Weirdo's brother's weird friend: When a chimi and a changa really like each other they make...

Weirdo: Chimi CHangas!

Weirdo's brother's weird friend: Exactly!

you're all crazy...AM I THE ONLY SANE ONE HERE?

Wierdo: probably...

sigh i may as well join in. 'when a mommy fairyand a daddy fairy love each other very much...'

Wierdo: STOP IT!

Kaiba: In this chappie Bold Is Weirdo and Regular is Ari. Enjoy!

except in before and chapter and after, bold is me (Ari)


Trial and Error

Kaiba

I couldn't sleep. Even with Jenny right there next to me, pressing the body that goddesses would envy against my chest, I could not get my body to rest. It had been too long a night, with that slut's performance on her balcony, Rebecca threatening to take me to court to take Daniel away from me, the little scrap of flesh that Bakura had whelped with some American defending me when Rebecca made her threat...it had all gotten to the point where it threatened to overload my brain. There was something that hadn't happened for a long time, but I was accustomed to going for days without sleep, and I did need to finish that prototype for Kaiba Corp.'s newest game by the end of the month. 'No time like now to get a little more of it done,' I thought. 'Its not like I'll be able to sleep tonight anyway.' I tried getting up, but Jenny was reluctant to let me go.

"Where ya goin'?" she whispered. It hit me that she had not been sleeping either.

"I can't sleep, so I'm gonna get some work done." I said quietly. She knew what I was talking about.

Jenny sat up groggily, shaking her head. "I'm your V.P.," she said, "and as such, I tell you that you've done all to that poor game that it can handle, you hear me? Any more and they'll check you to make sure you weren't beamed here from 3030, it'll be so advanced. Now what's going on, Seto?"

I grumbled. Jenny was right, as usual. "You know very well what's going on." I grumbled. "That insubordinate wench, where the hell does she get the nerve to threaten me like that? Trying to get back a kid she practically begged me to take!" I was about to begin ranting, which wasn't something anyone wanted to stick around for, and in Japanese, I was so pissed.

Jenny put a hand on my shoulder, steadying me. "Easy there, Seto." she said. "You don't want to go waking everyone in this place, do you? Things will work out. Didn't you hear Krystal earlier? You have supporters, and Daniel does have some say in the case. If he doesn't want to go with her, she can't touch him unless there's evidence that you're not fit to look after him, which there isn't. So stop worrying about it and get some sleep."

Krystal

I shook my head as I curled up on the couch in our living room. I flipped on the TV, too tired to sleep. 'There's an oxymoron.' I thought. I would have had too much on my mind anyway. Sleep just wasn't in the cards tonight.

"You staying up?" dad asked through the door to his closet-sized room. Mine was even smaller, and just next door. I nodded and pulled a blanket up over me as the show came on. Dad sighed, coming over and sitting near me. "I can't sleep either." he said.

I turned off the TV. Nothing good was on anyway. The room was suddenly dark, the only light having come from the glowing box. "Dad, what did you really want to talk about?" I asked. He'd been like this whenever there was a lecture coming, or he really did just want to talk.

Dad sighed again, and I suddenly saw him the way he truly was: a tired, stressed, middle-aged man who was giving all he could and then some to make ends meet for his daughter and having someone who was his complete opposite threatening to take him over at any given moment. Life wasn't fun, but he managed. I instantly felt more meek and humble. He looked at me and lay down so that I had to make room for him. "So what did Arlen want to tell you so privately before we left?" he asked, trying to joke around. "What, was he whispering words of love in your ear?"

I swallowed. "Dad?"

"Hai?"

"'Daisuki desu,' it means 'I love you,' right?"

"Hai. Why?"

"That's what he said."

Dad was silent for a moment, and I could only presume that I had left him speechless. "Are you sure?" he asked, voice suddenly totally different than his normal one. I could tell by the faint light that it was no longer my dad who lay beside me.

"This was supposed to be a private conversation between a father and his daughter, Bakura." I said, attempting to scold my father's yami. "Now bring dad back, if you don't mind."

