(Hello dear readers. How are all of you doing this fine day. This update was quick but I did kind of write chapter 1 and 2 together. The other update will probably not be this quick. Please read and enjoy.
Disclaimer: Do not own Yugioh GX or any characters from the Yugioh franchise.)
Chapter 2
Johan's eyes widened as his new roommate stepped into the room and shut the door behind him. The boy standing at the door was very tall and quite tan. He must have been at least six inches (15cm) taller than Johan. His hair was a deep red-purple that was long in the front and short in the back. His bangs were all swept the left side of his faces, almost covering the upper half of his left eye. His eyes were a light yellow-brown almost golden color. He had a very confident smirk plastered across his face. He was wearing a purple t-shirt with an aqua jacket over it. He had dark blue skinny jeans on that showed off his ass well and on his feet were boots.
The boy noticed Johan right away, his smirk growing even wider. He started making his way over to Johan with a heavy swagger in his step as Johan hopped off of his bed. "Why, hello there cutie," his roommate said stopping in front of Johan and giving him a small wink.
Johan's cheeks went a light pink and he furrowed his eyebrows, grimacing a bit. 'What!? Cutie!? Does he think I am a girl!?' Johan thought to himself, not quite sure how to react to his roommates come on. Johan went to open his mouth to say something but was cut off again by his roommate.
"I was told my roommate was going to be some burly man from Europe, not a cute little doll like yourself," he snapping his fingers and pointing at Johan winking yet again.
Johan was speechless for a second. He had been told before that he had a pretty face but no one had ever compared him to a doll. He sat there with his mouth open for a second trying to find his voice. Once he did find his voice, all that came out was. "Ummmm, I'm not a girl."
At this his roommate burst out laughing, bending over holding his stomach with one hand and slapping his knee with his other hand. Tears were forming at the corner of his eyes from laughing so hard. Johan jumped back a little, surprised at his roommate's actions. 'Is he making fun of me… ?' Johan thought with a slightly offended look on his face.
His roommate then straightened up wiping the corner of his closed eyes. "Hehehe, oh too cute," he said in a breathless tone. "I can see very well that you are a boy," he said opening his eyes and looking Johan over a bit.
Johan didn't know whether to be offended or flattered. Was his new roommate attracted to him or is this how he always greets new people.
His roommate suddenly cleared his throat. "The name is Brendon Suave. My mom calls me Sweet Pea, my fans call me The Swag King, but you can call me Bret," He said shoving his hand towards Johan to shake.
Johan looked at Bret's hand for a second regaining his composure. After collecting himself he took his roommates hand firmly. He looked his roommate in the eyes and smiled brightly. "My name is Johan! Johan Anderson… My mom calls me Johan and… My friends call me Johan and… Umm… You can call me Johan too," he said this all mocking his roommate playfully.
Bret then pulled his hand back and grinned at Johan showing a bit of his purely white teeth. "Cute, nice sense of humor, and baby soft hands," he said winking yet again. Johan gave a small awkward laugh not sure how he should react to this statement. "So where do you hail from Doll Face?" he asked lifting one eyebrow and smiling at Johan.
'Doll Face?' Johan thought but shrugged it off. "I am from Norway. My father is Norwegian but my mother is originally from England. I have spent the majority of my life in Norway," Johan said deciding to ignore the pet name his roommate gave him. "And where is your home town?" Johan asked wanting to learn more about this Bret.
Bret was now sitting on his bed. He balled his hand into a fist and pointed to himself with his thumb. "I'm from San Francisco. My father is from San Francisco but my mother is originally from Oregon. I have spent the majority of my life in San Francisco," he answered sticking his tongue out playfully.
Johan couldn't help but laugh at his roommates playful antics. Despite the fact that Bret seemed to be a very forward and flirty guy, Johan felt that he could get along with him. The two sat on their beds talking to each other for a while longer getting to know each other more.
"So according to the papers I received it said that you were also on the water polo team with me," Johan said now lying on his bed with his hands under his chin to support his head.
"Yep! That's right. So I guess this makes us teammates and roommates," Bret answered as he hung his legs over the side of his bed and laid back. "I have been playing since middle school. So about seven years. How about you Doll Face?" he asked Johan.
