2008

• Crushing-phase Mello remembers Matt was in a relationship with Tara back when they moved to seperate flats and he asks how things are going and Matt just goes “oh we’re not dating anymore, she ended it like half a year ago” “oh….. you never said anything” “you never asked” “oh”
• Early relationship Matt compliments Mello on his looks or smth, short pause “…. homo” or “… yes homo” or smth
• Early relationship Matt asks Mello if they’re still friends now or…? (fearing that they’ve entered new territory and have to behave differently now, more couply or some strange things - he probably had that happen to him in a previous relationship before that the girl was his friend and she kinda switched modes after they got together and it all got weird) And Mello answers in the most dudebro way he can (cue sigh of relief from Matt)
• I think early in his mafia time, Mello was on a raid, a mission, a whatever with a bunch of people and he found himself having to make a life changing decision in a split second. Something like, they have to escape out of a building and he stumbles into someone from the rivaling team, Mello points his gun at the guys face and has to decide to pull the trigger and ensure a safe escape or not to and potentially get everybody caught. All within a split second, his mind is running on 200%. I don’t know how he decided. If he pulled the trigger, it would be his first murder and it would crush him, haunt him forever. If he didn’t, maybe the mission failed, big trust break with Rod etc.

MAFIA

2008-2009 | Los Angeles

• Mello is way too cool to go have fun at the beach now. This idiot wears long trousers and a leather jacket even in summer because he is. JUST. SO. COOL. CRINGE.
• I think Mello had a sunstroke more than once. Maybe even a heatstroke.
• Mello’s routine upon coming home is stripping down completely, taking a cold shower and just chilling naked or in underwear. Flopping naked on the bed or the floor (cause it’s a bit cooler than the bed) until his temperature dropped a good 40°C.
• Matt has no problem sitting in the dark all day so in summer, he darkens all the windows, maybe installs some fucked up strong AC. If not, the room would be just as hot as outside due to him being in there most of the time and his PCs running. Der zapft den Strom von einer Straßenlaterne draußen an.
• Maybe Matt switches his activity completely to nocturnal, cause it’s much cooler at night. Sleeps the day away.
• Matt drinks scolding hot coffee and tea in summer. Sweats PUDDLES.
• Matt sitting alone at the beach at sunset or night, drinking his sorrows away, thinking maybe the waves will take him away from everything :(
• Mello starts carrying around a cringey asian paper fan and he uses it in sit-downs. Bonus points if it has anime tiddies or Hatsune Miku on it. Matt 100% got it from anime expo
• the mafia flat should be pretty lovely, since it’s newly rennovated. so they can cuddle while they sleep
• first summer together Matt suggests going to the beach again - they didn’t since 2 years or something. Mello sighing “god yes please” regarding the unbearable heat in either of their flats. They’re not out of the closet yet but together. Maybe some anxious shy secret handholding but they see a mafia bloke, he sees them too, comes over but he didn’t see them holding hands but they’re sitting just a little too close but mafia bloke is oblivious.

IDEA DUMP

• I like to think that sometimes they're so sick of the hot city? so they take Matt's car and run away for a ride or something

  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWFIOHUhD0M

• Just summer in LA aesthetic — blue sky, palms, burning asphalt, cars glistening in the sun, Hitzeflimmern, overflowing beaches

• Matt stealing Mellos stuff, Mello running after him, catching him by his boxers and wrestling for the stuff (playful, platonic)

• arschbombe

• unterwasser nach dem reinspringen, wie zeitlupe, als würden sie im weltall schweben

• matt mit aufgeblasenen Hosen beim erstkontakt mit wasser

• pläne in den sand zeichnen

• in verschiedenen altersstufen, sie machen aber in jedem alter das gleiche, allesamt lieb

• mello tunkt

• von oben, liegen beide im Sand, halb im Wasser, weil eine Welle sie grade so anspült

• EIS ESSEN!!

• SUNGLASSES

• die bauen mega das fette Teil an Sandburg, fantastisch rekreirtes echtes Monument oder so. Kleines Kind steht daneben, fragt, wie machem ihr dass, das so hält? und M2 labern das Kind einfach mit keine Ahnung irgendwelchen technischen Sachen zu — Adhäsion, Wassermoleküle, Beschaffenheit von Sand, Zusammensetzung

• okay okay, die müssen mit anderen Leuten interagieren, andere Strandgäste, Ladenbesitzer, wer auch immer da so abhängt, WENNS GUT LÄUFT SOGAR DIE DREI ???

