Chapter 1, how I became a bed wetter: Yugi's pov:
The Sennen twins, Diya, Malika, Heba and I are in the nursery. Heba and I were playing together in the playpen while Yami and Atem were talking with the ladies, only when Heba gave me an unsuspected hug and I started to cry in joy trying my hardest not to show it, Heba however did notice it and encouraged me to tell my story, a few adaptions were quickly made, and the four adults are now eager to hear my story while sitting in a wobble chair. I sit in his lap nuzzled against Atem for moral support and comfort, I start to speak for the first time against people I only barely met, I already told allot to Atem about what happened with me, but not all.
"Okay Yugi, with your permission we are recording this on tape, for when you ever decide to take action, we can use this tape as evidence." Yami explains to me, I nod my head up and down in a yes motion, open my mouth and start telling.
"This is my story about how I became a teen-baby. Sometimes you need to realise there isn't just a simple kink to which coated you to go into this situation, sometimes there is also abuse in play, and like all the dangers from a depression, also abuse can make you do things you didn't do before, in my case I am sure the abuse is the main reason why I decided to go I to this act, and although the abuse was invisible at first but started shortly and slowly after my daddy passed away if not sooner.
The abuse however got noticeable shortly after I turned 6 and we moved out abruptly and getting me in the first step of becoming a teen baby, namely a bed-wetter.
I was born in the year 1980 on the 4th of June, in the hospital of Domino Japan. And came home the very next day with my daddy and Vivian who I assumed to be my mother. I was a daddy's boy that's no lie, always reacting as soon as he entered the room I was in, but never reacting to my mother. But I would not be the man I am today if I didn't have my best friend, Atem.
When Vivian and daddy took me home from the hospital, he was there to greet me with his parents and twin brother. It was when I was introduced to Atem when I went for the kill and showed him the honour of my first ever smile making him melt and falling in love with me." I say look up right into Atem's eyes, he closes in on me and gives me a kiss that only he can give me.
"Really?" Heba asks in disbelieve."
"It's true Heba, they say it's an honour if the baby gives you his first smile ever, Vivian hated the fact the baby gave it to a child and not her, also she didn't like the fact Yugi reacted to his father and never to her, Atem who first thought babies were dumb as being a two-year-old by that time melted on the spot when Yugi gave him that honour." Malika says with a smile.
"But how does he know all this? I can't remember being pushed us into the world, let alone known when we started to walk talk and so on." Yami wonders.
"Yami, I don't know if I was born naturally or via C-section, Vivian never told me this." I respond
"You two were born by C-section and Yugi remembers because I told them many times stories about all this before they moved out on his sixth birthday, I even believe Yugi has a mild form of photographic memory."
"He doesn't, when Mokuba found him and took him to the Kaiba mansion, they tested him on various things like ADHD, Autism, and epilepsy and to photographic memory. ADHD, photographic memory, and Epilepsy are off, but he has a mild form of Autism, he simply has a very smart brain, and he likes to hold on to precious memories to keep him going." Atem explains and then tells me gently to continue.
"Atem came visit me daily, he helped my daddy give me the bottle and a fresh diaper, my daddy even allowed Atem to help him bath me. When I started teething Atem was the one who found out because I bit him rather hard in the finger, and with every new milestone he always saw me do it first and clapping the loudest for me like the time I decided I wanted to run after Atem instead of crawling. I was holding myself to the coffee table and suddenly I let go and wobbled unsteady towards the open arms from Atem who was loudly sheering for me and encouraging me to go on.
It was obvious Atem was my best friend and most of the times he was with daddy the last person I saw when I went to bed, and the first to see when I woke up in the morning. My daddy and Atem's parents often joked that if Atem got the chance he would move in and get no sleep simply because he wanted to see me sleep.
But when I got into my toddler age, Vivian and daddy often had fights together maybe earlier but I can't remember, my daddy had the decency to take me to the Sennen's and one look towards mama or papa Sennen as I called them was often enough for them to know the two were going to have a fight again. They simply took me to the nursery from when Atem and Yami still were baby's only to find Atem next to the crib I was sleeping in. so when I was two and too big for the crib, they simply placed me next to Atem with a board next to us to prevent us from falling out the bed.
