You guys! With a strok of exreme luck I have managed to find a connection! (I'm soooo happy! *starts crying*) I'm so sorry that you all had to wait for so long but I now have it up.
So, the story, in this chapter it is Saturday! Another chilly day on the beach but hey, I have managed to put some fun in here. ;) Please enjoy!
Disclaimer, I own nothing! (I also don't own Monopoly...)
The Beach House
Chapter 2
Atem Mutou woke up to the faint sound of waves and the sun rising a little too early for his tastes. Moaning, he shifted in bed and found it squeaked, loudly. He sat up, blinked, before remembering that he was on Spring Break with his friends renting a small beach house for some days in Gulf Shores. He sighed and looked over to the window that Joey had opened last night before going to bed.
"Really, Joey?" Yugi complained with an angry scowl present on his face. "It's chilly out there." The dirty blond teen shrugged, unbothered by his friend's attitude.
"I find it helps everyone sleep better."
"How so?" Yugi snapped. Atem sighed and quickly smacked his younger 'brother' on the head, making him yelp and look up.
"Just grab an extra blanket if you're going to be cold, Yugi. They're in the basket trunk over there." He said, pointing with his thumb to his right. Yugi grumbled and got out of bed and grabbed a thick fuzzy blanket and draped it over his covers before quickly crawling in to escape the chilly beach air invading the room.
Surprisingly, Joey had been right; the cold air had helped them fall asleep faster. Atem yawned and stretched out to wake up his muscles before rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. Once that was done he decided to think about why the sun had risen a little earlier but he had figured that one out in a matter of seconds.
It probably had something to do with the fact that they were on a beach so with his question partly answered, Atem got up and climbed down silently before hitting the dark brown wood floor. It creaked with age loudly, making the other three sleeping males shuffle in their beds. Atem took note and quickly exited the room before gently closing the door behind him.
He went into the bathroom, a small one at that. Just enough room for a shower against the wall, a toilet surrounded by two small walls, a sink, and then a rack of white towels. Atem went back to the toilet, one brow raised. Joey was not going to like this at all, especially when it came to doing the number two. Atem rolled his eyes, did his business, and then started the shower.
The room quickly filled with steam and when he went to check the water he hissed and pulled his hand away quickly.
Really hot.
He spent another few minutes working on how exactly to turn the knobs of hot water and cold water before he finally figured it out. Turns out you needed more cold water then hot water. 'That's one damn good water heater.' He thought, stripping and slipping in. He sighed as the warm water slipped over his waking body before grabbing the shampoo he had brought with him and washed up before moving to the face wash to wash the dirt from his face.
Being from Ancient Egypt, he, like the rest of his former people, loved to be clean, so there were many pluses about the future and its many cleaners. He then moved to his shoulders and chest before finally rinsing off and turning the shower off. He moved the fish-covered shower curtain out of the way and grabbed a white towel and dried off quickly before putting on some black sweat pants and a white tank-top shirt.
He hung up the towel, cleaned the bathroom up for the next person to use it and left. He walked out into the living room to see that Anzu's sliding door was open. He blinked and looked around for a second, wondering where exactly she could have gone before the front door opened, making him jump slightly.
Her hair was wet and sort of dried off, a towel draped over one arm and two bottles, shampoo and conditioner, in her other hand. She looked up and smiled, making Atem's heart stutter a bit. "Morning, Atem. How'd you sleep?" she asked, slipping into her room but not shutting the door. Atem leaned against the wall that separated her room from him as he answered her.
"I slept very well, how about you?"
"Great actually. I thought I wasn't going to be able to sleep that well but the bed took me by surprise." She said, coming out of her room wearing something completely different then her pajama shirt and shorts. Atem steeled his emotions to prevent the blush that would have overtaken his cheeks and neck. She was wearing a knee length white sun dress with a small little sweater and some leggings that went past her knees. He had a feeling she was wearing her bikini swimsuit under it. 'She looks so cute.' He thought. "Want to help me make breakfast for the monsters in there," she said, pointing with her thumb to the room he slept in. "It'll help get them up a little faster."
