So my dear friend Invader Riyo gave me an idea for another oneshot with these two. So, without further ado, more AmeBel.
Natalia sat curled up on a leather couch in Alfred's living room. The normally tastefully-dressed girl was currently sporting sweatpants and an over-sized T-shirt. Alfred stepped up and sat down right next to her, then held up a DVD case.
"You sure you want to watch this?" he asked. Natalia rolled her eyes.
"Alfred, it's just a horror movie. All it is, is movie-industry clichés and bad special effects. I'm more than sure that I can handle it." She plucked the case out of Alfred's hands and stepped up to the DVD-player to put the disk in. Then she walked back to the couch and curled up next to Alfred again.
Alfred laughed. "Okay, if you're sure. I just didn't want to be the guy who scared his girlfriend without giving her a fair warning."
Natalia lightly punched Alfred's shoulder. Somehow, though, she had the feeling that Alfred would be more scared of the movie than she would be, by the way he kept carrying on about it. It seemed as if he subconsciously wanted Natalia to be afraid and ask not to watch it.
About half an hour later, Natalia learned that her hypothesis had been right.
Alfred was curled up in a ball as close as he could get to Natalia, clinging to her arm with white knuckles and hiding his face in her neck. He was shivering like a terrified puppy and whimpering like one, too.
"Pft, this movie is so fake," Natalia scoffed, trying her best to soothe the cowering boy who was by now practically on her lap. "I mean, that chainsaw-killer has been very quick and sloppy with his work - surely the cops would have found some evidence left behind and tracked him down to apprehend him by now. Plus, corpses don't look anything like that when they rot, so those zombies are totally inaccurate. Instead, the flesh should look like-"
"NOT HELPING, NATALIA!" Alfred whimpered. Natalia frowned, disappointed that her words had done nothing to calm him.
"Sorry. Do you want to shut off the movie-?"
"NO WAY! I'm Alfred the Hero, I can handle one little movie!" Natalia wasn't even able to finish her question before Alfred had interrupted her, sitting up straight and removing his head from the crook of Natalia's neck, dawning a cocky smile.
Then a monster in the movie growled, and Alfred immediately collapsed into Natalia and was once again reduced to a terrified little boy.
"Man, that movie wasn't even scary! I was so bored I nearly fell asleep!" Alfred said, flipping a switch on the wall to turn the living room lights back on. When he looked back at the couch, he found Natalia giving him an irritated glare. "What?"
"Next time, I choose the movie!" she snapped, picking up a nearby pillow and lightly tossing it at Alfred's head.
"Ow! What did I do to deserve that?"
Yes, I know this was painfully short and you all probably want to kill me right now, BUT, listen!
I am taking this story off of its "Completed" status for now, because I have a Christmas chapter planned, and a chapter before that planned. After that, we'll see if I get any ideas.