Lady Ai: I feel so loved! I love you, reviewers! I love you guys so much!

Yami Ai: You're just filled with love today huh?

Lady Ai: I've been thinking about Chris all day (not a surprise) AND! I GOT TO TALK WITH HIM! EEE!

Yami Ai: Holy- /covers ears/ A little louder? I don't think the whole county heard you.

Lady Ai: Shut up, you're just jeolous! Anywho- I talked with Chris. He was being sweet (like always) and funny and we were just talking randomly. My friend got suspended and I miss her- she got in a fight. She kicked some ass. Even made a girl bleed. She's so cool!

Alright, enough of my pity life. On with the story!

LAST TIME I'M PUTTING THIS: I don't own.

'You Said I Love You, I wish I Loved You Too'

By: Lady Ai

Chapter Nine:

The First Sign

Xx Author's POV xX

Ryou was somewhat happy when the teacher said 'Spring Break'. Everyone was ecstatic to leave school for a whole week. Ryou was happy because it gave him a chance to work out his little plan. He had called Chris the other day to talk about it and Chris had agreed completely.

The bell rang and Ryou met up with his friends. "Hello guys. What's the gossip this week huh?" Ryou joked. He always thought their little group was girlier than the others. You know- the one with actual girls. Everyone smiled at Ryou...

Except for Yami and Yugi.

'Oh...I forgot about them.' Ryou thought. Yugi atleast tried to look nice, Yami was just plain ol' glaring at Ryou. "Where were you, Ryou-kun?" Yugi asked softly. "I-I went to Kaiba's house. I'm going to stay there for a bit." Yami looked like he was about to say something when Joey cut in. "Hey, Ry? Wanna go to the arcade? Guess who'll be there." Ryou looked up at Joey and smiled. "Sure!" Joey smiled and grabbed Seto's hand. "Let's go then!"

Once they reached the arcade, Ryou went to a corner where he was going to met up with Chris. When he saw a glint, he knew the peircing-boy aka Chris was coming. "411, dark side is with slutty at the tables playing pool." Chris informed Ryou. He nodded and walked off to the tables.

Ryou soon spotted Bakura- leaning over Akina teaching her how to use the stick. 'As if she needs lessons. She beat me once.' Ryou clenched his teeth and saunterred over to Bakura's table. Chris was already pertending to wait for Ryou by the table.

Bakura looked up as he caught a glipse of something white. It was Ryou flipping his hair back and smiling at that bastard that was kissing him the other day. 'What the hell are they doing here?' Bakura glared and went back to look at Akina. He smirked. 'My hikari's a snake, I know what he's doing. As Akina says- two can play at that game.'

An arm wrapped around Akina's waist and he trapped his lips with hers. Akina wrapped her arms around Bakura's neck and her tongue slid forcefully into his mouth. She leaned against the pool table as a moan escaped her mouth and into Bakura's. The stick she was holding fell to the ground with a loud bang catching Chris's and Ryou's attention.

They both glared at the scene. Chris looked at Ryou with a sly smirk. Ryou was about to say something when he got attacked. Chris laced his fingers in Ryou's hair, taking the smaller boy's lips against his. Ryou quickly responded by placing his hands behind Chris's head, pulling him harder into the kiss. Chris's tongue licked Ryou's bottom lip for entrence and Ryou accepted. The tongue ring Chris was wearing messaged Ryou's tongue. Ryou broke apart to let out a moan and returned to the rough kiss with Chris.

Bakura, along with half the arcade, heard the moan from Ryou. The half of the arcade was creeped out and moved away but Bakura was a different story. He took Akina's arms off him and ran to the bathroom for some. . . .private time. (wink wink, nudge nudge).

Chris and Ryou opened one of their eyes to look at their loves. Chris smirked when he saw Bakura hauling ass to the bathroom and a confused Akina. Ryou was a bit confused then shocked when he got what happened with Bakura. He broke out laughing so hard he fell to his knees.

"Look. There he is."

"I can see, puppy. I'm not blind."

Ryou looked up still laughing. He saw Joey and Seto standing infront of him and Chris chuckling behind them. "L-let's g, go h-h-home." Ryou said thru giggles. "Ja, hehehe, ja ne Chris." Chris smiled and patted Ryou's head. "You're too cute. Ja, Ry-kun." Ryou blushed and followed Joey and Seto to the limo.

As soon as the three teenagers got home, Ryou raced upstairs. He had to throw up. Joey had convinced Ryou to eat an apple and now it was starting up his throat. Ryou looked down at the white seat as he flushed the remains in it. He panted heavily as he laid across the bathroom floor, trying to control his breathing.

'What the hell is going on with me? Why do I seem to always throw up after either eating or after an encounter with Bakura?' Ryou reached into his pocket and took out a package of breath mints. He swallowed a few and went to the sink to wash his face. 'Damn, I never thought that being in love can actually make you a love sick person.' He looked at himself in the mirror. His throat was sore, he felt tired but he willed himself to go to bed and try to fall asleep but tonight he just couldn't stop thinking about Bakura and this drove him crazy.

As the next day came, Ryou intentionally missed Breakfast, said that he had homework to catch up on during lunch and by dinner he would eat before disappearing to the bathroom. In the bathroom he would either throw up or cut himself. The thought that would run in his mind would always be the same.

'Why? Why did I fall in love with Bakura? Why can't he return my feelings instead of giving them to Akina? What did I do to deserve so much pain in my heart? These scars and scrapes are nothing compared to that pain. Why? I want this physical pain to cover the emotional pain but it always loses! I don't want to feel anymore! I don't want to love Bakura anymore!'

