Allen: 'Oh no, I think we really hurt Lenalee's feelings in the last chapter. I feel sorry for her.'

Lavi: 'Yeah, me too... We shouldn't have done that.'

*silence*

Lavi: 'Let's make up with her and then tell her we actually didn't see anything.'

Allen: *nods nervously* 'Yes, good idea, but let's first get something to eat.'

Lavi: 'What, not again?! Where do you store all that food, you should be even fatter than the earl already!'

Milennium earl: 'I'm not fat!'

An hour after the accident Lavi and Allen had taken a seat in the cafeteria. Somehow Allen had just become really hungry (probably just because he felt bad) and had begun eating a lot while Lavi and he were sitting there in silence, being depressed.

"Nè, Lavi, maybe we should try to apologize," Allen suggested with his mouth full of meat. "we should at least cheer her up a little... I feel really guilty."

The silence fell again.

"You're right Allen," Lavi responded. "Let's cheer her up and then apologize, no wait, let's apologize while giving her a gift, it'll show her that we're seriously sorry!"

Allen stopped eating for a few seconds. "That's a great idea! But... what would cheer her up?" He laid down the bare chickenbones and grabbed a piece of chocolate tart to chew on next.

They thought for a long time. A large frown appeared on Lavi's face as he seemed to remember all the things he had memorized that could be of any use. "Maybe a fight would cheer her up. It could show her that we're such good friends as we always fight together and protect eachother."

Allen looked back at him with an expression of doubt. "I don't know. How would you take her to a fight? It's pretty difficult to just lead her to one."

"I know something!" Lavi said, suddenly all excited. "We won't take her to the fight, but the fight to her! Allen, you can see Akuma, we could try to lure one to her while it's still in human form! We just have to take out our coats so it won't recognize us as exorcists."

And so it happened that Lavi and Allen went into the city that afternoon without their coats.

They searched the streets for an hour until Allen found what they were searching for. Lavi approached the akuma and began a lie about a lot of people that wanted to see the person and more bla bla bla that Allen couldn't even remember anymore after it, probably Lavi still remembers the whole story though. However the only important thing was that the akuma thought it would be a great experience to kill all those waiting people and went with them.

At the order Lavi came up with a lie again and blindfolded the akuma to avoid that it would see other exorcists and would attack before they had reached Lenalee.

That's where it all went wrong...

The idea was that Lavi would smuggle the Akuma in Lenalee's room. Then when Lenalee would come in, the akuma would attack. Lavi and Allen would act like they just came around the corner and would join the fight. But of course, that wasn't what happened at all.

Just when Allen was waiting at the door while Lavi was in the girl's room with the akuma, trying to come up with a story that would make him wait, Lenalee walked up to them and tried to enter her room. Allen jumped in front of her, but when she asked if something was wrong he suddenly remembered he wasn't Lavi and he couldn't lie at all.

"W.. w... well," more than that word didn't seem to be able to leave his throat. He cursed himself for even stammering too, then realised he was already cursed enough and only then noticed Lenalee had gotten a suspicious look on her face.

"You just can't go in." He managed to pronounce. "L... Lavi broke the window by accident and is repairing it now."

"Hé, what? Allen!" Lavi's voice sounded from the other side of the door.

"Oh, I guess he cán hear us," Allen chuckled uneasily. "But you see.."

"But what was Lavi doing in my room?"

"He... uhm.. He was.. uhm..." Allen stammered oncomfortably.

Lavi found a way to take revenge. "It's all Allen's fault! He wanted to have food and I remembered you said you had some really good candy, so when I told Allen he insisted on taking it and buying some back for you later when he wasn't hungry anymore."

"L... Lavi?!" Allen called shocked. "Wha.."

"I'm really sorry, Lenalee," the other exorcist continued. "I didn't want to take it, but he threatened to eat all of my stuff too."

Lenalee shot Allen a frowned glance. "Allen, you just keep surprising me today."

"What, wait!"

"I didn't think you would ever do something like that. Were you really so hungry?" Her disappointed and cold voice really hurt him, but he realised he had to keep up the web of lies.

"I'm sorry, Lenalee, I won't do it again." He faced the ground just as the door opened behind him. He had been leaning against it, so when his support disappeared he lost balance and fell on the ground.

Towering above him was the akuma. His left eye reacted immediately and Lenalee seemed to notice.
"Who are you talking to, is she the one I am waiting..." The akuma stopped talking when he recognized the coat of an exorcist.

As Lenalee had seen Allen's eye react, she was ready for it. Her Dark Boots activated exactly at the same time as the akuma transformed and she defeated it with one kick. Then she turned around and faced the two boys who were perplexed

"What is going on?" she asked with a dark voice. "My window isn't broken at all and an akuma was in my room. Don't tell me you tried to hide it because you were afraid of me getting hu... no that can't be, Lavi was with it the whole time. What's going on? I know Allen can see the akuma and you were together, so what was Lavi doing there in my room with an akuma and why was Allen standing watch to keep me away from it?"

An awkward silence fell. Allen and Lavi just didn't know what to say anymore, maybe they should tell the truth, but that would probably sound even more ridiculous than their lies.

"Oh, I don't even care. Just get out and don't come back!" Lenalee snapped furiously. "I just don't understand why you're like this today, but I don't like it, don't get close to me again this whole day."

They stood there for a while, frozen under her harsh words, then Lavi grabbed Allen's sleeve and pulled him through the hallways, away from the friend they had made even more angry.

A moment later they stood panting in another hallway.

Lavi shot a irritated glance at Allen. "Couldn't you have thought about a better lie? Why blaming me?"
"Well, sorry, Bookman," Allen answered grumpily, "but I can't come up with something immediately like you. However you're the one that let the akuma leave the room."

"It wouldn't have happened if I didn't need to make up for your mistakes," Lavi threw back at him.

"You're the one that began all this!" Allen growled. "You shouldn't have ordered Tim to go there and it got even worse now with that 'great' plan of yours. By the way, Tim is still flying skew because of that attack he received because you made him do all that!"

Lavi didn't seem to have an answer at that and for maybe the fifth time already that day a silence fell.

"How did we end up fighting like this," Lavi uttered softly. "We fight sometimes, but not as much as today, maybe it's just a bad day today, everyone seems on end. Maybe, we're all very tired after fighting all the akuma and Noah after all."

Allen looked up in his friend's eyes. "Maybe you're right. Fighting doesn't solve anything. You know, let's try something else now... Without involving an akuma this time."

"Let's give her something she'll really like. There must be something all girls like, right?"

Lavi smiled to his friend. "Well, if it's something that can be remembered I should be able to find it. Let's see," he seemed to be thinking really hard. "Something all the girls would like... maybe... a romantic diner in candlelight?"

Allen smiled a little. "I like all diners. I could do it."

"No," Lavi announced with a straight face. "You would be as unromantic as possible. You would just gobble everything up without thinking about the meaning behind it."

"Well she's angry at us anyway, so it's not like she would want to do something like that anyway," Allen hurried to say to prevent Lavi from doing it himself.

"Okay, then we have to think of something else..." Lavi took some time to remember some things until suddenly his face lightened up. "All girls like soft pets. Let's find a cat and give it to her!"

"A cat?" Allen asked.

"Yes, a cat, she'll probably like it." Lavi already started walking the exit of the order already.

Allen sighed and followed. "Well, you seem like you know what you're doing, but if this goes wrong I'll be the one to come up with a new idea."

"Alright, Allen, this won't go wrong anyway!"

And so they entered the city again that day and looked for a cat this time.