Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter. Not been writing for ages so please forgive me for the chapter not being as good as the others :S Hope you enjoy!
Domino High presents: Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 13
"I… Joey what the hell? I mean… what did you say?" Yami asked becoming panicky. Joey rolled his eyes.
"I said, cause you love him," he repeated more slowly. Yami's stomach churned. Joey knew!? Was it that obvious what was happening between them?
"I… I don't know what you're talking about…" he denied quickly, before slipping by him. Joey held out his arm to prevent him from leaving.
"There's no point denying it…" he sighed as Yami took a step backwards. Yami bit his lip.
"Denying? I'm not deny…"
"Oh quit the act Yami! I know. Ryou told me…" There was silence between the two. Yami looked down at his boots avoiding any eye contact.
'Fucking Ryou! All the people he could spill the beans to and it's this joker!? Arghh!' he thought to himself. "And I do realise that I'm the last person you'd want to know." Yami gave a sarcastic chuckle.
"Of course not, I wanted you to know about this didn't I? The bastard who beats me up at every bloody rehearsal, the bastard who cant get a grip of his life and stop holding a grudge!" he hissed. Joey grinned.
"So you admit it then?"
"I…I… Arghhh!" Yami groaned as he shoved by him and walked up the wings. Joey rolled his eyes and followed him.
"I just wanted to say that…"
"Say what? You've already said enough in rehearsals mate…" he interrupted, trying to keep a loud whisper that was proving difficult.
"Aye but I want to… just… ahhh! Yami for fuck sake! LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!" he yelled. Joey quickly put his hands over his mouth and Yami hesitantly stopped walking. He brought his hands slowly away from his mouth as people stopped staring and carried on with the hurried business of setting up the stage. "Look, I should have acted more civil…" Yami let out a slow sigh. "…I should have tried to get along with you. I just never realised what Tea had actually done to separate you guys. What I'm trying to say is… I'm sorry…" Yami raised an eyebrow.
"You actually mean that? Or are you just saying that before making fun of me and beating me down worse than I am at the moment?" He hadn't bothered to turn and face Joey who shook his head.
"Yes. I do mean it. Ryou has filled me in with the details and I fill guilty…" Yami snorted,
"Yuhuh… feel guilty. You don't know how much pain I have gone through recently. You can never understand how much misery I have had to suffer with you and that bitch," he grumbled.
"I'm sorry…" murmured Joey. Yami crossed his arms. This was extremely unlike Joey. He never acted like this, he never admitted he was wrong and finally he never admitted that he felt guilty about his actions. "Yami… I'm sorry cant you tell? What do you want me to do? Get down on my knees and beg?" began Joey, with a pleading tone. Yami couldn't help revealing a grin before turning round to look at Joey.
"It would help but I think you'd embarrass me more than yourself," he grumbled. Did Joey just expect him to forgive him just like that? It wasn't going to be that easy. Yami slowly turned to face Joey and frowned. "Look… it's not that easy to gain my trust. I've been let down so many times these past few weeks by those who I thought were my friends. You're no exception." Joey frowned.
"I know…" he replied looking down at the floor. Yami sighed and brushed back his hair with his hand. "But I want to sort it out…." Yami raised an eyebrow again. He actually sounded genuinely sorry. There was a pleading tone behind his voice that he had never heard before. He looked down at the floor in thought. Joey noticed this and sighed. "Yami… I understand that I have been a bastard… and yeah I deserve the silent treatment and all but I don't want you as an enemy. I want you as my friend," Yami stood there silently. "But I guess that's not gonna happen anytime soon." He turned and walked back up the side of the stage.
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend." Yami walked towards Joey who had stopped and turned round to face him. "And you're no exception to that either…" he smiled slightly. Joey grinned also as the two gave each other a friendly hug.
"Thank you Yami…" smiled Joey as they stopped hugging.
"You've reminded me that I have to forget about the past and just move on," He looked across the stage and spotted Yugi in the wings again, "I can't be scared to sort out things that need sorting." He put his hand in his pocket and gripped the note tightly. "I just have to have the courage to say and do the right thing…" Joey glanced where Yami was looking and gave a small grin.
"Yeah… that would be wise. I think Yugi would be thinking the same thing…" Yami shook his head to come out of his daze.
"I… how did you…"
"Let's just say I know the tell tale signs. Quite random for me to 'butt in' at this time but go for it," Yami looked at him, "No point thinking about what could have happened instead of what could be." Yami chuckled.
