Second day
Ryou awoke on the couch the next morning. He realized he had awoken an hour earlier than what he was supposed to and took the time to get ready and finish the rest of his undone homework. He did just that and made himself breakfast to keep his mind concentrated.
"Ryou, why are you up so early?" Bakura asked coming into the kitchen.
Ryou hesitated to speak at first, but spoke nonetheless. "I didn't really sleep well, so I gave up on sleeping and decided to get ready and finish my homework." Ryou replied sitting down and enjoying his pancakes.
"All right now before I steal your pancakes, what's wrong? You're acting weirder than usual." Bakura asked.
"Oh thanks now I'm weird." Ryou said upset holding onto his pancakes for dear life.
"You know what I mean Ryou. You can tell me anything Ryou. I won't tell anyone. I promise. Will you do it for a dollar?" Bakura bribed.
Ryou shook his head.
"Two dollars?" Bakura continued raising the amount.
He shook his head again.
"I'm not going any higher." Bakura said.
Ryou shrugged and went back to eating his pancakes.
"Come on Ryou! What is it? You like a girl? Wait, don't tell me you like Marik?" Bakura laughed for a short time.
Ryou cocked an eyebrow and rolled his eyes.
"Fine Ryou. Don't tell me. I'll just let it be and when you feel like telling me, don't even bother I won't want to know anymore." Bakura said harshly walking away.
"Whatever." Ryou grumbled.
"Ryou please!" Bakura begged on his knees. "I keep good secrets!"
"Fine! Damn. It's in the closet." Ryou lied.
Bakura ran straight for the closet with Ryou trailing behind him. Bakura panted excitedly and opened the closet. He didn't see anything. Ryou pushed him inside and locked it from the outside.
"You traitor! You little asshole! Wait till I get you!" Bakura screamed banging on the closet door.
Ryou—almost—peacefully ate his pancakes and when school time came he felt a bit nice and let Bakura out of the closet.
"You came out of the closet." Ryou laughed hysterically at his own joke.
"That was so lame." Bakura slapped his forehead.
Ryou locked up and they soon started walking to school. It was silent at first until they saw Marik come out from his house.
"Great purples the new pink." Bakura said.
"Hey guys." Marik said walking up to them.
"Hey Marika." Bakura said.
"Hello Bakura—damn it already has the A at the end." Marik said disappointed.
"Guess what Marik!" Ryou said excitedly.
"What?" Marik asked.
"Oh no." Bakura groaned.
"Bakura…came out of a closet!" Ryou laughed.
"Oh really! How does that guy suit you?" Marik asked pointing at an old man.
"I'd rather be gay than be a girl." Bakura mumbled.
Ryou was still laughing at his stupid joke and stopped abruptly when he dropped his book on the floor. He bent down to get it and when he straightened up he saw his stalker looking at him from the other side of the street. He winced and grabbed Bakura's arm.
"Dude Ryou, the joke was stupid. I'm not really all whoo-hoo." Bakura said getting his arm back.
"Oh sorry. I just—never mind." He said looking over at her.
Marik Was playing with his palmtop while Bakura looked over his shoulder and read what was on his schedule.
"You might want to add in there, get a makeover, get some new dresses and find a date for Saturday night." Bakura said snickered.
Marik growled and put away his "toy".
"Gosh Ryou you're so lucky! Look Bakura, look at all the girls checking out Ryou like if he was actually special." Marik said enviously.
"Hey you could be one too." Bakura laughed.
"You're really starting to piss me off Bakura." Marik said angrily.
"Yep. Ryou's a ladies man." Bakura said smiling.
The only girl that seemed to have caught Ryou's attention was the one that constantly stalked him and stared at him.
"It's too bad you're gay Bakura. I thought I saw that girl look at you." Marik laughed.
"Ryou!" Bakura growled angrily.
: Should I go up to her and ask her again: Ryou thought taking glances at her.
She started coming their way and Ryou took off in a sprint.
"Ryou—where's he going?" Bakura asked.
"Away from you. You probably scared him being g—
Marik was cut off when Bakura started choking him and shaking him. He laughed while being choked because of Bakura's stupidity and temper.
After Bakura finished off Marik, Marik pulled out a book and started flipping through the pages. He gasped. Bakura paid no attention until he started speaking.
"You'll never guess what." Marik said.
"Ok?" Bakura said confused.
"Gaylord's…a name!" Marik laughed running away from Bakura who chased after him angrily.
They met Ryou halfway through their run who had stopped at a grocery store for a Gatorade.
"Why did you run off Ryou?" Bakura asked.
"I…nothing." Ryou stopped.
"You're so private Ryou. You're going to have sucky relationships and a marriage…if you ever do get married that is." Bakura said.
Ryou glanced over his shoulder and for once felt relieved the girl wasn't behind him or across the street staring at him. He looked away and instead saw her in the vending machine close to theirs buying a honey bun and staring at him.
"Leave me alone!" Ryou screamed running away yet again.
"I know what Ryou's problem is!" Marik said.
"What?" Bakura asked.
