"Fire!"
Matt fired.
"Reload!"
Matt reload.
"Fire!"
Matt fired again.
"Everyone remove your earmuffs!" The recently new weaponry's teacher, Ms. Bigelow, shouted. The class pulled off their pink colored hear gear and rubbed their ears that had turned a light red. Matt shook out his hair and fluffed it lightly with his hands.
"Matt, put away your gun before you do that." Ms. Bigelow growled and Matt placed his bb gun on the counter in front of him before he stretched and checked the clock.
"Many of you need to slow down and actually aim." Ms. Bigelow barked as she paced in front of her students like a drill instructor "You should know that by now! And no more firing from the hip. That doesn't actually work at your poor skill level."
She stopped walking and turned to fully face the students that all stood in a line "Now, who's turn is it to make a stupid comment and earn a detention?"
Matt turned a snicker into a cough as he looked to see which person would raise their hand today. Since the second day after she had sent Percy to her office she asked it every day and everyday someone tried to push their luck. But it's been months. Everyone had tried their luck and most were to scared to try again after going to Ms. Bigelow's torture ha- '''detention'''.
"No one?" Ms. Bigelow smirked, looking around at them "Good. No homework tonight. Dismissed."
"She scares me." Matt muttered to Pavel who, despite being a science wiz, really sucked at shooting a gun. His hand shook to much to aim properly and he always winced when he pulled the trigger. He would probably drop out soon, Matt and Linda had made bets.
Pavel nodded, balancing his next class's books in his arms as he hurried away toward the lecture hall Matt had only recently discovered the orphanage had. Now he seemed to be spending half his time in the large room. Listening to professors drone endlessly while he ,Lily, and Linda ,when they were together, took turns taking notes and playing tic tack toe on the corner of their papers.
Matt checked the disposable watch each of the students had been given at the beginning of the semester. There was no bell for the advanced schedule that was completely different than the regular classes. He had ninety minutes before his technology course lecture started.
He sighed and walked back to room thirteen, dumping his gun handling booklet onto his bed and retrieving his laptop from it's charging station.
Although the school provided laptops Matt had flatly refused to use one. Roger had grudgingly agreed to let him use his own when Matt told him it was a gift from L.
The red head dropped onto his bed, flipped up the laptop lid, and hit the space bar. A box asking for a password popped up and Matt swiftly typed in: GUmMyb3er2.
The box disappeared and Matt's desktop became visible, his background picture of a large Mario mushroom bright against his eyes as he pushed up his goggles with a yawn. He clicked on a file called: 'Class' and the folder opened to reveal multiple documents. He selected the top one before opening a program called: 'Ewammy'
It was a special email set up by Watari himself that allowed emails to be sent to the students without them going through the internet or leaving a trace. Matt scrolled down the list of names before seeing his own that had a 1 in parentheses next to it. He clicked on his name, typing in a password and then clicked on the email.
It had the topic of the next lecture and the schedule for next week. Matt sighed and wrote down the times on a piece of paper that he stuffed into his back pocket before copying the topic and pasting it onto the empty document he had opened.
"Hey." Mello greeted as he came in, three different books dropping down onto his bed. Matt looked up from the bright screen and smiled "Yo, your back early."
"The professor had to pick his daughter up at the airport." The blonde replied as he dug in his bag before turning it over onto his bed. He smirked and pulled a bar of chocolate out of the depths of the school supplies and sat on Matt's bed, looking over his shoulder.
"That's rude you know." Matt scolded him as he saved the document, leaving it open as he closed the laptop lid. Mello smirked as he peeled the wrapper away from the delicious candy beyond "I just wanted to see your times."
"Going to make a schedule to avoid me?" Matt joked as he slid the laptop into the ratty case the school had provided.
"Course." Mello rolled his eyes "Cause that's my goal in life. Right above catching Kira and beating Near. Your case is butt ugly by the way. I hope you know that."
"I know," Matt replied, sticking his tongue out at the moldy yellow colored case. Mello ruffled his hair before standing "We'll get you a new one."
"We don't get to go out for another month Mels." Matt sighed, glaring at the barf bag case. Mello shrugged and smirked "Depending."
Matt raised an eyebrow but didn't reply as his stomach gave a growl worthy of a thunderstorm. He patted it and rose "I'm going to grab some grub. See you around six."
"Six? You have back to back lectures?" Mello asked, giving Matt a pitying look as the ginger nodded. The blonde patted him on the back before returning to his own bed "Sucks for you. Good luck."
"Gee, thanks." Matt replied, leaving the room with a snort.
Lily was already half eating lunch. And what is meant by half eating lunch was she was half eating her peanut butter and jelly sandwich and half eating her Spanish notes.
"Test?" Matt asked as he sat down next to her.
"Sí!" Lily snapped before quickly correcting herself "Yes!"
