Author's Note: Omg! I'm so sorry for taking this long to write this. But, I come from Kentucky and in Kentucky we have to do these things called 'portfolios' where we have to write different pieces (ex: short story, personal narrative, research piece, etc.), and as seniors(but I'm only a sophmore so yay)we have to turn them in and get a kind of good grade or else we don't graduate. So, I've been working on short stories for my English class, and I had to put this story off.

Anyways I'm finally done with this, and like the last chapter I wrote this all in one day, and I haven't proofread this...But, eh, I'm sure it's fine. At least I hope...

Also, I have not chosen the ending couple for this yet. In order for my later chapters to work I have to go back and forth between Kanda and Lavi. Plus, I like to put big surprises in, they're fun.

Disclaimer: Of course I don't own DGM.

Chapter 3: Don't Stop Believing

Allen looked down for a second, before looking back up, "I like...Kanda...I think..."

Lavi didn't say anything, instead he just stared at Allen, and for once he was speechless.

Under the bed Lenalee smiled at Kanda, who was wide eyed, and even though it was hard to see in the darkness, she was pretty sure that he was blushing.

Lavi's POV

Out of all the times that Allen's surprised me, this has to be the biggest and most hurtful surprise. In fact, if he hadn't been staring into my eyes I would have never believed it.

I bet Kanda is ecstatic, I know him and Lenalee are under the bed right now, listening. Actually, knowing Kanda, he's probably just lying there trying to figure out if he likes Allen or not. He'll, probably never even try to make a move on Allen.

In fact, even with this knowledge I can still probably beat him at the competition. Heck, if I tried I could probably manipulate Allen's feelings in order to score more points.

Not that I would do that, no, that's wrong...Even though I know that, I can't help, but want to do it. Allen will believe almost anything, so, it would be easy.

I do know one thing for sure, Kanda does not deserve Allen. Kanda's been a jerk to Allen for a long time, I don't even know why Allen likes him.

(1 minute later)

I've made up my mind. I'm making a resolve that until Kanda isn't a jerk to Allen, I'm not going to let Kanda have him. I'm going to protect Allen, even if it means doing something that's morally wrong. And maybe, just maybe, Allen will come to love me... or at least like me.

"Lavi, are you okay?" Allen asks looking at me, worried.

Allen must be worried that he hurt me because I haven't said anything in awhile. It's time to put my resolve in action. I smile at him and he smiles back, hoping my smile meant I'm fine.

"I'm perfectly fine," I answer him in my usual cheerful voice. Of course I'm fine, especially now that I know a way to score more points. People say that through kissing feelings can be brought out so...

"Hey, you know, I heard that Kanda likes good kissers," I lie to Allen, hoping my plan will work out.

"Eh! Really!?" Allen asks me, with the cutest look on his face, " but, I...uh...don't really know how to kiss very well."

This is going perfect. "That's why I'm here," I tell him in a low, seductive tone, "I can tutor you in the fine art of kissing."

Allen stares at me bewildered for a second. "But, wouldn't that...but...you," Allen was trying to find the right words, but it seems like he's having obvious trouble. I know what he wants to say, I expected this from Allen.

I take his left hand and squeeze it gently. "As long as you're happy, I'll be happy," I tell him leaning closer towards him.

"Lavi," he whispers blushing slightly.

I smile at him, gently. "Allen, would you like me to tutor you?" I ask him, breathing lightly on his face.

"That's...I...you can't just expect me to just answer to something like that," Allen answers blushing a deep red.

"I'll take that as a yes," I whispered capturing his lips with mine.

At first he stiffens and tries to push me away, but eventually he stops trying to push me away and he lets me kiss him, his hands slide down my chest and rested on my sides. Our eyes met and I saw an emotion flicker in Allen's eyes that I haven't seen before.

I wrap my arms around Allen's small waist and pull him closer to me. His eyes widen in surprise, but he's strangely obedient. I place my hand over Allen's ears and deepen the kiss, closing my eyes. Allen gasps and I take the opportunity to stick my tongue in Allen's mouth. I lick Allen's tongue gently, causing Allen to jump slightly which in turn caused me to chuckle lightly.

Allen, trying to get my tongue out of his mouth, tried using his tongue to push mine out of his mouth. He failed, and instead, his tongue slipped and entered my mouth. He pulled his tongue out of my mouth, slowly, and out tongues rubbed together the entire way. Allen couldn't help but let out a slight moan at the strange sensation our tongues caused.

I could tell Allen was getting into the kiss and hoped that meant he was starting to feel something.

I open my eyes just in time to see Allen close his. Allen slowly moved his hands upward rubbing against my shirt, until finally he wrapped his arms around my neck.

I'm pretty sure I've had a dream like this once. Except, we were both naked and I knew how he felt. Right now, I have no idea how he feels, and we are totally dressed.

