NOTES::

It's a day after I just got all four of my wisdom teeth out. That's a good enough reason not to respond to your reviews (not that I don't appreciate them). Sorry to all of you new reviewers! I'm updating for you guys before I go on the Kairos retreat, but there will be more about that at the end of the chapter. Just read and enjoy!

Chapter Three – Happy Pizza

Several days later on a cloudless night, Sho decided to venture out into the heart of downtown East Ward Mallepa to see if Happy Pizza was in need of any late-night delivery boys, ignoring Kei's constant snickering before he had left the house.

"I'll stop laughing about it if you actually get the delivery boy job," Kei had said with a hand over his mouth, trying to stifle his laughter.

Sho had ignored it and left quickly, slightly irritated by Kei's laughs. He was doing this for the vampire, and yet the blonde couldn't take it seriously. Although…delivery boy did sound rather comical… Shaking it off, the brunette rounded a corner and the neon lights of the small pizzeria were visible at the end of the street. Sliding through the crowded street with relative ease, he made his way over to the shop he never thought he would have to enter again. Yet when he stepped up to the register, the familiar sensation of seeing Toshi's grinning face overtook him and when a stranger came to the front, he couldn't help but feel disappointed.

"May I help you, sir?" the teen asked.

"Yes, I was wondering if your manager is in?" Sho asked politely. The boy nodded and went into the back room.

"There's some guy here to see you!" he heard the teenager shout. Several minutes later, the manager appeared. He was an older man, somewhere in his late fifties, but still looked as alert as ever; that was what living in Mallepa did to you.

"What do you want?" the man asked harshly, earning a just as stern glare from Sho.

"You've got a help wanted sign in your window," he explained, gesturing to the sign in the nearby window. "I want to apply for the job."

"You do know it's a delivery job, right?"

From hundreds of miles you cry like a baby
You plead with me, shout, scream, tell me I'm staying
I know I know I know, I'm still your love

"I am well aware of that fact," Sho replied through slightly clenched teeth, earning a smile from the manager.

"You've got guts, kid," he said suddenly. Kid…? Sho thought to himself. "All right. Come on back and I'll get you a uniform and fill you in on what you've got to do." A smile spread across Sho's face and he obliged, following the older man into the back.

"There's really a uniform?" he queried, glancing at a nearby wall filled with framed pictures as the man motioned for him to wait. He ignored the man's response as he noticed the plaque at the top of the wall that stated "Employees of the Month".

Sho walked over to the wall and began to look through the different pictures, a small knot forming in the pit of his stomach. His cerulean eyes landed on a familiar grinning face and his breath caught in his chest. "T-Toshi," he whispered, staring at a slightly faded picture of his best friend. "You were really employee of the month?" His eyes traveled along the pictures. "…Six times?" He looked around, noticing no one was around and suddenly said with a laugh in his voice, "Sorry I thought you were lying before…"

The manager returned with the uniform several minutes later and some forms for Sho to fill out. "Admiring the wall of shame?" he asked jokingly. Sho smiled and nodded.

"I remember this guy," he replied, pointing to one of Toshi's pictures; the manager gave him a weird look.

"He worked here over twelve years ago…you don't look that old, either," he commented. "How old are you exactly?"

"Twenty-four," Sho replied confidently, although in all actuality he was over forty and in vampire years he was nearly twelve. The elderly man just shook his head.

"Anyway, this is your uniform and there are some forms you need to fill out before you can start working…"

The vampire eyed the uniform warily. "You have got to be kidding me," he muttered under his breath in disbelief…

Back from the last place that I wanted to fake you
Laugh with me, shout, scream now tell me I'm staying
I know I know I know, you're still my love

"Don't you dare laugh at me."

The growled statement caught the blonde's attention and he turned towards the front door, clamping a hand over his mouth to stop his laughter from escaping and angering the other.

"I'm sorry, Toshi, but you don't live here anymore," Kei said with a grin, earning a face from Sho.

"That counts as laughing, you know," Sho said as he closed the front door. He was wearing Happy Pizza's uniform, which none of them (while Toshi had been working there) believed it to be a uniform like the man had tried to claim. He was wearing the baggy orange pants and green tank top like Toshi always wore as well as the checkered hat with his ponytail sticking out the back.

"Fine," Kei replied as he got off the couch and headed over to Sho, who sat down a bag that contained the clothes he had worn to Happy Pizza. The manager had wanted to make sure that Sho looked all right in the uniform. He wrapped his arms around Sho's waist and leaned up to kiss his lover, but stopped and started to laugh.

"What now?" Sho moaned, agitated.

"I can't kiss you when you're wearing Toshi's clothes, love," Kei confessed. "I keep picturing Toshi."

"Oh?" he asked softly, leaning down to nip at Kei's jaw. "And you never thought of Toshi like that?" The blonde smiled and curled his arms around Sho's neck.

