Disclaimer-Kazuki Takahashi owns Yugioh
Key
/ someone singing/
"quotes are speech"
'is dreaming'
/is flashback/
- is thoughts -
Tea rocked back on forth as she looked at each of her friends. Now that the whole birds and the bees business was settled for her anyway, poor Kaiba was upstairs at the very moment, struggling no doubt, it was time to tell her friends why she really called them there.
"Umm, guys the reason I called you here, isn't because Kaiba didn't have the talk, It's because..." Tea said looking at Joey, and Tristan send her evil glares, they obviously knew where this was going. Yugi cast her sympathetic glance, and looked at his two friends, the whole thing didn't feel right.
"You can't go through with it, can you?" Yugi said softly. Tea gulped and nodded.
"I, it's not that I don't care about you guys, and it's not like I don't want to be your friends, I really do, I so desperately do, but..." Tea said tears flowing freely down her face now.
"But, you love him." Yugi finished. Tea nodded and turned her face away in shame, how could she have fallen in love with Yugi's greatest rival, it wasn't right, and yet there it was.
"I dun believe that Tea, not fa one lil minute, you think you love him, an' that's fine an' all, but you need ta rememba who ya real friends are, us. We been through everythin' with ya, and ya know dis, but all he does is fight with us, and ya know dis too, and yet continue to ta live dis lie, and ya know it is, and ma friend, the real Tea wouldn't fall for someone like him, she jus' wouldn't, he just manipulating ya, and I won't stand for him hurtin' none of my friends, I dun' care if their to blind to notice da truth, now ya gonna go through with da plan, and make him get what's comin' to him, or I'll take him out, I'm willing ta go to jail to protect ya Tea, for life if I have ta, if ya know what I mean." Joey said sliding his thumb across his throat.
"But..." Tea protested.
"THEIR IS NO BUTS TO FRIENDSHIP TEA!" Tristan shouted. "I DON'T CARE ANYMORE ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO BE OUR FRIENDS, OR NOT, WE STILL CARE ABOUT YOU, AND WE'LL DO WHATEVER TO KEEP YOU SAFE, IT'S NOT CALLED TOUGH LOVE BECAUSE IT'S SOFT AND PILLOWY, IT'S CALLED TOUGH LOVE BECAUSE IT'S TOUGH!"
"Tristan, Joey please just hear me out." Tea pleaded falling on her knees. Yugi looked at Tea, but remained quiet. Tea looked up at as if noticing him for the first time. Her eyes widened with hope. -Yugi will make this all better, he makes everything better.- "Yugi talks some sense into them please." Tea said looking him in the eye. Yugi turned away from her gaze.
"I-I..." Yugi began, voice quavering, "I, agree with them Tea, not their means, but...all I know is we never would have fought like this before, and I just want, what we had back, this is the first time I've actually left the millennium puzzle at home, because, I...I'm just tired of all the fighting." Yugi admitted starting at the couch. Tea looked at Yugi for a second, hurt in disbelief overwhelming her before she burst out into a fresh set of sobs and buried her face her legs, unable to face them.
"I am too Yugi, can't you at least try to make this work?" Tea said staring at the floor. "And if not, why can't I let him down easy, why go through all this extremes?"
"To make sure he never messes with you, and to pay him back for anything he's ever done to anybody." Tristan said bluntly.
"But why the dance, why my dance, why not some other day. I the one that thought of having a pre-Halloween dance, followed by a costume party, me! I wanted to please both sides, I don't care if Bakura is the one who thought of making it a royal ball, and I don't care if your the one decorating it Duke, the fact of the matter is I'm the manager and it's still my dance, my moment to shine, and not only are you going to ruin my life, his life, but your going to ruin my moment. I've always been there for you, but when it comes time me to shine, and for me to love, you want to ruin that, WHY!" Tea demanded picking herself up and shouting. "TELL ME!"
"Its fer your own good." Joey said firmly, jaw set.
"The Royal Ball?" Serenity suddenly piped up, everyone turned around to look at this new voice. She had been bliss fully ignorant of what was going, neither side willing to tell her. Tea nodded.
Serenity suddenly got up and walked over to her small pink mini back pack, she carefully pulled out a magazine. "You know what day that's on, don't you?" She said flipping through the magazine.
"October 25, so what?" Duke said, he preferred to sit back and watch these arguments, rather than get involved in them, unless it involved Serenity.
