Stone Children

A/N: Demon’s Sinner- I have this feeling that people really hate Roger… maybe that’s just me.

A/N: Karaage- it’s not just you… he’s an ass… and a horrible man.. This chapter makes me really sad..


Ch. 38 What Boys Should Do

It was one week later when the forum was up and buzzing. Twilight and LC were talking about a few jobs they were going to split between them.

mariomatt: yo! hey guys how have you been?
Beloved_twilight: Hey Mario. I've been well
Bubbles: Hello babies! Did you all enjoy the holidays?
mariomatt: been great! best christmas ever!
CrashNbURN: my holidays were good.
LCSQUARE: im glad my sweet matt -fish!! no more emo corner!!
Beloved_twilight: What did everyone do?
CrashNbURN: i just stayed at school and watched the macy's parade.
LCSQUARE: me and my brother went and saw the parade.
mariomatt: my roommate and me talked and things are good now. he gave me a claddagh ring and we kissed for real. its was so amazing!
Beloved_twilight: Wow really? That's amazing Mario.
Bubbles: what's a claddagh ring?
mariomatt: its a promise ring, its tradition to give one to someone you want to spend your life with....
LCSQUARE: im so happy for you! im glad it worked out.
Bubbles: Wow That's so cool! CONGRATS!
LCSQUARE: yeah it is.
mariomatt: well I have to do some work talk to you guys later. bye
LCSQUARE: bye matt-fish
CrashNbURN: bye
mariomatt has logged off.
LCSQUARE: fuck why cant i ever get what i want...

Mello was at his desk working on a project. He'd been working on it for two days straight without stopping except for bathroom and water. Matt hopped up and walked over to Mello. "Take a break. This is unhealthy! Your going to make yourself sick." He pleaded to the blonde.

"I'm fine... I need to finish this. It's the end of term project... it counts for one third my grade."

"Let me help you, while you go lay down." He said as he came up and stood behind him.

"No, I have to do it myself."

"Damn it Mello! You won’t be able to finish it if you end up in the infirmary!" He growled walking back to his bed and burying his face into his pillow.

"I'll rest when I finish. I'm almost done."

He looked up. "How close is almost done?" He asked as he got up again and walked back over to him and wrapped his arms around the blonde's neck. "I worry." He whispered into the blonde's ear.

"Well don't. You aren't my wife."

Matt pulled back and slowly walked back over to the bed, his head down. "Sorry." He lay down with his back to the blonde.

It was another three hours till he finished and got up. He looked over at the redhead. "Sorry I snapped..."

Matt rolled over. "It's okay." He looked at the blonde for a moment, then back at the ceiling.

"I just wanted to finish is all."

"I know you did and I’m sorry for bothering you." He said still looking at the ceiling. He had been so caring and so attentive, he had deluded himself into thinking they were actually dating. That comment had brought him crashing back down to earth.

He crawled onto the bed next to him and lay down beside him. "So your birthday is coming up."

"Yeah, in a couple of weeks." He said with a soft smile, his eyes hidden behind his goggles so the blonde couldn’t see the hurt and sadness there.

"What do you want to do for your birthday?"

"I don’t care. I don’t celebrate it. Never have." He turned and looked at Mello. "You don’t have to do anything for my birthday." He turned and looked at the ceiling again.

"I want to. You are very important to me."

His heart started to beat faster. He smiled and looked at him. "Seriously, I don’t expect anything from you."

"Well that makes things harder. I would like to make sure you have fun."

"I have fun every time I’m with you." He said with a chuckle.

The blond giggled and stuck out his tongue.

"Keep doing that someone is going to bit it." He said with a smirk.

He shook his head and pouted. "Would you bite me?"

"Only if you wanted me too." He smirked turning and looking at him.

"EWW!" he said laughing.

"What?!" Matt asked chuckling.

"Why would you bite a person?"

"Some people like it." He shrugged and turned on his side facing him.

"But why?"

"Why do they like it? Some people get off on it." He said as if it didn’t bother him.

"Do you like that sort of thing?"

"Yeah. Do you?" He asked simply locking eyes with the blonde.

He looked away. "I don't know... No one's ever bitten me before."

"Would you like me too?" He asked pulling his goggles up onto his head.

"Ummm... okay but only you." He pulled away and moved his shirt to give Matt access to his neck and shoulder.

Matt sat up a bit and leaned over pressing his lips the flesh of the blonde's neck and sucking it lightly before nipping it gently. He then ran his tongue over it and kissed it, sucking harder, as one of his hands came up and held the back of the blonde's neck. He nipped at the flesh a little bit harder that time.

