Now for chapter 4! It seems I've been busy all day and have barely worked on typing up this story. I nor Jennie own Yu-Gi-Oh!, but thankfully Kazuki Takehashi created such a wonderful masterpiece.
Chapter 4
"No, Jennie," Tiffany interrupted, "I need to know. I have a life there too, you know." But Jennie wouldn't say a thing about it. She just walked over to the bed she normally occupied and stared at her hands. The blonde grew angry suddenly, but bit her lip to hold it back. It subsided in the silence though and soon she looked over to Jennie. "You'll have to tell me eventually." She said.
"I know." Jennie quietly said. Tiffany looked out the window solemnly at the setting sun.
"So hard to believe it has only been a day, huh?" Tiffany asked and Jennie shrugged. "Well I'm bored." And Tiffany drew her legs criss-cross and turned towards her friend.
"Me too." Jennie yawned.
"No, Jen-Jen. There's a difference between bored and tired and YOU are definently tired. Go," she smiled, "Go brush your teeth and whatever else you have to. Then go to bed, okay?"
"Okay."
"I'll be out a bit, but don't worry about me, okay?" But Jennie had stopped listening by this time and was already asleep under her covers. Tiffany smiled at her. Hopefully nothing bad would happen in these two weeks, because what could they possibly do? Tiffany was beginning to realize how fragile the two girls really were. She wasn't even sure if Lynn and Sarah were immune either and it made her depressed. A couple of tears slid down her cheeks, but she quickly wiped them away with the back of her right. Lynn was growing impatient, so she needed to get going, but she wasn't going to appear weak before him. Him… he had a look in his eyes as psychotic as Lynn's before she became a part of her.
Tiffany quietly rose and changed into Lynn, then silently walked out the door. She could feel Tiffany go to sleep and for the first time since they arrived she was alone. Turning back around she saw Jennie's sleeping form , then she closed the door behind her. A few minutes after she left Jennie tiredly opened her eyes and hoisted herself up against the window next to her usual bed.
"Sarah?" Jennie's tired voice whispered as she laid her head on her arm, which was on the open window's sill.
'…'
"She's going to meet him, isn't she?" the girl asked as she saw Lynn exit the school and meet with a white-haired boy under a tree.
'Yes… she is.'
Jennie watched Lynn walk towards the tree and disappear under it's leaves. After a few minutes, she averted her sleepy gaze towards the black sky.
'Why?'
Jennie just shook her head, knowing what the Yami was asking. "She would freak out. Can't have her break right now. She's being strong." the girl said as she turned away from the window to lie back down.
'That is the reason you did not tell her?'
"You don't understand huh? It's a human emotion called despair. She's constantly worried about her family. If she knew that time had stopped, she would shatter." Jennie explained as she closed her eyes.
'I don't understand.'
"I'll explain it one day… but for now I'm tired." Jennie struggled as she tried to stay awake. However the girl fell into a deep sleep leaving the psychic in thought. Maybe humans weren't such weaklings after all.
Lynn walked a little further past Yami Bakura making sure to walk for him. He was watching her too when she turned around, but he didn't bother darting his eyes like a gentleman. She laughed. "How rude," she chided him.
"Well, I know pretty when I see it," answered the thief, moving closer to her. She smirked.
"No," she said, "I didn't come here to catch up on old times, remember? I'm to tell you what's going on." His smile faded into a somber expression. "Anyways, my host and her friend fell down here through a closet-"
"Ha! That thing?" Yami Bakura broke in, moving a white lock behind his ear.
"What? Lynn said, staring at him, "What do you mean "that thing"?" Yami Bakura's brown eyes flickered with amusement looking into the eyes of the vampire.
"That's supposed too be a trap that Marik left to drag someone into the Shadow Realm- that is, before he got stuck there." he looked upwards, " Who knew it would actually open up somewhere to create a sort of passage? Maybe the hole interacted with your's and your new friend's powers."
"So then… you can get us back?"
