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Author's notes: sorry I haven't been replying to reviews recently. I've been finishing chapters pretty late at night and wanted to get them up as soon as I could for you to read. Hoo boy! Updates have been a little everywhere recently. Im trying to update every Wednesday, but occasionally I have a bout of writers block combined with laziness. Once again I will promise to you that I will finish writing this so no worries there.
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Unrequited Love
Chapter 36: The Dance
888 A month later 888
Things had been going very smoothly for Marik and Anuket over the past month. They spent every waking hour of every day in each others company, and most nights in each others beds. It had become routine now, Anuket stayed at Marik's some nights and he stayed at hers. Ipet had given up trying to keep them separate as her woman's intuition told her that they had already done the deed. There was no point in stopping them anyway. Even she could see that Anuket was fast becoming an adult and was capable of making her own decisions.
As well as growing together emotionally, they had developed a very healthy sex life. Marik had secretly bought a book that had over five hundred positions, and tips and ideas for foreplay. He had amazed Anuket with all the things he had learnt, until she found the book hidden under his pillow one night. After that, it was her turn to impress.
Anuket was sitting at her desk in school, waiting for the bell to sound. It was almost time to go home, and tonight was the dance. She could hardly wait. Anuket had been waiting for this moment for ages; she had never been to a school dance before and was a little nervous when she asked Marik to go with her, thinking he wouldn't want to go to a student party. The teacher droned on and on, making the last five minutes seem longer the whole school year put together.
Finally the bell rang. Everyone got up from their seats and ran out before the protesting teacher could set them homework. Anuket ran out into the hallways and towards her locker, gathering her things together and stuffing them in her already bulging bag. She headed outside and waited for Marik to pick her up as he usually did. As if on cue, Anuket heard the sound of his bike speeding down the road, stopping right in front of her. Marik gave Anuket a kiss and assisted her with her bags, strapping them to the side of his bike and gestured for her to get on behind him.
Anuket did as she was told and got on wrapping her hands around his hard stomach, suddenly conscious of the jealous glare she received from Georgina Harrison. The bleach blonde looked at the owner of the Harley with a lustful glint in her eyes. Anuket glared back with a fiery gaze. She knew what Georgina was thinking and she didn't like it one bit. Were five simultaneous boyfriends not enough for her?
"Come on Marik, let go" said Anuket wanting to get her man out of that whores eyesight. She had to get home and make herself presentable for the party.
888888888888 later on
The time for the party came even quicker then she expected. Anuket rushed around trying to find her shoes which had done a disappearing act again.
"Anuket, hurry up! What's taking you so long?" shouted Ipet from downstairs. "Marik isn't going to wait forever you know!"
Anuket groaned. "I can't find my shoes!" she called back.
"Which ones!" shouted Ipet.
"The black ones!" replied Anuket pulling her wardrobe open and pulling everything out on the floor.
"You mean these ones by the front door?"
Anuket stopped in her tracks and ran downstairs. Sure enough, there were the shoes she was looking for. Marik was stifling back a grin as Ipet held them up to her. Anuket took them, muttering an embarrassed thankyou as she passed by. She slipped them on and pulled Marik out to his bike for the student party.
888888888888 at the dance
They entered through the doors and into the large hall. Lots of people had already arrived and were dressed up in casual, but smart gear. Marik was wearing his beige pants and black top. The same thing he wore in battle city. Anuket was wearing a blue shirt and short black pleated skirt with various items of jewellery on her person.
Marik found himself being dragged into the room towards Yugi and Tea. He groaned mentally. This to him would be an awkward situation. He never really got over his guilt after battle city, but Yugi had carried on as if nothing had ever happened! He wondered how the little guy could do it. He sure as hell wouldn't be so quick to forgive if their roles had been reversed.
"Hey!" shouted Yugi as he saw them approach. "Marik! You came! Anuket was worried you'd change your mind"
Marik looked at Anuket who had left his side to talk to Tea. What made her think he would change his mind? He said he would go with her didn't he? Marik began to make an effort with conversation with Yugi, while Tea and Anuket had their own. They talked about the usual things, until Anuket turned the conversation to another topic that Tea was uncomfortable with.
"Why don't you ask Yugi to dance with you?" asked Anuket in a hushed voice.
"Because im too embarrassed" Tea pouted mockingly crossing her arms.
"Oh come on. Why don't you just say something like, 'let's dance just for fun'?"
"I don't know… Maybe…"
Meanwhile, Marik was growing ever more uncomfortable in Yugi's presence. He really didn't want to be here and felt a little angry towards Anuket for abandoning him like this. She was the one who brought him here after all. He only came because he didn't want to upset her. Marik decided that enough was enough; he could only talk to Yugi for so long. He made his excuses and hurriedly made his way over to Anuket.
