Ch. 2

Yugi poured himself a cup of coffee. Normally he would be busy in the morning because of his work. Today though, his schedule was packed in the afternoon, and stay packed until evening, so he gave himself the morning off- which he would be relaxing. He poured some creme into his coffee as he heard Tea come down the the stairs. She was about to leave to walk to the game shop, but first she went to the kitchen to greet Yugi. For it being as early as it was, Tea seemed pretty cheery. She gave Yugi a kiss on the cheek, "Good morning." She greeted.

"'Morning." He took a sip of his coffee.

"It's nice to see you this early.", she smile.

"It's nice to be here this early." Yugi replied as the coffee was beginning to warm and wake him.

"Before you need to go to those meetings, do you want to help me out at the game shop? Then you can keep me company."

"I thought Joey and Tristan would be there today."

"Well, yeah..." Tea changed her voice to be more appropriate for pleading, "...but you should go with me anyways. That way we can spend some time together. Wouldn't that be fun?" She put her arms around his neck. Yugi set down his coffee to put his arms around her waist.

"It sounds tempting, but I should stay here. I need to make some phone calls. Anyways I have paperwork."

"You'd rather do that than be with me?" She tried to change his mind with a bat of her eyelashes and a sweet puppy dog face.

Yugi had to look away so her scheme couldn't work on him. "We both know what I'd rather do, but this is what I need to do. Besides, I already promised to take you out tonight." He looked back at Tea to see the surprise on her face.

Which, she was surprised. "Oh really? I thought you forgot all about our plans tonight. I'm impressed."

Yugi smiled, he was impressed with himself. "I would never forget. That's been on my mind since we planned it."

Tea became suspicious, and so she dropped her arms from around his neck. "You're lying aren't you?"

"What, why would you say that?" He tightened his hold of her waist.

"I'll bet you wrote it down in and forgot all about it, until you checked your planner this morning."

"What? I wouldn't just write it in my planner and forget all about it-" He was interrupted by the alarm on his cell phone, which was sitting on the counter. She glared at him and he just sweetly replied, "I wouldn't just write it in my planner. I also set three alarms on my phone to remind me."

Tea scoffed as she tried to pull herself out of his arms. Though she was unable because he was too strong, she did not give up.

"Come on, don't be mad at me." He pleaded while she was struggling to escape.

"I'm not mad, I'm just irritated."

"Don't be irritated. I won't forget, I promise"

"Yes, you will. No technology can help.

"I wont forget because I want to be with you. I mean it, Tea. I'm always looking forward to being with you."

She began to not struggle so much until she stopped all together. "So, you won't forget again."

Yugi let go of her. "I definitely won't." He kissed her so she could leave, "I have three alarms on my phone and five reminders written in my planner."

She rolled her eyes and began to walk away. "Whatever, Yugi."

"Wait-" he called and grabbed her arm. "I really am looking forward to it."

"Really? You're phone and planner seem more eager than you do." She didn't look at him, which made Yugi feel terrible.

"Tea, I'm just busy, that's all." Yugi gave Tea a second to think about this, "Besides,my phone and planner can't very well eat dinner with you..." As he said this, Tea turned back around to look at him, then he finished. "...now can they?" She gave him a smile.

"I know you're busy. Do you think you're just too busy though? Maybe we should put off trying to spend time together until-"

"No, Tea. That's not at all what we should do. I'm trying. I'm trying very hard. You believe me, don't you?"

She looked at him and could see that he was telling the truth. "I thought that whole movie thing last night was sweet." She thought for a moment. "I believe that you're trying."

"I am."

"I'm sorry I fell asleep before the end."

"Don't worry about it. After all those dates I messed up, you have plenty of room for mistakes."

"Well, let's hope for no mistakes tonight, okay?" She grabbed her purse.

Before she got to the door he called, "There won't be any mistakes, but I'll call you if there are any. I mean, if there's any change or I'm later than expected."

"Okay then, I love you, and I'l see you later."

