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CHAPTER III: Off to School, Angel

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The following three days had been a hell to Lavi. Allen had forced him to clean his entire apartment since apparently a clean home would help him clear his mind. Then the angel had thrown out all of his cigarettes and… drugs. Also, he had poured his alcohol down the sink. Lavi wasn't allowed to swear either; if he did, Allen hit him over the head with the Book. The redhead was very close to snapping. Plus, the white haired had decided to do the shopping like he had done the first day; that would explain why Lavi for some reason had had ham in his fridge.

After he had cleaned his kitchen, which had been horrible as he found something green he couldn't identify under the sink, Lavi sat down at the couch. Allen was sitting in a chair eating… ice cream with bananas, carrots and syrup. That kid had some serious problems with his sense of tasting.

"So," said kid said. "Found out what that green stuff was?"

"No, I really don't wanna know," Lavi said disgusted. "Anyways, now that my apartment is clean and my mind is veeeery clear; what should we do?"

"Hmmmm," Allen said thoughtfully. "Well… You go to school, right!?"

"Once it starts again after summer, yes," Lavi answered and nodded. "Why do you ask?"

He looked over at the white haired who was grinning evil. Lavi's eyes widened.

"No…," he said, a bit fear in his voice. "No… You are not coming with me to school."

"Oww, but please?" Allen said and folded his hands like he was praying. "I've always had adult clients before as it's usually grown ups who sin. I've never had to chance to go to a human school and since you go to one, can I please come?"

"… no," Lavi said.

"Please, I'll do anything," the angels said and hugged the teen. "Please, please, please, please!?"

"Okay, fine," Lavi said and pulled the shorter off. "You can come."

"Yes!" Allen yelled with triumph. "Thank you so much!"

Then he ran off to the kitchen again. Lavi hit his head in the table. He knew he would regret this, he really would. At least Allen owed him something now.

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"I'm so excited," Allen said three days later. "I'm going to a school, oh my God!"

Suddenly he felt the shock-like feeling again.

"Ouch. I'm sorry, Lord, forgive me!?" he said to the… ceiling.

"Hey, Allen," Lavi said when he opened the door so they could get to the school. "Why do you always apologizing when you say stuff like that?"

"Because I'm insulting my Lord," he said a bit sad. "But he always forgives me. So… where's your school?"

Lavi sighed. The past week Allen had bugged the shit out of him, talking about how much fun school would be. Even when Lavi tried to explain that school was boring and miserable, the white haired was still excited. It had really gotten on his nerves, and it hadn't helped that he couldn't smoke to relax either.

Allen kept talking the entire way to Lavi's school. Lavi now understood what Kanda meant when he said that people who talked too much were annoying. It didn't really help when Allen started pointing out mistakes he had done at school either.

"-and you only had bad grades after you turned twelve. Why is that?" Allen asked and tilted his head. "Never mind, it was probably because you started doing drugs. Or you're just stupid. Anyways, what kind of food do they have in the school cafeteria?"

"Oh my God, will you shut up?" Lavi said when they were right in front of the school. "Seriously, you annoy me to no end-"

"Woooow, a school!" Allen said happily and inside.

Lavi didn't quite register what the angel had done before said angel was already inside. The redhead ran after him to make sure he wouldn't do anything stupid or non-human. When he got inside he couldn't see Allen anywhere. Great… he had lost an angel… in his school… That would be sort of hard to explain to people.

After ten minutes he found Allen in the bathroom. Allen's face lit up when he saw the redhead.

"I understand why humans go the bathroom too," he said. "It's fun!"

A few of the boys who had been cleaning their hands looked at them funnily before getting out. Lavi stepped closer to Allen.

"Listen," he said, fighting the temptation of rubbing his temples because of the headache he was getting. "Stop saying weird things like that, okay? Pretend you're used to it. And when you're at school you're a human, got it?"

"Got it!" Allen said and did a mock salute with his hand. "So, where's room E104?"

Lavi blinked.

"Why do you ask?" he asked.

"Because, stupid," Allen explain, making sure he sounded like he was explaining to a five year old. "I'm having English there."

Lavi blinked again.

"What?"

Allen rolled his eyes and brought a piece of paper from his pocket. He unfolded it.

"My schedule," he said and showed it to Lavi. "And it says I'm going to have English now, in room E104."

Lavi took the paper from Allen. How come he had a schedule? He wasn't even a student there! The redhead looked at a smiling Allen with a questioning expression. Allen giggled.

"Angel, right!?" he said and pointed at himself. "Like I can erase myself from peoples' memory I can do the opposite. Plus, I made a student profile on their main computer. I'm fifteen years old, come from London, and have average grades from my previous school."

Lavi could only stare at him. He believed him, he really did, but he couldn't figure out how the angel had managed to do all that in less than twenty minutes. Then again, he probably didn't want to know. He grabbed the other's hand and led him out of the bathroom.