"I see." Matt snickered, amused as the blonde became flustered when jelly dripped onto her words. She had finally settled down and was about to actually eat when her watch began beeping and she sprinted out of the lunch hall, leaving her plate a mess.
Matt munched on his own sandwich, chuckling. He took a drink of orange juice as Linda took the seat on the other side of him.
"Every time I drink orange juice," Matt said as he lowered his glass "I feel like it's what the sun would taste like."
"I'm pretty sure it would taste hotter." Linda replied as she decrusted her sandwich. Matt rolled his eyes "You know what I meant. It's like when you eat carrots and it tastes like what you think the color orange would..."
"Yes, because I've tasted orange and said, hmm, this tastes like a carrot." Linda replied and Matt tried to kick her under the table. He ended up hitting a table leg and swore loudly, getting a smack to the head from a passing cook who scolded him.
"Sorry." Matt said, rubbing his head before speaking to Linda "I meant to hit you."
"That makes it even funner." Linda chuckled, taking a gulp of juice. Matt finished his sandwich before sluggishly making his way back toward the dorm. He had no homework, Mello was likely in the library, and there was at least another hour till his next class started.
He plopped down on his bed, setting his watch before just staring at the ceiling.
He didn't understand how people could count sheep. It took to much work to let you fall asleep. And what if one of the sheep smacked into the fence they were apparently jumping over? Or if one tripped and got it's neck snapped?
Matt fell asleep thinking of lamps face planting over fences, limbs crippled and bloody.
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He smacked at the alarm clock on the bedside table as his watch went off. After bashing the crap out of the one ofnthe bedside table he finally realized it was his watch and he hit a small button on it. He rose and picked up his laptop in it's case before yawning and leaving the room. He jogged toward the lecture hall, whistling lightly before opening the large double doors and slipping into a seat next to a brunette he had completely forgotten the name of.
In Matt's opinion the lecture hall was unnecessarily big. There probably wasn't a single class every student took at the same time. Besides some where still in what most people called the 'lower classes'. More than half the seats in the hall were empty.
"Evening class." The professor said, stepping in.
"Morning sir." The class replied, opening their laptops in unison as he wrote down the topic on the board.
…
"Target is still within sight." Lily muttered "Do you copy?"
"Lily I'm sitting right next to you." Matt flicked her forehead "I can see exactly what you can see."
"Well you should be asleep!" Lily hissed "You have to stay up tonight to stop anything he sets up!"
"Don't worry. Don't worry," Matt flapped his hand at her "I'm like a bat! Besides. Fear is a hard thing to sleep with!"
"He got the jump on us last year though." Lily warned, sticking her finger in his face "So if you messed up." She drew her hand across his neck.
Matt chuckled and rolled his eyes.
For tomorrow was Halloween. At least the trick part anyway.
Matt, Lily, and Linda's all had dark circles under their eyes having all taken turn spying on Mello every moment they could.
Mello was currently leaned against a bookshelf, skimming through a book on myths with a pencil behind his ear. Matt and Lily were perched on the ground on the other side of the bookcase opposite him. They had pushed aside books so they could only see his feet which were covered with white socks. But that was enough.
"I'll drink some coffee or something." Matt muttered and Lily smacked his forehead "We can't have coffee!"
"Then I'll listen to classical music! I can't sleep with that crap on!"
"It's not crap and if it works do it!"
"I will. I will. Chillex."
"And what will you do if he tries anything?"
"Bite his ankle!"
"What are you two doing."
"Nothing!" Lily and Matt shouted at Mello, the last speaker, in unison. Their was a chorus of "Shh!" from the other kids in the library and Mello arched an eyebrow at the two.
"We were just looking at books." Matt said, pulling one at random "Hmm! Interesting!"
"I guess so. If you like," Mello bent over to read the cover "the way of the female body..."
"You know what!" Matt shoved the book back, cheeks flaming "I have homework to do!"
The other eyebrow joined the first as Mello began to slowly smirk. Matt was tempted to kick at his shin but he instead gathered the pride he had left and him and Lily made a very heroic retreat from the room.
"You two are back soon." Linda commented as they entered the art room. She was on the pottery wheel, kicking it to go faster as she sprinkled water onto the lump of clay in the middle of the rotating wheel.
"Yeah, he saw us." Matt said, dropping into a seat backwards so he could watch Linda begin to shape the clay, constantly putting more water on it and her hands.
"I never knew you read such interesting books Matt." Lily giggled, leaning against one of the the black top tables.
"Shut. Up." Matt glared at her, cheeks still a slight pink. Linda laughed, not taking her eyes off her spinning project "I can't wait to hear this one."
"NOTHING!" Matt insisted loudly, looked hard at Lily who smirked "No need to be ashamed of it Matt."
"You know I didn't mean to!" Matt grumbled and Lily reached over to ruffle his hair with her hand and laughed as he playfully bit at it. Linda shrugged as she took her hands off the clay to kick again "I'll just ask Mello later."
