OH MY. IT'S BEEN OVER A WEEK. I'M SORRY.
Please forgive me.
I don't own Black Butler.
"Please, let's go anywhere other than this?" The bluenette begged to his friend.
The blonde exhaled noisily and raised the pitch of his voice, "We're already here, and I heard this place is really good. Stop complaining. Unless you really care that much about how people read you outside of school…"
Ciel glowered at Alois. He seized Alois by the wrist and dragged him through the front door to a dimly lit setting. A few people, besides them, waited in line before a girl at her work station. She steadily conversed with patrons and gave them all waiting times. Ciel sulked up until they both reached the attendant. He prepares himself for any comments she may make on the two.
"How many?" She asked, not looking up from something on her work podium.
The blonde smiled and sang, "Just the two of us." Ciel's face was searing from embarrassment. She looked up and appeared as if she was about to say something to them, but looked back down.
"The wait is about twenty minutes. There's a waiting room around the corner by the door." She kept hiding her head in her podium. Alois pulled Ciel inside and sat next to him on a cushioned bench.
Ciel glared at the blonde on his right. "Why do you feel the need to do these things?"
Alois smirked and simply countered, "Because you're my friend."
The slate haired boy didn't say anything else. Friends, for them, are difficult. It's always a love-hate relationship between the two. Normally Alois gives the love and Ciel gives the hate. It's not correspondingly divided amongst the two companions. The two sat in silence as they waited and tried to move past and overlook the last few hours in their heads. One minute passed then two, then five, ten, fifteen…
"Come on. It's been twenty minutes. I'm hungry." Ciel drew Alois up from where they were sitting tolerantly. The waiter led them to a nice table near the back of the restaurant. The table was faintly lit with a candle in the middle and two chairs were positioned at contrasting sides of the small tabletop. Alois pulled Ciel's chair out for him with a smile. The bluenette murmured inaudibly and seated himself. The blonde did the same.
"This is ridiculous…" The slate haired comrade hissed, irritably picking up a menu.
The blonde chuckled.
"What's your problem now?" Ciel jeered again.
"Well, it's just that you're the one that dragged me in here. If you would've kept demanding, I would've been willing to eat somewhere else. So, don't blame me, sweetie. Blame your pride." He grinned. Ciel was now simmering with annoyance.
The woman came by again to take their orders. Ciel hid his frustration from her and calmly ordered some fettuccini, while Alois gleefully ordered some lasagna. The two awkwardly waited for their meals. Ciel stared out the window, waiting for this living hell to end. The blonde on the other hand, was on his smartphone playing several different games.
"Do you just plan on playing that until we leave?" The maddened bluenette probed.
The blonde sighed, "It's not like you're going to provide me with any kind of thrilling conversation if I don't, will you?" Ciel was rapidly realizing he shouldn't give into the blonde's desires so quickly. It's what got him into this situation in the first place.
"You should still put your phone away. This is a nice restaurant. You're going to get us kicked out." Ciel persuaded. The blonde chuckled and peeked up from the bright screen.
"You worry too much, Ciel." The blonde shut his phone off and put it in his pocket. His eyes moved up and he started staring at Ciel's uncovered eye. Ciel kept looking away from Alois, but his comfort level was shrinking.
"Q-Quit it! Stop staring at me! It's freaking me out!" The bluenette criticized. The blonde smiled.
"You're the one that told me to put my phone away."
The slate haired boy hissed at the blonde.
A few moments of silence later, the waitress dropped their food off and went to check on several other tables. Alois tranquilly took bites of his lasagna, while Ciel viciously pierced into his pasta with his fork. Alois was now praying other clienteles didn't notice his behavior. Ciel wasn't very fond of attention, negative or positive, after all. And Alois is the one that has to deal with him if he gets any more irritated… If that's even possible.
"Calm down." The blonde droned. Ciel ignored him and took another bite of his pasta.
"…Please? I'll make it up to you…" Alois was aware of these consequences.
"Really?" Ciel looked up and ceased taking his anger out on his fettuccini.
Alois was beginning to feel wounded, "Yes. Really…"
The consequences of…
"Alright. You're in my debt, Trancy." He steadily took another bite of his food with a faint, but devious, smile.
The two finished up eating and the waitress took their dishes away. Ciel pulled out his wallet and got out his student card. On a typical student card of Saint Maria, there is enough money placed on it to last one person at least the rest of the school year. Since students often go into town and to the store for typical everyday things, all of downtown has begun to accept money off of the student card, thanks to a few contracts here and there. The only problem is that when you run out of cash on the card, you start racking up debt to the school. And because it's such a prestigious school with so much money, that debt gets quite high. When Sebastian first left Ciel at the dorms he was most worried about that blondes influence on his young master. Alois does have that negligent atmosphere around him…
The two had now exchanged personalities wholly. After Ciel got his card back, he happily dragged his blonde comrade outside and made sure it was as unpleasant as possible for him. The blonde sulked in utter failure while Ciel marched in his effortlessly won conquest. Even though the blonde psychopath was upset, he still held onto Ciel's hand as they searched for their parked bike on the other side of town. Most likely, because Alois isn't trusting of people walking around at night.
