FORwarD
Book 2 Chapter 6
Intoxication
Jane's Car
Yami and Jane
Jane's P.O.V
"We'll never get there." Yami criticized in a low voice, sitting in the passenger seat with his arms crossed and looking at the road. He knows I am a horrible driver...Why did I have to insist? His bare arms weren't helping any...
"So, after the bank, you'll drop me off at the mall, right?" I asked, reminding the Pharaoh.
"Why do you want to go shopping on your own?" Yami started, "Let me keep you company."
"No, It's okay! I wanna go alone." I said...I wanted to smack myself. Why can't I just tell him the truth about Yuu?
"Pay attention to the road!" He said with a growl in his voice, and I stopped, almost running over a stop sign.
"You don't have to yell at me!" I complained and he sighed.
"Pull over. I'm driving." He told me and I listened. I am too distracted to drive anyway...It'll be more fun watching him behind the wheel.
And, in case you haven't noticed...the Pharaoh is not in the best mood. None of us are. Not when we had to spend our entire weekend cleaning up the house that was completely destroyed by a party that went out of control... so out of control that you would not believe what took place that night...
2 Nights Earlier
Everyone..literally
Narrator's P.O.V
A rainy summer night on a Friday...no one was working. The house shook in rhythm with the music, and everyone was enjoying themselves like it was the last day of their lives. There was chaos going on in almost every room of the house..including the kitchen where Tristan and Joey set up a ping pong table where a ping pong ball was rarely used. Instead, they were using beer.
"Watch, this one is going to make it..." Tristan said, aiming for one of the cups on Joey's side of the table. Both of them had so much to drink, that they could hardly stand up straight, let alone aim. Both Jane and Diana were watching the game, shaking their heads and thinking that alcohol is never worth a hang over the next day.
"Here you are, ladies." Duke said, entering the room and handing both girls two large pink cocktails, decorated with paper umbrellas. They hesitated.
"No thanks, Duke. We're aren't much to drink..." Jane started. Diana took the glass to avoid being rude...especially to someone as good looking as Devlin.
"I know," Duke said, caressing the back of his index finger on both their cheeks for a quick second, "there is no alcohol. They're just fruit smoothies. I made 'em myself."
Jane took the cocktail and almost spilled it when she was startled by Joey and Tristan's screaming over beer pong. "Wow, Duke. That was nice of you."
"Yeah..." Diana agreed as she blushed.
Of course, Duke was a nice person. But sometimes it is hard to see his kind nature when he's blinded by woman he is interested in, because those cocktails did indeed have alcohol. In fact, they were very strong. So strong, that just one of them can make you drunk enough and affect your behavior quite a bit.
"Enjoy." He winked and walked out of the kitchen. Both the girls took a sip from their drinks through the coloured bendy straws and played with the umbrellas as they examined the taste.
"Wow. That's really good." Diana complimented, "I didn't know Duke was such a bartender. I might ask him for a second one."
Jane laughed as she took another sip.
"Its not bad." She agreed but did not love it enough for seconds. Then, the girls burst into laughter when Tristan and Joey broke out into a wrestle on the floor.
During all of this, Yugi was apologizing to the Pharaoh repeatedly for hiding the plans of the crazy house party from him. Yami couldn't possibly stay mad at Yugi...especially since the only reason he kept it a secret was because he wanted an excuse to invite Rebecca. Silly Yugi...Yami sighed.
"Alright, it's fine, Yugi." He said, turning his head. "Although, could you explain what Bandit Keith is doing here?"
Yugi laughed with a sweat-drop but with a shortage amount of time to explain when Ishizu Ishtar interrupted their conversation.
"Good Evening, my King. It is a great honour to be in your presence once again." She said in her smooth voice, bowing before the Pharaoh. Yami nodded to her with a smile.
"Likewise. I am content to see that you are well, Ishizu." He politely replied, almost forgetting the circumstances. Talking to someone from his past always made him feel at home.
