AN: This chapter is just a series of flashbacks from Megan's life.
Megan was ten years old when her parents died in a plane crash. Since she had no other family to go to she was sent to live at an orphanage. She stayed there for three days before someone from Wammy's came and got her. She was still slightly confused as to why an orphanage all the way over in England was so interested in her. Her current caretaker Amy told her it was an honor to be going to Wammy's, that it was known to only take in the brightest of minds. This too confused her. It's not that she wasn't smart because she was but not enough to go live in some place with a bunch of orphaned geniuses. It should be interesting enough nonetheless she thought as she packed her bags.
She had only been at Wammy's for three days and already she was in trouble. All she did was tell a girl not to touch her stuff if she wished to keep her limbs but apparently threats aren't allowed here in the slightest. Currently she was sitting in a chair outside of an office which gave her the impression of being sent to the principal's at school. Beside her was a particular looking boy. He had unruly black hair, strange red eyes, and was sitting with his knees pulled to his chest eating what appeared to be strawberry jam out of the jar.
"You must be new here," the boy commented, "Otherwise you would know better than to stare at me like that."
"Yeah I just came here three days ago and if you don't like people staring at you oddly then don't act like such a freak." She says aggravated.
The boy chuckles which pissed Megan off even more. She was so not in the mood to be dealing with an asshole. "You have guts, I like that. Most here are too terrified to even look at me half the time."
And now said asshole has achieved making her feel bad. "I'm sorry to hear that. It must suck."
He shrugged. "Sometimes I guess. I'm Beyond Birthday by the way."
"Megan Kimblee."
"Well it's nice to meet you Miss Megan Kimblee." He says giving her exaggerated bow.
She had to giggle at that. "Nice to meet you too Beyond Birthday sir." She says in her best British voice.
That's how Megan Kimblee and Beyond Birthday became best friends. After that the two became inseparable. You would never see one without the other.
A fifteen year old Megan waited impatiently for the new arrival of kids that would be coming today. It was punishment for when B and her snuck out to go to the movies the other day. At least she wasn't stuck cleaning the bathrooms like he was. Still though she didn't along well with kids and she would have to be babysitting three all of which are under the age of seven.
When the limo pulled up and the three came out she felt a tad better. Among the three was a little blond girl, or perhaps it was a boy she wasn't sure, in bright red leather pants with matching jacket who had a black, glittery, boa around their neck. Next to the blond was the most adorable little red head that was ignoring everything playing his Gameboy. Last was a little brunette boy who was crying.
"This is fucking retarded!" The little blond screamed stopping their foot. "I want my chocolate! Give me my chocolate!"
"Not yet Mello. You can have some if you behave for Megan when she gives you the tour." Roger tells the kid, calling attention to Megan.
All three kids looked over at her so she awkwardly waved to them all feeling like an idiot. The blond huffs a whatever before Roger hands them all over to her. "Now I expect you to take good care of them Megan. If you don't I will know."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever I just want to get this over with. Come on little ones we're going to explore the lovely building which is Wammy's."
A few hours later the girl was in tears of laughter as Mello, who she found out is a boy, pushed poor Zach, the crying brunette from earlier, down and stole his piece of chocolate. Apparently the kid was addicted. She instantly fell in love with the little boy and had already demanded that he and the adorable red head, Matt, become her little brothers. They were the cutest little guys ever and they made her laugh.
"Come on Mello be nice now or else I'll get blamed for it." Megan says between fits of laughter. Zach glared at her clearly not amused that his pain was making her so gleeful.
"I'm not going to take this anymore! I'm gonna go tell Roger!" He screams before running off. Well attempting to at least. Before he got far Matt stuck his foot out and tripped him. The poor boy got up determinedly though and went in search for the older man he felt would save him. This didn't faze Megan much, she knew there wasn't anything Roger could do about it. So with the annoying kid gone she lead the other two to hers and B's secret hang out after swearing them to secrecy.
Beyond was already there reading a book smelling strongly of Mr. Clean. At first he was pretty ticked that she didn't inform him of it at first but once he got to know the two little boys he didn't mind in the slightest. He never got as close to them as Megan but he did enjoy their company.
The sobs continued on full force as she sat in her room. Megan felt as if her whole life was just torn apart which in a way it was. She had just lost her best friend. He had left her behind. It killed her. Matt and Mello had tried countless times to try to get her to cheer up just a little but failed. She was too depressed to be cheered up.
