The days continued as duels at night went on. Joey and Tea kept seeing each other on the right occasions; Joey would still have to play along with Mai's love games.

It was around 11:00 AM Joey was at Tea's house again on Tuesday. Tea laid back on the couch with her sandals kicked off. Joey had decided to give her a relaxing foot massage. So she just sat back, relaxed and smiled while Joey did this. Of course, they were clean so there was nothing to worry about.

"Man" Tea said. "Did Mai ever make you do this to her? This is defiantly the sensation"

However the enjoying look on Joey's face began to vanish. "Mmmmmm" he had said.

"Huh? Something wrong?" Tea asked.

"Err it's just" Joey said. "you reminded me of some of the things she did have me do for her"

"Like what?" she asked.

Joey sort of began to laugh, but a rather angry small disturbed laugh so to speak. "Let's just put it this way: Mai is probably one of the most sexually driven people you'll ever meet. And I don't know if that was supposed to be a good thing you know? Meh, I don't really wanna talk about it."

"Oh. Well you don't have to Joey" Tea began to say "but you could tell me if you want. Sometimes it does help" She let her feet down on the floor.

""Well….."

Joey was just struggling with the confusion and the angry and the love he had at the moment. "It's not that I don't love Mai. I mean I still do……sorta…….I mean….. What I'm trying to say…….." he said

He went on "Sometimes Mai is just too sexual I guess. I mean it's like she doesn't know when to quit or slow down of give it a break."

"Like, is it really that bad?" Tea asked.

"I mean sometimes it wasn't, then sometimes it was" Joey said. "I'll give you an example. Mai and I would play a lot of different sex games. One night I remember though was this" he began to tell her. "Mai and I were playing Strip Poker for the night against each other. We would play until one of us was stripped naked. Mai decided however to raise the stakes, she said whoever gets stripped naked first and loses has to be the winner's slave the rest of the night. And you know how that S&M stuff goes. Well as wee were playing, I kept losing nearly every first round we play; I was down to just my boxers while Mai hadn't lost any thing yet. But then I figured it out; she was cheating. She had found a way to make so every round she would get most of the kings, queens, and aces while I got the useless cards that couldn't win. After that I finally managed to beat her one round and she took off her little vest she wears over her sleeveless shirt you know; but after that she one the next round and I had lost. I said she cheated so this couldn't count, but Mai still made me do it anyways and just told be to 'Have fun and enjoy it'. You see what I mean Tea?" Joey finished.

Tea was a bit surprised.

"Oh, I never knew" she told him. "So, what exactly are you saying? Do you still love her……..somewhat anyways?"

Joey just sighed. "I don't know. She's just…….."

Joey was too upset and confused to want to think about Mai at this point. Tea could see he was having a difficult time at the moment. She leaned over and put her arms around him and hugged him. Joey put his arm around Tea.

Then later that night everyone was back out dueling again for the night time tournament. For a while Joey and Mai had split up so they could find their own opponents to duel and not now each other's strategies. Tea was also out dueling. Her ranks were going up as she beat a few more challengers. But Joey was unable to be there and hang out with her.

Joey however was busy. That night he found himself in a dark alley in a duel against none other than Panik! For a while the duel was almost even. Then Mai walked by to see this duel and had to come check it out.

"HAHAHAHAHA! Well well well, look who's here! If it isn't the girl I destroyed myself in Duelist Kingdom!" Panik laughed.

"What are you doing here you creep?" Mai yelled

"Relax, Mai" Joey looked over to her. "I can take care of this loser!"

"HA! Don't make me laugh you pathetic fool!" Panik said. Joey currently had 1600 life points while Panik had 2000. Joey had Flame Swordsman (1800/1600) and two face down cards while Panik had Castle of Dark Illusions (1100/2700) and Metal Guardian (1100/2800) in defense mode and one face down card. "You don't stand a chance against me Wheeler! And you can't get to my life points with the defense I have right now!"

"Oh really?" Joey intimidated. He drew his card. "Just watch me. I activate my face down card Shield & Sword. Now all you're monsters attack and defense points are switched making them even weaker. But I'm not done. I'll play the magic card Fairy Meteor Crush which will, once I destroy your Metal Guardian, do some serious damage to your life points!"