Matt sighed, putting his chin on the back of the chair "You two suck."
"That hurts my feelings." Linda said with a small smirked while Lily added "Yes, I think I might have to use my arm, which is part of the female body, to cover my tears."
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Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid. Paranoid.
"ARE YOU GOING TO BED SOON!" Mello shouted, turning the page in his book. Matt's eyes widened "WHY? WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO SLEEP? HMM? HMMMMMMMM?"
"Because that god awful music your blasting is annoying." Mello replied, looking up from his work. Matt's laptop volume was as high as it would go and the song blasted as loud as if he wasn't wearing headphones. The small ear buds were like hammers slamming Matt's ear drums but they kept him awake, that's what mattered.
"WHAT?" Matt yelled and Mello scowled, marching over and closing Matt's laptop, cutting off the sound "I said because if you don't I will knock you out."
Mello slapped Matt's hand away as the ginger reached to open the laptop again before the chocaholic went back to his bed, picking up his pen.
"But I don't trust you." Matt narrowed his eyes "You could kill me in my sleep."
"I haven't done it yet but I'm getting closer to." Mello replied, tapping his pen against the book before turning another page and studying a complicated graph that Matt didn't have the slightest idea how to read.
The ginger took the earbuds out of his throbbing ears and rubbed them. He put his laptop back in it's charging system and clicked the charger into place before sitting on his bed, staring at Mello. The blonde gave him an irritated look but didn't comment as Matt contently checked the clock before resuming his staring.
Mello eventually closed his book and shoved it off his bed before clicking off the lamp and rolling over so his back was to Matt. Matt's eyes narrowed, not believing Mello's little act.
But the gamer's eyes were growing heavier and heavier as he fell back against his pillows that were soooo comfortable...
"Sorry Linda...sorry Lil-" But his speech was interrupted by a yawn as he rolled over, eyelids flickering. His last thought before he drifted to sleep was "one sheep... two sheep... three sheep...crippled sheep..."
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"AAAAAAAAAAH! OH DEAR GOD!"
"GUN FIRE! CALL THE ARMY!" Matt screamed, jolting up at the sounds of screams and trying to claw his way out of his tangle of blankets. He ended up on the floor, wiggling violently till he was free. He panicked when he saw Mello's empty bed and lunged for the door. He threw it open and there was a clanging above him and three different colors of paint dropped onto his head.
Purple, yellow, and gray covered Matt from head to toe and the purple can was on top of his head. He threw it off, coughing at the paint scent in the air. He tried to walk but found himself slipping on a mix of ten different colored paints on the floor.
"Mello!" He screamed as he fell, joining the students already paint caked and struggling to get up. There was a laugh, almost like a cackle and Matt wiped as much paint off his goggles as he could to see Mello at the end of the hall, standing on paintless ground with fifteen empty buckets behind him.
Matt tried to rise but found himself barley able to move. As he raised his arm a layer of paint connected it to the floor.
"WHAT IS THIS?" He yelled as he began to flail. Mello held up a small bottle of glue, spinning it before tossing it at Matt. It bounced off his head and fell to the ground where it was consumed by the pool of paint.
"I must say, your staying up so late shortened my time of preparation." Mello grinned "But you should all be stuck long enough to erase that problem."
He disappeared out of Matt's view as the ginger yelled insults and swore as he tried to rise only to fall back with a curse.
Lily and Linda's door opened and Matt screamed at them to stop but the paint cans over their room spilled down on their heads and they slipped, sliding to the opposite side of the wall with screams.
"Matt what is this?" Lily panicked, trying to claw her way up the wall but falling back, landing on Linda who gasped as the air was knocked out of her.
"Glue and paint." Matt replied, having given up trying to stand for the moment. Lily began to slide toward the end of the hall, going fast enough so the glue won't have time to get her but slowly enough that she wouldn't lose control. Linda followed, jerking her head in the hall's direction as a way of telling Matt to hurray up. Matt butt scooted toward the hall and the rest of the students did the same, groaning about the ruining of their favorite pajamas or clothes.
"Eww." Matt looked at his clothes as he rose, now in a paint free zone. Well this would be fun to clean up. Stupid Mello.
"You fell asleep?" Lily asked as she looked in despair at the glue and paint in her hair. Matt nodded with a sigh as he looked at his paint soaked feet that were orange and black mostly.
"Don't worry about it." Linda muttered, sensing his guilt. He smiled "Thanks."
"Well then," Lily looked down the hall with a determined face "Time to hunt some Mello. Tally Ho!"
Author's note: I was going to skip writing Halloween this year... but I decided there was enough fun in writing it that it was worth writing. So my next chapter... I have the ending all written (it was going to be the ending to this one) but just have to do the rest. Well anyway... I hit 150 reviews! ^-^ So thank you all my reviewers! Love ya for it and I hope you keep reviewing, please and thank you! 3