Atem nodded. "Of course." He said and followed her into the kitchen. He looked into the fridge and blinked in confusion. It looked like a normal fridge and was filled like a normal fridge too. "When did we get all this?" he asked. Anzu looked over and smiled.
"I got up early and went to the store around five. I'll tell you what, their Wally-World(1) is amazing down here. I also managed to grab the last pack of ping-pong balls before all those frat boys would try and claim it." She said, holding up a medium sized bag of ping-pong balls.
Atem chuckled, knowing why she'd gotten them. Beer Pong, something he'd been introduced to by Joey and Tristan. Though he hadn't lost a game yet, that didn't mean he didn't get a little bit tipsy when it came to the game. Joey and Tristan were pretty good at it too. "I'm sure it'll be a blast." He said, pulling out the eggs.
Anzu smiled as she took the carton, opened it, and cracked about six or nine eggs into the pan, some sunny side up, others, scrambled. "In the freezer is some hash-browns, could you pull those out, the cookie sheet is sprayed and foiled." Atem nodded and pulled them out. They were rectangle cut hash-browns, and they looked good.
He laid them out and went to the old double oven, turned it on and slipped the cookie sheet in. "You got some fruit, right?" he asked.
Anzu smiled. "Now how could I ever forget my best friend's obsession for fruit in the morning?" she teased. "At the bottom of the fridge is where you'll find it." She said. Atem grinned and peeked in to see a plastic clear box of grapes, oranges, apples, blueberries, strawberries, and several more he didn't recognize. He pulled it out and opened the top up and munched quietly on an apple cube.
"Thank you, Anzu." He said. She nodded and looked up just as she heard a door open and close, then another door opened and closed. "Probably Yugi, he tends to wake up on weekends earlier than Joey and Tristan." And knowing that it was vacation time, Joey and Tristan would probably get up around eleven something without the temptation of food. Atem quickly put his fruit salad down and walked to the bathroom.
Anzu listened as the door opened, she grinned upon hearing a surprised squeak before it quickly turned into Yugi-grumble. The door closed and Atem came back out.
"What was that about?" she asked.
"Just giving him some warning about that shower. You don't need to turn the hot water knob a lot just to get something."
Anzu nodded. "No kidding. I took one downstairs, and yes, they have a toilet and shower downstairs," she said quickly to the question in his eyes. "I gave the knob one turn and I nearly suffocated with all the steam." She laughed softly. Atem grinned before checking on the hash-browns. He closed the oven door and waited a ten more minutes before checking again, by that time the eggs were done. A heavenly aroma escaped from the oven into the kitchen, filling it. Atem grabbed some oven gloves and pulled the golden brown rectangles out.
They both salivated while Anzu groaned. "That smells so good." She said. Atem placed the cookie sheet on the stove by the eggs. The shower turned off then, making them smile. "Yugi's finally out."
Atem chuckled. "Actually, that was his fastest shower yet. Think he smelled them?" he asked, pointing to the heavenly tempting rectangles.
"I'm just surprised Joey and Tristan aren't up yet."
"They went to bed late." Yugi said, coming from the living room. "For most of the night they were talking about some sexy actors or something." He muttered before leaning into Atem's chest. "I'm still sleepy." He complained. Atem chuckled some more before messing with Yugi's hair, removing some of the knots from his semi-wet hair.
Anzu mentally 'awwed' at the sight. Though they liked to claim to be brothers, in truth, it was more of a father/son relationship they shared. Grandpa Mutou had talked about it to her. He'd been getting a little worried for his grandson because he didn't have a true father figure to guide him through most of his life but when Atem came into the picture, apparently, that fixed some of Grandpa Mutou's worries. She had asked Atem about it at one point and he explained the Grandpa had talked to him. Turned out there was a favor asked and a promised made, details were not given, but she understood that it was a private matter so she didn't press.
"Have you been having those nightmares?" she asked. Due to his supernatural connection, he had called her often at nights, telling her about the nightmares he had, especially when there was an enemy present. Atem watched Yugi carefully as the young teen looked up to face his childhood friend.
"No, but I have been waking up sometimes with a few night sweats. I can't remember the dream so it's probably some slight remnants of the old nightmares. The big ones stopped when the Puzzle disappeared into the hole."
