This was one of the first stories I wrote. Today, I found it in a notebook buried in my closet and decided, why not? I've been going through a bit of writer's block lately, so those of you waiting for an update on one of my other stories, I hope this makes up for the wait.
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Yugi and his friends having a sleepover was nothing new. Yami was used to them by now. What he wasn't used to, though, was actually being able to participate fully. Due to him gaining a body after the Ceremonial duel, all his friends decided to celebrate, and that was how they came to their current situation.
"This is your first sleepover, we're playing sleepover games." Duke insisted. Yami hesitated, and then placed his deck back in its case. Looked like a duel with Joey was out of the question.
"Okay. What should we play first?" Yugi looked around.
"How about Truth or Dare? Oh, wait." Tea interrupted herself. "I forgot the dare part was banned here."
"No problem. We can still play Truth. And now that Yami has his memories back, it's the perfect game."
Yami raised an eyebrow. "How do you play?"
"We take turns asking questions and whose ever turn it is has to answer truthfully. How about we all answer the first one, as an example?" Yugi explained.
"I call first!" Joey thought for a moment before grinning. "All right, I got one. What was your most embarrassing moment?"
Yami glanced around. Everyone was silent, thinking with various stages of embarrassment on their faces. Yugi, however, had buried his face in his hands. Joey, apparently, saw this as well.
"Yugi, why don't you go first?"
The little gamer glared at him playfully, then began. "I was twelve at the time, and at Tea's house. I forget what I was laughing about, but I ended up losing my balance and falling down the stairs."
Tea remembered and giggled. "If I remember correctly, that wasn't the whole story."
Everyone looked back at Yugi. "I hurt my arm in the process and when the doctor asked how it happened, I started laughing again so hard I fell off the table." Everyone laughed and Yami shook his head. He was still running through his memories as Tea started her turn.
"Okay, okay. So, you guys know how I go jogging in the mornings, right? Well I always carry pepper spray with me because, well, it's Domino. Creepy people live here. Anyway, two years ago, we had this big family reunion at my house during the worst part of summer. I had to go in at one point to grab bug spray and… yeah. I pepper sprayed myself in front of my entire extended family. Mom said that was the most desperate attempt she had ever seen to avoid Aunt Hillary."
Yami chuckled in surprise, while the others laughed. He had never expected such a story from the most graceful person in the group.
"Tristan, you're up." Joey called as soon as he caught his breath.
Everyone waited expectantly while Tristan sat in silence. Finally he sighed. "In my defense, I was nine at the time, and my sister was sixteen and very capable of carrying out her threats."
"Oh, yeah?"
"What happened?"
"Apparently I had the exact same shoe size as her best friend, so she took me to the mall to help her gat a birthday present…"
"Come on, man. Just say what happened."
"My teacher happened to walk by as my sister was forcing me to walk around in these spiky heel things."
"You were trying on girl shoes? Really man?"
"Hey! I was nine! And I'll bet your sister never embarrassed you like that."
Joey didn't say a word in response. He just blushed. Then, slowly, he propped his leg up on the couch and rolled up his pant leg to expose his ankle.
Everyone except for Joey and Serenity gasped. The wounds were obviously very old, as they were all scarred over, but they could still see where stitches had been. There were cuts, some several inches long, and in some places, entire chunks of skin had been torn off.
Joey waited a moment to make sure everyone saw, then turned to his sister. "You want to tell them what happened, or do you want me to?"
"I said I was sorry-," she whispered, but was cut off by her brother.
"Yeah, after you laughed at me! In the ambulance, too!" It was a conversation the siblings had obviously had several times in the past.
"We were walking home from the park when I was about seven and Joey was… ten? No, he was eleven." She corrected. "Anyway, we passed this one yard and the dog started barking and I accidently dropped my ball."
"It rolled under the fence and she told me to go get it. I hopped the fence and the thing went for my ankles. The lady who owned it, Ms. Feeny, called an ambulance and got her dog off me."
"Joey," Tristan broke in, "I've lived on the same street as Ms. Feeny my while life, and she's never owned anything other than Chihuahuas."
There was complete silence.
"What can I say? They're dangerous."
More silence. And then an eruption of laughter.
When enough people had calmed down and caught their breath, Joey got them all back in the game. "Alright, Serenity. I told mine, now what's your most embarrassing moment?"
Serenity thought briefly, then blushed and covered her mouth. "Do I have to say it?" She asked, trying to pull the scared little sister act on her big brother.
"Yes."
"It can't be any worse than pepper spraying yourself in front of your entire family." Tea tried.
Serenity took a moment to gather her courage, and then began. "This one time I stayed up so late studying that I fell asleep in class the next day. And no, that's not the embarrassing thing." She blushed and Duke slipped an arm around her. "We had an earthquake drill and I was so scared when I woke up that I peed my pants."
This time, there was just polite laughter. Nobody wanted her to feel humiliated. In order to save his sister from being the center of attention for any longer, Joey turned on Duke.
The dice master didn't even have to think about it. "On live TV, one of my employees tripped and pulled my pants down."
"Oh! I think I saw that on YouTube!" Tristan exclaimed.
Duke grimaced. "Yeah, you probably did. It kinda went viral."
"I'll have to look that up later."
"Yeah."
"Me too."
"Same."
"You guys all suck."
"We know."
"So, Yami." Yami turned to Joey. "It's your turn. Think you got one?"
"Yes, actually. It happened back in Egypt. I was young and playing with Mana when we knocked over and broke an expensive vase. We were afraid of getting in trouble and decided to hide in the barn. She climbed up to the loft and I ducked into an empty stall." There were a few snickers at the thought of Yami hiding like a kid. "After a few minutes, a servant came to put a camel away in the stall I was in-,"
"And found his prince?" Joey broke in.
"No. I crawled into a haystack so he didn't see me. He just locked up the camel and left."
"So what was the embarrassing part?" Yugi asked.
Yami averted his eyes. "The camel decided to take a nap. On the haystack."
Everyone stared with wide eyes. "A camel fell asleep on you?" Tristan deadpanned.
"Yes. Mana had to go get Mahad who had been in a meeting with my father and his other advisors. They all had to help get it off of me. And after all that, we still ended up getting punished for breaking the vase."
After they had all stopped laughing, Yugi turned to Yami. "So what do you think of your first sleepover?"
"I can't wait to do it again."
"Part of playing sleepover games like this one is to learn new things about your friends that you never thought possible."
"Except for your story, Yugi." Joey spoke up. "Me getting attacked by a Chihuahua, Tea pepper spraying herself, those are things nobody would guess about us. You hurting yourself laughing? That's kinda to be expected." He teased.
"Hey." Yugi defended.
"Totally."
"I agree."
"He's right, Yugi."
"All right. How about we just play another game?"
"Just don't hurt yourself this time."
"Oh, shut up, Joey."
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Again, this is an old story, so I'm sorry about the style. I think I fixed all the mistakes, though. Please tell me what you thought! I would love the feedback!