Day 11

I have to say... this was a fun, yet draining, day. The draining part was from Mello deciding that I should get some work done before I meet with Pink.

He had me re-installing cameras in Misa's house and Light's old house. I told him that putting them in Light's place was too dangerous of a move since the guy is so freakin' paranoid about things there... All Mello replied with was a snap of my goggles to my face. I seriously think that Mello wants me dead before Pink and I get too serious.......

My princess Pink... I did go by where she lived today after I got done with my work for that slave-driver. She lives in an apartment complex a few blocks from the Akihabara district. Apartment ToMato.... okay, I know my Japanese isn't all that great, but even I know that that says "Apartment Tomato". =_=' Either way, I found her apartment and knocked on the door. I wasn't greeted by Pink; I was greeted by one of her two roommates. She had short black hair and black framed glasses that kind of hid her dark brown eyes. Once she looked me over, she said, "So, you're the guy who stole Ambie's heart? Come on it. She's taking a shower right now." I wanted to ask who Ambie was, but I figured it was Pink. The moment she said that she was taking a shower, a thought poppped into my head: I saw Pink, naked, walking out of the shower and reaching for a towel, exposing her. I had to shake the thought away really quickly before her friend noticed.

Her apartment was really neat and tidy; it had a desktop computer and a laptop and some gaming systems. "I'm T.K.," the girl with the glasses said, sitting back over at the desktop, "I'm a transfer student from North America. I'm taking some college classes at ToDai while still attending Denshinogumi with Amber. What's your name?" I told her my name was Matt and she nodded, not taking her eyes off the monitor. I peeked over her shoulder and she was designing what looked like a dating sim for girls. Before I could comment on how cool it looked, I felt what I thought was a high heel hit me in the back of my head.

"Get away from T.K., you freakin' perv!" I turned to see a blonde-haired girl with bright blue eyes glaring at me like I was going to steal something. At first glance, I thought she was one of those ganguro girls I've always seen, but she was a natural blonde. She even had that god-awful Valley girl accent. (And yes, I can tell without even asking.) T.K. turned from the monitor and sighed. "Would you chill out? He's for Amber, not me," she said, turning back to the computer.

"But... but.. what if he only said that to steal from us or even kill us?!" the blonde asked as T.K. sighed again.

"Look, Cassie... how many times do I have to tell you, I'm a good judge of character."

"That's what you said about that Yagami guy..." That caught my interest.

"Wait. Has he been by here before?" I asked as Cassie nodded. "T.K. invited him over once for dinner without letting me or Ambie know... and he turned out to be such a player!" My heart stopped for a moment; Light saw what Pink really looked like... I didn't know for sure if they knew that he was Kira but now I had to protect her even more than ever. Before I could say anything else, I felt someone hugging me from behind. All my tense feelings about Light suddenly vanished. "Sorry for keeping you wait, Matty... but I wanted to freshen up a bit first." That soft voice...

I told her it was nothing and kissed her cheek. We spent most of the day hanging out around the Golden Saucer (no sign of Viral X whatsoever) and we ended up back at Tokyo Tower. We must have kissed for a good couple of minutes before my phone rang again. I looked at the ID and ignored the call. "Who was that?" Pink asked as I just kissed her again. I knew Mel would be upset that I was ignoring him for her... but I'm sure he'd understand.

When I got back, Mello immediately punched me in the face. "You have some nerve blowing me off for some woman, Matt. Have you forgotten everything we went through at Wammy's to get where we are now? Have you forgotten why we're even doing all of this work?!" I stood up, wiped the blood from my lips and glared at him. I yelled at him, explaining that I haven't forgotten the pain we felt when we learned about L's death, or that we're trying to stop Light before he killed us... I even told him that Pink was in immediate danger and I'd be damned if I let Light kill her because he had abandonment issues. Next thing I knew, he threw another punch.

"I have abandonment issues?! You know what, Matt? Screw you and that bitch you're fooling around with!" I stood back up and kicked Mello in the stomach. I hated how he spoke about Pink like she was a random slut... It made my blood boil! I didn't care that we'd been friends since childhood or the fact that we depended on each other after we left Wammy's... NO ONE insults Pink and gets away with it.

By the time everything settled down, Mel had a black eye and his lip was bleeding; I think he had a few bruised ribs as well. I was in better shape: just my lip was busted from that first hit. We didn't speak to each other when he went to his room and closed the door. I took a few breathes and lit up a cigarette.

Signing off,

Matt

P.S.

I overheard Mel talking to Near on his phone... I didn't hear much. Something about getting 'extra security'....