They had left just before first period, and they still hadn't come back. The Mutes, that was. Who else would it have been?

Mariku was actually some what worried. Not that he would ever admit that to anyone. He was worried that they might have taken it a little too far this time. What if they had?

"Where do you think they are, The Mutes?" Mariku asked during lunch as Bakura and him were walking off school grounds to go have their lunch smoke break(1)

Bakura snickered at him, "And what do you care?"

"I don't. I just wanna know where they go. I mean ain't they got family at home? So they couldn't stay at their house the days they ditch." Mariku stated tilling his head side closing his eyes.

"Shut up." Bakura braked hitting Mariku in the head with the lighter while holding out a cigarette to him.

"Besides, they'll be back tomorrow so shut-the fuck-up." Bakura said closing his eyes taking the lighter back from Mariku who already light his, lighting his own.

"I guess your right." Mariku said taking a drag from his cigarette.

"I'm always right."

The silent duo sat in front of the T.V. watching a soap opera(2) crying at how Dani was suffering from the aftermath of calling the police on her brother, on his twenty-first birthday, after he had tried to kill everyone in the house.

Malik clung to Ryou as if his life depended on it, as he cried into his shoulder.

Ryou, on the other hand sat stone faced smoking a cigarette, patting Malik's head.

"What are you guys doing here?" asked Ishizu, Malik's older sister, as she walked in the front door.

Malik continued to cry onto Ryou's shoulder, not realizing his sister had asked him a question.

Ryou shook his head at her. Somehow she could always tell what they were saying (3) without them ever opening their mouths.

"So those bullies are at it again..." She sighed. She loved those two to death and hated to see them upset.

Ryou smiled slightly in her general direction.

"If you guys ever need anything, anything at all, you know you can ask me right?" she eyes lifted to the two.

Ryou nodded and smiled politely while rubbing Malik's back.

"M'kay then. I'm gunna go make some food. You guys hungry?" as soon as food was mentioned Malik was out of Ryou's lap and running into the kitchen.

Ryou laughed silently and followed him into the kitchen.

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So...What ya'll think?...I tried writing this during homeroom (whilch I did) but sadly I left the notebook at home (at the grandparents) so I had to do it compleatly from memory

1- yes you can do this at some schools! Last year the pricipal told me that he can't stop me from smoking but if I was gunna do it I had to be off school grounds

2- IDK people! I don't watch that shit so I just used something from my life!

3-...The Shining...watched it last night

Mainly finished because of because Yami-HikariAkira he was bitching at me to finish the next chapter