His parents thought Atem would become tired of me someday but until then they simply enjoyed all the time, he spends with me. Atem however never got tired of me. No, they soon realised there was more going on between the two of us, something so rare they only heard of it but never saw it."
"What was that Malika?" Diya asks.
"True love, I only heard a few times about couples who spend their whole lives together and, in the end, die only minutes or sometimes even seconds after each other, I truly believe you have this true love feeling towards each other." She explains and I smile before I continue.
"By the time I was two and a half my daddy died, he was sick for a long time and spend allot of time in the hospital, I spend most of those days with mama and papa Sennen, Atem and Yami. Although Yami often went to play with friends, but because I still needed my naptime and Atem didn't want to go, he made sure when I was sleeping in his bed his friends were silent.
He also never allowed them to make fun out of me or hurt me. One of his friends hurt me by telling me I was too little to play with them, Atem's other friend's saw how serious Atem was about his threat of not hurting me in any kind of a way ended for them, you see we lived in a rich neighbourhood, and for kids who weren't as wealthy as us, it was a horrible idea to be shut out by the rich kids, and that happened with this kid. He was shut out not only by Atem, but also by Yami, they made it an unwritten rule as a twin. Although the Sennen's and my daddy never allowed us to become snobs but to treat each other with respect.
They taught their sons to respect the value of money and if they wanted something, they needed to work and earn the money themselves. And when I was there, I learned to live under the same circumstances, and my daddy supported that idea."
"I don't understand." Heba says. "Didn't you guys get an allowance?"
"True, we got a weekly allowance and it was given to us by our age." Yami explains but when Heba looks confused he explains further, "If we were 5 years old, we got five dollar a week, when we turned 6, we got six dollar a week but if we wanted extra money like for a game that was almost out of stock and would not come back again, we needed to do extra chores in the house so we could earn it ourselves." Yami explains to Heba.
"But remember Yami, most kids from even average households got only an allowance once a month, the two of you got this much because thanks to your father he could afford it to you."
"I know I got my allowance from Uncle Seth once a month-- "
"--In consolation with your father, it was too expensive to send you money each week so we decided this would also do for you, it was the same amount Atem got."
"No, it was ten more, each month, but only when I did my best."
"Then Uncle Seth also gave you an allowance. And it was his and his choice to do so."
"Guys how much I enjoy listening to who got how much each month, Yugi was talking remember?" Heba interrupts the banter allowing me to continue my story.
I look with appreciation towards Heba and continue. "My daddy eventually died, and I didn't understand why. But Vivian told me this, and mama explained it in a way I could understand."
Flashback 1:
Nicely dressed in a black suit but with ugly brown shoes, I hold my mom's hand, tears in my little eyes. "Mother? Where daddy?" I ask Vivian as a two-and-a-half-year-old little boy, trying my hardest not to cry because I knew she hated it when I cried.
"Your dad's gone, God needed him so the angels came and get him that's why you just placed that ground on that coffin. And be quiet I need to think!" Vivian said but with an irritable undertone in her voice reserved only for me.
When we came home from cemetery, she brought me to the Sennen's, I didn't know if I wanted to be mad at her because she lied to me when she told me daddy would return, or mad at the doctors because they could not save my daddy while they promised me, he would become all better, I just didn't know, but I knew I was tired and wanted to cry.
Vivian knocked on our neighbour's door, and mama Sennen opened, Vivian pushed me towards her. "Can you take him? He is fussing since he woke up and I need time for myself, also the lawyer is coming over to discuss the inheritance."
"Yeah sure, he also can stay the night if that works for you, again sorry for your lost." Mama Sennen said while bending down and lifting me in her arms, Vivian says nothing, she just turns and walks away.
Mama Sennen takes a deep frustrated sigh but then turns her attention to me while closing the door. "I'm sorry Yugi, I'm sure your daddy wanted to see you grow sweetheart, now cry them out, you feel much better when you do." She cooed in my ear and allowed me to cry freely where my mom never did allow it,
"Mama? Why daddy go way? doctor pwomwised me he otay." I ask with my face full tears.
"I know honey, but sometimes the doctors do everything they can to save a life and are sure they can help him, but sometimes the person's body is simply too sick like your daddy's even if he wanted to become better, the body says then enough is enough, and that did happen with your daddy, he is with god now."
