Let Your Silence Sing

Chapter 10

Tyki plopped his books on a table near the chair I was currently resting on and then gave me a quizzical stare that I took to mean "get off my chair, bitch, or I swear I will fricking end you."

I was now sitting on the floor next to the chair, my back up against the arm of it. Every couple of minutes, I would sneak a look up at him. I swear he looked better every time I looked at him.

There was a long silence as we both sat and read books, but it wasn't necessarily awkward. On the contrary, it was that comfortable silence you get only when two book lovers are reading in the same room as one another.

"Road is looking for you, you know," Tyki finally said.

"You finally break your silence, and that's what you say?!" I asked. He stayed silent. "She didn't forget about me?" I asked absentmindedly, once I was able to zone back into my book. He snorted, and it sounded like he was going to say something else, but he was interrupted by the loud slamming of a certain entrance to the library.

"Rey-Rey!" a very familiar voice called out. Road had arrived and was now running down the book shelves towards Tyki and I. Based on the loud 'Ow, Lero's issuing from her direction, I would assume she was making sure to have Lero hit each of the shelves. "Rey~" she cried out happily when she found me. "Tyki, you jerk! Why didn't you tell me she was here?" she exclaimed petulantly.

Tyki only raised a perfectly shaped eyebrow in response. She lost interest in him almost immediately and turned back to me.

"Why did you leave, I was looking everywhere for you!"

I flushed. "I thought you had forgotten about me, and I got bored. So I left, got lost, and ended up here," I admitted.

"That's not important now; you're mine!" she cheered, proceeding to drag me out of the library. Sometime in the commotion I had dropped my book, and I pouted. I had just been getting to the good part!

I was led back to the room I had occupied previously; however, it was now full of dresses. Black, red, blue, purple, name a colour, it was there. I proceeded to stare at them with a dumbfound expression on my face. "Do you like them?" Road asked with a little shit-eating grin on her face. I could only nod- I had never seen so many dresses in my entire life! "They're yours!" she exclaimed, still with that grin.

"What?" I choked out. Was she trying to put me millions of dollars in debt to her?!

"Well, they're hand-me-down dresses from Lulubell and I, that don't fit anymore and I…" She shrugged, looking like an innocent little kid. I felt my heart melt a little bit and I hugged her before I could remember that she could crush me as easily as an earwig. I could tell by the expression on her face that she was utterly delighted, and as she danced out of the room, she called back, "Try on the dresses, Rey!"

Chuckling, I decided to do just that.

My enthusiasm wasn't long lived; as I quickly discovered that Lulubell's bust size was a lot larger than mine, and that Road was… well, really short.

At the end of the dress trying on, there were only seven dresses that actually fit well. Looking at the other dresses immediately filled me with a sense of self loathing, and they began to give me a bit of a migraine, so I stuffed them into my closet, where I wouldn't have to look at them for the moment.

When I heard a knock on my door, I was laying on my back, staring at the ceiling, completely zoned out.

"Come in," I grumbled loudly. Tyki poked his head in and looked around, as if for danger. "Road isn't here," I said. He half-grinned sheepishly and came in.

"So, I saw you left some books in the library and wondered if-" I cut him off by dive-bombing for the three books in his hands that I carefully placed by the bed.

I turned and gave him my best smile, practically glomping him. To his credit, he didn't use his Choose ability like an ass.

"Oof!" he said as I knocked the wind out of him.

"Thank you so much!" I practically sang, my arms slung around his neck.

"Am I interrupting something?" asked Road, who had just entered the room.

"Not at all," Tyki immediately replied, not missing a beat, and finally using his ability to send me through him and crashing to the floor. I groaned in pain, curling up in the fetal position. Tyki made a strange choking sound and I heard him back away.

Road then came over and forced me up. "So where are the dresses?"

I pointed towards the closet door. "I couldn't bear to look at them," I explained, blushing.

Road proceed to open the door, but let out a little terrified squeak as the dresses in the closet lunged out and tackled her to the floor. At least that's what it looked like.

I tried to hold back the unladylike snort that was building in the back of my throat, and almost had it, when Tyki began cracking up at the strange picture. That just broke it, and I began to laugh also, so hard that I began to feel sick. Road pushed the dresses off her and pouted at the both of us.

NAW: Yay! Long chapter. Also, is anyone else cracking up at the last part with the dresses? I seriously keep imaging the part, and every time I read it or rewrite it I just see Road's terrified face as a wave of dresses threatens her safety. Oh dang it, I'm laughing again!

Neah: Seeing as the writing is now hysterically laughing, I suppose this will be short.

Allen: D. Gray-Man belongs to Katsura Hoshino, read and review please!