"What did your friends say?" Seto asked. We were in the kitchen eating
breakfast – or really just sitting in the kitchen, turns out neither of us
are really breakfast people.
"Nothing."
"Joey?" He looked at me with a worried expression on his face.
"They said nothing. How many times do I have to say that?" I get up and walk over to the fridge and grab a diet coke. Seto got up also and followed me to the fridge. He wrapped his arms around me protectively.
"A lot." I glared at him and pushed his arms away.
"Just drop it!" I practically yell as I sit back down at the table. I rest my head in my hands and stare into the table top wishing it to tell me something useful.
Seto sighed and sat back down also; he edges his chair closer to me. I tence up as I expect him to pull me into another embrace. Who'd expect under all that coldness that Seto Kaiba was really a softie? But he doesn't. He just grabs my hand and turns me so that I'm facing him.
"How am I suposed to help you if you don't tell me what's wrong?" I pull my hand away and try not to look at him. I sighed, there was no way he was going to let me get away with saying nothing.
"They said nothing..."
"Joey!" He said sternly.
"But," I smirk at him before falling silent again. I think for a second trying to see how I could explain it.
"I know that they're not really comfortable with..." I stuggled with the right word.
"Us?" But luckily Seto supplied the word for me, and I nodd in reply.
"I thought that much." Seto said, nodding in agreement.
"It's just that that they have to get used to it, you know?" Seto looked like he was about to object but changed his mind.
"And?"
"Just, while we're with them... just don't kiss me or anything." I said whispering the last part. Seto blinked... then lost it.
"And why not, just because they're to stupid to deal-" He shouted into the kitchen.
"Seto!" I cut him off giving him a pleading look.
"Okay," He said behind clenched teeth. "But that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it."
"I'm not asking you to be." I look up at the clock, it's time to go over to Yugi's. I lean up torwards him and give him a kiss.
"Come on, it's time to go."
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We walked over to Yugi's since it was close by. I could tell Joey was nervous for he's was being all jumpy - but then that might just be the side affects of all the sugar in the coke he had this morning.
Every one else was already there when we got there. They were all sitting in front of the TV. When I walked into the room with Joey they went kind of silent and stared with a 'what the hell is HE doing here' look on their faces. Yeah, I'm here – so deal with it.
Joey sat down next to Yugi and I follow sitting down next to Joey, resisting the urge to put my arm around his shoulders. The TV was on but no one was really paying any attention to it, it seems that they mainly just duel and hang out which seems kind of boring to me but since they're not MY friends... go figure.
Right now Yami had just started a duel with Joey. Tèa and Tristan were just watching them duel and Yugi just appeared from the kitchen with some chips. I smile as Joey stuffs a handful of chips into his mouth. Yugi asks if anyone wants a drink and everyone shakes their head no.
"Do you want a drink... Seto?" I look up surprised to see Yugi actually talking to me.
"No... thanks." I mustn't forget my manners as Joey so thankfully reminded me by looking away from his duel and glaring at me. I get the point Joey, chill.
I leaned back and continued watching the duel. Joey was doing pretty well, until Yami activated 'Swords of Reveiling Light' just after he cleared Joey's side of the field of monsters. After that he just kind of lost. But he didn't seem to care, he just seemed happy that he could be with his friends and me without worrying that we would kill each other.
So when Yami asked if I wanted to duel I felt obligated to say yes – and it didn't exactly help with Joey staring at me with his huge puppy dog eyes. Of course I was suspecting to be able to turn down the duel because I didn't have my deck. Well, Joey thought differently.
"Oh, I brought your deck." And indeed Joey had brought my deck though how he found it I have no idea. I'll have to ask him that later. So I began the duel.
"Prepare to lose," Yami said with a evil gleam in his eye which kind of freaked me out... well until I realized that he was only joking and that he said that to everyone.
"Right back at ya," I grinned trying not to worry about since when I used words like 'ya' – proabably been hanging around Joey to long. Not that that's a bad thing of course.
Joey was ecstatic that I was being nice to his friends, that we were acting normal. Well, relatively normal. I'm not sure you can say that the way Yami acts when he duels is exactly normal but hey, if everything was perfectly normal I would be kind of scared.
Joey was sitting behind me, leaning against the couch. He was smiling more than he had in days. Oh hell was he cute when he smiled. Oh wait, I shouldn't be thinking such thoughts now because... well just to be careful.
I picked up a card which turned out to be the 'Blue Eyes White Dragon' and I just so happened to have two monsters out on the field. How lucky. But before I could make my move I was interupted. Joey was trying to look at my cards from over my shoulder.
"Stop cheating!" I hit him playfully on the shoulder.
"Cheating, me?" Joey pretended to be offended which got a few laughs.
