Saying goodbye

The next day Mrs Stafford came about 10 o clock but was intending on taking Yugi at 2 so they could spend more time together. Yami helped Yugi pack his suitcase.

"Have you got enough there Yugi?" Yami asked looking at the small boy slightly smiling at him trying to shut his rather full suitcase.

"Yeah… I just…Have to…close… this… suitcase." He panted while still trying to shut his suitcase. Yami leaned over and helped him shut it. It made a small bang when they shut it, but even though, Yami looked at the two sleeping boys laid in the corner of his room. Tea had left early for a dance recital but said she would be back before Yugi leaves. The boys were just sat there curled up, and Yugi was surprised that Tristan was still sleeping thanks to the racket Joey was making with his snoring. Yami even claims he heard Joey talking about someone in his dreams. He let out a small giggle.

"What's so funny" Yugi asked him. Yami shook his head

"Oh…Erm nothing." Yugi just smiled then a frown.

"I remember when you used to laugh at nothing." Yami looked at him and picked him up.

"Yugi, I remember those memories too, but, the more we remember," Yami paused as he said this " the harder it is to forget" he would have sobbed with Yugi in his cradling arms, but the two sleeping piles in the corner of the room finally woke up. Well Tristan did.

"Whoa man." He moaned gripping his head and looking up at Yami and Yugi "what did I miss?"

"Well…" Yugi started but Yami cut him off

"Nothing, Tea's already left." Yami looked at Yugi and smiled at the small boy. Tristan looked at the too then felt someone hitting him with an arm. He immediately recognised it to be Joey so he smacked him in the face. Joey mumbled.

"Aw go away Ren (Serenity), big Bro Joey is gonna need da bit more sleep." Yami found himself trying to hold his laughter in, Yugi couldn't hold his in at all and Tristan just stared at Joey and smacked him even harder. He screamed.

"What, Whoa am up, am up!" Everyone laughed then "Where am I" Joey said in a dazed type of voice. Tristan put his hand to his to his head.

"Joey you dumbass! We're at Yami and Yugi's house." Yami looked at Yugi with a sad look on his face.

"Well soon to just be my house." Joey stared into deep space then realised what he was talking about.

"Aww is dat woman gonna cum fo Yug today?" Yami nodded "Couldn't she've waited till, a dunno next week?" Yami shook his head. Just then there was a knock on the door, Yugi thought it was his grandma up until he heard the voice?

"…Guys can I come in, are you decent?" they recognised it to be Tea's.

"OK Tea!" Yugi yelled. Tea walked in smiling at the 4 boys. Tristan looked up at the girl dressed in a dance outfit.

"Hey Tea, weren't you supposed to be doing some sort a dance thing today?" he asked. Tea nodded her head.

"Yeah, but the examiner couldn't get her car started so it's cancelled till next week." Joey smiled at her, for once!

"Awesome, now we get to spend some more time together before…before" he couldn't bring himself to say "before Yugi leaves us". They all looked sadly at each other till Yugi spoke up.

"Hey! How bout we play some games, we're all too grumpy." Yami smiled at the small boy in his arms.

"Always da one ta lighten up da mood ain't ya Yug." They all laughed and joked for a while not really realising where the time had gone just as Grandpa called them down for dinner. However none of them wanted to really eat with Mrs Strafford. They decided not to come downstairs, that was until grandpa came up and told them that she had gone shopping. They all smiled at Grandpa and followed him downstairs.

Normally dinnertimes were full of conversations, with Joey shouting halfway across the table at Tristan who was next to him. Yami and Yugi giggling, and Tea and grandpa just doing there own little thing, but now. Everyone was silent, there was no yelling, everyone was silently eating there food. After dinner they headed back upstairs and time flew by once again.

Grandpa waited downstairs for Mrs Strafford's return. The supermarket that she went to wasn't very far, but if he knew woman well enough, God knows what she was looking to buy. But that's not really what he was thinking of.

