"I'll be right back class, I have to umm…go to the principal's office for a second." Ms. Chono says before exiting the room.

"Where's Tristan?" Yugi Moto generally asked when he realized that Tristan wasn't sitting behind him trying to check his homework. "He's normally the first one in class". "I know" Tea chiming in. "I didn't see him on the bus, maybe he's sick" shrugging her shoulders as she finishes. She turns to Joey and sees that he's glaring out the window beside them, mumbling something.

"Have you seen him?"

Joey snapping out of his train of thought, hesitates and mumbles, "No I haven't seen him either". Yugi and Tea look at each other and them back at him and decide to let it go. "Something isn't right" Yami says appearing from the millennium puzzle looking at Joey with his arms folded. "Maybe he's just sick Yami" Yugi says looking at Joey also, "But, Joey is acting kinda weird". "We should talk to him after class" Yami pushes. "Ok, if you feel that's best. But he could just be having a bad day."

Tristan didn't show up for school today. He went back "home"…hell is more like it. I mean my dad has issues of his own, but he never...ra…I can't even say it. He hits me, but never that. I can't just confront him after what happened this morning, but I need to know that he is ok. He needs help, but I don't know what I can do. I need to CSI this… yeah, I just need to see what I can find online; the internet has everything! So then I can talk to him without scaring him like this morning. But what if he doesn't want to talk to me? I need to try, but I'm scared about what might happen if I do.

Joey is trembling in his seat with his head down; which is something that is so odd, other students in the class were starting to stare at him and whisper, "What's wrong with Wheeler?" and "Well, what's' his name isn't here, maybe that's it". Joey hearing this; jumps from his seat and tackles the boy that says this, "HIS NAME IS TRISTAN!" Joey screams and starts punching him in his face several times before letting him get a word in, " What is he, your boyfriend or something?" he exclaims after spitting blood out of his mouth and regains vision. "What!" Joey yells, while continuing to punch him. Since Tristan was the only one that could remotely take Joey in a fight, no one could break it up. So, Yugi had to step in between the boy and Joey and try to talk him down, "Please Joey, it's over". Joey looks at to Yugi and realized what he did. "I got to get out of here!" Joey shouts while running out of the room. After he leaves, most of the girls are standing at their desk with their hands over their mouths and the guys are surrounding the boy that got *beasted and feasted on*. Meanwhile the teacher walks in on this, dropping the pop quizzes in her hands screaming.

Yugi runs out of the class, searching down the halls looking for Joey. "What was that about?" Yugi asks Yami who is appears beside him. "I don't know, but we need to find him" Yami says. Yugi pauses and uses the energy of the puzzle to find where he is.

He sees Tristan's locker on the second floor

The view of the work yard across the street

And feels a sharp pain in his heart.

Yugi falls to the ground grabbing his chest. "YUGI!" at that moment Yami takes Yugi's place to give him a break, "It's Joey, and he's on the second floor in front of Tristan's locker. He is in so much pain." Yami, looking determined, runs up to the second floor and sees Joey right where Yugi said, but he's' crying. Both he and Yugi have never seen him cry before so they both knew this was a very dangerous situation.

"Let me do this Yami, I promise I can handle it. The pain just took me by surprise." Yami looks at him and nods, "Just be careful, Yugi. We never seen him like this before." Yugi takes over and walks over to Joey slowly, "Joey"

Joey looks up to see Yugi, walking slowly toward him like he is scared. "You can come over here Yugi, I'm not going to hurt you." Yugi complies and walks directly to him and sits down beside him. "What happened in there?" Yugi asked, seriously concerned for his friend. "What do you think! He was talking about Tristan and I defended him!" Yugi jumps back a little bit, "He just couldn't remember his name." Joey lifts Yugi off the ground and screams, "Who's side are you on?!" Yugi eyes start to well in tears and says softly, "Yours, please put me down." Joey again realizing what happened, puts him down and apologizes, "I'm so sorry Yugi, I just…I don't know what I'm doing or what to do?" Joey breaks down in tears again.

"Let me try Yugi, maybe I can help?" Yugi looks at Yami and then at his broken friend and agrees. "What do you mean you don't know what to do?" Yami asks. Joey looks up and sees that they switched. "Yami" he says surprised, trying to wipe his tears quickly, "It's nothing" he says while trying to walk away. Yami grabs his arm, stopping him in his tracks,

"You can tell me."

Joey turns around with watery, bloodshot eyes; Yami's eyes widen at the sight of him. Bad-ass Joey Wheeler, who's not afraid to face down the toughest enemies that even he was afraid of, this broken. "I can't Yami, I gave my word that I wouldn't". Yami understanding this, just gestures for Joey to sit down. "Its Tristan…isn't it?" Joey looks at him a nods slightly. "Is he hurt?" Joey, trying to hold what little composure he has says, "I can't tell you, so just let it go, will ya?" "No" Yami responds, "Because if Tristan is hurt and you don't say anything, you are just as responsible." Joey snaps, "YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THAT!" standing up again "He's my best friend! How could I have not known or seen anything! I know that it would be my fault if he was raped again!"

Joey closes his eyes and takes a deep breath, realizing that he slipped up and told Tristan's secret. Yami and Yugi just sit there in complete shock, not really knowing what to say. After a few minutes of silence, Yami breaks the silence, "I know this must be hard for you, but keeping this a secret will only make it worse for Tristan."

"I went over to his house yesterday and I caught him hitting Tristan. After he hit him, he had him pinned down on the couch. Kissing his neck and touching him…" Joey looked up at the sky for a second, then continued, "He was undoing Tristan's pants when I jumped in and hit him from behind." Yami nodded, "You did good, jumping in like that." "But, I couldn't save him. He stayed over yesterday and made me give him my word that I wouldn't say anything. Yami, he had panic attacks this morning, I just don't know what to do."

"It's good that you told me, even though you didn't mean too." Joey looks back at Yami and says

"He will never forgive me, he's going to hate me"

Yami stands up next to him and says, "Would you rather have him hate you or would you rather have him safe?"

Joey looks at him with a very sullen look and says, "I can't have him hurt, but he can't know that you know, I NEED him to be my friend, I just…I need him…We need to find him." Snapping out of it, "We need to find him now!" Joey takes off running while Yami is following behind him.

Author's Note- The beasting and feasting part was a Chris Smoove reference. Look him up on YouTube, his gameplays are hilarious.