The next morning began just like any other. Light awoke to his alarm and took a shower, put on his clothes, brushed his teeth and hair and made his way downstairs for breakfast before heading off to school with Sayu.

"So did you think last night?" she asked quietly, without looking at him.

"I did," he muttered, reading over the poem he finished the previous night.

"Are you going to tell him?"

"I-" he was about to answer when suddenly the object of his affections was right there in front of him in all his seemingly emotionless glory.

"May I walk with you?"

Light noticed that he spoke only to Sayu.

"Umm… I guess so." she said between glances at Light.

Light shifted so he was walking behind them and continued reading over his poems.

Lawliet turned to glance at him when they reached Sayu's school, his sister sprinting through the gate to avoid any further touching from Lawliet.

"What are you looking at there?"

Light looked up in surprise to see that Lawliet was walking next to him now, moving closer to try to see what he was hiding.

"I'm reading."

"Yes, I was inquiring as to what the material is. It appears to be a journal of some sort."

"Um, yeah… It's mine."

"Ah. I was unaware. Excuse my obtrusiveness."

"It's fine."

Lawliet moved away again.

"You have very unique colouring for a person of Japanese descent." He commented, those calculating grey eyes lingering on the mutated pallor of his hair.

"Yes, I do."

Light was now desperately avoiding making close eye contact. He knew Lawliet was a genius of his caliber, perhaps higher, and that not many people in the world can be described as having caramel eyes, the exact words Sayu has used to describe his nom de plume to Lawliet. He couldn't allow him to make the connections and put it together yet. He had to pace it out.

"Hm. Interesting."

They continued on in silence till they reached the school gates, by then having separated enough to have it appear as if they hadn't arrived together. Light was sucked into one crowd, and Lawliet into another and that should have been the end of it.

But it wasn't.

At lunch Kanami took the albino's money and Light saw Lawliet shoot a look at him. 'Why can't you people leave us alone?' Light ignored the sinking in his stomach and went back to his sushi.

In between fifth and sixth period, Light broke into Lawliet's locker to leave him a sweet roll and a small slip of paper that said sorry in Lucy Night's handwriting.

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AN: Last one on reserve, next one will be up on Wednesday.