Bakura pouted. "You sound as though you aren't happy to see the one who taught you such methods of finding information that you take so much for granted now." he said.

"You also taught me to steal, Bakura."

"You can't tell me that hasn't come in handy for you, youngster."

"Not as handy."

"You break my heart, girl." Bakura said sarcastically. "I expected better out of you. And for your information, Ryo was so shocked by your news he wanted me to take over, so you can stop asking. So, this young man said he loved you, did he?"

I nodded, sitting up straight. "Yeah, that's what he said."

Bakura laughed. "Don't believe him." he said. "I myself broke more than tombs 5000 years ago, youngster, I know all the tricks in the book. Ra, I wrote the book, just as I wrote the one which I've already taught you! And the first rule is to tell a girl you love her just to get her in bed."

I choked in surprise. "He doesn't want me as a bed-warmer!" I said, indignant.

Bakura chuckled. "Are you sure about that?"

the next day

I arrived at school tired and in an extremely pissed mood. That's what happened when I stayed up half the night singing and then thinking about Arlen and what he whispered in my ear that night. 'Ra, couldn't he have waited to tell me that until I was awake, damn him?' I thought irritably as I walked through school. I spotted Jacks and Daniel hanging around at our normal table and walked over to them. The expression on their faces told me everything I needed to know. "She took him to court, didn't she?" I asked as I came up.

Daniel nodded, not saying anything as Jacks out a comforting hand on his shoulder. "I'm not going with her." he said determinedly. "I don't give a damn what the courts say, I'm not leaving dad and Arlen and Jenny to go live with the lose wench who whelped me and Allysa."

I whistled, long and low. "Someone's pissed." I said.

"Daniel, don't worry." Jacks said. "I told you, unless there's proof that Kaiba's not fit to look after you, which there isn't, she can't touch you if you don't want to go."

"I know, I know." Daniel sighed as Arlen came up with Yukio, Honda, Anzu and Allysa, with Davan following close behind. My eyes avoided Arlen's, I still didn't know what to do about him about last night. 'Not that I'm gonna do anything.' I told myself quickly. I saw Arlen look my way and look back again, sullen that I wasn't acknowledging him. Everyone else had shown up, turning me into the invisible state I wasso used to being in. People were like that, they talk to you, but as soon as other people come they forget you exist. I sighed, reaching into my backpack to pull out my CD player. 'I need to get some work done for health anyway.' I thought, turning on my music and digging out my papers.

I hadn't even gotten to read the first question when a note, folded up small, landed on top of my paper. I was surprised, but then realized something and looked over at Arlen, who only looked back and raised his eyebrows. Like he was saying, 'are you going to read it or not?'

I rolled my eyes, smiling. 'Of course.' I tried to say back. Cautiously, I unfolded the note and read Arlen's practically indecipherable handwriting. 'Daisuki desu... really. I was... scared, to say it before. Do you...me?' Next to the end of his question, there was a little heart with a question mark next to it and a hopeful kind of smilie face.

I smiled and added my own indecipherable handwriting beneath it. 'I... I don't know... I don't know what to think anymore. I like you and all... but I'm just not sure about love. But... I think so.' Next to my message, I drew a heart with a question mark inside of, instead of beside, it, and passed it back to him. The bell rang, so I didn't get a chance to read his look, as my first class was on the other side of the school. He brushed past me, however, and slipped the piece of paper back at me. I took it, but didn't read it until I was settled in my seat in first period.

It read, 'I understand... will you go to the dance with me next week, though?'

Jacks

I was trying to comfort Daniel about his mom taking his dad to court when Davan came up to me. "So, Jacks..." he said, "there's a dance next week. You wanna go, and we can hang out after at my place?"

I looked up at him, shocked. First that he would have the nerve to ask me out so boldly, and second that he would do it at a time like this, right in front of Daniel. For the first time in my life that I could remember, I was speechless. But I didn't like turning people down, so I said, "Sure, I'll go."

Davan smiled. "Perfect." he said. "I'll pick you up, say, seven?"

