Author's Note
Alright, here's chapter 3.
Chapter 3
Munch, munch, munch
Mello couldn't concentrate. Taking another bite of his chocolate bar, he leaned over to look at the trash can behind his backpack. Halfway full with chocolate wrappers. What a big surprise, he thought with a snort. Recently, he'd been eating a lot of chocolate. It wasn't like it wasn't the norm for him; he usually ate a bunch every day. So I guess you could call him addicted. He took another bite of his addiction, lost in thought. Recently, he'd been eating more than usual though. Ever since he found out that boys name, Matt, he had eaten more than he normally did. "Matt…" He said aloud. He smiled and almost laughed a little. What a perfect name it was for him. It fit him perfectly. It just looked like that would be a name for him. It sounded so casual…so…
"Mello? Are you in here?"
Mello recognized that voice. Smiling, he turned his head to look at the person peeking through the door frame. "June," He said. "How nice to see you." He got up and went over to the brunette.
She returned the warm smile. "I wanted to see you again so badly," she said. "And I thought since we haven't gone out for a while, we could today. "Or now, since this is my free class. I just had science, and I have the next 40 minutes to do whatever I want. Of course, I should be studying. This time is obviously meant to be a study hall. But I'd rather be with you, Mello." She looked up with those puppy eyes she knew he loved. Mello stared into those big, brown eyes, and she stared up at her boyfriend's blue eyes.
"Fine," Mello said reluctantly. "I should be studying too, but I can't resist those eyes."
"Yay!!!!! Let's go outside to our tree!"
Mello knew what tree she was talking about. It was the same tree that he and June had played underneath when they were little kids. "Ok, let's go." They went out the door, hand and hand. On the way, June started asking questions.
"Mello, what happened to your roommate? You haven't said a word about him."
"Oh," Mello sighed. "Well I found out his name is Matt. But he's been ignoring me for the past few hours. We both decided to skip class today, and we sat on the bed to talk, so we could get to know each other better. And I mentioned you, and he started not saying anything. Then he left, but right before he did, he said his name is Matt. And I haven't talked to him since. I went out to look for him about an hour ago, but when I found him, he wouldn't speak to me."
"Really? That's odd." June looked at him with concern in her eyes. "Then what?"
"Well I don't' really remember exactly, it wasn't that important. I just left and went back to my room to read. And then after an hour you came in." Lies. Lies, lies, lies. All of that was wrong. That wasn't it. He remembered exactly what happened:
"Matt..." he said. Mello got up and opened the door that the redheaded roommate had gone through. "Wait!" He shouted. "Come back Matt!" he ran around Wammy's Orphanage, searching for the boy.
Out of breath, he stopped and decided to head to the kitchen for an energizing chocolate bar. On his way, he passed by his math classroom, the one he was supposed to be in right now. He stopped. It was kinda funny; he was skipping class with Matt. Like he was skipping for Matt. To be with Matt. The thought of that made him smile. Wait, he thought as his smile disappeared. To be with him? Why did he wanna be with him? If it was anyone else, he wouldn't have any second thoughts that it was that he wanted to be friends with Matt. But it wasn't anyone else. It was Matt. The boy with the pretty green eyes. The boy who looked pretty cute when he blushed..."Whoa," he said aloud. First he was thinking of him and why he had left. But now he was thinking that Matt was...Cute? What was wrong with him? This made no sense to him. He liked June, and that was it. No one else. Especially not Matt, who happened to be another guy.
He was probably just a little confused. He'd never had a real friend before. The only person who had ever really dared to come near him was June. Everyone knew about his temper. One wrong word and you ended up on the infirmary. To put it simply, he got pissed very easily. "...What was I doing again?" he thought for a moment. "Oh yeah..." He was getting a snack. He walked the rest of the way, the whole time struggling to keep Matt off his mind. Which was kinda hard when halfway there, he heard everyone in a classroom talking about how there was gonna be a new student named Matt in their class. Mello finally to the kitchen door. He opened it, walked inside, closed the door, and looked over by the fridge. Crap. It's Matt. Mello blushed at the sight. It wasn't just Matt standing there or something. It was Matt reaching up to the higher cabinet above the fridge, and how his arms were stretched above him made his black and white shirt go up a little. Just enough skin was showing that Mello could see the pale, milky-whiteness of his skin. This made him think of what it would feel like to touch that smooth skin; to feel its softness beneath his fingertips...
