Chapter Seven

Friends, Vs. Friends. And a lover?

Ok, quick Recap Joey meets his old childhood friend Jake. Jake introduced him to his friends Allyssa, Pete, Patrick, and Antoine. (Pronounced- Anthony) Joey's friends, (Tea, Tristien, Ryou, and Yugi) walk in to a pizza shop that Joey, and Jake's friends are in. Jake and his friends over hear a conversation that they are having and Jake finds out Joey ran away from his father.

Rain: Seto's being mean again Joey!

Joey: Down Seto!

Seto: Otay.

Rain: What's wrong with this picture?

"Joey? You ran away?" Jake asked. Joey nodded.

"Yeah, a few years ago." Joey said stuffing a piece of pizza in his mouth.

Instinctively he popped up his collier, so no one would notice him. "Do me a favor, and try not to say my name to loud." Jake's friends nodded. Jake took a bit, then looked towards the door.

"Guys, look at this." The group Joey was sitting with looked. Joey did too. Seto was looking up at the pizza shop sign. "-What's The Seto Kaiba doing around here?" he opened the door and walked in. Mokuba was with him.

"Common' Seto! Your slow!" Mokuba said grabbing Seto's hand and pulling him to the counter. Seto ordered two plates of cheese pizza, and then they went to sit at the table next to Joey and Jake. Mokuba looked over.

"Oh, Hi Joey!" he called. This got the attention of Yugi's group, seto, and Jake and his friends. Joey put down his collier and waved.

"Uh, hi people." Tea jumped up and through her arms around Joey.

"I'm so happy that your father didn't kill you!"

"I didn't even go visit him Tea. And I'm sure the appetite head line for this situation would be, GET THE FUCK OFF ME!" Tea let go and backed off.

Patrick laughed. "I can see why you're undecided. One cute babe, but mad ass annoying."

Joey stood up, put a $20.00 bill on the table, and said "I've gotta go. Pizza's my treat." Then he left. Joey was still mad at Seto. Still confused. He walked to the home he shared with Seto and Mokuba. He went to the room Seto gave him, and he locked himself in.

He through himself on his bed and started crying. He put on his radio, and put in his Simple Plan c.d. He put on perfect, and started to sing along with it. This song reminded him of how he use to look up to his father.

There was a knock on the door, but Joey didn't move. He wouldn't move. He just turned up his radio to drown in his own tears. The knocking persisted. Joey kicked off his shoes and buried his face in his pillow. He felt like scum. No, worse then scum.

He felt betrayed. He felt like no one cared about him.

'This must be how Seto felt when he slit his wrist.' He looked at his left wrist, then bit it. Hard. Until he could taste the blood in his mouth. He wasn't normally into this kind of stuff, but it felt goo. So goddamn good.

He bit down harder, letting the blood flow into his mouth. He didn't want to tell Seto that he knew that Seto was having a kid. He began to cry again. When his salty tears hit the open wound, he cringed his eyes. Salt and open wounds don't go together. He got up and went to the bathroom that was connected to his room. He washed it under hot water to make sure it would be cleaned. He opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out the gauze and the sterile pad. He quickly wrapped his wrist. He went back into his room and laid down on his bed, face first.

Soon he found himself asleep. With nothing to do, but dream.

He was walking around the house. Mokuba walked by him as if he wasn't standing there. Joey thought to himself that he was just very busy. Then, he heard crying. But it wasn't crying of an adult, or a young child. It was that of an infant. Joey consciously followed the sounds of the cries. The cries were coming from Seto's bedroom. Joey slowly opened the door to find Rain standing next to Seto, and Seto was holding the crying infant sousing it. Joey spoke, but no one looked at him. No one even responded. They didn't even know that he was there.

Joey woke up panting and sweating. His shirt was off and he was in his boxers. Joey remembered falling asleep in jeans and a T-shirt. He wiggled his toes and found that his socks were gone. Was he robbed? What robber would steal his clothes? He got up and went into the bathroom to wash his face. When he opened the door he was face to face with Seto, who was answering the call of nature. Seto blushed and Joey walked over to the sink.

He turned on the water, let the sink fill, and washed his face off of sweat. He then rubbed his aching shoulders.

