Here's the next chapter. I surprisingly had the idea for the next chapter just pop into my head. This is strange, because that hasn't been happening during my few other stories. Man, it's like one second I'm having writer's block for two weeks, then next thing you know, it just comes to me. I wonder if this is a cycle or something. Review please!

Even though Yugi and I didn't see each other as often, that wasn't to say that we never EVER saw each other for a whole day or something. We just never saw each other as often as before, due to overtime at work and being constantly tired. I'd help Yugi keep up with the house, since I felt it was only fair. She works so hard everyday it's not even funny, and probably dealing with me is the hardest one of all. Yugi tells me that I'm not a burden to her, but sometimes I feel like I kinda am sometimes.

Yugi was able to convince me to let my boss give me one day off of work, so I can catch up on sleep and not grow sick from overworking. Normally, I wouldn't care about that since my boss would be paying for any injuries or shit that happens to me during my job anyways, but Yugi's puppy dog eyes always won over anything I say. I swear, even when she's tired and has saggier eyes than me, she still knows how to make them irresistibly adorable.

I decided to use this day to gain some rest, since this is why Yugi convinced me to take one day off from work at 7Eleven. I opened the car door and let Yugi enter inside, so we would drive home from school. She sat in the front seat, as always, and I started the car and drove on my way to our apartment. I had my favorite station playing in the background of classic rock. I hate how the hip-hop and rap songs are being done these days, unless it's done by Green Day, Skillet, or some actual artists, who know how to make good music. Nickleback is okay sometimes.

Yugi turned down the music slightly as I kept my ears open.

"Joey, there's something I need to tell you... it's about Gloria," Yugi said, her voice seemingly calm and normal. I listened, too tired to make any groaning complaints. During the time, I didn't really care. "She only broke up with you, because she thought you were in love with me." I made no response to this. For one thing... Gloria was probably right. She could read my thoughts very well. "I know you don't wanna get back with her now, but... you think maybe you can at least forgive her and perhaps just stay as friends? Maybe it's better that way."

I kept my pause for a fairly long time. I didn't know how to reply to Yugi's request. Looking back, Gloria isn't a really bad girl. I mean she's a bitch, but she was molested as a kid, so that's probably why. She has alot of problems she deals with on a regular basis with her strict parents and uncle, who doesn't give a shit. The only reason I even dated Gloria was because... she just was one of the few people I could see myself as... the only one who could understand what I'm going through.

"I suppose," I muttered as Yugi leaned back against her seat and watched her thumbs twiddling. "I'm glad you told me."

"Are you still mad at her?"

"No... there's no point. Gloria was right... I never loved her to begin with and when I did, it was for the wrong reasons."

"Hm..." Yugi responded, still watching her thumbs twiddle.

"I'm glad you haven't dealt with the drama of having a boyfriend yet," I said, showing a sleepish smile. Yugi closed her eyes, her lips showing a firm line.

"That's because no guy has ever found me attractive. In fact, most of the school thinks I'm a guy, so I can't even have a boyfriend to save my life. Even the guys at work don't think I'm attractive. No pervert has bothered to look up my skirt."

"You shouldn't wish for a guy to look up your skirt, Yugi. Men can be very rough."

"I know that, but... I wish I was beautiful."

"Yugi..." I said, stopping the car as soon as we made it to our apartment. Yugi brought her legs up to her chin, her gold bangs hanging down from her face. "You're beautiful when you smile." Yugi's face popped up right at me, her face showing so much astonishment. She was trying to see if she heard me right. "I seriously appreciate your help... cleaning the house, doing my laundry, everything. You make my life so much easier in how you always brighten up my house and your smile gives out the glow to make my worst of days better. Even the sexiest girl could never show the kind of beauty you show, Yugi. If any guy saw that, they'd be crazy to not want you. Even Tristan has said that he couldn't say no to you when you smile and wishes you were living with him and not his sister."

I looked out from the corner of my eye and saw Yugi's eyes beginning to water. She almost jumped from across the seat and embraced me, crying in pure joy. I was shocked to no end by this reaction. I can't believe that I actually made Yugi cry, in a joyful manner of course.

"No one has ever appreciated what I did or tell me I show any kind of beauty! I've always tried to make you happy and I'm so filled with joy to know that I am! My father was never happy with me! He never said I was beautiful and hated it when I smiled!"

