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The sun shone down as L trekked out of the house, past all the yelling children, down to the for… the fort was occupied... the fort was never occupied. Two girls, Victoria and Amy, sat in there; they were both L's age and not the sort of people L liked to mix with. They were the populars, sporty, pretty, friendly, then at the first chance they got they would stab you in the back and twist the knife. They were sitting there, in his fort, okay he didn't own it but he was the only one to use it… till now. They were there, giggling and laughing, talking about things that L classified as unimportant, they were discussing boys and sex, mimicking the older girls. So as politely as he could
"Excuse me, please move, this is my space." This got the girls attention
"Ex-cuse me?!" said Amy in an annoyed voice,
"I'm sorry you didn't hear me I said" L replied
"WE KNOW WHAT YOU SAID! What she meant was how dare you be so rude!" Extorted Victoria, causing L to jump slightly at her sudden outburst. When he had first arrived Vicky had seemed kind, helped him out on occasion, but it quickly became apparent that this wasn't the case.

Lost in thought L brought his thumb up to his mouth,
"EW! What are you doing you… FREAK?!" Amy shrieked and pushed L hard in the chest, causing him to tumble into the mud. He sat there for a second in pure shock whilst Amy, Victoria and all the other children laughed at him. He stood up, shaking his hair to stop the mud from dripping in his eyes. He had to walk the walk of shame from the bottom of the garden back to the house. Everyone was still giggling behind his back but L didn't let it affect him. No, he held his head high, metaphorically due to his bad posture, as he made his way into the house.

Once inside he made his way to the front of the house so that he could get upstairs to the bathroom. Suddenly he stopped, Greg was fixing him with a steely gaze, what had he done now? Sure Greg had been a bit off with him since Alex and Graham had had to be transferred for protection but that was a week ago. Then he realised, standing just behind Greg, half in shadow was a boy, he looked roughly the same age as L, dressed smartly in ironed trousers, shirt and tie.
"Aww, What happened to you sweetheart?" the mysterious boy's social worked asked in a voice too sweet for even L to stand! To this L paid no attention, still studying the boy who was staring straight back at him.
"Oh this is just Lawliet, always tipping over!" Greg said in his fake, jolly voice before turning to L "Of you go and get cleaned up!" L continued to ignore the adults,
"L," he said, cautiously extending his hand to the boy "L Lawliet." The boy took his had "Nice to meet you L Lawliet," the boy replied as he flicked strands of his brown hair out of his eyes,
"I'm Light, Light Yagami."