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Chapter 6: Isabella & Atticus: Memories of My Childhood

Atticus smirked as Isabella approached him. "Hey Atticus," She said softly. Atticus pulled Isabella into a bear hug. She laughed and returned the warm hug. "Even after all these years, you're still taller than me!" She noticed that his hair has grown longer but was still the same color.

"Belle, it's good to see you again. It's been too long," he whispered into her ear. Isabella nodded against his shoulder, before pulling back slightly. She tilted her forehead and pressed against Atticus'.

"I know Atticus. And to think, after all those years and other issues…" she paused. "We have found each other again."

They were in our own little world and secretly wished it could stay just like that, but that wasn't the case. They let go of each other and turned to face Jaden and company. Jaden had a slight confused look; Alexis had a what's-Going-On? look. After them, everyone else, except Chazz, had like a romantic look, one you give for people who just found their way to the ones they love after years of separation. Isabella chuckled nervously and Atticus rubbed the back of his neck, trying to find words for his confused sister.

"Belle, how do you know Atticus?" Jaden asked. Isabella smiled at her goofball friend, thinking of some way to lie, but found none.

"How do I know Atticus? Well it's difficult to explain," Isabella stated slowly. Atticus looked at her.

"Well, you better explain to me because I'm at a lost here!" Alexis glared, mostly to her brother. "Atty, how does she know me when I don't know her?"

"Alexis, calm down. You were a baby when I met Isabella. It was real long time ago." Atticus explained.

"And you were so cute!" Isabella teased. "You look just like your mother." Alexis blushed red as everyone snickered. Isabella smiled. "Alexis, it's a long story, but you have the right to hear how we met." Alexis looked at her but Isabella looked up to the sky and then to Atticus. He smiled as she began. "We met each other 16 years ago in Domino City…"

(Flashback-Isabella's POV)

The weather was absolutely perfect, sunny with no clouds on the bright blue sky. The park was full of rambunctious children playing on the swings, sliding down on the slide, and playing tag with one another. Mothers kept a close eye on their young ones; the fathers slept under the trees. Some teenagers rode their bikes. Others were dueling at the far edge of the park. My mother held my hand when we walked up to the park's entrance. I was so eager to go and play that I almost tore my small hands from my mother's firm grip.

We just moved to Domino City a few weeks ago from the U.S. For the last few weeks, my parents and I drove around the city, checking out the sites and places we could come to. I even saw the school I will attend in a few months. It's called Little Duel Academy. We found a perfect shaded spot, under a large oak tree. My father pulled a large folded beige blanket and spread it across the ground. My mother loosened her grip on my hand. I looked up at her with my large light hazel eyes. She smiled and nodded.

Everyone says that I look like a mix between my Hispanic father and my Japanese mother. I had my mother's facial features and her hazel eyes and her wits. I had my father's skin tone and hair color and his personality, his talent to get into trouble and dueling. "You can go play, but where I can see you Belle." My father said. Excitedly, I gathered a blue toy shovel and a black bucket and headed to the nearest sandbox close to my parents. I made it to the sandbox, only two other kids were playing in. I sat down on the cool, wet sand before I began to make a sandcastle. The other kids looked to me and asked if they could help. I smiled and replied that they can help. We were going to make a giant sandcastle, bigger than we have ever seen. After an hour of sandcastle building, I grew hungry. The other kids left about 10 minutes ago and I grew bored of building sandcastles alone. Silently I gathered my things and walked back to my parents' spot where my mom had some turkey sandwiches waiting to be eaten. My stomach growled as I thought about the sandwiches.

I was halfway to my parents when I saw him for the first time. He looks like he was my age, three years old. He had dark brown eyes that matched the color of his hair. He was wearing a Hawaiian-theme shirt and white shorts. He was kind of cute, for a boy I mean. He was walking towards my direction with two adults, I presume to be his parents. Despite that I was looking directly at him, his eyes were set on a small pink blanket cradled by his mother. The boy was a splitting image of his father, just smaller and more child-like. His father was well-built, tall, and had short dark brown hair. His mother was beautiful. She had long golden hair and light hazel eyes. Her skin tone was almost a beige-cream color. She was a few inches shorter than her husband. I gave them space to pass by me. At that moment is when the boy turned around and locked his eyes with mine. He smiled and I smiled back in return.

After my high-noon lunch, I headed out to the Dueling Area of the park. There were some duels going on and some duels finishing. I watched from nearby. A kid had just summoned a small dragon; the other activated a facedown. I pulled out my starter deck. My father gave it to me last Christmas when he saw that I was curious about duel monsters. Despite my mother's protests, my father gave my first monster card: Phantom Machine Dragon. (1) Phantom Machine Dragonwas an orange dragon with one of its arms as a large gun; his head was covered by metal armor with metal horns. His upper body was covered in red armor. His wings were mechanical. At the tip of his tail was overlapping metal. I smiled at the card. I couldn't duel like my dad can, but I'm still practicing. Every now and then, my father and I will practice dueling in my backyard. I usually won because he let me win.

