Okay, so the main article everyone is (probably) wondering about my story is if Charybdis is basically me, Fish And Chips??

Well, the answer is yes and no. Charybdis is just a character I have conjured up with a mixture of different personalities and mixed together with a teensy drop of babyish and annoying characteristics. Of course I have analysed Charybdis' character using the wonderful method of….

Mind Maps!

Charybdis is a girl (duh), but could be anyone. She is just someone in my mind who I have created, you could think of her as yourself even, if you wish. Since this story is based off a teenager's diary, I thought it was best if this story was set from my OC's view, you could take a walk in her shoes, 'experience' her experiences, get to know her better and to think how we in reality get on with our lives, minus the Yu-Gi-Oh characters and the shadow Realm etc. I just wanted to try and make a story up with them in it, but at the same time concentrate on teenagers (which I am myself) as well. LOL.

Think of Domino High as your own school, Yami as your boyfriend (lol), Joey and the rest as your own friends, Charybdis' home as yours, and her family etc. In Chapter 1, I gave a description of Charybdis, but that was what I firstly wanted Charybdis to look like, I am a crap drawer but I have managed to visualize her features in my mind. However the more I wrote this story, it seemed that this story was starting to drift away from our teenage life and into a story with a teenager in it, and the more I believed that Charybdis was more than one person – if you get what I mean.

Charybdis, is not me, I enjoyed creating her character and played scenes in my head. I actually wanted my story to be published as a manga or a TV series, lol! The only thing I think Charybdis and I have in common is that we are both lazy (lol) and we both lack common sense (I mean that too!).

Chapter 21

Christmas Blues

Christmas Eve:

Little note: Decided to continue writing dateless entries for new diary of 2005. New diary of mine is just a black, leather plain, boring fat book mum bought for me from WHSmith while browsing through shelves. Unfortunately past diary is only a quarter full. Decided to try and write about half of entries in new diary and keep a small page in my diary for New Year Resolutions. Here are mine:

Snog (kiss) Yami breathless before Christmas under the mistletoe.

Hmm, I taped my chin with the pen. How about:

Snogging Yami breathless at Christmas under the mistletoe

Or just plain:

Go and snog Yami breathless before Christmas under the mistletoe

Anyways, I decided to just stick with 'Snog Yami breathless before Christmas under the mistletoe', and continued on with my task. Other New Year resolutions I wrote them down in my new diary and once again pondered for a while.

Lose one or two stone(s)

Study everyday

Do well in exams

Make new friends if possible

Give presents to all my friends at Christmas (not including Seto Kaiba)

Eat less junk food

Eat more healthy food

Keep Yami as my boyfriend for over at least a year or more

And lastly, I added in:

Try to keep to Resolutions

Christmas day:

At home, dad, mum, Callista and grandma are at home greeting the visitors – all my uncles, aunties and annoying cousins are currently at my home trashing up my room which is unluckily unlocked (I forgot to lock it, sighs, I'll have to clean it up tomorrow). And me? I am in the school hall standing in the deserted corridor that is in darkness since the only lights are open in the hall where our year is and in Rm101, which is the chemistry lab.

Watching other couples dance around, stay together in little duos tightly in each other's embrace, kiss and hug just made me realise how lonely I was in this little spot. I craned my head over to look at the flashes of blinding light from the spotlights on the ceiling from the corner. I had taken refuge from all the love into a small deserted corridor by the janitor's closet and sighed. I felt unhappy that I couldn't share my Christmas with Yami tonight. It was already 7:30pm, an hour and a half later. The party started at 6pm and Yami came to collect me at my house where my parents had agreed to let me go to the school party with my friends, but I had agreed to come back at 8pm.

I've only got thirty minutes left and I'm still not enjoying myself. Humph, and I still haven't kissed Yami breathless yet under the mistletoe. I haven't given presents to anyone yet either. Humph. This is not going as the way I had planned it to be. Humph, I can see Tea and Yugi under the mistletoe. Humph, I can see Tristan and Joey having a good time giving cheek to the teacher before our holidays. Humph, I can see Ryou and Duke both talking to girls in big groups at each corner. Humph, everyone's forgotten about me. Humph…. I don't like that thought!!

