Wow, I'm on a roll with these chapters, huh? Just got the BEST suggestion ever though and writer's block doesn't agree with it! Bwahahaha! Take that, writer's block :D but I think I've lost my inspiration to write FMA ._. Anyways, I'm still taking suggestions. Oh, and one more thing: VoTe FoR ThE PoLL! :3 Laven Mental Ward is winning by 4 votes!
Kanda looked around the room, wondering what the hell he should do next. He needed to get Lavi to calm down or maybe...go to bed! Kanda looked at the doorknob and smirked. Ever since they moved into the house, the lock on Lavi's doorknob was the complete opposite and anyone inside the room could actually be locked in. Kanda backed away slowly and Lavi watched him suspiciously. As swift as he could, Kanda slammed the door and locked it before Lavi could try and open it. The doorknob twisted a few times and there was a shout of anger from Lavi from behind the door as he started banging on it to get out.
Why don't I just do this more often? Oh wait, that stupid rabbit's grandpa owns the house...damn it...Kanda stormed away and waited in the living room for the noises to stop. It was a really good thing that Lenalee wasn't here or she would've waken up from all the noise. The pounding eventually stopped and Kanda stood up and looked under the door to see if Lavi was still there. He wasn't. So that only could've meant that the man had gone to sleep. Kanda sighed in relief and reluctantly unlocked the door. Lavi did have work in the morning after all.
Kanda stormed to his room and shut the light off. That god damn bean sprout probably told his friend. God damn that chick is fucking scary...but not as scary as me. I'm not afraid of her. I wonder what she'll do to Lavi. Damn it she's going to make me get involved because I saved the stupid bean sprout. It would've been worse though if I ignored them and let Lavi do what he wanted. Fuck, why am I even thinking about this?! Whatever...Kanda thought as he closed his eyes to go to sleep. Sleep overcame him eventually. He was going to have a long morning ahead of him tomorrow.
The next morning, loud banging was echoing throughout the house. Kanda knew he unlocked Lavi's room...but then who was banging on a door like they were getting chased by the cops? Kanda then recognized the noise from the front door. Shit. Kanda sat up and turned the light on. He irritably rubbed his eyes, stood up, and started for the door.
"I got it!" He heard Lavi yell from the kitchen. Fuck! Kanda didn't even bother putting his hair up.
Once Lavi answered the door, he felt someone grab the front of his shirt and push him all the way in so they could slam him against the wall. It dizzied Lavi since he had just woke up and had the hangover of a lifetime. His blurred vision eventually straightened out and he was surprised to see Fou standing there, snarling at him. She looked very tired though from the small bags under her eyes. Kanda had later quickly walked into the room.
"What the fuck did you do?!" Fou hissed angrily at him. Lavi nearly peed himself.
"Wha?" Lavi asked, dazed.
"Last night! I thought you were better than that, Lavi!" Fou snarled at him and gripped his shirt more tightly to show she wasn't kidding.
"Last night?" Lavi asked slowly. He strained his mind to think of what happened last night. He and Allen went to a pub...and then...nothing. The last thing he remembered was Allen's smiling face as he played cards. Then it hit him. He drank whiskey last night.
"Oh shit...oh fuck please don't tell me I did something to him! Please don't...oh my god, I did something to him, didn't I?" Fou let go of him in shock. She didn't expect him to answer that way. He paced around the room and muttered to himself, placing his face in his hands. Kanda leaned against the doorway of the living room to watch. He didn't want to get involved unless he absolutely had to.
"You...don't remember?" Fou asked warily.
"I...I drank whiskey last night-which I don't know why I was so stupid to do so-and whenever I do...I can't control my actions and
...and I don't ever remember anything the next day! I've been slapped a couple times from that actually..." Lavi said the last line quietly.
"I see..."
"Wait...how far did I go?" Lavi asked her cautiously.
"Not very far actually." She muttered.
"Really? How's that?" Lavi looked around and spotted Kanda at the door. He looked a little too amused at the situation.
