Edited, I'm sorry for the first shitty update D,x I was in too much of a hurry to finish to forget to send it to my beta and have her read it first. I'm so sorry!

For those who already read it, not much has changed. A few things were added, but not important enough to really re-read. :3

Not this again… but this time, there was a red orb floating around me, almost as if it was… giddy. I frowned at it, wanting to smack it away from me. It was growing uncomfortably close to my skin, and for some reason or another, I knew it would burn if it touched it. How I knew was a mystery.

Instinct told me to run, that it meant some serious harm to my health, but a sharp pain in my abdomen kept me from moving. I let out a silent yelp, any and all noise being drowned out in this oblivion. When I looked for the red orb again, it was nowhere to be seen, but something in the back of my mind told me it wasn't a good thing.

Then, suddenly, a shot of fire coursed through my body.

~'~'~

"You know, Allen, you really missed out on a lot." A voice filled the quiet room, leaving a dead silence that followed it. "… Little buddy?" The lights flickered on, leaving Lavi in a curious wonder as to where his smaller friend had gone. The room was vacant from any life besides his own, and it wasn't until the redhead heard the feint clap of fabric in the wind that he got the small idea of where Allen could possibly be. "Now why would you be out there…"

Ever so quietly, Lavi sneaked over to the opened balcony, his eye flickering from the shadowed moon to the deck. He was glad that he was sober for this, because what he saw in front of him made his heart stop. And if he wasn't sober, he would have pounced right then and there. In front of him, laid his little angel in peaceful sleep… wait, his? Whatever, it was his own mind; no one else could judge him for calling Allen his.

"What… are you doing?" a soft murmur escaped Allen's lips, one eye peaking open to catch Lavi snapping a quick picture with the camera on his phone. The tired boy was still too far gone in dream land to really notice what was going on and Lavi took advantage of that, not feeling a single bit guilty.

With a sheepish smile, the photographer-to-be snapped a few more pictures before moving to Allen's side. "Nothing, nothing." He whispered while taking a seat on the floor next to the chair Allen had dozed off on. He wrapped his arms around his legs, lifting his head to the sky and taking in the serene moment. Given that it was cold out, his body still felt plenty warm on the inside. It could have been for the few shots he took, but he didn't suspect it.

It was nice, the air was crisp, not so much as 'fresh' like it would be out in the country, but it was still nice. There wasn't much noise, besides the few cars passing below and the soft howl of the wind through the glass. Then there was Allen's gentle breathing, even and measured to a light slumber. How his ice pink lips were just slightly parted to allow the cold air in and leave warm.

A green eye turned to the boy beside it when he heard movement coming from there. "Lavi?"

"Hmm?" The said male turned his full attention to the caller, allowing his gaze to wander the thin form in front of him. Sometimes looking at Allen made Lavi wonder if he was eating properly. He was so small and thin, but he had to remind himself what was under the shirt. Allen had muscle, not enough to be an ace at any particular sports team, but enough to have someone like Lavi question their eating habits when a shirt covered them. Then for the fast that he had witnessed his eating habits first hand, a very terrifying thing to see for Lavi's last, innocent eye.

Allen left a long pause with his question, silver eyes staring at the stars above them. It was a clear night, except only two stars showed themselves. The city lights masked the rest, leaving the brightest to shine alone. "Have you ever seen a shooting star?"

A confused eye stared at Allen; however the boy was oblivious of the peer, keeping his attention on the two lone stars in the dark sky. After realizing that Allen was waiting for an answer, the redhead gave a simple "no."

"Oh." Silence drew on, leaving Lavi to guess that Allen was expecting a different answer. A full three minutes passed before either of them spoke again. "When I was little, I used to stare at a single star and wait for it to move. I never thought about what I'd wish for, though…" he trailed off, tilting his head to the side so he could see his companion next to him. They locked eyes for a moment before Lavi looked away, uncomfortable with how distant the silver pools looked.

"The old panda always told me to 'never indulge myself in such foolishness.' So, I never really looked." He only shrugged, allowing his mind to wander. Lavi could imagine a little, white haired boy staring up at the sky through a window at night when he should be sleeping, watching a singular star, waiting for it to move but never to know that its forever locked in place.

