FAQ:~why do you listen to such dorky music when writing your stories?: :You think its dorky? screw you. haha im joking. but dorky as in classical im guessing? dude, im an orchdork that wants to go to Juilliard, what do you expect? and YES, i listen to rap and hiphop shiz all the time. need proof? check my iPod.

Death Note: L and M
By: Zoe

enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Death Note or any of the characters and what not.
Listening to: new divide- linken park, no surprise- daughtry

I ran around inside the house playing chase with my three best friends Matt, Near, and Mello. Matt was "it" and was determined to get me. Matt screamed after me, "You better run M! I'm going to get you!" M was my name. The three of us would have gone outside to play but it was pouring so hard you couldn't even see outside. I always loved this kind of rainy gloomy weather while Matt never really took a fancy to it. An idea popped into my head, right when I reach the door I would jolt outside running as fast as I can. I was only five and having fun at the Wammy House Orphanage where I was brought in when only three years old. My parents died violently when I was only three or four, so I've heard, but no one ever really told me how, or why. In fact I'm not sure if anyone really knew. Right as I reached the door running at full speed I yanked it open to only find myself crashing into Watari ringing the doorbell. Its soft melody gave me warm and fuzzy feeling as it echoed throughout the house. I apologized to Watari and gave him a hug. I had always been very fond of Watari, he was such a nice old man to everyone. I don't know where I would be now if he hadn't taken me under his wing. I had only then noticed he was holding the hand of another child, a new comer perhaps? The child was wearing a brown jacket, that seemed a bit big for him, with perfect fitting black leather gloves, a long white sleeve shirt underneath his jacket, and loose fitting jeans. He squeezed Watari's hand. I froze by the in front of the door over looking the newcomer. Matt had caught up to me, literally tackling me as he reached the door he hit me on the shoulder while screaming "M IS IT!!" He had always been the type into video games whom would stay up in the room all day and watch TV and if one thing was for sure, he is very childish and he hates loosing. I should be one to know, because I am also childish and hate loosing. We were the same age, both five. I was the calmest, emotional controled out of everyone, with Matt being the loudest. One the other hand there was Near, whom being four had always been the youngest of us but some how one of the most mature, and lastly there was Mello being six who undoubtingly was the most loudest, crazy, competitive one out of everyone. Watari greeted Matt with a warming smile. Matt paused with an "oh-my-gosh-I-hope-I'm-not-in-trouble" look on his face. His eyes moved from Watari's to his. That new kid. Matt's smile grew grinning from ear to ear. Seeing that we had a new comer, he completely forgot about our game of tag. He gladly grinned as I too smiled a bit. I would rarely show emotions, but I didn't want people thinking I was depressed or angry, simply I wasn't one to let my emotions pour out. I could hear Near and Mello's loud foot steps as they ran toward us from behind.

Matt had always been one of the outgoing and welcoming type to any of the rare visitors or newcomers here at Wammy's so he reached out his hand to that boy and greeted him. "Hey! I'm Matt. Glad to meet you!" He said it in such a warm, cheery, welcoming voice. The boy replied in a soft monotone voice, much simillar to mine "Hello, nice to meet you. I am L." L turned to me, "And you are?" His monotone voice sounded so lifeless, I never realized that I sounded like that. "I'm M. Its a pleasure to meet you, L." I replied back in the same monotone voice as his. My voice was quiet, but it was quiet in a way that it demanded attention and authority. I gave him a small smile, wanting him to feel welcome here. I always remembered how I felt when I came here. I felt so welcomed by Matt, as lifeless and emotionless as I may have seemed. Matt made me feel wanted in this forsaken world, it was a special gift he had. I had always been a little jealous of Matt for that. I wanted L to feel just the same way that I had felt when I first came to Whammy's. L smiled a bit back, and from that smile I could somehow tell, or rather, had a very strong feeling that we were going to be really good friends. He then introduced himself to Mello and Near. Near wasn't quite as outgoing and as outspoken as Matt, but he still could make someone make welcomed. He nudged his way under my arm so that it was resting on his shoulder. I smiled at him, he then introduced himself to L. "Hello, I'm Near. I'm glad that your going to be staying here" He gave L the most innocent smile white he twisted his hair around one finger. As emotionless L seemed and I was we all had to smile back that was the feeling that you got when you were around Near. It was then Mello's turn, he hadn't always been the very welcoming type. "Hi, name's Mello." I figured he would say something like that. He never felt anyone feel wanted, in fact he was the one that would made me feel less wanted when I first talked to him when Watari brought me in. Gradually over the few years I have been here I have warmed up to him, hence we became really good friends if I do say so myself.

