Chapter 11: The Dance

A/N: This chapter is pretty much all romance with Yugi and Alex.   I labeled this as such and I hope to fulfill the title of a romance fic.  Anyway, hope it is good, I'm a little sick, so if it sucks then I'll try to rewrite it.  But I will not rewrite it if it is sappy, because you all know that is all the romance I write.   Good and Sappy as hell!  Enjoy :)

            "Well, is she ready yet, Yugi?  We still have to pick up Mai," Joey tapped his foot impatiently while leaning against the wall.

            "No we don't Joey.  Mai came earlier today to help Alex with her dress and makeup.  I thought she said that she told you."

            "That girl never tells me anything," Joey came over and sat across from Yugi.

"Is Tristin coming to the dance?"

"Yeah, he found a girl named . . . wait, he didn't tell me who he was going with," Joey thought for a minute then started to stare at the ceiling in deep thought.  He eventually gave up with a shrug with his shoulders and looked over at Yugi.  They looked at one another for a while in silence, until the burning question in the back of Joey's mind couldn't be stood any longer.  (A/N:  I know that was awkward wording, but please bear with me.)  "Yugi, is everything alright with Alex?"

            "Well, when she found her father was dead, or murdered rather, she couldn't bring herself to cry.  Something tells me that she will cry one day for her father, but right now she doesn't know how to feel for the loss.  I don't even think that she takes it as a loss."

"But she's alright?"

"I think so."

"Do you love her?"

"Joey!" Yugi leaned back in the chair, trying desperately to hide his blushing.

/////To Alex's Room////// (A/N: Whenever there is a scene change in this chapter, I will put up the Thanks!)

"So, how are you holding up underneath all this hair?" Mai asked Alex as she flung the young girl's hair every which way.

"Well, let's just say that I'm hoping that I'll still have feeling in my scalp after you're done."

"I'm just trying to figure out which way your hair will look the best for our little Yugi."  She took a hair band from the nearby dresser and tied the hair in a small ponytail in the back of her head, "Now the magic begins."

"When did it begin that Yugi's and my relationship was public?"

"So you two do have a relationship?"

"Who said that?" Alex blushed into the mirror.

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"Come on Yugi.  Everyone knows that you and Alex have the hots for one another."

"Joey, I really don't think that it is any of your business, now is it?"

"I'm your best friend Yugi.  Of course it is my business."  Yugi rolled his eyes and started to take Joey's place of pacing the room.

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Mai smiled at her, "I don't remember Alex.  Did we even start on your makeup, because I think we put on way too much blush on."

"Shut up Mai.  I didn't say that we do have a relationship."

"You love him don't you?"

"Love him?" Alex's face paled more then it grew with blush.  'I haven't told anyone except Neit about this.  Should I?'

'Stop trying to keep everything inside, Alex.  Trust, you can finally trust.'

Alex smiled and her blush started to return.  "I knew it!  A girl's intuition never fails!" Mai turned her around in the chair, "Now, let's get your face painted and we could get going.  I bet Joey is running around the living room because he has nothing better to do."

"Please go light on the 'paint' Mai.  I still want to be myself."

"You got it," Mai winked and started on Alex's face, "but can't you take that bracelet off just for tonight?"

Alex just shook her head, "Alright, alright.  Just keep your head still."

////Meanwhile, Joey and Yugi///////

"Come on, Yug.  Why don't you answer me?"

"I just don't think that it is really any of your business, Joey.  I'll tell you when the time is right."  Yugi thought for a minute, 'How many times did I hear that last night on our walk?'  Then they both looked up as they heard the bedroom door open.  "About time," Joey said in almost a yawn.  Both boys stared at the staircase waiting for the two to come down.

Mai came down first.  She wore a dark green silk dress that went down to her ankles.  The dress fit perfectly and hugged all the right places; at least Joey seemed to think so.  There were slits going up both sides along the legs that went up to her mid thighs.  The dress didn't have straps, but had a piece of material wrapping around the back of her neck and locking in place on the front of her dress. Her hair was up in a bun held together with two black chopsticks, which matched her black shoes.  The shoes had thick heels that weren't very tall and the black straps weaved over her foot and between her big and the other toes.  She walked slowly down and then took her place next to Joey.  "You look great," he said placing the corsage around her wrist and kissing her on the cheek.