"Mmm…I like this Toshi a lot better," he replied as Sho's soft lips trailed up to the side of his mouth. "Maybe if you just took the hat off…" Kei felt Sho's lips curl into a smile and he pulled his hat off, tossing it behind them.

"Better?" he murmured, drawing Kei's bottom lip into his mouth and sucking on it tenderly.

"A little bit," Kei gasped, trying to pull away. "W-when's your first delivery?"

"I don't know yet," Sho replied, pulling away from Kei's mouth, but letting his arms wrap tightly around his lover's waist. "I have to go in for training once he calls and then I'll start to deliver."

"Can I be your first delivery?" Kei asked seductively a few minutes later as he watched Sho change back into his own clothes.

"You just want to seduce the pretty delivery boy," Sho shot at him playfully as the blonde walked over to him. "Maybe even keep him locked up in your bedroom…"

"Exactly," he replied, leaning in and licking Sho's neck hotly.

"So you can do this now but you couldn't before because I looked like Toshi…?" Sho queried as the vampire coiled his arms around Sho's torso and pulled him close.

"I like you better than Toshi, love," Kei answered, lips trailing up to Sho's jaw where he placed kisses all along the edge.

"Good for me, bad for him," Sho breathed, pulling Kei away from his jaw and pressing their lips together…

The same as I love you, you'll always love me too
This love isn't good unless it's me and you

Several days later, Sho was standing in the back of Happy Pizza, waiting for two large anchovy pizzas to be brought to him so he could go out on his first delivery. As he leaned on the counter, the phone in his pocket began to ring. Fishing it out and opening it, he said, "Hello?"

"Good luck on your first delivery, love," a husky voice murmured.

"Mmm…thank you, angel," Sho replied with a smirk on his lips. "But I do believe you're stalking me."

"Is that a bad thing?" Kei asked amusedly.

"Not always."

"Maybe I just want to check in on my baby and make sure he isn't doing anything illegal…" the blonde offered, making Sho laugh.

"You aren't my first delivery, are you?" he asked, glancing back into the kitchen as he noticed the cook pulling the pizzas out of the oven.

"No I'm not. Someone beat me to it," Kei replied. "I requested for you, but they said you were already assigned to a delivery and they wanted to give me someone else, so I hung up."

"So you're prank calling my work?" he asked in a false incredulous tone.

"In a way, yes."

"Then you're the one that's doing the illegal things, not me!" Sho protested, earning a weirded-out stare from the cook. "Mind your own business," he snapped at the man.

"Are you talking to me, Sho?" Kei asked.

"No, no, the cook just gave me a weird look," Sho answered.

"You planning on doing something illegal, kid?" The cook asked him.

"Who the hell are you calling 'kid'? I'm fucking older than you!" he retorted, shutting the man up.

"Sho-chan, don't get yourself in trouble," Kei chided tenderly.

"Sorry, love," Sho apologized. "I think my pizzas are done, so I have to go."

"Good luck," the vampire on the other line purred, making Sho shudder.

"Love you," he said.

"Love you, too," Kei replied before they both hung up.

Box after box and you're still by my side
The weather is changing and breaking my stride
I know I know I know, it's just this day

"Saying goodbye to your girlfriend?" the cook asked as he sat the two pizza boxes down on the counter behind Sho.

"My wife, actually," Sho replied with a secretive smile. "Where's the bag that keeps the pizzas warm?" The cook rolled his eyes and pointed to the far wall where a red square bag was hanging off of a coat hanger.

As he went over to grab the bag, the cook suddenly asked, "So how old are you?"

"How old are you?" the brunette asked.

"Thirty-eight," the cook replied.

"Forty-four," Sho challenged with a smug grin.

"No fucking way," the man murmured. "You don't look a day over twenty-five!"

"I've got my secrets," he replied as he packed the boxes of pizzas in the bag. "Look who's the kid now," Sho added as he headed out the front door, leaving the cook in awe.

"If you're forty-four, then why the hell are you a delivery boy?" the cook asked to the empty front door.

The delivery was to a house only a few blocks away, so Sho didn't mind walking. Although he knew it was rather dangerous to walk the streets of Mallepa around midnight, especially in a pizza place uniform, he knew he couldn't die…

And he had a gun stashed away in his back pocket just in case.

Five minutes later, he was knocking on the front door to the address that he had written down on a sheet of paper. When the only answer was a resounding thud and then a gunshot, Sho decided it was best if he readied his gun. But before he had a chance to reach for it, the door swung open and he was watching a very interesting scene between a boyfriend and girlfriend; the woman was holding a baseball bat while the man was holding a hockey stick. Both were yelling at each other and hadn't paid much attention to Sho at all.

