Disclaimer: I do not own Deathnote, If I did, Let's see...Oh! I know. I wouldn't let Netflix make a movie out of it, or at least, I would demand that I made most of it myself.
Matt's Pov:
I'm pretty hopeless, but then again so is Light. Really, he apparently couldn't take being out of the closet, so he just goes off and runs away from his problems? I'm not even that pathetic, Even if I have run away from my own problems a few times.
Mello looks grumpy as we walk down the dimming street, dodging the odd passerby as we do so. And I didn't blame him either, I started it when the scholarships were being announced, which is again, why I'm so hopeless.
I just feel like, if this relationship doesn't work out, I'm going to lose my best friend, Which, I don't even know if that's a ridiculous thought or not. Surely we would never separate? Because I couldn't live without Mello..he's like my...other half I guess. I love him, and honestly I would do whatever he wanted me to, if he asked. Even if he was cruel to me I would stay, I'm just that attached to him I guess.
I gave Mello a sideways look as we kept walking, noting his furrowed eyebrows, bit lip, and downcast gaze easily. He looked frustrated, as he probably didn't know the answer to my earlier question either.
'what happens if for some reason we don't work out in the future? Will we still be friends?'
I guess we just have to wait and see, but I for one never want to leave Mello. In any way. If something happened in the future I would persist to just be friends with him, and I am certain he would too. But I don't know what that situation would be like in the future, right at this moment, and I wouldn't until it happened, so I guess..my fear, is doubt in my future self.
I shook my head, trying to get rid of those concerning thoughts as I let out a sigh. This caught Mello's attention, as he raised his head and quirked an eyebrow at me, silently asking what was wrong, even though he already knew.
I smiled at him awkwardly and shrugged, before I redirected the topic "Where do you think Light would go?" I asked, but he only shook his head, rather helplessly in fact before he responded.
"I have no idea, and logically I don't see how walking around like this is even helping, we don't know Light like L and Beyond do"
"Yea.." I sighed again, we know Light well, but we don't know him as personally as we could, like he just said. "Do you have idea where he could be though?"
"Bars?" He spoke halfheartedly, and ran a hand through his hair, looking at me from the corner of his eyes as his hand found the beads of his rosary and twirled the wooden chips absentmindedly. "I wouldn't exactly know where any are though, and besides, we couldn't get in any without IDs" The look he gave me then was questioning, and I returned it with a smirk.
"Well, I don't have any of those, you'd know"
He huffed, "I was sorta hoping I had missed something" he stated humorously, before letting out a chuckle. I smiled in response, thoughts drifting to that night from weeks before. Maybe if that wasn't such a catastrophe, I would have made an ID for myself, but I didn't want anything like that to happen ever again, so I hadn't.
"So, aside from bars, which are clearly out of our reach, where else?" Of course there is that gay bar that I went to, but I wasn't keen on that, even if Light could be there...Hell, there is actually quite a chance Light has gone there. That blue note place, from what I could tell, Light had connections to it and that was the only reason he was able to go there. So, assuming he doesn't have an ID, and I do doubt L would have allowed Light to have one, he is probably at one of those similar places. And that one I went to is closest to this area.
Great.
I never told Mello about that, and I didn't want to. And if I suggested one of those kinds he would know that something is off, because why would I know about specific bars? He is too smart, he would definitely pry.
I could just not say anything, but if Light really does get into such trouble like L says... and I should tell Mello about it, even if I have put behind me its the right thing to do.
"Matt?"
My gaze snapped up from the cement where I was apparently staring, and I looked up to Mello's calculating expression. It took me a moment to figure out that he had spoken, and I hadn't even noticed.
"Sorry, what?" But he completely redirected the topic, ignoring my apology.
"Are you thinking about earlier that hard?" He stopped walking, and was now gazing at me rather intensely, I wondered if he even realized he was could do that with just his eyes. But I shook my head halfheartedly in response, forgetting about that passing thought as I did so. He walked up to me and put a hand on my arm anyways, still looking at me in the eyes, but softly this time. "Don't worry about the future, we'll get through any of that alright? I would never leave you, even if stuff went down" He reassured, and I felt sick to my stomach now.
