Thanks to everyone who reviewed! Here's a cookie *hands you a cookie.* Anyways, this was my favorite chapter to type and for anyone who wants to know I got inspired to write this after watching and reading The Phantom of the Opera. The book was amazing and the moive was pretty good. The phantom in this story was greatly reflected off of the phantom in the book.

Anyways, enjoy! And please review for another update! :)

Luckily Yugi had been the first one to wake up and without waking Yami. Unfortunately after taking his shower and dressing when he walked out into the room Yami sat sitting up in bed looking at Yugi intently. So that Yami didn't see any of his cuts Yugi had worn another coat, grey this time. They stared at each other for a few moments like trying to read each other expression before Yami was the first one to speak.

"Where did you go off all day?" he questioned a little strictly.

"I was with someone else." Yugi admitted as he came more into the room.

"Really? Who?" Yami asked. His voice sounding like it was growing anger.

Yugi gave him an intense stare. "The phantom." he said. Knowing again that Yami wouldn't believe him.

"Again with this phantom? Why do you keep to this story?" Yami questioned as he stood up to stand in front of Yugi.

"It's not a story, the phantom is real and he understands me…" Yugi trailed.

Yami crossed his arms. "And are you saying that I don't?" he questioned sternly.

Yugi stared up at Yami for a long moment before turning away since he felt tears welling up in his eyes. "No… you don't… you don't even care about me…"

Yami uncrossed his arms to place a hand on Yugi's shoulder. "Yes I do. I have always cared about you." he said in a much softer voice.

"No…" Yugi shrugged Yami's hand off of him. He hated how Yami was pretending like this, that he did know Yugi knew about him and Seth. If Yami cared about him then he wouldn't be seeing Seth behind his back. Yugi wouldn't feel so alone all the time even when he was with Yami. Yugi needed someone who loved him, who would never cheat on him, and who would actually hold him close at night instead of him having to hold a stupid pillow. As Yugi thought of those things only one person came to his mind. His phantom.

"Yugi, I love you." he proclaimed while spinning Yugi around to grab a hold of his hands and hold them tightly. When he saw that he was crying he seemed shocked. He took one hand away from holding Yugi's to wipe away some of his tears.

Yugi just stared at him. How could he say that? Yugi knew he didn't.

Yami then leaned down to press his lips to Yugi's. What was once warm and inviting was now cold and careless. Yugi felt nothing when Yami kissed him, he didn't even kiss back. Yami's lips felt cold to him, they didn't feel right on his lips. When Yami backed away after a moment he looked even more shocked. Yugi couldn't believe how far he was going with this pretending, why did he even want to keep Yugi around when he had Seth now?

"Please Yugi..." he said while wrapping his arms around his waist to pull him closer then leaning down to kiss him once more.

This time Yugi fought against him. He broke away from the kiss and walked out of the arms around him. "You don't love me! Stop pretending!" Yugi cried out painfully. He glanced to the mirror, besides seeing his own reflection he saw a pair of faint blue eyes. He really was always watching him.

"What do you mean? I could never pretend to love you." Yami told him.

Yugi gazed back at Yami with an extremely hurt expression. "You are right now! Your pretending to love me and to care about me when I know you really don't! You never did."

"How could you say this? What is going on with you, when we got here you were perfectly fine and now your acting so strange. Are you sick?" Yami questioned while taking a few steps closer to him again.

Yugi's breath hitched many times before he could continue. "I- I saw you… yesterday…" he trailed. He couldn't even contain the sadness that was bursting out of his chest from thinking of the scene once more.

Yami was silent. Seeming to want Yugi to continue before he said anything.

"I saw Seth kiss you! I saw you wrap your arms around him and kiss him back!" Yugi finally cried as his heart ripped in two.

"Yugi…" Yami trailed slowly. "Please let me explain…"

"How can you possibly explain th-that! You cheated on me! You never loved me did you? You just used me!" Yugi constantly questioned through his tears even though he already knew the answers.

"No, Yugi. Please believe me when I say that Seth means nothing to me… when I kissed him it was a mistake. I swear I love you and I'm so sorry that I betrayed you. I would never hurt you again if you just give me another chance." he approached Yugi to wrap his arms around his shivering body. "Please… let me make it right…"

Yugi gazed up at him. Not sure whether to believe his words or not. He seemed so sincere and honest, this was even the first time in weeks he had held him like this. Was Yami being honest? Did he really just make a mistake and did he really love him? "I don't know… Yami you really hurt me…"

Yami pulled Yugi over to the bed and gently let him down against it while hovering over him. "Let me show you I really love you, let me show you how much I care for you…" he murmured softly while moving to unzip Yugi's coat and push up his shirt. Yami leaned down to began kissing around his neck tenderly causing Yugi to moan softly.

