Pineapple.
Best fruit in the world.
Or so Matt thought. (although Linda argued mangoes were better)
So when the day of April 20th arrived.
Matt dedicated the whole day to pineapple worshiping.
But this year Matt found himself a bit to busy to celebrate one of his top favorite holidays.
He had a coughing, runny nosed, and irritable Mello to deal with.
"It's just two tea spoons, come on Mello." Matt smirked, trying not to laugh "Man up."
"Bring that anywhere near me," Mello threaten, glaring at Matt over his blankets "I will kill you. Then I will cremate your body. Then I will burn your ashes. Then finally I will forever curse your name."
"Aww, that's so much money and effort to spend on me!" Matt purred as he carefully edged toward Mello, a mini cup of cold syrup in his hand. Mello's eyes were like daggers as he kicked out with a leg hidden by sheets but Matt jumped back, sucking in his stomach as Mello's foot brushed it.
Matt sighed and turned away and Mello gave a grunt of satisfaction that turned into a snarl as Matt jumped on him, trying to use his knees to pin Mello's arms while trying to prevent the spilling of the supposedly cherry tasting medicine.
"Drink it!"
"Never!"
Matt let out a cry of victory as he managed to pin one of Mello's arms and catch the other in his free hand before he forcefully put the cup to Mello's lips and tilted it. Mello's mouth opened to stop the gooey mixture from dripping onto his face and he swallowed with a sound of disgust.
"Ah ha!" Matt cried "Victory for Matt!"
But his moment of victory was interrupted as he ran to get a glass of water as Mello started coughing violently and half choking on the medicine.
"Your such a baby." Matt snickered as he flopped onto his bed once Mello had finished coughing.
Mello glared at him but didn't answer, to busy massaging his now sore throat.
Matt groaned when a knock sounded at the door and he rolled to the edge of his bed, slapping at the just out of reach doorknob. He slowly swung his feet onto the ground and stood to pull the door open.
Song stood on the other side, holding a small brown and white bag that she held out to Matt with a "Here."
"What's this?" Matt asked warily, taking the bag.
It was a full, not even open, bag of chocolate flavored cough drops.
Which sounded rather disgusting to Matt.
"He doesn't like the syrup," Song blushed "So I brought him these."
Well she sure got over her's and Mello's little spat.
Matt glanced back at Mello who was doing a pretty good imitation of a corpse.
"Um, thanks...?" Matt tried to smile but it just wouldn't come. Song smirked and said her words slowly and, if Matt wasn't mistaken, rather superiorly "Your welcome. Matty."
Well that had "Slap me in the face" written all over it. But being the mature and completely in control kid that Matt was he merely slammed the door in her face with a smirk.
"Your psycho girlfriend dropped off some cough drops." Matt threw the pack of drops onto Mello's stomach who flinched slightly and groaned. Matt smirked "Your living up to your hair Mello."
"Next time I throw up I'm aiming it at you." Mello muttered as he opened the pack of cough drops and popped it into his mouth after a small drink of water. He rolled onto his stomach and let the bag drop onto the floor, spilling a few drops.
…
"He feeling any better?" Linda asked as she spat a piece of fat from her chicken onto her plate with a look of disgust. Matt nodded, swallowing his mash potatoes "Yeah, I hate to say it but Song's medicine helped a bit."
"Well at least it's not spreading." Linda muttered "Being sick sucks."
"Yeah, and it's really awkward just sitting in there." Matt sighed "Cause all he does is sleep."
"Just don't stare at him while he sleeps." Lily chirped in and Matt choked violently, spraying Pavel with water who was sitting across from him.
"I don't do that!" Matt coughed, pounding his chest while Linda slapped his back. Lily smirked, munching on a carrot. Matt recovered just in time to received a kick to the leg from Pavel who looked annoyed.
"Sorry." Matt rubbed his lower leg with a wince.
"He eating anything?" Linda asked.
"I tried to give him pineapple but he said it's the bane of his existence." Matt replied with a frown.
"You should have given him mangos." Linda smirked.
