Experience
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note and I won't make profit from this fiction. Reading "Three Plus One" may contribute to know the background of this fiction. It doesn't matter if you never read it.
The bells over the cot rang, as the baby fluttered her little arms happily, an excited babble escaping her mouth.
"Lenny, look here." Mello leaned over the side of the cot and squeezed a yellow screaming chicken in his hand, making a thin sound. The baby laughed more brilliant.
"Look at what time it is now. You've got her so excited that she could wake throughout the night." Mello looked back. Halle leaned against the doorframe with her arms crossed, as she watched them, her hair still dripping wet.
Mello looked over Lenny, as the baby girl observed him with her bright eyes. He reached out his arms and carefully lifted Lenny from the cot.
"Leave her to me." Halle came over and took Lenny from Mello, ignoring his protesting eyes. "Mummy and Daddy are going to bed. So is Lenny." Halle said, as she rubbed her nose against Lenny's. She gently rocked Lenny, humming discontinuous tunes. Mello watched Halle and the baby silently, a smile unconsciously appearing at the corners of his mouth.
"You go to bed first." Halle suddenly turned to him.
"Umm…" Mello scratched the back of his head and went back to bedroom.
After a while, Mello heard footsteps and opened one eye. Halle walked softly to the bedside and lay down quietly. Mello turned his head to look at Halle's side face. There are neat bangs pasting gently on her forehead and slight puffiness under her eyes. Mello moved close to Halle and tentatively touched the buttons of her top.
"Why were you smirking when I got Lenny to bed?" Halle asked abruptly, pausing Mello's hand.
"I weren't." Mello claimed.
"Really?" Halle raised her eyebrows.
Mello pouted. There was no way that he leaked what he really thought to Halle. When he was about to withdraw his hand, Halle took his hand and put it to her chest again. Mello propped himself up on his elbows and ambled down to capture her lips.
…
Halle and Mello looked in the direction of the living room at the same time. There was a baby's cry. Halle quickly got up and rushed to the living room, grumbling why it didn't take long for Lenny to wake up. Halle's slippers slapped against the wooden floor. She came to the cot and bent down to look at her crying daughter. The blanket that had been covering Lenny was messed up. She thought for a moment and took off the diaper. Halle sighed, glanced helplessly at Mello, and murmured. "I knew it."
"What's the matter?" Mello walked over.
Halle pulled a bag of diapers out of a drawer under the cot, as Mello immediately understood what was going on.
"Give me a hand and pick Lenny up."
Mello gently lifted Lenny as Halle quickly took off the used diaper. She used wipes to clean Lenny's hips and expertly wore her a diaper.
The pair got their kid back to sleep. As soon as Halle entered the bedroom, she lay sprawled on the bed. Mello hesitated for a second and closed the bedroom door.
"You'll get some diapers tomorrow. Diapers are running out of very quickly." Halle said lazily, closing her eyes.
Mello lay down and gazed at Halle. "You should have let Lenny pee before sleeping."
"Huh? Are you blaming me for not letting Lenny pee before sleeping?" Halle beamed in discontent, "It's you played with her all night."
"But you coaxed her to sleep."
"Mello." Halle looked at him with an incredulous expression. "Are you jealous?"
Mello silently moved on top of Halle and drew his face to hers, exposed to the smell of lavender shampoo from Halle. "Of course not." He rubbed Halle's lips with his thumb and kissed her on the lips. "Or maybe you are right." Whispered Mello.
Halle widened her eyes, then she threw her arms around Mello's neck. "I never thought of that." She mumbled.
They were immersed in the kiss. Mello was happy inwardly that Halle didn't refuse him,and he had been thinking about it for days. It had been more than one year since they had made out last time, though Halle's belly bulge had been showing when he knew Halle was pregnant after their three-month separation. Mello sucked Halle's skin along her neck little by little, as Halle let out a moan. Halle pushed Mello's shoulder hard to keep them apart. Mello breathed heavily, greedily watching her unbuttoning her pajamas. He helped Halle pull her top over her head, and he lowered his head, his mouth exploring Halle's breasts.
Buzz…
The cell phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated and Mello stopped kissing. The buzzing vibrations came rhythmically, then Mello hissed angrily and roughly reached out to grab his cell phone, scanning the name displayed on its screen.
"What is it? Matt." Mello asked impatiently.
"Mello, an online shop is offering a 10% discount on a new dual hard drive. Two minimum per order. How about it? Group buying with me?" Matt said cheerfully.
"Why can't you tell me tomorrow?" Mello snorted and noticed that Halle looked at him with tired blue eyes.
"Didn't you say you would buy a new computer? I will ask someone else if you don't want. Are you…" Matt's sudden pause made Mello's heart pound. "Are you in bed?" Matt spoke a few seconds later.
Mello breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. "Ye ... yes." He said sheepishly.
"Haha, you go to bed before 11 o'clock. You've changed a lot since you became a father. Wanna set a good example for your daughter?"
"Do you find the payment transactions I asked you to check?" Mello changed the subject.
"No. My computer broke down…"
Beep.
Mello hung up the phone, and he immediately pressed the power button to turn the phone off.
"What did Matt say?" Halle said with concern.
"Nothing." Mello murmured. He gave Halle a sly grin and ambled down to continue licking her skin. He gave her nipple a slight bite, as she gasped heavily and thrust her hands into Mello's blonde hair. Mello slowly moved down and tenderly touched Halle's stomach covered with stretch marks which was especially conspicuous on her creamy skin. He rested his head on her stomach, scrutinizing these off-color marks, then he piously dropped a kiss on the marks. Halle looked at Mello through her heavy eyelids, as Mello stripped off his clothes. Their lips met again and they caressed each other. Halle naturally bent her knees and wrapped her legs around Mello's waist.
"Do you hear?" Halle puffed.
"What?" Halle's voice calmed Mello gradually, and he leaned his head on her shoulder. He heard the baby crying outside the door.
Mello propped himself up, and Halle slipped out of bed and put on the top she had just tossed aside.
Mello turned on the light in the living room when Halle lifted Lenny up.
Halle gently shook Lenny, who was still crying. She glanced at the clock on the wall and gently pushed Lenny's head close to her breast, lulling the crying baby. Lenny instinctively began suckling.
"Is she hungry?" Mello said softly.
"It's almost the time." Halle sat on the sofa and wrapped Lenny in a blanket. Halle stroked the kid's blond hair, her eyes looked kind and worn. It could be the warmest scene in the world that Mello had seen.
"You don't need to stay here." Halle noted Mello looked at her in the eye.
Mello disappeared in the bedroom without any words. He lay in bed, thinking it was a pity that human beings have almost no memory of infancy, and he wondered if there was a night when he was lying in his mother's arms suckling contentedly more than twenty years ago. Would his parents have accompanied with him in the way Halle and him accompanied with Lenny?
Halle returned about ten minutes later, turned off the light and buried herself in the blanket. Mello put his arms around Halle's waist, when Halle was about to turn her back.
"Halle." Mello muttered as his face rubbed against the back of her neck.
"I'm tired, Mello." Halle moved towards the side, but Mello still pressed against her back.
"Halle, we haven't…"
Halle frowned and took Mello's hands away. "Sorry, I'm really tired. So the next time. I'll suckle Lenny a few hours later. I have to sleep now." She explained and gave Mello a kiss on the corner of his mouth. She turned back and curled up at the side of bed with a blanket again.
