Chapter 12: The day before the Press Conference!

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Alma's POV

I sighed and went with Lenalee and Maricar to our room. The two looked at me and I knew that they would soon fire their questions.

"So Alma… What exactly happened?" Lenalee asked me as she sat in our couch.

"Well, wouldn't it be a surprise to see those 3 knuckleheads gagged and tied in a chair. I suddenly felt sympathy for them." Maricar said, "Poor, poor chair, poor, poor room. It's their fault why the room got so messed up."

"I agree with you. They never learn do they?" I said with a hint of amusement in my voice. Lenalee nodded and giggled.

"Alma, can I ask a question?" The Chinese asked.

"Sure, shoot,"

"How long have you been… well… doing those to the boys?" Lenalee asked her out of curiosity. I shrugged and answered, "I guess for…1…2…3 Yeah, I've been doing that for three years."

"Nice, I'd like to try that sometime." Maricar said and stretched her arms like a cat, "By the way, when can they escape?"

"They'll probably escape once Yu had gotten the hold of his sword. But then again, Yu will just tie them up. I think that the other two will get left behind." I said and turned on the T.V but turned it off since nothing good was on. It's not that nothing good is on. It's just that I can't understand what they are saying.

"By the way, didn't you say that you've been doing that for almost like 3 years? Then you and Kanda were together for as long as three years?" Lenalee asked.

I nodded and said, "Although it was a pretty silent relationship…We eventually got over it."

"Yeah, I totally believed you when you said you had a 'silent relationship' with Kanda. I mean, he doesn't seem like the type to ask a girl out." Maricar commented. I agreed with her.

"It took Yu 6 freaking months and he said the words one by one each month." I told them and rolled my eyes.

"I think I get it now, example, he first said 'Will' on the month of January. And then he said the word 'You' on February, after a month he said 'Go'. On April, he probably said 'Out'. On May, he said, 'With'. And lastly, he said 'Me' on the month of June. Is that it?" she said. What she said was exactly true. That's how Yu asked me out. Lenalee understands quickly.

"Wow, that's pretty long…" I heard Maricar said.

I nodded again, "Yup, it also took me a week to figure out what he meant. Well, I did write down the things he said."

"Fact: You have to be really, really patient if you want to date Kanda. That's because he won't ask you out yet once you two have met." Maricar said and wrote it down in a little notebook. I raised an eyebrow. What is she writing in there?

"Hey Maricar, what's that?"

"A notebook," she answered. Well it is duh!

I rolled my eyes, "I meant what you are writing?"

"Oh… This is for money. I'm going to sell it once I've filled this up." She said.

"What are you writing exactly?" I asked again.

"Oh, this is about the boys. I've been gathering data lately. Datum about what the boys like and who the boys like," She paused and glanced at who Allen likes *cough*Lenalee*Cough*

"I also wrote facts about them, just like the one I said. Thank you so much Alma!" She continued and hugged me tight. This girl sure likes to tick off the boys.

"Speaking of the boys, I think we should go check on how they are doing." Lenalee suggested. Oh God, we forgot about them!

"Guys let's go! Who knows what Yu did to them?" I said frantically and we ran out of our room quickly. Oh god, I am so sorry Allen, Lavi!

:::: Allen's POV::::

Oh God please someone help meeee!

I can't stay any longer in here! Here I am stuck with Bakanda and with Lavi! Help! Alma! I don't wanna die yet!

"Why do I have to be stuck here with you guys again? I never prayed for this!" I exclaimed and tried to wiggle my way out of the rope Alma tied. But it was too tight. Oh dear Neptune, what have I done to anger the gods? It must be something really offensive to have me tied with these two. Me + Kanda + Lavi= Mess and havoc. And this was the result. I hate my life right now.

"Moyashi! Baka redhead! Are you two still alive?"

Maricar? That's Maricar's voice right?

"Maricar! Help!" I yelled

"Oh shut up pip squeak, you're too noisy." Kanda commented.

I glared at him, "First you called me 'Moyashi.' Next you called me 'short stack' and now you called me 'pip squeak'. Can't you say the name 'A-L-L-E-N'?"

"Oh! Here, I got the key!" I heard Lenalee say.

The door opened and Lenalee, Alma and Maricar went running to us. Maricar sighed exasperatedly and untied the rope.

Lenalee then went to me and squatted down to my level… Yes I fell down after the rope was untied. So don't think that she squatted down because I'm short.

"Are you okay? Did Kanda or Lavi hurt you?" she asked worried. I blushed slightly. I saw Alma walking toward us.

