Ur reviews have made me happy. I'm updating on time and that makes you [the reader] happy! Isn't this a nice cycle?
Also, to whoever is good at drawing...I would be eternally grateful if you would draw scenes from the story. I tried to, but as Carly would not tell you, they sucked.
Sorry for the short chapter but as you know I'm been bogged down with school, but do not fear I have the next chapter written already. Maybe if I get enough reviews I'll update on Wednesday...
Also I'm terribly sorry about the lateness of this chapter! My WordPerfect has been screwed up lately and refuses to save. It took my a whole week to figure out to type it there then move it to WordPad then post it. :)
Go me! Also I probably will update some time during the week to celebrate spring break. Right, this is getting too long, so on with the story
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"Happy Birthday Carly!" Alyssa shouted, almost a month later. It was not November 16, Carly's 18th birthday/ "Aww man, now I'm not older than you."
"Yeah and you can't make fun of me for being a kid while you're a 'mature' adult," Carly grinned. For the past seven years, between her birthday and Carly's, Alyssa would constantly make fun of Carly for being the baby of their little group. If anything in the past month, the group of eight had grown closer to each other and their respective boyfriend or girlfriend. Also recently, for the past week or so, Carly had been feeling sick in the morning, probably with the flu.
"So what are we doing today?" Carly asked.
"We planned a girls' day out- manicures, pedicures, shopping... The works," Jackie answered.
"And, granting that what ever you want to buy isn't outrageously out of our budget, we're paying for it," Hannah added.
Carly grinned, but it dimmed after a moment. "Bakura said something about take me out-"
"This evening," Alyssa cut in. "We get to steal you until 6:30 or so."
The ladies piled into Jackie's flaming black truck. It was ironic that Jackie had such a large automobile when she herself was quite a small person. Hannah, Carly, and Alyssa often got quite a laugh out of it at Jackie's expense.
In fact...
Jackie can you even see over the steering well?" All of the teenagers burst out laughing, Jackie being quite used to being teased about her vertical challengedness.
A quick, loud fifteen minute drive later, the high-schoolers found thenselves at a nail saloon.
Carly walked in first, having been to nail shops many a time before, and she could understand the workers' heavy accents much better than the other girls could. Also Carly could stand the fumes of all the nail chemicals better.
"Gah!"
"Blech!"
"Ew!"
The girls exclaimed, sticking a finger under their noses.
Nertheless, they sat down in the funky chairs, took off thier shoes, and put their feetin the water and thier hands on the tables. It made them feel like royalty, being waited on (literally) hand and foot. Granted it was ONLY hand and foot and no where in between, but that's not the point. The point was the girls- expecially Carly- were in bliss at great feeling of having all the ends of thier limbs massaged at once. For her birthday one of Carly's attendents, Juan was giving her a back massage.
Needless to say, Carly was melting into a puddle.
About an hour later, they walked out, carrying their shoes and marveling at how soft and flexible their extremides felt.
They shopped, buying a bunch of awesumb outfits for Carly to wear for the next two weeks (and that the rest of the girls could borrow of course.) They saw The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King AGAIN, drooling over Olando Bloom and Elijah Wood the whole time. They went home and prepared Carly for a fancy dinner, as Bakura was taking Carly to an expensive French resturant for the evening.
They left. Ryou, Yugi, Yami, and Alyssa sat around, chatting about life in general. An hour and a half into the conversation, as Ryou was speaking a huge lighting bolt struck in the back yard. Yugi squeaked and jumped, while Alyssa almost instinctively clung to Yami. Apparently, both had an inborn fear of thunder and lighning storms.
Yugi grinned sheepishly up at Ryou, who raised an eyebrow back at him. Yugi, blushing, jumped off him and retook his place on the couch. Alyssa stayed on Yami's lap, incase of future strikes.
Out the window, it was pounding down rain. The streets were already flooded, and the yard was begining to fill. Lightning struck almost every minute. After all, they were in the lightning capital of the Unites States and the number two capital in the world.
"How are Bakura and Carly going to get home through this?" Ryou worried, inclining his head toward the window.
"I don't think I would be possible to see through all these sheets of rain well enough to drive safely."
"Well Yami, I'm sure they'll make it home safely," Yugi reassured, always the optimistic one.. "After all its not like we haven't been in more dangerous situations before." Everyone nodded.
"But still, I dread getting up in the middle of the night to some phone call from the police, telling me one of my loved ones have died," Alyssa admitted.
"Enough of this depressing take, let's head off to bed." Following Ryou's suggestion, they all headed toward the back of the house to the bedroom. As there was only four of them, everyone could sleep outside their Soul Rooms with Yugo in a sleeping bad on the floor. Just as Alyssa was about to drift off to sleep a loud noise pierced the silence. The phone rang.
