A/N: I don't really know how to do this thing so I just write blindly. The strawberry stuff from last chapter just popped out from nowhere. But I really hope you guys like it. Ok, here's the second chapter. I really want to finish this before school starts which are about 3 more weeks to go…
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note. I wish I do.
--Chapter 2--
--Playing A Game--
As the days passed by, Lira realized that L rarely stays inside the room. Most of the time, he was out with B and ends up sleeping on the younger boy's room. She, however kept a good if not friendly relationship with her weird roommate. His brief stays at the room had given Lira enough time to observe that the boy is totally nuts about sweets. He could rarely be seen without any sweet treat in his hand. She had also noted that the boy has taken a liking on strawberry cakes. Any kind of cake, as long as it has a large strawberry on top, he would eat. Lira had then arrived to the conclusion that this boy may die an early age due to a severe case of diabetes. But then, maybe not. The cavities will get first to his teeth, anyway.
Lira and L attended classes together and sat at the very front of the class. Lira thought that it must be part of the 'classification' that Mr. Wammy had mentioned to her during her first day. But sitting beside L in the class made Lira even more weirded out by the boy. He sat in a strange manner. Something that some people may call the 'fetal position' with his legs brought up to his chest and his back was a bit crouched. However this was not the weirdest part of the boy in any way. You see, L has a knack of telling the truth while keeping his face straight. Really, no normal human could do that.
Lira was sitting alone one day in the bench outside of the main building of the orphanage. It was a bright Sunday morning and she was sitting there all by herself and mulling all of what happened in the past week over her head when suddenly, she was scared by a voice from her right.
"You don't mind if I sit here, do you, Lee?" L said. But he really does not need a permission since e was already sitting. Lira screamed at the sound of his voice. How could that boy be so quiet? But she was silenced when B sat down in her lap, giggling.
"Lee-chan is very jumpy today!" the toddler exclaimed making Lira giggle. He was very smart for his age.
"You're right. Maybe Lee is scared of me?" L remarked with a smirk.
"No I'm not! I just – did not see you coming," Lira defended herself which is actually true. L is like a spy when he moves. No one can hear him coming.
"It's quite fine. Even Watari shocks himself to a heart attack sometimes when I stop by his office," L said staring straight ahead.
"Who's Watari?" Lira asked. She never knew anyone in the orphanage with a Japanese origin.
"The others call him Mr. Wammy. Does that help?" L answered.
"Ohh. I get it," Lira said, comprehension dawning on her face.
"Watari is a kind, kind man! He always gives B sweets!" the little child in Lira's lap piped up.
"And what sweets does Mr. Wammy give you, B?" Lira asked the boy.
"Ooohhh…lots of them he gives B chocolates, candies and if B promised him to be a good, good boy, Watari gives B cakes just like what he gives L!" the child answered joyously as if sweets are the most important thing in the world.
"But B should learn to eat his proper meals and brush his teeth well because one day, the tooth fairy might kidnap him because he's got lot's of cavities feasting on his teeth," L said looking down at the child and messing B's hair.
"Not fair! L does not do those things!" B pouted. Lira chuckled. There are so many things that she had not experienced when she still had a family. One of it is to baby sit a younger sibling.
"B's right. L should be a good example to his bro," Lira said smiling down at the kid sitting contentedly at her lap and patting his head. B giggled and hugged Lira as if to thank her for the support. "Anyway, L, why did you come here?" Lira turned to L while returning the kid's hug.
"First of all, I wanna make it clear to you that he is not my brother. I just feel that attached to him. Second, I came here to ask you, since B is very insistent that you be our seatmate at the bus this coming weekend," L told the girl still in that monotonous voice as his hand fished inside his pocket for a sugar cube. Lira had gotten used to this already and also to the fight that will ensue if L refused to give B his share of sugar cubes. L gave B a stern look and handed the boy three cubes. "This will be enough for you today. I don't want to deal with the tummy aches later," He said to no one in particular.
"I know you're not brothers. But B looks up to you in that way. Anyway, what's it we got this weekend?" Lira asked the boy sitting in an unusual way beside her.
"Don't you know? We've got a camping trip this weekend, in the forests somewhere in Gloucestershire. You've really got to catch up on your news," L answered turning only to give Lira a brief look.
"Oh, is that so? Alright then if B is so insistent," Lira said patting the kid on her lap once again.
"Yay!" B exclaimed and hugged Lira again with his sticky hands.
"Alright then B, let's get going. Let's not bother her anymore –," L said standing up and stretching his hand for the smaller boy to hold. "– Oh, and see you, Lee" L said giving Lira the faintest of smiles.
The weekend came and the children trooped to front gates of the orphanage to await their bus services. Lira, L and B boarded the first bus to come, carrying their bags with them which contained very few items.
