Rain: AH, IT'S CHAPTER FOURTEEN. It's marvelous, isn't it? But anyway. Same damn disclaimer. Honestly, if I owned Death Note, I wouldn't waste my time writing fanfictions. This stuff would be real. XD
Matt: Comforting thought there
Rain: -smirk- Be glad I don't own it.
Mello and Matt: . . .
Rain: ANYWAY. I got warm fuzzy feelings writing this chapter. Except Mello says "fuck" a lot. So be warned there.

Mello awakes to the same thing he fell asleep to. Matt has fallen asleep once more, and now only the blond is awake. The room is dimmer than before, and it takes a few moments for Mello to realize that it's nighttime outside.

He sits up and observes his surroundings once more. Same room. Same sleeping Matt.

He stands next to the bed and looks down at the sleeping Matt, getting a better glimpse of him than he had previously gotten. A scratch runs down the side of his face, from eye to lips, and Mello assumes it was probably from something on the concrete. City streets weren't exactly known for their cleanliness. The blond traces the scratch lightly with his finger before pulling his hand away once more. A sigh escapes his lips as he does this. The realness sets in. Everything that he had been hoping was nothing more than a bad dream was real.

Mello had been hoping to wake up from the couch safely on his top bunk with Matt sleeping right under him. He had been hoping that Matt hadn't actually ran away. He had been hoping everything was just a dream.

Only now he realizes it's not a dream. It's reality.

He remembers the time the heating went out in the orphanage and how he had been freezing because he never slept in a shirt. And he remembers how he climbed down the ladder, feeling the cold through his entire body, and slid under Matt's blanket. And Matt pulled the blond close. And the two slept like that, justifying it as nothing more than 'body heat.'

Looking back on it, the boy realizes that they were always more than friends. They were all each other had. Mello never talked to many of the other orphans. Of course, he talked to Ren, but not like he talked to Matt. Matt knows everything about him. Matt always has. And he knows everything about Matt as well.

The blond adjusts himself on the bed, laying down next to Matt and resting his head on the boy's good shoulder. His blue eyes focus upwards at the ceiling.

"Thanks for everything, Matt," Mello says, still not fully awake, "You're my best friend, you know? Maybe even more. Who fucking knows anymore? You mess with my mind, you know? You don't realize it, but you do. I mean, hell, I've known you were gay. That fluffy bastard told me that a long time ago. But I guess that didn't stop me from being your friend. Sometimes, Matt, I'm pretty sure you're the only one that willingly puts up with me. And sometimes, I think we're probably more than just friends. Body heat, fuck that. There's something between us. There's got to be, as close as we are. But I don't know what the fuck it is, you know? And I'll never know, if you don't wake the fuck up! I need to know!"

He sits up and places his arms on either side of Matt. His thin frame towers over Matt's almost just as thin frame.

"If I do this, will you please wake up?"

Mello leans down. Face to face with Matt. He shuts his eyes and presses his lips against Matt's. It's not much of a kiss, considering Mello is doing all the kisses.

And as he pulls away, he doesn't realize that Matt is awake, dazed, confused, but overall happy.

Rain: I'm curious to see how this plays out, aren't you? Read and review.
Matt: -squee- he kissed me
Rain and Mello: . . .
Rain: Chapter 15 up soon ;;