As they made their way through the café they saw Carter, Emma and Mark sitting on one

of the tables with an older guy with blackish blue hair, with his back to them. Before they could do anything Emma spotted them and waved at them asking them to come. Maya a little hesitant, waved back, she didn't know if they should sit with them and have coffee, when they had just met today. But Matt beside Maya waved just a frantically as Emma had and before any of them could move he started to make his way towards them.

'Do you know them,' Light asked Maya.

'They are from our school.'

'You made friends so easily when actually neither Matt, Mello nor Near were even close to being social with anybody.'

'Actually they are very nice and they share the same interest as most of us,' Maya said pointing towards Matt who was already deep in conversation with Emma about some videogame

.

'Won't you introduce-,' Light started but was cut off by Maya's gasp. He saw both Maya and the older guy looking at each other with their mouth open.

'Kay?' Maya asked with an air of surprise and disbelief. Then rushed forward to hug a still surprised Kay. As they broke apart they both burst laughing out of sheer joy.

Maya couldn't believe it that her cousin , who she thought she would never be able to see again was now standing in front of her, she felt like bursting with happiness.

'You haven't changed much,' Maya said.

'I can't say the same to you, you look re-' Kay started saying but stopped as he realized something was not right instead of the cheerful Maya now she emitted a kind of a sad and serious aura, something which was sort of impossible considering the Maya he had known previously.

'It's nothing,' Maya said in a flat tone, looking away quickly.

It is definitely something, Kay thought but decided not to push the subject, he knew that Maya hated to break down in front of other people and something told him that this was a touchy subject for her.

'So you guys already know each other, interesting,' Light mused at the scene before him

'Just now you sounded just like him,' Matt said. Obviously the him he referred to, was L.

'Just shut up,' Mello said, he watched with fascination, as the two in front of him seated themselves in the tables unaware of their surroundings. They seemed to have forgotten about the others.

'So who are your friends?' Light said loudly hoping to catch the attention of the two cousins. Fortunately that did the trick.

'Umm. . sorry about that, they are Emma, Carter and Mark. And he is my cousin Kyle, and this is Light,' Maya explained.

'You can call me Kay,' Kay said bowing his head a little, he got a small frown from Emma and Mark at this, which did not go unnoticed by Matt, Mello, Near, Light and even Maya but this made all of them confused and they remained silent.

'It's very nice to meet you,' Carter said he seemed quite happy but the Wammy children thought otherwise. From their opinion he was trying to distract them and this was even more confusing to them.

'So you are from the or-' Kay started but stopped as his oh-so-genius mind suddenly registered the secret behind the change in Maya's demeanor. 'It doesn't mean that you are an orphan too,' he whispered too grief stricken to speak louder.

But why is she here, if she had to go to an orphanage she could have easily gone to the one back at home, Kay pondered at the thought but decided to let it go, momentarily, he was too busy grieving.

'Yes, we all are orphans,' Near provided the detail short, simple and to the point.

'I didn't know that, I am sorry. Mother didn't keep in touch after we le-,' Kay chocked overcome by emotions.

'Its all right,'Maya said quickly patting his back. She didn't want to ruin the good mood with that piece of information. She had her best cousin with her, he had been her brother, friend, dad, uncle or any other relation she could think of. But he had gone away before she went in her tenth grade. Kay hadn't even seen Dave. But now suddenly he was in front of her, and to think of sad thoughts at this point was not fair.

Just then before Maya could say anything Mello started choking on his coffee, then gasping for air, he started pointing towards the entrance.

Maya turned around to see L enter the café. She had thought that L would send someone or even Watari to look for them, but she hadn't even dreamed of L coming to get them himself.

She immediately ducked under the table pulling Light with her. Light struggled at first against her hold but when he saw L he obliged without question. Matt, Mello and Near had already done the same.

Then they waited for L to go, praying that they were hidden by the walls of the booth. But L passed in front of them with out seeing them, maybe it was because of the crowded place L couldn't look at the table properly and maybe also that he wasn't expecting to see them under the table. He stopped at their table on his way back from his round around the café. Maya's heart beat a little harder, and she clutched the hand nearest to her, adrenaline rushing through her. She wasn't scared; there was no reason to be scared, she was excited.

'Have you seen five young adults four boys and one girl enter this café?' they heard L, ask in his monotone.

Maya could see the others above the table but she couldn't see L, she could only see his feet just inches away from her, she scooted a little to the other side.

'What teenagers, no,' Kay whose mood has gone from grievance to bewilderment and now just amusement when the five of them had dived under the table, now answered smoothly, not betraying a single emotion.

He can really act, Maya thought as she saw his face.

L paused for a second, as though doubting Kay's denial, and then they could see his feet moving away from them.

'You can come out now, he has left,' Emma's amused face peered at them from above the table.

At her cue they all emerged from below,. As they raised Maya noticed that she was holding onto Mello's arm and he was giving her a questioning gaze, she let go quickly.

'What was that all about?' Kay asked smirking while Emma and Mark burst out laughing.

'Nothing,' Mello said, still a little pink in the face.

'Oh come on that was something,' Kay pressed, his grief forgotten because of the little drama in front of him.

'He is the oldest kid of the orphanage and tries to act like our guardian,' Light answered, sipping his coffee.

'So you ditched your guardian or you ran away from home,' Mark said trying to stifle his laughter.

'I believe the former answer is correct.'

'Near don't try to imitate him,' Maya said at the monotone voice.

'But I did not say anything.'

'Then wh-.'

'Now if all of you would like to come home with me, we have to talk,' L said from the booth next to them. It seemed he had slipped into the next booth unnoticed, after he had asked Kay about them.

'When did you-,' even Light was too bewildered to complete the sentence.

'That is not the right question to ask,' L said getting up from the chair and coming around the booth's wall

.

'The right question is that why did you not answer my summons?'

'What are they? Your servants,' Mark muttered under his breath, but mercifully went unheard.

They all stood silently and made their way to the door through which L has disappeared just seconds ago. Before exiting, Mello turned and winked at their new friends still sitting in their booth but he maintained a straight face just after. He didn't know what fate awaitened him back in the orphanage, neither did any of the others.