"Don't worry Lenalee, Allen is not hurt… physically I guess. Lavi is the only one hurt physically." Alma said and giggled. At least it wasn't me who that Bakanda hurt.

"Are you sure you're okay?" she asked again and pouted. She looks so cute when she pouts or smiles. I guess that's just one of her charismas.

"By the way, where did you two went?" Lavi questioned as he continue to rub his head. He had a very big lump on his head. His lump was also swelling.

"What? Can't we go somewhere by ourselves sometimes?" Maricar asked and rolled her eyes. Lavi sighed and bit his lip.

"I know that, hey, I was just worried." Lavi mumbled and stood up. After that, he sat in the other sofa. (Thank goodness it wasn't destroyed…yet. At least it survived for a day or else Hans and Komui will kill us.)

I saw Maricar's cheeks tinged pink.

"Stop it guys and shouldn't you three be getting ready for your interview tomorrow?" Lenalee asked us.

I froze. No, we froze, the three of us froze. We all know that Komui will kill us if we ever answer a question wrong. I wonder what the questions are about.

:::: Maricar's POV::::

Damn him. Damn him to hell. Damn you Lavi. He just had to be cute and I can't believe it but hot.

I sighed and looked at them. They were as pale as Allen's hair. No, they were paler than his hair. I smirked, who knew that even Yu Kanda, the so called Ice King by the fans, can pale. Aha! A new info added to the notebook!

"By the way, what time is it?" Alma asked them.

Lavi looked at his imaginary wrist watch. After a second he said, "4:41"

"Nice, let's go Lenalee, Maricar!" Alma said gleefully and dragged us out. But before we got out of the suite, Alma stuck her head in.

"Remember what I said boys. No fighting." She reminded them. I heard a whine from Allen.

"But Alma~" the short one whined, "Why can't you just take us with you?"

Lavi agreed, "Yeah, pretty please?"

Damn he just had to be cute when he whines or pleads. What'll you do if you were in my position and a cute and hot redhead drummer is in front of you with big and pleading puppy eyes? I'm sure an ordinary fan girl would squeal and scream. But I am not a fan girl but I still can't escape his charms.

"Lenalee?" I said and turned to her so I can't see those cute and adorable emerald eyes.

She then tapped her cheeks lightly and smiled, "I guess—"

"Yay!" Allen yelp—actually, he squealed and hugged Lenalee. On the other hand, my best friend blushed and just smiled. In the corner of my eyes, I also saw the moyashi's lips curled upwards. He was also blushing.

"How cute those two are," I said.

All heads turned to me. Oh. My. God. Have I just commented that out loud?

Allen quickly pulled away from Lenalee and walked away a few steps from her. He probably took 5 steps away from her. Maybe embarrassing other people is a natural potential of mine.

"What?" I asked them innocently.

"N-Nothing, so Alma, are you alright with it?" Lenalee said.

"Sure, why not?" Alma replied, "Let's go now!"

And with that, we were pulled by Alma again. Just how strong is this girl?

:::: Later::::

"Why didn't you say that we were going to the mall?" asked Allen. We were wearing thick disguises. And it wasn't that cool in this mall. Hell even people stared at us in curiosity on why we wear these kind of clothes.

"Oh shut up Moyashi, this is way much better than being tied to a single chair with you two." Kanda snorted. Nice, that must've hurt.

"By the way, I, Lenalee and Maricar will go to the department store." Alma said and the boys opened their mouths to say something but Alma added something, "We're going shopping on the women's department."

I saw the three shudder and shiver.

"We also have something to talk about privately. Unless if you want to go shopping with us in a place where it's full of women and fan girls."

"No thanks, erm, we'll go tour the mall bye!" Lavi said in one breath. It's like he didn't even paused. Oh well, at least we have time for ourselves.

:::: Lavi's POV::::

That… was just too close.

The last time I went there was absolutely death-defying. After that, I swore to myself and rabbits that I will never go inside the women's department again.

"So where will we go now?" Allen asked.

"Che, I don't care about you two but I'm going somewhere." Yu said and he left. Now, what are we—I and Allen— supposed to do?

We then just decided to tour this Japanese mall. I sighed, this was boring. But like Yu said, this is much better than being tied to them in a chair. And this was certainly better than entering the women's department. I noticed something on his wrist.

"Hey Moyashi,"

"It's Allen. And what is it Lavi?"

"What's written on your bracelet? May I see?" I said.

He flushed and began to stutter, "N-Nothing. This is nothing Lavi. L-let's just go!"

I raised a brow at his reaction. Something is going on with him and I must find that out. I grabbed his wrist and yanked it upwards.

"AlLena?" I read it out loud. I then noticed that Moyashi turned red and grabbed his wrist back.

