Chapter 18

Ryou and I say with Malik. It He'd been home a while now. Not that it mattered, he was still stuck in bed or his wheelchair. We all know he hates it.

"Bakura" Ryou smiled at me. What a cute smile… "Can you go get us some snacks?"

"Why me?"

"Malik is still supposed to stay in bed, and I'm pregnant"

"So…?"

"Get the snacks" he said dryly.

I scoffed and left to get Ryou his crap.

Where exactly the Ishtar's store there food is beyond me. Finally I found a bag of chips and came back to Malik's room.

Pausing outside the door I heard Malik say quietly "I… shouldn't have done that" I peaked inside and saw Ryou lean forward and kiss Malik. It must have lasted a year before he pulled away. They smiled at each other as I dropped the bag.

What was up with this? Was Ryou nuts? Malik ditched him! You don't kiss a guy who ditches you!

It took a few steps back and took a few deep breaths to calm down before picking up the bag and entering the room "Got the chips"

Ryou smiled "Great" he gladly took the chips and opened them.

We ate out of the bag, which stayed in Ryou's lap. I watched them both, and listened closely. Neither of them mentioned the kiss. I was hoping they would…

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I watched Ryou sleeping. His chest rose slightly as he breathed in and out, his hand rested on his stomach. I smiled and placed a hand on his stomach too, feeling the baby role around in there.

My eyes watered and I moved my hand away. I wiped away the tears and went outside his room, closing the door.

This wasn't happening. Ryou was just more hormones than brains at the moment, and Malik said he shouldn't have done that. They weren't really hooking up. They were just friends still, and friends was good because Malik had been a really good friend to Ryou before and Ryou really needed a friend right now and now that Malik had his car accident he needs a friend and friends are the best thing there is when you have the sort of problems that Ryou and Malik have because friends help you and they both need help so it's a good thing that they have each other as friends and not boyfriend-girlfriend.

…

So why am I crying?

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SnowCreek: Short, but it's up, right? Bakura was sounding like Anzu for a moment there, huh?