"It's strange… I'm so used to hearing this sort of thing from Ryou. Not you." He smiled. Joey shrugged,
"I guess I am a bit of a softy after all…I know you'll do the right thing… and break a leg out there…" he beamed before walking away. Yami shook his head. What just happened? Joey gave him advice? But more importantly, Joey gave him good advice!! Strange…
"Yami! For God sake move! We need to at least get this thing started," hissed Ms Williams as the curtains were raised. Yami sighed.
"Well I'll have to tell him some way…"
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Yami paced up and down the corridor backstage. He was twirling the single red rose that he had retrieved from his dressing room between his fingers.
"Yugi… I thought I'd give you… No, that's not right. Hi Yugi… have a rose," He smacked his forehead, "Stupid-stupid-stupid! Yugi… I want to…"
"Want to what?" Yami jumped at Yugi's voice and quickly turned round.
"Yugi! Didn't quite see you there…" he laughed nervously. Yugi raised an eyebrow.
"Well you were facing the other way…"Yami nodded his head.
"Yeah… I suppose…" he laughed brushing back his hair. 'Stupid-stupid-STUPID!' "Umm… I wanted to give you… I wanted…" Yugi frowned in confusion. "Er… your parents-your parents wanted to give you this… I-I-I just happened to be near the doors during the break a while ago…" Yami bit his lip. "Here." He quickly passed Yugi the rose before rubbing his face with his hands."
"Auch that's so sweet…" he breathed, as he breathed in the scent of the sweet smelling rose. When he looked up, Yami was already leaning on the edge of the set looking out onto the stage and the audience. Yugi looked at him sadly.
"I guess this is about your parents then?" he asked quietly, placing the rose on a nearby window sill. He sat on the make shift bed ready to be wheeled on for the next scene. Yami turned to him before gazing back out onto the stage.
"Surprisingly no… There are just a lot of things on my mind that I have to get sorted." He turned back to Yugi but noticed he was already being wheeled onto the stage. Yami mentally kicked himself. Why couldn't he bring himself to tell him? It was easier before…He thrust his hands into his pockets and slowly brought out the piece of paper. He unfolded it and read, 'Yugi…' That was it. He rubbed the side of his head with his hand as he stared at the paper and then towards Yugi. If only he had the courage to say that the rose was from him and not his parents. If only he wasn't such a coward, he wouldn't be in this mess right now. If only he could tell Yugi all the wonderful things he thought about him. If only he could say how much he loved him in a few simple words. "I should have never taken our love for granted…" he murmured, "If only I told him… told him that he was the only one for me. He's not just Yugi… he's my light… my past present and future…" Yami felt tears form in his eyes and he hastily brushed them away with the back of his hand. It then hit him. He knew exactly what to write and put pen to paper. He quickly scribbled down the words as the main curtains parted.
"What the hell are you doing!? Get out there!!" hissed Ms Williams. Yami glared slightly before folding up his letter and pocketing it. H felt a hard nudge between his shoulder blades making him stagger slightly onto the stage. He took a deep breath as he gazed upon the scene for the last time.
'How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! Which their keepers call
A lightning before death.'
He began to make his way to centre stage, speaking out to the audience as he went. Yami looked to hi right where Joey was lying on a bed.
'Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O what more favour can I do to thee.
Forgive me,'
Yami began to walk to he right hand side of the stage to stand beside Yugi's bed. He stared down sadly at Yugi's still form and sighed to himself.
'Juliet, why art thou yet so fair?' He knelt on the floor and took his hand and kissed it. 'Here… here I will remain
With worms that are they chambermaids; O here
Will I set up my everlasting rest…'
Subconsciously he rested his head on Yugi's chest as he felt the sting of tears dwell in his eyes once again. He released a sob making the people in the audience sigh and 'awww' in reaction to the "acting." Yugi opened his eyes slightly, worried about the deathly silence that had fallen on the stage. Finally Yami lifted his head and looked at Yugi's face and as he wiped away some of his tears with his hand.
'Arms take your last embrace!' he sat up on the side of the bed and cradled Yugi's upper body in his arms. He gently hugged him.
'And lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss.' He kissed Yugi lovingly on the lips as several tears rolled down his cheeks and landed on Yugi's face. Yugi closed his eyes at the touch of Yami's lips on his. How he'd missed these beautiful lips and loving embraces. As soon as he'd entered heaven it was over. Yami broke the kiss and gently wiped away the tears landed on his face with his thumbs.
