A/N: Heylo peoples I finally got this up. I'm just going to let you read
it.
Disclaimer: I don't own it, wish I did but I'm too tired to fight the
devil's spawn (lawyers) for it.
Ryou's POV
The phone is ringing. I roll over sleepily in my bed popping my head out from under the mountain of blankets I'm sleeping under. The red numbers on my clock show me that it's 7:20.
"Ungh." it's too early. I just want to sleep. Is that too much to ask? To sleep until nine or ten on a Sunday?
The phone rings again; muttering I push back the covers and walk groggily across the room to my desk where the evil thing sits, sitting innocently in it's blue cradle still ringing like there's no tomorrow. I glare at it before picking it up silencing it finally.
I plop back down on my bed as I say "Hello?"
"Ryou. It's Seto."
He sounds slightly panicked and any irritation I held before melts away being replaced with concern. "Is everything okay?"
He takes a deep shuddering breath as if to calm himself down. "Have you seen Mokuba? He ran away."
"What? Why?" My thoughts are racing as I think of the raven-haired boy. He would never do that to Seto. He cares about him much too much.
His voice is laced with regret as he says, "It's my fault. I read his diary. It seems he has quite a few secrets he doesn't want known."
For some reason his words anger me. I can remember having no privacy once the spirit of the millennium ring came to me. "We all have secrets; and if he didn't want to share them with you Seto then you shouldn't have pried." My voice is strangely cold and I instantly feel bad but at the same time I know that I was justified.
"He was going to kill himself damn it!" His voice raises and I can hear the near hysteria in it.
My eyes widen but I keep my voice calm for his sake. "What exactly did it say?"
"It said that he was cutting himself and that when I was away he almost killed himself." His voice becomes a sharp wail then quiets to a scared whimper. "I- I It's Mokuba! My little brother, He's the only thing I have left. Ry."
"I'm coming over." I'm already halfway dressed and about to grab my shirt when he says, "No." Thankfully his voice has regained some of it's familiar calm assuredness.
"He- He might show up at your house."
"My house but why?" Why would Mokuba come to his brother's boyfriend's house?
"Because-" he begins but the doorbell rings distracting me from the rest of the sentence.
"Sorry but there's someone at the door can you give me a second?" I really hate how inconvenient some things are, like people ringing doorbells when you're trying to console your boyfriend.
"Sure."
I lay the phone down and walk to the front of my home. I open the door thinking thankfully that I'm actually dressed now but such thought are driven away as I'm faced with a red-eyed Mokuba.
"Ryou c- can I stay here for awhile?" He pleads, his eyes cast upward tugging at my heart.
"Of course." I place my hand on his shoulder leading him into the living room, noticing that he's holding a blue spiral notebook
"I'll be right back. I uh have my father on the phone." He nods and I walk away.
A/N: Sorry it's been so long folks. I've been so busy, high school is tiring. Zzzz.. I hope this chapter is satisfactory. I have some of the next one written as well and I expect to get it up by next weekend.
Ryou's POV
The phone is ringing. I roll over sleepily in my bed popping my head out from under the mountain of blankets I'm sleeping under. The red numbers on my clock show me that it's 7:20.
"Ungh." it's too early. I just want to sleep. Is that too much to ask? To sleep until nine or ten on a Sunday?
The phone rings again; muttering I push back the covers and walk groggily across the room to my desk where the evil thing sits, sitting innocently in it's blue cradle still ringing like there's no tomorrow. I glare at it before picking it up silencing it finally.
I plop back down on my bed as I say "Hello?"
"Ryou. It's Seto."
He sounds slightly panicked and any irritation I held before melts away being replaced with concern. "Is everything okay?"
He takes a deep shuddering breath as if to calm himself down. "Have you seen Mokuba? He ran away."
"What? Why?" My thoughts are racing as I think of the raven-haired boy. He would never do that to Seto. He cares about him much too much.
His voice is laced with regret as he says, "It's my fault. I read his diary. It seems he has quite a few secrets he doesn't want known."
For some reason his words anger me. I can remember having no privacy once the spirit of the millennium ring came to me. "We all have secrets; and if he didn't want to share them with you Seto then you shouldn't have pried." My voice is strangely cold and I instantly feel bad but at the same time I know that I was justified.
"He was going to kill himself damn it!" His voice raises and I can hear the near hysteria in it.
My eyes widen but I keep my voice calm for his sake. "What exactly did it say?"
"It said that he was cutting himself and that when I was away he almost killed himself." His voice becomes a sharp wail then quiets to a scared whimper. "I- I It's Mokuba! My little brother, He's the only thing I have left. Ry."
"I'm coming over." I'm already halfway dressed and about to grab my shirt when he says, "No." Thankfully his voice has regained some of it's familiar calm assuredness.
"He- He might show up at your house."
"My house but why?" Why would Mokuba come to his brother's boyfriend's house?
"Because-" he begins but the doorbell rings distracting me from the rest of the sentence.
"Sorry but there's someone at the door can you give me a second?" I really hate how inconvenient some things are, like people ringing doorbells when you're trying to console your boyfriend.
"Sure."
I lay the phone down and walk to the front of my home. I open the door thinking thankfully that I'm actually dressed now but such thought are driven away as I'm faced with a red-eyed Mokuba.
"Ryou c- can I stay here for awhile?" He pleads, his eyes cast upward tugging at my heart.
"Of course." I place my hand on his shoulder leading him into the living room, noticing that he's holding a blue spiral notebook
"I'll be right back. I uh have my father on the phone." He nods and I walk away.
A/N: Sorry it's been so long folks. I've been so busy, high school is tiring. Zzzz.. I hope this chapter is satisfactory. I have some of the next one written as well and I expect to get it up by next weekend.