"Fine." I said, wanting to get back to Daniel. I sat down next to Daniel and put an arm around his shoulders.

"So.. uh.." Davan said, sitting down next to me.

"Can I talk to ya, Davan?" Honda asked, picking him up by his shoulder. I smiled.

'Thanks Honda.' I thought.

later

"She wasn't always such a bitch. Excuse my French." Allysa said, head propped up on her hands. "She met Kaiba when they were twelve in an orphanage. Her birth family was split up by the CPS. She made friends with Mokuba. She and Kaiba didn't get along well at first. He thought she was trying to turn his brother against him. But eventually he promised never to leave the orphanage without her, just as she wouldn't leave without Mokuba, and Mokuba wouldn't leave without either of them." Allysa stopped talking, her voice choked with tears. I moved my hand over hers, sympathy in my eyes.

"Go on."

"Promises are made to be broken . She got adopted my Pegasus. Kaiba and Mokuba by Gozaburo. During Duelist Kingdom, Becca looked after Mokuba with her step-brother and step-sisters. Sherry once tried to free Mokuba, but got locked in his tower." Allysa laughed slightly.

"Wait.." Daniel started to say.

"Never!" Honda cried. I shoved him hard. He was always doing that.

"Thanks Jacks." Daniel laughed. "The same Sherry that Becca went to go pick up at the airport?"

"The same. In his will, Pegasus disowned her with love, hoping it would keep Kaiba and Becca together. It didn't help." Allysa shook her head, brown curls falling in her face. "Sherry's now her lover."

"Once a whore, always a whore." Daniel muttered.

"Hey! My mom was never a whore! Your dad's the son of a whore!"

"Hey guys, please!" I cried, trying to prevent World War III. "Stop fighting!"

"How is my dad a son of a whore!" Arlen asked, standing up. "He's your dad too, don't forget!"

"He got your mom pregnant while my mom was pregnant with us, and still married to yourdad." Allysa spat in his face.

"Allysa!" I cried, stepping between the two." Calm down!" 'Why am I always the referee?' I thought

"Allysa Black and Daniel Kaiba, please report to the front office. Allysa Black and Daniel Kaiba." The calm office voice announced.

"Guess they're taking us out of school." Daniel mused. Krystal and I gave Daniel and Allysa hugs. Arlen gave Allysa a one-armed hug, and gave Daniel a hand on his shoulder before they grabbed their stuff and walked away.

'God, let them come out of this okay.' I prayed.

Rebecca

I paced outside the court room waiting for Allysa, Daniel and Kaiba to show up. Sherry smirked at me, leaning against the wall, his navy blue suit jacket draped over one arm. His red tie was loosened over his light blue shirt. He looked like a cross between his dad, Pegasus, Jesse McCartney, and Aaron Carter. His light blond, almost white hair short and ruffled. I had managed to get my "sex hair" to behave and become messy curls. I wore a low backed black dress. Sherry had talked me into wearing the dress. I didn't like it as it showed the dark blue "Seto Kaiba" tattoo between my shoulder blades. Kaiba and I had both gotten tattoos cause we were young and in "love." when promised never to remove them, until we stopped loving the other person. Of course, he got his removed after our divorce. I had brought a black suit jacket to hide the tattoo. It lay on the bench with my purse. In my hand, was one of the many things my step-dad had left me in his will; the millennium eye. Sherry had gotten so mad at me when the will was read. I got the company and the eye! But when he found out I was disowned, his anger dissipated and he took me to his bed. I turned over the company to him, but became the vice president. In return, I got a large sum of money which will serve as Daniel and Allysa's collage fund when the time comes. I turned to see my yami standing in front of me. Even though I never wore the millennium item, I still saw the yami. She didn't look too much like me, more like Kairi out of Kingdom Hearts as was her name sake. She wore the traditional Egyptian garb and a hand on her hip.

"Well Kairi? Any words of wisdom for me?"

"I don't but Victor Hugo does. 'The Supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself." I smiled at my yami.

