Author's note: Hey everyone. I'm trying my best to try to speed the story along.
This scene takes place the same weekend that Mai and Tea had their little get together.
Anywayz, enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 15: When friends need friends…and lovers? Part 2
Joey's POV:
Tristan and I were ready to drive to the shop today to visit Yami, hoping to pitch in and help out where ever we could. Serenity had asked where we were going and when we told her we were hanging with Yami for the late afternoon, she wanted to come along, so she did. The whole idea started when Yami had called me the night before, giving my promise that Tristan and I would drop by the next day to see what was up.
We had talked that night about school, my break-up with Mai and how I was dealin', while Yami gave me updates on Grandpa Moutou's recovery and the runnin's of the shop.
Our convo always revolved around those subjects lately….in fact all four times I had spoken to Yami between the time of the incident at the club and now…including last night over the phone, not ONCE did he mention anything related to last week's debacle. So since Yami never brought it up in any of our conversations, pretty much went about it like nothing happened, I didn't feel the need to mention my being there. I thought that until Yami was ready to talk about it, I wouldn't be the one to broach the subject until HE did.
Another thing I noticed…every time we talked, like within our conversations when I made some reference to Yugz at one point of another, he had either gotten madd quiet or either vaguely added some input to what was being asked or mentioned about him. To put it simply, Yami was straight-up actin' weird.
And last night's convo was no different.
Now I had thought about it….thought about reconsidering my original stance to stay on the sides. This time…I had went about it in a round-a-bout way, saying that I had noticed he was actin' strange lately and that I was wondering what was up with him, hoping that would be the key to get him to finally open up. But Yami had shied away from the question by saying something rather predictable like, "Nothing's bothering me. It must be your imagination, Joey."
"Are you sure about that? Cuz, you know…I'm your best buddy and you can talk to me about anything, a'right?"
I had waited a little bit, hearing a little pause on the other line...and just when I thought I had made a breakthrough, Yami said, "No…no, I'm sure. Um…I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"
"…Okay...Bye."
And I was so disappointed that Yami didn't take that opportunity to talk his feelings out with me that it nagged at me right into the next day, right then while I was sitting in the passenger seat of Tristan's ride.
End of Joey's POV:
Tristan looked over at his friend and saw the frown on his face. "Hey, what's up with the long face?"
Joey shook his head and kissed his teeth before saying, "Man…I've been thinking.."
"Go on…you've been thinking?..."
"That I should tell Yami about us being at the club last weekend."
Tristan gave Joey a look. "Why? Didn't you say we shouldn't say anything ab…"
"I know what I said!... Look. Last night when I talked to him, I tried to get him to talk about it without having to actually bring it up but he just wouldn't budge. I mean, you've seen how he's been lately since that night. He's practically a shell of his former shelf and I don't think he even notices he's been projectin' that outward for other people to see."
"Well...maybe he just needs more time, Joey. Maybe he doesn't think it's relevant now, now that nothing could be done to change the situation.", Tristan surmised while keeping his view on the road.
"Nothin' could be done to change it, Tristan, but that's not the point. Something's eatin' at him, something here…", Joey said, pointing to his heart. "I can feel it down to my bones…I mean…Yugi got caught stripteasin' and I'm hopin' he had a damn good reason, but why would Yami continue to act so distant?...so reserved?...and to ME of all people?!"
"Maybe it has something to do with Yugi." Serenity said out of no where, sitting in the back seat of the car.
"Yeah…we know it has something to do with Yugi, but what exactly?" Tristan said, trying to see what point Serenity was trying to make.
"What I mean is…maybe Yugi is the one pushing Yami away, causing him to be the way he is. I mean you saw how passionate he was about standing his ground when Yami was causing a scene. He was really angry at Yami…and maybe Yugi is still upset about it and had put Yami in an odd position…and in result, Yami may not know how to deal with it."
