Hello! I made it! I still haven't gotten a proper night's sleep yet, but I'm planning to tonight so I can write out my awesome idea for tomorrow well. For tonight though, please enjoy tonight's prompt of "connection", muse service provided by solstice zero.

Disclaimer: don't own, don't sue

AU, modern day, pre-existing relationship.

"So let the flames begin, so let the flames begin," Allen started, surprised to hear Lavi's ringer so early in the day. He fumbled with his bags as he tried to dig his phone out to silence it. "Oh, glory! Oh, glory! This is how we'll dance when, when they try to take us down, this is what will be, oh glory," he had a few people staring at him by the time he cut off the obnoxiously loud song.

"Hello?" He sounded out of breath, and Lavi laughed at him for it.

"Bought more stuff than you can handle again, Allen?"

Allen shifted the rather heavy bags into a more comfortable position. "No, I think I can handle a simple thing like clothes shopping without overdoing it. It's food shopping you've got to watch out for."

An easy laugh chimed though the speaker. "You've got a point there. Thankfully, I'm the only one who ever gets off on 'Charge in, BARGAIN!' Fridays."

Allen chuckled at the ridiculous name. "Yeah, otherwise we'd be broke by now. Anyway, what'd you call for?" He started walking toward the door to the mall, figuring he'd spent enough money today.

"Well, I was --- and wondered - lunch -- cute-" He kept cutting out.

"I'm sorry Lavi, I didn't get that." Allen pressed the phone harder to his ear, starting his walk to the bus station.

"I said -------"

Allen sighed in annoyance. "Do you just want to text me?"

"What?"

"I said do you just want to text me, so we can stop this?!"

"Oh, wait ---- over ----table!"

Allen stopped in his trek through the park, stopping the sound of his footsteps to hear better. "What did you say?"

"What?"

"Could you repeat what you said?!"

"What?! I coul --- hear--"

"What?"

"Wha---"

Allen clenched his phone, ready to break the damn thing. "Never mind! I'll just talk to you later!"

"What?!"

"I LOVE YOU I'LL SEE YOU LATER!" Allen hung up. Pissed off and ready to give the phone company hell about their supposed 'no dead zones guarantee', Allen stomped down the sidewalk.

"I LOVE YOU TOO ALLEN!!!"

And he stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly, he turned his head towards the voice.

There was Lavi, standing by the railing to a quaint little café, waving his arms to make sure Allen didn't miss him.

Well, Allen couldn't miss him, and neither could the entire crowd of people between the two boys.

Allen face palmed.

HA! I had a lot of fun with this. It's short, sweet and simple. It was refreshing in comparison to the 2,500 words of Nude Day. This is more akin to the length I'm used to. As a note, herbal tea tastes much better with sugar, but that ruins the point, doesn't it? By the way, I'm so glad I did Nude Day instead of what I was thinking of doing. I was going to use Muse's "Feeling Good" for it, but someone else had the same idea, so I'm glad I changed my mind XD they did a better job with it anyway ^_^ Again, thanks to Solstice Zero for being my muse, and beta-ing this!

P.S. Lavi's ring tone was "Let the Flames Begin" By Paramore.

Please let me know what you thought!