I found Mello sitting at a computer in the research room. He chewed on a bagel spread with nutella and turned to me.
As we clicked away on the keyboards and discussed evidence without making any eye contact I was shocked to find that I felt the same feeling I had last night. My stomach twisted and I stacked up a tower of dice next to the monitor because it helped me calm myself and focus.
The hours passed. Cube. By. Cube. Slowly but surely building into something. Just like the case. I reached for the last die to my tower. The black one.
Then the door opened. I jumped and dropped the black cube where it clattered on the floor. I glanced at my dice tower, thankful it hadn't knocked over.
It was just Mello. He had excused himself to go to the bathroom, but I had been focused on the finishing of my tower, (even though i should have been analyzing the data) and hadn't noticed him reenter the room.
He looked at me for a moment, the slowly strode over to where I was sitting. He bent over to retrieve the black die I had dropped and picked it up. Then Mello placed it on top of the tower. Without a word, the blonde went back over to his swivel chair, and sat down.
That was when I realized how much I needed Mihael to complete me. And I can't say I was pleased with the discovery that I really did have feelings for him. I didn't need romance to interfere with my strictly undistracted mind. I didn't want to need someone.
After the task force had gone to bed, I spun around in my chair to face Mello.
"Mello?"
He turned.
"Yeah Near?"
I paused for a second. He had said my name. Not my real one of coarse but Mello early ever addressed me, if he wanted to talk he just said "hey".
"I...I'd like to know more about how Matt died."
"Well..." he said to his leather boots. "There...was this guy that the mafia borrowed some money from...a sketchy guy. So we didn't exactly pay him back...and then we got into some trouble with the police for killing some random guy...and things got complicated and we were conveniently able to frame that same guy, so we didn't have to pay... and he went to prison...then I guess later he escaped and he found out where I was and who...Matt was...I'm not really sure of the details of what happened because I wasn't there...but apparently there was some sort of car chase and I assume that the guy wanted to interrogate Matt or something...but there was a crash and Matt ended up...dead. His voice cracked on the last word. He clenched his fists.
"Why do you like asking me these things?" The blonde whispered. His voice shook but I could tell he was seething.
"I told you...I just want to understand you." I responded nervously.
"No...That's not it..." Mihael raised his head