I had made out with a complete stranger at a bar, got drunk, smoked, and wandered around at night alone. Even though we weren't together then, and I technically didn't cheat on him, it was still a big mistake and it was dangerous too.
"Mello..." At my voice his expression changed, and I was certain that he realized I was thinking about something else.
"Matt?" He voiced uncertainly, and gave me a dour look. I bit my lip, my stomach sinking slowly as I tried to figure out what to say.
"Well...I um" I tried, and Mello gave out a sigh filled with an emotion that I couldn't read. I gave him a regretful look before I continued. "I did something awhile ago.." He raised an eyebrow at me, and as much as I wanted to, I didn't look away from his questioning gaze. I didn't say anything for a moment, and he eventually reached for my hand, lacing his fingers through mine and encouraging me to continue.
"I-I went to a bar and got really drunk, and made out with this guy..." I paused to observe his expression, which now looked pained. I immediately felt even more guilty, and before I knew it, more words were spilling from my lips. "I never saw him again, and we didn't do anything more, I left right after I realized it was bad but I was thinking just now that Light might be there, honestly I almost forgot about the place and only remembered-"
"Matt"
I stopped my trailing rant, and my mouth closed with an audible click at his tone, as I stared at him hesitantly. Much to my relief he was still holding my hand, even if his posture was turned away from me slightly now.
"We're going to talk about this later okay?" He took a deep breath and grit out the next words "That doesn't mean I'm fine with this though, I'm pretty mad actually. But if you think Light may have gone to this place, then we should get this out of the way first, alright?"
I ducked my head in response, muttering a quiet "Okay" as I turned back the way we came, and pulled Mello with me. "The place is a few blocks away from Misa's, and there are others, but only one or two that I know of that we can get into" I informed him in a quiet tone, and only earned a small sound of acknowledgement from him as he followed my lead.
He still didn't let go of my hand as we walked, and somehow that made me all the more disturbed by his reaction. I thought he would have been a little more assertive that he was upset with me, and would get angry at me, but for whatever reason he was calm...
I didn't understand Mello's reaction, but I dismissed it as I led us to our new destination. Like he said, we would talk about it later, and until then we needed to find Light.
The place looked the same as before, only this this time I was more used to it and could pay more attention to the area if I had wanted. And though I was still quite uncomfortable here, I could at least keep a clear head this time.
Mello on the other hand, looked about ready to have a panic attack. His eyes were wide as we stood just inside by the doorway, and he kept glancing in every direction every few seconds. At least I knew it wasn't just me that was freaked out by the rowdy building, and in retrospect, it was probably because of living such a sheltered lifestyle at Wammy's that we weren't comfortable here. Not just our preferences.
I gripped Mello's hand in mine, noting how sweaty both of our's were, and with a quick deciding glance to Mello I pulled us through the crowd. Through the loud music and bright lights I registered people calling out to us, Probably finding Mello to be incredibly sexy in his skin tight leather, and I cringed as I realized that. Though I opted to ignore it and continued to guide our way to the tables, picking one quite quickly at a darker end of the room and sitting us down.
When I plopped down in my seat, I found Mello giving me an incredulous look from across the cheap wooden platform. Promptly I questioned him with a "What?" that barely made it through the sound of techno music.
"You actually came here on your own?" A smirk was on his face, so I didn't take offense, and leaned over the table to playfully pushed him on the shoulder.
"I actually did, now, do you see a certain perfectionist anywhere?"
At my question he brought his gaze over to the crowd, and scanned the area, but in the second he did that, I felt a buzz in my pocket. Promptly I pulled my phone out and flipped it open, to see a call from L displayed, Mello's attention was on me now as I hesitantly showed him the display on the screen.
