual. Bathe, pee, brush my teeth. I stared at the scar imprinted onto my back, before pulling a shirt over it, sighing.
Walking to the kitchen, I poured myself a bowl of cereal and milk. I ate slowly, recalling the events of yesterday.
"Is it because of what you've seen… That you don't open up to anybody?"
How did he know?
Class was… horrible. All those sluts and bimbos from behind me kept pelting me with paper balls, all containing the same message.
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF LAVI BOOKMAN, BITCH!"
I sighed as I felt the 12th paper ball hit me on the back. I pity all those trees out there. I picked up all the paper balls littered all over the floor near my desk and stuffed them into a plastic bag. When class rang for second period, I threw the plastic bag in Katy Sandman's face. "Recycle." I snorted, walking out of the class. I could feel her powder-blue eyes shooting daggers into my back.
"Hey Nikooo!~" A very familiar voice sang. "Hi Reiniko." Allen smiled, walking on my other side.
"Where's that gay guy?" I asked. Lavi laughed. "He's probably already in class. This is the only class where the four of us are together!"
I groaned.
"Yuu-chan! Let me copy the homework!" Lavi whined, plopping himself on the seat next to Kanda. "No, idiotic Baka Usagi." I laughed silently. He really was like an usagi. "But, Yuu…!" "Shutup!"
"Aww… Kanda can't even let his fellow friends copy his homework? I bet you're the only one who bothered doing it." Said Allen, smirking. "What did you say, you damn Moyashi?" Kanda glared at the white-haired boy sitting behind him. "No~thing." Allen said, opening to a page, just as Mr. Collins walked in.
School had ended. Lavi had insisted that the four of us check out the new arcade.
I walked along the empty corridor towards the car park, when suddenly I saw Katy and her gang in front of me.
"Recycle, huh? Who do you think you are?" she growled, hands clenched into fists. "And you'd better get your hands off Lavi, you stupid bitch."
"Who said that I was dating him?" I asked calmly. Katy's eyes narrowed. "I know you are."
Bimbos are psychic now? I guess being bimbo affects her psychic powers, since she's got it all wrong.
"You look like you want to kill me. Come on." I challenged, my face still emotionless. A girl in her gang, Sarah Ashworth, came charging, trying to punch me in the face. I blocked her punch. In my mind, I sighed. Why was it that nowadays I kept getting into fights?
It wasn't fair. It never was. It was six girls against one. While I was trying to fight off girls, Katy lunged for my side, pushing me with brute force towards the glass window of the science lab. She gasped as the window shattered, and I fell into the science lab. A sharp pain stabbed me in the back and arm. It hurt. I lay there for a while, unable to get up. I could tell that those cowards had run away. Trying in vain to get up, I noticed that there was a small piece of glass stuck in my left arm. Blood was trickling down my arm slowly. That was when I blacked out.
Allen's POV
"Where's that stupid mushroom?" Kanda growled, looking extremely irritated. "I'll go look for her." I suggested. Hands in my pocket, I walked back into the school.
As I passed by the nurses office, I heard a familiar voice. Reiniko? Why was she in the nurses office?
Sliding the door open slowly I saw Reiniko, her back towards me. I blushed a little, seeing that she wasn't wearing her shirt. The nurse was slowly and gently pulling shards of glass out of her back and arm. But that wasn't what shocked me.
A big burn mark covered most of her back. By the looks of it, it had already healed a long time ago. It was only a scar. Somehow, it looked just like my arm, except that it wasn't red.
I let out an involuntarily gasp. Reiniko and the nurse heard, and they spun around to face me.
"No boys allowed!" the nurse ordered. Reiniko stared at me in silence, her mouth slightly ajar. She knew that I had seen.
"Uhm, Reiniko, what's with the glass?" I asked. They looked quite bad, but not in need of stitches.
"She said that some girls did this to her. Though she refused to name them. She's fine though. I just need to bandage her up and she can get going." The nurse replied. "Oh, okay. I, uh… I'll wait out here." I said, smiling.
Five minutes later, Reiniko came out. She looked at me with an apologizing look. "Sorry to keep you waiting." I nodded, and we walked back to the car in silence.
"Please don't tell anyone of what you saw. I promise I might tell you the story one day, in exchange for the story of your arm." Reiniko said, a nervous smile on her lips.
I understood how she felt. The feeling of having your secret found out.
"Hey, what took you guys so long?" Lavi called out, leaning against the hood of his car. Kanda had his arms crossed, scowling.
"I had a little accident. Got pushed through the science lab window, breaking the glass in the process." Reiniko answered, as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
Lavi's eyes widened. "Who on earth did that to you?" She shrugged.
"Che, can we get in the car now?" Kanda doesn't go well with the word "patience". Stupid chopped hair girl.
Reiniko stayed silent throughout the whole journey.
But, boy… Putting that girl with arcade games is like putting me together with a set of poker cards. Even though it was her first time.
Reiniko's POV
I was sitting at the kitchen table, head in hands. I had just come back from work as a waitress at Starbucks.
Gosh. Oh gosh. Allen knew. What if he- No, he wouldn't. He promised. I still couldn't help but feel uneasy. I tried not to think of what he saw. I didn't want those memories I've worked so hard to push away to come flooding back.
Just then, my phone vibrated.
I was stunned.
It's been forever since my phone vibrated. Since… Since Klaud first gave it to me. Flipping my phone open, I read:
Tell me about the accident! Pleeeaaase? –Unknown Number.
Even though it said "Unknown Number", I was sure as hell as to whom the number belonged to. The exclamation mark and the dragged "please" helped.
Where did you get my number?
I grabbed the packet of fries that was my dinner's leftover and started eating. When I got to my third fries, the phone vibrated again. I jumped in my seat, momentarily shocked.
Phonebook. If you don't tell me what happened, I'll go over to your house and force it out of you. ): -Unknown Number
I groaned. I couldn't lie, since he already knew about the window part. Ugh.
It was that slut's gang. They pushed me through the window and small pieces of glass got caught in my back and arm. Explains the bandages.
I definitely didn't want to mention the part about their suspicions of me dating him.
Why on earth would they want to do that? Did you give them a good beating after that? -Unknown Number
Why did he think that I loved to go around beating people up?
Obviously, they hate me. Nope. I blacked out. And they ran away, those cowards. Anymore questions?
I picked out four fries and stuffed them into my mouth.
Bzzt. I was getting used to that.
Haha, nah. I'm studying my brains out! Stupid old panda! ): Who cares about getting first in grade, anyway. –Unknown Number
Yawning, I typed:
I'm gonna sleep. It's 10pm. Goodnight. Don't reply, coz' I'll be sleeping.
I had a quick bath, changed and brushed my teeth. Crawling into my bed, I winced as I felt my back touch the mattress. The wounds were still aching.
I stared at the ceiling for a while, before my eyelids grew heavy.
Just as I was drifting off to sleep, I heard my phone buzz.
A/N: And there's chapter three. Sorry, Yuu fans! I know I promised putting more Yuu, but I put more Allen instead. *begs for forgiveness.*
