BB: AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -hyperventilates-

B: .....BB, take deep breaths!!! -gives BB a paper bag-

BB: -takes deep breaths with the paper bag- I'm sorry, B, I just got a little over-excited. We are about to post the second story in the "What Matters" Series, after all.

B: I know, I'm excited too. This is the one in A's POV, and I'm wondering how you're going to do this....

BB: You and me both, B! Now, if you would please do the honors?

B: BB and I do not own Death Note. This story doesn't make us any money. However, one day, we will take over the world.

BB: .....On with the fic.

I Thought I Matter

A's POV

I've always thought that I matter. I thought I was one of the best. I was L's successor, the one who would take over after him. I always knew what it would mean, for me to become L. It would mean I was the best of the best. I was the Attempt. However, for every attempt, you must have a Back-up. Beyond Birthday is mine.

About B, as he's normally called, well....he's very strange. He has hair the color of old dried blood (darkest black), and pale skin, but that's not what attracted me to him in the beginning. It was his eyes. Those glowing red eyes that seemed like ruby gems; beautiful, rare, just there for the watching. And that's what they did: they watched. Beyond's eyes seemed to look at everything at once, but, for some strange reason, they always came to rest just above the top of your hair. I always wondered about that...why he seemed to look above everyone's head instead of into their eyes...

He's done it with me every time he sees me, looking up at the air above my head before he looks into my eyes. I'll probably never know why he does it, because I'm too shy to ask him. You see, I have what could be called a crush on him, I suppose, and everytime he looks at me with those eyes that glow like the eclipsed moon, I lose all sense of myself. I feel like I'm swimming through something taxing when I look at him, something that doesn't want to let up anytime soon. B helps me get through those feelings. He is my sanity in this insane world.

But, it wasn't always like that, at least, not on his part. B used to ignore me at all times, trying to think of ways to escape me. I used to think he might not love me the same way I loved him, but I knew I had to be persistant. So, I got all my classes changed to match the ones he was taking, started following him throughout Whammy's House, even asked to get my room assignment changed so that he and I were in the same room. I forced myself onto him, and, in time, he came to accept that I wouldn't leave him alone. He and I became each other's best friend, the other's only friend.

We were never seen without one another, and in time I finally got strong enough to tell B that I loved him. He said nothing against it, nor did he say anything for it, he just looked me in the eyes and murmured "....Afore......" I took that as a chance and I kissed him. He kissed me back, just ever so slightly, and now I'm the happiest man in the world. If I were to die now, I would die a happy man...because I know B loves me back. I thought I matter....but I was wrong. I'm not what matters, B is.

End of "I Thought I Matter"

BB: It's done....

B: ...wow...you managed to sound just like A....

BB: I know....-goes into momentary shock-

B: BB? -waves hand in front of BB's face- ....Well, it looks like BB's in shock for the moment, so I guess I'll have to say this part. Okay, look, BB and I are completely new at this whole 'writing and posting fanfiction' stuff, so don't give us too hard a time, okay? We're trying our hardest here. The next chapter will go up once this story gets 10 reviews. Til then, all you readers, read on.

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