Reminisces
Chapter 3
By: Suchan and SDSI
*** Just a note to the readers: if you ARE reading this, PLEASE review so that I know you are and it's not just that it sucks and no one's reading it. I really need to know if people are reading my fics so that I can continue with them. ***
And just in case anyone's confused:
Marik- yami
Malik- hikari
Bakura- yami
Ryou- hikari
And you should know the difference between Yugi and Yami.
Haha, fooled ya. JK, I just got motivated last week, so I wrote up the rest of this chapter. And it took me a week to upload. x.x; Okay? OKAY! ^_____^U (Now you don't have to look for your mallet, Blue!) Yeah, now just go read this, review, and I'll update when I'm inspired again. Sorries! *whooshes off*
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Chapter 3: Towels and Toils
The temperature was having fun, running up and down the thermometer like that the first week of September. Hot one day, freezing the next. It was enough to drive any normal person insane. But for the kids, it was just another excuse to go to the pool before it closed again.
Yugi and the gang had decided to take advantage of a particularly hot day and invite Malik along to the pool with them.
Malik packed up some beach towels and sunscreen and changed into his swimming suit and a t-shirt, looking all over for the box where he kept his earrings. He sighed. "I can't believe I misplaced it like that," he muttered to himself.
Marik thought for a moment, then remembered he saw Malik put it down on the hutch in the dining room downstairs. Malik stood up, and ran down to the dining room. "I can't believe I didn't think of that the first time!"
Marik rolled his eyes.
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Malik swung his feet lazily in the cool chlorinated water of the public pool of Domino. A bunch of water hit him in the chest, making him shiver. "Hey, c'mon, man, when ya getting' in?"
Malik looked up at Jonouchi, then back down at his feet. "Idunnohowtaswim," he mumbled.
"Hm? Didn't hear ya."
"I said," he said more loudly, "I don't know how to swim." Jou smiled his quirky grin.
"Hey, dun worry, I'll teach ya. You'll be swimmin' like a fishie in no time." He smiled. "Slide on in."
Malik, although apprehensively, got into the water and almost missed the wall he was reaching for because the water was so cold.
"You alright?" Malik nodded. "Good."
[And just because the author's such a lazy bum and wouldn't know how to teach anyone how to swim if she went to school to learn so, Malik's lesson will be skipped, because, quite frankly, I highly doubt anyone would find it interesting.]
"You're catchin' on pretty quick!" Jou exclaimed as Malik circled around him again, then dove under and tickled the bottom of Jou's feet. "Hey, man! Cut dat out!"
Malik resurfaced and grinned at him mischievously. "Race ya," he declared, then sped away with Jonouchi right on his heels.
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Malik pulled himself up onto the pool ledge and walked over to sit next to Ryou, who was sitting serenely on a beach chair, staring out into space.
"Hey."
"Hello." Ryou smiled at him, making Malik's insides quiver with delight. "It's three-thirty already, do you think we should head home? We got here three hours ago."
Malik glanced at the rest of his friends, who were either hanging onto the pool ledge, talking, or at the snack stand. "Probably." Malik stood up. "I'll go tell them."
Yugi, Anzu, and Honda all looked up as Malik approached. "Hey, guys, it's three-thirty. Think we should go?"
"Wow!" Yugi exclaimed, slightly worried. "I promised Grandpa I'd be back at three-forty-five! I had no idea it was this late!"
"I'd better go, too," Anzu stated sadly, getting up out of the pool and heading towards the beach chair where her towel should have been. She shivered in her butt-tight, light blue tankini. "Okay, guys, who took my towel?" she demanded, glaring around at all the boys in turn, from Honda, who was looking slightly amused, to Jou, who had just returned from the snack stand with a bunch of gummy worms.
"Whah?" he asked, mouth full of sugar and artificial flavoring.
"Did you take my towel?" Anzu said again, forcefully and sounding remotely angry.
Jounouchi shook his head. "Nuh-uh. But you gave be a good idea for next time!"
"Why you—"
"Why don't you take my towel, Anzu? I can probably borrow someone else's," Malik offered. She smiled sweetly at him. [SDSI: *gags* ~ *Suchan thwacks her co-author with a paper fan, looking extremely miffed*]
"That's a very generous offer, Malik, thank you." And she took the towel from his outstretched hand and nearly skipped to the girls' dressing rooms.
"C'mon guys, let's go," Honda said quietly and gruffly, sounding slightly annoyed. He shot a glower at Malik before brushing past him and heading towards the boys' dressing rooms. Yugi glanced nervously at him before following Honda and Jou. Ryou gave him a sympathetic smile.
"Let's go then, shall we?" Malik nodded, and the skies shook with thunder as dark clouds began to encroach upon the seamless periwinkle sky. He gulped.
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'Ahh... nothing like a hot shower to make one feel good again,' Malik thought contentedly, as he rinsed out his hair for what seemed the thousandth time.
Ryou's voice broke through his bubbly thoughts. "Are you almost finished?"
"Eh.. just let me get the rest of the soap outta my hair, then I will be."
"Okay, I'll wait for you, then."
"Thanks." Malik smiled to himself as he turned off the tap and shook out his thick, golden hair, grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his slender waist. [SDSI: *drool* ~ Suchan: @____@; ]
When Malik walked out of the showers, Ryou was still waiting, facing the opposite wall. Severe modesty problems, that one, Marik thought. "I'll only take a few more minutes!" he called to his friend. Ryou nodded, not taking his eyes off the wall. Malik shook his head and went back to the locker he had rented to get his clothes.
It was still locked... the key... where was the key?! WHERE?!?
Malik frantically searched his pockets, then sank onto a bench in despair, until—
"Looking for something?" a deep voice taunted.
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End Chapter 3
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SDSI: WHEEEEEE!! Cliff-hanger!
Suchan: *flips her braid* Heh... my first one. Pathetic, I know. Anyway, I'm still really busy, so you can't expect another update for at least two more weeks. Maybe a month. But please don't get too upset. I really am busy, I'm not being lazy! See, I typed this all up in one night!
SDSI: Oh, quit begging. Mercy is for the weak!
Suchan: *sticks out her tongue* Ah... review, plz! ^-^
Malik: Who was that masked man anyway?
Suchan: *cracks up*
Malik: o.o;