"Not really," he started, "But I can show it to you."
"Prove it to me." Lynn demanded leaning towards the King of Thieves.
"Of course, my love," he said, leaning in two centimeters from her face. He tore a rift into the night sky and held one arm before him. "After you."
Lynn walked through the rift to come face-to-face with an aged woman with short, brown curls and equally brown eyes. A shriek escaped from deep inside her, but it never reached the surface since time had stopped around her.
Yami Bakura dragged the vampire back by her shoulders into his arm. He looked at her face, but realized the shaking form was no longer Lynn. Sighing, he gave his host reign of his own body again and retreated to his Millenium Ring prison. Tiffany turned into Bakura's chest and began to cry hard. She wanted to hold her composure, but she just couldn't in front of her time-forsaken mother.
She saw everything in her sleep through Lynn's eyes and it hurt. Yes, she knew that that was exactly what happened, but there was always that small hope it hadn't.
Ryou wrapped his arms around the blonde girl and rubbed her back slowly. He shushed her and rocked her until her teary lullaby lulled her to sleep. Then he placed his cheek over her head protectively.
"Good night," he said, and then yawned and closed his own eyelids over warm, brown eyes.
Jennie awoke with a start. It was morning, but when she looked around Tiffany was nowhere to be found. Putting on her blue jacket the girl tried to unruffled her white undershirt. After washing up, Jennie quickly glanced at the clock to see that she still had ten minutes to find her friend before school actually started to fill in with students.
Remembering where she had last seen the blonde girl, going under the Sakura tree the night before, the black-haired girl ran to find her friend with a white-haired boy.
"Excuse me for interrupting but we're going to be late," Jennie nonchalantly spoke as she nudged her friend with her foot.
"J-Jennie?" Tiffany asked in a weak voice. Jennie looked down at her friend to see her red eyes. The girl remained silent, so Tiffany found out on her own.
"Ya?" the black-haird girl asked not moving, her face motionless.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!" she yelled crying once more, waking up the white-haired boy. Jennie's face remained emotionless as she looked down at them.
"Because I knew this would happen," Jennie answered as she walked away.
Tiffany pushed out of the boy's arms and jogged up next to her friend until she got ahead a bit. She swung around to face Jennie and the shorter girl came to a halt, but didn't look up. "Knew what, huh?" Tiffany nearly screamed in her face as she threw her hands up in exasperation.
"I knew…" Jennie began, but she choked on her words.
"Well…" demanded the blonde.
"I knew this was how you were going to act." Jennie began, " I knew it would hurt you-"
"And you think THIS hurts less?" Tiffany crossed her arms and continued, " Coming face-to-face with something like that and you knew?" I don't know if you realize it or not, but I already knew that Jennie. I was being hopelessly delirious!!!
"But you were happy-"
"No, Jennie, I was trying to escape. One can never solve a problem if they continue to deny it's there!" By this time, Ryou had walked up beside Jennie and placed a kind hand on her shoulder. Looking up, Jennie smiled at him in gratitude- a contrast to her dampened cheeks.
"Tiffany you need to calm down."
"No, Ryou, YOU need to shut up and butt out!!!" She was glaring at the same boy, but somehow he looked deflated now. "Look…" she said in a clamer voice, "you'll never understand. There's more to my problem now that everyone I know has a life on the line." The bell rang notifying the three students that they were now late.
Tiffany turned away, then faced them again and brushed past them. " I'm sorry, Jennie, Ryou. I can't give you guys an appropriate apology right now in this state. So meet me later at dinner at the-"
"How about the Cardinal?" Ryou suggested, shifting his eyes between the two, "It's new, but I heard it was good."
"Where is it?" asked Jennie, keeping her eyes on the grass.
"It's south of the school. Go straight that way for two blocks, then make a left turn and you should see it around there. Don't worry, I'll pay." He smiled at the two.
"Okay," Tiffany said, "Have fun at school, you two."
"Wait!" And Jennie looked up at Tiffany. "What about you?"
