Peggi: Eevee is here and she gives me such inspiration to write!
Eevee: I'm so glad! And now I finally get to see some updates!
Seto: Oh, joy. Go back to Florida!
Eevee: NO!
Peggi: Another cute chapter! I love naming my characters after my nicknames! It makes it feel more personal!
Seto: And makes me feel like I'm about to see my lunch again!
Peggi: Shut up or you'll be making out with Weevil.
Seto: Please read and review!
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Both Seto and Shiryu were amazed by how great the girls looked and neither knew the right word to explain how fantastic they looked. Shiryu's description seemed to work the best.
"Wow, Eevee, can you be any sexier?"
Eevee just smirked, knowing she looked good and deciding to flaunt it. Eevee walked up to Shiryu and wrapped her arm around his neck and pulled him into a kiss, a little 'yick!' escaping Peggi's lips.
"Okay, time to leave," Peggi interrupted their moment so as not to have to see something that would cause her more damage.
Eevee pulled away from Shiryu and grabbed the bag from the table and the three of them led the way out to the car, Seto following.
"I'm surprised you're letting Shark stay home by himself!" Eevee commented at Peggi allowing the boy to stay by himself for a night.
"I would be too, except I'm not letting your brother stay home alone. I don't trust anyone from my bloodline that is your brother stay alone in my house with my things and lots of breakable stuff like walls or a floor."
"Oh, who is doing the dirty work for the night?" Eevee wondered, not sure how it was possible to pay someone enough to watch him after the last time.
"Marik."
Both Eevee and Shiryu's eyes went wide at the thought of Marik ever being convinced to watch Shark for them.
"What did you have on him?" Shiryu asked.
"I won a bet and took some rather embarrassing photos, and I convinced him to exchange the photos for his wonderful offer to stay with Shark. Too bad I forgot to mention those doubles I had of the photos. . ."
Seto could only imagine what those pictures had been of and made a point to ask her to show him sometime. Oh what he wouldn't give for blackmail like that! There was a short battle over who should drive, and after not much of a struggle, it was decided that Shiryu should do the driving at least on the way to their destination. Seto was stuck in the back between the two girls and Shiryu felt that it was to his own benefit to travel next to the junk food.
For the first few minutes, Seto was silent but then his curiosity got the better of him.
"So, do I have to wait until we get there to know what we're doing?" he looked back and forth between the girls.
"Well," Peggi began, "think of this first segment as a really short road trip. We're going to be driving for a couple of hours to get to where we're going. Just enjoy the sights and try to relax and enjoy this!"
Seto sat back and listened to the music, trying to make the best of the situation. A song came on that Eevee and Peggi obviously knew really well because before the singing even began they both squealed and began doing a little dance. The singing began and suddenly Seto recognized the song.
"I know this!" he exclaimed, causing both girls to jump and Shiryu just laughed.
"Excited over knowing a song?" Shiryu laughed, turning the volume up, knowing that there would be three people instead of just two singing along with Phenomenon.
Mokuba had played this song loudly in his room enough times for Seto to have it memorized by this point, and he joined the girls who were singing loudly. Simon from American Idol would have a very fun time with the three of them at this point. Shiryu couldn't help but laugh at how hard they were trying to catch every last beat. Finally the three of them figured out how they sounded together and took their own parts to the song. By the time the next song came on, they were able to figure out who was going to sing what, and Seto even knew that song too!
The second song was Cold Remix Final and it was a perfect song because Shiryu decided to join in and take the female part of the song. Before long, Seto was lost in the music and the laughter that he completely forgot that he had ever been bored and that he'd ever questioned joining them on this little outing. After a few songs Seto didn't know one that came on and he and Eevee began to eat some of the junk food and for the first time he tried snack cakes. Shiryu had been the one to think ahead and had an entire small ice box filled with things to drink and they were all thankful for the caffeine after using up so much energy dancing in the back and singing.
An hour had already flown by before any of them realized it. Another song came on that Seto didn't know but both girls looked at each other and then Eevee got a big grin on her face.