"I love you too." He watched her walk out the door. He picked up his forgotten coffee to finish before he went upstairs to take a shower and get dressed.

A half hour had passed before he came back ready for the day, and ready to do some paperwork.

Once he began, the afternoon passed quickly as he read through and signed a few documents, answered and made some phone calls, and started reading another document.

While sitting at his desk, he became distracted by the room. More specifically, at the walls. There were so many pointless decorations on the walls, and on his desk. This room, and most other rooms of the house, could be on some show on how to decorate one's house. This look of stylish is definitely not what he was aiming for, yet he really had no decision on the matter. Yugi handed that authority to Tea, and so she had the only say on everything. His opinion was not wanted, or needed, because Tea was all about fashion. Her clothes were always stylish, and "in", and so "her" house needed to be as well.

As he looked around, he could see that the only thing he wanted was one picture of Tea, one plain clock, and one wall calendar. Instead, he got a whole collage of pictures of Tea, underneath the top clear cover on his desk. This, he wouldn't complain about, because he did like those pictures. But then, there were the ones of Yugi and Tea together that were in rather girly frames. Maybe if they were plain black, there would be no problem, but he couldn't understand why they had to be pink, and have fur on them. And the clocks, yes, clocks as in plural- more than one. There were many different styles and colors of clocks, some of them very unique that Yugi had never seen before they were hanging on his wall. Yes, clocks became the theme of this room, either that or Tea really didn't want him to forget the time.

Yugi's house was typical for middle class house. Though, he really was upper, he didn't like to live that way. Even if he thought he could be like Kaiba and make the payments on a mansion, he wouldn't do something like that. As it was, he was questioning the purpose of having a considerably large house. There were already two useless rooms. One of them was a spare bedroom, and the other was the dining room. It was decided (by Tea) that there would be a table in the kitchen that everyone ate at, and the dining room table would only be used when all of the family came over for a holiday. That didn't happen yet, so Yugi was really questioning it's purpose The answer was that the whole dining room served no purpose, even though it was the nicest and most elegant room in the house. No one ever saw it because they have to go through the kitchen to get the dining room, and everyone stops at the kitchen for obvious reasons that it's where they find the food. Tea brought up a good point: what if Yugi invited coworkers to dinner at his house. This seemed like a good point, but that hasn't happened yet either. So for now, it was a useless room, that was the fanciest room. This is what Tea wanted. She really did own him, and the house, and everything he bought.

What was really interesting, is that when a person looks at Yugi, they wouldn't expect him to live in a house like his. Of course, one could expect Tea to. Tea was the preppy-cheerleader who had straight A's in school, and an all around good girl. People looked at Yugi as a bad boy, even for being short for as long as he was. He was the leather wearing, game-playing, gambling bad boy, who didn't score so well on tests. Though Tea never was a cheerleader, and Yugi had to be the sweetest person alive, this is not what people saw at first glance. It was sort of a Sandy and Danny effect, but without all the hair grease. They seemed to be coming from two separate worlds, and they attracted like opposite charges. It was their differences which made them so memorable to each other.

Yugi tried to bring his focus back to the paper he couldn't keep his eyes on. This document was asking him to be the host of a small tournament. The tournament was being held by a dueling organization for youth. It was just a small, non-televised competition, but they wanted Yugi to be there because all of the kids involved look up to him. From what was presented to him in the document, it seemed like a good cause, even if the pay wasn't as high as it would be for the other tournaments. He looked at the clock(s) and saw that if he left now he would be early for first interview. He wondered if it started sooner, would it end sooner and his whole day go faster so he can meet Tea sooner. He quit wondering and started to think about food. He didn't eat anything yet, but he told himself he would get something at the drive-through. With this settled, he walked out the door.

Several hours later that day...

Yugi walked through the door exhausted, as he usually felt after a regular day of work. These days weren't so bad, it was the busy days that had him falling asleep before he got to the door. Luckily this wasn't one of those times. He barely had enough strength to go up the stairs, but it was something he needed to do because he needed to get something nicer to wear to take Tea out.