The blond bit his lower lip at the feel of Matt being so close. He gasped at the first touch and as it went on a moan left his lips as he reached out to pull Matt closer. Mello couldn't stop his heart from pounding in his chest.

Matt smiled widely as he continued to kiss him and moved closer , sucking harder and nipping harder, running his tongue over the mark. He wrapped his arm around his waist and held his neck firmly as he sucked on his pulse.

"A-Ahhhhh... M-Matt..." His face became very flushed as he tilted his head more to the side for him.

"M-Mello." He whispered into the blonde ear before going back to his neck.

The bedroom door opened. "WHAT ARE YOU BOYS DOING?!" Roger yelled shocked from the doorway. Mello's eyes snapped open and he jerked away from the redhead. "R-Roger!"

Matt sat back and pulled his goggles down. Staring at the old man, annoyed.

"Boys should not being doing that! I would have expected better of you!" He yelled at the blonde

Mello looked away from him feeling very ashamed of himself. He shouldn't have let Matt do that.

"It's wrong! Boys don’t do that with other boys!" Roger yelled.

"What is wrong?" L asked from behind the elderly man.

Mello looked up at the two adults and felt tears well up in his eyes. He stood and ran into the bathroom slamming the door shut.

Matt glared at Roger. "Asshole," he muttered getting off the bed and walking over to the bathroom door. "Mello?" He said knocking on the door.

"Roger I'll handle this." L said and waited for Roger to leave. When the old man was gone he shut the door and walked over to the bathroom.

"Mello, its fine, Roger is just a homophobic-" L started to say.

"Asshole," Matt finished for him.

Crying could be heard from the other side. "N-No! He's r-right! I-I-I I don't want to go to hell!!"

Matt got angry. "You are not going to hell! That’s fucking retarded. Come out of there so I can talk to you." Matt said soothingly, but irritated.

L sighed. "Please, Mello, you’re not going to go to hell for liking another boy." He said trying to get him to open the door.

"At least stop crying? Please, for me...” Matt pleaded his voice breaking as he leaned up against the door, clinching his fist.

"G-Go away... I just need a minute."

Matt slid down the down and sat next to it as he started to cry. L sighed and walked over and crouched at the end of Matt's bed. It was a few minutes before the blond opened the door. "I'm sorry for yelling..."

Matt burrowed his head into his knees, his shoulders shaking.

L looked at him. "I think we need to talk." He said quietly eyeing the huge ass hickey on Mello's neck. He got up and stretched.

"About what?" He moved his hand up to try and cover his neck.

"About that." He pointed to his neck then to the sobbing redhead on the floor.

Mello knelt down on the floor and touched Matt's shoulder. "Please don't cry..."

Matt just shook his head. L crossed his arms. "Even though Roger is a homophobic prick, he is right. You two are too young to be doing stuff like that, and engagement rings and such. You really shouldn’t be doing that." He said a bit pissed.

"Engagement rings? We don't have any of those."

"A claddagh ring is a promise ring. When the heart is pointing to the wearer that means they are engaged. It's also a tradition to give it to your lover, to symbolize you want to spend forever with them." He stated agitatedly, his face in a frown.

"It's also something you give to a very close friend! Matt is my best friend and I gave it to him."

L scoffed. "No one in Ireland does that. It’s an engagement ring. If you were friends then the ring would be on the index finger instead of the ring finger and the heart would be facing away from him." L said patronizingly. "Plus friends don’t make out."

"What do you know! You're just just... an old pervert!"

He sighed, his face softening. "I’m just trying to help you, it seems like there was a misunderstanding." He said his voice gentle.

Mello looked away his face red in embarrassed anger. "Matt is my friend and I got him that ring. And so what if we were engaged? You and B were together and he was 12!"

"Yes, twelve not ten or nine. I wouldn’t have a problem if you were engaged. I think you’re just too young. Are you too dating? Just curious, if I knew I could keep Roger off of you." He said smiling down at him.

"I-I-I..." He bit his lip not looking at anyone.

He looked at Mello. "Mello?" He asked gently.

"No... we aren't dating... Boys don't do that sort of thing..."

L sighed. "Okay then. I'll just leave you two alone." He turned and left.

Matt lifted his head and got up, grabbed his laptop and walked into the bathroom locking the door.

"Matt? Matt open the door!" He began knocking on it and trying to open the door. Matt yanked off his goggles and logged in.

Outside the room Watari hurried over to L. "Sir B has escaped!"

