Stories

Story 108: I Can't Reach

Yugi Muto was sitting in class at his desk. Joey, behind him, kept picking at him. He kept begging for Yugi to tell him and he kept poking at Yugi.

"So tell us, Yug!" Joey begged as he poked at Yugi's shoulder.

Yugi didn't look at Joey. He was too embarrassed to tell him. Joey kept poking at Yugi nonstop. Yugi was starting to get annoyed.

"Just tell us already," Tristan said.

Yugi shook his head.

"Fine, I'll keep poking you!" Joey said as he kept poking at him.

"Fine I'll tell you!" Yugi exclaims.

Joey stops poking at Yugi. Yugi mumbled something under his breath.

"What's that?" Joey asked.

"I said…" Yugi starts mumbling again.

"Speak louder, dude!" Tristan shouts.

"I said I never kissed a girl!" Yugi shouted. He quickly puts his hands over his mouth.

Joey gasped. "You never kissed a girl?" he almost falls off his chair.

"You didn't either, Joey," Tristan pointed out.

Joey shrugs. "Well yeah. You're one to talk, Tristan. You never did either!"

"I didn't, not since last night," Tristan said.

Yugi and Joey stared at Tristan wide eyed.

"Who'd you kiss?" Yugi asked.

"Well let's just say I kissed a certain someone whose last name happens to be…Wheeler," Tristan replied, calmly.

Joey looked up and thought for a moment. Then his face twisted up into a frown. "What? You kissed my sister?"

Tristan put his hands up. "Whoa, let's not get crazy, dude. She actually kissed me,"

"Why you little!" Joey shouted as he grabs Tristan by the collar.

Yugi stood up and broke them apart. "Please guys, there's no need for violence. Besides we weren't talking about Tristan we were talking about me,"

Joey sat down back at his seat. "Fine. Okay, Yugi, you say you never kissed a girl; well there are a lot of girls here. There's Kate, there's Katie, there's Kathy, there's Katherine, there's Sandra, and…there's Tea!" Joey waves at Tea as she walked into the classroom.

Yugi covers his face with his hands in embarrassment. "I can't kiss Tea…" he whispered.

Tea walked over to them. "Hey guys!" she sits at her desk next to Yugi.

Joey got off his seat and whispered something into Tea's ear. "Yugi says he never kissed a girl…" Tea looked surprised for a moment and then she started blushing when Joey told her something else. Joey sat back down on his seat. He leans forward and whispers into Yugi's ear. "Tea wants to meet you in a corner after school. You know that one corner over there by the woman's bathroom? That corner," Joey moved away with a grin on his face.

Yugi started blushing. He puts his face in his hands.

After that class ended, Yugi was looking through his locker. He was looking for some breath mint or something. He didn't want his breath to stink on his first kiss. Besides it's not like the kiss was going to mean anything. They both just wanted to see what it felt like to be kissed. As soon as he found some breath mint then all his worries would be gone. Someone taps Yugi's shoulder from behind. Yugi turns around to see Joey and Tristan standing behind him. They both had huge smiles on their faces.

"What are you doin', Yug? You've got to go in that corner and get your first kiss!" Joey said cheerfully.

"I need some breath mint," Yugi said dully.

Tristan reaches his hand into his pocket and dug around for something. He pulls his hand out holding a piece of candy. He hands it to Yugi. "Take it, its breath mint candy,"

Yugi took the breath mint candy. He takes the plastic off of the candy and puts the candy into his mouth. Joey tapped his foot on the ground impatiently.

"Hurry up," Joey urged.

Yugi finished eating the candy. Joey immediately pushed Yugi towards the woman's bathroom area. Yugi walked and looked back at Joey and Tristan hesitantly. Joey and Tristan nodded to Yugi to go on. Yugi walks on towards the woman's bathroom. He finds the dark corner Joey was talking about. He sees Tea standing in the corner, picking at her fingers. Tea looked up and saw Yugi. She quickly put her hands behind her back and blushed in embarrassment. Yugi couldn't help but blush too. He stops in front of her and looks down at his own shoes.

"So…ready to kiss?" Tea asked.

Yugi looks up and nods slowly.

"Okay…I'll just shut my eyes," Tea says. She closes her eyes and waits for Yugi to kiss her.

Yugi looked around just to make sure no one was watching. He saw no one. Then he stood up on his tip toes and leaned forward towards Tea's face. He froze when his lips were inches away from hers. He realized that was as far as he could go. He tried to stand higher on his tip toes but that was all the way he could go. He strained his lips to reach Tea's but they wouldn't reach. He stayed in that position. He felt embarrassed sitting in that position for so long. Then he finally leaned back off of his tip toes.

"I can't reach," he said helplessly.

Tea opens her eyes. She raises an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"I'm too short…" Yugi answered ashamed.

"Why don't you jump?" Tea suggested.

Yugi nods and Tea shuts her eyes again. Yugi jumped up and kisses what he expected to be Tea's lips. He ended up kissing her nose. He jumps again and kisses her forehead this time.

"What are you doing, Yugi?" Tea asked as she opens her eyes.

"Sorry!" Yugi apologized. "Why don't you just bend down and then I'll be able to reach…"

"Why didn't I think of that…?" Tea wondered out loud, frustrated with herself. She bends down and shuts her eyes for the last time.

Yugi leans forward and kissed Tea's lips. He quickly pulls away, blushing furiously. Tea opens her eyes and she starts to blush. They stare at each for a long moment. Then Tea breaks the silence.

"Mind if I kiss you this time…?" she asked nervously.

Yugi shakes his head. Tea puts her hands on Yugi's shoulders and pulled him into a kiss. They pull away and end up kissing again and again and again.

Little did they know that Joey and Tristan were watching them. Tristan was filming them with a video camera.

"Now we can show this to the world," Joey said.

Joey and Tristan started chuckling.

THE END