Hello, yo.

Near's POV.

Today is going to be a long day…

Let me introduce myself, my name is Nate River, most people refer to me as Near, which is okay for me. I don't like to talk about myself, because my life is as interesting as a lettuce. I don't have many friends (better said, I have none) but, incredibly, I have a boyfriend. His name is Matt.

We don't talk much in the school, but almost every day, he goes to my house in the afternoons.

L's class is my favorite class. That's biology class, he makes it very interesting, besides. But there's something else, in his class, a blonde boy, named Mello, always looks at me. Or I feel so, it doesn't bother me, but we've been in the same class for many years now, and we never talk to each other.

He is very popular. Even the teachers are his friends. But he doesn't really like to hang out with people; I wonder if he knows how popular he is between guys and girls.

And today, for the first time in almost fifteen years, he talked to me, he talked to me and he invited me to hang out with him. I didn't know why, but I was really happy that he noticed me.

And I learned a bit about him. Actually he's a really nice person, I got worry when I told him about my boyfriend… he looked shock, like if I hurt him, I thought he was disgusted, but then, he said those beautiful words.

"I-I mean, i-if we were dating… I would feel like the luckiest person in the world and wouldn't even care about what the people think about us and… be by your side everyday to love you and protect you from everything…"

That was… that was the first time ever that someone cares about how I feel, about what I want and… I liked it.

In all the way to my house, I just couldn't stop thinking about it… how charming Mello is… and, his beautiful smile and-

Oh God, Near, control yourself, you have a boyfriend.

And talking about him, he was there sitting in front of my house, oh dear, I forgot he always comes to see me.

"Near! Where were you? You are always so punctual, what happened? Did someone tried to steal you?! C'mon, Near, tell me who was the bastard!" Now he was shaking me by my shoulders.

"Matt, stop! Nobody tried to steal me, I just was with Mello and-"

"JESUS! You got in trouble with MELLO?! That guy?! Omg, Near I don't think I'm strong enough to knock him out, but I could hack his facebook account and-"

"No! Matt, please, listen to me! We were just… hanging out, like… friends"

"Oh, Near… couldn't you make any normal friend? Why him? That guy seems like he is on drugs or something! What if he asks you for a gum, and you don't have any, and he goes nuts because you don't have bubble gum and shoots you because of his rage-gum!"

"Matt, please stop. He's very nice, and if that happens, well, I'm small enough to hide me anywhere, so please, be calm about it. Let's go in."

"Alright, but don't come to me crying if he breaks any of your toys"

We went in to my house, Matt instantly went to my xbox and stared playing the games that himself had bought. This is always how we spend the afternoon together, he just goes there and plays, and I study or sometimes play with my own toys.

We don't do much… kissy stuff. We are not very romantic, we hardly ever had our first kiss, it was pretty awkward. Sometimes we hold hands, but it gets awkward as well! It just that… if I lose him, I'm going to feel really lonely again. And I love him but… I'm not really sure if I'm in love with him.

But I want to be positive, now I have another friend, Mello, and I want to do something special for him! Maybe I can bake him something… yes! I know what I can give him!

"Uhmm, Near? What are you doing back there in the kitchen?" Matt asked without quitting his view from the game.

"I'm going to bake cookies for Mello, do you mind?"

"Uhm, nope. What flavor, anyway?"

"Strawberry."

"Ugh, that's disgusting, Near! I was about to complain that you never cook anything to me, but hell, I prefer starving before eat those poisoned strawberry things"

"Strawberries are not poison" I sighed "Besides, today he ate strawberry ice-cream because I told him it was good. Though he said that his favorite flavor is chocolate… maybe I made him change his mind."

"How polite"

Matt said sarcastically, I was smiling, because I was excited about tomorrow, I wanted to see his face when I gave him the cookies, I… I want to see him.

Of course… I know we could be only friends.

…

Today is Thursday, and I was waiting for Mello, I put the cookies in a bag that I made myself, it was pure white with some black dots. I just hope the cookies turned out well, Matt said they were burned; I didn't want to take one because I wanted to give Mello all of them.

Matt said he would watch from behind, in case he goes "nuts" and try something dangerous on me, and as he said, he was some steps behind me resting in the lockers, playing his DS. But, honestly if Mello would try something, I think Matt would run away.

"Near!" Suddenly somebody whispered really loud on my ear, I turned back, and it was Mello, smiling at me, so I couldn't avoid smile back "Watcha doin? You seem to be waiting for someone."

"Yes, I was waiting for you. I wanted to give you something…" I looked to the floor for a moment and then back to him to give him the cookies; somehow, I felt really shy about it "It's a present I made for you…"

"W-wow, and what's inside? It smells amazing…" He took them.

"Strawberry cookies" I said clear and now his smile was frozen for a moment, I didn't really know if that was good or bad…

"T-Thank you. You know, this is my favorite flavor now. But now I feel like I should do something for you"

"Oh, no, that won't be necessary… It was just-"

"No, please! I want to do it and… spent more time with you…" He put his hand on my shoulder, and he was a little bit closer to me, I… I didn't know if this was the way he talks to everybody or he was flirting with me… but that would be impossible, he is just perfect and I… I'm just me "So, let's go to the movies and then to have some dinner, what do you say?"

Wait… is he inviting me to a date?!

"I… I…"

"Hey, stay back, he's taken!" suddenly Matt jumped out of nothing and pushed Mello away from me.

"M-Matt?!"

He never pays me attention in the school… why now?!

Alright guys, thank you for the ones that commented my story 3, you were really nice. I'm gonna try to update faster and I'm sorry about my crappy english 3333333. Aajskdkjsdg

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