Joey thought about that and to him, Serenity's opinion made a lot of sense. "That's true...Yugi was showing a lot of bitterness towards him that time. He's HAS been actin' pretty weird with us...hell he's been actin' weird with us even before this crap started!."
"Yeah, you definitely got a point there, 'Ren. Come to think about, we HAVE kinda been neglecting him.", Tristan remarked a little sheepishly, remembering distinctly how Yugi had given he and Joey the cold shoulder by moseying his way to the theaters with his lime-haired companion.
"Damn, I feel bad…Damn! They're probably not even talking to each other because we failed to help the situation when we could have sooner!", Joey exclaimed, realizing more than ever that he hadn't had Yugi's back the way he hade Yami's.
"Calm down, Joey…We'll find out what's really going on when we get there and speak to Yami. THEN we can figure out what we could do from there,", Tristan said, beginning to see reason.
"So you agree with me now that we have to tell him?" Joey said eyeing Tristan, more stating his claim than asking a question.
"Yeah…it's probably for the best." Tristan said, making the next left turn that would lead them to the shop.
(Scene Two…..)
"That would be 6.54, sir."
Tristan, Serenity, and Joey walked into the shop to see Yami dealing with a customer. Yami didn't acknowledge there presence right away , giving his undivided attention to the customer, getting change and bag for their purchase.
"Thank you very much. Have a nice day."
"Hey, what's up Yamz? How's everything going around here?", Joey called out.
"What's up, Yami?", Tristan voiced while Serenity said her soft "Hi" in unison.
Yami had a smile on his face, happy to see that his friends arrived. "Hello Joey, Tristan, Serenity. Everything's great so far. Business has been unusually good today."
"Really? Then that's great man. You're doing a great job with the shop, as usual.", Joey said while patting Yami on the arm.
Yami nodded at Joey's compliment, saying, "Thanks. I'm really glad you guys are here because…well, believe it or not I need some help reorganizing the stock back there to make space for Monday's delivery. It's a boatload of work, but with all four us here, we could get it done before 4:00 hits."
"Well, I guess if all four us are back in the storage room, who's tending the front area just in case customers come in?" Tristan asked observantly to Yami.
"I was going to put the "Closed" sign on and put the security locks on so we can get to work. I'm satisfied with the sales I've made today and decided to close up early.", Yami replied, jogging towards the door and did exactly what he said he would do. He flipped the sign in the opposite direction so that the word "Closed" would now face outside, then carefully secured the locks so that there was no way anyone could come through unexpectedly.
"Alright guys. Follow me." Yami said, leading the gang to the storage room area.
As they were walking behind Yami, who was talking to them about something with his back facing them the entire time, Tristan made eye contact with Joey, gesturing and mouthing his lips so that it clearly read, "Now would be the perfect time to approach him."
He turned to Serenity who nodded, hinting towards the same idea.
When they got there, Joey was about to finally broach the subject when suddenly Yami blurted out, voicing with Joey simultaneously, "We need to talk!."
Caught totally off guard, Joey gave quick glances to Tristan and Serenity, then looked at Yami and said, "Whoa…I guess we were all thinking the same thing."
Yami chuckled. "Yes apparently we have. Why don't you go first?"
Joey stared at Yami, then looked at Tristan and Serenity who urged him on with their eyes. "Um….No, that's okay. Why don't you tell us what you want to talk about, Yamz. It's probably much more important than what we have to say…", Joey said a little nervously, knowing he was shying away from the opportunity.
Yami eyed his three friends and began to elaborate. "…Alright then. Remember last night when I called you, Joey, and you mentioned that I have been acting strange lately, whether anything bothered me or not..?"
"Mm-hmm", Joey nodded.
Yami swallowed. "Well…I wasn't exactly truthful with you. Something IS bothering me and it's been bothering me ever since last weekend."
Joey realized that Yami was finally about to come clean.
"Well…what is it, Yami?"
