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Chapter Nine

As Joey and the others sat in the waiting room to hear how Mai was doing, Seto looked at Joey and he said "You know that you'll have to return to school sometime and then you'll be facing the very students who were talking shit about you, are you going to be strong enough to deal with that?"

Joey smiled at Seto and then he said "As long as I have you and my friends I'll be able to face anything."

Seto touched the side of Joey's face and then he kissed him on the lips and he whispered "I love you and I always will."

Joey took Seto's hand in his and then he said "I know you do and I love you so very much" and then Joey kissed him back and then they heard "Hey, get a damn room please."

That was Bakura and as they turned to look at him he smiled and he winked and then he put his arm around Ryou and he kissed his cheek and Ryou said "Kura behave." Bakura chuckled and his reply was "Hell it isn't any fun to behave."

Yugi was asleep leaning on Yami's shoulder and Malik was quietly talking to Marik when all of a sudden a very excited Valon came hurrying out of the delivery room and he said "Mai gave birth to two boys and one girl, I'm a dad." Then he proceeded to pass out and would have hit the floor if it weren't for Bakura being quicker and he caught him and with Marik's help they got him to sit down.

Joey went over and he asked Valon "How's Mai?"

Valon smiled like a goofy kid and he said "She's resting after delivering our children, and I'm so proud of her."

Yugi wiped his eyes as he sat up and he heard the conversation and he asked Valon "Did you name your babies?"

Valon proudly said "Yes we did. Our first one was a son and we decided on Robert William Cassidy, then the next was our other son and his name is Thomas Eugene Cassidy and finally our little daughter who decided to be the most difficult one we named Samantha Louise Cassidy." (I don't know what Valon's last name is so I gave him this one.)

Everyone there shook hands with the proud papa and then Joey said "We'll come back tomorrow but please give Mai our love and tell her that you two have beautiful children." Joey said.

So they all left the hospital and as they all went their own way, Seto and Joey they got into the limo for the ride back to the Manor, Seto said "Listen will you please stay with Mokie and me at the Manor?"

Joey had his head lying on Seto's shoulder and he smiled and he said "I'd love to." Then Seto closed his eyes and so did Joey and then the driver woke them up when he said "Sir, we're home."

After being out of school for almost three months, Seto and Joey walked on campus and as they walked around the school other students started whispering and Seto was getting madder and madder but Joey just said "Let them talk they hurt me so please lets just get to our first class alright."

After first class had begun the Principal announced over the loudspeaker "We'll be having an assembly in the auditorium in one hour and it's mandatory that everyone attends." Joey could feel every eye on him but he just ignored them and as he was reading he assignment for class he felt someone touch his shoulder and there stood Bakura and he said "Wheeler don't let them get to you or they'll of won and your better then they could ever want to be."

Joey smiled as he nodded his head that he understood and then as they entered the room for their second period class, the teacher said "Alright let's go single file to the auditorium." So as the class filed out of the room and walked towards the auditorium, Seto made damn sure that Joey wasn't very far away from him and as they walked up the steps he looked over at Joey and Joey smiled at him and then they sat down and waited for the Principal to begin the assembly.

Mr. Horton the Principal walked up to the podium and he began by saying "I called this assembly because of all the rumors that have been floating around school about Joseph Wheeler and because it's his first day back to school I thought that I should let all of the students and you know who you are that had been spreading that vicious rumor about Mr. Wheeler that I will no longer allow such horrible things being said about one of the students in my school, and then he went on to say I have been informed that five of the students at this school are responsible for spreading that nasty rumor about Mr. Wheeler and they all want to say something to everyone especially to Mr. Wheeler."

Then Jared Miller, Stan Peters, Jimmy Winter, Henry Bishop and Larry Connors all walked up on the stage and they walked over to the podium and Jared was the first to speak and he said "I'm responsible for starting the rumor that Joey Wheeler had AIDS and that he is gay because I wanted to get back at him for something that happened when we both were sophomores and I didn't care if it hurt him or not. I forced my friends to help me spread the rumor around school because if they didn't I said that I'd beat them up and I knew it wasn't right but I was so angry. Now I want to say a that I'm very sorry for what I did and I was to apologize personally to Joey Wheeler for talking shit about him behind his back and I know that he'll never forgive us I wanted to say sorry to him anyway."

Then one by one the other boys all stood up there and they all apologized for what they did and then they all went back and sat down as Mr. Horton walked back to the podium and he said "What was done to Joseph Wheeler was the most vicious thing that anyone could do to another person and because of what they did all the students involved are going to be suspended from school permanently and will never be able to enroll at Domino High again. Then Mr. Horton said this assembly is over and will all the students involved come to my Office and all the rest of you go to your next class."

When school was finally over for the day, Joey and Seto were waiting for the limo when students came over to Joey and they all apologized for listening to those rumors and some even apologized for talking about him behind his back." Seto told all of them "to go away and leave Joey alone and just maybe someday he can forgive them but for now leave him alone."

When they got home that day and as they held hands and walked into the Manor, Seto said "Let's go get something to eat and then we'll let Mokie know what's going on."

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Chapter Ten Coming Up...Seto finally asks Joey to marry him...