"This is so your song, Seto!"
After a few seconds he laughed a little, when he realized that the song was something about being behind blue eyes and he just enjoyed the song while the other three tried to sing it. Finally they arrived at their destination and Seto looked around. He couldn't see any special reason to be there and honestly he didn't know why they were there at all.
"It's," he wasn't even sure where to begin, "a park? With playground equipment. Couldn't we have just gone to the school if this is where we were headed? And why couldn't Mokuba come?"
"Would you give up the fun you had on the drive here?" Shiryu asked.
Seto shrugged his shoulders, agreeing that the ride there had been the most fun he'd ever had in a car before.
"Don't worry; we didn't just come here to play at the park. That's just the cake. The icing on the cake is what's after dark. We're going somewhere else too, but we have to wait for it to get dark out."
Seto nodded and wondered what they could possibly be doing after dark, but figured that whatever it was, they'd have fun. Eevee had already run away and was sitting on a swing and Shiryu was pushing her on it. She was laughing and giggling and they were talking. Seto wasn't really sure what he was supposed to be doing, because when he was at a park it was always with Mokuba and he was just sitting around watching him.
Peggi grabbed Seto by the arm and dragged him over to one of the pieces of equipment, "Here, try this. Do you have a problem with feeling dizzy?" she laughed.
"Why? What is this?" he asked, not sure what the thing did.
"It's called a merry-go-round. It's really fun. You get on and then someone grabs it and runs around really fast until it starts moving in a circle and it can go really fast. It makes you dizzy but it makes you forget the rest of the world even exists."
Seto didn't really know if he liked the idea of riding this contraption, but he didn't have the time to protest before Peggi pushed him on. He wasn't really sure what to hold on to, so he just grabbed on to the bars. Peggi began pushing it and within only a few seconds it was going in circles and Peggi jumped on as well. The rush of the wind and the feeling of no weight anymore were actually a little thrilling.
Finally they were both dizzy enough and Seto suddenly wondered how they were supposed to get off.
"How do we make it stop?" he asked.
"You don't! You just jump!" Peggi stumbled over to him from the other side.
"What?!"
"Jump!"
Peggi grabbed Seto's hand and pulled him off. They both stumbled into the gigantic playground sandbox. Seto was sure he'd messed up his outfit. They both stood, stumbling around and Eevee walked up to them. She waved her hands in front of Peggi's face and Peggi fell over, dizzy. Both girls began laughing insanely and Seto tried to walk but everything was spinning around him. He now knew how people on drugs must've felt! After brushing off a rather large pile of dirt, Seto walked over to Shiryu and sat down on one of the swings next to him.
"So is this what you do a lot?" Seto asked, swinging slowly.
"Well, we don't come out and do this as often as I'd like, but we come out about every other week. We also have this thing we do every single Saturday. We pack up and head out towards the mountains. We go camping and don't come back until Monday. It's always a nice little getaway from the rest of the world. We've been doing it for quite some time but it never gets old and never gets boring."
He just smiled to Shiryu's response, thinking that something like that would be relaxing and actually sounded pretty nice. The rest of the evening was spent acting like children and playing 'tag'. Of course, the girls won because while they might've run a little bit slower, they were a bit more agile and always managed to get away. It was starting to get late in the evening, and they were all pretty much tired and decided to take a short rest before the big event.
Eevee and Shiryu were sitting on the swings just talking and Peggi was sitting on the top of the slide with her notebook in hand. Seto had been sitting on a bench just watching the sunset begin and decided to have some company. He climbed to the top of the slide and rested his chin on Peggi's shoulder.
"What are you drawing?" he asked her.
She just laughed a little, "Everything. Right now I'm working on those two goofballs."
He watched as lines appeared on the page and a picture began to appear. Each part of the picture was flawless and it all came together so nicely. After only a couple of minutes, there was a swing set, Eevee and Shiryu and a wonderful background filled with trees and the sun setting. After just a little shading the picture was finished, signed and dated and a new page was turned to.
"What will you draw now?" he asked, looking around the playground.