"It's about Yugi…Things haven't been so right between us and…I don't know how to deal with it. I need your advice."
Tristan gave Serenity a quick you-were-right look, then turned his attention to Yami claiming, "Well, we can't really give you any unless you tell us what happened."
Yami stepped near to one of the little benches in the room and sat on it. He sighed.
"Alright, where to begin?...Well, Yugi…Yugi has been acting very strange around me and I think it has to do with something I may done as well as something I may have said to him one night."
He lifted his leg up to rest totally on one side of the bench while the other leg was still planted on the floor, raising his left arm to rest on the leg that was arched up.
"When grandpa got sick, I was devastated by the news as much as Yugi was. I knew that for the both of us, it wasn't going to be easy dealing with it emotionally, but financially…I wanted it to become my burden and MY burden alone."
"Grandpa was secure more financially than we had originally thought but not being aware of it at the time, the task of taking care of Yugi, the house expenses, the medical bills, the shop….had consumed me SO much that it turned me into this self-absorbed, insensitive bastard. I thought I was protecting him, making it easier for him if I made it my responsibility. He wanted to help…but I wouldn't allow him to and in doing so, I might have forced him into doing something drastic."
Yami stared up at his friends then continued. "It was pure intuition on my part, but I knew something was wrong when he told me he had some place to go mysteriously at 9 to later in the evenings. Suddenly he began hanging out with some new friend I wasn't aware of for a time, but I knew he had to have some involvement with Yugi's peculiar attitudes and activities. So I followed up on my instincts, got a lead and showed up at this strip club thinking he'd be there, hoping I was wrong. But when I recognized him as the lead dancer on stage, I just flipped."
Yami blushed at the memory, looking back on it as something he wouldn't be too proud of. "Yugi was stripteasing and it angered me so much that he would go do something like this behind my back. I had…caused quite a scene there and told Yugi to come home with me but he wouldn't listen, saying he refused to leave. Then his so-called friend got into it with me verbally and before I knew it, I was throwing punches, being dragged apart by; security and summarily thrown on my ass in the streets.", he was shaking his head after he finished that unpleasant part of his story, then looked up to see the reaction of his friends when he did.
"You guys weren't there to see it but…you DO understand why I reacted the way I did, right?", Yami claimed defensively, trying to get them to see it through his point of view.
Joey looked up at Tristan and Serenity, then decided this would be a good time to mention their part of the story. "Um…Yami, um…About that whole fiasco. We…We know about everything."
Yami eyebrows rose incredulously at that, then bellowed, "What?! How.."
"We were all there at the time when that whole thing happened.", Tristan chimed in thinking it was best Yami heard from him as well.
Yami asked, still a little wide-eyed, "ALL of you as in INCLUDING Mai AND Tea?"
When they shook their heads in unison, Yami, quite shocked by the turn of events, inquired quite curiously, "Well, if you don't mind me asking…what could POSSIBLY bring you all together in a place like THAT?", he said, raising a questioning eyebrow at them, thinking that this couldn't be the result of some kinky little get-together.
"Pffft…th-that's the funny apart, Yami.", Joey nervously laughed, "We all kinda…BUMPED into each other. He-he-he…..LITERALLY!"
Serenity to the right of Joey had her head turned to the side, trying to hide the smirk off her face. Tristan tried desperately to hold the growing laughter beginning to fill his chest but turned serious when he saw Yami's serious look. "Er…It's not what you may think, Yami. We had a perfectly good explanation for being there."
Joey quickly jumped in adding, "Yeah, we were pretty much there for the very same reason you were. We had our own suspicions that Yugi was up to something, particularly when we remembered the description of that Tygris dude when we had bumped into them at the movies the other day."
Tristan intervened and added the other parts to their side of the story.
"And we went disguised so no one would recognize us and we were keeping a look out for Yugi when all of a sudden we saw you and Yugi arguing in the middle of the whole thing. When they had escorted you out, we were getting ready to leave when J..."
