Two days later I walk into the room and see Mello sitting against the wall holding a chocolate bar with the phone up to his ear. I sit down across from him and stare at him. He makes eye contact with me and I glare at him.
"What?" He mouths out to me. I roll my eyes. I haven't been able to say a single word since we started the whole never-hang-up-cell-phone deal with Mogi and Near. Mello has been sitting on his ass listening and putting in info as Near questions Mogi, and he still hasn't said anything. Matt came by once but left once he found out the circumstances. I didn't leave because I wanted to stay close to Mello. Great choice.
"What?" Mello mouths out to me again. I sigh.
"This is bullshit." I mumble.
"What was that?" Near asks from the other line. Mello glares at me then a helicopter zooms past the room we're in.
"What the fuck.." Mello says as he stands up and looks out the window. I do the same and gasp.
Kira worshipers, there are hundreds, if not thousands of them gathered all around Near's headquarters armed with anything that can be used as weapons.
"They're trapped!" I say to Mello as I watch in horror as the people ram the doors and try to break the glass.
"Mello, who's with you?" Near asks.
"Rowen." Mello says as he looks at me. Near doesn't say anything to Mello, but mumbles something to another person who is with him. Suddenly money starts to poor from the upper windows of the building.
"Damn.." I mumble.
"Mello..and Rowen. We're going to escape now, so I'm hanging up Mr. Mogi's cell phone." Near says to us. The phone line dies and I look at Mello.
"We should get out." I say to him. He looks at me and nods his head. We rush downstairs and tie bandana's around our mouths and put our sunglasses on.
"Try to grab as much money as you can before we escape." Mello says to me. I nod my head and we burst out along the crowd. He grabs my hand and pulls me along with him so we don't get separated. I jump and grab wads of one-hundred dollar bills as we charge through the crowd to where Mello parked his motorcycle. We finally reach the parking lot and we hop on Mello's motorcycle. We speed off as I turn and watch all of the chaos slowly fade behind us.
Mello stops in a parking garage down the street from our apartment and pulls me off of the motorcycle. He grabs my face and kisses me deeply. He pulls away from me and looks at me.
"What?" I ask him.
"How much did you grab?" He asks me. I hold out dozens of wads of money.
"I have no idea." I tell him. "But… we won't need anymore money for a while."
"Okay." Mello says to me. He looks around and pulls out his cell phone. "Matt, go watch the Kira riot at Near's place until it clears up. Rowen and I have to go get some stuff." He hangs up the phone and we get back on the motorcycle.
"I thought we were going to get things." I say to Mello as we walk into our apartment. He suddenly grabs me and drags me into the bedroom and throws me onto the bed. He brings his face close to mine and smirks at me. I smile at him and kiss his nose as he takes off his jacket. I take his sunglasses off and look into his blue eyes. I hold the left side of his face and look at his scars and his smirk turns into a frown.
"I'm hideous." He mumbles as he looks away from me.
"But you're not, you know that." I tell him. "You know they don't bother me."
"I hate them." He says to me. "You deserve someone better. Someone as beautiful as you…can never be with anyone like me."
"Shut up." I say to him as I sit up in bed as turn away from him. "You ruin 'the moment' like no other."
"Stop." He says to me as he wraps his arms around me. He kisses my neck and rests his head on my shoulder. "Matt… I'm going to tell him… how it's… more than it seems." I sigh and fall back on the bed next to Mello.
I look at him and smile and blow him a kiss.
"We're out of condoms anyway." I remind him.
"We're serious, we don't need them anyway." He tells me. I bite my lip and look up at the ceiling.
"Come on." Mello says to me as he gets back on top of me. He helps me pull off my jacket and he takes off his shirt. He leans down and kisses my forehead as he takes off my shirt. "If anything's gonna happen, then it's probably happened already."
I don't say anything and just smile and kiss his nose.
Matt walks into the apartment as I am hanging some stuff on the door. He smiles at me then Mello tells him that he wants to talk to him outside. After a few minutes they both walk back inside and Matt winks at me.
"I fucking knew it." He says to me. I smile at him and walk into the kitchen to make us dinner.
Two days later I'm laying down on the couch and Mello's phone begins to ring. He's in the shower and since he told me I'm allowed to, I answer his phone.
"Hello?" I say into the receiver.
"Who is this?" A woman's voice asks me.
"Who's this?" I say back to her. "You're the one who called the phone."
"Where's Mello?" The woman asks.
"Who is this?" I ask her. "I'm Mello's girlfriend, what do you need?"
