Hehe! I told you reviews made me update faster! I think some of you are even going to be able to read two new chapters because I updated so fast! Well here it is!

(for those of you who guessed she was going to meet Lavi, you smart people!)

DISCLAIMER: I don't own d gray man.

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That night was dreadful, I had no idea where I was going to stay, it was late at night and all i saw people walking along the streets everywhere. I looked around myself and I spotted a dot of red hair. I didn't know why I followed it, I just had the impulse to. I ran across the street and people beeped and honked at me, I didn't know what I was doing was wrong so I just ignored it and kept running. "Ah, Mister." I grasped the red haired person's sleeve. "Could you possibly help me find a place to stay the night? I'm sort of a stranger to the outdoor-I mean London."

The red haired man looked at me for a second, "Wait, where have I seen this face before." He tapped his chin, then looked at me again. "Do you, by any chance, know Kanda Yuu?" I gaped. "Yes! Yes! He's my fiancée! Well something of that sort at least. I doubt he still wants to marry me after today."

He nodded. "Well follow me, I'm a friend of Yuu's and would love to help you! Oh and my name is Lavi." He said happily.

"Oh, okay!" I followed him down the street into a small bookstore. "Bookman! I'm home!" he called casually.

"Um, are you sure its okay for me to stay with you? Would your Father mind?" I asked nervously. He kept walking as he talked. "Nah, he won't care." He led me up the stairs and into a room. "So," He started. "What brings you to the busy streets of London?"

"Well, as you know, Kanda is my fiancée and well, lets just put it this way, I kinda screwed some things up. I ran away from home." I sighed. "Now my hopes of ever getting married are shattered." I sounded like my Mother. "Well, its not my dream to get married, it's my Mother's and that's the reason I'm not at home right now." I said quickly.

Lavi nodded. "Go on."

"Well you see, tonight we had a dinner party, or something along the lines of that at least. And the Kanda's were invited, or rather, Mrs. Kanda, Mr. Tiedoll, and Kanda." I laughed softly. "The whole time I was trying to get Mrs. Kanda or Mr. Tiedoll to disapprove of me."

"Why?"

"Because for some reason I just thought he was so, I don't know, fake." I said. "He wasn't like all the other people you know? He didn't run away from me! And it just made me mad, its not that I didn't want to be thought of as pretty or anything like that. I just knew I wasn't pretty and I didn't want anyone lying to me because then it would make me feel ten times worse! And when he was nice to me and all, it felt so fake, maybe it was because I'd never really been loved before, maybe its because I'd never really loved anyone before. I don't know, I just felt so stupid trying to be nice and formal and stuff, it just felt so wrong."

"He does like you." Lavi said.

"Who?"

"Kanda, he really does like you. He does think you're somewhat frustrating though." He chuckled. "He didn't understand why you were never happy, he got the impression you didn't like him, at all. I told him that I was sure she liked him, but at the time I hadn't even met you before."

"So now you aren't so sure?" I interrupted.

"Well, Kanda's just not used to rejection, you know he grew up all his life loved and pampered and spoiled. You know he acts so strong on the outside, but on the inside, he has insecurities too. He didn't want to ask if you liked him because he was scared you were going to reject him. But now that I know you, you don't seem like the type of person that would reject him."

"Well, I would!" I huffed.

"You know you're really easy to see through?" Lavi teased. I blushed. "I don't love him though!"

"But that's not what you're thinking on the inside, you do love him."

"I don't!"

"But you do!"

"No, I don't! I would never love that, that big sack of vanity!" I cried.

"Okay, okay calm down. Maybe you don't think you like him now, but just wait, it'll get the best of you." Just then his phone rang. "Hold on, I need to get this." He picked up the phone. "Hey Yuu-Chan!"

I could clearly hear him shout. "Don't call me Yuu-chan!" oh the other end.

"You would never guess who's at my house right now." He said lightly.

No he wouldn't! "Don't you dare!" I hissed.

"Who?" Kanda asked, gosh, Lavi's phone was on really loud.

"Guess!"

"Some hooker? No a prostitute you picked up on the streets." He said sarcastically.

"Nope! But you got the 'on the streets' part." He laughed. I punched him, hard. "Oof!" hit the wall.

"What was that? Lavi?" Kanda asked. "Whatever, I have to talk to you."

Lavi recovered from the punch and replied. "Well of course you do, then you wouldn't be calling me at this late hour."

"I think I'm in love with her."

"Who?"

"You know, the girl! Alice!" As soon as I heard that I grabbed the phone. "Kanda?" I practically yelled into the phone.

"Alice?" he sounded surprised. "What are you- Lavi! Is this the person the you 'picked up on the streets'" Kanda asked angrily. "Alice! What were you doing outside from your house?" He asked, I could hear the worry in his voice.

My lip quivered. "I ran away from home. But that doesn't matter! Do you," I bit my lip. "Really love me?"

It was silent for a moment. I wanted to cry. "Yes."

"Really?" I asked. Lavi looked at me smugly.

"Yeah."

"Really?" I asked, I couldn't believe my ears.

"Yes, really now stop saying really, you sound like an idiot!" He boomed.

I laughed. That's my Kanda.

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