The Day It All Went Wrong, and Everything Fell Apart
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Yugi Motou was walking across the park, dragging is oh so tired feet. He was on his way home from school. Their last class was Gym, and the evil teacher had made him do forty laps around the gym for chewing gum. All of his other teachers had yelled at him for being so 'spaced out.' And he got sent to the principal for not having his homework in Math class. On top of that, he had been late for school because he had slept in too late, he had left his lunch at home, and Tea was refusing to talk to him for an unknown reason. Yugi sighed. He knew that everything would somehow be alright in the end.
He panted, while his heart was racing faster than normal, and he slowed his pace. He dropped himself down onto a bench, and pulled off his bag. It was so heavy. He felt his eye lids getting heavier and heavier, but he resisted the urges of sleep. He couldn't just fall asleep on the bench in the middle of the park in the evening! He looked around, and noticed a few birds drifting around in the sky, and he felt that he longed to have all their endurance.
Yugi sighed, and when he felt a little bit more rested, he swung his bag over his right shoulder, and forced himself to walk the rest of the way to the Turtle Shop/his home. He pushed himself through the door to his house, and dropped his bag on the floor.
It hit the floor with a loud 'thud,' and his grandfather jumped from the couch.
"Oh, Yugi, you scared me!" Solomon said, with his hand held to his chest.
"I'm sorry, grandpa! I didn't mean to... My bag was just so heavy!" Yugi sighed, and walked up the stairs to his room, he nearly fell down twice, but his hands were grasping the railing too hard, so he never did. Once he got into his room, he dropped himself onto his bed. His muscles ached so much, and he moaned very quietly in pain. He almost didn't hear someone knocking on his bedroom door.
"Come in!" Yugi spoke quietly, but loud enough for the person on the other side of the door to hear. He propped himself against the wall, and put on a smile, the one he wore around everyone else but himself.
"Hello, Yugi." Yami spoke slowly as he pushed the door open, and closed it with a quick but quiet 'snap.'
"Hey, Yami!" Yugi exclaimed, and smiled warmly up at Yami.
"You're home later than usual... And your bag isn't that heavy, I picked it up. It's lighter than the millennium puzzle you wear around your neck." Yami pointed to the puzzle hanging from Yugi's neck. Yugi blushed slightly, and looked down at it.
"Well, it was heavier for me. I -" He paused, wondering secretly to himself whether Yami would care about his forty laps or not. He decided that Yami wouldn't care, so he dropped the subject.
"Why so secretive?" Yami searched Yugi's eyes for some kind of answer. "You have been blocking your mental link with me lately. Is it because you don't trust me anymore?" He frowned, and Yugi shifted uncomfortably under his gaze.
"I do trust you, Yami! You know that... It just that... well..." Yugi sighed. "I just need to deal with some things on my own, that's all.." Yugi looked everywhere but where Yami was standing.
"I see..." Yami was unsure about his answer, and didn't completely think that he was telling the whole truth. "Well, all right then.
I'll close my side, too, then. It would be better that way." Yami sighed, and waited for Yugi to reply.
"Oh. Ok." Yugi frowned sadly at himself for making his Yami unhappy. He could still feel a little bit of Yami's emotion, but then it all went blank, and Yugi looked up at him. Yami noticed his innocent eyes glossed over with something... Was it... deception?
"Well, I'll leave you to your... whatever you were doing." Yami left without another word, and slammed the door shut. Yugi could tell he was angry and sad, even without the link anymore. Yugi ignored the pains in his muscles, and stared at the wall.
Then the phone rang. He rushed downstairs, and picked up the phone before anyone else could.
"Hello?" Yugi answered it.
"Hey, Yug!" A voice said softly over the other end of the line.
"Oh, hey Joey! What's up?"
"Well, I was wonderin' if you'd like to come with Tristan an' me to the arcades!" Joey sounded so cheerful on the phone,
Yugi almost forgot the bad day that he was having.
"Sure, I'd love to come!" Yugi forgot all of his pain at that very moment.
