A.N. I'm back! Ok, not too, too many reviews. I thank the few who did. All I have to say is, this is going to get pretty long, and better I hope. So for those people who reviewed, read this chapter, I know you'll like it! And yeah, the ones I already posted do seem pretty cheesy, huh? Well, hang in there, I'm starting to get the hang of this mushy lovely stuff, ok? (the lovey stuff towards the end of the chapt. anyways!)

Disclaimer: I have never before, or ever will I own Yu-Gi-Oh. Enough said. Let's begin!

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We arrived at the restaurant, and Tea was wearing that dress. She looked beautiful. Not to mention, too hot beyond all belief. This is a dream come true.

We went up to the counter to see if there were any tables that weren't reserved, and we were so lucky to get one. A waiter to showed us to our table and we sat down and looked at our menus. I left mine on the table and used my left hand to open it. There were a lot of things on it that I couldn't even pronounce, so I just went with spaghetti.

Someone came and asked us what we want to drink and we both wanted iced tea. After we got our drinks and someone asked what we would like to eat, I said spaghetti, and she ordered something that wasn't too easy to say-at all- in my opinion. But she said it with ease. It figures! She told me it was her favorite, and somewhere in the back of my head I remembered it and remembered how to spell it. I couldn't say it for my life, but at least if someone ever asked I would know how to spell it.

"Isn't this place awesome?" She asked.

"Uh-huh. What's so awesome about it?"

"Actually, I was thinking its romantic. A couple could sit across from each other, gazing into each other's eyes, and there's candlelight and Italian food. I love Italian food."

"Yeah, it's pretty." To me it was just a restaurant. I guess it just wasn't a big deal to me. Then again, she loves Italian food; all I know is that burgers aren't Italian. Oh well. Oh yeah, I'm supposed to keep my eyes open for signs. I wonder if that couple thing meant anything-

"You didn't have to take me here; we could've just gone to a fast food restaurant." She said, breaking the silence.

Yeah right, after the way she reacted, I'm glad I took her here. "Well, you wanted to come here. Tonight's your night."

"It's your night silly! We're celebrating you…coming back."

"We're supposed to be celebrating you getting your job back."

"That was three weeks ago."

"I did say we'd celebrate it, so here we are. Besides, you're around fast food all the time; I thought it'd be nice if you were around real food, in a real restaurant."

"Thank you, that's very considerate, but I just serve it; you eat it all the time."

"So we make the perfect team."

She giggled and said, "I guess we do then." After that we were silent for about 5 seconds.

"If you like this place, we can come here again sometime." I said, breaking the silence.

"I like this place so far, how about you?"

"I'll know what I think when the food comes."

"Is it your dream to be a food critic?"

"No, it's my dream to spout wings and fly on top of a really tall building to make myself feel taller. Being a food critic is a goal, or maybe it's the other way around." I said jokingly. She knew neither was that important to me.

She laughed again. I love to hear her laugh. I love to see her smile; she has a beautiful smile, and a beautiful voice.

"You're so funny Yugi. It's good to have you back."

"It's good to be back." We were silent again, and once again I broke the silence, but not by talking. Suddenly we heard a loud rumbling sound.

"Was that your stomach?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm starving."

"You had lunch, how hungry can you be?"

"Starving."

"It figures."

"When the food comes, I can see if I like this place."

"By testing out your spaghetti? There's nothing that complicated about spaghetti, except maybe the sauce."

"Then I'll see if I like this place if you like your meal….whatever it was."

We continued to talk, bring up stuff from our past until our food arrived. They looked delicious, even whatever Tea got. Luckily I trained to eat with my left hand in case I couldn't use my right. Specifically for burgers, I don't know what I'd do without them. Then again, I don't know what I'd do without Tea.

"Yugi, I remember when you were practicing eating left handed. Remember, you ordered a bunch of burgers and you had me tie your right arm behind your back."

"Yeah, I blew all my allowance money to get sick off of burgers and still keep going."

"Well, it's a good thing you did, or I might be feeding you right now."

I was silent, as I thought about that for a second. "Rats!" I said out loud. "You can feed me any day!"

"You said something similar when I tied your arm behind your back."

"Really? What did I say?"

"I think you said, 'You can tie me down any day.' You perve."

"Joey told me to, and...I was just bringing back the memory!"

"That's what you always say, and Joey wasn't even there!"

"Really? I didn't think so; I just took the chance and was hoping he was."

"Right, you know there's nothing stopping me from slapping you public! Not the people, not your arm, and not how cute you look sitting across from me! Give me one good reason not to!"

"Ummmm...look! Garlic bread!"

"Ha, ha!" She said sarcastically."

