[Uke]

"I want to believe that," Near admitted. "But rationality tells me it isn't true..."

He sighed, before he got up and moved closer. Slowly the boy reached up and put his arms around Mello's neck, pulling the blonde down and pressing their lips together.

It was like... Like tasting a food you'd been craving for the first time in years. Familiar and sweet, but better then he could ever remember it being.