"I stopped you, that's how." Kanda grunted. Fou quickly looked over at Kanda. "You were just about to go a little too far. You're an idiot, stupid rabbit."
"I...I...I didn't mean to! Shit and we've got work today..."
"We?" Both Kanda and Fou asked. Lavi nodded slowly.
"Yeah, when we both went out last night-not in that way Yu-I showed him a place where he could possibly get a job and he got the job...but I work there too...um...am I...can I see Allen? I want to apologize..." Lavi said just loud enough for them to hear. Fou stared at Lavi suspiciously for a long time before sighing.
"That's probably the only way you two can recover from this...okay..." Fou turned around to leave the house and Lavi followed. Neither of them had shoes on. Lavi followed her into the house and up the stairs to Allen's room. Fou knocked on the door. "Allen?" Fou said in a very gentle voice, which surprised Lavi to no bounds. "Allen...I have Lavi with me. He's apologizing, okay?" There was no answer but Fou twisted the door knob slowly and entered the room. She paused for a minute before talking. "I'm going to leave you two alone now, okay?" Allen nodded. She walked out of the room and shoved him inside. Lavi looked at Allen, who was hugging his knees on his bed. His eyes had deeper bags than Fou's /Did he even sleep last night?/ Lavi wondered. He sat on Allen's bed.
"Allen...I...I'm really sorry...I...I didn't know what I was doing..."
"...I know..." Allen said. Lavi now knew why Allen didn't talk. His voice sounded hoarse and shaky.
"Y-you know...I wouldn't...I wouldn't hurt you..." Lavi said. The room seemed really tense. It pained Allen so much. Lavi wouldn't have done those things to him if he had been sober...
"Lavi...I..." Allen started. He couldn't finish though. He couldn't say it. It was just too hard. /I love you.../ Allen looked up at Lavi. "I don't...hate you..." Lavi's eyes brightened and he grinned.
"So...no more grudge?" Allen smiled at him. If Lavi didn't love him, it would still be alright. Because he had the chance to actually be beside the one he loved, even if it was one-sided. He could watch Lavi be happy and that would just make him happier.
"No more grudge." Allen confirmed.
"Yay! I'm sooooo happy!" Lavi said, hugging Allen. Allen hesitated for a minute and hugged Lavi back. Lavi just felt so overjoyed that Allen hugged him back. "Alright! So we should probably get ready for work then!" Lavi said, grinning. Allen blushed and looked away.
"Um...about that...Lavi..." Lavi tilted his head to the side confusingly. Allen rubbed his neck, blushing madly.
"What is it?"
"You...don't...remember anything from last night, do you?"
"Uh...no, why?"
"Y-you kinda..." Allen gulped. "You kinda left...a...mark..." Lavi laughed.
"Oh c'mon, Allen, it can't be that bad." Allen bit the inside of his lip. It sure /looked/ noticeable...
"I..." Allen started.
"Lemme see!" Lavi said, taking Allen's chin and lifting it up. His eyes widened and he poked it. It had to be the size of a golf ball. "Holy shit..." Lavi brushed his finger against it and Allen shuddered. Lavi noticed this but pretended not to. He let go of Allen's chin and began thinking. "Well it's too fucking hot for you to wear a turtle neck." Lavi said. His eyes drifted over to Allen's arm a couple times. "Aha! We could just make it look like you hurt yourself! Hm...how does falling down a hiking trail hill full of sharp branches sound? She'll believe it because she's fallen down one before."
"Lavi, when people do that, they don't get just a scratch." Allen said, rolling his eyes.
"Duh! I've got the most best idea ever! You're going to be wearing short sleeves today!"
"Wh-what?"