The morning sky gradually turned into a fading multicolored sky and the bright, busy streets were now dimly lit by street lamps while people began to disperse. A cold breeze overcame the duo which caused Alois to grab onto Ciel and hug his arm tightly.
The blonde whimpered, "I'm cold. Do you remember where the bike is?"
Ciel shook his head, "It might be a while before we find it. We should probably stick to better lit streets… I don't really trust the people around here." The bluenette looked to the conniving glowing eyes in the alleys they passed quickly. Another breeze went over them and Alois was cutting off the circulation to Ciel's entire arm. "-And could you let go!?" The blonde sadly let go and shivered at the thought of forgetting his jacket at his dorm.
Ciel looked at the blonde suffering to himself and groaned, "Here, take this. I'm not that cold anyways." He took off his jacket and forced it in the direction of Alois. The blonde beamed and put it on, one sleeve at a time. He smiled at the sudden warmth around him and zipped it up.
"Thank you, Ciel." He took hold of the bluenettes hand once more.
The boy blushed in response and scolded, "D-Do you really have to do that right now? I gave you my coat already!" The blonde continued to dumbly smile.
After a few more minutes of walking around aimlessly, they both stopped at an intersection to rest. Ciel beheld his watch and frowned. He pulled Alois onward at a more brisk pace than earlier. Alois tried to keep up, but was still easily distracted by the lights in shops that illuminated their path. Every time the blonde turned his hand, Ciel would pull him forward to make him catch himself. Alois wasn't a fan of that and tried a little harder to keep up.
"Would you mind slowing down a bit? I can't keep up." The blonde nagged. Ciel just disregarded his friends comment and trekked on.
The sky slowly got darker because of the recent time change. Because of the lack of sunlight, it got chillier and so Alois took the opportunity to cuddle onto Ciel's arm again.
After another long period of walking and being completely lost, they finally found their bike. Alois got on, since Ciel was deprived of ever learning how to ride as a child, and they head on through the dark streets and into a more forested area of town. It was the same way they took to get there, but it was a lot different in the dark. The usual rosy autumn leaves turned into obscure silhouettes in contradiction of the purple sky. The chocolate colored tree trunks looked like they were trying to twist and turn to skulk out of the earth that bound them. Naturally it bothered Alois much more than his slate haired comrade.
They voyaged alongside the uninhabited street to their right and came up to an intersection. Alois turned the handlebars and pedaled his feet as Ciel scratched into his friends back in discomfort. Just as the blonde reached the other side of the road, a car's headlights met with Alois's fogged up eyes and disoriented him. In a panic, he swerved the handlebars and caused the bike to skid into the grass. The bike rapidly sped forwards and landed on its side, propelling both Alois and Ciel off and into the cold dirt.
The blonde rubbed his head, "Ow~…" He rubbed his eyes and rested his back flat on the ground. The poor kid curled up in pain and looked over to his friend, who conveniently landed on his hands and knees. Ciel rubbed his hands together and got up slowly so he didn't cause any more damage.
"What the hell, Alois…" The injured slate haired friend staggered onto his feet. The blonde looked up and saw his friend's eye patch had come undone to reveal his contract. Ciel rubbed both of his eyes and realized it as well. Before he went to retrieve it, he went over to assist the blonde laying powerlessly on the grassy land.
The blonde groaned and rolled onto his side.
"Get up." Ciel held his hand out to a bruised up Alois below himself. The blonde crawled onto his knees and took his companions hand.
"Thanks'…" The blonde rubbed his eye, "S-Sorry… I wasn't really expecting this to happen."
"Shut up. It wasn't your fault." Ciel walked over to the bike that crashed to the ground and pulled it up.
The blonde kept rubbing his eye.
"What's wrong with you?"
"There's something in my eye." Alois murmured. A tear fell from his eye and Ciel walked over to his suffering friend. The bluenette pulled the blondes hand away from his face and looked into his icy eye, slowly tearing up. Alois blinked a few times from the irritation and tried to look through the fuzziness of his vision into Ciel's purplish eye. He rarely got to see it, but this one chance was ruined because of the dirt that obstructed his vision.
"I think it's just dust. Don't rub it. Tearing up is your eye's way of getting rid of what got in it." The bluenette walked back over to the bike and Alois resumed rubbing his eye, even though Ciel told him not to.
The bluenette picked the bike up and the two walked it back to the dorms. Alois had difficulty and limped most of the way, because of how he landed on his leg, but other than that he was fine. It was too dark, so neither of them could find Ciel's eye patch. The bluenette decided to leave his bangs in his eyes instead. They were mostly just a bit bruised up with some scratches and cuts here and there. Most of the way they kept quiet.
The sky got darker and it got harder to find their way, but they finally saw some lights in the distance and were reassured of civilization.
A/N:
Bike accidents are fun.
SINCE ASAMI POINTED IT OUT- I actually got the idea for the bike accident from my friend, Mitsuki, who crashed her bike on her way to school and nearly died. (She didn't actually nearly die. She just hurt her braces and then died.)
Goodbye, antelopes.
