YAY. sorry I didn't work on it this weekend. I didn't have computer access. BUT NOW ITS DONE.

READ NAO.

I don't own anything.

~~ALOIS'S P.O.V.~~

I can't say I wasn't nervous about this morning. I wasn't sure if we would have to act the same or not. The 'same' as in, him not putting any effort into being with me in any way, shape or form.

I wasn't going to let that get me down. After all, he kissed me. He did, of all people. Well, technically, I did first, but he kissed me second. Anyways…

I then skipped down the hall, to the dining room. I looked at Ciel in his usual seat at the table. He was holding the same book he had been reading for the past few days. He looked up from the book with a quick glance and smiled. He smiled differently than usual. It was meaningful, and not fake. I smiled back and sat across the table from him. I looked down at a cup of tea and a usual plate of breakfast. I wasn't very hungry.

"What do you want to do today? We don't have any plans." I say picking at my food.

"I had some paperwork mailed to me this morning that I'm going fill out this evening." I frowned.

"But paperwork is so boring…" I pout at him. He looked up from his book.

"The sooner I get it done the sooner we can do something…"

"No need to rush, there are a few things I have to do too."

"Like what?"

I had to think. "Maybe I can catch up on some reading. What book are you reading, anyways?"

He grinned, "I didn't know you liked to read. I'm reading War and Peace."

"Sounds dull…" He marked his page with a long, red and velvety bookmark and closed it. He slid the book across the table to me. "I have a feeling this isn't the kind of book I'd read." I pushed it across the table back to him.

"I didn't think so." He laughed and picked it back up.

"I'll just find something in my study. There's bound to be something I might actually read…" I dismissed myself from my seat and walked over to Ciel. I hugged him from behind and skipped to my study.

When I got there, I drug my feet through the door frame and looked at the huge wall of books piled straight to the ceiling. I never realized I had so many… I looked at each book, one by one. All of them looked boring. Why don't I try writing instead?

I strutted to my desk and sat down. I opened a few drawers and got out a piece of parchment, a quill, and ink. I laid my head on the desk. I can't think of anything to write about. This is too hard. I need inspiration. Maybe Ciel can inspire me. I smiled and ran out of my room.

I opened Ciels bedroom door and saw him at his desk, doing none other than his dreadful paperwork.

"I thought you were reading." He said not looking up from filling his name into numerous lines. He must not like eye contact very much.

"I was, but I didn't like any of the books I have. So now I'm going to write." I beamed.

He looked up with a smirk of confusion. "Well then why aren't you writing?"

I walked up behind him and put my arms around his chest and my head on his shoulder. "I can't think of what to write."

"Did you try taking a walk? It helps clear the mind."

"No, but I guess I could," I whine, "Will you go with me later?"

"I suppose, I can-." I cut him off.

"Yay! Thank you, Ciel!" I hugged him tighter, kissed his cheek and proceeded to dance out of the room.

I walked back to my room and sat back at my desk, staring down at the paper. This is too much work… But this was my idea. I'm so stupid. At least I got Ciel out of working so he can spend time with me later.

Speaking of which, I wonder when he'll finish.

~~CIEL'S P.O.V.~~

I'm about one third of the way through my work. I guess that's a good stopping point. I got up from my chair and pushed the papers to the edge of my desk. I quietly walked into Alois's room and saw him with his head on his desk. I closed the door shut with a quiet 'click'.

He heard it, "Ciel, you're finally done!" he sprung up from his chair to glomp me.

"Yes, but I still have more to complete. It'll have to be a short walk."

"But, Ciel!"

"I don't have any other choice. I'm sorry."

"Are you sure?" He whines.

"Yes, I'm certain."

"Okay…" He drug his words, "Are you ready to go, love?" His mood changed instantly.

"Yes, let's go." He grabbed my hand and skipped out into the hallway.

He finally got to the front door with me close behind.

"Where should we walk to?" I ask him.