Humph, I lay sulking in the corner fiddling with my beaded net shawl over my jeans after thinking how much effort I had given into getting dressed for the party…

4pm: Goes up to bedroom after returning home from school. Takes off uniform and throws into wardrobe.

4:04pm: Sits on bed in undergarments pondering for a while. Door is locked, light is switched on.

4:25pm: Manages to get myself of from bed and walk over to open wardrobe.

4:25-4:30pm: Stares at clothes.

4:31pm-4:45pm: Thinking what to wear.

4:45-4:47pm: Still thinking….

4:49-4:58pm: Still thinking after skimming with my eyes through heaps and heaps of unfolded clothes.

5 pm-5:15pm: Ransacks through heaps of clothes in search of jeans. Locate pink, embroidered denims under a load of pants and vests. Sees dirty stain over bum. Throws back into pile saying 'NO' and searches for something else. Finds slightly flared dark blue denims with nice, red coloured net-like shawl over side like a long belt with little beads on it and puts it on.

5:20-5:35pm: Cannot find matching top. Gets out from room after unlocking door and heads to bathroom. Looks through dirty clothes stacked on bathroom's edge and finds nothing. Goes back into room and aaackk!! Just remembers nice reserved top for today is in wash!

5:34-5:46pm: Look for underwear only to find out that I'm wearing them already! D'oh!! Try desperately to find top. Finds horrible pink sweater and pulls it on. Looks at mirror and pull back off again. Then find a creamy white, tight top and pull it over. Bingo!

5:50-5:55pm: Am in deep trouble now. Yami is going to collect me at 6 and have not even brushed teeth or combed hair yet. Runs to bathroom to find that dad is occupying it.

5:56pm-5:58pm: Runs to WC only to find Mum there. Runs back up to En-Suite bathroom and combs hair, brushes teeth quickly and washes face by splashing water over me. Goes back into bedroom and slips on Yami's pendant.

6pm-6:05pm: Doorbell has rung. Oh god oh god oh god oh god. Yami is here. Kicked Callista's bum downstairs from her room to help me stall – again. Mum and dad also going downstairs to help me stall for time. Grandma is at Shrine.

6:08-6:12pm: Tries to locate bag. Found socks easily, but found bag in Callista's room only to find that she has been using it lately and that it's stuffed with her things.

6:15pm-6:20pm: really late now. Callista hisses to me to hurry up and 'Yami's waiting'. Speeds up my pace and ends up tripping down stairs.

"OOOF!! AHHH!! EEK!! YOOOW!!! OWWW! OOOH!!"

Followed by a 'thump', bong', 'weee', 'fwaaaa' and 'crack!' then finally I breathed; "I'm okay… really." BAM!

6:22pm-6:25pm: Rushes into room to find Yami already standing up to see if I was okay. Smiles sweetly at him and says 'I'm fine', but checks myself secretly and think I've broken my back. Secretly wincing as I'm putting boots on.

6:30pm-6:45pm: Walking beside Yami awkwardly while apologising. Back hurts terribly, feet hurts too, neck hurts as well.

6:47-6:50pm: Goes into dark empty alleyway with Yami and kiss for a moment, before breaking off reluctantly when seeing how late we were. Yami seemed rather disappointed that we couldn't kiss for longer. Reached school where disco lights are flashing through windows.

See?? See how much effort I tried to, ah?? But in the end we ended up being one hour late, and I found it really embarrassing when we came in, since everyone had already been here ages ago. Then everyone came up to us, and dragged us off into the hall where Yami changed back into Yugi for the moment since Tea wanted to dance with him so I'm all alone………

Well, not really, the leftover guys and me all walked off in our own little group after seeing Tea and Yugi both dancing with other students. Then we talked and you know, went to the buffet table filled with all sorts of food and cadies and stuffed our faces full. Then we all went our separate ways.