Yugi stopped before he got to the stairs, wandering if he could just wear what he had on. If not, Tea would probably make him go back and change, unless she thought it was too late in the evening. The time of the day was definitely later than he expected, but not too late, and he was tired, but would just need to pretend to be energetic when he was with Tea. Anyways, she did expect him to be late, and he would apologize for it-but he remembered. However, he didn't remember if they decided on a place to eat. It probably wouldn't matter though, because women are famous for changing their mind several times based on their mood. The important thing was that he remembered.

He thought he might call her to let her know that he just got home- but that thought was interrupted by a knock at the door.

Yugi looked up from the phone in his hand and at the door, almost as if he would see who it was, or remember if he was expecting someone. He wondered who it could be, rather than checking to see who it was. Yugi just couldn't think of any reason someone would come to his house so late. It made no sense, and what made even less sense was that he didn't want to answer it. His body was headed toward the door, but against his will. His body had to fight his thoughts just to do the civilized thing and not keep the person waiting. Yugi always did the gentlemanly thing, but suddenly he didn't care to be at all respectful. He felt much more alarmed and surprised than any other time when an unexpected visitor showed up. He finally stood at one side of the door and could practically feel a repelling force from the other side. Repelling was an understatement, because Yugi was being pushed away from the door.

It took all he had to stand there, as he suddenly felt something he secretly always wanted in his life, but turned it down now, as he didn't have it when he should have. Yugi became angry at the door, partly because he was annoyed at the late-night knocking, and partly because it stood in the way of what he secretly always wanted. Then Yugi felt burdened by the door, because there was only so much it could do now to keep what Yugi secretly wanted away from him.

Yugi wasn't sure if he wanted the door to be there or not, and he wasn't sure how he felt toward the door. It had no place in his life, and although it was important to have, and Yugi did want the door to be there. What would happen though, when he opened the door? Was it ridiculous of him to feel this way toward his door? Should he open his door, even late at night? He placed his hand on the doorknob and turned it. He was tired already, and now light-headed, but like pulling off a band-aid he took a deep breath and pulled.

Yugi could already see why the forces of nature were warning him. He was disgusted by the sight of the man before him. It was a man with a familiar face, familiar from faint memories and old photographs. Even for as long as he had not seen this face, Yugi would always recognize it and be able to point it out.

This someone was actually a someone who Yugi had quite a bit of trouble calling a "man", or anything respectful. To Yugi, no definition of the word "man" included leaving a woman and their son alone for her to take care of him. This man did come back to "visit" his son once, and to borrow money from the women who loved, money that he would never return. This forced the woman to move back in with her father who could barely support himself with the family game shop.

The only thing that stopped Yugi from slamming the door in the face of this "man" was the little girl at his side, clutching the man's hand. She was no older than seven years old, and by the widening of her eyes, was definitely surprised to see Yugi Muto.

"Oh, my boy, you've grown so much, how is my son?" This man had short black hair with a bit of gray at the roots. He was average height, and though had no definite beard or mustache, was an unshaven man. He was dressed like a used car salesmen, but not as nice. His smile however was impeccable, like it had been used several times before to get out of trouble.

Though, it was not his appearance, which screamed 'sleaze-ball', that made Yugi cringe, it was that man's use of the phrase "my son". It was a phrase Yugi was not used to hearing from a man, and he definitely wasn't going to get used to calling anyone "dad".

"I suppose you definitely couldn't see how much I've grown by turning on a television." Yugi seemed anything but welcoming.

"Don't be so unforgiving, give your old-man a hug." He held out his arms, but Yugi was neither interested nor was he going to acknowledge the man's gesture. Instead Yugi pretended not to notice because he was focusing his attention directly on the girl.

He had a feeling he knew the answer, but asked anyways, "Who is she?" Yugi didn't show his care for the answer.

The man smiled, "Well, she's your little sister, my daughter."