Shifting drew Lavi's attention back to reality; looking up just in time to see Allen stand up and stretch his arms out in front of himself. "I'm kinda hungry…" acute ears barley caught the murmur, but nothing was said further.

"Hey, Allen? Why did you deny Daisya's first confession?" The question just slipped from his lips without thought, leaving Lavi cursing at himself at his stupidity. Allen stood stock still, his eyes casted downward. The idiot just hardly caught the slight flinch from the boy, causing him to back track. "Ah-you don't have to answer that, sorry." At some point Lavi had stood up and he was now scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment.

Allen shook his head, looking up at Lavi with a heartbreakingly forced smile. "No, you have every right to be curious."

Oh, Allen, don't give me that look. It hurts to see it.

"But, I still shouldn't have asked. I'm sorry. Wasn't thinking." Before the conversation could get any more awkward, Lavi moved around the chair and draped an arm over Allen's shoulders. "Come on, you said you were hungry. Let's order some room service!" He gave his signature grin as he dragged the smaller male back into the much warmer hotel room.

Mentioning food was Allen's trigger. "That sounds like a wonderful idea!"

"Any idea with food is a wonderful idea to you." Lavi laughed, shaking his head and letting his arm fall from Allen as he searched for the menu. Low and behold, Allen already had it in his hands, greedily looking it up and down as if it were a piece of meat that he could devour.

If this were some anime, Lavi would be sweat dropping.

Once the insanely large order was placed, the duo sat on Lavi's bed. Allen idly flipped through the channels, looking for something that could catch his interest. Eventually he just left it on some random channel, using the TV as a noise filler.

A single, green eye looked up from the upside down bible that was being read. Lavi had found it in the night stand, and seeing as he couldn't find anything else to do with his time, he decided to practice his upside down reading skills. Placing the bible on the night stand beside him, Lavi lifted a brow at the choice of show. "I wouldn't take you for the Spanish Drama kind."

Allen flopped backwards onto the bed, his arms spread out on either side of him. "I'm not, but it's funny to sub what they're saying yourself." Grey eyes looked back at the TV, "You can't hide dinosaurs in the oven, Paublito! It's against all moral ideals!" A high pitched, obnoxiously fake Spanish accent left Allen's mouth in time with whatever the female on the screen was saying.

There was a long pause in the room, the only thing that could be heard was the voices coming from the TV and comically put dramatic music.

Another moment passed.

Then laughter filled the expensive room, leaving the two males hugging their stomachs on the bed and tears in their eyes. "O-oh my god, Allen…" the redhead gasped out, "n-never use… use that vo-voice ag-g-ain." Lavi wiped at a tear that was running from his eye. He watched Allen with mirth, finding it all too precious that the younger of the two could make such voices.

With a light hearted atmosphere in the air, the two males laid back on the bed on their backs, side to side and staring at the ceiling. "I think I like my Mexican voice…"Allen muttered, getting a questioning look from Lavi. "¿Qué?" the snow capped boy feigned innocence, blinking his silver eyes in the most endearing way.

A grin eye flickered away, covering the abashed motion with a frustrated sigh. "Allen Walker. Or should I call you Roberto Enrique Montoya -Julio Ruiz?" A smirk pulled at Lavi's lips, poking fun at the wanna-be Hispanic boy. "You'll defiantly be the whitest 'spic I've ever met."

There was a long silence with silver eyes bearing into a single green one with disdain. Lavi blinked, clearly confused with the irritation Allen was showing.

"W-what?"

Allen let a second pass before he spoke. "Don't use racial slurs like that, its offensive to the culture."

"You're the one that started it when you called your Hispanic accent Mexican!" Lavi threw out in his defense, holding up both his hands in front of him.

"Yeah, but I didn't call them a…" Allen didn't want to say the word, he felt bad doing so. It was the same as calling someone a "nigga," even if was the same as calling someone "dude" or "bro" nowadays. He just found it too awkward, and when he first saw a black male call his equally black friend "nigga," he was lost for words. To him, any racial slurs were offensive.

