As usual, the sun rose high the next day. With it, Terry rose as well along with her father. Used to waking at dawn, the two went about their usual schedule as Jonouchi slowly adjusted to them as well. He was never up as early as them, but he was awake far earlier than his usual time. The smell of a home cooked breakfast was a great help to waking him. The sight of the happy zombie sniffing to the source was now a norm that the two enjoyed as they welcomed the new member of their family. However, something was definitely off about this morning. Terry was unable to put her finger on it, but there was something off about today. Shrugging it off, Joey helped with the cleaning of the dishes as her father and she cleaned the table.

The two chattered away about the homework, shows, and random oddities that Terry was still adjusting to in civilian life. She had missed quite a lot with being in areas of zero technology majority of the time. Sometimes, quite literally, underground. As they walked to the train station, she spotted something familiar. Tri-colored hair to be exact. Next to it, on a higher level, more tri-colored hair. She tugged at Jonouchi's arm and pointed him out.

"We should go say good morning! His brother is with him too, so he has to be somewhat decent right?" Jonouchi tensed at the notion. Up until now, they two had been avoiding one another quite well. Even if Terry was speaking to him, the group had yet to even be in the same are as him outside of class. Even in lunch they were apart.

She's got a point. He can't be that much of an ass with his lil' bro around right? C'mon Katsuya, what are you? Some kinda pansy? A little school girl with a crush? He's just himself and you're you. So what if things are different now! He pepped talked himself, unknown to him that Terry took his silence as a yes and now found himself face to face with two sets of azure eyes. He jumped back a bit with a shout, Yugi, who was on Atem's shoulders, leaned in far too close for comfort once pulled out of his mind. "You trying to give me a heart attack?" He scowled at the kid who was now in a fit of laughter at his reaction. It was definitely a great awkward ice breaker though, a smile on Atem's lips that held Terry's attention.

"Good morning to you too." He retorted back

"Good morning, I'm glad to see he's doing OK!" Terry chimed in before Jonouchi could retaliate outside of faces as she pointed to Yugi.

"Thank you for saving me lady, I would've been in deep trouble if it weren't for you!" Yugi smiled innocently and broadly at Terry, warming her heart.

"I'm glad I could help, you should be more careful next time. Your brother was probably worried sick about you."

"Yeah, he learned his lesson. As did Mokuba." Atem looked up at his brother who looked down apologetically.

"I just wanted to be all grown up like Atem so I can help at home more." He mumbled cutely, it obvious he adored and admired his brother.

"You'll get there in due time." Atem assured, lost in his brotherly ways and forgetting the two that were standing with him. Shit, what the fuck am I doing? He thought, his cheeks turning red at the smile on their faces. They'll definitely make fun of me for this! I have a rep at school! He opened his mouth to snap at them, but Yugi easily pulled their attention to them train and they all boarded with the crowd. The two accompanied Atem in dropping of Yugi, much to the little one's joy. The silence once the hyper boy was gone was a little deafening until Jonouchi cleared his throat.

"He's grown up a lot." He stated.

"Yeah," Atem grunted.

"He's still pretty short though."

"Yeah, he'll grow."

"Like a certain someone I know." Jonouchi teased and Atem scowled to hide his blush.

"Not everyone just grows to be freak giants all the sudden like some people!"

As the two squabbled, Terry silently observed. Her notion that Atem bullied Jonouchi was dead wrong. No, there was something more here definitely and this banter was more than enough evidence of it. She never dealt with friendships before so it took her some time to realize. As soon as it hit though, it all made sense. She suddenly stopped in her tracks, the two stopping after they noticed a few steps ahead of her.

"You two were friends?" She asked, uncertain if her adjusted assessment was correct. "Or did you just grow up together?"

"We," Jonouchi started but then stopped. The two had spoken at the same time actually and now looked to one another. They bore through the other's gaze, trying to read the atmosphere to give the proper answer. Did the two feel the same? Was the friendship there? Was it salvageable? Did the other even recall the friendship at all? Were they supposed to act as if it ever was? The questions plagued the two, the tension thick in the air.

"We were…still are, just not the same." Atem finally spoke up after breaking the stare down to look at Terry. "I mean people grow up and things change. Doesn't mean friendships have to die. Time apart is all that's needed from time to time." He shrugged off, leaving a stunned Jonouchi. Atem's ears slowly turned red as he noted the glassy eyes of his best friend who tackled him in to a hug.

"You're my best bud too buddy!" He sniffled.

"Oi, get the fuck off me! You're gonna give people the wrong idea you dipshit!" He snapped, but it was obvious his struggle was nothing if anything at all. The silver bell laughter of Terry was no help to his reddening face though, his heart thumping a bit. To him, it made sense it was due to embarrassment. "Alright, enough hugging! Geez!" He snapped and pulled away. Jonouchi had realized what he was doing and had nearly flung Atem at Terry and cleared his throat again and looked away.

"I'm glad you two are mending ties, but this little bromance will have to wait. We're running late again." She pointed to her watch. "We'll have to run from here."

"Not again, why is it always running with you?" Jonouchi sighed in exasperation. The daily exercise a routine thing for the two. So much so, that the class expected it to happen as a normal thing.

"Yeah, who do you two always run in to class?" The question was left unanswered though as Terry grabbed their hands and tugged them along.

"Run now, ask later!" She shouted back, a hidden laughter in her tone as Joey groaned.

"I wish I knew the answer to that one myself!" He shouted before he picked up his slack along with Atem and the three came fumbling in to the classroom. The boys had started to get competitive with one another and soon enough realized that Terry was indeed a formidable opponent in running. The two jostled at each other in jest, but as the skidded the turns. When they rushed to get through the room door, the nudged until someone tripped and the three were a mess on the floor.

"Fuck, get off of me man!" Atem grumbled in pain, though it was not as rough of a crash as he thought it would be.

"Ugh, one second, one second!" Jonouchi muttered back from above him. The soft grunt from below him quickly grabbed his attention. The pillowed fall was not from his bag, but from Terry's body. His face mere centimeters from her own. His cheeks burned at the realization, his eyes focused on her scrunched up lips.

One kiss wouldn't kill would it? I mean it's been so long since you did anything with anyone. He thought, but quickly caught himself at a shriek. He ripped his body away from her as if he was burned by the touch, sending Jonouchi tumbling to the floor. His apology is choked up in his throat as he noted the class staring at them. Shit, what do I do?

"It's ok," he hears suddenly and turns back to Terry who is smiling. She mouthed the words once again.

"Way to go ya klutz!" The words quickly spilled from his mouth after the approval.

"Yeah, sorry about that. Not used to these kind of shoes yet." She played off lightly, unfazed by the sudden lash of anger.

"Then fucking get used to them." He retorted and stormed off to his seat and stared out the window. The teacher's appearance silenced any protest from Jonouchi at the sudden change in behavior, Terry's pat on his shoulder quelling it further as they took their seats.

"Its fine, he's not ready yet to just change. He's used to being an ass to me and people expect it." She whispered as they pulled out their notebooks. The strange morning was indeed fresh in everyone's mind, though Atem's reaction had them all dismissing at a rarity that probably would never happen again.

Though the shoes were in fact an issue with running for her, Terry was unable to shake that unease from breakfast. The world just seemed to be haze and a warmth slowly spread through her body. She wondered what it could possibly be, but she kept her attention on the lessons at hand.