"Joey, where are you going?" I asked him as he sauntered away. He turned and faced me. "I'm just going to Rm101, they say some kids are holding duels there. See you later."

I didn't even know Rm101 was unlocked right now, let alone having several duelists looking for a scrap with others there. Well when they duel against Joey their definitely gonna lose to him.

"You too, Tristan?" I asked as the brown haired boy took off after Joey. He nodded. "Yup Happy Boo, Joey needs my support." And then he followed Joey into the room where the lights were on and I saw some students holding cards in their cards.

"What about you, Duke?" I asked him. He rested his chin in his hand and pondered. "I think I'll check out the ladies. Again." He waved to me and set off.

And Ryou?? Well he was at the buffet table and I decided to join him, so we had a couple of minutes of conversation until this girl asked him to dance.

It's already like, 7:40pm, huh?? I've only got 20 minutes left, and still no sign of Yami. Suddenly I got the feeling that I was all by myself. Alone at Christmas when I've got a nice boyfriend. I sighed, after hearing the song suddenly change to the slow, upbeat and boring but romantic song and instantly I felt more insulted, even when the DJ said: "This song is for couples only."

I took my back off from leaning against the wall and peeped out from a small corner to look at the current situation at the dance floor. I cannot locate Tea anywhere. I can see Joey sitting beside himself… all alone like me and had the urge to go up to him and ask him for a short dance, but then a girl beat me to it and I sulked more. I even spotted Duke, Ryou and Tristan dancing and felt ignored. I didn't even notice them creeping back up to the hall. So then I decided to creep over to them. The next song came on and everyone returned back. I spotted Tea and Yugi coming over and once felt as though the whole gang was active and together again.

"Wanna dance, Gurlie?" Joey asked me, holding his hand to me.

I shrugged. "Okay then!"

And we danced for a while (thankfully it was a fast song), before all the others came up and we all danced with each other. And we were also 'thrown back into time' at the Halloween party, where we were all having the time of our lives and laughing, playing, getting on each other's nerves. We exchanged presents finally. I received jewellery from Tea, and mostly chocolates from the boys. I also gave each of them chocolates too, Quality Streets and Milk Trays.

A few minutes later we all sat down on chairs exhausted. I got up and left the group and went to the toilets. Afterwards I exited the toilets noticing how dark it was in the empty corridor and shrugged. Then continued walking with my hands in my pockets.

Help me…….

Please…. Who are you?? Can you help me??

The voice was getting more and more clearer now. I froze, listening to see if it would come again but it didn't. What I didn't know, was that someone had crept up from behind me stealthily and quickly, and then two hands shot out and encircled my waist tightly. I 'eeked' as his voice breathed into my ear.

"Why so alone?"

I sighed, rolled my eyes and then glanced over at the side, trying to look at him but failed since my neck hurt from the fall back at home. "Shouldn't Yugi be in your place?"

"Do you want Yugi to swap over?" Yami teased, he began to nuzzle my neck and I squirmed a little but alas, his hold was too tight on me and I had the feeling that he didn't want me to let go this time. I was thinking of saying 'Stop that' to him.

"…… No." I replied glumly, and then I hung my head down low, my body sort of hung limp in his arms as well.

"Good, may I have this dance?"

I froze again, and then tried to turn over to face him but it hurt my back this time so I remained there, staring and thinking into space. But happiness was welling inside me already. "Yes yes yes!!" And I pulled him into position and began dancing. Yami chuckled. "Slow down."

So I did. I looked around us, hoping that no one was here. The whole corridor was empty, everyone was either preoccupied with their partners or either eating or talking. Tea was dancing around with Tristan; everyone seemed to have swapped partners. He grunted and suddenly I realised that I had stepped on his foot – with my high-heeled boots (the heel is approximately three inches high and two inches thick, poor dude….).

I cringed. "S-Sorry….."

He smiled reassuringly to me. "No, it's alright, I am fine."

Somehow I stepped onto his foot again and saw him wince even though he didn't say anything. Maybe he didn't want to spoil my mood?? I sulked again though, due to the fact because he didn't want to me to feel bad although I already feel bad, and soon burst into tears.

