A.N.

Ugh it's late. But an update nonetheless

Disclaimer: Do not own

Matt

Mello was awake early every day that week. Forcing Beyond to help him clean while I regularly visited the DIY store and started to fix up the house properly, readjusting the boiler, shingling the destroyed pieces on the roof and changing the rusted piped under the sink. It was a lot of work and most days I ended up slumping onto the bed, covered in grease and sweat, much to Mello's disdain, and falling into a quick slumber.

Beyond however had quickly become weary of domestic life, deciding that it was his life's goal to wind Mello up and drive him insane. He started this simply by hiding Mello's chocolate. Then his shower gel. Then he broke the washing machine leaving nothing but dirty clothes for him to wear.

It didn't take long for a permanent scowl to set up camp on Mello's face whenever he saw B, sometimes even coming into the bedroom when we were alone thanks to Beyond teasing him about our…more than active love life. Apparently we're a 9.0 on the Richter scale.

The weeks were calm apart from the odd spat when Mello simply couldn't take Beyond's teasing anymore, though he they both seemed a lot more tamer as the house took shape, various pieces of furniture starting to appear in the house, which we had to clean vigorously after one week as Beyond had taken his pranking to a new level and dripped Mello's melted chocolate everywhere. Mello didn't know whether to cry or lick it off.

The constant fighting had lead me to retreat to my room, playing preowned games on a ps2. It was ridiculous to try and play happy families when we were all polar opposites. Of course I had learned to deal with Mello long ago, but Beyond was a different story. The novelty of sex had started to wear off (Don't get me wrong, it was great. But nowhere near as explosive as our first time together properly), place on top of that the stress of worrying about L and his pet sheep and it was clear that we had a recipe for disaster brewing.

Of course the tension snapped.

I was expecting it and it actually came a little later than I thought it would. Mello returned to our room clutching a fist full of tatty black hair and was sporting several deep purple brushes and a few gashes across his face.

"Ruin your chocolate?"

"…Melted my leather."

I sighed, pausing my game. "Couldn't you just…forget about it?" I rolled my eyes at his glare. "Yeah, I know, stupid suggestion."

"We can't waste money like that! He's just…arrogant prick!" Mello snarled. "Just being stupid because he can. Ugh he deserved that punch."

"Please, like you're any less arrogant."

Mello threw a pillow at my face. "Have fun sleeping on the couch."

I threw the pillow back at him. "Aw c'mon Mello. Don't be mean because you're upset at B. It's silly. We kinda have to stick together here."

Mello paused, toying with the pillowcase for a few moments. "Fine. But I'm not staying up. Get to bed."

I rolled my eyes at the order but I climbed into bed anyway, stripping my shirt off on the way. Mello crawled in beside me, his back facing me. I wrapped my arms around his waist, pressing close. He ignored me, head burying itself into the pillow.

I could hear Beyond grumbling on the floor below us, but I pushed it to the back of my mind. I just wanted to sleep for a while.

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