Dear Readers!

I am so sorry for the late update but I promise to make the story more twisting, scary and heart-pounding! I always keep my promises!

As usual, I do not own -man. Rebecca Nieves and the other characters and plot is all mine. ne?

-bcozy

A vooom sound came from near my ear. A gasp past from my lips from what was going on.

I knew what it was. My heart sank.

A soft curse came from Lavi, but I was so close to him that was still audiable to me. We both turned our head. Infront of us, right in our faces we seen a huge cannon.

It was like everything went into slow motion.

It was from a demon set to shoot us.

The cannon's air came brushing from it in a warm heap. A pair of hands went to my shoulders, pushing instead of any kind of pulling.

The blood bullet shoot out. Racing forwards us. WE ARE SITTING DUCKS! Then, I was pushed out of the way. Terrifying boom clashed through the air while the bush came a new target. It's once green and white color had turn into red and black. It exploded with dust debree, swallowing me, Lavi and our attacker without sight.

"LAVI!" I called out to my commerad.

"Can you hear me! Lavi!"

The reply I recieved was not what I would espect but was fine with me.

"HIBAN!" The gray smoke was cut in half by the man's innocence, and hit it's direct target. With a sound of metal crashing with metal, the soul was released and sent packing to heaven hopefully.

"Lavi!"

"Rebecca!" My compainion came running towads me. I sat on my butt while he bend down to me. "Are you alright?" he asked, his hand extended to me.

Was I alright?

"Am I alright? What about you? You pushed me out of the way! I should be asking 'Are you alright?'" I accpted his hand.

Lavi gave a smirk while bringing his hammer back to it's minature size. "It's alright. I had to do something. It was a good thing you faked the heart attack."

Faked? No it was real, and I should know. Although why did it happen? I never had that happen to me before, especially at the first time an akuma came to my dorm.

"That was odd." Lavi's voice snapped me back to my senses. His eye looking back to where the bullet exactly hit the ground.

"What was odd?" My head tilted. He walked to the spot and I followed.

"He knew that we where here, first off. Though we were in disgiuse." I wouldn't exactly call school uniforms disgiuses, but it was weird. Why would they already target us? I wasn't clearly known as the new exorcist yet. Wait, did they just target us? What about-

"Lavi! What if they didn't get just us?" My eyes dialated with concern. He figured out what and who I ment and got his phone out and pushed only three numbers. While it was ringing, I gave the command to put the call on speaker. Rings sounded and I grew anxious and nervous.I couldn't take it. I was scared for them, Kanda -crazy right?- Allen, Lenalee, and...OH GOD! Professor was with them!

I felt somethng warm . I looked down to see Lavi's hand embraced with mine. His eye meet my two, hazel irises giving me a message of Everything is going to be alright.

How did he know everything was going to be alright? If all he knew, they were hurt! But...his eyes, his actions were so comforting. I closed my hand with his.

Thank you I gave as a reply, with my half lidded eyes.

"There was not an answer." he finally announced, he put the phone back into his jacket pocket. "But I know they are alright. Yu-chu and Moyashi-chan is with them!" That made me smile.

"Come on, let's keep going alright." Then we started to walk again. Down on the gravel path, acting as if nothing had actualy happen. The snow began to come down a little faster but kept a beautiful slow effect.

Truly, I didn't want to leave. Yes, the snow with the leaf-less trees was beautiful, but something made me want to stay.

"Lavi, wait." I said, stopping and pulling his hand. "Something is here. I...I know it may be crazy, but something brought me to this place. Not just because you suggested that we should, but I felt...something strong." I let my hand drop and I returned to the burned trees. I searched through what was left of the bushes. I broke twigs and branches that got in my way, my hands burned a bit from the heat of the bullets was still lingering. Then I heard some rustlling of the trees and a glimps of fair skin.

"What do you think that you felt?" The red head asked while zooming his eye over the deebree of the damage that was done to the once beautiful nature.

He was helping me search for something that he may have never had met before. He is reliable. I take back wanting to shoot him with a virtual gun.

"Honestly, I have no clue-" I paused, finding what I thought would be destroyed. There, leaning against the trunck of a tree, was the book I bought before I found Megumi. "I found it!" I leaped for joy to the piece of literature. Carefully, I picked it up,in the corner of my eye, I could see Lavi's figure coming closer and closer.

"This is what I went to the store for. This is what 'caused me to walk past this place, a first edition of Ruined a Novel." It's plastic so melted and black, the once shadow of a girl in a cemetary was now only a memory. Started with the front, I bend the book, letting the pages flip after another. Even though it was burned lot, the pages seemed to be in tacked.

Black and white words kept going and going until I seed yellow. "What?"

"What? What's up?"

I flipped through again, wanting to find the page again, and luckly I did.

"Here, in the beginning. The prologue is scarcely highlited." I showed him my observation.

"Highlited?"

"Yes," I took the book and put it inside of my bag. " highlighting is a way to keep track of something that maybe in a book, story or something you might one to remember with a marker. It like underlineing."

"Except it seems in this case," He looked directly at me, seriousness flashed accrossed his eye. "it seems that it may carry a message. For us to remember."

I stared at him, unsure about what this, the book in my bag, would actually mean. "But-but from who?"

"I don't know, but if they knew about this book, they know about you."

My eyes went wide as ever.

That scared me.

I don't know, but if the knew about this book, they know about you.

Just thinking about it gave me the creeps.

Who would know me so well that they knew I was going to be at the Barnes and Nobles? Who knew I was going to get that book? Who put highlite my book? Everything was getting to confusing.

"Are you cold?" Lavi asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.

We have been walking out of the trees and onto a main road. I could tell that he was as puzzled as I am. He was thinking but not as much as I. He doesn't have the right clues to lead him the way that I want to go.

"Just a little." I murmered holding my elbows, keeping pace with him.

He peered closer, seeing that my barely covered legs trembeling. "Wearing shorts in winter is really bad for a girl."

"Well it was the only way I wouldn't get caught wearing these and not a skirt." I deadpaned. "I needed to camofloge with my surrounding classmates of girls."

With a chuckle, he pulled me close. His warm chest warming me. I could feel my heart go just a bit faster.

"H-hey!"

"It's alright. It's not like I am going to hurt you."

Why was he do this?

"I just want to make you warmer that is all." he whispered, his chin resting on my head.

I gulped, my heart thumped, I felt like I was going to keel-over. "Would you mind to call again? I am quite worried about my friends and my teacher."

Lavi nodded and put out his phone right behind my head. With that he pushed another utton and redialed. More rings repeated after another.

"Wow, your freezing." I looked up to see him, he leaned in. "Your lips are turning a bit blue." I raised my head, my face going close to his. Wait! What was I doing! We were getting closer and closer. It was like the wind was pushing me towards him, but I didn't stop it.

My eyes fluttered shut.

Why were they going shut!

Then soon after, I felt soft lips ontop of mine. So warm, I felt like all the worries went away...

"Hello?" Lenalee's jubilant voice sounded, breaking me and Lavi's moment. I turned away all the while blushing like a mad woman. My first kiss, taken from the guy I would least espect, Lavi.

What was all that? Why did I do that? We...k..kissed! Oh my fan gurl!

Lavi asked questions that I wanted to. He asked "Where are you?"

"We are right where the secret room is in the library. Come here now."

I am so sorry I am late with this. So short as well...:( I had writers block, computer porblems but I promise I will be better at this. I swear! Also LAviXRebecca! Labec? Ravea? LaBecca? Hmm...If you have any names for these two, send it through your comments! Arigatou gozaimasu!

-bcozy