I prefer "Hella-chan" ^^
Chapter 4.
Allen heaved a heavy sigh of relief as he banged his back against his locker.
The locker that was assigned to from Komui that afternoon, after out running an angry long-haired guitar player.
First day of school finally over…Allen thought with a smile, he felt relatively better knowing that he made it through the entire day, without being brutally murdered.
He turned around and began turning the lock around for the combination.
His first day of school was hectic, the work was easy, the students were exactly how he imagined, and the teachers were odd…but also funny at the same time.
But the fact that he just ran a mile trying to shake off an angry teenager—with long blue-black hair—was frightening enough for him, that he swore his hair was whiter than usual.
He ran for nearly 5 minutes trying to lose the teen that afternoon.
And he still didn't know whether or not he could audition for the band, if their lead guitar player just chased him half-way around the school and back.
Until he finally gave in and apologized profusely, which he instantly decided that, he just wouldn't.
Allen shook his head and sighed. He grabbed his book bag from the locker and stuffed his books inside it. Packing away all the thick homework he has to finish by the end of this week and the next in, order to pass that class which was his least favorite subject, Science.
But the great thing about today was meeting two new people.
Who seemed perfectly mature despite their ages, and they were actually very nice.
Kanda definitely wasn't either of those two things.
Well maybe they're not THAT mature…But I can tolerate them. Allen thought with a smile. That had to be the most positive thing he thought all day.
"Allen!" He heard a familiar voice call his name from further beside him by his right.
Allen looked beside him, and saw the tall red-head named, Lavi, walking his way towards him from down the hall, a big grin alight on his face.
"Hey Al!" the red-head greeted.
Allen waved back and quickly finished packing away his school work.
"Hey Lavi" He greeted with a smile, slinging his back-pack over his shoulder with a huff.
"So uhm…About that guy, Kanda…"Allen trailed off uneasily.
As if by the mere mention of his name might summon him.
"Is he still mad?" Allen asked with a raised eyebrow. "'Cause I would say that I am sorry and all but…I'm not." He deadpanned with a stern expression.
Lavi shook his head, smirking. "Nah! Yuu just has anger issues. He's a pretty ace dude! Once you get by his asshole-ness and shit-like attitude." He announced, blinking in confusion. "But either than that, I'm pretty damn sure he got over it already." Lavi explained with a carefree shrug.
Allen still had a lot to learn about the English language and their slang.
But he shrugged anyways with a smile.
He knew what those curse words meant, they weren't compliments at all, but that's exactly how Allen would describe Kanda.
If he could muster enough courage to do so.
"So you still coming over to my house for that audition?" Lavi asked, grinning happily as they began walking down the hall, heading straight for the stairs that are just further down the hall to the left from Allen's locker.
Right now, the both of them are up on the second floor.
Allen smiled brightly. "So I get to audition after all?" He asked. An eager smile alight on his brightly smiling face.
Lavi chuckled with a nod. "Why wouldn't you get the chance to audition? Kanda may be a dick…But I know he's curious about your voice Al." He said shrugging.
"Brilliant!"
"I love your accent, I know I said that a bajillion times already, but I just can't get over it!" Lavi exclaimed, grinning widely and slinging his arm over Allen's shoulders.
"Thank you." Allen nodded with a wary smile. "Kanda isn't coming, is he?" The teenager deadpanned.
He got a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach—when he first met Kanda—that he wasn't going to get along with the long-haired hot headed teenager.
He had a nagging voice in his head saying that they weren't going to get along. Ever…
Lavi laughed nervously, scratching underneath the folded green bandanna wrapped around his forehead.
"Well about that Al…He is a member of the band...So..." Lavi explained apologetically, he un-tied the knot of the bandanna behind his head and re-folded it to his liking. "Sorry, but he's coming."
Allen sighed, but shrugged. "That's fine. If he's going to give me attitude I'm just going to have to give it right back at him." Allen announced, deviously smirking.
He could put up with Kanda's attitude problem, and he could do it with an innocent smile and an irritating grin.
