I wrote this in a sitting (like I do with every chapter now that I think about it...). Thanks again for support~!

Lavi knew something had happened between them.

Look at them; they can't stop staring at each other. Lavi sat opposed from the two. They were three feet away from each other, but he saw them take quick glances over and over. It was starting to really piss him off. He looked outside at the sunrise and hilltops, but none of it really mattered when he would glance back and see the two take advantage of his inattentiveness to look at each other again.

"Alright, that's it. What the hell happened?" They both blushed furiously.

"W-well, how would you feel if you slept in a room with a boy?" stuttered Lenalee trying to take suspicion off.

"I would feel sexy." Bookman came up from behind him and hit his head. He bowed to Lenalee and Allen.

"Did you two sleep comfortably together?"

Allen blushed and wagged his hands. "N-no, not together—"

"I meant the room." Allen stopped and he started to sweat nervously then gave a cracked laugh. Lenalee had to giggle at his responses. Bookman gave them a raised eyebrow and turned around to inspect more of the train.

"Well," said Lenalee changing the subject. "We should be back in another eight hours or so." Allen nodded quickly to keep up the topic and Lavi gave a groan.

"Do you people not notice when you make noise?" Lenalee and Allen gave him a horrid look of surprise. Lavi's eyes were down casted. "When a bed rocks, so does the room. It's a pretty tight space." He put his chin on his hand. "Not to mention, our room is right below yours. I could hear everything."

Even with Lavi's explanation and calm face, Lenalee was suddenly worried. Not only because Lavi knew what they had done last night, but because what did Lavi feel about it? He didn't look like he was about to cry like the other times when she was just simply talking to Allen. Last night, they made a commitment of true love. What was Lavi going to do?

"I…I'm going to find Bookman." She excused herself from the table and ran towards the direction Bookman had left leaving Allen and Lavi in an uncomfortable silence.

"You did it last night."

"S-stop saying that!" Allen turned the other way. He couldn't look Lavi in the eyes knowing that his friend also had feelings for Lenalee. "I…I just didn't know what came over me." He took a small glance at Lavi. Why didn't he express something? "What's wrong?"

"So much for not knowing about girls. What, it's not like I'm sad right now."

"But you're not smiling either." Lavi was caught off guard at that.

"Well, what do you expect?" He shrugged his shoulders and stood up. "Allen, I don't have intentions to hurt you, but that doesn't mean it's easy for me to hold back either." He walked past Allen towards his room.

Allen turned around to face his back. "What do you mean by that?!"

Lavi stopped for a second and took a quick turn at Allen. "I mean I still love her." He walked away and closed the door to the next cart.

Allen fell back against the cushioned seat. What was going through Lavi right now? Of course, he was happy now that he thought about Lenalee, but Lavi still loved her nonetheless. He didn't want to hurt his friend, but it might've already been too late. He also didn't want to give up Lenalee to anyone. Allen held his head in his hands. "What should I do?!" he wailed.

When Lavi closed the door, he fell against it towards the floor. Tears started to form in his eyes as the wind picked up blowing his hair all over the place. He looked out towards the sun for comfort, but couldn't find it. Trying to rub away the tears, he leaned his head back and made a loud and long groan to himself.

Maybe inside, he knew that he didn't stand a chance against Allen for Lenalee. He had liked her as a sister before all of this, but when Lenalee had confessed she liked Allen, a part of Lavi woke up. She's not just an exorcist. She has emotions too that were finally expressed and he realized he had always fallen for her long ago. Before she had said anything to Allen that night, Lenalee was almost a closed box to him. It never struck him that she cared for other men in that way. Something about her admitting her feelings made Lavi snap out of a trance that said she wasn't available "just because."

Yet, Allen had always been the objective in her mind and even Lavi could see that from the first time he saw them fight together. He knew eventually Allen would start to fall for her, but he never pictured Lenalee getting serious with anyone. Now, Lenalee and Allen were officially in love so where did it leave him? He was a third wheel of the two lovebirds.

Sitting there, he didn't want to be disrupted, but he was—by Lenalee.

She opened the door and was greeted with a crying Lavi against the wall. Her eyes were of surprise. She never once saw Lavi express this much grief and it pained her even more to know that it was over her. She closed the door behind her and sat on the ground opposite of him. "Lavi?" she called.