"Ok, well we'll meet you there in a half an hour! Bye!" Yugi said goodbye, and waited until he heard the lick of the phone hanging up on the other line.
Yugi smiled a little bit, knowing that at least he would have one highlight for the day.
He ran to his room, and got ready to leave in a few minutes, he only had to comb his hair, and put on his blue jacket he usually wore. He contemplated keeping the millennium puzzle on, but decided to forget it for a while. He left it on his pillow, and ran out the door. Yami watched him leave, and went into Yugi's room. He sat down on the bed, and stared down at the puzzle sadly.
He was angry and sad, and ran out of Yugi's room, and went into his own room to think.
Yugi ran happily all the way to the arcades, and he plopped down into a booth. He held his head up with his hands, his elbows on the table.
"Hey, Yug! You OK?" Joey and Tristan sat down beside Yugi, who jumped slightly, surprised to see them so early.
"Yeah, I'm just perfect!" Yugi smiled from ear to ear, and they both laughed at along with him... Or was it at him? Yugi pushed away that thought, and looked at Joey and Tristan.
'So, you guys want to play games first, or eat?" Joey emphasised a lot on the last part, and Tristan and Yugi laughed, and agreed to eat first. "Good, 'Cause I can never work on an empty stomach!" Joey looked like he was in heaven with his two hot dogs and large plate of fries. Yugi just got a bottle of water, and Tristan had a slice of pizza and a small class of coke.
"Mmmmm..." Tristan licked his lips when he was done eating, and he got up to throw away his plate. When he sat back down
empty handed, he looked at Joey, who was on his last hot dog, and the plate of fries was empty. He sweat dropped. -.-' And
Yugi laughed at both of them.
"Ummm... Joey, I'm going to go play on the pinball games, ok?" Tristan got up, and Yugi followed, laughing as Joey starting to
eat even faster. If that was possible.
"Hey, guys, wait up!" Joey gulped down the last of his hot dog, and ran to the garbadge and threw out the paper plates, and his garbage. He caught up to the two others, and Yugi noticed he was smiling happily.
Yugi turned back around, only to hear a series of bangs, and a loud yelp from someone behind him. He turned to see Joey on the floor, clutching his left arm. There was a game machine lying down beside him, and a small cat was behind it. The cat must've
knocked it over somehow. Yugi burst out with laughter, while Joey lay on the ground, moaning in pain. Tristan chuckled quietly, but put on a serious face when he helped Joey up off the floor.
"Hmm, looks like your arm is broken..." He helped Joey down into another booth, and let him lean against the seat.
"Damn cat... How did that damn thing get in here, anyway!" Joey yelled out, and the cat ran away and hid behind another game machine. He glared at him, and grinned evilly when it ran away at the sound of his voice. Joey then turned and glared at Yugi was laughing so hard he was clutching his sides. The truth was that laughing made Yugi hurt in places that he must've hurt while running forty laps. Joey frowned, and felt hurt. Hurt that his best buddy was laughing at him while he was hurt. Tristan then had his turn to glare at Yugi for the same thing.
"Yugi, why laugh? Joey's seriously hurt! It's not a laughing matter!" Tristan snapped at him, and Yugi fell down to the ground, trying to regain his composure.
"Well, you have to admit, it was really funny. A cat knocked him down!" Yugi sniggered again, and sighed when he saw them both giving him the 'death' glares.
"Come on, Joey. I'll get you to the hospital. It's not far from here. Can you walk?" Joey nodded, and Tristan helped him to his feet. He was guiding him out the door, when Yugi ran to their side.
"Hey guys, can I come, too?" Yugi smiled at them.
"No, just go home, Yugi. I'm sure Joey will be alright. We'll see you on Monday." Tristan made it sound as if he was dreading the very moment that he would see Yugi again. Yugi knew he was protective of Joey, but not that protective. Yugi sighed sadly, and waved goodbye to them. Although they never saw it because they kept their backs to him the whole time.
That's when the pain came back to Yugi, and he forced himself yet again to walk home. He sure wished that Joey would be O.K.. That's when it hit him. The only person that wasn't mad at him today was his grandpa, but he was sure that fate would find a way for him to get in trouble with him as well. He went to open the door to the turtle shop and to his home, but it was locked.