Lavi's idea...actually wasn't that bad. Lavi had put a small gauze pad on Allen's neck and started wrapping his left arm in bandages. Allen had actually ended up hurting his left shoulder last night too so the bandages would actually help a bit. Lavi was so busy wrapping up Allen's arm that he hadn't seen the wound yet. Allen had ended up scratching his shoulder off again. He did this when he was younger because he hated his arm. Then it got into a habit and every time he was stressed, he would scratch it again-even if it had nothing to do with his arm. Lavi stopped when he saw the scratch marks and looked at Allen, frowning.
"What...?" Lavi asked. Allen shook his head.
"F-force of habit..." Allen said, not looking at him. Lavi sighed and stood up.
"Wait right here I'll be right back." Lavi mumbled. Allen did as he said and traced the scars around his shoulder. Was Lavi upset with him? Lavi returned and sat down in front of him. He took Allen's hand away and applied a cool ointment on it and rubbed it on his shoulder. Allen wanted to ask if Lavi was upset, but he didn't want to know if he was because if he was, he'd be upset with Allen and Allen didn't want that. "There, all better." Lavi said, snapping Allen out of his thoughts.
"Thank you..."
"No problem! That's what friends are for, right?" Lavi asked warily. Allen smiled.
"Yeah..." He replied.
"Okay! Time to head out then!" Lavi exclaimed. Allen was thankful that Lavi hadn't asked about his shoulder. Before he could protest, Lavi started dragging him down the stairs. Allen ended up tripping over his foot and rolling down the stairs with him. And as if fate loved to embarrass Allen, Lavi was on top of his hips while Fou and Bak were on the couch watching a movie. Allen's face flushed a deep cherry color and he looked away covering his mouth.
"Damn, I just can't seem to stay off you, huh?" Lavi said, grinning. That comment made Allen blush so hard his ears turned red and he pushed Lavi off him.
"Don't say stuff like that!" Allen said, picking himself up and holding out his right hand to help Lavi up. Lavi, grinning, took it and just pulled Allen down on top of him. Allen's blush covered his entire face. "Stop that!"
"Why, do you like it?" Lavi asked in a husky voice. Fou couldn't take it any longer and had a nosebleed. She rushed to the bathroom. Lavi just laughed louder. Bak sighed and looked away from them, blushing. Allen climbed off of Lavi and refused to help him up. Lavi pouted but Allen just ignored him, crossing his arms and looking away stubbornly. Lavi chuckled and stood up.
"Well, let's go!" Lavi exclaimed. He was starting towards the door but Fou blocked him.
"Where to?" She asked suspiciously, holding toilet paper on her bloody nose. Allen freaked out while Lavi just grinned at her.
"Um, work?" He replied.
"Uwah! Are you okay, Fou?! You're bleeding!" Allen hurried over. Fou held a hand up.
"I'm completely fine Short Stack, don't worry about it." She said. "You're so innocent it's cute. Anyways, I didn't know you had a job, Allen..."
"I do, I just got one yesterday..." Allen replied.
"Wait, you and Lavi went on a date to get you a job?" Fou asked. Allen's blush returned to his face.
"No! We weren't on a date! Lavi just wanted to come along!" Allen said, trying to force his blush to go down.
"If you say so..." Fou said uncertainly. She finally removed the tissue from her nose and let them through.
"Have fun, Short Stack~!" She called at them. Allen just ignored her and kept walking to his car, unlocking it.
Lavi was staring at Allen, trying to figure him out again. He just made no sense at all! When he had that grudge on, he barely blushed in front of Lavi and he hated close contact...and now he was blushing every time Lavi commented on something! He reminded Lavi more about how he used to be in high school. Is this what Allen acted like in front of Fou? Does he always act this way around his friends? Was it just because Lavi and him weren't friends before...or was it...something else? I know it's stupid of me to think...but...usually only the people who crush on each other act that way...could it be that Allen...no, he told me that he used to have a crush on me. He never said he still liked me. But...it could be a possibility.
"You coming in or not?" Allen asked, snapping Lavi out of his thoughts. Lavi smirked and climbed in the car. Allen stared at him. Why is he smirking? Lavi couldn't help it any longer and laughed.