He looked at her with a sneer. He didn't mean anything horrible by it, but it just came out on its own. Realizing his response, he turned his head the other way back to the sun that was starting to blind him.

"Lavi," Lenalee called again with more clarity. "I need you to look at me." She crawled over to him and grabbed his chin in her hands to force his eyes into hers. It was difficult because his eyes were full of confused love while hers was full of friendship. "I'm not the right person for you." Her lips were pursed. She wasn't sure how to explain this, but she tried to get her message across. "We've been friends for the longest time and we've gotten each other through hard times." She paused for second. "You've joked with me countless times and pulled my hair once, remember?"

Lenalee was relieved for second when Lavi had stopped crying and gave a slight smile. "You've been my friend forever. You've been my brother. You're like a slacking Komui." They both chuckled. "The point is," she started again. "I know you really well and you know me well too, but you need to realize that I'm not the person who can make you happy."

She let go of his chin and backed a foot away. He finally looked at her on his own. "Not the one to make me happy?" he repeated. "Wouldn't I be the judge of that?"

"You can't judge when you're biased."

"You're biased too!" he threw back with a smile. A part of him knew that she was right. No matter how wonderful and a great girl Lenalee would be—no matter how much of a jewel she was, that jewel didn't sparkle the same way to him as it did to Allen. Hadn't they both looked at Lenalee differently?

A few minutes passed by as they both looked into the scenery letting the silence come over them. They needed a moment to let the words sink.

"Allen," he started. "Always thought you were a regular girl, but he isn't the kind of guy who would take that as a chance to flirt." Lenalee listened to him wondering where this was going. "But me, I never thought of you as an option until you finally admitted you had feelings for someone. You had feelings."

"Of course I did!" snapped Lenalee with a whine. "How could I not?"

"Sorry sorry!" whimpered Lavi with a nervous smile. "It's just that, to me, you were a sisterly figure. You were an exorcist. Not until recently did I realize you were an option. Not until recently did I figure out what I was feeling for you was hiding behind the 'sister figure.'"

"Was it really hiding?" whispered Lenalee.

Lavi gave her a questioning look. He thought so. He thought the emotions he felt for her could be called "love," but now with these new questions, how was he supposed to answer? He started laughing and Lenalee had a look of confusion.

"What is it?" she pouted.

He waited until he stopped laughing and calmed down. "You're a gem, Lenalee, but a blind man can't tell the difference between a diamond and a regular rock."

She waited a few seconds before replying. "What do you mean?"

He shook his head slowly. "You're a girl I love, but when I think about placing myself in Allen's shoes last night, I don't think I could keep going." Lenalee blushed again. What was this, the fourteenth time today? "Thing is, I don't want to be that close to you physically and emotionally. Does that mean, I don't love you that way?"

"Lavi," responded Lenalee. "Remember when you first admitted to me? You said, 'it might not be those relationship feelings.'" She let the words flow in the air. "Lavi, have you ever been in love with a girl?"

A few minutes passed by. He couldn't answer yes because he never did. He had closed himself from the world when he became Bookman and although he chased after pretty women, it didn't mean that he loved them. His commitment to becoming a Bookman kept him from falling in love. He kept himself from falling in love. "No" he finally answered. She was right. Lavi felt the love of a brother towards Lenalee. He thought his feelings for her were relationship sort, but it was really a family love.

Lavi put a hand over his face and smiled again. What was he crying over now, huh? He looked at Lenalee with a grin.

Lavi's back to normal. Lenalee gave another smile. "So," Lavi started. "What were you and Allen doing last night exactly?"

"Oh please, don't go back to that…" She put her hands against her cheeks to hide her flustered look. "It was odd. It was like we were both acting without thinking."

"Because you weren't thinking" laughed Lavi. "Still, I'm quite surprised."

"Uh, Lavi," muttered Lenalee. "You…you won't tell Komui about it, will you?" Her voice was full of fear.

"Are you kidding? No way!" His eyes widened at the thought. "He'd shoot the messenger!" They both laughed.

A train conductor opened the door behind Lavi. "What are you kids doing here? Get to your rooms or somewhere; you can't dwindle here!"

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When Lenalee returned to her room, Allen was there and she told him everything about their talk together.

"So he loves you as a sister?" he asked inquiringly.