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Don't worry the chapters will soon be getting longer.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Review Responses (I no I have done these forever I'm sorry!)~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
TIQ- Your welcome and thanks for your suggestion. Feel free to submit many more:) Thanks and good luck in college.
MarikzAngel- Ironically, Yami's-girl did. I love how your names clash:)
Setosangel529- Wow you're the first one to notice that mistake. I was wondering how long it would take someone... I notice it every day. Good job! Mokuba died. No I'm just kidding but I don't think I forgot about him any where... I'll have to check that when I get around to editing this. You'll see what will happen with them at school. All in good time... I do have ideas, but if you have any PLEASE send them in cuz I could always use more. That makes everyone happy too. The story takes place within an hour and a half of driving distance from Disney World, and I'm not getting more specific than that. Chapter 35 took place in late October. I think we all hate FCAT and other standardized test. Come on everyone raise your hands I know you do! My school takes the nationals on Monday. Isn't that crap! A test on Monday!! Grrr...
Anime-Blade- Well all cartoon characters are stupid. They never remember anything from past episodes unless it's like a trilogy or duel or something like that. Got to love cliff-hangers. Buhahaha! Wow, your last reviews are a bit confusing to read. It's like listening to someone talking to themselves. Like Gollum and Smegol from LOTR.
Ylrack- I'm not even dignifiing your reviews w/ a response:P
Yami's-Girl- yoai is ok if it doesn't have reaging sex and the like. But mostly I only accept Yugi/Yami or Ryou/Bakura becuase I think of Ryou and Yugi as girls.:) Do you have any good stories in mind? Sorry I'm making you seem to evil, but it's all for the story purposes. If you have anything else about you that you want me to put in, feel free to e-mail me. EPCOT stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired. At least that's what I think... Yes you will be in the story more.
Cassandra Pegasus- Thank you so much for your glowing reviews. It's people like you that make me want to write more. Glad you like the plot so much that you say it in every review! Well as for Yugioh being a class A jerk in the past, I needed a conflict for when I write the prequel. Although it's way overused but w/e:) Oops I shouldn't have given that away ;-D The camp out was sweet wasn't it? Thanks for refering people to my story I can only hope they are as nice as you. I pity your guy friends. And never make your boyfriend dress as a girl. Trust me you will never look at him in the same way. Yeah, but out intern is a really nice and kool person so I'm wasn't going to insult her in any way in the story. Too bad for you tho:D Maybe one day Marik will be nice again, you never know.
Aithril the elf-maiden- Thanks. Intresting that you like Bakura biting people's ears off, but to each thier own as my mom would say. Good to know that you love Alyssa and you don't want her to die.
QuietOne1- That's good to know thank you. Marik will get much more 'twisted' after Christmas in the story. I'm sure you'll be pleased.
Yamigilr101- Glad that you liked the drinking match. I was quite proud of that chapter myself.
Arinell- Koolness! I never expected someone to use something from my story at a party of theirs I hope you had fun!
Yamijennimoto- Thank you for the glitter. I'm very fond of glitter to. I totally agree, the show does need more romance. I actually found out Yami's real name from the manga after I wrote this, but I'm not changing it for two reasons. One I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't yet read it and B) I'm too lazy. Be prepared for more suspense later, as I have a fettish for ending chapters in cliffhangers. Good to know that you love Alyssa and you don't want her to die. Ew, I hate it when all the worms come out. It's discusting.
Chosen One 2 rise- Wow! Who would have guessed that people would take their time to talk about my story! I'm so happy! Thank you and your friend!
Kitell- Thanks. That was short, sweet and to the point.
Mya starlight- Although you like to beat cliff hangers, expect more soon.
Larien529- Koolness, another Floridian. Got to love the Sunshine State standard tests huh?
Camarao- Thank you for the compliment.
Nicole- Thanks for the review. I'll also be sure to tell him that sharks are worse than both.(Trust me)
Kanika Meskhenet- I will, don't worry. Today in fact.:)
To EVERYONE who reviewed chapter 31- Thank you guys so much. You all deserve hugs.
~~~~~~~~~~Important note~~~~~~~~~~
Yeah, who ever has me on their favorite authors list I'll send an e-mail to you when I update as thanks:) Enjoy you nice people.
And another thing, I've decided to screw reading this over for mistakes until it's completed so live w/ it.
Obviously, I have decided to continue this story. Your reviews were very inspiring thank you. . Chapters may or may not come out on Saturday but they will be no more than a week and ½ apart, even if it means skipping my homework.. Like right now, I should be reading A Tale of Two Cites or doing the paper or my various other assignments.