"Oh…" The woman says. "I'm Hal, I work with Near. You probably saw me when you came by the headquarters. I wanted to tell Mello that one of our other members is going to be dropping off Mogi and Aizawa at the airport in about twenty minutes. That's all I had to tell him."
"Thank you!" I say to her as I snap the phone shut. "Matt, wake up!" I snap as I slap his arm and he jumps off the couch.
"What?!" He asks me.
"Two members of the task force are going to be at the airport in twenty minutes! We have to get there to tail them!" I say as I run into my room and start throwing all of my clothes into my suitcase. In less than a minute I'm done and I barge into the bathroom.
"Shower's over!" I say to Mello as I pull him from the shower and pass him a towel. I tell him what's going on as I throw all of our belongings into bags and he runs out of the room to pack all of his things with Matt. Within five minutes all of our belongings are packed, Mello's has his motorcycle scheduled to be flown back to LA, and we are outside throwing all of our belongings into Matt's car. I get in between them in the front seat and we speed off to the airport.
"There they are!" I say as I see Mogi and Aizawa standing in front of the airport.
"Alright." Mello says as we park the car. We all grab out bags and walk inside and I watch as Aizawa and Mogi get their plane tickets.
"If we follow them to their boarding area we'll be able to snag seats that are left empty." I say to them. "We may not be able to sit together, but we'll be on the same flight and we'll be able to track them better."
"Okay." Mello says. Since we only have a couple of bags we don't check anything in and purchase our spare seat tickets. We follow behind Mogi and Aizawa until we reach the boarding area then we sit down in a far corner away from them. Matt looks around and smirks and looks back at me.
"What?" I ask him. He nods his head in the direction of a store across from our boarding area.
"They sell pregnancy tests, you should go get one." He says to me.
"Oh wow." I say as I roll my eyes. "I'm not pregnant."
"You don't know that." Matt says to me. "I haven't seen any you-know-what's around the bathroom in a while."
"Shut up." I say to him as I lean back and stretch.
"You should go buy one." Mello says to me. I look at him. "Just to be sure."
"Boys worry too much." I say to him as I stand up and walk over to the store. I buy the stupid piss test and walk back over to Mello and Matt and sit back down.
"Aren't you going to take it?" Matt asks me.
"I never said that." I say to him. "Besides, we're getting on the plane."
We turn around and see everyone stand up and head towards the plane entrance.
After everyone boards Matt, Mello, and I slowly enter the plane. We are ordered where to sit and Mello and Matt are quickly taken to the back of the plane. A flight attendant takes me to my seat and I try to cover my face as much as possible when I see that I'm sitting next to Mogi and Aizawa. She sits me down and I quickly open up my bag and pull out a book and burry my face in it. The plane takes off and after about and hour of reading my stomach starts to hurt horribly. I look inside my purse and down the walkway and see that the bathrooms are empty. I stand up and head down the walkway and walk past Mello until I reach the bathroom and go inside.
"I'm not pregnant." I say to myself as I set the used pregnancy test down on the sink counter. I sit down on the toilet lid and sigh deeply. I look down at my hands and see them shaking violently. "I'm not pregnant."
Two minutes goes by and I bite my lip before I pick up the test. I close my eyes before looking at it and breathe through my gritted teeth, then I open my eyes.
A plus sign.
I stop breathing, I stop moving, and my eyes grow wide. The sounds outside the levorotary seem to mush together and I am unable to make out anything. Suddenly my hand begins to shake and my body follows them. My breathing quickens and I feel extremely hot.
"No…" I mumble. I look at the test and I feel a tear run down my face. I take a deep breath and shake myself. I toss the test in the garbage and stand up and walk out of the bathroom.
"Rowen…" Mello mumbles to me as I slowly walk past him. I take my seat next to Mogi and place my face in my hands.
"No, no, no…" I say to myself as tears drip down onto my tray. I bite my lip and close my eyes then I feel Mogi turn and face me.
"Are you okay?" He asks me. I look at him over my sunglasses and hope that he doesn't recognize me.
"I don't know." I say to him. Suddenly someone grabs my other shoulder. I turn around and see Mello with a brown wig on and his hair covering his burns.
"What's wrong?" He asks me.
"James, I'm pregnant." I whisper to him as tears run down my face. His eyes widen and his jaw drops. He looks down at the ground and gulps.
"Don't worry, Liz, it's okay." He tells me. He kisses my forehead and holds me close to him. I wrap my arms around him and silently cry then he pulls away from me. "I'm going to go talk to Robert, don't… don't worry. I'll… no matter what, we're together." I nod my head at him and he walks away and I lean back in my chair and cover my face with my hands.