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And I'd like to thank the other two reviewers who reviewed b4 I had to delete my story 4 a second.
Thank you so much, all of you. And if I missed anyone on that list, shoot me right now…jk. And also I thank anyone else who took time to read my story.
All right, here's chapter 7, so all EdoxOC fans beware… but still read… (to self) great, now I just scared away half of my readers…
Read and review and ENJOY (the most important part).
Chapter 7 – Denial
xXxRed DormxXx
Lisa stood by the doorway of Judai's dorm room. It had been almost five days, and Edo had not been seen for a while. She remembered him saying he would be gone in the Pro League by the end of the week. Maybe he had gone early. It was the weekend now, so Lisa needed something to do. That was why she stood at Judai's door. Maybe if Edo wouldn't talk to her, Judai would.
Finally the door opened, and Judai's head popped out. His brown eyes looked at her curiously.
"Hi, Judai," she greeted.
"Who is it, Aniki?" Shou asked also appearing at Judai's side.
"Lisa," Judai replied, shifting his gaze to Shou. "She's a freshman. I dueled her a while back." He then smiled at her. "Lisa's also the reason I missed class that day."
"What?!" she exclaimed, teasingly. "You're the one who made me skip class."
"Same thing."
"Is not!"
"Is, too!"
"Is not!"
Kenzan showed up behind Shou. "Could you guys take this somewhere else? I've got homework to do."
"Homework?" Judai asked backing down from Lisa to throw a look of confusion at him. "I thought you didn't do homework."
"Kenzan and I changed our minds," Shou explained. "We wanna graduate this school and make it to the Pro Leagues, and we can't do that unless we make it to Obelisk Blue."
"Okay… and when did this happen?" Judai asked.
"Last Monday," Shou answered. "After our exams."
"Our grades have gone up since then, too" Kenzan added.
"From an F to a D," Judai laughed. "Anyway, you guys do all the homework you want. Even mine if you get bored," he joked. "But I'm gonna go talk to Lisa."
"See ya, Aniki," his two friends said as he stepped out and closed the door.
"So what's new, Lisa?" he started.
"Not much." Lisa and him linked arms and started to climb down the stairs. "You?" she asked.
"Same."
For the past five days, Lisa and he had talked together after lunch. Judai always came to class in the morning, but then skipped it along with Lisa in the afternoon. It was kind of nice. They talked about each other's decks, the faults of all the teachers, and the past years (although that was mostly Judai talking).
And then during class, the two shot funny faces at each other to pass the time. When one of them got in detention (most of the time, it was Judai), the other would somehow end up there, too. And since Shou and Kenzan were so obsessed with school these days, no one knew the difference.
"Hey, Judai?" Lisa asked.
"Yeah?"
"Why does Edo stay here when he's a Pro? He's already been through all of this." They were strolling the side of the ocean, up on the rocky cliff.
"Dunno. Why do you ask?" Judai said as he stopped walking. Lisa turned around to look at him. The sun was setting just like it did when she had spoken with Edo, except with Judai it was different. It was more… laid-back and relaxing rather than nervous and tense.
"He said he was here for the Press," Lisa explained. "He was lying, and I was just wondering if you knew the true reason. You did tell me you became sort of half-friends with Edo last year, didn't you?"
Judai sat down, his legs dangling of the cliff. After a moment, Lisa joined him, and they both stared at the sunset. "I did." Judai put his hands behind his head. "But he didn't really tell me his whole life story. Actually the most I knew about him I found out from other people."
"Oh…" was Lisa's simple reply. "But I have another question for you."
"What's that?"
"Why doesn't he tell others about himself?" Lisa replied. "His feelings seem so hidden all the time, he never lets anyone know anything about him, but why?"
Judai shrugged. "I really don't know Lisa." He paused and his voice became more cheerful. "But I do know something, something really, really important…" he trailed off
Lisa raised an eyebrow at him.
Judai looked as though he was holding in a ton of laughter. "You're ticklish," he finally said as he reached over and tickled her.
Lisa burst out laughing and Judai let his own laugh out, too. "Stop it, Judai…stop it," she said crying tears of laughter.
"Never!" he teased.
"Oh, yeah? You're ticklish, too," she pushed his arms away and tickled him. After the war of tickling began and ended, Lisa and Judai were exhausted, and both lied back against the ground. Soon it started to get a little dark.
"I better go, Judai," Lisa finally got up.
"I better go, too," Judai agreed. "See you tomorrow then, Lisa?"
She nodded. "Of course, Judai-kun." It was the Japanese suffix you used for a close friend. Even though Lisa was American, she still knew Judai would like being called that. To her satisfaction, Judai smiled at what she said, and then they both started walking their separate ways.
Lisa's Obelisk Dorm room was closer to the center of the island, so she had a much longer route than Judai. And soon it would all be on an uphill path. As she started to pass the lighthouse, the wind started blowing fiercely against her, so Lisa held her jacket closer to her body and folded her arms. The wind was so strong that Lisa could only take only a few steps at a time.