He came up behind her and roughly wrapped his arms around her waist. Leaning into her ear, he whispered "Come on, let's go and get some food"
He dragged Anuket away before she could protest. She managed to wave goodbye to Tea before disappearing into the crowd. He led her to a corner of the hall, away from the majority of the teenagers, away from the music and away from Yugi. He was in a bad mood, she could tell.
"Marik! I was talking to Tea!" said Anuket annoyed. "That was very rude of you!"
"Anuket, you dragged me down here because you wanted to dance, talk, be with me, whatever. But you left me to talk to Yugi. Not that I have anything against him now, but I still don't feel very comfortable around him and you know that!"
"He won't bite Marik. Why don't you just try and forget about what happened. He has, its all in the past now" tried Anuket.
"That's easy for you to say. You weren't the one whose body was stolen by some psycho Yami, and tried to kill everyone because of some false belief that the one you were supposed to protect was the one who killed your father"
"Well that's hardly my fault! Im just trying to help you, why won't you work with me? It's almost as if you don't want to get over it"
"Excuse me? I don't want to get over it? I wish I could! I want more then anything to forget about it, but as long as I'm surrounded by 'them', I can't!"
"Well what do you want me to do? Do you want me to stop being friends with them just so you feel better? You want me to lose the only friends I have? Is that it?"
"No, but it was just supposed to be us tonight, not them!"
"Marik! They are a part of who I am now! If you and I are to be together, you have to accept that!" said Anuket
"I just don't want to be forced into spending time with them when I clearly can't stand to be near them!" growled Marik.
"Well fine then! I won't force you to spend any more time with them" Anuket turned on her heel and began to walk away from Marik. He reached out and grabbed her arm, pulling her back towards him.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked bossily.
"I'm going back to my friends. It's clear you don't want to be here, so you can just go home! You're being such a jerk right now"
"I don't think so. How will you get home?" asked Marik, folding his arms cockily, thinking he'd got her there.
"I'll ask someone else to take me home. You're not the only one that can drive you know. I don't even want to be in the same room as you right now. Just leave me alone!"
Marik gritted his teeth and turned his back on her. "Fine! Have it your way!"
8888888888 outside
He stormed out of the hall, knocking people out of his way as he went. This evening didn't quite turn out as planned. How long had he been there? Half an hour? Marik stomped up to his bike and reached into his pocket to pull out his keys. He was about to climb on when he felt a presence behind him. He turned around, expecting it to be Anuket, but it wasn't. Instead, he saw Bakura. Or at least that's who it appeared to be.
"You…" growled Marik. He wasn't in the mood to deal with this right now.
"Long time no see. I just came to see how you were" taunted the deep voice of the spirit. "I couldn't help but overhear your little spat with the girl a few minutes ago"
"That's none of your business!" snapped Marik. "What do you want you parasite!"
Bakura brought a hand to his chest and feigned hurt in his features. "Now that was uncalled for. And I only came here to warn you about that woman of yours"
Marik's frown deepened. "What are you talking about?" he asked tersely.
"Oh nothing, just that she doesn't love you. She's just using you" said Bakura, waving offhandedly.
"If I were you, I'd start running now! I should have known you were just here to cause trouble!" Marik shouted, climbing onto his bike and putting the keys in the ignition.
"You think im making this up don't you? Why don't you ask your darling yourself? Im only telling you what I heard from her own mouth"
"You're a liar!" growled Marik, clenching his hands tightly on the handle bars.
Bakura smirked. "If anyone is a liar, it's her. She told everyone that she made you think she was in love with you so she could get you to do whatever she wanted. Apparently, just before your Yami took over, she made you think she was on your side because of an argument you'd had. She found out about your darker side beforehand from your sister and didn't want him to come out. Probably because she knew she couldn't manipulate him like she could you…"
Marik revved up the bike and began to pull away from Bakura.
"Ask her yourself!" shouted the spirit. "See if she denies it!"
88888888888 Marik's place
Marik couldn't bring himself to concentrate on anything once he got home. All he could think about was what Bakura said about Anuket not loving him. He didn't want to believe him, he really didn't, but some of the things made sense to him. After all, how could the spirit have possibly known what had happened between them? He was unconscious at the time in the infirmary. He couldn't possibly have known they'd made up just before Malik came along.
"Is there any truth to what he's saying…?" thought Marik. All kinds of doubts and fears came flooding into his mind.
He curled himself up in a ball on his bed, still wearing his clothes. He felt a dull ache in the pit of his stomach. It wouldn't go away. Marik knew that the only thing he could do to make himself feel better was to ask her himself. It was the only way this horrible feeling would go away. He knew that she would never say anything like that. She loved him, he knew it.
8888888888888 back at the party
"Look, Anu, why don't you go and talk to Marik" said Tea, seeing the depressed look on her friends face.
"I'm fine" she said, feeling herself welling up. She didn't like to argue with Marik. The moment he had left, she felt herself regretting telling him to go away.