"You better say that.  Especially after Alex comes down those stairs, I did a great job if I do say so myself," Mai folded her arms in front of her chest proudly.  Yugi laughed to himself as he looked at Mai beaming in pride.  Mai tapped her foot and called up the stairs.  "Come on, Alex.  I bet you-know-who is dying to see you!  Don't make me come up there and drag you down.  You know I will with all that work I did!"

After a few seconds someone could be heard coming down the stairs, "Alright!  I'm coming down!  Don't push me!"  And soon piece-by-piece a picture of a beautiful girl began to unfold descending the stairs.  The feet were in low silver heels.  The silver material seemed to flow over the top of the foot fastened with a black buckle.  The silver shoes were then covered with the flowing black material falling from the waistline.  The black material seemed to shower forward from her thin waist.  The black top fit tight around her, and the tiny straps held up the front of her dress.  Around her neck was a small silver necklace that came down to the top of her dress.  And finally her hair was up in a tight bun, but had a few pieces of hair that fell so it would frame her face.  "So, what do you guys think?" Alex asked as she reached the bottom of the stairs.

"You look great!" Mai squealed and hugged her 'masterpiece,' "What do you think, Yugi?"  Alex looked up from her hands to see Yugi awestruck.  "Yugi?"

"Uh . . . ummm . . . you look like . . ."

"Come on Yug' spit it out!" Joey hit the back of his buddy to try and get his words out.

Yugi stepped forward from the force of the blow right in front of Alex, "You know, Alex," he rubbed the back of his head anime style.

"Why don't you tell me, Yugi?"

"Well, it's kind of embarrassing to say."

"Why?"  Yugi turned toward Mai and Joey who were staring straight at them, almost right in their faces.  Alex cleared her throat and the two left the room.  "Well?"

"You won't just let me by will you, Alex?"

"Of course not.  So, what do you think?"

Feeling a little more comfortable, Yugi stepped forward and gave her a kiss on the cheek, "There is no way to describe an Egyptian goddess."  Alex blushed and looked down at their hands, which were entangled with each other.  Yugi and Alex smiled and walked out the door and toward the dance.

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As soon as they arrived, both Joey and Yugi looked over the hall for Tristin.  "I don't see him yet, Joey."

"Who are you looking for?" Alex asked holding on to Yugi's arm.

"Tristin, he never told us who he was coming with."

"I have a really good suspicion who it is," Alex pointed toward the corner.  In the corner both Tristin and Joey's sister, Serenity, were talking to one another.  Serenity laughed at something that Tristin said and laid her hand on his arm.

"I'm going to pulverize him!" Joey started to walk over to Tristin until Mai grabbed him back.

"Joey, you said you would dance with me, so dance," she dragged him to the floor as he glanced back to the corner.  As Mai tried her best to swing Joey fast around, he couldn't help but crank his neck to see how his little sister is being treated.  He slowly began to calm a little as he saw them enter the dance floor and dance right beside them.

"How you doing, Joey?  I didn't see you guys come in here," Tristin said dancing beside Joey.

"You have a lot of explaining to do, Tristin," Joey glared at him from the side of his eyes.

Soon enough a slow song started and Alex turned toward Yugi, "So, you know how to dance?"

"Let's see," Yugi and Alex went out to the floor and started to sway with the music.  Alex put her arms around his neck as he put his arms around her waist.  She put her head on his shoulder and prayed that the song wouldn't end, but after a brief moment it, as most things do, ended.  They separated and walked around the floor to find the others.  No such luck, the others were either too far buried beneath the sea of students, or somewhere outside in the night air taking a 'breather.' ;)

Later in the evening, from the other side of the gym there was another person that looked on the couple with envy.  He watched as Yugi smelled her hair every once in a while and made her laugh and smile with only a whisper in her ear.  He slowly made his way over as they were dancing to another slow song.  Alex was talking to Yugi face to face when the young man came up on their side, "Do you mind if I cut in?"

Alex looked at the boy, but then looked back at Yugi, "I'm sorry, but I pretty much promised my slow songs to Yugi."

"Well, I think that you would be missing out on something special," the boy pushed his hand out toward her.  Yugi looked at him with a glare, but Alex stayed strong and stuck with her decision.  "Even though that may be true, I'll have to pass."

