Chapter 5
It was Saturday morning, the day after the project was assigned. Ciel and Alois had planned to meet today at Alois's house.
He was so excited! Ciel was the first of his friends to come to his house!
Alois was waiting up in his room for Ciel to get here, he heard Call Me Maybe playing from his sisters room.
He sat on his bed, looking out the window and humming along with the melody while waiting for Ciel to come walking up his driveway.
He layed his head down on one of his pretty white lace pillows; they were so cute!
He waited, never one to be impatient.
Together, with the pillow and the soft music in the background, he began to nod off and soon found himself in a light doze.
At the sound of a door bell he rubbed his hand gingerly over his face, not bothering to open his eyes as he mumbled to himself, "Mmmnnhh. Go away. We don't want any..."
From downstairs, he heard the door open and the faint voice of his sister. Alois sprung up immediately.
He ran out of his room and practically fell down the stairs, stumbling into the main foyer.
"L-Lizzy wait! That's my friend!" Alois ran out the door and hugged Ciel who squeaked in surprise, a light pink blush appearing on his face.
"G-get off of me! You freak!" Alois giggled and turned to show Ciel into his house.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where are you going?" said Lizzy, holding up one perfectly manicured hand.
"We have a project to do." Alois said, smiling.
"No you don't, one of my boyfriends is coming over in twenty minutes and you are not going to be here playing with any of your girly friends!"
Girly...? Who the hell do you think you're calling girly...? Ciel thought to himself, but kept quiet nonetheless.
"W-what? But we have a project to do. I told you he was gonna come over!"
"To bad! I don't remember you telling me anything. Now you are not going to embarrass me in front of my boyfriend, so shoo! Get lost! Vanish for a few hours!"
With that, she shut the door in Alois' and Ciel's faces, the click of the lock sounding from inside.
Alois stared at the door for a moment then turned to Ciel, not quite sure what to say.
" I-I um, I-"
"Forget it." Ciel said, breaking off Alois's stuttering "We'll go to my house, it's not far."
With this Ciel took Alois's hand and led him down the drive-way to the sidewalk.
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They entered Ciel's manor through a pair of large French doors.
They were made of red stained glass and tinted the sunlight that shone through them.
The interior of the manor was Dark Cherry Wood. Thick, velvet curtains, that covered the large windows, were colored a rich, dark crimson. Looming above it all hung a glossy iron chandelier.
It was... dark. Like, not DARK dark but... evil? Gloomy? No, none of those words seemed to fit... it was kind of... Sad.
Alois felt just a little creeped out by it all. But... it was okay.
I mean, it was Ciel's house! Alois pushed everything else away and focused on this fact and soon he was his happy, smiling self again.
He clung to Ciel's arm as they made their way into the interior of the manor.
Everything was very Victorian Period Baroque; the colors dark and the mood ominous.
They walked up a winding staircase and down a corridor with doors on either side until they reached the one at the very end.
Ciel opened the door to reveal a large room with a dark blue canopy bed, a bay window and another door that Alois assumed led to a private bathroom.
"Okay" Ciel said "Do you have your lines?"
"Uhhh, I left them back at the house..."
Ciel sighed heavily. "It's okay, I guess I couldn't expect you to have them. We'll both use mine."
Ciel sat on the bed and gestured for Alois to sit next to him.
He put the paper out before them both and pointed at a line titled 'JULIET'.
"You start there."
Alois took hold of the paper.
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
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The boys had practiced all day and knew most of their lines by heart, getting lost here and there only when they came to a paragraph of text and were forced to refer back to the script.
They did very well, considering that they found it difficult to understand some of the Shakespearean phrases.
Now, the sun was starting to go down and Alois was beginning to nod off, mostly from boredom.
By this time, they were up off the bed and acting out their characters with hand gestures and facial expressions.
The growl of Alois's stomach brought them both back to reality.
Ciel realized that the only thing either of them had eaten today was probably breakfast.
"Wait here. I'll go make us something to eat."
"Okay." Alois sat down on the bed as Ciel exited the room.
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Ciel carried a tray of bowls containing canned ravioli and some cups of pudding.
He pushed open the door with his foot and set the food down on a small table, beginning to open his pudding with the spoon dangling from his mouth.
He turned toward the bed, about to tell Alois to come eat, when he stopped, spoon still in his mouth and pudding only half open.
Alois had fallen asleep on one of his pillows.
Oh no sir, he was not having it. HIS bed damn it.
HIS.
He put down his food and made his way to the bed, preparing to poke the boy until he woke up, but paused when he saw Alois' sleeping face.
His hair fell gently over his eyes.
His mouth was open slightly and his breathing was light, no trace of his maddening grin and for once the boy was quiet.
A small smile played at the corners of Ciel's mouth.
He brushed the golden hair out of the boys face.
He could wake him later.
Ciel finished his food as he put the rest away in the kitchen before coming back up to his room.
He cautiously walked over to the bed and tapped Alois' shoulder gently to make sure the boy was actually asleep and not messing with him.
If you're messing with me, you're going to be in for a world of hurt... Ciel thought as he removed his shirt.
He put the shirt on the chair in the corner of his room as he carefully layed down behind the blonde-haired nuisance.
Ciel closed his eyes and began to gradually fall asleep as well.
Once they had both fallen asleep and assumed their comfortable positions; neither of the boys knew that they were, in-fact, cuddling together in their sleep.
Matt: Alright, so, here's Chapter 5! Don't forget to review! Chapter 6 is already finished and 7 is on the way... Do you want them? Then let me know how badly. I want to see reviews. (; And Eva told me to tell everyone that Chapter 6 is Raunchy... And let me tell you... It suuuure is.