Chapter Four
How do I say it?
I like you.
I like you.
I like you.
A lot.
Huh.
Guess it wasn’t so hard, now if only I could get my lips to form the words when I’m standing
Right in front of you.
SHANE
I kissed the top of their heads, holding them both close to me. “Be good now! Don’t give her any troubles now, you understand me?! Eat healthy, oh damn what else am I forgetting…..” I bit my thumbnail, worry clouding over every rational thought in my brain.
Cass laughed wrapping his arms around my shoulders. “Don’t worry sis, I’ll take good care of Ryza. You raised us well enough that I at least know how to do that.”
I thwaped him on the head, then changed my mind and kissed his temple, wrapping my arms around him in a bear hug.
“I’m sorry guys, you’re just so important to me.”
Ryza ran over on unsteady toddler feet throwing her arms around my neck and squeezing tightly.
“You’re important to us too.” Cass said with complete and utter fact. “I don’t know what would have happened if we didn’t have you. Heck I don’t know what we’d do without you now.”
I laughed, a small tear sliding down my cheek.
Cass laughed. “Gosh don’t cry sis, it’s just for a couple days.” His voice wavered.
I laughed and sniffled at the same time, ruffling his hair. “Then why are you crying too?”
Cass let go of me and stiffened wiping his face and grabbing Ryza’s hand. “I’m not crying.” He sniffled, his eyes softening as he looked at me. “Relax while we’re gone okay? And be safe. Don’t die.”
I laughed wiping my own face and handing him their bags. “Now who’s the parent? Go guys you’re taxi is waiting. Call me!” I called out as they already started turning and stomping down the stairs and making too much additional nose that was going to drive the landlady crazy.
I shook my head and snorted, wandering back into the apartment. “I’m way too emotional for my own good.” I muttered to myself, swiping a hand down my face.
The hand stayed on my face, clinging to my mouth as I leaned against the apartment door and got my first breath of peace.
Cass and Ryza were going to Florida for a week to visit our grandparents that live there.
I can’t believe it, that my little munchkins are actually going to Florida. But luckily our grandparents offered the money for the tickets and I said I couldn’t come with them because I had to stay here and do schooling.
The real reason (on account of I dropped out of high school) I didn’t want to impose on them while they were already paying for Cass and Ryza’s tickets.
And you might be wondering what’s the reason why we’re not living with them?
Well let’s see, what’s the reason we don’t live with two aging geezers who are basically blind and deaf and last year let an alligator into their garage because they thought it was a stray dog? Huh, I thought that would be obvious.
I looked around the apartment, for once noticing how terribly messy it was.
I sighed.
Looks like I found my source of entertainment while the runts were gone.
MATT
“You have my address now right?”
I nodded on the other line even though she couldn’t see me. I just ended up looking like a big noob in front of Mello. “Yup, got it right here.”
“Just drop by any time. I gotta go now though, so see you, Matt.”
The conversation still rings in my head, along with every other conversation I’ve had with her for the past week. There’s just something about her that makes me unable to forget every word that comes out of her mouth.
I looked up at the door number again, checking the small slip of paper I wrote the address down on too see if it was the right apartment number.
Once again seeing it was the right number I banged on the door again to no avail, the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and a teenage girl singing off key masking my own noise making.
“SHANE?!” I yelled out again for about the hundredth time. Though this time, something different did happen.
This time, the fucking vacuum cleaner finally stopped.
I banged on the door again, just to makes sure.
The door flew inwards, Shane’s thin hand gripping the wooden edge as she look up at me with wide eyes.
Every time I saw this girl it was always a surefire way to take my breath away.
She stood before me in a pair of jean shorts with holes in them, mismatching colorful socks with pictures of different foods on them, and a too large t-shirt that was held up in the back with a hair band and displayed a musical group I’ve never heard of. Her hair was twisted into a messy low side bun and hair fell out of it in large clumps. Earphones were wrapped around her neck with an iPod clipped to the edge of her shorts.
To me, she looked absolutely amazing.
