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'Love or Pretend?'

Okay, chapter five is here reviewers! Thanks for reading. Let's see what happens now...

Chapter five: It didn't mean anything, right?

And the next thing Tea knew Joey began to lean in closer and closer to her until... he softly touched her cheek with his fingers and gently placed a soft kiss on her lips.

Tea's eyes widened with shock. She never expected Joey to do something like, even if he didn't mean it.His eyes were closed and his other hand remained on her waist. The embrace he had on her was gentle, but firm. Joey's lips felt so soft and sweet on her, Tea thought. Part of her just wanted to enjoy the kiss she was trapped into because it felt so magical. Though, the other part of her couldn't believe what was happening because she knew it was so wrong.

One of her best friends was actually kissing her. Kissing her! And this DEFINITELY wasn't part of the plan.

Tea didn't want to take in the fact that Joey was kissing her. But she knew in her heart that it was.

When Joey pulled back all he could do was gaze at her with shock. When he finally got the words to out he whispered, "I'm sorry..."

Tea didn't know what to say. She couldn't even think about what to say.

"I don't know what came over me--." Joey's sentence was cut off by other voice.

"Kids, is everything alright? You seem quiet," they both heard the voice of Tea's mom call them from a short distance.

Tea managed to speak out to her mom while having her eyes focused on Joey. "We're fine, Mom. There's nothing wrong. Joey and I are just playing a duel, that's all."

"Okay. Dinner will be ready in five minutes."

"Thanks." Then Tea's full attention was back on Joey.

"Tea, I can explain. What I just did wasn't what ya dink it was."

Tea looked at him sharply. "Then what was 'it' like?"

"I just lost myself back dare. I didn't mean ta do dat. Dat kiss didn't mean anythin'. I promise."

"So you kissed me for no reason? Is that what you're telling me?"

"No--I mean, yes! No, I mean, no! Ugh! I'm gettin' confused here."

'What's new?' Tea said to herself. "So then why did you kiss me, Joey?"

Joey had a sad and confused look on his face. "I don't know. I dink I need ta go now." Then Joey reached for the door, which in return made Tea move out of the way, and he left. She didn't know if she should go after him.

'Go after him, Tea. You must talk to him before it's too late,' she heard a familiar voice.

'Hey, it's you again. That voice. What are you--.'

'Go after Joey before it's too late, Tea. Hurry!' the voice told her.

'But why? He was the one that kissed me.'

'It could ruin your friendship if you don't.'

She knew she had to follow him now. Tea ran after him. She finally got to him before he left on his bike. (A/N Too bad his car was in the shop at the time.) "Joey, wait! You can't go yet. We need to talk this out now! Please, don't yet!"

Joey looked up at her. Her eyes were filled with worry and concern. "Please don't go yet," she begged to him again.

"I huff ta. I can't be here right now, Tea. If I stay here I might say somethin' dat I regret later on and I don't what ta do dat. I risked out friendship once and I'm not doin' dat again. So just let me go."

"But what about tomorrow? What are we going to do? Joey, I'm serious. You can't leave yet. You need to stay."

"I'm sorry, but I just can't be here right now. I need ta go." Then Joey rode off on his bike.

"JOEY!!!" Tea called after him. But he just kept going.

Tea waited out there until her mom called her in for dinner. "Tea, dinner's ready!"

She didn't say anything back. She just walked back inside with sadness. "Mom, I'm not hungry right now. I'll eat later," then Tea walked back into her room. Tears started to form in her eyes again. She ran over to her bed and fell on it. 'Why is this happening...Why did Joey kiss me?... Why did any of this happen?'

"Yami..." Yugi called his name, waiting for his spirit form to come out of the Millennium Puzzle.

"Yes Yugi?" he asked him once he came out.

"Have you been out of your soul room lately?"

"Perhaps...why do you ask?"

"Because I think there's something wrong with Tea and she won't tell me what it is."

"Hmmm...I see. Have you tried talking to her about it?"

"Yes, but every time I try to ask her about it she always seems to need to leave."

"Well, why don't you ask her about it tomorrow when you go back to school?"

