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Mello's POV

I ran down the hallway, giggling all the while. It was too crazy to even imagine! Near with pink hair! Holy shit! I couldn't get down the steps fast enough. I skidded to a halt at the bottom of the steps to see Claire, one of the only girls at the orphanage that I dont want to punch in the face, staring wide eyed into Near's room. This was it. The official best day of my life! I rounded the corner to see... OH MY FUCKING GAWD!!! It was perfect! Near's hair was the brightest shade of pink I had ever seen! I was laughing so hard that tears came to my eyes, i could hardly breathe but holy shit was it awesome! Claire just stood there holding back laughter, kudos to her! That's somthing I couldn't do in a million years, if you'd exuse my cliche.

Matt stumbled into the hall holding his stomach and laughing so hard he was turning red, and he hadn't even seen the best part! He was laughing so hard he looked almost drunk... oh wait... thats what that bottle was! Shit.

"Hay! Neeeaarrr! Youuuusss gotsa purty hair tharr, yesh yew do!"

Oh god... keeping this from Roger was going to be fucking impossible. Matt fell flat on his face before getting up and acting as if it was perfectly normal, although i guess it was seeing he had to go down a flight of stairs to get here.

Near just looked questioningly at us before politely shutting the door and going to look at his hair. There was a faint gasp before Near returned to the door looking rather embarrased. He said somethign along the lines of 'please excuse me' and slammed the door.

"Awwwww Ne-yurrrr don laik usshhh no mooorreee..." Matt slurred.

"You need to go up to our room and stay there..." I said sternly.

We walked, well i walked, Matt kinda stumbled, up the stairs and into our room where i tossed Matt onto the couch. He attempted to get up but only suceeded in falling on his face, much like me a couple of days ago.

"Cudja heelllppp mehhh up?"

"Now why would I ever do that?" I was sarcastic, but Matt was too wasted to notice.

"Dawwwww... I thawt yew wurrr mah buddddeh..." Matt looked hurt, but it was hard to tell through his drunken facial expressions.

"Its called sarcasm, Matt." I said as i helped him up. An awkward silence followed, considering I dragged him up into a semi-intimate position.

"Well arrrunt wee feeeiiishtey?" Hahaha, very funny.

"Now's not the time, Matt..."

"Plllleeeeaassshhhh?" he had leaned over and was now inches away from me.

"Jesus Christ Matt!! Your breath reeks!"

"Yewww mean jeevas chrissst nowww donsha?" He joked

"Yeah whatever, just go brush your teeth or something!"

He stumbled and tripped until he was safely into the bathroom. I heard something fall to the ground and break, and I heard something bump into the cabinets beneath the sink, we were probably out of toothpaste. Dammit! Matt always covers his toothbrush in it instead of using a normal amount, and with him drunk... it was probably best we didnt have any toothpaste, I can treat a gun wound but not a toothpaste overdose.

"I cuudn't find my toofthbrrushhhhh, so ah uusedd yerrs." He stated proudly.

Well fuck it all!

"GODDAMNIT MATT!!!" I am not going out to the store tonight, and you are not nearly fit to drive."

Yeah. We were just soo cool that we drive when we're 14, and once, when we got pulled over and the cops asked to see our lisences, we pulled the 'we're just orphans' trick and got off free!

I took out my phone and dialed Claire's number.

'I am running out of words to say to you, wondering why im wasting my tii-"

"Hello?" I kinda liked her Nevershoutnever little ringy thing... y'know, instead of the dull ringing when you call her you get to listen to a catchy song!

"Hey! Umm, could you run down to the quickie-mart and get some toothpaste for me?"

"Ummm... Do i want to know why?"

"Well y'see... Matt is obviously totally wasted and his breath smells like utter shit, and we're out of toothpaste." I explained

"Oh, sure! Gimme about 20 minutes!" She said and hung up. She was my best friend besides Matt, She was always so cheery.

As she said, about 20 minutes later there was a knock at the door.

I opened it up and Claire walked by me and into the room, although she did that every time she came up and it was actually kinda cute, like in the little kid way. Actually, she was pretty cute in the 'hot' way. She had short light brown hair, and bright blue eyes which seemed to always sparkle with excitement. She always dressed really sporty, with like tank tops and athletic shorts, but she was pretty lazy when it came right down to it, and she always wore those Cristofer Drew-ish stretchy headbands, which she could totally pull off. And she had that little girl personality too, she sucked her thumb when she got nervous and had lots of stuffed animals. If I wasn't with Matt, I would totally ask her out.

"Hii you guys!!"

"Hayyy girrlieee! Yew gotshhhh me summfinnn?"

"HAHAHAHAHA!!! You're sooo wasted!!" she was doubled over laughing and Matt just looked at her in confusion. This was going to be a weird night...

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Heehee! I lurrves me sum drunk Matt! Slurring is so fun to type!!

OMG! does any one of my lurvely reviewers know how to make cat ears, bcuz im doing a Natsuo cosplay for Halloween and Ikkicon, and all I need is ears!

Much Luvvs! ^^ -Hannah