To her, she blushed furiously, her voice high pitched and stuttering when she spoke. “M-MATT!!” Her hand gripped the door tighter. “Wh-what ar-are you –uh- um- doing here?”
I laughed and leaned against the frame of the door, smiling at her. “Just in the neighborhood, so I thought I’d drop by and say hi.”
“How long have you been-uhm... waiting??”
“For about….” I turned my wrist and cast a glance at my watch. “Ten minutes now.”
Her face flushed again.
I never thought it’d be possible for one girl to get so red.
It was cute.
“I-um I’m sorry for making you wait…I-I didn’t hear an-and I’m sorry I-I look like crap.” She laughed slightly. “Why don’t you come in and I-I’ll go get changed.” She made a gesture indicating for me to come inside the half clean apartment.
I stepped forward, walking with her for a few steps, then I grabbed her wrist-preventing her from going to get changed.
The door slammed shut with no one to hold it open any more.
“You don’t have to change, I think you look great, just the way you are.” Stupid. Very stupid, very lame, very corny.
Oh well, it was frigging true.
Doesn’t make me feel like less of an idiot though. Me and my stupid mouth, it just has to blurt out everything I feel.
Shane blushed harder, but turned around and headed for the kitchen anyway, placing her iPod on the dining table as she went along. “Would you like something to drink? Pop, water, milk, juice?”
“Nah, I’m good. Thanks for the offer though.” I wandered to the table, sitting down and swiping her iPod to scan her musical interests.
The cabinets clattered and the sink faucet squealed with water. I looked at Shane out of the corner of my eyes to see her getting herself a quick glass of water before returning to finish dishes that sat in soapy water. “Find anything good?” She called out.
“Yes, actually I did.” But the thing is, I wasn’t looking at the iPod when I spoke.
She blushed slightly and chuckled. “Oh, like what?”
“Oh! You mean on the IPOD….” I made a show of pretending to fiddle with it and furiously search for a band.
She let out a laugh.
God I loved that laugh of hers.
I loved that smile.
I loved everything about her.
She walked towards the kitchen table, wiping her hands on her legs. “You’re funny.” I watched as she leaned over the table to grab the iPod, while at the same time, conveniently giving me the perfect viewing angle. “So what did you really come here for?”
I leaned forward slightly, and like she was doing, rested my cheek on my fist. “Oh, I dunno, I just kinda wanted to see a really beautiful girl that lives here.”
Red sparked through her freckle dappled cheeks. “Uh huh….and?”
I laughed, my heart pounding way too fast and loud to be healthy.
There was just something about this girl that screwed up all my wiring, something that made me say things I shoulder, made me do things I wouldn’t normally dream of doing.
Yet, weirdly, at the same time, I liked it.
“Well you see, I wanted to tell her that I kinda…..sorta…. like her a lot.”
“Uh huh……”
“And I wanted to see if she would go out with me again, but this time not as friends.”
Her face flushed ever so slightly again as she looked at me with a small smirk. “Uh huh….”
I only half realized how close our faces were getting, yet I didn’t pull back any.
Her breath tickled my nose. “Because I think this girl is gorgeous and absolutely perfectly amazing.”
“Uh huh…..”
I let out a small laugh. “So what does the beautiful girl say?”
“Oh I don’t know, I think you’ve got the wrong apartment. I know of no such girl.”
I chuckled and looked at her dead on, my heart doing a back flip. “Is that so? I think I found exactly the right one.”
Hey! That took on a double meaning, I sound smart. Yay.
“Well I think that the girl says-”
And then for the most perfectly evil timing, the fucking phone rang.
Shane jolted backwards and off the table like a startled cat. Her limbs tangled together and she nearly wiped out right then. But somehow, she was left standing and bolting for the phone.
She picked it up and cradled it close to her face, a smile breaking out on her lips. “Hey Cass, you guys made it safe and sound?” a pause. “That’s good.” Another pause. “I’m doing good.” She blinked and sighed. “Really, Cass, I promise you I am absolutely fine, now come on tell me. How is Florida, I wanna know.”