"She doesn't really seem to want to talk to me lately for some reason. Do you think I did something wrong?"

"Not that I know of. Though, maybe she finally figured out the truth."

"The truth to what?"

"The crush you have on her."

Yugi's cheeks began to go pink with embarrassment. "I do not!"

"Then why are you blushing?"

"Because..." he couldn't the words to make a good enough excuse.

Raising an eyebrow, the handsome ancient Egyptian pharaoh still waited for an answer. "Because?"

Yugi began to get nervous while his cheeks started to get hotter and turned red. "Okay! So I have a crush on Tea, what's the big deal? It's not like she feels the same way about me."

"How can you say that when you haven't even asked her out yet?"

Yugi sighed. "Okay...so maybe I don't know, but this isn't the time to ask her anyway. She seems to be worried about something and I just want to know that she's alright."

"I understand, Yugi. So are you going to ask her about it tomorrow or not?"

"Uhhh...I was actually kind of wondering if you would ask her for me."

"Me? Why?"

"Because she'll talk to you. You can get through to her better than I can sometimes. And I don't think I'm the right person to be asking her about it right now."

"Very well, Yugi. But you will still be the one to attend school tomorrow, right?"

"Right. See, here's what I'm thinking. I'll go to school tomorrow and then after school I'll walk home with Tea. After we've walked for a little while you and I will make the switch and you can ask her what's going. What do you think?"

"It's a good plan, but what if she doesn't talk to me about it either?"

"If it doesn't work out I'll think of something else, but until then you should think about what you're going to say to her tomorrow."

"Yugi! Dinner's ready! It's time to come downstairs," they both heard the voice of Grandpa.

"Coming, Grandpa!"

Yugi looked back over to Yami. "I need to go, Yami, but while your up here alone just think about what I said. I'll see you in a little while."

Then Yugi raced out of his room and downstairs to the dining room.

Yami looked over at the window in Yugi's room and walked over to it. "What are you hiding from me, Tea?"

Joey pounded a fist on his door and pressed his forehead on it. 'I am such uh idiot! God, why did I kiss Tea! Now she'll probably never speak ta me again.' He slammed his head on his door. 'Ow, dat hurt... But forget about dat! What am I goin' ta do about Tea now? I mean, Yugi comes back ta school tomorrow. Tea's havin' uh hard enough time with him it seems. And I haven't gotten Melody ta notice me yet. Does everythin' bad ALWAYS huff ta happen ta me!!!'

Then Joey took his head off of the door. He was about to go into his room when something caught his eye. It was the phone. Joey walked towards it and looked down at it. "I guess dare's only one thing for me ta do now..."

Later on that afternoon...

"Okay, I got here as fast as I could, Joey. So what's the big emergency?" Tristan breathlessly said after running all the way to Joey's house.

"Get in here! I can't tell ya out here. We need ta be alone," Joey told him while dragging him inside.

"Hey, what's the big idea? What's going on here, man? I feel that I'm being interrogated at the police station."

Joey turned away from Tristan and leaned his head against a wall.

"Oh man...Ya must have done something wrong if your not speaking with excitement."

"I made uh mistake. I made uh huge mistake, Tristan. One of da biggest mistakes I've ever made."

"C'mon, Joey! I've seen you make big mistakes and it never got you down before. I'm sure you'll get over it soon, man. Just relax and calm down."

"Well dis is different!!! I'm not goin' ta relax and at dis rate I'm not goin' ta tell ya what happened!" Joey turned around and yelled at him in the face. He quickly calmed down though and sat in one of the chairs in the living room.

Tristan looked at him surprised. "Alright. I'm sorry I got you mad, Joey. I shouldn't have done that, but whatever it is you did you better tell me or I know someone else will. Now what is it?"

It took Joey a few moments just to get the first couple of words out. "I kissed someone..."

"So? Was it is someone we know?"

"Yes, I kissed someone we know."

"Does she like you?"

"As uh friend."

"So what's the problem?"

"Dis was friend I kissed dat I wasn't suppose ta kiss."

Now Tristan was confused. "What do you mean you weren't suppose to kiss her?"