After everyone had introduced themselves I had realized Matt wouldn't stop talking to them since they first reached the door. It was pouring outside and it was freezing. L shivered. I gave him a hint, first a soft slap on the back. He ignored it all together trying to keep up a conversation with L. I tried again, harder this time. He still ignored it and kept on talking. I tried once again for the third time, but differently this time. I reached into my pocket and unwrapped a lollipop. Then shoved it into Matt's mouth to make him shut up for a bit. I drew in a breath "Watari, L. Maybe you two should come inside it's cold out." I shot a small look at Matt as he gave me a cheeky grin. I grabbed L's hand as Watari released his other, I gently said in my calm monotone voice "Come, I'll show you around the place" I shot him my ever so popular crooked smile. He looked a tad bit shocked, I suppose it was because of how I just reached out for him with the most emotion I had shown in years. I couldn't blame him, I was shocked myself and even felt a little regret. I haven't shown emotion in years aside a smile, why now? I dismissed that thought then relaxed a bit, and shown him the place. Wammy's House was a huge orphanage, I thought back to when I first came here, I thought I was going to get lost.

L followed me as I gave him a short tour, first we hit the living room. "This is where everyone often comes to relax." I explained. The living room was a very opened place. It had a shiny white tile flooring with a small rectangular area of carpet right in the middle of the room where a glass topped coffee table stood on top of it. There was a bookshelf on the far side of the room that was filled with all types of books from all types of genres coming from various years. Romeo and Juilet, Pride and Pregidous, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and many different photo albums we had made over the years. Watari had it all. An old black baby grand piano with yellow worn ivory keys sat in the far corner of the room. L studied it, "Does anyone play this anymore?" I slowly looked up from the glass table, "Oh, that? Well, no actually. Do you play?" I answered him in my usual tone. He replied "No." To be honest I hated getting answers that sounded so forceful, like how he had just said no. I just never really revealed that to anyone. "Oh." I sheepishly replied back. "Lets move on to the next room, shall we?" I asked, he nodded and I led him out the glass door leading from the living room to the garden outside. It was still raining, but, he didn't seemed to be bothered by it. In fact he was enjoying it. He stepped outside getting soaked as I followed. He closed his eyes and let his face fall back to face the dark gray sky. I spoke as the rain continued to pound us, "This is the garden, Watari is really into nature. Almost everyday he would come out here and tend to the plants, aside rainy days that is." There was a small white fountain in the middle of the garden. Sometimes on warm summer days I would sometimes go and lie by the fountain. There was a lot edge on the wall for me to just lie there, sometimes I would even stick my bare feet in if it was hot enough. I figured would tell L that later when it was actually summer. It was a very open space with different varities of plants growing all over. L said nothing, and I moved on. I walked down the long path that would wind around the garden, past the fountain, down the sides of the house, and out to the very front of the house. This was my favorite path, it was a long, quiet and peaceful. On sunny, rainy, or snowy afternoons I loved walking down this path slowly, enjoying everything. As we got up to the front gates we entered inside. "Ah, we're soaked" L said. I looked down at my clothes he was right. "Oh.. Aha, I guess that was my fault. Sorry." I led him up the winding stairs where there were six different rooms. I went inside the middle one, the bathroom, got two towels and tossed one to him to wipe ourselves down. We both were soaked from the rain. He dried off and lay the towel on his head and nodded as if to say go on with the tour. I started from the room all the way to the left and worked my way toward the right. "The first one here, that's Mello's room." I said as I dried my hair. L looked curious, "Do you think I could see inside?" He questioned, smiling. I thought about it, and I didn't see why not. I opened the door just enough for each of us to peek our heads in. Mello's room was really messy. He was sprawled on his bed eating chocolate and blasting some kind of loud screamo punk rock music from his stereo. Clothes lay all over the place. He had all kinds of posters of different rock bands on his red walls, even some that I haven't even heard of. There was a black leather couch pushed up against the farthest wall from the door with a wooden coffee table infront of it covered with magazines and chocolate wrappings. Mello had always had longish hair, even when I first met him. He told me people would always mistaken him for gay guy or a girl even though he was still pretty young. That made me quite amused, while it just made Mello furious. He would always wear the weirdest black clothes and would be chewing on a chocolate bar as he was now. I closed the door quietly. "Wow. Mello sure seems interesting." L said with a somewhat scared look on his face he struggled for just the right words. I laughed silently with a disgusted look on my face while moving on to the second room. "This room is Near's." I said as I