Anzu nodded and messed with her friend's hair, something she did even when she was a child. She decided to get him into a slightly flustered mood as that usually had him stuttering at first but he would quickly switch to a different subject, bringing about his happier attitude. "You need to grow some more, you still look thirteen to me." She said. Yugi blinked before he pouted angrily.
Mission accomplished.
Atem laughed as he grabbed some forks and plates while Yugi huffed. "I do not look thirteen!"
Anzu's brows went straight up as she grinned. "Oh yeah?"
Yugi paused for a moment, blinked and looked towards Atem. "I really look thirteen?"
Atem looked over his shoulder, his eyes laughing. "More so twelve." Yugi's jaw dropped before he rushed at the former Pharaoh, trying to put him off balance slightly though it wasn't really working.
"All right you two," Anzu giggled, taking the glass plates and forks from Atem before something happened. It was way too early. "It's breakfast time, get the good stuff before the monsters smell it." Yugi stopped but his sideway glare towards Atem told him it wasn't over yet. Once they all got their food on their plates and they were seated at the table Joey stumbled in still sleepy, he perked up slightly at the food and started dishing out his plate when a loud bang came from the boys room, then cursing.
Anzu smacked her hand over her eyes, Atem looked towards the room worriedly while Yugi ducked his head to hide his laughter, though his shaking shoulders were a dead giveaway. Joey grinned as plopped down on the table just as Tristan stomped out. He was about to blame it on Joey, because that's what he usually did, but he spotted the food and forgot about being angry.
Once everyone was sitting down and after a few praises from Joey and Tristan, Yugi asked the most important question. "What should we do today?"
Anzu pulled out her phone and searched for the weather. "Well, we could take a walk on the beach, look for a few shells, and maybe get our feet wet a little, but it's going to be chilly today, same for Sunday, and then on Monday it's going to be storming all day but after that, we have the rest of the week."
Yugi finished off his breakfast before he washed off his plate and rushed into his room. Atem smiled. "I think we should just take a walk on the beach for today. Besides, I hear it's very good for your health to walk on sand." Anzu nodded.
"I'm ready, I'll just wait for you guys." She said standing up and took Atem's plate, once he finished of course, to the sink to clean them off. Joey and Tristan gobbled their food down and quickly bolted towards the room just as Yugi emerged with his purple swim trunks on and a gray sweatshirt. Atem went after the other two, opened and quickly closed the door.
Anzu grinned at Yugi. "What do you think will happen?" she asked.
"Joey and Tristan might push each other in the water."
They both laughed as Atem was the first to emerge from the room, only in his red swim trunks leaving his chest bare but he did have a shirt and a matching gray sweatshirt in hand.
"Why'd you leave the room so early?" Yugi asked while Anzu ducked her head to try and hide the blush that was quickly overtaking her face and turning it into a tomato. Atem rolled his eyes towards the room.
"They were . . . comparing." He growled.
Anzu rolled her eyes. "Boys." She sighed and walked outside onto the deck. They finally came out, dressed, though Joey was grinning madly while Tristan was sulking. Once everything was off in the house and Anzu double checked to make sure the oven and stove was off she locked the front door and headed down the wooden stairs. Joey was in the laundry room, excitedly talking about all of the buckets and shovels. "Come on Wheeler, grab a big bucket and shovel and let's go." She snapped.
Joey quickly shuffled out with a large green bucket and orange shovel before closing the door. The group of five walked out to the small road and they headed towards the beach, which wasn't all that far away. The sand started where the road ended and as they slipped through the beach fence they were all met with a gust of cool wind and the sound of loud crashing waves. They removed their sandals before going out on the main beach.
Anzu skipped a head of them, her long and strong legs easily allowing her to walk through the sand that others found difficult to walk on, Joey and Tristan were one of those people. Though there was no fat on them, they caught up to her, gasping. "Damn . . . Anzu."
She turned and grinned. "Maybe this should be your chance to work out, you two. Atem and Yugi seem fine and they don't even play a sport." She pointed out.