"Mai had accidentally bumped into Joey on the way out, when she, Tea, and I were on our own little misadventure."
After hearing the sound of her voice, everyone turned their attention to Serenity, who stood there exchanging glances with each of them. "What?", she said, suddenly looking a little uneased by the attention.
Yami sat gape mouthed at Serenity's declaration. "So are you implying that you, Tea, and Mai weren't actually there to discover anything about Yugi but to…to…to..", he stammered, gesturing when he couldn't find it in himself to complete the sentence.
Serenity blushed at Yami's dumbfounded expressiveness, then reclaimed enough posture to add frustratingly, "YES! To see half-naked men get their thang on! What's so hard in saying that? ….GOSH!"
Yami glanced at Serenity…..then to Tristan…then at Serenity again. "But I thought…I….wait, you know what? Let me NOT even go there.", Yami stated, massaging the bridge of his nose with his fingers as if he felt a headache coming on.
"Please don't…because it is absolutely NONE of your business, okay?", Serenity said with more than a bit of attitude, giving Yami the I-don't-give-a-damn-WHAT-you-think look.
Joey barely tried to hide his humor by covering his mouth, but got an elbow in the gut from Tristan who thought it wasn't a good idea at the moment …even though HE TOO wanted to bust out laughing at Serenity's sudden display of spunkiness. To Yami, no less? THIS was treading new territory……
Yami pursed his lips in a way that tried to keep his face from laughing at THAT…clearing his throat to speak up. "Ehem…Uh…Oookay. Let me try a…different approach. If YOU guys..."
He paused, eyeing Tristan and Joey when he said it, then giving Serenity a delayed 'default' look for HER benefit, in which she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms….
"….had your own suspicions, why didn't you come to ME about it first?"
"Well because we didn't want to alarm you, Yamz. I mean…you had enough on your plate as it was dealin' with everything that we didn't want to let you in on anything regarding Yugi unless we got our facts straight.", Joey answered.
Tristan, feeling the need to add to what Joey said, voiced. "Like you, we didn't think it was in Yugi's character to get into the likes of stripping or anything even resembling it. It was as much a shock to us that he would even THINK of doing such a thing much less actually do it. We probably never would have acted on our hunch if we hadn't seen them together at the movies because we were so blind and oblivious to everything he was doing beforehand. So when we saw that you found out about Yugi's activities, we didn't see the need to tell you because…well, you ALREADY knew about it. It would have been too little, too late to change the outcome even if we DID tell you afterwards."
"Okay, I can see your reasoning behind that but there's one thing that still doesn't make sense…If you didn't see the need to tell me then, why are you telling me now? I'm assuming that if I hadn't come out with this first, you wouldn't even be telling me this…"
Then it dawned on Yami when he exclaimed, "Is that what you originally wanted to talk to ME about?!"
Joey had a sheepish look on his face after Yami had finished putting two-and-two together.
"Yeah…Well, we didn't think you'd all of a sudden be in the mood to tell us about this NOW. Like I told you, Yami, you've been giving off signs that something was wrong ever since that night. I knew that had to be the reason you were actin' all weird. I didn't want to push you or nag you about it because you were real edgy and when I kept asking you how things were doing and stuff, you wouldn't say. Last night was my real attempt to get you to finally mention it but when you didn't, I thought that I'd finally come out and confront you about it now. As your best friends, we would have thought YOU would have come to US when things weren't going the way it should. We never meant to deceive you in anyway. HONESTLY."
It just flashed to Yami that that could be the very reason why Tea showed up at the shop the other day. She had seen the same thing and since she had been there to see everything that night, she was trying to get him to talk about it then. But he had scared her away and hadn't spoken to him since. Now he knew what she REALLY meant by that last line she had left him with that day.