"Um, Joey?" Seto asked as he put himself back in his pants and flushed. Joey only looked over in Seto's direction briefly before washing his face again. Seto fidgeted.

"I have something to tell you, Joey. It's really important." Joey turned off the water, let the sink drain, and put his hands on the edge of the sink. He looked down at the drain.

"What is it?" Joey really didn't want to know what else he was hiding from him.

"I don't want you to get mad, but… I, I'm going to have a kid." Joey didn't even raise his head. "Are you really mad at me Joey? You won't even speak to me."

"I knew." Seto raised and eyebrow.

"Knew what?"

"About you and Rain's child." It was Seto's turn to look at the incredibly interesting floor. "I probably should have told you sooner. I'm sorry Seto." Seto looked up at him.

Seto remembered seeing Joey's wrist to the top of his arm bandaged.

"Is that why you slit your wrist Joey?" Joey nodded and let the tears fall. Joey turned to Seto and cried into his chest.

"Y-you're not going to chose the baby over me, are you?" Joey asked.

"Of course not! Is that why you were acting strange?" Joey nodded. "Joey, you know I love you. Even though sometimes I don't show it, I really love you. But I have a duty to my un-born child, to take care of him of her." Joey smiled through his tears.

"Just don't let the baby take all your time." The two boys stayed embraced in each other's arms for what felt like an internaty. (Sp?) After what may, or may-not have been an hour, Seto and Joey found them self rolling around under the covers. (If you know what I mean. hint hint)

When Joey woke next, Seto was lying next to him, holding him tightly. Joey shook him. They were awake in time to be able to get ready to go to school.

Seto sat up. "I wanted to sleep in."

"Do you remember that you said you weren't going to let me fall through the cracks?" Seto nodded. "Well, if I havet'a go to school, so do you." Seto grunted but got up and got dressed. As did Joey. They took the jeep to school. Joey was thrilled out of his mind to be driving the jeep that seto once said that he would never let him drive.

When they got to school, there was an argument. Some kids were having a verbal fight in the center of a large crowd. Seto and Joey looked at each other confused. The only one that ever got into a fight was Joey, and he always kicked ass, (so to speak) and Joey was standing next to seto. Joey pushed his way through the crowd to see who was fighting.

It was Allyssa and Tea! Antoine and Tristen, Patrick and Yugi, and Pete and Ryou where staring each other down. Jake was just standing on the out side shaking his head. Joey went over to Jake.

"What's going on?"

"Oh, Joey. I tried to calm them down, but no one listens to someone who can barely speak."

"When did this start?"

"Yesterday after you left."

Joey shook his head too. He looked at the bickering kids. Allyssa and tea were having it out; the boys were just staring each other down.

"-At least I'm not a connor prostitute!" Tea yelled at Allyssa. Allyssa was a very beautiful girl, and her looks attracted some unwanted people. How Tea knew that was beyond him. Allyssa through the first punch. The next thing Joey knew, the boys were fighting with their fist.

Joey couldn't watch his friends have it out, so he yelled.

"Break it up!" they stopped fighting. But Allyssa and Tea held onto each other's hair, hard. They were on the ground, still throwing punches. Joey grabbed Allyssa by the belt line and Jake grabbed Tea by the collar and they pulled them off.

Allyssa kept throwing punches in an attempt to get lose, to no avail. Joey put his arms around her waist to keep her from throwing any more punches. Tea was red at the ears by this action.

"Okay you two. What's the problem?" Joey asked, rather calmly. The two girls pointed at each other.

"She started it!" the yelled in unison. Jake shook his head.

"Alright, what's going on here?" it was the principle. He stopped short. As did the falcate (sp? (You know, teachers.)) members. "Joey's not fighting?" he went over and put the back of his hand on Joey's forehead. "Well, you're not warm…."

Jake laughed. "I knew you got into fights Joey, I didn't know you were famous for 'em though." Joey nodded.

"Fighting's my calling." He joked. The teachers laughed. The principle went over to Jake.

"You must be Jake Misouwa." Jake nodded, as did Joey. The principle looked at Joey rather confused.

"Sorry, old habit." The principle looked back at Jake.

"It's nice to have you joining our prestige school." (I'm not quite sure if prestige is the right word.) Jake went over to Pete.

"Hey, Pete?"

"Yea?"

