Disclaimer- I DON'T OWN SQUAT.
Author- It's not true but it takes a whole less time to say! ^_^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Please?"
"Please-please-please-please PUH-LEEZE?"
Tea's parents looked from one teen to the other, both on their knees begging for Tea to come with Caitlin for the summer. It was very amusing to them, but they couldn't say they were thrilled about Tea going away for the whole entire summer. Mrs. Gardener crossed her arms and shook Tea and Caitlin off her feet.
"She'll be with you the whole summer?"
"24/7! Every second of every day all around America!"
"Will there be parents there?"
Tea bit her lip; her mom had said the P word. The only thing that wasn't there was the thing her mom wanted probably the most. She could sense Caitlin's spirit fall a little when she said that. Caitlin had been searching the whole time she was in America for a mom and a dad, maybe a sister or brother or two; but no one wanted her.
"No." She said sadly, "I don't have any par- I mean, there won't be any parents. But see Mr. and Mrs. Gardener, I'm surrounded by agents and supervisors all the time! Tea won't get into any trouble I promise."
"Well..." She looked down at the big eyes they had mustered up and sighed, "All right. Just be sure to check in everyday or so."
"Oh thank you mom and dad thank you!" Tea said giving them a hug.
Caitlin felt like doing the same thing, but she thought it would be awkward for someone else that they hardly knew to hug them. Caitlin sighed,
being a celebrity stinks.
**********
"So you see sir, it's an opportunity that only comes along every once in a million years, your grandson knowing a pop artist that will take him with her around America for free I mean."
Caitlin paused to listen to what Yugi's grampa was saying on the other line. She stuck her nail under a sticker of Inu-Yasha on her phone, then spoke again.
"Yes I know that, but it wont be just me and- NO! Oh no sir the whole gang is coming too not just Yugi and me. The gang being Tea, Joey, Ryou, Tristen- uh huh, yes everything will be paid for and- no I'm- yes but- yes. Great! Ok tell him to meet me at Tea's house tomorrow morning ok? Thank you, buh- bye!"
Caitlin hung up her phone and smiled at Tea, "Yugi's coming too!"
"That's great! So who else do we need to call?"
Caitlin looked down at her list, "That's it! Everyone's coming!"
Tea clapped her hands excitedly, "Oh man this is going to be so cool!"
"I know! What could be better then a trip around the world with money to burn, with your friends!"
"Nothing that's what!"
"Exactly! So the hardest thing will be deciding what movie to watch in the hotel room!"
"Sounds like paradise!"
"Sounds? No way Tea, you will actually experience it as soon as the sun comes back up!"
"Then we'd better get to sleep, big day. Not to mention that the sooner we get to sleep the sooner tomorrow will be here!"
"Brilliant deduction Tea, I do believe that is exactly what we'll do!"
Tea laughed and fluffed her pillow, then the light turned off and they were soon asleep.
***********
Caitlin paced back and forth in Tea's room, yelling at herself for not telling her friends WHAT TIME they were supposed to be at there. She looked at the clock every thirty seconds to keep track and sighed when a car passed that wasn't coming up to the house.
{ Where are they!? }
} Now really you can't blame them, you didn't give them a time, or time to pack. AND do you realize how hard it must be to find a suitcase to fit clothes for the entire summer in? {
{ Well, it's morning and they should be here anyway. Miss Agent is practically breathing down my neck with 'We should leave, we should leave, we need to leave.' }
} You know you really need to learn her name. {
{ She annoys the heck out of me with her 'We've got to leave' junk! }
}You think I don't know that? I am you after all. But there isn't anything we can do. Doorbell. {
{ Yeah but- }
} Uh, the doorbell. {
{ What? }
{ The doorbell rang, I think someone's here. }
Caitlin blinked a few times before noticing Joey peeking through the window by the door. He knocked a few times more and rang the doorbell. He was used to his friends kind of, 'blanking out' when they were talking to their Yamis, just took a little bit of noise to get them back to reality.
Caitlin ran quickly to the door and opened it, "Joey! You're here!"
"Yeah, been here for about three minutes waiting for you to notice."
"Oh sorry, anyway what took you so long?"
Joey rolled his eyes, "It's not like it takes two minutes to pack for the whole summer, clothes and all."