"What's wrong?" He asked me questioningly.

I sniffled. "I can't dance!!"

"And??"

"Well, I-I can't dance, what else??" I cried out hastily, and then I pushed myself against him and dug my face into his chest. Somehow I got the feeling that I was always crying in front of him. He chuckled again. He was really happy that I was practically throwing myself at him – which I wasn't. I've been making myself feel stupid in front of him. I howled and wailed, and he then he scooped my face up to his and kissed me on my forehead. I sniffled, and then broke off, giggling a little.

"Am I always annoying you?" I asked him quietly.

"No, I like the way you are, you are Charybdis; you are MY Charybdis." He said with a cheeky grin.

I blushed furiously and then let go of him. "I'm sorry for crying like that." I mumbled awkwardly, shuffling my feet. And then I sort of turned round to the door scratching my head. We both stood opposite each other in silence for a while.

I looked at him.

He looked at me.

I didn't stop looking at him.

He didn't stop either.

I bit my lip, then looked at my palms, and thought for a while, whether to do this was right or wrong. But afterwards felt as though I couldn't give a damn and flung my arms around him tightly without warning, my lips finding its way to his face and I began to plant long, trailing kisses over his face like a vacuum cleaner and he sort of backed a little, clearly not expecting this to happen. Well, I brought my own mistletoe and se this as one of my New Year Resolution, who can blame me??

Unfortunately I just remembered the book Callista gave me waaaaay back before, The 67 Techniques of Kissing, and wished that I had at least read more of it.

But then he succumbed quicker (only about one second later) than I had thought, and responded back to me like the way I had earlier. We weren't exactly like wild beasts tearing at each other but our hands were around each other closely as if we didn't want to let go of each other for years to come; mine around his neck and into his hair, his around my waist and I felt cosy and comfortable, and happy to be in his warm embrace. Our lips pressed around each other's passionately, we were sort of trying to go into a more private place at the same time while kissing but ended up walking together entangled in each other's embrace.

I bumped into the windowframe and winced. "Ouch…" I muttered as I detached my lips off his. He tightened his grip over me and chuckled audibly. I could practically feel his breathe over me and shivered. "Can we go to someplace else?? It's really uncomfortable here." I moaned. He didn't take his hands off from my waist. "Of course."

We walked around the empty corridor trying to find a place for some more privacy until halfway there Yami was already impatient and just grabbed me into an empty toilet cubicle of the ladies toilets. I cringed. "Yami." I hissed. "You're not supposed to be in here. This the female's toilet."

"I don't care." He murmured and then began to attack my neck with the power of his intense affectionate kisses. "As long as we're alone."

I made a weird noise. "Ow… I think you bit me." I said softly when I felt a slight pain on the side of my neck where Yami was currently working on.

"I was intending to do that." He replied.

I cringed. "Oh." I looked around our surroundings. It was awfully small, but private, Yami was practically all over me and his back was near the opposite wall. Then suddenly I heard this noise. I stopped him and he let go of me.

"Do you…. Hear that??" I whispered.

Yami paused and listened. There was a gentle thud of footsteps coming nearer and nearer our cubicle. I froze, then raising a shaky hand, I unlocked the door slowly and silently as possible; Yami watched me as if I was doing a stunt from Mission Impossible as I pushed the tab back, and then the door creaked as I turned the knob. I stopped instantly and the door stopped creaking. The footsteps also stopped too. We both glanced over at each other. Yami gave me a brief nod, so I continued onto the knob again. Turned it; it made another creak and I stopped again, but then turned it quickly that it didn't get the chance to creak.

Then I slowly, very slowly, poked my head over the door and froze. It was Tea. She was at the basin up a few 'cubicles' and just opposite some toilets. Luckily the cubicle we were in was at the end and she was at the middle basin opposite the middle toilet, about to open the taps and wash her hands.

