The Story of Matt and Mello



PT. 26;;  Confusion and Secrets
^{A/N;; FINALLY. Chapter 26. Thanks for sticking with me guys. ILY. :)}



“So did everything turn out okay with Coop?”

“Yeah... Basil made him drink lots of water, and I guess that helped.”

“What was wrong with him anyway?”

“I don’t know man, Taff wasn’t really talkative remember...”

“Oh yeah, Taff. I wonder what her problem was...”

Matt looked at the pile of blonde hair lying on his chest.
“Since when are you so caring about everyone?”

Mello turned his head to face him, and made a nonchalant face.
“I got to have something to talk about... Don’t even think there’s anything behind it.”

The redhead smiled and kissed him on the lips.
“You’re cute when you lie.”

With a fake offended face Mello smacked him with a pillow.
“Jerk! So.., what do you want to do today?”

“I don’t know, you want to put our shirts on and check out what Basil is doing?”

“Sounds good,” The blond said and reached for their shirts, lying on the floor next to the bed.



It was a Sunday today, and so they had the day off from classes. Together they walked - secretly holding hands - down the hallways, looking here and there at Halloween decorations someone forgot to take off.

“That was some party...” Matt sighed.

“You can say that again...” Mello murmured, smiling to himself about the new love him and Matt now shared since that night.

“I still wonder what happened to Basil and stuff, though. I mean, we didn’t see him for quite a while... And Taff disappeared too.”

“At least we know where she was; you said you probably saw her, right? ...Maybe B sneaked out for some man-handling himself.” He added, laughing.

Matt faced him and squeezed his hand gently.
“I don’t think Basil goes that way... And we didn’t ‘man-handle’ each other.”

“You’re right, you’re right... We just went down at each other and touched all night.”

“Mell! Don’t say that out loud here! Who knows who might listen!”
Matt’s shocked face made Mello’s smile even bigger.

“Come on, maybe Basil is getting some breakfast.”

“Crazy bitch...” Matt shook his head. “And it’s lunch at this time of day.”



At the same time, at a different place in Wammy’s House, two other people accidentally bumped into each other.

“Hello Ta-- Miss Taff.”

“Good morning, L. Should I leave you to your business?” She answered, already taking a step to the right to let him pass through the room.

“Actually... I was just looking for you.”

Taff nodded, although she wasn’t sure why, and waited for him to continue.

“...”

When he seemed to keep silent, she asked him why.

“Well... Maybe it’s important if we talk about what happened, or put better, almost happened... I decided to leave you be yesterday, to let the emotions sink away...”

For a moment he stopped, like he seemed ashamed by that statement.
“But considering your age I think it’s best for your development if we...”

“My age.” Taff said.

L seemed to be caught off guard, people usually didn’t interrupt him.

“My age.” She stated again.
“All of this is about my age? You want to talk about this because of my age?”

“It’s more than that... I am a legal adult and--”

“No you’re not.”

“Excuse me?”

“No one in the world knows your face, your name or even that you exist! You’re not legal, you can do anything you want!”

“I see your feelings haven’t decreased yet...” He said uncomfortably.

“Is it that strange? First you avoid me an entire day, and then you try to shove it all off of you by saying it’s my age!”

“Miss Taff - please - you must know, I’m terrible with emotions...”
L’s face was flushed, as far as that was possible with his pale complexion.
“My social skills are non-existent... That’s why I don’t know how to handle this.”

This seemed to calm her down, and she smiled again at him.
“I understand now... It’s okay.”

“But I just wanted to say...”

“L?”
Watari came up to them, nodded friendly to Taff and then bent his head to the man.
“Master L... I have.. Roger on the phone..” He whispered.

L nodded also and said he’d be right there; Watari walked back to his office around the corner. When the old man was out of sight, he and Taff looked at each other again.

“Some other time, I guess?” The girl spoke softly.

“Yes...” L said in an apologizing way, and he put his hand on her arm gently.
“Maybe when I have more time I can form my words in a proper way...”

They both turned around to walk away, but Taff stopped midway.

“L, I mean.. Sir L?”

“You can call me L..” He whispered at first. “Yes.. Miss?”
He still had his back turned from her.