"Yugi!" A familiar voice said. Rebecca ran into the circle and groped Yugi's arm. Her long loose hair was only growing and, just like Yugi's, her body was coming to form of a young teenage woman.
"Uh, Hey Rebecca." Yugi stuttered.
"Where did you go? You left me all alone!" She pretended to whine before her face became flirtatious. "I was already starting to miss you..."
Yugi blushed as she dragged him to another room and the Pharaoh smiled, holding his arm behind Ishizu's back with the intent to guide her to one of the couches. "Please, have a seat." He told her, ready to catch up. Although with everything going on, he was wondering where and what the girls were doing.
"This is where you sleep!?" Illia said with wide eyes as she jogged into Link's room. She was acquainted with most of the girls in the house but since she was the only visitor from Hyrule, Link felt that he should stay with her during the remainder of the party. He wanted to invite Midna, but unfortunately, he has had little luck in her scavenge.
"Yeah...quite the update from my tree house, huh?" Link said as he watched her from the doorway.
"I remember this!" Illia said when she saw her photo with him on his night table. "I have the same picture." She laughed, remembering their day at the stable.
"Haha, yeah. I was telling Dee about it. I wish I could bring my friends to see Hyrule." Link smiled.
"Who's Dee?" Illia asked. Link ended his lean on the door frame.
"She's one of the girls that lives with here with us." Her smiling stopped when she noticed a picture hidden under Link's pillow. She pulled it out and discovered Diana's drawing of Link imagining himself doing the cloud thing with her.
"What's this?" She asked and when Link saw what she had found, he quickly snatched it as he became flustered. The last thing he needed was for Illia to think he and Dee had a thing...especially since he just spoke of her.
"That's just a stupid drawing." He insulted it and shoved it into a drawer so that Illia wouldn't assume anything. When he turned back around, he saw that Diana had heard his comment and was on her way down the stairs. Link felt a stab in his gut and he felt horrible.
"Urgh.." He grunted, brushing his hair with his fingers roughly, thinking how insensitive he was. "Give me a minute, Illia." He said before going after Diana to apologize.
"WOOO!" Rebecca and Yugi heard cheers coming from the other room and Yugi laughed.
"That sounded like Mai." He said, gesturing for Becca to follow him. "Let's check it out."
When they got downstairs, they found Mai cheering for a duel between Leon and Marik. She was hysterically dancing to the music and acting nuts but that wasn't the weird part. The weird part was that Jane was acting just as nuts next to her...
Mai removed her tight top and began dancing provocatively with Jane in front of everyone in the main lobby. They swayed their hips together, grinding back to back and digging their hands in their hair and scrunching it sexually. Mai was making eye contact with all of the men while Jane's eyes were hardly open as though she was hypnotized and all that was keeping her alive was the music.
They were very into it and their audience was growing.
Mai tugged on Jane's jeans and rode her hand up beneath her snug, thin, long sleeve sweater and revealing her tummy when suddenly the Pharaoh intervened and stopped her, holding his arm around Jane's neck with his palm on her shoulder to prevent any clothing from coming off.
"That's enough, Mai." He said, holding Mai's shirt that had been on the ground and handed it to her. He looked at Jane's face and Mai chuckled through her watery eyes.
"We were just fooling around, Pharaoh!" Mai said, putting on her shirt inside out.
"Hmph." Yami pulled Jane away from the chaos, ignoring the booing from the other drunk men and lead her under the main staircase so that they were alone and isolated. He helped her lean against the wall and he lifted her chin up so that she was looking at his face. She continue to giggle until she saw the intensity of his eyes.
"What's gotten into you?" He asked her and she pushed his hand away from her face and lazily turned her head to look away from him.
"We were just having fun..." She said and the Pharaoh blinked a few times when he had realized that she had been drinking. He rubbed his temples. She hates alcohol...why would she...?