"That's what she said." He snickered. Allen's jaw dropped and he blushed again, turning the keys in the ignition.
"Oh jeez. So what time are we supposed to be there?" Allen asked as he pulled out of his driveway again, looking both ways. He pulled up to the light and waited for Lavi's answer as he did so. Lavi glanced at the clock.
"Um...ten minutes ago." Lavi answered. Allen sat there for a minute. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Though in most situations, that pin sounded a little too loud but yeah, you get the point. Allen sighed.
"Great. Late on the first day." Allen grumbled and turned left.
"She'll understand. Especially when you're all 'banged up'." Lavi replied. Allen drove pretty fast and Lavi almost thought that they were going twenty miles past the speed limit had the gauge not said 55. He grabbed onto a handle anyways and stared at Allen in shock. Why was he driving so fast?! Allen had always been cautious while driving. He flicked his turning signal on and zoomed past a car. He turned it back on again and went the other way. He smirked at that. Lavi looked at him curiously. Why was he smirking? Was it the person in the car? "Why...?"
"That was Neah's car." Allen supplied. Lavi started laughing.
"Does he know what your car looks like?" Lavi asked. Allen laughed.
"Probably but he has this insane road rage." Allen chuckled. The car zoomed past them and Neah flipped him off. Allen laughed again.
It was music to Lavi's ears to hear him so happy. He seemed like he was going to be depressed today by the bags under his eyes, but Lavi was glad that he wasn't. For some reason, he didn't like the look on his face when he was depressed. It just hurt him for some reason. Allen parked the car quickly and turned the ignition off. He hopped out and slammed the door. He instantly locked it once Lavi was out. Slamming the doors, they both quickly walked over to the door and opened it. Right when they entered, Lavi started getting dragged off by his ear by Anita. Anita was a bit nicer and dragged him in by his right arm.
"Where the hell have you two been?! And what the hell happened to you, Allen?" Anita asked, a bit worried. Allen felt a bit bad that his appearance suggested something that wasn't true.
"He fell down a hill." Lavi lied. Allen also felt guilty that Lavi had lied so easily to her. She gave Allen a sympathetic look and it only made him feel worse. She threw them into the kitchen.
"Well, get to work!" She commanded.
"Wait, what am I supposed to do?!" Allen asked, panicking. She smirked at him.
"I'll let you figure it out." She said. Allen didn't feel so guilty anymore and dropped his jaw. Everyone stared at him weirdly and he suddenly felt self-conscious. Oh please don't make this like high school. Lavi swooped in to save the day.
"Guys, meet Allen Walker. He's the shit. You are welcomed to call him bean sprout, shorty, short stack-oof!" Lavi started but Allen elbowed him in the gut. The kitchen laughed at them. Allen blushed and averted his gaze. Allen felt someone clap their hands on his right shoulder and looked up to see a man with green hair that was tied to the left of his head. He had two dots on his forehead and a few beauty marks on his face.
"Don't worry, you'll do just fine." He reassured. Some of Allen's hair tilted back, revealing his scar. The man's eyes slightly widened but that was all. That scar is...Allen smiled at him, cutting off his thoughts.
"Thank you." Allen replied, still smiling. The man nodded and held his hand out towards Allen, his right hand at that.
"You're very welcome. My name is Tokusa, yours?" Tokusa asked, smiling.
"Allen Walker." Tokusa's eyes widened again but he shook Allen's hand all the same.
Lavi gave Tokusa a warning stare. He knew the man had been involved in the Akuma investigation and it was obvious that he knew Allen had been involved with them before. Bookman was Lavi's source of knowledge from this of course. He knew all about The Akuma because of Bookman. Bookman told him all the information about them about a week ago, including Allen's secret. He didn't know much about Allen's father but he did know that Mana was killed by The Akuma gang. He didn't know how, but he just knew that part. Tokusa was nice but when it came to work, Tokusa was serious and didn't take no for an answer most of the time. Surely he would try doing something with Allen to get information out of him about the Akuma that Allen didn't know. Or maybe Lavi was just acting paranoid...