These words hit Yugi hard, he felt them slam into his chest. He wouldn't show a reaction, but even though he prepared himself to hear these words, they affected him more than he expected. Yugi ignored the man's manipulation of words that were meant to put some kind of guilt trip on Yugi. Even though he did pretend it wasn't his father's words that got to him, he already knew his responsibility to them. Yugi showed no reaction of his own, but saw one from the girl that showed him this was news to her as well. She looked up at the man in disbelief, then looked back at Yugi who would not show defeat.

"Come in." He stepped back and allowed them to come in out of the cold. He invited them to sit down. The girl sat down at the end of the couch and Yugi kneel-ed down on the floor by the end of the couch.

"What's your name?" Yugi looked at her, and tried to be as sweet as possible, considering the circumstances.

"Umm. I'm Iris."

"Do you like to watch TV?'

She nodded and pulled some of her black hair behind her ear to uncover more of her face.

Yugi responded, "Well, I'm going to turn on the TV, and you can turn the channel to anything you want. But I need to talk to your dad alone for a minute in the kitchen, okay? We'll be right back."

She nodded again and so Yugi handed her the remote before he got up off the floor. He gestured for the man to go to the kitchen. Yugi did take notice to the man taking a good look at everything in the home, like he hasn't been in a really nice house for a long time.

Yugi faced the man before him in the kitchen and asked, "So what's the story?", with no patience.

"Yugi," He looked at his son up and down, and smile. He said to himself, "How different you look from when you were a child." He smiled, as if overjoyed, "You know, I've been trying to contact you for so long." He still took a look at Yugi, as if he was still taking in the sight. "I wish I could have, but I had no idea your mom took you to live with her dad."

Yugi rolled his eyes, "I don't care." He scoffed. "What do you want?"

The man began to explain, "I was living with Iris's mom and she kicked us out."

Without taking in the seriousness of them man's voice or situation, he sarcastically replied, "Why, because she realized you were worthless and jobless?"

The man actually appeared to be shocked that he was being spoken to in such a harsh and sarcastic tone by his own son. "How could you speak to me that way?"

Yugi snapped. "How could you do that to us?"

"I already told you" He spoke softly to try to calm Yugi down "My son, it wasn't my fault."

"You're lying!" Yugi realized that he had raised his voice louder than intended, and he could tell because he saw the little girl in the living room turn her head out of curiosity. It usually didn't take so few words to set Yugi off like that. This told Yugi that he would have to calm down.

The man acted like he was tying to comfort Yugi. "Yugi, I'm sorry if you feel that way." He attempted to put his hand on Yugi's shoulder, but Yugi quickly pulled it away.

Yugi thought for a moment before he began to laugh. He laughed at the words, 'I'm sorry you feel that way.' He knew that it was one of those phrases that had the words, 'I'm sorry', but have no intentions to apologize. Yugi took a look at the man, who had his arms open for a hug. As if he could just show up on Yugi's doorstep with a child and an "apology" and think everything would be alright. As if that's what Yugi's wanted from him all along.

Yugi looked back over at the little girl. Her black hair was back in her face. The ends were kind of thin, which meant it needed to be trimmed. Otherwise it was thick and shiny. Her clothes, along with her skin and face, were spotted with dirt. Her eyes however, were bright blue and shined right through the dirt on her face.

He looked back over at his father. Although everything about him said, 'dishonest', Yugi had no choice, which that man knew he left Yugi with none.

"I'll give you a chance."

Yugi's father could only think to reply, "Really?"

Yugi nodded. "What do you need?"

"A place to stay."

Yugi's eyes widened. "What?"

"I've been staying in my truck, but the nights get so cold." He paused, "And Iris-"

"-She's been sleeping in your truck?" Yugi showed he was alarmed, which was a good sign to his father.

"Well, I give her all of my blankets, but you know how it's been snowing."

Yugi did know, and knew how the thought made him feel of a little girl staying in a truck in the snow. Suddenly the image appeared in his mind of a women waiting at a game shop for her boyfriend to pick her up. Showing no manners, he pulled out his phone and dialed Atem's number.