Also, to whoever is good at drawing...I would be eternally grateful if you would draw scenes from the story. I tried to, but as Carly would not tell you, they sucked.
Sorry for the short chapter but as you know I'm been bogged down with school, but do not fear I have the next chapter written already. Maybe if I get enough reviews I'll update on Wednesday...
Also I'm terribly sorry about the lateness of this chapter! My WordPerfect has been screwed up lately and refuses to save. It took my a whole week to figure out to type it there then move it to WordPad then post it. :)
Go me! Also I probably will update some time during the week to celebrate spring break. Right, this is getting too long, so on with the story
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"Happy Birthday Carly!" Alyssa shouted, almost a month later. It was not November 16, Carly's 18th birthday/ "Aww man, now I'm not older than you."
"Yeah and you can't make fun of me for being a kid while you're a 'mature' adult," Carly grinned. For the past seven years, between her birthday and Carly's, Alyssa would constantly make fun of Carly for being the baby of their little group. If anything in the past month, the group of eight had grown closer to each other and their respective boyfriend or girlfriend. Also recently, for the past week or so, Carly had been feeling sick in the morning, probably with the flu.
"So what are we doing today?" Carly asked.
"We planned a girls' day out- manicures, pedicures, shopping... The works," Jackie answered.
"And, granting that what ever you want to buy isn't outrageously out of our budget, we're paying for it," Hannah added.
Carly grinned, but it dimmed after a moment. "Bakura said something about take me out-"
"This evening," Alyssa cut in. "We get to steal you until 6:30 or so."
The ladies piled into Jackie's flaming black truck. It was ironic that Jackie had such a large automobile when she herself was quite a small person. Hannah, Carly, and Alyssa often got quite a laugh out of it at Jackie's expense.
In fact...
Jackie can you even see over the steering well?" All of the teenagers burst out laughing, Jackie being quite used to being teased about her vertical challengedness.
A quick, loud fifteen minute drive later, the high-schoolers found thenselves at a nail saloon.
Carly walked in first, having been to nail shops many a time before, and she could understand the workers' heavy accents much better than the other girls could. Also Carly could stand the fumes of all the nail chemicals better.
"Gah!"
"Blech!"
"Ew!"
The girls exclaimed, sticking a finger under their noses.
Nertheless, they sat down in the funky chairs, took off thier shoes, and put their feetin the water and thier hands on the tables. It made them feel like royalty, being waited on (literally) hand and foot. Granted it was ONLY hand and foot and no where in between, but that's not the point. The point was the girls- expecially Carly- were in bliss at great feeling of having all the ends of thier limbs massaged at once. For her birthday one of Carly's attendents, Juan was giving her a back massage.
Needless to say, Carly was melting into a puddle.
About an hour later, they walked out, carrying their shoes and marveling at how soft and flexible their extremides felt.
They shopped, buying a bunch of awesumb outfits for Carly to wear for the next two weeks (and that the rest of the girls could borrow of course.) They saw The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King AGAIN, drooling over Olando Bloom and Elijah Wood the whole time. They went home and prepared Carly for a fancy dinner, as Bakura was taking Carly to an expensive French resturant for the evening.
They left. Ryou, Yugi, Yami, and Alyssa sat around, chatting about life in general. An hour and a half into the conversation, as Ryou was speaking a huge lighting bolt struck in the back yard. Yugi squeaked and jumped, while Alyssa almost instinctively clung to Yami. Apparently, both had an inborn fear of thunder and lighning storms.
Yugi grinned sheepishly up at Ryou, who raised an eyebrow back at him. Yugi, blushing, jumped off him and retook his place on the couch. Alyssa stayed on Yami's lap, incase of future strikes.
Out the window, it was pounding down rain. The streets were already flooded, and the yard was begining to fill. Lightning struck almost every minute. After all, they were in the lightning capital of the Unites States and the number two capital in the world.
"How are Bakura and Carly going to get home through this?" Ryou worried, inclining his head toward the window.
"I don't think I would be possible to see through all these sheets of rain well enough to drive safely."
"Well Yami, I'm sure they'll make it home safely," Yugi reassured, always the optimistic one.. "After all its not like we haven't been in more dangerous situations before." Everyone nodded.
"But still, I dread getting up in the middle of the night to some phone call from the police, telling me one of my loved ones have died," Alyssa admitted.
"Enough of this depressing take, let's head off to bed." Following Ryou's suggestion, they all headed toward the back of the house to the bedroom. As there was only four of them, everyone could sleep outside their Soul Rooms with Yugo in a sleeping bad on the floor. Just as Alyssa was about to drift off to sleep a loud noise pierced the silence. The phone rang.
