Chapter 6 - So i don't forget
On Lavi's request, Allen was teaching Lavi how to play the piano. Allen played a simple tune, then Lavi tried to copy it but...
"Wow, you must be really talented at piano Allen, 'cause I'm terrible"
"You're not terrible, i doubt you've played a piano in your life, you're just inexperienced." Allen said kindly "Here, I'll show you." He gently put his right hand on Lavi's, and, with Lavi's hand, played the simple tune.
"Oh, I see now." replied Allen's student. His hands, are really cold, but comfortingly cold...
Lavi was shown lots of different tunes, he got the hang of them more quickly than the last.
"The hard part is trying to played with two hands" Allen told him. He played a two-handed tune for his student, but Lavi managed one hand which, considering his inexperience, was pretty well from Allen's view. Allen had an idea. He stood up and walked to the spot behind Lavi, who was still sitting, then he placed his left hand on Lavi's and the same with his right, resting his head on Lavi's shoulder and mouth to his ear. "Just let each hand focus on their part." Lavi was guided through the song by Allen's touch. To Allen's surprise Lavi didn't seem irritated by the scales on his left hand (which only just came to mind), Lavi hadn't flinched at all.
After piano practise, Lavi asked:
"Are you free this weekend?"
"Yeah."
"Do you wanna...go see a movie?" Allen was overjoyed, but at the same time nervous.
"Sure, why not?"
"'Kay, then. What movie?"
"Let's have a look" The pair climbed the stairs to Allen's room, which, lke the rest of the house, was quite large. His laptop lay on his desk opposite Allen's single bed.
"So this is your room. Nice." Lavi closed the door and admired Allen's plain room, while the younger of the duo logged onto his laptop and found a list of movies at the cinema just on the outskirts of town.
"What do you think of this one?" Lavi wandered to the laptop. leaned over and rested his chin on Allen's head, looking at the list. Allen was pointing to "Sherlock Holmes"
"Cool. Why not, the other movies were awesome, especially the slow motion fighting parts."
"Oh yeah, them, they were always amazing bits"
"It starts at 20:00 tommorrow"
"Sounds like a plan then." Allen moved towards his calender, that hung on his light gray wall above his bed, and circled the date: December 21st, then wrote underneath movie: 20:00. When Lavi gave him a strange look he replied "So i don't forget something so very important" He smiled, and Lavi almost ran intinctively towards Allen. He's so adorable! It took all of his strength to not knock the wind out of Allen with another chest crushing hug that had left him gasping last time. But he mind screamed It's hard not to huge him when he smiles at me though!
"Lavi?" Allen waved a hand in front of his dazed eyes, he returned to reality,never noticing when Allen had moved from his calender, or how close he was.
"Wh- Allen? S-sorry I was... kinda... daydreaming..." He was so lost in thought he hadn't noticed a thing. "So, well, what now?"
"I dunno... Mario Kart?"
"You have Mario Kart!"
"Got it last year for Christmas...or was it a birthday present?"
"Heh, slightly confusing when both are on the same day."
"And i got 2 wheels with it, they said get a friend and play "
"Sweet! Who got it you?"
"I dunno really, but i think it aws my Master because of the drunken, but somehow stable, handwriting, and 'cause of what was written"
"Sounds fun."
They wandered downstairs and Allen set up Mario Kart Wii while Lavi got out both wheels, and checked the batteries. When looking for them, he discovered that Allen had pretty much every Mario game there was.
"You're quite the Mario fan aren't you?"
"Yeah, i just grew attached to it just after i moved... here we go, the game's started."
Allen sat down next to Lavi on the dark brown sofa. They went onto the Banana cup 100c first. Allen played as Diddy Kong while Lavi played as King Boo. They raced each other furiously. throwing bombs, banana peels (My personal favourite), shells, and many more to try and slow each other down.
In the end: Allen won the first race, Lavi the second and third then Allen won the final race.
"A tie? heh never seen that before."
The next cup was the Special cup 100c, this time Allen played as Kooper Trooper, and Lavi, Donkey Kong. Lavi seemed to have played this before as he won the first three races, but the final race, "Rainbow Road", Both fell off so any timesit was unbelievable, Allen came 11th while Lavi, 12th. Mario came first, then Lavi then Allen.
They played on Mario Kart for hours, and were interrupted by Cross Marian barging into the house, wine in hand.
"Who the hell's he?"
"Oh, he's Lavi from my class." Allen explained "He stopped by while you were out."
"Fine whatever, just don't do anything gay or stupid. Dinner's sorted so cook whatever you want for the pair of you. I'll just be sorting stuff out."
"Alright, Master."
Cross dragged himself up the stairs (quite challenging because he had obviously been drinking wine)...
then all was silent.
To break the awkwardess, Lavi and Allen turned to each other with the same questions in their mind, shrugged and continued their game.
Sevreal hours later, Lavi's phone started ringing, ALlen paused the game while Lavi anwered his call.
"It's Old Panda Bookman" he told Allen "Hello? Oh. Okay. I'll be right over. By the way we're not busy tomorrow about eight-ish? Oh Okay, 'cause I arranged something." Allen saw Lavi's eye looking at him when the said about his "arrangement". "Thanks, okay see ya in a bit." He hung up. "Old Panda Bookman's calling me back now, so I'm gonna have to go."
"Ohhat's fine, I'll walk you out." Both slowing walked to the door, lengthening the time they were in each other's presence. When there, right after Allen opened the door, Lavi turned and hugged Allen. "See you tomorrow, I'll knock and give you a lift 'kay?" Allen hugged back and agreed. "Okay, thanks Lavi." Lavi pressed his lips to Allen's cheek and bounded off towards his house, waving goodbye to Allen as he walked. The lone white-haired teen stood idle at the open doorway, until a his Master's voice from upstairs yelled "Foolish Apprentice! Shut the door it's freezing!" With that Allen immeadiatly shut the door, turned off the Wii, then slowly acended up the stairs to his room. He sat on his bed and looked at the time on the clock hanging on the wall in front of him. He time was 10:59pm It's already this late? (Allen wasn't relly one of those who stayed up all night very often.) Well I am tired, might as well go to sleep. Allen undressed then slipped underneath his quilt. It took more than an hour for Allen to get to sleep, because in his mind he constantly though:
Please can tommorrow come quickly...