**Passion Days**
CHAPTER 4: Making a Slapstick Comedy Show Out of a Hospital
AUTHOR'S NOTE: You guys must be sick of these author's notes. ^_^; I bet no one even reads 'em. Ah hell, I don't care! Anyway, you guys want to see Yugi's reaction? Hmm, let's see, I'll give it to you…maybe in another chapter!!! HA…HA…ha, you'll see ^_~. On with the chapter!
THIS CHAPTER DOES GET A BIT CRUDE! The first paragraph of this chapter has a suggestive line, and as you read on there will be indirect, raunchy bits and pieces of this kind of dialogue. Beware but enjoy!
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"Tristan, qué pasa? Do you see those two coming?" Arisa raised her torso lightly to observe the hallway.
"Um, how do you prefer to spell that?" He twisted his head to the side blinking at her with a wide smile and a bit of an embarrassing shade of color to his cheeks.
"Well, it'd be C-O-M…what the heck are you trying to say?!" The concerned woman jumped out of her seat, causing trembling to Serenity's makeshift bed briefly.
Instantly, Joey and Téa arrived in front of their friend and also now Arisa Saito. It is safe to say, Joey has an authentic look to kill. His first attempt was towards Tristan.
Téa pleasantly spread a smile to everyone; little did she know what was going on at the moment. Miss Saito scrutinized the young girl up and down.
Téa gritted through her teeth to Joey innocently, "Uh…what she doing?" He looked down to his girlfriend with the same grin as hers.
"Don't worry, she's okay…I'll handle it," he gritted back and continued while shouting, "MOM!"
Arisa snapped her neck upward. "What sweetie?"
The commotion caused Serenity to awaken; she fluttered her radiant eyes and slid slowly up against her flattened pillow, staring at the foursome blocking the doorway. Her perfect, sharp vision entered her into a warming strength and a true feeling of happiness once and for all.
Yugi didn't bother looking up to see where anyone was; his main interest was focused on how Serenity held up. Her hair bounced around and she beamed at Yugi gleefully.
"Well, hey Serenity! Do you like your new eyesight?" Yugi queried, leaning in so she could have a proper view.
"Like it? I LOVE it! It's so amazing! I can't believe how many years I've been living in a blur! Oh, I just feel awesome!" She said, almost projecting her voice into a scream. He had a feeling that smile was never going to be swept off of her face.
"You must love your brother uncontrollably right now," Yugi applied a smile, "speaking of which, where is Joey, anyway? And everyone else?"
"Oh, they're at the other end of the room—at the door. I didn't want to interrupt them." Serenity pointed for him; even for Yugi he couldn't catch sight of what they were doing.
"I think we should! This is a big occasion," he whipped his head to the group, "GUYS! Come here, Serenity's up!"
Of course the first to run over would be her mother, in tears of joy, "My little girl! I'm so happy…" Arisa invited her daughter into her arms along with many kisses.
Meanwhile, Tristan nudged Joey quietly and still he didn't respond. This was expected to him anyway, he was ecstatic for his sister's health. Though, he was unaware that he and Téa were locking hands. At this point, Tristan grew more frantic and nudged Joey's arm much harder than the last. No reaction.
The hell with 'actions speak louder than words!' He grabbed Joey's wrist and grit, "Exnay on the handay."
His friend shot him a disturbed expression, "Triss, the boys in the white jackets will be coming very soon for you…" Joey turned to his girlfriend and crooked down to give her a peck on the cheek.
"NO!" Tristan booted him in shinbone. "BAD! VERY BAD!" He escalated his tone across the room—if only looks could kill—dead man walking.
"What in the world possessed you? A rabid monkey?" Téa questioned.
"Joey, we need to talk!" This time, Tristan being more serious, grabbing Joey's shoulders while crouching.
"Oh no, not that. That usually means it's the end." Joey sandwiched his cheeks between his two palms and gasped, "Tristan, are you breaking up with me?" The blonde eased his way into a chortle.
"Shut up and listen to me…wait. There are too many witnesses, go in the hall." Tristan stated, striking Joey on the back. "Fly away!" He took his friend by the jean waist and tossed his carcass straight into a wheelchair parallel from where they stood.