"Wait, you think I look cute?"

"Ummm...ooooo, Garlic bread!"

"Hey, that's mine, it came with my spaghetti!"

"Please Yugi, won't you share?" Tea asked, pleading and making herself seem innocent and sweet."

"If you thought that would work, you're sadly mistaken."

"Please!" She continued with the voice.

"You should've order spaghetti."

"Yugi!"

"Fine! Just don't tell anyone I cracked!"

"That's ok, you can keep it, I just wanted to see if you would."

"I don't care; as long as I get to keep my garlic bread."

"Of course."

Still talking, we brought up more memories and things we remember from our childhood, while we ate our meals. It was a nice conversation, and the food was good. When we finished I paid the check, after another long discussion of who should. Then we left and walked around for a while. We even walked by the beach to watch the sunset.

Then somehow we came up with the idea to go bowling. So we went to the bowling alley. We discussed that I could bowl left-handed and we could have bumpers. Also, we had an extra person for me. I had an extra turn and we added those two scores together. It was her idea, and she paid for it because she insisted...and twisted my arm backwards.

I beat Tea by two points. I keep telling her she beat Yugi 1 and Yugi 2, just not when their scores combine.

After bowling, she said she was tired, and it was getting late. So we walked back to her house. It was 11 o'clock, which was my normal curfew, if my mom knew I was out. According to Yami, tonight it's supposed to be 1 o'clock. That's ok, it's just 3 hours.

We walked up to her door and she said. "Goodnight Yugi."

"Goodnight."

She grabbed my hand and kissed me on the cheek. She turned away to go in the house, but she didn't let go of my hand. She paused for a bit, and things just suddenly slowed down. It was dark and quiet. The brightest light was the sparkle that still gleamed in her eyes, even as she faced away from me. The loudest thing was my heartbeat. Even though it was cold out, suddenly I began sweating. As she looked back at me, she looked even more stunning fro some reason, than she ever did before. Suddenly she turned back around, and kissed me on the lips. She put her arms around my neck, and continued.

At this point I was just shocked. Suddenly it was the moment I always dreamed of. Except it wasn't a dream. I put my arm around her waist. Time just froze. Suddenly I thought about something, which completely killed the mood, and my dream. I put my arm around her. This couldn't be what she wants! She deserves someone who can hold her in his arms, and make her feel safe. I don't fit that description! It hurt so bad to kill my dreams like this. Actually, I turned it into another fantasy. A fantasy is something that's all around not possible, like me and Tea. Why do I always have to do this to myself? I wish I could've just not thought anything at all!

I broke away and said, "I'm sorry Tea, it's not possible." I wanted to cry, but I didn't want to make her cry.

"Why?" She held my hand tighter, as if holding back tears.

"Because you deserve someone who can hold you with both arms." I turned away and let go of her hand. I was going to walk away, but she put her hand on my shoulder.

She didn't say anything at first. She just stood there, silent, possibly thinking. "Yugi, please wait for a few minutes. I'll be right back, please don't go." She opened the front door and went in, leaving the door cracked open just a little bit. So I decided to wait, knowing she'd come right back out.

When she did come back out she was wearing light blue and white, plaid pajama pants under her dress, and light blue slippers. She was holding a bag that had something in it. I couldn't see what it was because it was dark.

She closed the door and said, "Let's go." She grabbed my hand and basically dragged me to wherever our destination was. We walked for a while, and I still had no idea where we were going. We didn't say anything, she just dragged me. "We're here!" We stopped at the grocery store, the one that's open late. Why on Earth would she take us to a grocery store? I decided that Tea must have a plan, a whole bag of plans.

"Stay right here, I'll be right back." She went inside, leaving me to continue my wondering. I could see her through the window as she went directly towards the frozen food section. Then I saw her go to the counter and purchase...whatever she purchased. I guess she didn't care that the cashier was staring at her, obviously wondering why she was wearing pajama bottoms and slippers with a dress. She stuffed the item in the bag, walked out, and continued dragging me where-ever she was dragging, which was still unknown.

She picked up the pace a little bit, and since she was pulling my arm, I had to as well. We kept walking at that speed until we started to go uphill. I couldn't keep up that speed, so she slowed down a bit so I could continue. We continued going uphill and when we got near the top I started to see couples lying on the grass, watching the stars together.

Finally we stopped and she told me to close my eyes. I did, and wondered how much more she could possibly surprise me today. When she told me to open my eyes, I opened them and saw one of Tea's blankets laying on the grass with another on top, and a long pillow going along the top of the blankets.

"Yugi, I was thinking we could watch the stars together. Get in." She said, gesturing towards the blankets. I got under the top blanket and she came in after me.