Matt rolled his eyes and scooped the rest of his food into his mouth and stood "I guess I'll get him something now. See if he'll eat."
"Have fun sleeping tonight." Lily smiled and Matt yawned, waving his thanks before he entered the kitchen. He just threw some soup into a bowl and put it in the microwave before bringing it back to his room with a spoon.
Mello was no where to be seen. However, he could be heard.
Throw up hitting the toilet is not a very pleasant sound in Matt's opinion...
In fact he felt almost like throwing up himself as he heard Mello's gags.
"Ugggggggh." Matt groaned before diving to the window, the soup dropping as Matt threw it open and chunks flew from his mouth. All the while he hoped their was no one below as he throughly emptied his stomach.
"Meeeeeeello, curse you." Matt groaned as he hung limply on the window sill. Mello yelled reply was interrupted by another mouthful of vomit "Yeah will-BLAAAAAH!"
The two spent the next five minutes hanging over their throw up deposit places till finally their stomachs stopped churning and they were able to withdraw from the window and bathroom.
Matt sat flat on his back in bed, groaning while Mello lay on his stomach, muttering swears.
"Way to go Mels." Matt groaned, holding his stomach that was making odd sounds.
"Not my fault your a weak man." Mello replied, his face slightly green as he clutched his stomach.
"Well this sucks."
"I know."
"What do you usually do when your sick." Matt asked, taking off his glasses and cleaning a chunk of food off it "Besides be crabby?"
"Bother Near and hopefully get him sick." Mello muttered into his pillow "But the freak's working on some case for L and Roger actually hunted me down to tell me. Old fart."
"Near gets cases from L?" Matt asked curiously and Mello nodded "Every now and then. Even I've gotten a couple when L's really busy."
"You ever solve any?" Matt asked, carefully shifting into a cross legged position. He managed to stop the wave of nausea that hit him thanks to the still lingering smell from the bathroom, himself, and Mello.
Mello snorted "All of them. They were easy. But with L concentrating on the Kira case he hasn't sent many in a while. Just this one for Near. Some rapist."
"What kinda has he sent you?" Matt asked, tilting his head while Mello took a drink of water before replying "I got a couple murder cases that interested L. Some crazy artist one that's crime scenes were certainly not pretty from the pictures. A big diamond thief, stole from one of the largest banks in France and the last one I did was a group of poachers."
"Coooooool," Matt smiled.
"L's done better. Ever heard of B?" Mello asked, rolling over and smiling at the ceiling. Matt shook his head before tilting it to the side again. Mello smirked "This use to be his room, he was Beyond Birthday. But in the end he left Wammys to show up L and ended up getting caught by some women named Naomi who L had called on."
Matt glanced around the room a little nervously. Mello snickered "Scared to know your in the same room a murder once slept in?"
"Shut up." Matt grumbled, curling up under his covers, hoping his stomach would feel better in the morning.
"Don't let him get yooooooooooou" Mello smirked and got a face full of pillow.
…
Matt was fine in the morning.
Mello was fine in a week or so of suffering.
Just in time for exams.
"Joy." Matt muttered as a test was set in front of him.
"Do your best!" The teacher told them, sitting down at their desk and picking up a magazine.
"Oh no," Matt thought sarcasticly as he flipped over his test "We're going to go out of our way to fail."
By the last test Matt was practically drooling on his desk, brain dead.
But he managed to get through the test with some effort involved before he threw open the window and jumped out, luckily being on the first floor as he began to roll on the ground with shouts of freedom.
"Your pathetic." Mello rolled his eyes, looking out the window with his cheek on his fist. Matt stick his tongue out only to roll over and get it coated with dirt. He spit out as much as he could while Mello laughed. The blonde then used his upper body strength to pull himself up and swung his feet out and the letting go, landing on perfectly and flicking his hair behind his shoulder.
" Mr. smootho over here." Matt rolled his eyes and Mello kicked him in the leg lightly. Matt laughed and rolled onto his feet, running as Mello chased him. Other students began to come out, tired and itching for some energy spending.
"SLOW DOWN!" Matt screamed at Mello as he sprinted away from the blonde who was red in the face and laughing as he gained on the gamer "Never!"
