A/N: Ok! Let me explain these chapters!

'This format': Thoughts in the person's head.

This format: Flash backs and/or dreams Atem is seeing. Is Lieren seeing them too?...

This format: Sound effects or random little thought that Atem is thinking while he sleeps.

Normal format: What is happening in the present.

THE CHARACTERS:

Elena: A mean and nasty sixteen year old girl who seems to think that she had a relationship with the pharaoh before Lieren came along. She HATES Lieren and now that Atem hates her, she'll do anything to sabotage Lieren and Atem's dream of being happy together. She seems very familiar to Atem. As he slips in and out of the dreams he feels that she is a past life version of Akira!

Tatiana: Close friends with Elena, but not as mean. She doesn't necessarily HATE Lieren, but she definitely doesn't like her. She is twelve and the youngest of the girls. Even though she is hurtful to Lieren, part of her pity's and feels bad for the blonde because un-denounced to everyone else, Tatiana has some secrets of her known and not only that, but she knows a lot of Lieren's secrets.

Lieren: The beautiful and not-so-innocent-as-everyone-thinks-girl. She has a depressing and heart wrenching past that even Atem knows little about. She'll tell him everything when the time comes, but for now she wants him to love her like no one else ever did…

Atem: The poor hero of the story. All the girls want him, yet he only loves Lieren. They have been best friends since they were very young and still Atem doesn't know why Lieren cuts her wrists…

THANKS FOR ALL OF THE WONDERFUL REVIEWS!

Dirty Little Secrets…Part IV

"Yugi won't be home for a while. Want to go do something?"

"Like…?"

Yami thought for a moment. "Anything you want. I'm sorry about earlier…" He stared down into his chocolate milk. He was never good at apologizing.

"No! D-Don't apologize! It's my fault. Everything is…"

The two were quiet for a while. "How about bowling? Or shopping?"

"Hmm…" Lieren sipped her drink slowly.

"I owe you…." Yami sighed. "We'll go to the mall. You love shopping. Remember?"

"Look! Oh! And look over there! It's beautiful!" The blonde fingered the expensive lingerie. Atem smiled at her.

"How much?" He asked in Egyptian to the man behind the counter.

The man smiled and asked him to name a price.

"Oh! Thank you Atem! Thank you sooo much!" She flung her arms around his neck

'Now is the perfect time…'

Lieren smiled and nodded at the memory. "Yes. I do."

Yami waited. "So…?"

"Yes! We will go shopping!" She stood from the table and sat her glass in the sink. She turned on the faucet.

"What are you doing?" Atem pushed in his chair and watched her from over her shoulder.

"The dishes. I might as well," She smiled at him. "If I'm going to stay here, I better pull my own weight." She picked up her now clean glass and sat it in the dishwashers' bottom rack. Lieren looked back at the table. "Could you hand me your plate and glass please?"

"Sure. But I'm not finished with my drink." He handed her his syrup-sticky plate.

"Then hurry up and down it."

"If you want to die…this is indeed the fastest way to go."

"What is it? It smells nasty!"

"It's a lot easier then cutting your wrists. Plus…no one will know about it. There will be no evidence left except you dead in your sleep with a glass of water next to the bed."

Atem made a sick face and put his arms around his middle. "N-Never mind. I have to go to the bathroom." he ran from the kitchen and into the bathroom. Locking the door he opened the toilet wondering if he was going to be sitting on it or have his head in it. He couldn't feel that anything was coming up, but he didn't know if going to the bathroom was what he needed either. Atem sighed and pulled down his boxers sitting on the seat. It was cold and made the pharaoh shiver. Nothing happened. He pushed. Nothing. He pushed harder. And still nothing.

"Yami! Are you ok in there!"

Lieren….

Atem sighed in relief. She could make everything better. Of course, only if he let her try….

"What's wrong Atem!"

"Nothing…"

"You bastard! I know you're lying! Now let me in! Right now God Dammit!"

"I'm fine Lieren."

"NO you are NOT!" She screamed.

Atem's stomach clenched and pain shot through his rectum. What the hell! The pain was so bad that tears filled his eyes. He desperately stuffed toilet paper in his mouth to suffocate his sobs. "I can't move…" he muttered. "The key…get the key…above the door…"

Lieren grabbed a chair and reached for the key. "Got it!" Hastily she stuck it in the hole and turned the knob. "Atem!"

Yami was still on the toilet. Tears falling to the tiled floor like rain. The room smelled bad… It didn't smell like human waste at all…Lieren cringed and made Atem sit up a little more. The smell was sour and was making Lieren sick. It smelled as if someone had opened their insides into the toilet. Lieren leaned over Atem and looked down into filthy brown and red water……

"I'm fine. I just have diarrhea. Nothing major…"

TO BE CONTINUED….