Ciel was certain that this had to be the worst day of the year. Well it would be, except for the chocolate, he definitely enjoyed that. But really he didn't think he could take another one. He gripped the book he was reading tighter as a group of girls giggled behind the book shelves opposite. The frustrated teen couldn't even find a safe haven in the hallowed halls of learning that made the library which served as his sanctuary. With a huff of frustration Ciel closed his book with a decisive snap. It looked like he was going to have to find somewhere else to read.

Leaving the library he headed to the rooftop where he found another gaggle of girls crowding around a half open doorway. Ciel rolled his eyes and immediately walked back down the staircase. The bluenett wandered out onto the grounds. With a sigh of relief he settled in the shade of a tree. However his peace didn't last long. He was just reading the final pages of his novel when the shrieking squeal of girls disrupted the vision of volcanic fury in his mind. With a curse on his lips, he jerked upwards, the litany of swearwords he was about to give life to, dying away at the horror approaching him.

It was a swarm, a flood, a consortium.

Of starry eyed fan girls.

Well to be honest, there couldn't have been more than six of them. But to a singular bookworm, anything more than three was a horde.

Oh God, it was times like these that Ciel regretted not accepting Elizabeth's offer to pretend to be his girlfriend. Scrambling to his feet he turned to slink away through the foliage. A sharp squeal caught his attention. Looking back, he saw to his horror, one of the girls pointing towards him. Without hesitation he dashed into the foliage, pushing past bushes, and scraping past trees. Screw dignity, this was a matter of survival! He had enough on his plate with the Valentine's day festival, Elizabeth had insisted they run after school. He wouldn't be able to survive having those girls mooning over him and Elizabeth's antics.

In the end, Ciel had to resort to climbing up a tree. He perched on the tree branch, hardly daring to breathe as the girls filtered past him. Although the tree branch wasn't the most comfortable of places, Ciel sat with his back to the tree trunk while one leg was stretched along the length of the branch he was sitting on. With a contented smile at the peace he was now surrounded with, he flicked his book open to the page where he had been so rudely interrupted. No trace of human sound could be heard around the tree save for the swishing turn of pages that blended into the rustle of the leaves.

Lunch had just finished and Ciel was into his free period. With a satisfied sigh Ciel closed his book, lifting his face to the sunlight which filtered down through the leaves. It was then that Ciel realized he had a problem.

He was stuck.

Getting up into the tree had all been fine and dandy, when his life depended on it. But now in the quiet of his free period after lunch. He was faced with the problem of getting down. Ciel looked down and immediately regretted it.

It really was a long, long, long way down.

Ciel hadn't realized he had climbed this far up. But well, he had climbed up far enough to escape the notice of those girls, so of course he was high up. But he didn't expect to be some thirty meters or so off the ground. Ciel was too proud to call for help and in any case it was unlikely anyone would hear him, since the majority of students and teachers would be in class. He would just have to figure out a way to get down himself. But before he could consider how to get down he would have to deal with the book.

The young man wasn't sure how he managed to get up with the book, but he certainly wasn't going to be able to get down holding onto it. Looking back down again he carefully held the book before dropping it. His estimation had been correct, the book slid down the slight slope a good distance from the base of the tree. At least he wouldn't have to worry about landing on the book and damaging it. The only problem left was how he was going to get down without damaging himself.

Testing every hand and foot hold twice before trusting it with his life, Ciel managed to make it down fifteen meters before he came across his next problem. The thick mass of tree bark that had made the fissure in the tree a suitable hand and foot hold had broken off in Ciel's mad scramble up the tree. There was a substantial branch below him, but there was absolutely no way for Ciel to get to it.

Unless he dangled himself from the branch he was on and then let himself fall.

Ciel swallowed hard and glanced downwards. This was of course an absolute mistake, but unless he wanted to stay up in that tree for at least another four hours, before going through the embarrassment of getting someone to help him down, there was little other choice. Risking another glance down, he concentrated firmly on the location of the tree branch below (stoically ignoring the distant ground) and rehearsed in his mind what he would do once he let go of the branch.

To be fair, Ciel would have dropped exactly where he was aiming to land. But fate had other ideas, and luck other matters to attend to. Just as he was preparing to let go, a bird flew straight for the branch he was gripping, latching onto the branch with its talons. However the bird just happened to choose the exact spot Ciel was gripping the branch. With an undignified yelp of pain and surprise, he let go of the branch. The bird did not help matters by screeching and flapping like an unbalanced hen on its roost. Ciel's descent was interrupted by the branch he was aiming to land on. The small body hit the substantial branch and started to slide off. Madly he scrambled to cling onto the branch, however all he was able to grasp were twigs and leaves, neither of which were very stable.

There was a horrible pause, the kind of pause that allows a person a moment to think "oh shit" before the inevitable happens. In Ciel's case this meant that the handfulls of twigs finally tore and he was sent to meet the ground. There weren't a lot more branches below him, so at least he was not tumbled around, though they might have been able to slow his descent. Ciel braced himself for a hard and painful landing, very likely with damage. However this turned out not to be the case. With a grunt he landed, half on something soft, and then dragged it to the ground as he semi fell the rest of the way.

Ciel sat up and looked around, disorientated as to where he was. He appeared to have landed in one piece, with what felt like bruises all over and on something that was currently moving under him. Mortified he looked down to find Sebastian smirking up at him, arms falling away from where he had been holding Ciel.

'Well, I won't ask if it hurt when you fell from heaven.' Sebastian drawled 'Since it was an angel that fell into my arms.' Ciel's jaw dropped, then a rather angry blush stained his cheeks.

'So how about you take me to heaven by going on a date with me?'