The day before B had informed her that he was sick of always being second best to a man he never met before and left the orphanage for good, destroying all evidence that he was ever there before sneaking off into the night. She knew he was sinking deeper into depression but they had plans to leave together. It made her feel betrayed.
He had at least left her a letter explaining everything and promised that they will still keep in contact. It just wasn't the same though.
It was a beautiful day so Megan decided to go for a walk around the orphanage. It's been over a year since Beyond Birthday had left and she had slowly been getting better. After going around the place three times she grew tired and sat down under the cover of her favorite willow tree. It was under there that she saw a mess of unruly black hair on top of a boy with horrible posture. Not even thinking Megan jumped up and launched herself at the male.
"You're back!" she screams excitedly jumping upon the man's back and squeezing him tightly.
"Uh do I know you?" he asks looking up at her. She was caught by surprise when she found two onyx eyes instead of the rubies she was expecting.
She let go of the man she had confused as B embarrassed. "Oh I sincerely apologize sir. I thought you were someone else."
"Oh ok." The man replies awkwardly.
"I really am sorry." She apologizes again blushing.
"It's fine."
It was then she saw Mr. Wammy which was a shock since the man was hardly around and she had only met him once before. He didn't even acknowledge her just called out "Come now L we have work to do."
The man in front of her nodded and cast her one last glance before joining the old man. She stared at the two retreating figures even more embarrassed. That was the great L that she had heard so much about. The same L that unknowingly cause B so much trouble. Not to mention how much he resembled B. The only difference was the eyes.
After that she would see him around occasionally, each time she would start blushing furiously and leave. That is until one day her approached her. Before long she found herself enjoying his company. He was so awkwardly adorable it was if he never had a friend before which she would later find out was true.
L had been staying at Wammy's for the past three months and Megan and him had grown close in that short time. He found it hard to ignore her and actually liked having her around. It was a different feeling for him but he liked it nonetheless.
They were sitting under her favorite tree, the willow, when she began asking him personal questions making him uneasy.
"Aw come on Lawlicup. Don't be so shy." She teases using the nickname she gave him. When he had told her what his last name was she loved it and wanted to just call him that but he made her swear never to repeat it to anyone so she didn't instead she made a nickname incorporating it.
"I don't like these questions."
"I was only asking who your first kiss was. It can't be that bad." She persists.
"I never had one." He admits softly.
Megan was shocked by this but then again wasn't. He was an attractive guy but he was socially retarded for the most part and not to mention he didn't trust easily. She was surprised she knew him as well as she did but then again she was very persistent. That's when an idea came to her mind.
"I could be your first kiss." She flirts.
He stared at her in horror. "Uh I don't think you would want to."
"And why not?" she demands.
"I'm not attractive." He replies simply.
This pissed Megan off. He was always so down on his self it was no wonder he lived his life in shadows. Instead of arguing with him though, which she found useless to do anyway since he always found a way to win, she just leaned over and kissed him quickly before pulling away.
"There now you can't say you've never been kissed."
It was late at night and L was still in her room. Lately he's been staying with her instead of returning to his room. Not that they did anything, they would just stay up and talk. She had found out a lot about him these last six months. Like how he was actually very playful but only when the people around him picked up on it. He was also highly sarcastic. She was also probably one of the only people that knew that he was secretly terrified of being alone forever, which she promised him constantly would never happen as long as she was alive.
"My back hurts from that stupid talk we had to sit through. I don't care if the world is going to end faster as long as I'm dead before it happens." Megan complains trying to rub her lower back.
"Do you want me to give you a massage?" L asks.
"Sure." She replies rolling on her stomach.
As soon as she did she felt his cool hands run their way up her shirt along her warm back. He began making small circles which felt amazing.
"I don't mean to sound perverted but it would be easier if you didn't have a shirt on." He points out.
"I don't think that makes you sound perverted, besides I trust you." She tells him puling her shirt off. He went back to massaging her back and she felt like she was in heaven. The contrast between his cold hands and the warmth of her back mixed perfectly. It took everything in her not to let out moans. She knew if she did he would either stop or someone would hear and get the wrong impression. Then somehow she was kissing him. Before long they were tangling together between the covers and neither had no idea as to who or how this started but neither tried to stop it either.