He paused to think, "...Um, we can go on the path that leads around the back of the manor…?"

"Alright." He swung me out the door with him.

We strolled around the driveway that swooped around the front of his manor and we came across a small and narrow cobblestone path, hidden by strange weeds. We looked at each other. He nodded at me, I nodded back. We began to walk inside. Once we got through the brush, our surroundings got a lot brighter. I saw tall evergreen trees, I heard birds singing. It was peaceful. We walked on.

"Hey Ciel, don't you just love it here?" He beamed at me.

"It's nice."

"I think it's beautiful," He looked up through the treetops, "Especially the sky." I looked up at the wispy clouds floating along overhead. The sky was a dark shade of blue.

"It is beautiful, I guess…"

He looked at me. Actually he was looking at my eye. Then he looked at the sky. Then back at my eye.

"It's almost the same shade as your eye." He smiled and put his arm over my shoulder leaning his head against mine.

"I suppose it is. I can't really look at my own eye though."

"You can look in a mirror." He laughed.

I smiled.

I started hearing water rushing. Was it a pond? A creek? We got closer to the sound. I saw something gray a bit off the path in the trees.

"Alois?"

"Yes, Ciel?"

"Do you see that thing over there?"

"Hmm, yes. It looks like a fountain," He pulled away from me and walked a little to the edge of the path and squinted at the object in the distance, "do you want to go see it?"

"Why not? Let's go." I walked off of the path and grabbed onto Alois's shoulder. We stepped over a couple of bushes and thistles until we reached the large stone fountain. I let go of Alois and looked over the edge into the murky water below me. I saw something shiny in the water. I pulled my coat sleeve up.

"What are you doing?" Alois asked.

"I see something in the water."

I reached my hand in the unclear water. It felt… like… a ring? I pulled it out quickly. Alois hovered over me. I looked at it closely. I was sliver with a blue diamond in the middle, similar to my ring.

"I want to see it!" He yelled. I put it in his hands. He looked stunned by it. "Can I have it?" He pleaded.

"I… guess…"

"Thank you Ciel! Now we can match." He hugged me and kissed my cheek. Then he grabbed my arm and plowed over the weeds that we struggled with on the way there until we reached the cobblestone path.

"We should head back to the manor," I looked up at the sky that was beginning to turn into a colorful sunset, "Okay?"

"Yes, sir." He smiled and laughed.

We turned back on the path. We came across the same tall trees that we saw before. The bird songs turned into crickets chirping. The plants that greeted us approached to say goodbye. We exited the strange path that we discovered earlier and came back inside the manor.

Alois and I snuck quietly enough so that our butlers didn't hear us and we went back into my room. Well actually I went to my room to finish my work and Alois just followed me, like a dog would follow it's owner.

I sat back down at my desk and started to work with Alois standing over my shoulder. I finished up the last of my signatures in about an hour and finally yawned in exhaustion. I looked down at the floor behind me. He fell asleep on the floor while I was working. I sighed. How does he always end up waiting for me on the floor?

I went to pick him up off of the floor, but he squirmed too much and the ring I gave him earlier fell off. It wasn't his size, but I suppose he liked it anyways. I put it back on his finger. I tried to wake him up, but he wouldn't. I knew I wouldn't be able to drag him all the way to his room… I drug him as far as I could, to my bed. I decided he shouldn't sleep on the floor so I set him in my bed and covered him up with a couple of blankets. He was solidly asleep now, so I kissed his forehead goodnight. I put some blankets on the floor by his side and fell asleep by him.

He gave me a comforting presence that helped me sleep that night...

I would never tell that to his face though…

A/N: Happie Birfdai! (IF IT'S ACTUALLY YOUR BIRTHDAY, THEN.. GAWD?!)

I love you, yo!

Shark - insert animal here - Nado!

That's your present!

But its in baby-form.

A cute tornado of a deady animal mixed with a shark! YAY!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! :D