I am a fool.

I suppose it may have been inevitable...maybe I should have seen it coming but as I said, I am a fool...

You could blame it on time

Or his own humanity

Or my foolery

But in the end it happened, I wouldn't see it happening, so when it did...I could nothing about it...

I suppose it stared when he grew 4-5 inches, at the time we celebrated, or as he called it "teased him" he always was sensitive about his height...but I digress...I personally liked it, I could place my chin on his head without stooping so much, although I was still much taller than he was. Still he would joke that soon we would be the same size.

I should have seen it...but I couldn't

I guess the next sign was when he went to a school dance and had to leave me behind, the puzzle did not look good with his suit. Of course I worried, but then I always worried when we were not together. He came home late, greeting me with a mumbled hello, and mumbled somthing about "spiked punch" when I questioned him, then collapsing in bed without so much as a good night, I should have seen it then. But I just blamed this "spiked punch" he spoke of.

I should have seen it...but I didn't

It was barely two weeks later (three at the most) when he went to a school camp. It would have been nothing to worry about, he had gone before...but on the way there he stayed mostly in his soul room, unlike the last time when he was full of talk about the goods and bads of camp. When we got there they went canoeing for "PE" he left me on his stand next to his cot, he did this often for PE and then for eating too, only talking a little usually saying he was too tired when he would come in to go to bed.

I should have seen it...but I wouldn't

When we went home school was starting, he was unhappy to find his friends weren't in his classes, I tried to comfort him by saying I would always be with him...but responded with a dry "yeah." School went on and he made new friends, he didn't hurry home to play Duel monsters with me, instead went to friends to talk and play basketball although he was shorter than them all,...

I should have seen it...but I was afraid

He stopped wearing the puzzle completely then. And put me on his table... he didn't even talk to me anymore or even touch the puzzle...then he put me away...in a small box under his bed I didn't see him for a long time. I heard him come into the room one day I heard the rustle of clothing and objects thrown in to boxes...then I saw him, older-near an adult, almost identical to me at his age...his eyes slightly more innocent. As he picked up the puzzle a girls voice called to him, a head popping in to the room, "Yugi? What's that?" she asked, " just somthing from my child hood...an imaginary friend you could say." His voice holding almost a plead, He put the puzzle down on his old empty table, closing the door on his way out...

I finally saw it...

But it was too late

I suppose it may have been inevitable...that I would lose his love...