"Thanks." I whispered to her as Kaiba walked in with Daniel, Allysa and, to my dismay, Jenny. "Oh great." I muttered, picking up my jacket and putting it on. I wrapped the Millennium Eye in a piece of cloth and slipped it into my purse. Sherry walked over to me and put his arms around my waist. "Sherry, what are you doing?"

"Trying to keep you calm." he whispered, kissing me near my ear.

"I will be calm if you let me go." I said, pushing on his shoulders. He let me go, put on his jacket, and fixed his tie. I love the guy but I wasn't about to let him make out with me in front of Kaiba. My face deepened in thought. When had he become Kaiba, a business rival instead of my own Seto whom I shared my love and bed with?

"Hey mom." Allysa said, walking up to me. It looked like she had been crying. "Hey Sher."

"Hey Llysa. Ready?" Sherry gestured with his arm to the door. 'Is anyone ever really ready for something like this?' I wondered, but kept my mouth shut. Allysa gave Daniel a short smile before walking into the courtroom. I made to follow, btu my right knee gave out suddenly, and I fell to the floor. I hissed between my teeth, biting back the pain and sitting down on the bench.

"You aren't thinking of faking sick, now, are you Rebecca?" Kaiba sneered, walking past me with Jenny beside him, who made no comment except to ask if I was okay. 'She really is a decent woman.' I thought, assuring her that I was fine while Kaiba shot her a quick look, making his coat flare out impressively. That's when I noticed it for the first time. 'Great, he's wearing that silver trenchcoat. He probably wore it on purpose. He knows it makes me drool and therefore I can't think straight, damn him!' He started to walk into the room with Jenny and I went over what I had just thought. 'Wow, I'm a drama queen.' I thought. "When have I ever faked sick?" I asked just before he entered the courtroom. He didn't answer me, but I didn't expect him to.

"You okay?" Sherry asked, helping me up.

"Yeah, its just my knee." Sherry held onto my arm, helping me walk into the courtroom. "Okay, I think I got it now." I get really embarrassed when people try and help me walk, even if it was Sherry and I was now his lover, more so than Kaiba's because of my total understanding with him that I never had with Kaiba.

The case went by in a blur. We each represented our case and said why we should get custody of both kids, and then Daniel and Allysa stood up and said a few things. It seemed like forever until...

"I suggest that the court take a fifteen minute recess to think over the presentations." The judge banged the gavel and we all filed out of the courtroom. Sherry went out to get a soda, Kaiba walked off somewhere, and Allysa and Daniel went outside to talk. It was just me and Jenny, sitting on the bench. I pulled my Millennium Item out of my purse and unwrapped it, looking at the glistening eye. My yami appeared before me, rifling through her book of quotes and sayings.

You have one for me, Kairi? I asked via our mind-link so Jenny wouldn't think I was crazy, fingering the symbols on the Millennium Eye.

Um... she said, flipping though her book rather quickly. how about...'you know you're too stressed when you can hear mimes.

I laughed, not realizing that I was laughing aloud. "What's so funny?" Jenny asked, giving me an odd look.

"Something a friend told me." I replied, wrapping up the item in its cloth and slipping it back into my purse. I stared out into space, thinking. 'I'm sitting next to my replacement and I'm not even talking to her. What's wrong with me? I should at least be throwing her insults about stealing my lover or some such thing, but here I am, sitting here like a rock.' I turned my head to look at her. She was beautiful, no wonder Kaiba married her. I opened my mouth to say something, but decided against it after she had looked at me in response. She noticed things like that.

Sighing, I slipped off my shoes and walked to the other end of the hall. I came back, doing chene turns all the way to the other end, but I ran into Kaiba. Somehow, I ended up on top of him. He was still as beautiful as ever. I felt something press slowly into my lower abdomen and quickly got off.

"Are you okay?" Sherry asked, casting worried glances at me.

"I'm fine, Sher, don't worry." I laughed at him.

"Nice job, Pegasus." Kaiba grumbled, picking himself up.

