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-Ela
My Cake
When I awoke I noticed that my hands were oddly warm, wearily I opened my eyes. Only to see that I had turned towards L during the night and that my hands were under his white shirt, laying flat on his chest. My eyes widened slightly. Did I really do that in my sleep? I shut my eyes once more and made my breathing steady so L would believe that I was still asleep. Taking full advantage of the situation I shuffled closer to him, wrapping my arm around his torso, the other hand moving up his chest. I let out a small sigh. This was weirdly comfortable.
"Miss Makiba, are you 'feeling me up'?" I stayed silent in response, pretending to be asleep.
"Michiko, I know that you are awake."
"No I'm not." I said my voice dry. "I'm half asleep, leave me be Ryuzaki."
"Please remove your hands from my chest."
"No, you're warm. I'm just going to stay like this for a while."
"I thought you considered me a pervert?"
"You are a pervert, it's just I've learnt that I need to accept it." I said groggily, falling back asleep.
I awoke twenty minutes later to find that I was very close to Panda. We were in an awkward position, and he was just staring at my limbs that had ensnared him while I was sleep. We were basically cuddling. His eyes were wide and his face was purple. As soon as I realised the situation I instinctually pushed Ryuzaki away from me. He fell of the bed with an almighty bang, of course I forgot we were chained together and came tumbling after him. I sat up, rubbing my arms and legs to get some blood flow to my bruised body.
L sat up, slowly turning his head to me; his eyes made him look like a zombie, although he was also strangely cute.
"Ryuzaki, if I grab you in my sleep just push me off."
"I did try to, but you kept doing things." He said, his pale complexion once more turning purple.
"What things?" if possible L's face turned an even darker shade.
I stood up and packed my few possessions into my rucksack, I stayed in Panda's shirt, so that he wouldn't have to see me change and put on a pair of his trousers. 'Wow these are big trousers, he is bigger than he looks and much taller, possibly by three inches!' Luckily I had my favourite belt in my rucksack and slid it on. The jeans were very big, but they were also very comfortable, I could see why L wore them.
"When are we going to the other hotel?" I said rather drearily, I needed a drink and the cogs in my head were still turning, trying to figure out how I managed to nearly suffocate him in my sleep.
"We have twenty minutes." L said, his face once more pallid, all traces of purple eradicated.
We made our way to the kitchenette and I hastily nicked some of L's cake from the fridge, there was nothing else to eat. I ate it with my fingers. 'Who on earth needs cutlery anyway? Well probably sophisticated people, but I don't come under that category.' The icing on the cake was sticky, it was going everywhere on my face, I could see a fleck of cream stuck to the very end of my nose. I swiped at it but it just smeared over my face. I jammed the cake in my mouth, finishing it in record time, well my record, because let's face it Panda can eat a cake in about a second. That much sugar first thing in the morning felt rather sickly and I knew that in roughly an hour's time I would have a sugar rush, and L would have to face the consequences. His fault, he only eats sweets. I thought I was weird!
Suddenly a solitary digit appeared on my face wiping away all traces of the cake. "The icing from that cake tastes nice." he said with his finger in his mouth.
"Next time why don't you just lick my face!" I said sarcastically.
"Maybe I will." L's response caught me off guard. "6% up, for stealing my cake." He said a cute minuscule pout forming on his lips.
"What?! I'm suspected further of being Kira, for having some breakfast!"
"It was my cake." he said the pout becoming more prominent on his face. It was hard to act angry with him while he was looking so adorable.
I turned away from him and hunched forward some more than usual, shuffling to grab my rucksack and then curling up onto the couch, extracting the remote from the coffee table and putting on the T.V. Five minutes later Ryuzaki told us it was time to leave. 'I am going to miss this hotel.' I thought, 'It has a lovely view...' We then proceeded to pile all our equipment and stuff into L's limo. Once we arrived at the new hotel all thoughts about missing the view where gone, there was a balcony overlooking the whole city, it was magnificent. There were beanbags in the living room area that I moved to the balcony, relaxing into them and looking up at the murky blue, slightly cloudy sky. Feeling the constant and calming breeze blowing against my cheeks. It was cold and felt as though it was going to rain, but I like the rain. It was one of the things I missed about England, although when I lived there I was constantly complaining, as I was unable to play outside. A slight shiver ran down my spine as a particularly strong wind passed, flicking strands of my long, dark chestnut hair, that fell lightly onto my cheeks. I let out a small puff and blew the hair away, returning to my cloud watching.