"I know that but-"
} Quit while your ahead, just smile and nod. {
Joey noticed the sudden blankness to his friends expression and smirked, "So you've got an item."
"Huh?"
"You know Caitlin, your becoming more and more absentminded the longer you have that item round your neck."
"There's just so much I can do with it! So much I don't know about it yet, and it's always- no, MOSTLY fun to have a Yami you can talk to."
"Can you read minds with that thing?"
Caitlin looked at him, then smirked, "Like I could find YOUR mind."
Tea came out of her room finally, lugging around a huge amount of overstuffed luggage. "Hey Joey. Caitlin will this be enough?"
Caitlin looked at her bags and laughed, "Enough? I think you OVER packed! There WILL be washers and dryers and stuff there."
Tea blushed and put her bags by the door next to Joey's, "So, how exactly ARE we going to get to America?"
*********
Everyone looked around at the large groups of people at the airport. The airport, the dreaded packed full area where people tripped over each other to get to their flights. It wasn't Caitlin's idea to go here,
It was her agent's.
Caitlin grumbled to herself while pulling the little luggage rack, "Oh you must go to the airport, it's good for the economy and good for publicity."
} Not that anyone could notice you anyway. {
{ That's the idea. }
It was true, Caitlin was over dressed on purpose. She was wearing a hat, a sort of facemask, and lots of clothes on top of clothes.
It was very hot under there.
"Excuse me?" Yugi asked, standing on his tiptoes to have his chin over the counter. It took the lady a few seconds of looking to notice him, "Oh!"
"Uh, are there any flights to America?"
The lady gave him a strange look, "Yes."
"Good! We'll take six!"
Another strange look from the lady, "To where exactly?"
"What?"
The woman pointed to a list behind her with different flights to EVERYWHERE. It was a very overwhelming thing to think about.
"Um, Caitlin?" Yugi said, in shocked awe by the sign, "Where are we going?"
Caitlin looked up and pulled a little bit of her mask down to see better, "I- uh- didn't think about it. Would you guys rather go to Florida or New York? Well, maybe Washington or California would be better. On second thought, it will be good to visit Texas, Chicago or even Pennsylvania. I heard they've got great roller coasters!"
They just looked at her. Why did going to America have to be so complicated?!
"How about Florida, there's Disney and beaches and stuff."
Yugi could only nod, "We'll take six to Florida."
"Very good, that will be-"
"Don't tell me." Caitlin said, forcing her credit card at her, "Just put it on the card. Numbers overwhelm me."
Tristen gave her a smirk, "And that sign with all the places in the USA didn't?"
-=On the Plane=-
Ryou looked down the isle and turned back to Caitlin, "The coast is clear."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Are you positively sure you're sure?"
"Yes I told you that, you can take off that stuff."
"Good." Caitlin practically ripped the excess clothes off her body and took out her portable fan. "God it was hot under there."
"Caitlin?" Joey said from across the row, "Are they going to give us those little bags of nuts?"
"Didn't you just eat Joey?" Tea said.
"Well yeah, but just two pop tarts won't hold me very long."
Tristen was sitting next to Joey, very stiffly. Yugi seemed to notice and called at him from his seat next to Tea, "Are you alright Tristen?"
"I never liked planes." He said bluntly. "I've never much liked the idea of- " He gulped, "-flying around in the air with only the wind holding us up."
"Oh yeah, I remember." Yugi said nodding, suddenly remembering the helicopter ride from Duelist Kingdom. Tristen didn't say anything the entire time because if he opened his mouth he would have puked.
"Uh, right." Caitlin said, pulling down a little T.V from the seat in front of her, "So, what's playing?"
Ryou did the same, "Gladiator, on a five inch screen."
"Oh goodie."
"So what are you supposed to do on this flight?" asked Joey.
"Didn't you hear us? Watch Gladiator on a five inch screen located on the seat in front of you." Caitlin said, somewhat annoyed.
"I've seen that movie four times. Isn't they're something else?"
Yugi smiled, "We could duel, Joey."
Joey grinned, "Sounds good to me!"
Caitlin pulled herself from the tiny movie, "This I gotta see."
"What? You don't think Yug and I could duel on a plane?"
"No, I don't."
Tea also seemed interested, "If Yugi beats you every time, why do you always want to duel him?"