"A god like Isis and wraw, or Anbis, and Oris?" I ask that were the only gods I always remembered.
"Ra, Anubis and Osiris Honey, and yes, like the Egyptian gods. Only the god here in Japan is called Kami." She chuckles while correcting me, they and my daddy always told us stories about Egypt. I let oud a loud yawn, funerals are tiring. "I believe someone is ready for his nap, let's get you to bed hmm?" she cooed and walks upstairs with me. She changes me in a clean diaper lays me in the bed from Atem and makes sure I don't fall out by placing a board to the sides which papa Sennen made when Atem was little and fell out of bed regularly.
"Where Atem?" I ask sleepily while snuggling in the blanket, pressing his pillow against my stomach, and smelling Atem his sent, which has a calming effect on me.
"He is at school sweetie, when you wake, he will be back." She says and softly sings a song, so I drift off to sleep.
"Mama? When I big boy's pants?"
"I will look for the potty and we start tonight honey. Now sleep." Mama Sennen says and gently closes the door.
Naptime is still a common thing for me, I can get cranky when I don't get it and Vivian had often seen my mood, shouting to me to shut up and even locking me in my room where I cried until I fell asleep or daddy came and get me out, hugging me and sometimes brought me to the Sennen's to play with Atem.
When I wake up chubby but already strong arms are wrapped around me. "Hey, sorry I was not there today, my mama tried to get me off, but the headmaster told her only family was allowed to get free for a funeral or wedding. So unfair." Atem sighs. "My mama talked with your mom, and you stay here tonight." He ads suddenly very happy.
Flashback 1 ends:
"Seems like Vivian didn't care much about the loss of you father." Heba says gently putting his pacifier in his mouth and pressing himself against Yami, taking it out for a moment to continue. "But I realised you never called her mama? Or mommy? Why's that?"
"I somehow never could bring myself to say that to her. Like it would be wrong to call her that. Sometimes I even wondered if it was okay to call her mother." I softly admit. "Maybe if she was nicer then yes, but she always was in a way nasty towards me."
"Yeah, that idea she also gave me. But I didn't focus on that, our main concern was Yugi now, luckily took Aknankanon the responsibility to look after the boys when he came home so I could have some me time, and that's when I was thinking and puzzling all the pieces together." Malika says.
"What puzzles?"
"Puzzles that still keep me busy around Yugi and his family, Yami."
"But for a two-year-old you already had a good way of speaking, yes a few flaws but still… Heba wasn't that obvious at that age." Diya wonders.
"Yugi had the luck that Solomon, and we spoke allot with him, and when he managed not to speak a word correctly, we practiced with him until he got it right."
"What about the inheritance?" Yami asks.
"Well, it was strange that his father's lawyer suddenly stood at the door, handing us Yugi's bank account, birth certificate and other important papers regarding Yugi, it was like he was preparing to let us take care of Yugi, sadly before he could arrange the papers to take Yugi in, he passed away."
"How confusing." Diya says.
"True, but let Yugi explain further. Maybe we find the answer in his story." Malika hushes them.
Flashback 2:
After a whole day of playing outside in the snow building snowmen and having snowball fights with Atem and after dinner until dark also with Yami this time because he went to friends Before that, we roughhoused with papa Sennen until it was an hour before bedtime, papa Sennen places the three of us in front of the TV, we get a cup warm milk with honey and under his watchful eye to make sure we were nice and calm when we did look sesame street. Singing along with the songs and me cuddling up against Atem.
When it was bedtime mama Sennen took the three of us in bath at first, and when we were ready mama Sennen had a little surprise for me, she had found the practise potty which Atem and Yami had used, she made me go sit on it and I peed on it, both mama Sennen and Atem were sheering for me. Yami was already taken by papa Sennen to his room.
Then it was Atem's turn to try and like a big boy he already was went to the big toilet, mama Sennen meanwhile helped me in a pull-up diaper and explained to me if I would have an accident, I would not make the bed and my PJ dirty. I felt like a real big boy that moment.
After she tucked us into the bed, she read us stories and eventually said it was time to go and sleep. She placed the safety board on my side of the bed and gently closed the door. Telling us she loved us all equally.