Matt zigzagged between two other students who stopped to watch Mello chase him around. Most cheered for Matt but Linda and Lily were screaming "GET HIM MELLO! GRIND HIM INTO THE DUST!"
"YOU TWO ARE SO CRUEL!" Matt gasped as he shot past them. Although the chase was pointless both boys refused to give in even the slightest. Soon they had entered the small woodland area and, not having the ability to stop in time, Matt tripped and Mello fumbled over the ginger's out kicked legs.
"Oww..." Matt groaned as he lay on the ground, twigs poking into his back and his head definitely on an acorn. But then he felt breath on his face and his eyes snapped open.
It was a good thing Matt's face was already as red as can be.
Because with the distance between him and Mello's face so minimal he would be exploding right now.
Mello's eyes had widened and a moment later he was off Matt, rolling over to lay next to him. The blonde's hands were slightly bloody and the knee part of his jeans was ripped but other than that he looked fine. Both of the boys' faces were a bright red.
"My hands hurt." Mello muttered after a moment.
"My back hurts." Matt replied, staring up at the canopy of leaves.
"I guess we should probably get up. But to be perfectly honest I'm comfortable." Mello sighed, one hand on his stomach over his gray spring jacket and the other by his side. Matt folded his hands, that unlike Mello's were fine, behind his head and sighed "Yeah, same here."
"Surprised they haven't looked for us yet." Matt muttered after a while of silence, squinting his eyes against the light. (no pun intended seeing as Light seems to have a bad habit of squinting his eyes when he's Kira. Another sign of evil.)
"Maybe they lost interest in our little game of tag." Mello smirked, shifting his head to look at Matt "You run like a slug you know. I could have easily caught you."
"Suuuuuuuure." Matt rolled his eyes "You are mister Speedo over here. Traversing the world with your fast feet of flaaaaaame."
"Stop extending your speech." Mello laughed. Matt stuck out his tongue "Noooooooooooooooooooo."
"If you don't," Mello smirked, rolling onto his side, facing Matt "I'll have to make you."
Matt froze, his face heating up again.
"Shut up!" A voice above hissed and both boys' heads snapped up.
"They'll hear us!"
"Shh! If you weren't so loud!"
"Your practicably shouting now, shush!"
"Say that to my face-"
"I AM, NOW SHUT UP! IT'S JUST GETTING GOOD!"
Mello and Matt looked at each other with smirks before Matt cried "OH MELLO LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY!"
Mello stifled a laugh as he responded in a tense voice marred by a snicker "What is it...Matty?"
Matt covered his mouth as they heard the voices above quiet.
"Well... the truth Mello..." Matt looked away as if shy, tears of laughter starting to form in his puffing cheeks.
"The truth Matt?" Mello whispered, loud enough for their eavesdroppers to hear.
"I...I..." Matt pretended to stutter while Mello laughed silently "I... I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH!"
There were shouts of surprise and Lily and Linda tumbled out of the trees above, Mello and Matt rolled out of the way just in time to avoid being squashed. But they were to busy laughing to actually check if their friends were okay.
"OH GOD!" Matt laughed, his face red once more and tears in his eyes "YOU ACTUALLY FELL FOR IT!"
Mello's laughter was soundless as he clutched a tree, his mouth wide as he wheezed from time to time.
Linda and Lily's faces were like strawberries as they looked at the ground.
"Are you guys okay?" Matt choked out between laughs. Lily shoved him "YOU KNEW WE WERE THERE!"
"S-so?" Mello guffawed as he tried to use Matt's shoulder to push himself up but Matt was shaking so bad that he fell again, erupting both of them into new barrels of laughter.
"You two are like those stereotypical teenage girls giggling over boys." Lily scowled, brushing leaves off of her and rotating her shoulder to make sure it was okay. Linda did the same, looking disgruntled all the while.
Mello used a tree to pull himself up and wobbled slightly as he snickered but was finally able to stand as he tried to help Matt up.