"Decline and text him, it's to loud in here" He supplied after a second, and I complied agreeably, putting together a quick text. Meanwhile Mello went back to looking through the crowd.
(Me: Cant talk on phone rt now, whats up?)
It was only a second before my phone vibrated again with his response.
(L: I was wondering if you two found him)
(Me: We havnt, srry)
(L: You text like a twelve-year old Matt, and that's fine, it's not your job anyways -BB)
I frowned at the last text, but didn't have time to contemplate it further when Mello suddenly spoke up with a "Hey", causing me to lift my head from the screen quickly. After a second I recognized Light sitting at a table in the direction that Mello was now pointing.
"Thats him" I guess my hunch was right, but I didn't contemplate any of that further as Mello stood up and reached for my phone.
"You go over there, I'll text L the street and see if they can get out here"
With a quick nod I handed him the phone and stood up, speaking a barely audible agreement as I began to my way over to Light, who obviously hadn't noticed us at all, and left Mello to text L.
When I was no more than a few feet away from the brunette, I noticed that he was really, really drunk. Which surprised me, and I finally realized why L and Beyond where so worried about him running off. He looked like a mess from my view of his side, with his hair a tousled mess, his uniform wrinkled and stained with what was most likely beer, and his expression was completely downcast. He had a can of beer in his hand, which I guess he probably convinced the waitress to give him with pure charm. As well as other drinks, because from the way he seemed to find the table so interesting with a vacant look, he has had way to many.
I only hesitated for a few seconds before I approached him, and laid a hand on his shoulder, about to speak his name. But before any words could come out of my mouth, Light turned around sharply and slapped my hand away, along with a slurred shout that was probably something like; "Don't you dare touch me" But came out more like "On't you sare tough me"
I cringed and withdrew a little bit, and once Light realized who I was he froze, staring at me with wide eyes for a long moment. I didn't know what to say, or do for a moment, but then Mello came up from beside me with a scowl. And before Light could find the words to say anything at all, the blond firmly grabbed Light's arm and dragged him roughly out of his seat.
"Come on idiot, L's going to be here in a few minutes" Mello snapped, as Light tried to pull away with a few distorted protests, but Mello had a good grip on him and with a nod to me began to drag the older boy through the bar. I followed, smiling lightly at Mello's annoyed expression when Light continued talking nonsense and kept on resisting his grip.
Soon we were outside, and Mello tossed me my phone that he had been holding in his hand, as he didn't have pockets, before turning to Light and pushing him to sit on the ground with a few curses. People were staring at us, but I don't even think Mello noticed, and I didn't care, instead opting to watch as Light sat in a fetal position on the ground, while Mello leaned against the wall beside him.
"L's going to be here in a few minutes, and he got a friend to drive them, so we won't have to drag Light on a long walk" He supplied as I leaned against the wall as well, and I nodded in response before we fell into silence. Though eventually a choked sob broke the silence, and when I looked down at Light, I realized the teen was furiously crying now.
"Um.." I trailed off as I gave Mello a questioning look, but he only shook his head and let out a sigh, before kneeling down a giving Light a gentle push.
"Hey, put yourself together" He snapped, and I couldn't help think that; Mello's harsh tone wasn't going to do anything good. I tried to voice this, but Mello shot me a glare that quieted me, and then demanded that Light look up at him.
After a moment Light complied, and raised his teary eyes to meet Mello's. I still had a hard time believing that Light could look so broken down, with his eyes red and puffy, tears streaming down his cheeks and his hair completely out of place and dull looking. Speaking of dull, his expression was so dull that it was almost shocking, like he was a zombie.
But before I could contemplate this any longer, Mello raised his fist and landed a punch squarely on Light's jaw, sending Light to the ground seconds before I realized what happened and reacted, jumping into a standing position by the wall and giving Mello an incredulous look.
"What the hell Mello! What was that for?"