Flashback 2 ends:
"If only I knew by then Vivian would staring dating guy after guy, I think I would throw a fit much sooner. Every week she came home with another male and I spend more and more nights at the Sennen's because she went to the bar to meet up with guys. It made my progression to become potty trained pushed to the background because I had nearly every week to deal with a new dad till the point it became too stressful for me, mama thought it was a good idea to do the potty training when it calmed down a bit with Vivian and her men."
"How long did it go like this?" Diya asks.
"Until I was three, I recently had reached the age for kindergarten and went three times a week. And almost every time she came to fetch me with a different guy telling me he was my new daddy."
Flashback 3:
"Yugi, your mommy is there, again with a mister I don't know who he is." teacher says with a deep sigh and frown in her front head, she is my kindergarten teacher, and we do all kind of fun stuff together.
When I see her walk in with that man it makes me angry and for the very first time I am getting really upset and start throwing a tantrum. I start screaming really hard and yelling kicking and hitting the floor because she doesn't give me the chance to get used to the situation "I don't want a new dad; I want my own daddy not a dad who promises to stay and then leaves!"
My screaming and crying were apparently loud enough for the headmaster to come and see what is going on, and a simple explanation from teacher and a look to the situation made him realise what was going on. He ordered the strange man to go away, he ordered Vivian to stay putt and takes me in his arms with him. In his office he pulls me in his lap and calms me down he asks me why I was screaming like that and telling he won't be mad if my reason to act like I did was a good reason.
With the tears still streaming down my cheeks I try to tell him between my sobs, "I don't want a new dad, and mother has a new dad every week with her, I mis my own daddy, and never could have the chance to actually miss him because mother tells me I need to be a happy boy for when a new daddy comes around."
The headmaster listens to me and when I'm done with my explanation he says. "You were right to do what you did but… you need to leave it with that one time because in normal circumstances, this is not the behaviour I want to see in my school, also it is very disrespectful, I promise I will talk to her." He Explains me gently before calling mama Sennen asking if she wants to come over with Atem because I was very upset with Vivian, and while waiting for mama Sennen and Atem, the headmaster calls Vivian in and he indeed talks to her, she tells him I had absolutely no reason to act the way I did, when the headmaster silence her.
"Miss Wong, what I'm going to say may shock you, but if you don't agree with my offer, I see myself forced to call child protection on you because you are neglecting the needs for Yugi to the point it's obvious you are abusing him!"
"What? But I never hurt that little boy, he simply is looking for attention." She waves off what just was told to her.
I see the headmaster cocking his eyebrow, she must have made a comment he did not appreciate. "That's not what I heard from his teacher, she sees the boy every time looking sad the moment, she tells him you are here to fetch him with a different male than the last time, I know the boy spends allot of time with the Sennen family and Miss Sennen is currently underway because I want to try something that may be beneficial for both you and Yugi. Also, I would be careful with the comments you place in my office, that remark alone was almost reason enough for me to call child protection!"
"And what do you want to try, that is beneficial for him and me?" she asks not caring about the warning headmaster gave.
"I want to place Yugi out of house for a while, to see how he copes in a family household and where he can cope with the fact, he misses his father and getting the support to heal from that because the past six months you have obviously not given him the opportunity to do that."
"And what's in it for me? I didn't hear any beneficial in this for me!"
"You can go dating and seek for a man that truly is willing to take care of Yugi and not leaves him the day after he meets the man or leaves after a few days after get to know him. You take the time to get to know the man and when you do you slowly start to introduce Yugi to the man. If you don't agree to these terms, I will see myself forced to call child protection!"
While Vivian thinks about that, we await until mama Sennen and Atem arrive, when they do Atem pulls me to the slide and plays with me while mama Sennen, my mom and headmaster are discussing the details about what the headmaster just told to Vivian.
Flashback 3 ends:
"Yugi stayed with us for a month where there was showed him a stable and loving household, sadly we needed to cut short because Seth's wife had aborted her child and her life, and we needed to go to Egypt in a haste but the headmaster needed to keep us updated. Seth needed an heir but due to medical reasons he needed to be castrated shortly after his wife got pregnant, he begged us to help him out and stay or give him one of the boys preferably Atem since he has the Egyptian skin tone. Aknankanon was considering staying and not give one of the boys to Seth, but Yami had other plans." We all look up towards Yami, he only shrugs.
