Ooook, sorry for lack of updates, I HAD midterms coming up … Hehe, but anyway… I've barely got any reviews! I'm not going to bother to try and write as much, and I'll spend more time studying if j00 don't tell me how I'm doing. I'm actually serious about this one, unlike my first; I had to deal with a virus so sue me. XD… Anyway, on with the story.


I fell asleep on the couch after crying for a while and woke up late the next day.

"Noon already?" I got up and dressed, and seeing nothing else to do, turned on the TV and watched the news for a while.

It wasn't much later that the doorbell rung and I got up to see who it was, as it seemed the whole world decided to hate me yesterday. It was Yugi again.

"Hey, uh… can I come in?" He looked innocent enough, so I let him in.

"What's up Yugi?"

"Oh well, you uh…hung up on me last night… Are you ok?"

I sniffled, "Uhh… Yeah. I'm okay. How've you been?"

"Uh… Fine. Gramps is good too, but I think he's confused as to why we're fighting… Why are we fighting?"

I sighed, "I don't know… I've just been so messed up lately. Oh yeah, Joey dumped me yesterday…"

"Yeah, I heard. He seemed upset, what happened?"

"Nothing, I didn't do anything. Tristan showed up yesterday and asked me out, and I had already invited Joey over… Why does the world hate me?"

"Why do you hate the world?" Newsflash, Yugi had just taken the offence, "What's up Tea? Really, I'm still here for you, whether you want me to be or not."

"Yugi… I, I just… I don't know. You had it all, and I had nothing. I still have nothing. And now you guys hate me. What am I supposed to do?"

"Well, I'm sorry… I didn't mean to make you feel lesser like this, I guess, I guess I should have been more open minded, but my whole life is revolving around saving you guys now, you have to understand. As for fixing it, you could start with an apology, call Tristan and explain Joey, call Joey and explain the whole ordeal, and we could go all 4 of us out for ice-cream to seal the deal."

I half smiled, "Yeah, okay… I'm sorry Yugi, I'm an insensitive freak." I giggled a little, "Forgive me?"

"Sure." He changed the channel and left me for the phone calls.

I picked up the phone and started with Tristan, "Hey Tristan?"

"Yeah?"

"Um… Sorry about yesterday, I just… I dunno…"

"Oh, yeah… I guess that was mostly my fault… Hey, Yugi's not home, do you know where he is or are you guys still fighting?"

"Uhh…Actually, he's right here. He wanted to know if you wanted to go for ice cream with us like old times."

"Man, that'd be awesome. Is Joey coming too?"

"I don't know yet… I'm going to call him."

"Alright, bye."

"Bye," I hung up the phone and dialed Joey's number by memory.

"Hello?" He didn't seem happy to pick up to my number, he had caller id.

"Hi Joey…" I wasn't actually sure what to say here, I had a lot more attachment to Joey, and if I screwed up, I might never talk to him again.

"What's up?"

"Uhh… About yesterday, it wasn't my fault, I swear. Don't hang up. Please. Joey, Tristan came over yesterday by his own free will, an odd idea. He didn't know we were… You know. And…" I was a little embarrassed because Yugi could hear everything I was saying.

"And…?"

"I love you. Yugi's here with me, and the gang wants to go out for ice cream, for old time's sake, you don't even have to forgive me, be there for Yugi."

I heard him sigh on the over side of the line, "Yeah sure, I'll be there. Our usual place?"

"Yeah," The doorbell rung, "Hold on, that's Tristan, Yugi, can you get it?"

Yugi jumped up, "Sure thing…" He dealt with his welcomes and stuff.

I put my mouth back up to the mouth piece, "Okay, sorry about that. Meet us there?"

"Yeah."

"Promise?"

"Yes, I'll be there okay? Bye…"

"Bye Joey." I giggled a little, at least Tristan hadn't heard the whole thing, and put the phone back on the hook. "He'll meet us there, come on guys."

Tristan sighed, "No Serenity?"

I giggled again, she had dumped him recently, but he hadn't told anyone why, "No, not that I know of."

"Man…"

We got outside and went out to the closest ice cream parlor, Bob's Ice cream.

I looked in the window, Joey already had a table for us, and I didn't even want to know how he had gotten there so fast. We walked in, ordered, and sat down with Joey.

I looked him over completely, he looked like he had been in the dumps since last night, but I couldn't read through to see if he wanted me there or not, so I took the leap, "Hi Joey."

"Hey, what took you guys so long?" He smirked at Yugi and Tristan, but refused to meet my eyes.

I stared and stared, so nervous about not knowing whether he still loved me. It wasn't all Tristan's fault, as much as I wanted to blame it all on him. It wasn't right of me to be so selfish about Yugi, and to completely ignore Tristan. I didn't know if I could stomach food right then, to tell the truth.

Joey's eyes finally rested his eyes on me, but it wasn't that loving, accepting look he had before. His eyes were piercing right through me. I thought I was going to cry, "What?" I managed to gasp out.

"We haven't ordered anything yet." I almost fell out of the booth. That was all he had to say!

I smiled, "Oh, of course. I'll get it all, what do you all want?" I quickly dealt with the orders, and upon returning to the table, I just gulped down the bowl in front of me and excused myself for a breath of air.

I stayed out there, barely holding back the tears; I had nothing to say to any of them, I didn't deserve to be there at all. But someone came out to comfort me, but of course, not who I wanted at the time.

Tristan walked out slowly and put his arm around my shoulders in a friendly way, "I'm sorry… This was…"

"No. You didn't do anything. You were innocent because you didn't know."

"But Joey's still stiff, and it's not right of him to be. Isn't there anything I can do?"

"No… Not anymore then I could help you with Serenity. This was bound to happen. I was selfish… selfish and wrong." I stared up at him, "I should be apologizing."

"For what?" He was confused. His face read it heavily.

Just then Joey commented, he had apparently been listening, "Nothing. Maybe you were a little selfish, but Tristan's right. I thought I had lost the most important thing to me…"

I turned and grabbed his arm, lifted his sleeve, and it was as I thought. I looked up, and I was crying now, "Joey… You shouldn't… Joey you dummie!" I tossed myself into his arms, completely horrified. (note: if you don't know, please don't ask)

He looked down, his hair hiding his eyes, "Yeah, I know…"

He let me go, "Joey, I should be apologizing. This is all my fault, I turned you against Yugi, and I was so selfish about how strong Yugi is. I made you mad at Tristan too… I almost made all of us split up. I've always been this selfish. I wanted it all; I used to love Yami and Seto… Do I even care about you? I might have some hidden plot to use you; you might want to watch out…"

"Tea…" Yugi had walked out and had been eaves dropping too, this was getting annoying. "Tea, I'm sorry too… I was so… I loved…"


Omg, what COULD Yugi be wanting to say! is still blandly obvious Hehe, well… I'm trying to get stuff written today, because I've got a four day weekend, so hopefully I'll get two more chapters up by Tuesday. -;;