"Oh, I stared in high school. So about four years. But I took some time off when I went to study in Japan, so maybe just three and a half years," he said as he looked thoughtfully up at the ceiling.
"Wow, you studies in Japan, Doll Face? That's awesome! Can you speak Japanese?" Bret asked.
"Oh, yeah a little," Johan said trying not to brag too much.
Bret then sat up and looked over at Johan's desk spotting his new duel disk. "Wow, dude, is that a duel disk? Do you play duel monsters?" Bret asked getting up and making his way over to the said disk.
"Oh yeah, a little…" Johan paused for a second then added "maybe more than a little." He sat up on his bed and faced his desk, where Bret was now standing. "You see, the high school I went to was a duel academy. I also went to a duel academy in Japan," Johan explained.
"Whoa, that's totally swag man! I just went to a boring old high school," he said eyeing the duel disk. "Can I touch it?" he asked looking over at Johan.
"Yeah sure, go ahead," Johan said. He was very happy to see his roommate react so positively to duel monsters. Maybe this meant he played the game as well.
Bret picked up the disk looking it over and admiring the technology. "So, are you a part of the duel program at this school?" Bret asked looking up at Johan.
"Well, no, not exactly," Johan said looking down and scratching the back for his head. "It's sort of complicated," he added.
Bret shrugged and set the duel disk back down on the desk. "It's cool man," he said knowing when to drop a subject. Despite the fact that he could be quite the flirt, he knew when a subject should not be touched.
Johan looked back up at Bret and smiled. "So… Um… do you play duel monsters?" he asked hopefully.
Bret made his way over to his desk chair and sat down. "Well, I did for a while. Ya know, just for fun," he said with a sigh as he leaned back in his chair. "I have not played much recently. I left my deck and stuff at home," he said looking over at Johan.
"Oh…" Johan said feeling a bit disappointed. He was hopping he had found someone to duel.
Bret stared at Johan for a second, not liking the frown on his roommates face. "But, ya know what Doll Face, my house is not that far from here. Only two hours away at most. The next time I go home I will pick up my deck and my old duel disk, and then maybe we can duel or something," Bret said looking over at Johan hopping to lift the boy's spirits. Bret was an upbeat guy and didn't like it when others were down.
"Really!?" Johan said sounding a little bit too excited.
Bret smiled and nodded. "But don't expect too much from me Doll Face. I didn't attend any academy dedicated to the game," he said glad to see his roommate's spirits lift.
Just then, both of the boy's stomachs growled loudly. They both looked at each other exchanging friendly smiles. "So, uh, what are we waiting for? Let's get some grub!?" Johan suggested patting his stomach.
"Sounds good to me," Bret said standing up from his chair. Johan plucked his wallet from his bag and shoved it into his back pocket. He then stepped outside and waited for Bret to follow, who had quickly gone to the bathroom.
While waiting in the hallways Johan noticed a strange sign on the door across from their room. The sigh was on brown paper in big sloppy black letter. It read 'Welcome to the Lair of Miguel Bubbles'. 'Miguel Bubbles? What a strange name' Johan thought as he looked at the sign. He then tried to peak at the crack at the bottom of the door to see if anyone was home. There didn't seem to be a light on so their neighbor must be out.
"Let's get rolling Doll Face," Bret said popping out of there room surprising Johan a bit.
"Oh! Yeah, let's go!" Johan said straightening up a bit. He would worry about this Miguel Bubbles later.
The dining area of the school was located right in the center of the campus. Bret and Johan's dorm was located at the very south end of the campus, west of the gym and sports and health center. Across from their dorm was another dorm. If you headed north for about five minutes and went across the street you would find the science and math building. Head a little more north and you would find the quad. To the left of the quad was the dinning cafeteria and to the right of the quad was the student center and a 'to go' fast food restaurant. North of that was the school office. Across the street from the office were the library, English building and a small art building. North of those buildings, were two dorms and a foreign language building. Across the street from the dorms you would find the area dedicated to dueling. There was a small dorm to the right and a two story building to the left. There was also another area under construction. To get to the south end of campus, where Johan's dorm was, to the north end, where the duel area was, took about 20 to 30 minutes walking.