He simply shrugged and stood up again. "The bastard deserved it for being such a bloody useless twit"
I gaped at him, before letting out a disbelieving noise and stepping over to Light, leaning over him to make sure that nothing was broken. Meanwhile Mello just leaned up against the wall again, and proceeded to wait for L.
L's Pov:
When we all got back to house with Light in tow, I sent Matt and Mello inside to keep Soichiro in the living room, along with a thank you to them for finding Light. Before I requested Beyond's assistance to help me get Light upstairs, meanwhile hoping that he wouldn't vomit on the way.
We had done this twice before, and the other times we were lucky.
Halfway up the stairs though, shortly after Soichiro calling at us and we ignored him, Light started to mumble something, and began to protest our restraints, so I immediately knew that this time we weren't so lucky in that prospect.
"Beyond, he's going to vomit, go grab something, quick!" I snapped, and Beyond gave me a dubious look in response.
"Like what?"
"I don't know! Just hurry" The ravenette gave me a dirty look this time at the demand, though he rushed up the rest of the stairs anyways. But it was too late, when after a few seconds Light began to heave on the stairs steps, emptying the contents of his stomach onto the cherry wood flooring as I tried telling him to stay as quiet as possible. He seemed to figure out what I was telling him, luckily, and restrained from to much coughing.
I was mentally cursing when Beyond came back with a silver bucket on Light's third heave, and I snapped a frustrated "Finally!" at him as I grabbed the bucket and held it under Light. Luckily he was coherent enough to grasp the bucket in his hands as he continued vomiting, but the hallway was still a mess now.
Beyond was holding his hand up to his nose by the time Light was done choking on his stomach acids, and I once again demanded that Beyond hurry to help me get Light up to our room. He grumbled a few obscenities, but dropped his hand from his nose and helped me out the rest of the way, until we had Light flopped on top of his bed's covers.
"I'm not cleaning the stairs" The ravenette stated stubbornly as he stood a few feet away from Light who was now innocently passed out, and quite frankly Beyond looked like he was going to puke as well. I sent him a glare when he said it, and he sighed resignedly before leaving the room, knowing that he would be in trouble too if we were found out.
Once the door was shut behind him, I let out a sigh and made my way over to our dresser, picking out some pajamas before I went back to Light. He was definitely going to receive a talking to from me in the morning for this hassle, that I knew, and I was beyond angry at him right now.
I proceeded to strip him, not finding it awkward in the least as I finished changing his clothes, and when I was done I went to help Beyond clean the stairs. Forcing myself into having at least some pity on the teen for the trouble.
Matt's Pov:
When we got into the livingroom ahead of Light, L and Beyond, Soichiro immediately stood up from his seat beside Sachiko. It was pretty late in the day, so I quickly realized that they were wondering where we were all evening, even before he spoke up.
"Where have you been, and where are the others?" He spoke firmly, anger and worry tinging his words as Sachiko stood up beside him with a softer look of concern on her features. I opened my mouth to respond, but Mello beat me to it, it didn't bother me as I knew I would have probably just messed everything up.
"We were at a party, and they're coming, they were just a bit behind us on the walk home" The blond supplied, and Soichiro scowled in that Fatherly way.
"Why didn't you tell us then? Who knows what could have happened, you never know, and who's party was it?" The drilling questions were familiar to me, as Roger did it to us at Wammy's on an almost weekly basis, we got into lots of trouble back then.
Mello shrugged "We just didn't think about it, okay?" It was then that I heard the front door open, and Soichiro averted his gaze to the hallway, before going back to us.
"Boys?" He called, but received only some shuffling as an answer, as they could be faintly heard going up the stairs, his questioning gaze was on us still, and he was clearly suspicious. This was kind of bad, and I gave Mello and discreet concerned look, hoping the blond would pull through because I definitely wouldn't be able to.
"What going on? And don't you dare lie you two, I know they could hear me" I cringed at his firm voice, and waited for Mello's response with concern, as he paused nervously now.