He looked at her with a deep glare, and something in Alex made her brain scream caution.  She looked into the boy's eyes to try and find something to tell her who he is, but all she received was a cold, foreboding feeling.  "Alex?" Yugi looked at her, "You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Alex ripped her eyes from the boy's and looked back at Yugi, "I guess I thought I saw something memorable to say the least." The boy stomped away only to be confronted with his date, a short girl with a big attitude.  They started to begin an argument that raged between the two and attracted a crowd of students.  Alex took this opportunity to grab Yugi's hand and lead him out one of the gym doors.  "Alex, what are you doing?  Where are we going?"

"I was thinking that we could go for a walk," she kept hold of his hand heading toward the hill near the high school.

"When the dance is going on?"

"Why not?" she smiled at him and he followed.  They eventually made their way up to the high point of the hill, where there was a blanket already spread out.  "So, what is so important that you had to drag me all the way up here for?"

Alex looked at him then looked up, "Yugi, Amunet once told me that whatever happens is meant to be.  No matter how small or big the event is or was, it was always written to happen in history."

"Where are you going with this?"

"Well, I think that this is the perfect time don't you?"

"For what?"

"Us . . . and this," Alex leaned forward and pressed her lips lightly against his.  He couldn't believe what was happening for a minute, but then slowly began to give his own pressure to the kiss.  She touched the side of his face so gently that it seemed like it was only the light sands of Egypt slowly sweeping by.  He placed his hand on her back to give more support, and deepen the kiss.  They both eventually stopped and looked into one another's eyes.  "So do you know who my heart belongs to now?"

"I'll only answer that question if you answer mine."

"What is your question then?"

"Will you take my heart to keep and hold for all eternity?"

Alex smiled and placed her forehead on his, "Since you already have mine, I think it is only fair that I take yours."  They heard the faint whisper of music from the dance below as they both began to sway in one another's arms to the light music.  Alex couldn't help but kiss his lips again; they called to her, as her heart called out to him every moment that she is away from him.  She knew from then on, that their bond of traded hearts could never be broken.

People, even the Egyptian gods, could try to break them, but nothing could tear what they had at the moment when their lips connected.  At the moment when nothing else in their worlds mattered, other then the other person in their arms.  After their brief kisses and chuckles they sat down on the blanket and watched the night sky in each other's arms.  "Yugi, why didn't you give up on me?"

"What do you mean?"

"When I first came to Domino.  Why didn't you just walk away like so many others had?"

"I felt that you were more then you appeared to be.  I was determined to make that a truth.  And I did."

"Although you didn't expect rare hunters and everything else that came with me, did you?"

"Now that, I didn't expect, no."  Alex giggled again and kissed him on the cheek, "Sometimes I wonder how things are meant to be, but it never keeps me from thanking god for what they are.  And how you are and always will be my friend.  And how you became something so much more."

"Sometimes I think about the same thing too.  But as you said, I would never ask for something different."  Alex leaned against Yugi's chest and heard the air enter and escape his lungs.  "Are we going back to the dance?"

"I like it our here better," Alex said snuggling up to her date, "Especially since I spent so much time on this place."

"I thought that you had this planned, or that we were stealing someone else's blanket."

"Now, would I do that?" Alex looked up at Yugi's face.

"I'm not totally sure . . . would you?"

"Of course no- well, matters on the person we're stealing from."

"Oh, it's 'we' now?"

"Sure it is, I always need my partner in crime," Alex laid her head back on Yugi's chest and closed her eyes.  He kissed the top of her head and watched the stars and sky.  After a half hour he saw the students starting to leave the gym and was about to wake up Alex.  "I would wait, Romeo," Yugi looked up to see the same boy from the dance approach him.

"Too late, I'm already awake," Alex looked at the boy.  Yugi stood up just in case the boy wanted to try something.  Alex took his hand and stood up beside him, "Something is wrong.  Amunet is warning me in my mind."   The boy looked at her wrist and noticed that she had the bracelet on still, but it was underneath the corsage that Yugi gave her.  "You never take that off do you, Alex?"

"I don't think that is any of your business jerk," Alex looked behind him at his approaching date and pieced something together.  "It's you.  I knew that I saw something in our eyes.  You're the one who took my mother, and your date is a rare hunter.  I saw you both look into my room when I was imprisoned.  I always thought of you as an older, sick bastard, but I guess I was wrong . . . about the older part."

"And it's time that you come back, Alex.  Come and take your father's place.  I bet that you would do so much better then he.  And we could finally complete his last wish . . . that you would be my wife when you came of age.  And guess what, it's time."

"What?!" Yugi and Alex both yelled in unison.  'Like that will happen,' Alex thought to herself.