"I don't know," she replied.
"Can I see all of the new ones you've drawn?" he asked, holding a hand in front of her to take the notebook.
She handed it to him and he flipped through her newest pictures. There were several new ones in there, one of him and Shiryu when they were throwing pinecones back and forth, a collage or two of Eevee and Shiryu and a few collages of himself.
"Why don't you ever try drawing yourself? I've noticed that you take an image that you see and then add extra things to it to show what the person is feeling. The one you drew of Eevee in that black dress on the swings was great."
"Well," she sighed, "every time I draw myself it makes everyone so sad. I do draw what is in someone's heart and a lot of people don't understand how my heart works. I do have pictures of me in here. I could draw another one of you, if you'd like."
Seto nodded and thought of how he wanted the basic picture to look. He stood on the ladder to the slide, and Peggi laid down on the slide so that she was facing him, holding herself up easily. Seto had his head resting in his hands on the top of the slide and relaxed so he wouldn't have to move while she was drawing. It wasn't long at all and Peggi already had the picture finished. Seto climbed up to the top of the slide and sat down, Peggi holding on to the bars at the top and holding herself up to look at it with him.
It was actually really great and Seto loved the things she added. He was resting his head in one hand, a smirk on his face and holding a duel monster's card in his other hand, showing it off. It was the White Eyes Blue Dragon card he'd seen in her deck. He noticed something on the other side of the page and began to turn the page when she grabbed his hand.
"It's not ready yet," she explained, taking the notebook from him.
Seto smiled, "That picture was really good. I liked it a lot. You're very talented. Why can't you become an artist like you want to do?"
"Because I have talents that will get me a lot farther even if that means sacrificing a few things. It's the same as your choices. You chose to give up your dreams for the money."
Seto wanted to argue with her but what she said was true. He'd given up his dreams so that he could have money and help to raise Mokuba. He supposed that most of her choices were for her cousins but he had to know more about her.
"I hope this isn't too personal a question, but," he tried to think of how to ask this just in case it was too painful to hear or answer, "why do you take care of your cousins? You are only a teenager, about the same age as I am and you live on your own and struggle to get by. Don't you have parents here? Or did you move for some reason?"
He was getting at the question of was there child abuse involved but his answer made child abuse seem like a better answer.
"My parents are both dead. My father died when I was very young and my mom was my best friend but four years ago there was a terrible car accident and she was killed. She was on her way to pick me up from a friend's house and a drunk driver hit her head on. She didn't even make it to the hospital. I never even got to say goodbye."
Seto felt like he was about to cry. The way she explained it was almost like saying he'd lost Mokuba and there seemed to be a lot of pain in her voice, but he imagined she was hiding her feelings much like he did.
"Is that why you're so sad all of the time?" he asked, lowering his eyes and feeling terrible for bringing up such horrible memories for her but not being able to make himself shut up.
"Stop feeling sorry for me," she said, giving him a little kiss on the cheek, "I'm doing just fine. I've lost a lot of people I love throughout my life and life has been rough on me but I am thankful that I've been given what I have. I have a lot of people around me who love me, friends I wouldn't trade for all the money in the world and I have the best roommates anyone could ever ask for! I have a lot of complaints but I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's."
"I wish I saw things from your eyes. You have such a wonderful view of the world and no matter what happens to you, you seem to see the positive side."
"You should see her in the mornings when I make her wake up early!" Eevee laughed, walking up to them and smirking at the two.
Peggi looked around and realized how dark it was getting. It was about time to leave so she turned around and slid down the slide.
"I guess we should get going now!" she told Seto.
He climbed down and followed the girls and Shiryu to the car. He was actually a bit excited to see where they were going.
END OF CHAPTER ELEVEN
Peggi: The next chapter will definitly please the reviewers! Next chapter you get to know where everyone is going!
Seto: To bed. I want to go to bed!
Peggi: Fine. But just until the next chapter. I need you here for the next chapter!
Seto: Whatever.
Eevee: Whee! A new update! (is happy)