"Well, uh..." Mello mumbled, and I quickly caught on with an inward smile as Soichiro gave us a knowing look. "At the party Light had a fight with this girl, and she threw colored punch at him, so he's kind of.."
"Sticky, so is L" I added, and I watched as Soichiro's expression changed into something akin to incredulity, but understanding. It was a perfect reason for Light to not want to show his face, as he hated being anything less than perfect in front of anybody. Plus it was unbelievably cliche.
"Alright" he sighed, and quite clearly he believed it "Thats reasonable, but I'm talking to all of you in the morning okay?"
Mello grinned and turned away with a wave, and a "yes sir" thrown over his shoulder, before he grabbed my hand and pulled me up the stairs. I had a grin on my face the second we turned around, and I noticed that Mello had a similar one on his too. His grin was probably more about the fact that we actually fooled Soichiro though, as someone a little smarter would definitely have been able to figure it out.
But then my grin dropped, along with Mello's as well, when we got halfway up the stairs and saw the mess up there, as Beyond was at work cleaning it along with L, who seemed to have just joined.
"Did he seriously puke?" Mello's voice was annoyed, clearly, but he seemed to refuse to cover his nose from the smell just as L and Beyond were doing. I covered my nose as well, with a muttered "Gross" under my breath.
"Yes, apparently luck wasn't on our side today, care to help?" Beyond snickered as he paused in his cleaning and threw a piece of paper towel into what was definitely the bathroom's garbage can. L gave us a glance as Beyond spoke, but he didn't say anything.
Mello scrunched his nose, "Definitely not" he responded, and proceeded to make his way around the partially cleaned up mess, with me following right behind him as I eyed the two lookalikes dubiously. We entered our bedroom quite quickly after passing them, and only then, when I caught Mello's serious expression did I remember that we were most definitely going to have that talk now, and I promptly dropped my previous expression for one of concern.
He flopped onto his bed, and patted the space beside him in a gesture for me to follow suit. I did, slowly, and was genuinely surprised when he wrapped an arm around my waist, even though he avoided my gaze at this point.
"Mello?" I questioned, feeling a fair bit awkward at the moment, and not understanding. I had still thought he was going to get angry, but though he seemed a little bit distant, he wasn't.
He took a breath before he responded to me, "I'm not mad at you, anymore, just disappointed"
I raised my eyebrows at that, "Okay?"
He turned to look at me then, one of his legs pressing against mine, and then continued firmly. "I get you were freaked out that night, and probably confused, so you don't have to explain anything, I've already figured out what happened for the most part. So just tell me if there is anything else I should know, apologize, and that's all I need, okay?" His tone lifted a little at the end, and quite frankly, I was confused.
How is he fine with it? I went and did that with a guy, and all of the other things I did that night, isn't that what couples usually throw fits about? What they get into fights about? But maybe Mello just isn't the jealous type, its possible I guess...
"Um..okay" I said hesitantly, and as per his requests, recalled that night. There was only one thing that I didn't tell him about it already. "I had smoked that night too, and then thats everything from what I remember"
He nodded, "Apology now?" he then offered, and I smiled at him. He wasn't guilt tripping me with this, which was something that he would have done if he was even slightly upset. He was just almost lighthearted about it, and as I thought this, I felt so grateful to him.
"I'm very sorry, I won't ever do it again and I should have told you sooner" As soon as the words left my mouth he leaned in to kiss me, and I met him halfway, wrapping my arms around his neck as I did so. After a few seconds I pulled back a little, just enough to speak again.
"Mello, thank you so much" I whispered it, and at this close distance even, I could tell he was confused by my words.
"Why?" He asked me, unmistakably genuine confusion in his voice.
"Because your so nice to me even when I'm an idiot"
He chuckled at that, and kissed me again, whispering the next words under his breath. "you're not that bad, and I just want to make sure that you're always safe"
Light's Pov:
I woke up to a throbbing headache, sore stomach, scratchy throat, and a terrible taste in my mouth. It took me a few moments to remember why, but once I did I groaned loudly into my pillow. I didn't bother wondering why I was on a bed, probably mine, because I was one hundred percent sure that L brought me home last night. And a few seconds later I heard a door open anyways, along with L's voice after a short pause, confirming my certainty.
