She wore two braids today. L noticed as he watched her.

She got her eyes form her mother whom L had briefly met when visiting her church. Her father had the same nose as her too. Sam giggled bringing L from his trance.

"You have a lot of those." Sam said pointing at him. L tilted his head slightly.

"Mouths?" he said referring to where she was pointing.

"Nervous habits." She said referring to how he had been resting his thumb on his lip as he thought. L smiled. She wasn't exactly one to talk. She often would shake her leg when she was nervous, or tuck a piece of hair behind her ear, pull it out and then tuck it back in again, and of course she stuttered.

L wouldn't call what he did a nervous habit because he was hardly ever nervous.

But L found that he wouldn't call her habits nervous either; even though Sam did get nervous a lot. He would call her habits; cute.

When L first met Sam he had to be the one to ask questions. I guess because he felt a sense of urgency when he talked to her and she had to warm up to the idea of talking to someone he didn't know.

More recently Sam was the one who filled the silence.

When L talked it was often very with precision and sureness in every word. When Sam talked she would stutter and sometimes say the wrong word, and since she often talked to him he often got a front row seat to her oral train wrecks.

L was eating a doughnut and listening to Sam.

"It's sad that curse words are used so cautiously." L looked at her oddly.

"Cautiously?" He repeated.

"Ye-yeah. Like the-they're used often." L tilted his head.

"Did you mean commonly?" Sam blushed and L smiled.

"Yes. The-that's what I meant." She said tucking her hair behind her ear. L chuckled and Sam couldn't help but let out some giggles of her own. "You're so mean." She said jokingly. "Why do you even sit next to me if I'm so illiterate?"

Because I'm falling in love with you. L answered in his head. That was one of the reasons L let her talk most of the time, because he could so easily fit those words into their daily conversation.

"Maybe my competence will rub off on you." L deadpanned instead but Sam just laughed.

"Ryuzaki," Sam started looking over at the boy who was a foot taller than she was, only he slouched horribly making it more like six inches. L met her eyes to show that he was listening. "Wha-what time is it?" L reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone.

Once when church was over L had walked her home and today he was walking her to school. Sam didn't ask why he did, it even though she wanted to, she simply just enjoyed his company.

"7:38" Sam nodded.

"We-we have enough time. School doesn't start until 8:00." L nodded. "Wh-why don't you go to school?" L's hand suddenly brushed against the back of Sam's before he laced his fingers with hers. Sam's face reddened. L shrugged.

"I've already passed school." L said simply only Sam didn't pay much attention as she tried slowing down her own hear rate. "Are you okay?" He asked noticing how flustered she was. "If you don't want me to-" L started about to pull his hand away.

"No!" Sam said more loudly then she meant. She lightly squeezed his hand in her own. "I-I want to." Sam stuttered out quietly L smiled down at her.

Every time L would walk with her after that moment he would slip his hand into her's.

"Ryuzaki, do you believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and was raised to life on the third day and his Holy Spirit lives in this world today?" The pastor asked, the boy who had attended the church alongside Sam for a few weeks now.

"Yes I do." L said truthfully. There were some claps and a few amens from the people watching. "What I'm unsure of is your ability to keep me from drowning in this tub of water." He said his fingers in front of his nose ready to grip it at anytime. Sam looked around nervously but everyone including the pastor seemed to laugh good-naturedly. "Pray for me everyone." L added in making them laugh louder. Once the laughter subsided the minister continued.

"Based off your confession, I now baptize you in the name of the Father, The Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The pastor held his back and his arm that held his nose and brought him back up and there was an eruption of applause.