*In Australian Crocodile Voice * Today we are hunting the ever elusive
creature known to many as the fearsome Rabid Lawyer. These creatures are
easily offended, following many poor authoresses who are just trying to--
Rabid Lawyers: What are you doing?
I'm TRYING to do a disclaimer.
Rabid Lawyers: Oh.OK. *Start sharpening pointy kendo sticks *
Rrrghh..I do not own Yugioh...and the rest of this fic is NOT in an Australian accent. Do not read it that way. It won't work very well..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!! Well, well, well, today was Fat Tuesday, and here comes this PERSONAL POSTMAN with invites to a Mardi Gras costume party. TIME TO SHOP!!!!
So, after beating one really bad duelist (a duelist a day keeps losing away) I met up with Yami/Yugi and he was practically bursting.
"Crissy! Did you get an invite? Great! I have this totally great idea! Come on!!"
"Whoa, there!" I wasn't quite sure how to handle Yugi right then. Excited? About a Kaiba party?
"Come on, I borrowed Alenka's car!" So I ran with him to this parking lot, and this really small brown car was the only one there.
We drove along until we got in front of this costume shop. "Yugi?"
He only smiled, then said, "All yours." So Yami led me inside. He brought me downstairs and to a display in the corner.
"OMG!!! It's perfect!!" I was flabbergasted.
Yami grinned, "I thought, since, you know now, and maybe, well, um, ah, well, you know."
"Destiny will take it's course?"
"Yes." I smiled at him. Oooooh! He is sooo fine! We called over the shop keeper and he measured us.
"Well?!?!" I was getting a little impatient.
"They fit! That will be $30 a night each." To stall for time before the party, we caught a matinee movie. I ah, didn't really pay a lot of attention to the movie.but anyhow, I wonder what costumes my sisters will wear.
Party time rolled around, and we drove to the game shop to change. That's when Alenka told me that we ought to have sleepover at her house. Hehe. *Sweat drop * Yugi's house.
I know I got all red, and so did Yugi (They had switched again) and Alenka started stammering, "I didn't mean, well, I."
"We have to change. Could you point me to the bathroom?" I interrupted and walked away with my face burning.
So, after I got into my costume, I walked outside of the bathroom. Yami was waiting.
He was dressed as an Egyptian Pharaoh, and I was an Egyptian Queen! HE LOOKED SO SEXY!!! The shirt was really tight, and MAN!! Did he work out?
Well, we flagged a taxi (the car was much too ugly) and for some odd reason we'd burst out laughing whenever we saw a stop sign. That's what I love so much about them. I can have FUN with them.
OK, I'm really tired from the party, but I promise to write in all the details tomorrow.
Crissy Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happy Mardi Gras, everyone!!
Did ya know, I had completely forgotten about Mardi Gras!! Oops.
Anyway, I'm out dueling, when this postman guy comes running up.
"Crissy Valentine?"
"Um. no, I'm her sister, Aundaine."
"Oh." He searches in his bag, and hands me two letters. "From Mr.
Kaiba."
I would have the letters, but the duelist I was battling was getting impatient. I tucked them into my purse, then drew a card. The Lightning Unicorn. Perfect. Since I already had my Mystical Pegasus on the Field, I could fuse the two together with my polymerization card to create the Lightning Unicorn Pegasus. With an attack power of 2500! I attack his last monster knocking him to 0 life points!
He walks up, hands me a locator card and shook my hand. "Congratulations."
I smile and a kid from the audience runs up. "Will you duel me?"
He's gotta be like eight or something. I smiled and told him that I really did have to go. He looked so disappointed, so I gave him the card I had just won; Baron of the Fend Sword (this duelist had like, no good cards.).
I sat on a bench in the park to read the letters. The first was an invitation to a Mardi Gras Party at Seto's mansion. There was also a note asking me to give the second envelope to "That guy you were dancing with at the Planet Bash."
A costume party? What AM I going to wear? I'll talk to Malik (I have to anyway) and see what he's gonna wear.
OK.so where would I find Malik? Duh!! I still had his cell phone number.
I call him, agree to meet him at the mall outside the shoe store (don't question why I chose that store.) in like, fifteen minutes.
He was waiting for me when I got there. Today, he was wearing a plain black t-shirt, jeans, and a jean jacket. (NO ax in sight.)
I give him the invitation and we head towards the costume shop, debating what to wear.
We finally decided on going as a medieval prince and princess. I had this cool tiara thing and I knew how to do my hair perfectly. I also had this red and gold patterned skirt and this blouse thing with awesome sleeves. They were sort of poofy. but not really. oh, and I had this black leather vest, too.
Malik wore this really cool shirt with these puffy sleeves. and he got ot wear a sword.
Our conversation on the ax topic:
"No, you can't bring the ax!!"
"Why not?"
"They didn't have golden axes back then!"
"So!? Then why do I have to wear the sword?"
"It's classy. Besides, you have a sword scabbard, where would you put
the ax?"
"In my pocket?"
"Where it would poke me wile we were dancing? I think not!"
"In my back pocket?"
"Hello! It's GOLDEN!"
"And."
"Do you really want people staring at your back pocket all night? .Don't answer that one incorrectly now."
"Of course not." He smiles sweetly and innocently. Innocent. Right. I gave him THE look. You know, the look that says 'I don't believe you, so if you don't want me to get really mad at you, re-think that answer!'
He looks at me. "I'm sorry. we still have a few hours before the party, wanna go somewhere?"
"Sure. Where?"
"The movies?"
So we go to see Blood Sucking Monsters Attack New York. Mysteriously, I somehow wound up in Malik's lap, clutching his chest, with my head buried in his shoulder. Dunno how THAT happened. But man, was I scared! It was so creepy!. thankfully, Malik had his arms reassuringly around me.
