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Chapter 21: Matt

"I'm leaving tomorrow, you know."

I looked up to see Mello standing in my doorway. I closed my book—one of the ones he had so nicely dropped that time he brought it to me—and smiled. "I know."

His eyebrows furrowed, and he lifted a hand to brush his bangs out of his eyes. "You know?"

"Misa told me."

He looked away. "Oh."

I slid my legs out from under my covers, and my bare feet hit the cold tile floor. I made my way over to him, and smiled again. "So you'll leave me, right?"

"What?" His eyes widened. "No, Matt, no. I don't want to leave you."

"Why not?" My tone was harsh as I stared at the wall behind him.

"Why would I?" he retorted, temper flaring up. Good, I thought. Get him mad so he won't come back.

I glanced at him before returning my gaze to the wall. "You don't need to pity me, you know."

Mello was silent for a minute.

The clock on the wall behind us ticked away time, the only noise coming from the room.

"You think...I'm pitying you?" he said quietly.

"I know it, Mello. So you can cut the crap." I looked at him uninterestedly, but my heart was pounding.

"Matt, you stupid fuck," Mello spat. He pushed himself off the wall, and he turned away from me. "Fine. I'll take my fucking pity and leave. Have a fucking nice life. Or not."

He walked out of the room.

"Die for all I care."

I stood at the door for a minute before closing it. Turning off my light, I put my goggles around my neck and made my over to my bed, tears streaming from my eyes.

"Okay, Mello," I whispered to my empty room. "That's what I'll do."

A/N:

HEY GUYS. WHO FORGOT ABOUT ME? :D

Okay, so I know this isn't much, but it's what I came up with in Creative Writing today. And I would write more, but I have a whole bunch of math that I'm missing tomorrow for a college fair. Yaaaaaaaay.

But I wanted to get this out there, and to let you guys know that I have more ideas for this, and I'm not giving up. I've had some...hectic...few months, but summer is less than a month and a half away, so I should get some writing done. I'm going to write out my outline in a little bit.

So to those who's stuck with this, I commend you. :3 And I'll have a new, longer, update soon.