Finals
Regular POV:
"Winter break in six days, aren't you excited Mello?" Matt was bouncing off the walls in joy. School was a lot harder than he expected, but this was Wammy's School for Gifted Children after all.
Mello snapped his bar of chocolate with a CRUNCH as he read an English textbook. "Yes, but that means finals in five days, you'd better study." He got into the habbit of bringing chocolate everywhere. Mello had a serious obsession with chocolate, which was really unhealthy. He would go through at least four bars a day.
"Can I have a piece?" Matt hasn't been able to cross anything off his list of goals for Mello since his birthday.
"No"
"Shocker." Matt got to be really good at sarcasm once met Mello.
"Leave me alone, I'm actually gonna study."
"But wh~y, it's such a waste of time. What do you want to be when you grow up anyways?"
"It is important to study." Mello evaded all personal questions thrown at him, and regular questions too for that matter..
"I'm going to find someone more fun to talk to." Matt got up to leave, Mello didn't stop him. He found Eva, Marcus and a girl named Parker at the library. Parker was Eva's roommate, and kept on hitting on Marcus. A boy Jackson would sometimes join the group, but usually it was just Marcus and Eva.
"Why do you care if Mello likes you or not." Eva said for the gazillienth time after one of Matt's rant about how Mello hates him and he tries so hard to be his friend.
"Maybe he likes him." Parker poked Matt's belly. He sent a glare her way.
"Not as much as you like a certain somebody." Matt wiggled his eyebrows suggestively, earning a blush from Parker as she avoided eye contact with Marcus. "What's his problem anyway?"
"Ask Near," Jackson walked up to join the group, he was nine, like Eva, unlike Marcus and Parker who were both ten. I was still the youngest at age eight.
"Why would he know?"
"They came here at the same age, they were even friends in the beginning, only Mello and Near know why they hate each other now." Eva answered.
"Fine, I'll find Near." So Matt set off to find him.
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Matt looked along the row of doors in the boy's wing, looking for a door labeled with Near's name. At last he found it at the end of the hall. He knocked cautiously and was surprised when a small albino kid opened the door.
"Hi Near, I'm-"
"Matt, current roommate of Mello, moved here September 7th. Shall I go on, I know a lot more?" The albino was very creepy, and stared right past Matt's eyes as he twirled some of his hair around a finger.
"Um, no...I just have some questions about Mello..."
"I have no interest in answering them, Matt. So you can come in and talk about other things, or-"
"I'll just leave, uh thanks anyway."
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Matt POV:
So that was hopeless, I was completely creeped out right now and still knew nothing about Mello. I though about the four months I lived here. I know nothing about him other than his love for chocolate, his birthday, and his name. So basically I knew nothing. I couldn't figure out why, but I wanted to be Mello's friend, to know everything about him, and maybe even share some of my secrets.
I sat outside my bedroom door, not wanting to go in and get kicked out by Mello again. Sitting there, I heard some boys walking down the hall to their dorm. They were talking and laughing, but I couldn't see them because they were still around the corner.
"He looks so much like a girl, I don't get why people are so scared." One of the boys was saying.
"I bet he really is a girl, but hides it."
"That would explain why he has no friends." They continued laughing cruelly at whoever was unfortunate enough to be the butt of their jokes.
"Yeah, Mello is probably- wait isn't that his roommate?" The boys rounded the corner, it was two fourteen year olds, they were the bullies of Wammy's, always saying cruel words, but no one was brave enough to fight them, or they were all smart enough not to.
"He won't say anything, Mello abuses him anyway."
I jumped up, angry. I was the first person brave enough (or stupid enough, most likely stupid enough) to say something. "Mello may have a feminine face, but at least he doesn't look like an ape with chemical burns on his face!" Looking back I could of said something a little more smooth, but it was true, the one boy looked very monkey-like and had a LOT of acne.
SMACK
I hit the wall hard. "What, are you Mello's bitch now?"
"You don't know him so don't say shit that isn't true!" I practically spat at them from the floor. I was kicked again, and MY GOD that hurt. I really hated violent people.
The other boy picked me up roughly by the collar, and slammed me into the wall, hard I might add.
"Oh, so you protect him, where is he to protect you?" The other, less ape-ish looking boy sneered.
"Right here." I was dropped instantly, and then tripped over as the boy stumbled holding his cheek. He fell hard, and knocked himself out by landing headfirst into a wall. I looked up to see a fuming Mello.
The other boy sent a punch right to Mello's face, causing his cheek to bleed immediately. Mello dropped, but then kicked the boys knee really hard, causing him to collapse and cry out in pain. Mello leaned down and whispered something in his ear before leaving, pulling me inside our room.
"..."
"..."