STOP, he thought. I cannot keep thinking this way. I can't like him as more than a friend. I can't like anyone other than June. That would be wrong, and it could never happen. I don't like him as more than a friend. It must just be a thing that happens when you have a new friend. After all, he'd never had one, so how could he know. The closest he's ever been to anyone was with June. Matt turned around. He jumped at the sight of Mello. "Uh..."
Mello suddenly was angry. He clenched his fists, and went up to Matt. He put his hand on Matt's shoulders, and pushed him up against the wall, making Matt drop whatever he was holding. Mello leaned in close. "Listen here," He said through clenched teeth. "Why the hell did you run away this morning, and then when I tried to get you to come back, you just didn't listen?"
Matt was silent. Mello could see through the goggles framing his eyes. Those pretty green eyes that he had said sparkled in the light. Had he really said that to him? He noticed that Matt's face was flushing, and just then Mello realized how close his face was to Matt's. Matt's
face looked blank, but his eyes looked scared. Not just scared though, something else was there, too. Just like this morning, when they were in the bed together. Mello's face turned bright red at how strange that had sounded. At least he didn't say that out loud. Matt would abandon him if he ever thought Mello liked him more than a friend, even if it was a lie. Mello snapped out of his thoughts. Matt was still staring, with that look in eyes. Mello stared back. He saw those small lips on the redhead. What was weird was that Mello had the strange urge to feel those soft lips on his own. Mello immediately pulled away from the boy, as soon as that thought crossed his mind. Matt didn't move. He just stared. Mello turned around and left, leaving the redhead alone in the kitchen. While he walked back, he thought about what happened. Why did he want to kiss him? That couldn't be normal. He didn't even know much about him. He would just have to play it like he only wanted to be friends. Or he could avoid him for the time being. That might work. He might stop having those bad thoughts about Matt. But he couldn't tell June about any of that. He smiled at June as they walked up to their tree. Sitting beneath it, in the shadow, June rested he head on his shoulder and sighed happily. "I'm glad we came here Mello." Mello sighed too.
"Yeah, me too." But even as her head was on his shoulder, he didn't think of June. He thought of
Matt. Of Matt's head on his shoulder, not June's. Of Matt's smooth voice, not June's perky one. Mello sighed, and got up to his feet.
June looked up. "Mello?" she said, worried. "What's wrong?"
"It's just..." he began."I...Remembered something I have to do." He pulled June to her feet and faced her. "Sorry, June. See ya later." He walked back to the doors of the orphanage, and opened them. Taking one last look at the brunette standing alone, he sighed and went through the door. He made his way back to his room. As soon as he got there, he closed the door and flopped down on his bed, on his stomach. He rested his chin on his pillow. "Ugg...What am I gonna do?" He groaned. "This is all so annoying! And confusing!" He pounded his fists on the bed mattress, and then grabbed a chocolate bar. He took a bite of his addiction, and started to calm down. Mello thought for a while. "Well...There's no doubt about it..." He definitely had a small crush on Matt. There was no other explanation for the things he'd been thinking of lately. "What a problem." He grabbed the Bible and cross he always kept on his bedside stand. He sat up,
cross-legged, and set the book on his lap. He flipped to the section he'd been looking for. He read it. He sighed. "That definitely sais it's forbidden." He was talking about gay couples. He picked up his crossed, and squeezed it in his hand. He looked down at it and closed his eyes. "Hello." Wow, he thought. He hadn't prayed in a while. "Uh…I know I haven't prayed in a while, but I think that this would be a perfect time. I know that in the Bible it says that it's forbidden, but I don't think that I can live without being able to…well you know." Love him, he thought. "So… I was hoping that even though I think I might, you won't send me to Hell or anything like that. It's not my fault. If I could, I wouldn't have it this way."
He opened his eyes and let go of the cross. That should do it.