Making their way to the dining area they did not come across too many other students. It was Monday and there was still technically two weeks before school started. The reason Johan and Bret were their so early was simply due to the face that the water polo team wanted to get a head start on practice. The water polo team at their school was quite competitive and renowned for grueling practices.
Along the way Bret would take any chance he got to wink at the few girls that passed by them and even a few boys. Johan was getting the idea that Bret really was a flirt. He reminded Johan a lot of Fubuki but there was something about Bret that was different. Maybe it was because Fabuki never made a move on him.
Once they got to the quad they found that the cafeteria was not opened. The sign outside said it would open again in three days' time but luckily for them the 'to go' restaurant was open. They walked into the 'to go' building. There were a few tables situated to their left and the ordering counter straight ahead. Johan stepped forward and ordered a grilled chicken burger with fries and a cola. He took his food and headed over to a table while Bret ordered his own food.
While at the table Johan noticed Bret flirting with the girl behind the counter. She didn't seem too interested. Johan could not help but laugh at his new friend's pathetic rejection. 'Does he flirt with everyone?' Johan thought to himself, a little amused.
Bret finally came over and sat down across from Johan. "I almost got her number but I guess she is playing hard to get," Bret said referring the girl at the counter. The two ate there dinner peacefully together chatting about various thing. Evert once in a while Bret would flirt with a random passerbyer and seceded in collecting the number of three girls that all seemed to be older then the two boys. Bret seemed to feel very accomplished. Johan wondered if Bret could give him tips on how to attract Judai's attention but whipped the thought from his mind blushing furiously.
After dinner they checked the time and saw that it was only 7pm. They then decided to go to the school office to pick up their student IDs. They both exited the restaurant together laughing about various things. Johan had found that Bret was pretty easy to get along with despite all the flirting. Once in the office building they located the area to pick up their ID cards. Once they found the area, they got into line to get their picture taken for said card, there was a girl ahead of them in line.
When it was their turn, Bret went first. Before walking forward he bent backwards a bit and whispered "let's swag up these photos," into Johan's ear giving him a sly wink. Johan gave him a confused look not quite understanding. The lady behind the camera had Bret sit on a chair with a white sheet behind him. Right as the picture was taken he changed his pose so that his hands were shaped as guns and pointed at the camera. He had a large sly grin spread across his face. He stood up from his seat looking quite satisfied with himself. The lady behind the camera was not so pleased but told him to go stand by the counter and wait for the card to print.
Johan then stepped forward to get his picture taken trying not to laugh, understanding what Bret meant by 'swag up the photos'. Johan looked over at Bret and Bret winked at him as if to say 'make it a good one'. The lady then instructed Johan to sit still. Right as the photo was taken Johan shut one eye so that he was winking and gave a thumb up. He had a large open mouth smile plastered on his face. He stood up trying hard not to giggle as he made his way over to where the cards would be printed.
"Nice one man," Bret said giving him a high-five.
After receiving their new ID cards they made their way back to their dorm. "Damn, look at that face. How can anyone not want to tap that," Brat said admiring his own ID card.
Johan laughed at his roommate not quite sure if he was joking or being serious. He then took his card out of his pocket and looked it over. He could not help but chuckle a bit at the goofy expression that was spread across his face in the photo. He then looked over at his roommate smiling, glad that he was able to get a roommate that he could goof around with. He had not had this much fun since he last saw Judai. At the thought of Judai, Johan's heart began to beat faster and his cheeks grew warm. He really did miss his friend. He wondered where Judai was now. Was he still in Japan or traveling the world? Would Judai come to visit him while he was at school?
'I wonder if I should confess to him the next time we meet,' Johan thought feeling butterflies swell up in his stomach.
Bret noticed the silly grin and the spaced out look on Johan's face. "Hey… Uh… You okay there buddy?" He said snapping Johan out of his thoughts about Judai. "Looks like you were thinking about something nice. A girl maybe…?" Bret said swinging his arm around Johan's shoulder.
"What!? N-No! I was… uh… just…" Johan said blushing furiously and trying to think of an excuse as he tried to escape his roommates grip.
"Oh come on Doll Face, you can tell me," Bret said pressing his face up against Johan's.
"No really! It's nothing. I was just thinking about… Going to see the dueling building tomorrow," Johan lied, saying the last part quickly hopping Bret would take it.
