"Wait. Please don't leave." Mello clung to the red-head causing him to nearly drop the boxes he was carrying.
"You're drunk. Get off of me." Matt pulled free, averting his gaze so he wouldn't have to see the broken look in Mello's eyes. Matt looked at Jay pleadingly. Jay simply shook his head, choosing to be neutral in this event.
"Give me another chance. I'm sorry." Mello begged.
"Get off of me. Shit." Matt dropped the box. "Stop it. Go find Gevanni." He sneered.
Mello looked hurt. "He doesn't mean anything to me. I just-"
"You just what? I wouldn't give you what you want so you find it somewhere else? Is that it?" Matt picked up the box and stormed past the distraught Mafioso.
"That's not it at all." Mello followed Matt all the way to his car. A new muscle car Near insisted he have before he left. "I got lonely." Mello yelled. "You never talked to me. You flinched if I even laid a finger on you. Near and Todd are the only ones you let get close to you. Jay knows more about what's going on with you than I do!"
"Fuck you." Matt threw the box into the trunk and slammed it closed. "You didn't even try. Todd was there for me after you threw me away. Near has never done anything negative at all and Jay has been good as well. And you, what have you done? You left me alone at Wammy's, used me to get back at Near, and cheated on me."
"I make mistakes but I'm trying." Mello tried.
"You can stop now. I don't want you to try anymore." Mello slid into the driver seat, avoiding the temptation to look behind as he drove away.
"How'd it go?" Todd asked as Matt walked through the door of his old apartment.
"As well as you'd expect." Matt groaned, sitting down on the dusty couch.
"I asked if you wanted me to go."
"No need to make things more difficult." Matt propped his feet up on the arm of the couch and lay his head on Todd's lap. "You could go back to Near's if you want. I wouldn't blame you. It is nicer there."
Todd wrinkled his nose. "No way. Near's great and all but I couldn't live in some place that nice. Besides, I can't leave you alone."
They were disturbed by a sudden knock at the door.
"Matt! Talk to me!" Mello yelled as he pounded on the door. He sounded drunker than before. "I'll break down the door again. I will."
"Do you want me to handle it?" Todd asked.
Matt shook his head. "I'll do it." He got up reluctantly and opened the door. Mello fell on top of him. "What the hell?" Matt exclaimed as his pulled his hand away and found it covered with blood.
"Matt, you have to believe me. I'm a dick. I never meant to hurt you." Mello hiccupped.
"You're bleeding. What the fuck happened to you?" Matt asked as Todd joined him at the door.
"What the fuck is he doing here? You'll share a room with him but not me? That's mean Matt. That really hurts." Mello was actually crying.
"We are not together anymore. Now tell me what the fuck happened."
Mello looked confused. "We're not? But I said sorry.... I got into fight with your neighbor. He's a dick." Mello nodded dumbly.
The red-head sighed. "You got into a fight with my neighbor? Sit your drunken ass on my couch and shut up."
"Wait, you're letting him in?" Todd exclaimed.
"He's so drunk he probably won't even remember this. Besides, just because I'm helping him doesn't mean we're getting back together." Matt waited as Mello staggered to the couch.
"Thanks Matty. Your neighbor was one hell of a fighter." Mello's words were slurred so badly, Matt almost couldn't understand him.
"Yeah, I bet. Take off your shirt." Matt ordered.
Mello narrowed his eyes. "Your not trying to get me naked, are you?"
Todd snorted and helped Mello take off his shirt.
"You have really beautiful eyes, Todd. They're like…coffee with little green stuff in it." Mello stared at Todd. Without warning he hugged the stunned teen.
"Uh, yeah, you can get off now." Todd squirmed uncomfortably.
Mello shook his head. "I've been such a dick to you. I'm sorry. I was so jealous Matt likes you more."
"I doubt that." Todd tried to pull away but Mello wouldn't let him out of his grasp.
"I thought he was going to leave me for you and I got scared, you know? And then Gevanni started to talk to me and we went out for coffee and…did I mention I like your eyes?"
Matt coughed to regain Mello's attention.
"Oh, Matt, I forgot you were here." Mello quickly released Todd. "You're not really going to leave are you? Jay will be so disappointed and hey guess what?" Mello tugged on Todd's shirt. "He told me you have a thing for Near."
"Um, no I don't." Todd said quickly. He turned to Matt. "Are you sure he's just drunk?"
"He'll be fine. I'll call him a taxi and send him home after I make sure he isn't dying." Matt said sarcastically as he inspected a cut above Mello ribcage. "It's not bad at all. I'll clean it and you can go home."
"I don't want to." The blonde said drowsily. "I want to stay with you. I can't be with anyone else." He let his head fall back to the arm of the couch and passed out.
"Honestly, I have to say I feel bad for him." Todd admitted. "I don't think he's lying. I think he's really sorry."
Matt threw his hands in the air, exasperated. "You want me to forget he cheated? You want me to go back with him and act like nothing happened? I can't do that."
"I'm not saying forget but forgive. People make mistakes." Todd pointed at himself as an example.
"I can't just let things go back to normal. I look at him and I can see…" Matt grabbed fistfuls of his hair and bit his lip, trying to hold back tears.
"Alright, I won't tell you what to do. At least let him stay the night. He looks pathetic. No, really…look at him. He looks like shit." Todd made a disgusted face at the pitiful heap on the couch.
"Can't we just dump him in the bathtub and be done with it?" Matt whined.
Todd pulled Matt to the bedroom. "Even you're not that mean. Come on let's go to bed, snuggle buddy. It's been a long day."
"OK hold on a moment though." Matt took a sheet from the closet and draped it over Mello.
Todd smiled. "See. I told you."
"Shut up." Matt growled. "Remember it was your idea to let him spend the night. As soon as he wakes up, he's out of here."
"Softie." Todd muttered.
They lay together on Matt's single bed. Matt pressed against Todd and Todd wrapping his arms around Matt. For a moment Matt wished it was Mello.
