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I don't want to keep you waiting anymore especially after I told you Mello was going to do something bad (and grrr, I hate it so I don't think you'll like it either, but we all just have to live with it or have waited for a long time until I write another chapter, which I really don't want to do, so DEAL) ^-^…..without further ado………..

~``~``~``~ Mello ~``~``~``~

I walked with Matt's hand clasped in my own. This was the first time we'd walked like this. It had actually been pretty awkward at first. First we left the room, as usual, normal as could be. I had dressed in my leather with my rosary beads Matt had gotten me. Matt had dressed in his stripes and faded jeans. He'd actually let his goggles hang from around his neck instead of having them perched over his eyes, though his uncut long shaggy red hair covered over them anyways.

I had watched as Matt attempted to wrap paper around a small toy figure for Near's present. I didn't understand why he needed a present. He just turned another year older, it wasn't like he had to do any hard work to achieve that. Matt had insisted that it would be 'polite' to take him something. So Matt dug through everything in our room and eventually found the small toy figure that was dressed in camouflage and held a plastic gun in his hands.

I sighed as I watched the gamer try to balance on one leg, using the other one to steady the toy as he wrapped it. He began to hobble around and eventually steadied himself when his back collided with the wall. The toy still ended up being wrapped showing that no skill was put into it. Parts and bits of it stuck out. It was actually more pathetic than not having any present at all.

After that, he just looked at me and I looked at him, both of us looking for the answer to what we were supposed to do now. I mean, if we were dating then obviously it would be better to stand close to each other but then again, neither of us knew that the other was thinking the same thing and thought we'd each get upset at the idea. Not to mention, what would anyone else say if they saw us. Did we want them to know or not? Finally I brought it up and we both agreed to hold hands on the way there but not when we were there, deciding it would be better not to tell people.

At first walking was okay, a bit unusual to both of us from the new way it worked, but still okay. Then Matt decided he just couldn't hold the present and his game at the same time and wanted to put it in his back pocket. So he handed me the present, which I held up to look in the small dolls eyes and silently warn it of its new owner. In the meantime, Matt was trying to stuff his game in his back pocket on the side with the hand I was holding, because that's the one that he usually puts it in. Now, why he didn't just shove it in the other one or his front pockets I'm not sure, but he was really set on putting it in this pocket.

So, here we were, standing in the middle of the hallway, holding hands, me holding a present and Matt trying to look over his shoulder for where his game would be going. Eventually Matt twisted us up trying to get the game into this pocket. Our arms were twisted upside down and he'd gone under mine to try getting at a better angle or something. My shoulder felt like it was popping and I twisted my body trying to get into a more comfortable position. I ended up with my arm wrapped around my back and Matt twisted further. Finally he let out a frustrated breath and we let go of each other. He had no problem shoving the game into his back pocket then.

After we got over blushing and making nervous little gestures, we resumed holding hands. Everything was once again going fine until we came to a split hallway. Now, Matt isn't too bright when it comes to hallways or something because he was trying to go a completely wrong way to get to the dinning hall. So we went different ways and didn't realize it until it was too late. Our joined hands sent us rushing backwards and we bumped roughly into each other. The force was great that we fell down, me falling directing on top of him and knocking the breath out of him.

We got up, rubbing the sore spots from where we'd collided. Then, foolishly, we decided to try this once more. I took his hand in mine and we walked extremely slowly. Every time we wanted to move anywhere not in the straight line we stopped and decided on a way to go first, then continued walking. It took longer to get there, but it was worth it when we got to hold hands and not get injured.

We'd finally made it. We let go of each other's hand and entered the dinning hall. I glance over once at Matt before taking in the sight before us. At the entry of the hall was a table where gifts were carelessly stacked. There weren't that many, but after glancing around the room I realized that there weren't that many people here either. In the distance I could see where they'd set up a stand for food and a punch bowl. On the ceiling were escaped balloons that looked very tiny compared to other balloons.

The room wasn't decorated well, but it was the most decorated it's been since it opened, so I guess that's a good thing. I followed Matt around the room as he placed the present on the table, gave small hello's to a few people we passed and headed to the food table. This is where Matt started piling a ton of food onto a paper plate like he hadn't eaten in weeks.

"Hungry much?" I asked, tucking a chocolate bar under my vest discreetly so no one would know that I had it and wasn't going to pay for it. Matt turned to me, obviously not have caught me stealing.

