Five o` clock. Perfect. I woke with no more than three hours sleep. But it was enough. I never slept more than that; often it was less. It was no surprise where the dark circles came from. I ran a hand through my short black hair, no messier than usual. I grabbed the binder wrapping it around my chest until it was flat. Putting on my white shirt and oversized pants was comfort, like a blanket to a baby.
I was L the world's greatest detective. No one had ever come close to finding out my greatest secret. L was female.
Only Watari knew this, no one else. It was fairly easy to keep my secret and pass off as male, as long as I kept my breasts bound and my hair short nobody could have ever guessed that I could be female.
I had never wanted to be a boy, but torment from all the others at Wammy's House had pushed me to it.
*Flashback*
(L Lawliet six years old, Wammy's House)
I stacked the last sugar cube smiling at my work. Fifty high. All stacked precisely. Before I could blink Higurashi came running straight for my tower. It came crashing down, and I feel backward from the force. I began to cry, he pulled me up by my long hair laughing.
"Forget it! You can't be smart like us! Nobody respects you unless you're a boy! If you were born a boy you could be like us!" He yelled and threw me down leaving me to cry.
*End Flashback*
That night I cut my hair short and ripped all my dresses to pieces, they began to leave me be after that they loved me as L a boy, never L a girl.