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Don't worry the chapters will soon be getting longer.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Review Responses (I no I have done these forever I'm sorry!)~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
TIQ- Your welcome and thanks for your suggestion. Feel free to submit many more:) Thanks and good luck in college.
MarikzAngel- Ironically, Yami's-girl did. I love how your names clash:)
Setosangel529- Wow you're the first one to notice that mistake. I was wondering how long it would take someone... I notice it every day. Good job! Mokuba died. No I'm just kidding but I don't think I forgot about him any where... I'll have to check that when I get around to editing this. You'll see what will happen with them at school. All in good time... I do have ideas, but if you have any PLEASE send them in cuz I could always use more. That makes everyone happy too. The story takes place within an hour and a half of driving distance from Disney World, and I'm not getting more specific than that. Chapter 35 took place in late October. I think we all hate FCAT and other standardized test. Come on everyone raise your hands I know you do! My school takes the nationals on Monday. Isn't that crap! A test on Monday!! Grrr...
Anime-Blade- Well all cartoon characters are stupid. They never remember anything from past episodes unless it's like a trilogy or duel or something like that. Got to love cliff-hangers. Buhahaha! Wow, your last reviews are a bit confusing to read. It's like listening to someone talking to themselves. Like Gollum and Smegol from LOTR.
Ylrack- I'm not even dignifiing your reviews w/ a response:P
Yami's-Girl- yoai is ok if it doesn't have reaging sex and the like. But mostly I only accept Yugi/Yami or Ryou/Bakura becuase I think of Ryou and Yugi as girls.:) Do you have any good stories in mind? Sorry I'm making you seem to evil, but it's all for the story purposes. If you have anything else about you that you want me to put in, feel free to e-mail me. EPCOT stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired. At least that's what I think... Yes you will be in the story more.
Cassandra Pegasus- Thank you so much for your glowing reviews. It's people like you that make me want to write more. Glad you like the plot so much that you say it in every review! Well as for Yugioh being a class A jerk in the past, I needed a conflict for when I write the prequel. Although it's way overused but w/e:) Oops I shouldn't have given that away ;-D The camp out was sweet wasn't it? Thanks for refering people to my story I can only hope they are as nice as you. I pity your guy friends. And never make your boyfriend dress as a girl. Trust me you will never look at him in the same way. Yeah, but out intern is a really nice and kool person so I'm wasn't going to insult her in any way in the story. Too bad for you tho:D Maybe one day Marik will be nice again, you never know.
Aithril the elf-maiden- Thanks. Intresting that you like Bakura biting people's ears off, but to each thier own as my mom would say. Good to know that you love Alyssa and you don't want her to die.
QuietOne1- That's good to know thank you. Marik will get much more 'twisted' after Christmas in the story. I'm sure you'll be pleased.
Yamigilr101- Glad that you liked the drinking match. I was quite proud of that chapter myself.
Arinell- Koolness! I never expected someone to use something from my story at a party of theirs I hope you had fun!
Yamijennimoto- Thank you for the glitter. I'm very fond of glitter to. I totally agree, the show does need more romance. I actually found out Yami's real name from the manga after I wrote this, but I'm not changing it for two reasons. One I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't yet read it and B) I'm too lazy. Be prepared for more suspense later, as I have a fettish for ending chapters in cliffhangers. Good to know that you love Alyssa and you don't want her to die. Ew, I hate it when all the worms come out. It's discusting.
Chosen One 2 rise- Wow! Who would have guessed that people would take their time to talk about my story! I'm so happy! Thank you and your friend!
Kitell- Thanks. That was short, sweet and to the point.
Mya starlight- Although you like to beat cliff hangers, expect more soon.
Larien529- Koolness, another Floridian. Got to love the Sunshine State standard tests huh?
Camarao- Thank you for the compliment.
Nicole- Thanks for the review. I'll also be sure to tell him that sharks are worse than both.(Trust me)
Kanika Meskhenet- I will, don't worry. Today in fact.:)
To EVERYONE who reviewed chapter 31- Thank you guys so much. You all deserve hugs.
~~~~~~~~~~Important note~~~~~~~~~~
Yeah, who ever has me on their favorite authors list I'll send an e-mail to you when I update as thanks:) Enjoy you nice people.
And another thing, I've decided to screw reading this over for mistakes until it's completed so live w/ it.
Obviously, I have decided to continue this story. Your reviews were very inspiring thank you. . Chapters may or may not come out on Saturday but they will be no more than a week and ½ apart, even if it means skipping my homework.. Like right now, I should be reading A Tale of Two Cites or doing the paper or my various other assignments.