Chapter 2 (As the Memory Turns…)

Kat walked into their game shop/house. She saw many bright colors and things that just looked like fun. Yugi had been talking about games and the shop in the car, but now that she saw it with her own eyes his words made more sense. She walked up to the front counter, there were little brown rectangular things for sale, and she didn't remember what they were called. "Do you remember cards?" Yugi asked from behind her. "Cards?" Kat froze remembering something. She was on the plane, with many cards in front of her, they looked different then the ones that she had just seen though. She pulled another card from the…deck. It had an A with a heart next to it. Then her memory went back into black darkness. Yugi smiled, he understood.

After getting settled into her new home, for a while at least, Yugi took Kat to meet his friends. Kat nodded eagerly, she liked meeting new people. She followed Yugi closely until they reached his rather noisy friends. But when Yugi came up the got quieter, "Hey Yug, what's up? Who's the friend?" "This is Kat, she's from the hospital she'll be staying at my place for a while", Yugi explained. The girl with short brown hair looked at Kat, then looked at Yugi, as if wondering if Kat would be a threat. A guy with big dirty blonde hair came up to her, "Hey, I'm Joey? Do you duel?" Joey thought of Kat as a possible duelist first then a girl second. "Umm… Don't know…" Kat stuck her hand in her coat pocket, feeling something she pulled it out, it was the Ace of hearts, "Yes." She showed them the card, but she could barley hear Yugi explaining to everyone about her memory because the card triggered another memory. She was still on the plane, with the ace in her hand, she remembered the ace was her favorite card. As she set the ace in it's solitaire position, the plane began to shake and move, "Fasten your seat belts! We may be experiencing turbulence!" She picked the Ace up stuck it in her pocket, for luck, and began cleaning off the little table in front of her.

Then Kat snapped back to reality. A boy with short brown hair came up to her, "So you don't remember anything?" "Wouldn't have known name", she showed him her nails. He nodded, "You know you talk kind of funny." Joey hit the short brown haired guy, Kat blushed, "Tristen you idiot! She loses her memory and so you expect her to remember how to talk correctly right away? You'll have to forgive Tristen's stupidity Kat, he isn't very smart." "Oh yeah, you're one to talk!" yelled Tristen, the boys began to argue. Wind blew through Kat's long curly brown hair, her pale skin could feel the sun beating down, but her skin must have been a sun reflector though, because she was so pale. Her half brown half green eyes shone at the two fight fighting boys. Tristen caught a glimpse of Kat and stopped fighting Joey causing Joey to look at Kat as well. Kat didn't notice that there were two human lighthouses staring at her because she was still looking at the sky. "Wow", muttered Tristen. Joey blinked and pulled himself out of the trance, he loved Mai. Tristen continued starring until Joey elbowed him in the stomach. The brown haired girl just stepped closer to Yugi and out of the path of the two fighting guys, "I'm Tea." Kat brought her mind down from the clouds smiling at Tea, "Nice to meet you Tea." She was tired of being silent, and talking wrong, she considered her words before she said them. "Hey where's Bakura? He'll probably want to meet Kat too", said Yugi. Tristen sighed; girls had a history of falling for Bakura. He didn't get why though, but white hair and an English accent was all it took, unless they had seen the other side of Bakura… The gang began to move; Kat quickened her pace to keep up.

As they walked Kat started to piece together her recovered memories, as well as her new. Her old were obviously on the plane the doctors had been talking about, and according to her new memories she figured she shouldn't get too chummy with Yugi. Even though she had lost most of her memory she hadn't lost her girl instincts, Tea had a thing for Yugi; Kat could tell. As they walked past some cute little shops Kat had to pause, Tea caught a look at what Kat was looking at and walked to her side, then together the girls started the ancient art of window-shopping. "I like the pink one", Tea giggled. Kat nodded; there was some thing familiar about the pink purse… Another piece of memory floated back to her… After putting the Ace of Hearts in her pocket, she pulled out her pink purse from under her seat, putting the rest of her cards in her purse, the plane did a sudden dive and her purse flew out of her hand and hit the lady behind her, "Here, you should be more careful, young lady. Your parents should keep a closer eye on you." Kat refused to be insulted by the mean somewhat chubby lady, "I'm flying alone." Her voice sounded strange to her. Kat snapped back to her current memories still starring at cute little handbags next to Tea. "Not a purse shop, we'll never leave now!" groaned Joey. "We're coming", Tea laughed. They ran to catch up the boys. Kat smiled, even though she didn't remember her family, she now knew that they weren't on the plane with her. They weren't dead.

They found Bakura in the library. Kat noticed that when Bakura first saw them his eyes darted first to the strange necklace around Yugi's neck then slowly up to everyone's face. He wore a broad smile, "Ello everyone." Kat didn't know why but she almost melted at the sound of his voice, he spoke differently than the rest of the gang, but she couldn't remember the word for it, cute came to mind though. "Hi, Ba-kura", Kat said the name as if she were a toddler saying it's first words, "I'm Kat." Yugi then jumped in and told Bakura all about Kat, what happened, and why she was staying with them. "Oh, well that is a pity", unsarcastic, truly worried for her but cheerful. Kat would have fallen head over heels in love with him right on the spot except for an itching feeling in the back of her head. Liking Bakura seemed, wrong for some reason. But she couldn't quite remember why. Her mind was like an archeological dig, her memory's like ancient pottery buried deep and covered in dirt. Every once and a while she'd find a broken piece of pottery, which in the end would fit together with other pieces.

Then she remembered, a postcard, she thought it was called. Before she had started 'dueling' with her cards, and the Ace of hearts, she had written a postcard. She could read it in her mind, all but the name, oddly enough. But her instincts told her the postcard was to a boy. A friend boy…a boyfriend? Yes a boyfriend, that's what it was called. Her boyfriend, she sighed, stupid memories! She didn't see any girls throwing themselves at Bakura, but he must have been singing? No, that wasn't right…single? Yes, he must have been single; he was at a library after all… Her head hurt, from all the remembering she had done. She forced herself to remember again, it wasn't called a head hurt… WHAT WAS IT CALLED! What's it called when your head hurts?" she asked, her speech had improved just by thinking in her head so much. The gang looked at her strangely. Tristen jumped in first, eager to impress her, "A headache?" Kat nodded, her head hurt from nodding so much, "Thank you Tristen." Tristen flashed the rest of the gang a huge 1 million watt smile. Tea put her hands over her face as an effort to not laugh at Tristen; it didn't work very well though. Meanwhile Kat thought some more. If you were going out with someone but you didn't know them or their name, were you allowed to date someone else? Hmm… This required more thought, her stomach lightly growled, reminding her that the last thing she had eaten had been some peanuts on the plane… This required more thought…and some food…