Shun woke up a few hours after Peggi had treated him with her magicks and herbs. He looked around the room, and Peggi was nowhere to be seen. He heard something outside of the window and looked out. Peggi was swimming in the lake, throwing something from the water into the basket. Shun smiled when he realized that she was catching fish.
Shun stood up and stretched, feeling much better. It appeared to be close to the afternoon and he realized he had slept all night long. He dressed himself, noticing that there was barely even a scar from where his wound had been, and felt thankful for having a girlfriend who could heal him. He brushed his long hair and then placed the brush down on the dresser, when something caught his eye. Peggi carried around an "Invader Zim" wallet most of the time, but he had never been through her things, and was seeing the inside for the first time. The first picture he saw was of someone he had never met before.
He opened the wallet and stared at the picture, realizing that it was only a few weeks old. The boy in the picture looked to be around their age, and was wrapping his arms around Peggi while she kissed him on the cheek.
Shun put the wallet down, trying not to think much of it, but his curiosity got the better of him. Peggi never allowed anyone to read her e-mails, which had never bothered Shun, but suddenly he had the urge to see some of them. He pulled the slim notebook out of her backpack and opened it. He listened carefully to make sure Peggi wouldn't come in while he was looking through her things. She was the kind of person who would get irritated about the smallest of things. If you knew how to avoid them, you were just fine, but the smallest thing that would set her off would spell out d-i-s-a-s-t-e-r. He waited until the little download bar was filled up, and then clicked on the icon that said "My E-mail".
When Shun entered her email, he became lost in a whirlwind of technological advances. Buttons and folders that he couldn't even begin to imagine a use for. He didn't know where to begin, so he began with the first name that he didn't recognize. The name was "Ryou Bakura". He read the email, but basically there was nothing suspicious in the email, and it was not the same person he had seen in Peggi's wallet. The Ryou boy had sent her pictures and labeled that the girl in his pictures was his new girlfriend, so Shun clicked on a new folder. This folder was the one that gave him what he wanted to know. The boy had sent Peggi a lot of pictures of himself and the two of them together, and most of his emails ended with "I love you".
The name of the sender of the emails was Nick, a person Peggi had failed to mention in the past. Shun read several of the emails and his eyes were filling up with tears. Why would Peggi keep secrets from him, and more importantly, why would she have another man in her life on the side? Shun was about to shut down the laptop, when he heard a voice from the doorway.
"What do you think you're doing!" Peggi sounded very angry with him.
Shun looked up at her, tears filling his eyes.
"You kept things from me," Shun's voice was weak and he was trying not to cry, "I know about you and Nick. I read the emails. Is that why you wouldn't let me near your computer? You didn't want me to find out about your boyfriends on the side?"
Shun couldn't hold back anymore, and let the tears fall freely. He halfheartedly expected Peggi to comfort him, but instead, he felt her hand come across his face, and hard.
"I can't believe you would accuse me of such a thing, and I can't believe you would go through my things! I would never hurt you and I would never keep secrets from you!"
In a matter of seconds, she had stormed out of the room. Shun wiped the tears from his face and felt himself blush from embarrassment. There was obviously another explanation for the emails and the picture in her wallet, and he had just made a very big mistake in their relationship. Shun didn't really want to face Peggi, but he knew that he had to, and so he walked outside. She was sitting on the porch, her laptop on, and she was looking in a folder with something in foreign languages. Shun had no idea what to say, and so he said nothing at all for fear of messing things up again.
"Spells, Shun. I don't let anyone near my laptop because I have spells saved to them and some of them could be very dangerous if the wrong person even reads them."
Shun suddenly felt even more embarrassed than before, but still had questions.
"So, who is Nick?" he asked her.
"Look, I'll show you something."
Peggi clicked on another folder and Shun saw that there was a picture in it that she was showing him. She, the boy Nick, and another girl were in the picture.
"These are my cousins, Nick and Eevee. They are brother and sister. Nick and I email each other a lot because he lives in the United States. Why were you looking through my emails in the first place? Don't you trust me?" Peggi asked him.
"I did. I mean, I do. I saw a picture in your wallet with you and Nick and I just assumed the wrong thing," Shun's voice was very soft and Peggi could tell that he was upset about making the mistake.
Shun felt Peggi wrap her arms around his shoulders and pull him into a hug.
"Shun, I haven't told you this very often, but I love you. I will never hurt you and I could never care for another man as much as I do you."
Shun smiled, showing Peggi that he trusted her and that he felt bad for ever doubting her, "So Nick is your cousin? Well this girl who is with the two of you, Eevee, you said she is your cousin as well?"
"Yeah, she's Nick's sister. She is in feudal Japan. When I went there to get the Jewel Shard to help Shiryu, she went with me and met some people there that she decided to stay and help," Peggi explained.
"Well, I don't think that she's in Feudal Japan anymore," Shun said to her.
END OF CHAPTER FOURTEENPeggi- Okay, so the main characters weren't focused on in this chapter, BUT wow who is amazed by the fact that (gasp) Tenshi is actually Eevee, who is my cousin! Who didn't see that one coming? Next chapter will be a lot longer and based more on the main characters, since I left off on a cliffhanger. Please review!