Chapter 2: Messages from the Moon…
"Joey! It won't hurt! We are just gonna write on ourselves and if someone replies we keep talking but if you want you could talk back." Ryou cried into the door to which Joey was hiding behind.
Yugi rolled his eyes. "Why should we do this?"
"I thought it would help us get over Momma." Ryou said very quietly.
The noise on the other side of the door was slowed and stopped within seconds of the words leaving Ryou's mouth.
"You miss her so much huh?" Joey said her voice falling heavy in the silence. The only other sound was of heavy breathing as Ryou started crying.
Oh how she wanted to fill the gapping wound in her heart. Even if it didn't work. At least she could try. Her heart couldn't beat right without her mother near. She needed someone to put it back in at least a normal one compared to the hectic one that had been claiming her heartbeat more often then not now.
"Once." Joey sighed as she opened the door bracing her weight on the doorknob and the doorframe. She smiled and continued. "We'll do it once and if we want to do it again we'll talk. But only once. I couldn't stand if something messed you to up on me."
Ryou and Yugi smiled. It had been so much easier to convince Yugi. She had said that if Ryou thought it would help she would willingly do it. Ryou hugged her sisters and smiled.
Yugi's stomach soon announced that they where to eat soon or otherwise she would starve. Ryou's laughter range out in the middle of the hug and all the girls smiled and giggled with her. The smiles and laughter were deeply missed inside the girls hearts, they haven't had a laugh like that sense before mother's death.
The girls let go of one another and walked to the kitchen for a early supper, smiling the entire way, and for once in the long heartless months the smiles where real.
After eating the girls walked to the front porch. Ryou sat a chair with her mothers book in her arms, rereading the page on finding true love as the book so blankly put it. Yugi was laying in the grass sining softly. Joey was on her hands and knees pulling weeds from the small front garden.
Joey looked up around the yard to the miles where the closest house lay. It had been burned down years ago. She smiled. So much land. She had plenty of room for her gardens and endless number of pets and farm animals.
Joey noticed her sister had stopped singing. She looked over to see her sister pointing at clouds muttering things that the shapes made.
"Lets go horse riding." Joey said. Yugi sat up and Ryou placed the book on the porch steps. They nodded to Joey and started walking to the barn before saddling their horses.
"I hope it doesn't rain." Ryou muttered.
"It won't." Yugi said. "It always does what you want Ry." Ryou blushed at her childhood nickname.
"Thank Yug." Ryou said using another old nickname.
"See ya suckers in the dust." Joey called as her horse ran past theirs at a dazzling speed.
Yugi smirked at her sister and yelled. "Josephine wait up on us." Her sisters horse stopped running and turned to her sister with a death glare in her eyes.
"Don't use my full name. I hate it." Joey yelled back at her sister with a hint of pout in her voice. Her sisters responded with laughter and started racing to their sister.
The girls let their horses speed and slow as they pleased enjoying the silence in the air and the wind in their face.
Sometime soon after that their horses had began to slow to a trot they turned to the barn and cleaned their horses.
Ryou took a deep breath and looked up at the moon. "Ready to meet your true love girls?" Her words seemed to carry on the wind and as if in reply the moon raised higher almost to leave the girls no choice in the matter.
The girls went to their rooms and stood naked in the moon light before they wrote on their skin. They had come to the conclusion that they would put down their nicknames rather then their true name and a simple start to their messages.
Blue and wine colored snapped open and dirty brown eye howled into the wind.