"Have you ever tried to stop in the middle of a chene turn?" I asked a little hotly. A quick glance told me what I had felt. 'And he said he didn't love me.' I thought, smirking.

"No, I haven't, seeing as I don't even know what the hell that is." Kaiba snapped, body returning to normal.

"You can come back now." a person told us, sticking their head out of the courtroom.

"Where are Daniel and Allysa?" I asked, trying to walk to the door, but my knee gave out again. Sherry caught me before I fell.

"You should sit down." he said, sitting me down on the bench. I slipped my shoes on, however, and stood up, walking down the hall to find Daniel and Allysa near the fountain outside. Allysa was sitting down on the edge of the fountain, playing with the water streaming down, while Daniel was walking around the edge. He appeared to be thinking very hard about something, and by the look on his face, something that troubled him greatly. The two of them were talking, and I was reminded of me and Kaiba when we were younger.

"Hey Llysa?" Daniel said quietly.

"Yeah?"

"You think the custody of us will change?" he asked, walking away from her.

"I dunno." Allysa said, staring deeper into the clear water as if she would see something other than her reflection on the stone bottom if she only looked hard enough. "I hope it doesn't. I don't wanna leave mom, no matter what dad says." Daniel walked in front of Allysa.

"Whyd you pick a fight with Arlen?" he asked. "I mean, he is our blood, at least halfway."

"I didn't mean to. That comment just got on my nerves." Allysa said.

"Come on, Llysa, you know Arlen doesn't always think before he says things. Look, that comment got on my nerves too, but he's a good guy. Hot-headed, at times, but hell, who isn't?" Daniel said as he passed in front of her again.

"Daniel, could you sit down? You're making me dizzy." Allysa said. Daniel obliged and sat down next to her.

"No matter what happened, I hope we both end up in the same family, together." Allysa smiled at her brother, and Daniel then did something altogether unexpected. He leaned over and kissed Allysa, on the lips. My hands flew to my mouth, and I was about to step toward them when they broke apart.

"That was so weird." Allysa said, looking away.

"Yeah...let's not do that again." Daniel said.

"What are you saying? You're the one who started it."

"Oh sure, go into specifics."

"Daniel! Allysa!" I called. "Let's go inside." They got up and ran inside as I followed them, trying with all my might to forget what I had just seen. Maybe it was because they were brother and sister, but a small part of myself said that it was because they looked so much like Kaiba and I had at that age, and I really didn't want to remember how that turned out. We reached the courtroom and settled in our seats. It was judgement time.

"My verdict is this." the judge said, eyeing all of us. "Allysa and Daniel shall live in the custody of their father, Mr. Seto Kaiba. Mrs. Black may visit them whenever she wishes, as long as Mr. Kaiba knows about her presence. Mrs. Black, I am truly sorry, but my verdict is final." With those last words ringing in my ears as I sat, numb, he banged the gavel. "You're dismissed."

I stood, stunned. Allysa ran over and threw her arms around Daniel. Sherry wrapped his arms around my waist. I turned, wrapping my arms around his neck, leaning my head on his shoulder. "I...I've lost her." I whispered, on the verge of tears. "I've lost my daughter...Sherry..."

"I know, I know." he whispered into my hair. He stroked the hairhe breathed into, cradling my head.

"Rebecca." I heard Kaiba say. I turned to face him, to see a face hard as stone and just as unforgiving. I knew better than to expect pity out of Seto Kaiba, but I dared to hope. "I'll be by later to pick up her things." was all he said. I nodded, tears running down my cheeks.

"Kaiba," Sherry said, grip on me tightening slightly, " why don't you do the world a favor and rot in hell." Kaiba snorted this threat off, laughing shortly. The laugh had an almost evil sound, on e I had never heard from him before. It scared me, chilling me to the bone.

"You should teach your lover some manners, Becca." He walked away, and Daniel followed, giving me a look of apology for his father out of the corner of his eye. Jenny followed next, hands gently on a crying Allysa's shoulders.

"Jenny, can I talk with my mom? Alone?"

