Chapter 10

Wednesday. The middle of the week. How boring. Well, it would have been if not for the meeting between the top four students in Wammy's.

"As I'm sure you're all aware by now, L has been risking his life on the Kira case." Roger started in a grave tone. I felt my eyes widen, I had no idea this is what we were called in for. 'Maybe L's finally choosing his heir?' I thought to myself as Roger started talking again. "Now Near, Mello, Matt and Summer*, you are the top four students at the orphanage and as such are the children most likely to succeed L."

"I'm out." I heard Matt say from next to me.

"What do you mean you're out?" Roger asked with a confused look on his face. I turned to face Matt, my right eyebrow raised.

"I mean I don't want to become L's successor." Matt tried.

"If that's how you feel, then I'm not going to try change your mind. You will, however, need to be excused from this meeting."

"Fine by me." Matt said and left. I stared after him for a few seconds before turning back to where Roger was waiting for all our attention.

"Now, back to what I was saying. Watari has told me that L will be needing to look for an heir sooner than he thought as he thinks this case might kill him." Roger paused, as if waiting for his words to sink in.

"So this means one of us will be the next L then?" Summer asked. I turned slightly to look at her. She seemed pretty average. Green eyes, strawberry blonde hair maybe a little shorter than me. 'A straight guy might find her attractive…' I caught myself thinking. 'A straight guy? But aren't I into girls as well?' I thought and had to refrain myself from any outward reaction. No one could know the hell it was inside my head at the moment.

"That's exactly what I'm saying." Roger said, snapping me back to reality.

"Who's it going to be?" I couldn't stop myself from asking.

"I'm not sure, L hasn't made his decision yet. I was just told to let the three of you know that the decision will be coming sooner than expected. That is all."

I left the room as quickly as I could. There was no way Near was going to beat me to being L's successor. I didn't have to worry about Summer, she was fourth. Two spots under me.

As I neared Matt's room something seemed odd. Usually I could hear some sort of game music from down the hall yet nothing seemed to be playing. 'Maybe he finally got some headphones off of Roger?' I thought with a laugh.

Upon opening the door, Matt seemed to be standing closer to the open window than I'd ever seen him stand before. I know I should have been a little more worried about him being unnaturally close to the window than the way the little sun that shone through the clouds made the different shades of reds stand out.

"Hey Mello, could you grab that…um…charger for me? My Gameboy is about to go flat." Matt said, pointing to where the charger behind me was sitting. I rolled my eyes and turned to grab said charger. It was only when something wet hit the back of my head did I realise why he asked me to get it.

I turned back around to see Matt smirking at me. I smirked right back and grabbed whatever snow was still clinging to my hair. It was only then did Matt's ungoggled eyes go wide. I ran over to him and smeared the mush into his hair, knocking both of onto the bed in the process.

"Hey!" Matt called out after I'd run out of snow. "That's cheating!" He said, obviously trying not to laugh. I opened my mouth to say that it was not cheating when I felt something very cold going down my back, causing me to shiver and lose my balance.

"Geez Mello, you're heavy!" Matt complained from under me. I felt my face go bright red as I wriggled to get up when I had a different idea. "Mello!" Matt cried out in surprise when I moved in and cuddled him closer. "What are you-" He started before I shoved ice down the back of his own shirt. "Oh. This is war!" He declared. I jumped up off of the bed and ran for outside, Matt quickly followed behind me.

After about five minutes of throwing snowballs at each other without much of a strategy, we both decided it was only fair for us to have a shield of some kind. We quickly set about making our own forts before getting back to our fight.

"Watch out!" I called as a snowball flew straight past my face, making a beeline for Summer. She didn't have time to duck before the snowball hit her. I could tell both Matt and I were holding our breath as she slowly turned to face us with an evil smirk on her face.

"You're the one who should watch out!" She shouted with an Australian accented voice before throwing a snowball at both Matt and I. Luckily she was right handed so the snowball she threw with her left missed me by a long shot. Unfortunately for Matt, they both managed to hit him.

"Oh it's on!" Matt shouted and threw more snowballs our way. It wasn't long before a majority of Wammy's was involved in the snowball fight. It felt strange, there was no tension no hatred. Enemies were on the same team working together while best friends were seeing who could hit each other the most.

A few hours later the sun started setting yet the battle was still in full swing. It was only when the bell for dinner started and Roger come out to drag us inside did it end.

Matt and I made our way back to my bedroom after dinner with a couple of hot chocolates. We'd been chatting about nothing all day and by now Matt was going on about a new game that was supposed to be coming out soon. As I watched him speak I couldn't help but look into his eyes. They were so full of excitement, it was as if he didn't have a care in the world while he was describing this game to me.

