I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or its characters. I only own the plot. Based on a true story. Many references to Skillet, Nickelback, Pink, Kelly Clarkson and LittleKuriboh lyrics and quotes. I own none of them.

It had all started out as a semi-fine day. I came home from school, checked on my father and then went into my room only to hear my mother and sister come barging in through the front door, pissed as usual. I opened my eyes and took out one of my earbuds when I thought I heard my name being called, yes I could actually hear someone calling me with that loud music blaring into my eardrum.

"What?" I yelled, expecting to hear someone yell back, and was surprised when I heard no one answer my question. I rolled my eyes and reluctantly got up from my bulging yet comfort filled bed and made my way into the living room to find no one there as well. 'They must be in fathers room.' I slowly walked to his room and peeked my head around the corner and what did I find? Lo and behold, my mother and sister at my fathers bedside, cuddling him as if he was a three year old. He was 79 for crying out loud! I shook my head to come out of my thoughts and did so at the right moment. I came face to face with my mothers hard glare and I glared right back.

"What?" I heard my own voice and it sounded deadly, as if I was ready to strike if need be. That was when I felt a slap to my cheek and my head instinctively turned after impact, the place where the hand connected with my skin already turning red. I felt the tears prick at my eyes but I forced them to stay into my tear duct. I will not cry! I will not show that kind of weakness!

"You need to be nicer to your father!" My mother was yelling at me and it was the same old shit I had heard before. Be nicer to your father, let things slide off your back, lose that attitude of yours, you think you have stress?, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I rolled my eyes once more and walked off, leaving a fuming mother and a sarcastic sister behind. "Don't you dare walk away from me!" I heard her yell and I yelled back, my own voice taken me by surprise. "I'm leaving your ass! I'll be back later!" I went back into my room, grabbed my mp3 player and exited my room. I was fuming and I was pissed beyond recognition. I opened the front door and slammed it behind me. I ran down the steps muttering, "Bitch," the entire time, silently cursing any God that I knew of and asking them what I had done to deserve this. I know that's not what you were supposed to do but I knew that any God would listen to one of their children and I felt a special connection to the spiritual world, as if a God was standing beside me at that moment and telling me to take a big deep breath and relax my now frayed nerves.

I am sure you all don't want to hear what all happens between now, February, and then August. It's pretty much the same old thing that happened. I get yelled at, told I'm lazy and that I will never amount to anything and then I leave pissed, hurt and confused and then I come right back and the process repeats. So let us go to August 9. That is the day that my whole world was turned upside down once more. The only difference? This hurt way worse that what my mother and father could ever say.

It was four days before I was to turn 20 and I could not be any happier. Mother had said it was okay that I had a birthday party filled with food, drinks, video games and fun and I was telling all of my friends that I could not wait! It was then that I got that call that I would later learn to hate with a passion. I was sitting atop my bed, my laptop sitting in my lap and my music blaring. I was singing at the top of my lungs and I was in a pretty good mood. It was then that my phone had rang and I answered it. I listened to the person on the other end and my smile slowly faded to a frown. It was Honda. He had heard Otogi say that he didn't want me hanging around anymore because I had told him that I didn't like his girlfriend, which is yes Anzu. Terrifying I know. I don't know why he was upset with me when he didn't even "love" her. I mean I'm sure he was only staying with her for the sex I'm sure they had. He even lies to her! Come on! Is that love? Nope! Not at all. I had rolled my eyes and told Honda that I was still going to hang around them. That was when Honda had told me, well he hadn't actually told me I had picked up on the hint. I'm good at that kind of thing.

Anyway, Honda had basically told me that he was going to "side" with Anzu and Otogi, saying that they didn't like my attitude. I felt hot tears stinging the corners of my eyes and I hung up on the man. I covered my face with my hands and tried not to let it all lose. I got a couple of more calls and they were from all my other friends.

The first one was from Ishizu. "I am terribly sorry Ryou but I cannot handle that attitude of yours therefore I am not going to hang about. Goodbye."

The second one was from Rishid. "Learn how to control that attitude and temper of yours and maybe I will consider hanging out once more."

The third one was from Rebecca. "Idiot! You're stupid and a waste of air! You're better off without friends!" That one had stung a little bit but I continued to stay strong.

The last one, and it probably hurt the worst, was from Shizuka. It hurt because it was Jonouchi's sister. I thought that she of all people would understand where I was coming from on this. I guess not. I blinked back the tears that threatened to fall and laid atop my bed. I sat there like that for a little while until I got more calls from Yuugi, Jonouchi, Malik and Marik. All had said the same thing. I couldn't help the tears that fell. I threw my phone across my room, grabbed my Change of Heart pillow, buried my face into it and sobbed. Letting all the bitterness and helplessness escape and soak my pillow.

Everyone had betrayed me! How could they?! How?! It wasn't fair! They didn't have a mother who would berate them constantly! They didn't have a father that always put you down because you weren't up to his standards! They didn't have a sister who pretended that everything was okay and told you that you wouldn't amount to anything and that you were a slut and whore! Everyone betrayed me.

At least I thought that everyone had.

Thank you for reading my story. Please let me know what you think if you have any thoughts or ideas. Kura-Kun.