"Hehehe, yeah sure, whatever you say man," Bret said releasing Johan from his grip. They spent the rest of their walk talking more about their home towns and what not.
Once at their dorm, they rode the elevator up to the fourth floor. Arriving at their floor they stepped out of the elevator and started to make their way to their room only to be blocked by a girl. She was in the middle of the hallway bent over something, completely blocking the path. She didn't seem to notice their presence.
Johan cleared his thought and asked "Excuse me, are you okay?"
At this the girl jumped a bit making a small squawking noise. She stood up and faced the two boys. She had wavy light brown hair that reached just below he shoulders and bright green eyes. She was wearing a short frilly skirt and a cute top with cats on it. She had on lacy boots with light pink knee socks. "Oh! Excuse me! Am I blocking your path?" she said this all with an apologetic grin on her face.
Johan leaned over a bit to see what she had been bending over. It looked like a brown box that was tapped up. He looked from the box to the girl and then back to the box.
"Oh yeah," the girl said glancing at the box. "Hehe, I was moving in and, like, this box just got too heavy for me to carry so, like, I-" the girl was then cut off by non-other than Bret.
"It's okay sweet cheeks! My buddy here and I will help you out," he said giving the girl a flirty wink.
The girl giggled at Bret's come on and said, "Really dude!? Thanks!"
"Yeah, what are neighbors for," Johan said smiling at the friendly girl. "Point us into the direction of your room."
"Oh, it's, like, that way," she said pointing in the direction Johan and Bret's room was located.
Johan bent down to pick up the box but was barely able to lift if from the floor. Bret came over to give him a hand. "Damn! What you got in this woman!" Bret said as both he and Johan lifted the box off the gourd.
"Oh, ya know… girl stuff," she answered with a big grin across her face. "Here I will go unlock my room," she said racing down the hall to her room.
Johan and Bret slowly followed after the girl, both struggling to keep hold of said box. Johan wondered how this girl got the box all the way here on her own. Once they got to her room they waddle in and dropped the box by the door. Johan looked around the room in amazement. Half of the room was full of unpacked boxes. 'How could one person own so many boxes?' Johan thought to himself. Then he thought 'I wonder if she plays duel monsters?'
"Hey! Thanks, dudes, for helping me," she said putting her hands behind her back and tilting her head a bit. "Oh! My name is Elizabeth by the way… But you can call me Liz, if you want," she said putting her hand out to shake their hands.
"My name is Johan," Johan said taking her hand and shaking it. "It's nice to meet you Liz."
"And my name is Brendon, Brendon Suave. My mom called me Sweet Pea, My fan's call me The Swag King, but you can call me Bret if you wanna, Sweet Cheeks," he said taking the girl's hand and winking at her. He then pulled his hand back and said "Oh, cute and soft hands!"
The girl giggled once again at Bret's come on. "Well its nice meeting you guy. Like, where is your room?" She asked the two.
"We're room 408," Johan answered pointing in the direction of his room
"Oh! Awesome! This is room 404 so we are, like, neighbors. Let's hang out sometimes," she said with a small giggle. "Anyways I better start unpacking so I can, like, sleep in my bed tonight," She said looking over at her bed that was covered in stuff.
Johan mentally sweat dropped a little, glad that he did not have that much stuff to unpack. The two boys then bid there new friend Liz goodbye as they made their way to their room. Johan checked his phone's clock feeling a wave of exhaustion sweep over him. It read 9:30pm but to him it felt like midnight. He badly wanted to take a shower but could barely keep his eyes open. "Hey man, I think I am going to hit the hay," Johan said as he dragged himself over to his side of the room to change into his PJs.
"Okay, Doll Face! I will try to not be too loud," Bret said as he sat down at his desk and turned on his computer.
Johan climbed into his bed. He was using his jacket as a pillow. It was not the most comfortable sleeping situation but it was better than nothing. The room was mostly dark now except for the light coming for Bret's computer screen. Johan let out a deep sigh as he looked out the window that was next to him, his mind drifting and going over what had happened to him today.
