Anonymous-He's... smug? I guess that's how I'd describe him. He's like, not evil, but he likes to tease Malik, and he also gives good advice... I guess...

Felicia-...I'm calling the police...

BlackofDay-You didn't tell me, actually. I haven't decided what the baby will look like, but I've already chosen her name.

Yami Revea-Don't feel bad, I can't be bothered all the time. And thank you.

dragonlady222-Yeah, I know. Personally, I'm debating whether or not to give Bakura that 'problem'. And sorry, but I don't think that's a good pairing for this story (though what I'm going f or probably isn't either)

journey maker-Ryou knows how Bakure feels. I haven't really put much thought into how Malik would handle rejection, but writing Ryou's reaction to it was fun.

Chapter 21

I rolled over onto my left, then to my right, then to my left again. "I guess this is as exciting as life gets" I muttered to myself. I was sick of the obnoxiously white rooms, but I wasn't allowed out of the hospital yet, and even then I was still stuck in bed.

The worst part was I would have to get a tutor, like Malik, once this was all over with. I was missing the end of the school year because the baby decided it wanted to come out early.

I blamed Bakura for it, and he must have sensed it because he was leaving me alone. The doctor said I'd been under to much stress, which I'm positive was there because of how Bakura had been behaving since Malik and I got together.

"Bakura, you have a visitor" a nurse came in to tell me. I wasn't 'Mr.' or 'Miss.' Here. The doctor had said it would be easier for them to not refer to me by a gender seeing as I was both.

Was it Malik? I hadn't called anyone else yet, and my father couldn't have gotten home so quickly.

It looked like Malik, but the hair was way to wild. Marik was wearing a headband to hide the glowing eye on his forehead.

"Shouldn't you be in a wheelchair"

"Malik is" he said "I don't have to be. My body isn't damaged"

"It's the same body"

"This is my separate one, like how Bakura can separate from you"

"Oh…" I should have figured that out. If Bakura didn't appear pregnant like I did, Marik wouldn't be crippled like Malik was "So can you see out of both eyes?"

"Yep"

"That must be nice" I said, more to myself "Why'd you come?"

"I was hoping to see what it looked like to have a baby come out of a she-male" he said sarcastically

"Bakura's asleep right now if you wanted to see him" I said, sensing that Bakura's soul was currently dormant.

"Oh…" Marik looked a little disappointed. I know he likes Bakura, I thought Bakura felt the same way about him, which was why I thought it would be okay to like Malik.

"Hey, can I ask you something? Not taking your feelings for Bakura into account, what should I do? Bakura's always there to comfort me… and he stuck by me when I found out I was pregnant. Malik abandon me when I told him… but he came back… and I think I like him. What should I do?"

"Well…" Marik sat down on my bed, he even rested a hand on my swollen belly "If I do take my feelings into account, I'd tell you to go with Malik. But really, I think you should stay with Bakura" I blinked. I hadn't expected him to be honest like that "Malik might be nice, but he did leave you. That means there's a good chance he'd do it again, and that time he might not come back. Bakura stuck by you the whole time, even when you really annoyed him. On top of that, the fact that you're into Malik is only because he left you. You felt abandon and when he returned it made you think higher of him than you really do. You don't actually love him"

"But I don't love Bakura either" I said "I mean… I do… but more like a brother"

"Then you just aren't in love"

"Why are you the expert on something like this?" I asked, feeling a little enraged by the way he was telling me I wasn't in love. Of course I was. I had to be.

"Malik and I are split personalities. One of has had to get the brains" Marik replied smugly. I laughed, even though I hated his psychotic guts.

"Okay then. I've already told Malik I'm really excited about him helping. If I don't love him, what should I say?" I asked, pretending I didn't love Malik

"You don't have to just go up and say 'I don't love you' just gently reject anything that love birds would do until you two are just friends again" He said "It's a better way of getting back to that stage then simply saying you don't want to be anything more than friends" That made sense… but I couldn't let a jerk like him know I agreed with his logic… to an extent

"Well, who are you to tell me Malik's a bad friend? You weren't exactly supporting the baby either. Even if you aren't the biological father, you're the one who got me pregnant!"

Marik grinned at me. One of those sexy, yet insane ones. Wait? Sexy? Damn hormones! Stupid half-female mind!

"Actually, you're forgetting I'm not a spirit, like Bakura, I'm the official inhabitant of that body, just like Malik. That makes both of us the biological father"

"Oh…" I hated it when he did that

"So you aren't about to give birth?"

"No!"

"But on the phone you said you went into labor"

"Well… they stopped it" I said "so if that's what you came to see, to bad"

"Actually, I was also hoping to see Bakura"

"He's asleep" Bakura appeared right next to me "Okay, he woke up"

Bakura rubbed the last bits of sleep out of his eye. With all the time he'd spent out of the ring 'protecting me' from Malik he'd been low on energy for a while "Would you leave Ryou alone? It's hard to sleep when he's angry…"

"Oh, great! You're up!" Marik smiled the same way Bakura did when he made me happy "Want to catch a movie?"

"To tired" Bakura muttered before disappearing again.

Marik didn't have that smug aura anymore. Now he just looked like a teenage boy who'd been shot down after asking the girl he'd liked since he was five out.

Actually feeling sorry for a jerk like him, I spoke up "He doesn't hate you" I said "He's just been active a lot lately. He doesn't have a lot of energy"

"Yeah…" Marik said, standing up and heading for the door. I almost didn't hear the next thing he said "there's always something…"

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SnowCreek: This story is officially more popular than Not Meant to Happen

It has a greater ratio of reviews per chapter, it's on more people's favorites list, and more people have reviewed it.

But it hasn't beaten Accident on Purpose yet! I've got to write better! Huah!

Oh, and I finally figured out who I'm making Ryou go for. To be honest, I've been debating it for FOREVER! Thank you, dragonlady222, for giving me the idea.