I felt like there wasn't enough romance between the two, so I spiced things up a bit in this chappie! Enjoy Lenalee's blushing!
Ch. 3 Different
It was another day of boring school, Lenalee was sitting next to Allen at a table with her friends at lunch. Everything was the same, Allen yelling at Kanda for calling him short, Kanda being as grumpy as usual and ignoring Allen, Miranda was talking about her crush to Chomesuke, and Lenalee was smiling at her friends' weirdness. There was one thing off though, Lavi hadn't spoken at all, which Lenalee believed was physically impossible for the redhead.
The mysterious redhead wasn't smiling either, he had...an emotionless expression on his face actually. Lenalee decided to converse with him since the others hadn't even noticed his odd personality today. It made sense though, the black-haired beauty was by far the closest to Lavi.
"You ok?" she questioned the redhead who had been staring at the table for the past ten minutes.
He merely nodded.
Lenalee scrunched her nose, something she usually did when she was thinking.
"Can you do me a favor Lavi?" she asked politely, hoping that he would oblige.
"Maybe," he finally looked at the girl, though his expression was still not a happy one.
Lenalee pouted at his answer, "I have a C- in Trigonometry and I need to raise it to a B or else my brother would get really mad, so can you tutor me today after school? Preferably at your house?" Lenalee asked, crossing her fingers that he would accept.
"Okay, meet me at the front gate immediately after school," he said getting up from his chair, "I have to do something, later," he waved to the others and left.
Lenalee sighed, her friend/crush usually wouldn't stop smiling, but today he hadn't smiled at all.
'What's going on in your life Lavi?' she thought, getting annoyed by the redhead's secrets.
Lenalee had French with Allen next period so she decided she would ask him about Lavi's behavior since the younger boy was also really close to the redhead.
"Allen?" Lenalee whispered to her friend, not wanting their teacher, Ms. Eliade, to hear her.
"What is it Lenalee?" Allen whispered back, also afraid of their teacher's wrath.
"You've noticed Lavi's strange behavior right?"
Allen just nodded in return.
"Did he tell you anything?"
"Nope, I just guessed something bad happened, so I didn't bother asking him anything," The white-haired boy replied, pity was shown in his eyes.
"Oh, I see," she murmured.
As soon as the bell rung to signal that the horrible school day was finally over, Lenalee rushed to the the front gate and saw her redheaded friend standing there alone.
"Lavi!" Lenalee approached the emerald-eyed boy, smiling.
"Let's go," he didn't even greet her, and his eyes were even colder than at lunch.
The raven-haired girl nodded sadly and walked with him to his house.
The way there was completely silent, Lavi didn't say anything and neither did Lenalee, making her feel awkward.
"We're here," Lavi said, scaring Lenalee by him suddenly talking.
She looked up and saw an old one-story house that was beaten up. The white paint was chipping off the door, the fence was broken, the grass was brown, and the plants were either dead or taking up the whole property. All in all, it was terrible.
"You coming or what?" the redhead's words interrupted Lenalee's thinking, making her blush softly in embarrassment.
"Yeah I'm coming!" She hurried across the dead grass and over to Lavi, waiting for him to unlock the door.
Lenalee was sitting in his kitchen, which also in need of a desperate renovation, and got out her Trigonometry textbook.
"You want something to drink?" Lavi offered her, looking through his fridge for food.
"Can I have a Diet Coke?" she asked politely.
He nodded and searched his fridge for a Diet Coke.
Lenalee's eyes casually drifted over to the redhead's butt, which in Lenalee's opinion, was freaking perfect. She blushed as red as a tomato at the thought and tried to focus on a problem instead, but her eyes keep glancing over to it.
Lavi finally found a Coke deep within the fridge and put it down in front of the not so innocent girl.
A few hours had passed since their tutoring session had started and Lenalee could solve any problem Lavi threw at her now.
"Can we take a break? I'm tired," she whined, sick of Trigonometry.
"Sure, we can go to my room," Lavi offered while stretching his tired arms.
The redhead had slightly became more cheerful throughout the tutoring, Lenalee actually made him smile and laugh a couple of times.
The petite girl blushed at the thought of being in Lavi's room all alone with him. Before Lenalee''s imagination got out of hand, she replied a simple 'yes'.
The walk to his room was nerve wrecking, she didn't know why she was so scared, Lavi was a nice guy and he wouldn't do anything to her. Even though Lenalee knew this, she couldn't help but want her brother's protection, he had always been there for her when she needed him, but he wasn't here now.
Lenalee must have been shaking, for Lavi asked her if she was feeling alright. She smiled and nodded reassuringly, and followed him into his room.
His room had a light tan color to it and several old wooden bookcases around the walls. Now that Lenalee thought about it, his whole house was covered with books! She also saw a desk with a lamp on it, a green bean bag chair, and a simple queen-sized bed with orange covers, which was Lavi's favorite color.
"So, you must like reading huh?" she asked looking through his huge selection of books.
"Yeah, I guess so," he answered.
She then saw a bookcase covered with leather journals that looked exactly the same. The curious purple-eyed beauty pulled out one of them and opened it to a random page, small elegant symbols were plastered onto the page, and Lenalee couldn't help but feeling that Lavi was the one who wrote it.
"Are all of these your journals? And what language are they in?" the girl asked, fascinated with the journals already.
"Yeah I guess you could say that, but I only write important stuff in there," he paused and thought about her second question, "it's not really an established language, only a handful of people know how to read it."
Lenalee giggled, "You mean like a childish secret language? That's so cute!"
"It's not childish! It's very complicated and...and..." he stammered, and kept babbling about nothing.
She rolled her eyes and playfully winked at him, "It's okay Lavi, I know you want to keep your reputation, but I won't promise that this won't "accidentally" slip out of my mouth," she teased, laughing when he blushed bright pink.
"I hate you..." he murmured, trying to ignore Lenalee's teasing remarks.
"Love you too!" she said with a flirtatious grin, blowing a kiss to him, which made the boy frown.
"Whatever," Lavi spat, slightly annoyed, "you won this time, but I'm gonna get you next time!"
"Yeah yeah!" Lenalee said with a yawned to show the redhead that she was uninterested with his empty threats.
"That's it! It's time for a tickle war!" he shouted childishly, which made Lenalee grin as she tackled Lavi to the ground.
'I finally got the real Lavi back...'
Wow that was so long! I just didn't know when to stop! Bye Bye my dear LaviLena fangirls (or maybe fanboys :D)! 3