'I've tried forever to think of the right things to say to you… But I couldn't think of any. I thought that giving you a single rose would help me to tell you… but I guess it's harder than it looks…' He hugged Yugi once again to hide his tears. Ms Williams stood silently at the side of the stage biting her nails and bobbing up and down on her feet.
"There should be dialogue!" she kept hissing, frantically looking at her script and then back on stage. Finally Yami summed up the courage to lay Yugi back down on the bed and stand up to face the audience. He quickly pulled out the prop vial from his pocket and pulled off the cork. As he was about to drink the contents, he stopped and looked down at his feet. He put his hand in his pocket and brought out the scribbled note. He sighed.
"I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold…" he closed his eyes. "And the stars grow old." Yugi frowned.
"That's not his line…" he whispered, as Yami downed the 'poison.'
'Here's to my love!
O true apothecary
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.' He kissed his fingers and placed them on Yugi's lips before falling to the floor. Yugi sat up on the bed and yawned.
'The lady stirs…' But Yugi was too busy looking down at Yami to hear any of the lines.
'Why are you acting like this? What's wrong with him?'
'THE-LADY-STIRS…' said Tristan again, making Yugi jump.
'O, comfortable friar! Where is my Romeo?' he blushed slightly. Tristan rolled his eyes.
'Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;
And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee.'
'Go get thee hence, for I will not away.' Tristan nodded and quickly shuffled oof the stage making some of the audience laugh.
"It isn't a comedy!!" whimpered Ms Williams at the audiences' reaction. Yugi got up off the bed and knelt down on the floor next to Yami's body. He stroked the side of his face before taking his hand off his chest.
'What's here? A cup, clos'd in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after!' He leant down and kissed Yami fully on the lips with as much love as he could master. As he did so, he picked up Yami's prop dagger.
'Oh happy dagger! This is thy sheath;' he stabs himself.
'There rust and let me die.' Yugi fell to the floor on top of Yami's chest. Yami let out a grown when the dagger poked into his ribs.
"Sorry…" Yugi whispered. Everyone in the auditorium remained silent as Ryou entered the stage, dressed completely in white. He cleared his throat.
'A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun for sorrow will not show its head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things:
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished…' He turned his body to the side and gestured to Yami and Yugi on the floor
'For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and his Romeo.' Ms Williams gave another gasp.
"Juliet is a girl you moron!" she hissed. "And that's not in the script!" The two spotlights that had lit up the stage faded away as the main stage curtains closed. Suddenly there was an eruption of cheers and claps from the audience. Yami and Yugi opened their eyes and slowly sat up. Yugi blushed when he saw how close they were. Yami laughed nervously as he got up off the floor. He held out a hand and helped Yugi up also.
"Yugi… there is something I've been meaning to…"
"BRAVO! BRAVO!" Yami gritted his teeth as Ms Williams hugged them both. "You were wonderful! I don't why on earth you said those last finishing lines but what the heck! Everyone loved it!!" Yami coughed and spluttered as they were eventually released from her grip.
"Fuckin hell! I swear that's illegal!" grumbled Yami making Yugi laugh, as Ms Williams went to annoy everyone else. He turned back to Yugi and took a deep breath. "Yugi I wanted to say that I wrote you…"
"Guys! Congrats!" shouted Ryou running towards them with other people of the cast. Yami rolled his eyes before roughly pocketing the note again. The two were bombarded with the whole cast giving them pats on the back and hugs. Yami put on a brave face to hide the fact that he was getting really pissed off. After a while he had had enough and pushed out of the crowd. Once he was free, he turned back round and looked for Yugi, who spotted him and gave a wave. Yami half heartedly waved back before turning his back and walking away. Yugi frowned and made his way through the crowd to reach him.
"Yami! Wait up!" he shouted. But Yami couldn't hear him. He kept on walking silently down the corridor and sadly brought out the note and looked at it. He frowned angrily before scrunching it up and throwing it in the bin. At the end of the corridor without even bothering to change into his ordinary clothes, he shoved on his jacket and went out through the fire exit.
'I guess it'll just have to be this way. I guess I should just forget about us…'
TBC…
Sorry guys for the delay but I've just finished my exams! I know its not as good as any of the other chapters but I'm just getting back into the flow of writing again. Please leave your comments and fingers grossed I'll have the next one up pretty soon. xx