"Well, I know that you'll only eat that chocolate bar under you're shirt without anything else, so now that we're….together, I guess it's my responsibility to keep you as healthy as possible." So he had seen…or he just knew my too well….either way I didn't care, what I cared about was what he'd said after that. I grabbed his hand to stop him from continuing the food mountain that was forming.

"Stop. Don't." I let my bangs fall over my eyes. "I don't want you to do that."

"Mello-"

"No!" I snapped at him quietly enough for only him to hear. "If you do that then that means you're changing. I-I don't want you to do that. I want you to stay the care free 'whatever' Matt. That's who I like. I don't want the house-wife Matt." I was sure he'd laugh at me for thinking he was changing, so what he told me actually surprised me.

"Okay." That was it. Simple. Nothing else. He put the plate down and just walked away, grabbing a roll as he stalked over to the table we usually sat at. I let a small smile creep onto my face.

Just as I started walking to go sit down with Matt, a girl popped up in front of me. Halle. I knew I'd have to face her sooner or later. She gave a smile and tucked her LIGHT blonde hair behind her ears, giving a small smile. I looked over her shoulder and growled lowly when I saw that Linda had already started to invade Matt-Land.

"Well, Well, Well. I never thought you'd actually come Mello. Nice outfit." I narrowed my eyes as she reached out her hand and placed it over my shoulder.

"Matt made me." I stated before trying to push past her. She just stepped in my way.

"Where are you going in such a hurry? Matt certainly doesn't need you right now, see, he and Linda are talking." I tried to hold back my temper as I was tempted to just push past her roughly and pull Matt back to our room to have some 'alone time' to make sure he knew who he belonged with. To no avail, I kept it in control and even managed to have a polite conversation with Halle, despite the thousand times she attempted to flirt with me, sending casual touches and wanna-be-sexy smiles at me.

*``*``*``* Matt *``*``*``*

I couldn't believe it. I'd lost Mello for a second and Linda was all over me. All I was trying to do was give Mello a view of a (trying to be) sexy walk. I'm guessing it hadn't worked or he would have rushed over here. Now I was being clung to by Linda. I looked her up and down. Her brown curly locks hung loose at her shoulders but were kept in place by a head band. She was dressed in a dust pink dress that had little jewels lining the bottom. The dress swayed as she walked and fit her almost curve-less figure perfectly. Along with the dress she had on rosy pink strap flats.

"I'm so glad you came!" She said for the thousandth time since she'd been over here.

"I think you should get a new hair style." Her eyebrows scrunched together at the first thing I'd said to her.

"L-Like w-what?" She looked like she was on the verge of tears.

"I didn't mean it that way!" I tried to reassure her. "I just think you'd look better if you cut you're hair a bit, straightened it and got rid of the bangs." Her lip trembled a bit, but she looked a little more confident. "Although you're beautiful now too." I continued trying to comfort. At this statement her eyes lit up.

"R-really?!" Crap, Mello would have killed me if he'd heard me say that.

"Linda!" Both of us looked towards the direction her name had come from. It had been Halle, Mello standing behind her looking like he was about ready to kill her.

"What?" She asked with obvious annoyance in her voice.

"It's time to go get Near, he should be back from the library!" I now noticed that Halle had a pretty tight clutch on Mello's arm. I grit my teeth but ignored it.

"I'll go find him!" Mello said, yanking his arm from her grip.

"Yay! Then I can have more time with Matt!" Linda cheered. Both Mello and my face dropped when she shouted this. I sighed then nodded to Mello to let him know that he could go without me.

I watched as his back retreated slowly. He was reluctant to leave me behind. After all we were both a bit needy. It was the beginning of our relationship and I we both wanted each other all to ourselves. I was tempted to call him back in or chase him down, but I resisted with a sigh. I straightened my bangs so they completely covered my eyes and turned back to the two girls.

~``~``~``~ Near ~``~``~``~

I rested in the middle of my train set. My room was dark except for the small amount of light the moon and stars shone into my room. I pushed the small model of a train and let out a small, barely audible sigh. Nothing was going right anymore. I wasn't allowed to show any emotion, I had been kicked out of the library when I fell asleep and was forced to go try to get some rest. I hadn't slept in about three days, since Mello spent the night in my room. Speaking of, I was certain that Mello and Matt were now together.