Then the wind started to grow a little darker, like it was outlined, so she was able to see it more clearly. Lisa finally stopped because she couldn't see a thing in that darkness. Then a shadow of something materialized out of the random dark wind. It looked like a black ghost. Her red hair fell half-way out of its bun due to the wind. Screaming out loud, she fell backwards as the black nothingness moved toward her and through her body. Her scream became a shriek of pain when it totally engulfed her body and seemed to take control of her soul. Lisa suddenly heard racing footsteps toward her, and miraculously the shadow disappeared, almost like it was… annoyed with whoever was coming.
The red-haired girl didn't know what happened next. She just saw an outline of a figure kneel down beside her. She also felt her body shivering violently due to the slight breeze left by that strong wind. After a few seconds Lisa became more aware of what was happening and realized that she was moaning. Stopping immediately, she opened her eyes and saw the figure who had showed up just in time to save her. "E-Edo…" Her voice sounded hoarse. Lisa cleared her throat. "What are you doing here? I thought you were…" Gone, she mentally finished.
"I heard your scream," he said after a moment. "What happened?"
No response.
He felt her forehead. "You have a fever," Edo said. "Can you walk?"
There was still no response, but, nevertheless, Edo waited for her reply. Suddenly Lisa started crying. "Edo… you ask me all these questions, but… but you won't answer mine. I-is it so hard to just tell the truth?"
Edo sat there with his usual mask on as always, but Lisa could somehow sense he was thinking. Why wouldn't he voice his thoughts out loud? She needed him to do something, anything. Finally she sat up in anger.
"Say something!" she yelled at him when he didn't move. Then she realized what she had just said, and her cheeks turned a solid red of embarrassment. "I'm sorry… I didn't mean to yell at you." But her eyes, filled with tears, betrayed her.
"What will it take to get you to stop crying?" Edo asked at last.
Lisa's eyes widened in surprise. Is he really asking me this? Will he really answer my questions? I might as well find out. "Why did you sit with me five days ago in the cafeteria? Why did you say hi to me when we both happened to be near Chronos's class? Why did you help me out in the halls like you did just now even when no one else would? The truth, this time." Lisa felt better to finally ask all of those questions out loud.
Edo smirked. "Is that all?"
Lisa nodded stiffly. "So are you going to tell me or what?"
"Listen, Lisa, and, please, try to understand," Edo responded, suddenly becoming serious. "The reason you think I did all those things doesn't exist. It all happened by chance."
"What? A person who used to believe in destiny now talks about chance?" Judai had told her about last year. "But helping me out that one morning wasn't chance. That was your own free will." Lisa looked at him intensely. "Why? There has to be some sort of reason."
"It's because you were hurt, and it's not right to leave someone like that," Edo explained. He saw Lisa's face grow upset. "Lisa… I'm sorry, but I only helped you because it was the correct path of justice."
"Of justice?" She looked incredulously into Edo's eyes. It was then she knew he wasn't lying. "That's all it was? Being a hero?"
Edo remained silent.
"What is wrong with you?" she kept demanding from him. "Don't tell me you base your whole life on something as stupid as justice!"
"I'm sorry if it upsets you, but I do," Edo said calmly although there were traces of anger on his face. "But I wouldn't expect you to understand. Someone who's never struggled in their life, never lost something precious to them. And that's not my problem. So I don't care if you don't get it!" he suddenly snapped at her.
Lisa's lip trembled. "But I'd like to get it, Edo. Please tell me." It was night, and the worst part was it started to rain after a loud crack of thunder. Lisa's face became wet, but she was glad. It hid her tears from Edo.
"I'll walk you back to your dorm," Edo said helping her up, "but from then on we'll pretend we never knew each other. Okay?"
No. It's not okay. I need you. "Okay," she trembled. Her steps were unstable at first, but with Edo's help they began a quick pace toward the Obelisk Blue Dorm. No matter how fast they moved, however, soon the two were soaked.
Then they finally made it to her room. At that point, Lisa's legs gave out due to the attack earlier. Edo lifted her into her bed. "Remember," he said. "We don't ever talk about what happened." Lisa could only nod, she was so exhausted. Edo started to leave.
"Wait, Edo!" she cried out suddenly and winced at the energy it took from her. "I'm sorry…"
"For what?" he asked without turning around.
"For everything, I guess. I was a fool…" Lisa felt the tears come to her eyes again.
"No, Lisa." Edo turned to face her. "It was me. I led you on when I should've told you from the start." He opened her door to leave. "Bye."
"Can't we, you know, pretend like we'll see each other tomorrow?" she asked suddenly. "Does it hurt to just say something like see ya or talk to you later?"
"Bye, Lisa," he said as he stepped out into the hall.
"Bye, Edo," she whispered, not knowing if he even heard her. She lay in her bed for the rest of the night, at first unable to go to sleep, and then not able to wake up. She dreamed of he and that dark ghost dueling, and her, unable to stop them, only able to watch. When she finally woke up, she didn't remember how the duel ended. And she couldn't remember what had happened to Edo…
The End
Hahahaha. Lol, jk jk. THIS IS NOT THE END.
Remember that, EdoxOC fans (crickets chirp) if there are any. jk. It's not over till the last card is played, right? There's still many more EdoxOC moments to come, seeing as how that ghost thing is going to get mad if there aren't… I don't want to get on his bad side… so i'll write this on his good side. D
Next up is Chapter 8 – Premonitions.