Through the speaker he heard a ringing and then, "Hello." Atem sounded confused.

"Hey, what are you doing right now?"

"Well, I just got out of work." Yugi remembered Atem was working at the museum tonight.

"You just got out?"

"Yes."

"Would you do a huge favor for me?" Yugi asked without realizing that Atem would stop everything he was doing to help Yugi.

"Sure, what do you need?"

"I'm at home, and I need you to pick up Tea from the game shop and bring her here."

This confused Atem some more. "I thought you were taking her out tonight."

Yugi didn't even take notice to the fact that Atem remembered Yugi's date with Tea that Yugi would have forgotten. He then looked at his father and replied to Atem, "There has been a change of plans. I have to stay here and deal with something."

"Is everything alright?"

"Yes-well, everything will be- I think. I'll explain when you get here. Okay."

Atem took a second to think about this, but would soon agree. He was driving at the moment and turned onto the street to head toward the game shop. "Alright, I'm on my way right now. I'll see you soon."

"Okay, thanks." Yugi heard Atem hang up and he pressed the end button without taking his eyes off of his father. The man looked like he was about to speak, but Yugi gestured for him to wait a bit longer while he dialed Tea's number.

He heard her call tone for a second before she picked up. "Hey, where are you? I've been waiting."

"I'm at home now, but I-" He stopped for a moment. "I'm sorry Tea."

"You're not coming, are you?" She sounded upset, but not surprised.

"Listen, I have a very unusual problem here at home."

She became worried."Why? Is everything okay?"

"Don't worry."

"Are you at least picking me up?"

"Not tonight, Atem's going to pick you up and take you here."

Now it was Tea who Yugi confused. "Why can't you come?"

"I'll explain when you get here. Okay?"

Tea was concerned, but had to agree. "I guess so." Yugi could tell that she even sounded crushed.

"Please, don't be upset with me Tea."

"Look, I'll get over it, alright. I'll be fine. What I feel isn't important right now, it's whatever you're dealing with that's important."

"I'll make this up to you." Yugi kind of ignored Tea's message.

"Okay Yugi.." She paused. "You're mom just got here."

Yugi's eyes widened. Not only did that mean it was late, but he didn't even think of his mom. He didn't think of how to tell her that his father was there, and he couldn't imagine her reaction. He panicked, "Tea, listen-" She could hear the panic in his voice."Tea, don't tell her anything about this, especially anything I said. Okay Tea?"

She was silent for a second, which caused him to worry, "You mean don't tell her how strange you're acting?"

"Yes, Tea, or anything I told you. Don't tell her anything."

"Okay, I won't tell her. Will you calm down.?"

"Sure, yeah, I'll do that. I can do that. Okay, yes. I'll see you when you get here, okay?"

"'K, I love you, bye."

"I love you too." Yugi closed his phone.

He ran his hand through his hair and took a deep breath, and then out, as an attempt to calm himself down. This attempt worked enough to get him by. As long as his father didn't say anything stupid.

"Who's that, you're girlfriend?" his father asked.

Yugi shot a glare at the man before walking into the living room. He really had to bring his tension level down before speaking to the young girl. "Are you finding everything okay?" he asked the little girl.

She looked up at him. She was a bit surprised, as she always seemed to be when Yugi spoke to her. She nodded as an answer to his question. Yugi wandered if she was able to read the title of the show, which appeared at the top for a few seconds.

Yugi looked back at the girl and noticed her clothes were a little too big, and her shoes were as well.

He looked at the TV again to see what she was watching. She was watching the Dueling Channel, a channel that always had shows on about Duel Monsters, whether it was televised tournaments, or tips and strategies. Iris seemed very interested in what she was watching. Yugi wasn't sure what it was, because he never actually watched it himself.

Yugi walked back into the kitchen. It was clear that this small trip to the living room not only calmed him down, but gave him time to think.