When Watari came in I instantly jumped up from the beanbags I had claimed for myself, and ran up to meet him. Consequently L fell over from his crouch onto the floor, the laptop landing with a soft 'clunk'. I dragged Panda with me, the handcuffs rubbed my wrist. I hugged Watari, he was not expecting that from me, but suddenly after being calm and restful the sugar caught up with me. He awkwardly patted me on the back, lightly embracing me. Leaning back I grinned up to him. "Watari," I said in a rather out of character sing-song voice, "Please can you be a darling and pick up some stuff from my flat?" I batted my eyelashes. Sugar in the morning does strange things to me.
"What would you like me to bring miss Makiba?"
"Everything! Wait no, that would be quite a lot, not to mention I have lots of stuff, I think it would be heavy." If possible my grin became more maniacal. "Please can you bring some of the books from the shelf by the window seat, and my gameboy, and the charger! Don't. Forget. The. Charger." I once more hugged Watari and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Can I call you Grandpa? It's not that you're old or anything I just always wanted a Grandpa..." My heart was thumping loudly in my chest, too much sugar.
I skipped over to the computer and fell roughly on to the seat, still dragging L about. I played some games, feeling my eyes bulge from alertness, I was hardly blinking. I soon got bored of playing games and was fidgeting uncontrollably. Suddenly I stood up, the chair toppling over, narrowly missing L's head, somehow he managed to duck out of the way, moving the laptop as well so it wouldn't get smashed. I didn't bother to rectify the chair and skipped to the kitchen, once more dragging L behind me. I took out all the ingredients I needed for making the cakes I had promised Panda. He had left his laptop on the floor in the living area and was watching me cook. Occasionally he tried to nick a piece of chocolate or a strawberry from the worktop, to which I swatted his hand away while offering him a devilish smile. I put the cake in the oven and decided to lie on the cold marble floor and close my eyes. L just looked at me, after a while boredom had set in for Panda, it had been fifteen minutes and I was just laying on the floor in some sugar-induced trance. At one point he tried dragging me to the living room to get the laptop, but to no avail. I wouldn't budge.
"Are you asleep?" he said finally breaking the silence.
"No." I said shooting up into a sitting position, grinning like a maniac. "Merely thinking about things." I winked at him, then stood up and opened the oven. The cakes were done. I extracted the hot tray with some black mitts, and put them on a cooling rack. I made some icing, which I then proceeded to slather on the cakes.
"Go sit." I said, he followed my order like a dog, his eyes wide from want of sugar.
I walked to the counter, and sat on the bar stool opposite L. He was crouched again.
"Sit properly or no cake for you."
"If I don't sit like this my deductive ability is-"
"-You do not needing to deduct now." I said cutting him off. "You are going to eat."
Slowly he put his legs down, sitting like a normal human. I did my Cheshire cat grin and stood.
"I want cake now."
I moved over to the other side of the counter, holding the big plate with the cakes. His eyes looked like those of a drug addict going through withdrawal symptoms. Once I was right in front of him I turned around and sat on his lap. He wasn't expecting that. Always expect the unexpected. I took the fork from the plate and cut a segment of the cake feeding it to Panda as though he were a baby. Surprisingly he didn't object to me treating him like a toddler, I think he was just distracted as he had his cake.
I gave him all of the banana and strawberry cake, and then we got to the chocolate cake I fed him half and then started having some myself, using the same fork. Panda looked a bit miffed at the fact that I was eating his cake and that I wasn't using my own utensil. On the other hand he wasn't really bothered, content with his cake. Watari walked in just when I was giving the last few forkfuls to L. Watari looked at us sceptically, his head tilted slightly to the right.
