Hey hey! Yes, I KNOW I have another fic (Child's Play) going too, but I simply HAD to test out this idea. Basically, to expand on the summary, the Death Note characters end up getting 'attached' to a person in the real world and they end up taking on their roles. Yeah, this is basically a test - of me writing in the first person style, a different type of fic etc, etc. Things will become clearer in the next chapter! This is more introduction... don't condemn this yet x.x'

Anyway. Let's get on with it!

"Alright, guys, stop it! I'm being serious! If you have to sing Happy Birthday, at least wait until we're NOT in a public place!"

"Of course we have to sing it. It's your birthday." I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes at the girl sat opposite me in our little booth. "Besides, Chloe, it is our duty as friends to publicly embarrass you-"

Chloe glared at me, making a sort of flapping motion to try and get the rest of our group to shut up. There were five of us in total, all crammed into this tiny booth in the ice cream parlour and jostling for space. But we all still had stupid grins on our faces as we continued to embarrass the birthday girl, cheerfully ignoring the irritating music playing over the speakers and the occasional disapproving noises coming from other customers.

The blonde haired boy sat next to me nodded in agreement, pushing me and the girl sat on his other side apart slightly so he could stand up and point at Chloe as he yelled out to the few people that were in here "Hey, everyone! It's her birthday! Come on, sing along! Happy birthday to you-"

"Zack!" Chloe hissed, cheeks turning bright red as she stood up herself to pull Zack down, much to the amusement of the other guy in our group. "Wow, Zack, you're so tough. You were REALLY able to resist Chloe."

"Shut up, Adam. For that comment, you can go buy our ice creams."

"Alright, alright. Good god, I thought we were never going to get to eat. What does everyone want?"

"Strawberry."

"Yeah, what Chloe said."

"Chocolate." I told Adam, before turning to the final member of our group, hunched up in the corner over her phone. "Violet? What about you?"

Violet glanced up, her dark brown hair falling over one eye as she looked between me and Adam, who was collecting people's money in. "Oh... uh, just a vanilla one, please. Thanks." She said quietly, giving a small smile before looking down at her phone screen again, not even looking up as she slid her money across the table to Adam.

After watching him go I turned to Chloe, grinning. "Wow, Chloe. I can't believe you're seventeen now. Seems like only yesterday we were three years old and I was whacking you over the head with your Barbies."

"I'm amazed I'm still friends with you, Scarlett." Chloe said dryly, before a soppy grin spread over her face and she practically dived across the table to hug me. "But how could I not be? You're amazing!" She clung on for a few more minutes, ignoring Zack hitting her side and yelling "Down in front!" until I managed to wriggle free. "Yeah, well, I haven't given you your present yet." I grinned, reaching into my tote bag and pulling out a squishy sort of package. "Might want to save some of those hugs."

As I slid the present across the table everyone was looking at me inquisitively, except for Violet. "I admit, this was hard for me to buy." I confessed, rolling my eyes as Chloe picked it up and started peeling the wrapping off. "On many different levels. You'll see why-" I got cut off then, wincing as Chloe squealed loudly and caused more than a few people to glance at our booth. "Oh my god! Scarlett! You got me an L plushie! Thank you thank you THANK YOU!" She dived across the table again.

Violet peeked through her hair, giving another small smile. "Wow, Scarlett. Does this mean you're betraying Light?"

"No! Never!" I insisted, glancing at Chloe who was hugging her new L plushie defensively. "No matter what Chloe says, I'm still team Yagami!"

The plushie suddenly hit my face. "Team Lawliet!"

"I shall remain neutral." Violet muttered, tapping away on her phone. Zack, meanwhile, groaned and started repeatedly hitting his head with the menu, punctuating his words with the hits. "Can. We. Not. Have. The. Death Note. Argument. Agan!"

It was then that Adam came back, sliding into the booth – shunting Chloe along, much to her annoyance -L and beginning to dish out the ice creams to gladly accepting hands. "What's going on?"

"They're having the Death Note conversation." Zack had a world-weary look on his face, one which intensified when Chloe said suddenly "It's my birthday. I can talk about Death Note all I want." She prodded Adam. "You should really look it into it! You too, Zack! Even Violet really got into it, and she's the most unwilling person ever generally!"

"Ah, I don't know. I wouldn't want to start 'fangirling' over a character like you and Scarlett. What sort of names are Lawliet and Light, anyway?"

Two blobs of strawberry and chocolate ice cream hit Zack in the face.

"Alright, birthday girl, it's nearly midnight, which means this birthday call will be ending soon, as it will no longer be your birthday. See my logic?"

I couldn't help but smirk as I flopped onto my bed, holding the phone slightly away from my ear as Chloe started yelling at me. "Aww! Scarlett! Way to kill my buzz!"

Being the nice person I am, I decided to kill it further.

"Yeah, sorry. But I'm gonna go to bed, maybe read some Death Note." Pause for effect. "Number 7."

She really started yelling at me then.

"Oh my god! SCARLETT! How COULD you remind me of that? On my freakin' birthday?"

"Quite easily, actually. I open my mouth and the words come out."

"Right! That's it! I'm done, 'friend'! I'm going to leave you to wallow in your meanness now."

"Fine, see if I care." I told Chloe, giving a small giggle when she made a small noise and hung up on me. I got up off my bed, chucking my phone onto my cluttered desk before rummaging through some of the junk that practically flowed onto the floor. I hadn't been lying about reading Death Note. Our earlier conversation had sparked some sort of urge in me, but I couldn't be bothered to load up my laptop – lost somewhere on my desk underneath assorted merchandise and long-neglected homework – and watch some of the anime right now though, so it would have to be the manga tonight. Eventually I found a volume and threw it onto my bed, returning to it once I was all ready for bed.

It didn't take me long to get lost in it again and completely finish it.

"You know…" I muttered to myself, flicking my bedside light off and placing the book next to the bed, rolling over. "I can kinda see why Chloe likes L so much…" What was I saying? I laughed at myself. "But I still prefer Light…" I continued, burying my face in the pillow. If I hadn't fallen asleep fairly quickly, I probably would have continued wittering on to myself about Light and L and how Light survived longer and how Chloe couldn't see that and Violet should hurry up and pick a side already…

White

Empty

light

Light

"Get off me!"

Running

Red

Stuck

"K-Kira…"

My eyes flew open, but they were quickly covered up by my hands as I tried to slow down my breathing. Oh my god… Maybe I shouldn't have read Death Note so late. That was one fucked up dream! Groaning, I rolled over, blinking rapidly to clear the sleep from my eyes and brushing some strands of blonde wavy hair out of my face to try and find my phone. Argh, where was it? My hand brushed past several things on my bedside table: the Death Note book, a pile of small items that felt like hairgrips, a hairbrush to go along with the grips, a paper doll… "…Oh yeah…" Mentally, I smacked my sleepy self. I'd left my phone on my desk, hadn't I? Giving another groan, I sat up – and promptly began to scream, clapping my hand over my mouth so I didn't wake any of my family up.

For there, sat at my desk and looking rather confused, was a guy.

Not just any guy.

Light Yagami.