"Okay! Let's get to work everyone!" Madarao, one of the head chefs, commanded. Madarao was a young man with blue hair-who also had two dots on his forehead-that was mostly cut short except for the low ponytail that was kept in large beads. He had a strap around his forehead and looked a bit bizarre to Allen. But, who was Allen to talk? "New kid, c'mere, I'll show you around." Madarao invited. Lavi also gave him a warning look. Madarao caught it and narrowed his eyes at Lavi. Lavi walked over and removed Allen from Madarao's grip.
"I think I can manage that." Lavi said, smiling grimly at Madarao. Allen was confused and just tried to pretend like he wasn't included in the conversation. "C'mon, Allen."
"O-okay..." Allen let Lavi drag him around the kitchen and Lavi pointed everything out. What Allen did notice, was that all the head chefs looked a bit odd and they all had two dots-which looked like moles-on their forehead.
"Allen." Lavi said, bringing Allen to attention. He had the most serious look on his face.
"What is it?" Allen asked, looking around the kitchen, still amazed with it.
"Look at me, Allen." Allen blinked and looked at Lavi's serious face. "Stay away from the head chefs, okay? Promise me that you will." Lavi said, gripping Allen's right shoulder. Allen frowned at him and Lavi's over protective instinct was going off like a siren during a tornado.
"I...okay." Allen said uncertainly. He felt unsure about it, since they were basically his bosses, but Lavi looked serious about the situation and Lavi never looked serious. Relief washed through Lavi like a tidal wave. Allen could see the relief on his face and was actually pretty worried. Why would Lavi want him to stay away from them so much?
"Great! So right over here..." and Lavi went back to touring Allen around the kitchen. Allen could feel the eyes of the head chefs on him. He felt thoroughly uncomfortable with it but decided not to tell Lavi. He didn't want to bother him... "But yeah, that's it. On a whole different topic, are you going to come to my birthday party this Saturday?"
"Oh, I dunno, Lavi...I'm not really one for parties." Allen fiddled with the hem of his shirt nervously.
"Eh, why not? They're so freaking fun!" Lavi exclaimed, and then he pouted, giving Allen the puppy dog eye. "Eh, c'mon, Allen~! It's for my birthday." Lavi whined. Allen stared at him for a long time.
"You realize that doesn't work on me, right?" Allen said blankly. Lavi groaned and hugged Allen around the stomach.
"Pleeeeease, Allen?" Lavi begged. Allen blushed down at him.
"Um...can you stop that?" Allen asked. Everyone had actually started looking over. Lavi looked up and around at everyone who was staring at them and smirked. Allen sighed. "Fine, fine, I'll go to your stupid party."
"It's not stupid!" Lavi whined. He cheered up afterwards though and hugged Allen around his neck. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" After chanting the words, Lavi kissed Allen on the cheek. Allen pushed Lavi away instantly and rubbed his cheek.
"Wh-what are you doing?!" Allen tried to act angry, but it wasn't working out too well and only came out as panicky. Lavi grinned at him and skipped away. Allen glared at him. Lavi was just playing around, making him look like a little kid. I'll show him! Allen turned around and walked the other way.
For the rest of the day, Lavi washed, rinsed, dried, and stacked dishes away. Allen actually had it much tougher. This restaurant was sort of like a cafe and had the chefs serve them the food they cooked so that they could comment on their cooking while Anita listened in to see if they improved or not. There were these two customers though that kept on asking for Allen to serve his food. If Allen remembered correctly, it was the two employees that worked at the New Ark Mall. You know, the two that Lavi stole the loading trolley from? Yeah, them.