• Arschlochkind nervt die beiden, fragt penetrant nach Mellos Narbe, Mello schießt dem Kind ne Beleidigung entgegen, von der es sich erstmal nicht erholt haha und wirft mit so Sachen um sich wie “ich ess kleine Kinder”

• them in matts car with all of the above, sunglasses, wind in hair, arm out window, music running

• Towel snapping

  

• Matt burns, and ends up looking like a cooked lobster every time he goes to the beach. He has to wear like SPF 1000.

• Mello burns, too, but his sunburn fades to a tan eventually.

• Speaking of burns, after Mello's accident, he started covering up with a T-shirt. One of Matt's old T-shirts.

• Mello wears a Speedo. Matt wears regular trunks.

• Matt doesn't like going to the beach, because it's "outside." But he'll go to make Mello happy. Mello loves the beach.

• The two of them getting their potato chips eaten by seagulls.

• Matt, getting dirty looks as he lights a cigarette on the beach.

• Mello likes beach reads as much as any middle-aged housewife.

• Matt and Mello have both devised various methods of sneaking alcohol onto an alcohol-free beach.

• One of them gets pooped on by a seagull.

• As they walk along the beach holding hands, they meet up with an older, straight couple doing likewise. The kind of couple you'd fully expect to give them a dirty look. But they don't. Instead, they give the M's a thumbs-up, and continue on their way.

• You just know these two have had sex on the beach. And no, I don't mean the drink.

Matt: Y'know what I like about the beach? One giant ashtray. I can put my cigarettes out anywhere, and it's not littering.

Mello: Oh, is that how it works?

Matt: Absolutely, it is. Just gotta kick some sand over them.

Mello: ... We should build a sand castle.

Matt: Wha--We should? Why?

Mello: We're at the beach. Seems like the thing to do.

Matt: Should we also play frisbee in the water?

Mello: Absolutely.

Matt: We don't have a frisbee, though.

Mello: I'm sure we can find one to borrow or steal or whatever.

I totally see a montage moment for a beach episode with M2.

It starts with Mello complaining to Matt he doesn’t wanna go because of his pale skin but ends up going anyway. They finally set up a beach towel and travel cooler then it transitions to them doing the most unhinged shit imaginable. Burying each other in sand (and kicking said sand in each other’s faces), fishing people’s pants up with a fishing rod, excavating the sand with an RC excavator (Matt brought it and Mello thought it was stupid until he started playing with it and grabbing all the small shells and putting it into a pile), and listening to CDs on their towels with cool guy sunglasses 😎

It’s a lot but tbh who wouldn’t wanna fuck around at the beach? 😂

Two Trucks Having Sex

JAN

2008.01.01 Tuesday

4 AM

Mello (18) seeks refuge in Matt‘s (17) flat after fleeing from his semi-failed infiltration. Mello joins Rod‘s (39) gang by presenting him the literal head of a rival mafioso.

2008.01.18 Friday

The Launch Event

Mello (18) and Matt (17) make up at a launch event from Matt’s work. Mello starts crushing on Matt.

FEB

2008.02.01 Friday

Snooker

Matt’s 18th birthday. They go play snooker somewhere. Probably mafia location, Mello has connections after all now

Mustn’t Lose Cover

Mello (18) is embarassingly in love with Matt (18).

2008.02.14 Thursday

First Unofficial Date

Their first unofficial date that is totally not a date but it’s 100% a date. On Valentines day too.

MAR

2008.03.04 Tuesday

Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight World Tour. Matt (18) and Mello (18) try to sneak in. It’s another unofficial date. At March 4th 2008, Linkin Park was on their "Minutes to Midnight World Tour“ and playing in Los Angeles at the staples center. Rather spontaneously, they decided to sneak their way in (of course, you don‘t really believe they do anything the legal way, do you...) while the concert was already at full swing but got caught. Out of spite, they spent the rest of the evening at a nearby KFC when they see the band walk in and Matt completely loses his shit. He even goes up to them and asks for an autograph and he comes back with his vest (THE VEST, the nasty one, you know which one) full of names and goes "I‘m never gonna wash this ever again!“ and Mello shouts through the whole diner "OH COME ON NOW REALLY?!“

2009