Coincidence; for some reason, I always seem to end up with my arms around his neck. curious.oh well, I'm not complaining, and he's not either. hehehe!!
We walked out of the theatre and Malik put his arm around my shoulder. "Are you OK?"
"Yeah."
He smiles like he doesn't believe me, and we headed to the party.
Oh! It was great! We all started to talk in random languages, and there were games and food.
The guests were: Crissy, Yugi, Joey, Alenka, Jewel, Seto (duh!) Mokuba, Alli, Malik, me, and a few other random duelists, plus a whole bunch of funky servants (that were really fun to annoy, but that's no the point, now, is it? STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!! Who asked you, anyway? Did I say you could answer? Just STOP!!!)
Anyway.
Malik and I were dancing and he leans over. "Daine, will you be my girlfriend?"
Actually, I don't think I ever really answered him.I just started kissing him. and he kissed me back. but anyway.that's kind of long -------
Aundaine Valentine
(AKA Malik's girlfriend!!!!!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AAAAAH!!!!!! Stupid, stupid Jewel forgot Mardi Gras was this week!! So stupid personal postman comes for stupid Jewel with stupid invitation to the forgotten Mardi Gras dance Jewel's own b/f is putting on!!! I repeat. AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! Stupid Jewel has nothing to wear to the party!!!
Now that I'm done talking in 3rd person.
Like I said, Seto sent a personal postman to me with an invite to Mardi Gras. Also, it had flowers attached. Or the invite was attached to the flowers.whatever.
In the flowers was this picture of an old fashioned couple dancing. Which got me thinking. since this IS a costume party, why not go as an old fashioned partnerage? More specifically, why not one of the most famous ones, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler?
I called Seto and apparently guys don't read books like these. I really should have SEEN that COMING! BUT, oh, and this is sooo SWEET, he said he'd like to watch the movie with someone like me, quote, "Someone much more beautiful than Scarlett."
Alright, so I'm a sucker educated, rich players ho think and/or ay I'm beautiful!! Can you REALLY blame me? Either way, major, major points just scored!!
So Seto got sevants to come and take our measurements (I love these servants! They said my waist was like, WAY smaller than I knew it was and still got everything to fit! So what if they lied? You think I really care?) and got me dressed up in one of the big poofy gowns seen in the movie. It was that cool one that she made out of the fabric curtains. The green and gold one, remember? Only they made it fan out even farther at my request because I've always wanted to know what it would feel like to be surrounded by that much fabric.
All right, so I'm not a brunette and Seto certainly isn't in his 40's (dear Lord help us) but it still turned out really cool looking.
By the second day, (the day of the dance) all the stuff was ready. I got the entire dress thing on and was twirling up and down the flight of stairs Seto has in his mansion. (Nearly killed myself too, I kept getting caught up in all the extra fabric.)
I slipped for the second time and was sure I'd crack my head open when Seto stepped out of nowhere, and managed to catch me. Coolest thing ever, I swear. He brings me back up and I'm looking straight into his eyes. I seriously never noticed how BLUE they were. And all the attention was right on me. It was so wonderful.
He says, "You know, you would have been the perfect person for this part." Awww. how sweet!!
At the risk of being Teaish, I replied, "But then I wouldn't have met you."
So we danced. And danced. I abandoned the high heels I was wearing for slippers ½ and hour in and then we sat down and. never mind. No business of yours.
We got to the Mardi Gras Party and all was perfect. I saw Crissy there with Yugi as an Egyptian queen with her pharaoh, and Daine there with Malik as a prince and princess. Malik had this really awesome looking sword with him, but he looked like he was used to a weapon being with him. And Yugi looked extremely comfortable as an Egyptian pharaoh. Both Daine and Crissy looked quite happy with the choice of costumes, too.
Then, while Kaiba was defeating multiple people at chess, I met one of the girls I knew from school, here. I totally forgot she was a duelist!! Her name's Alli and she used to be like my little shopping buddy. She's an image of well, me and my sisters when wee were in 7th grade, only she's got this cute strawberry blonde hair with these "bloody wicked" red highlights. She also kinda reverts to a British accent once in a while.
So remember the last party dealy bop that we were at? The one with all the break dancing? Do you also remember that I said I needed to find Mokuba a g/f?
Can you say TA - DA!??
She's perfect for him! So, as I repeat, Seto's beating people in chess, I go over and talk to her. Ask her where she's been, why I haven't heard from her, where's he new favorite mall, and BTW, would she be interested in going out with the brother of Seto Kaiba?
Ha-ha!! Guess what? She's had her eye on Mokuba since she got here! Good girl! She didn't know, however, that I was Kaiba's new g/f.
So I leave Kaiba playing chess, and I go up to Mokuba. I say, "Hey, Mokuba, see that girl over there? She wants your opinion on some Duel Monsters."
Deep blush. "Ah. that girl?" Told ya!! Love at first sight!
"No, the invisible 4 year old in the corner. YES, that girl!!"
"Oh. Ah. Jewel, could you help me out here?"
Smart kid, is he not? "Sure," I say as kindly as possible. More blushing on Mokuba's part.
We walk over to Alli and I say to her, "Alli, now you can ask Mokuba about Duelist Kingdom. Mokuba tells the greatest stories, or so I heard from my sisters." OK, so I needed a little sarcasm to amuse myself. Everyone remembers Mokuba's entrance at the first party, right?
After more prompting, I got the two talking together and laughing, and having fun and Mokuba blushing more. Everything is right in the world.
I dragged Seto away from the chessboards and we played some of the other games too. It turns out, too, that Seto and I both know French. However, he knows more insults than I and it's rather fun to watch him yell at the poor vendors that are stupid enough to annoy him.