"Soichiro wants to talk to us later, and I need to talk to you too Light, so I suggest you take a shower and pretend that you don't have a hangover" His tone was sarcastic, and I let out another moan before slowly sitting up, and blinking blurrily at L as he stood by the doorway with a frown.
I rubbed my at my face, doing my best to ignore my pounding head and nodded sullenly. Seeing that I was indeed getting up, L turned away, but then he paused for a second and looked over his shoulder.
"And last night you were at a party with Misa and Takada, Takada got mad at you and threw punch at you, okay?"
I paused at that, trying to figure out what he was talking about, before I finally pieced it together and nodded again with the words; "Cover story" meanwhile I scolded myself for being so slow on the uptake.
L just turned his head back and continued out of the room, so I knew I was right, and then remembering that I had to be quick because of school, I got out of bed on unsteady legs and gathered some clothes from my dresser. I realized then that L had probably changed me when I got back, and the best way to describe the feeling in my stomach at that realization, was probably embarrassment.
My mind was cloudy as I made it to the bathroom, I knew, as I was incredibly hungover and still sleepy. So I wasn't really thinking about anything, like how guilty I am, how annoyed L will be, how I'm definitely in trouble, and how I probably owe everybody in the house now for covering for me. Those things did register somewhere in the back of my head, but I couldn't focus on them enough at that moment.
A cold shower, lots of mouthwash, a few Advil's and a fair bit of Beyond's makeup to cover up that puzzling bruise on my face later, I was more or less awake. Not perfectly, which annoyed me, but I could actually think now. I was going to question L about that bruise, it looked like I got punched by someone particularly well built, but I couldn't remember it at all.
Even so, slowly, last night started to come back to me and I continued to berate myself about it. That I let myself get that far gone, and let people see that much of myself like that. I remembered bits of me crying, Mello snapping at me, vomiting into a bucket, Matt looking incredulous. Lot's of things all in bits of pieces, though none of it really mattered right now.
I soon found L in our bedroom, folding what I did recognize to be last night's clothes into my dresser, and he looked up as I entered our room. But he didn't say anything and finished with what he was doing, while I sat down on my bed and watched him.
After a few moments he finished up, and finally stood up to walk over to me. I gave him a look, though I have no idea what the look was, I just knew he frowned at me when he saw it and proceeded to sit down beside me.
"What do you remember from last night?" He asked in a surprisingly gentle tone, though he was probably saving me from the pain that any noise would cause my still fading headache.
"Bits and pieces, not much" I supplied, and I felt that guilty feeling bubbling up in my stomach again. I didn't like that feeling in the slightest, and I never have.
He nodded "Okay, well I would punch you for being an idiot, but Mello already did that"
My eyes widened as he said that, and I questioned it right away, despite knowing it was definitely true. "Mello did this?" It came out disbelievingly as I pointed to my covered black eye and bruised cheek, and that earned a smirk from L.
"You don't remember it? I thought it would be the highlight of your night" He voiced teasingly, before he dropped his tone and continued "But, aside from Mello packing quite the punch, I'll have you know that your in quite a bit of trouble Light, and of course its mainly from me"
I raised an eyebrow at him, I knew that I was in trouble from Soichiro because of 'going to a party without permission', but aside from disappointing L and annoying everybody..oh. I guess I wasn't thinking as clearly as I thought I was, most likely from the Advils.
"You probably know that I'm quite irked by you right now, Light, but you also caused quite the hassle for everybody else too. And though they won't expect to much from you besides an apology, I expect a lot more from you, do you understand?"
That I now have no rights? And if I ever make a mistake again I'm not going to be protected? yes, I understand more than enough. I shuffled in my seat and looked at my lap. "I know, I'm sorry about all of this..." I really am.