"Just because I happen to know you have the Blue Eyes White Dragon in your hand doesn't mean I cheated." He said smugly, then after a second or two he realized that he just told Yami my next move.
"Opps," He said pittifully. I tackled him and grabbed him tightly in a head lock.
"You know what happens to cheaters?" I asked as he squirmed and tried to get out of my reach.
"They're locked into the dungeon?" He asked after getting out of the headlock. I laugh and shake my head.
"They are deprived of food..." Joey's jaw drops and he stares at me in mock horror while the others laugh.
"You're evil!" Now it's my turn to stare at him in mock horror. Me, Evil? Never! He shakes his head looking at me disgusted.
"I'm only joking..." He says laughing. He rests his arm on my shoulder and edges torwards me; then he kisses me – right in front of them all.
Let's just say you could cut tension in the air with a knife it was so thick....
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I could feel them staring at me. Did I just kiss Seto in front of them all? Please tell me I didn't, but from the look on their faces I did. I don't know what came over me. It's just I forgot that they were still getting used to our relationship. I... I didn't mean to.
Yet they were staring at me as if I had done something wrong and... damn it, I could feel my eye's tearing up. Why do I always have to cry? And Seto, what must he think? How stupid I must be to do that in front of them. I hate this but I can't take this sort of pressure.
So I ran – something I'm very good at.
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After a few seconds of silence Joey ran out of the room. And was I mad! His friends just had to stare at him like he was an alien didn't they. Don't they know what they're doing to him?
"What kind of friends are you?" I whisper. I then get up and go find Joey not even waiting for an answer – not that I was expecting one anyhow.
Joey was sitting outside on the sidewalk, staring out into the street. I sit down next to him and I'm about to say something but Joey beats me to it.
"I really messed up didn't I?" He asks but doesn't let me say anything.
"I always do the wrong thing, don't I? I can never do anything right! And every time I mess up I always end up crying, why do I have to be so weak? I..." But he stops for he's over come by tears. I can see him try to blink them away but they just stream down his face even more.
I pull him into a hug and he just falls back onto me and begins to cry.
"I'm so stupid..." He mutters inbetween a sob. I wrap my arms around him tightly when suddenly he pulls away. He tries to wipe away all the tears from his face.
"I'm going home... will you tell them?" I open my mouth to object but then I nodd.
"Come by later...if you want." He mumbles something then walks off.
I watch him leave. I turn around to go back inside and there they are watching us from the door of Yugi's house. They must have seen the whole thing.
"Nothing."
"Joey?" He looked at me with a worried expression on his face.
"They said nothing. How many times do I have to say that?" I get up and walk over to the fridge and grab a diet coke. Seto got up also and followed me to the fridge. He wrapped his arms around me protectively.
"A lot." I glared at him and pushed his arms away.
"Just drop it!" I practically yell as I sit back down at the table. I rest my head in my hands and stare into the table top wishing it to tell me something useful.
Seto sighed and sat back down also; he edges his chair closer to me. I tence up as I expect him to pull me into another embrace. Who'd expect under all that coldness that Seto Kaiba was really a softie? But he doesn't. He just grabs my hand and turns me so that I'm facing him.
"How am I suposed to help you if you don't tell me what's wrong?" I pull my hand away and try not to look at him. I sighed, there was no way he was going to let me get away with saying nothing.
"They said nothing..."
"Joey!" He said sternly.
"But," I smirk at him before falling silent again. I think for a second trying to see how I could explain it.
"I know that they're not really comfortable with..." I stuggled with the right word.
"Us?" But luckily Seto supplied the word for me, and I nodd in reply.
"I thought that much." Seto said, nodding in agreement.
"It's just that that they have to get used to it, you know?" Seto looked like he was about to object but changed his mind.
"And?"
"Just, while we're with them... just don't kiss me or anything." I said whispering the last part. Seto blinked... then lost it.
"And why not, just because they're to stupid to deal-" He shouted into the kitchen.
"Seto!" I cut him off giving him a pleading look.
"Okay," He said behind clenched teeth. "But that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it."
"I'm not asking you to be." I look up at the clock, it's time to go over to Yugi's. I lean up torwards him and give him a kiss.
"Come on, it's time to go."
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We walked over to Yugi's since it was close by. I could tell Joey was nervous for he's was being all jumpy - but then that might just be the side affects of all the sugar in the coke he had this morning.
Every one else was already there when we got there. They were all sitting in front of the TV. When I walked into the room with Joey they went kind of silent and stared with a 'what the hell is HE doing here' look on their faces. Yeah, I'm here – so deal with it.
Joey sat down next to Yugi and I follow sitting down next to Joey, resisting the urge to put my arm around his shoulders. The TV was on but no one was really paying any attention to it, it seems that they mainly just duel and hang out which seems kind of boring to me but since they're not MY friends... go figure.