I watched her with amusement; it was a sight to be seen to watch her talk to her siblings. She would always have a great big smile a wide open heart and an animated voice.
It was absolutely enchanting and gave me an odd feeling that I couldn’t even explain.
She was like a completely different person when she was around her siblings.
Then out of nowhere, she got a look of confusion on her face and she turned to look at me. “Yeah, he’s here….” She cocked her head and nodded. “All right, here he is.” She stretched out the phone towards me. Matt, Cass wants to talk to you.”
This time it was my turn for confusion, but I took the phone anyways. “Hello?” I asked.
“Hey Matt.”
“Hey Cass, what’s up?”
“Just hanging out in Florida with our grandparents for a week.”
“That sounds awesome, so what’d you want to talk to me about.”
He paused on the other line. “Matt, you….care about Shane….a lot, right?”
I tried not to stutter or sound stupid or nod when the person on the other line can’t even see me. “Yes, yes I do.”
“Can you tell me if she’s all right, right now?
“But you just a-”
“I know.” He cut me off. “But please, just do it. Does something seem off or is she really honestly fine?”
I looked up at her, noticing she went back into the kitchen to finish doing the dishes as well as to give me privacy.
“She seems fine. She just misses you two.” I said in a low voice so only Cass would be able to hear it.
There was an obviously relieved sigh on the other line of the phone. “That’s good. That’s really good, because you see, when our parents died; she dropped out of high school, took care of us and got a handful of jobs to keep up with us. It’s been hard for her; after all she was the one who knew our parents the most because she was older. As well as the fact that she gave everything up for us. But she’s such a goofball that she always smiles and still only thinks of everyone else around her before it even occurs to her that she should think of herself. If something is wrong with her, you won’t ever know. And if by some chance you do know, it will already be too late.”
Something about that last sentence seemed ominous to me, maybe I’m looking into it too much. “You’re smart for a kid, you know that?”
“Well, she IS my sister. And that’s why I’m glad you’re with her, for once, she’s thinking of herself. Can you do me a favor?”
“Anything, bud.”
“Be by her side this whole week, and don’t leave her. “
“I was planning on it.” I smiled.
Cass laughed. “Thank you, Matt.”
“No problem, Cass, now here’s your sister for you.” I stood up and walked into the kitchen, standing behind her and pressing the phone to her ear.
I watched her talk some more as I wandered back to the table, a million thoughts running in my head but all of them fell into one category. Shane.
I won’t ever leave you. I thought, watched her smile and say her goodbyes on the other line before clicking the phone back into the cradle.
“So what was that whole conversation about?” She asked casually.
“Nothing important, he just wanted to say hi.”
Smooth, Matt, real smooth.
She chuckled. “Matt, remember what we were talking about before? With that girl that you thought was so amazing?”
I looked up at her and nodded. “Yup, I could never forget.”
“She says yes.”
I smiled the biggest smile I think I’ve ever smiled in my life. I was so frigging happy I think I would have been able to fly.
She said yes.
My heart pounded way too loudly and I chuckled to myself, somehow this girl always knew exactly how to turn my insides to mush.
“You’re amazing.” I found myself saying. Then I flushed. Stupid stupid stupid dummy old me.
Shane just chuckled. “You’re not so bad yourself.”
Why was everything so easy with her?
Why wasn’t she fazed by my utter stupidity?
Is it possible to fall for one girl so hard?
“So, Matt, what do you plan to do today?”
“Hmmm….” I pretended to think, standing up and grabbing a dust cloth from the corner of the table. “I think I’m going to help a pretty girl clean her apartment and then maybe buy her some diner tonight.”
Shane looked up at me and let out the most beautiful laugh I’ve ever heard. “I think that sounds like a great plan.”
LIGHT
The photo’s gleamed under the desk light with a glossy shine, illuminating the faces of the people inside them.
I had a total of six of them, but only one of them was currently important to me.
