After the events of Azzurro, it got a bit more peaceful here at the manor. Well almost. Madame Red asked Ciel if her butler Grell could learn under Sebastian's teachings to become a better butler. It didn't sound too bad at first, but then I and probably everyone else, realized it was far worse than bad.

Like today for example. While Ciel sat down for his breakfast, Grell crashed in riding on the tea cart. He ended up knocking down the teapot causing the hot liquid to spill on Finny's shirt.

"Hot! Hot! Hot hot!" Finny yelped. Once Grell regained his senses he frantically grabbed a napkin to help, however he ended up removing the entire table cloth along with the food.

Aww, and I helped with that too.

"Master, why on Earth did you agree to take this useless igit", I heard Bard whisper to Ciel.

"You're one to talk Bard", Ciel said with a sigh, then placed his hand on his head (face-palming if you will) "It didn't seem like a bad idea. I thought Sebastian only would be affected by this. I didn't realize I would be affected too." I let out a sigh knowing that Ciel was right. Then I turned back to Grell seeing that the other servants are giving him intense glares, causing him to coware.

"I-I'm so sorry for causing you so much trouble", Grell apologized with his head bowed down; "I simply don't know how to apologize. Wait, that's it! The only thing I can do now is to die!" Grell pulled out a dagger and held it near his throat. This I had mixed feelings with. Sure I don't want him to kill himself, but then again it wouldn't be bad if he took a break...forever…

"Whoa calm down for a second!", Bard exclaimed.

"Um, should we take the knife away", Mey-rin asked, unsure what to do. Before we could do anything, Sebastian placed a calm hand on Grell's shoulder, causing him to lower his knife and look to Sebastian.

"There's no need for that", Sebastian stated, "Think of the horrible mess you would make. It would take hours to clean up all of the blood".

"Thank you Sebastian. How kind of you!"

I'm not sure if that was supposed to read as anything kind. Oh well. After that little outburst, Sebastian looked at the tea that Grell had made and frowned a little seeing it was made improperly.

"What I would like to know, is how you thought it was acceptable to serve the young master such weak tea", Sebastian stated. After he showed Grell the appropriate way to make tea, he gave it to Ciel who accepted it. When he took a sip, Ciel gave Sebastian a slight nod as a "thank you". "Master, it's almost time. I have the carriage out front".

"Fine", Ciel said as he put the teacup down. Then Sebastian turned to me, the other servants and Grell.

"As for the rest of you, I want this place spotless. Grell, just sit there and don't cause any unnecessary trouble" he told us and then turned to leave. He then turned back and looked to Grell and faked smiled at him. "Oh and if you do intend to seek your eternal rest, please see to it outside and try not to make too big of a mess". With that he and Ciel left, leaving me and the servants with the hopeless suicidal Grell.

Today is going to be a long day…

/

After Sebastian and Ciel went on their errand, the other servants and I, and also Grell did some chores. Well mostly me and the other servants, we decided not to let Grell touch anything for a bit. Once we were done with the inside, we began to do some yard work. And me being a nice guy, I decided to let Grell help out and cut some of the hedges, with supervision of course. While we were out here, I looked back to the manor and just admired its overall structure. It seemed so old, yet for some reason it didn't seem that old to me.

"Oh my, what a marvelous structure. It's aged so beautifully", I heard Grell say.

"Well the manor has only been here for three years", Bard explained blowing out some smoke from his cigarette. At first this surprised me, but then I realized that it was originally burned down so they probably rebuilt it.

"Odd, but it looks so aged", Grell said with confusion.

"That was the intention", said an unfamiliar voice. I turned and went wide eyed seeing that it was Tanaka who said it. And he looked different, less chibi looking and more humanesque. Tanaka; now full sized explained the reason to Grell with the additional information of the house burning down killing Ciel's parents.

"Oh dear, that's horrible", Grell said with a bit of sorrow. After that Tanaka reverted back to his little-chibi self, surprising Grell and also me. "Oh no!"

"Eh, don't worry. Tanaka has low stamina so he needs his rest", Bard told him. I nodded in confirmation, and then jumped a bit hearing Mey-rin scream. I turned to her and saw that she and Finny looked frightened as they pointed to the hedges Grell trimmed. It confused me until I looked to them. Skulls. They were all skulls!

Who in their bloody minds would trim hedges in the shape of skulls!? Honestly?! I started to regret letting Grell help seeing that he messed up the garden.

"Why are they all skulls?!" Bard exclaimed. Grell looked completely mortified and had a look in his eyes that I didn't like.

"Oh dear, I feel show ashamed! I should just die!", Grell said getting to a ladder and attempt to hang himself. Me and other servants went to go and stop him.

