The next day, we were all better. Maybe it was because all of us had thrown up on somebody, but whatever it was, we felt better.
So we went to school. And that day was not a happy day.
"SEAN!" I screamed during band. It felt like 7th grade again, except with Joey and Tristan and Duke and Ryou and Trey and Ferio.
"MICHEAL!" I screamed during science. Now this was new, since I had never been in school with Micheal.
Not only that, but Maranda was really pouty that day because she had to come to school with the front of her uniform permanently dyed a pukey green.
By lunch, Joey and I were pretending we didn't know them. We went and sat with our usual group of boy's, and Kirsten, Tea, and Anna went and sat with their usual group of preps, with Cassie and Shelby trailing behind them. Micheal and Sean sat at the end of our table, still to shy to talk to anyone else. And then, surprisingly, Maranda came over. Now at our table, anyone wearing pink wasn't aloud. So here comes Maranda in her pink, green uniform, and sits down right next to me.
" Hi Jacey." She said quietly.
"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…" I looked toward the guys. They all shrugged. Except Duke. Little, evil, scheming, harmless, faking Duke.
" And.. who are you?" He asked.
"Shut up you jerkward." She glared at him.
" Well hello Shut Up You Jerkwad! I'm Duke." He stuck out his hand as if she were going to shake it.
" Freak." She muttered.
" See, Maranda," I said gently, " You're not technically aloud at this table."
All the boy's nodded their heads.
" Why not?" Maranda asked, puzzled.
" Girls uniform." I pointed to the stained top.
"Uhhh." She looked down at the uniform. "Arianna said that she would get me a new one. A boy's on!"
"Excuse me, I must have heard wrong," I stuck my pinkie in my ear, " Did you say boy's uniform?"
"Yeah!" Maranda exclaimed.
I looked towards the guys. They nodded that it would be okay.
"Have fun with that." I said. I stood up to throw away my trash and shoot some hoops.
Chapter 7: RehersalAfter school, he had rehearsal for our band. It was just a small pop band, but we had a gig in two days.
We were setting up in our small studio, when Maranda, Shelby, Cassie, Sean, and Micheal file into the sound room with Anna.
I could just hear Anna saying that they are lucky because we hardly ever practice.
I strummed a few notes on my guitar, just to make sure it was working all right.
Joey and I stepped up to the mike.
We started singing. It was a song from a movie and Yugi had picked it out.
" 'Cause when I think about, thinkin' of you, it feels like, there's nothin' else to do." Joey sang.
" We took a chance together, we never have before." I sang.
Maranda, Micheal, Sean, Shelby, and Cassie just sat there staring at us with their mouths wide open.
" What?" I screamed into the microphone. Everyone stopped playing. Duke shot me a deadly glare form the drums. Yugi gave me a shocked glance from the DJ box. "Have you never heard someone sing! It's pretty normal!" I yelled. By this time everyone was glaring at me.
"Sorry guys! She didn't mean anything by that!" Duke said into his own mike, "You can just go relax and…" He was cut off.
A loud crash had come from the DJ box. Thankfully, Yugi had jumped out and was putting on his duel disk. Cash rolled out from Yugi's pocket, which had torn. I picked up a nickel.
"Oh Yugi boy!" A voice came out of nowhere.
"I found a nickel!" I exclaimed.
" Pegasus!" Yugi yelled. Joey glanced around.
"Uh, Yug. I got some good news and some bad news." He said.
"What's the good news?" Yugi asked.
"I named my nickel Phillip!" I exclaimed. Kirsten glared at me.
"You have your duel disk." Joey answered.
"What's the bad news?" Yugi asked.
"It's a girl nickel!" I shouted.
"I don't have mine." Joey said.
"Can we please stay on topic?" Randa yelled at me.
"Oh look who's talkin', Ms. Peter Piper!" I yelled back.
"Jacey, put on your duel disk!" Tristan screamed.
"Hey! I was feeling very random at the time!" Randa shouted.
"Jacey put on your duel disk!" Duke yelled.
"Yeah well I was quoting Cosmo!" I shouted back.
Pegasus walked through the hole in the wall.
"Jacey, put on your duel disk!" Yugi and Joey yelled together.
"Okay, okay!" I said, carefully slipping my hand into the duel disk. I barely had enough time to glance up and see the toon mermaid pointing her arrow at me. That was the last thing I saw. Blackout.
Chapter 8: The Millennium Thief (Jace's view)
I couldn't believe that they were going to make me do this. They knew I didn't want to. Even Yami agreed with me that this was wrong. I paced around my room. My quarters as some people called it, but to me it was just my room.
I sat down on my bed. Tears stung the edge of my eyes, but I refused to let them create rivers down my cheeks.
I needed to calm down. I changed out of my formal dinner robes and into my western boy's clothes that I used for sneaking out of the temple. I pulled on the navy blue vest over the crisp, white, button down shirt. I pulled on the trousers and some of my tensions relaxed. I gently untied the big, cream colored ribbon I had in my hair and started to brush my long, chestnut brown hair timidly. I gently pulled a navy blue ribbon from one of my drawers.
I started to tie the ribbon in my hair when I heard a 'thump' at my window. I stared at the window for a moment with my eye's wide and reached for the sword I had next to my bed. A pair of feet poked though the window, followed by the rest of a body. I laid the sword back down and relaxed. A man about my age (20) stood in my room. He was handsome, even with the double barred cross-shaped scar on his cheek. He wore a hood over his long, shaggy, white hair and carried a bag over his muscular shoulder. He didn't have broad shoulders. He was only a couple inches taller than me.
"I knew you'd come soon." I said, tying the ribbon in a knot.
He chuckled. "How could I resist?"
I smiled for the first time that day. I opened another drawer and pulled out a western boy's cap.
"I'm just to good looking I guess." I joked. I pulled the ponytail on the top of my head and put the cap on over it so no hair but my bangs showed.
"So what brings you here this time?" I asked.
"Well…" He groaned and glanced at his bag.
I sighed. "What did you steal this time?"
He reached into his bag and pulled out the millennium ring.
I gasped. "How did you steal that? You could have been killed! How did you get past the guards?" I raged at him. I thought of another question. "Why did you steal that one?" I asked more gently.
He pondered for a moment. "Because, I know how much it means to you. I didn't want to take the millennium Anubis because I know how much you love that one, so I took the millennium ring which I know is your second favorite." He said it quietly.
"But Bakura, why are you taking my favorites?" I questioned.
"Because," he walked towards me and pulled me in close. He took off my cap and untied my ribbon so my hair hung loose. He ran his hands through it and embraced me. His arms around me felt good. "I never want to forget you."
I could feel the tears prickling the sides of my eyes again.
"Jace, I love you. I've loved you ever since you saved me from those guards when we were 5. I loved you every time I would come to sleep at the temple. I've always loved you." He whispered in my ear.
" I love you too." I cried. I could feel the hot tears leaking down my face. I grabbed fistfuls of his robes and cried into his chest.
"What's wrong?" He asked gently.
"I have to attend a death sentence tomorrow." I sobbed.
"Who's?" He asked.
I looked up into his ice blue eyes. Eyes that only I could read. Eyes that seemed cold to everyone else, but me. Eyes I may never see again.
"Yours." I laid my head back in his chest and cried some more.