Author's note: Geez it's so time-consuming for me to think of a subtitle for each chapter. Maybe I'll stop adding such kind of subtitles in the later chapters… Anyway thank you so much for reading my immature work and tolerating my poor English. I'll try hard to write better!

Chapter 3

E MAJOR

"Why do you go into that cave? I told you no special items are there!"

"Can't I just explore a little bit? And, you are so annoying."

"Watch out! The crappy zombie scared the hell out of me! You gotta be careful as this region's occupied by zombies, as shown in the map here. Oh there's another zombie. Burst its shit out!"

"I don't know how to take the weapon out…"

"Here. Press this and then the second option. Hey I've given you the Sakura Bullets, right?"

"Umm."

The cafeteria was busy, as usual. But there the two unusual visitors were sitting – Matt and the newcomer, Eva. Matt did not go to the cafeteria much. He preferred taking the food back to his room and eating alone while playing his games. Eva, who seemed to be quite anti-social like Matt, had been missing for two days. Both of the two children's presence there surprised the others. Nine-year-old Eva was playing Matt's Gameboy and ten-year-old Matt was tutoring her excitedly.

"Hey that's the new girl. Why's she with Matt?"

"I simply don't understand why that girl's able to befriend with Matt. He's a game freak!"

"Is that girl a game freak as well?"

The children were whispering to each other when they saw Matt and Eva. They found it unbelievable that the two were friends.

At the entrance, Mello walked in with his private bar of chocolate. He had never forgotten to bring a bar of chocolate with him, which made him a pretty well known chocoholic. Mello saw Matt, his best friend and roommate, and tried to get to him. But when he passed through the crowd, he, like others, was surprised by Matt's new friend.

Matt only had Mello as his friend before. He did not like getting along with others. Same as what the other children mentioned, he was a game freak, spending way more time with his electronic toys than with real human beings.

Mello stood right next to the two, but the two did not realize him. He poked Matt's shoulder lightly, but Matt didn't have any response. Well, Mello was used to being ignored when his companion was playing games. But this time, since Matt was actually with another friend, he felt bitter. A strange sense of jealousy pushed him to punch the red head.

"Ah!" The red head shouted.

Matt turned back and saw Mello in a bad mood. He offered a seat next to him immediately. Being Mello's roommate and friend for long, he knew his temper well.

"What the heck are you doing here?" Mello bit the chocolate bar.

"Sitting." Matt soon switched his focus back to the Gameboy in Eva's hand.

Such meaningless answer pissed Mello off. He stepped on Matt's foot hard without any hesitation.

"Mellooooooooo! You damn thing wanna kill me?"

Mello was finally satisfied with Matt's painful look. He smirked and kept enjoying his chocolate when Matt was cursing him angrily. After a while, Mello started to ignore Matt's complaint and stare at the quiet girl. Eva did not care about her friend being stepped, she just kept concentrating on the game – with a slight smile.

Never seen her smiling, Mello thought.

"Matt, your new friend?" Mello asked despite the fact that Matt had not finished his rant.

"Umm… Ya." Matt calmed down as he remembered Eva's presence.

Eva paused the game and looked at the two boys emotionlessly. Her "soul-capturing" big eyes were so beautiful under the mild light. It was the first time she saw Mello in such a close distance.

Mello did not know what to say. He was wondering what's wrong with the girl, who seemed to love staring people speechlessly. After a few seconds of dead air, he introduced himself to the new girl, hoping the silence would just end.

"Mello. I'm Mello, Matt's roommate." he tried to break the silence and avoid direct contact with her eye sight.

"…" the girl did not say a word. Damn.

Matt was sick of such social manner. All he wanted was to continue the game. He urged Eva to resume the game. But Eva simply handed the Gameboy back to Matt without a word.

This freaking girl looks as dumb as Near, Mello thought secretly.

The girl still showed no expression on her pale face. She rolled her eyes for no reason and then muttered, "I'm Eva."

Eva… Mello repeated her name in his mind for a few times, though he never thought this name would become so important in Matt's and his lives…