It was nice to find that his roommate was someone he could get along with. It was a bonus that his roommate could also duel, though Johan had a feeling that Bret was probably not a good duelist, but it was still better than nothing. He also wondered if Liz was into dueling too. He mentally went over his plans for tomorrow. He probably would not receive his boxes for another day or two so he didn't have to worry about unpacking. There first polo practice started tomorrow in the late morning and would last for three hours. He decided that tomorrow, after his practice, he would try to make it over to the dueling area, though he had a feeling no one would be there, being that the school still had two weeks before it officially opened.
Johan rolled over onto his side so that he was fully facing the window. He looked up at the moon, his green eyes shimmering longingly in its glow, and his thoughts drifted once again to certain brown haired duelist. 'I wonder if he can see the moon too… where ever he is,' Johan thought to himself, a little more love sick then he was willing to admit. He then closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep, his exhausted mind full of thought of his secret crush.
Judai stared up at the moon from the window he was looking out of, not thinking about anything in particular. He has also come early to school but had not realized that his school did not officially start for another two weeks. Being an exchange student, he was allowed to move in two weeks early to allow time to acquaint himself with his surroundings. He had yet to actually make it to his university though.
At the moment, he was in the dorm room of one of his best friends, Asuka. It turns out her university was only a two hour drive from his own. It also turned out that Asuka's dear older brother, Fubuki, had been accepted into the same university as Judai. He said he wanted to be close to his baby sister in case she needed him. Asuka had rolled her eyes at this assuring her brother that she was fine on her own but he would have none of it.
Judai had been happy to find that two of his close high school friend would be nearby. It's not that he was worried about being lonely; it's just nice to have a familiar face at times, though Judai never really had to worry about being lonely with Yubel around.
"So, Judai and I shall spend a week here in San Francisco helping you settle in, then we shall head to our university via bus," Fubuki said to the two as he looked through the calendar on his phone.
Judai made a noise signifying that he heard and understood and Asuka looked up at her brother and nodded. "I will allow you two to stay till Friday," she said a bit sternly, wanting her brother to understand that she needed her space.
Fubuki frowned a bit hopping to stay till next Monday but decided not to protest. He then turned to Judai smiling widely. "Judai, I was quite surprised to find that we were going to the same university, I never…" Fubuki started to say.
"Expected that I would be going to university," Judai said finishing his friend's sentence with a sigh. "Yeah, me too!" then added bluntly. Though Judai had been very gung-ho about this at first, he was now having second thoughts. 'Why had he decided to go back to school again? He never really liked studying ways. Wasn't university supposed to be like high school but harder?' He thought all this as he looked out the window pouting a bit.
Asuka glanced over at Judai giving him a concerned look. "I thought you were excited about starting your new life," she said raising an eyebrow at the boy.
"Yeah I WAS excited until I stupidly accepted returning back to the boring school life I once had," Judai replied a little dramatically.
"Oh, come on Judai!" Asuka said rolling her eyes. "University life is nothing like high school life and at university you get to choose many of the courses you take, so you will be learning about things you want to learn," Asuka said trying to talk some reason into the pouting boy.
Asuka did have a point. There were many classes under the dueling department that caught Judai's eye, one of them being on how to program and create your own duel disk. Judai felt that that was a skill he needed. On the other hand there were still so many classes that seemed so tedious and boring. Some of the classes he was not looking forward to were the math classes he had to take. 'Why do I need to take more math! I know how to add and subtract. What more does a duelist need to learn how to do,' he thought to himself stubbornly.
"Tisk Tisk Judai, it is not good to judge a book by its cover. Let's get to the university and meet some other duelists before we decide if our choices were good or bad," Fubuki said all of this in a sing song voice hoping to lighten the moon.
Judai could not help but smile at his expressive friend. "Yeah, I guess you're right. For all I know it could turn out being the best years of my life," he said with a now content sigh. He looked out the window at the moon yet again. 'I wonder what I will find and who I will meet at this school,' he thought as his brown eyes shined from the moon's glow.
(So this was chapter 2! Did you enjoy it? I hope so. I hope the characters I made in this did not scare you but made you laugh. For the majority of this story it will be Johan centric with a little focus on Judai here and there to keep the story rolling smoothly. The next chapter should be out in about a week. I am about half way done with it now so it should not take too long to post it. After the next chapter the story should pick up and get juicy, if ya know what I mean. Well I hope you all enjoyed reading chapter two. Please review if you have time.
I want to thank Judaisbutt again for being my beta!)