My chest is starting to hurt. I guess I've been holding my breath in this whole time. Allen's probably short of breath as well. I slide my hands down off of Allen's ears, down his face and neck, and then rest them on his shoulders.

I, reluctantly, push him away, and take a long needed breath. Allen looks up at me, slightly dazed, and let's his arms fall from around my neck.

'Lesson 1: always take a deep breath before engaging in a make-out session," I breathed. Allen had a very confused look in his eyes. I may be taking a hug leap here, but...

I place my right hand on Allen's check and gently rub his scar with my thumb. "Lesson 2: It's perfectly fine to develop feelings for someone though kissing. Even if you already like someone else," I tell Allen.

Allen blushes as I say this and looks down for a second. "Lavi...I...I just don't know about this," Allen whispers, pulling my hand away from his face. "I mean, I just figured out that I like Kanda. And, now, these feelings that I'm getting for you it's all just-"

I place my hand on Allen's mouth silencing him. "It's okay. For now just focus on becoming a good kisser," I tell him. I move my hand down to his chin and lean towards him. I don't know why, but I just can't help myself. I mean I've already come this far, so it's hard to just stop.

Our breaths mingled and I watch Allen swallow. He closes his eyes and waits for me to kiss him. I smile at his eagerness, but I don't lean any closer. After a few seconds Allen opens his eyes and gazes into my eyes.

Allen's eyes wander to something behind me and his eyes widened in surprise. All of a sudden, a strong blow was dealt to my face. "OUCH! What the hell?!" I yell glaring at Allen's left hand that was currently plastered on my face.

"H-hi Kanda," Allen says in a nervous voice and scoots away from me.

I turn around and Kanda sends me a death glare. I guess he couldn't stand listening to Allen and me anymore. Can't blame him, though, if it was Allen and him on the bed I would have shown up a lot sooner.

"When did you get here?" I ask Kanda in a mocking tone. Kanda's face quickly changes as he thinks of a way to explain his being here.

All of a sudden the door opens and...what the hell how did Lenalee get outside. I thought she was under the bed the whole time.

"Kanda, I told you to wait until they're finished talking," said Lenalee in an accusing voice, "sorry about that guys, Kanda wanted to tell you guys that dinner is ready.

Now I'm really confused, how did they play this out so well. I was about to say something when that familiar, loud growl was heard from Allen's stomach. I sigh and watch as Allen blushes, gets up, and walks out of the room with Lenalee.

Kanda, who was also watching Allen, turns towards me. I meet his gaze, and he looks calm. "I'm not even going to begin to describe how wrong that was," Kanda said in a low, calm voice. "I know how you feel about him, but this isn't the way to go about it."

"What about you Kanda," I ask, "now that you know that Allen likes you what are you going to do?"

Kanda looks away for a second, "I...don't know," he says, "but I know that I'm not going to use Allen's feelings like you did."

I stand up off the bed and Kanda steps away from me. "Maybe if you would stop being a jerk t Allen this wouldn't happen," I found myself saying.

Kanda sighs again, "I can't help it, when I'm with him I can't think straight and everything just comes out making me look like an ass."

I looked away from Kanda, before turning back to him. "I can't believe I'm saying this...but I can try to help you with that," I said.

Kanda stares at me, questioningly before answering, "Are you sure about that? I mean I know that you love Allen."

"See Kanda, when you say things like that you don't seem like a jerk," I laugh, "and I'm sure about this. Since Allen likes you it probably hurts him when you're a jerk. So, I'm doing this for Allen more than I am you."

Kanda doesn't say anything and instead he just nods. I smile and walk out of the room. I can't believe I just did that. What was I thinking. Gah! Why do I always do things like this?!

Everyone's POV

One Month Later

Much to Lenalee's disappointment, nothing else had happened after the bedroom scene. Lavi was busy with bookmen training, while Kanda was forced to read mangas that Lenalee had. Most of them being explicit BL manga.

This morning, Lenalee had finished getting ready before the other exorcists, which wasn't very surprising. Kanda was busy with doing his hair, Lavi had slept in once again, and Allen was busy shoveling food down his throat.

Lenalee opened up the door just in time for Timcanpy to fly in the door. Timcanpy again had a big envelope in his mouth. Today, Timcanpy seemed to be having trouble flying inside, so, Lenalee took the envelope from him. Timcanpy rubbed against her as if to say thank you and he flew over to Allen.

Lenalee opened the envelope to find that alongside the smaller envelopes, there was the familiar notebook that usually holds the information for missions in it. Lenalee opened up the notebook and read the information while waiting for the other exorcists to get ready.

By the time everyone had finished getting ready Lenalee had finished reading the information and was sitting on the couch.

Lavi walked in and saw the notebook first, "What's that about?" Lavi asked.

"Well, There's rumors going around that General-"

"Oh, god what did he do?" asked Lavi interrupting Lenalee.