Tristen seemed to snap out of his plane fright just long enough to say, "Cause he's a complete idiot that's why."
Because their Duel disk systems would take up too much room, (not to mention their monsters would end up in someone else's lap) they dueled the old fashioned way. It was very entertaining watching them try to duel when Yugi was in the seat behind Joey and they were placing their cards on the arm rests. Occasionally, Joey would let his card on the rest slip and have to yell at Yugi not to look at it. He would then look under the seats until he found the card. It didn't take long for the pilot to come on the loud speaker.
"Hello, this is your pilot speaking, we wish all of you an enjoyable flight. Please keep your seat belts on until the seat belt sign turns off. Thank you."
The plane started to move, so Caitlin handed out the gum she had been saving in her pocket. Joey thought that is was strange to be handing out gum on a plane.
"Why are you giving me this?"
"Joey have you ever ridden on a plane before?"
"Uh, no not really."
Caitlin smirked, suddenly getting a good idea, "You chew it so your ears don't explode because of the pressure."
"Your ears will EXPLODE because you don't chew gum?"
"You bet, I had a cousin once that didn't chew the gum. We never HEARD from her again."
Caitlin could barely hold in the laughter as Joey quickly forced the gum into his mouth and started to chew. Tea just rolled her eyes,
poor gullible Joey.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author- End of chapter, the next one will be in California, where they make their short stop. *snickers*
Caitlin- *eyebrow goes up* What was that snicker for?
Author- *stops quickly* Nothing.
Yugi- *sigh* I'm bored.
Tea- *looks around* What happened to our Monkey?
Joey- Who?
Caitlin- You know, Monkey Marik.
Tristen- Oh him.
Joey- He had to go home, something about us not feeding him.
Author- Oh well, guess we'll have to get a new one. *evil smirk*
All- *inches away from the author*
Y.Caitlin- *comes out from bathroom*
Y.Caitlin- *notices everyone in a group away from Author*
Author- *evil smirk* Welcome back Caitlin's Yami.
C.Yami- *is very afraid/confused/shocked* Hi?
Author- We are going to have lots of fun today.
C.Yami- *gulp*
Author- It's not true but it takes a whole less time to say! ^_^
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Please?"
"Please-please-please-please PUH-LEEZE?"
Tea's parents looked from one teen to the other, both on their knees begging for Tea to come with Caitlin for the summer. It was very amusing to them, but they couldn't say they were thrilled about Tea going away for the whole entire summer. Mrs. Gardener crossed her arms and shook Tea and Caitlin off her feet.
"She'll be with you the whole summer?"
"24/7! Every second of every day all around America!"
"Will there be parents there?"
Tea bit her lip; her mom had said the P word. The only thing that wasn't there was the thing her mom wanted probably the most. She could sense Caitlin's spirit fall a little when she said that. Caitlin had been searching the whole time she was in America for a mom and a dad, maybe a sister or brother or two; but no one wanted her.
"No." She said sadly, "I don't have any par- I mean, there won't be any parents. But see Mr. and Mrs. Gardener, I'm surrounded by agents and supervisors all the time! Tea won't get into any trouble I promise."
"Well..." She looked down at the big eyes they had mustered up and sighed, "All right. Just be sure to check in everyday or so."
"Oh thank you mom and dad thank you!" Tea said giving them a hug.
Caitlin felt like doing the same thing, but she thought it would be awkward for someone else that they hardly knew to hug them. Caitlin sighed,
being a celebrity stinks.
**********
"So you see sir, it's an opportunity that only comes along every once in a million years, your grandson knowing a pop artist that will take him with her around America for free I mean."
Caitlin paused to listen to what Yugi's grampa was saying on the other line. She stuck her nail under a sticker of Inu-Yasha on her phone, then spoke again.
"Yes I know that, but it wont be just me and- NO! Oh no sir the whole gang is coming too not just Yugi and me. The gang being Tea, Joey, Ryou, Tristen- uh huh, yes everything will be paid for and- no I'm- yes but- yes. Great! Ok tell him to meet me at Tea's house tomorrow morning ok? Thank you, buh- bye!"
Caitlin hung up her phone and smiled at Tea, "Yugi's coming too!"
"That's great! So who else do we need to call?"
