I watched as Roger put up the gold plate that read "Top Student –Near" and all the students gathered around to see. I was grinding my teeth and my eye twitched. That was it, I had enough of Near, it's time to do something about it.

I stomped down the hallway into Matt and I's room, slamming the door behind me. I paced back and forth around the room, as I was too restless to sit down.

"Hey Mello, What's up?" Matt casually said in a calm voice, while his thumbs were too busy pressing buttons and his eyes behind the goggles concentrated on his game console.

I stopped pacing and stared at Matt who was sitting on the bed, my eye twitched again. "What's up? What's up! Have you seen what's happening outside? No, of course you haven't…because you're too busy playing friggin games all day!"

"Woah, don't take out your anger on me, what happened?" He snickered while he spoke, as if he didn't take me seriously.

I grabbed the closest thing next to me, which happened to be a tissue box, and threw it at Matt. "Near happened, that's what!"

Without looking up, the red head effortlessly ducked as the tissue box flew towards him. "What did he beat you at now?" Matt jokingly asked.

I grabbed the next two things closest, which was a pillow and Matt's game cover, I flung those at Matt too.

Again Matt easily dodged the pillow but the game cover hit him straight in the face, he dropped his game console as he lost balance on the bed and fell onto the floor with a thud. I wasn't able to see Matt until his head popped up as he used the bed to help lift himself up with one hand and the other was cupping his forehead.

"What…was that..for? Panting as he stood up.

I grabbed the next thing closest to me, and as I was about to throw it I noticed it was a bar of chocolate and decided not to fling it. While unwrapping it, I spoke to Matt. "I'm just angry okay! I'm sick of Near always getting the spotlight, he doesn't deserve it!"

Matt flung his hands in the air. "Well don't take it out on me, do something about it!" He then look down at his hand which was marked with blood. "I'm bleeding! Mello, I'm bleeding!"

I rolled my eyes at Matt while enjoying a mouthful of delicious chocolate . "Grow up Matt, it's just a scratch. You know what, I'm gonna do something about Near, here's what we're gonna do…"

I told Matt the plan, he had mixed feelings about it then finally gave me an answer. "I don't think we should do that Mello, it's too harsh on Near."

"You're going to take…Nears side…over me?" I began to grind my teeth again.

Matt waved his two hands in the air, while shaking his head sideways. "N-no! I-I'm not taking his side, I just think the plan won't work…"

"C'mon Matt, this is the last time we'll do something like this, I promise"

Matts hands dropped as he sighed "…Fine, but if it gets out of control we stop. Deal?"

I gave a sinister- like smile "Deal. This is going to be fun."

"…Yay." I detected a hint of sarcasm in Matt's voice.

Later that day, I knew Near would be on his way to his room to start one of his puzzles after visiting the common room. I waited in the bathroom in Nears room, he leaves his door open since no one visits him anyway, suddenly the door opened. I watched as Near walked towards the shelves where the puzzle boxes should be, there was only one left, which happened to be his favourite one. I began creeping towards him. Near noticed something was suspicious, but reached up for the final puzzle box. As he turned around to place it down I snatched it off him.

"Mello…give it back." He gave slight effort into his sentence.

"How about, No." I began to walk off with the box in my hands, Near was slowly following behind me, the plan was in action.

"…Mello…Mello!" Near kept calling as I fastened my pace down the hallway, as if he thinks I'm going to answer to him.

We finally reached our destination, I opened the backdoor to outside, and closed it, knowing Near will follow. There was a giant pile of Nears puzzles, Matt was standing next to it, he had a Mario and Luigi band aid on his head.

"Mello…I'm having second thoughts on the plan…"

"Well it's too late to back out now, Near's coming." I said with a smirk on my face. "And take that band aid off! You look like a loser"

"No! I like these band aids…" Matt knew what he had to do next, he began pouring the liquid over the puzzles.

Near opened the door, and saw the pile of his puzzles, Matt standing there with his lighter in his hands, then looked at me holding onto his favourite puzzle. I couldn't help but to keep grinning.

"Wh-what are you doing?" It was obvious he was trying to stay calm and collected, but those emotions were bottling up inside.

"What? So now you can't figure it out?" I turned my head around to look at Matt who stood there with a nervous expression on his face. "Matt, do it now."

"I-I'm not sure I can, it doesn't seem rig-" I took the lighter from Matt and lit up the pile of puzzles. The fire grew rapidly, Matt and I stood away from it as it began to flicker. I turned my head over to look at Near who stood there, eyes wide and mouth open. It almost looked like he was going to cry, his eyes were watery, well from where I could see it looked like it. The plan wasn't over, I looked down at the puzzle box in my hand.

Near saw me look down and ran towards me.

"M-Mello! Please don't!" He grabbed onto my arm, trying to pull my arms away from the fire. Matt was also trying to get me away from the fire. "Mello, c'mon, this is out of control, you said once it's out of control we would stop!"

"It's…not…finished yet." I was trying to resist Matt and Nears strength against me, as I took slow steps to get close enough to the fire.

"Please Mello! You don't understand!" Near was looking up to me, really pleading me to stop. For a second I considered actually stopping the plan but then Matt tugged on my hand, which made the box slip from it and flew into the fire. We all froze.

"Shit…" Matt said while dropping his hands.

The three of us stared at the burning puzzle box, as it crumbled to ashes.

I turned to look at Near, who wasn't moving, he just gazed into the crackling fire, the expression on his face made me regret what I did.

"…Near.." I moved my hand towards as if to comfort him in some way. Before I could reach he ran for the door, slamming it behind him.

I turned to look at Matt, who was lighting his cigarette with the flames. "Well…that could have gone better."