"I'm curious as to what you thought Matt was going to say." Mello tilted his head at the girls who turned their noses up, clearly refusing to give an answer. Mello frowned but smiled again as Matt smacked his arm with a "don't dwell, they're strange and creepy" look.
"I'm going back inside." Linda scowled "My leg hurts and I want some ice."
"Ugh, same here." Lily groaned as she was forced to grab Matt's shoulder as she almost fell.
"Serves you right." Mello smirked and Linda waved him off "I know, I know, just shut up."
After a quick trip to the nurses office the two were announced to be fine but they would be a bit sore. They were let off with a warning to stop falling out of trees and a suggestion of ice which they forced Mello and Matt to get.
After that the two boys were booted out of the room.
"Vacation." Matt smiled.
"Indeed."
…
"Are you going to look?" Matt asked, watching Mello carefully as the chocoholic unwrapped another bar of chocolate.
"No point." Mello replied a tad bitterly "I know Near beat me. I can hear them all talking."
He bit into the chocolate with a little more force than necessary and just stared down at his book. But Matt could see his eyes weren't moving and weren't focused on the words.
The results were up and Matt knew Mello was right.
He had gone to check the list himself, amazingly he had made third again behind Mello and Near. Although third in this place wasn't really much to celebrate.
"You'll beat him one day." Matt smiled but Mello didn't look at him as he replied icily before taking another mouthful of chocolate "Will I?"
"I'm sure you will." Matt nodded and waited for Mello to agree with him and join in a rant about the stupidity of Near but the blonde didn't reply. Matt looked down at his fingers that were twisting and untwisting quietly before he continued in a whisper "I think you can do it."
"Well your probably the only one at this point." Mello muttered darkly, turning the page of his book without reading the full page.
Matt sighed, looking much like an upset dog as he continued to look down. The sharp sound of Mello breaking off chunk after chunk of chocolate was the only sound in the room and it seemed to echo, causing Matt wince slightly "It sure is quiet..."
"People are avoiding pissing me off." Mello muttered as he snapped off another piece, a little more furiously and causing Matt to flinch.
"I see." Matt replied after a moment. It nagged at his mind that Mello wasn't rampaging, or at least not yet. A good thing? Yes. But a good sign? The gamer frowned, not quite sure of the answer as he pulled his DS from his pocket and began thumbing away at it, making sure the volume was off.
Matt hadn't been playing five minuets with a sound of pages flapping and a thud made him jump. Mello had flung his book across the room and was now getting off his bed and striding toward the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
Matt slid off his bed and picked up the book by it's spine and closed it. The book cover had been damaged near the top but was fine over all. Matt put it on the stack of books next to Mello's bed and sat back down with a sigh as he pushed up his goggles and rubbed his eyes.
The sound of the shower starting broke the silence and Matt glanced at the bathroom door before stretching out and rolling over, face in his pillow that smelled of nothing in particular, like him to himself.
After about an hour Matt was starting to worry Mello had or was trying to drown himself in the shower. He was debated wither or not to check on him when the sound of the shower stopped and a minute later Mello came out.
He was shirtless but he wore his normal black jeans and a towel was over his head. He collapsed, stomach down, on his bed without looking at Matt and shut his eyes. Matt opened his mouth to speak but closed it again as his eyes traveled along Mello's back. It was a raw red.
More like trying to melt himself then drown.
"...Are you okay?" Matt muttered quickly, not expecting Mello to answer him.
Mello didn't surprise him, the blonde stayed silent.
"I'm sorry." Matt whispered, crawling under his covers and reaching for the lamp.
"Shut up Matt." Mello replied, rolling over "What part of this is your fault? I don't want your sympathy."
Matt didn't reply as he clicked off the light.
...
Matt woke the next morning to a bar of chocolate on his bed and a messy haired Mello going into the bathroom.
The ginger smiled and unwrapped the bar.
Chocolate never tasted so good.
...
Matt frowned at the piece of light purple paper he was holding between his forefinger and thumb.
"It's not an alien." Mello muttered as he turned a page in his book, the top of his chocolate bar starting to melt due to it's lack of attention.
