Back yet again! Sorry about the delay! I'm hoping to update a few fics today because there is no school for me. Yes, thank you Easter! Speaking of which, how did everyone's Easter go? You guys get lots of candy? I did, hehehe...
Our Sucky Little Keyboard That No One Cares About and Will Probably Never Look At (OSLKTNOCAWPNLA for short)
Is OSLKTNOCAWPNLA even a word? Hmm, somehow, I don't think so...but, I can make up words! So can you! Like Fudgeamania! (watches readers back away slowly) ...oops?
Anything written in normal text (like this) is the actual story.
Anything written in italics (like this) is when flashbacks or dreams are occurring.
Anything written in bold (like this) is someone acting as a narrator-slash-voice over. (You think I'm rich enough to hire two people?)
Anything written in bold italics (like this) are song lyrics.
Outside of the diner, Yugi sighed happily, still sitting in the car. "Made it. Not a scratch!"
Raising his amethyst eyes to the diner, he watched as Cecelia and the twins were leaving, the twins arguing as usual. He snickered lightly to himself as he watched the three climb into Cecelia's car.
"Get in girls." Cecelia snapped. "You girls smell like rotten cheese."
Yugi started up the car and reversed the car as Tea snapped at Serenity.
"Don't get your dirty paws all over me!" Tea snapped at Serenity. Cecelia rolled her eyes and started up the car, pulling away and almost colliding with Yugi.
Yugi locked his jaw as he swerved to avoid Cecelia. As a result, he hit the sign pole in the diner. Shaking his head, he got out of the car and looked around the car to see if there was any damage.
When he got to the front of the car, his eyes went wide. The front bumper of the car had bent inwards, the pole resting snuggling into the bumper. On top of that, the collision with the pole had completely wrecked the front of the car.
In the car, Serenity looked to Tea. "What is he doing here?"
Yugi yelled out a few choice words, running one hand through his hair before taking a deep breath. "No…this must not be my lucky day…"
Cecelia and the twins climbed out of the car and watched the scene for a moment. A loud creak was heard and a moment later, Cecelia's Diner sign swayed for a second before falling backwards and breaking off, landing on Yugi's car in a flurry of sparks. Cecelia and the twins screamed loudly while Yugi jumped backwards to avoid the sparks. He looked at the flaming car, a look of horror crossing his face.
"Mrs. Montgomery, your signboard is on my car…" Yugi pointed weakly, feeling sick. Oh well...at least he could look forwards to a nice funeral, right?
The next day at North Valley High School, Mokuba the DJ could be heard over the school's P.A. system.
"Listen up. Here's your daily drought one-liners, question number two. Joseph Wheeler-Kaiba was crowned prince of the homecoming dance. Ooh, big shocker there. Didn't see that one coming." A hint of sarcasm could be heard in Mokuba's voice. "But the real mystery though is, who is this princess?"
As Yugi and Julia walked around the campus, talking and listening to Mokuba's announcements, Julia hugged her books tighter to her chest.
"So, how long are you grounded for?"
Yugi sighed and put a hand to his forehead. "Well, how long is forever?"
Julia tossed Yugi a slight smile and Yugi grinned back, before frowning. "You're not going to tell Joey."
"Come on Yugi. It's not like he's going to be pining for me. Trust me, he'll have forgotten all about Cinderella by now."
As the two entered the hallways, Julia gasped, her eyes going wide. Yellow, hot pink, green and every imaginable colour that caught your eye flyers were posted on the walls, every few feet. A dark outline of a female with a huge question mark in the center of the body and the writing, "HAVE YOU SEEN CINDERELLA? CONTACT JOSEPH WHEELER-KAIBA" decorated the flyers.
"Oh…" Julia trailed off. Yugi walked over to the wall and ripped off a flyer, walking back to Julia.
"Yeah, he's obviously forgotten all about you."
Speaking of Joseph Wheeler-Kaiba…
The said man was walking along with his friends, handing out the flyers and posting them along the walls.
