Matt stepped out of his car, cigarette dangling from his lips, his fourth cigarette that morning to be exact. Nicotine and videogames, his two escape routes from the harsh world and in this case blondes with sexy bodies that don't want to leave a poor guy in peace with his own pathetic love life. The only thing was, what did he do once neither of those things had proven helpful in the least? The answer was right in front of him.

He stood outside the small pizza place across town from both his home and work, but damn if the drive wasn't worth it. He lived for their pizza!

He smiled walking up his mind not yet taking in the fact that the lights were off, or that his car was the only one placed outside the usually packed restaurant. It was only once green eyes settled on the large sign outside the door that things finally started clicking into place and his happy anticipation high crashed around him.

NO! He thought putting his hands flat on the glass doors willing it not to be true. This couldn't be happening! Matt's breath was caught in his throat, his expression one of heartbreak and slight horror. The world was ending, that was the only explanation for this he was convinced of it.

Only two things stood out to Matt on that sign, through the long explanation and such it was only "out of business" and "11/28" that really stood out, or really made sense to his distressed mind for that matter. That had been yesterday and yet he distinctly remembered driving past here on his way to the bar last night and it had been open. Hadn't it? Matt sighed to himself, great, now he was imagining things, maybe he should get himself checked for mild insanity.

"Ooooh! Meello!" He turned as he heard a voice sound from around the corner a small blonde with pigtails peeking out looking at him with blue eyes a small black skirt and skimpy tank top being the only thing covering her, the high heels clicking as she walked toward him.

"Uh, hi?" Matt watched her walk over slightly confused as to why she was coming up to him. He frowned a bit, he really didn't need any more attention from blondes wearing stripper clothing.

"Misa-Misa has never seen you before, are you new to town?" Matt laughed; it wasn't a particularly small city so the fact that someone thought it was odd to have never seen him around either meant this girl thought she knew everyone, or he spent more time inside on the couch in front of his video games than he had ever given himself credit for. Maybe both he thought.

"No, I've always been here, and I'm Matt by the way." He decided to just offer it to the girl before him instead of her asking.

"Matt-kun has always been outside this shop?" The blonde tilted her head to the side a bit, blue eyes sparkling with confusion and he wondered if she really was just that naive. He suddenly felt bad for the blonde population, it was people like this that created those "dumb blonde" stereotypes. He was about to respond when he saw someone walk over his eyes widening a bit behind his goggles.

"Who are you?" Icy eyes stared at Matt expecting him to answer and he snapped a piece of chocolate off sucking on it letting his lovely addiction melt in his mouth. Damn he could make love to this stuff and be forever free of sexual frustrations, although his sister had mentioned before that that was taking his addiction much too far. He had snorted at her in response not understanding how he could take his addiction too far even now. It was chocolate for fucks sake!

"I'm Matt." He responded watching the blonde, trying to control his voice so that it wasn't shaky. What this boy did to him and he'd only ever seen him once! Then again, if he really thought about it, he hadn't needed to see him more than that. Any hot ass blonde in tight leather was enough to leave an imprint on anyone's mind! The blonde nodded finishing the piece in his mouth off before ever speaking. Chocolate came first, that was his number one rule.

"Mello." He stated simply, his tone stating that he would be well advised to remember that and he turned to his sister. "Misa, are we leaving or what? I'm ready to get this fucking shopping spree of yours over with." Mello would never understand why girls, even his own sister, insisted that having a gay guy going shopping with them was a must.

"Meeeello! Misa-Misa is not doing this for herself." His sister pouted at him and he sighed. This shopping thing was supposed to be his "birthday shopping" since they were going out of town for the next few weeks but somehow he doubted this was really about him.

"Right, yeah, birthday shopping. Are you ready?" Misa nodded excitedly then grabbed onto Matt's sleeve.

"Misa-Misa votes that Matty needs to come with us!" Matt just stared at her incredulously, what the hell! She was talking about him as if she had known him for more than just a few seconds… He sighed as Mello looked at him then shrugged.

"Whatever." Mello turned heading back to his bike slipping his helmet on his posture telling the two of them that they had little choice than to follow him. Matt had to wonder what fueled the blonde's confidence and hoped that one day he'd get to figure that out.

Matt had to admit, malls definitely weren't his thing, but when one was bored and had nothing to do the worst of things suddenly became interesting. Besides, there was one thing that made this whole trip better. Give you one chance to guess it! Matt smirked as he turned and stared admiringly in front of him like one would if they just saw their god step out in front of them. Oh hell yes, you got it, Game Stop!

Mello looked back at Matt his hands on his hips and he scowled. What on earth is the boy so entranced with? Answer to that, some stupid game store. Mello sighed, he hated games, probably because he sucked at them and if Mello couldn't beat something then it became his enemy by omission.

Matt turned as he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Mello standing there smirking at him as if he were trying not to laugh Misa having gone off somewhere when they'd first entered the mall.

"I think your drooling just a bit." Matt feigned shock putting a hand over his heart eyes going wide before he laughed.