He sighed, and checked his jacket pockets. He had forgotten his keys inside his other jacket! He sighed again, and sat down in front of the shop. He picked up a rock from the ground, and stared at its different angles and shape.
"Can today get any worse?" Yugi thought out loud in but a mere whisper. Just then, a car swerved right in front of him, inches away from his feet, and drove along the sidewalk. The person behind the wheel was trying to get a hold of the wheel, they must've been drunk. Yugi backed up against the outside of the Turtle Shop. Yugi felt his heart racing even faster than when he did the forty laps for gym class, and he closed his eyes. He could hear a loud crash that made him jump several feet in the air, not helping the fact that his heart was already beating ten times as fast as normal. He the heard loud sirens, and several police cars rushed by him. Yugi could see the car that had nearly hit him, the back of it was on fire, and it had crashed straight into a streetlight. Yugi gasped, and ran to the car.
There was a child strapped in the back of the car, it was a small young girl. Her head had rolled onto her chest, and she looked like she was unconscious. Yugi gasped. He pulled at the handle on the door, and pulled with all his might. He felt his muscles ache again, and he let go. He couldn't open the door, it was either jammed, or he was really, really weak. He heard shouts from all around him, and someone grabbed him, and pulled him back. He watched in horror as the police, paramedics and firemen broke the doors open, and pulled out a man from the front seat. He had a beer bottle glued in his hands. Just when they were about to go for the young girl, the car exploded with flames, and Yugi threw out his arm in front of his face, to block out the bright light that followed with the explosion. When he withdrew his arm, and opened his eyes, and he felt his eyes fill up with tears. The whole car was on fire, and there was nothing to see but shards of metal and fire burning around it. He turned around to see a paramedic holding his shoulders. He was staring in shock at the car.
Yugi wriggled out from under the paramedic's grasp, and he backed up. When the firemen had the fire out, one paramedic walked over to Yugi.
"Are you alright, kid? Are you crazy, you could've died trying to get that door open!" He said angrily at Yugi, but when he bent down and saw that there were tears sliding down the boy's face, he softened up to him. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Yugi nodded, and looked at him through blurred vision from the tears. He cried, and dropped himself to the ground. He buried his face in his hands, and shivered. He blamed himself for being so weak... He could've saved that poor child! He could have!
He felt something cold on his hands, and looked up. The paramedic had come back, and had put a small bandage on Yugi's left hand.
"You got a small burn, didn't you notice?" It was the same man who had held him back from the fire. Yugi shook his head, and looked at the ground.
"Hey, kid? Did you see anything before this car crashed?" A police officer walked up to him, and Yugi shrunk back, terrified of how tall he was. Yugi nodded slowly. "Well? What did you see?" The policeman had his pen out, and his notepad in his hand.
"It - It swerved off the r-road." He said through sobs. "It got so close I thought It had hit me! But, but then I heard a huge crash, and it was on fire. And, th- there was a g-girl in the back. I t-tried to help... I couldn't, I was too t-tired!" Yugi cried into his hands, and heard the police officer mumble something like "Damn Drunk..."
He could see people crowding around what was left of the car, and the crowd got bigger and bigger. But the police formed a barrier between them and the wrecked car. He heard shouts from behind him, and a door creak open. He didn't look up. He was so ashamed at himself, he must be doing something wrong, because everyone hated him, and people died because of him!
He cried and cried until he felt someone's hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see his grandpa down on one knee, looking at him worriedly.
"Come on, Yugi." His grandpa said in a blank voice. He led Yugi back into the house, where Yugi ran into his room, locked the door, and cried himself to sleep. Why did everything have to happen to him? A single tear slid down his cheeks as he relived the entire day in a nightmare. But at least he had forgotten the pain from his aching muscles and his burnt hand. Nothing was going to be alright after all.
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Hmmmmm.... Maybe I will add one more chapter to this story... It would be too depressing for me if I only had a one chapter story! So expect one more chapter!
