She was about to hit whoever it was but saw the red and black stripes covering the arms which made her smile.

Matt reached for the gun in one of Y/n's hands when he spoke, "Can I borrow this sweetheart?"

Y/n slowly nodded as he took it.

Matt placed a kiss on the girl's temple which made a blush form on her cheeks.

One of the men cleared their throat and spoke, "S-Sorry Sir, we...we didn't know-"

"Shut the fuck up." Matt growled with a hand still around Y/n, "Pointing a gun at a lady isn't gentlemanly, wouldn't you agree?"

The two men nodded.

To the girl's displeasure, Matt let go and stood beside her.

The brown haired male smiled while he looked down at her, "Can you give me other one sweetheart?"

Y/n snapped out her thoughts and handed him the gun.

"Good girl." he added.

Matt tucked the one of the guns under the band of his jeans while he popped the clip out of the other, inspecting how many bullets it had.

He hummed in satisfaction as he slid it back it without even looking.

Y/n eyes widen at the attractive sight she was seeing.

"Cover your ears." he demanded more like. She obeyed anyway.

The brunet took the hand the guy grabbed Y/n with and shot him there. The man wailed in pain as he clutched his hand.

Matt then shot the other guy in his foot.

"Disrespect her again and the next bullet goes through your head. Do I make myself clear?"

Both of the men didn't respond as they rolled on the floor in pain.

Matt rolled his brown eyes at the sight, "What a bunch of wusses." he mumbled, "Monty! Take care of these two idiots please."

Y/n stood in shock at everything that just happened.

A hand cups her cheek and guides her to face up, "You okay?"

Y/n gulped and nodded.

"I didn't scare ya, did I?" He asked genuinely.

Y/n shook her head.

"Then why aren't you talking?"

Y/n shrugged causing Matt to chuckle. He placed a hand on the small of her back and ushered her to a back room that was smaller than the main area that only had two couches.

He sat on the arm of the sofa and just stared.

"What?" She finally spoke.

"You look beautiful." Matt said licking his bottom lip, " Did you have me in mind when you bought that?~" he purred

Y/n scoffed with a blush on her cheeks yet again, "Don't flatter yourself."

"God." he whispered lowly to himself "How bout you give me a little spin, hm?"

She shook her head with a small smile etching on her face, "You gotta earn that."

Matt immediately got up as soon as the last word left her mouth and approached her, Y/n was startled by his sudden movement

The male stood close to her, putting a hand on her waist, bringing her closer till they had little space between them.

Matt brushed a strand of her hair back and gazed at her features.

Y/n's heart rate increase with the sudden contact and closeness, wanting nothing more than to close that gap completely.

Y/n subconsciously licked her bottom lip which was final straw for the male. He was about to go in when the door was harshly pushed opened

Matt groaned and rolled his head back, "What the fuck Mello?"

Y/n liked Mello but she wanted to choke the hell out of him for ruining that moment.

"There's someone trying to get in our system." Mello said as he placed the laptop down.

"And? they can't get in, I programmed it that way. Remember?" Matt said looking at the computer screen.

"I know, I know." Mello sighed, running a hand through his bright blonde hair, "Can you find out who is it?"

Matt sat on the couch and placed the laptop on the cushion next to him

Y/n sat behind him on the arm of the couch and watched him work as she had never seen him behind a screen like that.

A bunch of numbers and shit with a bunch of windows popped up. Y/n understood nothing she was seeing.

Matt typed fast and worked quickly, the girl could tell he knew what he was doing.

The tapping of the keys filled the silence for a while before a window popped up with some information

"Kenny Rendall." Matt said with a confused tone, "But didn't you?" He trailed off, looking at Mello.

"I did." Mello confirmed, "Are you sure Matt? That's impossible."

"I'm telling you, it's him."

Y/n lips pressed into a thin line as she cleared her throat, "Who's Kenny Rendall?"

Matt turned to look at the girl and smiled, "No one you should worry about,"

"Mello, leave it to Calerna gang to deal with him." Matt added with his demeanor changing to a serious one, switching from loving to stern almost like a light switch, "He isn't our problem... Anymore."

"If he's trying to hack into our system it's clearly our problem, Matt." Mello argued whilst folding his arms.

Matt stood up from the couch, facing Mello, "It could be anyone else using his computer Mello. As we don't know, it isn't our problem. If anyone sees him, he's a dead man...again,"

Again? Does that mean they tried killing him before?

Mello scoffed, "I refuse to stand here and let it become our problem when it turns out to be him."

"What is he going to do, Mello? Huh? Send his army for us?" Matt said, being a bit annoyed.

"I think you seem to be underestimating him, Matt." The blonde deadpanned. Mello looked like how he always does, stern and tense. He looked like he scowled at everything and everyone that he saw but he wasn't like that.

"I think you seem to be underestimating yourself, Mello." Matt said folding his arms, "Didn't think my partner was beginning to become a pushover."

Mello being clearly beyond angry pulled his gun out aiming it at Matt, "Wanna say that again?' he seeth.

Y/n eyes widened at the sight and covered her mouth.

Matt sucked his teeth then hummed, walking up closer to Mello.

"Don't do something you'll regret, Mello." Y/n inputted with a shakey voice.

"Don't think I'll regret it, Y/n."

Mello straightened his posture and aimed at Matt's head.

Matt shook his head and held Mello's hand, pulling it down so the gun aimed at his chest, over his heart

The brown haired male then stepped closer so the barrel touched him.

