Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated in such a long time! I've been busy with school, but now that I'm summer break I'll have time for sure! Oh, and thanks to the people who reviewed, you guys inspire me. :3

Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note in any way, shape, or form. If I did happen to own it, well hmm... I don't know what exactly I'd do, but I'd do something alright. ;3

I woke up today much earlier than usual. The sun was barely rising right now as I got up and out of bed. Why had I decided to get up early? Well, I didn't want to wake up with another one of "Alice's master pieces" on my face. I looked over at the girl in question and saw that she was still sound asleep.

"Well, Alice. I'll see you later." I whispered while walking over to the door.

The second I placed my hand on the door knob though, I heard the sound of her moving around her in bed. I slowly turned around to see Alice sitting up and staring straight at me. Although, the blonde looked half asleep and was even swaying a bit.

"Near, where are you going?" She asked, sounding oh so tired.

The second she said my name, I felt my start to race and my cheeks heat up. What was this? Why was I starting to feel all nervous? This weird feeling, what could it possibly be? Not wanting to look at Alice anymore, I turned away. Now I was once again facing the door.

"This is a dream Alice. Go back to sleep," was my response.

I heard her mumble okay and slowly turned around. When I did I saw that she had already fallen back asleep. Sighing with relief, I left our room. I really didn't want to be near Alice right now. As I shut the door behind me, I was met by Rodger and Mello.

"Good timing Near. I was just about to get you." Rodger said.

"Why?" I asked.

"L wanted to speak to both you and Mello. Now come along," was all the old man said before walking away.

Mello and I followed behind him. Part of me was surprised that L didn't want to speak to Alice as well. He did say that he had decided to make her one of his possible successors. Oh well, that didn't matter now. All that did matter was that L wanted to tell us something.

Today reader, I woke up all alone. I wonder where Near could've gotten too? Getting up, I decided I'd head down to breakfast. The second I opened the door, the door right across opened up as well. There stood my good friend Matt. He looked a bit surprised to see me though.

"Alice?" He questioned in disbelief.

"Good morning, Matt." I greeted him while shutting the door to my room.

"What were you doing in Near's room?"

"Well, I slept in there."

After that there was this long, awkward silence. Matt seemed to be frozen like a statue. I waved my hand in front of his face, but there was no response. Sighing, I decided I'd just leave. That's when he pulled me into his and Mello's room.

"You slept in there? With Near?" He questioned while practically screaming.

Matt's face was really, really red. It was almost like he was super angry, wait no. He wasn't angry, he looked more embarrassed or something like that. That's when I realized what he was thinking.

"Matt! I didn't sleep with Near if that's what you're thinking!" I yelled feeling myself starting to turn red as well.

"Why were you in there then?" He asked looking a bit relieved.

"I'm Near's roommate."

At first Matt didn't want to believe me. Only after explaining the whole situation to him did he finally believe. I'm glad he did because I didn't want him to think anything wrong about me and Near.

"I'm glad that you're not in that kind of relationship with Near, Alice. Really, really glad." Matt said smiling to himself.

I wonder why he was so happy about that? I'll never understand the male species reader. NEVER! Do you hear me? Never. Boys are just way too complicated for me to ever understand.

"Hey! Earth to Alice! You want to go get breakfast now or what?"

"Oh, yeah sure, but first I need to find Linda so that I can borrow some of her clothes." I said while about to open the door.

Before I could though, Matt had stopped me. He told me that he'd just let me borrow some of his clothes. I didn't want to reader, but the boy just wouldn't take no for an answer. Apparently, Linda's clothes didn't look good on me. Yeah, like I'd look any better in his boy clothes! After arguing over this for like ten minutes, I ended up changing into a pair of Matt's old clothes that surprisingly fit me, and I actually looked pretty cool in them. Oh, and don't worry I changed in my own bedroom so Matt wouldn't see.

"Okay, can we get breakfast now, Matt?" I asked while rubbing my rumbling tummy.

"Hold on, I have to put my goggles on," he said while putting them on his head.

After he was done, we both went down to breakfast. When we got there I looked around for Near, but I didn't see him anywhere? I then looked around for Mello, but couldn't find him either. The one person I did find was Linda. She saw me and waved. I think she was even trying to get me to sit with her and her friends and I probably would've gone over to where she was sitting, but Matt dragged me over to the serving counter to get food instead.

Just like yesterday, I had a hard time choosing what to eat. Matt ended picking for me. We both had white chocolate chip pancakes with strawberry syrup on top. As Matt and I sat at a table and began eating, I once again noticed kids looking over at me and whispering. Really? This people need to go get lives.

I decided to ignore them and just continue eating, but before that Linda came out of nowhere. With her were her friends whose names just aren't important enough to remember. They all smiled at us and I awkwardly smiled back, Matt on the other hand just stared at them with an annoyed look.

"Hi Alice. How are you this morning?" Linda questioned.

"I'm fi-" Before I could even finish, she cut me off.

"Look, can my friends and I sit with you?"

Some I felt like the only reason why she and her friends wanted to sit with me was for Matt. After all it did make sense. Linda had told me before that Matt and Mello were apparently two of the hottest boys at Wammy's. Personally, I don't see what's so great about the two. Matt's a total game nerd and Mello… Well, he's a big meanie.

