A/N Hey guys!
TN: YO! So, LexieDragomire came out of the blue and asked if my proof-readingness was still active, and feeling generous I of course proof read the docuements and sent 'em back! Huzzah! I get to slave-labour over making this easier to understand. XD
Disclaimer: I don't own -man
Don't blame the ninth chapter for being bad if it is…you can atribute it to the weather? XD
Between the moments will be time passing so don't be confusde and the things might happen too fast so be aware. (TN: What is this I don't even)
Teenage Love
Written by LexieDragomire
Proof-read by DR34DNOISE (Current Penname: FollieOfMadness)
It could have been a normal night. Sure the new order was stupid, of that he had no doubts, and during the months he had spent at the Order he had obviously been given a stupid order of two, but seriously tonight just wasn't a night to get locked in his room. And definitely not with 'her'.
"Dear God, I know I haven't been the nicest person, and I that I probably don't pray and go to church enough, if at all, but I'm an exorcist… one of your Apostles. So please, help me, I really need you now. I never asked you for anything (TN: With the quite obvious exception of now). Not even once. Although I have fought Akumas and nearly died practically daily, and not counting how often I never asked you for anything but right now I really need you. Please save me?" pried Allen Walker, locked up in his bathroom, hiding from his comrade Lenalee Lee who was in the next room locked up also. Locked up in his room, drugged, and jumping on his bed with Timcampy flying above her.
He could hear her giggling like a little girl and he even felt a bit bad for hiding from her like this when she was his friend, a good friend at that, and right now she was vulnerable and defenseless, but how can he stay by her side when she's acting so impudent? She kept touching him, testament to that was that she tried to hug him, and the blush was almost becoming apart of his face.
He looked at the mirror. His expression conveyed so much worry. Funnily enough, even though he didn't have any problems whatsoever to fighting with dangerous Akumas, he still had was completely lost when it came to this situation.
He took a deep breath. "Allen, Lenalee is your friend, and you have admitted that maybe you have some… s-stronger feeling towards her and that's why you can't leave her alone. You're a strong boy, and she is drugged, so even if she will try something on you, you can easily get her off. She needs you," he told his mirror reflection.
He nodded. "Right!"
"Alleeeeen-kun? Didn't you hear that talking to yourself is a first sign of insanity?" called the jolly voice from behind the door.
Allen sighed. "Mana, look after me….(TN: Screw Mana, praise Mara!)" he unlocked the bathroom doors and opened them.
Lenalee was standing on his bed wearing one of his shirts and NOTHING ELSE? (TN: I've seen enough Hentai to know where this is going)
Allens' eyes widened and his hand momentarily went for the handle of the door again, but Lenalee suddenly started sobbing. "Allen-kun, you aren't leaving me, are you?"
He got worried about how she would go from a cheerful girl to a sad cry baby in mere seconds.
Feeling nervous than ever he walked to her. "N-no… of course not."
"Yeeeey!"
"Oh dear…"
Miranda Lotto walked around the room of the Bookmen like an impatient lion who was waiting to be released from it's cage to do another circus trick.
How could she have gotten herself into this situation? She barely held back a cry. She really didn't want to sleep in Lavi's room, but to top it off she was anxious about him sleeping the same room as her. This night was going to be a disaster!
She stoop in the middle of the room and took a deep breath. 'Calm down. It's fine. Lavi won't do anything stupid, like look around your clothes. And, you have no diaries so there is nothing that he could use against you, right?'
She jumped in irritation. 'Stupid stupid stupid night!'
Lavi was lying on Miranda's bed and staring at the wall before him, bored. Because of the previous events from the night prior, he was still pretty awake and although he swore to himself that he wouldn't search around Miranda's room, he couldn't stop the sin bunnies from jumping around in his head.
He sat up impatiently, wondering. 'A small peek can't hurt anyone, right?'
An evil smirk appeared on his face. 'Yeah. A small peek…'
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"Kanda, stop! You can't cut the door!" yelled Sarah, who had jumped on the angry samurai, of who had taken out his sword from behind. With a pain stemming from her hurting shoulder she held his neck from behind, almost choking him.