Because the one of a blurry blonde haired hooded figure, the one of a girl with long blonde hair and light laughing blue eyes, the one of a strawberry on a mountainous cake, the one of a girl with black hair and a sarcastic face, and even the one of a beautiful girl with long black hair and a smile that could move worlds, those weren’t important to me now.
The one that was currently the most important was the one taken at a warming house somewhere in the area.
In the picture was a girl with curly golden hair and shining golden eyes, she was being held by a boy with rust hair and weird goggles. He was holding her tightly in his arms, and his smile was directed at her and her only.
I remembered the name of the girl from one of my grocery shopping trips a week or so ago.
I grabbed a pencil from the container on my desk and scribbled down a name on the back of the photo.
Shane Christoph
I underlined it for good measure, a smile forming on my lips as I looked at the photo again in satisfaction.
Oh Shane, you become quite useful in the future….. quite useful indeed.
I didn’t have much plans to do anything with her, yet. She wasn’t close enough to the boy, not quite.
But soon she would be, and when that happens the fun will really begin.
Eventually her pictures will join the three others with red x’s marring their faces.
The marks of those who are dead.
The mark that surrounds the picture of the girl who melted my heart.
Yes, this game was just the beginning of it all.
~~~~~~~~~~
Author’s notes:
FINALLY!! I finished this chapter. Oh, I dunno if I like it…..and I just realized that I wanted the setting to be in Los Angeles but then I realized that I had already made a winter scene in my first chapter….and California is a warm state. Dur…. So I’m gonna pretend that death note takes place somewhere else….. and yes it will be getting more interesting from now on. This chapter is just fluff.
And since Mello’s story might confuse people, including me….. I should probably finish writing it and post it so I can finally finish that stupid death note tragedy saga I started.
By the way, you might was to read said death note tragedy saga to understand what the hell is going on in Light’s part. ^.^
Enjoy and I hope to have more chapters out soon!
P.s. This story is based off of the onesht that can be found here: * http://quizilla.teennick.com/stories/17884654/the-beautiful-girl-matt-death-note-oneshot*
I like you.
I like you.
I like you.
A lot.
Huh.
Guess it wasn’t so hard, now if only I could get my lips to form the words when I’m standing
Right in front of you.
SHANE
I kissed the top of their heads, holding them both close to me. “Be good now! Don’t give her any troubles now, you understand me?! Eat healthy, oh damn what else am I forgetting…..” I bit my thumbnail, worry clouding over every rational thought in my brain.
Cass laughed wrapping his arms around my shoulders. “Don’t worry sis, I’ll take good care of Ryza. You raised us well enough that I at least know how to do that.”
I thwaped him on the head, then changed my mind and kissed his temple, wrapping my arms around him in a bear hug.
“I’m sorry guys, you’re just so important to me.”
Ryza ran over on unsteady toddler feet throwing her arms around my neck and squeezing tightly.
“You’re important to us too.” Cass said with complete and utter fact. “I don’t know what would have happened if we didn’t have you. Heck I don’t know what we’d do without you now.”
I laughed, a small tear sliding down my cheek.
Cass laughed. “Gosh don’t cry sis, it’s just for a couple days.” His voice wavered.
I laughed and sniffled at the same time, ruffling his hair. “Then why are you crying too?”
Cass let go of me and stiffened wiping his face and grabbing Ryza’s hand. “I’m not crying.” He sniffled, his eyes softening as he looked at me. “Relax while we’re gone okay? And be safe. Don’t die.”
I laughed wiping my own face and handing him their bags. “Now who’s the parent? Go guys you’re taxi is waiting. Call me!” I called out as they already started turning and stomping down the stairs and making too much additional nose that was going to drive the landlady crazy.
I shook my head and snorted, wandering back into the apartment. “I’m way too emotional for my own good.” I muttered to myself, swiping a hand down my face.
The hand stayed on my face, clinging to my mouth as I leaned against the apartment door and got my first breath of peace.
Cass and Ryza were going to Florida for a week to visit our grandparents that live there.
