The Greatest Moment Ruined by the Worst
Allen tapped his fingers impatiently on his book as he waited for Lavi to arrive. He had been reading for two hours since he had gotten home from school. He watched his two dogs run around the backyard and from time to time, they would take a drink and then continue their play.
Allen turned around in his chair so that he's not facing the door and started reading once again. The sliding door opened and he automatically assumed it was Fai, for he always comes out to scare or bother him. So he just disregarded whoever it was that opened the door until he saw red hair dangling next to him. Allen looked up and jumped in surprise and realized that it was Lavi, who was watching him read. He (Lavi) wasn't wearing his headband and that's why his hair dangled over his face a little.
"Well?" Lavi said as he opened his arms. Allen immediately jumped up and hugged Lavi to the ground.
Fai suddenly opened the sliding door to see what was going on.
"What are you two doing?" Fai asked with a grin, and his golden hair was flying in the wind. "Wouldn't you rather do that inside?" Fai laughed.
Allen gave Fai a cold hard stare and felt Lavi put his hands on his (Allen's) shoulders.
"Allen?" Lavi said as he smiled, "You're...still on me"
Allen felt himself grow hot with embarrassment and pushed himself off of Lavi. He gestured towards Lavi and moved his hands that said 'follow me' and they walked inside the house where it was cool.
As soon as they entered the house, a rush of cold air, which Lavi always complained about, consumed them. The house wasn't very clean, but it was clean enough for guests to be invited inside and to be comfortable.
Allen pushed Lavi into his room and kicked Fai out as usual. Allen closed the door behind him and turned to face Lavi.
His room was fairly clean, for his bed was made but there are many papers on the floor. They were obviously schoolwork, but some of them seemed to be small stories that Allen would write whenever he was bored.
"Lavi?" Allen said finally.
"Yes, Allen?"
"Do you...love me?" Allen seemed kind of nervous when he said this.
"Of course I love you!" Lavi
"...and...you would never leave me? Even if I died...would you still..." Allen couldn't finish his sentence and he looked a little scared. Lavi seemed a little confused about the sudden question but got up and walked over to Allen.
“I would never leave you”, Lavi said calmly, “and I would love you forever.”
They stared at each other for the longest moment, until Lavi walked a little closer to Allen and held up his arms as if to hug him. Allen did not rush to his arms this time. Even though his body desperately felt as if it yearned for the warmth of Lavi’s body against his.
“Although you may not leave me”, Allen started, “I may soon leave you…”
Lavi gave Allen a confused look.
“What are you talking about?”
“It’s not like I have a choice…I guess this is what is meant to be.” Allen started to cry and Lavi, who was still confused about all this, walked over to Allen and they embraced.
“Why don’t we go for a walk?” Lavi asked, “It’ll probably calm you down a little, at least.”
“Alright, but this time, we’ll go a little further than our usual route.”
Lavi sighed with relief that Allen had stopped crying and had agreed to take the walk. They walked through and out the front door, which was straight across from Allen’s room.
As the two of them walked, everything was silent except for a couple of dogs barking in the distance. They, too, were walking in silence, but Allen looked at Lavi as if he wanted to say something.
Lavi caught Allen’s nervous glance, “What is it?” he asked. Allen was silent, but continued to glance at him from time to time.
“There’s something that’s been bothering me”, Allen finally said, “I don’t know how to tell you, but I-I really need to tell you now because it’s important!”
“Allen, I need to tell you something too”, Lavi said as his hand slowly neared his pocket.
“No, let me go first”
“No, no! I will”
“Lavi, please!” Allen cried urgently.
“No, Allen. Please, I want to tell you something”, Lavi looked at Allen with such a passionate look that Allen just couldn’t say no to him again. “I’ve been waiting a long time for this moment, and since we’re alone, I feel as if I have to tell you now…” Lavi went down on one knee and pulled something out of his pocket. “Will you marry me?”
Finally, the question was out and as Lavi said those words, he opened a small blue velvet box that contained a ring. A ring that shined brightly in the sun and prisms of light reflected off of it onto the floor and their clothes.
“This truly means that I would never leave you, Allen”
“L-Lavi…! Of course! Of course I wi—”, Allen was cut-off because he seemed to be having pain.
“Allen?” Lavi got worried because Allen started to clutch his chest and looked as if he couldn’t breathe. Allen collapsed.
“Allen!!”
“Lavi…” Allen whispered, “this is what I…wanted…to tell…you…”
Lavi hushed Allen and started to stroke his hair. He then positioned Allen so that he was lying across his legs.
“I’m sorry…” Lavi said with tears, “I should’ve listened to you and let you tell me what you needed to say.”
“It’s alright…I’m glad…you proposed to me…before…this…” Allen’s vision slowly began to fade and he saw Lavi’s face as only a blur now. Death was slowly overcoming him. Just then, although he could not see him, Allen looked up at Lavi with dark, empty eyes and with his last breath, he uttered a small “I love you”, then he was gone forever.
“Allen? Allen?! Allen!!” Lavi cried and cried over Allen’s dead, limp body. Then he looked around hysterically and yelled as loud as he could “Somebody, please help me!!” Sadly, nobody could hear him.
Lavi held Allen, pleading that he would come back and say “Just kidding!” but he never did. He knew that once a life was gone, it would never come back.
Lavi stroked Allen’s silver hair and outlined his crimson-red scar on his face. As he did so, he still felt the warmth that was once there and the thought that he would never feel this warmth again made him have an agony of sadness.
“Allen…” Lavi gently kissed Allen on the cheek, “I love you too…”
* * * * * *
“Ah! Allen!” Lavi cried fearfully.
“What?! What is it, Lavi?” Allen ran into Lavi’s room in fear that something has happened.
It was all a dream? Lavi gazed at Allen with a look of surprise on his face.
“Allen? What are you doing here?”
Allen gave Lavi a bewildered look, “You asked me to sleep here with you tonight. You told me that you needed the company…”
“That’s right…” Lavi got up from his bed, walked over to Allen, hugged and held him as if he never wanted to let go. “Allen, please never leave me…!” Lavi then started to cry for one of the very few times Allen has seen this.
Allen was surprised to hear this, but wrapped his arms around Lavi and replied, “It’s usually me who asks to never be left...but”, Allen sighed, “I would never…in my life, leave your side because...I can't think of a life without...you.”