"If you don't want me to hurt you more woman, then get off of me and let me get you out of here! Damn it!" yelled the samurai back.
"Aren't you listening? You can't damage the door!"
"Damn it! Why?!"
"What why? In the morning when everybody will go on breakfast your door is going to be cut in two…hm wow what could be strange about that?" she asked pretending seriousness.
"I will explain…"
"How?"
"…"
"See! You can't say that you wanted to let me out of your room because I shouldn't have been in your room in the first place, idiot!" she rolled her eyes and slowly got down from him.
He put his weapon back to its case, angry. "It's your fault. If you hadn't run into my room…"
"Yeah yeah I would have been stuck outside. Also, it's your fault if we went to Allen's room to give… damn!" she put her hands on her mouth.
Kanda's eyes went wide. "But Lenalee is still in the Moyashi's room?" he asked slowly, realizing that they totally forgot about the original problem.
"You mean a drugged Lenalee, of who's jumping around hugging or kissing everybody and also who has said she will tell Komui Allen raped her, is in his room probably with Allen."
"And the others," he reminded her.
Sarah thought about it and let out a small sigh of relief. "Yeah, they're three on her. That's okay; they will make it, right?"
"…"
Allen watched Lenalee who was smiling and playing with Timcampy.
'Okay, at least she stopped jumping on me.' He thought in relief. Even if he won't admit it, it was still a bit odd for him since she forced him to sit besides her on his bed.
"Allen-kun?"
"Y-yes?"
She still smiling put her head on his shoulder and Allen again felt the warmth that was absorbed from her body into his. 'Why must she take off all of her clothes and put on just that shirt? (TN: Clothes are too mainstream, square)' he asked himself hopelessly. knowing that another untypical shade of red blush had attacked his face.
He took a deep breath. He needed to talk to her while she still remembered something. "Lenalee, what do you remember?"
"Hm?"
"Do you know who gave you the tea?"
"Sure. The nice boy, he gave me the tea with a bit of rum in it because he knew I had a bad day."
"Rum? (TN: That's not good enough! *DUH-DOOSH*)" blinked Allen. "Breathe on me."
She giggled and turned her face to him, doing as he said.
"So?"
"No rum…"
"Well, it was just a bit, maybe a drop."
"Okay, what about the boy, what did he look, can you tell me please?"
She frowned a bit. "Hmm, he was tall and he looked nice … he needed me to get out of the cafeteria, but I managed to convince him otherwise, so I stayed, but he warned me that just for the tea or…" she yawned.
"A-aren't you tired?" he asked nervously, sounding like Miranda somewhat.
Lenalee sighed. "Maybe, but every time I think I will fall asleep, something keeps on waking me up," she said.
He bit his tongue. 'Don't ask her what it is; she will probably say something perverted again, and that will only make you look like a fool again and bring about bad thoughts.'
"Don't you want to know what it is?" she asked sweetly, and took her head away so he could look at her, knowing that he can't defend himself from her cuteness.
"Err, s-sure…" he said, giving up and reminding himself to stay as calm as possible.
She smiled. "I'm thinking about married life."
Allen froze.
"Want to play a married couple? We could do all the things that they usually do."
'All the things…'
"N-no thanks," he said hesitantly, red as a cherry.
Lenalee giggled. "Come on, I could make you the husband if you really want, but I don't cook. I hate cooking! (TN: *All thoughts and fantasies of waking up to Lenalee cooking breakfast are annihilated*)"
Allen took a deep breath. "Thanks for your offer but I will pass…"
"Hmm, okay…" she said sadly, like a little girl that wanted a toy but even when she didn't get it she understood why.
"Then how about you tell me about Mana again, hm?" she asked all of the sudden with new found glee.
Allen could only blink at the rapid rate of her behavior changes.
"O-okay… what would you like to know."
"Everything, from the begging to when he had found you."
"Okay…"
Lavi, not caring about a really low voice somewhere in the absolute end of his head who said that doing this is not right, simply opened Miranda's closet doors and looked around like nothing was wrong.