"I saw Atem didn't want to stay in Egypt and I had discovered this baby here, what Both Yugi and Atem had, I had with Heba, I begged my family to leave me behind, so I could become the heir of SC. I also was worried about Yugi and forced them to go home to make sure Yugi would be safe. Heba and I became close friends, but my uncle forced me to use him as my servant, especially after his surgery and he needed to pay uncle back. I did but in secret we were friends until uncle passed away when I was 17 and I declared my love to him."
"Seth wasn't happy with Yami because he looks more European than Egyptian and wanted Atem instead, but we told him he swore to protect Yugi till the max and this month away was already stressing Atem out."
"How?" I ask worried.
"Atem needed at night back in the diapers for a little while, we realised it was because he missed you badly."
"With Yami staying behind, we returned to Japan only to find a totally different toddler in Yugi, he also had missed Atem terribly and cried his little big eyes out asking him never to leave again, it made me wonder what she had done to break him like this. I had hoped the headmaster had monitored you during our absence, a foolish mistake, the man retired only a week after we left and the new headmaster wasn't as attentive as the previous one, Aknankanon forced Yugi's first elementary school to make him first contacts for when something was wrong. I don't know if they transferred those papers every time they moved, but we never got a call from his new schools."
Flashback 4:
30 days I sleep over at the Sennen's, and I don't have to go home to my mom, I even don't see her in that month, when I don't have school, and Atem does, mama Sennen and I take him there and at the end of the day we fetch him. I play with Atem when he has his schoolwork finished, we roughhouse with papa Sennen, and mama Sennen bathes us every evening and tugs us in telling us all kind of fairy-tales. When I fall and scrape my knees, she allows me to cry and kisses the pain away and bandage my knees
Mama Sennen trains me fully to use the potty and even lets me carry the same kind of underpants as Atem and Yami has, she told me they were from Atem when he was little, but they don't fit him anymore. She shows me she is not mad when I have a pee accident because I played too long and thought I could hold id a little bit longer but tells me I need to dress in new clothes, or I will stink. Pulling up her nose in a very funny way like she always does with Atem and Yami. It always makes me laugh.
Even Atem helps me getting potty trained, and when I tried for the first time to sleep without a big boy pants as we called the pull-ups, he also wasn't mad when I woke up and had peed all over us. He simply called his mama and the three of us cleaned the bed together and after a fresh PJ we went to sleep again, begging if mama Sennen wanted to tell us one more little story, if Atem didn't have school in the morning, she told us a story otherwise it was just a kiss and sleep again.
It even came to the point I had a stronger bladder then Atem did, but like he never teased me about it, I also never teased him, they were accidents and with playing children they are bound to happen.
Then the Sennen's suddenly need to go to Egypt and I am not allowed to go with them because they would consider it kidnapping the headmaster told them, for a whole month I missed them terribly. Vivian pulled her middle finger to the rules and only a week after they were gone and a day after the old headmaster retired, she told me I would meet a new dad tomorrow.
She was happy I didn't need the pull-ups anymore but didn't show she was proud at me; she only saw those money bills in her savings growing again. "Good they were too expensive anyway, now I can use that money for fun things." She simply told me. I showed her the potty chard and wanted to hang it in our toilet to show mama Sennen I was still trying to use the toilet.
But the potty chard and the drawings I made with mama Sennen were shredded to pieces and thrown away by her.
"Yugi, you already have seen him before but then you decided to be a brat. This is your new daddy." Vivian says sternly to me holding my hand. I look to the green-eyed raven black haired male; indeed, I did see him before, I simply wave to him before pulling my hand back and ran off to my room. I didn't come out and she didn't call me down for dinner, I went to bed hungry.
Months passed by and this dice obsessed male is still there, he always has a dice in his hand, he even has one in his ear, wherever you look there is a dice with him, I refuse to call him dad but he slowly gains my trust, he tells Vivian often how much he loves to look in her brown eyes and stroke her black silken hair, but she still needs to put me before him.
He pays attention when I am telling something that Atem did or what had happened on kindergarten like that day when teacher needed to fetch little Chris because she almost fell off the monkey-bar, what made me laugh really hard, or when I need comfort because I fell out my new big boys' bed during my nap because I was too big for the crib to sleep in, and because mom isn't there he tries to give it to me.