If it manages to tick Cross off…I'm pretty darn sure that it will tick off Kanda as well. Allen thought, rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
Lavi laughed as he slapped the younger teen on the back. "You got guts kid! That's sooo what me and Lena are looking for!" He smiled. "And maybe Yuu." He blinked. "But I don't really know what Yuu likes." He shrugged. "Well I gotta go get the burn out now, so wait for me in the parking lot while I leg it around the school?" Lavi suggested, he jogged down a few steps ahead of Allen but stopped to wait for his answer.
"So I'm not going to take the bus?" The younger teen asked, slowly walking down the steps Lavi just hopped down, feeling slightly relieved that he wouldn't have to take that bus again.
Not really wanting to face the bus driver who laughed at him that morning for falling face first on his bus.
Lavi grinned. "You're looking at a guy who has license to drive dude!" He said proudly, hopping down the last steps and quickly rounding a corner to the other stairs.
Allen grinned and continued walking down the stairs, he can hear Lavi running down the steps, and also hear him apologizing to teenagers he's bumping into.
He quietly laughed, deciding to take his time with walking down the few steps—unlike his elder—and he had to pause to stare out the window beside him.
The sun was out and high in the sky.
The weather down here is odd, in England it would still be heavily snowing right now and freezing…Especially since it's only March. Allen thought, a bit surprised at how warm it is in Chicago.
Then he groaned and continued down the stairs. I can't even imagine how hot it's going to be when summer starts! He thought in disdain. Back to wearing fingerless gloves again…Allen thought in disdain as he glared at his left arm covered with his long jacket sleeve as he wore a black leather glove over his wrinkled hand.
Allen sat beside the lonely and empty truck in front of the school, inside the parking lot, and watched as all the other teenagers hurriedly leave the school.
How I envy you…Allen thought with a small frown. He was still waiting, and half baking, in the sun.
He heard some students bragging about an, up-and-coming party as they got into their vehicles.
Shaking his head at the idea.
He can't even think about a party right now, not when he had so much homework to do…And especially since I'm only fifteen and not even the legal drinking age to be partying. He quipped inside his head.
"This is so bogus!" Lenalee shouted for the second time.
Snapping Allen out of his thoughts.
She kicked the trucks tire with her boot out of frustration. "They've been in there for ten minutes already! And we're still sitting around waiting for the two of them!" She sighed heavily and slunk down low to the cement, sitting right beside the younger teenager.
She heard Allen hum in agreement as he nodded his white-head.
"Lavi must still be looking for Kanda…Seriously, what's that guy's problem? When I first met him I knew he would dislike me." Allen thought aloud, he idly picked up a pebble by his sneaker and threw it to the cement in front of him in show of irritation.
Lenalee laughed and patted the younger teens' soft snow white hair. "There, there," She consoled him.
Although it was mostly sarcasm.
"Kanda always disliked everyone." She said with a small shrug. "The only way to get him back is to give him some good come-backs like you did this afternoon, I mean seriously, Lavi did it for so long, and now look at him! He's gotten Kanda to shut up once in a while…Well no…They argue mostly every day since they first started to hang out…" She trailed off, a finger pressed to her chin.
Now that she thought about it, she had no idea why Lavi continues to poke the bear.
And right now, she can't even remember where she was going with this conversation.
She shrugged. "But anyways, my point is, if you want Kanda to shut up once in a while, all you gotta do is nark at him and argue back if you're ever going to survive being in our band!" She explained, smiling brightly.
Allen shook his head with a small chuckle. "I would love to…Nark at him did you say?" He asked.
Wondering if that was the right English slang she used earlier, when he gets a head nod back he smiles brightly.
"But as I was saying, that would probably only end up with me having a broken nose because of it." Allen stated, rubbing his nose as though he could already feel the pain.
But he shrugged. "But I could give him a little attitude if he manages to wear my patience thin, and if I do get to be the new lead singer, then I have to put up with his attitude. I cannot just ignore him." He announced, grinning happily to Lenalee beside him who gave him a thumbs up in return.
"You're exactly right Allen."
They both look up once they heard both of the school doors open wide with a loud slam.