I met up with Crissy later, and started talking with her. Kaiba and Yugi actually made halting conversation. What a breakthrough. I think just as long as we don't play the game where you run around spastically trying to pop the balloons on people's ankles we'll be OK.
I also saw Daine as we were leaving and she had this floating on air look back on her face.
Ooops, one more note. I saw Alli and Mokuba leaving together holding hands. It was quite possibly the cutest thing I had ever seen. Alli caught me watching them and she looked to the heavens and sighed behind Mokuba's back.
I feel so sorry for Kaiba Corp. if both Alli and I have a say in it.
We (Seto and I) went back to the mansion and watched "Gone with the Wind."
By the time it finally finished, I was so tired I could barely stagger to the limo. Then I forgot I was still wearing the green poofy dress and had to run back inside to change.
Jewel Valentine
PS: No one is going to comment on our dress costume selection. Seriously, though, what else would we have gone as? Hermione Granger and Victor Krum? I think NOT!! That girl so tick s me off. but never mind. I am too happy with my life right now to worry about a fictional bushy haired bookworm with no dress sense who can make pineapples tap dance across a desk at will.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good morning!! Right now I'm running purely on adrenaline.
Last night was the Mardi Gras party, and OMG!!! Of course, these awesome Egyptian sandals are perfect for dancing. So me 'n' Yami danced the entire night!! Aside from dancing there was this whole chess play off, and being "King of Games" MY b/f won!! (Seto dropped out midway to yell insults in French, please don't ask me why!)
We played some pretty idiotic games like 'How many M&M's can you fit in your mouth?' and 'How many times can you fall over while playing Twister?', etc.
So, after a ton of stupid fan playing chess, actually conversing with Seto (amazing!!)
Watching Malik do "Swordplay" (OMG) and setting Mokuba and Alli up (Cute!!) me 'n' Yami slipped into a quiet corner. Hey!! So did everyone else!! Well, except for Mokuba and Alli. they didn't quite know what to do with themselves. but oh well.
It turned out all of my sisters agreed to the sleepover at *gulp * Alenka's house so I couldn't be rude and un-invite myself. So about midnight us girls were dropped off at our house to get stuff ready. The Game Shop was only a quick walk away. So we didn't tell Yugi to wait for us.
Right before we walked over, Mai acts all worried about us and asks us where we're going. So my innocent sister Jewel blurts out "We're sleeping over at Alenka Moto's house."
Mai's eyes go all round at the word "Moto" and she literately drags me into another room and starts lecturing me on "that stuff."
"Mai!! He doesn't even know I'll be there!! And what kind of people do you think we are?!?"
So she lets me FINALLY go and we jog over to Yugi's house.
When we walk in who comes down the stairs (WITH NO SHIRT ON!!) in these star PJ bottom flannel pants calling out "Grandpa! We told you, not parties with you Scrabble friends after midnight!!!" But Yugi!!
Well, let's just say my chin hit the floor AND I dropped my stuff, and he turns bright red. "Hi."
"Hi." I was thinking to myself 'don't go back upstairs please oh please oh please don't go back upstairs!!!'
Yugi bolts back upstairs, and comes back with this really SEXY black muscle shirt. "Wha-what are you doing here?! I mean, it's great to see you, but."
"Your sister invited us. And by the way," I checked to see that my sisters are LONG gone, "You look really sexy with your shirt off."
Simultaneous cries of "CRISSY!!!" rent the air. Daine and Jewel at their best.
"Hey, you two aren't supposed to still be here!!" I chucked my pillow at their heads.
"Thanks and um, I'm really glad you're here." Yugi jumped the last five stairs and picked up my bag for me. Sexy, cute, AND a gentleman!
He joined us in the game shop basement to play a little 'Truth or Dare.'
Let's just say that NOBODY played their chickens. *Evil Smile. *
And then we played Scrabble with Grandpa Moto, lost terribly, and then burst out with the movies. A chick flick, some horror, and so on.
Today, it the morning we all went out for a pancake breakfast. Guess who is there? Seto and Mokuba. Jewel's looking kinda guilty. Oh well, I'm too happy from spending the night with Yugi.
Crissy Valentine
PS: *Big happy happy Joy Joy big love struck sigh!!! *
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The party was really amazingly fun. Once again, though, I didn't have a chance to introduce Malik to Yugi or Seto. so in short I had him all to myself. which I'm not complaining about since he asked me out. Anyway, I cannot believe I missed the chess tournament even if I did have other things on my mind. And we didn't get to play the fun balloon popping game either. I could have stolen Malik's sword and popped EVERYONE'S balloons! HAHAHAHA!!!! But we didn't play.
Alenka invited us (my two sisters, and of course, myself) to a sleepover at her house. We were all so excited that we completely forgot it was also YUGI'S house.
Mai dragged Crissy aside and tried to giver her "the talk" before we left. It was sooo funny, watching the two of them! Think about it. MAI giving perfect CRISSY "THE talk."
We finally decided to ditch Mai as fast as possible and head towards the game shop. We walk in the door, say our hellos, and Yugi walks downstairs, with NO SHIRT ON!! He turns beet red, brick red, RED red. I mean like oh my gosh that's red red. And he scrambles upstairs again. Jewel and I duck out of the room to talk to Grandpa and Alenka, conveniently leaving Cristal alone with Yugi. We were intending to not listen in, but I couldn't help myself!
~Later~
We played truth or dare, and Yugi kept picking 'truth' so he could flirt with Crissy. And (I'm sorry) but Yugi is kind of a goody-goody. therefore we ran out of QUESTIONS to ask him.
One time, Yugi dared Crissy to pretend to be a spastic bunny rabbit. It was soooo funny! Oh, and let's not forget when Crissy dared me to wrap my head in a blanket/turban and sing the "Rubber Ducky" song in my best Middle Eastern accent. Let's just say it was interesting. Oh, and by the way, it's amazing how little you can actually know your sisters.
