Jade sat on a bench outside the highschool. Light would be out any minute, now. She looked down at her notebook, which was resting in her lap. She had arrived roughly ten minutes ago, to get a little bit of writing in before Light came. But she was having no luck.
The bell suddenly rang, piercing the air and disrupting Jade's thoughts. She sighed, closing the notebook over and standing up.
She entered the highschool's boundaries, looking around for Light. But she didn't spot him.
"Are you looking for someone?" one of the students asked politely, making Jade look their way.
"Yes, actually. Do you know where Light Yagami is?" she questioned, continuing to look around.
"Oh, he's somewhere near the school," the student replied. "He was searching around in the grass. He must've dropped his house key or something."
"Okay, thanks a lot."
"Your welcome," the student bowed her head slightly, before running off.
'I'll just wait around for him..' Jade thought, evading all the rushing students and finding peace over by a wall.
In less than five minutes, Light came walking over, tucking something into his school bag.
"Sorry to keep you waiting!" he said sheepishly. "I got a little caught up in something."
"It's alright..." she mumbled, spying his school bag.
"So, shall we get a coffee?" Light asked, as he and Jade walked out onto the street.
"I suppose."
"Look, we can get coffee and then you can walk back to my house with me. But I won't be able to talk, I have a big test tomorrow... I really have to cram," Light told her, opening the door to the coffee shop.
"That's quite alright..." Jade murmured, as Light ordered the coffee. For some unknown reason, she didn't feel that comfortable around him anymore.
"I'm twenty five cents short."
Jade looked up to see Light, his eyes flickering as he held out a hand. She blinked, before producing the money from her pocket and handing it to him.
"Thanks."
Once they got back outside, they started towards Light's house.
"So, what's your test on?" Jade asked, opening the lid on her coffee, and letting excess steam escape.
"Uh..." Light faltered. "...English. It's...a quarter of my final grade. I'm going to have cram school tonight." He chuckled.
"Good luck..." she said quietly, taking a sip of coffee.
"I was thinking..." Light began after a few minutes of silence. "...if someone started to clean this mess, that we call our world, up... Wouldn't it be a better place?"
"I said this before..." Jade said, standing in front of Light's house with him. "It'd still be wrong. Our world's not perfect. And we can't make it perfect."
"I guess not," Light mumbled, before putting a smile on his face, "Anyway, I guess I'll be going. See you later, and good luck on your book."
"Thank you, Light."
Jade didn't see Light for the next two days. She chose not to. Like a few days ago, she didn't feel all that comfortable around him anymore. And she found it awkward to talk to him.
This, and she hadn't even touched her books either. She couldn't write.
Kimi asked her what was bothering her, but she never got an answer. Or at least a good, accurate one.
It was on the second day that Jade hadn't seen Light, that Kimi had left for the grocery. Thus leaving her home alone.
She sat at the small kitchen table, a small spiral notebook in her hands. The radio wasn't turned on, nor the television. All she could hear were the noises from outside.
On a cold, and windy day a young girl dragged herself down the street. With tears in her eyes, she tried to forget that she was lost.
"Is something wrong?" a voice asked, as she looked for the owner.
A boy about her age, with black messy hair and coal eyes looked at her, standing by the orphanage.
"I lost my mommy."
She wrote that story years ago. When her and L used to play together. She wrote the story about how they met. L said it was a good story. He said he liked the way she-
Ring.
Jade put the notebook down, staring at the phone laying on the middle of the table.
Ring. Ring.
She picked it up, looking to the caller ID screen, only to see it blank. She blinked a total of three times, before pressing the ON button, and putting the phone to her ear.
"Is this...Jade?" an edited voice came through the line, making the actual voice behind it unrecognizable.
'Is this supposed to be a prank, or something?' she thought to herself, before parting her lips to speak, "Yes. Yes, it is."
"Well, don't you sound mature."
She furrowed her eyebrows slightly, "Well, don't you sound like a computer..."
The voice released what should be called a laugh, "It appears."
Her eyes flickered, "Who is this?"
"How are your books?"
She was silent for a second, before managing out, "Good, I suppose."
"I've read one. The other was too mainstream for me."
"Which one was that...?" she asked quietly.
"Always With Me," the voice responded. "Rather tragic."
Taking another shot, she asked, "Who is this?"
The bells began ringing in the background, clanging against each other. The sound rang in Jade's head.
"The bells are loud today, aren't they?"
Another flicker in her eyes. She glanced out the window, then looked back ahead at the wall in front of her, "Who is this?"
"You're supposed to agree," the voice said, static beginning to cut in.
Her eyes flickered again, "L."
The voice laughed, "L?"
"L," she repeated. "Tell me right now. Who is this?"
"I'm sending you something. Get your laptop," the voice cut in, ignoring the question once again. Jade pushed her chair out, jogging into her room. She quickly plugged her laptop in, and let it take a few minutes to load and turn on.
"Have you received anything?" the voice asked calmly.
With a few keystrokes, she opened up her e-mails. One new message was waiting, with no return e-mail address.
"Yes," she replied quietly.
"Open it," the voice commanded, still calm.
She clicked on it, the e-mail opening up quickly. In large, bold and capital letters was an address.
"What do you see?" the voice asked her.
"An address," she answered, staring intently at the address. She'd never even heard of it before.
"Can you get there?"
"Who is this?" she asked once again, aggravation in her tone as she highlighted the address on the e-mail.
"Someone who regrets what they did sixteen years ago."
"This is L," she said, automatically. "Am I correct?"
"You'll have to wait and find out. I look forward to catching up with you."
Static pushed through the line, trying to break up contact.
"Wait-."
The line went dead, and returned to it's usual busy tone. Jade grunted, turning the phone off and throwing it down on the bed. That was L...
She quickly tore off a piece of scrap paper and wrote down the address, just before her laptop's power went dead. She left it to charge, grabbing a sweater and heading to the door. She raced out into the hallway, jogging down it and towards the elevator. Kimi took a step out of it, bags of groceries in her arms, "Oh, just in time!" she exclaimed, a big smile on her face. "Help me carry these-." Jade was already in the elevator and gone, leaving a clueless Kimi.
Once outside, Jade got a taxi as fast as she could and handed the driver the address she had written down.
Jade looked out the window, seeing the usual things occurring. Bullying, the bums, the smokers, druggies...everything.
'Our world's not perfect,' she reminded herself, as the taxi neared her desired destination.
She was positive this was L. She could just tell...
Paying the fee as quick as possible, snatching the address back and climbing out, Jade headed towards the tall building in front of her. She checked the address again, looking around her surroundings. She didn't even know this part of town.
Without a second thought she pulled the doors open to the building, and made her way to the elevator. Tapping her foot impatiently, she watched the floor numbers flash. The elevator stopped at the top floor, opening it's door for her to step out. And once she did, the doors closed again. She walked down the empty halls, scanning the numbers on all the doors. At the very end of the hall she found the room she was looking for. She took a deep breath, knocking on the wood of the door.
No answer.
She knocked again, and again, received no answer.
Maybe it wasn't L.
She was about to leave, after coming all this way, until the door slowly creaked open. From what she could tell, it was pitch dark inside the room, with nothing but a dim light. Maybe from...a laptop, perhaps.
She pushed the door open further, stepping inside, only to have the door close behind her.
"It's nice to see you again." a voice spoke from the darkness. The voice was almost familiar... The voice she heard playing in her head sounded younger. This voice seemed like a more matured version. Was it really...
"Best friend."