Chapter 8

Sitting next to Alexis Rhodes was hard. It was like sitting next to a sleeping rabbit wanting to hug it so badly, but not being able to lest it woke and ran. So, she did what she had to do. Under her watchful gaze, she stared down the other girl, waiting for her to wake up, needing her to wake up.

But it seem like a minute was an hour and a hour was a century. It would be thousands of years before she woke, but in Rebecca's mind, it didn't matter.

Anything for finding out what happened to her Yugi. She thought about him so much it hurt. She used to hate how much it mattered to her when he first disappeared, but . . . it just didn't matter any more that it hurt. In her mind, there was a point where pain didn't matter anymore, and she was at that point.

Alexis's hand twitched.

Rebecca was sent into full alert.

She knew when she came that Alexis would probably be out, but Aki had people with her, so she couldn't risk it. She didn't want to meet anyone else.

People who were friends would look down at her with pity, believing they knew what she was going through. But the problem with that was that they didn't know.

They didn't know what it was like to have the perfect other half of their soul ripped out. They didn't know the constant reminders of their closest friend. They didn't feel how she did about the other. They didn't know what it was like to have the closest one, their shining knight in armor, stolen from them. No matter what they did, they would never understand.

It wasn't fair.

Alexis turned her head, "Jay?"

"No." Rebecca whispered, "My name is Rebecca Hopkins. I was . . . close to Yugi Motou."

Alexis stared at her, her breath hitching when she managed to process the information. "He's back."

"Who?" Rebecca asked, afraid she knew the answer, or at least her answer.

"Him, them, all of them." Alexis replied, sounding as if she had lost her mind. In a sense, she did loose a part of it. Her peace. "Your Yugi Motou is back. My Jaden Yuki. Her Yusei Fudo."

Rebecca's breath caught again. Alexis grabbed her hand, desperately in need of some type of support she hadn't had since the last time she had seen the Jaden she knew. "Please stay. I need someone who understands."

With the stunning news flashing through her mind, Rebecca was stunned. She didn't know what to say. She had looked for someone who understood for a long time. Now, she had one, but . . . maybe . . . .

She grabbed their intertwining hands with her free one, having sat down her hot co-co by the bed. "Listen, I need to get something. I promise I'll be right back."

"Okay." Alexis replied in a small voice. She bit her lip, laying back. Her eyes stung.

Rebecca slipped out, half-ran to her father's room, grabbed her stuff, and headed back.

"A-Alexis," She started with an unstable voice, "can you tell me what happened? I think we can figure something out. Maybe we can get them back."

Alexis nodded. "I woke up, for some reason wearing this dress." Her voice was shaky, but she knew she sent the message across. The dress reminded her of Jaden. Rebecca couldn't count the amount of times she had done the exact same thing. "Um, my friend and three of my top students showed up at my home, where I had gone for the weekend. After small talk, I headed to the bathroom. I was uncomfortable. I felt like I should clean up a bit. I didn't look back when going through my hallway, and ended up at the bathroom, where everything started." She took a shaky breath. "On the mirror, in lipstick that wasn't mine-"

"A lipstick message that wasn't in your lipstick?" Rebecca interrupted.

"Yes. It was too dark." Rebecca typed the information down. It was too important to be left out.

"Um, the message said 'I'm Sorry'. I screamed." Rebecca typed down the message. "Uh, everyone ran in and I saw him at the end of the hall. He was about to jump out my window, probably how he got in." She typed it down. "I stopped him, and he told me he-he was sorry. Then, he tried to knock me out. In a way, I was, but at the same time I wasn't. He talked to the kids and my friends for a while, saying 'it wasn't safe'."

"Unsafe? How unsafe?" Rebecca couldn't help but ask. She had never seen anything that was too dangerous for her-for Yugi. It wasn't natural.

"Unsafe enough for Jaden to worry." She replied, her voice shaking.

"Go on." Rebecca gently encouraged. It wasn't cemented enough to get to her yet. She hadn't seen him-them.

"He said that he had no choice. He was on the wrong side this time." Rebecca typed it down. "He claimed that the only way for him to protect us was to be on the wrong side." Rebecca typed it down. "My friend, she was yelling at him when she gasped. She said 'king of games'." Rebecca forced her hands to type. It was getting harder.

"A-as in Yugi Motou?"

"Yes." Alexis replied, blinking away tears, "They were arguing when Yusei Fudo spoke, claiming that it wasn't any of their choices what they did." Rebecca typed it down. "Jaden started to say that they couldn't do something, but he was interrupted." Rebecca once again typed. "Yusei claimed they let more than enough information fly and that-that talking to us only hurt us. Jaden said he had to apologize and they were gone. I-I don't remember anything else after that." Rebecca nodded.

Then, the weirdest feeling crept upon her. It was like she could feel someone staring at her. She blinked, looking around.

She sighed, turning back to Alexis.

She wished someone was staring at her. Only one person, though.

. . .

And her wish came true.

High on the balcony right across the street stood Yugi Motou, peering inside the open window of the hospital. He sighed, watching the one person he really missed.

Rebecca subconsciously rubbed at her eyes which were now bare. He missed the glasses, but it was alright with him. The change was a good one.

After all, it wasn't like he looked the same. He had filled out a bit. He was still short to his utter dismay, but he was still taller than Rebecca. His eyes, although they had a bit of the same shape, were no longer innocent as they once were. His style, however, never changed, nor in his opinion should it have. He sighed.

He missed her so much.

He watched as she stiffened as the other girl told her something, most likely about him. Thankfully, the stiffness and obvious pain was short lived.

He would be content just staring if it weren't for knowing the feeling of being close to her. He wished he could be over there, but he knew he couldn't. So, he just sighed, and continued to watch. He wouldn't get the chance to see her for much longer.

Rebecca stiffened, staring around her. It was almost as if she had super-senses and knew when he was close enough to watch her closely.

For a moment, she stared right at him, sending a warm chill up his spine, but she looked away, knowing that he wasn't there. If only . . . .

He shook all thoughts from his head. He didn't need to think like that. Not when everything would just be ripped away from him again. Life was cruel. Love was crueler.

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