"How do you know?" Matt asked as he turned the paper to the side. Mello rolled his eyes and walked over, moving his bar of chocolate in a circle in front of the paper making robotic noises.
"If that's a alien than this is a scanner and the scanner detects no alien." Mello said, sitting back down and biting off the melting top and swallowing it almost whole. Matt snickered but when he replied his voice was serious "But if that's not an alien then that's not a scanner-"
"It was an alien but my approach scared it out of the paper's body." Mello replied, his tone as serious as Matt's.
"Well I've never picked my own schedule before!" Matt wined "Help me Mels!"
Mello gestured for him to come over and Matt jumped over, putting the paper in Mello's face. The blonde snatched it from his hand with an eye roll and scanned it.
"Basically your teachers feel you need to be challenged. So those are advanced classes. Your old enough to at least have an idea what you want to do so pick classes and leave me alone." Mello thrust it back at him.
"What? But I barely got my homework done before!"
"Was it challenging or hard in anyway?"
"...Not really..."
"Exactly."
Matt frowned and looked over the sheet again.
If offered different levels and choices of science, math, social studies/culture studies/ history, law, weaponry, languages, others, and... Matt grinned … technology teachings.
"Let's see." He said, his tongue peeking out between his lips as he checked marked three different technology courses, one Japanese language class, and lastly a weaponry class.
He showed it to Mello who scanned it "Japanese?"
"Well it's Japan where Kira supposedly is." Matt smiled "So I guess it makes sense to learn Japanese."
"I didn't know you planned in being involved in that," Mello muttered "Besides, only when L dies will we be needed. And ... it's going to be me or Near. That succeed him I mean... no offense."
"None taken." Matt grinned as he folded the paper in a half and rose, stuffing it into his pocket "Anyway, it won't hurt to learn a bit of it. Just the basics."
"I see." Mello replied, looking back at his book.
"Well I better go bring this to Roger." Matt smiled as he left the room "Be back soon."
He bumped right into Lily as she practically fell out of her room, a sheet of her own clutched in her hand.
"Linda!" She cried, regaining her balance as Matt staggered back. The blonde pounded on her room and jerked at the door knob but someone was holding it on the other side.
"GET ME SOME PAINT THEN I'LL LET YOU IN!" Linda's voice answered and Lily punched the door before glancing at Matt with a sour expression on her face.
"Don't look at me." Matt held up his hands and Lily sighed and looked down at her paper, now half ripped down the middle.
"You bringing that to Roger?" Matt asked, sliding his out. Lily nodded, eyeing it "Yeah, you too?"
"Yeah."
They walked in silence, Matt now holding Lily's schedule and the blonde holding his.
She has signed up for advanced English, several law classes, and a Spanish class. She also had put a check next to CPR training for an extra class.
"Lawyer?" Matt asked, handing the schedule back and receiving his own in return. Lily nodded "Yeah, I hope to do something with law. What do you plan to do after all those technology courses?"
Matt shrugged "Not really sure yet. I do it cause I like it."
Lily smiled "I guess that's what really matters hmm? Or so they say."
Matt laughed but didn't reply as Lily knocked on Roger's office door. A moment later it opened but it was Watari standing on the other side, hat in one hand and a file in the other. His face crinkled as he smiled down at them before saying over his shoulder "I must be getting back to L. Good luck."
The two students watched the old man leave before looking into the office to see a tired looking Roger at his desk, rubbing his temples.
"Here sir." Lily said, putting her paper down in front of him. Matt quickly put his on top of her's before stepping back. Roger opened his eyes to scan them briefly before he shooed the two teens.
"Ugh, I heard these classes are a lot harder than others." Lily groaned as she closed Roger's office door and began trudging down the hall.
"Where are you going?" Matt asked, noticing she was going the opposite way of the dorms.
"To get Linda's stupid paint."
Author's note: Uggggggggggh. So long since last update. Sorry, I just didn't write for a while. I actually wrote this in like two days after a month of nothing. SORRY! Well anyway my friends were destroying me for not updating so here you are. I'll try to actually update sooner next time. Again I'm sorry! And thank your reviewers! Love you!
Please R&R!