"He's schizophrenic." Marik said.
"Schizo-who?" Bakura said confused.
"It's all right Bakura. Not all great minds can consume as much as I." Marik said patting his back.
"That made no sense and don't give yourself too much credit. It's not worth it. If this pat is out of sympathy because you think I'm stupid we need to remember who got an A on their adding and subtracting fractions and who got a D on theirs in remedial math." Bakura said walking away from Marik who had his mouth hanging.
"Close your mouth a fly might get in it." Bakura said laughing and picking up his snack from the vending machine.
Ryou was hiding behind a blue mailbox getting strange glances from everyone that passed behind him. He peeked through the sides to see if his stalker was anywhere in sight.
: Oh! This is freaking ridiculous! I'm running from a girl! Maybe Bakura's right; I will have sucky relationships…nah that's not me at all, saying Bakura's right. This whole running thing has got me all worked up and exhausted. It's also got me thinking how out of shape I'm in.:
Ryou peeked once more and felt a hand touch his shoulder. He started slapping and kicking the figure and pushed the mailbox on them.
"Son of a bitch Ryou! I think you broke my legs!" Bakura screamed trying to push the mailbox off him.
"Don't sneak up on me! I'm in a crucial stage right now." Ryou said angrily.
"Yea! You're dropping mailboxes on anyone that touches you. I wouldn't say it's crucial for you, but for the other person." Bakura said sliding out from under it.
Ryou sighed and looked at the time. He still had twenty minutes to get to school.
"Where's Marik?" He asked.
"I left him with his mouth open waiting for a fly to zoom in and go through his air tube and choke him." Bakura said calmly.
"That's very sweet of you Bakura." Ryou said sarcastically.
"I'm just one big bucket of sugar aren't I?" Bakura teased.
They began walking again not talking to one another and sooner or later Marik caught up with them bringing more uncomfortable silence. To close himself from the world, Bakura pulled out his headphones and started listening to music leaving Marik and Ryou to ponder all they wanted.
: Marik's brain won't last that long. I give him 5 minutes before he grabs his head in pain from overexerting it too much. : Bakura thought laughing.
Marik tugged at his purple tank trying to lower it from his anxiety and quietness.
Bakura tugged off his plugs. "Marik it's a hoochie shirt you can't lower it anymore than past your abdomen. You're screwed, and feminine, and purple matches with your feminine physique so…stop trying."
"Shut up dammit! My god!" Marik said walking into class.
"I heard a cuss word from whom did it come from?" The teacher laughed.
Bakura rubbed his hands evilly. "Marik said it." He said.
"What! No! It was…Ryou!" Marik lied trying to protect his last star leg.
Ryou was too busy staring at the girl staring at him to notice that Marik had just blamed him for something he didn't do. Bakura nudged him.
"No I'm pretty sure Marik said it." Ryou said keeping his eyes locked with the girl.
"Ryou you bitch!" Marik screamed loudly.
The class became quiet. Marik placed a hand over his mouth and flushed deeply.
"That's a negative star now." The teacher said placing a red star by his name.
: At least I have a pretty red star now…and they're much easier to get. : Marik thought on the positive side of it all.
Ryou sat down in his usual seat. Bakura sitting next to him, Marik sitting across from him and his stalker on the other side of him…unfortunately. He couldn't work or concentrate peacefully knowing eyes were burning (( figuratively speaking )) and glaring at him from the side. Ryou shivered.
Bakura noted this and disturbed Ryou from his work.
"Why is she staring at you?" Bakura whispered.
Ryou shrugged his shoulders and went back to doing his work.
"Ryou why are you hiding this from me? I thought we were friends dude. I tell you everything about me. Why can't you just be a little more open?" Bakura asked with a tone of concern.
Ryou stayed quiet and wondered about that.
: Why is he even concerned about me? I guess there's a first time for everything then. :
Bakura gave up and went back to doing his work. The teacher heard the slight shifting and whispering and stood up firmly.
"Who's whispering?" He asked.
"It was I! I whispered!" Marik confessed, though knowing it was a lie. He just wanted the pretty "red" stars by his name.
He got a couple of red stars.
"Score!" Marik said happily.
"What a dumbass." Bakura chuckled shaking his head slowly from side to side.
Bakura looked over to his left and saw the girl still staring at Ryou.
: Either she has the hots for Ryou big time or Ryou did something to her. But Ryou's too much of a saint to do anything so bad to make a girl look at him that hard. Maybe…he was possessed by demons! And, and the demons made him do mean things:
"Ryou are you possessed by demons?" Bakura whispered to him.
"No…….." Ryou said feeling awkward.
"Mr. Bakura!" The teacher shouted.
"Ooooh! Mamma mia papalote policia!" Marik said shaking his hand in a troublesome manner.
"I…I was—
"He was telling me how to do a problem I didn't understand. He was helping me it's my fault he got in trouble." Ryou said.
"Oh…ok. One star for each of you." The teacher said.
"Fucking bullshit! You see this shit man!" Marik grumbled angrily loud enough for everyone to hear except the teacher.