"It's a name but what does it mean?" I asked him.

"That's none pf your business Lavi!" He snapped at me. Oooh, looks like the moyahsi is hiding something. It could have something to do with Lenalee.

Yeah!

How couldn't I notice that? The name AlLena is the combined name of Allen and Lenalee. The 'All-'part is Allen's while the 'Lena' is Lenalee's. It's like what they used for shipping or couple stuffs.

"So there is something going on between you two!" I said and smirked, "You little liar!"

He immediately blushed.

"Lavi, stop it. You're too loud, people are staring at us!" He hissed at me, "They might notice us. If they noticed us, we'll surely get into trouble and Alma, Kanda, Maricar or Lenalee or all of them might scold us!"

People started whispering in Japanese language. Oh damn, this is so not good. I then heard an American reporter say:

"Hey! It's Allen and Lavi!"

How wonderful! *Eye twitches*

:::: Lenalee's POV::::

I and Maricar accompanied Alma in choosing her clothes. Alma was the only one talking throughout the shopping until she brought up a certain topic.

"By the way, I think Lavi and Allen have something for you two." She said. I immediately blushed and so did Maricar.

"What made you say that?" Maricar asked her. She shrugged.

"I judged it by the looks of their faces when they stare at you two. I'm pretty sure about it." Alma replied, "And when it comes to Allen's feelings for Lenalee. I doubt that he only thinks of her as an older sister or just a friend."

"But what makes you say I feel the same?" I asked her. She just laughed.

"It's really, really obvious Lenalee. So I am pretty sure you feel the same way." She answered.

I sighed. Nothing was going to happen if we argue with Alma. I mean Alma always have a comeback ready. She's going to do a great job being a lawyer.

We then saw a group of American girls huddled in a corner.

"Have you heard?"

"What?"

"The Black Order Band is here!"

"Oh really?" I heard a girl asked sarcastically.

"Yes! If you don't want to believe me then don't! But I am going to look for them!" A strawberry blond girl said and left. Her friends then followed her.

"Let's go. Yu must've left the other two. I sure hope Allen is with Lavi." Alma said. Maricar shot her a curious look.

"He has no sense of direction so let's go!"

With that, we were dragged out of the department store by Alma once again.

:::: Allen's POV::::

Who knew that this simple trip to the mall would make us run very fast just to avoid several reporters?

This was surely unexpected.

A while ago when we reached the men's bathroom, we saw Kanda leaning on a wall. No on seems to notice him in his disguise. But that didn't last long. After a while, a girl noticed him and screamed his name loudly.

"Your disguises suck." Bakanda commented, "If you're going to use a disguise next time try to hide your scar Moyashi and try to take off you eye patch Usagi."

"It's not like your disguise worked BaKanda!" I told him as we continue to run.

"Che."

"H-Hey stop it you two! Look! Look! It's Alma and the others!" Lavi yelled and pointed out. It is them!

"Hey Allen! Lavi! Yu!" Alma said smiling and then waved her hands at us. Her smile faded when she saw the ones behind us.

"Guys! Corner them quick!" A reporter said from the other side. They were behind Alma, Lenalee and Maricar.

"Run!" Lenalee shouted.

Of course, we ran. We then were separated from each other. I was stuck with Maricar. Lavi was stuck with Alma while Kanda was with Lenalee.

"You alright?" Maricar asked.

"Yeah, you?"

"Fine. Just fine. I knew it you guys shouldn't have come with us." She replied.

I rolled my eyes.

"Here, call Lenalee. I doubt you have her number. I'll keep on lookout. If you do the lookout, you'll get easily noticed." She then handed me her phone.

After a few ringing, she answered.

"Hello Maricar?"

"Hi Lenalee. It's Allen." I said.

"Allen? Are you okay and why do you have Maricar's phone?" I heard her asked at the other line.

"We'll tell you later and I'm fine. By the way, where are you and Kanda?"

"We're here at the Supermarket. How about you two? Where are you?" She asked. I then looked around.

"We're here at the topmost part of the mall. How about Lavi and Alma? Where are they?"

"I just called them. They're at the Food Court."

"Okay, I have a plan; tell Lavi and Alma we'll meet at the Parking Lot. 3rd floor." I told her.

"Okay, I'll meet you two there. Bye." Lenalee said.

"Bye." I replied. I was going to hang up when she interrupted.

"Be careful okay?"

"Of course, we will be. Be careful too. Bye." I said and hanged up.

I could feel a smile appear on my face. Lenalee, she's always sweet and caring. That's one thing I liked about her.

"Maricar, we'll go down on the 3rd floor. After that, let's go to the parking lot. We'll meet them there." I told her.