After losing to Grandpa in Scrabble (he used words like "Jaglarglooscoonannan" and "Umbiliousistrectomy" so how could we compete with that?) I announced that Malik had asked me out. (And there was much rejoicing!!)
Then I fell asleep while everyone else watched movie after movie. I was really, really tired! Especially after the long day's events (hehehe). And it was, like, two or three in the morning!!
We went out to a pancake breakfast in the morning where Seto and Mokuba were conveniently waiting. *Everyone glares suspiciously at Jewel. *
While everyone was finishing eating, I excused myself and walked outside to call Malik. I had just gotten the most awesomely koolieo idea for a get together. OK, fine, for ANOTHER party.
"A BEACH party?"
"Yeah. do you like the idea?"
Malik thinks for a moment then says mockingly, "But Aundaine, darling, and oh the delight of my eyes, pearl of the universe, I have nothing wear!"
I smile inwardly, "Well. we DO have to return those costumes." Hey! What better excuse for a shopping trip than returning something? AND what better way to but a new swimsuit than a beach party!? *Spastic Giggling!! *
He sighs, "Shoe store? What time?"
Have mentioned that I have the BEST boyfriend ever? "When are you free?"
He laughs, "In other words, what are you doing now that can't be interrupted?"
I giggle (I just couldn't help it!)
"Ok, you know me too well!"
"I'll be right there."
"Wait." I had no way to get to the mall! (Shock and disbelief!) "Could you pick me up? I'm stranded at the pancake place."
"Sure." I could almost hear him smiling. "I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Thanks." I realized that I should probably tell Crissy and Jewel where I was going. but looking in on them, I decided no to bother them. They'd figure it out. sooner or later.
Malik picked me up on his motorcycle (serious like standard made of transportation, I guess.)
I couldn't find a swimsuit that I really liked, but I resolved to ask my sisters to help me decide tomorrow.
Then we returned the costumes.
"What do you want to do now?"
He shrugs, "What d'you wanna do?"
"We could catch a movie."
"Sure," he says sarcastically, "And end up with you on my lap AGAIN?" He thinks for a moment, then smiles playfully, "Okay!"
I hit him lightly on the shoulder, and then dragged him to the theatre at the mall.
Malik paid for my ticket, but I insisted on paying for the popcorn, etc.
We saw some sap movie (I can't remember the name.) I wasn't surprised to see virtually no one was at this movie. it was sad, and had been "out" for a while already.
I did NOT end up in his lap this time. at least, not until he asked me. but we're getting off the topic here.
Well, gotta go!!
Luv ya!
Aundaine Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hehehehe!! Sisters to the rescue!
Daine asked us for help finding a swimsuit etc. for a *shouting spastically *
BEACH PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wahooo!!! Man, I love this plan!! Us, beach, swimsuits, our boyfriends. possibly a big purdy fire!!!
So we all went shopping (Alli came too!) and we all found everything we needed. The stuff we found is absolutely gorgeous, and my little gadget helped us out quite a bit.
Oh yeah, we met Serenity there, too. She finally got the whole story of my dumping Tristan from Tristan. Well, she thought so, but he still neglected to ell her the fact that I dumped HIM, not the other way around.
Stupid thickheaded idiooti. (Directed at Tristan.)
Yeah, well, the other thing that happened was, oh, that's right; Tristan has been REJECTED by Serenity.
She is the coolest sap I have ever met. So that's why she was there. She felt really sorry for dumping Tristan, and decided she needed to "compensate for her grief" through shopping. Whatever, it got her to the mall, right?
But we mostly ended up chatting. OK, gossiping. OK. gossiping about our current and/or ex-boyfriends. But that really isn't the point, is it?
So what was the point? Oh yeah! That Tristan is so completely incompetent that he can't keep a (normal or sap) girlfriend for more than 2 weeks. Sorry, Tristan, but that's just SAD!
Well, I thought the pancake place was a good idea!! And if Crissy gets to spend the night at her b/f's house, I can have breakfast with my b/f in the morning if I wish. Besides, it seems like every time we get Yugi and Seto to talk, it takes less and less effort on my and Crissy's part.
EEEP!! I totally forgot to write about the sleepover! I must be on a shopping high. Anyway, I accidentally blurted out where we were going to Mai. Then Mai, the Mai who keeps getting duelists drunk and then claiming their map cards, yeah, that Mai, tried to (I repeat, tried!) to give Crissy 'the talk.' Our innocent sister Crissy. We could hear through the walls and when Crissy came out, she looked ready to kill someone. More specifically, me.
Then we got to Alenka's house, and Yugi came down yelling to Grandpa Moto something about 'No Scrabble tournaments!!'. Without a shirt on!!! I honestly think Crissy forgot all about killing me.
He ran upstairs really fast after going extremely red, returning with a shirt firmly on. Daine and I kinda sidled out of the room, eyes down, and started talking to Grandpa Moto. We honestly didn't try to listen to Crissy and Yugi's discussion, I swear. Anyway, thank goodness Grandpa Moto's nearly deaf.
Then we played Scrabble (Some of the words Grandpa Moto played. well, I didn't even know many of the meanings, much less that they were actual WORDS!!) and then we started on Truth or Dare. It was like I didn't even know my sisters. But we ran out of questions for Yugi about 45 minutes in. Pathetic. Oh well, we still had a great time.
We all slept downstairs (except Yugi, who went back up to his room a couple of floors up, thank you very much.) s o we got, maybe 3 hrs of sleep.
Maybe that's why I'm so scatterbrained today.
Jewel Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OK, people, y'all know what to do! Read and review!! All flames will be consumed by Crissy's Fire Unicorn, dissipated by Jewel's Water Unicorn, and the people who made them will be chased down by Daine's Lightning Unicorn. Happy? Good.