He inhaled deeply, and brought a hand up to my neck, threading his fingers through my hair as he lightly turned my head towards him. "Your going to have to get used to this Light, I'm here for you, but as last night portrayed, thats not always going to be enough. Do you know what I mean right now, too?"
I looked at him in the eyes, but averted my gaze by a few centimeters after less than five seconds. L was making me feel like a child, that is for certain. "I do, you don't have to say it"
He smiled at me then, his voice lifting a fair bit as he spoke next. "Good, now I believe a stairway needs extra scrubbing, a Mr. BB's gag reflex needs an apology, and a certain Chief needs explaining to, up for it?" There was a glint in his eye, and I couldn't help but let out a strangled laugh as I buried my face in my hands, and mumbled a few words about how this isn't a joke. But L only laughed at me and stood up with a humorous; "Sounds good, Let's go then"
Near's Pov:
For whatever reason Light apologized to me -As well as everyone else, which was definitely reasonable- in the morning. I assume he had forgotten a lot of last night after all, because I pretty well had nothing to do with any of it. Well, except for informing Soichiro that the Punch incident was indeed true, as per Beyond's request.
I had the pleasure of observing Light apologize to Mello actually, which I quite enjoyed. The boisterous blond put everything he had into patronizing Light during it, and I found it rather amusing, Beyond did too of course -he was laughing practically the entire time.
And after the school day, from what I could tell, everyone had sorted out their issue's, which was a relief to me. Everybody's nonsense, though it didn't really include me much at all, was exactly that, nonsense. I liked sensible peace and quiet, so I was quite happy by the time I got home after classes to see that everybody was getting along. Until Beyond came up to me later while I was doing homework, with the other four teens in tow, and greeted me cheerily with a "Hey Near, how's your homework going?"
I looked up at him and the others suspiciously from my place on the livingroom floor, as I responded. "The usual, I don't have much and I'm just going over it again"
He chuckled, smirking slightly. "Good, then you have no excuse not to come with us to the theater on a date"
I narrowed my eyes at them, "Really?"
"Yep, c'mon, it'll be fun" He was grinning at me now, and I felt uncomfortable under the pressure of all five of them, My stomach churning with an oddly drawing feeling as I focused on Beyond.
"I don't want to" I told them after a few seconds, and returned to my page, but not a second after that, was the book removed from under my nose and placed on the coffee table beside me. I looked back up at Beyond as he smiled at me, and was about to protest again to their 'date'. But before I could do anything, Beyond grabbed both of my arms and pulled me into a standing position, I couldn't really resist, being so small I would only end up getting dragged, so I complied and gladly kept my balance.
He still had his one hand on my left arm while I stood, and he was just smiling happily now while the others waited a few feet away. "Come on Near, you hardly ever go out, so just this once okay?"
I shook my head, giving him a halfhearted glare, I at least sort of knew who had already won here. I had no reason to stay home, except for; 'I just don't want to'.
"Please?" he begged, pulling on my arm a little, and I just sighed after a moment.
"Alright, I'll come" I told him, but made sure to keep a frown on my face so that he got the message as I stepped forwards. He let go of my arm with a full blown grin this time, and patted me on the back, seemingly ignoring my frown.
"Awesome, and don't worry, I'll make sure you have fun" He said cheekily, before leading me into the boot room with the rest of them, his hand resting on my shoulder. That feeling was almost distracting, how his hand was just resting there, but I ignored it in favor of finding my shoes and slipping them on.
Authors note: Wow, I wrote and edited all of this in one day 0_0 Can you believe it? And its the end! I feel weird now, like, what do I do now? Is this a pretty good story? Do I start another story now? Should I? Anyways, any ideas and suggestions for another story would be wonderful guys ^^ And MaladaptiveDaydream, I would just like to thank you again for reviewing like you do. It was a big help, as not many people even bother reviewing, let alone be so encouraging! So thank you soo much!