Yami lifted his crimson eyes to his friends. "Joey…I'm sorry…I probably should have came to you and the others as soon as things were going awry. I guess we all have to take some responsibility in this in someway…we weren't communicating with each other and we weren't listening to each other as we should have. That only delayed any attempt to reach a resolution sooner."
"Yeah, if we ALL claim to be best friends to one another, I mean let's ACT like it for heaven's sakes. We've kinda been getting too swallowed up in our own little routines that we've gotten away from that. The most important part of friendship, or any relationship for that matter, is trust. And if we don't have that, then what's the sense then?", Tristan reasoned.
They all nodded in their agreement.
It was Serenity who spoke now, after she and Tristan eyed each other for a short while, sharing a little mental moment.
"Yami…you said, that Yugi has been acting strangely and you couldn't deal with it. How has Yugi's behavior changed since?"
"Well…he was clearly still upset about it. I didn't tell you this, but Yugi didn't show up till the following afternoon. He was with his lime-haired companion the night before and had visited grandpa before he finally came back to the house."
He sighed.
"When I had confronted him about it after I myself had visited grandpa that afternoon, it turned into a full blown argument. I had said something that shouldn't have been said…"
"…………Well, come on, what did you say, Yami?" Joey spoke.
He braced for their reaction when he said, "I had referred to Yugi as some 'slut' who sold himself for money."
"Yami! You shouldn't have said that!" Serenity said wide-eyed with disapprovement, while Joey said his "What!? That's foul, man." in unison. Tristan however didn't say anything, just stood there as surprised by that statement as the rest of them.
"I know…I know! I shouldn't have let that even come out of my mouth. It was uncalled for and you don't know how ashamed I am about it."
"I mean…..didn't you ask him why he did it before you just blew up like that!", Joey said, thinking that Yami's reaction would have been something HE could have said to his own sister than Yami towards Yugi.
Yami winced at his friends' disapproving glances.
"No…I didn't. And I should have calmed down so I COULD get the explanation from him….He'd said that he did it to help out with everything because I couldn't do it by myself. He even said that I denied his right to help his grandfather. It was…It was soo true. I HAD denied him the opportunity and I now realize if I hadn't done that, we wouldn't even be in this mess to begin with!"
He lowered his eyes, wondering if he should also reveal the part where he had kissed Yugi, then decided that if he was ever to resolve this issue with Yugi, he had to be as honest as possible.
"I…I might have made it even worse when …when I had kissed Yugi…on the lips."
Everyone eyed Yami in shock, that it took a little while for Joey to recover his voice. "Are you serious!? W-Why did you do that?", he said softly, waiting for his friend's explanation.
Yami looked at his friends who looked at him as if they were seeing him for the first time. He licked his lips nervously.
"I don't know why I did it, Joey. It just came so unexpectedly…that I even surprised myself. I …I don't know what's wrong with me!", Yami called out in frustration.
"Yami…Yami. It's okay….Look just…just tell us what happened after you did that." Serenity said soothingly, trying to redirect Yami's guilt by urging him to talk about the events that occurred afterward.
"Afterwards…he had this ghostly look in his eyes, then he pushed me away and said some things I can't recall, and ran up the stairs to his room. The following days after had been distant and awkward. I tried breaking the silence on more than a couple of occasions but he would either say he had something to do, or say, "Everything's okay.", when I asked if everything was alright….or he'd avoid me altogether, either staying locked up in his room doing homework or he'd go storming outside claiming he had some errand to run or another reason to ditch talking to me."
He paused. "Guys, despite what Yugi keeps telling me, I KNOW everything isn't alright. I'm worried about him and I don't know what to do now.", Yami finished, sorrow in his crimson orbs. He adjusted his legs on the floor and bent over to cover his face with his hands, clearly upset about the dilemma.
