- Chapter Two -
Lies And Misunderstandings

Nina woke up, and she found that she was in the school's recovery room. The back of her knees felt better, and she was breathing just fine. "How did I get here?" Nina groaned as she looked around.

"Oh, I see you're awake! How are you feeling?" The girl that Nina 'saved' walked into the door.

"Good. Just confused on how I got here," Nina scratched the back of her neck.

"Well, that's simple. You're boyfriend carried you here!" The girl smiled.

"BOYFRIEND?" Nina cringed. "And someone carried me?!"

"Yep!" The girl nodded.

"Do you know who he was?" Nina asked with suspicion in her tone.

"No, but he was short, and had spiky hair."

"Wait... I think I know who you're talking about." Nina lowered her eyebrows. "Actually, nope! I don't!"

Both of the girls laughed, "By the way, my name is Bethany!"

"Nina," she added on.

"Also, I wanted to say thank you so much! I never would've escaped on my own. And who knows what that boy would've done with me?" Bethany gave Nina a sincere smile.

"Oh, I know what he would've done with you..." Nina thought to herself, but said, "Don't worry about it! Us girls have to step up, you know what I mean?" Nina explained as Bethany nodded. "But next time, I hope there isn't a next time but if there is, fight back. Never let anyone touch you without your permission."

"I know. But I just don't want to get hurt... I mean, you're in the school's recovery room!" Bethany pointed out.

"But it's worth it, knowing that I did the right thing!" Nina held a thumbs up.

~ oOo ~

Yugi walked into the classroom where his friends were hanging out. It was still lunch time, but there was only ten minutes left. "Hey!" Yugi greeted his friends.

"Oh, hi Yugi!" Tea waved as Joey and Tristan fought.

"What are they fighting for this time?" Yugi asked, sounding annoyed.

"Well, Joey started arguing with Kaiba, and then Kaiba called Joey a noob. Then, Tristan told the class to buy tickets to see the noob Joey get whooped in a duel by Kaiba. And that triggered Joey, and here we are now!" Tea pointed to the fighting teens.

"Joey! Tristan! Knock it off!" Yugi shouted, and they obeyed.

"Hey, Yugi. How did things go?" Tristan asked casually.

"Yeah! What happened?" Joey added on.

Yugi explained the whole story.

"Wait. So, you carried NINA? Ooh, you better pray that she doesn't find out! Nina isn't like all the other girls here. She will fight with the boys!" Tristan warned.

"I know. She was a good duelist, and you could tell that dueling brings out a little bit of her fighting spirit!" Yugi stated.

"Hold on. I just realized, Nina duels? I had no idea!" Tristan's eyes widened.

"Yeah, it seems like there's a lot we don't know about Nina!" Joey placed his hand on his chin.

"Well, she is really quiet all the time. So I'm not surprised we didn't know these things," Tristan shrugged.

"Hey, Yug. You should invite her to have lunch with us tomorrow! I see her eat alone anyway," Joey insisted.

"I mean, I can try..." Yugi stared at the floor.

"Yeah, do it. Because then we can have a whole new person to share the power of our friendship with!" Tea said with determination.

"Shut up, Tea," said Joey.

~ oOo ~

"Alright, go ahead and try. But be careful," the school nurse have Nina approval to try and stand up.

Nina stood up with no effort. "Well, I better get to class..." She said.

"Bye bye! Hopefully we run into each other again soon!" Bethany waved as Nina left the recovery room.

"Goodbye, Bethany," she waved back.

~ oOo ~

Nina went back into her seat. She placed her headphones on, and rested her head on the desk. She closed her eyes, without realizing she fell asleep. She was waken up by the sound of her teacher yelling at her for sleeping in class. "Let's show the class now much work you've done! Hand it over!" He reached his hand out, she gave him the papers. "Let's see. You've done..." the teacher was shocked to see that she did all of it , even the extra credit. "...All of it? But how? You've been sleeping this whole time!"

"No, I was awake for a little bit. I'm just a really fast writer," Nina lied again. The truth was that she did all of the work for the week in one night. She would go on the online class, look in the upcoming assignments, and finish all of them right then and there.

"Whatever..." the teacher took her papers, and stormed off.

"Big baby," Nina thought as she drifted back into her sleep, for the last five minutes of school.

~ oOo ~

The next day...

Nina's alarm clock went of at seven sharp, as usual. She got ready for school, and looked in the mirror. "Here goes another day of torture..." She groaned as she was still looking in the mirror. She tried to reach for her purse, but ended up making it fall, and spilling everything out.

"Damn it!" She bent down, and put her things back into her bag. But she noticed that something was missing. "My deck! Where is my deck?" Nina started panicking. "You know what? I don't have time for this right now. I gotta go!" she said as she left her house.

~ oOo ~

Nina walked up the steps to get into school. "What's up, Nina?" She heard a familiar voice call of to her.

"Oh. It's just you, Bethany!" Nina giggled.

"How are you doing?" Bethany inquired.