"Tristan! I kissed Tea!!!"

Tristan's jaw dropped with shock. "What the... Did you just say..."

"I kissed TEA!!!! Yes, I kissed Tea! Are ya happy now?"

"Holy shit! You kissed Tea! Have you gone insane?!?! No, here's a better question. What do you think Yugi's going to think when he finds out that not only you lied to him, but you KISSED the one girl he's had a crush on since EVER!"

"I know, I know! If Yugi finds out about dis I will be uh dead man! He'll never forgive me if he finds out about dis. Dat's why I don't know what ta do anymore."

Tristan shook his head. "I can't believe you kissed Tea. What the hell happened to make you do that?"

"Okay, I'll tell ya what happened. Do ya remember dat thing I said out loud in English today?"

"Yeah."

"Well dat was for Tea."

"What?"

"Tea and I got into dis huge argument last night and I almost ruined our friendship because of somethin' I saw yesterday afternoon."

"What did you see?"

"Yesterday I saw Tea give Yugi uh kiss."

"Tea kissed Yugi?!?!"

"It was only on da cheek!!!" Joey corrected him with anger in his eyes.

"Oh..."

"So last night I wrote dat thing ta show Tea how much our friendship meant ta me."

"Then what happened?"

"Well Tea had ta go ta Yugi's after school ta give him his make-up homework she promised she would bring over, remember?"

"Yeah, I remember."

"Okay, so I guess Yugi said somethin' ta Tea dat got her upset when she got home--."

"Wait a second. How do you know about that?"

"I was goin' ta tell ya before ya interrupted me!"

Tristan looked away for a moment. "Sorry..."

"Anyway, before Tea actually got ta her house I came over dare ta talk ta her about what we could do about our pretendin' ta date tomorrow. About ten minutes after I got dare she came into her room cryin'. She told me dat it was uh bad for her and dat she wanted ta be alone."

"Okay, I'm going to guess that you didn't leave her alone, am I right?"

Joey growled at him. "I was worried about her!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what happened after that?"

"I walked over ta Tea. I got uh good look at her and saw dat she really was hurt for some reason... I placed my arms around her waist...leaned in closer ta her...and den I kissed her."

"So that's what happened?"

Joey looked over at him angrily again. "What do ya mean 'so dat's what happened?!?!?!' I'm becomin' uh complete wrack over dis and dat's all ya got ta say!"

Tristan suddenly had a smile on his face. "How long did you kiss her?"

Now Joey's jaw dropped. "I don't know!!!! Dat doesn't even matter right now."

"Joey, everybody knows how long they kiss someone unless they're stupid... Oh yeah, I forget that you are. Just forget what I said."

"I ain't stupid, Tristan. I'm a top duelist and it took smarts ta do dat!"

"Oh yeah, you're right. For someone that's such a great duelist, why do you have a F in math?"

"Uhhh... Math's really not my subject, Tristan. Ya know dat."

'That's for sure.' "So how long did you kiss her?"

"What do ya mean by dat?"

"You know...One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi... Get the picture now?"

"Oh...now I get it."

"So...?"

"Lemmie dink about it... I dink it was...four Mississippi."

"You kissed Tea until four Mississippi!" Whispering to himself, "I wish I could do that." "How could you kiss her that long?"

"I dunno. It just happened. So are ya goin' ta give me advice on dis or what"

Tristan thought about the situation some more and came to a conclusion. "Joey, I think I know what you need to do."

"What?"

"First, before school starts tomorrow, go and tell Tea that your sorry for what you did. Second, go and ask Melody if she likes you--."

"But it's too soon ta do dat."

"Too bad. You're the one that wracked the whole thing. So you gotta live with it. And thirdly, you need to tell Yugi what happened."

Joey looked at him shocked. "Tristan...ya know I could never do dat now. First Yug'll be crushed, then he'll come and crush me by sayin' our friendship is over."

"Joey, this whole thing has gotten way too out of hand. You're going to have to make a decision."

"And what decision is dat?"

"Do you love Tea as more than a friend or not?"

TBC...

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