I pulled back quickly and shut the door behind me quietly, then locked it again and it gave a slight 'click' noise. The noise would've been quiet mostly but because it was so quiet it was loud, extremely loud, like a coin dropping onto the floor and clattering non-stop. I held a palm over Yami's mouth to stop his laboured breathing. Was kissing really a sport?? I was sweating like mad, Yami seemed quite red in the face and blinked, and then I covered my own mouth with my other hand.

The taps closed, and we heard Tea walk over to the dryer and press the button where the loud dryer blew. We relaxed a little as the dryer blocked out all possible noise we emitted, and we both looked at each other again. I raised an eyebrow, hinting. He got the idea and pressed his lips back onto mine again.

Until the dryer stopped, I tried to get out from his arms again but he clung onto me too tight this time that I actually almost sat on the toilet. Clearly he did not want us to stop right now. I was more than happy to oblige to do so.

I heard Tea open the door and shut the door, leaving us to peace and I breathed a sigh of relief as I managed to pull Yami off me for a minute and grinned. "Phew that was close." I looked back at Yami again. "I think we should get out of here, it (sniffs for a couple of seconds) really stinks in here."

Yami nodded. "It's getting late."

We both clambered out from the toilet and opened the door to be in utter darkness. Our eyes had to adjust to the dark after just coming out from a bright light and we managed to make it back to the corridor we were about twenty minutes ago.

Help me…

I paused in my tracks, and turned round to face the dark corridor we just walked past. There was an eerie silence, and the corridor sort of rumbled, the darkness seemed to spread around me quickly and I turned to Yami nervously.

"Did…. You hear that??" I asked him curiously.

He looked at me. "No…. I didn't hear anything…."

Help me…. Please….

"I just heard it again!" I said.

Yami looked serious. "What did you hear, Charybdis?"

"It's this woman…. Or something, I can make out what she's saying. It's…. it's 'help me please'." I replied to him.

He put his hand around me. "How long have you been hearing this voice??"

"I…. It's been going on for… weeks, since we went to Ishizu's shop… its…" I spotted how solemn Yami looked and faked a laugh resulting in a sore throat. "It's nothing, really, I think its because I'm tired lately. Really."

Yami softened a little. "Charybdis, you must tell me, we'll help you."

"No, really, I'm fine!"

We both walked back to the hall in silence. I tried to keep my happy face on, but that voice… that creepy voice just keeps ringing in my head. I hugged Yami tightly. "You don't have to be worried about me."

"Charybdis….."

I nodded. "I'll be fine, I'll make sure. Oh yeah…. Um….. I love you, Yami." I said quietly; a blush swimming back over my cheeks as I said that.

Yami held me close. "I love you too, Charybdis." He kissed my forehead lightly, and then we both let go. He changed back into Yugi. "Charybdis, what are you doing here? Why aren't you with the others?" He asked me.

"Oh, I just had er… to step out for some fresh air, and then I just bumped into Yami." I replied quickly, wiping off my blush quickly.

"Oh, are you coming or not?"

"I'll be there, you don't have to wait for me."

Yugi nodded and ran back to the hall, where I stood facing he dark corridor behind me again.

Please…. Can you help me???

Who are you? What do you want with me?

I need help…. From you….

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I didn't tell Yami anything about hearing the voice again as we walked hand in hand back home. It was awfully quiet during our journey. I looked around us at the amazingly lit up neighbourhood where Santa's were hanging off chimneys and light up snowmen littered the gardens.

As soon as we got back, Yami pulled me into my dark backyard and we kissed. I didn't feel shy, but proud – sort of and placed my arms around his neck again. Right now my brain had switched off all the other knowledge that I know and had only concentrated on one thing – French kiss! He dug a sensual kiss over my lips with his, making sure every part of my mouth was pressed and nibbled tenderly. When he succumbed to my affection; I decided to try it out. I gently drove the tip of my tongue over his lips and he made this slight grunt and (I couldn't stop but giggle) opened his mouth to some extent for me to fully explore inside, but before I could even get to it: We ended up almost crashing down on the floor before I even got to the part (boo-hoo!) since we had nothing to lean on; Yami had taken several steps back with me in his arms against his chest making me have to deepen the kiss once more, and we had to immediately broke the passionate French kiss (I was very reluctant) or face the consequences of the rock, hard floor – I wondered how Yami felt at that moment….