"So, Allen," Lavi said while they walked towards room E104. "You're planning on being a student here, aren't you!?"

"Yep," Allen said, still smiling brightly. "It will be easier to help you then."

"I bet," Lavi muttered. "Okay, here's your classroom. The class starts in five minutes. See ya!"

He turned to leave, but Allen grabbed his arm. He turned back to look at the white haired who was blushing a little. He waited for him to say something, but the shorter didn't say anything.

"What?" Lavi asked irritated.

"Umm… what do I do in the class?" he asked and blushed a little more.

Lavi sighed for about the twentieth time that day.

"Well, you… learn English," Lavi said and shrugged.

"But… I already know English," Allen said and raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, but you learn literature and stuff too. Just… take notes or something. Can I leave now? Good!"

Lavi left with that, leaving Allen slightly less puzzled. He was still confused though. He decided to enter the classroom and was glad that no one else had entered, except the teacher. The teacher had curly hair and glasses. He smiled when Allen came in.

"Ah, hello, Walker," he said and waved. "My name is Tiedoll."

"Pleasure to meet you," Allen said before he seated himself in the back.

After the class Allen got out and hugged Lavi, saying he loved school more than almost anything. The teacher was great, his classmates were great, the subject was great, everything was great. He was so happy it sort of freaked Lavi out.

The next subject Allen was Math. That was a subject he actually understood why people hated. Being an angel he hadn't really needed math so he hadn't even learned the easiest things. Starting with algebra wasn't a very smart idea he figured. Lavi actually thought it was a bit funny seeing the angel slightly upset. However, the white haired got happy once he got lunch.

"So," Lavi said while he watched the boy eat. "Nice day so far?"

"Yeah," Allen said and nodded. "But you have to teach me math."

Lavi choked on his food.

"What?" he asked shocked. "You wanna learn math?"

"Well, yes," Allen said and shrugged. "Humans learn that and you told me to act human."

Lavi groaned. He had to teach math to a person who was supposed to teach him how to better himself. It didn't really make any sense, but then again, neither did having an angel living in his living room. He picked up Allen's schedule from the table and looked at it.

"You have chemistry later?" he said shocked. "You?"

"You don't really seem to believe I can handle it?" Allen said with a slight glare.

"Well," Lavi explained while he scratched his neck. "It's just that… well, if you can't do math, I don't think you should experiment with things that easily burn and explode."

Allen crossed his arms and glared at him.

"I can do things like that," he complained. "You just wait and see."

He marched off down the hall to go to the Chemistry class. Lavi looked after him.

"Hey, Allen," he yelled after the boy. "You're going the wrong way."

The angel turned around and marched past Lavi, with a, "I knew that!" as he passed him.

Lavi's eye twitched. The school would blow up, he knew it.

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"You actually burned the lab," Lavi said after the two had gotten home.

Allen was sitting on the couch, his normally white hair and pale skin now black and gray. He had somehow made a tiny explosion which resulted in his lab partner's notebook being caught on fire. The desk had then burned and the school had to be evacuated.

"Well," he said a little sad. "It was an accident. I didn't know that thing would explode so easily. But there is a good thing about this; I erased the memory of me doing it so no one will blame me."

"Isn't that kinda… lying?" Lavi stated.

"Noooo, not really," Allen said slowly. "It's just not letting people know the truth."

"Right, and what about when they remember again?" Lavi continued. "You told me it was just temporary."

"No, erasing myself from peoples' memory is temporary," Allen explained. "But I can erase things I've done from their memories forever. Clever?"

Lavi wasn't so sure that clever was the right word, but he didn't say anything. Instead he grabbed Allen's hand and dragged him off to the small bathroom. He pushed Allen inside and handed him a towel. Allen tilted his head.

"You're all… dirty," Lavi explain. "Wash yourself."

He closed the door, but suddenly he regretted that a bit. It wasn't that he usually stared at guys getting undressed or taking a shower, but Allen was an angel; of course Lavi was curious of what the boy looked like when… well, naked.

He opened the door a little bit and looked in. Allen had just pulled off his shirt which allowed him to unfold his wings. He smiled as it was probably a very lovely feeling to unfold them after hours of keeping them against his back, not moving them at all. Lavi was so close to getting a nosebleed. He actually did get a nosebleed after Allen had gotten entirely undressed and turned on the shower. Lavi decided to go to the kitchen to get some paper instead of watching Allen more; he would die of blood loss if he continued that.

He decided to sit on the couch to read a book. Right after he had sat down he spotted the Book on the table. He knew he shouldn't really read other peoples' books without permission, and that Allen would probably get angry that he sinned like that, but this particular book was about him and his life. In Lavi's mind that gave him permission to read it. He opened the book and flipped through the pages.

"He's right," he said to himself. "I did turn into a brat when I was eight."