"I'll tell you what." Yugi was ready to make an offer. "I have one extra bedroom. She can stay in that bedroom until you get everything together and get a place of your own." This was a very nice offer, Yugi thought.

"Where do I stay?" Was the man's first response.

"-your truck." Yugi didn't skip a beat.

"But it's freezing."

Yugi shrugged. "I have no place for you to stay."

"I could sleep on your couch."

Yugi pretended to think about it. "Or, you could- not- and stay in your truck."

"Why?"

Yugi instinctively was careful when trying to word phrases to avoid hurting a person's feelings. He threw those instincts out the window. "I simply don't want you in my house."

"Well then, I think you should lend me some money so I could get a place."

Again, Yugi pretended to think about it. "I just don't think so. That's not happening."

Yugi's father was surprised. "You're being ridiculous."

Yugi shook his head to show that he really didn't care. This silence gave Yugi's father more time to think of another excuse.

He argued, "But, I have expensive stuff in my truck. There's not much room to sleep with it in my truck. I also don't want it to get stolen. Some of it's mine, but most of it belongs to Iris. It's all she has left, and all I have to give her."

Yugi had to actually think about this for a moment. He would feel terrible if their things got stolen and he could have prevented it. Yugi didn't feel all that terrible though if something happened to his father. It was a heartless side of Yugi, that he wanted to show his father as a sign of appreciation for everything he did, or rather, didn't do. "Bring your things here." Yugi finally said, finding a way to still keep that man outside.

"Where?"

That was a good question. It was another idea that would actually have to be thought about. Yugi wouldn't want the extra luggage to be laying around the house where someone who walks in can see it in plain sight. There were a couple of reasons for that, Tea would disapprove, and he knew it looked tacky. When thinking that, he specifically wouldn't want his mother to come over and ask questions. There was no other room in the house that seemed appropriate. It finally occurred to Yugi what he could do.

"Leave your stuff in the garage. It's a large garage, and no one can break into it."

Yugi's father then ran out of ideas. "So- I'm still staying in the truck.

Yugi just smiled and nodded.

"You don't think you could lend me some money to get a hotel?"

Yugi's response this time was a look that practically said, 'Are you kidding?' Yugi ignored the question. He never imagined revenge being as great as it was, for he held no other anger toward any other person for any other reason. This really was the one unresolved chapter of his life, where he either imagined making up with his father for lost time, or seeking payback. However, Yugi found one option more appealing than the other, and anyone who really knew Yugi knew which one he really wanted.

Anyways, it would be too hard, to even consider forgiving his father. There was so much anger, resentment, loneliness, confusion, and even jealousy built up inside of Yugi because of his father.

"Bring your things into the garage if you're going to leave them." Yugi said, as he watched his father make his way back out the front door. Before he got out, Yugi called, "Once you're done you can bring your truck into the garage." He gave Yugi a blank look of confusion. Yugi tried to clarify as heartlessly as possible. "It's a lot warmer in the garage." Yugi said nothing more, and his father said nothing.

Yugi's father just smiled to himself as he walked out to his truck. Both of them recognized this offer as allowing him to stay in Yugi's home. The garage was large enough for four big cars, and Yugi had only one. Yugi needed a large garage as part storage and part den. There was a couch in the garage. It was basically a less decorated extension of the house that one could park their car.

It wasn't as nice as having his own bedroom, but it was nice in its own way. That didn't necessarily mean Yugi's father wouldn't try to get more if he could.

Yugi took another deep breath. He walked into the living room and took a seat next to Iris.

"Where is he going?" She looked up at Yugi and asked.

Yugi thought for only a second to think of which 'he' she was referring to. "He's just going to his truck. He'll be right back, okay?"

"Okay."

Yugi thought she would look back at the television, but since he was sitting next to her, he had her full attention.

He finally asked her, "So, do you usually watch this channel?"