Joey glared. "Yeah, well it's easy for Atem because he came from the freaking desert, lots of sand there, and Yugi . . . well he's Atem's bodily reincarnation, or at least that's what Ishizu said, so he probably got Atem's 'ability' to walk on sand easily." Hmm, good points but Anzu wasn't sure about the last one.
Yugi decided to speak up then. "No, Joey, I'm feeling a bit tired walking on the sand, I don't think Atem 'gave' me that ability." He huffed a little. Atem smirked.
"Anzu does have an excellent point, Joey, this would be an good chance to get in shape." He said, poking the teen in the ribs.
The dirty blond scowled. "You're only taking her side because she's a girl." He accused, leaving Atem and Anzu to only roll their eyes.
"No, Joey, I side with her because she's right not because she's a girl." He said crossing his arms and walked on ahead with Anzu towards the ocean, leaving the others to scramble after them.
"You know," Tristan huffed. "Maybe Anzu is right, besides, I haven't gotten a good workout in a while." He grinned. "I'll probably get me a girlfriend before you do, Joey." He challenged.
"Oh yeah!" Yugi laughed and jogged to catch up. When he finally did Anzu was messing up a sand ridge that the waves had created while Atem was poking at the water with his foot, testing the water out. Joey on the other hand took two steps in.
"Tristan! I can see some small fishes!" Joey said excitedly making everyone look over to see him leaning in to the waves before he screamed like a little girl. A huge crab, and it was big, about the size of one's fist, popped up from the sand and claimed the fish that Joey was looking at. The idiot jumped about three feet up, clearing the waves before jumping backwards. "Oh my god! It was going to eat my face off!"
Yugi was staring at the water with wide eyes while Atem frowned. "Umm, Joey . . . I think it was more interested in your fish."
"No dude!" the blond was absolutely hysterical. "It was going after my face! MY FACE!" Tristan grabbed the shovel while Joey grabbed the bucket and started to attack the water and sand vehemently.
Yugi watched as the water cleared for a second before he spotted another big crab . . . a lot of them. "There's some more out there." He said, slipping into the water just a little bit to point of the group he was seeing.
Tristan rushed over, shovel in hand and scooped up the crab he had spotted. When he brought it up he started screaming for Joey. Guess he didn't expect to be successful with that.
Joey came over as quickly as he could before Tristan shoved the crab into the bucket. There was a moment of silence before Joey rushed back to the beach house to grab another shovel while Tristan started to hunt away. Yugi, Anzu, and Atem decided to sit on the sand ridge and watch the show.
Joey came back then with another shovel and started to gather the crabs, he also managed to grab one of the clear plastic storage boxes. He filled it with some sand and water before he dumped the crabs in the bucket into the storage box. Anzu walked over to count five.
The amount kept growing until finally Anzu stopped them and told them they had enough. Joey and Tristan complained a little but with a single glare from Anzu they gave up and started to poke at the crabs. Lots of snapping and short screams. Atem was the only one who managed to pick up a crab without getting pinched at, unlike Joey and Tristan. Anzu and Yugi decided to simply watch.
After a few more pokes they let the crabs go and watched them disappear into the waves. Joey cleaned up the storage box while watching the water, of course. No crabs would be getting his toes, not on his watch.
Atem pulled his sweatshirt a little bit closer to his body to try and combat the chilly wind. The group headed back inside with a few stops to pick of some sea shells. When they got back Joey and Tristan put the sand toys back while Yugi turned on the hose and started to wash his feet off, freeing them from the white sand that was starting to feel pretty uncomfortable between his toes.
Atem and Anzu cleaned off then before following Yugi up, leaving Joey and Tristan fighting over who gets to clean their feet first. Anzu unlocked the door again and slipped inside. While Yugi and Atem went to go change, Anzu cleaned off her shells in the sink before setting them on the kitchen windowsill. Joey and Tristan came up then, practically shaking the entire house!
She turned to glare at them as they entered. "Really, could you not cause a freaking earth quake of all things?"
Joey shrugged while Tristan sniffed and both went into their room. Anzu sighed and pulled out her phone to see that it was three o'clock. Hmm, she was a bit hungry. She walked over to the fridge and pulled out the turkey, lettuce, tomato, and mayo and made herself and sandwich.
