Yuki: YAY!

Anika: We're back!

Yami: SQUEE!

Johnny C. - Atemu

Tess R. - Ryou

Dillon - Fuha Ryuichi (From YuGiOh! Season 0 (199... 8?))

Warning: Child bullying! FLASHBACK!!!!

note: I started typing this soon after I finished the last chapter in August. I had the whole chapter almost done when my mom's computer logged me out. *stabs metaphorical self's heart* In finishing this chapter on March 25, 2010, when I should be finishing an essay, I have misplaced my JtHM comic book *commits metaphorical suicide*.

Please enjoy!

Chapter 12: Saturday Nite

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Atemu sat down in his seat, his small popcorn in his hand. His favorite movie as playing tonight. Kafka's Metamorphosis.

'Mmm... Popcorn.' He happily ate his popped corn, not feeling so down tonight. The butter stayed on his fingers, shyly being licked off by the man. He smiled eagerly as he sat through the previews.

"Let's sit here." A boy's voice, probably that of a 15- or 16-year-old, sounded behind where Atemu sat. He heard some shuffling behind him and two people sat down behind him.

"Are you sure this movie's good?" A somewhat snotty accent belonging to another boy echoed from behind Atemu.

"Yeah. I read the book-"

"Wait a minute. You READ the BOOK? You see the movie, THEN read the book to-"

"Dillon, please. It's starting."

Atemu noticed, as the quieter, nicer boy said, as the lights grew dimmer. He saw the title image and brought his knees up close to his chest, hugging his knees with his left arm and holding the popcorn in his right hand. He loved this movie, especially for the fact that he could somehow... relate to it.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

Atemu sat quietly, watching as Gregor Samsa's family helped him back up after he was stuck on his back like the gigantic cockroach he had become.

Another twenty minutes into the movie...

Kick.

'What?'

Kick.

Atemu turned around, seeing the guy he assumed had the annoying accent falling asleep and kicking his seat in order to stay awake. The boy he had assumed was the quiet one tried to shake him awake fully. The boy turned to Atemu, smiling apologetically.

"Sorry about my boyfriend."

"Okay," Atemu answered. "Can he stop kicking my seat?"

"What's it to you?" The guy, Dillon, looked at Atemu with annoyance. "This movie is so dull."

"Well, can you just let me watch the movie?" Atemu didn't want to hurt people tonight. He really didn't. It wasn't everyday that they had a midnight showing of The Metamorphosis.

"Whatever." Atemu turned back around, somewhat satisfied with the answer.

Tess, or Ryou, sat behind the man with spiky hair... He was pretty attractive, in a weird idol sort of way. His boots were pretty cool-

Thud!

'What?'

Thud!

Tess looked and saw Dillon kicking the tri-colored haired guy's seat. He saw him turn to ask him to stop. Dillon replied sure and continued the childish bullying a few minutes later.

The guy never turned back around, taking the blows one-by-one.

Flashback

"WOW!" Ryou-Tess smiled. A big sand structure was being built in the school's sandbox. The boy, whom everyone called Maniac, for his outbursts of life and excitement, was patting together a dragon out of the sand. Maniac stood, shook little sand clumps out of his white hair, and smiled at his masterpiece.

"Do you like it?" Maniac asked him.

"Yeah! It's really big and cool and-"

"NOODLE BOY!!! COME BACK, YOU STUPID FAG!!!" A streak came running by, the infamous Noodle Boy. 'Noodle Boy' was a rather skinny 11-year-old, called a faggot, as a thin figure for a male was considered a definite quality of a homosexual. The boy, his tri-colored hair going back against his head as the wind pushed it back, ran around the sandbox, avoiding Maniac's sand sculpture, but the bullies that were chasing Noodle Boy ran through it, successfully wrecking the boy's creation.

Maniac stood up and tripped another boy that was running after Noodle Boy. "Thanks for wrecking my work, dumbass."

