Pharaoh Felicia-Patience is a virtue. It builds character.

DeathsIllusion-I agree. Actually, I might not post cursed next, I kind of want to post a non-Yu-Gi-Oh mpreg. Maybe I'll post it and A Yu-Gi-Oh one (after WDBCF). I could probably post the non-Yu-Gi-Oh one once a week and keep up the Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic at the same pace as this one...

ahilty-What? No. Duke told everyone.

Anonymous-Yes. I am slowly beheading every character in Yu-Gi-Oh MWAHAHAHAHA

dragonlady222-Writing mood swings is fun.

journey maker-Malik should take responsability, but he doesn't seem to be. At least he told Ryou what was going on, right?

guardian921-Okay.

Chapter 10

For all the talk Yugi did about how this sort of thing was only a hot topic for a couple weeks at best, the story I'd made up about being raped to excuse my current condition was still buzzing around school a month later.

It was weird. Some kid had called me a whore the second day I'd been in school after the secret got out. The teacher actually told him I'd been raped, then when the guy said I was lying Malik stood up and said it was true-because he'd been there. Then there was the whole 'Why didn't you stop it thing' and I said he'd been knocked out.

So now I was an unjustly-pregnant freak and Malik was a best-friend-dumping hero.

Wonderful.

The rumors had almost died down, but then someone pointed out that my stomach was getting bigger and boom suddenly it's in every discussion in the hallway.

If I were registered as a girl would it have been as big of a deal that I got pregnant? Probably not.

Yugi had seen me stressing out over the return of the rumors and had talked me into skipping school with him.

So here we were…

"Yugi, this was an awful idea"

"But you needed to get away from school, besides you loved this amusement park when we came he in the summer"

"But Yugi, I'm pregnant. I can't go on any rides"

The silence that followed wasn't awkward or tense. It was just… silent.

"Oh… well… where should we go then? Home is out of the question, we don't want anyone knowing we skipped school. How about the arcades?"

"Well..."

Yugi patter my stomach, showing more than I wanted it too at 14 weeks. "Hey baby, do you want to go to the arcade with me and mommy?"

I turned bright, bright red "YUGI! You can't-I mean-"

"If you hate being called mommy you should talk to your dad about having that surgery right after birth. I still think it was stupid that they put it off for even this long"

"Yeah…" I looked away. Those rides looked so fun. It wasn't fair that I couldn't get on any of them "Let's go to the arcade"

SC

The arcades were crowded with little kids, young adults (about college aged flunkies to be) and other kids like us who were taking an extra day off from school.

"I thought we wouldn't have as much competition for getting to play games since school is going on still" Yugi apologized.

"S'okay. It's crowded, but no where near as much as when school's out. This will work"

Yugi nodded and led me to some fighting games. He won. Next we tried a racing game. He won. Then an action game. He won. Then a puzzle game. Obviously, he won.

"Yugi, can't you take it a little easy on me?"

"Ryou?"

I flinched. That voice. I didn't hear it to often but I could recognize it. I turned around slowly and grinned sheepishly "Um…. Hi dad. What are you doing here?"

He glared at me "Shouldn't you be at school?"

"Are you Ryou's dad?" Yugi cut in "Nice to meet you. I'm Yugi, I'm a friend of your son's"

Amazingly, this distracted my father "Really, well, I'm Yaten Bakura. Pleasure to meet one of Ryou's little friends that I hear so much about…" he trailed of and looked at Yugi's hand, which he'd just shook "Wait… shouldn't you both be at school?"

"I'm sorry" Yugi apologized "Ryou was really stressed out by everything going on at school so I talked him into skipping a day with me"

My father didn't look to happy "Well, before I ask what's going on at school, I suppose I have another question: he looked back at me "What's with the hospital bills I keep getting?"

I thought they would have told him "I… I um…"

"Ryou's pregnant" Yugi told him "Someone raped him. I wasn't there, but Malik was so you can ask him if you don't trust us"

Dad passed out.

Yup. This was exactly what I needed. A nice, fun, stress free day.

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SnowCreek: I'm gonna end it there, just cuzz it seems like a nice spot to end a chapter, rather than a scene change.

Merry Christmas everyone.