CHAPTER EIGHT: Haha! Hoho!
Allen Walker was up almost all night having a debate with himself. He blames Rhode Camelot and Lavi the doorman. Those ridiculous ideas of theirs were getting into his head and he did NOT appreciate that. Sure, Allen DID think that Kanda was attractive, who wouldn't! He had such wonderfully soft looking hair sure, and yeah MAYBE his nose was so perfect it was almost painful to look at. But it takes more than captivating steely eyes to make Allen Walker give you his fancy, a LOT more.
If you're thinking he's in denial, you'd be wrong too because Allen Walker is never in denial. Denial is troublesome. He doesn't ever bother with troublesome things. He was not attracted to Kanda Yuu. Maybe he was a LITTLE but no one can honestly say they weren't because Kanda was just that good looking. But again it takes more than good looks (and a wonderfully weird personality) to charm Allen Walker. He would also like to repeat that he is 'not in denial dammit'.
"Are you blind? It's definitely blue, a really dark color of blue, but it's blue nonetheless." Lavi seems to not want to put the argument to rest. To him, the snazzy looking trench coat Kanda is wearing is indeed, navy blue.
"It's fucking black Lavi" Allen begs to differ "Your eyes are playing tricks on you". Some people might wonder why on earth two people would discuss the color of a coat, those people will learn that not all things people do are driven by any real reason.
"Why don't we go over there and ask him?" the doorman quips "I'll bet you a free dinner that it's BLUE"
"It'll be BLACK" the Englishman says, narrowing his eyes "And we are we betting a meal instead of money?"
"An entire meal is worth more…" Lavi shrugs "Though not always literally…"
Allen nods "That's sorta profound…"
"Really?" and an eyebrow is raised
"No" a shrug "But whatever, let's get this over with… Hey Ka—"
But just then, as Allen's luck would have it, the Japanese's cellphone rings. Kanda, who was actually just standing there like he was waiting for something, looks startled at that very moment. Some people take a quick glance at him, startled as well by the loud ringing, but they all swiftly turn away after seeing the horribly pissed look on Kanda Yuu's face. "Where the fuck are you?" he growls, and everyone else can only imagine how the one on the other line is feeling. "Well if you're almost here, then hurry up!" he snaps, and that, apparently, is the end of the phone call.
"Poor guy on the other line…" Lavi shakes his head in what he seems to want to appear as sympathy
"Yeah… maybe…" because Allen is well aware of the possibility that the one on the line might be Kanda's wonderfully wonderful step-dad
"Oh, hold on…" Lavi puts on that tantalizing doorman smile of his and then says to those whom he just opened the door for "Mornin' sirs! Welcome!"
"ABOUT TIME" and before either Allen or Lavi realized it, Kanda was right THERE. "What took you two so long?"
The guy in the 'Viva Espana' shirt and a dark brown jacket looked like he was about to burst, but his taller companion with strange looking headphones waved a hand to stop him. "Traffic Kanda, traffic"
"Who are they Yuu?" leave it to Lavi to be ever daring
"Rabbit, how many times do I have to tell you to stop calling me by my damn first name?" Kanda glares
"We're his brothers…" headphones guy looks like he's ever the mediator, he reaches out a hand "My name's Noise Marie, nice to meet you"
Lavi accepts the handshake "Lavi the handsome doorman, at your service"
"Just Lavi?"
"I'd rather leave my last name a mystery"
"Oh, I see, well, uhm… Oh yes, this is Daisya Barry" he points to Viva Espana guy
Lavi shakes Daisya's hand as they both mutter nice-to-meet-yous "Why do you guys have different last names?" and though the doorman already knows the answer to this question…
Marie smiles "We're all adopted" but before Lavi can comment further…
"Skip the greetings, let's head up" Kanda announces suddenly
"Wait, wait…" Daisya finally exclaims "What do we have here…" and Allen is startled when he's the one being looked at "…Is this the Allen Walker dad told us so much about?"
"Yup, that's Allen!" this Lavi says, because the Englishman looked like he'd the lost the ability to respond
"Dad says Kanda over here is SO fond of you…" he nudges Kanda with an elbow
"Kiss my ass Daisya, and tell the old man that too…"the Japanese glares at Allen "…I'm not even a LITTLE fond of this bean, I mean just look at it"
Everyone turns to Allen, who just rolled his eyes.
"Stop standing around, let's head up" and with that, Kanda heads for the elevator
"I'm sorry about our Kanda, Allen… he's always like that, with everyone, even da—"
Allen holds up his hands "It's fine, I'm kinda used to it already…" he laughs, and when Marie gives him a weird look he adds "We're ALMOST roommates… Our apartments are connected by a door…"
"Oh, I see…" Marie nods "Well we're meeting up with dad later for dinner, and he told us to invite you… We'll meet you here at the lobby at six?"
"Ah well… Ok, thank you so much!" he kinda feels obligated to accept, not that he isn't immediately regretting the decision, Allen Walker smells trouble
"MARIE!" Kanda's furious shout can be heard, and Marie sighs "See you later then" he says
"See you later" the Englishman smiles
When the three are long gone, Lavi smacks Allen on the back "LOOK AT YOU!" he grins "Meeting the family"
"Shut up Lavi" Allen rolls his eyes
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Allen feels like an idiot for actually going.
"Glad you could come Allen!" this Froi Tiedoll says with a hearty laugh.
"It was my pleasure!" this is followed by the Englishman's nervous laugher
"Bean…" Kanda's tone is shaking, but in a way still firm "Why THE HELL did you come?"
Allen doesn't have an answer to that himself.
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(Original A/N:Dinner with the Tiedoll (?) family will be continued in the next chapter, haha! For now we have this… I am so sorry again, if it's so weird.)
A/N after edit: This chapter is shorter than how it was originally, I replaced a couple of long paragraphs made them shorter but less… crazy … They were crazy in a way that made me squick so yeah