Chapter 21: Hello my friend, goodbye my friend

'Matt turn off that freaking game of yours! I can't concentrate with those noisy bleeping sounds!'

He heard Matt chuckle behind him. 'I'll turn off the sound. You happy with that?'

Mello hummed as an answer and Matt took it as a yes. He was already focused on the schoolwork before him. After all the commotion from the past months he had ignored most of school. After Near came back he was most of the time by his side. He brought his homework with him, but his mind was too unfocused next to the comatose like boy. So finally he had taken the task on him to get his grades up again.

'You know, I'm glad you're listened to me,' Matt interrupted the silence after some time.

Mello turned around and pulled up an eyebrow. The question clearly visible.

Matt turned off his game this time and put it on his nightstand beside the bed he was lying on. 'I mean that you're finally spending some time in your own room and just do your own stuff again.'

He just shrugged. 'Of course, you told me to. I don't always ignore your advise.'

Matt grinned. 'Good. Otherwise I had to take a more serious precaution.'

'... Such as?'

'Well, I could've hid all your chocolate and-'

'Alright stop it right there!' Mello held his hand up to emphasize his words. 'If you continue I'll probably attack you for only just thinking about that.'

Matt's lips turned into a cheeky grin. 'You wouldn't.'

Mello saw the challenge and accepted it. His homework forgotten on his desk. He grabbed a pillow off his bed and took a jump to smash the pillow from above on Matt's head. 'Wrong!' he smiled.

He continued to hit Matt with his pillow and after the gamer grabbed his own off his bed it turned into a pillow fight. It wasn't until they fell down from fatigue before the fight stopped. They lay next to each other on the floor in the middle of the room catching their breaths when Matt suddenly started to laugh.

Mello turned to his friend and gave him a concerned look. 'What's so funny?'

Matt's laughter calmed down and he smiled at him. 'I realized this is the first time in a long time we actually had fun.'

Mello's lips curled into a smile as well. 'Yeah... you're right.'

'Matt?' Mello asked.

'Yes?'

'Thanks for being a good friend.'

Matt's smile widened and he moved his arm. Before Mello could notice what he did a pillow hit in his face. 'You're turning into a softy. That's my thing.' Matt removed the pillow. 'But thanks,' he added.

The floor began to lay a little uncomfortable so they got up and started to get ready for bed. It was already too late to get back at his homework so it had to wait for tomorrow.

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He slowly woke up out of his deep sleep. He blinked a few times and stared confusingly in the dark room. Why did he woke up in the middle of the night? He didn't had a nightmare or something like that.
A chill breeze blew through the room and Mello shivered at the sudden cold.

When did I open the window? Did Matt do it when I was asleep already?

He pushed himself up on his elbows and watched groggily through the room. To his right he heard clothing rustle so he turned his attention to Matt's side of the room they shared. What he saw was not what he expected, not at all. A figure was bent over Matt and it looked like he pinned Matt down. One arm went in the direction of his friend's head.

Mello's eyes widened in fear and before he could stop himself a small squeaky sound came out of his throat. The figure jerked around and Mello thought for a moment L was in front of him. His eye caught the cloth in the man's hand and his gaze went to Matt and back to the cloth.

He sedated Matt! He's not L it's-

The figure, B, was by him in a few fast steps and Mello had only managed to throw his blankets off him.

'HEL-'

His scream for help was smothered with the cloth B pushed against his mouth and nose. B moved on to Mello's bed and sat on his legs so he couldn't kick with them.

How did he come in here?! L said he heightened the security! He promised us we were safe!

Mello didn't gave up without a fight and he struggled with all the power he had in his body. He wasn't weak... but he couldn't win from someone who was bigger and older than him.

The sharp scent of the cloth made him feel dizzy. He knew it would be merely seconds before he lost consciousness. Mello opened his mouth and surprised B with this action. Normally people held their mouths tightly closed when this happened. B pushed the cloth tightly to his face and because his mouth opened a few finger went with the cloth in his mouth. Mello jaws slammed down on each other and he bit his kidnapper in his fingers. He could now taste the stuff on the cloth and he felt his body go numb. B quickly pulled his fingers away and cursed silently from the pain.

Mello managed to move his head to the side to look at Matt one more time before his eyes fluttered closed and everything went black.