Walking away, Tiffany called out, " I can't go Jennie. Right now, I just don't have the strength to." And then she disappeared down a hill.
"Come on," Ryou said to Jennie, " I'll keep you company today and, of course, show you to your classes." Then he gave Jennie a tiny shove towards the school to get her going.
Jennie grumbled as she and Bakura were able to get into class without the teacher noticing them. They were in English class, so Jennie didn't bother paying attention. She stared out the wondow (more glared) to the Sakura tree.
"Psst!"
The teenager let her eyes turn to the speaker and met with a ceratin tri-haired boy. Covering up her feelings once more, Jennie smiled in greeting.
"Hey." She whispered back as she pretended to write down notes when the teacher looked in their direction. As she was writing she noticed a small , folded piece of paper near the right side of her desk. Opening it, she let herself allow a small smile. It was a tiny message from Yami Yugi:
Believe yourself and you can do anything. Don't worry, you'll be fine…
'Times have changed, Pharaoh." Sarah snorted as she saw the message. Jennie remained silent as she wrote back on the same paper and flicked it towards Yugi who sat in the desk ahead of her. Surprised the tri-haired boy opened the note and saw a singular word written in the asian teen's hand-writing:
Thanks.
The rest of the day came and went, Jennie keeping mostly to herself. It was their third day in the Yu-Gi-Oh! World and already the two were arguing. Jennie smiled sadly as she once again went back to the usual nurse's office to find Tiffany. There she found the blonde, smiling to herself- she slightly knocked on the door.
"Yo, go meet up with Bakura. I don't think I'll go I'm really tired- forgot how boring school is." Jennie grinned as the blonde managed a small smile. As she got up and put on her normal shirt, Tiffany apologized, but the Asian just smiled kindly. "Have fun on your date. Do come back this time before morning. I don't want to be late 'cause I had to look for you." Jennie teased as she pushed the girl into the hall.
Tiffany turned back towards the clinic door and she stood there wondering if she should go in and talk with Jennie first. Jennie couldn't have really been tired… right? She shook her head to herself- she didn't know what she'd say anyways. Whatever needed to be fixed would have to be done during class in notes tomorrow.
Walking out of the building, Tiffany breathed in the air and a smile touched her lips- it was going to rain very soon. She went to trot on when she realized something. A sweat drop rolled its course down the back of her head as Jennie looked out the window.
"Oh no…" the young Asian muttered.
Tiffany walked back to the stair well and charged up the steps to the ninth floor and into the clinic. Jennie turned around and looked into the face of the out-of-breath blonde. "What happened?"
"I… I was so stupid not to write down the directions!" she sxclaimed and Jennie couldn't help but laugh. "T-Thanks a lot." Tiffany said.
"I'm sorry," Jennie finally said, wiping tears from her eyes, "But that's just well… hahahahaha!!!"
"Jennie!" Tiffany pleaded.
"I don't know where it is either…" Jennie stated matter-of-factly, shrugging it off. "Hey! Why don't you just stay here with me and we'll explain it to him tomorrow?" Tiffany nodded in resignation.
"Oh okay, so… shall we 'dine' at the Kitch-ion?" Tiffany looked up at her with a playful grin.
"Kitch-ion it is!" Jennie laughed.
"Hey Jennie?"
"Yeah Tiff?"
"Let's promise to tell each other everything that needs to be said, okay?" And Tiffany extended her pinky to Jennie.
"Yeah." Said Jennie, wrapping her finger around Tiffany's.
"Now.." TAG YOUR IT!!!!"shouted Tiffany as she gently, but firmly patted the girl's arm. She charged off down the corridor with Jennie right behind her.
Well, that's it for now. Jennie and I are actually still working on this story, but I put it on halt so I can get all the chapters up for refrences. Some of these things are so far back that I laugh while I type these up. I hope you enjoy- or at least someone read… TT-TT And maybe leave a comment, since everyone appreciates feedback.