"You're intoxicated." He said to her and she slid against the wall and landed on the ground to control her dizziness. He joined her near the floor, and watched her for a few seconds, rubbing her shoulder to calm her down and help ease her vision that was plausibly blurry. He took her hair tie from her wrist and tied her hair away from her face since it had been sticking to her moist lips.
"No I'm not. I haven't even been drinking." She replied very late, processing sentences slowly due to her damaged state. Her head was spinning and at times it was wild and others, it was painful. She leaned back and pressed her hand on the Pharaoh's chest for balance. Her touch stunned him...as though she had powers of paralysis. She felt his broad pectorals under her hand without taking her eyes off of them and the short pause was quiet...with only the sounds of their breathing in the midst of the music in the background.
"I never see you work out..." Jane said in a breathy voice, telling the Pharaoh that his figure is delusive. He was still moved by her palm and remained silent.
"Yuu works out...but he's not as built as you are." She said with a promiscuous smile.
"...Yuu?" The Pharaoh asked with arched eyebrows. He wasn't familiar with the name...and it snapped him out of it. "Who is Yuu?"
Jane released her hold on him to put her hand near her heart.
"He's the love of my life." She said slowly, closing her eyes and looking sad. Although, for some reason, he did not enjoy hearing that, the Pharaoh did not react. Besides, she was drunk.
"Why do you say this with such unhappiness?" He asked her. Jane fiddled with her loose ponytail.
"Because he's not the only one..." She said and the Pharaoh was curious now. He helped her to her feet.
"There is another?...Who?" He asked her, expecting her to come up with another unfamiliar name. She paused.
"Atem." She said, her smile turning into a small laugh. "Aren't I a mess? I'm in love with two guys and they don't even know the other one exists...I'm such a fuck up."
And for once, the Pharaoh was tied into a knot. Never had he been in such a strange situation where he was at a loss for words. He brushed her bangs back behind her ear without responding and decided to accept that she was just babbling words under the influence of alcohol and that it meant nothing...but it didn't stop him from sharing a captivating gaze with her...and letting his thoughts wander.
"Why are you eyes purple?" She asked him and the Pharaoh closed them.
"AWW! GROSS! Aaahahaha" The Pharaoh heard others complaining right after the sound of someone being sick. Yami sighed. That had better not be on the carpets...
"So, you really want me to stay?" Rebecca asked in her sincerest voice after Yugi asked her to stay longer than just for the day.
"Sure!," He started with enthusiasm, "Mai, Joey and Duke are here all the time and I'm usually with Junior so...having you around would be fun."
Junior bounced on Yugi's leg with Gumball and grunted.
"Hey, don't you like me, Yugi?" Junior asked in his sweet voice. Yugi laughed and winked at Rebecca.
"Of course I do, J!" Yugi said as he hugged him.
"So, it's you guys, Link, the Pharaoh, Jane and Dee that live here?" Rebecca asked and nodded.
"Yup. The six of us. And we're pretty happy, too!" Yugi answered and Rebecca smiled.
"That's good. You guys went through a lot in Domino City. Maybe this is a better world for you after all."
"It's complicated. I miss home and the Pharaoh wishes he could visit Egypt more often than he does...Link also wishes he could visit Hyrule more but...we've become so settled that it's hard." Yugi explained and Junior's hood slipped off.
"You guys are all silly. This is the greatest world ever." Junior said smiling. He made his judgments based on his camera and pig alone.
"Well then, maybe I should move here too." Rebecca winked. Yugi twitched, not taking it as a simple joke. He would love it more than anything if he could be with her all of the time. But he was too proud to say it or even tell anyone that he thinks of Rebecca as his long distance girlfriend. He wondered if she thought the same about him or...if she just showered him with admiration because he shared a tittle with the King of Games.
"Dee, hold on!" Link said as he followed her into the dinning room. He slid the doors shut behind him so that they had more privacy and he grabbed her left hand to force her to turn around. He had been chasing her since the second floor. "I'm sorry, I only called it stupid because I didn't want Illia to think that we..."
