"How about celery? They're good for you. You can't always just have beef, pork and—"
"Chicken for dinner.."
Sighing, the tanned hand that was pointing to the celery raised to his face, covering it. "You never listen to me." Dropping the hand, a pout crossed onto his face, and Atem made it as cute as possible. Seeing Marik smile softly made him smile as well. "Alright~! What else do we need?"
Skipping over and looking at the list that Marik pulled out from their pocket, both of them said at the same time: "Candles."
"Ha! Jinx! Double jinx! Triple! And f—Hey! Wait for me!" Atem was too busy doing his victory dance to not notice that Marik had headed off from the food section.
After dancing around the supermarket, and a horribly long line, passing by a Santa at the door for charity, the groceries were in the backseat and the two were seated, Marik on the wheel, and Atem in the backseat hugging the groceries.
"Change the colors of the sky..and open up to, the ways you made me feel alive, the ways I loved you.."
"Aww! Don't sing such an emo song! I know, you say it's not emo, change ittttttt." Atem whines from the backseat, kicking at the back of the driver's seat.
"What about now? What about today? What if you're making me, all that I was meant to be..What if our love never went away? What if it's lost behind words that we could never find.."
"Screw it." Marik reached over and skipped the song on the mix CD he had placed it. The next few songs were skipped until he cursed loudly, heavily and switched the machine off, leaving the car silent but the small quiet rustling of the grocery bags.
Atem too, had fallen silent, a concerned sad look over his face as he stared at the back of Marik's back. The whole way back was in silence as well, until they drove up and into the garage did Atem speak up. "Come on Mar-Mar, it's Christmas.."
Shivering as the cold hit him, Marik tugged open the backseat door, Atem slipping out before he grabbed all the bags with one hand, other hand digging into his pockets for the key to their house. "Right. It's Christmas." He murmurs, shaking his head just a little as if to shake away his previous grumpy-ness.
Beaming widely, Atem bobbed his head energetically and ran into the home once the door was open, then ran back to take off his shoes. "CHRISTMAS DINNER CHRISTMAS DINNER CHRISTMAS DINNER CHRISTMAS DINNER!" He chanted, running around with his arms in the air like a headless chicken.
Setting the bags in the kitchen, Marik set out the things needed for dinner, the candles over to the dining table and went out to the living room where Atem was screaming around in, reaching for the remote control and turned on the television.
Immediately shutting up, Atem ran over to the television and stuck close to it.
Returning to the kitchen, Marik begun preparing for dinner.
As the clock hit eight o'clock at night, the chicken that was bought was out of the oven and onto the table in the tray, two plates, lit candles, minimum lights. Needless to say, it was romantic.
"Merry Christmas!"
"Merry Christmas, Atem."
Atem giggles, sitting in his seat on the other end of the table, looking at the plate of foot, and the chicken that smelled heavenly. He kicked his feet, a grin that was way too wide on his face.
"I got you the set of stones you wanted." Marik pulled out the unwrapped box, opening it, revealing an array of stones carved into a teardrop. Ruby, sapphire, diamond, emerald, onyx, and a larger amethyst in the middle. "I requested the amethsy, cause they remind me of your eyes. Of course, nothing is exactly quite like your eyes." Marik gently pushed the box over to the other end of the table, where Atem was already making grabby hands at it.
"They're so prettyyyyyyyyy!" He squealed. "I didn't get you anything though.."
"..Your presence for Christmas would be great. A gift, for me."
Atem had to giggle. "That's..really cheesy, Mar-Mar."
Looking over the food, Marik picked up his utensils. But, after holding that pose for a few seconds, he set it down again, getting up.
Still ogling over the 'shiny stones', Atem didn't notice anything until the leather box with his new pretty stones were lifted from the table. Atem made a loud whine, and got to his feet and followed Marik out of the kitchen, through the living room, up the stairs to their bedroom.
"Mar-Maaaarrrrr, what about dinner?" Atem whines. "And my new shiny stoonnneessssss!" He complains, but blinks, and stops in his steps as he notices where Marik was headed to. Atem stopped by the doors to their bedroom, watching the taller male.
Marik set down the leather box by an array of accessories and more stones. A counter with drawers. In the middle of the stones that reflected the lights outside, the gold accessories, large pairs of earrings, was a photo of Atem smiling widely into the camera, making bunny ears behind his hair.
The blond stared at the picture for a while before falling to his knees, setting an arm on the counter, over the stones. His head fell on top of his arm as his whole body begun to shiver and shake.
"Atem.."