Téa didn't know what to do but gawk in astonishment. The towering, metal door instantaneously slammed with a big rumble in front of her face; this triggered her nose to crinkle along with her shoulders to jet forward. The discomfited silence. Several eyes crept their peculiar wits through her spine. A snail's pace was Téa's skillful movement at the moment with all eyes on her. Ever so gracefully she twirled on the balls of her feet raising her eyebrows as she gazed back to Arisa Saito, Serenity and Yugi. Yugi as well hoisted his eyebrows, not conscious that he was mimicking his close friend.
"Eh heh…" she babbled.
"Are they feeling all right? Good place to be if you need psychological help, in fact." Yugi declared his statement for Téa.
"Uh, yeah. They had to sort out something, I don't know what…" Serenity didn't lower the watts of her smile.
"Téa, is it? Well, don't just stand there, come have a seat." Arisa waved her hand. Her eyes now faded to a teal blue.
"All right, thank you." She flattened her skirt as she sat down and crossed her legs prudently.
"So when was your last period?" Serenity's mother innocently asked directing the conversation to Téa. Yugi turned completely flushed and pale and sharply uplifted off of his seat.
"MOTHER! Why are you concerned about her cycle, huh?! I'm sorry, Téa, really, I am!" The smile was put to an end. "Yugi, seriously, she isn't crazy I promise. You can stay—"
"No…just…no!" He proceeded his way to the door twisting the handle and hurled himself in the passage where Tristan and Joey once were, but are no longer there.
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Outside in the parking lot of Domino City Hospital, Joey and Tristan were about ready to bring out one another's eyes through their nostrils.
"First of all, don't be all lovey-dovey, mushy-gushy, fuzzy-wuzzy in front of Yugi with Téa, ya hear me?"
"WHY NOT?" Joey barked back, prepping his fists. "He knows teenage love for pete's sake! He's used to seein' it in front of the lockers, the bathrooms, the rooms, the janitor closets—"
"Oh really? Not when he's had a crush on Téa for the past FOUR YEARS!"
"He never liked Téa!"
"Oh yes he did, pal! AND still does!"
"Well then why the fuck didn't he tell me, moron?"
"He's shy, for cry eye! And listen in; don't get worked up over something stupid, Joe…act like you don't even know I said a damn word! Hear me out on this one."
"Asshole, you lie! Jealous bastard." Joey scorned, his face burning hot; sweat prickled through the back oh his slender neck.
"I'm no way jealous of a farm girl like her!" Crap, did I just say 'farm girl?' Oh no…Tristan inwardly scolded himself.
"Excuse me, shithead! The fuck did you just say?" He casually scuffed up to Tristan's body and rammed his palms into his chest; Tristan in reaction stumbled backwards a couple of steps.
"Look Joey, I didn't mean to say that, really, I could never say that about Téa…seriously, anyway. You just pissed me off for a second that's all…"
"Yeah, that's right, save your sorry ass while you can, ballbuster. I'm asking Yugi myself." Swiftly Joey speedwalked back to the automatic doors where Yugi just appeared to be walking out of.
"He's in deep shit now," Tristan observed him as he sped through, "man, why are you doing this to yourself!"
"Yugi! I need to ask you something really important."
"All right, but it depends on what kind of importance it is; is it an important favor, a question—"
Joey sighed, "It's a question, do you have to get technical?"
"If you're going to talk like that—"
"CAN I get the question through?"
"I don't know, can you?" Yugi innocently asked with a quick wink.
"MAY I get the question through? So my grammar sucks, for chrissake!"
"C'mon! You wanted to ask me, now ask me!"
"You're a piece of work, you know?"
"That was the question?!"
"NO! Just sit down…sit down!" Said a frustrated Joey as he supported his hand on Yugi's shoulderblade while the both of them took a seat on a bench.
"Okay, here goes," he delicately locked his eyes meeting both sets of lashes and licked his lips, "do you like Téa?"
"What?"
"Didn't you listen to me?"