He felt slight disappointment when he inside found just regular clothes for an average day or a few pairs of uniforms. 'Dumbass. What did you expect, garters and laces?'
He half smirked. "Just the laces."
He was about to close it when he noticed a bunch of papers on the bottom of the closet, and his Bookman curiosity got the better of him and took them.
"Letters?" he said out loud, confused that on the place where should have been an address was a white spot, but on the bottom was 'From Miranda.'
'Strange…,' he thought, already lost in the words.
Kanda crossed him arms. "You're sleeping on the floor."
Sarah rolled her eyes. "What a gentleman."
He frowned. "Stop rolling your eyes like that."
She did it again. "What, does it make you wanna kiss me?"
He took a deep breath to bit back his instinctual remark. "It's annoying."
She sat on the bed. "Is there something that isn't annoying to you?"
He just sighed and walk into the bathroom. "How did I get myself into this?"
She made a sarcastic gesture. "Want me to remind you?"
He smashed the door closed with a snarl.
She sighed. "Long night ahead of us, captain annoyed."
Miranda bit her lip, frustrated, and sat on Lavi's bed again.
"Just forget it. Like Lavi was probably interested in your underwear or something and probably had jumped into the bed and called it a night and you're worrying over nothing!" again she was assuring herself and again it didn't help her.
'Annoying doubts!' cried Miranda in her head.
Lenalee stood up, calmly smiling. No wonder she managed to fooled Komui, because right now she looked as if nothing was wrong with her.
"That was touching Allen-kun."
Allen nodded. He didn't know why she wanted to hear about it when he had somewhere in the beginning of their friendship told her everything, but as long as she didn't want him to strip off his clothes he was glad.
"Thanks."
She put her hands behind her back. "I wonder… you said that Mana was the only person in a long time before and after who showed you love, right?"
Allen blinked but agreed.
"But that must have been just the… like parent love or love to a person like friend but not a love of a lover, right?"
"He was my father so yes just the love of a parent and a friend."
She nodded. "And when I confessed to you that I love Lavi you asked me about how do I know it's really love like love…"
"Y-yes."
"Was it then that you were first explained with that kind of love?"
"Ehmm, I knew what love was. Well, I kind of know, thanks to Cross and his lovely talks when he was flirting and the things you'd imagine our general to say…"
"You aren't getting my point," she said, frowning.
"Apparently not."
"I'm asking you if your feelings toward me weren't cause by the fact that we spoke about my love towards Lavi, and the fact that I didn't describe it well. I said something like when you feel good in his presence but a lot of the time you feel good when accompanied by friends and other things…"
Allen also got up. "What do you mean?"
"I'm asking if you really love me or are you just mistake your friendship toward me as love?"
Sarah brushed her hurt shoulder as Kanda walked from the bathroom and sat on the floor opposite to her and far from the bed. "Use the bathroom if you need to, and you'll sleep on the bed."
She blinked. "What happened to 'you're sleeping on the floor'?"
"You're hurt, and I don't want to be ungentlemanly towards a hurt lady." She frowned as the irony of the word struck her.
"Thanks," she mumbled, getting up and walking to the bathroom. "Such a gentle animal," she said before she closed the door.
Kanda took another breath and got to his meditating position to hold back curses. That girl started reminding him Baka Usagi in a skirt (TN: MY EYES! MY EYES! MY EYESSSSS- Actually, he might look good in a skirt...) and that wasn't good. But thinking about the red-haired Bookman who was still pissed off because of what he was doing with his student he should think up the blond a nickname. A really good one.
Lavi was blankly looking at the letter in his hands.
He really hated himself for reading it now. It was just the first one and he already felt a strange anger inside him.
'Miranda and Marie are secretly dating…' (TN: AW SNAP SON!)
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Allen blinked.
"What?" he asked, shocked.
"If it's what?" he asked, upset. Saying that he's some idiot who can fool love with friendship, that hurt!
He frowned.
She made a 'sorry' face. "But think about it. If you never were in love…"
"Then how can you be so sure you're in love. Maybe it's all just a brotherly complex or something…"
"What would you know?"
