A/N: I'm back! This chapter is the date between Kisara and Evan... Evan who is nothing like Kisara's Seto. Are you excited? I am! I think it's time for Kisara to let go and move on, y'know?
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Disclaimer: I don't own YGO. That honor belongs to Kazuki Takahashi-san.
Chapter 6
Evan is safe. He's warm and constant, and the way his eyes light up when he smiles reminds me of a child – carefree and innocent. His innocence is fresh and new: he's everything I could never be.
He's exactly what I need in my life.
As I walk towards him, I notice that he's nervously trying to flatten his unruly hair. It's a lost cause though. In the few years I've known him, he's never been able to control that unruly mess atop his head.
It's Saturday, the day we agreed to go to the museum together. It's Saturday, and today is the day my life begins again.
There's a small part of me that tells me this isn't good idea, but I push those thoughts aside. I deserve a beginning without Seto. I'm putting the past aside for the first time so I can focus on the present. It's a liberating feeling to be completely free from that past. I'm beginning to become free. I'm beginning to lock those memories in the treasure chest inside my heart so I can create new ones.
I reach Evan, and he smiles brightly at me, his whole face lighting up. I smile back. This is a new beginning. Evan is my beginning without Seto.
"Did you wait long?" I ask as we enter the museum.
"No, of course not," he replies, as we walk past the dinosaur exhibit and towards the Egyptian exhibit towards the back.
I'm excited for this exhibit. The archeologists found a tombstone of a lost queen recently but this find is different: her sarcophagus was made of the whitest of marbles, her burial one of the most expensive. Interesting enough, the archeologists had never found any evidence of her pharaoh ruling alongside the queen. She appeared to have died shortly before the pharaoh had ascended the throne, yet her burial was the most elaborate one ever recorded. I tell Evan this as we walk, and he smiles at me, "I've never seen you this excited before," he says with a small smile on his face.
I shrug, "I've always been really interested in her," I reply, "they say she housed a great spirit within her and it's how she protected the pharaoh. They were lovers and she died in his arms protecting him. I think she's the inspiration behind the Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"I don't think I've ever heard of her," Evan replies, as he reads the description next to the sarcophagus.
"They don't think she ever ruled with the pharaoh. He died childless so the throne went to someone from his court." I say as we continue walking. But before I can say any more, I see something that makes me freeze. He stands down the hall from me with a beautiful olive skinned woman who whispers something in his ear the moment she catches me looking in his direction. She carries herself with sophistication, looking almost regal as she walks towards us with him. The closer she gets, the more difficult it becomes to breathe. That's when I know: he's not looking for me because he already has someone who's made him forget the past.
Vaguely, I hear Evan asking me if I'm alright. No I want to say, I'm not. She's beautiful, that woman with olive skin and hair as black as the moonless night sky. So I turn towards Evan, "Of course I am," I say.
I am. Why wouldn't I be?
I take Evan's hand and lead him towards the relics found in the queen's tomb, away from them. Conveniently, it's in the opposite direction of where he is.
Maybe it shouldn't, but there's something about watching him with her that makes it official – that makes me feel like some idiot pining for a lost one-sided love. I can't help but wonder: can I really have a beginning without Seto?
A/N: Aaaand there it is! Obviously, it's NOT the end, because I am a blueshipper at heart and for me, no one else can ever compare, but this is a nice change, right? Please let me know what you think!