Chapter 2 - The Day Everything Changed

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Extending the pack towards his sister he looked her dead in the face, "Do you want one?"

Ryou looked to her brother, then at the pack, then back to her brother again. Would this change anything? Mom and Bakura do it so it can't be that bad.

Extending her hand slowly, so slowly that Bakura growled and thrusted the pack into her hand. She turned it over in her hand, examining it throuly. Opening it she looked inside, the pack was parcialy empty with one of the cigerettes fliped upside down- "Thats the lucky, don't take it. It gets smoked last."- Ryou pulled the cigarette from the pack, then shut it handing it back to Bakura.

She stuck the orange end of the cigarette into her mouth and just held it there.

"'Kay, I'm gunna light the other end of this and when I do you inhale, try not to cough though." Bakura said extending the red lighter towards her cigarette. Ryou did as she was told, one the flame reached the end of her cigarette, she inhaled the toxins.

Pulling the cigarette away from her mouth, she pulled her hand to her lips and coughed into her hand. Looking to her brother for an explination, Bakura closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose,

"Don't you pay attention in class? That's bound to happen on the first puff because your lungs aren't used to inhaling smoke. You'll stop coughing after a few puffs."

Ryou looked at him skepticaly, but took another drag. Satified when she didn't hack up a lung this time, she took another, then another, untill finally the entire thing was gone.

"So, your first cigarette. What'd ya think?" Bakura asked flinging himself down onto the futon, he had finished his cigarette before she had.

"It was...okay, I guess. Minus when it made me want to hack up a lung." Ryou grimiced as she sat on the edge of her bed.

"You do know you are going to have to repay me right?" Bakura asked cracking an eye open slightly to cast his gaze in her direction.

"Huh?" Ryou asked blinking at him. She didn't understand what he ment.

"You'll see soon enough." Bakura let his eyes slide shut once more.

Blinking once more, opening her mouth once more.

Before she could get the words out a knock at the door revererated through the room.

Picking herself off the bed, Ryou walked over to the door and unlocked it yet again. "Yes?" she poked her head out.

Infront of her door stood her oldest brother Akefia. He had short white hair, like the magority of the children, with whitist lavender eyes. Tanned skin that he got from his dad and a langthy frame.

"Come on guys. We're all down stairs. We're all ready to play some Zelda. Either you guys get down stairs or we are gunna start without ya." Akefia said tilting his head from side to side while holding his arms out and moving them up and down in a weighing motion. That had always been the way Akefia had acted. Always there with a smile or some type of action to make everyone laugh and release the tention.

Ryou smiled.

"We'll be down in a few minutes, Akefia." Bakura said getting up from the futon.

"Kay we'll wait for a few more minutes." Akefia turned to leave, "Oh, and Ry, you might wanna spray some perfume before you go downstairs. Don't want everyone to smell the smoke." And with that he did leave.

Ryou turned to Bakura, "You go down I'll be down in a sec." with that she pushed him out the door and shut it in his face.

Sliding down the door her face feel into her hands. What had she done...she always said she was going to be the one kid in the family who didn't smoke. Now look at her, she had just smoked her first cigarette!

Pushing aside her inner tormoil, Ryou rose to her feet and closed the distance between her and the dresser. Grabbing her cotten candy perfume from the top of it she sprayed herself with it, before re-caping it and seting it back down.

She turned to the door, took a deep breath and opened it. She would just have to face this with her head held high. She took the door nob into her hand and twisted the door open.

As she entered the room, Ryou felt like all eyes were on her. That they all knew. Taking a quick glance up from the floor she saw, no one was actully looking at her. Taking her seat between Malik and Mariku she fiigured, if they knew they sure weren't letting anything show they knew.

Chapter End