"Uhh… Sure Lin-" I was once again cut off in the middle of speaking, but this time by Matt.

"Sorry Linda, but you and you're friends can't sit here. I only want to eat breakfast with Alice because she, unlike you guys, isn't annoying. In fact, she's probably the only girl here that I actually like." Matt had a big smile on his face as he said that.

I could feel my cheeks start to heat up. Did Matt say he liked me? Maybe he just meant as a friend. Yeah, that's probably it. I mean Matt couldn't like me. We barely even know each other. Besides even if he did, I like someone else already. He can't like me, not in that way at least.

Snapping out of my shock and embarrassment, I turned to look at my pigtailed friend, but she and her friends looked completely ticked. The second they noticed me staring at them they glared at me.

"Linda I-" I got cut off, again.

"Alice you whore!" She yelled before storming off with the others following after her.

People were staring in my direction now. This was great, just great. Not only did I just lose a friend, but now people were probably thinking that I was total whore. I glared at Matt. It was all his fault. He only smiled awkwardly at me.

"Thanks Matt." I said, sounding really pissed.

"Sorry… But you don't need Linda as a friend! She and her friends are annoying as hell. Anyway, if you're done eating I think we should go," the red haired boy said while getting up.

I took a few more bits of food before getting up as well. Afterwards we both left and headed back to our rooms. On the way though we ran into Mello, who didn't seem all that thrilled to see me. The big jerk needs to get over the fact that I ate the chocolate pancakes. So anyway, I ended up hanging out with them for the rest of the day again.

When night arrived I went back to my room for bed. My twiny wasn't there so I was all alone. Speaking of Near, I hadn't seen him all day. Oh well. I changed into some of his pajamas and got in bed. As I lied there I began to hear something. It was raining outside.

I began to feel a bit nervous and perhaps even a bit scared. Hopefully it was only just the rain and nothing… else. Getting back up, I shut the lights off and then got back into bed. Now I was in the dark and I could hear the rain outside start to pour down harder.

"I really, really hope that this is just rain and not a thunder storm."

Right as I said that the room lit up and thunder roared loudly outside. I jumped a bit, before pulling the covers over my head. Okay, I'll admit it reader. I'm afraid of thunder. Really, super terrified of it. From under the covers I saw another flash and heard the loud rumbling again.

"Make it stop!" I cried.

"Alice?" I heard a familiar voice say.

The light was turned back on when I pulled the covers off my face. Sitting up, I saw Near standing at the door looking rather confused. You can't even imagine how happy I was to see him. The white haired boy shut the door and was about to walk over to me, but I had already jumped out of bed and practically tackled him to the floor.

"Near! I'm so glad to see you!" I yelled with tears in my eyes.

"Y-yes. I can tell, now please get off." He ordered in his usual monotone voice.

I laughed a bit and got off of him, but before he could get up thunder roared again and I was once more clinging onto him for dear life.

"Alice, are you afraid of thunder?" Near asked while pushing me off.

The only thing I could do was nod because I was just too scared to answer. Near only sighed and got up. Slowly, I got up too. He told me it was nothing to be afraid of and I knew that, but I've always been like this ever since I was young. I got back in bed and Near went and shut the lights off before proceeding to get into his own.

Right as he did though, thunder roared loudly again. I jumped out of my bed again and jumped right into Near's. He was really shocked that I did so. Now listen, let's just get this straight. If I wasn't super scared right now I wouldn't do this, but I am so yeah.

"Alice, what are you doing? G-get out of my bed." Near said while trying to push me out.

"Noo! I'm too scared. Just let me sleep here for tonight! I'll never do this again I promise! Please Near!" I begged.

I couldn't really see that well, but I think I saw Near nod before mumbling fine. A huge feeling of relief came over me. Closing my eyes, I leaned my head on Near's shoulder. For some odd reason he felt really stiff, as if he were nervous. I wonder why? Maybe he's secretly freaked out by thunder too. Yup, that's probably it.

"Good night Near," I said before falling asleep.

Alice was next to me in my bed. I could hear her faint breathing and I could also hear my heart pounding loudly. Now let me tell you something, all day today I was in the library researching on why my heart was acting up like this and I finally figured it out. It's because… Because… Because I like Alice. I couldn't believe it at first, but yes, I've developed feelings for her.

Figuring this out helped explain a lot. Like why I felt nervous around her and why my heart was always racing around her and why I found her so pretty looking. Still, me having feelings like this, I can't help but wonder if this is a bad thing. After all, emotions will only get the way of my detective work. Look at Mello he always lets his emotions get in the way and exactly what rank is he in Wammy's? That's right number two. If I don't be careful, I'll end up losing to him. Maybe it would've been better if I never found out my feelings for Alice.

So that's the end of chapter 4! I bet all you people who like Near and Alice together were happy. The next chapter is all about Alice and Matt though. After that is Alice and Mello. I haven't exactly written the chapters yet, but I have it all planned in my head! Oh, and I wanted to have a little contest. Earlier in this chapter Alice said she already liked someone. The first one to guess who it is will get to read the next three chapters before everyone else. So have fun trying to figure it out! xD

Chapter five coming soon and coming even sooner for the winner of the game. :3