Jenny nodded, and I looked over my shoulder at Sherry, who also nodded, leaving with Jenny. It was just me and my daughter.

Allysa's tears strengthened in size and intensity as she hugged me tightly. "Mom..." she cried. "Mom, I don't wanna go live with him."

"I know, sweet, I know." I whispered to her among my own tears. "You just have to make the best of it."

Jenny

I peeked into the courtroom to see Allysa bawling on her mother, a sight that broke my heart. I couldn't believe that we had to tear these two apart.

"What's she doing?" Seto asked.

"You can't blame her for taking a while." Sherry said, sitting down on the bench. "Allysa was all she had left to live for. I wouldn't be surprised of there were suicide attempts following this."

"What about you?" I asked, looking at him. "Don't you mean anything to her?" He simply shrugged.

"Sure, she loves me, but all I am is her lover. If I left her, it would be no skin off her bones. She doesn't live every day thinking about me. She's always thinking about Daniel and Allysa. Even you, Kaiba, are never far from her thoughts." Sherry looked up at Seto's face to see his reaction, but all he got was a lack thereof. I knew better, though, what was going on as he stared into space.

"She...still loves me?" he asked quietly, sounding slightly surprised, though he would not turn to face him.

"Yes, she does. She hasn't gotten the tattoo removed. Last night, in bed, it wasn't my name her pleasure sent out of her throat and into my ear. It was yours." Sherry said as Allysa and Rebecca walked out of the courtroom. She gave Allysa a final hug, and walked away with Sherry, not daring to turn back.

Sherry

She was trying to be strong, holding in all her tears. It scared me. She had only been like this once before, when Kaiba lost his duel with my father. She acts like everything is peachy, when her world is crashing down around her ears. She crossed her arms in front of her chest, walking out to the car, and I followed her. I would have held her in my arms and let her cry, but no way was she going to let Allysa see her tears. She had to be strong for her daughter, if only on the outside.

We walked in silence to the car, and I opened the door on the passenger side for her. The look in her eyes told me she wasn't thinking about what her body was doing at the moment. She snapped back to reality as soon as I started the car.

"So what do you want to do now?" I asked. She shrugged as I put the car in drive. "Wanna go get drunk and then screw ourselves silly?" She smiled and looked away. "Or we can go tango?" She shook her head. "We can always go home and -"

She stopped me, putting a hand on one of mine. "You are the sweetest man I have ever met." Her voice was choked with tears, and she shook her head again, taking a deep, shuddering breath. "Can we go to Ryo's? I need to talk to Krystal."

"Sure." I said. "Do you know where he lives?" I asked, steering the car away from the court.

"Yeah...Lottie gave me the address." She reached into her purse and pulled out a piece of paper. I nodded, not needing to ask.

Allysa

I watched mom and Sherry drive away, feeling tears well up inside me again. "Allysa?" Kaiba put a hand on my shoulder and I looked down at my feet, blinking back my tears furiously. It didn't work. I flung around and threw my arms around him in a big hug, sobbing into his shirt. I felt him stiffen in surprise, and didn't blame him, even if I was surprised.

Kaiba

I put a hand on my daughter's shoulder, trying to comfort her. Being torn from your family is hard, I knew that better than anyone. I had to admit that I felt like a horrible monster, but she would be better off with us. She flung her arms around my waist, sobbing into me. Her shoulders shook with the force of her sobs, and Jenny came up, putting a hand on Allysa's other shoulder and turning her around.

"I'm really sorry, Allysa." she said. "I'm sorry you had to leave your mom." Jen kneeled down to her level and gently wiped Allysa's tears away. One arm of Allysa's was still around my waist. "I promise you," Jen continued, "you'll be happy with us."

Allysa nodded, looking up at me. For a minute, she was the sweet, bubbly two year-old who left funny little notes in my briefcase againThen, the minute was gone when she smiled, becoming her fifteen year-old self again. "I think you're right." A smile formed on my face, and I gave her a small squeeze.

