Kanda blinked at the girl in confusion and anger, wanting nothing more than to run or punch her in the face. He did neither however, as Lavi came up behind him, asking what was wrong. Kanda scoffed at the redhead and returned to gathering firewood with the supposed werewolf. Jacob tried talking to Kanda about his more than obvious tension, but the katana wielder shook him off.
As Jacob tried not to look like a kicked puppy, Lavi talked to Vis. The normally chipper exorcist walked away looking like he'd been kicked hard in the balls, but Vis walked away with a sunny smile, humming a tune.
A mini van had pulled up in front of the house she claimed to live in and three individuals clamored out. The older of the three was passively trying to break up the enthusiastic conversation the other two were having, but to no avail and no real effort. The fraternal twins laughed and shoved at the elders shoulder, but he shrugs them off and enters the house. 'Vis' jogs up to them and hustles the brothers into the house. They go with little fuss, but don't break step with each other and keep their heads low in conversation.
"The hell was that all about?" Lavi grouches to Kanda, picking up a piece of wood and passing it to Jacob to chop in half. He spoke low enough that Jacob wouldn't hear them over his humming (at least they assumed he wouldn't) and explained what the girl had said, leaving out the bit about his dark dreams.
Lavi, for once, listens patiently and crosses his arms in a gesture of vexation. "What the hell, Yuu? She just came up to you like that?" he asks, frowning.
Kanda glares and shrugs, nodding. He debates something for a long moment then looks back up to Lavi.
"Why'd you tell the lowlives at that school that Lenalee was my girlfriend?"
Lavi swallows hard and looks up to Kanda.
"Oh. Right. That. Well, I know how you hate being pestered by hormonal teenagers, so I figured if I gave you a cover you wouldn't scare anyone too badly.." Lavi explains slowly. "You also said to never say we were boyfriends ever again, so uh, at least one of us got out of the dating pool, yeah?" Lavi smiles weakly and escapes over to where Jake is chopping wood under pretenses to help.
Kanda drops it and returns to fetching logs.
A half an hour or so later, the wood is all cut, a fire is burning bright and there's a grill placed over it. Charlie comes out and starts grilling hamburgers.
Edward pulls up with Bella and they're arguing again, but only Jacob notices. She gets out angrily and slams the door, stomping into the house and this time Edward doesn't follow her.
Lavi jumps at the slamming and looks around, a bit scared, but doesn't say anything to Bella when she comes out again, sitting on the bench near the flames, glaring into them. Lavi chalks it up to hormonal girls and doesn't try to talk her out of whatever angry funk she's in.
Bella's no Lenalee anyway.
The window is crowded at the house next door, three figures volleying for a good look at the exorcists across the way.
"Stop shoving!"
A girls angry voice cuts through the bustle at the window and the boys and man stop moving.
"Hee hee!" someone says, attempting to restart the scuffle.
The elder of the three smacks them both on the head, muttering, "Idiots."
The girl sighs dramatically and rolls her eyes, waving them off.
Tyki warily watches Road stalk off through the dark house and glares down at Jasdero and David.
"Can't you two just behave?" he drawls, acting disinterested as he returns to watching the exorcists.
A/N: I know, it's short, it's different, but it's somethin' innit? Anyways, guys, I'm working on it again, reviews help speed the process and you are welcome to kick my ass about continuing. It's good for me. Have at it then. Any errors are my own, I don't own.