"Draw two!"
"What kind of cheap ass tricks are you trying to pull?!" Spat Kiera picking up two cards from the deck.
"That's the rules!" Marik said.
"Hmmm, Uno" Sighed one of the Rare-hunters laying down his second to last card.
"No fair! How come Matt gets uno every time! It's a conspiracy I say!"
"Kiera just because you have no skill at Uno doesn't mean we're plotting against you" Sighed Marik.
"No skill? I was Uno queen at my elementary! By the way, does anyone have some chocolate?"
Odion, Marik, and Matt all gave her a grim look.
"What? I was just asking"
Odion rolled his eyes and squinted at his cards.
"Ha, Master Marik, take this!" He sniggered and laid down a draw four.
"I order you to take that move back! I am your Master, do as I command!"
"Hey, even though Odion's some warped suicidal he has every right in the world to make that move" Kiera protested.
"Whoa you're suicidal dude?" Matt asked.
"Odion! Why have you not told this to your Master?" Marik said, giving him an odd look.
"I AM NOT A SUICIDAL!" Odion spat.
"Alright we believe you hunny" Kiera said giving a fake smile. "But seriously Matt, sometimes he scares me" She whispered leaning over to Matt.
"Mental people are scary" He said in agreement.
Odion gave a loud huff as he replaced his draw four with a blue two.
"Good Odion" Marik praised laying down his own draw four. "Haha!" Laughed Marik as Kiera sourly drew her cards. She gave him the evil eye and nodded for Matt to go.
Matt drew, "Gettem Kiera" he said laying down a reverse.
"Yay, thank you Matt, you're so sweet!" she said kissing him on the cheek. Matt blushed.
"Alright Marik William" She said in an evil tone "Take this!" She then laid down two skips, three draw twos and four draw fours. "I call it the special SUPERMACHHAMBURGER move, it means you are the ultimate looser, any suicidals come in third, the cute guy who gave me a second chance comes in second, and I, Kiera Jay Shafer, rain victorious on this November after noon! Woohoo!" she shouted dashing out of the dining room.
"Looks like you just got it good" laughed Matt, who began to put the cards away. Marik gave him a death glare and left the room muttering to himself.
"Cute guy? I'm basically her boyfriend, geese and she kissed him on the cheek I-"
"Oh, is my wittle Marik getting jealous?" she laughed jumping out from her hiding spot and pinching his cheek.
"Me? Jealous, no way!"
"Oh come of it" She sighed, hugging him tightly. "Of course my little Marik's jealous, I am of course, beautiful, talented, funny, etcetera, and you are a stupid little weakling who has never before been able to have a girlfriend that's not a total nerd"
Marik stood frozen in anger.
"Man you can't take a joke can you dork?"
"I'm like so not a dork!"
"Haha, you're like so talking like a girl"
"Ahem I meant, I am no dork"
"Yeah right" She laughed. She stood on her tiptoes; her lips pressed against his, then she stopped, turned, and said, "You're not a dork you're my dork!"
"Come here I want to show you something!" She grabbed his hand and sped off down the hallway, Marik just barley able to keep up.
"What? What do you want to show me?"
"You're so impatient!" She said, "Now close your eyes"
"Ok…" Marik sighed wearily. He then closed his eyes. He could feel her leading him somewhere, though he didn't know in which direction. He heard the creek of a door and followed inside.
"Now open your eyes…" Kiera said, her voice sounded as if she was quite delighted.
Marik opened them slowly, only to find he was standing in his own room.
"My room…"
The writing was gone. The pictures on the walls were gone. His chandelier replaced, his wardrobe right side up. His bed was made, carpet vacuumed. Kiera had sowed the canopy back together, AND the walls, yes all the walls, were now maroon. He also noticed a small picture sitting on his nightstand; it was Kiera riding on his back on the way to dinner.
Where'd she get that? He thought.
"You… you…"
"I what? It's not that big of deal"
Marik gave a weak little laugh then said, "I can't believe you fixed it… and it's… wow"
"You like it? That's why I didn't show for breakfast, or lunch, in fact is that Odion calling us for dinner?"
Sure enough it was Odion's distant voice calling "Dinn- what do you mean stay away from the suicidal? I am NOT suicidal; I was calling for dinner until you interrupted me! No! Hey don't take that! Give it back, it's mine!"
"Yummy, EATS!" Kiera cried dashing down the hall.
----------Later That Night----------
Kiera pulled up the covers and snuggled in. It was the first night she'd ever slept in Marik's room. Though she felt comfortable enough to sleep in the same bed it was all too awkward.
"Night" he said, rolling over and turning out the light.
Kiera fell asleep immediately, and as she did a dream began.
Teletubies danced along the long winding corridor she followed. Her slow walk turned into a run, but yet not a fearful one. It was as if something was too impatient to walk the length of the corridor. She yearned for something behind that door, whatever it may be. She reached the end and it was as if the huge wide doors opened magically. There was a long roll of carpet and at the end sat a throne. A dark figure loomed in it.
"Oh it's been too long!" She cried, a tear rolling down her face.
"Indeed" The shadow replied, it's eerie cold voice echoing through the emptiness.
"I can never leave you" She mumbled. "The emotional pain it's caused me…"
"So you regret your actions?"
"Yes… I think"
"So you have not come to a conclusion yet? One will have to go, the other will have to know, and I feel your path will lead you back here"
"I can't… it's to much…"
She ran up to the figure bawling her eyes out. She jumped on it's lap and cried into it's shirt. She looked up, eyes ever so glassy with tears.
"Kiera it's a trap!" Yelled a familiar voice running into the room.
"Marik save me!" She cried as she tried to run for him but the figure clenched Kiera's waste, it's strength… it's power…
"It's to late Marik, she belongs to me"
Kiera awoke with a jolt. She was cold and sweaty. She had never had such a nightmare before.
"You ok?" Asked a groggy Marik apparently woken by her immediate jolt.
"I don't know… Marik you can't leave! I have this terrible feeling in my gut… something awful is about to happen!"
"Are you sure you're ok, you're awfully cold"
"I don't know…" She said leaning her head against his shoulder. A single tear ran down her face. "But will you save me? If anything goes wrong, will you be there to save me?" She asked softly.
"Of course Kiera. Now did you have a bad dream?"
She nodded as his fingers ran through her hair.
"Well…" He sighed and pressed his lips against Kiera's.