"What did you get at the store?"

"Ice cream."

"Why?"

"To eat, I brought spoons. I remembered we used to enjoy eating mint n' chip ice cream together because it was our favorite. It still is mine." She took out the ice cream and set it between us.

"Things never change." I say to let her know that it's also still my favorite. She smiled at me, knowing I was still the same person and best friend she always knew.

"But, I was hoping that they could. I want us to be together, and I've wanted us to be since forever."

"I've wanted this too, but I would feel guilty if something bad happened to you, and I couldn't prevent it. I don't know what I'd do if that happened. I can't do everything to protect you."

"Then will you let me decide, and take that risk? I know you would risk your life for me. You are a great guy, and you make me feel safe just being with you. I know if something happened, you would do everything you can, and more. Besides, I don't care if you have both arms to hold me, I don't need to be held, as long as you have a hand for me to hold." She picked up my left hand, and cuffed it with her two.

"And if I didn't have my left arm?"

She smiled before saying, "As long as you can do this." She moved in for a kiss, once again taking me by surprise. I put arm around her to enjoy the moment. But I suddenly had a cold feeling on my chest that stung really badly, and I had to tell her.

"Tea."

"Yeah."

"We can't."

"Why!"

"The ice cream is melting between us." She looked down at the forgotten ice cream. She glared at me and slapped my arm jokingly for tricking her.

She reached behind her to grab the spoons, and handed me one. She took off the lid and we took turns getting spoonfuls. We looked up the stars and ate our favorite flavor of ice cream. When we were both done eating ice cream, she put the lid back on it and put it away. Then we just held each other for extra warmth, until we fell asleep.

When I woke up, the first thing I saw were the stars. There are so many this late. Then I realized that it was late. It must've been way past the curfew Yami gave me which was way past the curfew my mom gave me, if she knew I was out, and that curfew is way, way past the curfew my grandpa gave me. Then again, when school ends is way past the curfew my grandpa gave me. I quickly woke Tea up and we folded the blankets and put everything back in the bag.

We started running down the hill. We noticed that all the other couples were already gone. We ran by the grocery store, and ran as fast as we could back to her house. When we got there we were of breath.

"Will you get in trouble?" I asked still huffing.

"No, they might've thought I went to bed already when I went in. How about you?"

"Well, it depends if Yami kept my cover and if he's asleep. What time is it?"

"Almost three-thirty."

"Then I gotta' go."

"Ok."

"Goodnight Tea."

"Goodnight, be careful walking home."

"I will." I said while taking off. There was no one out but me. This made me feel a bit safer. There were a few cars. People shouldn't drive black cars at night, everyone should have white cars, they're less scary. It's just scary to see a black car drive by when it's dark. It's sort of like in a scary movie. Also….black….was the color of that car that one day. It sends chills up my spine.

When I got home, the front door was locked. At least now I know that I didn't get caught, or they would've left the door unlocked for me to come in. Even if by some chance they forgot to lock it, I wouldn't go in anyways because when you open the door the bell rings. So it's a trap.

Instead I went around back and climbed up the tree. It was difficult without my right arm, but I've done it before. I used to sneak candy into my bedroom, so I'm used to only using one arm. But this means my candy-sneaking days are over. When I got to the top of the tree I pulled myself onto the roof. I stayed low so that if anyone saw me, they wouldn't think I was breaking in or something.

I crawled to me window and pulled it open. I took off my shoes and threw them by the closet. Then I quietly went through the window onto my desk. I was careful not to knock over my desk lamp. When I was all the way in I closed the window and quietly stepped off the desk. Continuing to be quiet, I grabbed my pajamas out of my dresser and changed into them. I put the sling for my arm in the top drawer of my dresser. I walked up to my bed, pulled off the covers, and could not believe what I saw.

There were pillows under the blankets, but on the pillow that was supposed to be for my head, there was an exact wig pf my hair! Where did Yami get that? It was seriously creeping me out. I looked over to Yami's bed and saw him asleep. I wondered if this was some sort of joke. If it was, then he'd be awake laughing, but he's asleep...sleeping. He's not faking; I can feel his mind at rest.

Oh well. I took the wig and threw it on Yami's face. He rolled over and knocked it onto the floor. I moved all the pillows, and got under the covers. I pulled the blankets up, shut my eyes, and went back to sleep. My last though was how today was a much bigger step than I expected to take. I finally got my date with Tea!

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If you remember, in Why! after Yugi asked Tea out on a non-date, he thought to himself that it wasn't a date, but it was a step forward. And in the last chapter they called it an official date. Just to refresh un-freshed memories. Anyways, please review!