Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! belongs to Kazuki Takahashi. The future belongs to us all.
The ficlet's title is the same as a story in Brian Andreas's Strange Dreams collection, and the last two sentences are paraphrased from that story.
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It had been a quiet wedding. Yûgi and Téa decided to just invite family and friends and friends' family, and since most of their friends didn't talk to their families, it was a fairly small affair.
Yûgi's fame had died out a little while after the Duel Monsters craze had, and Téa hadn't made a big name for herself in the world of dance yet, so there wasn't even any press to contend with.
Joey had been the best man, given the first toast after the ceremony, whistled and catcalled as the two left to catch the plane for their honeymoon until Yûgi was practically red and Mai made him stop, and allowed Mai to drive him home even though he was hardly drunk.
Solomon Mutou died before they had their first child, and they named the boy after him.
Yûgi inherited the game store, and Joey sometimes worked there when he had a day off or when he was drifting between jobs, since Téa was usually too busy watching the younger Solomon to help at the counter.
Mai continued meet him once a week or so for dinner, but she refused to call the meetings "dates" until Joey stopped being an under-achiever and found himself a real, steady job that he enjoyed.
Once she had asked him why he never tried to make something better of his life. It wouldn't have been hard--Joey was a good carpenter, and that was a skill that was in demand at the time. He never told her that he knew it wasn't a good thing for a person to tie themselves to someone who would stand in their way, no matter how much they might have cared for them.
He spent a lot of time trying to convince Serenity to date people who weren't like him. It wasn't an easy task.
Eventually Téa and Yûgi had more children, this time twin girls, and as they grew up they proved to be even greater hellions that Solomon was. Joey had commented once that all the Mutou children took after their mother, and had gotten a spatula thrown at him with great force and alacrity.
He had called that proof and then ran downstairs and hid in the game shop with Yûgi where Téa wouldn't come after him.
More time passed, and they all grew older, and Mai finally found someone better for her, and Serenity continued to date guys who weren't good enough for her, and one day Joey found that to get to his current job he had to take a bus from the same station that the Mutou kids took to school.
Téa usually saw them off from the station, so she and Joey would chat together for however much they had time between when she arrived and when his bus pulled up. They never talked about anything special; current events, the economy and Yûgi's store, news about their friends, and--very rarely--the old times. Sometimes Téa lectured him about alcohol.
(Despite the fact that he knew it was stupid, and despite the fact that the last thing in the world he wanted to be like was his father, Joey had started drinking more often after Mai's marriage.)
They didn't talk about past goals. It was an unspoken agreement between the two of them.
Though Joey never said anything about it, he'd noticed that Téa stood the bus stop with her right foot always in front and perpendicular to the left just so.
Even after three children, she still dreamed of being a dancer.