With Joey's monster at 1600 ATK and Panik's at 1100 DEF Joey calls out his attack. But Panik just laughs out loud. "You fool! You fell right into my trap! I activate my face down card Quick Attack! Now my Metal Guardian switches to attack mode; and thanks to your magic card he's even stronger now and will counter your attack!

Surprised, Panik's monster with its attack 2800 destroys Joey's Flame Swordsman (J: 400 LP). "HAHAHAHAHA!" Panik laughed manically. Mai remembered how much she hated this guy for what he did to her. She really wanted to see Joey win. But Joey had to end his turn. "Now it's time to finish you off Wheeler! Metal Guardian, attack his life points and destroy him! HAHAHAHA!"

His monster leaped up to attack. It looked like Joey was about to lose. "Not so fast!" Joey shouted. "I activate Monster Reborn and use it to bring my one and only Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400 ATK)" Panik laughed. "That won't save you you fool! My Metal Guardian is still stronger than that thing and can still wipe out the rest of your life points!"

But to Panik's own shock and surprise, Red-Eyes counters the attack and destroys Metal Guardian (P: 700 LP). "You are such a moron you know that?" Joey laughed. "In case you didn't realize it, my Shield & Sword card only lasts one turn so your monsters attack drooped back to its original 1100." "WHAT? NO! IMPOSSIBLE!" Panik screamed. "I'm afraid so!" Joey said ready to end this duel. "So it's time to end this! Red-Eyes, attack his dark castle and end this duel once and for all!"

With that Red Eyes fired his blast and blew the castle. The castle came crashing down on Panik and was destroyed as Panik shouted in defeat (P: 0 LP).

"Joey, that was awesome!" Mai all the sudden came out and hugged Joey. Joey was caught off guard by this. Mai was reminded at the moment why she really loved him. "Uh, hehe…. Thanks!" Joey said to her. He decided to hug back. Joey seemed to remember also why he loved Mai and how all they met and all the things they had been through. But he still could barely believe the relationship they had now compared to the lighting relationship they had back then.

It was the next day, another bright sun shining day. This time however both Joey and Mai had to work so Joey and Tea couldn't spend the entire day together.

Tea though was out shopping for some new stuff; some new clothes that would turn Joey on and maybe a few other fun things. She walked down the street and walked into the women's clothing store… the same one Mai was working at.

She opened the doors and walked in. All around her were racks with sexy clothing: some leather dresses and shorts, a lot of party shirts, high-heel boots and shoes, even some gothic like necklaces, bracelets and chokers. Tea defiantly felt like she was in a different world. But she wasn't gonna get too into it like some might. Then all the sudden Mai appeared and walked up to her.

"Tea?" Mai said surprised to see her.

"Mai?" Tea said just as surprised. "Hey! I didn't know you worked here?"

Mai laughed. "I didn't know you came here!"

"I thought I come check this place out cause I haven't been here before!" Tea said.

"I think you'll love this place" Mai said. "Let me show you around."

Mai took Tea and showed her all around the store. She saw all the sexy clothes they had. Mai showed her the other stuff: the perfume, the body lotion, and the other sexy utensils. Tea was quiet surprised by the place.

Mai then introduced Tea to her three co-workers: three girls dressed in black shirts and leather pants. They had those Goth like chokers on their necks and the bracelets. One had pink hair, another blue hair, and the other green. The all smiled and greeted Tea. "Their names are Sam, Amber, and Lynn. They're some new close friends of mine." Mai said.

"Well" Tea laughed a bit. "I gotta admit this is a neat little place you got her Mai. I'm gonna go ahead and look around some."

After a few minutes Tea had everything she wanted. Mai checked her out at the register. Tea walked out with her two small bags of merchandise. All she could think about at that moment was how much Joey would love her new clothes and when they got together again to send time and make love.

Mai watched Tea as she disappeared down the street. Then she smiled with a deep look in her eyes. She thought to herself. "That's funny; I didn't know Tea would actually like this place."

TO BE CONTINUED

Disclaimer: I am not associated with Yu-Gi-Oh at all.