Lenalee gave an exasperated sigh once she noticed the red-head smiling and happily bouncing down the steps.
Like he didn't even care about how long they've been waiting in the school's parking lot.
"'Bout freakin' time," She muttered, getting up from the cement, and patting down her black skirt as she does.
Allen got up, dusting off his black ripped jeans as well, and picking up his back-pack that was laid beside him.
"Yo!" Lavi greeted with a two finger salute to the two younger teenagers, he blinked to Lenalee that stood beside the white-haired teen. "I was looking for you." He stated.
"Why?" Lenalee asked, arms crossed. "It's not that big of a school that I could get lost in." She retorted.
The red-head shrugged. "I never saw you in art class, thought you ditched the school for being so Goddamn bor-fucking-ring, so I decided to look around just in case." Lavi grinned, standing in front of the teenagers, thumbs hooked into his stonewashed jeans with a smirk. "So...Have you kiddo's been waiting long?"
Lenalee rolled her purple eyes with passion. "I'm not like either of you dudes," She said pointing an accusing finger from Lavi over to Kanda. "And don't start with me Lavi, I'll finish it." She countered, a glare shot directly to Lavi.
Who Allen watched—in slight disappointment—as Lavi put up both his hands in surrender with a look of terror in his one green eye.
Kanda walked right passed all three of them.
Not even acknowledging their presence.
"Are we gonna fucking jet? Or stand around the fucking school?" The long-haired guitar player growled, walking over to his trucks door, and over to the driver's seat.
Allen raised an eyebrow and grabbed at Lavi's shirt. "I thought you meant that you had your driver's license Lavi." Allen hissed.
Not really trusting Kanda behind the wheel knowing that he already hated his guts. He could possibly be in a car wreck and be seen on televisions everywhere.
Lavi shrugged. "I don't have a car." He smirked.
Allen sighed, small smile twitching, scaring Lavi more than Lenalee did just seconds ago.
The red-head noted inside his head that when the younger teenager had to force a smile, that's when he should really tread carefully.
"Well…Hopefully I don't die." Allen said sweetly, but with the tight grip on the shirt sleeve of Lavi's jacket, told the red-head that…The kid could fucking tear him a new one if he's pissed off.
Lavi smiled ready to uneasily reply.
"Let's fucking go already!" Kanda snapped out of the window.
'Causing three of the teenagers to jump into action.
Kanda raised an eyebrow when he noticed a younger white-haired teen jump into the back of the truck behind Lavi.
Who the fuck is…Then he noticed that irritating grin from before.
"The fuck is he doing here?" He growled, glaring out his open window and at the brat that dared try and hide from him in back of his truck and in back of the red-headed retard as well.
Lavi blinked in confusion, looked behind him to see a young male cowering behind him.
Smiling, he walked over to the driver's side window and sat on the ledge of the trucks trunk.
"Oh, he's cool, he's with me and Lenalee, he's auditioning for our lead singer." He told—a more pissed off than usual—Kanda.
"What?" the guitar player snapped, glaring at the red-head.
The red-headed drummer grinned and went to pat the younger teenager on his shoulder. "He's coming over to my pad…I thought I told you?" Lavi asked, confusion sweeping his facial expression again.
"No you fucking didn't dipshit." Kanda grumbled.
Lenalee rolled her eyes at the two heatedly arguing teenagers—and did she forget to mention? Older teenagers.
"Let's go! I only have a few hours left before my brother comes back home!" She yelled to the driver.
Who only glared at her.
"And why should I care?" Kanda asked, sarcasm thick in his tone to Lenalee's displeasure.
"'Cause she's the fucking bass player…And Co-manager…" Lavi trailed off, and smiled back to Kanda. "Uh, duuh Yuu," Lavi retorted laughing.
Lenalee sighed heavily as she crossed her arms. "I see…So you only bring me along just so I can play the bass guitar…Really shows how much you care about me. That's totally bunk." Lenalee replied with a pout.
"No baby!" Lavi exclaimed, desperate smile on his face. "You're coming along because you mean more to us than that! Right Yuu!?" He gave Kanda his best, 'play-along-dude,' look.
