Sorry for taking so long with the updates! I'm back in school and the homework has been heavier than usual.

So to anyone who still reads this…enjoy

Disclaimer: why do I still have to do this?

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"Wake up, everybody!"

Still groggy and sleep deprived I slowly cracked open my eyes. The clock above the TV told me that it was seven in the morning. I pushed myself up so I could sit up on the couch and face whoever woke me up.

"Do you know what time it is?!"

"Yeah I do. We're wasting time. The longer we sleep, the further Near gets ahead of me."

I ignored what Mello said and stared at his face. I'm shocked and repulsed at what the fire did to it.

"Damn! Your face got fucked up!"

An angry scowl formed on his face, deforming it even more. He had a scary, even feral, look on his face.

"Well so did yours."

"Not as much as yours did."

"How would you know? Have you looked in the mirror lately?"

Before I could retaliate, Matt walked into the room, looking every bit as tired as I felt.

"Stop arguing over who looks worst. You both look pretty bad."

After he said that I turned in his direction and gave him a very evil smile.

In a very low and dangerous voice I said, "You're going to regret saying that in a couple seconds."

Before I could touch him, Mello told both of us to stop acting stupid.

I rolled my eyes and said, "Whatever."

"Okay, today I'm going out to get my picture back from Near."

"Why does he have you picture?"

"It's a long story…"

"Okay…so how are you going to get in?"

"Well I know someone who works with him."

"Really?! What's his name?"

From across the room Matt shouted, "You mean she."

A wide smile grew on my face.

With a playful tone in my voice I said, "She? You're fucking someone on the side and you didn't tell us!"

"I'm not sleeping with her."

"Right…"

I winked my eye at him, as if I knew something that he didn't.

"…"

With a mad expression on his face, Mello turned around and walked out of the apartment.

I turned to Matt and said, "What's his problem?"

Matt shrugged his shoulders and went back to playing my old DS. I walked back towards the couch, sat down and tried to fall back asleep. I must have been sleeping because the next thing I felt was a punch in the arm.

"Oww! What the fuck?"

"I thought I told you to get your lazy, good-for-nothing ass up!"

'Damn…that hurt.'

I looked up and saw a very pissed off Mello staring back at me. He had this look in his eyes that I didn't like, it looked very unstable and unpredictable.

"He thinks he's so much better than me!"

I kept my mouth shut and listened to him rant about Near.

"He acted so smug."

I sighed in boredom because I did not want to hear someone talk about their problems. Apparently sighing is a bad thing to do when a certain someone is pissed off. Sighing earned me a hard smack in the face. I hissed in pain because he hit the still healing wound on my face. Anger was bubbling inside me and raging like a storm. My side of my face stung from the slap.

"You got something to say, bitch?"

'Yeah I do. Why the hell are you acting like a bastard!'

I opened my mouth to say something, but common sense told shut it back. I shook my head and watched him walk out of the room.

'What the fuck is his problem?!'

I kept sitting on the couch and listed to the very loud conversation in the next room.

"He just sat there."

"Really, what else is new?"

After Matt said that, there was a loud crashing sound that echoed throughout the apartment. I walked over to the door and slowly opened the door. A gasp escaped my lips before I could stop it. I had an instant flashback to when I was young and staring at my parent's dead bodies. Matt lay unconscious on the bed in the room, with blood on his face. Black dots danced across my eyes, but I chased them away with a blink of an eye. I ran over to the side of the bed and looked at a bloody Matt.

"What the fuck is wrong with you! How could you do this to your friend!"

Anger and disbelief shined in my eyes.

"Just shut up, bitch and clean this up."

My nails dug painfully into the palm of my hand. Without saying another word, he walked out of the room and slammed the door shut. I just sat down on the floor and stared at the door.

'What did that explosion do to him…'

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Sorry for the short chapter! I'll see if I can make the other one longer...

Well there's a cliffhanger, I think.

Review and read the next upcoming chapter!

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