"Come on. You obviously want to. I will drop you off at his place. Let's go"
Anuket followed Tea out to her father's car that she had borrowed for the night without his permission. Anuket told Tea where he lived, and they drove off in the hopes of setting things straight.
8888888888888 outside Marik's place
Anuket walked up the flight of stairs to Marik's apartment. Eventually she arrived at his door. She stood still for a few minutes before summoning up the courage to knock on the door. A split second later, she could hear scrambling on the other side of someone making their way to answer. The door swung open to reveal Marik, who had a crestfallen expression that brightened slightly when he saw it was her.
"Can I come in?" she asked quietly.
"Yeah…" replied Marik, his voice a little above a whisper.
He moved aside to let her in, closing the door behind him. They both looked at each other, unsure of who should speak first. Anuket was about to make the first move, but Marik beat her to it.
"I heard something about you" he started hesitantly, he wasn't sure he wanted to ask this, but he had to know for certain.
"What?" asked Anuket curiously? What could he have possibly heard about her? She was confused.
"From Bakura, or rather the spirit of the millennium ring…" he continued.
"Bakura?" she had no idea where this was going. That guy was not to be trusted.
"He claimed that he overheard you saying that you were using me the entire time during battle city. That you only manipulated me to get what you wanted" Marik let out a hollow laugh, trying his hardest to convince himself it wasn't true. Anuket felt herself grow cold.
"Tell me he was just making that up" begged Marik pleadingly, looking at Anuket again.
An awful silence fell between the two. Anuket could easily have denied it, Said to Marik that it wasn't true, but she couldn't. It wasn't in her nature to lie about something like this. It was different before. Marik was the enemy then, but now he was her boyfriend. She couldn't bring herself to speak as she searched for a response, which was probably the worst thing she could have done right then. She felt wave after wave of guilt course through her as Marik's gaze turned from that of hope to hurt.
"Its true…" he said, pain obvious in his voice.
"It wasn't like that at all" whispered Anuket. "I only said that because I didn't want them to alienate me and I knew they would if I told them the truth. I did have feelings for you then, I just never admitted it…"
"I should have known it was too good to be true!" said Marik, ignoring her statement. "Why would anything good happen to me after all I've done. The gods must have sent you to me as punishment for my sins! They could have sent all the plagues of Egypt to me, but no, they sent you!"
Anuket was shocked by the sudden rise in his tone of voice. "Marik! I didn't mean a word of it! I wasn't just using you! After everything we've been through! Why won't you believe me!"
"Because you're a lying WHORE! NOW GET OUT!" he didn't want to hear her excuses. Marik picked up a heavy book and threw it in Anuket's general direction. It missed, but just barely. It clipped the side of her leg, leaving a small scratch.
Anuket's eyes were wide with shock. He'd never thrown something at her before. Her eyes began to stream with tears, blurring her vision. She ran out of the apartment without so much as saying a word to him. She almost tripped several times as she ran down the long flight of stairs. Anuket just hoped that Tea was still waiting for her. She didn't want to go through town like this.
Breathing a shaky sigh of relief, Anuket saw that Tea was still there, thankfully. She opened the door and climbed in, now feeling that she was far enough away from Marik, she broke down into uncontrollable sobs.
"Oh Anu! What happened?" asked Tea, leaning over to comfort her friend.
Accepting Tea's hug, Anuket cried into her shoulder. "We're finished…"
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Mwa ha ha ! Im so evil! This is one of my super duper plans that I came up with ages ago. Since just before chapter 22: explanations. I bet you all forgot about that part didn't you? What Bakura said? Huh huh? There is gonna be even more heartache for Anuket, and a few surprises too. Can you refrain from killing me? if you do, then you get to see what happens.
How's this for a cliff hanger then? Remember, I want everyone to review! Thankyou.
Reviews
Dice: Oooh, a new reader. Wow, I'm so happy that you're enjoying this fic so far and im chuffed that this is your fave fic. Glad you like Anuket. And you say you heard about this from a friend of a friend? Wow, people are telling others about me. I feel very special. If you wanna see my art, then go to my bio page and click on my homepage link. Click on my gallery to see my pics of Marik, Bakura, Anuket and my other oc Romi. Thanks for the review.
B.E.W.DWarriorPrincessanother new reader! Yay. Thank you very much, I'm happy you're enjoying this fic. I always think that a decent fic has to be long and detailed and stuff. I'm also writing a Bakura one if you're interested in the character. An ancient Egypt one. Don't worry if your not. I don't like it when people tell me to read about couples that I'm not interested in. and yeah, steamy stuff did happen and I wrote a lemon to it. If you wanna read it, then send me an email ok? Im also happy I've sparked your interest in the Marik character. I think he's the best along with Kaiba and Bakura.
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Ryu-No-Kyoki: that 30 people emailing me turned into 40. and I still have the odd request for it! Talk about popular! It wasn't all that great either!
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