Then suddenly, something landed on top of my head. I shrieked and he stepped back.

"Arghhhh!! Something's got my hair!! Something's got my hair!!! Get it off my fringe!! Get it off me!!" I shrieked frantically as I started to scratch at the top of my head desperately to get the unknown object off.

Yami sweat dropped as he saw me flail wildly around and kicking, and then, just by reaching over, he pulled something green out. He inspected the small shrub and smirked. I gawked at it in his fingers.

"Mistletoe??" I said questioningly, cocking my head to the side. "Where'd that come from????"

Then the porch light flickered on and we broke apart immediately. Callista and several of my annoying cousins were shining torches at us to light up more of the scene and I hissed in anger, and then began chasing them around and we were soon playing the game 'Tag' or 'Tig'. To make matters worse, Michelle forced me to kiss her dolly.

"EURGH!! I'm no dolly kisser!!" I yelled back at her.

"Charybdis kiss my dolly now!! KISS HER KISS HER KISS HER KISS HER KISS HER KISS HER!!!!!!" She screamed hysterically.

"OKAY!!! OKAY!!! Just, please… stop shouting!!"

I waved to Yami as he left, quickly pecked him on the cheek before anyone could notice and returned back to the house when he waved back to me. Something white floated past us, and then some more, and more, until it covered our heads. Everyone looked up. It was snowing!! I cheered again and threw my hands up above me smiling like a lunatic. It looked so elegant…. How the small particles of ice just danced and blew around us all, landing gracefully on the ground and then melting into nothingness.

I walked back inside the house only to be bombarded with my cousins who were smiling at me. Mum, dad and my other relatives were standing around the table. Callista was talking to Aunt Lin and her husband Uncle Steven. They all greeted me and I had to greet them politely back. "Well uh…. I'm going back to my room." I said and I made my way to the door before those brats all crowded around me.

"Wasn't that Yugi Moto?" They asked me.

I shook my head. "No, now leave me alone." And I nudged hem away from me and trudged up the stairs only to have them follow me.

"Who was that guy then?"

"None of your business." I replied. I stopped at my room, seeing that the door was shut. Did Callista help me lock it before I left?? Probably. Suddenly Jon and Don by my side shifted their feet uncomfortably. "Well we're going back to downstairs for some food." And they ran away. Then followed by Shannon who ran down after them, and then Michelle held up her Barbie doll clutched in her hands protectively. Ray blinked at me.

"I don't think you should go in there."

I paused. "Why not?" I asked them. "It's my room." Something fishy is in the air, and it's not the cod I've 'preserved' to come back alive 2000 years later in a block of ice in the freezer downstairs either.

So I turned the knob and opened it. Then switched the light on, and screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed. Ray and Michelle covered their ears. I stopped, my eyes popped out and Mum ran to the hall.

"Charybdis what's wrong?"

I froze at the very sight. My cupboards were all open, some stuff were on the floor, my diary lay shut (the key is in my pocket), my stationery kicked all over the floor, my duvet falling off the bed, the window half open, the curtains drawn messily, some of my stuff were missing, my homework jotters over my desk was scribbled over in red crayons and pens, my bag was on the floor – all the contents tipped out……..

……………

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This time I felt that Michelle and Ray were on my side. They glanced at each other. "Are you okay?" They asked nervously.

I clenched my fists. "JON, DON, SHANNON, YOU'RE GONNA GET IT NOW!!!!" And I ran downstairs. Oh well, people say you should forgive one another on Christmas, and I very reluctantly had to once mum caught up with me and hissed in my ear that I shouldn't fight with them today.

Sighs…. I'll get them on Boxing Day then. Merry Christmas everyone!

With love from Charybdis and her family, and their creator, Fish And Chips! Happy Holidays! XXX