Readers rejoice I have finally updated. Sorry! I was gonna post it forever ago, then I lost the charge cord for my palm pilot, then I found it, then it took me a week to locate the proper software and yeah, I'm really sorry!!!!!! But here it is at last, please enjoy and accept my honest apologies.
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I have no idea how long I slept, but when I woke up, I was hungry. I'm always hungry, but this was a new kind of hungry, like starving, stomach caving, poor World Vision orphan hungry. I stumbled out of the room, without taking any notice to my surroundings.
I actually forgot where I was and tried to get to the kitchen in the last place I lived, a palace in India. Needless to say, I soon discovered I wasn't in India anymore, the nice wall at The Black Order told me so.
Slightly more awake, I searched for the staircase; it had to be around here somewhere. I was in an unfamiliar hallway, but I had to still be in the same building, somewhere.
Hey a staircase!
I seen a shadow out of the corner of my eye, and the memory of the logic defying battle crashed into my brain like a Tsunami. I screamed and my arm flared up.
"Put that away you moron! What if someone sees you? The regular students don't know about the akuma."
"Oh Lavi, just you." I yawned and my arm returned to normal.
"What are you doing up? Curfew was 3 hours ago."
I made a face as I remembered my objective.
"I'm hungry." I whined holding my poor caving in stomach. Lavi laughed,
"Right, I'm sure you are, I'll go get Jerry, wait here." I nodded and sat next to the wall. Lavi disappeared into the darkness, and then I wondered why he was up.
Lavi was strange, he didn't go to class, he didn't sleep when he was supposed to.
"Allen-kun? Why are you up?" Apparently neither did Lenalee.
"I'm hungry."
She giggled,
"I figured you would be, but you fell asleep before we were even to the door, so I had Toma put you to bed." Lenalee wore a long black nightgown with a grey sweater thrown over her shoulders. I was still in my clothes. "Mind if I sit with you?" I shook my head.
"Not at all, I'm just waiting for Lavi to bring Jerry. I hope he won't mind being woken up."
Lenalee sat,
"Not at all. If Jerry can cook, he will, no matter the time or conditions. I'm sure he'd even cook as the school burned down if someone was hungry."
"So why are you up Lenalee?" She looked at her feet and scrunched her toes a few times.
"I had a bad dream. I know that sounds childish, but it just left me feeling so sick I couldn't lay still." It was easy to see she was really bothered by the dream.
"Does this happen a lot?"
She nodded. "Yeah. It has since I was little. It's always a different dream, but the same horrible feeling."
I would never have guessed Lenalee carried that kind of pain with her. She seemed so upbeat.
"Oh but you don't have to worry about me. I'm fine." She smiled; it was a flawless smile, which told me it was fake. Like a forged signature.
"If you ever want to talk, you know I'm here okay?" Her smile slipped away and her eyes widened. Then a true smile, with happy tears and all grew on her face and she flung her arms around me.
"Thank you Allen-kun." I nodded stiffly and patted her back. She let me go and whipped the tears away.
"I'm serious though. I'm always here. I'll do my best to understand."
She nodded.
"I'll remember that."
"Introducing the amazing Noir cook, Jerry!" Lavi announced, quietly as it was the middle of the night, but grandly as was fitting. Behind Lavi stood a man with long hair wrapped in purple ties, with a dot on his forehead and earrings with well muscled arms.
I wished the world would stop messing with me. I just figured out I wasn't in India anymore.
"This is the Moyashi, and he's starving." Lavi grinned impishly.
"Oh what a cutie!" Jerry cried. "Let's head down to the kitchen, I'll make you whatever you like."
Despite being slightly annoyed by being called 'Moyashi', and slightly creeped out be being called a 'cutie' by another man, at the mention of food, I brightened.
"Alright! I'll have gratin, fries, dry curry, mabo tofu, beef stew, meat pie, carpaccio, nasi goreng, chicken, potato salad, a scone, kuppa, tomyankun and rice! And then for dessert, mango pudding and 20 mitarashi dango." Jerry stared in shock.
"Can you really eat that much?" I nodded enthusiastically, as we descended the stairs. I glanced back at Lenalee and Lavi.
"Either of you wanna come?"
Lavi shook his head,
"I gotta get back to the library."
Lenalee nodded.
"I'd like to come."
I nodded happily. "Then c'mon." She walked quickly down the stairs to catch up with us.
"And what will you have Miss?" Jerry asked.
"Just a glass of warm milk."
Lavi watched the trio walk away, and focused on the two students backs. No. Just no. It wasn't happening.
I was shoveling food into my mouth faster than I could process what I was doing. It tasted so good.
It filled my empty stomach. It was so satisfying.
Jerry had returned to bed, and Lenalee sat across from me, watching with an amused grin on her lips, sipping her milk. When I finished eating, I whipped my mouth and tried to look serious.
"I'd like some answers. What's going on, with this school, those monsters, this arm, what's going on with me?" Despite myself, I started to shake slightly.
I was scared, strange things were happening to me, and it was so scary. My hands curled into fists and I scrunched my eyes closed.
"I'm scared." I felt slender fingers touch my hand lightly.
"You're a chosen one Allen-kun. God chose you. Don't be scared." Lenalee whispered.
My eyes sprung open, startled and the tears I'd been holding in poured down my cheeks. I brushed them away angrily. I hated crying, it made me feel so weak.
"Just relax Allen-kun, then I'll explain everything. I know it seems scary, but it will be alright. Just trust me." I nodded, and continued to cry.
I heard a shuffle and felt Lenalee wrap her arms around me, like I imagined a mother would.
"That's right, let it all out. You'll feel better."
I cried, for once not feeling weak and afraid, but accepted and well, not lonely. I don't know how to describe it, but I felt safe. I sobbed as I curled into Lenalee's arms, needing the warmth.
"It's alright Allen-kun. I'm here."
Alright, answers come next chapter, I promise! I meant to have Lenalee explain a few things here, but instead Allen had a break down. I feel sometimes, even though it's my story, I have no control. The characters have their own wills.
Oh! And I also included my first 3rd person little blip. These will be used only when I deem necessary for the reader to know something that happens away from Allen's awareness. This will pop up occasionally; they will vary in length and frequency. So yeah, and they will always be marked with the two lines of hyphens at beginning and ending. That's what's going on there!