Chapter 4
Matt was wearing only his jeans when he came out of the bath room. He shambled into the living room but Mello wasn't there anymore. Matt heard noise from the kitchen. He went there.
"I thought you might be hungry…" Mello said to him putting a plate onto the table. He sat down eating a new chocolate bar.
Matt walked to the table. There was a filling, delicious looking sandwich on the plate.
"You made this?" he asked looking at Mello and then the sandwich.
"Yes, 'cause I thought you might be hungry", Mello replied simply. "Aren't you then?"
"I am", Matt said sitting down too. "But you shouldn't have to…"
"You're my guest, Matt", Mello said laughing a little bit. "And it's not so hard to make one sandwich. I eat pretty much only chocolate but I was prepared to that you'd like to eat something else. So I made a sandwich for you."
Matt took a bite of the sandwich. It tasted delicious – just as expected. Matt ate the sandwich pretty fast. Mello was watching him and eating the chocolate bar of his at the same time. They didn't talk anything for a while. Matt was a little bit embarrassed about that he had cried in front of Mello a moment ago. Luckily Mello didn't tease or remind him of it. Matt had just been so happy to see Mello and be with him again.
"Mello… Why didn't you take me with you when you left Wammy's House back then?" Matt asked suddenly interrupting the silence. He had already finished his sandwich.
Mello sighed. "So many bad things have happened to me after I left Wammy's…" he said glumly. "I didn't want you to go through the same stuff… After all – we were just kids back then."
Matt stared at the surface of the table. He knew what Mello's point was. He didn't want to get Matt in danger.
"Why are you asking my help now then?" he asked.
"Well… We are both grown up now", Mello said. "We are free to do whatever we want. Things are different now. You don't have to help me, Matt… But I thought you might be… Well, perhaps we can now take care of ourselves better than years ago. I was only kid when I left Wammy's House. I couldn't take care of another person back then. But I'm an adult now. Now I can. Now I can take care of you, Matt."
Matt raised his gaze up to Mello's face after hearing that. He saw Mello blushing a little bit. Maybe Mello didn't believe that he could say something like that out loud – to Matt – and that made him blush. Matt thought it was sweet. Mello looked so funny when he blushed. And it was a nice thing to say that he wanted to take care of Matt.
"Thanks for the sandwich", Matt said smiling a little bit. He stood up.
Mello stood up too biting his chocolate bar.
"It's getting late… Maybe we should go to sleep…" Matt said. "Let's start with our own Kira investigation tomorrow, ok?"
"Ok, Mattie", Mello replied. "Do you mind sleeping on the couch in the living room? I'll bring you a blanket."
"That's fine by me", Matt said.
Mello brought the blanket to Matt who lay down on the couch. After saying good nights to each other Mello went to his bedroom. It felt so good to see Matt again. He hoped that they would soon catch Kira together.
We will, he said to himself. We make a perfect team.