LoVe: The Childhood of L and V

Chapter 13

L was welcomed warmly by the Wammy house. Everyone was very eager to hear his

stories of the foreign country, Japan. As he told his adventurous stories, which he

mostly made up, Sage sat in a corner and wrote them down. Sitting at one of the

warm fireplace comfy chairs, Sage wrote pencil to paper her thought on L's stories.

"I feel lonely." L exclaimed above Sage's head. Sage jumped in surprise then gave

him an amused glare.

"Are you sure? So many people were surrounding you." She smiled and turned her head

away.

"Ever heard the phrase, lonely in the midst of a crowd. Well, I'm saying I'm lonely

for you! Lo-o-onle-e-e-y f-o-" he started to sing, then was cut of by Sage smacking

him on the mouth with her fist.

"That hurt!" he squealed. She laughed gaily and embraced him. "What were you doing

over here anyway?" he asked. He peered over her shoulder and looked at the words he

had spoken earlier that evening.

"Wow, word for word. Trying to write a book, copyright stealer?" She giggled and

picked up her pages.

"No, I just thought your lies were funny, so I put them down and voilà! A book in

minutes!"

"Aside from that," he changed the subject,"Scarlett is here."

"Yeah!" Sage brightly said. "She just came back! Isn't that great?"

"Yeah, it is..." L started to look uncomfortable. "You know, she used to like me,

right?"

"She did?" she quizzically asked.

"Yeah..." he rubbed his hand behind his head, a movement he always did when he got

into an awkward situation.

"Don't worry yourself!" she said playfully, "You have me, and she knows that!"

"Ok." he cheered up.

Sage held L's hand all the way down to their room. He then bid her goodnight at

their door.

"Until we meet again. I have to run and do some stuff. See you tomorrow." He hugged

her close to him, then walked away. I wonder what Scarlett wants with me, he

thought.

Sage hummed a happy tune as she got ready to sleep. As she put on her pajamas, she

noticed a shadow of Scarlett dressing up. I wonder what she is doing? Sage lay on

her bed and pretended to sleep. Scarlett slowly tiptoed and bid a whisper to her.

"I'm sorry Sage, but you are going to lose." Scarlett slowly closed the door to

their room, and Sage heard her sprint away.

She darted up and slammed the door open. She scrambled in the same direction as

Scarlett and met a sight she did not want to see.

...

"What did you need to see me about?" L inquired.

"Well," Scarlett momentarily licked her lips and puffed her chest out,"You should

know by now that I don't go with just anybody."

L stared at her quizzically. "Did you learned any dangerous stuff when you were in

America?"

"Depends," she smiled wickedly, "do you want to know?"

"I'm not sure I-"

Scarlett grabbed L's head and forcibly french-kissed him. Sage gasped as she hid

behind the wall; tears started to pour down her face.

L wiped his mouth and slapped her. Scarlett covered the place where it burned and

screamed at him, "What!? I thought you would like that!"

"I am with Sage!" he retorted, "You have no business to make me come out here and

do something as filthy and disgusting as that! And it is only filthy and

disgusting, because it is you who is doing this to me!" Scarlett started to cry and

she ran out of Wammy house.

Sage was shocked, outraged, and proud. Although, she couldn't tell L that she saw

this, and she certainly couldn't trust Scarlett anymore. Sage was in a predicament

now, and just when tomorrow was the date with him, L.