"You're embarrassed of me." Diana said, leaning her lower back against the glass table. "It's because I'm fat, right?"
Link's timid shoulders relaxed and he sighed. "Dee, that is not-"
Diana interrupted with her laugh and Link felt confused. What was wrong with her?
"Why do you wear these?" She asked, grabbing and touching his forearm to examine the feeling of his gloves. "Not that I'm complaining. They're hot."
Link grunted and blushed slightly. "I just got so used to them-"
"And the hat?" Diana was all about interrupting Link tonight. She lifted her arms up and wrapped her hands behind Link's head...looking at him with flirtatious eyes and then, pulled her arms back and taking his hat from him. She laughed, knowing she made him think she was going to do something else.
"Hey!" He smiled, impressed with her trick. For a minute there, he thought his friend was going lay a smooch on him. She smiled back, hiding part of her face in the hat and walking backwards. He copied her pace to get it back and she lead him all the way to the other side of the table. He tried to take it from her without being too rough but she kept dodging, holding it behind her and causing Link to put both arms around her to try to get it. He was close, but if he went any more forceful, his over powered strength would hurt the fragile girl so instead he decided to try another tactic.
"Ahahaha," Diana laughed when Link started poking and tickling her ribs and successfully yanking the hat from her grip. When he had it, he walked back two paces so that it was out of her reach.
"You're full of energy, today." He said as he fixed the hat in his hands while Diana sat herself on the table.
"Wait, let me do it," Diana said, holding her hand out. "I wont take it this time I promise."
What? Link hesitated at first with a side ways smile of are you sure before realizing that she looked too comfortable on the table to run away with it so he listened. Although she was probably going to mess up his hair or something, he decided the risks weren't so severe.
When he was standing in front of her, Diana was elevated from the table so their heights matched. She separated her knees so that he can stand between them to be close enough for her to fix his lid. She took the hat and gently slid it on Link's head, pulling his bangs out from under it and framing it nicely as though she was painting him. However, she was so drunk that she was hardly doing a good job. Link helped her with one hand and she didn't even pay mind to it. All she could think about was how close his face was to hers and how sexy he looked while he looked up at his hair and brushed it down... and... she could feel the side if his hips on her knees.
And his lips...his full moist lips were right there...right there...
Diana knew this was a dream and remembered that she controlled her dreams. She could do whatever she wanted.
When Link realized how close Diana's face was to his, he knew she was drunk. One of his favourite things about this girl was how timid and shy she was. This was not the timid and shy Diana that he was used to. She would flail to the ends of the earth if a boy ever just tried to hug her. Link twitched when he felt Diana had moved closer. Her hands were still holding each side of his hat and he had no means of escaping...but...he didn't really want to escape. He was curious to know what she was doing.
She let go of his hat to slowly bring one small hand behind his neck under his hat and the other by his jaw...just the tip of her fingers touching his elongated ears. Link's blue eyes reflected Diana's gaze as she was giggling so softly that it hardly vibrated her chest.
She kissed him for a split second and Link's body felt a cold chill. He's only ever been kissed by a girl once before but this was weird.
Diana's lips hovered over Link's after she kissed him the first time and their breathes collided with each other so quietly and yet it urged them both to do it again. Link's eyes were barely open and his arms were frozen at his sides, completely confused at where to go as if they had a mind of their own.
As if they both had a green light to say go in their heads, Diana and Link met each other half way and pressed their lips together again. This time, not pulling back.
Link hated to admit to himself how comfortable he was feeling but...was it wrong to take advantage of her? She was vulnerable. Link hadn't even noticed that the little minds of his arms had pulled himself in, making him stand in between her thighs now, instead of her knees. And when he was pulled in that moment, Diana turned her head and both of them re-positioned themselves so that the kiss would last longer...