"Lee, do you mind if I take the window seat? B likes to see the view while the bus is moving," L asked Lira ever so politely and the girl agreed to do so. She goes a little bit dizzy when she looks out of bus windows especially during long-distance travels.
It was quite a long journey and as they went under a long tunnel, Lira glanced sideways at L who had fell asleep, cradling B in his arms like a father to his child. Lira smiled inwardly. It was in these rare occasions when L spends time with B that he shows emotions. She had already come to think that the boy had never learned any emotions at all.
They reached the vast forests of Gloucestershire. They unloaded the bus and was soon setting up tents and stoking campfires for them to be prepared for the night that was coming ahead.
"Lee! Lee!" The girl heard a faint cry at the distance and saw B running towards her. "Can we share tents? We could play family!" B chattered excitedly. Lira eyed him for a moment and then turned her gaze to the crowd at large. L must be somewhere. Then she saw him walking towards their direction from the thick part of the woods. "L! Can we share tents with Lee? I want to play family! You could be my daddy and she could be my mommy!" B related excitedly to L whose eyes were turning the size of large sauces.
"B, you do understand that Lee is a girl, do you?" L said, crouching sown to wipe sweat out of the kid's forehead.
"Yes, but how are we supposed to play family if mommy does not sleep with me and daddy?" The child demanded stomping his feet on the forest floor.
"It's OK, L. I don't really mind," Lira said. She knows that it would be better to give in to the boy's whims than to hear him rant over and over again and throw a tantrum and have him rant about numbers floating above people's head for minutes.
"Alright then, let's set up the tent here," L said dragging a tent bag with his left hand and leading B with the other. When they have set it up, it was almost time for dinner and they joined the other kids lining up for food. Finally, it was time to turn in.
"Lee, I must tell you, I move quite a lot when I sleep," L told the girl just as they were lining up the covers for them to sleep in.
"It's not a bother at all. I do move in my sleep too," Lira smiled at the boy and he faintly returned that as well. "But I will really get angry if B wets the covers," Lira said in a dangerous voice turning to the little tyke playing with his toys.
"I don't wet beds, Lee. You can ask L!" The little boy defended himself looking insulted at the very thought that his 'mother' thinks he wets beds.
"Alright then, if you insist. Now come here and we shall go to sleep now," Lira said and beckoned at the little boy who gladly crawled to where she is. "Now, you will sleep in the middle. Is that OK with you, B?" Lira asked as she pulled the blankets to B's chin.
"It's alright as long as mommy and daddy is by my side," The kid chirped holding onto the blanket.
"Of course we will be sleeping beside you," L assured the boy as he lay down beside him, turning to look at the kid lying in the middle. He still has that horrible posture even when lying down. He motioned for Lira to do the same and the girl imitated L lying down, also facing B.
"Mommy, daddy, could you kiss me before I sleep?" B asked the two and they both leaned to kiss the kid in the cheeks.
"B really likes to get his goodnight kiss," L told Lira as if to say that it should be expected from the boy.
"Daddy, why don't you kiss mommy too so that she can sleep well?" B said as he tugged at L's sleeve.
"I can't do that," L told the child who pouted.
"Why?" the kid said mustering the cutest puppy-dog eyes he could.
"We're not married yet and only married boys kiss their wives," L told the boy poking him on the nose.
"Then when can you marry?" B asked.
"Gosh, you have so many questions! Now, go to sleep or big foot will come and crush you with his feet!" L said tickling the little boy's tummy. He must have hit a spot for soon enough; B dropped the subject and fell asleep. "He's really scared of big foot. Seemed to think that the creature will stomp him to death. Really nonsense but I use that to make him go to sleep. You should sleep too, Lira," L told the girl on the other side of the tent. Lira's eyes widened in horror.
"How did you know my name? All the while I've been using Lee in front of you!" Lira said eyeing L suspiciously.
"It's not me. It's B. He knows everyone's names just by looking at them. I really don't know how he does this so an alias won't protect you from him. He knew straight out that I was lying to him when I told him my name is L. But he soon learned to call me that and to be fair, he used B as his name too," L said brushing the stray hairs from the boy's forehead. "Oh, and to be fair, I'll tell you our names too, since we are playing 'family' here. My name is Lawliet and B's is Beyond," He told the girl lying there in front of him.
"It's really unnecessary. You'll still be yourself anyway even if you change names or use aliases," Lira shrugged. "Well, daddy, we'd better get to sleep now that baby is snoring," Lira said. She heard a faint chuckle as L closed his eyes and encircled B in an embrace, his fingers slightly brushing Lira's arm. "Goodnight," she said and went to sleep too.
A/N: Hmnn…I don't know if this chapter does have sense. And I don't even know if there's forests in Gloucestershire. I know there is in Dean but, I just pointed randomly in the map of UK and my pen landed in Gloucestershire. Well, I hope you enjoyed. Happy Mother's Day to your mom, whoever you are that is reading this.