"Ah, man….Yami….We can get through this. We WILL get through this…together.", Joey said, coming over to where Yami sat to put his arm over his shoulders consolingly. "Please don't be so hard on yourself. We are just as much to blame in all this as you are. It's OUR problem now…You hear me? NOT just yours…ALL of us. We added to the problem by ignoring Yugi, not being there for him like we used to do. If YOU couldn't be there for him, by god, WE should have. We should have been the second AND last line of defense, yet we never even paid attention to any of the signs. We fucked up, plain and simple. Now what we gotta do is try to reach out to Yugi, apologize, and make amends."
"Joey is right, Yami. We're here now and that's all that matters. It's not too late to make things right again.", Serenity said, kneeling in front of Yami to pat his knee and touching his face affectionately.
They sat silently for a bit, then Tristan declared, "Alright. So, what to do next?"
Serenity sighed and looked up from her kneeling position at Tristan.
"What we need to do is get to the heart of the matter: Yugi."
"Well, I suppose…but how? Do we all just head over to the house right now and get…"
"He's not at the house.", Yami interjected.
"Then where is he then?", Joey said, still sitting next to Yami.
"I asked him and he said at the park, and I asked which one, central park? ….and he just cut me off and said no...the big one and scurried out the house with his dirt bike. I'm assuming he must be talking about Norway Park."
"Norway Pak!? Ah shit…even if we wanted to head over there right this minute, it'll take forever to find him. You could fit like 30 central parks in that joint! Crap, I guess he really doesn't want to be found……you think he got his cell on him so we can meet him up there some way?"
"Nah…I say we wait till he gets home. We go to the house and we'll discuss it with him as soon as he gets in.", Tristan said, looking at Serenity to see what she would suggest.
"No."
It was Yami who spoke.
"Why? That would be the best time to approach him while we're together. We'll even call Tea and Mai to meet up there so we can get this over with as quickly as possible.", Tristan reasoned.
"I think it's a bad idea….If we all wait for him together, it'll seem like we're ambushing him. Besides, we don't want it to look like that the only reason we've gathered to meet up with him now is because I had rallied the troops, which would explain your sudden interest in him from his point of view."
Serenity agreed. " I would have to agree with Yami's line of thinking. It's too cheesy…..He'll think we're doing it more for Yami's sake than for his. You'll have to keep in mind that Yugi must have felt abandoned when we never noticed his comings and goings, now all of a sudden we all notice he exists again and want to talk to him about friendship? It may be too overwhelming for him if we do it that way."
"Okay, I get what you're saying. So when WOULD be the best time to do it, 'Ren?", Tristan wanted to know.
"At school", she said simply, as if that was supposed to say it all. "And I think the best people to approach him first would be the two of you."
Joey and Tristan looked at each other, then Joey said, "Hmmm…Okay. I see where this could work.", while he rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"It WILL work if we do it this way: Even though Yugi is clearly upset at us for the same reason, lack of attention, our issues are not quite the same, however. And because of that, we have to treat them separately."
She turned to Yami.
"Yami, instead of just asking Yugi how his days were or if everything is alright, just come outright with your feelings. Mention the things you said that night and say what you meant or didn't mean by them... Force Yugi into a conversation where he would HAVE to respond. Tell him how his distance is affecting you and ask why he's doing it. Tell him your concerns for his health and that you are sorry about not only the things you've said that particular night, but the things you've said and done throughout your whole ordeal with Grandpa's health and everything revolving that. Explain your reasons and somehow try to get some closure as what your issues were with his decision to do the whole stripping thing."
She turned her attention to Joey and Tristan.
"As for you and Tristan, Joey….Since you two have the most classes with Yugi, try to get him by himself and ask him about his classes and the things that's currently going on in his life. He would feel as lonely and as vulnerable as ever, so he would more crave your company than deny it. Somehow gradually lead the conversation to that day you met at the movies. Bring it up. Bring up his friend and ask him outright who is he and how he came to meet him. Get him talking about this guy so you can assess the kind of influence he may have on Yugi and then hopefully Yugi in return will tell you about him and why he's hanging with him. That would eventually lead to the meat of the issue: why your friendship hasn't been the same. Try to get Yugi to spill his feelings in regards to that and then you in turn would explain your reasons as to why it's deteriorating. You know what you need to do after you acknowledge your neglect of him……Whatever issues Yugi may have with the rest of us we can ease in later on and resolve them as well, now that the air is finally cleared and now that you've got Yugi on your good side again. Everything else should fall into place.", she concluded.