Ch-chik*
Link saw a sudden redness behind his eyelids and quickly pulled away from Diana to see what it was. He held her waist to keep her in place and when he failed to see anything, he leaned in to continue but stopped himself. That was enough. He can't continue to do this to a woman who cant give consent.
Link loosened his grip on her shirt where it had crinkled from his hold and rubbed her cheeks with his palms once before rushing out and almost tripping over his feet through the sliding doors. He pushed through the crowd in the kitchen and forced himself through the hall and into the lounge, knocking into the Pharaoh without paying attention.
"Grunt, sorry, Pharaoh." He said, holding his hands up apologetically and fighting his poor balance to stand up straight.
"Link? Are you alright?" Yami asked him when he noticed that his friend was feeling nervous.
"Yeah...I think so." He responded in a breathy voice, "Hey, has Diana been drinking?"
"I don't know for certain, but I definitely believe so. Jane is also intoxicated..." The Pharaoh said his last sentence while looking at Jane as she knelt on the ground near the VCR, cranking up the Karaoke machine. "By the way, Link. Do you know of any one who goes by the name of, Yuu?"
"Huh?" Link's attention was divided. "Oh, no. Doesn't sound familiar."
When Yami saw that he was distracted, his eyes arched. "Something wrong?"
Link flicked his bottom lip side ways with his thumb, noticing that Diana's trace still rested on it.
"Nothing." He said, pretended to be interested in what Jane and Joey were doing with the machine.
"Link..." Yami said in a tone of concern. He wasn't concerned about something bothering Link. He was a man, he can handle himself. His concern came from why he was hiding it.
"Grunt it's just..." Link was interrupted by a booming volume speaker that Jane and Joey panicked to lower.
"Hahaha, my bad!" Jane said, scratching the back of her head. "Okay! We're ready to get going!" She clapped her hands pushed the table out of the way so that there was room. Link blinked.
"She doesn't look drunk?" Link said when he saw that Jane was being her usual energetic self. She saw Link looking in her direction and she jogged up to him.
"Sing with me!" She said, grabbing his arm. Link blinked. Twice.
"Grunt, right now? In front of everyone?" Link was regretting what he said. Jane would never sing in front of a crowd.
"Why not?! You said we were a duo!" She went on. The Pharaoh did not look happy. He was incredibly disappointed that Jane lowered herself to losing her control with her drinks.
Present Day
There isn't much of anything specific after that... at least not anything worth noting...
"Alright. Be safe." The Pharaoh said when he stopped the car in front of the mall. Jane scanned the area quickly, making sure that Jacob was not in their view.
"Alright." She said, opening the door when Yami stopped her by grabbing her left arm.
"How are you getting home?" He asked seriously.
"Uh. I'm not sure." Jane fluttered her eyes. "Wanna pick me up?"
The Pharaoh didn't even deny to himself that he did. "I'll be here at 6."
"Thanks." She said with a smile before pushing her weight off the seat and shutting the door. The Pharaoh crossed both forearms on the wheel, leaned forward and focusing his vision on her...watching her enter the mall. His third eye sang and it really puzzled him...that someone could be so interested in shopping for 4 hours...all by themselves. Yami switched gears without taking his eyes off the doors in serious suspicious thought and...made a plan for himself; He's going to pick her up early.
A/N: Soooooooooo DAMN. I am so against alcohol but it makes for such great story material! I couldn't resist! I hope you guys don't think this chapter was forced... But it sort of was. I mean, if you guys know Diana IRL, you would know she is too shy for her own good. If I wanted any sort of progress with her character, I would need something drastic like this and, since it would be out of character, I thought making her drunk would be the easiest way. I know it's cliche, but it works. And now poor Link is left alone and completely confused with his thoughts. As for Jane...yeah she fucked up. Yami knows that she loves a man named Yuu now, and looks to me he's very interested in learning more. Why though? Does the king have feelings for Jane? Pshh obviously he does. I wonder when he'll admit them. Thanks for reading guys!
