"Okay, I think that's all of them." Kenji mumbled to himself as he put the blood stained utensils on another surgical table but this one was used specifically for medical instruments. He took off his mask and gloves and threw them into a nearby garbage bin then walked back to retrieve the dish of bullets to throw them away too. In the dish sat seven bullets whose sizes were thankfully not too large to cause severe damage to the teen but would still refrain her from using that arm for the next two months.
"Now to tell the others…" He left the back room and went into the living room where the others snapped their heads in his direction.
"Is she fine?" Wild asked fearing for the worst.
"Yes, she's doing quite well actually. All her vitals are in check and she's due to wake up in about an hour. But I must warn you, be careful of her arm and don't cause further damage to it. Her arm will heal in around t-"
"Two months from now. Yeah, yeah, we get it; you could leave now." Mello cut in and shooed Kenji out the door before he could say anything else more.
"But my ba-!" Kenji yelled outside the door before the door opened and his duffle bag was thrown into his face. Why do I even help them if they treat me like this? He huffed and scuffled away concealing himself in the darkness of the night.
Mello returned to his position leaning against the wall opposite Wild and seemed to be mirroring her stance. Tired of waiting for Helena to awaken, he informed the group that he was going to sleep and started to walk to a door just beyond the kitchen.
"Goodnight!" Wild yelled looking at his back.
"Hnnn." Mello replied and the slam of a door being opened and closed could be heard.
After forty minutes, the sleep deprived Wild slumped down onto the floor and leaned her back against the wall desperately struggling to stay awake. I want to see Helena for myself. Matt was keeping himself up by playing with his PSP and noticed Wild trying to keep herself up.
"You can go to sleep, you know." Matt told her and she strained to open her eyes wide enough to look at him, but did nonetheless. She wanted to go to sleep but there were two problems; the first being that she wanted to be the first person to see Helena, and the second being that there were no rooms available for her.
"I couldn't if I wanted to." She admitted.
"Why?"
"I don't have a room." She blushed, embarrassed. He didn't understand why she couldn't just go in a room and sleep, there were plenty around. At least five of the rooms in the hideout were bedrooms.
"Just go in one and sleep." That sounded like a good idea to her but Wild didn't want to accidently go into a wrong room and possibly disturb Mello while he was sleeping. She already knew too well how scary he was when he got mad, and it scared her to the bone.
"But I just got here; I don't know where anything is." Matt sighed, paused his game, and told Wild to follow him. He gave her a tour of the house and informed her on where all the essentials were such as tableware or extra rolls of toilet paper.
"Here's a room to stay in." Wild opened the door and saw the room to be painted dark blue with a bed on the far left with white bed sheets, a window next to it, and another opposite it. She walked over to the bed and the minute her head hit the pillow, she was unconscious. Matt chuckled at the sight. I guess Helena's influencing someone…
"Hello?" Helena's voice called from the living room and Matt silently closed the door and walked back into the living room.
"Hello? Is anybod-oh! There you are! I thought you guys left or something." She said relieved.
"No, they just went to sleep." Matt sat down on the burgundy chair once more and Helena sat in the olive-colored one. Matt picked up his PSP and was about to resume the game until Helena interrupted him from doing so.
"How come you didn't go to sleep too?"
"I wasn't tired." Helena looked at a clock that hung above the kitchen which read: five thirty-two a.m. and turned her head to examine Matt's face for any signs for fatigue. He hid any hints well and she couldn't find anything to call him out on, especially with those goggles on. Narrowing her eyes into slits, she grew more suspicious of him and prepared herself to send him to bed the minute she saw him getting sleepy.
"So what game are you playing?" She asked and he glanced over to her then back to the console. No one was ever interested in his games. Not even the kids back at Whammys, so why was she asking?
"Uncharted… why?" Matt heard a gasp from Helena, quickly looked in her direction, and was found by a surprised expression plastered her face with her right hand on her cheek.
"CAN I PLAY?!" Before he could say his answer, she ran over to him, took his PSP and returned back to her seat. Matt was forced to get up to take his PSP back but paused when he saw how she flew past the level and how much fun she was having.
I've never met someone who likes what I like… Matt thought.
"Uhhh… you… like this game?" He asked curiously but already knew the answer.
"This is my favorite game! Of course I do!" Matt smiled at her feverous behavior and the fact that he just found a gaming companion and rival. An idea then popped into his head.
"Well sorry to break it to you, but nobody can beat me at Uncharted." He spoke shrugging his shoulders. Helena paused the game and turned her head towards him in a creepy manner; Matt smirked.
Oh this should be good.
"What. Did. You. Say? Helena widened her eyes at the challenge.
"You can't beat me."
"Yes I can!"
"Then prove it."
"I will!"
Helena and Matt switched off between playing the levels and whoever had completed it in the fastest time would get the gratification of being winner. Their little competition soon turned into goofing off and pure silliness and before they knew it, it was already morning.
Sun rays intruded in the room and lit up the furniture into clear, bright shades and hues of their dyed cloths as well as the other items that littered the room. The sleeping bodies of Mello and Wild were also illuminated in a display of light and highlighted their facial features.
