Konbanwa! I'm proud to annouce that we've established a subplot! This is the first romance I've ever written, so here we go! Here's Allen!
Allen: You really love cliffhangers don't you? O.o
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Lenalee-chan halted for a moment, pausing to catch her breath. Allen-kun was safely pinned, her arm crossed over his chest. Only when she looked at him did she notice his exposed arm, and her breath hitched. Although she tried not to, her eyes kept on traveling to the grotesque welted red skin and the glowing green cross embedded in it. It just seemed so, so wrong; it looked as if someone sewed a monster's limb onto him. Truth be told she had seen worse, but this seemed even more horrible despite that. "Allen, your arm..."
A shadow seemed to cover his face and the light in his mercury eyes flickered at those few words. She could see tears welling in his eyes, quickly spilling over and running down his cheeks. "I'm- I'm a monster," he whimpered dejectedly, trying desperatly not to meet his freind's, though he doubt she was that anymore, eyes.
Lenalee-chan pulled her arm off him and let him up, confident he wouldn't run. The boy pulled himself into a tight ball and burried his head in his knees, like if he made himself small enough he could vanish completely. Reaching out for his red deformed hand, she comforted," No you're not."
Allen-kun flinched his arm away, and Lenalee-chan settled for wrapping an arm around his scrawny shoulders. He winced at the contact before easing into it. Sobs shook his small frame as Lenalee-chan pulled him into a onesided hug. "D-don' touch me. You'll b-be cursed t-too."
Despite his protests, he made no attempts to escape Lenalee-chan's comforting grasp. "Allen, I don't care about your arm," She reasured him, clutching his trembling form tightly, like a life line.
"That's w-what they all say," Allen-kun sobbed into Lenalee-chan's shoulder. "Th-They say that and then they leave me all alone in-in the cold. So-so cold... Th-they all say that"
Lenalee-chan rubbed Allen-kun's back in reasuring circles, hoping that this would calm him. The sudden outburst had shocked her more than she let on. Allen-kun was always seemes so happy and upbeat... was he always hiding this fear and pain? "I won't leave you. I promise."
Allen-kun sniffed as he tried to regulate his breathing to a calmer pace. She...cared? Slowly he pulled his head off her shoulder to look at Lenalee-chan's face. His eyes stung from crying and throat was hoarse from sobbing, but he was determined to make sure that her words weren't a lie. "You...promise?"
Lenalee-chan grabbed the scaly crimson flesh, and this time he didn't pull his hand away. "I promise."
Then she leaned in and pecked him gently on the cheek. She could see a pink flush rising in his cheeks and he seemed a little out of it. She just hugged him. For the moment they could escape their fears, even if only for the briefest of time.