"Yeah, probably." He laughed. It was odd to him how just earlier and the night before he had been completely gawking over this same blonde, and yet he felt completely at ease with him right now. He blamed it on the alcohol…it always did make him slightly conscious. Then again, if he really decided to analyze that further, he was a very conscious person he just tried to hide it with the things he knew best; games and technology. He didn't feel so foolish when he was around those two things, they were his comfort items.

Mello rolled his eyes his hand dropping from Matt's shoulder before he walked off only glancing back to make sure that the redhead was following instead of worshiping the store with more dedication than Mello saw in some of the people at mass.

He shook his head with a small laugh, this guy sure was something, and usually Mello wouldn't pick up random people to go shopping with but Misa had insisted and he knew if he hadn't of accepted than he would have found himself subjected to watching her change from outfit to outfit. No offense to all the girls out there, but ew! There was a reason he was gay, and that was it, not his sister per say, but naked women in general…

Matt followed slightly behind him looking around with interest. He couldn't remember coming here; he'd always hated large crowds and this place was pure hell for people like him but every once in a while he could enjoy stuff like this. Small doses, very small doses. He looked at Mello.

"Are you looking for something?" He tilted his head a bit noticing that Mello had been looking around vigorously. Whatever it is that he's looking for must be pretty important Matt thought watching. He had to admit he was slightly interested as to what it was. He wanted to know more about the mysterious blonde before him.

He stopped outside the exotic chocolate store doubling over as he starts laughing, with the serious expression Mello had had on his face he would have expected something a bit more amazing than chocolate! He tried to give out an apology through his fits of laughter as Mello glared at him before stepping into the store still looking just as serious but he wasn't sure if it had been understandable. He took a deep breath then stood against the wall finally having gotten control of himself, and he probably could have kept it up if it weren't for the fact that once Mello finally emerged from the store there were about 50 bars of chocolate in his bags. To say that he died laughing would be quite appropriate for that moment. Well, that was until Mello had him by the collar of his shirt.

"Are you mocking me?" He growled at him the redhead's laugher dying at his lips as those icy eyes bore into his own sending a shiver of fear through him. Damn this guy could be scary…

"No, I've just never known a guy who could eat so much chocolate." He gave him a nervous smile glad when Mello let go of his shirt and stepped back a bit. For a moment though, as Mello watched him, he wasn't sure it was over, but then he smirked. Smirked! Matt honestly didn't see what was so funny and Mello didn't seem about to tell him as he turned and walked away Matt following hastily in his trail. This guy sure did walk away a lot…

"Hey! What's so funny?" Mello shook his head his smirk growing. Matt pouted giving him the signature puppy dog pout, his green eyes shining behind the goggles. Mello looked at him then sighed, god he hated it when people gave him pouts like that… His smirk turned into a half smile and he laughed.

"Nothing, I was just thinking you looked hot pressed up against the wall like that." Mello's eyes shined with a mischievous glint it only increasing as the gamer's face flushed bright. That was definitely not what he'd expected... Mello laughed watching his reaction then shook his head going to go sit on the bench.

"Calm down, it's not like I'm going to start hitting on you or anything." Matt looked at him and he was suddenly very glad for his goggles otherwise Mello would have seen his disappointment. Would it be bad to say that was exactly what he wanted? He sighed internally but just smiled on the outside and laughed.

"You say that as if you had been planning on it." Matt smirked at him putting his hands behind his head stretching a bit trying to get comfortable on the wooden bench which was definitely not made for customer satisfaction. Mello just laughed not responding besides that slightly glad when Misa met up with them again letting him avoid the awkward silence that would have no doubt followed that.

He glanced at Matt while Misa was changing to show him the outfit she wanted to buy, the redhead's back was to him and he gave a small smile watching how amused he was with everything. It was kind of cute… Mello shook his head frowning, no, not cute. Definitely not cute!

Mello looked back toward the dressing room smirking at nothing in particular. He wasn't one to believe in coincidence or shit like that, he was raised with everything happened for a reason and he honestly thought that but in that moment he wished he did. For the same boy he'd been watching at his bar last night to end up having to spend the day with him the next day was something he wished he could say was coincidence, although most would call it fate.

He sighed, maybe he was just there to let him have a bit of fun for a bit, yeah that had to be it, because Mello had sworn long ago he would never put his heart into anyone and he would stick to it.

Matt came back over to Mello's side watching as he smirked at the air and laughed. He sure was an odd one. Mello shot him a sideways look and he just shrugged. It was actually amazingly easy to get along with Mello, even if he did come off as a non-caring sarcastic kind of fucker… Matt smiled, that was just how he liked it, a little challenge was always good for those who had no life, and the more he watched Mello the more he hoped he could actually get to know him, in several different ways.

A/N: Thanks to all the people that read and reviewed! –insert happy dance here- I'm sorry that this chapter isn't that good, but I've been terribly out of inspiration lately which is why I kept putting off writing the next chapter and I hope it's at least halfway enjoyable . I would like to give the most badass blonde ever his tribute and say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELLO heehee … Anyways I'll try and have the next chapter up a bit faster, and please comment telling me what you thought, critiques are always welcome. Oh, and I also have to give thanks to my amazing Beta who has to sit there and go through all my mistakes –gives cookie- she definitely deserves that xD