I'm four when Vivian tells me he is going to be my new real daddy, they are dating for about a year around that time, I say okay but to me it didn't feel right, and I still didn't call him dad. In the summer they got married, on this day I finally learn my new dad's name, Duke Devlin, and she is going to be called Miss Vivian Devlin now. The mailbox with Wong and under her name Muto is replaced for a new one an ugly yellow one and Duke painted Vivian Devlin-Wong in ugly brown letters and Duke Devlin in green letters on it, they never changed my last name, but I didn't stand on the mailbox anymore, at the moment I didn't look much after it, Atem's name also didn't stand on the mailbox so it was a common thing, right? Well, I will find out later how wrong I was.
Flashback 4 ends:
"Oof that tough." Yami says, I knew it wasn't daisies and roses at your place but this. I have Goosebumps running all over."
"It went worse when she told me I was becoming a big brother."
"Why in those colours on the mailbox?" Heba asks with a disgusted look on his face.
"Vivian was obsessed with eye colours, she thought it looked unique if the names were written down in the colours of their eyes."
"It looked awful, Aknankanon almost hired someone to take that horrible thing out but went against it for the sake of Yugi, and we already were on thin ice with them because we contacted child protection and wanted to have Yugi since he was much happier with us."
Flashback 5:
I go to the same elementary school as Atem does and the teachers see how close Atem and I are, if there is playtime, they see us always together with Atem's friends around us, if there are bully's not only Atem but also his friends protect me, the teachers see Atem doesn't allow his friends to make a joke out of me. And although it warms their hearts to see the closeness between us, in a way the teachers are worried for when Atem is going to middle school and I need to go here for another two years without him, but it's Atem and his friends who are calling over my classmates to play with us and become friends with us. And who doesn't want to play with the cool older kids?
We always wait together till mama Sennen comes to fetch us and we exited tell her about our day and what we did during recess. How that bully tried to hurt me because I'm little, but Atem is there to save me.
Suddenly I notice Vivian gets sick, she often tells me in the morning to go with Atem to school because she fell ill. I am afraid she has the same illness that daddy had and tell her she needs to go to the doctor as soon as possible, if only I knew what really was going on by then.
"Yugi! Mama has some exiting news for you." Vivian says exited one day when I get out of school and mama Sennen dropped me off at home. "You are going to be a big brother. Let's hope you finally get the sister you always wanted." She told me, I didn't catch the 'sister you' part, sure I wanted to have a sibling, but gender wasn't important for me. I knew Vivian wanted a girl; she never made a secret out of it. So, from now on every night if she told me to bed, I needed to pray to God and ask for a baby sister.
As a good big brother to be, I tried my best to help, I asked Osiris for a healthy sibling, and asked Ra to give the sibling a nice skin, I also prayed to Anubis not to take my sibling or my mom away from me, don't judge me I was only four and thought I did a good job.
When Vivian didn't feel good, I went to play with Atem so she could rest and if the Sennen's weren't home I made sure to be as silent as a mouse and play silently in my bedroom until Duke came home and went for a stroll to the park with me.
When she heard she got a girl the nursery was painted pink, Duke took my old crib from the attic and the both of us fixed it. I was his little helper, he told me which tool he needed and explained me how it looked like. When I gave him the correct tool, he threw me in the air where I pretended to be an airplane. If I didn't get the right tool, he sends me back and told me to try again with a gentle tone and the patients of a real daddy. I slowly started to call him dad now what made them smile.
I went with Vivian to the store to buy pink fluffy baby dresses and stuffed animals. And was a little bit jealous for all the toys she would get, and I didn't but never complained. All I cared about was that I would become a big brother.
But when mom heard she got a girl she also started to push me aside, like when I asked them to help feed the baby, or change the baby, or bath the baby, she always told me I needed to start playing with girls and then she would think about it.
Flashback 4 ends:
"More and more signs told me she would push me away eventually, but being in the high of becoming big brother, I blamed the fact she was simply preparing for the baby, sigh if only I knew."
"Honey you couldn't know, I saw the signs early on, but I sadly couldn't protect you for her."