"What you got there little girl?" Suddenly, Phantom Machine Dragon was snatched from my hands. I gasped and looked up to see a trio of young boys, about 5 years old, looking down on me. They wore different color shirts and white cargo shorts, with white sneakers. They looked at my card and smiled.

"A Dragon duel monster card?" One of the boys smirked. He had shaggy blond hair with bright, blue yes. On his face were freckles. He was wearing a black t-shirt with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon on it. "Girls shouldn't duel with dragons."

"Yeah, they play with fairies or unicorns decks." Another one said. He was missing a front tooth. He had dirt smudged on his face. He had jet-black hair with eyes to match. He was wearing a red t-shirt with the Red-Eyes Black Dragon on it. The one who held my card smiled to me. He had spiky orange hair with dull, blue eyes. He wore a blue t-shirt with the Dark Magician on it. I knew him and I hated him already.

"Give me back my card, Riley." I glared at him. He smirked. We both live in the same neighborhood.

"Why should I? This is one cool dragon! I want to keep it!" Riley replied.

I growled. "Get your own, BRUTO!"(2) The two other boys knocked me to the ground. Riley looked at me. I stood up to meet them eye-level, brushing off the dirt on my shorts. The boys pushed me to the ground again and laughed. I should warn them; I'm not like other girls in the neighborhood. I don't let anyone push me around and get away with it. My proud Latino Heritage wasn't going down without a fight. Riley walked up to me, my card between his pointer and middle finger. I stood up once more and held my ground. Unconsciously, I cracked my knuckles.

"You want it? I dare you to hit me right on the face." He dared. He pointed to his right cheek and laughed. The other boys laughed too. My guess was that I wasn't going to hit him. But boy, were they wrong! WHACK! Riley fell to the floor with a thud, my card floated down to the earth. I smirked as I grabbed my card back. The two boys surrounded Riley, who was now bleeding from his nose. Oh, I don't know my own Latino strength. I laughed. Riley growled sinisterly as he stumbled to regain balance. "You're gonna pay for that Isabella."

"Well, you should have given my card back Riley O'Miley." I retorted. I placed my card back into the deck holder, turn around and walked away. I hoped that Riley learned his lesson. Suddenly, the boy with the Red-Eyes Black Dragon shirt blocked me from the front. I hissed as I turned only to discover the boy with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon shirt blocked me from behind. I warily took a step back. I didn't like being cornered like this.

Riley walked up behind the boy that was in front of me now. "Give me that card Isabella."

"Do you want me to give you a black eye to complement with your bloody nose?" The boy behind me grabbed both my arms, locking them from being used. The other boy pushed me down to the ground. Both held menacing smiles on their faces that made me want to spit in their faces. Riley grabbed my chin and backslapped me. My eyes widened in shock. No one ever hit me like that before. I closed my eyes, growing angrier every second that past. "You shouldn't have done that Riley." I barely whispered.

"Awww. Is the wittle girl gonna cry to her mama?" Riley teased.

I bared my teeth to him and struggled against the strengths of his two lackeys. I DEFINITELY wasn't going down with a fight! "Maldito tonto!" (3)I cursed in Spanish. The lackeys tightened their grip even more. I hissed in pain but continued to struggle free. It wasn't working.

"HEY!" A voice boomed into the air. The trio and I turned our heads in the direction of the sound. I gasped. It was him, the boy I saw earlier. He was looking at us; his face was twisted with anger. "How dare you guys pick on a little girl?"

'Little? He's my age!' I thought. I looked at Riley's expression. His eyes sparkled with amusement as he watches the boy walk towards us.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Atticus." He smirked. The boy, Atticus glared at him. He stared down at Riley's companions, who finally released my arms and ran behind him. They were afraid of a three year old?

"Wussies," I mumbled under my breath. Atticus walked towards me and helped me up.

"You ok?" he asked. I nodded. We both stared at Riley and his friends. Riley was angry.

"Get them." Riley ordered. Atticus and I locked eyes with one another and smirked. Riley and his gang charged at us but Atticus and I was quicker and had better reflexes. In one minute, Atticus and I knocked out the two boys, leaving defenseless Riley alone. He growled.

"I won't forget this Rhodes! You as well Isabella!" he spat. He left, with his semi-conscious teammates wobbled after him. Atticus and I laughed at the sight.

Atticus looked at me, his young eager brown eyes filled with excitement. "That'll teach them."

"Yeah. You know, we make a pretty good team, you and I." I smiled. He smirked.

"I'm Atticus Rhodes. Nice to meet ya!"

"Isabella Suarez. Es un placer a concocerse te."(4)

"You're Hispanic?" he questioned. I nodded. "Cool." I laughed at his silliness. This was a beginning of a beautiful friendship.

(End of Flashback)

"So the both you known each other since you were 3 years old?" Syrus asked.