opened the door a bit. Near's room was completely white aside from the light blue carpets. We saw him sitting in the corner playing with some toys. There was a closet on the right side of the room with glass mirror doors. His room was always neat even though he had many toys he would manage to keep them in order some how. His bed was on the left of the door with covered white sheets. He also had two chairs in the far side of the room, with a glass table in between. That was the thing about Near, white was his favorite color. All his clothes were white, even his hair, which he would always twirl with a finger. We shut the door, "I'm guessing Near likes white." L said. "You got it" I smirked. I shut the door silently and we moved on, "This room, well, its the bathroom. So if you got to go, then go here." I said bored, moving on.. "This room, is Matt's" I opened the door as I spoke. We found Matt blasting the TV playing video games. His room too was red like Mello's but a darker shade the color that would match his hair. He had beanie bag seats set infront of the TV so we could feel comfortable when we played video games with him. Matt had red hair, he would always be playing some type of electronic game. He had goggles that would rest on his forehead tinted orange, and his favorite jacket in which he only took off when sleeping. He had many posters of games, bands, and anything random you could think of. There was a wooden closet on the farthest side of the room. His bed was on the right side of the room with dark green sheets. I shut the door, "We should go and play video games with Matt sometime." L suggested. I smiled and nodded. "Next, is my room" I opened the door. My room had a light shade of sky blue colored walls. My bed was pushed all the way to the farthest wall with light blue and white sheets lying on top of it. There was a small glass topped table next to my bed which I had put a small candy bowl and camera that Watari no longer used. Facing the door there was a white sofa fit for two. On my wall I had a lot of photographs that either myself or Watari had taken. One which I had blown up, which was a picture of Near, Matt, Mello, and I that Watari had took. I always loved looking at that picture. Soon, we would take one like that again, but this time with L. I figured I would blow that one up too so I could proudly stick it on my bedroom wall. My closet was on the right side of my room and much like Near's it was a mirrored door. My carpet was colored a clean white. On the inside of my door I had a poster entitled "Juilliard, where music comes to life" It had a picture of a violin, piano, drums, clarinet, and many other instruments. On the oposite wall from the sofa there was a white wooden desk, on it contained a lamp and a few notebooks. One that had particullarly caught L's attention. It was titled "Songs" in my neat handwriting. He picked it up, not yet opening it. "You write songs?" He asked me. I sat down on the sofa and answered, "Oh yeah, whenever the mood strikes me I turn it into a song. You can go ahead and take a look at it if you like" So he did. After a few mintues of silence he spoke, "Wow these are really good M. Did you ever put this into music?" He was the first one that I had ever shown my song lyrics to. "No I haven't yet but I'm glad you liked it." I said. He placed the notebook back where he had found it. "That's a shame. These would be really good songs. Think about making them into real music one day, okay?" I nodded and thought about that for a moment. I turned to him. "Aren't you even wondering where your room is?" He turned to look at me "Well, yes, yes I am." He said. With no expression I stood up, motioning him to follow me. The last room, it was all his. It was arranged quite similliar to mine. Watari had brought up his things from the limo. He put a small smile on his face. "This is all mine?!" He said in shock. "Of course! All of your things are right over there." I pointed to the corner. "You can unpack them and put everything in your closet. Bed's over there. Um... I think that's it." I pondered for a bit. "Oh! What color sheets?" I asked. He had a confused look on his face, "What?" He questioned. I laughed, "What color sheets would you want for your bed?" I asked him. "You can choose any color you like" I said raising an eyebrow. He thought for a moment bitting his thumb, "I guess... I'll have dark blue?" He turned to me. I nodded, "Sure, I'll go get them. Just a sec." I walked downstairs to get his sheets as he started to unpack. From the living room I went down the hallway to the storage room. "Dark blue.. dark blue.." I said mumbling. "Aha." I reached for the sheets. Perfect, I thought. I ran up to L's room seeing that he had laid most of his things in a neat order out on the floor. That was fast, I thought as I walked toward his bed. "Wow. You have a lot of things, I'll help you with your bed." I told him. "Thanks so much." He said nodding at me appreciatively. He opened his closet door and started to put his clothes on hangers as I started unfolding the sheets. In no time I was done. I sat on his bed and glanced over at L. He was through with only one bag. I bit my lower lip, wondering if I should help him or let him be for the night and retreat back to my room. I spoke up "Do you need help? Or..." I stopped. He turned to me as he put a jacket on a hanger. "Huh? Oh, it's fine. You were such a great help to me anyway" He said as he gave me a sweet smile. I smiled back as I turned and left the room to go downstairs.

