You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it?
-Unknown
I waited nervously at the spot we had agreed on, I felt horrible about what I was doing and that was partly why I was here to beg Bakura to change his mind and not make me go through with this anymore. I didn't want to hurt him, if he really was the reason my family is gone then well; they have been gone for a long time I have to move on.
I fiddled with the new bracelet that was now on my wrist, it had been a gift from Atem, and I smiled once more at the thought of him and lost myself in my thoughts. He has been nothing but sweet and kind; I could no longer see why Bakura wanted to hurt him so much. All I knew is that I felt guilty for what I was doing and I had to get out of it somehow. Surely he would understand.
My heart clenched with fear as a hand came over my mouth to silence any sound I might make and another snaked around my waist. I was about ready to struggle against my attacker when I heard the familiar chuckle of the man who was like my brother. I relaxed and pulled his hands off me turning to face him in the dark. "Why do you insist on always greeting me in that way?" I asked half jokingly half seriously, it was always him sneaking up and almost giving me a heart attack.
"It's my way. So what do you have to report?" he asked seriously, egger to know what was going on and how much longer he would have to wait till he could attack.
"Why does everything have to be about business cant we just have a nice little talk about how each of us have been?" I asked trying to avoid talking about the situation. Seeing him now I knew that it was going to be tough to get him to change his mind.
"Kiya we don't have time to talk about meaningless things like that, I need a progress report." He said getting a little impatient. Obviously that plan didn't work. I began to nervously fiddle with the bracelet around my wrist.
"Well I'm not sure you should go through with this, I mean he has a pretty strong guard-" I started to ramble out but he cut me off instantly, I could sense his rage building.
"You think some pathetic guards could stop me do you?" he asked but I wasn't sure if I should be answering the question I took a step back as he took one more towards me.
"Well I just don't think that this is the smartest idea, if you succeed the whole of Egypt will be after you. Maybe we should just call the whole thing off. Don't you think?" I stammered. I was getting nervous as he continued to walk closer to me.
He remained silent as he moved and just as I was about to take another step back he reached out and grabbed my wrist lightning fast and pulled it out so it could be seen. There clearly in the moonlight shone the gift I had been given. He glared at it for a moment and returned his eyes to me, still glaring. "You're trying to protect him aren't you; stop me from killing him because you've fallen in love with him. Well tough, if you back out on me then I will go to him and tell him all about you. Do you really think you two could ever possibly be together?" He spat at me and I felt tears filling in my eyes. He dropped my arm and turned to walk back to his horse and climbing on he yelled back, "You have two weeks, if you don't complete this properly like we planned, I'll take you down with me." and with that he rode away into the darkness that swallowed him.
I was stunned and felt foolish had I really believed that I could change his mind. I stood for a moment watching the space of darkness he had disappeared into, it seemed to be growing and enveloping me as well.
Charlie POV
My eyes snapped open and instantly started to adjust to the different lighting in my room. It was still dark outside but a stray cat it seemed had triggered the motion detector light just outside my window. My walls were splashed with a dull blue light. It was still dark but I could make out more. I rolled over onto my back from my side.
"Another one of those dreams…" I whispered out to the now darkness as the outside light clicked off. These dreams were becoming rather repetitive and all had similar qualities, but by the time I was awake I had forgotten half of them, the faces became blurs and their sentences had gaps in them. I let out a breath and brought my hand to move the hair off my forehead when I felt a cold object move on my wrist. Had I forgotten to take of a bracelet last night? I couldn't have because I wasn't wearing any. I couldn't make out what it was in the dark so I reached over and turned on my lamp. Instantly squeezing my eyes shut again at the painful light change.
Once I felt like I could open my eyes again I chanced opening them and rolled back onto my back and held my arm up in front of my face. It was a gold bracelet with hieroglyphs along the band and a jade stone at each end where they met closing together. There was something about it, it looked familiar but I couldn't realize where from. I gave up and reached over to switch of the lamp and let myself fall back to sleep.
It was lunch time and I was happy that Monday was almost over. We were all sitting inside since it was raining and no one was allowed to sit outside on wet weather days. We were all gathered around the heater in one of the rooms. Yugi, Joey, Tristan and Tea were all talking together, Bakura was reading and Selena and I were joking around and talking about the weekend.
