Sisters
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Marik realized he shouldn't really have been surprised when he came home and found Ishizu waiting up for him. That didn't stop him from finding her presence annoying. Honestly, she acted more like a prison guard than family.
"Where have you been?" Ishizu demanded the moment he was inside the house. "You know I expect you to come home immediately after school."
"Why don't you just consult your Millennium Necklace if you're so eager to know?" Marik sneered as he went and flopped down on the couch, pulling out his school planner. He read over his list of homework, trying to decide which ones to shred, and which would be more fun to burn.
"I already did," she replied, seeming to recover her normally calm attitude. "You were out with Joey Wheeler. Now why would that be?"
"Why do you care?" he asked, sounding bored. He pulled out his math homework and a pair of scissors, cutting the paper up into millions of little pieces.
"I want to be certain you are not up to your old tricks," Ishizu said. "Even with my Millennium Necklace, it is hard to make sure you're not getting into trouble. The time you spent with Joey could be part of a plan I am not yet aware of."
Marik glared at her, standing up and throwing his history book across the room so it crashed into the lamp, making it crash to the floor. The room went dark.
"Isn't it possible that I just spent time with him because I like him?!" Marik yelled at Ishizu. "Not everything I do is to further my ambitions! You don't have to watch me all paranoid every second of the day!" He stomped into his room and slammed the door.
Ishizu could be such a pain. Steal a bunch of rare cards and try to take over the world just once, and she had to go and make a federal case about it.
**
Serenity looked up from her homework and smiled as her brother came in. "Have a nice time at dinner?"
"Hard to tell yet," Joey said thoughtfully as he tossed his jacket on the floor, stretching a little. Serenity got up to put her brother's jacket away.
"What do you mean, hard to tell?" she asked him.
"Dinner was fine. It was the company I was in that was a bit… off. Marik is one hell of a weird guy," Joey said, going to sit down and flip through the TV guide. Nothing good on. Well that's okay, his life was already turning into a soap opera. Or maybe a horror movie, he couldn't quite tell which yet.
"Odd that he just comes by at random and asks you out to dinner," Serenity commented as she returned to her homework. "Why do you think that would be?"
"He said he liked me," Joey said with a shrug, "and I'm almost tempted to believe him."
Serenity smiled sweetly at him. "Would you like it if he liked you?"
Joey thought back to when Marik had kissed him earlier, brief though it had been. "Yeah," he said. "I think I would like that.
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Author's note: Sorry, short chapter today. But I make up for the shortness of my chapters with the fact that I update nearly every day, don't I? Yeah, thought so.