Can this day get any worse?!

/

"I'm sure you are tired, Young Master." Sebastian said as they approached the manor "I'll prepare tea for you immediately." The young earl and butler had just returned from buying a new cane. It was a tiring day, and Ciel wouldn't mind some peace and quiet. Once Sebastian opened the door, Ciel took a look inside and his body tensed and his eyes went wide eyed. "Young Master, what seems to be-" Before he could finish his sentence, the butler went into the same state of shock seeing what was inside. The manor was covered with girly decorations from ribbons to even glitter. In short, it would have appeared that all of the girliest girls ever had a party and decorated the Phantomhive Manor.

"My Mansion!" Ciel said with slight disgust.

"What happened to this place?" Sebastian asked "Why it's a disaster!". Then all of a sudden Finnie, Mey-Rin, and Bard came running in

"SEBASTIAN!"

"What is going on here? And why are you all dressed like lunatics?" Sebastian asked Bard noticing that he and Finny were dressed in silly outfits.

"It's that girl!" Bard said "She's crazy!" Both filled with confusion and curiosity, Ciel and his butler headed into the other room to see who this girl is. Upon entering they saw that Grell was hanging from the ceiling by a rope around his neck and was wearing two oversized orange bows.

"What are you doing you there?" Ciel asked Grell.

"I believe I am in the process of dying, Master Ciel." Grell choked out. Ciel let out a sigh of annoyance and then realized something. "Wait, where's Ben?"

"Over here…" Both turned to the voice and were a bit surprised of what they saw. They saw that Ben was still in his uniform, however his smaller navy bow-tie was replace with a brighter and larger one. He also had multiple blue bows in his hair alone with sparkles. Both butler and earl didn't know whether to laugh or ask. Ciel went with the later.

"What happened to you?"

"You'll find out soon enough…"

"My, you look rather adorable", Sebastian said with a slight chuckle. This earned him an annoyed look from Ben, but then he chuckled back.

"Oh don't get too smug, you'll get your gift. But for now we should get Grell down". They looked back to Grell and Ciel let out another sigh.

"Get him down, Sebastian." he ordered.

"Yes, sir." Sebastian said. Just before Sebastian could take Grell down, an orange blur glomped onto Ciel and let out an extremely high-pitched scream.

"Ciel! Ciel I missed you so much!"

"Elizabeth, you're hurting me!" Ciel gasped.

"Honestly it's just Lizzie." Elizabeth said. "Ciel, you are just the cutest thing ever, aren't you! I could just eat you up!" Elizabeth squealed as she continued to cuddle Ciel as if he was a puppy. After a while, the bubbly blonde released Ciel and turned to Sebastian.

"Lady Elizabeth, what a surprise." Sebastian said, with Grell off the rope.

"Hello Sebastian. Aw, how come you took him down?", Elizabeth said with a pout.

"He detracted from the beauty of the room."

"But I made such a lovely decoration out of him!"

"Decoration?" Sebastian asked.

"Yes!" Elizabeth said. "Just look at it all! Isn't the salon so cute now?"

"It so. . . . pink.", Ciel mumbled not liking the appearance.

"Now, only the cutest things belong in the Phantomhive Manor!" Elizabeth said with a huge smile on her face. "Oh and I almost forgot, I have something for you Sebastian". With that, she placed a bright pink bonnet with flowers on to the butler. "Since you're always wearing black I thought that you deserved some color". Sebastian didn't know how to react as he kept a blank expression. The other servants came into the room and snickered at the butler's appearance. Sebastian gave them a death glare causing them to stop immediately.

"Well I think you look adorable. Pink suits you", Ben said with a smirk on his face. Sebastian became even more annoyed, but chose not to show it in front of the small blonde.

"I am deeply honor that you would do such a thing to someone as humble as myself", the demon butler said with a fake smile, bowing to the little blonde.

"Happy to help".

"What are you doing here Elizabeth?" Ciel asked. "I'm sure your mother didn't let you come alone."

"I snuck away so I could see you Ciel!" she explained. "And call me Lizzie".

"Sebastian, who is that girl", Grell asked with slight curiosity.

"Yeah, when I asked her she said she was his cousin", Ben added.

"This is the daughter of the Marquess of Midford. Her full name is Lady Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford", Sebastian started, "Ben you were right about Elizabeth being the Young Master's cousin, but she is also his betrothed".

"Well that's nice...wait betrothed...to his cousin?"

"Master...Marrying...Her!?", the servants yelled with disbelief.

"Lady Elizabeth is the daughter of a Marquess. It's only natural for nobles to marry other nobles", Sebastian explained to them. Elizabeth seemed to be unaware of the conversation conversation as she admired at the work she did.