End of discussion.

But the redhead found the males inability to say the one syllable word to be quite hilarious, and he wasn't afraid to show it.

Red darkened Allen's cheeks as he came to the realization that he was being laughed at, and he quickly swatted at Lavi's arm in farel attempts to get the trouble maker to stop the humiliation.

"Lavi!" Allen whined, yet again smacking said male's arm but in fruitless endeavor. At the sound of the whine, Lavi had only laughed even harder, bringing him to euphoric tears in the process. Soft pink lips pouted and silver eyes casted down. What was before Lavi was a heartbreaking picture; his kitten looked close to tears- and not the happy ones that he held in his eyes.

"A-Allen?" Laughter had immediately ceased when Lavi caught eye of Allen's state. "Oh, god, Allen. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean-please don't cry! Oh god, oh god, oh god." In the fret, Lavi had pulled Allen into his arms and started stroking the soft, snowy locks of hair. "Shh…"

"… Lavi?"

"Yes…?"

"Let go. You're smothering me." He gave a pause in thought, "and being ridiculous."

When Lavi let go, the pout that Allen saw on his face was priceless and completely childish. He didn't know if he wanted to hug the 'hurt' boy or laugh in his face. Finding it the safest way to go, Allen hugged Lavi, letting out a soft sigh as he rested his head on the hard but warm chest.

"You know something?"

"Hmm?"

"You're such a child."

"I've been told." A nose was nuzzled into the white locks of hair, taking in the mixed scent of fruits and spice. The taller male made a pleasured sound as he exhaled, clearly loving what he could smell on the boy in his arms.

His heart raced in his chest throughout the whole exchange. No matter how calming it felt, he was still excited by how Lavi held him so dearly, like a lover would his beloved. Only if…

All thoughts were ended when a rap came at the door, causing the two peaceful men to jump faintly in surprise. "Coming!" A husk voice called out before they began to untangle themselves. For a fleeting moment, Allen could have sworn Lavi was about to kiss him, but the emerald eye diverted itself from his lips and made its way to the door.

The exchange of money and food was quick and easy. Soon enough, steaming food was scattered around the floor in its individual plates. Everything that Allen had ordered hadn't fit on the small table by the balcony so the pair had decided to make the floor the New Table.

Allen claimed the meal to be the best he ever had, but then again, he said that about anything he ate (besides the tofurky burgers cooked by Fou; he had never in his life had to chuck up a meal until that day.) Allen almost lost his appetite at the thought, but in the end his grumbling stomach still won out.

Once the food was devoured and gone, Allen leaned back and patted his stomach. "I'm still hungry…" It was an idle comment, nothing more than a thought said aloud. Taking a glance to the side, the 18 year old blinked in curiosity. Why is he staring at me like that?

"You ate all of your food and half of mine! You can't possibly be hungry." A low grumble emerged from Allen's stomach, answering for the small male who gave a triumphant smile. Lavi groaned, rolling his eyes at the bizarre white haired Allen. "Where the hell do you put all that? It's against the Laws of Physics!"

With a shrug, Allen sat up properly and looked down at Lavi. His arm was over his forehead and his eyes casted up at the ceiling. "I guess my cursed arm just sucks it all up." He joked in a monotone voice. The red head visibly shivered, causing the boy to divert his attention to his friend next to him.

"Don't say that." He was distraught, his single eye flickering around the room like he was expecting something to go flying at them at any point in time.

"I was only joking-"

"But still, that's some creepy shit. Curses come from demons. Demons haunt people, ghosts haunt people." He shivered again, covering his eyes with his hand. "If there is a demon chillen' around you, we so aren't friends anymore."

Allen wasn't sure if he was supposed to be hurt or not. What if he was actually cursed? Did their friendship mean that little that a curse would drive them apart? It's not like he wasn't used to things like that, he had lost plenty of friends in the past over stupid things. It might not be stupid to him. A voice echoed in his head, making him inwardly sigh. He decided to push on with a joke, turning his head to the side so Lavi was in full view, but hiding his mouth behind a hand. "Code Red, subject Lavi is catching on." He whispered to no one, making sure he was loud enough for said eye patched male to hear.

