Yea another chapter. How bout that 4 chapters is one go. Hopefully within the week I can have another few posted for ya. Enjoy!

Any way time for the disclaimer: I DO NOT own Yugioh and am not making any profit whatsoever by writing this story.

Juniper's dueling deck is pretty much made up of cards that do not really exist. Some are actual cards, such as Polymerization, but for the most part the cards were just made up. Any names they may share with other cards are completely accidental. I am sure the differences will be apparent.

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It was Saturday morning, the one day of the week a person should be able to sleep in. Unfortunately for Joey Wheeler that was not the case. Around 9:00 am Thomas finally came home and wasn't quiet about it either. He slammed every door possible and cursing loudly, which in turn woke Joey up. He decided it was in his best interest to stay in his room and out of the way. After awhile Joey hesitantly got out of bed. His room was felt slightly cold to him, seeing as he was only in an oversized white t-shirt and a pair of black boxers. Joey walked over to a small table in the corner of his room, opened a drawer and pulled out his dueling deck. He randomly sorted out cards to bide time until his father was either a) asleep; b) Gone from the house; or c) out of the way enough to make a quick escape. Unfortunately Joey wasn't able to avoid his father before any of the three things could happen.

Thomas walked into Joey's bedroom and shoved him harshly of the side of his bed, where he had been sitting. He then proceeded to walk over to where Joey now sat and lift him by the collar of his shirt.

"You listen to me boy. I want you out of this house in less than 20 minutes. You got that! Sheila is coming over and I don't want you around when she gets here." Joey numbly nodded as a reply. His father glared at him a few more seconds then punched him once across the face causing him to fall back down to the ground. With that being done he left and went to his own room.

'Well that wasn't so bad. Must be my lucky day.' Jody thought as he pulled himself off the floor. 'Where can I go? Yugi won't be up yet neither will Tristen, and I don't think Tea's mom would appreciate me strolling over there at 9:30 in the morning for no apparent reason, Well at least no reason she can know about.' Joey decided he would figure out where to go after he left. 'No sense in sticking around here longer than possible.' Joey changed into a pair of jeans and a red shirt with a black dragon on it. After putting on a pair of tennis shoes he left the house.

After walking past a few houses he decided that he would go check in on Juniper, hopefully she was correct in her assumption that her dad would not come home until Sunday night that way he would be in the clear. After about 10 minutes he reached her house, he was relieved to see no car in the driveway. He walked up to the door and rang the door bell. When there was no reply he rang it again. This time he heard a voice yell for him to hold on a second followed by the sound of footsteps. Juniper slowly opened the door and looked at the visitor. A smile instantly spread across her face when she saw it was Joey.

"Hey, What are you doing here?" She asked softly. Joey looked her over noticing that she was wearing a pair of loose fitting jeans, and a orange t-shirt. He noted that she looked mush better than she did the night before. All of her cuts had been cleaned up a bit more and she was visibly less sore.

"Hi. Do ya min' if I stay here for a while? My dad kicked me out for the day because some girl is coming over." Juniper's face softened as he spoke. She opened the door, moved to the side, and gestured for him to come in. The house had been cleaned up from the day before. Juniper closed the door then the y turned to face each other. "Well you're certainly looking better." Joey smiled as a faint blush spread across her cheeks.

"Yea, it's amazing what a nice long bath can do for a girl." This statement was followed by a long silence. Finally Juniper spoke up. "Are you hungry? I for one haven't eaten anything yet and I'm about to make myself some breakfast. Ya want anything?" Joey laughed at her question. He knew that if the others had been there they would have laughed to.

"Of course I'm hungry. When am I not?" Both laughed as they walked to the kitchen.

"Well then what do you want to eat?" She had already started getting out milk and some eggs from the fridge.

"Well what's there to eat?" She sighed and shook her head.

"This is getting me nowhere. Since you won't just ask if I can make you a certain dish I will just make whatever I want."

"Whoa there, some ones a little snappy in the morning." Juniper smiled and walked over and punched him lightly on the arm.

"Are you always this difficult in the morning?" She smiled at him before walking over to some cabinets to pull out a pan. "If your majesty doesn't mind I'm going to make French toast and scrambled eggs. Any objections?"

"None here." Joey walked over to the kitchen table and sat down in a chair while Juniper started cooking. Joey decided to look through his deck dueling deck while he waited. After about 15 minutes Juniper came over to the table with two plates and set them down then got two glasses of milk and set them on the table as well. It was then that she noticed the duel monster cards in his hand.

"Hey I didn't know you were into duel monsters. What's your favorite card?" Juniper asked as she sat down.

"My favorite card is of course my Flame Swordsmen. Do you duel?" Joey asked enthusiastically.

"Of course I do. Here I'll show you my deck." Juniper reached into the back pocket of her jeans and pulled out her deck. She looked through her cards then pulled one out. "Ah, here it is. This here is my favorite card." She handed Joey a card with a dark red dragon on it. It had an attack power of 2800 and a defense of 2400. "This card goes by two names. It's original name was the Crimson Blood Dragon, but then got shortened to just Crimson Dragon. Probably cause the name sounded too harsh for the kiddies."

"Yea yer probably right. Yugi's grandfather owns a game shop with all kinds of duel monsters. After we eat ya want to go check it out?" Joey finished eating his first slice of French toast and was working on his second.

"Sure I don't see why not. I just have to change and grab a few things than we can leave." Juniper stood up and put her dishes in the sink. She then left the room and headed up the stairs to her room. Joey quickly ate the rest of his breakfast, put his dishes in the sink and waited by the front door. After about 3 minutes Juniper came down the stairs wearing a pair of blue, well fitting flair jeans and a black turtle neck tank top. She wore her hair down, it reached just past the middle of her back. She had a small backpack with her. "Ready to go?"

"Yep. Let's get goin'." They walked out of her house and shut the door behind them. After making sure it was locked they went on their way. "What you got in the bag?"

"Oh, just my dueling deck, some cd's, and my drawing stuff. You never know when that type of stuff will come in handy."

"Yea you never know when you'll need kick some ones ass with a sketch book." They both laughed at the comment and continued their journey to Yugi's.

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Tbc. Well I hope you all like this chapter. Pease review and tell me what you think.