I can’t believe it, that my little munchkins are actually going to Florida. But luckily our grandparents offered the money for the tickets and I said I couldn’t come with them because I had to stay here and do schooling.
The real reason (on account of I dropped out of high school) I didn’t want to impose on them while they were already paying for Cass and Ryza’s tickets.
And you might be wondering what’s the reason why we’re not living with them?
Well let’s see, what’s the reason we don’t live with two aging geezers who are basically blind and deaf and last year let an alligator into their garage because they thought it was a stray dog? Huh, I thought that would be obvious.
I looked around the apartment, for once noticing how terribly messy it was.
I sighed.
Looks like I found my source of entertainment while the runts were gone.
MATT
“You have my address now right?”
I nodded on the other line even though she couldn’t see me. I just ended up looking like a big noob in front of Mello. “Yup, got it right here.”
“Just drop by any time. I gotta go now though, so see you, Matt.”
The conversation still rings in my head, along with every other conversation I’ve had with her for the past week. There’s just something about her that makes me unable to forget every word that comes out of her mouth.
I looked up at the door number again, checking the small slip of paper I wrote the address down on too see if it was the right apartment number.
Once again seeing it was the right number I banged on the door again to no avail, the sounds of a vacuum cleaner and a teenage girl singing off key masking my own noise making.
“SHANE?!” I yelled out again for about the hundredth time. Though this time, something different did happen.
This time, the fucking vacuum cleaner finally stopped.
I banged on the door again, just to makes sure.
The door flew inwards, Shane’s thin hand gripping the wooden edge as she look up at me with wide eyes.
Every time I saw this girl it was always a surefire way to take my breath away.
She stood before me in a pair of jean shorts with holes in them, mismatching colorful socks with pictures of different foods on them, and a too large t-shirt that was held up in the back with a hair band and displayed a musical group I’ve never heard of. Her hair was twisted into a messy low side bun and hair fell out of it in large clumps. Earphones were wrapped around her neck with an iPod clipped to the edge of her shorts.
To me, she looked absolutely amazing.
To her, she blushed furiously, her voice high pitched and stuttering when she spoke. “M-MATT!!” Her hand gripped the door tighter. “Wh-what ar-are you –uh- um- doing here?”
I laughed and leaned against the frame of the door, smiling at her. “Just in the neighborhood, so I thought I’d drop by and say hi.”
“How long have you been-uhm... waiting??”
“For about….” I turned my wrist and cast a glance at my watch. “Ten minutes now.”
Her face flushed again.
I never thought it’d be possible for one girl to get so red.
It was cute.
“I-um I’m sorry for making you wait…I-I didn’t hear an-and I’m sorry I-I look like crap.” She laughed slightly. “Why don’t you come in and I-I’ll go get changed.” She made a gesture indicating for me to come inside the half clean apartment.
I stepped forward, walking with her for a few steps, then I grabbed her wrist-preventing her from going to get changed.
The door slammed shut with no one to hold it open any more.
“You don’t have to change, I think you look great, just the way you are.” Stupid. Very stupid, very lame, very corny.
Oh well, it was frigging true.
Doesn’t make me feel like less of an idiot though. Me and my stupid mouth, it just has to blurt out everything I feel.
Shane blushed harder, but turned around and headed for the kitchen anyway, placing her iPod on the dining table as she went along. “Would you like something to drink? Pop, water, milk, juice?”
“Nah, I’m good. Thanks for the offer though.” I wandered to the table, sitting down and swiping her iPod to scan her musical interests.
The cabinets clattered and the sink faucet squealed with water. I looked at Shane out of the corner of my eyes to see her getting herself a quick glass of water before returning to finish dishes that sat in soapy water. “Find anything good?” She called out.
“Yes, actually I did.” But the thing is, I wasn’t looking at the iPod when I spoke.
She blushed slightly and chuckled. “Oh, like what?”
“Oh! You mean on the IPOD….” I made a show of pretending to fiddle with it and furiously search for a band.
She let out a laugh.
God I loved that laugh of hers.