L looked up. "What?! How?!"

Watari told L about the report he just received. Beyond had waited for the transport to take him from his cell and then he broke free and disappeared.

L nodded. "Do we know where he is headed?" He asked.

"No sir... we have no idea..."

L sighed. "Try to find him. We don’t need a repeat of LA." He said as he turned to go.

"We are doing the best we can."

"If you get any word I'll be in my bedroom I feel a bit under the weather." He turned and walked off.

"Of course sir. I'll bring you some tea."

L walked to his room, shut the door and crawled into bed.

mariomatt: how many times can a person have there heart broken before they stop feeling...
Beloved_twilight: What happened?
I thought things were going good for you.
mariomatt: no. they are not. we were making out on my bed , when the caretaker did room check and found us. he was like 'that’s wrong and guys don’t do that with other guys' that sort of bullshit and then the whole claddagh ring thing. then mr wonderful came in and started asking if we were dating. and my roommate said no we are not guys dont do that sort of stuff with other guys. then he kept calling me his friend and said that he didnt know what the ring meant. it was horrible.
Bubbles: Okay I'm gonna cut a bitch now!
No one hurts one of my babies!
Beloved_twilight: That is messed up.
But maybe the guy was just saying that to keep the two of you out of trouble.
mariomatt: mr wonderful is gay and has a partner... we wont have gotten into trouble.
Bubbles: I am so gonna give that bitch a piece of my mind!
you let us talk to him and we'll set him straight!
mariomatt: NO! its fine... okay, its fine....
Bubbles: No this is so not fine!
Fuck this shit man he is hurting you!
Beloved_twilight: She has a point but... Mario did you talk to him about this?
Maybe tell him how you feel?
mariomatt: yeah, or i thought i had... damn this shit...
but it is fine, cuz sometimes you have to try not to care, because no matter what you do, you can mean nothing to someone who means so much.... i just have to get to that point of not caring and i'll be fine...

Outside the door Mello was thrown over his bed crying violently.

Everyone on the forum began telling him that that wasn't the right thing. Bubbles and Twilight offering words of comfort as best they could.

mariomatt: thanks guys, im going to go lay down I dont feel good...
mariomatt has logged off.

Matt pulled his goggles back on and opened the door, looking out. Mello's body was shaking with his sobs.

"Mello?" Matt said walking out of the bathroom and sitting his laptop on the bed.

The blond didn't look up. He was so lost in his own sorrow. He had hurt his best friend with his careless words. Matt walked over and sat down on Mello's bed. "Mello?"

He turned his head and stared at Matt with red rimmed eyes. He couldn't stop crying and just tackled him as he cried. "Matty! I'm s-s-so sorry! I-I-I-I j-just..." He couldn't finish he was crying to hard.

Matt hugged him and ran a hand through his hair. "Shh. Its okay."

"N-No! I hurt you! I-I-I don't want to hurt you! I care about you!"

"You didn’t hurt me. Roger pissed the fuck out of me that’s all." He said soothingly with a smile.

He reached up and took off Matt's goggles and stared at him. "Say it again. Tell me I didn't hurt you."

His eyes fell to the bed. "You didn’t hurt me." He said as he stared at the bed.

"Now I know you're lying."

Matt shook his head. "I’m not lying." He said.

"You are. You are lying to keep me from knowing that I hurt you!"

He looked up at Mello, his eyes liquid fire with sadness. "You didn’t hurt me." He said again.

"I don't want to hurt you... I am scared and I don't know what's going on..."

He sighed. "Mells, listen to me. YOU, didn’t hurt me. That bastard L and that asshole Roger did. Okay. Lets just forget about all this. We're friends okay." He said looking into those blue eyes. His eyes still a liquid fire and the sadness was more pronounced now.

"You don't want to be my friend Matt... What do you want?"

"I never said I didn’t want to be your friend." He said soothingly.

"What do you want Mail..."

Matt sat their a bit shocked at hearing his name. "You’re my best friend, Mihael..." He said biting his lip.

He sat there and waited for Matt to say more. Matt didn’t say anything else. He just sat there looking at the blonde.

"You’re my best friend too Mail." He hugged him close and just kept crying until he fell asleep in Matt's arms.

Matt watched the blonde sleeping in his arms. Yes it hurt like hell to bury his feelings, but after finding out how Mello felt about being gay, he couldn’t tell him. He would rather bury his feeling than lose the blonde as his friend. He sighed and laid down pulling the small throw over Mello and closed his eyes.