"Dude," Yami asked, brushing a blonde bang out of his amethyst eyes. "Why are you going through all this trouble for one chick?"
"Look," Joey commented, taping a hot pink flyer to his locker. "She's not just some chick, all right? She was real."
"Real." Tristan nodded, rubbing his chin in thought. "Like she still has a –"
Joey cut his friend off with a shake of his head, his blonde bangs swaying. "No, real. You know, the kind of girl who cares more about her thoughts rather than what she wears, how much weight she wants to lose." Joey turned to his friends. "She listens to me."
Yami exchanged a grin with Tristan. "Ooh, listens to you."
Tristan reached over and smacked Joey on the back. "Hey, bro, I listen to you. Oh carefully you bet…"
He watched one of the school cheerleaders walk by and he grinned, wolf-whistling after the girl, wiggling his eyebrows up and down. By now, he had completely ignored Joey. Joey rolled his eyes and started walking with Yami.
"Yeah, you're a great listener!" Joey called back to Tristan, who seemed to snap out of it and ran to catch up with his friends.
"Look man. You've found her cell phone." Yami pointed out, shifting his backpack to his other shoulder. "You've gotta find her listing from there."
"Phone's locked. All I kept getting were these text messages like 'I need you' and 'Come see me'."
"Oh dude!" Yami and Tristan grinned, slapping Joey on the back. "That's so hot."
Joey nodded. "That's what I thought until I got one that said 'Come fix fry'."
"Ooh dude!" Tristan grinned. "That's hot and kinky!"
Yami nodded wisely as Tristan continued. "That's what I'm saying babe! Can I get one? Let me get a bell baby!"
"Julia! He's looking for you everywhere. You gotta tell him it was you." Yugi pointed out during second period that day.
Julia slid down into her seat, thanking some higher power that it was study hall. That way, they could talk. "Isn't it better to just cling to the truth of what might have been instead of putting everything with reality?"
Yugi rolled his eyes and poked Julia in the arm. "You can't hide from him forever."
She shook her head, pulling her brown hair up into a ponytail. "Not forever."
Yugi smiled, happy that he had gotten an agreement out of his best friend. But Julia wasn't done. She continued what she had been saying. "Just until graduation when I leave this place and never see him again."
Yugi sighed dramatically, smacking himself in the forehead with his hand. Julia smiled.
"What about you Zorro? When are you gonna tell Mai?"
"Well…uh…" Yugi trailed off before suddenly shouting, "I've been thinking of doing just that!"
Julia tossed Yugi a disbelieving look, holding her ears. She watched him for a moment, wincing from Yugi's yell. "Right. Okay, so the day you tell Mai it was you, I'll tell Joey it was me."
Yugi held out his hand, a confident smirk crossing his face. "Deal."
Julia returned the smirk and shook his hand. "Deal."
While walking to period 3, Joey, Tristan and Yami were talking.
"Well, look in the yearbook again, bro." Yami suggested, flipping through a textbook of his. "Maybe you missed her."
"Maybe she's foreign exchange." Tristan chuckled. "That's hot."
Yami snickered. "Totally! That's like, love hot!"
Joey smacked himself in the head once, muttering something about being surrounded by morons. Shaking his head, he replied. "There's no way you'll understand. I mean, we have a connection."
Julia, who was walking by quickly in a rush to get to class, accidentally bumped into Joey, falling against him. She looked up at him, and their eyes locked. Blushing lightly, Julia stood up and continued on her way.
Looking back over her shoulder, and not where she was going, she ran into the door of a locker, shutting the locker door. Rex Raptor, who had his arms full of books, grinned at Julia.
"Thanks!"
At the school swimming pool after school that day, Tea and Serenity were practicing their routine.
"Keep your legs straight! … Straighter! … Straighter!" Tea snapped at the practicing Serenity. "Ooh, what are you doing! Serenity! After the flip, it's the Butterfly Roller Bar."
"No it's not! It's the Strawberry Fludge!" Serenity yelled back at her sister.