Kanda behind the steering wheel sighed, gripped the wheel with his hands more irritably than before.
"Yeah…Something like that. I guess…" He trailed off miserably.
Allen looked between three of the older teenagers with curious glances. I thought they were friends? Not only that but they're in a band together…They're all giving each other a hard time. Allen thought raising an eyebrow. Whatever happened to 'band dynamics'?
"Now that that's all settled…Let's fucking bounce baby!" Lavi shouted, grinning excitedly as he braced himself in back of the truck again and gripping for dear life.
Just as he did, Kanda stomped on his gas pedal, 'causing all of them to fly backwards as the truck took a tire screeching reverse.
The guitar player swiftly switched the gears, pulling it into drive, and stomping on the gas pedal a second time; the truck takes off at a law breaking speed, with Lavi laughing like mad-man the entire time.
"Call me 'baby' again you fucking Cyclops and I'll send both of you flying out of the fucking truck!" Kanda shouted over his shoulder and out the window.
Paying no attention to the road in front of him what-so-ever.
"Kanda!" Lenalee shrieked, thanking God that the driver decided to look back to the road.
Kanda narrowly dodged an oncoming vehicle, tearing the steering wheel into a fast right turn with a loud—"FUCK!"
—And sending Lavi toppling off of the ledge of the truck, and rolling onto the floor of the truck and into Allen's lap, with a winded.
"DU-OOF!"
All the while Allen and Lenalee screamed like no tomorrow.
Allen screaming for the fact that Lavi landed right on top of his crotch.
Face first.
And because he was in the back of the death truck with nothing to hang on to, but the red-head himself.
Lavi quickly removed his face, in fear that it might get sucker punched in the nose by the teen.
Kanda was yelling and cursing so many profanities that Allen thought his poor ears were bleeding.
And Lenalee was screaming and closing her eyes in the hopes of this being only a really bad (and bogus) dream.
"Get the fuck off the road Granny!" Kanda shouted out of his open window, over to the old lady that he was driving beside and quickly sped off.
Old bitch, been cutting me off for the past five minutes since I've got onto the fucking road! Kanda shouted inside his head, now pissed off.
Thanks to that old bat.
Allen felt the driver dodging God only knows what—for once glad he couldn't see because he was on the floor—and still heard Kanda yelling his lungs out at the people he's passing by.
The white-haired teen by now, was hoping to God, that they'll make it out alive and safely get to Lavi's house.
But with Kanda driving like a drunk, crazy person—on drugs, he didn't quite think that was possible.
Until he felt Kanda slowing down.
The white-haired teenager slowly rose his head from the bottom of the trucks trunk and blinked from behind the tears.
"You're not fucking puking inside my truck!" He heard Kanda shout over to the passenger, who happens to be Lenalee, and watched as he reached over to Lenalee's side door and rolled down the window.
"Stick your head out the window before I pull over and kick you out!" Kanda shouted again.
Allen rolled his eyes passionately at the un-caring and heartless Kanda; he took this free time to finally peel himself off the floor of the truck and shakily sit down more comfortably in back of the death vehicle.
He lifted his white bangs out from in front of his eyes with a scowl. "I can't believe they're letting someone like you drive around town!" The white-haired teenager yelled to the driver.
"What the fuck did you say brat!?" Kanda yelled out of his own window, shooting a death glare to the white-haired bastard that mocked his driving skills.
Just as Allen was about to reply.
"Ooh! Fucking K-Rad song!" Lavi shouted, grinning happily, despite that he almost flew out from the back of the truck.
The red-head quickly got up from his fetal position on the floor and sat comfortably beside the white-haired Brit. "Turn it up louder Yuu!" He shouted over to Kanda.
To Allen's surprise, Kanda actually listened to the red-head and turned the volume up louder.
What was blasting through the speakers of the truck was Steve Miller's Band, "The Joker."
Which really didn't complimented Kanda's crazy driving at all, but it calmed everyone's nerves, especially the driver's, if Allen did say so himself.
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