A few minutes later….
The two pulled away from each other panting from their earlier activities. They both kind of stared at each other in shock before L rolled off and laid beside Megan. An awkward silence filled the room as the two were left to their thoughts. After two minutes Megan couldn't take it anymore and started laughing.
"May I ask what's so funny?" L asks now feeling self-conscious.
"It's just..just that this totally proves you're so gay!" Megan says between gasps of breath.
L looked at her annoyed. How could she come to that conclusion. "I don't see how this proves that I'm gay. Unless you are somehow a man with a vagina."
This caused Megan to laugh even harder and it took a good five minutes before she calmed down enough to speak. "No it's not that it's just the look on your face when you realized what we did. You looked horrified."
"Did it occur to you that I was scared because you are the only person I feel is a friend and that I may have just messed it up by doing this?"
"No, no I'm pretty sure you're just gay. Besides you know damn well this isn't even close to enough to mess up our friendship. Also I kind of thought you were gay since the beginning and this just proves it. Well I guess it could mean you're bisexual but somehow I doubt that." She tells him.
His response was a pillow to her face. She stared in shock at L who was leaning above her holding a pillow looking like he would strike again. Quickly she grabbed the pillow beneath her at wacked him with it. Soon an all-out pillow fight broke out and the earlier events from the night were temporarily removed from their minds.
L had left. He had to leave to work on a new case and Megan was sad. Not as sad as she was when B left no but still it upset her. She somehow knew that it would be a very long time until she saw him again even though he promised her they would meet again soon. On top of that she was almost positive she was pregnant.
It's been over a month since he left and she couldn't remember when she last had her period. Too say she was frighten was an understatement. She knew that if she told anyone they would force her to stay and her child would be raised to be its father and pretty much go through everything B went through. She didn't want that.
That day she asked Matt and Mello if they would like to go out to town with her. They of course agreed sensing that she needed this day out. The three then went to find Roger to ask for permission to leave. She didn't need it to go herself but she did in order to bring the younger two and she needed them. When they found Roger he agreed also sensing her need to get out. Truthfully the man pitied the girl. She had already lost so many people close to her.
Once in the car Megan had Matt search to see there were any bugs or video cameras in the car, thankfully there was none.
"Why did you have me check the car?" Matt asked.
"Because I don't want anyone to find out what I'm about to tell you."
"What would that be?" Mello asks.
"I had sex with L when he was here,"
"I knew it!" the two boys shout in unison.
"Anyway, I'm now 96% sure that I'm pregnant."
"Sweet I might be an uncle!" Mello exclaims.
Soon the ride was filled with baby talk and what is to happen if she were in fact pregnant. Megan was beginning to wonder how such young boys could be so smart. After a half an hour car ride Megan finally pulled into a parking space of a convenient store. Inside she bought the most accurate sounding pregnancy test as well as a new game for Matt and a huge supply of chocolate for Mello.
Once they left she headed to a fast food restaurant that had a huge play-place for the boys. When they had all finished their meals the boys headed to the play-place as Megan went to the bathroom to take the test. After waiting the 30 minutes in instructed she checked it and it was positive. She wasn't quite sure how to feel about it. Deciding it was getting late she rounded up the boy and they left. In the car she told them it was positive and that she was going to be leaving Wammy's the week after her birthday which was in two weeks. They were sad but understood.
Standing outside of the house she lived in with her parents brought tears to her eyes. She wasn't sure if she could live here on her own without them, without anyone. Never in her life had she been alone like she is now. Before leaving Wammy's she had called around and found that the house was still on the market and bought it without a second thought but now she wasn't sure if she could actually live there. She could afford it but it was so big and she was just one tiny person and still had about seven months before her child would be born.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead before stepping into the house. It sure was going to take some getting used to be back in Phoenix.
Megan had just returned from her doctor appointment and jumped on the computer. She had just found out she would be having a little girl. It was time for her to start thinking of names. She already knew that no matter what the last name would be Lawliet, she absolutely adored that name and felt she owed L that much.
After hours of looking through baby names she finally found one she loved, Lira. It means harp in Latin. She loved the name even more when she added it with Lawliet. Lira Leanne Lawliet just sounded beautiful. Leanne was her mother's name which is why she decided to use that as her daughter's middle name.
Happy with her name choice she logged off the computer and went to bed.