Matt's pov 20 minutes later

"Mello dinner is over where is Coco? I thought you said she was at her table." I said while looking around the room for Coco, whose haircut actually upset me. Her hair was so pretty the color and the way it had seemed to flow like liquid and surround her like a cloud. I wouldn't admit it but I thought she was pretty; she was even starting to get boobs. In a year or two maybe she could...scratch that she's eleven and I don't go for girls I don't like anything but video games…right? "Mello are you sure she's here? Let's go look around, maybe she finished early and went to the room. If anything happens to her Watari will kill us so come on." I said while I dragged Mello out and sent him to search the rooms. I began searching the halls when I saw Amber and her group heading towards the dinner room, late like normal. Wait a second was that blood on Amber's shirt and her knuckles? "Hey Amber, what's up? Get in a fight? Come on you know you want to tell me." I said pretending once again to be the bad boy gamer who enjoyed a good fight now and then that I was too worried to actually be at the moment. "Hey Matty-kins, yah you could say we got in a fight although the kid didn't stand a chance against us and now she knows that. Stupid bit** thought she could mess with me, well if she wakes up I think she'll know better." Amber said with the I'll tell you anything I love you so much look. "Who'd you get? Maybe Mel's and I will go make her hurt a bit more." I said while the pieces began to fit together. "Coco, she's just down the hall to the left. Casey and Mika knocked her out first so she couldn't touch me. Your more than welcome to mess her up some more just don't rat me out k." she said while fear momentarily flashed in her eyes. "Yah now go eat or you'll be the first suspected." I said before walking off towards Coco. My dear Coco if only we had paid better attention to you. That's when I saw her. She was laying there in a pool or red that was both her hair and blood. She had gotten her bottom lip spilt open, several bruises in various areas on her exposed skin. She had a black eye and possibly a broken nose. Her right arm was broken but the bone wasn't exposed so that was good. I quickly pulled out my phone and called Mello. "Mello, I found her. I...I...found out where she went to. Amber…got her out of the room and down to a hallway. Mello I don't know what to do, she might be dead. She's...Mello just come here." I said with a voice on the verge of cracking. I squatted down next to her and kissed her forehead softly. "Coco…I'm so sorry. Please forgive me." Mello run up and his face turned white when he saw her. "Matt I'll go get Roger, I….don't I am gonna go get him now." Mello said before running off again. I looked at her fragile face and wiped some of the blood of her face, that's when I noticed the right eye, which had the black eye, was bleeding. Not a good sign. "Oh sh**." Roger walked up with some nurses and a stretcher which I helped her onto. "It was Amber and her gang. She said it was payback for Coco getting Amber before." I said as I walked with him and Mello back towards the office.

Coco spent the next week unconscious in the hospital wing. Her right arm was broken but almost healed for some reason already. Her lip was perfect as was all the other various bruises again. Although her right eye was damaged and she had a medical pad on it which was wrapped around her head several times in a eye patch type fashion. She had not waked up once and Watari suspected she was comatose. Amber and the group who had got her like that had gotten 4 weeks detention and had been found bloodied up the day after Coco had been found. Coco might be blind in her right eye if she…when she woke up.

~Coco's pov~

You had been half conscious all week and were still in some pain although most was gone. Your right arm and eye still hurt and you felt a pain spike as someone changed the bandages on your right arm. You whimpered slightly and slowly opened your left eye. "Coco! Are you ok? I am so sorry I didn't keep you right by me. Matt found you all…all...you know, Amber got it dished to her though by Matt and I. We kind of feel responsible for you now. When you get better I want you to hang out with us more ok? Be our friend and sit with us and all…" Mello said with a faint smile on his face. "Thank you mello. Thank you. My eye…is it ok? I mean I'm supposed to be all tough and stuff but is it gonna be ok?" I asked trying to hold back tears that threatened to fall. After a minute Mello said "Coco, we don't know if it will be ok. You might be blind in that eye or have to wear that eye patch thing like you have on now for a while." Somehow when the words came from him they cut through all your walls and you found yourself sobbing at the truth of the damage. Mello softly stroked your hand as you cried, never saying anything and ignoring the nurse who tried to get him to move for a minute. You sobbed and gave in to the darkness that had been with you since your parents had died and you felt yourself return to the suicidal stage you had been in the year before. You stopped crying and slowly shut your eyes on the light the world could offer you.

You got out of the hospital wing the next day but you had to have the eye patch thing on all the time. It had been a week and mello and Matt no longer hung out with you since you never really ate and never said anything. Watari had told you that you were being adopted but you didn't care. Nothing mattered anymore because you were probably blind in one eye and you didn't even have any friends anymore. You packed your bag and headed out towards their car while they had a long chat with Watari.

Mello pov

I couldn't stand it. Coco had gotten so silent and lost all emotion and seemed like a zombie ever since she had gotten out of the hospital wing. Matt and you had stopped sitting with her because it was secretly killing each of you to sit by the girl who acted like this when it was probably your faults. If only you had been there with her she would be smiling and acting like she had before whenever you two had walked into the same room as her before the Amber incident. Amber and her friends had dropped out of the Mello love club and you knew it had hurt them to see her go from her vibrant, animated self to the lackluster, lifeless self. At least she was being adopted by some people who could probably protect her and make her happy. You watched silently with matt from your window as she climbed into the car and stared out, not knowing that her seeing you two standing there on the verge of crying while looking out at her would start the 3 month long process of her becoming herself again and more. She would be like a flower that had always only half bloomed to not blooming and then surprising you by becoming the prettiest perfectly bloomed flower in existence. Eternal Bleeding, never feeling, to heal that takes someone to care and start the fire and passion that is love. Unknown you had began to close the wounds she had which had caused her pain and left her bleeding. You had showed her that you cared by standing there staring out at her as she sat there and cried as she left.

~Summed up version of the next year for matt and Mello~

The pain had slipped away after a month and Coco had became a faint memory as various competitions keep you fighting to maintain your ranks and possibly even go up a rank or two. Amber had not forgotten though, she had committed suicide a week after Coco left. She became known as A, and was remembered since she had been ahead of even Near. Although every time you walked into the office you expected her to walk out with her red hair flowing round and behind her. After B left Near became first, Mello second and Matt third. You both began to hate Near more and soon Mello began a very open hating on him and it was only made worse by Nears emotionless attitude about it acting as if he could care less. Coco still entered your dreams and you both realized you loved the strange younger girl.

Will they ever see Coco again? (yah I know they leave Wammy's house at around 15 but I'm changing it in my story.) Who will win her heart if they do? What will Coco be like? Read on to find these answers.