She looked at the ground.
“L, I... I’m sorry I ruined your party.”

“Technically it wasn’t a birthday party... My birth date was months ago.”

Taff smiled at this plain statement, and swivelled her feet around again.
“Anyway... I just wanted to say it.”

“Taff?” The raven said, still in the opposite position.

“Hmm?”

“Seeing you in that dress was the greatest birthday gift I could get.”



As Mello had suspected, Basil was in the dinner room. He was devouring a pile of pancakes, stopping once in a while to look at Linda and Coop, who were playing pat-a-cake in a corner.

“Hwey gwuys,” He said with his mouth full when the boys walked in.

Matt greeted him as he and Mello took a seat.

“What are you having?” The blond asked.

“Pancakes with chocolate sauce,” Basil answered, after he’d chewed and swallowed.

Mello’s eyes grew wider at the world ‘chocolate’ and stood.
“I’ll be right back!”

Basil tilted his head slightly and poked Matt.
“Does that mate like pancakes that much or something?”

“Yeah... Something like that.” Matt laughed to himself.
“You’ve got quite a stack yourself. You like pancakes?”

“No lad, not especially... But you could say I like piles, haha...”

He said this in such a strange way that Matt was interested.
“What do you mean..?”

Basil looked to his left and right, and then moved closer.
“Can you keep a secret?”

“Of course man, what is it?” He asked eagerly.

“You know those two broads who did the decorations for the party?”

Matt frowned. “Broads?”

“Girls, lad, girls!”

“Oh, yeah I heard something about that.. What about them?”

Basil stretched and smiled. “Well... Let’s just say they ended up in my room.”

“What?! Are you out of your freaking mind?!” Matt said shocked.

“Have you seen them, they were two fine looking women.”

“Someone could’ve come inside, the doors don’t have locks!”

“But they didn’t.”

“But... You are like, what, 13?!”

“14 and about to turn 15.” Basil bit back.
“And so what, haven’t you ever made out with someone?”

“That... That’s not the point now.” The gamer stuttered, but B’s expression changed.

“What are you hiding, mate?”

“N..Nothing.”

“Yes you are, c’mon tell me!”

“Hi guys..?” They both turned around.

Taff was standing behind them, holding a plate with toast.
“Is something wrong?”

Matt said nothing, and Basil looked at her.
“No.. No nothing’s wrong.”

She shrugged, and sat down on a chair. “Okay then.”

“So... You feeling better, I see?” B said.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” She smiled to emphasize it.

“What was up yesterday?” Matt asked her.

“Nothing,” She said. “Never mind it. Don’t want to talk about it.”

“There sure are a lot of secrets today...” Basil mumbled.

“Why do you say that?” Taff felt she missed something.

“Don’t mention it,” Matt exclaimed, “You don’t want to know.”

“Hey, what’s up?” Mello asked, as he got back and took a seat between Matt and Taff.

“Nothing!” All three yelled, and the blond raised his eyebrows in confusion.
“O-kay...” He said, and started on his choco-drenched pancakes.



At night Matt let Mello into his room again, and they both lay on the bed cuddling.

“Matt...”

“Yes, Mell?”

“What was bugging you today?”

“How do you mean?”

“At dinner.” Mello said and sat on his lap.

“Oh... It just bugs me that people that are somewhat your friends all have secrets.”

“Is that so weird?”

Matt stopped stroking Mello’s hair and looked puzzled. “Huh?”

“I mean... Basically we know nothing about each other. We have no names, no background... And I bet we all experienced something that keeps us from trusting others.”

“You have a point there...” Matt nodded and kissed him on the cheek.

“Plus the fact that everybody lies or hides something. Just look at yourself, you don’t go around telling people you’re a guy that’s madly in love with another guys, right? It’s human to keep something that might seem ‘wrong’ a secret.”

“I didn’t look at it like that,” Matt let his fingers run through his hair again.
“You’re so smart to see that. Oh Mello... You’re totally going to be L one day.”

Mello laughed and blushed slightly at what he saw as a huge compliment.
“Oh Matt, you’re so weird... I love you.”