"Betray me… betray my love… beautiful soul why must you cut me so? Does my love mean nothing to you?"

Hearing his voice sound so grave made Yugi glance towards the mirror to no longer see his blue eyes but a stain of blood run down the mirror. Yugi's eyes widened as he gasped out of horror.

"What is it Yugi?" Yami asked worriedly as he backed off of Yugi slightly.

Yugi stared at the mirror before shakily pointing over to it.

Yami gazed over to the mirror. "Oh my god…" he said before moving off of Yugi to approach the mirror.

Yugi also got up to stand next to Atem and gaze at the mirror, he did not dare reach out and touch it to see if it was real. What was going on? Whatever it was, it wasn't anything good.

"How dare you! My love... how dare you make my heart bleed so!" Yugi heard the phantom yell angrily. Yugi couldn't even tell where his voice was coming from, it sounded like it coming from everywhere in the room.

"Who is that?" Yami asked while gazing to Yugi.

"The phantom… he's angry…" Yugi trailed. Guilt starting to form in his heart from what he had just done. He had upset the phantom greatly.

Yami's eyes widened slightly. "He's real? You weren't making it up?"

Yugi shook his head. He then looked to Yami. "And he loves me. After we fought I ran to him and he kept me captive in his room within the walls. Behind the mirrors."

Yami wrapped an arm around Yugi's waist protectively. "He won't take you. I swear."

"Fool! You believe you can take my love from me! Yugi ran from you and I consoled him! Where were you? Loving another?"

Yami gazed around looking for any sight of the phantom. "I went looking for him! Had I known he had been held captive then I would have broken every mirror until I found him."

"Break as many mirrors as you want. You would have never found him. My world is one you will never understand, that no one will ever understand!"

Yami gazed down at Yugi who was staring at the blood again. "Yugi, where is he?"

Yugi didn't look away from the blood. "He's everywhere… this is his mansion." Yugi then looked to Yami. "He is in the walls…"

"Yes, I am. I live inside these very walls. I hear and see everything. I can also see through your lies Yami. You deceive him! You deceive my naïve love, and for that I curse you!"

"I don't know what he's talking about Yugi. If anyone he is trying to turn you against me. He held you captive! How could you ever trust someone like that?" Yami admitted. His eyes looking completely honest.

Yugi didn't know who to believe. Someone who had broken his heart but swore to fix it or someone who could relate so well to the pain he had felt. Someone who knew what it was like to truly be alone.

"When was the last time he truly held you? When he truly meant that he loved you? I have seen more then you have seen Yugi, he has done more with Seth then he has led on."

"What… what does he mean Yami?" Yugi questioned to Yami.

Yami instantly began looking around the room glaring. "You lie! Get out of this room, creature! Yugi doesn't love you!"

All of a sudden the mirror cracked, Yami and Yugi instantly looked to it to see the phantom in the mirror before them. His eyes blazed with a clear fire for the boy Yami had in his grasp.

"My beautiful soul… In my dead heart all I have left is a want to love you. You are my last hope… my one and only love… you are my only hope to be free of my curse, you can break it with your love. With only your love…"

Yugi gazed at the phantom. His words bringing tears to his eyes. Why did he have to be so split between two? Yami and the phantom both wanted to love him yet Yugi didn't know what to do.

"You are a monster and disserve to die with a curse! You live within these walls and mirrors because no one cares for you! What makes you think that Yugi ever would! He will never love you!" Yami shouted at the mirror. "So leave us alone! Leave Yugi alone!"

The phantom completely ignored Yami like he wasn't even there. He didn't break his gaze with Yugi once. He simply outstretched his hand as if Yugi could take it through the mirror. "Come with me… love me…"

Yugi almost outstretched his hand to the phantom's before Yami's arm around his waist all of a sudden disappeared so that he could walk over to the nightstand to grab the candelabra. He came back then instantly brought the candelabra to hit the mirror with a swift motion. The mirror cracking the rest of the way then breaking into millions of shards and falling to the ground. One would except to see the phantom behind the broken mirror but he was not there. All that was there was a wall. Yugi stared in shock from suddenly seeing the phantom gone. He was then turned to face towards Yami who instantly got down on one knee before Yugi.

"Please Yugi, I love you more than anyone or anything. Marry me." he said before bringing out of his pocket a small box. He opened it before Yugi to show a golden ring with a diamond attached.

Yugi stared in shock. "Y-Yami..."

Before anymore words could be said a loud roar of anger rushed through the air like a wind. Yugi flinched from the scare but Yami simply grabbed Yugi's hand.