"Talk!" He demanded.
"So how's studying going, hehe." I said rubbing the back of my head nervously, hoping he'd drop the topic.
He just glared at me. "Am I right to assume it was because they said some shit?"
"Yea..." I mumbled.
"About you, or...?"
"You, they said stupid things about you..." I refused to make eye contact.
"I'm not worth it." Mello started cleaning off the blood from his face, and threw a rag at me, signaling to clean myself up too.
"You are worth it," I said it absentmindedly; I just wanted to go to bed. I put on my pajamas, wrote something in my notebook quickly and almost fell asleep instantly.
"Good night Matt." I heard him whisper before going back to studying.
Goals for Mello:
_Get him to start a conversation
_x_Say thank you
_Give me a present
_x_Call me Matt
_Give me a nickname
_Let me give him a nickname
_Hug
_Piggyback ride
_Tell me a secret
_Ask me something personal
_Be friends
_Be best friends
_x_Save me
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Regular POV:
It was two days finals. Yet Matt still hasn't studied, and wasn't planning on it.
"You should really study." Mello said while reading yet another book.
"But then who would save Peach?" Matt had been playing on his gameboy forthree hours now. "And why do you care anyway, I thought you hated everyone."
"I do hate everyone, especially you. But I thought you would be interested in the Christmas party."
"What Christmas party, I thought everyone went." He remembered Eva talking about the Christmas Eve dinner party the whole orphanage took part in.
"I'm talking about the top 5 dinner. Where the top five are taken out to the town and treated to a nice restaurant. I even heard they get special presents." Mello almost sounded dreamy."
"Have you ever been?"
"No, you can take classes before you are eight, but finals and scores start when you are eight. But I was number two on the practice exams, so I will be going."
"You just wanna brag, but fine. I am going to study, and make it. And when I make it, I'm gonna sit next to you at dinner just to annoy you."
Mello then threw a book at Matt's head and continued studying.
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It was the day of first semester finals. Matt stayed up all night studying, as well as most the other Wammy's kids. Exhausted, Matt stumbled into his first class of finals, ready to take on the day.
After eight excruciating hours, Matt stumbled back into his room and collapsed on the bed. "Results are posted after dinner, by the way." Mello had just entered the room, wearing yet another outfit composed of black. It always amazed Matt just how much black he had. Three different pairs of black sweatpants, a pair of black jeans, a black coat, some black T-shirts, but mainly black long sleeved shirts. (Matt was bored and went through Mello's closet one day.)
"Wait just a second." Matt got out his notebook.
Goals for Mello:
_x_Get him to start a conversation
_x_Say thank you
_Give me a present
_x_Call me Matt
_Give me a nickname
_Let me give him a nickname
_Hug
_Piggyback ride
_Tell me a secret
_Ask me something personal
_Be friends
_Be best friends
_x_Save me
"So how do you think you did?" Matt was excited he was actually talking to him.
"They were easy, I probably got first because there was only one question I didn't know." Mello was of course bragging.
"Oh really, that's good. I think I did okay. Do you want to walk to dinner with me?"
"No."
"Oh, uh where do you anyway?"
"..." Mello still hasn't given out any personal information.
"Well, I guess I'll see you after dinner when they post the results." Matt left for dinner. He didn't actually care about results, but he did hope Mello got number one. After all that's what he has been studying for, never taking a break. Or one that Matt saw anyway.
Matt went to dinner, listening to the excited chatter of everyone. Eva was really excited for results, she was hoping too make top ten. She also explained to Matt they only post the top ten people, so everyone else doesn't feel bad.
"I can't wait for Christmas! It is definitely my favorite holiday. Everyone is just so happy!" Matt kept on going on and on about Christmas.
"And the party here is spectacular. They turn the gym into an amazing dinner hall for Christmas dinner. The only time it is better is for the New Year party, but you can't go until you are fourteen unfortunately."
"How do you know its that great then?"
"My old roommate showed me pictures before she moved out, its really cool-"
"Hey guys." Marcus came up to us, "The results are being posted now, wanna look?"
Matt, Eva and Marcus walked up to the results. A small crowd had already gathered. Matt noticed Mello storming off angrily, punching anything that got in his way, including some kids and a wall. Matt walked up to the results after pushing through a crowd of children. His jaw dropped when he saw the results.
Near
Mello
Matt
Cassidy
Linda
Neva
George
Hope
Chandler
Benjamin
Matt was number three.
A/N: that's not really a cliffhanger... well I'm proud of this chapters length. Over 1900 words. Sorry for the slow update, finals week right now, so I am stressing and studying/failing. Ideas, flames or compliments would be appreciated, thanks :) (actually flames aren't appreciated, unless its helpful)
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