"I don't hate you."

Ciel's words played in his head over and over again. Did he really mean that? He didn't hate him? There was no way that he could have heard him right. He had lost the chance to ask though because as soon as he had said them, Ciel had walked away. Was he embarrassed? Why? There was so much going through his head; so many questions and emotions. Did this mean that they were friends?

"Is that anyway to treat your friends?"

Yes. Had had called himself his friend. Alois grabbed the fabric that covered his skin above his heart. Friends. Him and Ciel were friends. A smile spread it's way across his face and Alois resisted the urge to squeal like a yaoi fan girl. This day was the happiest day of his life, at least since the death of the old man. Things were certainly changing.

Covering his mouth with his and to suppress a giggle he opened the door to the restroom and headed back to his table. His smile never wavered, even as the people continued to push him as he walked past. Not even Claude could ruin this good mood he found himself in. Euphoria had to be the only way he could describe his feelings.

"Welcome back." Claude raised an eye brow as he watched the blonde take his seat across from him.

"Thank you." he smiled to the older male.

Claude sat back against his seat and watched as Alois put his hands in his lap and swung his legs back and fourth. Something was off. Very, very off. Even with all the time they had spent together never had he seen the child so happy as to just be. He didn't like it. Regardless of what had happened from the time he left to the time he got back he was going tot have to change a few things. Tomorrow was Saturday. Undoubtedly Alois would spend his morning watching cartoons until noon. He always did. Not only that, he had an important meeting he was to attend, so that was a no go. He already knew Sunday was going to be a problem as well. He couldn't help the feeling that he was losing control.

"Claude?"

"Hm?" he looked up, surprised by the sudden interruption of his thoughts.

"What's wrong? You were making a funny face." As if to prove his statement Alois wrinkled. his brow and tried to glare with ferocity, his mouth down in a frown.

"It's nothing." Alois shrugged and went back to checking out his surroundings, lost in his own little world.

Ridiculous. These games that they were playing were beginning to bore him. Something was going to change and very soon.

…

Ciel sat contently in the front seat of the car. Dinner had been a nice change of pace. They would have to do it more often. Spending time with Sebastian had suddenly become something of the norm. honestly he had never thought of such a thing ever actually catching his interest. What thirteen year old boy would want to spend his time with a grown man anyway? Whatever, he was happy. Of course, he was sure right about now he was not the only one. He thought back on his encounter with Alois in the restrooms. His words had set something off in the other boy. Something big he could tell. He only hopped that he would not regret it later. Knowing the blonde menace though, he would find some way to make him think twice about his actions. However, what was done was done. He could not change the past.

"Thinking, my Lord?"

"Mm" Sebastian chuckled at his absence of mind.

"Don't forget that when we get home you are to call Miss Elizabeth and let her know you'll attending the party."

Ciel blink as he remembered his earlier conversations. He had become quite forgetful as of late. To many things on his mind.

"Yes, yes of course."

…

Saturday morning came bright and early for Ciel. He had asked Sebastian the previous night to wake him up before he left to go grocery shopping. He wasn't really too excited for the party, if you could even say he was excited at all. No, instead he preferred to take things slow. He wasn't much of a morning person to begin with. Overall, his entire morning consisted of getting up at eight, going down stairs to eat his breakfast and watch cartoons, (Namely Pokemon) and then a shower before getting dressed. Maybe it was just him, but he had the sudden feeling that his life was more than a little boring. Now that he thought about it, he never really did anything. He would surely have to work on that. His anti-social tendencies would surely lead him to ruin.

Ciel jumped as the phone rang loudly throughout the house. He quickly made his way down stairs and into the kitchen picking up the phone and taking a seat at the table.

"Hello, Phantomhive residence." he waited patiently for a reply.

"Hello?" he waited again. Nothing.

"Whatever." he mumbled to himself and hung up the phone. Looking at the clock Ciel decided that it was late enough for him to have his lunch and maybe do a little homework before heading out.

…

"Hello, Phantomhive residence...Hello?"

Claude listened to the quiet mumble of annoyance on the other end of phone before the irksome sound of a deadline rang in his ears. Hitting the end button he set the phone on the dash of his car before starting it up and driving down the street.

"Ciel Phantomhive. Your life is about to change."

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Hello again my lovely people. How are you on this fine evening? Well like I said, I would have this chapter up either before or on Christmas and here it is! :D So what do you think? Yeah I know I make Claude horrible. I'm sorry for those of you who like him. It's not that I don't, I just see him as someone who might do this...if that makes sense. No worries though.

As I mentioned before I may become a little slow on this one due to my reverting back to Naruto fandoms. -shot- And it did lead me to write a SasuNaru oneshot, so if you're interested and love me, you'll go check it out. :)

Again thanks for reading and I hope you all have a Merry Christmas, and/or if you don't celebrate it, I wish you a Happy Holiday.

Review~They make awesome gifts~ :)