"Excuse me," Sho said softly, hoping not to draw too much attention to himself. But neither of the two seemed to notice him and continued to yell. "STOP!" He finally yelled, pulling out his gun and cocking it so it was ready to fire. This caught the couple's attention and the both froze, staring at him with wide-eyes. "Someone ordered two anchovy pizzas from this address, so someone owes me money."

"I-I ordered pizzas," the woman finally said, dropping her baseball bat and heading for her purse.

"Thank you," Sho said as he took the money and handed her the pizzas. He unloaded his gun and walked down the steps to the street, not daring to turn back around. Heading back to Happy Pizza, he found a pizza sitting on the counter waiting for him with an address on the top. Sighing as he realized he would have to drive to this address, Sho fished his keys out of his pocket and stashed the pizza in the red bag, swinging it over his shoulder again and heading out the door.

I wake up to the sound of you working
You're one room right over, stressing and loving me
I know I know I know, be still my love

The next delivery was just as trivial as the last one, but in a completely different way. When the door opened after Sho rang the doorbell, the woman that answered must have known he would be the delivery boy. She was dressed in a rather revealing tank top and shorts.

"P-pizza delivery?" Sho offered, holding out the box.

"I left my purse in the bedroom—would you mind stepping inside while I go get it?" she asked in a wispy voice.

"I'm comfortable on the porch," he replied.

"Oh come in," she commanded lightly, hooking two long fingers through the belt loops in Sho's pants and pulling him inside, shutting the door behind them. "I'll only be a minute."

As the flirty woman headed towards the bedroom, Sho glanced at the nearby table and noticed a wallet sitting out. He reached over and grabbed it, realizing that it wasn't the woman's wallet but a man's. Pocketing it in his back pocket, he waited for the woman's return, thinking, Too bad this isn't Kei trying to seduce me…

She returned moments later, holding out the wad of bills. "Here," she said, holding the money out for Sho to grab; but as he reached out, she grabbed his wrist and pulled him close. "You're really pretty," she purred in his ear. Sho wrenched himself away, money in hand.

Tossing the pizzas on the nearby table, Sho spat at her, "I'm married, you whore!"

"But is your wife fulfilling her…duties?"

"I'm quite positive that he's doing his duties," he answered.

"Did you say he?" she asked.

"Yes I did!" he snarled, opening the front door and taking off before the woman could protest.

Stick your hands inside of my pockets
Keep them warm while I'm still here

When Sho arrived home in the early morning, he was surprised to see Kei in his pajama pants sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. "You made it home before sunrise," Kei murmured tiredly.

"Did you stay up for me, Kei?" Sho asked as he tossed the checkered hat onto one of the coat hangers.

"Of course," he replied. "How'd the deliveries go?"

"Well, my first one involved me having to deliver it at gunpoint."

"You were at gunpoint?" Kei asked incredulously.

"No, no. I had to stop the couple from fighting," he explained. "And then my next delivery must secretly be listening in to our conversations because she tried to seduce me into her bedroom."

"I didn't think a delivery boy had such a hard time," the blonde said softly, standing up and walking over towards Sho.

Stick your heart inside of my chest
Keep it warm here while we rest

"I did get good tips, though," Sho said brightly as he linked his arm with Kei's and headed towards the bedroom.

"Really?" Kei said, surprised.

"Well, mainly because at a few of the houses I swiped some wallets, but still. Those count as tips!" he answered as he stripped out of his uniform and into his pajamas. He turned around to say something else to the blonde vampire, but found that he couldn't because his lover looked too content as he stared up at the brunette.

"Coming to bed, love?" Kei purred as he curled up underneath the covers.

"I'm going to take a shower first," Sho told him as he walked over to the side of the bed and ran a hand through Kei's hair. "You can go to sleep without me."

"Mmm, okay," Kei replied as he closed his eyes and sunk into the pillow underneath his head.

"Goodnight, angel," Sho whispered, placing a tender kiss on Kei's lips.

"Good night, Sho-chan…"

Tell them this love hasn't changed me, hasn't changed me at all…

Lyrics are I Know I Know I Know by Tegan and Sara, who are quite amazing.

Yes, I got my wisdom teeth out on Monday. I suppose it wasn't too bad, but my cheeks hurt a bit and are swollen, too (not too much, though). NOTICE: I will be on hiatus from February 28 to March 3. I'm going on the Kairos retreat and we're forbidden to bring electronics. So no updates during then, although I'll try to write in a notebook.

A lot of people are going to be hitting on Sho and Kei in this fic—mostly Sho. So get used to really annoying girls. There's a few main ones later on, but don't worry about it right now. And yes, I had fun with Sho's first deliveries. I figured he needed to use a gun sometime soon.

You probably won't get an update for a few weeks now since I'll be busy outside of school as well. But enjoy this quicker update and you'll like what's going to be coming up—I guarantee it. ;D