A TEMPTATION: A DANCE WITH DEATH

Maybe He's Just Nice

I kept tapping the pencil on my desk, watching the news repeatedly on my phone, trying to understand anything they missed and grasp the world that had just washed by me. So many people have died, excellent or bad. I started to write down the suicide notes found by the prisoner, keeping to myself the reporter's voice repeating in my head along with L's, making me feel oddly warm inside as I changed from reading to watching, even just listening to music and trying to grasp an idea or even somewhere to start. I'm not paying attention as the teacher is going on with the lesson. I'm not worried about math right now. I just want to find out what happened to my father and my "friend." even if we weren't close, he didn't deserve to go like that. I didn't notice till it was too late. As the Teacher tapped my shoulder, I panicked, taking my headphones out and looking up at her.

"Y/N, can you answer the question on the board, or have you not been paying attention?" I felt my face turn red as I stared at the numbers on the board, confused and anxious.

"It's 24, Ma'am," Light spoke up for me, responding quickly, taking the attention off

of me as he stood up from his desk, clearing his throat.

"It's 24." Light looked around at the people looking, even me, as he slowly sat down. I took a breath of relief. He didn't have to do that for me, but he did, and I guess Light isn't so harmful. He can be sweet when he wants to. I blushed slightly, looking away as I could still feel his gaze on my neck. Light knew I wasn't paying attention, and he still helped. I watched as the teacher glared at Light and walked back up to the front of the class. I looked over at Light, mouthing the words.

"Thank you." Light nodded back gently, looking back up front as I attempted to pay attention, finding a website listing all the rules that some Kria Wiki found about it, leading me to a website about... Death gods and a Death note...

If the person using this Note fails to consecutively write the names of people to be killed within 13 days of each other, then the user will die. I couldn't stop reading the rules, confused by what any of this was.

If you make this Note unusable by tearing it up or burning it, all the humans touching it will die. I shut my phone off, not wanting to learn more about this. How dumb it was. That's just some Myth. It's not real, and I'm just freaking myself out. I felt the paper the teacher handed out slowly taken off my desk by Light. I'll have to thank him later. I think he's doing it for me. I blinked a couple of times, trying to grasp the real world.

It wasn't long till I rested my head on my desk, listening to L's broadcast replay repeatedly, trying to understand some hidden message that could have been playing often, but I found nothing. I couldn't find the broadcast itself, but I saw many people in town recording it enough To have them pay repeatedly. I just want answers, and all I have right now is this broadcast and a Wiki stating how they think Kria is some death god, which, how insane does that even sound? They aren't real, nor is this "Death note." how could some human even contain that level of responsibility? I could feel my heavy weight weigh on my shoulders, even feeling it in my eyes. It's been forever since I got a good night's sleep, and I think people were starting to notice that as well. I felt a hand slowly graze my shoulder as Light crouched beside my desk, looking at me, rubbing my arm, trying to get me to wake up.

"Hey, you missed a lot of class today. Do you want to, I don't know, come over again after school?" Light asked as I slowly picked up my head in a daze, hearing the bell ring, trying my best to gather my things, keeping them close to my chest, seeing Light's eyes gaze over the papers I was holding.

"I guess... I just after last night." I paused as Light held up his hand, looking at me with a slight smile.

"I promise nothing like that is going to happen again. Cross my heart and hope to die," Light laughed as I looked away again, not finding the whole joke about death very funny.