"Now that the manor is decorated, why don't we have a ball tonight?" Elizabeth grabbed Ciel's hand and looked to him with loving eyes "We could dance the night away. Isn't that a wonderful idea!" she asked.

"A ball? No! A ball is a terrible idea!", Ciel told her firmly. However, the blonde didn't seem to listen.

"You'll wear the clothes I picked out, won't you?" Elizabeth said.

"Elizabeth, listen when people are talking!" the boy exclaimed, but Elizabeth just took off, with Grell being dragged behind her.

/

So after Sebastian and I got out of our ridiculous accessories, we came into Ciel's office to bring in his snack and tea. I could tell that this ball thing was really annoying Ciel.

"I believe the best course of action is to go along with her plan." Sebastian said, pouring tea for Ciel, "I don't think she is going to listen to reason."

"Can't you just give her some tea and get her out of here?" Ciel asked with some annoyance when Sebastian gave him tea, "I don't have time for a stupid ball."

"My Lord, Lady Elizabeth would like a dance. It would be unwise to refuse her." Ciel was silent for a moment. It also looked like he was looking away from embarrassment.

Wait...can Ciel even dance?

"Master?" Sebastian asked.

"What now?" Ciel replied, much more annoyed.

"I've never seen you dance before, but I assume you can." Ciel didn't answer him but instead put a newspaper in front of his face.

So, he can't dance then...Oh boy…

"Well, I guess that explains why you are such a wallflower at social engagements." Sebastian said to him.

"I have too much work to do." Ciel said quickly, "I don't have time to waste on dancing." I could see that Sebastian didn't like his tone. He went up to his desk and took the newspaper from him. Ciel was about to object, but then he saw the seriousness on his face.

"With all due respect sir, dancing is a necessary skill someone in your position to have. In your line of work, social contracts must be maintained." Sebastian said slowly getting closer to Ciel's face, freaking him out. "The world expects any noble gentlemen to know the basics. If you turn down any more invitations simply because you cannot dance, your reputation in high society will suffer."

"Fine!" Ciel exclaimed "I'll do it. Just stop the lecture. Get me a private tutor, Mrs. Bright or Mrs. Rodkin will do." Sebastian looked at his pocket watch and looked deep in thought. Then he looked back to Ciel.

"I'm afraid there isn't sufficient time to call for a tutor. There is only one option," he said, putting his pocket-watch away "With your permission, I will be your dance instructor."

"Don't be ridiculous! I'm not going to take dancing instruction from a man!"

"Well, there is one other option". Both Ciel and Sebastian turned to me.

"What do you have in mind then", Sebastian asked. I stayed quiet before answering knowing it was a bit, unorthodox.

"Well...since Ciel is much shorter than you...and you and I are around the same height. I was thinking that we could dance as a demonstration" They were both surprised at my suggestion, but I could see that Ciel didn't seem to mind it.

"That doesn't sound too bad. I didn't know you could dance Ben", Ciel said with a hint of curiosity.

"Well when you live on the streets, you tend to learn a thing or two. Mainly about sneaking into fancy parties, but that's a different story", I told him rubbing the back of my neck. "So, Sebastian would it be alright?" Sebastian stayed quiet for a bit and then nodded to me and then we got into our positions. Since I'm slightly taller than Sebastian, I was the lead. We started to do a simple waltz with Sebastian pointing out little things that Ciel should know. As we danced, I had this odd sense that I've done this before...with someone else I mean. Someone...different. When I looked to Sebastian, I didn't see his face. Actually it was like his entire appearance had changed.

It was a woman. She had beautiful curves and her breasts were rather….large. But that didn't distract any of her beauty. Her skin was tanned to perfection and long lavender hair flowed down with so much grace. Though he face was a bit blurred, I could tell it was still a marvel to look at. The only thing that was visible were her lips. Her gentle, plump lips. They had purple lipstick, which complimented her skin tone. They were mesmerizing...yet familiar. I wonder how they taste? Without even a second, I leaned in and gently pressed my lips against them. They felt so soft….I want more… I gently placed my hands on both sides and deepened the kiss. I thought there was something pressing on my chest, but I ignored it….

"BEN!" Once I heard Ciel yell out to me, I was brought out of my trance and snapped my eyes open. But when I did, I wish I hadn't. I saw Sebastian's red eyed grew wide and I saw that they had so much panic and shock...two things that never happen to him. I quickly got off of him and took several steps back, my face filled with embarrassment and shame. I looked over to Ciel and say that he was either, disgusted, shocked or about to burst out into laughter. I looked back to Sebastian and I could tell that he was all flustered and there was a heavy tint of pink on his cheeks. I could even feel that my face was turning even a darker pink.

