Hi. It's been a while. I guess I should mention my new reviewers. Thanks to Tiktakclok choochooclock, Knuckles, Ninotori, Battygirl, and KeeperofLostHope. Oh, and Banner is the Slifer advisor with the cat. Ok. Let's do this.

Chazz spent a lot of time with Jaden and everyone that had helped him that one day. They told him that they cared. They said that they would always be there for him. He had believed them. Even Alexis had found out about Chazz and she helped too. She was very supportive. Chazz never felt happier in his entire life. Finally, people cared about him. They were concerned for him. But it only took a week to take away everything that his new friends had given him.

It was that time of year again where people went off to see their families. Unfortunately for Chazz he had no choice but to go home. The last thing he wanted was his brother's to do something drastic because he didn't want to come home. While he was there he tried to keep as far away from his brothers as he could. But that was pretty hard. His brothers bothered him everyday. They never left him alone. He felt himself slowly being drawn back to cutting himself. He tried to resist this urge. But when his brothers brought it back up he lost it….

"So, Chazz, when exactly did you become a cutter?" Slade asked one day.

They were sitting in their living not really doing anything. Slade was doing something on the computer and Jagger was talking to someone on the phone and Chazz was staring off into space. Then Slade asked his question. Jagger hung up the phone and Chazz was brought back to cruel reality.

"Well, answer the question." Slade commanded.

Chazz looked at the ground and spoke in a small voice. "I can't remember. It's been a long time I guess."

"And what exactly drove you to do it?" Jagger asked.

Chazz closed his eyes. His brothers were teasing him. They knew exactly why he did it. It was their fault. They knew they were the ones to drive him towards this. They just wanted to hear him say it. Chazz didn't want to fall for their trick though.

He shrugged his shoulders. "I just did. I guess I was under a lot of pressure."

"Pressure, huh? You're just a kid. What pressure could you possibly be under?" Slade asked.

Chazz shook his head. He was already starting to cry. "It doesn't matter! It's ok now because I'm not a cutter anymore. I've stopped." He said.

Slade and Jagger's eyes grew wide. "You've stopped? How did this happen? You seemed more than depressed when I was last at Duel Academy." Jagger said.

"I was. But…Jaden and his friends helped me. Syrus, Banner, Bastion, even Alexis helped me. They made me really happy. I can't remember when was the last time I was happy. It was so long ago. But I'm ok now. They showed me that I was loved."

"Loved? Do they honestly love you?" Slade said.

Chazz looked up. "They do! They love me more than you two ever would! They don't pressure me into being the best! They know I do the best I can and that's good enough for them!" He yelled.

Slade stood up. "Considering that the best you can do is worse than if you weren't trying at all, I would say they just feel sorry for you! You're nothing to anyone, Chazz!"

"That's not true! My friends love me! They care about me! They said so!" Chazz covered his ears and shook his head. He didn't want to listen to this anymore.

"Even if they do care about you I don't want you to hang around with them anymore." Jagger said quietly.

Chazz quickly looked up and stared at his older brother. "What? What do you mean? You can't make me stop hanging out with them! They're the only things that are keeping me sane! The only things keeping me from killing myself! Why can't you understand that?"

"You won't do it, Chazz. We know that already. If you wanted to you would have done so long ago. And Jagger's right. You shouldn't hang out with them anymore." Slade said calmly sitting back down.

"What gives you the right to tell me who I can or can't hang out with?" Chazz said in a low voice.

"Because, you are not focusing. Now that the Jaden boy is your friend you aren't going to want to duel him. They are nothing but a distraction to you. You would be better off without them. Princeton's put work before play and your friends aren't helping you with your work." Jagger said.

"But…you can't!"

"Chazz, if you don't stop hanging out with them now then I promise bad things will happen…" Slade said.

Chazz looked over at him. "What? What are you talking about?"

"We have a lot of connections, Chazz. I know this sounds cliché but I think you would be rather sad if something unfortunate happened to one of your friends." Slade said looking at his nails.

Chazz's eyes seemed to shoot out of his head. "You…you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't do that…"

Slade gave Chazz a dark look. "The way you're acting, I just might. Stay away from your friends. If you really care about them." He started to type on his computer again.

Chazz looked at his brothers than ran to his room. Jagger looked over at Slade and smiled. "Were you serious?"

Slade smiled and laughed a little. "Of course not. I don't even know who half those people are. But they are distracting Chazz. He did better when he was alone."

Jagger nodded then picked up his phone to call the person he was talking to again.

It was finally the day Chazz could leave but he was not as happy as he should be. He said bye to his brothers and boarded the ship to Duel Academy. He stayed in the room they had provided for him and didn't come out. He didn't want to run into Jaden and the others. He crawled onto his bed and just laid there for the entire trip. When it was time to get off he waited a while. When he was on the dock he saw Jaden, Alexis, Syrus, and Bastion meet Banner. They all seemed so happy. Chazz looked away and continued to walk to the Obelisk Blue Dorm.

"Hey, Chazz!" Jaden called.

Chazz turned around angry that he was spotted. He watched as everyone walked towards him.

"Hi, Chazz! How are you?" Syrus asked happily.

Chazz's face was full of sadness. Apparently everyone else saw it too.

"Chazz? What's wrong?" Banner asked.

Chazz opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. This was harder now that he was actually in front of them. He felt a tear fall out of his eyes.

Bastion took Chazz by the shoulders and looked him in the eye. "Is everything ok, Chazz? What's the matter? Tell us."

Tears streamed out of Chazz's eyes as he looked at his friends. "I'm sorry. I can't stay with you guys any more!" he pushed Bastion away and ran towards his dorm.

He heard them call out his name but he kept on running. He didn't stop until he got to his dorm. He shut the door behind him and sat on the bed.

"There. It's over. You did it, Chazz. You threw away the only people to ever give a damn about you. So hard to obtain, so easy to lose." He said to himself.

He walked to his bathroom, his favorite place in the room. He turned the shower on, took off his clothes and jumped in. The water was scalding but Chazz didn't care. He was too upset to care about anything. He opened up the curtain to the shower and looked at the drawer. It was the drawer that held his knife. He never did get rid of it. He turned off the shower and hopped out. He opened his drawer and looked at the shiny knife. He looked at it and smiled.

"It's for everyone's benefit. I should be dead…"

Chazz did what he never had the guts to do before. He slid the knife across each of his wrists and watched as the blood flowed. There was much more blood than he had thought. He sat on the floor and thought about everything he had gained and lost. Then he smiled and shut his eyes.

"I guess I should leave them a message."

He put his fingers to his bloody wrist and wrote a message to his friends on the wall. Then he slowly lost consciousness.

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