So press the little button.
It's right there.
TYPE!!
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!
Rabid Lawyers: What are you doing?
I'm TRYING to do a disclaimer.
Rabid Lawyers: Oh.OK. *Start sharpening pointy kendo sticks *
Rrrghh..I do not own Yugioh...and the rest of this fic is NOT in an Australian accent. Do not read it that way. It won't work very well..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!! Well, well, well, today was Fat Tuesday, and here comes this PERSONAL POSTMAN with invites to a Mardi Gras costume party. TIME TO SHOP!!!!
So, after beating one really bad duelist (a duelist a day keeps losing away) I met up with Yami/Yugi and he was practically bursting.
"Crissy! Did you get an invite? Great! I have this totally great idea! Come on!!"
"Whoa, there!" I wasn't quite sure how to handle Yugi right then. Excited? About a Kaiba party?
"Come on, I borrowed Alenka's car!" So I ran with him to this parking lot, and this really small brown car was the only one there.
We drove along until we got in front of this costume shop. "Yugi?"
He only smiled, then said, "All yours." So Yami led me inside. He brought me downstairs and to a display in the corner.
"OMG!!! It's perfect!!" I was flabbergasted.
Yami grinned, "I thought, since, you know now, and maybe, well, um, ah, well, you know."
"Destiny will take it's course?"
"Yes." I smiled at him. Oooooh! He is sooo fine! We called over the shop keeper and he measured us.
"Well?!?!" I was getting a little impatient.
"They fit! That will be $30 a night each." To stall for time before the party, we caught a matinee movie. I ah, didn't really pay a lot of attention to the movie.but anyhow, I wonder what costumes my sisters will wear.
Party time rolled around, and we drove to the game shop to change. That's when Alenka told me that we ought to have sleepover at her house. Hehe. *Sweat drop * Yugi's house.
I know I got all red, and so did Yugi (They had switched again) and Alenka started stammering, "I didn't mean, well, I."
"We have to change. Could you point me to the bathroom?" I interrupted and walked away with my face burning.
So, after I got into my costume, I walked outside of the bathroom. Yami was waiting.
He was dressed as an Egyptian Pharaoh, and I was an Egyptian Queen! HE LOOKED SO SEXY!!! The shirt was really tight, and MAN!! Did he work out?
Well, we flagged a taxi (the car was much too ugly) and for some odd reason we'd burst out laughing whenever we saw a stop sign. That's what I love so much about them. I can have FUN with them.
OK, I'm really tired from the party, but I promise to write in all the details tomorrow.
Crissy Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Happy Mardi Gras, everyone!!
Did ya know, I had completely forgotten about Mardi Gras!! Oops.
Anyway, I'm out dueling, when this postman guy comes running up.
"Crissy Valentine?"
"Um. no, I'm her sister, Aundaine."
"Oh." He searches in his bag, and hands me two letters. "From Mr.
Kaiba."
I would have the letters, but the duelist I was battling was getting impatient. I tucked them into my purse, then drew a card. The Lightning Unicorn. Perfect. Since I already had my Mystical Pegasus on the Field, I could fuse the two together with my polymerization card to create the Lightning Unicorn Pegasus. With an attack power of 2500! I attack his last monster knocking him to 0 life points!
He walks up, hands me a locator card and shook my hand. "Congratulations."
I smile and a kid from the audience runs up. "Will you duel me?"
He's gotta be like eight or something. I smiled and told him that I really did have to go. He looked so disappointed, so I gave him the card I had just won; Baron of the Fend Sword (this duelist had like, no good cards.).
I sat on a bench in the park to read the letters. The first was an invitation to a Mardi Gras Party at Seto's mansion. There was also a note asking me to give the second envelope to "That guy you were dancing with at the Planet Bash."
A costume party? What AM I going to wear? I'll talk to Malik (I have to anyway) and see what he's gonna wear.
OK.so where would I find Malik? Duh!! I still had his cell phone number.
I call him, agree to meet him at the mall outside the shoe store (don't question why I chose that store.) in like, fifteen minutes.
He was waiting for me when I got there. Today, he was wearing a plain black t-shirt, jeans, and a jean jacket. (NO ax in sight.)
I give him the invitation and we head towards the costume shop, debating what to wear.
We finally decided on going as a medieval prince and princess. I had this cool tiara thing and I knew how to do my hair perfectly. I also had this red and gold patterned skirt and this blouse thing with awesome sleeves. They were sort of poofy. but not really. oh, and I had this black leather vest, too.
Malik wore this really cool shirt with these puffy sleeves. and he got ot wear a sword.
Our conversation on the ax topic:
"No, you can't bring the ax!!"
"Why not?"
"They didn't have golden axes back then!"
"So!? Then why do I have to wear the sword?"
"It's classy. Besides, you have a sword scabbard, where would you put
the ax?"
"In my pocket?"
"Where it would poke me wile we were dancing? I think not!"
"In my back pocket?"
"Hello! It's GOLDEN!"
"And."
"Do you really want people staring at your back pocket all night? .Don't answer that one incorrectly now."
"Of course not." He smiles sweetly and innocently. Innocent. Right. I gave him THE look. You know, the look that says 'I don't believe you, so if you don't want me to get really mad at you, re-think that answer!'
He looks at me. "I'm sorry. we still have a few hours before the party, wanna go somewhere?"
"Sure. Where?"
"The movies?"
So we go to see Blood Sucking Monsters Attack New York. Mysteriously, I somehow wound up in Malik's lap, clutching his chest, with my head buried in his shoulder. Dunno how THAT happened. But man, was I scared! It was so creepy!. thankfully, Malik had his arms reassuringly around me.
Coincidence; for some reason, I always seem to end up with my arms around his neck. curious.oh well, I'm not complaining, and he's not either. hehehe!!
