"What do you guys do after school? Do you watch a lot of movies? I like watch horror movies even though I don't watch movies a lot. Have you ever seen Poltergeist? Did you know that after the movies were filmed that an unusually large amount of deaths occurred to the cast of the movie? They think that the nature of the movie may have angered beings in the spiritual world and now they're trying to get their revenge. Do you guys believe in the spirit world? I used to but now I just think..."

Joey sighed and looked up at the sky as if asking God how he'd ended up there. He regretted agreeing to help her more and more with every word that continued to flow consistently out of her mouth. It was like she didn't even stop to breathe. She just kept going and going and going.

"...Did you ever hear of a thing called..."

A hand on his arm made Joey look over at Yugi.

"You don't really have to do this you know," Yugi leaned in and said. Joey nodded and shrugged.

"She can't talk forever right?" he replied.

After dropping everyone else off at the game shop Joey followed Ally to her house.

"We have the whole living room to practice, practice, practice. I'm so excited you have no idea," she grinned giddily and let him in.

"I actually think I do," Joey muttered to himself.

"Okay, I'll go tell my mother we're here and I'll be right back."

"Don't rush or anything..." Joey looked around the house. It was a fairly decent sized home. Three stories, large hallways, open rooms...not what you'd expect to see only two blocks away from Joey's neighborhood but from the structure Joey guessed it wasn't always like that. His gaze fell upon a group of family photos hanging in a row down the front hall. Pictures of Ally winning awards and her parents holding her as a baby, normal family photos. The first one in the series was her parent's wedding picture. Joey wondered what it felt like to be that in love...to know without a doubt that there was only one person that you wanted to share your love with for the rest of your life. In Joey's mind he was telling himself that he would never want to feel that strongly for one person but somewhere in his heart he knew that that wasn't true.

"I'm back!" Ally came skipping up happily.

"Have you ever thought about things that you don't do and would never want to do but still wanna know what it would be like if you did them anyway, even though you'd never actually do them?" Joey asked deep in thought. Ally waited a minute unsure of how to answer or maybe trying to understand the question.

"What?" she finally said after finding no other way to respond. Joey looked away from the wall to face her, with a look as if he just realized that she were there.

"Nothing. Let's just get this over with." She smiled and nodded, then started rambling on about the position of the furniture in the room as she led him into it. ' I wonder if everyone else found something fun to do without me,' Joey thought, tuning most of it out.

At Yugi's House

"So..." Yugi said uncomfortably. He was thinking about Joey and wondering if he were going to be all right. He looked at Tristan and could almost tell that he was thinking about the same thing but when he looked at Tea everything else seemed to change into worrying about whether or not she was really all right as well.

"So..." Tristan repeated his word and the silence only seemed to grow quieter.

"Well I've got to..." Tea and Tristan both jumped up at the same time. They looked at each other uneasily.

"Yeah," Tea nodded. "Bye Yugi." She waved and headed for the door. Tristan seemed to be battling whether or not he still wanted to go but when he looked at Yugi again the unsettling atmosphere seemed to be too much.

"See you tomorrow," Tristan said. They both left. Yugi sighed and sat back on the couch. Yami came out of the bedroom carrying a funny shaped piece of glass with a confused look on his face.

"What is this?" he asked causing Yugi to look over. Yugi's eyes widened.

"Hey, don't touch that!" he jumped up and rushed over but tripped and fell, knocking Yami over, the impact with the floor causing the object to go flying. They both closed their eyes and Yami winced waiting for the sound of shattering glass...but it never came. He felt Yugi pull away and opened his eyes again.

"I thought this was a place of business, not a playground."

"Kaiba," Yami scowled. He picked himself up. "What do you want?" he said bitterly.

"Hey Kaiba, we didn't hear you knock," Yugi smiled nervously and grabbed the glass object from Kaiba's hand.

"I didn't," Kaiba replied glaring at Yami. Yugi took the object into his room and then returned a few seconds later. He looked from Yami to Kaiba, trying to decide what to ask first.

"So what can I do for you?" he asked. Kaiba looked away from Yami to look at Yugi.

"I want you to tell me everything you know about Joey."

"Well he..." Yugi started but Yami interrupted.

"He was born in the year..." Kaiba held up a hand to silence him.

"You know what I meant," he said. Yami smirked feeling as if he'd won something, and said something to Yugi through their link, then walked back into the bedroom. Yugi took a deep breath and looked down.

"I don't think this is really my place," he said timidly. Kaiba's glare seemed to get threatening.

"I didn't ask you for a speech on how wrong I am for asking, I just asked you to give me information."

"Well you can't just come in here and order people around. This isn't even your house," Yugi raised his voice suddenly angry. In the other room Yami looked toward the doorway surprised.

"Would it help it I said please?"

"No. I want you to leave. You made it clear that you don't want anything to do with Joey and so we don't want anything to do with you. I won't let you carry on like you care if you're just trying to hurt him anyway. I don't know what kind of sick pleasure you get out of seeing people get hurt but..."

"Yugi," Yami scolded from the doorway. "Calm down." Yugi's anger subsided leaving him with a feeling of embarrassment and guilt.

"But he just..." Yugi started trembling, the weight of everything finally just seeming to weigh down on him. All the silent conversation of things that everyone needed to talk about but just wouldn't. It appeared that he needed the closure that Kaiba seemed to be seeking himself. Feeling tears welling up, Yugi walked over to Yami and let the spirit comfort him. Yami looked at Kaiba.

"Sorry Kaiba, but we can't help you," he said. Kaiba scowled and shook his head.

"Always hiding behind your friends. Just wait 'til the day they aren't there to protect you anymore," he said heading for the door. Yugi looked up at Yami.

"That will never happen," Yami said and Yugi hugged him tighter.