ZeldaJewel: My first real JoeyxMai story ,ok just to tell you guys, this fiction was create or inspired by the song My Way by Arron Pritchett let's just get to the story shall we?

My Way

I wanted to show her my way, I wanted him from the beginning, I was the only one that stood in their way,

Mai groaned as she sat up in bed, the room was dark since that navy blue drapes covered the windows blocking out the warm light of the sun and only leaving a cold room (A/N: Notice simile) She woke up once again in an empty be, her 'boyfriend' was probably working himself to death again.

Lazily Mai got up pushing the drapes aside bring the warmth in before retreating to the side bathroom on her left, I wouldn't call it a bathroom, it was more like a mini house. Royal blue towels mingled with white ones that hung to the side as she started up the shower. Knowing that she would have to face herself she looked up into the mirror.

A bruise had formed under her eye from were her 'lovable boyfriend' hit her. Small cuts were shown on her arms that matched the color of the circles around her puffy eyes.

With a deep sigh she stripped down and entered the shower. Mai never had this trouble before, in fact it only started recently. She stole a glance at her engagement ring, blue Safire's circled around tiny diamonds it was indeed beautiful, but it doesn't mean a thing if love is not attached.

She couldn't get out of it, she was trapped and no one was willing to help her. She was alone once again in her pain and depression, wondering the shadows with no hope of light. The stress was to much to handle as she fell to the floor of the tub, tears fell freely but were whipped away by the harsh pounding of the shower.

She was alone.

After pulling herself together, she got out of the shower quickly drying and getting into some new clothes, she decided she needed to think on a few things.

Carefully not the run into anyone she left to go for a walk in the park, if she was going to marry into this, was she that willing to give up everything? But something told her in her heart that she was marrying the wrong guy. Her parents were thrilled with the idea of her marrying someone as equally rich as her or more. Than again, if he wasn't the right guy, who was?

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"JOEY"

"Come on get up, you said we were meeting the gang today" Serenity yelled into Joey's ears

"Go away" he mumbled before turning over, Serenity let out a breath of exasperation

"Joey you said we were to meet Yugi and the guys at 11:00am and right now it's 10:45am, you have to get up" Serenity tried to reason with her lazy brother.

"I don't want to" he grumbled flipping the pillow over his head. Serenity glared at her brother, sometimes he can be so stubborn, then suddenly an evil idea came to her.

"Fine then I'm guessing you don't want the warm breakfast I made for you" She was sure that would get her brother up out of bed.

"Nope" he replied

Alright something's wrong with him,

"Joey what's wrong, you've been acting like this for how many months now?"

After receiving no reply, Serenity sighed and stood up.

"I'm worried about you big brother, I hate to see you like this" she paused to see if she would get a reaction out of Joey, but no such luck.

"I'll call Yugi and say were not coming again" Serenity turn to leave, but before she could Joey called back to her.

"Don't do dat, I'll go, just give me a minute" Joey grumbled from under the pillow. Serenity gave a weak smile before leaving she couldn't help but worry about him. He's been acting like this ever since Mai started to date Seto Kaiba which isn't exactly Joey's best friend.

Serenity knew all to well that Joey had a crush on her, but what really made her brothers heart break was the fact that Mai was engaged to marry him. Ever since than Joey had never been the same.

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"Hey Serenity, where's Joey?" Yugi greeted, searching for his best friend, he was glad to hear that Joey agreed to come.

"He's coming he's just taking his time, you know Joey" Serenity smiled, the gang had decided to take an outing today since it was a beautiful summer day, they planned to hang out and play some football.

Joey came shortly after Serenity, his hands were in his pocket's thinking, he's eyes stared emotionless to the ground.

"Hey Joey come sit over here" Yugi yelled towards him, Joey slowly lifted his eyes to meet his best friend, he told himself he would try to relax and have some fun.

"Hey Yug" he waved and planted himself between Tristan and Ryou.

"Hey man we haven't seen you in a long time" Tristan nudged Joey's arm

"Yeah I've been busy lately" Joey lied

"What have you've been doing?" Ryou asked gentle

"Thinking" Joey said somewhat to harshly, startling Ryou who slid over away from Joey a bit.

A dead silence washed over the gang, they stared at Joey for a while until Joey meet their gaze with a glare making them quickly look down. Yugi felt the need to get Joey in a better mood, he knew about him and Mai and the only way was to talk to him.

A few minutes later everyone was doing different activities, Tea and Serenity were talking about school tuition and Tea's new dance classes.

Tristan was arm wrestling Duke, both were turning red from the strain, both wanting to win apparently the winner got to ask Serenity out for a date.

Ryou had relaxed on their picnic blanket reading a novel called 'Two of the same Mind' it must be interesting because his nose was literally in the book.

Then there was Joey who laid against the big oak tree, his eyes looked to the blue sky, not a cloud in sight but yet he couldn't relax. He didn't even notice Yugi come a sit beside him.

"You can't be miserable for the rest of your life you know, you had the chance but you never took it" Yugi started off, he came on harsh but it was for Joey's own good.

"Yeah I know, but it's so hard, I still love her and it's hard to let go, especially when she's in the arms of my worst enemy" Joey gritted his teeth

"Kaiba is many peoples enemies Joey, but maybe Mai's the one to soften him up"

"No Yugi, she's not, I've seen her a few times since, just glances, she never smiles anymore doesn't have that proud glow to her, Kaiba's bring her into his evil world" Joey tightened his fists

"If that is true than maybe there's a chance she will come back to you" Yugi smiled

"I doubt it, she's different, I was too much of a jerk"

"But if love is true between you than what will happen will happen" Yugi's words did make Joey feel somewhat better, Joey could only pray that those words were true.

"Thanks Yug" Joey smiled for the first time that day

"No problem, now let's go play some football" Yugi jumped up and headed towards the gang along with Joey.

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Mai walked along the path of the park, thinking about her relationship with Kaiba, she didn't know what possessed her to go for him, maybe because she thought he was the one, or maybe it was the cover up that lonely feeling she had, one way or another she went for him.

At the beginning Kaiba was somewhat sweet, a simple kiss now and then, now it's nothing, glares and demands from him, they never talked never did things.

She hadn't seen her friends since she started dating, in a way Kaiba denied her that privilege, and she longed to see them, and for some reason she wanted to see Joey the most, something about him always made her feel better.

She found a comfortable spot to sit on the green grass behind some bushes so she would be recognized. The image of Kaiba's harsh words to her and his abusive ways flashed in her mind as tears came forth once again.

Soon her silent sobs turned into wails of help, she just sat there and cried, in the background she heard a faint yell of...

"I'll get it"

Before a mop of blonde fell from behind the bushes right in front of her, he clung to the football tightly as he got to his flipped around on his knees. That's when Brown eyes meet Purple.

Mai stared at Joey for a long time, tears still fell from her eyes as she tried to whip them away before Joey saw but it was too late.

"Mai?"

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