Caitlin looked down at her list, "That's it! Everyone's coming!"
Tea clapped her hands excitedly, "Oh man this is going to be so cool!"
"I know! What could be better then a trip around the world with money to burn, with your friends!"
"Nothing that's what!"
"Exactly! So the hardest thing will be deciding what movie to watch in the hotel room!"
"Sounds like paradise!"
"Sounds? No way Tea, you will actually experience it as soon as the sun comes back up!"
"Then we'd better get to sleep, big day. Not to mention that the sooner we get to sleep the sooner tomorrow will be here!"
"Brilliant deduction Tea, I do believe that is exactly what we'll do!"
Tea laughed and fluffed her pillow, then the light turned off and they were soon asleep.
***********
Caitlin paced back and forth in Tea's room, yelling at herself for not telling her friends WHAT TIME they were supposed to be at there. She looked at the clock every thirty seconds to keep track and sighed when a car passed that wasn't coming up to the house.
{ Where are they!? }
} Now really you can't blame them, you didn't give them a time, or time to pack. AND do you realize how hard it must be to find a suitcase to fit clothes for the entire summer in? {
{ Well, it's morning and they should be here anyway. Miss Agent is practically breathing down my neck with 'We should leave, we should leave, we need to leave.' }
} You know you really need to learn her name. {
{ She annoys the heck out of me with her 'We've got to leave' junk! }
}You think I don't know that? I am you after all. But there isn't anything we can do. Doorbell. {
{ Yeah but- }
} Uh, the doorbell. {
{ What? }
{ The doorbell rang, I think someone's here. }
Caitlin blinked a few times before noticing Joey peeking through the window by the door. He knocked a few times more and rang the doorbell. He was used to his friends kind of, 'blanking out' when they were talking to their Yamis, just took a little bit of noise to get them back to reality.
Caitlin ran quickly to the door and opened it, "Joey! You're here!"
"Yeah, been here for about three minutes waiting for you to notice."
"Oh sorry, anyway what took you so long?"
Joey rolled his eyes, "It's not like it takes two minutes to pack for the whole summer, clothes and all."
"I know that but-"
} Quit while your ahead, just smile and nod. {
Joey noticed the sudden blankness to his friends expression and smirked, "So you've got an item."
"Huh?"
"You know Caitlin, your becoming more and more absentminded the longer you have that item round your neck."
"There's just so much I can do with it! So much I don't know about it yet, and it's always- no, MOSTLY fun to have a Yami you can talk to."
"Can you read minds with that thing?"
Caitlin looked at him, then smirked, "Like I could find YOUR mind."
Tea came out of her room finally, lugging around a huge amount of overstuffed luggage. "Hey Joey. Caitlin will this be enough?"
Caitlin looked at her bags and laughed, "Enough? I think you OVER packed! There WILL be washers and dryers and stuff there."
Tea blushed and put her bags by the door next to Joey's, "So, how exactly ARE we going to get to America?"
*********
Everyone looked around at the large groups of people at the airport. The airport, the dreaded packed full area where people tripped over each other to get to their flights. It wasn't Caitlin's idea to go here,
It was her agent's.
Caitlin grumbled to herself while pulling the little luggage rack, "Oh you must go to the airport, it's good for the economy and good for publicity."
} Not that anyone could notice you anyway. {
{ That's the idea. }
It was true, Caitlin was over dressed on purpose. She was wearing a hat, a sort of facemask, and lots of clothes on top of clothes.
It was very hot under there.
"Excuse me?" Yugi asked, standing on his tiptoes to have his chin over the counter. It took the lady a few seconds of looking to notice him, "Oh!"
"Uh, are there any flights to America?"
The lady gave him a strange look, "Yes."
"Good! We'll take six!"
Another strange look from the lady, "To where exactly?"
"What?"
The woman pointed to a list behind her with different flights to EVERYWHERE. It was a very overwhelming thing to think about.
"Um, Caitlin?" Yugi said, in shocked awe by the sign, "Where are we going?"
Caitlin looked up and pulled a little bit of her mask down to see better, "I- uh- didn't think about it. Would you guys rather go to Florida or New York? Well, maybe Washington or California would be better. On second thought, it will be good to visit Texas, Chicago or even Pennsylvania. I heard they've got great roller coasters!"