Wild woke up first due to certain two people in the living room who were causing a ruckus. She heard some muffled shouts of excitement and loud laughter which irritated her ears.Shut. Up! Wild opened her door with a slam and was going teach those two a lesson but it woke up an angry blond who resided across from her room. Mello slammed his door open as well with a tired and sleep deprived expression casted on his face, along with struggling to open his eyes. Although he looked tired, when he spoke, he sounded unlike anything like it.
"Would you shut the fuck up!?" He yelled throughout the house. Wild's face was fear stricken and attempted to go back into her room but was caught before she could.
Uh oh. He's mad!
"And where do you think you're going?"Mello asked Wild who froze.
"Back to sleep. I'm tired." She lied. Wild planned on sitting on her bed and waiting a while until Mello cooled down and it was safe to come back out. But now that plan was ruined.Damn my luck…
"Oh no you're not. You woke me up so you have to go buy me chocolate." Mello walked over to her and propped an arm against the doorframe to support himself, all the while towering over her. Chocolate…?
"One; I'm not your servant so I don't have to get anything for you, and two; I don't know this neighborhood at all so I'd get lost." Mello grew even angrier at her defiance.
"Then I guess you better find somewhere else to live." Wild's dirt-colored eyes widened at the statement.
"W-What?"
"You heard me. Get me chocolate or get out." Mello reiterated. This wasn't fair! She didn't have to do anything for him and here he was acting all high and mighty. What I'd give to throw him off his throne. Is that it now? I'm playing soldier and you're playing king? Faced with no other choice, Wild agreed to buy Mello his stupid chocolate.
"That a good girl." Mello teased and ruffled her hair. I'm not a dog either!
"Shut up Mello." Wild walked out of the room leaving behind a smirking ex-Mafioso and entered into the living room to see Matt and Helena huddled over a PSP laughing.
"You guys can't shut up for a couple of hours can you?" Wild complained completely oblivious to Helena's health at this point. The latter tried to answer but couldn't control her fit of laughter and caused Matt to laugh more when she attempted to explain.
"I-I-I-I wa-was playing and-and there w-was an ug-ugly monster a-and i-it looked so-so ug-ugly that I-I couldn't ev-even beat it bec-because it looked s-so bad." Wild shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose with her fingers.
"Really? That's what made you laugh so much?" Helena continued to laugh and shook her hands frantically.
"But it was so ugly!" Wild deadpanned and started to walk away but returned when she remembered Mello's request.
"Hey Matt, do you know where to get chocolate?" Matt waited until he regained his composure to begin to speak.
"Mello?" Wild nodded. "Well there's a store down the road so check there." Wild thanked Matt and dragged Helena with her to the store but not until Helena wrapped the majority of her face with a scarf to keep from being recognized. Wild was the only safe one out of the four whose face wasn't broadcast on the news and wanted by police or Kira supporters.
At the convenience store, there was a whole aisle dedicated to chocolate goods and Wild was at a loss of words for what to pick. She was about to pick anything until Helena handed her a Hershey's milk chocolate bar.
"How do you know he likes these?" Wild asked, confusion written on her face.
"I saw Hershey's wrappers on the floor and Matt told me that they were Mello's." She answered. Wild shrugged and bought it anyway with the money she took out of Mello's pants earlier while he was in the bathroom.
The walk back was pleasant and refreshing since the day before they cheated death and now, they enjoyed the breeze that went through their clothes and hair. Wild walked slightly ahead of Helena having the house in sight and grinned when she thought of hiding Mello's chocolate. That idea along with her grin died the second she saw the front door broken barely hanging on its hinges.
"Oh my god." She covered her mouth with a hand; widening her eyes. Helena looked over at her.
"What?" She then caught sight of the hideout and gaped at what she saw also widening her eyes. "What happened?!"
They ran into the house and the living room appeared to be rampaged as well was the kitchen and other rooms with the boys nowhere to be seen.
"Matt!" Helena begun to shout throughout the house. "Matt!" Wild followed her example and begun to yell Mello's name in every crevice, nook and cranny she could find, dropping the chocolate bar in the process.
"Mello!"
Wild then found droplets of blood on the floor and called Helena over to see them too.
"Oh my god." Helena gasped. Both girls felt tears forming in their eyes that stung but managed to suppress them. What happened?! They thought.
Helena ran outside to see where they'd gone but found no clues; Wild followed suit. The street went in two directions; down the road or up the road, and if they wanted to find the boys fast, they'd have to split up.
"If we want to find them before something happens, we have to split up." Helena told Wild.
"What?! NO! What happens when one of us finds them and the other gets lost?!" Wild was panicking at this point.
"First, breathe and calm down. Panicking won't help find them. Second, if you don't find them in five hours, then come back to the house and believe that I found them and am trying to save them. Okay?"
"O-ok-okay." Both girls stared at each other for one last time and began to run in their chosen directions, Wild up the road and Helena down the road, with one thought going through their minds.
Good luck.