I loved that smile.
I loved everything about her.
She walked towards the kitchen table, wiping her hands on her legs. “You’re funny.” I watched as she leaned over the table to grab the iPod, while at the same time, conveniently giving me the perfect viewing angle. “So what did you really come here for?”
I leaned forward slightly, and like she was doing, rested my cheek on my fist. “Oh, I dunno, I just kinda wanted to see a really beautiful girl that lives here.”
Red sparked through her freckle dappled cheeks. “Uh huh….and?”
I laughed, my heart pounding way too fast and loud to be healthy.
There was just something about this girl that screwed up all my wiring, something that made me say things I shoulder, made me do things I wouldn’t normally dream of doing.
Yet, weirdly, at the same time, I liked it.
“Well you see, I wanted to tell her that I kinda…..sorta…. like her a lot.”
“Uh huh……”
“And I wanted to see if she would go out with me again, but this time not as friends.”
Her face flushed ever so slightly again as she looked at me with a small smirk. “Uh huh….”
I only half realized how close our faces were getting, yet I didn’t pull back any.
Her breath tickled my nose. “Because I think this girl is gorgeous and absolutely perfectly amazing.”
“Uh huh…..”
I let out a small laugh. “So what does the beautiful girl say?”
“Oh I don’t know, I think you’ve got the wrong apartment. I know of no such girl.”
I chuckled and looked at her dead on, my heart doing a back flip. “Is that so? I think I found exactly the right one.”
Hey! That took on a double meaning, I sound smart. Yay.
“Well I think that the girl says-”
And then for the most perfectly evil timing, the fucking phone rang.
Shane jolted backwards and off the table like a startled cat. Her limbs tangled together and she nearly wiped out right then. But somehow, she was left standing and bolting for the phone.
She picked it up and cradled it close to her face, a smile breaking out on her lips. “Hey Cass, you guys made it safe and sound?” a pause. “That’s good.” Another pause. “I’m doing good.” She blinked and sighed. “Really, Cass, I promise you I am absolutely fine, now come on tell me. How is Florida, I wanna know.”
I watched her with amusement; it was a sight to be seen to watch her talk to her siblings. She would always have a great big smile a wide open heart and an animated voice.
It was absolutely enchanting and gave me an odd feeling that I couldn’t even explain.
She was like a completely different person when she was around her siblings.
Then out of nowhere, she got a look of confusion on her face and she turned to look at me. “Yeah, he’s here….” She cocked her head and nodded. “All right, here he is.” She stretched out the phone towards me. Matt, Cass wants to talk to you.”
This time it was my turn for confusion, but I took the phone anyways. “Hello?” I asked.
“Hey Matt.”
“Hey Cass, what’s up?”
“Just hanging out in Florida with our grandparents for a week.”
“That sounds awesome, so what’d you want to talk to me about.”
He paused on the other line. “Matt, you….care about Shane….a lot, right?”
I tried not to stutter or sound stupid or nod when the person on the other line can’t even see me. “Yes, yes I do.”
“Can you tell me if she’s all right, right now?
“But you just a-”
“I know.” He cut me off. “But please, just do it. Does something seem off or is she really honestly fine?”
I looked up at her, noticing she went back into the kitchen to finish doing the dishes as well as to give me privacy.
“She seems fine. She just misses you two.” I said in a low voice so only Cass would be able to hear it.
There was an obviously relieved sigh on the other line of the phone. “That’s good. That’s really good, because you see, when our parents died; she dropped out of high school, took care of us and got a handful of jobs to keep up with us. It’s been hard for her; after all she was the one who knew our parents the most because she was older. As well as the fact that she gave everything up for us. But she’s such a goofball that she always smiles and still only thinks of everyone else around her before it even occurs to her that she should think of herself. If something is wrong with her, you won’t ever know. And if by some chance you do know, it will already be too late.”
Something about that last sentence seemed ominous to me, maybe I’m looking into it too much. “You’re smart for a kid, you know that?”
