This one is from Tea's POV and is Post-series. It has Peachshipping, Angstshipping, Chaseshipping and, of course, Puppyshipping. Tee hee.
If you are a Tea-basher, please just skip over this. I don't wanna hear I much you hate her. I'm a honey badger and guess what honey badgers do...
Disclaimer: I don't own YuGiOh. I'm not making any money. Nuff said.
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Happily Ever After
My friends don't believe in happily ever after. And I can't really blame them.
Tristan has always been a tough guy, the one who often sees the possibility of failure in something before anyone else. He can cheer on out friends just as much as me, but he knows when things are going bad, even if he doesn't say it.
Duke is worse. He actually does say when things are going bad. It's true, and maybe no one wants to hear it, but that's probably a good thing, I suppose. We're all friends, but none of us are brave enough to speak up when someone needs to hear the painful truth. I know Yugi and I aren't.
Ryou, may act like his usual chipper self, but I part of me knows he misses Bakura. He's insane to do so, but I'm not one to judge. I honestly think if somehow Atem had stayed, Yugi and I wouldn't have ended up together. I also think I would have had to stand aside. I was infatuated with Atem, true, but he and Yugi had a bond that was practically unbreakable, and who would I be to take that away?
Joey I can completely understand. He comes from a broken home, separated from his sister, stuck with a father I know little to nothing about. I see the bruises though, and the glances between Yugi and Tristan when the blond says he got into another fight. I asked Yugi about this once, and he told me he wasn't at liberty to tell me. I left it alone. I don't want to. I don't like being kept in the dark, but I'm sure one day I'll be let in. I'm not one to force Joey into divulging things he rather not.
Now my final friend - who will deny until he's gasping on his deathbed that he's our friend - I may not know much about, but he's definitely not the happily ever after type. Seto Kaiba is cold, sarcastic, a complete jerk really. I know his father was a psycho. I know he hates to show any kind of emotion, except to his younger brother - the only proof that there is a heart in there somewhere. But besides that, I don't know anything. None of us do. None of us ask, knowing we won't be told.
I feel bad for them sometimes. I remember how I felt before Yugi and I got together. I was confused and lonely after Atem left, only to realize that Yugi was much the same. We became closer because of it, spending more time with just the two of us. Later the boy took his chance, began holding my hand, hugging for longer moments. I was the one who kissed him though, that rainy day as he insisted he walk me home. Something in that moment - his smile, his laugh, the way his usually gravity defying hair seemed to be melting. It had felt so right. As if it was what I had been missing all along. I used to wonder if my friends would ever find anything like what Yugi and I have.
Used to...
Tristan doesn't know I see the way he looks at Duke, with not so subtle side glances, sometimes a goofy smile on his face.
Duke doesn't know I see the way he flat our flirts with Tristan; the nudges and not-so-platonic gestures.
Ryou doesn't know I notice how he will smile softly and blush as he reads letters from Marik, who he has been talking to via mail for the past two monthes.
Joey, poor oblivious Joey, doesn't know how I watch him and Kaiba fight. How the blond's words have become more playful than biting. How he doesn't complain about his new nickname: Puppy.
But I'm actually very sure Kaiba knows I watch them, and that I know exactly what's going on. I'm positive he knows that I notice how the CEO's words have gained a more affectionate tone. How he'll ruffle Joey's hair every now and then.
And come on? Puppy? Does he really think we're that stupid?
Well...Tristan probably is since he can't seem to grasp that Duke is dead on flirting with him.
I'm glad when I mention my observations to my new tri-color haired fiancée that, not only does he agree with me, he sees it all, too. Unfortunately, I'm a bit pushy, and I ask him if we should do something, but he reassures me that things that are meant to happen will happen on there own.
So, I watch them all even now, as we're gathered for Yugi's and my engagement party, thrown at the stone-cold CEO's not-so-humble abode. Apparently, a certain blond friend of mine was the one able to convince Kaiba. Though I suspect bribery or blackmail was involved.
I watch as Duke and Tristan joke and laugh, and how the pointy-haired boy doesn't pull away when Duke takes his hand.
I notice how Marik - who managed to make it in - and Ryou are engaged in polite conversation, how their eyes will meet and then turn away, both males blushing.
And I definitely notice when my husband's supposedly loyal best man goes missing for a while - along with our ungracious host - only to turn up with his hair messier than usual and his face flushed. Kaiba isn't far behind, an extremely pleased smirk on his face. Seriously. You would think he beat Yugi in a duel.
I look at my friends again before turning to Yugi, who meets my gaze with a knowing smile. He had a growth spurt in high school, but he's still a bit shorter than me. I lean in to kiss him and he meets me halfway. When we part we touch our foreheads together. I can almost feel he's as blissfully happy as I am.
My friends don't believe in happily ever after...
But, hopefully, by the way things are going, they just might get one anyway.
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This is another one I based off my life. I'm the only one out of my friends in a serious relationship, and I sometimes feel this way about them. I know being in a relationship isn't everything. I'm not a love sick school girl. Sometimes I just feel like if they had someone they'd understand my relationship better. Meh.