Okay so I got my English coursework back... I got 75/80. 75/80! A! Highest mark in the class. Oh my god. I was so happy I actually cried a little!
Anyway, I hope you read and review as usual \(^▽^)/
"-and then he was all 'My head really hurts guys…' so then he went and said 'Pass me my phone'-"
["-Pass me my phone!"]
"Yeah! I was all 'Yuu… bit harsh'-"
["-He actually said that!"] A gasp could be heard through the phone, ["No way did he say that!"]
"Oh yeah, he said it Lenalady!"
["God he can be such a social retard at times-"]
"-At times? Lena… this is Kanda we're on about, I think you mean all the time?" The laugh sounded a bit static through the phone but it still caused a smile to bloom on Lavi's face,
["Are you with Al' now? Has he gone to the nurse?"]
Lavi turned around from his pointless strolling and spotted Allen yelling at the taller teen, Lavi hadn't seen him go to the nurse but he didn't seem to be too damaged by the UFO so he decided to let it slip,
"Yeah, he went straight there, all clear, no worries princess"
["Hmm… alright then. So… what was it you actually wanted to tell me?"] Lavi cringed slightly at the change of tone, it went from happy go lucky Leanlady, to Mother of three boys, Lenalee. Lavi felt himself laugh nervously at nothing in particular; he turned round and started to stroll towards the others.
"W-What are you on about? I've just told you?"
["So you just phoned me to fill me in on the day's activities?"]
"W-Well no…"
He'd reached Allen and Kanda by now and the two were looking at him as he babbled nonsense through the phone, Allen decided to voice the question he'd been wondering since the redhead had dialled the number,
"Who's he talking to?"
"No idea" Kanda hadn't even looked at the smaller boy, it seemed he'd already guessed Allen was curious. "Lavi, who's on the phone?" The red head pulled the phone from his ear and mouthed a clearly visible 'Lenalee' which was closely followed by a cringe from both Kanda and Lavi. "Ouch"
"Why 'Ouch'?" Allen hadn't understood the reason behind the cringe,
"He's telling her we got kicked out the library for a week…"
"Right…"
"Would you want to be the one to break the news to 'straight A's Lenalee'?"
"Ah."
"Yeah."
The two of them watched as Lavi attempted to calm down the, what they guessed to be, furious girl on the other line. Allen was perfectly fine watching until Lavi, much like Kanda had done, threw the phone at him. Luckily for Allen, this throw was designed to be caught not be assaulted by. He caught it and placed it to his ear cautiously,
"Hello?"
["Allen! Is that you!"] The boy couldn't help but wince at the volume, before he answered he pulled the phone away from his ear, threw a glare in Lavi's direction, to which he was met by his trademark sheepish smile, then turned the volume of Lavi's mobile down. Satisfied he held it back to his ear,
"H-Hey Lenalee… how you-"
["-Did you get kicked out the library!"]
"I wouldn't say kicked out…" Much like Lavi had done, Allen started moving away from the group, he aimlessly walked down the path that lead away from the library, "More like, suspended?"
["It's not a club Allen. Did they ban you from the library?"] Allen could feel Lenalee's 'no nonsense' policy even through the phone,
"N-Not really banned… we can go back in…"
["Oh so you're allowed in whenever?"] Lenalee's voice had sarcasm in it that he didn't remember ever hearing before; he figured it must be something that escapes when she's angry.
"Yeah… well, no… no we're-"
["Argh see! Banned! BANNED! Jesus Christ, have you been told you can't go back for a certain amount of time!"]
"…yeah…" He never thought he could speak so quietly on a phone before,
["Argh! You boys are so stupid! Do I have to constantly stay with you to monitor your behaviour!"] It took Allen a few seconds to realise that Lenalee was waiting for an answer; he thought the question had been rhetorical.
"Oh um… No?"
["Well I obviously do! You got kicked out the library Allen. Kicked out. Argh! You guys piss me off sometimes"] Allen had turned around by this point, heading quickly to the others to try and pass her onto someone else; she was really scary when she was angry.
Lavi and Kanda had been watching the whole time; they'd seen every cringe, every nervous hand through the hair. They felt bad, just a little bit, so when Allen turned around and started walking towards them, they knew one of them would have to get the phone. Lavi pushed Kanda towards the whitette with the rushed excuse of how he'd had the phone already.