"Oh Yugi..." I responded, hugging Yugi back as tightly as I could.

As Yugi continually to cry on my shoulder, I continually hold her, rubbing her back gently. I want her to meet the right guy that would love her and take care of her. I want that guy to be the perfect prince charming for her, always taking her on exotic places, having a good and steady job that pays him lots of money, a high or middle class house with neat furniture and carpet, a quiet room for them, and an extra room for the kids and buy all the toys they could want.

I would never be that kind of guy for Yugi. I'm the kind that sleeps with other women, drinks and gets drunk two times a month, the hardest to put up with on a bad day, make everyone's life hard, and no matter how hard I try, I can't ever succeed in life. I want Yugi to live with me forever, but I know I would never make her happy. I would only make her life harder... just like I did with all my other ex girlfriends. I want Yugi to have a guy that would wipe her tears and treat her like a princess. She deserves it more than Cinderella. At least Cinderella kept her virginity and was never manhandled by a strong male. Yugi needs a boyfriend that could protect her more than me.

Yugi and I walked home and I began resting, Yugi tucking me in before getting ready for work. She rode her bike and I began snoring away. I did keep up with the house, while Yugi was at work, and made-up with Gloria over the phone. She did confirm that Yugi was right about her breaking up with me, because she saw I loved Yugi. I didn't deny that I loved Yugi, but I did take the News with understanding. We decided to stay friends, though informed her that I wasn't planning on dating Yugi anytime soon. Gloria told me that I would never find any girl like Yugi and I just replied to her that "I know."

That evening, I began going to work at the host club at an earlier time, since I was given more hours. I also was given more customers. I was cleaning the bar, wondering if there were going to be any more customers for me. I needed the money to pay my dad's debt shit.

I noticed Yugi entering the club, which almost made me lip, 'what the f***?' She's probably on errands. She waited at the counter as my boss came and talked with her on the other side of the counter. At least Yugi is not the greatest catch or she'd be in really big trouble. Still, coming here alone has to be the craziest thing she could do. At least this wasn't like the American bars, I heard the drunkards are rougher there.

"Wheeler!" My boss called me as I threw the rag on the counter away from the bar and walked to my boss. "This young lady says she needs to order a bottle of Tamba Wine!"

"Right away!" I replied, knowing exactly why Yugi wanted to pick up some wine... Tristan. He was still at work and sometimes did have Yugi do a few errands for him, if he couldn't do it or if his sister was being a bitch again. It could be either one today. Sometimes I wanna punch Tristan across the face. I mean Yugi doesn't need to be in a place like this! She's not a slut! I got out the wine and gave it to Yugi. "That's 1,365 yen."

"'kay," Yugi said, giving me 2,000 yen as I placed it in the cash register and gave her her change. "Please don't come back here or to any host club ever again. You're not safe around here. If Tristan wants you to do things, tell him what I told you and if he has anything to say about it, he can say shit to my face and get it himself."

"Thanks," Yugi said, showing a simple smile before walking out of the host club with the bottle of Tamba Win in her two small arms, cradling it.

"I've never seen you talk to any costumer like that, is she special?" My boss asked me with curious eyes.

"She's my roommate. She's not like the other whores, who come here. She's innocent and kind. She was only doing errands for Tristan, since he's at work and his sister's a bitch. If me or my friends ask her to do them a favor, she'll do it without asking questions or complaining. That's just how she is."

"Damn. What's that son of a bitch thinking having her come here in the first place? He can get his own damn wine."

"I'll be taking him straight to hell, believe me. I like Tristan, but he can be such an asshole sometimes."

"I'm surprised you're not dating her yet."

"If I was, I'd probably have to leave this place."

"True, true. Though, if you do end up with her and quit working here, I wouldn't count it against you."

I couldn't help, but chuckle. I could tell he was already liking Yugi a little. She was the only kind of girl any guy would like for her personality and not lustfully. I kept wishing that I had the power to make myself a better man for Yugi. I could never be the kind of man that would support Yugi. I could never be good enough for her... I was too... too filthy. I was just a low class white trash that slept with other women. Yugi could never be with a man like me... I wouldn't allow it.