"Okay, coast is clear." She said and gestured to follow.

We took the elevator to avoid further notice. I managed to hide my hair in my hat while used Maricar used her compact powder on me (it had the same skin tone as mine) to hide my scar. It would only stay for a while but it's worth it.

I leaned on the glass window of the elevator and stared at the people coming in and out. I sure hope they won't notice me. Do you want to know why this hair color became permanent and how I got this scar?

I'll tell you….soon.

"Hey Moyashi, we're here." Maricar whispered and she successfully avoided being heard.

"It's—"

"Shut up!" she hissed, "If you're going to yell your name out loud they might know your identity! After that, it's 2012 for us!"

"True but calm down now. By the way, what level are we in?" I asked her and she dragged me out of the elevator.

"3rd floor, now we just need to go to the parking lo—"She didn't continue. Maricar paled and touched my left cheek. My eyes widened.

"W-What are you doing?" I asked her, bewildered by her actions.

"We really need to leave or else we'll be in big trouble!" she said and ran fast.

It's alright with me if she ran… It's just that *sniffs*

WHY DO I HAVE TO BE DRAGGED LIKE I WAS A SACK OF RICE?

:::: Later at Parking lot::::

"Che, what the hell took you so long? You called 5 minutes ago and you said you were at the 3rd floor! It took you 15 goddamn minutes to get here?" Kanda shouted at us. Our car started beeping.

We turned to see who it was.

"Hehe, sorry 'bout that."

Ugh, typical Lavi.

"By the way, Hans called." Alma said.

The car stopped beeping. I blinked several times. Lavi and Kanda mimicked me.

"Are you serious?" I asked her.

"Well, yeah. He called while you two were still inside. He said he's coming over." Alma replied.

"Come on, let's just go home now." Lavi said.

"It's not like you three still have a condo. Remember? Wrecked?" Maricar reminded us.

"We know but I sure hope we can get another." I heard Lavi say.

My phone rang and I looked at who it was. I froze and looked around. Who should I pass this phone to? Lavi? Kanda? I grinned and went to Lavi instead. Kanda is in a bad mood so I shouldn't really hand this over to him.

"Hey Lavi, answer this call for me will you?" I said.

"W-What? But it's your phone—"

"Thank you very much Lavi. Oh, and you do know how to answer this right?"

I heard him sigh. I smirked and covered my ears. They noticed me.

"Why are you doing that?"

"Nothing!" I replied and waited for Lavi to answer the phone.

He answered it and his eyes widened at the familiar male voice. I couldn't help but notice that he was stuttering.

"YOU THREE BETTER GO BACK TO THE CONDO UNIT RIGHT NOW!"

Ah, as I suspected it is Hans.

"Yes, yes, we will go there." Lavi said and flinched at the loudness of Hans' voice.

"Do it. Now." That was the last thing I heard from Hans before he hang up.

Alma sighed and hugged Kanda's arm and said, "I guess we have to go back. Hans is really, really angry now."

"Yeah, we should. Hop in guys." Lavi told us and got in the driver's seat. I smiled and then turned to Lenalee.

"Here I'll help you." I offered a hand.

"U-Uh, are you sure?"

I nodded, "Of course."

I then took her hand and gently pulled her in. She smiled. Oh god her smiles are the best ones I've ever seen in the whole world.

"Hey Allen, remember what Russell said?" Alma asked me.

"What is it?"

"You shouldn't do that when Lenalee is around. What I meant is that you shouldn't stare at her like that." She said and smirked.

"I-I wasn't!"

"Sure, still in denial aren't you Allen?" Maricar asked in a teasing voice.

Throughout the trip back home, I was blushing. They were all teasing me. How come I'm the only one being teased?

Ah, another chapter ended. I really hope this was worth your waiting. And sorry for the last update too. I really hope you like this chapter and BTW Chapter 203 of D. Gray-Man is out! I am so addicted to it right now!

I also have a favor to ask you please.

1st, please help me in my high school interview, I don't know anything about the questions they'll ask me so if any of you knows some question that'll be asked in the interview please tell me. It'll really help since my interview is on Feb. 19! Wish me luck!

2nd, I have lesser time to write more chapters since exams are near again. But I'll try to update as soon as possible!

3rd: I am absolutely annoyed! A facebook user named coffee shake crumble just insulted our section. And FYI I am part of that section! I really hate her/him! She/He joined our facebook group and then chatted with us after that she/he just insulted us! I hope her/his profile will get deleted! Please help me with it! I really, really hate her/him! Well, if I am in a bad mood, I lose ideas for this story,I hope you all understand!

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