They just looked at her. Why did going to America have to be so complicated?!
"How about Florida, there's Disney and beaches and stuff."
Yugi could only nod, "We'll take six to Florida."
"Very good, that will be-"
"Don't tell me." Caitlin said, forcing her credit card at her, "Just put it on the card. Numbers overwhelm me."
Tristen gave her a smirk, "And that sign with all the places in the USA didn't?"
-=On the Plane=-
Ryou looked down the isle and turned back to Caitlin, "The coast is clear."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Are you positively sure you're sure?"
"Yes I told you that, you can take off that stuff."
"Good." Caitlin practically ripped the excess clothes off her body and took out her portable fan. "God it was hot under there."
"Caitlin?" Joey said from across the row, "Are they going to give us those little bags of nuts?"
"Didn't you just eat Joey?" Tea said.
"Well yeah, but just two pop tarts won't hold me very long."
Tristen was sitting next to Joey, very stiffly. Yugi seemed to notice and called at him from his seat next to Tea, "Are you alright Tristen?"
"I never liked planes." He said bluntly. "I've never much liked the idea of- " He gulped, "-flying around in the air with only the wind holding us up."
"Oh yeah, I remember." Yugi said nodding, suddenly remembering the helicopter ride from Duelist Kingdom. Tristen didn't say anything the entire time because if he opened his mouth he would have puked.
"Uh, right." Caitlin said, pulling down a little T.V from the seat in front of her, "So, what's playing?"
Ryou did the same, "Gladiator, on a five inch screen."
"Oh goodie."
"So what are you supposed to do on this flight?" asked Joey.
"Didn't you hear us? Watch Gladiator on a five inch screen located on the seat in front of you." Caitlin said, somewhat annoyed.
"I've seen that movie four times. Isn't they're something else?"
Yugi smiled, "We could duel, Joey."
Joey grinned, "Sounds good to me!"
Caitlin pulled herself from the tiny movie, "This I gotta see."
"What? You don't think Yug and I could duel on a plane?"
"No, I don't."
Tea also seemed interested, "If Yugi beats you every time, why do you always want to duel him?"
Tristen seemed to snap out of his plane fright just long enough to say, "Cause he's a complete idiot that's why."
Because their Duel disk systems would take up too much room, (not to mention their monsters would end up in someone else's lap) they dueled the old fashioned way. It was very entertaining watching them try to duel when Yugi was in the seat behind Joey and they were placing their cards on the arm rests. Occasionally, Joey would let his card on the rest slip and have to yell at Yugi not to look at it. He would then look under the seats until he found the card. It didn't take long for the pilot to come on the loud speaker.
"Hello, this is your pilot speaking, we wish all of you an enjoyable flight. Please keep your seat belts on until the seat belt sign turns off. Thank you."
The plane started to move, so Caitlin handed out the gum she had been saving in her pocket. Joey thought that is was strange to be handing out gum on a plane.
"Why are you giving me this?"
"Joey have you ever ridden on a plane before?"
"Uh, no not really."
Caitlin smirked, suddenly getting a good idea, "You chew it so your ears don't explode because of the pressure."
"Your ears will EXPLODE because you don't chew gum?"
"You bet, I had a cousin once that didn't chew the gum. We never HEARD from her again."
Caitlin could barely hold in the laughter as Joey quickly forced the gum into his mouth and started to chew. Tea just rolled her eyes,
poor gullible Joey.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Author- End of chapter, the next one will be in California, where they make their short stop. *snickers*
Caitlin- *eyebrow goes up* What was that snicker for?
Author- *stops quickly* Nothing.
Yugi- *sigh* I'm bored.
Tea- *looks around* What happened to our Monkey?
Joey- Who?
Caitlin- You know, Monkey Marik.
Tristen- Oh him.
Joey- He had to go home, something about us not feeding him.
Author- Oh well, guess we'll have to get a new one. *evil smirk*
All- *inches away from the author*
Y.Caitlin- *comes out from bathroom*
Y.Caitlin- *notices everyone in a group away from Author*
Author- *evil smirk* Welcome back Caitlin's Yami.
C.Yami- *is very afraid/confused/shocked* Hi?
Author- We are going to have lots of fun today.
C.Yami- *gulp*