"Bethany, don't even ask me that, right now! Someone stole my deck!" Nina frowned.

Bethany gasped, "That's horrible! Who would do such a thing?"

"I know, right!"

"Maybe it was your boyfriend?"

"I don't have a boyfriend," Nina said with a strict tone.

"In my defense, you never did say that!" Bethany laughed.

"Now isn't really the time for laughing, Bethany... " Nina sighed.

"Sorry. Hey, how about since you helped me, I'll help you look for your deck?" Bethany smiled.

"Sounds good!" Nina agreed as they both walked into the building.

~ oOo ~

After class was over, Nina went to her locker to get her already finished work for her next class. When she shut her locker, Bethany's face was right behind it. "Oh, shit! Bethany, you scared the hell out of me!" Nina jumped.

"Sorry, but look what I found!" Bethany held up the box that Nina kept her deck in.

"My deck! Where was it?" Nina looked inside the box to make sure all of her cards were still there.

"Well, I saw the boy who carried you have it. I followed him. After a while, it fell out of his pocket, and I took it!" Bethany lied.

"Thank you, Bethany!" Nina smiled, and the bell rang.

"Bye." Said the two girls at the same time.

~ oOo ~

Again, Nina laid her head down on her desk. She had her purse on her lap. It had her deck in it, and Nina never wanted to lose it again. Nina thought about how grateful she was for Bethany finding her deck, as she began drifting away into the sound of her death metal sound track. She may have even fallen asleep, until she heard a continuing sound that went like... Tap tap tap.

Nina peered her eyes open, to see a boy was tapping on her headphones. "Can I help you?" She asked kind of rudely.

"Um... Hi, um. I'm Yugi, and we're in the same class..." Yugi blushed.

"Well this is awkward..." Yami whistled.

"Okay..." Nina made a blank face.

"Well, you see... A friend of mine told me that he sees you eat lunch alone, so... Do you want to have lunch with us...?" Yugi stared at the floor.

"Wow. Do you need help?" Yami laughed.

"Ugh! Stop it!" Yugi told Yami, feeling embarrassed.

"Wait, he's short and has spiky hair!" Nina thought. "Do you want to really have lunch with me... Or do you just want this?" Nina pulled out her deck, which was still in the box.

"That box?" Yugi made a confused look.

"Don't act like I wouldn't find out!" Nina frowned.

"Okay, look... I'm sorry I carried you... But I don't know what that box has to do with that!"

"The fact that you carried me, isn't the problem! I'm mad because you stole my deck!" Nina began to snap.

"Stole your deck? I didn't do that. I have my own deck!" Yugi defended himself.

"But a friend of mine told me so, and she wouldn't lie! Unlike you..." Nina crossed her arms.

"But I didn-"

"Enough!" Nina stood up.

"Nina, please! Try to understand that I have no clue about what you're talking about. I saw you duel, I carried you, but that's it. I promise!" Yugi looked at Nina with puppy eyes, but she didn't fall for them.

"Also, you better not tell anyone that I duel!" Nina yelled, and then walked to the sink to splash cool water on her face.

"Well, she sure is rude..." Yami stated.

"I'm just frustrated that she thinks that I stole her deck..." Yugi said.

"Yes, but even if she didn't think you stole her deck, she still has a short temper," Yami smirked.

"Yeah, I guess that's true!" Yugi laughed in his head.

~ oOo ~

The next day...

Nina walked to school with Bethany. "But, Bethany. Are you being totally honest on how you found my deck?"

Bethany gave Nina a nervous glare. "Do you really want to know the truth?"

"Yes."

"Okay, fine... I was the person who stole your deck. On the day you found out your deck went missing, I called in sick for school, but went to make sure you actually knew about your missing deck since I couldn't just give you your deck out of no where. Then, I went to the jail Ender, or the guy who harassed us was at. I pretended to be an old friend of his, and when I visited him we dueled. But I used your deck. And I won! I just really needed to get back at him," Bethany admitted.

A burning strike of guilt slashed through Nina. She was so rude to Yugi, and all because she accused him for stealing her deck. No, this was all Bethany's fault! She shouldn't have lied.

"Bethany! Why did you do that? I totally yelled at that boy who carried me! I feel so bad... You should've just asked!" Nina panicked.

"You would've said no."

"You don't know that!"

"Okay, well that was in the past, it's too late now! So let's just put it behind us!" Bethany frowned.

"How did you even steal my deck?!"

"After the nurse put the ice packs under your knees saying that nothing was broken or whatever, she left. Once she was gone, and since you were unconscious, I took your deck from your purse," said Bethany.

"I can't believe this! " Nina stomped her foot on the ground.

"I'm sorry, okay!" Bethany shrugged.

Nina began running. "That's what I need to tell Yugi..."

~ oOo ~

A/N: I'm back! I feel like this chapter was a filler chapter, but I kinda like it! And if you didn't like this chapter, I think what I have planned for the next chapter will be more fun. Also, thank you for the reviews and favorite. Until next time!