"Oh my god! I cannot wait for my solo career!" Tea screamed in agitation, balling her hands into fists.
Serenity blinked, not getting what her sister meant. "Why are we going solo?"
Over with Mai, Amara and Jamie-Ross, who were all lounging by the pool and working on their tans, Mai was talking.
"He was so mysterious. But really obvious at the same time." Mai commented, retying the string on her purple and white halter-top styled bikini top. "Like, kind of dangerous, but very safe and wild, but…but tame."
Nearby, Yugi stood with Julia, Yugi dressed in black swim trunks.
Julia turned to Yugi. "I cannot believe you're gonna tell Mai it was you."
"Julia," Yugi grinned, patting Julia on the arm. "When she realizes that she has found her Zorro, okay, she'll be thrilled!"
He smirked at Julia, his amethyst eyes gleaming. "Now, watch and learn."
"Good luck."
Yugi left his best friend and walked over to the three girls. Mai was still chatting happily about her 'mystery man', while Amara and Jamie-Ross looked bored.
Amara reached over onto the small table separating her chair from Jamie-Ross's and picked up her black sunglasses, sliding them on.
"And, oh my god! When I kissed him –" Mai started, before Amara growled and cut her friend off.
"Enough already!"
"Ah, Amara. I think somebody's got a green mask of jealousy on her back." Mai started before turning to Yugi, who had just reached the girls.
"Mai, baby. What's up?" Yugi greeted with a smile.
"And you are?" Mai asked, quirking a brow.
Yugi chuckled. "Yeah. Allow me to refresh your memory."
He reached over and took one of Mai's hands and raised it to his mouth, gently kissing it. Mai threw Yugi a look of disgust.
Yugi looked up a moment later. "Zorro."
Mai, disgusted, ripped her hand away. "You mean Zero."
Turning to her friends, in a panicky voice, she asked, "Who is he?"
Jamie-Ross sat up, and slid down her sunglasses, taking a look at Yugi before replying. "That's Yugi Motou. He's the guy you cheat off of in Algebra 2."
"The freak who hums show tunes?" Mai asked as Jamie-Ross lay back down. Amara nodded for Jamie-Ross, and Mai turned back to Yugi, looking highly disgusted.
She pulled Yugi away, to the side of the pool and then let go of him. She smiled weakly at Yugi. "Listen, last night I had a very bad cold. And I drank a whole bottle of Nyquil. I wasn't myself."
Yugi frowned. "But I thought we have like…a connection."
Mai shook her head. "We don't have anything. We are from completely different classes of human. Now, let's just go back to our usual lives where I copy off you in Algebra 2, okay?"
Mai walked off and Yugi frowned, looking disappointed. Turning he walked over to Julia, who was looking sorry for him. But he knew her better than that to know that the look she was giving him was the old 'If-that's-what-you-get-I'm-not-telling-Joey' look.
"Are you alright?" Julia asked a moment later.
Yugi nodded. "Does she still think she's cheating off me? She's crazy!"
Julia giggled lightly before the two left the swimming pool.
The next day, during lunch, Tristan and Yami were dragging Joey out to the school grounds. A line of girls were waiting for the three boys.
"Guys, I don't know about this."
"Come on!" Yami urged.
"Just trust us!" Tristan agreed. "Look, we've asked every girl we could find. Were they with you at the dance?"
He pointed to the line of girls. "These were the ones that said yes."
"Joey, it was me!" one girl screamed out while another yelled out, "Cell phone!"
Joey looked at the line of girls screaming his name and backed up before turning and trying to make a break for it. Yami grabbed Joey and wrestled him down onto the circular stone bench.
"Sit." Yami ordered while Tristan flipped on the stereo he had brought with him. Circus-like music began to play. Grinning, Tristan pulled out a portable microphone and flicked it on. Joey sighed, covering his face with his hands as Yami sat down beside him.
"Okay!" Tristan greeted into the microphone, winking and waving at the ladies. "Let's bring out bachelor number one!"
