Situation

Chapter 2: Showers, Market, and lollipops

     After I eat my normal breakfast down in the cafeteria, I head to the market. I'm nearly at the huge doors when I hear Lenalee call, "Allen wait up!" I quickly pop out the headphones and stuff them inside my coat pocket. I turn to see the pigtailed girl running to me, a cute smile spread across her face. "Where are you going?" She questioned when she finally caught up. "The market. I have to grab a few things." She giggled a little and nodded, "mind if I tag along? I need a few hair things and we haven't seen each other in ages!"

I smiled, "I'd love that, plus this will give us time for you to help me with our little plan." Lenalee knows about my crush on Kanda, and since she is his closest friend, ( well the only friend that doesn't annoy him the most. Stupid Usagi.), she asks him innocent questions here and there to find out more information about his interests for me. I never had any time to put together anything myself, like if he noticed my muscles while training, or if he preferred a certain smell over another. Then we started plotting when she found out how bad my crush really was. He apparently has a weakness in coconut smells, even if he doesn't say anything I know he will notice due to that stupidly keen nose of his. It wasn't long before I realized I was staring off into space and she was studying my face in curiosity trying to decipher what I was thinking. She opened her mouth but then closed it as she smiled and I opened the doors to the Order for her, trailing out behind her. Using her dark boots we floated down to each piece of land cascading down, me holding onto her waist gently, until we were firmly on the ground. The air hitting my face felt refreshing and the sun was still rising, we would thankfully have a peaceful walk, "well let's go silly!" She laughed lightly and I let her go, walking beside her and we set off on our own little personal mission.

We were quiet for a little bit until I caved first. "So, our room has bunk beds right," she nodded turning to look at me, "well when I decided to take top bunk he actually asked me, in this exact way, 'Who said you get to be on top?' " I could feel my face turning red as I put my head in my hands. She squealed, yaoi fangirl fetish was spewing from her like water from a faucet, "This is a great sign! Did he do anything afterward?" My face had to be the color of blood at this point, "Um no, but he was shirtless and running his fingers through his hair. Oh, and he had a smirk on his face." Another squeal erupted from the small-framed girl, "Kanda plays with his hair when he's nervous, I know that for a fact." I looked at her a little confused but not wanting to question her too much, "Why?" she shrugged "it's a girl's intuition, also a long hair thing. He does it a lot when you aren't looking." I smile to myself, happy that this may mean in some sense he may feel the same way I do.

"We're here!" Lenalee grins, leading us around some of the smaller shops. "It's time for a makeover." "What?" She shakes her head, "just listen to me for once." We walk to a small shop with some body care items. "First up we can get you some face scrub, this one looks good." she picks up some herbal face scrub and throws it into a bag that she has managed to materialize without me noticing. "I don't have acne though.." She shakes her head, "But your face is grainy so we need to help smooth it out." Well at least she's honest I feel her jerk my arm as we continue our trip around the shop. "Hawaiin, Paradise, or Lavender?" I look at her like she is crazy until I look down and see she is comparing deodorants. I subtly lean down and sniff myself, but I don't smell bad, why am I having to pick something new out? I guess she sees me staring and answers my question, "We have to shake things up. Let him pick up something new, now which one!" "Ummm.. something a little less girly" I laugh and rub the back of my head. She huffs and throws lavender in the bag for her and throws something in the bag for me, I briefly catch a glimpse of the container it was something like "Oak woods." She moves on without me and I see her throw some coconut shampoo and conditioner in her bag as well.

"Hello, Earth to Allen?" She waves a hand in front of my face snapping me out of my daydream. "What?" I ask, blushing slightly. She is giggling holding up a few blue shirts, obviously from a few shops down. "I asked if you have a preference." "It has to be long sleeves!" I spurt out trying not to rush but failing horribly. She eyes me warily but says nothing. As she continues to browse clothing, I take some time to explore. I pick up some treats for Timcampy, wondering how he has managed to make thus far with all the felines munching on him and laughing to myself. He fails to amaze me. As I am wandering around, I stumble past a candy shop and spot some caramel apple-flavored lollipops. My biggest weakness is sweets, well food in general, but sweets here recently, so I grab whatever supply the owner had left and went back to Lenalee, dumping my shopping treasures into the bag, almost knocking her over. She eyes me, and I grin sheepishly "I like lollipops," she giggled, " I noticed." As we continued to walk around a wicked grin crossed her face, I realized what she was thinking and it terrified me a little. Was she crazy? On one hand, this could be the way to make Kanda snap and confess his feelings, but it could also go terribly wrong and be a death sentence. I shiver, this will be very interesting.