"I-I-I...um…." Before I could think of an explanation, I ran out of the room and bolted to my room as quick as humanly possible. Once I was in my room, I shut my door. I let out a groan as I slide to the floor, my back resting on the door. I still can't believe it. I kissed Sebastian. I fucking kissed Sebastian! What the Hell is wrong with me!?

Why did I have to remember something like that with Sebastian? I rested my head on my arms as I let out a sigh. But as I thought about it, it sort of wasn't as bad. I saw my sack in the corner of the room and went to it. I opened it and took out my locket and opened it. The hair, the skin, the body...it was all the same. But the face is still unfamiliar to me. However, I couldn't help but smile. I know that this woman is important to me, and I know somewhere deep down I have feelings for her. Hey I kissed Sebastian thinking it was her. I chuckled a bit at the thought; man I'm going to have to explain this to him. But I can do that later, I just need some alone time.

/

After a few hours I decided to go back. I still felt a bit embarrassed, but I have to be an adult. As I walked towards the parlor I heard some shouting.

"Give that back!" I quickened my pace when I recognized it as Ciel's.

Lady Elizabeth probably pushed him too far, I thought to myself. I just hope Ciel doesn't do anything stupid. As approached the door, the shouting stopped and I began to hear music playing and laughter. I cautiously walked to the doors and opened them. To my surprise there was an orchestra and Sebastian was playing a violin with Grell singing along. I saw that Ciel was dancing with Lizzie and they both looked so happy. Everyone looked like they were having fun and I smiled. I've never seen everyone with so much positivity. Sebastian looked at me and he moved his head to the side, he was pointing to the window. I raised an eyebrow and he mouthed out, 'Go outside. Pick up broken pieces. Under window.' I wondered what he meant by broken pieces and I just nodded. I snuck out of the house, not wanting to disturb the fun and I searched around the ground looking for what Sebastian wanted me to find. After a while I saw there was broken pieces of silver and blue shards near some bushes. It looked familiar and I realized it was Ciel's ring. I knew that the ring was important to Ciel, it being a family heirloom after all. One by one the pieces fell into the palm of my hands as I picked them up. I looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was setting. I hadn't realized that I was in my room for that long. Oh well. I went back inside the manor and saw that the music was still playing, and Ciel looked ready to pass out from all the exercise. Yet he continued to dance. Even though he might not show it, Lizzie is important to him. I signaled to Sebastian and gave him a thumbs up. He smiled and continued to play the violin. I smiled back and decided to go back to my room.

/

Night had come quickly as I sat on my bed. I was reading an old book I found, The Grimm Fairy Tales it was called. It was an interesting read, but it was also somewhat dark. I was on the Tale of The Little Mermaid, and before I could continue there was a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" I asked

"It's me". I stiffened a bit hearing it was Sebastian. I guess I'm still embarrassed about what happened earlier.

Maybe he's here to talk about it? Well I guess we should… "C-Come in". Sebastian entered and made his way and sat on the edge of my bed. I could tell that he was still a bit flustered, but then again so was I. I sat up straight and next to Sebastian. We were quiet and then I broke the silence. "I-I'm sorry". Sebastian was surprised and turned to me.

"What"

"I said I was sorry", I repeated, "I didn't mean to kiss you back then...well maybe I did, but I-I was stuck in a memory...anyway. What I did was inappropriate and disgraceful. And I also humiliated you in front of Ciel and for that I am very sorry". I saw that he was at a loss of words. Then he started to chuckle. What the Hell man?! I mean I know you're a demon, but have a heart when I'm like this!

"I'm sorry, but...it's amusing that you're apologizing that you had no control of."

What?

"Ben I know that you didn't mean to do what you did and I'm not angry", he told me honestly. I let out a sigh of relief hearing this.

"Oh thank goodness, I feel so much better", I said letting out another sigh. Sebastian chuckled a bit more and then continued to speak.

"I'm glad you do. I hope you don't mind me asking, but what did you envision when you kissed me". I thought for a moment before answering.

"Well...she had long lavender hair, beautiful tanned skin. A body that would make the goddess Aphrodite jealous", I began a smile on my face, "her face was a bit blurred, but her lips…." I wanted to continue, but I saw a look in Sebastian's eyes saying that he didn't me to continue.

What's with that look? He asked me to tell him.

"Was that all", he said with a hint of...envy… I also saw that his hands balled into tight fists on his pants.

Why is he like this?

"Um...yeah that was all…" We both stayed quiet for a while and the Sebastian stood back up.

"Well I should prepare for tomorrow", he said as he began to leave. I nodded to him and lay back in my bed. Once he was gone I went back to my book, trying to make sense of why Sebastian was acting like that.