Capítulo 7: Chapter 7:Rivalz
Koneko grabbed his hand began to lead him away from the store. "Come on, we have to meet the President.
" Koneko changed the subject and dragged Lelouch towards the school. "We should get there soon." Lelouch followed her easily enough, but he noticed she didn't let go of his hand.
Maybe there was someone in this world he could try to consider a friend after all. He hoped this friendship turned out better than the last.
Lelouch sighed deeply as he made himself comfortable on the leather couch in the club room of the Occult Research Club.
His eyes didn't seem to need to adjust to the darkness anymore, he had also noticed the sunlight was bothering him during his and Koneko's little trip.
He leaned back, tossing his right arm over the back of the couch and crossed his right leg over his left. Lelouch closed his eyes, smelling the incense and candles.
Despite the differences, he enjoyed this. Sitting in a club room in a high school, now that brought back some memories.
He wondered how Rivalz and Milly turned out, having never been able to find out if Rivalz had told the flighty girl how he felt about her.
When he had enrolled a few months ago into the Academy, against his will since he really hadn't wanted to return to school and had to be forced with the threat of getting arrested for truancy to make him sign up in the first place, he had made it a point to avoid getting involved in any clubs.
Despite his good grades which had netted him many offers, he refused because he didn't want to get involved.
Come to think of it, one of the few groups that hadn't sent him an offer was the ORC. That just gave more credence to his theory that it was a cover to allow Rias' Peerage, as Koneko had put it, to meet without issue since at least three members of said Peerage were students.
He didn't include himself quite yet and he didn't know the name Akeno enough to know whether she was a student or not.
Koneko sat down next to him eating some of the sweets she had made him purchase on the way. After they had stopped by the rubble that had once been his house so he could pick up his wallet, which had miraculously survived as he'd discovered when he found it in the remains of his nightstand's drawer, he bought her some chocolates from a street vendor.
His phone had been toast though which annoyed him since they were pretty damn expensive and he'd been determined to make that thing last.
Once he'd had his wallet he withdrew enough cash to pay Koneko back for her generosity, but she refused the extra he'd tried to give her in return for the hoodie saying "It's a gift, you shouldn't pay for your own gift.
" He let it drop after that, but he made a mental note to get Koneko something nice in return.
Other than sweets of course, with the white-haired girl those were less a gift more a promise he had to keep if he didn't want her begging him every day.
"Not as good as yours." The fifteen-year-old complained about the sweets with a pout.
Lelouch's eye twitched. "Gee, sorry my ingredients were all blown up by a Fallen Angel. Along with my house.
" He retorted sarcastically. "Would it make you feel better if I made you extra tomorrow to make up for not preparing well enough for that possibility?"
He blinked, wow, that was more bitter than he'd intended for it to come out. Maybe he was more stressed than he'd thought, midterms were coming up soon after all and his house had been absolutely demolished in the attack.
And maybe he wasn't taking this whole Devil thing as well as he'd thought.
He'd told his neighbors, when they saw him come back, that he had gone out to get something to eat late at night and stayed over at a friend's, he'd made sure to stress that when he saw the knowing looks the older couple had tossed him and Koneko, when he realized his home had been destroyed.
He told them it was a gas explosion due to a heater malfunction and that he forgot to turn off the stove when he left.
It was not an argument that would stand up to serious scrutiny, but he had a feeling his neighbors wouldn't dig too deeply into his explanation.
They did offer him a place to stay, but Lelouch declined, not feeling comfortable with the idea. He lied and told them he already had a place, but he didn't know what he was going to do.
He hoped to have a plan figured out by the end of the day.
"You don't need to be mean about it." Koneko said sadly. Lelouch saw her hair practically droop in response to his biting comment.
"Fine, I'll make you extra tomorrow." He conceded, ignoring the sudden return of her "perkiness". What was perky or sad for Koneko was flat for a vast majority people but Lelouch, an individual who was an expert at reading people due to his experiences, had managed to discern most of Koneko's moods rather well since they had known each other over the past few months.
He still couldn't do it as well as her friends, he assumed, but he had observed her in their interactions and managed to figure her out somewhat.
He knew that Rias, Kiba, or even the Akeno person he had yet to meet could likely read her better, but Lelouch knew enough to avoid the landmines that could either enrage or sadden the stoic girl.
He had seen her mad once… Only once. And he was very glad he wasn't the one on the other end of her anger.
They had transferred to another school, last he heard.
As for making her sad, well Lelouch wasn't a vindictive person to someone who didn't deserve it.
Koneko, aside from bugging him for sweets for a few weeks, hadn't done anything that seriously angered him or even annoyed him in their interactions with one another.
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