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Yugi Motou was walking across the park, dragging is oh so tired feet. He was on his way home from school. Their last class was Gym, and the evil teacher had made him do forty laps around the gym for chewing gum. All of his other teachers had yelled at him for being so 'spaced out.' And he got sent to the principal for not having his homework in Math class. On top of that, he had been late for school because he had slept in too late, he had left his lunch at home, and Tea was refusing to talk to him for an unknown reason. Yugi sighed. He knew that everything would somehow be alright in the end.
He panted, while his heart was racing faster than normal, and he slowed his pace. He dropped himself down onto a bench, and pulled off his bag. It was so heavy. He felt his eye lids getting heavier and heavier, but he resisted the urges of sleep. He couldn't just fall asleep on the bench in the middle of the park in the evening! He looked around, and noticed a few birds drifting around in the sky, and he felt that he longed to have all their endurance.
Yugi sighed, and when he felt a little bit more rested, he swung his bag over his right shoulder, and forced himself to walk the rest of the way to the Turtle Shop/his home. He pushed himself through the door to his house, and dropped his bag on the floor.
It hit the floor with a loud 'thud,' and his grandfather jumped from the couch.
"Oh, Yugi, you scared me!" Solomon said, with his hand held to his chest.
"I'm sorry, grandpa! I didn't mean to... My bag was just so heavy!" Yugi sighed, and walked up the stairs to his room, he nearly fell down twice, but his hands were grasping the railing too hard, so he never did. Once he got into his room, he dropped himself onto his bed. His muscles ached so much, and he moaned very quietly in pain. He almost didn't hear someone knocking on his bedroom door.
"Come in!" Yugi spoke quietly, but loud enough for the person on the other side of the door to hear. He propped himself against the wall, and put on a smile, the one he wore around everyone else but himself.
"Hello, Yugi." Yami spoke slowly as he pushed the door open, and closed it with a quick but quiet 'snap.'
"Hey, Yami!" Yugi exclaimed, and smiled warmly up at Yami.
"You're home later than usual... And your bag isn't that heavy, I picked it up. It's lighter than the millennium puzzle you wear around your neck." Yami pointed to the puzzle hanging from Yugi's neck. Yugi blushed slightly, and looked down at it.
"Well, it was heavier for me. I -" He paused, wondering secretly to himself whether Yami would care about his forty laps or not. He decided that Yami wouldn't care, so he dropped the subject.
"Why so secretive?" Yami searched Yugi's eyes for some kind of answer. "You have been blocking your mental link with me lately. Is it because you don't trust me anymore?" He frowned, and Yugi shifted uncomfortably under his gaze.
"I do trust you, Yami! You know that... It just that... well..." Yugi sighed. "I just need to deal with some things on my own, that's all.." Yugi looked everywhere but where Yami was standing.
"I see..." Yami was unsure about his answer, and didn't completely think that he was telling the whole truth. "Well, all right then.
I'll close my side, too, then. It would be better that way." Yami sighed, and waited for Yugi to reply.
"Oh. Ok." Yugi frowned sadly at himself for making his Yami unhappy. He could still feel a little bit of Yami's emotion, but then it all went blank, and Yugi looked up at him. Yami noticed his innocent eyes glossed over with something... Was it... deception?
"Well, I'll leave you to your... whatever you were doing." Yami left without another word, and slammed the door shut. Yugi could tell he was angry and sad, even without the link anymore. Yugi ignored the pains in his muscles, and stared at the wall.
Then the phone rang. He rushed downstairs, and picked up the phone before anyone else could.
"Hello?" Yugi answered it.
"Hey, Yug!" A voice said softly over the other end of the line.
"Oh, hey Joey! What's up?"
"Well, I was wonderin' if you'd like to come with Tristan an' me to the arcades!" Joey sounded so cheerful on the phone,
Yugi almost forgot the bad day that he was having.
"Sure, I'd love to come!" Yugi forgot all of his pain at that very moment.
"Ok, well we'll meet you there in a half an hour! Bye!" Yugi said goodbye, and waited until he heard the lick of the phone hanging up on the other line.
