*Hint at lemon. Sorry there will be one next chapter depending on how you all feel about it depends if I'll write a real one or not. As always comment*
Hangings behind the church
Chapter 2: Thursday Night's
"Mana.." That voice. The deep way it sounded in the back of his throat on Thursday night's.
"Yes Mako?"
"Are we still on for tonight?"
Such a funny way to ask. She knew what he wanted and she knew she wanted it too. But she also knew what she should do. She should say no. She should look him in the eye and tell him no because she was a client. But no was the last thing on her mind.
"Of course."
His smile widened.
"Okay. Same place as normal."
His house.
"Yes." Mana called before she walked out the door to Mahad at the vending machine.
"Come on. Its Thursday. You spend the night with Yugi and Gramps."
"And Yami?"
"Yes if he's there." Mana said pushing the wheel chair to the elevator and pressing the button before sliding in.
"Is Yami family?"
"Of course he is."
"But he's not."
Mana pushed Mahad out of the elevator and down the long walk to the car.
"Family is not a blood line or last name. It's who stands up for you and makes you laugh and helps you when you need it."
"What about Mommy and Daddy? Where are they?"
"Mommy's sick and Daddy's gone. That's why we stay with Grandpa."
Mommy's dead and Daddy's in prison.
"Oh. Okay. Well I want Yami to be family and Gramps but not Daddy. Because he's gone. But Mommy's okay, because she's sick."
Mana felt her heart break. Her throat got tight.
"Then that's our family."
"Okay. I'm gonna tell them."
Mana nodded as she buckled her brother up and got in her side of the car starting it up.
"You do that."
Mana drove in silence letting her brothers words fill her ears over and over again. It made her happy to see his acceptance of the weird things her family did.
His kindness was overwhelming. How kind he was even with all of their pain. How deeply he thought things through.
He the young man of twelve was so kind and opened his arms to the things he wanted to try or agreed with. As kind as Mako.
Mako the word...the name broke her heart.
"What about Mako?"
"What about him?"
"Is he family?"
"No."
"Because he's a doctor and he has to do this?"
"Yes."
"So if we had meet him some other way he wouldn't be so kind?"
"Right."
"Then why do you send every Thursday night with him?"
Why... To sleep with and hope I can have a normal girls dreams for an evening.
"To make sure payments are going right and your healthy and have medicine and just to help him with the girl he likes." Lie after lie after lie.
"That's nice of you Sissy." His head turned to the window and he smiled.
"Yami! Are you gonna teach me to play baseball today?"
Yami smirked. "The sports king will teach you all of the sports he knows."
Yugi laughed. "But you still can't cook. Burnt himself making toast."
Mahad's laughter filled the car and fell out onto the Muto lawn as Yami helped him out.
Mahad was safe here and happy. But why did she feel like it was wrong?
"Mahad, I love you Tigger beheave for Gramps and keep them in line. Okay?" She had pointed at Yugi and Yami knowing they where all a handful after monster movies and candy.
"Okay Sissy."
Okay Sissy. No I love you too. Maybe he was hitting that age.
As if he read her mind he tossed her a kissed and called out his love as she backed up and made the drive to Mako's house.
Mana smiled as he opened the door. But his face told her to stop. It was the last Thursday of the month.
He'd be gone next weekend.
To some unknown island. For a weekend Mahad would work with the a nurse. Nurse Hawkins. The blonde.
"We need to talk." With those words the smile fell.