Flashback 5:
5 July 1985 a month and a day after my fifth and the last birthday I did ever celebrate, it's the middle of the night when I am lifted from my warm and cosy bed, and feel how the arms carry me outside, the strong arms hand me to other strong arms, the people are whispering for a moment and then a door closes. I feel how I am placed next to a small but bigger body cuddling myself against them I allow myself to drift off fully again.
When I wake up, I look into the confused crimson eyes from Atem. "Good morning, how did you get here?" he asks me softly.
"Good morning, I don't know, I know for sure I was in my own bed last night." I respond and yawn. We take a look at the clock and see it's past 8 am we are allowed to leave the room, because Atem is an early riser and often stood at his parent's bed at 6 am or even earlier, his parents made that rule, and even now, when Atem is seven years already that rule still stands, or it is because I'm here? No matter we are allowed to leave the room after 8am, only for toilet visit and then back to bed. Together we walk downstairs and greet mama Sennen in the kitchen.
"Good morning boys." She says with her gentle voice.
"Mama? Did Yugi do magic last night?" Atem asks.
"I believe I need to cut the wizard from you before bed Atem, for all I know Yugi can't do magic, but to answer your question. No, Yugi's parents brought him over last night and went to the hospital, it seems your little sister will be an early born baby sweetheart."
"Oh, so she needs to stay in a bed that gives her warmth with that glass around her?" I say not remembering how they called the incubator at the time. Mama Sennen explained it to me when we were looking to baby pictures from Atem and Yami, she told me they were also early born and needed to stay in the incubator for a month.
Mama Sennen chuckles and says "It depends sweetie, if your sister is on the right weight, then maybe they will return as soon as she is born, they promised to call us if she is there. Until then you stay with us."
Seven days, it seems little, but for me it was allot, and we never got a word from Vivian that the baby was born. Until the seventh day, Atem and I were playing tag together outside, and papa and mama Sennen were sunbathing keeping a close eye on us.
We all saw the car drive up the driveway, we saw how she and dad stepped out the car and also took a bundle out the car, they walk to the front door and step inside, when I look to mama and papa Sennen they say she and the baby probably are tired, dad will get me as soon as she is resting. But they don't come outside.
I stay another night, the Sennen's tell me they probably will have the moment for themselves with the baby without nurses and other people running around fussing over them and the baby. Next day papa Sennen takes me home. "Remember Yugi, you are always welcome in our home." He tells me like he always did when he took me home, he closes his arms around me and gives me a gentle hug and a kiss on my forehead like he always does, and then rings the door. The door opens and dad lets me in. he gives papa Sennen a handshake, a few words are exchanged and then he closes the door.
I ran to mom's room ready to meet my sister, and gently open the door holding the little gift mama Sennen and I made together for mom and my baby sister in my hands. I walk to the bed where mom is humming a song to the small bundle in her arms. "Mother?" I say very softly not to wake the baby if she is asleep.
"Duke! Take that brat out, he is too loud." Vivian shouts. I'm shocked, she never called me brat before, at least not when I was around. Dad takes me to my room and locks me inside. "Think about what you did." Is all he said before locking the door? The next day I found the gift in the garbage unopened but broken... it stung.
I am not allowed to get out of my room and to look to my baby sister, every time I come close to her Vivian pushes me roughly to the side telling me to leave the baby alone and stop bothering her, if Vivian gives her a clean diaper or gives her the bottle I may not watch, I may not watch how they do bathe her, they want me to stay as far as possible away from her.
Flashback 5 ends:
"From that moment Duke basically pulled his hands off me, he wasn't the father I had slowly allowed in my heart anymore, I also started to refuse to call him dad and simply started to call him Duke, all his love went to his two girls. And one afternoon when I came home from school, I saw really for the first time how much I meant to them, because there was a name added to the mailbox. That was the very first time I wished the Sennen's took me in for good.
The name was added in the colours green under the other two names. Sun Devlin-Wong. She had green eyes and her hair was blond, how that even was possible with two black haired parents? Beats me.
I ignored them for a month but when I realised it didn't do anything to them, I just let it slide. My days were spending mostly at the Sennen's were I enjoyed the family life to the max. It went well until my sixth birthday. I knew Atem had a Judo competition, so I needed to wait until evening to receive his present. But I received something else…. Something much worse."