"It's...never mind I shouldn't have brought it up." She said hugging the magazine close.
"Just spill it already hun." Mai said annoyed. She'd known about the plan for a while, Joey had claimed that Kaiba had killed his puppy and forced him to eat it and that's why he called him mutt, but she hadn't believed it. She'd said she help, but only if she agreed with them, and after this spat she didn't know what to believe, she just knew she needed a Tylenol and a good soak to sort things out, cause it was giving her a headache.
"Joey please don't be mad." Serenity said. Joey scratched his head.
"'Bout what sis?" He said grabbing the magazine, and seeing that while not a dirty magazine, it did feature a bunch of less than decently dressed men. Joey eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"Seren, how long have ya been keepin' this from me."
"Not long, It's the first one I've ever bought, I've only flipped through, and I intended to give it away as soon as I finished reading the articles." Serenity said nervously glancing away.
"You know there are pictures in there right?" Mai said hoping maybe this would ease the mood.
"I know, I wanted the one of Kaiba." Serenity said meekly. Kaiba started walking down the stairs hearing only Serenity's comment about wanting a picture of him.
"KAIBA WAS IN A...BAD MAGAZINE!" Joey exclaimed. Kaiba's stopped mid-step, turned around and walked up to the stairs to Mokuba.
"Hey Mokuba while we're on the subject of long, super long, mind numbingly long and covering up speeches, let's talk about drugs, you do know their bad right?" Kaiba said his eye twitching and grinning like a lunatic. Mokuba quirked and eyebrow up.
"It's not bad, it doesn't show anything, and besides Kaiba has a bathing suit on." Serenity protested.
"YOU WERE LOOKING AT PICTURES OF MY BOYFRIEND IN HERE!" Tea shouted beside herself.
"WHY WOULD YOU DO A THING LIKE THAT!" Tristan shouted, -not her too!- Poor little Yugi had collapsed.
"I'm sorry Tea, I just such a big fan of his work, not his dueling work, his work, work, I mean come on he turned a weapons factory into the biggest amusement company in Japan."
"YOUR A FAN,...AMUSEMENT!" Joey shouted hyper ventilating.
"Calm down guys, Serenity is a big girl, and besides you didn't let her finish." Duke said wrapping am arm around her shoulder. Tristan growled angrily.
"What I was trying to point out his vital stats, look, name, age, birthday." Serenity said pointing.
"October...25th." Mai read aloud. Suddenly the whole room grew quiet. "Hey doesn't he some sort of thingy soon after that."
"Yes, to prove he's emotionaly and mentaly stable enough to live on his own, and if you guys go threw with this, he most definetely won't be." Tea said quietly.
"Well then I guess ya jus' gotsa ta pick whose life is more important to ya, his or ours." Joey said. "Come on guys let's let 'er think." Joey said standing up to leave, everyone but Mai and Serenity followed. Joey stopped at the door. "Aint ya comin' too?" He asked, they shook their heads. "Then I guess ya just have ta decide too, ya know it's funny I never thought my own sista would do dis to me, guess it's true what they say, you neva know what backstabba's life will throw at ya, so keep one eye open." Joey said coldly, before exiting the mansion. Serenity collapsed to the floor and started crying.
"Serenity...you don't have to stay." Tea said putting a hand on her shoulder. Serenity shook her head.
"No, I love my brother, but I have to pick the side that's right, I have to...oh Joey!" She sobbed busting into tears. Kaiba came down stairs and surveyed the scene. Tea glared up at him and picked up the magazine, so he ran back up the stairs to tell Mokuba the evils of water pollution. Tea collapsed on the couch and buried her head in her hands. -What the heck am I going to do- Tea thought as more tears threatened to spill. Tea heard a knock on the door and jumped up hoping against all hope that it was them, coming back to tell her they had changed their minds. She opened the door and gasped at the person before her.
"Where is he." The woman growled through gritted teeth.
Gomen for the extremely, ridiculously late update, but it couldn't be helped, I decided to take a break until school ended, and once it did, my computer messed up on me, and I couldn't do much of anything, I actually had to type this whole thing over, because it got deleted, I actually like the other one better, on the plus side I have more free time on my hands, and some new computer parts, so hopefully I'll be able to update frequently, at any rate it'll be faster than this. Once again I apologize for the late update.
Sincerely,
Ariesdragon