We walked out of the theatre and Malik put his arm around my shoulder. "Are you OK?"
"Yeah."
He smiles like he doesn't believe me, and we headed to the party.
Oh! It was great! We all started to talk in random languages, and there were games and food.
The guests were: Crissy, Yugi, Joey, Alenka, Jewel, Seto (duh!) Mokuba, Alli, Malik, me, and a few other random duelists, plus a whole bunch of funky servants (that were really fun to annoy, but that's no the point, now, is it? STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!! Who asked you, anyway? Did I say you could answer? Just STOP!!!)
Anyway.
Malik and I were dancing and he leans over. "Daine, will you be my girlfriend?"
Actually, I don't think I ever really answered him.I just started kissing him. and he kissed me back. but anyway.that's kind of long -------
Aundaine Valentine
(AKA Malik's girlfriend!!!!!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AAAAAH!!!!!! Stupid, stupid Jewel forgot Mardi Gras was this week!! So stupid personal postman comes for stupid Jewel with stupid invitation to the forgotten Mardi Gras dance Jewel's own b/f is putting on!!! I repeat. AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! Stupid Jewel has nothing to wear to the party!!!
Now that I'm done talking in 3rd person.
Like I said, Seto sent a personal postman to me with an invite to Mardi Gras. Also, it had flowers attached. Or the invite was attached to the flowers.whatever.
In the flowers was this picture of an old fashioned couple dancing. Which got me thinking. since this IS a costume party, why not go as an old fashioned partnerage? More specifically, why not one of the most famous ones, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler?
I called Seto and apparently guys don't read books like these. I really should have SEEN that COMING! BUT, oh, and this is sooo SWEET, he said he'd like to watch the movie with someone like me, quote, "Someone much more beautiful than Scarlett."
Alright, so I'm a sucker educated, rich players ho think and/or ay I'm beautiful!! Can you REALLY blame me? Either way, major, major points just scored!!
So Seto got sevants to come and take our measurements (I love these servants! They said my waist was like, WAY smaller than I knew it was and still got everything to fit! So what if they lied? You think I really care?) and got me dressed up in one of the big poofy gowns seen in the movie. It was that cool one that she made out of the fabric curtains. The green and gold one, remember? Only they made it fan out even farther at my request because I've always wanted to know what it would feel like to be surrounded by that much fabric.
All right, so I'm not a brunette and Seto certainly isn't in his 40's (dear Lord help us) but it still turned out really cool looking.
By the second day, (the day of the dance) all the stuff was ready. I got the entire dress thing on and was twirling up and down the flight of stairs Seto has in his mansion. (Nearly killed myself too, I kept getting caught up in all the extra fabric.)
I slipped for the second time and was sure I'd crack my head open when Seto stepped out of nowhere, and managed to catch me. Coolest thing ever, I swear. He brings me back up and I'm looking straight into his eyes. I seriously never noticed how BLUE they were. And all the attention was right on me. It was so wonderful.
He says, "You know, you would have been the perfect person for this part." Awww. how sweet!!
At the risk of being Teaish, I replied, "But then I wouldn't have met you."
So we danced. And danced. I abandoned the high heels I was wearing for slippers ½ and hour in and then we sat down and. never mind. No business of yours.
We got to the Mardi Gras Party and all was perfect. I saw Crissy there with Yugi as an Egyptian queen with her pharaoh, and Daine there with Malik as a prince and princess. Malik had this really awesome looking sword with him, but he looked like he was used to a weapon being with him. And Yugi looked extremely comfortable as an Egyptian pharaoh. Both Daine and Crissy looked quite happy with the choice of costumes, too.
Then, while Kaiba was defeating multiple people at chess, I met one of the girls I knew from school, here. I totally forgot she was a duelist!! Her name's Alli and she used to be like my little shopping buddy. She's an image of well, me and my sisters when wee were in 7th grade, only she's got this cute strawberry blonde hair with these "bloody wicked" red highlights. She also kinda reverts to a British accent once in a while.
So remember the last party dealy bop that we were at? The one with all the break dancing? Do you also remember that I said I needed to find Mokuba a g/f?
Can you say TA - DA!??
She's perfect for him! So, as I repeat, Seto's beating people in chess, I go over and talk to her. Ask her where she's been, why I haven't heard from her, where's he new favorite mall, and BTW, would she be interested in going out with the brother of Seto Kaiba?
Ha-ha!! Guess what? She's had her eye on Mokuba since she got here! Good girl! She didn't know, however, that I was Kaiba's new g/f.
So I leave Kaiba playing chess, and I go up to Mokuba. I say, "Hey, Mokuba, see that girl over there? She wants your opinion on some Duel Monsters."
Deep blush. "Ah. that girl?" Told ya!! Love at first sight!
"No, the invisible 4 year old in the corner. YES, that girl!!"
"Oh. Ah. Jewel, could you help me out here?"
Smart kid, is he not? "Sure," I say as kindly as possible. More blushing on Mokuba's part.
We walk over to Alli and I say to her, "Alli, now you can ask Mokuba about Duelist Kingdom. Mokuba tells the greatest stories, or so I heard from my sisters." OK, so I needed a little sarcasm to amuse myself. Everyone remembers Mokuba's entrance at the first party, right?
After more prompting, I got the two talking together and laughing, and having fun and Mokuba blushing more. Everything is right in the world.
I dragged Seto away from the chessboards and we played some of the other games too. It turns out, too, that Seto and I both know French. However, he knows more insults than I and it's rather fun to watch him yell at the poor vendors that are stupid enough to annoy him.
I met up with Crissy later, and started talking with her. Kaiba and Yugi actually made halting conversation. What a breakthrough. I think just as long as we don't play the game where you run around spastically trying to pop the balloons on people's ankles we'll be OK.
