"He did what?! I don't believe you. He woulda told me if somethin' serious like that happened," Joey said not willing to believe what his friend had just told him. Tristan shrugged. They were both sitting on top of their desks, their feet resting on their chairs. Tea was seated backward in her chair with Duke half leaning, half sitting on her desk behind her with his arms crossed.

"Maybe you two aren't as close as you thought. I'm just repeating what I heard," Tristan said. Duke watched Joey for further reaction, amused, as always, at Joey's discomfort.

"I don't believe it either," Tea spoke up. "I don't see him being like that. He definitely would have told someone."

"Maybe he..." Duke started to say something smart but Yugi walked into the classroom causing them all to stop and watch as he walked toward them. He looked at them all, suddenly self-conscious.

"What? Did I miss something? Is my shirt buttoned wrong again?" he said looking himself over. Joey hopped off his desk and sat down in his chair. He leaned closer to Yugi as if telling him a secret or something.

"No, nothin' like that. Tristan just told us that you..." The bell rang, interrupting him. His head sunk wearily.

"Okay class, let's get right on this. Notebooks out, pencils moving, no talking," the teacher said entering. They all took their seats and Joey opened his notebook. He started to write a note to Yugi when a piece of paper bounced onto his desk and slid to the floor. He brought his head up confused and looked toward Tristan and Yugi, but both seemed to be occupied with something. He glanced at the teacher before picking up the balled up paper and opening it. Three words were written on it.

' Meet me tonight.'

He looked again at Tristan and Yugi, this time Yugi sent him a concerned look but still showed no signs of knowing what was going on. He scribbled his note to Yugi and slipped it under his desk, kicking it over. Yugi picked it up.

' Tristan just told us that you have a secret girlfriend that you don't want us knowin' about. I told him you'd never keep a secret like that but anyway, enough about that stuff. Did you see anyone throw something at me?' Yugi blushed and crumpled the note back up, jamming it in his pocket. He looked at Joey and shook his head then went back to his work.

Joey read the note again, trying to place handwriting but couldn't think of anyone... His eyes stopped at Kaiba. He was busy reading a book that was open on his desk. He didn't look over but held up three fingers, then made a k and an m in sign language. Tristan looked up at that moment and noticed Joey's gaze.

' What's going on?' he mouthed to Joey.

' Nothing,' Joey mouthed back. He opened his History book and scanned over the pages. ' I guess this is really going to happen,' he thought and started his work. The teacher stopped them twenty minutes later, instructing them to pull out their scripts.

"We're only going to get to the end of the death scene. The final scene we'll leave until we start getting the acting together, okay? So. Start where we left off. Yugi, I believe you were up next. Start right after the narrator says the line about destroying Snow White." Yugi pouted a little.

[ It's not the end of the world,] Yami patiently reminded him. He managed a weak smile.

"I'll hire a huntsman to take her into the woods and kill her, bringing her...liver?" he paused as he read the words in disbelief. "...and...lungs back...as proof? That's so cruel!"

"Not to mention disgusting," Joey joined in. "Are you sure this play is suitable for children under fifty?"

"He, well she, in this case, doesn't actually kill Snow White. If you'd done your homework, you'd know that."

"I'm not talking about actually killing anybody, I'm talking about the implying of it," Joey defended himself. A few of the other kids rolled their eyes. The teacher was not amused.

"Just keep it going," she said. They continued on with the play. Joey let his mind wander to the meeting Kaiba had set up for that afternoon. Was he really serious about doing this? It looked like Joey wasn't as sure as he thought he was about Kaiba backing down. ' But he couldn't actually want to go through with it, could he? He was just trying to scare me so I wouldn't make jokes about him again,' Joey thought. ' But what if he isn't? What if he really wants to do this? No way, not Kaiba. He'd never...'

"Mr. Wheeler?" Joey looked up, now noticing that almost everyone was looking at him.

"What?" he asked.

"Joey, it's your line," Yugi said.

"Oh, is that all? Well then, ' Oh dear huntsman, let me live. I will run the wild woods and never come back,'" he said almost boredly.

"You beautiful child. I will let you live, run away," the girl seated next to Ryou said. "The wild animals will soon devour you anyway."

"That sounds healthy," Joey commented sarcastically.

"He cut up a wild boar and took its lungs and liver back to the queen as proof on Snow White's death. The queen was so happy at the news that she cooked them and ate them for dinner," the narrator continued it.

"I...eat..." Yugi fainted, forcing Yami to take over. "Maybe this isn't suited for children under fifty," he commented.