They entered the room and literally every one of them gasped when they saw me laying there. I still had no idea what I looked like but I couldn't possibly look very good. Tea was the first one in the room and she had a large bunch of flowers in her hands. He rushed over to the bed and tried to hug me but Yami was faster. He pushed her back a little and told her "be gentle tea he has been through a lot and he had a lot of bruises and cuts all over." she nodded and I saw her eyes glisten as tears threatened to fall from her eyes.
The next people in were Joey and Tristan, their eyes bulged out when they saw me and they walked over slowly, clearly afraid to come too close. For once they didn't say anything but, "how are you feeling Yugi?" I didn't have time to answer because Ryou was the next one in the door and he looked so sad when he walked in. he too had brought some flowers and he came to stand at the foot of the bed, he had tears streaming down his face as he looked over my appearance.
I tried to put on a brave face and I smiled a little, it hurt to smile but I had to get over it, my friends were here and I didn't want them to see me in pain. "Hi guys," said meekly.
After a while tea had come to sit on the foot of my bed and Joey and Tristan we sitting on the windowsill. Unfortunately Ryou had to leave early but he said he would come back tomorrow to help out.
A little while after Ryou left the 3 people I had not expected to come showed up. Kisara, with her long blue hair and blues eyes entered the room quietly and she came up to the bed and kissed me on the forehead. Next, little Mokuba came in clutching some flowers and came to stand next to Kisara, her arm wrapping around his shoulders. Finally the one person I really didn't believe would come came in and walked quietly to the foot of the bed.
Seto stood there and looked horrified at my broken body. He didn't say a word but he wrapped an arm around Kisara's waist and stood there a moment more, looking at me before he asked, "Yugi, will you please tell me what happened to you?"
Everyone in the room looked at him as though he had 3 heads. I knew they were all curious about what had happened but none of them had the guts to want to find out. I had been waiting for someone to ask the dreaded question so now I had to answer.
I opened my mouth to talk but Yami interrupted me yelling in fury "Kaiba! How dare you ask him that! Can't you see his condition! He probably doesn't even want you here!"
"Yami!" I yelled, "It's okay. I'll tell him, but I will only say this story once and after I finish we will NEVER speak of this again, agreed?"
Everyone in the room nodded or offered some kind of acknowledgment to my request and I started "As I a child I lived with my mother and father. My father had always been a nice man to me until he started drinking after his sister died in a car accident. I had been in the car, along with my mother when a drunk driver had hit the car dead on and we spun out of control. The car rolled and threw my mother and I from the car. Luckily we had survived the terrible crash but my aunt and her daughter did not.
"After my father heard about the crash he was so distraught he started to drink, heavily. Whenever he got drunk he got very angry and he would often beat my mother and I blaming us for the death of his beloved sister. One night he stumbled home and my mother was not there to greet him when he walked into the house. He was so angry with her that he beat her extra hard and then he beat me until I was half dead." I took a deep breath before continuing.
"He left me there, alone on the floor and dragged my mother by the hair over to where I was laying. He took out a large kitchen knife and i- i- I watched him kill her. He dropped her on the floor next to me and laughed and then left the house.
"We had been living in the game shop at the time so when my grandfather came home he found me. I was rushed to the hospital. I had no idea where my father had went after he had tried to kill me. That was 10 years ago; I was 8 at the time.
"When I was older, on my 15th birthday my father showed up again. He had a gun this time. I ran around the house trying to dodge bullets, when my grandfather walked in. he is not the same grandfather who runs the shop but he is my mother's father. He had been visiting us in town and had decided to stay with us in the game shop. He was shot in the crossfire. He was shot in the head and didn't survive the shot. My father chased me around the house until he had me pinned in a corner and he shot both of my knees and arms. He had run out of bullets so he pulled out a knife and stabbed me in the stomach.
"I woke up several days later in the hospital and I was informed that I was now orphaned and there was no one to take me in. at the time I was working on building the Millennium Puzzle and I didn't know about Yami yet. A family friend of mine came by the hospital and asked me if there was anything I wanted from the house to pass the time until my legs healed enough for me to walk again. Told him to bring me the box that held the millennium puzzle and I built the puzzle while I was in the hospital. That's when I met Yami. He protected me and he came forward and adopted me and we live in the game shop with Grandpa Solomon.
"Last year you all know that Grandpa Solomon died but I couldn't tell you why he died. I told you he had a heart attack in his sleep but I knew that it was not a heart attack that killed him. My father had somehow snuck into our house when we were sleeping one night and switched all of my grandfather's medications with rat poison. When he took the pill and went to sleep he didn't wake up. There is security footage to prove it.
"When my grandfather was buried we decided to close the game shop and make it only our home. Yami took a job at the museum a few blocks away and I went to school with you guys. Up until a few days ago no one had heard from my father and he was never caught. I have no idea where he has been hiding all these years but he came back and beat me savagely a few days ago and then he left again." I finally quieted and everyone in the room looked at me in shock, they had no idea what I had been through and I never even told Yami the entire story.
No one said anything for a long time and we just sat there, thinking over everything I had just said. I sat quietly letting the others come to terms with everything I had been through in the past 10 years of my life.
Tea was crying quietly at the foot of my bed, Joey was looking at the floor in shock, Tristan was looking at me. Yami was looking at me as well. Seto was holding Kisara as she sobbed into his jacket. Mokuba had crouched down to the floor and had his head in his hands, crying.
No one said anything, there was nothing to say. I sat in my bed, crying silently as the painful memories flooded back into my mind. I couldn't take any more pain, my father had to be killed, he didn't deserve to be put in jail, and he had ruined my life too many times.
Silently one by one they all came up to my bed and encircled me. Yami was next to the bed and closest to me. He brought me into a gentle hug and I cried into his shirt. Tea hugged me on the other side and soon everyone was in my little circle, crying and hugging. We didn't have to say anything, there was too many bad memories hanging in the air.
Everyone started to pull away and one by one they all left, all except Yami who refused to leave my side. We sat there for a long time before I started to feel sleepy and I eventually fell asleep, only to be plagued by the nightmares again.