"Please." he almost begged.

"Yugi!"

"Yugi…"

"Love me!"

"Love me…"

Yugi felt so split! What was he supposed to do? One part of him wanted to say yes to Yami and agree to marry him yet the other part wanted him to decline and find the phantom. He couldn't decide like this, when they were both pressing for him to answer them. He had no option to, he had to pick one of them even though he didn't want to. Yugi growled out of frustration. "Don't make me do this!" he cried. "Don't make me pick like this!"

Yami slowly let go of Yugi's hand but stayed kneeled before him.

Yugi's eyes welled with uncontrollable tears as he ran away from Yami and the phantom. He ran out of the room, down the hallway, and the staircase into the foyer. He then burst out of the double doors into the snow trekked ground. He ignored the cold as he ran down the steps then around the mansion through the rose bushes. He had no idea where he was running but he just had to get away from that. He felt pushed completely to his limits, if he had stayed any longer he might have passed out from emotional fatigue.

When Yugi spotted a gazebo he ran towards it. Yugi held himself against the snow that still fell, his feet were becoming numb but he ignored it. When he reached the gazebo he shivered constantly while moving to sit down at one of the benches to let out a heartbreaking cry. Why was he so forced to pick between the two? How did things even come to this? When he came here he didn't expect to be put in the middle of two different people. He had come here to learn more of the history of the mansion, well he had but not exactly the way he had wanted.

He knew he couldn't run from this forever but at that moment he knew he couldn't just decide. He had to think about things first. Outside was one of the best places because Yami was sure not to find him and the phantom couldn't leave the mansion. Yugi didn't know who he was supposed to pick. Yami, he had thought cheated on him with Seth, and he had seen it with his own eyes but Yami said it was a mistake. Should he really believe that? The phantom had said that he'd seen more, but should he really believe him? He really couldn't believe either since the two were both fighting each other for his affection. Yugi didn't want to have his affection fought for though. He didn't like it, the arguing and crying.

Now Yami was all of a sudden saying it was a mistake and was kneeling before him wanting to marry him. Yugi didn't find it too much of a surprise since they had been together for a year but at that moment it was completely out of the blue. Had Yami planned it or was it because of what the phantom was saying? Did he think he couldn't compete with the obvious passion that phantom held for him? Though Yugi felt like he still loved Yami and he had wanted to marry him, but after meeting the phantom he didn't know. Now he wasn't even sure of anything anymore. The phantom had changed the way he looked at things.

Yugi did love Yami but enough to marry him? After he'd seen him cheat on him? Yugi wasn't sure if now was the best time, he wanted to make sure that if he did that Yami was serious about him and that what he had done with Seth really was a mistake. The way Yugi had seen it, things did not look like a mistake. Yami looked like he was really enjoying it and then the phantom had said that he'd seen more? Though what did he mean by that? Did he mean that he'd seen them sleep together?

Yugi didn't know what to think about Yami anymore, then with the phantom. His love was clear, there were no tricks or any kind of shame, it was so obvious that he loved him with a deep passion that Yugi had never known possible. There was no way that Yami could ever love him the way the phantom did. Though the phantom was so emotionally diseased that speaking with him normally was so complicated. Then he'd even pushed him into a mirror for trying to remove his mask.

How could Yugi love someone who he had yet to see their face or even know their name? How could he love someone that was so different, that was so distressed? What else would the phantom do to him if he got on his bad side? Would he break his arm or cut him, or possibly kill him? He didn't understand that you never do that to someone you love, but the phantom didn't know that. He didn't know how to respond to anything Yugi did which made things so difficult, but would it be worth it to help him through it? In return what would he get? Would he be able to teach the phantom how to love someone and how to treat them for him to treat him that way?

Besides pity Yugi didn't even know why he wanted to help him so badly. Should he consider that he was in love? But how, how could he be in love with such a monster? With someone who has been completely shunned from society for their whole life? Someone who has never been shown true love… Someone in desperate need of love… Someone who craved to love him more than anyone he had ever met. Could Yugi really save him from his curse? How could he though? He barely even knew anything about it. He just knew that the phantom couldn't leave the mansion or he would die. How could that be possible though? Curse's weren't real. Were they?

The way Yugi had been almost forced to pick between them was so hard, he didn't know if he would be able to do it in the end. He almost didn't want to pick either of them so this could stop but he knew he couldn't. He knew he had to eventually make a choice within a day, for the party was tomorrow and after if he didn't choose the phantom he would be leaving even if he didn't pick either. This choice, love's cold choice, was going to be the hardest choice he would ever make in his life. This one choice could completely change his life forever. Yugi was still unsure if for the better or worse.