A/N: Yay for another chapter! :D Thank you to The Moyashi Beansprout Midget, Storm VII, Lena-luvs-cats, jy24, and Takei Daloui for being wonderful and amazing and reviewing! :D I love you! Now please enjoy! n_n
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Chapter 20
Time Frame — Noon of February 8th, 1896
—3rd Person POV—
~Allen~
The white-haired teen swiftly took a hold of her hand and tugged her away from the busy corridors and out onto the campus grounds.
"Wait! Allen, what's going on?" Lenalee tugged him to a stop near the entrance of the main building. Her face was still a bit red, but her curiosity now outweighed her embarrassment. "Well?"
Allen paused, and then shrugged sheepishly, "I guess here seems a good place as any." With that, he plopped down on the steps leading up to the entrance, and fortunately, Lenalee joined him, eyeing him curiously. "Sorry about that," Allen said, smiling at her, "Didn't mean to just drag you out, but I need your help. I'm worried about Road."
Her eyebrows rose, and she asked, "Wait. You made me confess that I like you so that I could help you with Road? I'm sorry Allen, but you are terrible at this."
Allen's eyes widened, and his cheeks grew red with embarrassment. "Um, wow, that is not how I meant to come across at all, Lenalee! I am so sorry! I've just been worried about Road, and then Daisya comes along with rumors about you liking me, which made me happy, because I like you too, but then he brought up the fact that Road might also like me too, which worried me, because she's already so unstable and how upset do you think she'll be if she knows I like you, and—"
"Whoa there!" Lenalee interrupted him, placing her hands atop his shoulders and bringing his babbling to halt. "It's okay Allen, I was just teasing you. And quit it with the word vomit; I can understand you much better when you take breaths in between your sentences." She smiled sweetly at him. "And I think it's very nice that you want to help Road. I was talking with her the other night, after you left the library. She's just been having a bit of trouble with the other students, and she's feeling very homesick. In fact, I think there's someone back home that she cares very much about, if you know what I mean," Lenalee giggled.
He gaped at her for a moment, before smiling in relief. "Really, how do you know?"
"Woman's intuition!" she declared. "Actually, I think that's why she got attached to you of all people. She says you remind her a little of him. Mentioned that when she found you in the hallway, you appeared as lost he gets whenever they're somewhere crowded. You should have listened to her talk about him; she got all animated! It was really cute!"
"That's a relief," Allen sighed, slumping forward and resting his head against her shoulder. "But really, I'm sorry if that was little too straight forward. I've never actually done anything like this before…"
He could feel her laughter as her shoulders shook. "Yes, I noticed. But come on, you've never really liked a girl before?"
"Well, um," his face grew red once more, "No, not really. With Cross' constant traveling, it's not like I ever paused to look at any. But then I came here, and met you, and you were all pretty and nice and—"
"Okay, okay, I get it," Lenalee interrupted, her cheeks turning pink. "But… you do know we can't tell anyone else about this, right? Komui would slaughter you!"
Allen cringed and pulled away. "Please don't remind me! No offense Lenalee, but your brother's kind of a nightmare…"
"You don't need to tell me twice," Lenalee shook her head with a small laugh. "I love him very much, but sometimes I wish he wouldn't be so overbearing."
"Sometimes?"
Lenalee rolled her eyes and bumped shoulders with him. "Don't push it!" The broke into a small laugh, and she then said, "But really, Allen, I'm not joking. I mean, thankfully Brother lives up in Headquarters and he's so busy avoiding paperwork and trying to built his inventions while evading Reever who constantly nags at him about doing paperwork, that he comes down to visit me about once a week. He'd probably try more often but Reever grounded him."
"What is he, his mother?" Allen snorted.
Lenalee chuckled. "Basically. It probably helps that I visit him myself though, so he's not as tempted to escape. But hey, as long as you stay far away from the girl's dormitory, and we avoid each other on Saturdays, I think we could make this work!"
Allen smiled, suddenly feeling a little shy. "Really? You think?"
"Yes!" Lenalee nodded, grinning widely. "I want to go on a date! I've never been on one of those before…" she smiled sheepishly.
Before he could lose his confidence, Allen took her hand in his. "I think that can be arranged."
A/N: Squeeeeeeeee! Aren't they just the cutest?! They're so freaking adorable and I just want to take them both and hug them and be happy! :D Now I'm really happy I decided to write this! I've never written a romance fic before, so I was pretty apprehensive about doing so, but now I'm glad I did because this is just so cute!
I foresee this having, maybe another 14 chapters? Yep, I think that might be good. Maybe another 10 chapters at the least, since we still need to answer the questions about Allen's past!(; So yeah, not really a long story, but I hope you've liked it so far! :D Please review~!