I gripped the train in my hand tightly. Why him? That was the thought that had gone through my mind since I was sure they were together. The thing I'd tried so hard to avoid happening since I'd confessed to Mello was happening. Why didn't he like me? Was I too young? No, despite my age, I was almost as tall as him and I was even more mature that Matt was, plus there was only two years between us. That couldn't be the reason. Was it the fact that I liked toys? He didn't seem to mind them when he slept here before. The memory of us both crammed into my small bed fogged my brain. Then there was only the feeling of that moment when he'd almost kissed me. The scene played in my head clearly. I could see every feature on his face, hear the strangled breathing, and feel every erratic heartbeat.

I was thankfully pulled from the memory as a knock at my door was heard. I mumbled a quiet 'go away' and hoped that was enough for the person on the other side to get the hint to leave me alone. There was another knock, louder and more forceful this time. I said my comment a bit louder incase they hadn't heard. Again the knock came, pounding loudly.

"Dammit Near, if you don't open the fucking door right now I'll bust through the fucking thing myself, and I won't help you fix the damn thing. Now open up you little bastard!"

My eyes widened and my feet scrambled to get up fast enough, causing me to trip. I'd almost ruined my train set but narrowly missed it. I speedily opened the door and sure enough, there was Mello. He had one hand raised in a fist, as though he was about to knock again. It fell to his side when the door opened.

"Come on, Linda and Halle wants you." He started to walk away again. What a depressing moment. I literally sagged over, looking a bit like L.

"Mello…"

"Yeah?" He looked back to see me sagged over. "Are you okay?" He asked bored, walking back over to stand in front of me again. I blinked a few times and twisted a piece of hair around my finger as I thought of all the options I had right then. I watched as his foot began to tap on the ground, waiting for an answer. I guess I couldn't even think this through, I just had to….

*``*``*``* Mello *``*``*``*

My blue eyes widened when what was happening processed through my brain. I was just standing there innocently a second ago, and now this. Warmth had quickly covered me and weight had been applied to me. I stumbled backwards trying to balance myself until I felt the wall slide against my back, holding me up. I couldn't believe this.

One second I was looking at him, the next he launched at me. His pajama clad arms wrapped around my shoulders, holding himself to me. Now all I stared at were his closed, scrunched up eyelids. His snow white hair clouding all other vision around me. I placed my hands around his rib cage, trying to push away. They shook as they gripped. They wouldn't move him away, if anything, they seemed to pull him closer.

I willed them not to but my eye lids started lowering, closing my eyes. Then all I felt was warm soft against me. A fuzzy feeling formed in the pit of my stomach. Then I moved slightly. His lips pressed against my own that were still slightly sugared from the chocolate I'd eaten on the way over here. The slight movement of mine, caused his to lighten and make the kiss a bit gentler, sweeter. He pressed closer into me, my arms pulled him in. Then it suddenly hit me. Matt.

The image of the red head took over my brain. Him smiling sweetly, cutely, adorably at me, his eyes squinting and freckled cheeks rounding. I pushed away. Near fell to the ground with a small 'oof'. My eyes went wide again as my fingers traced my lips. I tried to find some sort of time. When I looked past to Near's opened bedroom, my eyes caught the clock that had read 6:25 when I'd first gotten here. It had taken about a minuet and 30 seconds until Near had started that. That means the kiss he'd just given had lasted for about three minuets! Before I came here I was with Matt and had done no wrong, now in five minuets total I'd managed to cheat on a new first boyfriend that had just been made official and for some reason liked it, ruined my whole way of thinking about both Near and Matt and soon I'd would ruin Near's life even more than I obviously had.

I glanced at him before just running. I couldn't be near him right now. I ran until I got to where the party was being held. I looked around the almost empty room and noticed all of the people had gathered around the table that Matt was at. I stormed over there and pushed through people, shoving them aside carelessly. When I got to Matt I realized why everyone was so excited.

"Hey, Mello! I'm gonna beat my new record, look." I didn't look. It was some sort of annoying beeping game that I really wanted to disappear at the moment.

"Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt!" Everyone around us began to chant as the red headed gamer got closer to his new goal. I fumed angrily and grabbed the game from his hands. Switching it off without saving and chucked it against the wall.

Matt's eyes widened and he looked up at me to see what was going on. Before he could figure it out, I grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him out of the crowd and out of the dinning hall. I felt my breath hitch in my throat as we passed Near in the hall way, but I kept going without looking back, Matt protesting behind me. I just needed to get away, not even noticing the small object he had with him.

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See, i said you wouldn't like the twist, but fret not my loves, everything will be okay. Everything happens for a reason after all!