Allen looked at the other three, suppressing a smile at the obvious hints the others were giving away. Lavi kept his face sombre but couldn't hide the fact he was excited as he kept tapping his feet on the ground to some unforeseen rhythm, it wouldn't be long, Allen knew until Lavi decided to act. Kanda didn't even try to hide his emotions, the angry creases on his forehead and the constant frown on his face clearly stated that he wasn't in a good position and, Krory? Lavi had tricked the poor sucker into revealing his own hand a long time ago.

He looked down at his own cards, his ever careless smile giving away nothing as he contemplated how sweet it would be to see Lavi's face fall when he saw what Allen had up his selves. The armatures had fallen into all of his traps and now the main threat (Lavi) had been lulled into a sense of comfort, it wouldn't be long until the game was over and he got the money in the middle of the table. In a way it was all just too easy but even so it was still fun and helped to take his mind off… other things.

Just then Krory finally dropped out putting his cards on the floor, not unexpected action to any of them, though they still sat in silence to see if any of the others would fold. After a couple of minutes of what had seemed to be a struggle for Kanda as he stubbornly held on, until he too let go of his pride and put his cards down. Muttering as he did so "It's not like I wanted to play this stupid thing anyway".

Lavi let out a huge grin, before putting his cards down "Full house" he said proudly, taking the slightly surprised look on Allen's face as confirmation of his win. The look actually meant the complete opposite; Allen had thought that Lavi's confidence had meant he had a much higher hand then full house. Smiling he put down his own cards.

"Royal flush" he said as he spread them out on the table. Now it was Lavi's turn to be surprised, though he realised that he'd been asking for it, it had been a stupid idea to play against Allen

"Well you win Allen, though I don't know how you did it, I mean the odds of you getting those cards are…" said Lavi as Allen took the money from the middle of the table.

"I guess I'm just lucky he said smiling as he tucked the wad of money into his pocket "Want to play again?"

Allen grinned as he walked along the hall way, his pockets full of money he'd just won. He couldn't believe that Kanda had gotten so into it, each time Kanda had lost he'd demand a rematch saying there was no way he could lose against a bean sprout and that Allen must have been using some sort of trickery to win every time. Of course Allen won every single game; playing against Kanda was child's play, the angry swordsman's face was as easy to read as a book. Though it was Allen himself who had had to quit in the end, fearing for his own life once Kanda started getting violent even going as far as to point Mugen at Allen's throat.

Briefly he wondered if maybe Lenalee would be in the hall when he went for lunch; after all there was nothing wrong with just eating with her. Opening the door he saw that she was there as well as Lavi who was sitting right besides her; having, by some freak of nature arrived before Allen even though Allen had left first…

"Quit staring and get out of my way" shouted a disgruntled Kanda as he tried to get past Allen who was right in front of the door way.

"Oh sorry" said Allen, swiftly moving out of the way.

"If you like her so much just take her back" said Kanda as he walked past "though I a bean sprout like you is probably too much of a coward to do it" he added, before carrying on and sitting on his usual table by himself, leaving Allen on his own to mull over things.

It was, Kanda knew, about time someone started taking proper action because it wouldn't be long until Lavi completely backed out of his so called 'plan' which would mean a lot of hurt for Lenalee later on and that was something he knew he couldn't stand for.

A few minutes later Lavi sat down next to him, looking incredibly ruffled.

"The plans changed" he said as he put down a huge pile of paper onto the table "It will now be called 'get Allen out of the picture'" Kanda looked at his friend, irritated by his stupidity.

"There's no point" Kanda said as he stared across the hall to where Allen was talking to Lenalee.

"Why?" he asked, seeming to have completely forgotten why the original plan had been there in the first place.

"Because you're leaving" Lavi looked at Kanda in surprise, the realisation slowly hitting him. That was right, the original plan had started as soon as he'd found out about leaving 'get Lenalee to dump me and get together with Allen'. The only problem with that plan was that he didn't want Lenalee to be with Allen, he wanted her to be with him… "Selfish red head" Kanda said aloud as though reading Lavi's thoughts "You should know better" and Lavi had to agree with Yuu, he should know better…

Meanwhile back on Lenalee's table, Allen was questioning Lenalee about her love life, not because he wanted to do anything, just to know where he stood in this whole complicated situation.

"So you and the boyfriend are getting along well then?" he asked, trying to sound as casual as possible but ending up sounding as awkward as humanely possible.

"Yes we're fine Allen"

"You haven't had a fight or anything?"

"No why do you ask?" she asked curiously, surprised by how talkative Allen was being today.

"It's just because he's not sitting he's not sitting with you today" he explained, glancing over where he was sitting with Kanda. The person who he had thought was on his side.

"That's normal, they often sit together"

"Oh okay… So are things serious enough, do you think, to develop into marriage?" he asked, deciding that while he was at he might just go all the way.

"Allen! Keep it down! If my brother heard you saying such things..."

"I guess your right; you'd have to elope if you wanted to go that far…"

"You know your asking a lot of weird questions today Allen, don't tell me your jealous of me and Lavi?" she asked playfully, pretending as though his answer didn't matter.

"What err, not really" he said sounding flustered "I just wanted to make sure he was treating you alright, um well I've got to go now, goodbye" he said, before quickly getting up and rushing off.

It was wrong but Lenalee just couldn't help but feel disappointed that Allen hadn't said yes…

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Yes I DO know I haven't updated this story in months and I DO know that I've probably lost all my readers because of it (sniff) and I also know that the story probably felt a bit iffy this chapter since I've kind of lost the flow of the story… But I do plan to finish this and I apologize for taking so long! I also apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes in advance! And I won't give you an excuse for why I took so long because it was simply because I no longer felt motivated by the story line and got more into some of my other stories… I'm alos sorry that it was a short chapter and nothing much happened!