Fade Away My Memories Chapter 7
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Lise: wait a minute…why do I not remember Yusei?
Yusei: yeah…I'm not entirely okay with that…
ME: It's just how I'm writing the story…I'm sorry! I thought it was a neat idea…
Yusei: I wouldn't say it's horrible but…
Lise: it's painful…
ME: I know! I'm sorry! But it gets better! I promise…
Lise: promise?
Yusei: I don't like feeling lonely…
ME: believe me; I know what that's like. I swear, promise and cross my heart and hope to die, that it'll get better
Lise: do we kiss?
Yusei: uh… :blushes:
ME: not in this chapter…
Lise: dang it!
ME: so, without further ado, the next chapter! Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds nor will I ever. Thanks for reading!
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It'd been a month…one entire month…Having Yusei around wasn't SO bad…
I still refused to let him help me with anything. It was weird enough that he already knew I sucked at those…And that I was really good at Art and Language Arts…
"Happy Halloween, Mom!" I chirped when we walked into the front door.
"Hi Lise," she smiled at me from the kitchen counter. "I'm making cookies."
At first I was excited. Mom always made pumpkin cookies for Halloween. The wheelchair reminded me it must've been really hard. I threw my shoes near the coats and joined her. The kitchen was a mess, and Mom had flour all over her, but she looked fine. Nothing was incinerating and there wasn't anything wrong.
"Are you sure about this? I know you got off work early but-"
"Lise, stop doting on me. I'm your mother, and I may be immobile from the waist down but that doesn't mean I can't get the job done!" she winked and peeked into the oven. "They're done. You need to move unless you want me to burn your butt."
I laughed and went to my room. I stripped off the hated skirt and replaced it with my jean capris. The stupid uniform sweater I threw somewhere into my closet. My favorite t-shirt took its place. The shirt was black with a silver circular pattern across the front and back.
"So what're your plans for this year?" Mom asked when I walked back downstairs.
I sat at the counter to watch her work. "Well, I don't think I'll go trick-or-treating. Crow and Jack definitely said no. Kalin's thinking about it. Fish thinks we should have a party. Akiza jumped on the idea and I think she's planning a legitimate party," I reported. The air filled with the delicious smell of fresh baked cookies. My mouth watered.
Mom smiled sneakily. "Maybe you could take the chance to show Yusei the city at night?"
I opened my mouth but was interrupted before I even said a word.
"Already seen it," Yusei said, sliding onto the stool next to me.
I stared at him. He noticed quickly and his cheeks turned a slight shade of pink. "What?"
"Make some noise when you move!" I said angrily. He seemed to come out of nowhere…
He turned from pink to red. "Okay…Um, what're you making, Mayoko?"
"Pumpkin cookies. It is Halloween after all," she winked and set the newly finished cookie tray on the counter. "The kids in our neighborhood usually go trick-or-treating. I think Lizzie, oops I mean Lise, started that with her father. Roman is a Japanese American. It explains Lise's pretty blond hair when I have such dark hair."
I groaned. I hated it when Mom told people that. My hair was just something there on my head. I usually just washed it, brushed it, and did something to keep it out of my face. I did like it when Mom told stories about Dad, just not to other people…And he'd only been dead for a year!
"Lise, can you put the cookies on a plate? I need to start the next batch…" Mom asked, wheeling towards the opposite kitchen counter.
"Sure," I hopped off my stool and grabbed a spatula as I passed. It was a simple matter to dig the spatula under the cookies and place them on the platter my mom had laid out earlier.
"They smell awesome," Yusei said as the room filled with the scent of pumpkin cookies.
"No eating them until later. Most of them are for the kids. They love those cookies," Mom explained, popping the second tray in the oven. She set the timer and wheeled over to us.
"Two cookies broke," I reported.
Mom nodded. "The softer ones break. The pieces are still good. Share them with Yusei," she suggested as she wheeled out to the table. The wooden surface was covered with transparent baggies, assorted ribbons and little toys. Mom certainly loved to go all out.
I grudging passed Yusei a broken cookie. "Milk?" He shook his head and nibbled one piece. "This is really good!"
Mom laughed. "It should be! It takes forever to make enough!"
Yusei smiled and finished the cookie piece. I rolled my eyes and blew a long exaggerated breath that pushed the hair in my face temporarily away. There were always some stray strands that managed to miss my attention.