I also saw Daine as we were leaving and she had this floating on air look back on her face.
Ooops, one more note. I saw Alli and Mokuba leaving together holding hands. It was quite possibly the cutest thing I had ever seen. Alli caught me watching them and she looked to the heavens and sighed behind Mokuba's back.
I feel so sorry for Kaiba Corp. if both Alli and I have a say in it.
We (Seto and I) went back to the mansion and watched "Gone with the Wind."
By the time it finally finished, I was so tired I could barely stagger to the limo. Then I forgot I was still wearing the green poofy dress and had to run back inside to change.
Jewel Valentine
PS: No one is going to comment on our dress costume selection. Seriously, though, what else would we have gone as? Hermione Granger and Victor Krum? I think NOT!! That girl so tick s me off. but never mind. I am too happy with my life right now to worry about a fictional bushy haired bookworm with no dress sense who can make pineapples tap dance across a desk at will.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good morning!! Right now I'm running purely on adrenaline.
Last night was the Mardi Gras party, and OMG!!! Of course, these awesome Egyptian sandals are perfect for dancing. So me 'n' Yami danced the entire night!! Aside from dancing there was this whole chess play off, and being "King of Games" MY b/f won!! (Seto dropped out midway to yell insults in French, please don't ask me why!)
We played some pretty idiotic games like 'How many M&M's can you fit in your mouth?' and 'How many times can you fall over while playing Twister?', etc.
So, after a ton of stupid fan playing chess, actually conversing with Seto (amazing!!)
Watching Malik do "Swordplay" (OMG) and setting Mokuba and Alli up (Cute!!) me 'n' Yami slipped into a quiet corner. Hey!! So did everyone else!! Well, except for Mokuba and Alli. they didn't quite know what to do with themselves. but oh well.
It turned out all of my sisters agreed to the sleepover at *gulp * Alenka's house so I couldn't be rude and un-invite myself. So about midnight us girls were dropped off at our house to get stuff ready. The Game Shop was only a quick walk away. So we didn't tell Yugi to wait for us.
Right before we walked over, Mai acts all worried about us and asks us where we're going. So my innocent sister Jewel blurts out "We're sleeping over at Alenka Moto's house."
Mai's eyes go all round at the word "Moto" and she literately drags me into another room and starts lecturing me on "that stuff."
"Mai!! He doesn't even know I'll be there!! And what kind of people do you think we are?!?"
So she lets me FINALLY go and we jog over to Yugi's house.
When we walk in who comes down the stairs (WITH NO SHIRT ON!!) in these star PJ bottom flannel pants calling out "Grandpa! We told you, not parties with you Scrabble friends after midnight!!!" But Yugi!!
Well, let's just say my chin hit the floor AND I dropped my stuff, and he turns bright red. "Hi."
"Hi." I was thinking to myself 'don't go back upstairs please oh please oh please don't go back upstairs!!!'
Yugi bolts back upstairs, and comes back with this really SEXY black muscle shirt. "Wha-what are you doing here?! I mean, it's great to see you, but."
"Your sister invited us. And by the way," I checked to see that my sisters are LONG gone, "You look really sexy with your shirt off."
Simultaneous cries of "CRISSY!!!" rent the air. Daine and Jewel at their best.
"Hey, you two aren't supposed to still be here!!" I chucked my pillow at their heads.
"Thanks and um, I'm really glad you're here." Yugi jumped the last five stairs and picked up my bag for me. Sexy, cute, AND a gentleman!
He joined us in the game shop basement to play a little 'Truth or Dare.'
Let's just say that NOBODY played their chickens. *Evil Smile. *
And then we played Scrabble with Grandpa Moto, lost terribly, and then burst out with the movies. A chick flick, some horror, and so on.
Today, it the morning we all went out for a pancake breakfast. Guess who is there? Seto and Mokuba. Jewel's looking kinda guilty. Oh well, I'm too happy from spending the night with Yugi.
Crissy Valentine
PS: *Big happy happy Joy Joy big love struck sigh!!! *
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The party was really amazingly fun. Once again, though, I didn't have a chance to introduce Malik to Yugi or Seto. so in short I had him all to myself. which I'm not complaining about since he asked me out. Anyway, I cannot believe I missed the chess tournament even if I did have other things on my mind. And we didn't get to play the fun balloon popping game either. I could have stolen Malik's sword and popped EVERYONE'S balloons! HAHAHAHA!!!! But we didn't play.
Alenka invited us (my two sisters, and of course, myself) to a sleepover at her house. We were all so excited that we completely forgot it was also YUGI'S house.
Mai dragged Crissy aside and tried to giver her "the talk" before we left. It was sooo funny, watching the two of them! Think about it. MAI giving perfect CRISSY "THE talk."
We finally decided to ditch Mai as fast as possible and head towards the game shop. We walk in the door, say our hellos, and Yugi walks downstairs, with NO SHIRT ON!! He turns beet red, brick red, RED red. I mean like oh my gosh that's red red. And he scrambles upstairs again. Jewel and I duck out of the room to talk to Grandpa and Alenka, conveniently leaving Cristal alone with Yugi. We were intending to not listen in, but I couldn't help myself!
~Later~
We played truth or dare, and Yugi kept picking 'truth' so he could flirt with Crissy. And (I'm sorry) but Yugi is kind of a goody-goody. therefore we ran out of QUESTIONS to ask him.
One time, Yugi dared Crissy to pretend to be a spastic bunny rabbit. It was soooo funny! Oh, and let's not forget when Crissy dared me to wrap my head in a blanket/turban and sing the "Rubber Ducky" song in my best Middle Eastern accent. Let's just say it was interesting. Oh, and by the way, it's amazing how little you can actually know your sisters.