Flashback 6:
"Brat! Get up and start packing, we want to leave today!" That was the way Vivian woke me up, not a happy birthday, not a birthday breakfast, no, boxes were placed in my room, and I needed to pack them straight away. When I asked what was going on Duke only told me they were moving out. When I asked if I could tell Atem they said there was no time. When I asked where we were going to, she told me to shut up and pack.
So that's what I did, I packed my complete room, with little help from Duke to take the bed apart, and bringing my stuff down, and all was placed in a big truck, I didn't get any food and barely got the chance to drink something, and when we left the last thing that was placed in between me and Sun was that ugly mailbox and I was forced to look to the names on it.
We went to a small place in the outskirts of Japan, I don't even remember all the places we went to. But they avoided the richer parts off Japan.
Flashback 6 ends:
"With them moving out suddenly I became depressed and started to cut myself. The hospital never had a child age 8 with a depression, it took me a month to recover, and when I promised mom and dad never to cut myself again, I was allowed to help them looking."
"Aknankanon called child protection in the hope they could help, we showed them the documents we fixed with the old headmaster of kindergarten to help Yugi as soon as we would feel he needed to be taken out by force. Sadly, because the birds had fly away and didn't leave an address behind, they couldn't do much for but only hope someone would step up for Yugi and call them." Malika says and then allows me to continue.
"With the moving ignoring me and fussing they did over Sun I started to get troubles, it started a few days after we moved into the new house, I had a nightmare and peed the bed. Instead of figuring out how to help me Vivian punished me by giving me no food that day. With her punishing me the bed wetting became worse, first once a month, then once in three weeks, two weeks, one week and after that it was a miracle if I even had one dry night.
I often did spend hours awake during the night cleaning my bedding because if Vivian figured my bed was wet, I wouldn't get food besides the gross free school surprises. I was tired allot and got really skinny, so my classmates started to bully me calling me anorexic and ugly cry baby."
Flashback 7:
I missed Atem allot and often cried at night, I prayed to the gods to give me Atem back, at my new school the kids are bullying me, and the teachers do nothing about it to prevent it. And when I went to tell Vivian and Duke, they ignore me or were saying I probably did provoke them to tease me, I needed to leave them alone.
Probably because of that, I woke up a few nights after we moved to the new house in a wet bed. At least once a month I woke up in a wet bed, and how more Vivian told me I was asking bad attention, the more I bottled up, and the more nights I woke up wet, I became a real bed- wetter. When we moved into the new house, they forced me to wash my own things and was given a washing machine of my own in my bathroom, I messed my clothes because they didn't tell me to separate the white and the dark. I needed to clean my own bed and bathroom and if I didn't, I would not eat.
It was then also I would get less and less food and started to lose weight rapidly. When my bed was too small for me to sleep in, I asked for a bigger bed, but she simply said I needed to stop asking bad attention and then I would get a new bed, I slept in my toddler bed for 13 years.
We moved every two years and Sun grew from a baby to a toddler, it was when she was three, they allowed me for the first time around her, but only to clean her bum and the potty she had used. It was disgusting and the little bid of food I had consumed that day. It came out because I couldn't handle the stink.
Vivian was pissed about the fact I vomited and to punish me, she simply handed me a plate, I needed to drop the vomit onto that, when I did, she gave me a spoon and forced me to eat it next to Sun's used potty, I forced myself to eat but when I was allowed to go to my room, I went to the bathroom, and I vomited again. Too bad for me she found out and I was forced to bed without food as punishment. I helped Sun get potty trained and every punishment they gave me with it when I needed to vomit again, they always told me I was asking bad attention.
Flashback 7 ends:
Malika, Diya, and I making a mad dash to the toilet, I have a sensitive nose and that memory still makes me vomit. When I'm heaving above the toilet, I feel how strong hands gently pull my hair out of my sweaty face, Atem coos soft nothings in my ear, rubbing my back until I have emptied my stomach. Next, he helps me clean my face and brushed my teeth.
When we return Atem suggests, "Why don't we take a break for a moment, Yugi's voice is getting scratchy, and it will allow him and the ladies to lose the sick feeling, also I'm hungry."
"Okay, how about we continue after dinner?" Heba asks.
"That's a good idea." I say and Heba pulls me away from Atem to give me a tour in the wing we are moved into. He and I sure will become great friends I can feel it.
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