Right now Yami had just started a duel with Joey. Tèa and Tristan were just watching them duel and Yugi just appeared from the kitchen with some chips. I smile as Joey stuffs a handful of chips into his mouth. Yugi asks if anyone wants a drink and everyone shakes their head no.
"Do you want a drink... Seto?" I look up surprised to see Yugi actually talking to me.
"No... thanks." I mustn't forget my manners as Joey so thankfully reminded me by looking away from his duel and glaring at me. I get the point Joey, chill.
I leaned back and continued watching the duel. Joey was doing pretty well, until Yami activated 'Swords of Reveiling Light' just after he cleared Joey's side of the field of monsters. After that he just kind of lost. But he didn't seem to care, he just seemed happy that he could be with his friends and me without worrying that we would kill each other.
So when Yami asked if I wanted to duel I felt obligated to say yes – and it didn't exactly help with Joey staring at me with his huge puppy dog eyes. Of course I was suspecting to be able to turn down the duel because I didn't have my deck. Well, Joey thought differently.
"Oh, I brought your deck." And indeed Joey had brought my deck though how he found it I have no idea. I'll have to ask him that later. So I began the duel.
"Prepare to lose," Yami said with a evil gleam in his eye which kind of freaked me out... well until I realized that he was only joking and that he said that to everyone.
"Right back at ya," I grinned trying not to worry about since when I used words like 'ya' – proabably been hanging around Joey to long. Not that that's a bad thing of course.
Joey was ecstatic that I was being nice to his friends, that we were acting normal. Well, relatively normal. I'm not sure you can say that the way Yami acts when he duels is exactly normal but hey, if everything was perfectly normal I would be kind of scared.
Joey was sitting behind me, leaning against the couch. He was smiling more than he had in days. Oh hell was he cute when he smiled. Oh wait, I shouldn't be thinking such thoughts now because... well just to be careful.
I picked up a card which turned out to be the 'Blue Eyes White Dragon' and I just so happened to have two monsters out on the field. How lucky. But before I could make my move I was interupted. Joey was trying to look at my cards from over my shoulder.
"Stop cheating!" I hit him playfully on the shoulder.
"Cheating, me?" Joey pretended to be offended which got a few laughs.
"Just because I happen to know you have the Blue Eyes White Dragon in your hand doesn't mean I cheated." He said smugly, then after a second or two he realized that he just told Yami my next move.
"Opps," He said pittifully. I tackled him and grabbed him tightly in a head lock.
"You know what happens to cheaters?" I asked as he squirmed and tried to get out of my reach.
"They're locked into the dungeon?" He asked after getting out of the headlock. I laugh and shake my head.
"They are deprived of food..." Joey's jaw drops and he stares at me in mock horror while the others laugh.
"You're evil!" Now it's my turn to stare at him in mock horror. Me, Evil? Never! He shakes his head looking at me disgusted.
"I'm only joking..." He says laughing. He rests his arm on my shoulder and edges torwards me; then he kisses me – right in front of them all.
Let's just say you could cut tension in the air with a knife it was so thick....
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I could feel them staring at me. Did I just kiss Seto in front of them all? Please tell me I didn't, but from the look on their faces I did. I don't know what came over me. It's just I forgot that they were still getting used to our relationship. I... I didn't mean to.
Yet they were staring at me as if I had done something wrong and... damn it, I could feel my eye's tearing up. Why do I always have to cry? And Seto, what must he think? How stupid I must be to do that in front of them. I hate this but I can't take this sort of pressure.
So I ran – something I'm very good at.
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After a few seconds of silence Joey ran out of the room. And was I mad! His friends just had to stare at him like he was an alien didn't they. Don't they know what they're doing to him?
"What kind of friends are you?" I whisper. I then get up and go find Joey not even waiting for an answer – not that I was expecting one anyhow.
Joey was sitting outside on the sidewalk, staring out into the street. I sit down next to him and I'm about to say something but Joey beats me to it.
"I really messed up didn't I?" He asks but doesn't let me say anything.
"I always do the wrong thing, don't I? I can never do anything right! And every time I mess up I always end up crying, why do I have to be so weak? I..." But he stops for he's over come by tears. I can see him try to blink them away but they just stream down his face even more.
I pull him into a hug and he just falls back onto me and begins to cry.
"I'm so stupid..." He mutters inbetween a sob. I wrap my arms around him tightly when suddenly he pulls away. He tries to wipe away all the tears from his face.
"I'm going home... will you tell them?" I open my mouth to object but then I nodd.
"Come by later...if you want." He mumbles something then walks off.
I watch him leave. I turn around to go back inside and there they are watching us from the door of Yugi's house. They must have seen the whole thing.