Yugi smiled a little bit, knowing that at least he would have one highlight for the day.
He ran to his room, and got ready to leave in a few minutes, he only had to comb his hair, and put on his blue jacket he usually wore. He contemplated keeping the millennium puzzle on, but decided to forget it for a while. He left it on his pillow, and ran out the door. Yami watched him leave, and went into Yugi's room. He sat down on the bed, and stared down at the puzzle sadly.
He was angry and sad, and ran out of Yugi's room, and went into his own room to think.
Yugi ran happily all the way to the arcades, and he plopped down into a booth. He held his head up with his hands, his elbows on the table.
"Hey, Yug! You OK?" Joey and Tristan sat down beside Yugi, who jumped slightly, surprised to see them so early.
"Yeah, I'm just perfect!" Yugi smiled from ear to ear, and they both laughed at along with him... Or was it at him? Yugi pushed away that thought, and looked at Joey and Tristan.
'So, you guys want to play games first, or eat?" Joey emphasised a lot on the last part, and Tristan and Yugi laughed, and agreed to eat first. "Good, 'Cause I can never work on an empty stomach!" Joey looked like he was in heaven with his two hot dogs and large plate of fries. Yugi just got a bottle of water, and Tristan had a slice of pizza and a small class of coke.
"Mmmmm..." Tristan licked his lips when he was done eating, and he got up to throw away his plate. When he sat back down
empty handed, he looked at Joey, who was on his last hot dog, and the plate of fries was empty. He sweat dropped. -.-' And
Yugi laughed at both of them.
"Ummm... Joey, I'm going to go play on the pinball games, ok?" Tristan got up, and Yugi followed, laughing as Joey starting to
eat even faster. If that was possible.
"Hey, guys, wait up!" Joey gulped down the last of his hot dog, and ran to the garbadge and threw out the paper plates, and his garbage. He caught up to the two others, and Yugi noticed he was smiling happily.
Yugi turned back around, only to hear a series of bangs, and a loud yelp from someone behind him. He turned to see Joey on the floor, clutching his left arm. There was a game machine lying down beside him, and a small cat was behind it. The cat must've
knocked it over somehow. Yugi burst out with laughter, while Joey lay on the ground, moaning in pain. Tristan chuckled quietly, but put on a serious face when he helped Joey up off the floor.
"Hmm, looks like your arm is broken..." He helped Joey down into another booth, and let him lean against the seat.
"Damn cat... How did that damn thing get in here, anyway!" Joey yelled out, and the cat ran away and hid behind another game machine. He glared at him, and grinned evilly when it ran away at the sound of his voice. Joey then turned and glared at Yugi was laughing so hard he was clutching his sides. The truth was that laughing made Yugi hurt in places that he must've hurt while running forty laps. Joey frowned, and felt hurt. Hurt that his best buddy was laughing at him while he was hurt. Tristan then had his turn to glare at Yugi for the same thing.
"Yugi, why laugh? Joey's seriously hurt! It's not a laughing matter!" Tristan snapped at him, and Yugi fell down to the ground, trying to regain his composure.
"Well, you have to admit, it was really funny. A cat knocked him down!" Yugi sniggered again, and sighed when he saw them both giving him the 'death' glares.
"Come on, Joey. I'll get you to the hospital. It's not far from here. Can you walk?" Joey nodded, and Tristan helped him to his feet. He was guiding him out the door, when Yugi ran to their side.
"Hey guys, can I come, too?" Yugi smiled at them.
"No, just go home, Yugi. I'm sure Joey will be alright. We'll see you on Monday." Tristan made it sound as if he was dreading the very moment that he would see Yugi again. Yugi knew he was protective of Joey, but not that protective. Yugi sighed sadly, and waved goodbye to them. Although they never saw it because they kept their backs to him the whole time.
That's when the pain came back to Yugi, and he forced himself yet again to walk home. He sure wished that Joey would be O.K.. That's when it hit him. The only person that wasn't mad at him today was his grandpa, but he was sure that fate would find a way for him to get in trouble with him as well. He went to open the door to the turtle shop and to his home, but it was locked.
