Theme 5: Books

Possibly my favourite of all the ones I wrote. I wrote half of these themes two years ago, so the old ones will be marked (OLD) the new ones (NEW)

This one is (OLD).

The Black Order had a huge library. Filled with old books and scrolls, and towering shelves. Lenalee spent many hours of her off time in the library.

It wasn't really even that she liked reading that much, but in the maze of shelves, and forgotten corners, visited only occasionally by Bookman, she could spend hours in peace. Away from her brother, and the chaos of the science department.

If anyone did come looking for her, even if they got to the library, they never did find her, just too big of a space to cover and too small of attention spans to cover it all.

Today, Lenalee needed to escape. Her brother was on Komurin XXXI, and he still hadn't worked out all the kinks in the system. She couldn't handle it anymore.

Retreating to a far corner of the library she had a bit of an affinity for, she noticed a pile of books on the floor that hadn't been there during her last visit. She shrugged, too worn out to replace the books at that moment and simply crashed down on top of them.

A strangled scream had her jumping up franticly. Maybe she sat on Bookman! Or Lavi! Or the forever lost Miranda! She pulled the books out of the pile hurrying to unearth, um well..... whoever was burried under the old tomes. Finally, the distinct white hair of Allen Walker poked through.

"Allen-kun!" She said, surprised.

Soon, the rest of him burst through.

"Thank you, Lenalee." He panted. "You're brother was looking for me, so I came to hide in here. But I bumped the bookcase, and all the books fell on me. I couldn't get them off, so I took a nap."

He yawned and rubbed some of the sleep from his eyes, while Timcampy flew around his head, also glad to be free.

Lenalee giggled and fixed a loose lock of his hair.

"Well the threat is gone; I came here to relax after defeating Komurin XXXI."

"I can't believe he's still making those." Allen groaned. " Well, I'm hungry. I'm gonna head down to the cafeteria. Wanna come?" Lenalee shook her head.

"No, I'll relax here for a bit, like I came to." Allen nodded and slung his jacket over his shoulder.

"Alright, I'll see you later." Lenalee watched him go, and sighed.

That's when she noticed one book, it was at the bottom of the book pile, and one page was marked.

Curious, she picked it up.

"A Chinese dictionary?" She wondered out loud. She flipped to the book marked page, the guide phrase read

'Wu ai ne'.

Who would be looking up 'I love you' in Chinese? Lenalee put the book down, just as Allen came back around the corner.

"Forgot my book." He explained, grabbing the dictionary and leaving again.

Lenalee put two and two together, arrived at four, and blushed a deep scarlet.

"Oh Allen-kun." She sighed. "I do speak English." Then she began shelving the book mountain.

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Absolutely no planning went into this one, and so far, it's my favourite. Just because I don't think all drabbles have to be really serious or even overly romantic. I think a cute funny story works just as well. And usually, I don't do cute or funny to well. Please let me know what you think. Did I manage funny this time?

Also I'm a huge bibliophile. Tee hee

And, I wrote English, not Japanese, because,

a) The story is in English (duh)

b) Allen in actually British, and in the UK, they speak English. It bothered my editor, so just in case it bothered anyone else, there's my reasoning.

~The Kween