A pretty brown-haired blue eyed girl walked forwards and curtsied in front of Joey. Tristan grinned.
"She's a treasurer from Walton Hills, enjoys magic tricks, long walks on the beach, and getting to-"
Yami stood up and cut Tristan off with a smack across the back of the head. Tristan glared at Yami, but continued. "Pleased to meet you Manna." (1)
"Egypt." Manna corrected Tristan.
Manna, then, smiled and winked at Joey, flashing him the peace sign. Joey smiled slightly. "Thanks for coming. Manna."
"See you." Manna smiled, waving before walking off.
Joey turned to Yami and smirked. "You're dead."
"Okay, okay! Let's bring out Bachelor Number Two!" Tristan cheered into the microphone.
A short blonde female with her hair pulled up into pigtails with her green eyes hiding behind a pair of glasses stepped forwards, smoothing out her denim skirt. Joey stifled a laugh at the girl.
"Okay, this American's into dueling, stuffed animals and being full of herself. Here's Rebecca!"
Joey smiled weakly and nodded at Rebecca. "Thank you."
Turning to face Yami, Joey chuckled and punched Yami in the arm hard. "You are so dead!"
Yami frowned, and rubbed his arm while the third girl stepped out excitedly.
"Okay, okay. Next bachelor is a –"
Tristan was cut off by Joey who called out, "Enough, enough."
He stood up and flicked the stereo off, turning to face Tristan and Yami. "Guys, come on."
Turning back to the girl, he shook his head. "Look, you're beautiful, okay? But I'm not your prince. You'll meet him someday but it's not me."
The girl nodded, her smile flickering slightly. "Thanks Joey."
Without another word, she walked off. A moment later, Mrs. Wells, the school vice-principal, an elderly woman in her sixties, walked up.
"Uh oh." Tristan and Yami whined. "A late entry."
"You stop it right now!" Mrs. Wells ordered, her graying hair swaying slightly from the wind. Her green eyes seemed to be full of disappointment. "You are a bad boy."
She turned to Tristan, who had been wearing a green plaid shirt. "And that is a horrible shirt."
Tristan looked down at his shirt and tugged at it slightly. Mrs. Wells turned to the line of girls. "Everyone, back to your classes."
Turning once more to Yami, she smiled and twirled a strand of hair around her finger. "Hi Yami." She smiled and greeted him like a shy teenager.
Yami smiled weakly and lifted up a hand and waved. Mrs. Wells smiled once more before turning and leaving. Tristan and Joey looked to Yami, creeped out.
There's chapter 8! Whoo! Hehe, is something going on between Yami and the 60 year old plus vice-principal. When I watched the movie, I thought so. Hehehe.
Ashleigh-Kaiba: Aww, you took all your fics down. But I totally understand why. Stupid flamers. Make them burn! (screams and lights a torch)
Xx sTaR-bLuE-AnGeL xXThat's a long penname. Hehehe. (smiles) Thanks for the cell phone replacement. Too cheap to buy one for myself. XD Lol, you're just like me. Whenever someone used a long useless word like OSLKTNOCAWPNLA, it always takes me forever to figure it out. Hehe, that's why I love Joey. Cause we're both alike. XD Yeah, poor Jules…er, me! Hehehe.
chinkeepdaughter126: Lol, yeah. Yugi totals all the cars. Hehe, I love that part of the movie. I did update. Just not soon. XD What about you? You made my fic sound interesting. Oh my god…I love you for that. As a friend. Yeah, hehe.
the peace pixie: Hun, any pairing that does not involve Joey and Mai together is a great pairing. Grr, I hate her and I hate Serenity. Why can't they both just die? Or something. Hehe, I love the show now more than ever now that Serenity is gone. Too bad Mai just doesn't leave for good. I don't know, but both females are annoying. I just find them worse than Tea, and that's saying something.
(1) Manna: apparently, that was the Dark Magician Girl's name back in Ancient Egypt.
