A/N: This chapter is based on a song called "My Only Love" by Sandy Howell and RAW. Which is the song from Sailor Moon Episode 30. If it doesn't portray what the song meant, then I apologize. Either way, please read and review!

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" Just what the heck are you doing to him?" Mello growled. His friends all scrambled to pull their pants up. I just got up and pulled on my own jeans, waiting for Mello to explode.

" N-Nothing, Mello," one of the boys stuttered. Then Mello looked over at me, eyes glaring as if to tell him the truth. I picked up the pad on the floor and scribble one word onto the white sheet of paper. I handed it over to Mello and he took a look at it and immediately grabbed the front of one of his buddy's shirt,

" Nothing, my ass. Matt here just told me you were trying to rape him, now tell me the truth or you'll find yourself with no teeth," Mello threatened.

" Yes, we-we were trying to rape him. I'm sorry, Mello!" the boy cried, pleading for his pathetic life.

" I'm going to count to three," Mello started and pulled out his gun, " to run or you'll get a bullet up your ass."

The two boys ran for mercy while Mello counted and I heard rounds of shots echoing in the hallway. I smiled; Mello had just defended me, his roommate.

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Later that day, in class Mello paid more attention to me when his friends were around. It was as if the rape scenario was a gift from the heavens above, it served as a reason for Mello to be near me. I absolutely loved the attention.

A note was tossed onto my desk. I looked around, but everyone was busy with their work even Mello. Shrugging, I opened the paper to read the fine print:

You think you're so special now that Mello's got your attention? There is no way that he'll fall for a pathetic being like you who can't even talk or hear. Why don't you just shrivel up and die?

I looked up at the paper again and several people met my gazes and they looked away. Mello was ruled out as one of the suspects. There was no way he would talk in third person, so it had to be someone else. Someone who was close to Mello as I am. Just who…?

I read the threat note over again until it was snatched out of my hands; it was Mello. I looked away and saw the note crumple in his gloved hands. My eyes were wide as his narrowed in anger. He jumped onto a nearby student's desk and shot a bullet in the ceiling, shutting everyone up, including the teacher.

" Whoever wrote this stupid note, confess right now or you'll find yourself on the other end of my gun," Mello threatened. One boy scoffed, he had blue streaked hair, black garments much like Mello's and a cigarette in between his lips,

" Why? What does the note say?"

" Don't say like you don't know, Kaito. I know you wrote this piece of crap, now confess or you'll have a bullet through your head!" Mello cried. The boy just laughed,

" Go right ahead, Mello. Roger and Watari won't stand for this, they'll have you off the second rank you've been working so hard for. Don't tell me you're going to lose it because of some pathetic letter?" The smug on his face, I just wanted to wipe it off.

" So you're confessing that you indeed wrote this note?" Mello stated. The other boy rolled his eyes,

" No. God, Mello you're so oblivious."

" Oblivious to what?" Mello growled. The boy got out of his seat and strolled by the blond and stopped at his side before leaning close and whispered,

" Oblivious to the fact that this mere prank has brought out your weak side. Really Mello, I didn't think that falling in love would make you so weak. It's so much fun watching your defenses crumble," the boy then walked out of the room after a yelling from the teacher to come back. I looked up at Mello and he refused me meet my eyes.

The class started again and Mello did not wait for me.

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I went back to my room to find Mello already there. He had skipped his afternoon classes to go on the computer, apparently playing an online game. I tapped his shoulder and he flinched. I felt hurt by his sudden reaction and I could only shrink away and be as invisible as I'm meant to be.

Mello didn't talk to me, even when it was dinnertime. We walked down together, but sat on opposite ends of the table. I felt that the gap that we had was slowly drifting apart and getting bigger by the second. I wanted to tell him that I was okay with the threat notes, as long as I have you by my side. Looking up at him and seeing him be that cold person once again, I just couldn't do it. I couldn't reveal my secret and tell him how much he means to me because he was my only love and I didn't want to be rejected by him.

The next few days, he would avoid me all together. We would never walk together and instances where we do; he would either lag behind or speed up and walk ahead of me. My heart did a tumble and I could only feel guilt. It had been my fault from the beginning, if I hadn't been so scared, so afraid of this place, then they wouldn't assume that I was mute and deaf. I would be just like the rest of them, able to talk and… able to defend the one I love.

I was just walking back to my room after a night session of Algebra II, when I saw Mello with another student. He had short gray hair, white pajamas on and in his hands was a teddy bear. I didn't know who he was but it seems to me that Mello and he were friends. Mello was laughing and talking to him and the boy's face didn't crack a smile, just nodded when he needed to.

It then occurred to me, that this person, this boy, was the one that Mello approved of the most.