Atem came in and made his own like Yugi. Joey and Tristan came out faster than expected holding the ultimate weapon for good times and absolute chaos, and no, it wasn't a Millennium Item.
Monopoly.
Anzu paused before she quickly cleared the table and pointed down. "You two put something presentable on instead of your boxers while I set the game up." Joey and Tristan left, blushing madly while Yugi grinned.
"It's been forever since I've played this." He said. They opened it up to see five pieces exactly. "They must be missing some." He murmured. "I call the car."
Anzu grabbed her all time favorite piece, the cowboy. "I call cowboy."
Atem looked at the pieces and picked the bag of money. A small smile formed. "If only Kaiba was willing to play games like this." He said, showing them the metal moneybag. Yugi laughed while Anzu grinned.
"Tristan likes the battleship." Anzu said, grabbing the piece for her friend. The only one left was . . .
"The dog. I think Kaiba would have actually enjoyed this game." Yugi snickered.
Tristan bolted out. "I call the battleship!" he said loudly. Anzu handed his piece. The teen looked in to see the dog left. He grinned. "Joey's going to be so pissed at you guys."
"Why?"
Speak of the devil.
They all pointed in the box. Joey looked in to see the last piece. He looked up with a dark look on his face. "You bastards." He growled. Yugi hid behind Atem, laughing while Atem only smiled.
"At least Kaiba's not here, Joey. He would have made it a lot worse then we ever would." Atem pointed out, silencing the dirty blond teen. They all sat down, Anzu dispensed the money while everyone rolled to see who would go first. After everyone rolled, the order went as followed, Atem, Yugi, Anzu, Joey, and Tristan.
"All right guys, just remember to be careful when you roll doubles. Three times and its jail automatically." Anzu warned. She turned to Atem who was sitting next to her. "When you roll doubles you can go again." She said.
Atem nodded and went. He rolled a five and moved his piece forward to land on the Reading Railroad. He bought that. Yugi took the lead by rolling an eight and bought Vermont Avenue. Anzu rolled a ten, simply visiting the jail which was a bad omen for Joey as he landed on Chance, gaining him a free ride to Jail. "I hate Monopoly." He muttered angrily under his breath as he glared at the board game.
Tristan rolled an eight and had to pay Yugi rent. It was Atem's turn again; he rolled a seven, allowing him to land and buy the Electric Company. Yugi huffed, a little put out that his older 'brother' now controlled the space he usually had, and rolled an eight allowing him to buy St. James Place. Anzu went again, buying Tennessee Avenue. Joey rolled the dice, praying loudly that he would get doubles.
Praying didn't help. Cursing, Joey banged his head on the table, leaving Tristan grinned widely as he rolled a seven, and again making him pay rent to Yugi. "I'll make you pay plenty once this game gets going." He threatened Yugi, who simply smiled innocently. Atem went then, rolling the first double for the game.
He moved to buy Virginia Avenue then rolled another double. Joey looked at the dice murderously. "How come when I need some doubles its gotta be for you?!" he cried out, running his hands through his hair. Atem smirked and bought another property, Atlantic Avenue, and rolled again.
Snake Eyes.
Atem looked at the dice in despair while the rest laughed. "Hey, don't look like that, you get another chance, roll to see if you get doubles, and if you do, you don't have to go to jail."
Atem rolled. No doubles.
"Damn!" he snarled and put his piece into the jail space. Yugi, giggling madly, rolled a four and landed on one of Atem's spaces, but he didn't have to pay as Atem was currently in jail. Anzu, smirking, rolled a four, also a double, which landed her directly on 'Go to Jail'. She went again, praying for a double.
Twelve.
Atem sputtered loudly along with Joey at the female's luck while Yugi high-fived her. She went again to land on Chance. "Advance to St. Charles Place, if you pass GO collect two hundred dollars." She cheered and collected her money, well most of it, considering she bought the space since no one owned it. Joey finally got out of jail and rolled a ten, moving him to the space, Free Parking, gaining him the five hundred dollars that sat in the middle of the board where all taxes went.