After losing to Grandpa in Scrabble (he used words like "Jaglarglooscoonannan" and "Umbiliousistrectomy" so how could we compete with that?) I announced that Malik had asked me out. (And there was much rejoicing!!)
Then I fell asleep while everyone else watched movie after movie. I was really, really tired! Especially after the long day's events (hehehe). And it was, like, two or three in the morning!!
We went out to a pancake breakfast in the morning where Seto and Mokuba were conveniently waiting. *Everyone glares suspiciously at Jewel. *
While everyone was finishing eating, I excused myself and walked outside to call Malik. I had just gotten the most awesomely koolieo idea for a get together. OK, fine, for ANOTHER party.
"A BEACH party?"
"Yeah. do you like the idea?"
Malik thinks for a moment then says mockingly, "But Aundaine, darling, and oh the delight of my eyes, pearl of the universe, I have nothing wear!"
I smile inwardly, "Well. we DO have to return those costumes." Hey! What better excuse for a shopping trip than returning something? AND what better way to but a new swimsuit than a beach party!? *Spastic Giggling!! *
He sighs, "Shoe store? What time?"
Have mentioned that I have the BEST boyfriend ever? "When are you free?"
He laughs, "In other words, what are you doing now that can't be interrupted?"
I giggle (I just couldn't help it!)
"Ok, you know me too well!"
"I'll be right there."
"Wait." I had no way to get to the mall! (Shock and disbelief!) "Could you pick me up? I'm stranded at the pancake place."
"Sure." I could almost hear him smiling. "I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Thanks." I realized that I should probably tell Crissy and Jewel where I was going. but looking in on them, I decided no to bother them. They'd figure it out. sooner or later.
Malik picked me up on his motorcycle (serious like standard made of transportation, I guess.)
I couldn't find a swimsuit that I really liked, but I resolved to ask my sisters to help me decide tomorrow.
Then we returned the costumes.
"What do you want to do now?"
He shrugs, "What d'you wanna do?"
"We could catch a movie."
"Sure," he says sarcastically, "And end up with you on my lap AGAIN?" He thinks for a moment, then smiles playfully, "Okay!"
I hit him lightly on the shoulder, and then dragged him to the theatre at the mall.
Malik paid for my ticket, but I insisted on paying for the popcorn, etc.
We saw some sap movie (I can't remember the name.) I wasn't surprised to see virtually no one was at this movie. it was sad, and had been "out" for a while already.
I did NOT end up in his lap this time. at least, not until he asked me. but we're getting off the topic here.
Well, gotta go!!
Luv ya!
Aundaine Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hehehehe!! Sisters to the rescue!
Daine asked us for help finding a swimsuit etc. for a *shouting spastically *
BEACH PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wahooo!!! Man, I love this plan!! Us, beach, swimsuits, our boyfriends. possibly a big purdy fire!!!
So we all went shopping (Alli came too!) and we all found everything we needed. The stuff we found is absolutely gorgeous, and my little gadget helped us out quite a bit.
Oh yeah, we met Serenity there, too. She finally got the whole story of my dumping Tristan from Tristan. Well, she thought so, but he still neglected to ell her the fact that I dumped HIM, not the other way around.
Stupid thickheaded idiooti. (Directed at Tristan.)
Yeah, well, the other thing that happened was, oh, that's right; Tristan has been REJECTED by Serenity.
She is the coolest sap I have ever met. So that's why she was there. She felt really sorry for dumping Tristan, and decided she needed to "compensate for her grief" through shopping. Whatever, it got her to the mall, right?
But we mostly ended up chatting. OK, gossiping. OK. gossiping about our current and/or ex-boyfriends. But that really isn't the point, is it?
So what was the point? Oh yeah! That Tristan is so completely incompetent that he can't keep a (normal or sap) girlfriend for more than 2 weeks. Sorry, Tristan, but that's just SAD!
Well, I thought the pancake place was a good idea!! And if Crissy gets to spend the night at her b/f's house, I can have breakfast with my b/f in the morning if I wish. Besides, it seems like every time we get Yugi and Seto to talk, it takes less and less effort on my and Crissy's part.
EEEP!! I totally forgot to write about the sleepover! I must be on a shopping high. Anyway, I accidentally blurted out where we were going to Mai. Then Mai, the Mai who keeps getting duelists drunk and then claiming their map cards, yeah, that Mai, tried to (I repeat, tried!) to give Crissy 'the talk.' Our innocent sister Crissy. We could hear through the walls and when Crissy came out, she looked ready to kill someone. More specifically, me.
Then we got to Alenka's house, and Yugi came down yelling to Grandpa Moto something about 'No Scrabble tournaments!!'. Without a shirt on!!! I honestly think Crissy forgot all about killing me.
He ran upstairs really fast after going extremely red, returning with a shirt firmly on. Daine and I kinda sidled out of the room, eyes down, and started talking to Grandpa Moto. We honestly didn't try to listen to Crissy and Yugi's discussion, I swear. Anyway, thank goodness Grandpa Moto's nearly deaf.
Then we played Scrabble (Some of the words Grandpa Moto played. well, I didn't even know many of the meanings, much less that they were actual WORDS!!) and then we started on Truth or Dare. It was like I didn't even know my sisters. But we ran out of questions for Yugi about 45 minutes in. Pathetic. Oh well, we still had a great time.
We all slept downstairs (except Yugi, who went back up to his room a couple of floors up, thank you very much.) s o we got, maybe 3 hrs of sleep.
Maybe that's why I'm so scatterbrained today.
Jewel Valentine
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OK, people, y'all know what to do! Read and review!! All flames will be consumed by Crissy's Fire Unicorn, dissipated by Jewel's Water Unicorn, and the people who made them will be chased down by Daine's Lightning Unicorn. Happy? Good.
So press the little button.
It's right there.
TYPE!!
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!