"Marik said the f-word and the b-word and all the bad words." Bakura lied.
The teacher gave Marik a fourth red star.
"You're not harming me Bakura. I'm getting cute little red stars on the board and you got the gay yellow ones." Marik said folding his arms proudly.
"Just you wait…." Bakura said smirking.
The class had just finished sending everyone to their next block. This is where Ryou parted ways with Bakura and Marik to go to his AP classes leaving Marik and Bakura to deal with their intensive schedule.
"God I hate Ryou. He's lucky he doesn't have intensive everything. Stupid smart boy. I should steal his brain." Bakura said angrily.
"No because then he'd get your gay brain." Marik snickered.
"Better gay than feminine." Bakura said sticking out his tongue.
That's when it hit him. He stood there thinking about the situation at hand and stroked his chin.
"We're so—you're so stupid Marik! Feminine and gay is basically the same thing! Ha! You have to call me something different because…because…um…you stole my name for you so…ha!" Bakura said shoving Marik.
"You just don't want me to call you that! It's because you are." Marik said.
"I wouldn't be talking hoochie mamma. Lower you shirt no one wants to see that." Bakura said.
"I can't! Don't you understand! It shrunk in the dryer!" Marik shouted.
"Then there is always a last resort." Bakura said grabbing Marik's pants and covering the skin he had out. "Problem solved." Bakura concluded.
"I look like a hick." Marik said unable to walk. "And I have a wedgie." He added.
"It hurts if you want to be beautiful…something you'll never be. I just tried and failed miserably." Bakura said.
"You're full of shit Bakura you know that?" Marik said lowering his pants.
"No. Ryou said I was full of sugar!" Bakura smiled.
Marik laughed hysterically. He said something in Arabic and looked at Bakura again laughing.
"Just take advantage of the fact you could talk a foreign language and I can't understand it." Bakura said angrily at his disadvantage.
Meanwhile, Ryou's class had just initially started and he pulled out his two-page report on plant life.
: I had better get an A on this. Finding all the scientific names for these little shits was hard as hell. :
As the other students in his class started presenting their inferior work (( compared to Ryou as he thought )) he started chewing on his pencil from excitement. He looked around the class to see if his stalker was there and surprisingly she wasn't! He gave a sigh of relief and turned his head over to the door that had just opened.
There she was, staring at him with her big brown eyes holding papers. She turned her gaze over to the teacher for a couple of minutes.
Ryou had never heard her speak and he was just about to witness what she sounded like.
: I bet she sounds like a boy or something gruff. : He thought.
"I…have to take my test here. May you please escort me to an empty desk?" She said in the softest most angelic voice.
"Well that's weird." Ryou mumbled.
They escorted her to a desk right next to Ryou's.
:How fortunate. : Ryou thought sarcastically.
She averted her eyes from him and concentrated on her test. Ryou took this opportunity to actually look at her while she wasn't looking at him.
She had a mixture of light brown and dark brown hair and if angled in the sun precisely you could see she had a hint of red. She had smooth features, long thin eyebrows with long lashes, fanning every time she blinked.
: She's really pretty. Too bad she's a stalker. : Ryou sighed mentally continuing to stare at her.
She stopped working and looked over at Ryou whom was staring at her. He fixed his complexion and stared blushing turning away from her.
: Whoops she caught me. I wonder how she does that…stare at you for so long without blinking or so much as averting her eyes somewhere else. Is she an alien:
They finally called Ryou to read his report and the girl stopped working on her test to look at him. He shivered.
"Everything has to be me doesn't it? I don't see Bakura getting any female stalkers." Ryou mumbled.
By the time Ryou had put the class to sleep they had been dismissed. Everyone was yawning and all teary eyed from sleepiness.
"Why report wasn't that boring ok! Stop exaggerating." Ryou said to everyone through a yawn.
He walked sleepily to the dismissal area and accidentally bumped into someone.
"Oh I'm sor—
Ryou trailed off when he saw whom it was. She looked directly into his eyes narrowing them slightly. Ryou gulped and secretly took steps to get away from her. Her head turning in an angle every time he switched positions.
"Ryou!" Marik called out waving at him and snapping him out of his trance with the girl.
He ran over to him knowing she was still looking at him.
Second chapter dudes! I've concluded this story will be about 5 or 10 chapters. What do you guys think I should do? How many would you like? Well, school started and may I say 8th grade is soooo awesome! I've met the man of my dreams dudes! Congratulate me I finally think there's a guy out there for me and I won't have to end up marrying or going out with my dog. Just think…nice, quiet and shy, smart (( 9th grade math course biotches )) tall (( coughs 5'10'' coughs )) nice light brown hair in a fade, light, light brown eyes and not too bushy or thin eyebrows…hot right! Lol! I'm going to get him to notice me…wish me the best of luck! I need it dearly! I'm not letting him get away from me! He's perfect! Lol. Anyway, hoped you like the story.
P.S---Writing part 3 at this exact second. WOW! BIG NEWS!