“Well, she IS my sister. And that’s why I’m glad you’re with her, for once, she’s thinking of herself. Can you do me a favor?”
“Anything, bud.”
“Be by her side this whole week, and don’t leave her. “
“I was planning on it.” I smiled.
Cass laughed. “Thank you, Matt.”
“No problem, Cass, now here’s your sister for you.” I stood up and walked into the kitchen, standing behind her and pressing the phone to her ear.
I watched her talk some more as I wandered back to the table, a million thoughts running in my head but all of them fell into one category. Shane.
I won’t ever leave you. I thought, watched her smile and say her goodbyes on the other line before clicking the phone back into the cradle.
“So what was that whole conversation about?” She asked casually.
“Nothing important, he just wanted to say hi.”
Smooth, Matt, real smooth.
She chuckled. “Matt, remember what we were talking about before? With that girl that you thought was so amazing?”
I looked up at her and nodded. “Yup, I could never forget.”
“She says yes.”
I smiled the biggest smile I think I’ve ever smiled in my life. I was so frigging happy I think I would have been able to fly.
She said yes.
My heart pounded way too loudly and I chuckled to myself, somehow this girl always knew exactly how to turn my insides to mush.
“You’re amazing.” I found myself saying. Then I flushed. Stupid stupid stupid dummy old me.
Shane just chuckled. “You’re not so bad yourself.”
Why was everything so easy with her?
Why wasn’t she fazed by my utter stupidity?
Is it possible to fall for one girl so hard?
“So, Matt, what do you plan to do today?”
“Hmmm….” I pretended to think, standing up and grabbing a dust cloth from the corner of the table. “I think I’m going to help a pretty girl clean her apartment and then maybe buy her some diner tonight.”
Shane looked up at me and let out the most beautiful laugh I’ve ever heard. “I think that sounds like a great plan.”
LIGHT
The photo’s gleamed under the desk light with a glossy shine, illuminating the faces of the people inside them.
I had a total of six of them, but only one of them was currently important to me.
Because the one of a blurry blonde haired hooded figure, the one of a girl with long blonde hair and light laughing blue eyes, the one of a strawberry on a mountainous cake, the one of a girl with black hair and a sarcastic face, and even the one of a beautiful girl with long black hair and a smile that could move worlds, those weren’t important to me now.
The one that was currently the most important was the one taken at a warming house somewhere in the area.
In the picture was a girl with curly golden hair and shining golden eyes, she was being held by a boy with rust hair and weird goggles. He was holding her tightly in his arms, and his smile was directed at her and her only.
I remembered the name of the girl from one of my grocery shopping trips a week or so ago.
I grabbed a pencil from the container on my desk and scribbled down a name on the back of the photo.
Shane Christoph
I underlined it for good measure, a smile forming on my lips as I looked at the photo again in satisfaction.
Oh Shane, you become quite useful in the future….. quite useful indeed.
I didn’t have much plans to do anything with her, yet. She wasn’t close enough to the boy, not quite.
But soon she would be, and when that happens the fun will really begin.
Eventually her pictures will join the three others with red x’s marring their faces.
The marks of those who are dead.
The mark that surrounds the picture of the girl who melted my heart.
Yes, this game was just the beginning of it all.
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Author’s notes:
FINALLY!! I finished this chapter. Oh, I dunno if I like it…..and I just realized that I wanted the setting to be in Los Angeles but then I realized that I had already made a winter scene in my first chapter….and California is a warm state. Dur…. So I’m gonna pretend that death note takes place somewhere else….. and yes it will be getting more interesting from now on. This chapter is just fluff.
And since Mello’s story might confuse people, including me….. I should probably finish writing it and post it so I can finally finish that stupid death note tragedy saga I started.
By the way, you might was to read said death note tragedy saga to understand what the hell is going on in Light’s part. ^.^
Enjoy and I hope to have more chapters out soon!
P.s. This story is based off of the onesht that can be found here: * http://quizilla.teennick.com/stories/17884654/the-beautiful-girl-matt-death-note-oneshot*