Its been a week since our last visit on Lan and Chaud, BTW.

Sword Of the Pheonix: Dude! You just stole my plan B plot! ::Pouts:: Oh well ::gives you Elec Style MegaMan plushie::

-If You Keep The Mask On, You'll Suffocate-

Chaud growled and threw his hands up in frustration. It was dark and raining, again, -like the night I talked to Lan...-, And his bike chain fell off. And, he was embarrassed to admit it, But he couldn't fix it and he was a long way from home. He growled again and banged his wrist on his forehead in frustration. A giggle of amusement came from behind him and he turned to badmouth whoever was there, to be face to face with Lan on the heels of her Roller blades, a look of deep amusement across her face.

'Need some help?' she asked, pulling a wet bang out of her eye.

'don't rub it in.' Chaud said in a semi-pout.

She giggled again and knelt beside him, holding the top part of the chain and the bottom and tugging on it, loosening it. She then proceeded to align the chain. Three cuts, two greasy hands and a broken ego later, the chain was back on. The blood from the cuts on her wrist was beginning to mix with the grease on her hand, and when she used the back of her hand to brush away some wet hair, a smear of blood and grease was left.

'your bleeding.' Chaud said.

'Its nothing. Hey, wanna come to my house and dry off?' she asked.

'that was my line last time. Sure.' Chaud got on his bike while Lan rollerbladed beside him.

Soon they got to Lan's house. 'You can park your bike in the Garage.' Lan said, opening the door to the garage and diggin in her pocket for the house key.

'Thanks.' He brought it in and looked around quickly. It seemed Lan used the Garage to put her artwork in it. There were bent metal sculptures of animals and all that other abstract stuff. He went back outside as Lan finally unlocked the door, which she held open for him and closed behind herself.

She led him up to her own room. 'Where were you?' MegaMan asked when they came into the room.

'Helping Chaud.' Lan said, inspecting her still bleeding hands.

'I'll help you clean that.' Chaud said. Lan nodded, smiled at MegaMan, and led Chaud to the kitchen, telling him where everything was when he asked. Cloth wrap and the sink, because it was so shiny from Lan's mothers purge of dirt he couldn't see...

after that was done, he washed away the grease and blood, apologizing when she hissed in pain, then he wrapped her wrist and tied it. 'Thanks.' She said smiling.

'Its my fault anyways.'

'No it isn't. well, in any case, do you want to watch a movie?'

Chaud fought down the blush, as Lan was skillfully doing. 'Uh...Sure.'

Lan grabbed his arm and brought him to the living room. Then she basically dove into the movies, asking which one he wanted to watch. Lan finally dug out a movie that Chaud seemed obsessed with, called 'the castle behind the looking glass'.

Lan turned the movie on and sat beside Chaud, watching avidly, while Chaud was half watching the movie, half trying not to blush himself into the job of red.

At the end of the movie, Chaud actually did blush. Fore the sole reason that Lan had curled up and fallen asleep with her head on his lap.

'aww, isn't that just adorable.' Came the voice of Lan's mom behind him. 'Your Chaud, aren't you. Lan speaks highly of you. Would you like to sleep over? It's a bit late so...'

'Yes please. Thank you Mrs. Hikari.'

'Oh your such a nice boy. Its no problem.'

Chaud carefully moved Lan, stood up and picked Lan up, bringing her up to her room and setting her on her bed, and basically falling beside her and falling asleep, due to being completely exhausted...