Stories

Story 93: I'm Sorry

Joey was leaning against a locker in the school halls. He looked around impatiently. He was waiting for that spiky haired kid, Yugi Muto. Joey tapped his foot on the ground. He was eager to do some beating. He suddenly spotted Yugi walking over to him. Joey smirked. Yugi stopped when he saw Joey leaning on his locker.

"Excuse me, but that's my locker you're leaning on," Yugi said, with a small smile on his face.

That smile always made Joey sick. Yugi was just a little weakling. Always walking around the world acting like he's so innocent. He's acts like a little five year old girl. He never liked violence or anything that involves killing and hurting someone. Yugi needs to be taught how to be a man. Joey frowned.

"So?" Joey said.

Yugi adjusted his backpack on his shoulders, uncomfortably. "I need to get something out of it,"

"Sure, and what might that be?" Joey asked.

"My textbooks," Yugi replied, blissfully. "My teacher says that I have a test tomorrow and I'll need my textb-"

"I don't care what your teacher says!" Joey growled. He pushes Yugi to the ground.

Yugi fell back onto his backpack. He gets up calmly and stares at Joey steadily. Tristan suddenly walks up from behind Joey. He rests his left arm on Joey's shoulder and stares down at Yugi.

"What's going on here, Joey?" Tristan asked.

"Yugi here claims he needs to get something out of his locker," Joey answered, teasingly.

"You think we should teach him a lesson?" Tristan asked, grinning.

Joey nodded. "Yup,"

Yugi's eyes widened in horror. He turned and broke for a run. Joey and Tristan ran after him. Yugi was running pretty fast. Joey didn't expect him to run so fast with such short legs. Joey reached his hand out to grab Yugi's shirt. Once he was about to grab it he tripped over his own shoe lace. He fell onto his stomach and Tristan falling on top of him.

"Get off me!" Joey shouted in anger.

Tristan got off of Joey.

"I'll kill that kid!" Joey shouted again. He watched as Yugi kept running far away and into the cafeteria. Joey growled angrily.

With Yugi…

Yugi ran into the cafeteria and sat at a table breathing heavily. He looked back to see if Joey and Tristan had followed him, but he didn't see them. He sighed and rested his head on the table. I don't understand. Yugi thought. I don't understand why they keep picking on me. He closes his eyes and sighs again. Joey and Tristan were both good guys, but he just didn't see why they had to pick on him. Yugi looked up to see Tea sitting across from him.

"Yugi? Did those guys try to hurt you again?" Tea asked.

Yugi nodded. "They chased me down the hall,"

"You know, you need to start fighting back, Yugi. They won't stop if you don't fight back," Tea said.

"But they're both good guys and…I don't want to hurt anybody,"

"They hurt you," Tea pointed out.

Yugi sighs.

The next day…

Yugi was walking home from school through an alleyway. He thought that he should take a shortcut home. As he walked through the alleyway he found himself in a dead end. He turned to go back the way he came but he saw Joey and Tristan walking towards him. Yugi backed up against the wall as Joey and Tristan hovered over him. He saw that Joey had a small knife in his left hand. Yugi's heart was thumping loudly in his chest. It felt like his heart was going to explode.

"Please…why are you doing this?" Yugi asked, fearfully.

"Shut up!" Joey hissed.

"Yeah. This'll only hurt a little," Tristan said, as he laughed evilly.

Yugi pushed himself farther against the wall as Joey walked closer to him with the knife.

"Please you guys. Don't do this," Yugi begged.

Joey looked at Tristan and laughed. "Look he's begging!"

"Beg all you want, Yugi! Nothing will stop us!" Tristan shouted.

Joey raised the knife into the air ready to strike.

With Tea…

Tea was walking home from school. She was worried because she hadn't seen Yugi since their first class. She wondered if Joey and Tristan were hurting him or something. Tea passed by the alleyway and heard a scream. Tea knew that scream. It was Yugi. She quickly ran down the alleyway and was surprised at what she saw. Yugi was on the ground and Joey was cutting his wrists nonstop. Blood was everywhere.

"Stop it!" Tea screamed.

Joey stopped and looked at Tea. Tea shoved past Joey and knelt down beside Yugi. Yugi was crying as blood gushed out of his cut wounds on his wrists. Tea looked at Joey in disgust.

"How dare you!" she shouted, angrily. "What is wrong with you two?"

Joey and Tristan flinched, surprised by her anger.

"All Yugi did was be nice to you two and this is how you repay him?" Tea shouted furiously. "You hurt him?"

Joey stared down at Yugi and saw how hurt he looked. Joey blinked in uneasy. Was cutting Yugi really necessary? He wondered. He realized he had gone way too far.

"Help me take him to a hospital! Now!" Tea shouts.

At the hospital…

Yugi was on a hospital bed. There was bandages strapped around his wrists and some cords were connected to him. He lay there staring up at the ceiling, sadly. Why did they do this to me? Yugi thought. I just wanted to be their friend. Someone suddenly walked into the room. Yugi turned his head to see Joey walking towards him. Joey looked like he had been crying. Yugi stared at him in surprise. Joey walked over to Yugi and fell to his hands and knees.

"I'm sorry, Yugi…" Joey said. "I'm sorry for all I've done…I'm sorry for beating you up…I'm sorry for stealing your stuff…and…I'm sorry for cutting your wrists…" he cried.

"Joey…I forgive you," Yugi said, as a small smile appeared on his face.

Joey looked up at Yugi, tears still rolling down his cheeks. "How can you forgive me? I've done too many evil things to you…"

Yugi nodded slowly. "I know but…I know you're a good person inside and I want to be your friend," he put his hand out for Joey to take.

Joey stared at Yugi's hand for a long time. Then he takes Yugi's hand in his. "Thank you, Yugi…"

THE END