Chapter 6 - Understanding (Posted 3 August 2011)
Joey was staring at the four tokens in his hand. He'd just received the fourth one earlier that day, along with some shocking news, but he still wasn't sure what to do with it.
"Hey, Yug?"
"Huh?"
"These tokens... how do you know so much about them?"
Yugi looked at his friend, not sure if he should tell him. "I go with him to his AA meetings on Saturday mornings.
"You do?"
"Yep."
"Why?"
"They say it's better if you go with someone who can support you. The only family he has is Mokuba, and he's so young. So I go with him." Yugi explained. "I guess I can tell you this. That night he called, after you left... I agreed to meet up with him and talk to him. We met the next morning, and we talked a lot."
"About me?"
"About you."
"You didn't tell him about your..."
"Yeah, I did. I didn't do it to scare him into thinking I was after you, I just did it so he could see that I understood some of the confusion he was feeling."
"I see." Joey nodded awkwardly. "What else did you tell him."
Yugi wasn't sure how to answer that question. He knew Joey would be angry with him for telling Kaiba about his father. But he didn't want to lie to him, either. "I just told him that it was going to take a lot of hard work to even have a chance of getting back together with you. And that's where the AA idea came from. He said he wanted to get sober, but he wasn't sure how. Then I brought up Alcoholics Anonymous and told him about how it worked. He even came up with the token idea all on his own."
"He really wants me back?"
"Yeah."
"As his Friday night booty call."
"No, Joey, that's not it. He wants to build a relationship with you."
"He does?"
"Yeah. He wanted to tell you himself, but it doesn't look like you're going to talk to him anytime soon."
"Wrong. I'm gonna go talk to him."
"When?" Yugi asked proudly.
"Right now."