Allysa

I smiled again, running over to Daniel and giving him a huge hug. "Welcome to the family." he whispered. An evil smile crept across my face, making Daniel whimper in fear. He knew something bad was coming.

At the Kaiba Manor

"Welcome to our family time! Welcome to our brotherly time!" I sang, doing a shift-ball-change (A/N: a what?)down the walk.

"Will you stop that, please?" Daniel whined. "You've been singing the whole way back, and could you please pick a key?" He winced as I purposely hit a wrong note.

"I dun like you; you dun like me, let's call the whole thing off." I sang, quoting my favorite show in the whole world. (A/N: and this would be...scared look)

"Did you make that up?" Kaiba asked, opening the door. "It sounds familiar."

"It should." I said, slipping my shoes off at the door. "It was my mom's part. Dude..." I breathed, amazed at how huge the house was. "Does it echo? I bet it echos."

"I wouldn't." Jenny said, hanging up her jacket.

"Hm..." I set my backpack near the door. "I wonder..." I did a few chene turns, a pirouette, and anaer baske, landing with grace on the other end of the tile floor. I heard Kaiba chuckle and shake his head. 'Guess he's dad now.' I thought. Even in my head it sounded weird. I've always thought of Jason (who?)and Anikan (ok, you're seriously freaking me out here...shifts to dragon form to protect self from weird antics of monkey co-author in human's body)as my father. 'Speaking of which...'

Before I could take out my phone, it started ringing. "Lo, Llysa's phone."

"Is that your phone, Allysa?" I heard Kaiba call.

"Yeah!" I called back.

"Becca?" I grinned big; I loved talking to my Gram.

"No Gram, its Allysa."

"Oh, you sound just like her-"

"On the phone." I finished for her. I heard her chuckle. I love my Gram."we do have separate phones."

"Yeah, but hers is new. You have her old one."

"You're funny." I laughed, sitting down on the stairs.

"Can I talk to your mom?"

"Um...no...cause I'm not in her custody anymore." I said, looking around at the upstairs.

"Then can I talk to your dad?"

"Kaiba? I don't think he wants to talk his ex-mother-in-law." I said, getting up and walking into the living room where Kaiba was typing on his laptop. Daniel was on the couch next to him, half-watching whatever was on TV.

"Just tell him Miss Sara wants to talk to him."

"Okay, your funeral." I muttered, walking over to dad and tapping him on the shoulder. "Miss Sara wants to talk to you." I held out my phone to him. He gave a confused look, but took the phone anyway.

"Hello?"

Daniel got up off the couch and led me upstairs. "First rule: never interrupt dad while he's working." he told me. "Trust me, you do not want to do that." I nodded my understanding, then went in search of my room

on the other side of town

Krystal

A knock came at the door and I went to get it, since dad was gone at work still. Opening it, I got the shock of my life. "What are you doing here, Rebecca?" I snapped. Then my expression, or at least my emotion, softened. It looked as though she had been crying. However, I hid that feeling beneath the mask of disdain I wore.

She looked down at me. "I came to apologize."

I snorted. "Don't apologize to me." I said coldly. "You lost her, didn't you?"

She sighed. "Please, Krystal, I just want to apologize for not taking your...advice."

My upper lip pulled back slightly over my teeth. "Listen, I don't want anything more to do with you. My dad's at work, and unless you have some business with him, I don't ever wanna see you here again. Got it?" Without waiting for an answer, I slammed the door in her face and left her to her own fate.


Weirdo: Help me! I see sane people!

On top of spaghetti!...all covered in cheese!...

Weirdo: Make it stop! She can't sing on key! (ears bleed)

hey! my singings not that bad! Dough! the stuff that buys me beer! Ray! the guy that sells me beer! Me! the guy who drinks the beer! Far! the distance to my beer! So! I think i'll have a beer! lalalalalalala...BEER! Tea! no thnks, im drinking beer! that will bring us back to...

Make it stop! (dies)

Do'h!

the Dark Lord Sauron's Beer song is owned by Sora aka Seto aka Sesshy aka you have too many names damn you...