Chapter 9- Vampires and Evil Men- Daisya's P.O.V.
I poked Lenalee in the side of the head. She sighed, and put her book down. "What?" She asked.
"Whacha reading?" I asked.
"A book," She said.
"What sort of book?" I asked.
"A vampire book." Her voice was getting an edge of annoyance in it.
"Vampires are creepy," I said. "Why do you like reading books on them?"
"Because I like paranormal romances," Lenalee replied.
"Why do you like romance books?" I asked. "You're only twelve! Your mind hasn't been tainted with the crazy thoughts of a teenager yet. Don't read any books that will taint your mind, Boo!"
Lenalee rolled her eyes. "You're really starting to bug me, Day. I can like romance novels if I want to."
"But, you're so innocent," I whined. "Vampire books aren't innocent!"
"Why are you arguing about vampire books being innocent?" Arisa asked, sliding into the seat across from us.
"She's reading a vampire book!" I exclaimed.
"And what is your point?" Arisa asked.
I groaned. "I must bring another mature person into this argument." I started to scan the room for someone.
"I still don't understand why we're having an argument about vampire books," Arisa said.
"Marie!" I said making sure that my voice wasn't loud enough to make the entire room look at us. "Marie, I need your help to convince Lenalee that vampire books can rot her brain."
I felt a hard thing hit the back of my head, and I looked over my shoulder to see Lenalee glaring at me with her book in her hand.
I turned back to where I could see Marie. "And Lenalee just hit me with her book!' I quietly exclaimed. "Marie, I need your help!"
He didn't answer. I huffed, and turned back around.
"He probably didn't hear you," Arisa said. "I could barely hear you, and I'm sitting in front of you!"
"Oh, he heard," I said. "He always hears. He's just ignoring me." I started to rub my head "Damn, girl, you hit hard!" Lenalee started giving me her death stare; and I scooted away from the little girl.
"Are your conversations always like this?" Arisa asked.
"Yes," I said. "We love to annoy the hell out of each other."
"But sometimes we forget where the line is," Lenalee mumbled.
"What do you mean?" Arisa asked.
"Sometimes we get to the point where we just want to hit the other person," Lenalee explained. I noticed that she was barely eating her food.
"What's with you?" I asked. "I've never seen you this gloomy."
Lenalee's eyes flicked to the entrance of the cafeteria. I followed her gaze. My eyes narrowed at the sight of the evil man.
"What is it?" Arisa asked.
She was just turning her head to look when I said, "Don't look."
Arisa cocked her head at me. "What is it?" She asked again.
"It's the evil man," I said. "Why are you scared of him, Boo?"
Lenalee shook her head. "You don't have to worry about me, Daisya. "Its my business, not yours."
"I just want to know what's going on," I said.
"What's going on with what?" A voice asked. I looked up to see Leverrier staring down at us.
I grabbed Lenalee's stupid vampire book. I saw myself mentally smacking the inspector on the head with it and then running for my life. However, I just calmly said, "I was wondering what's going on in the book. I've read it before, and I just want to know what part she's at. But she won't tell me."
"And why won't you tell him, Ms. Lee?" Leverrier asked.
I felt Lenalee tense next to me. "I've only read three pages so far, Sir. I still don't understand what's going on, and I keep telling Daisya that, but he won't take my answer."
"I see," Leverrier said. "Tell me, have any of you seen Yuu Kanda recently?"
"No, Sir," We all said at the same time.
"Very well then," Leverrier said. "If you do see him, contact me immediately."
"We will do that, Sir," I said. My mental scale about hitting him on the head or not was slowly leaning towards the hitting side. I felt Lenalee shaking slightly, and I just wanted to kick the guy out of the entire universe to keep her safe and happy. "Have a nice day, Inspector."
Leverrier walked off, and I could feel every muscle in my body relaxing. I looked at the other two. Arisa seemed to be relaxing as well, but Lenalee was even tenser than before. She was shaking so badly, that I could feel our bench moving.
I put my arm around her shoulders, and Arisa grabbed her hand.
"You don't need to be afraid of him with us here, Boo," I whispered into her ear. "We'll protect you no matter what."
"You just need to explain why he scares you," Arisa said.
Lenalee shook her head. "Its my fight."
"A fight that we can help you win," A voice said. We all looked up to see two of the other exorcists.
"Hi, Marie," Lenalee said in a shaky voice. "Hi, Suman."
Marie placed a hand on her head, and ruffled her dark hair. "We'll help you win if you let us. "
"Yeah," Suman said. "And if no one can cheer you up, we can always beat Daisya to a pulp. Seeing him in pain is always funny."
"Exactly," I said. "Wait- what!?"
Everyone started to laugh. Arisa reached out, and wiped a tear off Lenalee's cheek.
"We're here for you," Arisa said.
"Thank you," Lenalee said. She smiled, and it was the sweetest, and cutest smile I had ever seen.