"What's prestige mean?" Pete laughed.

"What? What's so funny?"

"I've never heard that word in my life, and I'm the writer!" they both laughed. Joey let go of Allyssa and she went after Tea again.

Joey turned around and Allyssa had Tea pinned between her and the ground, punching her face. "Take it back!" Allyssa yelled. Tea rolled over knocking her off. Now Tea was punching Allyssa.

"No! You stupid slut!"

Allyssa grabbed Tea's shirt and pulled it, causing it to rip. Tea gasped and grabbed Allyssa's shirt and pulled making it rip. She ripped it so bad; you could see the entire front of her bra. Allyssa screamed and punched Tea so she was knocked off her. Allyssa got up and ran over to Joey, covering her breast. I pulled off my jacket and put it around her. She was crying slightly. Not from the punches, but from the fact that she ripped her shirt like that.

Joey hugged her. "Hey, it's okay." Tea was red at the ears again. And Seto could have sworn that the green-eyed monster of jealousy had come out. Joey kissed Allyssa on the forehead. "Why were you two fighting, besides the name calling?"

"Cuz she said that you were never gonna hang out with us, so I told her off. Then she started talking shit. I got transferred over to this school and ran into her. She started talking shit with those little boy friends of hers so I called Pete, Antoine, and Patrick to come and stair them down…."

"So you two were fighting over me?" Joey joked.

Allyssa paused and thought. Then nodded. "Yea, yea we were. She's got some psycho crush on you. She totally hung on you. She was saying all this weird stuff yesterday bout you. Like, 'oh, I love his hair, and his eyes… etc. Etc.' and it made me wanna gag. Y'know?" Joey only nodded at everything she said.

'Man, girls and their crushes.' Joey thought. "I think we should go to class." This time, the entire crowd gasped. Joey and skipping classes went together like two peas in a pod. Spigettie and meat balls. (I can't spell even if my life depended on it.) "Okay, wrong audience." Joey said turning to walk into the school building.

Seto only laughed and followed. After a minute or two the students and the teachers filed into the school building. Seto and Joey were found in their first block class talking. When the other students walked in, Seto tossed Joey a brown paper bag. Joey opened it up a little bit and a smile crossed his lips. He pulled it out and it was a thing of Italian bread. Un-cut. He opened the package and began to eat it in the middle of class. The teacher took it away from him.

"Common' teach! I'm not hurtin' nobody with it!" he called out, his mouth full of bread.

"No, but your English might kill some one."

"Hey! Leave me and my improper English alone! And while you are at it, give me my bread back! I haven't eaten in two days!"

"Oh really?" the teacher asked. "-And just why not?"

"Cuz' I'm homeless!" Joey said, lying. Seto caught on quick and kept his mouth shut.

"Oh. I didn't know. Here." The teacher said handing it back.

Joey started eating it again and the teacher left the class. Jake leaned over to Joey.

"I thought you said you were living with your mom." Joey shook his head and went back to eating his bread.

Allyssa got up and sat next to Joey in an empty seat. "Joey, if you need to, you can come stay with me and my mom. I'm sure she wont mind." Tea stood up.

"Joey, I think you should stay with me!" she called out. Joey looked over at her.

"If I know you, you'd probably try to do my hair in the middle of t he night. Like you did that time I passed out at Yugi's. It took me two weeks to get all the hair spray out! Allyssa, I'll take you up on that offer." Allyssa smiled and hugged Joey. Giving him a soft kiss on the lips. It was short and simple.

Joey's face turned a million different shades of red. Allyssa was a very pretty girl. Ruby red lips, light blond hair, (except the tips witch are black by the way.) and her eyes where cool. Joey felt someone starring at him, and he knew this stair. It was Kaiba. For some reason, Joey just didn't feel like he use to when he was around seto. Ever since Rain interfered!

The teacher came back a minute later and pointed to Joey. The school shrink was standing in the doorway. "Joey, please go with Mr. Minato." Joey got up, (taking his bread with him) and grabbed his stuff.

And that's the end of this chappie! see ya! for now!

Seto: why are you so hyper?

:Rain: Your hurtful!

Seto: now what'd I do?

Joey: see! you are a mean person!

Seto: FINE! lets go f joey!

Next chapter: a love to last forever. (This will be the last one!)