I stuffed my own cookie piece into my mouth and walked out of the room. I quickly returned with my homework. It spread over and completely covered the half of the counter I sat down in front of. If I was going to a party and doing anything tonight, all of this crap had to be finished first. I started on the physics stuff. It was my worst subject and I always worked hardest to easiest. And man this stuff was hard…
I finally finished, and most likely got half of them wrong, 45 minute later. I threw that on the floor. Done pile started. I pulled my math journal over and looked at the worksheet. I looked at my notes. They looked completely different. I turned the page. Now they looked similar...sort of… I sighed and tackled the little part at the end that I handed finished.
I was halfway through a problem when Yusei pointed at my paper. My head whirled toward him faster than he could see. I glared at him. "What?"
He recovered quickly and pointed to my answer. "That's not right."
I pushed my homework towards him. "Fine then; you do it."
He ripped a blank sheet out of my notebook, wrote down the problem, and started to solve it. He worked fast. It took him maybe three and a half minutes to do that one problem that'd taken me at least ten minutes. He pushed the paper back to me. "That's the answer."
His answer looked like this: (2, 3), and mine looked like this: (3.567, 4.532).
I scanned through my work quickly. Where did I make a mistake?
He pointed again. "Here; they give you Y, so it's easier to find Y instead of X. Just put this equation in place of Y and solve."
"Oh..." I scowled and erased furiously. I swear my Mom was smiling like a crazed maniac. I didn't even need to look to see it. Her mind screamed satisfaction.
Speaking of minds, I can't read Yusei's. It's very strange and it makes me uneasy around him. I tried to read it once in class. I got nothing back. It was like his mind had a giant built in force field. I cornered him about it after the class. Cornered isn't exactly the right word… I kinda flipped him onto his back and pinned him down…He didn't seem to mind and even explained to me what he thought was the reason. I think the real reason I'm so freaked out about the whole thing is cuz he knows so much about me, and I don't have a clue about him… I do know one thing though; he's very hard to get rid of…
I finished my math homework much faster than my Physics homework. I added that to the done pile too.
Next was writing and art. Then I was free. Luckily the writing homework was easy. I had to write a poem. I quickly scribble something down that I just mind blurted. A mish mash of nonsense, which fits me cuz right now that's kinda my life.
My phone started ringing the second I added my poem to the done pile. I smiled at the ringtone. I'd set it to play Hyperdrive. I answered it and put the phone in the crook of my neck while I got my sketchbook out. "Pronto," I said into the receiver.
"Hi," a guy's voice answered.
"Daichi?" I felt my face getting really hot.
"Yeah, wassup?" he said.
"Oxygen," I answered automatically. He laughed. I grinned and twirled my hair nervously. I made him laugh!
"So, a buncha my friends and I are gonna go to, like, a party. You wanna come?"
I bit my lip. Was this real? "Um…like as a date?"
"Sure. Why not?"
"O-okay!"
"See you tonight. Party's at my place. Starts at seven. See ya there."
"Bye!" I managed to say and hung up. "Yes!" I pumped my fist in the air.
"So…you have a date with Mr. Nakamura…" my Mom said. Her voice was flat.
I nodded. Even though she didn't have much enthusiasm right now, I sure did. "This is so awesome!"
"I'm gonna go…" Yusei said quietly and got up. He found the front door and exited.
I didn't care. He's just my friend. I think he's kinda like Crow, Jack, and Kalin; an adopted brother…I did feel a tiny twinge of guilt though. A very small twinge.
I picked up my sketchbook. This was the school sketchbook and I couldn't focus anymore on something for school. I ran into my room quickly and grabbed my own sketchbook.
At the counter again, I turned to a blank page. Nakamura was on my mind. I wanted to draw him. My pencil, or maybe my hand, or maybe my heart made the pencil move across the page. The profile looked like…this…strong jaw…angular face…small frown…ears hidden at the tips by hair…broad shoulders…swooping down from the neck…the hair was like…this…and the eyes…the last part was like…
I blinked out of my drawing trance. It was hard to get into that, and it was when I did my best work…I stared at my drawing for hours it felt like. Everything was sketched in except for the eye. The one you could see in the drawing anyway…that was blank and soulless.
I dropped my pencil, and it made a small thunk noise when it hit the floor. That hair, the face, jawline, the beginning of the arm, the mark… I had drawn Yusei…