"Yes" she replied. "He couldn't place himself in your shoes last night and feel comfortable."

"Well," muttered Allen. "I don't feel too comfortable thinking about it again even if it's the only thing running through my mind." Lenalee looked at him from her bed with a nervous smile of her own.

"Did the room really shake?" Both of them blushed. Allen got up from his bed and sat next to her. He leaned in and kissed her passionately. He slowly laid her down on the bed.

"Déjà vu?" they chuckled.

Bookman watched Lavi come back in the room. He flopped on his bed and took a long sigh. "Did you have a talk with miss Lena?"

Lavi gave him a weird look. "How did you know?"

"I can feel your step is lighter." Lavi smiled at his master.

"Yeah, we cleared things through. Did you hear what they did last night?" Lavi gave a smirk at the old man's annoyed expression.

"That is sincerely none of our business. It is their decision to do whatever they want." Bookman looked outside the window. It was still morning and it would be a few hours before they would get back to the Order. "Lavi," he turned around to say. "Bookmen do not get in the way of affairs. Our purpose to solely watch what happens without a word of disagreement. Remember we're on this side—"

"By chance" finished Lavi. "I know, I know." He waved a hand at Bookman's words. Wasn't he telling himself that all the time now? "I need some food." He walked out of the cramped room leaving Bookman by the window.

His master stared at the closed door. "Doesn't he realize if he keeps trying to make any sort of permanent relationship," muttered Bookman. "That he'll just have to break it later on?" He sat upon his bed. When he was young, he had made a few close friends, but once he was a Bookman, he had to leave all of them and it continued in that process; he would meet new people, fall in love with others, but later, would have to leave them. It was easier not making any relationship with anyone, but Lavi never went the easy way.

Lavi sat down on a fancy table with a white tablecloth and silver dishware. He put his hands behind his head and leaned back on the cushioned chair. Some good grub would ease his mind.

A waitress walked up to him. She had beautiful wavy blonde hair and plump lips. Her eyes were violet and her figure was elegant. "Hello, sir." She gave a flashing smile of white teeth and leaned against the table showing a considerable amount of cleavage. Lavi grinned at her with a wide smile of his own.

"What do you recommend?" smirked Lavi. The waitress giggled for a second and then focused her eyes intently on Lavi.

"You."

Her skin slashed open and out came a mechanical gun from her skull. Her face turned devious as her hands erupted into flailing snakes, but Lavi was one step ahead.

He already had his hammer in his hands and crashed it against the akuma sending it through the train walls and out into the fields. Three seconds later, it exploded. People screamed at the sight of the explosion and ducked their heads. They looked in Lavi's direction with fear. "Don't worry!" reassured Lavi. He pointed to his badge. "I'm an exorcist." He turned in the direction of the rooms. Everyone needed to hear about the akuma on board.

As if sensing his thoughts, Allen already ran towards the dining hall. He was missing a shirt and was still struggling to buckle his pants as he ran. "Where is it?!"

"Uh, you just missed it." Lavi pointed to the massive hole in the wall he created. "What the hell are you dressed like that?"

Allen blushed. "Oh uh, I was just napping." Quick thinker, eh? "Anyways, I don't see anymore akuma." He surveyed every direction. "It just appeared out of nowhere."

"Maybe it did come out of nowhere" replied Lavi. "It could've just followed the train and dropped on it." Allen nodded in agreement.

Lenalee ran into the room shortly after. She took time to redress herself properly. "What happened?" Both of them pointed to the hole in the wall. She sighed. "Are you alright Lavi?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," he grinned. "Though, I'm still hungry." At the mention of food, Allen's stomach started to growl intensely. He held onto it with a pained look. "Seems our boy Allen needs grub too!" Lavi didn't have a reason to be awkward with Allen except that he was going out with Lenalee.

He took a glance at Lenalee who was carrying Allen to a chair out of his inability to walk from starvation. She's not the one that'll make me happy. He looked out towards the scenery of mountains rolling by. Does that mean there's still someone out there?

Lavi has now realized that Lenalee is better as a sister than a lover. ALL IN ONE CHAPTER! I guess that how I wanted it to go. Even though on the surface everything seems simple: he likes her, deep inside he really has other thoughts whirling.

I also sense that the ending of our adventure together is approaching soon!~ Stay tuned lovelies!