13 minutes until Mello's alarm goes off. Mello got pillowcase creases in his face and Matt is actively forming a drool pool as we speak.
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.
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
zum Strand rennen, Mello ist weiter, Matt hängt zurück, zieht sich im Rennen irgendwas aus “WAIT FOR ME MEL”
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 rekreeirtes 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? 😂
2008.01.01 Tuesday
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
Mello (18) and Matt (17) make up at a launch event from Matt’s work. Mello starts crushing on Matt.
2008.02.01 Friday
Matt’s 18th birthday. They go play snooker somewhere. Probably mafia location, Mello has connections after all now
Mello (18) is embarassingly in love with Matt (18).
2008.02.14 Thursday
Their first unofficial date that is totally not a date but it’s 100% a date. On Valentines day too.
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.