"You were alone in the Order almost your entire childhood. You said that when Komui came you felt unbelievably happy and that you followed him everywhere like a little puppy. You also were shy to talk with anybody else because of the trauma and when Lavi came it was like a fresh rain."
"What?!" she yelled, upset at herself.
"Lavi with the attitude of his got over your wall and made you fall in love…"
Lenalee crossed her arms and Allen completely forgot that she was drugged.
"How can you say that? You don't know what I feel…"
He was upset about what she said to him. It was like she was making a kid of him.
After a moment he looked at her hand and before she could do anything to stop him, he put it on the left side of his chest where his heart lay. "But I know what I feel and that's why I know I… love you."
She paused for a moment, looking at her hand on his chest. She could feel his heartbeat under her thumbs and blinked.
'Why?'
Lavi was frowningly lying on Miranda's bed and looking at the wall again. 'Why am I so upset? So they're dating, good for them. Miranda and Marie always had a close relationship, so it's normal that they started dating and all. There a couple, a secret, but still a couple and I have noting to do with it except the fact that I'm both their friend so I should be happy for them.'
He sighed. Still, it's strange. He would think he would notice that kind of drastic change in the Order. Some watchmen he is.
'So they're dating. Strange, I never thought that something like that was possible with the old Miranda. Maybe that's why she became the new Miranda.'
Suddenly he sat up. "But if they're dating why did Marie left the Order?" he asked himself out loud.
With a small ashamed smile he looked at the letters he hadn't read yet.
Sarah sat on the bed, as she excepted it was straight and firm, not comfortable but good for backs and for people who are used to sleeping on the ground.
She smiled.
"What's so funny?" asked Kanda in a low voice from the ground.
She shook her head. "Nothing. Just that your bed is well… yours."
"That doesn't make sense."
She almost chuckled. 'Definitely not the empathy type.' "Whatever."
"Good, now go to sleep, I want this night to end already," he said and closed his eyes, keeping himself in his meditation position.
"What no bed talk? I'm disappointed"
"GO TO SLEEP!"
"Okay okay no need to yell." 'Ponytail,' she said only in her head and started to unbutton her blouse.
"WHAT ARE YOU…."
"STOP STARING AT ME!"
Komui sat up from his bed and thought for a second. "Why did Lenalee have Timcampy in her room then?" he questioned himself but before he got an answer he felt back to sleep. (A/N: Poor Komui but lucky Allen! XD)
Allen eyes went open as Lenalee jumped at him, and pulled him with her down to the bed on top of her. He quickly wanted to get her off but she hugged his torso with her legs to stop him.
Allen blushingly swallowed and looked at her. "Lenalee, let me go." He said with his hands on each side and between her head, which were the only thing that held him from falling on her.
"Why?" she asked like a little girl.
"Because it isn't right and you're not in the right state of mind, so please, let me go…"
"Am I ugly?" asked the girl, suddenly sad.
He blinked, startled by the sudden change and the seriousness that she gave into her voice as she asked the question.
"What? No Lenalee. How can you say that?"
"Because Lavi doesn't love me." Great, his favorite subject.
"Lenalee that's not true. I'm sure he has strong feelings for you just that…"
"I'm too young, right?"
"Lenalee…"
"Maybe I'm ugly and too young."
Allen put his hand on her cheek and gently brushed it. "Lenalee you're the most beautiful girl I have ever seen," he assured her with his face full of sadness which only stirred her more due to the drug in her system.
"So I'm pretty?"
He let out a humorless chuckle. "Y-yes," he said with a wavering voice
"B-but he doesn't love me," repeated the girl with a sorrowful look.
Allen sighed. "You don't know that."
"I do…I can feel it. It hurts," tears started forming in her eyes and Allen was sure that if she cries he would join her.
She closed her eyes because seeing his sad face brought her even more pain.
"You don't know what it's like to love somebody who doesn't love you back," she cried. "You don't even know how much I do know it," he replayed with a sorrowful look on his face just before tears started rolling down his eyes and landed on her face.
Lenalee, surprised, opened her eyes to see Allen face twisted in an upset manner. "Even if you don't believe it, I do."