Every time Allen would serve them food, they would flirt with him. Okay, Allen might be a little innocent, but he knew what flirting was when he saw it...well, the Cross kind of flirting. He didn't know about the stuff Lavi did. Apparently though, the customers were allowed to flirt with the employees though and the other way around. Devit though, was really interested. He did look good, Allen would admit, but he seemed a bit too...playful. Lavi was playful, but he wasn't flirt playful...or at least not as much as Devit. Devit just wouldn't stop flirting. Allen had a feeling that it was because Tyki, who also happened to be in the restaurant, was fuming whenever Devit said something to make him blush.
"So what are you doing Saturday?" Devit asked as Allen served them another plate of Mitarashi Dango. Allen was tempted to eat it himself since they obviously weren't.
"Hmm, actually, I'm busy." Allen said while looking at the ceiling. Devit frowned at that.
"Busy doing what? Don't tell me you've got a boyfriend." Devit said, frowning deeper. Allen blushed a bright pink color and Tyki's hand crushed the glass that he was holding.
"N-no! I was just invited to Lavi's birthday party is all." Allen said. A grin appeared on Devit's face.
"Really? As was I! Wanna be my date?" Devit said, grabbing Allen around the waist. Allen instantly blushed a deep red and dodged out of Devit's grip.
"N-n-n-n-n-n-no th-thank you! I...I've got t-to go now!" Allen hurried away from the offending man and into the kitchen. He got another order that happened to be from Tyki. How ironic. Why couldn't they just leave him alone? Allen took Tyki's plate of fried fish over to said man. Now that he thought about it, Allen hadn't seen Tyki for awhile. "Good afternoon, Tyki." Allen said, placing the plate on his table.
"Good afternoon, boy." Tyki replied, smirking. He did eye Allen's bandages before eating his fish. "So what were those two idiots saying to you?"
"O-oh...not much, really..." Allen muttered, looking away from Tyki. Allen started picking up the pieces of the broken glass that was shattered on the table. He wondered what had happened but didn't question Tyki about it. Tyki would just have to leave an extra tip for Anita for breaking glass. He still had his hand on the table after putting all the glass in his right hand.
"Really? You looked a bit uncomfortable there for a minute." Tyki implied. Allen shrugged.
"Eh...well, I'm going to go now." Allen said, smiling. His smile dropped whenever Tyki placed his hand over Allen's. Allen flinched and took his hand away. He averted his gaze and walked off. Tyki grit his teeth together. It means the brat trusts you. Cross' words echoed inside his mind. Did this mean that Allen didn't trust him anymore?
The rest of the day was like that. It was probably around five o' clock when Lavi and Allen were finished with their shifts. They both went to Kroger's after that so Allen could go grocery shopping and Lavi started goofing off to the point that the manager of the store told him that he should behave or they would be banned from the store. So, just like at the mall, Allen handcuffed Lavi to the cart and everyone gave them strange stares while the security laughed at them. Allen finally checked out and the person working gave them both a bizarre look. Allen just shook his head at her, basically telling her not to even ask. He unlocked Lavi's hands and made him carry bags. Lavi pouted the whole way there but he didn't complain. He was lucky Allen was taking him with him instead of dropping him off. Once they got to Allen's house, Lavi volunteered to help them carry the bags and Fou forced Bak to carry bags too.
That was basically how their night went. After Allen cooked dinner for everyone, they all went to their own beds. Lavi wanted to spend the night but Allen told him no because he knew Lavi would keep him up all night. While Allen laid awake in his bed, he could only hope that the week would pass by slowly. He wasn't ready for going to Lavi's birthday party. There was definitely going to be a lot of people that used to pick on him there. For once, he really wanted the week to pass by slowly. Anything to get him prepared for Lavi's party.
But of course nothing ever went Allen's way.
This chapter was actually really long O_O I dunno why...it just was...oh well. Thanks to Snipperita, Usagi-Twins, Will of the Abyss - AllenxRoad, DGrayManFanatic, MintGreenn, Shirubagure, Toph Hitsugaya (Yay! Glad I could convert someone to Laven! ^^), izumooichi, myangelicladyofdarkness, NinthAvenue, and the guest for reviewing! Remember, VoTe FoR ThE PoLL!