Routine

Routine 1

The start of the day was always rough. Marik always woke up late and was 9 times out of 10 in a fussy mood, dragging his every action out about a million times longer than it needed to be. Ryou on the other hand would try to keep everything as organized as possible: laying their cloths out, making breakfast, reminding Marik to put his homework in his backpack…

"Marik, time to get up," Ryou cooed, nudging the sleeping Egyptians shoulder. "Come on."

"No… Dun wanna." The blond's voice was muffled as he burrowed even further into his blankets. With a weary sigh, Ryou sat on the edge of their shared bed. They'd been living with each other ever since the Ishtars (Well, one in particular.) had come to 'visit' a couple months after the final duel between Yugi and his Yami and Ryou and Marik had been through this scenario many times.

"C'mon, get up so you can take a shower and have some breakfast," Ryou said trying to entice the other boy out of bed. "I'll make pancakes….with strawberries and chocolate chips!"

This seemed to capture Marik's attention. "Pancakes…?"

"Yes, Marik. Pancakes." The Egyptian sat up and rubbed his eyes sleepily. Ryou leaned forward and pressed a quick, sweet kiss to his boyfriend's lips. "C'mon, now," he said patting his Marik shoulder. "I'll lay your cloths out on the bed for you."

Marik began moving as slow as possible, reluctant to leave the warmth of the bed. He didn't want to get up but…

Ryou had already laid out Marik's uniform on the bed as was in the kitchen mixing pancake batter, strawberries, and chocolate chips together. He hummed as he did this, feeling very content in the normalcy of his morning, trying not to contemplate on how things would be if they ever changed. No, he would just make pancakes until Marik came out to eat, thinking about how much he loved the other male.

Ryou set the pancakes on the table along with the butter, syrup, and two glasses of milk as Marik walked into the kitchen. To Ryou, Marik looked like a zombie as he sat down and began eating in a painfully slow manner. By the time Ryou was done and washing the dishes Marik was only half way done eating.

Ryou sighed as he scrubbed the dishes. "Marik, can you hurry and finish? If you don't we'll be late again…"

Marik made a soft unintelligible noise around a mouth full of pancakes.

"You still need to put your work back in your backpack, too," Ryou added.

Marik stayed silent as he ate for a few more minutes. "Kay," he mumbled after a few moments, his first coherent sentence of the day. After a few more moments, Marik stood up and dumped his plates in the sink. (Ryou washed those, too, because if he didn't Marik wouldn't. Well, at least not without having been asked about twenty million times first.) He gathered up his school supplies and slipped his shoes on. Marik walked over to the door and waited for Ryou to join him. To the lilac eyed boy, the other took forever to make it to the door, although in reality it was only a few minutes later that Ryou showed up, ready to leave for school.

They boys walked out, shutting and locking the door behind them. After a moment, Marik tugged up his sleeve a bit and held out his hand for Ryou to hold. Ryou smiled, threading their fingers together.

Mornings might have been rough but it often meant if they could make it through the morning they could make it through the day.

Um, IDK. Uh, if you have any questions about anything message me and I'll answer, cuz honestly I cant think of anything right now...lol. Um, this was thrown together VERY last minute and I'll probably go back and edit, if not rewrite, it late.

I would appreciate feedback, thank you very much and I hope you liked it. =3

-Krys. E. xxx