You Are My Super Star
Chapter 8—The day
Yami and Yugi met
by YYY
"Seto, you really should have control your temper back there. It's not good for Starr's popularity to try and go punch a reporter." Pegasus says. When the reporter asks if Joey is Seto's lover, Seto got so upset he tries to attack the reporter.
"Stupid reporters, writing lies and trashes just so someone will read their stupid papers. They should all burn in hell." Seto mutters.
"Why are you so upset? It's not like it's the first time those reporters make up stuff about you. They paired you up with tons of teen idols before. You always thought it was funny. Why are you so mad this time?"
"No reason! They're making up fake stories about me. I have a right to be upset."
"Oh really, you're just upset that they tell lies about you. I was wrong then. I thought that you were upset cause they figure out something about you that you try to hide." Pegasus says.
"And what is it about me that they figure out?" Seto asks.
"Well, I was thinking that they might have figure out you like Joey…." Pegasus says with a smirk on his face. That smark is so annoying to Seto, Seto have to control the urge to punch Pegasus out.
"For the last time, I don't like that boy! If any of you say that one more time I will start killing you all to shut you up." Seto yells.
"Sure, keep telling yourself that." Pegasus says, "If you don't like him why are you so upset when we say you do? You just want to kill me because you don't want to admit that you have feelings for Joey. You're afraid that you were falling in love with that boy, so you keep telling yourself that you didn't feel a thing toward him even though you know very well that you're drawn to Joey in the way bees are drawn to honey. And whenever some other people try to tell you that you like Joey, you go crazy because you can't control you feelings."
"Shut up, since when did you become a doctor of psychology?" Seto yells.
"See, you're upset now because what I said was true." Pegasus says.
"If you don't shut up now I'm going make sure you never talk again." Seto walks away.
"Do you really think Seto like Joey?" Tristan asks Pegasus.
"Tell me, of all the years we worked together have you ever once seen Seto loose his cool? He never even raises his voice at anything. This is the first time he shows that much emotion. He must be really confused inside cause he will never expect to fall in love with someone like Joey." Pegasus says.
Seto keeps walking toward the bookstore. A thousand thoughts rush into Seto's mind. Is he really in love with Joey? Can Pegasus be actually right? But Joey very different from Seto, there is no way Joey can be a match to Seto.
The forever well-composed and cool-headed Seto is the kind of person who knows what he wants; and he will do anything to get what he wants. All the people that Seto dated are the same way; they're all people that are clam, collected and ambitious to the point of calculating. Ricky is a very good example. Ricky will do anything to become a super star, even if it means betraying the Starr, the agency that practically raised him up.
Joey is nothing like that. The blonde is always smiling; he is filled with energy and never stops moving. Joey never wants anything and never needs anything. If you want something Joey will never hesitate to give it to you. Joey is uncalculating to the point of idiocy. A nice guy like that drives Seto insane. Seto often thinks people like Joey are stupid. How can Seto be falling in love with a stupid guy like Joey? It'll be the end of the world before Seto falls for Joey!
(But if it'll be the end of the world before I fall for Joey, why would I flirt with him?) Seto thinks. He remember that day at the concert, when his legs just lost control and walks into Joey's changing room. When Joey looked at him with those puppy eyes, Seto suddenly lets 'you want me to kiss you?' slips through his mouth. How can that be happening? Seto is still not sure why he would ask Joey something like that.
"Seto! Where are you going ? the book store is here!" Cecilia shouts. Seto is thinking so much that he passed the bookstore.
"Wow, there are so many girls here. Joey's friend must be really popular." Tristan says.
Seto looks at all the school girls in all different types of school uniforms. "The boss will be really depressed if he knows he missed so much girls in school uniforms. This is like heaven to him." Seto mutters.
The Starr gangs walk up to Yugi desk and see that the desk is empty. "Excuse me, ma'am. Can you tell me where Yugi Moto the manga-ka is?" Cecilia asks the lady working at the book store.
"I'm sorry, you guys are too late. The signing is already over. Yugi left about ten minutes ago." The lady says.
"Stupid reporters, if they didn't stop us we would have made it." Seto grunts.
"Did a blonde boy come in here? " Pegasus asks the lady.
"Yeah! The one with the big brown eyes, right? He is the one with the bright smile. I think he left with Yugi. I heard Yugi Moto asks him to go have dinner together. I don't know where they're going, though." The lady says.
"Great! We lose him." Seto says.
"But we have to find him! The boss loves him! And the fans love him. He can be the next super star!" Pegasus says.
"How are we going to find him?" Seto asks.
"They can't be that far. Let's spilt up and looks around here." Cecilia suggests.
"There are no other choices. Let's go." Seto says.
On the street not too far away, Yugi and Joey sit down at a booth inside a Chinese Tea House. The waitress brings the two of them two cups of green tea in two Chinese style tea cups.
"Thank you! Hmm… the green tea smells so wonderful in here." Joey smiles to the waitress.
"Is there anything else that I can get you?" The waitress asks.
"Let's order some rice cake with the green tea, you must be hungry after signing all those manga of yours." Joey says to Yugi.
"Two rice cakes coming right up." The waitress smiles and leave Joey's table.
"I'm sorry, Joey." Yugi lowers his head.
"Hey, hey! Whatever is it, you never have to say sorry to me." Joey smiles.
"I just…I told you I wanted to talk but I'm all quiet."
"Don't be silly. You can talk to me whenever you feel ready." Joey says.