He sighed, and checked his jacket pockets. He had forgotten his keys inside his other jacket! He sighed again, and sat down in front of the shop. He picked up a rock from the ground, and stared at its different angles and shape.
"Can today get any worse?" Yugi thought out loud in but a mere whisper. Just then, a car swerved right in front of him, inches away from his feet, and drove along the sidewalk. The person behind the wheel was trying to get a hold of the wheel, they must've been drunk. Yugi backed up against the outside of the Turtle Shop. Yugi felt his heart racing even faster than when he did the forty laps for gym class, and he closed his eyes. He could hear a loud crash that made him jump several feet in the air, not helping the fact that his heart was already beating ten times as fast as normal. He the heard loud sirens, and several police cars rushed by him. Yugi could see the car that had nearly hit him, the back of it was on fire, and it had crashed straight into a streetlight. Yugi gasped, and ran to the car.
There was a child strapped in the back of the car, it was a small young girl. Her head had rolled onto her chest, and she looked like she was unconscious. Yugi gasped. He pulled at the handle on the door, and pulled with all his might. He felt his muscles ache again, and he let go. He couldn't open the door, it was either jammed, or he was really, really weak. He heard shouts from all around him, and someone grabbed him, and pulled him back. He watched in horror as the police, paramedics and firemen broke the doors open, and pulled out a man from the front seat. He had a beer bottle glued in his hands. Just when they were about to go for the young girl, the car exploded with flames, and Yugi threw out his arm in front of his face, to block out the bright light that followed with the explosion. When he withdrew his arm, and opened his eyes, and he felt his eyes fill up with tears. The whole car was on fire, and there was nothing to see but shards of metal and fire burning around it. He turned around to see a paramedic holding his shoulders. He was staring in shock at the car.
Yugi wriggled out from under the paramedic's grasp, and he backed up. When the firemen had the fire out, one paramedic walked over to Yugi.
"Are you alright, kid? Are you crazy, you could've died trying to get that door open!" He said angrily at Yugi, but when he bent down and saw that there were tears sliding down the boy's face, he softened up to him. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Yugi nodded, and looked at him through blurred vision from the tears. He cried, and dropped himself to the ground. He buried his face in his hands, and shivered. He blamed himself for being so weak... He could've saved that poor child! He could have!
He felt something cold on his hands, and looked up. The paramedic had come back, and had put a small bandage on Yugi's left hand.
"You got a small burn, didn't you notice?" It was the same man who had held him back from the fire. Yugi shook his head, and looked at the ground.
"Hey, kid? Did you see anything before this car crashed?" A police officer walked up to him, and Yugi shrunk back, terrified of how tall he was. Yugi nodded slowly. "Well? What did you see?" The policeman had his pen out, and his notepad in his hand.
"It - It swerved off the r-road." He said through sobs. "It got so close I thought It had hit me! But, but then I heard a huge crash, and it was on fire. And, th- there was a g-girl in the back. I t-tried to help... I couldn't, I was too t-tired!" Yugi cried into his hands, and heard the police officer mumble something like "Damn Drunk..."
He could see people crowding around what was left of the car, and the crowd got bigger and bigger. But the police formed a barrier between them and the wrecked car. He heard shouts from behind him, and a door creak open. He didn't look up. He was so ashamed at himself, he must be doing something wrong, because everyone hated him, and people died because of him!
He cried and cried until he felt someone's hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see his grandpa down on one knee, looking at him worriedly.
"Come on, Yugi." His grandpa said in a blank voice. He led Yugi back into the house, where Yugi ran into his room, locked the door, and cried himself to sleep. Why did everything have to happen to him? A single tear slid down his cheeks as he relived the entire day in a nightmare. But at least he had forgotten the pain from his aching muscles and his burnt hand. Nothing was going to be alright after all.
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Hmmmmm.... Maybe I will add one more chapter to this story... It would be too depressing for me if I only had a one chapter story! So expect one more chapter!