Author's Note: I'm debating doing a chapter as Mello, reflecting on the past so that you all get to find out before Matt does, but It's also kinda fun to learn at the same time Matt does, let me know what you think.
I guess one could say my visit with Mello didn't go well.
I'm thinking back now to a time when I was a lot younger, and I guess I said some things that I really shouldn't have. Mello was my only friend, and though I wanted more friends I had no way of getting them, the only reason Mello and I talked ever was because he's my roommate otherwise I would have been too shy.
And then it came to discussion one day. I think it was some kid named Ashton, he started sharing his theory of Mello's past, and I tuned into their conversations. Then he came over and asked if I knew anything, because I was his roommate right? So I was stuck there for a while, he started calling me buddy, and I guess I fell into the fact that someone other than Mello was offering me a friendship and all I had to do was say something. I said I didn't really know, but that his dad drove him here and then he was a Wammy kid. I didn't think much of that information when I said it, because I thought people knew by then, but that little bit of Mello's past became a giant ball of rumors by the end of the week. Mello's dad had cancer and didn't want the kid to see him die. Mello's dad was in the military and was going overseas and put him here for temporary safe keeping. People started telling him, I'm sorry about your dad's cancer. Or, So your dad is going to come back for you? Every time he asked what they meant, they'd say that I told them about him being driven here. One boy even went as far as calling him a wimp for being sad over nothing, another boy said that he doesn't belong in an orphanage. Those boys went to the infirmary and Mello wouldn't talk to me for a few days.
I shake my head off of it and try and drown out my thoughts by playing Super Mario Bro's on the Wii in the rec room with Rain. I keep dying, which is a sure sign that I'm thinking of something. She notices.
"Matt, what's up? You keep letting Mario run off a cliff" She looks over at me with a look that is half concerned and half joking.
"Just what I keep telling you about Mello. I was kind of a jerk about it when we were six. I feel bad but I was just a kid right?"
"Exactly, and he shouldn't still be mad with you over it." She places a comforting hand on my shoulder. I think I will talk it out with Mello afterwards. Maybe if I try and explain it he'll come around? I won't blame him if he doesn't though. But after so long…I'm about to call him when I receive a text. It's from him.
"Matt, sorry about that today, I flipped out. You pissed me off, but it was so long ago now. I don't blame you for telling them what you did. Okay, I don't blame you all the time. Anyways, sorry I yelled. Mells"
Okay, well I guess he doesn't hate me anymore.