This continued for four more days until Joey found him on the floor bent over the toilet. "Oh, Ryou..." Joey said, kneeling down next to him and hugging him to comfort him. Joey didn't care that his new shirt was being stained with tears and blood, he still hugged Ryou close to him. And that's what Ryou needed. A hug, someone who cared for him if only for a moment, to feel comforted. To feel like he belonged, again- if only for a moment.

After that encounter with Ryou, Joey and Seto kept a close eye on their friend. They always knew where Ryou was and what happened. "Here." Joey said handing an ice cube to Ryou after bumping into Bakura again. "What's this?"

"An ice cube, to be so stupid." Seto said, chuckling. "Oh, haha. Why are you giving me this?" Ryou said taking the cold ice cube. Joey smiled. "I read somewhere tha' if you felt like hurtin' yourself, one of the safe ways to do so is by holdin' an ice cube really tightly. I also bought some rubber bands, you put them around your wrist and snap them against your flesh."

Ryou smiled. "Thank you Joey. For caring." Joey grabbed Ryou into a big hug. "RYOU YOU'RE JUST SO ADORABLE! I COULD NEVER SEE SUCH AN INNOCENT GUY LIKE YOU HARM YOURSELF OVER SOME IDIOT!" Ryou laughed and hugged Joey.

"Come on Seto, join our group hug. We know you want tooooo!" Ryou giggled. "No, I'm doing fine here in my seat." Seto said crossing is arms on his chest. Joey grinned. "If you don't come to us, we'll come to you!"

"You better not." Ryou and Joey walked closer to Seto as he tried to get up but before he could-

"SEEETTOOOOO GLOMP ATTACK!"

"ACCK!"

"OH MY GOSH!"

"HOLY!"

No, it wasn't Joey and Ryou who attacked, it was Mokuba. Mokuba had pounced over his brothers lap and hugged him just when Ryou and Joey were about to hug him. The two feel over Mokuba and now Seto had three people all over him. His arm was in the air as he clenched his fist wanting air. Mokuba's face was becoming red from all the weight on him and Joey and Ryou were dizzy.

After un-tangling themshelves, they started to watch a funny movie. Ryou was happy that he was in a caring home but he was still thinking about Bakura. He look at Joey, Seto and Mokuba and then looked at his hands. He sighed and snapped a rubber band on his wrist.

When spring break was over, Ryou felt like breaking something. Why did the world have to torture him by having to do a lab project with Bakura so damn early in the morning? The project was done with no help allowed from Bakura. Ryou told him to stay out of his way and let him work. Bakura wanted to protest but saw the fire in Ryou's eyes.

After their science class, Ryou rushed out of the room to his locker and to his next class which had no Bakura's in it.

"Hey, Ryou! What's new?" Ryou looked up from his desk to see that Marik had just entered the room and was sitting infront of him. "Hello Marik. Not much has happened. I'm living with Seto and Joey until I can find my own apartment." Marik raised and eyebrow. "Bakura's still with...'her'." Ryou nodded and Marik shook his head.

"You want me to go and beat him up until he confesses his love for you and dump Akina?" Ryou smiled and chuckled. "No, Marik. Don't beat him up." Marik grinned. "Right, I gotcha! Don't hurt your love. I should hurt that slut." Ryou let out a laugh at that one. "I already did that! I slapped her so hard." Marik eyes widened.

"You slapped her? When?"

"When Yami, Yugi and I were at the Karoke bar. You should've seen her face!" Ryou lifted up a hand to give Marik a high five when the bell rang. Yugi came into the classroom and as soon as he sat next to Ryou, he sent a note to him.

How are you Ryou? I've been worried.- Y

I'm doing well Yugi, but I understand your worriness.-R

Yami had told me. About the slits- Y

He told you? Well, I guess you would've found out anyway. I don't do that anymore, just so you know- R

Oh, what a relive. Anyway, you want to do something today Ryou-kun?- Y

Well, let me get my schedule... well, it looks like I can fit you in. Sure! hehe- R

Haha, Ok then. We're all heading to the park but we'll meet up with everyone at the Hot Spot Coffee Shop, ok?-Y

Ryou looked up at Yugi and nodded. He kept the note in his pocket and started to do the classwork.

When school let out, Ryou had gone almost the entire day without bumping into Bakura, besides from their first class. And that's what Ryou wanted right? To not see him ever again? As if. Ryou wanted to see Bakura just not with the slut.

Ryou walked to his locker to place his books in when he saw a blue flower taped to his locker along with a note.

Yo Ryou-kun, I was thinking we should actually go out on a real date. Tonight meet me at that coffee shop I met you at. Later- C

Ryou blushed. 'Oh just great! I'm going to make an ass out of myself and infront of a cute guy. Hm...maybe it would help in making the 'relationship' seem more realistic infront of Bakura.' Ryou shrugged and placed the note in his pocket. He stuck the flower in his hair, it made him feel pretty, and walked off to the coffee shop to meet up with his friends.

Lady Ai: Yeah, Chris is getting a tiny crush on Ryou but it's nothing big. It just help me with the ending that is coming up, sadly. But all good things must come to an end, right? Right. So, there I finally updated! wee!

Yami Ai: And make sure to look out for our up coming story- "Drug-laced Romance" is about how Ryou goes to one rave which he soon loves and goes to raves with Marik(hikari malik) every weekend. Bakura is a drug dealer that sells things like Ectasy, Rohypnol, and GHB liquid.

Lady Ai: The thought of making that story just came to mind after watching a tape in my science/health class about raves and drugs that are commonly found there. I was like, 'oh yeah. Bakura would sooo be that type of drug dealer.'

Yami Ai: anyway, we promise to update asap next time...well, until after the FCAT's finish. So Review! Please and thank you! n.n