Chapter 5
Lavi and Allen stood in the door way, shell shocked and grimacing. Kanda got up from the floor, his meditation broken. "S…sorry Lena…" Lavi tried, but she interrupted him. "I don't want to hear it!" the red-head fell back into silence, never having heard Lenalee this mad, not even at Komui.
"Now." She said slowly, stressing the word. "You are both going to shut up and sleep in that…" she pointed a finger at the bed farthest from the window, "together." Allen stepped forward, jis hands up in a half pleading, half 'I –come-in-peace' sign. "But then who is going to sleep on the couch?" he asked, trying to reason. "No one!"
The female exorcist nearly yelled the last word, before moving her hand from her pounding temple to Kanda's arm. She pushed him towards the bed next to the window, where he sat down, looking confused. She walked around the bed to the farthest side from the red-head and beansprout. She dropped like a rock onto her side and didn't move.
Without a single word of protest, Kanda turned the lights off and got into the bed next to her. Lavi and Allen did the same in their bed, too terrified to rebuke her "orders".
Once the rabbit and beansprout had started snoring, Kanda turned over so that he faced Lenalee. "Is your headache back?" he whispered to her. She opened her eyes and shook her head. "I'm okay." She said, but continued to rub her temple. Slowly, the samurai leaned his forehead against hers. After a moment or two, she dropped her hand from her head and fell asleep. In the couple of seconds before he himself nodded off to sleep, Kanda had a fleating thought. 'Did she plan all of that?'
The next day, Lenalee was back to normal. Allen was woke up by Lenalee softly shaking him. When he opened his eyes, he found her so close that his face lit up like a red light bulb. Kanda was already up, and took the liberty of waking up Lavi…by pushing him off the side of the bed.
"Our train leaves at 3:00, so we can look around a little bit" Lenalee said, turning to face them with a mug of coffee in her hand. She was just about to take a sip when Lavi snatched it out of her hand "Hey!" she yelled, but not without a grin on her face. He put it back in her hand, half of it gone. She was about to drink the rest of it when Allen repeated Lavi's motions and she got it back empty. She started to say something, but shrugged and went to get herself a new cup of coffee. Lenalee came back with her coffee, along with ones for Lavi and Allen, plus Kanda's tea.
Allen drank his coffee near the window, Lavi laying on the floor, Kanda drank his tea while meditatling, and Lenalee watched her three friends as she enjoyed her non-stolen java. Allen suddenly say the kid from the train the day before, out the window. He drained his drink, left it on the window seal, and ran out of the room with a "See you later!" Lavi sat up fast. "Wait for me!" he yelled at Allen, leaving his mug on the floor and running after the white-haired boy. Once Kanda finished his tea, he too left to go find food.
Lenalee was left alone to drink her coffee and look out at the sun. But that's how she always was left. Utterly alone.