Chapter Twenty-Nine

Kayley and Cameron leave an hour later, probably sensing I was uncomfortable. Light was just mindlessly strolling around my house, going through drawers, looking at pictures. I wanted to slap him and tell him to stop but my siblings would probably take me to a mental institution.

I run upstairs after I shut the door behind my family to Light. "Stop going through my damn stuff!" I yell, taking the notebook he had in his hands and putting it where it belongs. "Can you stop acting like you live here?"

He shurgs, "Nope."

I groan and sit on the bed beside him. He smells surprisingly good for a shinigami in human form who's skin is slowly rotting.

"What was that notebook about?" he asks, referring to the one he had earlier.

"I went to college to be a writer also. I wanted to be a lot of things. My main goal was to be an author but it didn't feel right. I was one of the best in the class but I felt like something else would be better and more guaranteeing, so I choose investigating."

Why am I telling him this?

"That stuff was really good. I like your short stories-slash-poems. They are really...beautiful."

I look at him, "Why are you acting like a friend to me?"

"Because I want to be a friend, nothing else."

"Then why the hell were you acting like a lust-filled psycho when you practically melted this damn ring into my skin!?" I spit at him. He easily slides the ring off and hands it to me. I look at him, surprised. I spent hours trying to pull it off but I never succeeded.

"I...don't know. I wanted to marry you at first and then you acted like such a human with feelings and I saw that you truly love Ryuzaki and your family and realized I had no chance. I just want to be a friend." he says, almost speaking like he wanted to pour his heart out with words.

"Fine." I say. "Only on one condition."

"And that is?"

"You help me kill the king."

He looks at me in shock. "I can't!"

I stare straight at him. "Yes you can! You are his most trusted, am I correct?"

"I-I think so." he stutters. "I can sneak you in, and you kill him while I talking to him, But it has to be done with a death scythe, it's the only way to kill a shinigami."

"Where the hell am I going to get a death scythe?!" I asked, generally confused.

He takes the black ring from my dresser and places it in the palm of my hand. "Think of a weapon."

"What?"

"Just think of one!" he yells. I obey. I feel the ring shapeshift into an object, the one I was thinking of.

"A chainsaw? You are so cliché " Light tells me. "You'd probably have to takes something smaller, and more quite, to get in there. And there's the second question! How are we going to get you there?"

"I'll just take a regular visit, make sure you get him to show me some random things, and you tell him something, distracting him from me and I kill him."

He nods. "Okay, I think it's best you go now." I suggest. He leaves. I go back to the headquarters and I see everyone sitting in the living room talking and eating, mostly sweets. I greet them quietly and let them countinue talking. I go upstairs and take a shower. About fifteen minutes into my shower, I hear a falling of something. I open the curtain slightly to see Quart.

I jump back and I hit my head.

"Sorry." he smiles.

"So why are you here?" I ask, turning off the water and wrapping a towel around me.

"I'm going to help Light and you with the plan. Light sent me down to tell you how he figured everything out. You are going to walk around the castle, if that's what you'll like to call it, with Light and the king. Light will propose to you, but with the death scythe ring. You agree and take the ring. Then you think of an object, a small one, you kill him. This happens tomorrow."

Tomorrow?

"Okay. Now go, so I can get dressed." and Quart leaves. I put on a long shirt and sweatpants and grab my laptop. I type something. Just in case.

[Dear Lawliet,

I am typing this currently to say I love you. It's the night before I see the shinigami king and try to kill him with Quart and Light. I guess this is my death note, no pun intended. All my files are on this laptop, hopefully if I pass, you find this somewhere on here. This note is just in case. I do not know the fate of my life as for tomorrow. I love you. You are the person who turned my demons into angels and I am forever grateful, no matter if it's tomorrow or in three hundred years. I truly love you L Lawliet. Hopefully you won't be reading this word: Goodbye.

-Ashley.]

I shut my laptop and notice him standing there. "What were you doing?" he asks, worried.

"Um...spring cleaning. Deleting old and useless files." I lie. It kind of made sense since Spring was nearing.

"You looked like you were getting pretty emotional for spring cleaning."

"It was a lot of files."

He smiles a bit and lays beside me. I get the thought out of my head. This could be the last time I feel his embrace.

I love you.

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