"I wonder how this will treat the youngens" he thought, all that was going through his mind was how Yami and Yugi were going to get through being apart when they've grew so close. He felt saddened at the thought of Yami drifting into sadness and depression because Yugi is gone. How will Yugi feel in a home with just his grandmother who he's never met? He continued to think then looked at the clock. It was 1:15,

"She should e returning soon" he thought. But like Magic, just as he said that she came thought the door.

"Miss." He stood up and walked over to the woman carrying the 6 filled shopping bags in her arms. "Would you like a hand there?" She looked at him sternly.

"Well, I've managed getting them here I hardly believe assistance is needed getting them 5 seconds through the door" Grandpa could hear the attitude in her voice and for the first time, instead of feeling sorry for Yugi, he was feeling fearful for the small boy. She quickly put on a small smile.

"Just so you're aware, I'll be leaving with Yugi in about ten minutes." Grandpa was shocked.

"But you said your train wasn't till 2 'o' clock?" She nodded.

"I know but, you know how trains are, sometimes early sometimes late." She said calmly, Grandpa scowled but didn't bother to argue. Instead he went to tell the boys about the new found plans.

All was quiet in Yami's room as the teens and Yugi just sat talking. About nothing In particular when grandpa came in. Yami held Yugi close to him.

"Yami" he said sadly. Yami looked solemnly at his grandpa.

"How much time do we have left Grandpa before…" he looked at Yugi who was silently crying in his arms. "Shh Yugi" he cooed.

"Yami I don't want to go, I want to stay with you" he whined still crying uncontrollably. His friends looked in awe at the two but knew they couldn't do or say anything that would change this woman's mind.

"She wants to leave early because she was complaining bout the trains." Tristan and Tea looked shocked. Yami held Yugi closer to him, starting to cry himself now. Joey shouted.

"Why that! She knows we is all upset dat she's takin' Yug away, and der she goes en makes it worse!" the others agreed except Yugi who continued to cry in his now-friend-more-than-brother's shoulders. They all changed their expressions when they heard Mrs Stafford calling from downstairs.

"Oh Yugi dear, are you ready, it's time to go." That woman's voice was like a poisonous snake right in front of them and her words were like a knife through their hearts, she was taking Yugi away now, not in a few minutes, or had it been that long. No one knew. The silence could only be heard in the room till Yugi screamed.

"NO!! I don't want to go, Yami, please don't let her take me away." He sobbed his little heart out; Yami felt as though he had stopped in time like he couldn't move, couldn't do anything. Grandpa felt cold, felt frozen for having to witness his sons being apart, the three teens just stood in utter silence, feeling numb. They all just wanted to stay up there, that was until SHE came up and hurried them all.

"Look, I don't know about you, but I have a train to catch and a grandson to look after!" the sternness in her voice brought Yami back to earth and he honestly had seconds thoughts about wanting to put Yugi in this woman's care.

"Wait" he halted her after she grabbed Yugi and took off. "Can't we have an address or a phone number so we can at least see Yugi Again?" she shook her head.

"We'll be living very far away from hear and it's a complicated route which I myself have taken Many years to get right." She sounded as though she was lying to Joey and Tristan but the other reluctantly nodded their heads. Yami was stunned

"So you're saying that we won't ever see Yugi again" Yami cried saying those words. She nodded as though she didn't care. Yami felt offended by this. Before long she began complaining and saying her very short goodbyes.

"Well, now come on before we miss our train" she yelled sternly again.

"WAIT!" Joey yelled from coming in the kitchen – not that anyone had realised he'd left – "I want ya da have summin, ya no so ya don't forget us, Yeah" he held out his cricket bat, the one Yugi remembered playing with when they taught him how to play.

"But Joey…" he said in between tears "I can't take this it's yours" Joey smiled and sighed.

"Nah av got tons a home, here you take it." Yugi smiled and ran into Joey's arms, Joey felt tears swelling up in his eyes, he didn't wanna let this kid go either. That was until Mrs Stafford came and tugged him away. "Goodbye… Yugi" he felt himself saying before letting the tears flow.