"Tch, traitor"
Allen looked up and Kanda and all but threw the phone at him. He guessed it was a form of payback. He threw a phone at the moyachi's face; he had to talk to a pissy Lenalee. Not really fair, Allen would have a painful head for a few days; Kanda would have a pissy Lenalee of his case for weeks. He sighed as he held the garish orange phone to his ear.
["And I bet this is all your fault somehow Kanda-"]
"What! And how did you figure that out!"
["It's always your fault!"]
"No it's not!"
["Okay so not always, but you blatantly caused it this time! You were so rude!"
"Oh right, give me one example-"
["-'Pass me my phone'"] Yeah, she had him with that one,
"Tch, nothin' to do with it-"
["Everything to do with it you, you-"]
"You, you-"
Kanda saw Lavi nudge Allen in the corner of his eye, he turned slightly and saw Allen blush lightly as he punched the redhead back. He felt himself raise an eyebrow as Lenalee's voice came through the phone again,
["You threw a phone at his head! Seriously, that's assault Kanda!"]
"Your dramatizing it, it was a light toss at most-"
["I heard he has a massive lump on his forehead-"]
"Oh yeah, and who told you that?" He didn't know why he was asking, he already knew who told her,
["Lavi."]
Kanda clicked his tongue and threw the phone in the direction of the red head; he stood next to the whitette as Lavi walked away and attempted to calm the girl down. As soon as Lavi had walked away Allen turned to face the older teen,
"I've been doing some thinking-"
"No way!"
"-you know when we were in the library?"
"Obviously."
"Well I started thinking that maybe it was Lavi…"
Allen watched as Kanda's eyes widened and the teen turned to look Lavi over, almost as if by looking he could deduct whether what Allen said was the truth or not.
"And how did you figure this out?" He sounded as sceptical as he looked. Allen checked to see if Lavi was still occupied with Lenalee, after seeing that yes, he was busy; Allen walked a bit further away and sat on the floor so his back was leaning against the wall of the library.
He threw Kanda a glare as he opened his bag, the once neat and tidy bag was now in ruin. So bad it resembled the contents of Lavi's bag. He shook the scary thought out his head as he pulled out the notebook. He threw it on the floor and pointed at the list of Blogger Characteristics. Kanda, clearly not understanding what he was saying looked blankly at the paper, Allen sighed as he pulled out one of the few biros had managed to pick back up of the library floor. He pulled the lid off and circled a number of the characteristics.
HAS A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT HOWEVER DISLIKES FACEBOOK.Sense of sarcasm. NOT BRITISH. GETS BUS TO COLLEGE. WEARS CONTACTS. Makes regular mistakes, could be overly clumsy? UNNATURAL NATURAL HAIRCOLOUR. likes to place the blame onto others (mythical shit) clearly irresponsible personality.
Allen smiled as Kanda picked the notebook up to have a closer look; he looked to be biting the inside of his cheek. Allen couldn't help but think it was an odd thing to be doing, biting the inside of your cheek was usually considered to be something you do when you're nervous, not excited. He decided it would be best to voice his concern,
"What? You don't think it is?" The question seemed to startle the older teen; he looked down at Allen, eyebrows furrowed,
"Just there's shit loads of stuff he doesn't do…"
Kanda placed the notebook in the gap between the two of them; Allen leant forwards and re-read some of the notes. He raised his head to look at Kanda and raised an eyebrow instead of voicing the question. Kanda seemed to understand the language of eyebrows and got his own biro out, circling the characteristics he didn't do. Some part of Allen still suspected the older teen; he'd been noticing that Kanda also did some of the characteristics,
DISLIKES ABREVIATIONS. MOST LIKELY AN ENGLISH STUDENT.
Allen actually had proof for that one, the texts he'd received on numerous occasions that showed the older teen correcting his grammar and abbreviations.
NOT BRITISH. HAS FLATMATE. Swears. GETS BUS TO COLLEGE. Sense of sarcasm. HATES HAIRDRESSERS. UNNATURAL NATURAL HAIRCOLOUR.
He did a number of these things, but still most of Allen knew it could be anyone. Things like hating the hairdressers or getting the bus to college were vague. Anyone could be the blogger is he used only those points to base it on. However the main reason Allen didn't think it was Kanda was because he didn't want it to be him. If it was, then the few months they'd been working together would mean nothing.