"That's some pretty good advice, Serenity. Very professional, indeed.", Yami said, impressed with Serenity's advising.
"Yeah, I think so too, sis'. I think this'll work, Tristan. You, me and Yugi, like the 3 amigos all over again."
"Yep, we got to make it like old times.", Tristan said in merriment.
"Well, it could be like old times but remember, there aren't just 3 amigos anymore.", Serenity said, hinting towards Yami more so than about herself and the rest of the girls that made up the group.
Yami smiled at that. "Right, Serenity. There are 'seven' amigos."
Joey stood there a little shame-faced by his misstatement. "Well, you know what I mean. Sheeesh."
"Alright. Now that we got a plan, let's do a group huddle to celebrate! Hands in the circle, people."
They all got up and stood in a circle and put their hands on top of each other then waited for Joey to give them the slogan.
"Um…what's the slogan gonna be?"
"You call for the group huddle, yet you don't have a slogan to go with it?", Tristan said giving Joey the tear-drop look.
"….How about 'Go Amigos'?", Serenity suggested a little lamely, thinking that they'd shoot down the idea.
"Simple…But fitting. I'm for it.", Yami agreed. Everyone nodded then Joey said, "Okay, everyone on three. One…Two…Three…GOOOO AMIIIGOOS!"
They all chuckled and hugged one another and when they realized that they still hadn't gotten to the work, they began to put hands and hearts together like the close 'amigos' they were.
(Scene Three…)
After the gang had dropped Yami home, they had left on a good note, laughing and joking about things.
Now that it was just the three of them and Serenity had the back seat of the car to herself once again, the one thing that was on everyone's mind …that no one didn't want to say out loud for fear of breaking the good vibes, was Yami's admission that he had kissed Yugi.
And it stood uppermost in Serenity's mind…..
Serenity's POV:
Today was a successful day all around and I was glad that we were close to getting everybody back together again…at least on friendly terms.
But what about Yami's situation with Yugi? After he admitted he had kissed Yugi, things could be a lot harder than I had given Yami advice for. I don't want to overanalyze, but could it be that Yami was beginning to have feelings for Yugi beyond those of friendship? Was it possible that Yami is gay or bisexual, and is denying those feelings? Could that get in the way of everything, when it came to getting their friendship back on track? And does Yugi have the same feelings?
Those questions were worth asking, and I was left to wonder about my other friend Tea: Could that be the reason why Yami is indifferent to her because he IS gay or bisexual? Could he be one of those guys that prefer guys over girls and didn't really notice it until now?
Tea deserves so much, and I can't help to think that this admission might just nearly dash her chances with Yami forever. But the problem is, as her friend, should I tell her what was discussed today and tell her my suspicions that Yami could have feelings for Yugi?
It's still all speculation and Yami didn't come out and say he was gay, but no guy kisses another guy with that kind of passion - well, she's assuming a lot by Yami's behavior that this kiss was MORE than a friendly peck on the lips – and NOT have some feelings for him. Reading between the lines, it was safe to say that THAT was the case.
Now I'm torn between telling her for fear she might get all depressed and lonely but I don't want to be the first or even last person to spread gossip about Yami's sexuality. I want Tea to move on with her life if this all turns out to be true. They're both my friends…, so what am I to do? Do I keep my trap shut and wait and see ….or do I mention it to her, seeing that she'd hear about this meeting from Tristan or Joey one way or the other? Now I wish someone would give ME some advice……
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