'I love him..' I thought to myself, smiling. 'Wait. What?!' I thought when I realised what I'd just been thinking. 'Well…shit.' I sighed in my head. 'Well…maybe I could…'

"Hey…Matt?" I said hesitantly, feeling a little bad about cutting him off midsentence.

"Yeah?" He replied, obviously not bothered in the slightest.

"Well…I was wondering if maybe…" I started before my tongue became twisted. I could feel my face burning bright red and my stomach felt like it was doing summersaults. I could feel my palms starting to sweat and my heart beat faster.

"Wondering what?" Matt asked with pure curiosity showing in his bright green eyes…Eyes I loved so much.

"W-wondering if…" I tried again but I still couldn't get the words off.

"I'm not getting any younger here Mello." Matt joked, causing me to laugh nervously. "Mello, just tell me what it is. I could never hate you, remember that." He said, blushing slightly. That's all I needed to be able to force the rest of the words out.

"I was wondering if…I could maybe…k-kiss you?" I asked, my face going even redder if that was possible. I glanced up at Matt out of the corner of my eye. He was blushing just as much as I'd bet I was but he wasn't showing any sign of response. "I-I mean… I just wanted to see something. It's just that I've been having these thoughts lately so I thought that maybe if we…well…yeah, I might be able to sort things out in my head once and for all…" I started rambling, trying to feel the awkward silence that had filled the room. "I knew I shouldn't have asked…" I muttered.

"O-okay." Matt stuttered, blushing even deeper if that was possible.

"Wait. What?" I said, feeling my eyes go wide.

"I mean yes." He said, looking away from me now. I swallowed. 'He's actually going to let me..?' I thought.

I placed my hot chocolate down with shaking hands and moved closer to Matt. I licked my lips before turning to face him, he was already looking straight into my eyes and I almost got lost into the depth of his.

"R-ready?" I asked, my face only a few centre metres from his now. He could only nod. I blinked quickly before I closed the distance between us and carefully placed my lips on his.

My stomach erupted in butterflies and I could feel my heart beat accelerate. I could feel Matt's hand slowly creeping over the back of my head and into my hair, I was shocked to find myself mimicking his actions. We deepened the kiss a little before I could feel Matt smiling, causing me to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Matt asked, our foreheads were touching now and we were both breathing heavily. Even though it was such a small kiss, it still felt amazing.

"You're not supposed to smile silly." I replied, by now I'd caught my breath and really wanted to kiss him again.

"That's better than biting you isn't it?" Matt replied, laughing a little as he did so.

"Perhaps." I replied, smirking a little. "But I don't think you're supposed to smile with all your teeth." I said and he giggled. Giggled.

"Oh well." He said, smiling again. I leaned back a little further and grabbed his hand before drawing patterns on it with my thumb, staring intently at it. It was only then I realised just how long I'd been in denial for.

"You know…" I started. "I've never been able to hate you. Back when you asked me why I hated you I came up with some piss weak reason and I'm sorry for that." I stopped to take a deep breath before continuing. "There's…there's a fine line between love and hate. Unfortunately I got muddled up while walking along the tightrope between the two and confused what can only be love for hate. Maybe…Maybe that's why I never bothered learning about much to do with technology. I'd subconsciously wanted you to fill the void there. Perhaps I hated Near so much because I was jealous that he got to spend more time with you than I did…I dunno…I guess…I really am just an idiot." I said, finishing my rambling.

"Mello…"

"No, let me finish." I looked back up at Matt now. "So, I guess I'm trying to say that I…well I love you. Would you… Would you be my boyfriend?" I asked, looking him straight in the eyes now.

"Of course you big loon! If you hadn't said all that just now, I would have!" Matt replied, smiling like a kid in a candy store. I smiled back and leaned in to kiss him again before we were interrupted by a knock at the door.

"I swear I'll kill whoever that is." I muttered, glaring at the door as it opened. Matt and I separated quickly as Near walked into the room. Near! Why of all people did it have to be him!?

"Mello, Roger wants to speak with you, Summer and I. He says it's urgent." Near said, interrupting mine and Matt's moment. It wasn't hard to miss the glare I was giving him yet he didn't seem bothered by it in the slightest.

Once he left the room, I sighed, gave Matt a quick peck on the cheek before dragging myself to the old farts office.

* Summer is my OC and as such I own her as my character alone.

First things first, even though Summer and myself share the same name, Summer is by no means me. I was just too lazy to think of a different name xD

Anyone else besides me think this is weird. For whatever reason, I decided I would wear my striped jumper today since I was cold. About an hour or two later I found two pairs of goggles I didn't even knew I owned and about half an hour later I found my missing DS xD Perhaps I'm supposed to be Matt not Mello xDD