"But you have to admit he fits a few of the characteristics, the weird ones. Like… blaming things on mythical shit, as you put it." Kanda sent a casual glare at the whitette, "I mean, just the other day he was explaining the wonders of the Brownie-"
"-Idiots always thinking about food-"
"No no no. That's what I thought at first… god I love brownies" Allen laughed but coughed awkwardly as Kanda failed to find it funny, not that he found much funny, "It's this mythical gnome goblin ish creature, I think he said it's Irish... actually no, Scottish? I dunno, don't hold me to that, I can't quite remember…" Allen paused at felt himself cringe slightly as the pause was met by silence, "The point is it's mythical." He pointed at the notebook for emphasis.
"Great."
"Argh, my point was it's one of the unusual characteristics that don't apply to many people-"
"-Except Lavi-"
"Except La- yeah. That."
"Well it can't be him."
Allen felt irritation grow inside himself, why couldn't Kanda just admit he was right for once?
"He was with us when the blog updated-"
"Shit" Kanda snorted a little, he couldn't help but find it funny when the moyashi swore; it had much more of an affect than when he did it. "He couldn't have done it, could he-"
"-Nope."
"And you knew that this whole time?"
"Yep."
Allen didn't reply, he leaned himself against that all again and just watched Lavi walk around. He forced himself not to smile at the red head; he was waving his arms around, clearly struggling to calm the lady down. Allen could see Kanda staring at him from the corner of his eye; he tried to steady his breathing so he thought back to the events in the library. Yuu… you… Yuu, you… nope. He still couldn't get over it. He bought his hand up to his head and gently prodded against his forehead. It was swollen, he wondered how stupid he looked with a giant lump of his forehead, he felt a twinge shoot though his as he prodded to hard. He must of flinched in pain because he thought he heard a mumbled 'sorry' but when he turned to look Kanda had turned his attention to the redhead parading around the quad.
"You're gonna hurt yourself"
Allen focused his eyes on Kanda; he'd turned round and was watching him. He used his finger to trace around the swelling, he saw Kanda's eyebrow twitch. Why was he getting irritated? Allen got his index and middle finger and used them to poke at the top of the lump, slowly working itself over the steadily forming bruise. He jumped as Kanda grabbed his wrist,
"You'll make it worse."
"And you care... why? You're the asshole that caused it" He didn't say it bitterly, Allen made sure to say it in his best 'matter of fact' tone.
"You're trying to make me feel bad-"
"No I'm not, I'm curious-"
"-Alright, alright, sorry. There I said it, happy now-"
"I wasn't asking you to say-"
"-Would you just let it go"
"I'm not holding onto it!"
"Then stop prodding!"
They stared at one another, Allen's hand had risen back to his forehead and Kanda clicked his tongue in annoyance.
"I asked you to stop-"
"-I can't, it feels funny-"
"-it's a giant lump on your forehead. Of course it feels funny"
"And that's why I can't stop poking…"
With each word he spoke he poked the lump. Kanda growled as he grabbed his wrist and placed their hands in the gap between the two of them, when Allen turned to look at him he had returned to staring at the flustered redhead. He hadn't let go of Allen's wrist yet, Allen lightly tugged on his arm, trying to reach the lump on is head. Kanda's response was to tighten his grip on the whitettes wrist.
"Oh, I see how it is. Trying to stop me from prodding are we-"
"Yes."
"Argh please" He pulled on his arm more and Kanda sighed as he readjusted his grip.
"You were trying to make me feel guilty."
"And was it working?"
In all honesty it hadn't been Allen's goal to make the older teen feel bad, he just wanted to poke to bump, but if it meant getting his arm back he would admit to it. That way he could go back to prodding without making the teen feel bad. Kanda, at first glance, seemed to be watching the redhead however Allen could see that he was actually vacantly starring in that general direction, what he was thinking about, nobody would know.
"…little"
"Oh."
So the two of them just sat there, leaning against the wall of the library, watching the redhead who had apparently calmed Lenalee down, how they weren't quite sure, but he had stopped waving his arms around and was now laughing into the orange mobile. Allen sighed to himself as he readjusted himself against the wall. He felt oddly comfortable, back against the solid brick wall, warm hand round his wrist, he felt a satisfied smile pull at this lips. It seemed Kanda wasn't going to let go until Lavi got off the phone, which by the looks of things, wasn't going to be for a while. Not that Allen really minded.