Good Girls Gone Bad
Today's insult brought to you by Hoshi-Yuki, courtesy of her review of Chapter 8.
"'Friendship is listening, not lecturing.'"
"True, true," Mai agreed, nodding her head vigorously.
Téa made a face. "But I don't lecture."
"You do give speeches occasionally, though," Mai pointed out.
"Only to people who need them," Téa defended herself.
Mai grinned. "While I think it's admirable that you want everybody in our motley crew to get along, I don't think you'll ever get Bakura, Marik, Malik or Kaiba to be friends with everybody. I think the most you can hope for is an abiding tolerance."
Frowning, Téa flopped back on her bed, magnet emblazoned with this round's insult dropping out of her hand to get lost in the sheets. "So you're saying I should quit trying?"
Mai shrugged. "I'm saying you should be aware that no matter how much you hope you can get everybody to be best buds…well, if that were possible, we wouldn't be in this situation."
Tea nodded reluctantly; after all, if people were even insulting their best friends, why should she expect more from near-enemies?
"Besides, no one's tried to kill anyone else in a long time, and considering how vicious some of these insults have gotten, that's a whole lot of progress in some cases," Mai said.
Brightening, Téa said, "Good point."
"And I have another one," the blonde revealed.
"Oh?" Téa asked, eyebrow raised.
"Both of us have been hit – but neither of us have gone after anybody else except for getting Ryou and Bakura back." Mai grinned. "Which means that the rest of those jokers are in for a rude awakening. Once we get through with them, they won't know what hit them."
A Cheshire Cat grin crossing her face, Téa snickered. "Oh, you're bad, Mai."
Mai smirked. "Good girls are just bad girls who don't get caught."
"And neither of us plan to get caught," Téa added.