Atticus and Isabella nodded. "Yep," they answered in unison. The gang was now sitting in the Academy's cafeteria, eating lunch which consisted of two slices of pizza, a can of soda, and a fruit of their choice. Because of the gang's large size, they put about a few tables and chairs together so they can all sit and enjoy their lunch. Across from Isabella sat Jaden, next to him Alexis. Jesse sat next to Blair, who was sitting next to Alexis. Syrus sat in between Jesse and Hassleberry so who was at the end of the table. On the other side of the table, Atticus sat next to Isabella, and Mindy and Jasmine sat next to him. Bastion and Chazz sat towards the end.

"After I met Atticus, he introduced me to the family," Isabella continued. "That was the first time I meet you Alexis. I mean I was serious when I said you were cute. You were so adorable. I think I have some baby pictures of you in my bag. Jay, want to see them?" Isabella urged Jaden who just stared at her with tints of red on his face. The gang laughed at Jaden's reaction while he glared at Isabella with his pizza slice in his mouth. Alexis looked at him curiously. "Oh I forgot too. I have some of your toddler pictures too, Jay."

Jaden growled at her. Alexis frowned at her brother. "Atticus, why does she have pictures of me as a baby?" Atticus brought up his hands in defense as she continued. "You know that I don't like people looking at those pictures! Those are personal!" She kicked him under the table.

"Ow, Lexi," Atticus snickered and leaned towards Isabella. "Belle, I forgot to mention about Alexis' short fuse so be careful on what you say," Atticus whispered. Isabella chuckled.

"Did you actually think I forgot about the temper of hers?" Isabella stared at him. Alexis continued to look at her before sinking her teeth into her apple. "I remember the day you got your first ukulele, Atticus, for that music class of ours." Atticus nodded, remembering the day. Isabella looked to the gang, who was also interested in the story. "I swear! He played that thing all the way home from school one day! My ears felt like they were going to bleed. When we reached his house, Alexis and her mother was playing in the front yard. He sits down next to his sister, tries to play a baby song in that ukulele, and the next thing I know, Alexis grabbed the ukulele and whacked him over the head. Hilarious!"

Everyone on the table except Atticus roared with laughter. Atticus rubbed his head. "I didn't know a baby had that kind of power to break my first ukulele in two like that." The gang laughed again; Jaden and Alexis was laughing the most. Isabella quickly glanced at them.

"There's more!" Isabella said, excitedly. "Now that the ukulele broke in two, Atticus sat there, moping about the instrument. That's when he decides to sing to Alexis. You guys want to know what he sang?" Atticus tried to cover her mouth, but Isabella brushed him off, chuckling. "He sang Barney's I Love You song!" Everyone laughed. "Now, remember we're little kids so it's typical for us to sing that. But Alexis didn't enjoy it one bit. She started hollering and screaming, placing her hands on her ears. I didn't enjoy it either, so I joined Alexis in the hollering department." Atticus frowned; slightly embarrassed by the memory Isabella just shared.

Then he smirked. "Ok so at the time, I wasn't the Atticus Lexi loves. But I remember one day, Belle was over at our house and because Lexi was now walking all over the place, we had to babysit her while my parents were out. We had the radio on and they played a Britney Spears song, the ...Baby One More Time song," Atticus said. "So anyways, Belle loves Britney Spears so much that she got up and dances to the song. Belle wasn't a good dancer but she knew the moves to the song." Isabella blushed and looked away trying to find something interesting to look at. "Lexi decides to join her. It was super cute. Lexi tried to copy Belle but couldn't but she did look like that toddler who dances to 'Single Ladies' on Youtube."(5)

Alexis and Isabella blush a deep crimson color as everyone laughed. "Atticus, stop embarrassing me," Alexis hissed at him, but he continued to laugh. The gang stopped laughing soon after and continued to eat their lunch. As they finished, the cafeteria doors burst open and a voice yelled into the stunned crowd.

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU, YOU IDIOT. I CAN AND WILL BEAT YOU IN A DUEL!"

Isabella turned her head to the direction of the voice as if she recognized the voice. Standing up from my chair, the gang noticed how brightly she was smiling. Following her gaze, the gang glanced at the owner of the voice and Jaden immediately smiled as the figures walked into the packed cafeteria.

Oh man! My longest chapter yet! This story keeps getting better and better! So now that we know Isabella knows Atticus and Alexis, mysterious figures appear in the cafeteria and Isabella recognizes one of them. Will these figures reveal themselves? Of course, when I have free time! So stay tune to the next chapter! i will not give you the name of the chapter! So don't ask! Ciao!

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(1) Phantom Machine Dragon is a made-up card. He looks similar to Rizegreymon of Digimon Savers.

(2) Bruto-Stupid

(3) Maldito Tonto-Damn Idiot

(4) Es un placer a concerse te-Pleasure to know you.

(5) I love that video so much! It's adorable! All my single ladies!