Watari was sitting on the sofa in the living room sipping a freshly made cup of coffee. He smiled at me as I entered the room, "I see you have shown L around the place." I nodded as I made my way to the piano to sit down. I opened up the dusty cover and studied the keys for a minute. I ran my fingers over the yellow worn in keys. I was thinking about what L had said how my song lyrics were "good." The idea of actually making them come to life in a song accompanied by the piano kept wandering through my mind. I sat there for a while and bit the nail of my index finger for a while just thinking. I pushed that thought out of my mind and retrived upstairs for the night saying good night to Watari. I lay down on my bed, not getting that much sleep. I couldn't sleep, for some reason I had a lot on my mind at the moment. I figured because it was partly having a new comer in Whammy's and thinking so much about music, I just couldn't think why it was bothering me so much. I sat up and got out of bed. I shuffled my way silently out of my room. I could hear the stereos blasting from Matt's room even though his door was closed. I knocked on his door of Matt's room. Hearing the TV sound suddenly shut off I'm guessing that he had paused the game to get the door. Sure enough, I was right. He welcomed me with a smile while I answered back with a no expression head nod and walked in. "So what's up M?" Matt said with loads of energy even though it was late. I sighed as I plopped myself down on one of the beanie bags in front of his TV, "Nothing really Matt, I just can't sleep tonight. So I was wondering if it was okay if we played video games for a while? Then I could go back to my room and sleep when I was tired" I bit my lower lip. He answered right away, "Sure! That sounds great!" He was so enthusiastic I thought as I raised an eyebrow at him. We sat ourselves down in front of his TV, played some racing game, and talked about today. As usual Matt beat me by a mile, he laughed "So that L guy is pretty interesting huh?" He said with a small smirk on his face. "Yeah, he is. He's really friendly once you get to know him." I said it in a matter of fact tone as I yawned, stretching my arms over my head. He smiled, "Ohoho, warming up to the new guy already huh? Wooo! Go M" He elbowed me. I laughed once and pushed him off his bean bag with my foot. I smiled a crooked smile at him, "Hey!" He yelled at me as he laughed. He lunged for me but I blocked him with my foot. All the while still being in control of my race car.

After a few hours of endless fun at Matt's room he began to yawn. His eyelids grew heavy and he fell asleep with me still awake. I yawned then sighed. As much energy as Matt had even he couldn't stay awake as late as I could. I took the cover blanket from his bed and laid it gently on top of him. I turned off all the game consoles we had used, turned off the lights, and retreated back to my room. I yawned another time, stretched as my eyelids too grew heavy. I closed my bedroom door, turned off the lights, and found my way through the dark finally plopping down on my bed. As much things I had going through my mind I fell asleep in an instances.

by the way, can anyone tell me HOW to make indents like paragraph kind?

im sooo flippin "smart" its not working out.

yEEeeaahh. *brushes dirt off shoulders*