"I didn't know you were religious, Mello," A voice behind him said.
Mello knew who it was by the voice. How could he not know? That smooth voice was hard to miss when you heard it.
"Matt." He said while turning. He stared right at him, hoping it might make him uncomfortable so he would just go away. "What do you want?"
Matt looked taken aback by the tone of voice Mello had used. "Well…Never mind." He mumbled as he looked away, and put his left hand behind his back.
Mello wondered what he was hiding. "Matt," He said, sounding curious. "What's that behind your back?"
Matt made a break for it, to the door. But Mello leaped towards him, and tackled him to the ground. He reached up and locked the door.
"Mello?" Matt said. "This is kind of…a…awkward position we're in…" Matt's face flushed to a pink.
Mello looked down, and immediately got off, blushing too. He had been on top of Matt, legs pinned on either sides of him, while he was sitting on his stomach. There was an awkward silence as Matt got up too. Mello scanned his eyes around them, searching for whatever was behind Matt's back a little earlier. His search was successful. He bent over to pick up the 2 chocolate bars near them. "Matt," He started. "Is this what you were hiding earlier? Chocolate?"
Matt looked at his feet, mumbling something while blushing.
"...What?" Mello said, confused.
Matt looked up. "I said, I got it for you. From the kitchen."
Mello smiled. "How'd you know I love chocolate?"
"Well I saw that the trash can was full of wrappers. So I guessed that you liked them…"
"I do," He said, blushing a little, too.
Matt handed the chocolate to Mello. "Well…here…"
Mello took the chocolate from him, starting to unwrap the milk chocolate goodness. He smiled warmly. "Thanks, Matty!" As soon as he said that, he stopped unwrapping. He forced himself not to make eye contact with 'Matty'.
"Did…you just call me…Matty? The redhead looked up at Mello.
"Um…well…yeah…is that okay? Can I call you Matty?"
"Well, yeah, I guess you can. No one's ever called me that before, though. But you can, if you want to."
"Okay, I will. And I guess you can call me Mel…if you wanna…"
"Yeah, I think I'm gonna call you that from now on."
"You know what's kinda funny?" The blonde was finished blushing, and now was nibbling on his chocolate.
"What?" Matt replied.
"Well, you only came here this morning, and I feel like I've known you for a lot longer than I have." I also feel weird having a little crush on you only after a few hours, he added silently in his head.
Matt laughed a little. "Yeah, funny how things happen like that. I feel the same way."
Mello laughed, too. "Well, come on. Let's go to our next classes. We've already skipped like half of our classes. Lemme see your schedule." Mello put his hand out, showing that he wanted Matt's schedule.
"Um okay…" Matt dug through the pockets of his dark blue, baggy jeans. He pulled out an orange slip of paper, and put it in Mello's waiting hand.
The blonde quickly scanned the paper, and silently cheered. Handing the paper back, he said, "It looks like we both have gym, reading, Latin, and our free time together."
"That's great!" Matt said, taking the paper and pocketing it. "So what time is it now?"
Mello looked at the digital clock. "10:37. That means it's our free time."
"So…what can we do in our free time?"
"Anything, except leave Wammy's. We can go outside, but we can't leave the school grounds. So what do ya wanna do?"
"Well how about you give me a tour, since I have no idea where anything is."
"What?" He said confused. "Didn't Roger give you a tour this morning when he pulled you out of the room?"
Matt shook his head. "No, he just wanted to talk to me about my room. He said that you had a temper, and if I ever got hurt or didn't wanna stay in this room, I should talk to him." He snorted. "Like I'd ever wanna leave you."
Mello couldn't hold back a smile at that last comment. "Yeah, he's right. I do have a temper. So you might not wanna get me mad. I might hurt you, and that's the last thing I want to happen." Next thing he knew, Mello had 2 arms wrapped around him.
"You're the best friend a guy could have, Mel."
Mello hugged the redhead back. "Same with you, Matty," He said, happy.
Author's Note
Well there's chapter 3. Uh....Review? Rate? Fave? Please?
If you review, feel free to give me criticism, I can take it. And once again, if you have any ideas, feel free to tell me, and I might use them if I like them.