She took a second to think before nodding energetically. "When it shows on the TV, then I watch it. Sometimes when I turn the channels I can't find it. It comes on some TV's, but it doesn't come on the others. So I'm glad your TV gets it."

Yugi nodded, and figured she meant that some people order that channel and others don't. This also showed Yugi that she watches TV at a lot of different houses, some that order that channel and some that don't. It made him wander why she was going to so many different houses to watch TV.

She still never looked away from him. Yugi smiled to her and she smiled back at him.

"Would you be alright with staying here for a while?"

Her expression completely and immediately changed, she was definitely surprised. To clarify, she asked, "Here?"

Yugi nodded.

Then she asked, "On this couch?"

He gently shook his head. "No, there's an extra bedroom upstairs. You'll have your own room, are you alright with that?"

Her jaw fell open, to show that she was even more surprised. She then nodded energetically again. Yugi stood up and walked with her to the stairs, and helped her up them. Down the hall, passed his bedroom, and to a spare room they entered. It only had a couch, and plenty of Tea's decorations. It was like a mini-living room, but without a TV.

When there Iris asked, "Is this my room?"

"No, just a little further." And a little further down was a bathroom, then even further was a mini-hallway, which just had three doors to three bedrooms. Each door was on a different wall. The one of them that was Tea's was on the wall facing Yugi, it was the farthest. The other two were extras. Yugi did lie about not having an extra room, but he didn't lie about not wanting his father in his house.

The door on the door had Tea's name on it. Honestly, Yugi didn't know which room was Tea's, he never really came to that part of the house. If it wasn't for the door having Tea's name on it, he might have thought it was a spare bedroom. Yugi opened the door to to his right and turned on the light. The room was mostly empty except for a bed with no sheets, blankets, or pillows. It was just a twin sized frame that held a twin sized mattress. Yugi actually forgot that there was a bed in this room, and never really thought much further than giving Iris her own room. As in, it never occurred to him that she would need a bed, but that was probably because he assumed that it would magically have a bed. The bed, he remembered, came with a set of furniture. It was extra, because neither Tea nor Yugi wanted it. He was glad that it was conveniently, or 'magically', there.

"Your dad will bring in your things. Then I'll bring them up here for you." as Yugi looked around, it began to bum him out that the room was so empty. "If you want I can bring a TV up here for you to watch or something. It would have that channel on it."

She shook her head. "No thank you, you don't need to do that. There's a TV downstairs already that I can watch."

He laughed to himself, as he was quite aware that there was a TV downstairs. He then looked around and tried to think of something he could do. "Are you sure? It wouldn't be any trouble."

"It's fine."

Yugi sat down on the mattress for the first time. He had no idea if the mattress would even be comfortable. It seemed nice.. "Well, this is your bed. Do you like it?" He patted the spot next to him on the bed as a gesture for her to sit down. She took a seat.

"Yeah, I like it." Was her stamp of approval.

"Then I'll get some sheets and blankets to make your bed. If you need anything else you can ask me." He was about to get up, but she grabbed his jacket. He looked back at her, then sat down again.

"I have a question." She said to him.

He sat silent and waited patiently. However, there was only silence, and so he wandered if she was waiting for some kind of permission to ask her question. So he said, "Yes, what is it?"

Iris still didn't say anything, and so he realized that she seemed to be wandering how to ask her question. She finally said, "Well, my dad said that..." she paused, "...he said I'm your little sister."

Yugi could feel the blood rushing to his head again, because it just hit him that he was meeting his sister for the first time. He nodded to her.

"My question is- is that true.?"

He nodded again. "It would seem that way."

"Then my other question is-"

He waited, but nodded again anyway, just in case that's what she was waiting for.

"My question is, does that make you my brother?"

Yugi was thrown off by the question. Then he smiled because he found it extremely adorable that she asked. He nodded to her. "Yes, it does."

"Oh. Okay then." she sounded as if she was done talking about the issue.

So he stood up and said, "I'll be right back." He started for the door, and he opened it, but just as he was going to walk out, she finished.

"because...I had another brother."