"The ambulence just drove by; how could I have payed attention unless I had ESP?"
"Grrr…should've known, only when I try to do somethin' bold," he mumbled to himself, "do you like Téa?"
"Yes, she happens to be a close friend of mine, thank you very much." Yugi put a touch of an abrupt deportment to his statement. "That was important, wasn't it?" He escaped a small giggle.
"I meant do you like her more than a friend?"
"I thought that was the only question," Yugi assumed, returning back to his serious facade.
"You didn't understand what I asked, so I'm clarifying it for you…"
"I'll clarify this for you," he tilted in to Joey's face, "mind your own business."
Well this took him by surprise, "Why was it that you told Tristan and not me, my oh-so-trusty best friend Yugi?"
The undersized teen arose from the wooden bench, ignoring the query from Joey, only gaping at him; Yugi had obeyed his limitation on answering questions and sauntered through the automatic doors.
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"You know, Triss, I think he takes me for granted sometimes," Joey paused, sipping the icy fruit drink from the hospital's cafeteria. "It just gets me that he told you and not me. He claims I'm his best friend but his personal life he keeps locked up with no key to get inside! I say it's that gawdy 'Millenium Puzzle' thing he wears around his neck twenty-four-seven. Yugi just hasn't been himself lately." Joey gulped another swig of the condensated bottle.
"Oh, leave him be. Maybe he's going through the motions; and if you don't mind me saying—theoretically, he's probably envious of you."
"Envious? He's got the brains, not moi!"
"Well, he could be jealous for instance that you're tall, you're strong, and what the hey, you've got good looks. Joey, he's fortunate to have a friend like you, he's even admitted it!" His blonde friend only shrugged and articulately smoothed down the water that was dripping down from the warmth and cold blending as one. Suddenly, he inhaled a fragrant aroma. Rumpling up his nose, he scanned the cafeteria swaying his brown orbs back and forth, "Joe, what's the matter?"
"Do you smell that?" Joey took another sniff of the fragrance.
Tristan as well took a brief lungful, "No, I don't smell a thing but the reeking stench of hospital food; is that what you're smellin'?"
"It's not the food."
"Then what I am I supposed to be smelling? You look like someone committed a murder in front your eyes, relax your face, sheesh."
A struggling groaning sound of a female passed by them as the boys simultaneously flicked their heads to the source of the noise.
"Miho! I thought I was smelling your perfume…" Joey commenced, "but, uh, why the get-up? 'Doesn't seem like you're the type to clean up after people."
"I'm a Candy Striper, baka, it pays good money so I can go blow it at the mall." She puffed back a piece of her periwinkle colored hair with a concise breath upward.
"Oh, right. Sweet." The blonde boy had winked adding a cutesy grin.
"Har, har. Funny pun. I don't see you guys getting off your grand asses to get a job…" Miho couldn't resist smirking as she turned her nose up in the air. "And just so you know, it's pretty rude to leave Serenity in recovery after she's comforting herself from surgery. She thinks you're abandoning her 'again.' Everyone appeared to be mad, too. They're trying to cheer her up, but I said it's probably just the leftover laughing gas—" Joey screeched his sneakers as he careened around the corner. Miho glimpsed down at Tristan who was attempting to give her that suave-model appearance; she frowned and heeded Joey just before he zoomed through the cafeteria entrance, "Yo Joey! You left your big wad of rubbage in the booth!" She glanced back at Tristan seeing as how she had a few misgivings while she awkwardly smiled toward him as she heaved her cart along with trays of food for patients.
"I knew she loved me…hell yeah, I'm good!"
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, I'm just dishing these chapters out like hotcakes, ne? To tell you the truth, I have no super-splendid idea of how Miho acts; all I know about her is that she's perky enough to make you hurl. I mentioned that in the first chapter but I had no clue how to make her react as a Candy Striper for a summer job, but I made her stuck-up so maybe that's how she is?? O_o; DON'T POLITICALLY INCORRECT ME!!! I don't neeeeed it! One thing I know is true is that Tristan has one mother huge crush on her. ALL RIGHT, see you all in the next chapter! ^_^