He stopped on the page where it changed from mostly black to mostly red. He remembered why he had changed so much, but he noticed that he had indeed tried to repress that memory. In fact, he had tried to repress almost everything that had happened to him, but that was hard as he had a pretty much photographic memory.

His parents had never really loved each other; that had been obvious to everybody. But that hadn't bothered Lavi at all as he had always been used to that. What had bothered him a great deal was the fact that they had always been fighting over who should take care of him. That could sound like a good thing, but it was hell; they had been trying to get the other one to take care of him as neither of them wanted to. Lavi had to live without his parents giving a damn about him, and he had always hated it.

He had gotten so angry at his mother, Cloud Nyne, that he purposely killed her pet monkey. She had beaten him up that day after she found the dead pet in her bed, but Lavi had felt like it was worth it. He had hated that stinking animal, almost as much as he hated his mother, and it had deserved to die for getting more attention from Cloud than what Lavi did. Lavi didn't even want to think about his father; everybody knew how horrible he was as he showed it, unlike Cloud.

Lavi's life hadn't really gotten any better before he met Bookman and Kanda, but it was still horrible. Still, Kanda always made him feel better, even though he was set on killing the redhead.

"Having fun?" a voice said behind Lavi, startling him.

"Allen, stop doing that," he said when Allen sat down beside him.

"All right," the angel said and shrugged.

Lavi looked at him and a slight blush crept across his face. Allen hadn't bothered to put on a t-shirt or anything and for some reason that made Lavi slightly uncomfortable. He didn't know why as he usually had no problems seeing someone with their shirt off. Especially not girls… It was probably because he hadn't smoked crack in a while that he reacted. Yes, that was very likely.

"Lavi, could I meet your friend tomorrow?" Allen asked hopefully. "I've seen him, but I haven't really met him as I was invisible and stuff."

"You wanna meet Kanda?" Lavi asked shocked.

"Pleeeeaaaase?" the other asked and hugged Lavi's arm.

"Fine, but he'll kill you," the redhead said and leaned back in the couch after he put the book back down.

"Oh no worries, I won't die."

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Allen had been very happy the following morning. He was so excited, again, that was going to school, and to meet Kanda. Lavi couldn't help but think the angel was either very insane or very stupid. The only person to be dumb enough to get near Kanda was Lavi, and even he knew he sometimes went too far.

The Exorcist had been happy until he had actually met the Japanese teen. The first thing Kanda had done was calling him Bean Sprout and he almost snapped at that. He called him Doll-Face in return, and with that they had started a war. A verbal war…

"Guys, could you stop that?" Lavi asked bored.

"NO!" they both shouted and returned to their previous task; proving that the other was more feminine than he was.

"I'll just go to the bathroom," the redhead said and left.

The other two didn't seem to notice he was gone until they ran out of things to call each other. They sat down on the bench outside the school, both trying to come up with more insults. Allen couldn't think of any so he decided to have a conversation with Kanda instead.

"So, BaKanda," he said, making the Japanese's eye twitch. "How did you and Lavi meet?"

"Che, that's none of your business," Kanda responded and crossed his arms.

Allen pouted. He knew a lot about Lavi's life, but he wasn't entirely sure how he had met the Japanese. To be honest Allen felt a bit sorry for the redhead, for having a friend like Kanda. Surly the emo couldn't have a good influence on anyone!?

"Come on, tell me," Allen whined.

"No!"

"Please?"

"NO!"

"Why not?"

"You annoy me and I hate you," Kanda snarled at him. "I did something nice for the idiot and now I'm stuck with him. He also forced me to meet you and you're almost as bad as him. Now shut up and leave me alone."

"Fine," Allen said and crossed his arms like Kanda had done.

When he came back, Lavi had to admit he was surprised that either of his friends was dead. All right, he wasn't surprised that Allen was still alive, but he had been sure Kanda would rip his head off. Right when he had approached them the bell rang and Kanda marched off to class, not bothering to say anything.

"So," Lavi said as he picked up his things. "What do you have now? If you say Chemistry I'll be forced to tie you to a tree."

"Nah," Allen said and got up. "I have Biology."

Lavi smiled and showed Allen where he was supposed to have it before he went to his own class. When he thought about it, he hadn't really smiled in ages. Sure he smiled and laughed when he teased Kanda, but he was pretty sure he was faking it without realising it himself. Why did Allen make him so happy?

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A/N: Please don't kill me for the crappy chapter ending. I know it's bad, but I'm in class and my brain won't function the way I won't. I hope you enjoyed this though.

Right, Allen going to school! This was planned out way before I started writing this. And if you care, I gave them my school and my own subjects. 'Cause I dunno what they have in other subjects…

Oh, and please ignore what I typed wrong. I write too fast I think… And please review!? If I have like… 20-25 reviews by Sunday I promise the next chapter will be up at Monday. More reviews than that wouldn't hurt either. So… REVIEW!