One of his hands reached his face and he wiped out a few tears but most of them still ended up on Lenalee.
She watched him like he was a rare animal wondering about it with her mind still foggy. He was her friend that wanted to help her get the person she loves even when he secretly loved her. Bizarre!
She took his shoulder and before he had any time to think she rolled with him so now he was lying on his back and she was sitting on his stomach.
"L-lenalee?" he blinked and stopped crying, albeit his face was still wet from tears.
"Why must it be that way Allen-kun?" she reached his face and gently stroked away all his tears.
"Why must I have fallen in love with Lavi and you into me?" she asked, and licked the thumb that she used to wipe his tears.
"I-I don't know."
The saltiness of his tears and his honest eyes made her smile a bit. "Me neither but…," she leaned down and pressed her lips again his.
Allen eyes widened. Despite the fact that the touch was softer than the wing of a butterfly and that it lasted for three seconds it left a mark that will remain forever.
"Lenalee…"
"I'm cruel but… even if I don't love you back I…," she touched her lips with her thumbs. "I'm happy that…you love me."
Allen got a bit up.
"What does it mean?" she asked and again reached to kiss him but he put his hand on her shoulder and stopped her.
She tiredly blinked.
"You said that you're cruel, but you don't have to be… I love you." As he let out those words despite the fact that he had already said it during his first confession, his chest sill felt lighter. Freer. "From all my heart, I love you, but I don't need compassion Lenalee," he put his hand on her neck.
"Don't force yourself into anything. If you don't love me back then just stay my friend."
She again leaned down but this time to hug him. "Why can't it be you?" she asked tiredly.
He hugged her back. "I wish I knew Lenalee. I really wish but I don't," he said and smiled a bit, but just a bit.
For few minutes they stood in that position and Allen understood that when she fell asleep he, slowly and carefully so as not to wake her up, put her on his bed and covered her with his blanket.
He looked at the golden golem that was quietly watching everything from the top of Allen's mirror. "Tim, let's keep this one a secret, okay?"
The little golem shook his tail and Allen was positive that it meant 'ok'. He took another small glance at her smiled.
"Good night…love."
Lavi confusedly watched the words in the letter he was holding in his shaking hands. The news was unbelievable and un… un everything he could imagine.
Miranda and Marie were dating but they broke up.
After a while he with a shocked face put the letters back together and into the closet where they belong.
Then he went to the door where he slowly switched off the light. Standing in the dark room he already started regretting that he put his nose where he shouldn't have and wished he never had read those stupid letters.
Feeling like a total jerk he simply lied down on the floor with his eyes open looking at something he couldn't see. He didn't want to sleep on her bed anymore. For tonight he felt like he had dishonored her privacy enough.
'We can be really mean sometimes.'
Everywhere was quiet. All the rooms went to sleep to sooner greet a new day. (TN: When suddenly a meteorite barreled through the ceiling! AN: Too much Two and a half men?)
"Allen-kun?" called Lenalee Lee, and Allen, who wasn't sleeping and seriously doubt that he will sleep tonight, got up from the floor he was on and reached her.
"What is it?" he said and gently put his hand on her forehead. She was cold.
"If I wasn't in love with Lavi… I would definitely fall for you," she said and again fell to sleep.
Allen blinked and couldn't help but smile. 'Even if it hurts… I'm happy to know that Lenalee…'
AN: Sorry for how loooong but I had a family thing to handle and writing just had to make the sacrifice… but at least not the ultimate. Anyway, I am back and I hope that for good this time. So see ya soon.
TN:~From Sir FollieOfMadness Of The Awesome Plains Of Imaginationland: (A.K.A Sir Lord Of Ultimate Awesomanity)~
WOOHOO! FINALLY MANAGED TO PROOF READ THIS! *Sigh* Proof reading takes a heck of a lot more work than you'd think, honestly. XD But yeah, now I gotta proof-read the OTHER document sent to me. X( Ah well, no arduous hours of work no sense of accomplishment, right?
~End Of From FollieOfMadness Of The Awesome Plains Of Imagionationland: (A.K.A Sir Lord Of Ultimate Awesomanity)~