"I don't even know where to start." Yugi says.
"Well, you want to start by how much you love him?" Joey smiles kindly and asks.
"I beg your pardon?" Yugi asks.
"You're depressed cause you lost the one you love, right? You can start talking by telling me how much you love him and how much you missed him." Joey smiles.
"I love him more than anything in the world. I will do anything so I can get to see him again. Everything that I ever wrote; everything that I ever drawn; they're all inspired by our love."
"That sounds so sweet."
"He was my boss, he owned the manga studio that I work in. I remember the first time I met him…that was really embarrassing." Yugi chuckles.
--flash back to two years ago—
Yugi is one of the new artists at the Pure Heart Manga Studio. He is working on his manga when his supervisor runs up to him, "Yugi! Yugi! Look sharp, the boss is coming to check on us!"
"The boss?" Yugi looks up and sees a really sharp looking man. The man looks so handsome, everyone is totally charmed.
Especially Yugi.
Yugi just stares at the boss. The whole world seems to stop and Yugi swears he can hear love songs playing around him. It's as if they're in the manga and there are flowers petals floating around the boss. (Hmm…Yugi has been drawing too much shojo manga.)
Yugi forgets that he is supposed to be working. He just continues to watches as the boss walks around the studio. Suddenly, the boss turns to look at Yugi. Yugi almost screams, "he is looking at me! He is looking at me!"
Then, the boss starts to walk toward Yugi. Yugi's heart stops beating. (It must be my imagination; no way the boss is walking to me!) Yugi thinks.
When the boss is up close, Yugi almost faints. The boss stops right in front of Yugi and says something to Yugi. Yugi can't even breathe, all he can thinks about is, "the boss is talking to me, the boss is talking to me!" It takes Yugi 30 seconds to realize that the boss is trying to tell him something.
"Your spill your tea." The boss tells Yugi.
Yugi looks down at his desk and sees that his teacup is tipped over. There is tea all over his artworks. Yugi yelps and grabs his glass. The boss is trying to take the glass at the same moment. Their hands touched and they both dropped the glass. In the glass, there was still some tea that didn't spill. Those tea all lands on the boss' shirt.
"I'm so sorry! I don't mean to do that!" Yugi almost cries. He tries to use his handkerchief to get the tea out of the boss shirt.
"Hey, don't cry. An angel shouldn't cry." The boss says. Yugi looks up to the boss. The boss just smile to him kindly.
"It's a shame that your works are wounded. They are all really good." The boss says.
"Thank you, sir." Yugi blushes and lowers his head.
"Keep up the good work. I'm lucky to have someone like you working for me." The boss heads into the office.
"I can't believe I was so busy watching the boss that I spill tea at my work. It's gonna take forever for me to redo everything." Yugi sighs. He starts drawing his manga over again.
It's almost 11 pm, Yugi can't keep his eyes open anymore. It's just too much work to finish in one day. The manga-ka falls asleep on his desk. In the middle of his sleep, Yugi feels someone put something on him.
"Huh?" Yugi opens his eyes and sees the boss putting a jacket over him.
"What are you still doing here, sir?" Yugi asks.
"I was looking through some paperwork at in the office. How come you're still here?" The boss says.
"The deadline is tomorrow, I have to finish my work." Yugi says rubbing his eyes.
The boss smiles, "don't be silly! Do you know it's the unwritten rule of manga artists that all artists have to miss their deadline?" The boss smiles, "let me let you in on a little secret. We don't need the manga until next week. We just tell the artists we need the manga today so they will all hang it in by the end of next week."
"But a deadline is still a deadline, sir. I shouldn't miss it no matter what." Yugi says sincerely. He tries to start working again when he knocks his teacup.
"No!" The tea almost spills over his work again, but the boss catches the cup and prevents it from spilling.
"There, lucky I caught it on time. It'll be a shame to ruin artworks that are so wonderful." The boss says.
"The tea got on your sleeve! I'm such a dummy. I'm so sorry, please forgive me!" Yugi shouts.
"Tell you what, I'm going to forgive you if you on one condition." The boss says, "from now on, stop calling me sir. Call me Yami."
"I can't call you by your name! You're my boss." Yugi says.
"But you have to, because you're going to have dinner with me." Yami smiles.
"Have dinner with you?" Yugi says.
"Yes, I'm going to take you out and have dinner with me. What will the waitress think of me if my date keep calling me boss at the restaurant?"
"Date?"
"Yes, we're going out on a date now. You must have been working on that mange the whole day and skipped your meals. I bet you're really hungry right now so I'm going to take you out to eat. If anyone have a problem with it, just tell them tht you can't work on your manga cause you have to have dinner with the boss." Yami says as he winks to Yugi.
(I must be dreaming!) Yugi thinks.
Yami puts his hand around Yugi's shoulder and leads Yugi out of the art studio.
--End of Yugi's flash back—
"Two order of rice cake." The waitress put the rice cake on the table and says, "enjoy your snack."
"Arigato!" Joey smiles to the waitress.
Yugi plays with his tea cup. The young manga-ka sighs, "anyway, that's how Yami and I met. From that day on, everyday was like a dream. I was the luckiest person in the whole wide world. Life was like a fairy tale. And then one day, Yami just died."
Yugi start sobbing. Joey hugs Yugi and lets Yugi cries. "I don't think I can go on. I can't move on without Yami. Why can't I die with him?"
TBC…