"It's me and you, Mello and if you doubt that then maybe this friendship was a mistake."

Mello's hand started to shake as he lowered it down.

Mello was still angry that maybe Matt was right so it brought back up the gun and cocked it, firing it at once.

Y/n screamed and backed against the wall, lowering herself to the floor. The couch was blocking her vision so she couldn't see anything really.

Y/n shoved her face in her hands, shocking overriding her body. She heard the door open then slam shut. It was like she didn't know how to react, trembling a bit in the process.

A hand pulled hers out of her face and was met with familiar brown eyes.

"He...He d-didn't-?"

Matt shook his head and interrupted the female, "I'm okay sweetheart."

Matt hugged her, wrapping his arms her waist and his face finding the crook of her neck.

After a while he was still hugging her tight, that's when she realized the hug wasn't to comfort her.

It was to comfort him.

Upon coming to that conclusion, Y/n held him tighter and ran a hand up and down his back. She then ran her fingers through his hair as his face snuggled more into her. Y/n tried her best to comfort him, who knows when last he got that.

"You okay?" She asked.

Matt nodded in the crook of her neck, making her laugh.

Y/n stopped playing with the male's hair when he grabbed her hand and placed it back on his head.

Y/n let out a small breathy laugh at his actions and obliged, tilting her head a bit so it laid on his.

After a couple minutes of this Matt pried himself away and helped Y/n up from the floor.

"Wanna go to my apartment?" Matt asked rubbing the back of his neck, "And maybe spend the night?"

Y/n smiled and nodded, "I don't see why not."

On the drive there, Y/n spoke, "Are we passing by my place for clothes? I left all the clothes I bought with Parker."

Matt took a cigarette out of his pack and shook his head, "You'll take something of mine." Matt said with the stick between his lips.

"You want one sweetheart?" He asked but Y/n shook her head.

Matt lit his cig as the smoke trailed out the window.

Y/n smiled as her favourite song came on the radio and turned the volume up.

She started singing and dancing, not giving a fuck that Matt was in the car too.

The brunet was happy that she was too caught up in the song to see him grinning as she sang and stealing a couple glances of her.

Matt chuckled at her and even joined her on the singing though he didn't know much of the lyrics.

It didn't matter to him because he could look at the girl sing and dance whole day.

Eventually he pulled up to his place. He didn't live in a building rather it was a good enough house with others like it in rows.

Matt walked up to house number 15 and unlocked it, immediately flicking the lights on.

His place had a lot of shelves and bookshelves filled with movies and video games. The kitchen and living room was opposite each other with no wall separating the two.

The living room side had a door to go into his room and the door not too far from that one was the bathroom door.

His place had no windows besides one in his room.

"Nice place you have here."

"Thank you kindly sweetheart." Matt said putting his car keys on the kitchen counter before walking down to the living room side.

"Make yourself at home," he added.

Y/n grabbed the remote that sat on the coffee table and put the TV on.

"You wanna shower?"

Y/n nodded before he directed her to bathroom

"Leave your clothes outside for me then when you're finished, go into my room. There'll be clothes waiting for ya."

"Thank you Matt."

The male kissed her temple, "No worries, sweetheart." he said before walking away.

No matter how many times he'd do that, she'd never be ready.

Y/n took her shower followed by Matt.

She looked at herself in the mirror in the male's room, it's not like he had never seen her in his clothes before, without any pants either.

Y/n waited for Matt who then came out of his room in different clothes than she normally sees him with. It was shocking that he had other clothes.

He wore a plaid pajama pants with a white vest. He looked good, it suited him and she didn't even realize she was staring until he went to a certain floorboard in front of the couch and popped it open.

"Damn." Y/n laughed, "A little hidey hole?"

That made Matt laugh as well as he took a small bag out, placing it back. Y/n recognized it to be cannabis and her eyebrows shot up.

"Didn't know you were into that too."

Matt took a seat next to her the stopped for a moment, "Do you mind?"

"No no." Y/n waved him off, "I tried it before so I'm no saint."

Matt chuckled as he put it in a herb grinder, twisting the top.

Once he did that he placed the cannabis on a piece of rolling paper, licking the side so it can hold in place when he'd roll it up.

Matt attached it to the end of a cigarette before lighting it.

"You sure did that quick." Y/n said as she got up to walk to the shelves beside the TV.

There were movies stacked so she went through it, looking for one to put it on.

"Practice makes perfect sweetheart." Matt took a pull, taking a while before puffing out the smoke.

Y/n lit up when she found a horror movie. His DVR was similar to hers so she had no problem in setting it up.

Y/n sat next to Matt once more before he offered her the stick in which she accepted.

Y/n took a about two pulls before passing it over to the male. Her head felt light like she was in the sky, all her worries seem to disappear and she lost the ability temporarily to think about anything negative.

She snuggled into Matt as it was kind of cold. He got up which made her huff as he went into his room

Y/n was about to go off on him but he came back with a blanket and draped it over her.

Putting a hand round her shoulder, he pulled her into his side more.

Y/n laid on his chest and listened to his heartbeat, a sound she'd never thought she'd felt at peace upon hearing.

The brown haired male took his last drag before handing it to the girl.

They passed it back and forth until it burnt to the butt. Matt flicked it to the astray that was on his coffee table in front of them

The male smiled whilst looking down at the girl on him who was burying her face in his chest to avoid the jump scare.

He ran his hand up and down her upper arm as he nuzzled into her hair.

The two watched the movie whilst thinking the same thing.

I wanna stay here forever.