"Well, if you would let me finish, then I could tell you," responded Lenalee. "Well, as I was saying there are rumors going around that General Cross is treating girls in short skirt...differently then he is with other people."

"That most likely true," commented Allen, nodding his head, "but what does that have to do with us?"

"Well, they want us to 'investigate' on this issue," answered Lenalee.

"How are we going to do that?" asked Kanda, becoming slightly nervous.

"Well they want one of us to personally see if the rumors are true," answered Lenalee, "but I want to say first that I obviously can't do it since he probably wouldn't do anything...well actually I just refuse to do it."

"Why don't we just use Allen, we already know that he looks good as a girl," Lavi said.

"That's exactly why we shouldn't use me, since he already knows what I look like," huffed Allen.

"Well if we use Kanda or me then we would have to do a lot of work in preparing us, so it would be too hard, and it shouldn't be either of us," Lavi reasoned.

"So how about we flip a coin?" suggested Allen, "Whoever wins doesn't have to dress like a girl."

Kanda who had been silent sighed, "fine we'll flip the coin."

"Okay, guys, call it," said Lenalee as she flipped the coin.

Lavi watched with his bookmen eyes before calling, "heads."

Of course the coin landed on heads. Kanda just stared at the coin wishing it would just disappear.

"So...how are we going to go about this?" asked Allen, trying not to laugh.

"Why doesn't Lenalee just dress me up or whatever," scowled Kanda.

"Well I don't wear make up so-"

"I can tell," said Lavi.

"What?!" Lenalee yelled as she hit Lavi with her clipboard.

"I just meant that I could tell when people don't wear make up," answered Lavi rubbing his head.

"Well there's only one person that I know who is skilled enough in making guys look like girls, but we'd probably have to make a deal. Like, maybe, Allen work at her dad's work or something," Lenalee said.

"Umm...what kind of work would that be," asked Allen, curious.

"Well, it's like being a waiter and all," answered Lenalee hoping he wouldn't ask anything more.

"I guess I could do that," Allen said.

"Alright then, since we still have like an hour left before we leave for school then I'll call her over," Lenalee giggled before skipping off.

10 Minutes Later

"So, what's my job?" asked a girl with brown hair as she dropped a couple of bags on the floor.

"Well, Jerianna, you have to make Kanda look like a girl, and put him in a short skirt," chuckled Lavi.

"Good lord! I better be getting some good payment for this," gasped Jerianna.

"Well, you get to have Allen work at your dad's place for a month," answered Lenalee.

Jerianna glanced at Allen for a second and immediately brightened up. "I'll do it!"

40 minutes later

"So, what do you guys think?" asked Jerianna as she presented a blushing and scowling Kanda.

The other three exorcists just stared at Kanda in shock. Then, Lenalee took out her camera and took a picture of him.

Kanda didn't look anything like himself. His raven hair had been curled skillfully to make his face seem girly. He wore the normal school girl outfit that was on top of a fake chest. His make up made his eyes pop, and made him look like a beautiful Chinese girl.

"S-strike?" gasped Lavi before getting pummeled in the face by Kanda's fist.

"Oh, I just thought of a great idea to make it so people won't flirt with you Kanda," Lenalee said smiling, the smile of a criminal mastermind who just though of a perfect scheme.

"And...what's that?" asked Kanda, a little scared of Lenalee's smile.

"Well, since all the guys like Allen in some sort of way, if people think that you're his girlfriend then they wouldn't try to hit on you," suggested Lenalee watching Allen to see his reaction.

Allen's face turned a deep scarlet red. "Wha-"

"It's fine with me," Kanda replied, practicing a girly voice that he somehow was very good at.

Allen quickly turned towards Kanda. "Really?" Allen asked trying to make his voice not sound too hopeful. Lavi, noticing this, frowned and turned away.

"Uh, yea, I mean it's just for today and all..." answered Kanda, who was blushing slightly.

"O-okay," Allen said, still scarlet red.

3rd Period

Kanda was sitting in class thinking of how he was going to get in trouble, when the school's playboy, Seth, walked over to him.

"So, you're the hot new girl everyone's talking about," Seth said, putting his hand on Kanda's desk and leaning forward.

"She's also the new girl that's is happily taken by Allen," interjected Lenalee, making Seth step back.

Allen, who was in the desk beside Kanda, started blushing again. Seth looked over and smiled at Allen. "Oh really, now? Well then I want proof," Seth stated.

"P-proof?" Allen stuttered staring at Seth.

"Yes, proof," Seth answered, "Since you two are so happily taken by each other, then I want to see you guys kiss."

DUN DUN DUN!! Cliffhanger. hides face Don't kill me!! Anyways, I have to wake up early tomorrow, so...

Next Chapter: Will Kanda and Allen kiss? Later, Allen starts working at his job, and finds out what kind of business Jerianna's dad actually runs. Also, Lavi starts trying to get Kanda to be nicer to Allen, but will it work?