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L felt himself flushed as he pulled himself off of the girl turning away to hide his appearance. Fox summed her courage and put her arm on his shoulder to grasp his attention.

“co-comon! You can stay at my place, it’s…its cold out here and you don’t even have any shoes.”

L was taken aback by her kind offer and after a moment of calculating all the factors he replied “…thank you…”

Fox nodded and helped him into the car she was quite distressed as he chose to sit with his feet at the edge of the seat, but knew it was best to let him be ‘I just hope the cops don’t give me any grief…given they don’t notice he’s a character from a Manga…’

It was a quite ride back to the campus, as fox’s mind was alive with all sorts of worries and questions. She well knew this sort of thing was impossible, but it was hard to ignore ‘…he…must just look like him…yea, that’s got to be it. And if its not, then I’ll wake up next morning and it will all be gone! That’s it! I must be dreaming!’ she went on to convince herself that this wasn’t truly happening. She felt an odd sensation come over her as if someone was boring a hole into the side of her head. She looked over to see that he was starring right at her. She quickly turned back to the road having herself a mini-heart attack ‘this is not happening…it’ll all be gone in the morning…gone in the morning….gone in the morning…’ she said to herself over and over until they finally reached their destination.

Fox was overly eager to get this day over with and quickly whisked L from her car into her dorm.

“You can stay here tonight…and uh…it’s late so we can talk in the morning…okay?” she asked ‘and in the morning YOU WILL BE GONE!’ she yelled in her head.

L simply nodded. He looked a little freaked out about everything that was going on, but Fox was too freaked to notice it much herself.

L sat himself down on the foot of Fox’s bed, and gave the tiny room a look over. He felt very odd in such a dumpy little hole, sure the furniture was nice but the building was a proverbial rat’s nest. He wasn’t quite sure what it was, but he felt very out of place here. He snapped back to reality as he received a light poking to the head.

He looked up curiously as Fox lumbered over him with narrowing eyes. “You sleep in that bed!” she said pointing to the other bed in the room ‘there’s no way this apparition is going to get the better of me!’ she thought.

L looked over to the second bed. It was completely clean, not even a fitted sheet. You could see the old rusty frame supporting the thin spring mattress. “But…that one doesn’t have any blankets.”
Fox was pretty tired at this point, and was no longer in the mood to be hospitable. “This is my bed, you go sleep in the other one!” she demanded.

“But…that one doesn’t have any blankets.” He replied exactly as he had a moment later.

Fox huffed “Fine…fineeee…there’s a spare blanket around here somewhere…” she said too tired to argue and looked through a few of the boxes scattered on the floor and soon found a fluffy blanket.

“There we go” she said to herself as she turned to see L happily snuggled in the covers on her bed. Her eye twitched as she watched him ‘Oh NO HE DID’NT!’ she thought to herself.

Fox walked up to the side of the bed and grabbed L, blanket and all, then swiftly deposited him on the spare bed. She flicked off the light, and then retired to her now unoccupied bed.

L lied there with his eyes wide open still in shock.

“Goodnight” Fox said softly as they both eventually got to sleep.

Fox couldn’t concentrate on the lecture as her mind kept drifting onto the subject of what to do with her new little annoyance. ‘I could just file with the police…hopefully no one would notice the resemblance and at least he’d think I was trying…but there’s no way I can tell him! Maybe he is just lost, and all of this is just one big mix up…yea right.’

Fox tried to get him off her mind, but she wasn’t too successful. As everyone got up to leave she was left with a head full of worries and a page full of doodles. She sighed to herself and packed up her things dreading the trip back to her room.

She slowly slunk back towards the dorm. As she came to the door she just starred at it. ‘Well…it not going to open itself, and I can’t leave him in there forever…’ she took a deep breath and quickly flung open the door.

As she walked in she found it noticeably empty. Her heart pounded and she became overwhelmed with fright, and started to dig furiously through her messy room. She made sure to check under the beds and even the lamp…and surprisingly found nothing!

“Where would he go? Maybe I’ll never find him!” Fox worried aloud as she searched over portion of the room she had already ransacked. She suddenly stopped her movements and stepped back for a moment ‘you know…with him gone I don’t have to worry about him anymore…yea, he’d just be someone else’s problem! And I could go on with my life!” she thought to herself, and then smacked her head ‘I can’t do that…there’s no telling what trouble he could get into…hell, he doesn’t even have shoes!’ She sighed and turned around and out the door.

‘He can’t have gone far, I’m sure he’s around here somewhere…’ she thought to herself.

She started her search throughout the dorm, pacing the hallways and peeking in the occasional open door, but to no avail. “I sure hope nothing bad happened to him…” she spoke quietly as she continued her search.

As she was passing by a window she spotted a familiar head of frumpy hair out of the corner of her eye and spun around to see L along with a couple students chatting in the quad.

Fox stormed down to the quad in a huff. She heard the composed murmurings of highly technical speak as she neared the small group. She approached L and starred daggers into his eyes, and as soon as their gaze met L jumped back.

“Hi…you were taking so long I thought I’d take a quick look around…” he said after he sheepishly waved to Fox.

“I told you to stay put!” Fox yelled as she grabbed his hand “You’re coming back with me right now!”

As Fox was dragging L by the arm one of the students L had been chatting with whistled and the whole group laughed. Both L and Fox blushed and Fox let go of L’s arm and quickly turned to face the offending student.

She glared at him and he put his hands up in defense.

“It was just a little joke! Don’t flake out about it.” He said almost jokingly which caused Fox’s anger to flare up even more.

“How dare you! You ignorant insufferable little cretin! You should shut the ******** up and mind your own god damned business! Why don’t you just drop out and leave us all the hell alone you intolerable little wanna be high school floozy!” She barked.

As Fox was politely sharing her feelings with the young college student L slowly slinked away while her attention was otherwise preoccupied.

Fox swiftly turned away forbidding the student to make a reply she noticed L had once again disappeared. She grunted in anger and took off back into to dorm, hoping he just decided to start back without her.

Fox quickly caught up with L and startled him as she touched his shoulder to slow him down. Fox quickly recoiled at the contact giving out a nervous laugh and stroking the back of her head.

L stopped in front of her and asked “so…you were going to go to the police about me, correct?” he asked.

Fox stopped to collect her thoughts and then nodded, “Uh, right. We need to do that…” she trailed off and for a moment their eyes met. Each blushed, but Fox quickly brushed it and grabbed L by the wrist.

“But first things first, you need some shoes.”