The other guy prepared to fight and attempted to throw a punch -"Take this, you homo!"- that Maniac easily evaded.

Nine-year-old Tess looked up at the two boys fighting.

Maniac looked back. "Kid, you shouldn't be here right now. Go on the swings or something."

Tess turned to go to the swings. As he walked over to the equipment, some of the bullies that were chasing after Noodle Boy went over to him.

"Look, a little fag."

"Leave me alone." Tess wound up being tripped and with a mouth full of dirt. Aren't children just little angels?

Tess felt himself being kicked, but he seemed to be viewing it from the sky, so he felt the sensation, but not the pain.

"Hey!" Tess looked up and saw Noodle Boy, with Maniac. Another boy, whom everyone called 'Squee', and was called a faggot as well, was telling the teacher-on-playground-duty what was going on. Of course, the teachers don't do anything about such childish fights, so he let it continue. Tess lowered his head again.

The kicking stopped, one bully getting picked off by another kid one at a time. He looked up, feeling the pain in his body as he returned to it. Tess saw Noodle Boy being pummeled with the heavy combat boots of the bullies. Maniac helped him up and led him over to a tree. Squee sat on a branch, back to them. Making sure his bear stayed in the tree, Squee swung down, his knees the pivot keeping him suspended above the ground and his body now upside-down and facing Maniac and Tess.

Ryou-Tess was lifted up by Squee into the tree. Maniac stared at them.

"You two stay safe." Squee nodded in reply.

"Shmee says to stay safe, too." Squee looked at Maniac with concern.

"It's nothing we can't handle." Maniac smiled and then ran out from under the tree.

Tess and Squee watched as the bullies expanded their violence to Maniac and they watched in awe and fear as Noodle Boy and Maniac never, if they had a chance, fought back.

"Will they be okay?" Tess asked, worried.

"Shmee thinks they'll have to go to the nurse, but I think they'll be okay. Squee~"

End Flashback

"MAN! Could you believe that guy sitting alone in front of us? GOD!" Dillon was complaining, again, as he and Tess left the movie theater. "He must've told us to be quiet, like ten times! We were probably disturbing his masturbation or something."

"Maybe he was just trying to watch the movie." Tess thought about how after the first times of telling Dillon to be quiet, the guy in front of them didn't confront them when they left the theater.

"Fuck that movie! I can't believe you told me to watch that!!! None of that even happened to him in real life! I was falling asleep! Ugh, we could've rented The Crow!"

"Is that why you kept kicking the back of that guy's chair - to stay awake?" Tess asked, pushing up his glasses.

"C'mon, Tess, he was a DORK!!" Dillon was ahead of his boyfriend, being all dramatic while leading them to his car. "He was watching a movie alone on a Saturday night!! The way he kept bitching and crying, it's no wonder he was alone! I bet he would've cried if I pushed him around just a little!"

"Dillon?" Tess-Ryou asked. "Why is it whenever we're not talking about being discriminated by other people for the way we look, we make fun of other people? I mean, what makes you different from those jock-holes who were laughing at your hair that one time?"

"It's not like we talk about anyone important." Dillon and Tess stopped as they came to a street. The corner they stood on was directly across the middle of the block across the street.

A while later, Tess and Dillon made it to Dillon's car.

Suddenly, Tess blacked out.

When Tess awoke, he recognized the person as the man from the movie theater... Noodle Boy. He smiled maniacally. Tess also noticed that he and Dillon were tied to chairs and had diodes on their heads, while Noodle Boy talked about his week had bee fine until Dillon bullied him throughout the movie.

"Prepare for some intense fun!!!"

Ryou turned to Dillon. "You're a real asshole."

Atemu: Suicide-

Yuki: -continues-

Anika: -next chapter.

Jounouchi: Why am I here?

Atemu: *faints*

Mr. Eff: Review or I'll kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!that!!!!!!!!!!!!!is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!a!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!exclamation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!