Who in turn whipped the hand off his face, shot his eye open and cleared it to the other side of the room while chanting "No, no-no-no, noooo, no-no" the whole way. He didn't stop until he was hiding behind the dresser that only covered half of him from Allen's view point, making it all the more amusing for the British male. "You're fucking psycho. This relationship," Lavi gestured between them, "yeah, it's over."

While all of this was happening, a particular 'cursed' boy was curled in to himself, laughing his ass off and choking for breath. "Oh, my, gawd. Lavi. Are you 'fraid of ghosts?"

Lavi shot Allen a dark look that would make Kanda proud, "Who the hell wouldn't be? They can watch you poop for Pete's sake!" That only made Allen laugh harder; Lavi couldn't be serious. Ghosts, out of all things?

The almighty Lavi was afraid of ghosts.

This was gold, and he was never going to live it down.

At one point in the laughing fit, Lavi had gotten out of his hiding spot and moved over to where Allen laid in the fetal position on the floor. When Allen cracked an eye open, he saw a single green one too close for comfort and being scared for his life, the previously laughing boy rolled away and slid up into a sitting position against the bed. He kept a wary gaze on Lavi who stared back with the same, Kanda Approved glare. "It's not funny. That's some scary shit, Allen." He was frighteningly serious, and Allen would agree with him full-heartedly if it weren't for the fact that demons were just not real. If they were, it'd be a totally different story.

"O-ok, Lavi…" Silver eyes drifted to the side, not wanting to provoke the menacing dog that was Lavi Bookman. His eyes flickered to Lavi and back again while she slowly picked himself up. "I'm gonna go to the vending machine." He muttered slowly and carefully. As if nothing had happened, all the tense air lifted and Lavi was grinning like an idiot all over again. Speak of bipolar…

"Alright!" The crazed male chirped, "Get me some Cheese Thingies." A sound of Lavi falling back was heard and Allen brought his bewildered gaze onto him. He should really get that checked out and see if he in fact is bipolar, in Allen's opinion.

"'Cheese Thingies'?" The two words were question enough for Lavi to understand.

He shrugged, making hand motions in attempts to explain what it looked like. "Ya'know, they're like… super cheesy. And kinda look like funnels?" It was almost funny how serious the male turned in the split seconds.

Allen's lips made an 'oh,' signaling he understood what Mr. Bipolar was talking about. "I know what you're talking about. 'Kay."

That was beyond strange. Allen thought, seriously, that guy needs to get that checked out. I was only joking about him being afraid of ghosts and he went all voodoo on me. He sighed, running his hand through his hair. Maybe he should get new friends, which might be it.

Opening his eyes, Allen's gaze fell on Lenalee and Miranda's room. He tilted his head slightly, trying to get a better look at the door. Squinting, he realized that it was faintly ajar and the door lock was keeping it from closing. Walking up to it he pushed it open, fixing the problem as he did it. He walked farther into the dark room in innocent attempts to inform the girl to be more careful.

"Hey, Lenalee, your door was-"

You all have the right to kill me, now you can get in a line…

A special thanks goes to SoulEaterFanEvans for pushing the subject of my much needed update.

Now time for my serious apologies. I am soooo fucking sorry! I've been beyond busy with school, the holidays and life in general. Right now, I'm writing this at 3 in the morning and I'm like "HUZZA!... Wakawakawakawakawaka."

On another note, I snowboarded today. Ok, I didn't really snowboard. I more of fell on my ass and/or face every 10 feet. People on the lift actually started clapping for me. I'm pathetic, I know. But I now know how to gracefully fall (which was my way of stopping, 'cause, ya'know, my instructor just helpfully forgot to teach my pathetic ass how to stop. But you guys can now expect either a chapter of them snowboarding or a random one-shot.

Thank you's go to blueeyedcorpse, Kitsune867, Booklover2526, Kinkylittlewolf, Kiari Walker, Pisces95, and SoulEaterEvansFan for reviewing!