Author's Notes

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Near twiddled his hair as he gazed at the many toys laid out in front of him.

"That one..." He said glumly as he pointed at a large stuffed panda.

The teen beside Near have a small sigh of relief, it had taken the albino half an hour to pick his prize.

Prize? Ah, yes. The orphans were at a funfair... I must have forgotten to mention that.

Near smiled slightly as the teen, L, lent across the toy stool and grabbed the large panda that he had asked for.

"Here you are." L said with a sigh as he handed the large toy to the young boy.

Near took it and then walked off towards some other stool. L groaned slightly, he didn't want to wait around another half hour just because Near couldn't make up his mind.

Near pointed towards a bouncy castle, he didn't say anything... He just... Pointed.

"You want to go on that?" L asked raising his eyebrow.

"Why else would I be pointing intently?" Near replies in his emotionless voice.

L rolled his eyes and walked towards the inflated castle. Near followed, despite his lack of emotion, the albino was really enjoying himself.

Matt and Mello had decided to walk on the other side of the fair, away from Near and the other orphans. They held hands to make sure they wouldn't lose each other in the large crowd.

"I can't believe how much you screamed on the ghost train." Mello said with a large smile on his face.

Matt smiled back, he didn't care that Mello was going to continuously remind the redhead about how much of a whimp he had been. He was just glad that the blonde was happy, he hardly ever smiled anymore.

"What do you want to do next?" Mello asked as he munched on a large chocolate bar with his spare hand.

Matt looked around, it was hard for him to see a lot in the crowd they were in. The redhead stood on his toes and stretched his neck out to look, but the only thing that managed to catch his eye was the one ride he never wanted to go on.

"How about the Ferris wheel?" Mello suddenly asked cheerfully as he noticed what his companion had been staring at.

Matt flinched, before he could give the blonde an answer he was soon being dragged along towards his most hated ride.

BB had decided to follow Linda around the funfair. He had grown strangely fond of her ever since the park's incident. The red-eyed teen kept a fair distance from the young girl; he watched as she tried to knock down a stack of cans with a coconut, but she suddenly blurted out the word 'fire' and totally missed.

Upon seeing the pig-haired girl suddenly have a split change in personality, BB gave a dreamy sigh and lent his head against a tent. But of course, the tent had nothing to lean on to and BB fell right through, taking the entire tent down with him.

Linda whipped her head around to see the tent fall over, she gasped at first but then she laughed manically, hiccuped, then walked off to do something else.

BB struggled to fight the layers of the tent that he had tangled himself up in, and jumped to his feet to keep Linda in his sight.

The man who owned the tent began to yell after the red-eyed teen, but BB ignored it and continued to follow the other orphan.

Linda had found a darts stool, Roger had informed her not to touch any sharp objects while she was out, but one of the prizes for getting a high score was a shiny lighter. And Linda couldn't resist.

"I'm sorry young lady. But you're too small for this kind if game." The man running the darts stool said.

Linda was about to comeback with an insult, but BB suddenly appeared beside her.

"BB will play for Linda!" The red-eyed teen stated happily.

The dart's man raised an eyebrow at the two, he gave a small roll of his eyes and handed BB a few darts.

"What should BB go for?" BB asked the girl beside him.

"Get the biggest - FIRE! - number you can!" Linda said shaking slightly.

BB grinned and threw the darts very skilfully at the board, the total reached over 180, which made both Linda and the dart's man surprised.

"I want that!" BB yelled happily as he pointed to the shiny lighter.

The dart's man slowly gave it to the teen, he was still very shocked that a human could move as fast as BB had.

BB walked Linda away from the stool before handing over the prize he had one, "BB won especially for Linda." The red-eyed teen declared as he put the object in the girl's small hand.

Linda smiled gratefully and took the lighter, she instantly began triggering the flame rapidly.

"Thank you, BB," She said innocently, "Do you want to go and - FIRE! - get some ice cream with me?" She added.

BB nodded and took Linda's hand in his. He didn't care if she used the word 'fire' every now and then. He was happy to just be holding her hand.

Matt and Mello had walked over to the Ferris wheel after they had been pushed and bumped into from the large crowd (Mello just pushed back, harder).

They waited in a line for a while, Matt had suggested to give up on the idea, but that annoyed Mello slightly. So the redhead shut up.

Eventually they got to an empty seat of the ride, one of the operators of the Ferris wheel came over to the two boys.

Mello instantly recognised them. "Lidner, can we please go on this ride?" The blonde asked with enthusiasm in his voice, he suddenly stopped and looked at the older woman, "Why are you working here?" He asked.

Lidner put her hands on her hips and stated at the orphans, "It looks like Matt is the only one tall enough to go on this ride." She stated, ignoring Mello's question completely.

"What?! I am older than him you know!" Mello shrieked.

"Only by two months," Lidner replied, she then sighed, "But seeing as how you're my favourite acquaintance, I'll let you go on together anyway." She added.

Mello smiled once more and he watched as Lidner began to undo the bar on an empty seat. Matt gulped as he looked up at the other seats on the ride.

"I'm afraid you can't have those on the ride." Lidner announced as she began to remove Matt's googles.

The redhead was to slow for the older woman and he missed the chance to snatch them out of her grasp.

"Don't be shy, I'm sure you have lovely eyes." Lidner said with amusement in her voice.

Matt glared at the woman. He never took his googles off, no one had seen his eyes before.

"He does." Mello muttered under his breath.

Except Mello, he was the only who knew what Matt looked like under his googles.

The redhead looked over at the blonde beside him, it would have been a memorable moment... If Lidner hadn't taken away Mello's chocolate.

"No food or drinks either." The woman said bluntly, "Now, go and enjoy yourselves!" She added.

Mello snorted, "We'll try." He muttered as he hopped onto the ride's seat.

Matt stood there looking at the ride with his bright emerald eyes.

"It's okay if you don't want to go on, Matt. I'll go with Mello if you want to stay here." Lidner said softly.

Upon hearing her words, Matt quickly joined Mello. There wasn't a lot of words that Matt could describe Lidner with, he just didn't like her very much.

"Hold on tight." Lidner called as the ride began to move.

At first it was slow and easy. But it gradually grew faster and rougher.

Matt was gripping the bar in front of him so tightly that his knuckles were beginning to turn white.

Mello was busy hanging his head, (as well as his whole body) over the side of the seat. He was certainly the reckless one.

Matt's eyes widened when he saw Mello begin to slip, the blonde was oblivious to this and he continued to inch over the side of the seat.

"Hey Matt, I can see Near from here. Why did they put the bouncy castle so close to the Ferris wheel?" Mello said to his companion.

When the redhead didn't reply, Mello looked over his shoulder and saw how Matt was gripping onto the bar.

"Are you alri-" Before Mello could finish his question, the entire ride came to a sudden stop, the blonde had been leaning over too far and his whole body suddenly flipped out of the seat from the sudden jolt.

Leaving Mello hanging on for dear life.

And Matt was too frightened to release his grip from the bar.

To be continued...