We were talking about how we had realized I was missing a page from my story when Yugi turned around and called my name. I looked up at him from my spot on the floor in front of the heater, "Yeah Yugi?" I asked as he put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. I stood up to take it off him as he handed it to me.
"I found it on the grass last Friday after lunch, I think it's yours." He said as I took it out of his hand and unfolded it, my eyes scanned over the first few words and I recognized it instantly. I felt my face go red.
"You didn't read it did you?" I asked slowly while putting it in my own pocket. When he remained silent I snapped my head up and grabbed his shoulders. "Please tell me you didn't read it, because it's kind of, sort of private." I said to his face.
He looked at me in shock at how dramatically I was acting; I don't really know why I was freaking out so much. I guess I'm just weird that way. "Uh…no. of course not, I didn't read it." He stammered out and I let out a breath of air and released his shoulders and relaxed.
"Oh…well good, because that would be like invasion of privacy or something." I said embarrassed at how much id over reacted. I suddenly started to feel really hot in front of the heater. I rolled up my sleeves to try and escape the sudden closed in and overheated feeling I was getting and moved over to the window and opened it a crack to let in some cool air. I felt someone sit down next to me and turned to see Yugi.
He reached out and lightly grabbed my arm and pulled it towards him. It was the arm that had the bracelet on, I must have forgotten to take it off, which is weird it's not that hard to miss. "Where did you get that?" he asked, something seemed different about him, but I couldn't put my finger on it. He was staring at the bracelet as if it was of great interest to him.
"Um… I just found it," I lied but how crazy would it sound if I had said that I had woken up and somehow had it on when I had never seen it before, "I think it was my grandmothers. Why?" I finished off.
"Oh, nothing it just looks really familiar to me for some reason, curious to where you might have gotten it…Its Egyptian jewelry right?" he questioned still looking closely at the gold bangle.
"I suppose, it looks like something my grandmother has but not exactly the same." I replied.
"I thought you said it was your grandmothers?" he said looking back at me suspiciously.
"I did, it is, I think, I don't know for sure I mean I just found it and it looked nice so I put it on. What's the big deal; it's not yours is it?" I asked trying to cover up my stumble in my story and added in an embarrassing type question which worked to plan as he let go of my arm and cleared his throat.
"Of course it's not mine; it just looks like something I have seen before that's all." He said standing up and walking back to Joey and Tristan. I felt a shiver and closed the window again and pulled down my sleeves and moved back to my spot with Selena by the heater for the remainder of lunch.
Bakura POV
I was peacefully reading while everyone else was talking and laughing together, I just felt like reading instead. Charlie just about had a miniature break down a moment ago, over a piece of paper. Joey and Tristan were having an argument about who the hottest girl in school was while Tea frowned at their immaturity and Selena seemed to be sitting and just thinking. Yugi was now talking to Charlie about her bracelet or something…wait that's not Yugi that's the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle.
I felt my own Millennium Item spirit become interested in the conversation but I continued on reading. He however listened to the conversation, I just left him to it, what harm was he doing in eavesdropping in on a conversation about some bracelet.
It's her, the one he talks to in English. She really is back; finally we can finish what was once started. I heard him mutter to himself and then laugh. That laugh never meant anything good. The fact there was another voice in my head didn't mean anything good either but I had come to learn that he was trouble and usually for Yugi and his friends. I hated being the reason for him so I tried to keep him at bay.
He continued with his mumbles about 'her' being back. I didn't know who she was but I could tell he was excited about something. I tried to push him back, get him as much out of my head as I could but I wasn't working and I eventually gave up on my book. I could hear him laughing manically and feel him plotting evilly.
He thought back to a memory of him and a girl and their plan to take distract the pharaoh and rid of him, I knew instantly that that was what he never finished, that girl was the one he thought to have returned and that that plan was what he wanted to finish off. But he was talking about Charlie and that I could not believe Charlie would never do something to harm one of her friends so I thought us to be safe for now.
Although I just knew that our so far quiet and peaceful year was coming to an end very soon and there was very little if not nothing I could do about it. I just hopped he was wrong and this would not work.