Tristan rolled and landed on Community Chest, which decided to give him the oh so wondrous card, Go Directly to Jail. "Damn it all!"
Atem rolled, begging the Gaming Gods to let him out . . . nope; it looked like they were ignoring him at the moment. Simmering silently he passed the dice to Yugi, who rolled to land on Tristan's space, but since he was in jail, there was no need for the exchange of money. Anzu rolled an eight, landing her on New York Avenue. "How could I not buy that?" she asked herself.
Joey rolled and landed on one of Tristan's spaces, free of charge with no rent. Tristan attempted to roll a double . . . no dice. (Pun intended) Atem rolled and he couldn't stand staying in the same place and mentally demanded the dice to land on a double. Four, two dots on each, thank Ra! He rolled again and landed on Chance. "Take a ride on Reading, if you pass GO collect two hundred dollars." He liked the sound of that. He moved his piece to the Reading Railroad and since he owned it, he didn't have to pay anyone a dime.
Yugi rolled and got a Community Chest Card that allowed him twenty-five dollars from the Bank. Anzu went and landed on one of Tristan's space but he was in jail. Rent free!
As the game progressed Joey finally got two properties while Tristan got out of jail only to pay Anzu for rent and he bought Kentucky Avenue. Atem had to pay rent to Anzu two times, and Yugi, poor Yugi, had to give fifty dollars to each player as the Chance card commanded him to do. Anzu rolled another double only to land on the Go to Jail spot before she rolled again, not having to go to jail.
"Monopoly likes you way too much, Anzu." Tristan huffed. "You and Yugi are the only ones who haven't gone to jail."
"Sorry about that." Anzu said sarcastically as Joey rolled to buy the Mediterranean Avenue and collecting his two hundred for passing GO. Tristan landed on one of his properties, so he didn't have to worry.
Over the game Tristan stepped out when he realized that despite the income from his properties, he was going to become bankrupt. He 'willed' his money and properties to Joey and decided to simply watch. But then Joey even had to step out, 'willing' everything to Anzu.
Houses went on the properties and soon money was flying between the three of them, but soon Anzu decided that even though she had enough properties, she knew that when it came to the King and Prince of Games, she was way out of it. She gave her money to Yugi and split the properties, purposely giving Yugi the ones that Atem needed while giving Atem the ones that Yugi needed.
Atem and Yugi went at it for hours, not even noticing that it was dinner time, unlike Joey and Tristan who were begging Anzu to make something. She finally caved in; only because it was utterly annoying hearing two young men begging like little boys. But even 'royalty' got hungry; Atem and Yugi salivated at the smell of the meat-lovers and cheese pizzas in the oven when they had come out of the game a little bit.
Monopoly forgotten, when the pizzas were done they cleared the game when Anzu decided that Atem had won, hands down as he owned most of the properties and had lots of houses and hotels on them. Yugi had it going, but not like Atem. "You should be in business like Kaiba." Anzu laughed. "I bet you would give him a run for his money."
Atem gave her a shaky smile. "I'm good at games, Anzu."
Yugi shook his head. "But then again, you could do well considering you would be up against him, so there's your game challenge, how to put Kaiba down and out of business without looking like an extreme asshole?"
Somewhere wherever Kaiba was, he sneezed.
Atem choked on his beer that he was sipping at before safely putting it down to laugh. "Yugi!" he gasped. The smaller look-alike shrugged his shoulders, his eyes wide and innocent.
"It's true though."
"That doesn't mean you have to be horrible about it." He chuckled. Anzu smirked.
"Though he really does deserve it. When do you guys think he'll pull the stick, or whatever the fucks in his ass, out?"
Joey burst into laughing, leaning a little too far back in his chair and fell over, but it didn't really stop him from laughing. Kaiba, in one of his many offices, was having the worst sneezing fit ever. Once dinner was over with and there was no leftovers thanks to Joey and Tristan, Yugi was about to head to bed when Joey and Tristan stopped him.
"Wait, don't go to bed yet!"
"Why?" Yugi pouted while Atem and Anzu peeked from out of the kitchen as it had been decided that they would be the kitchen cleaners, not that they really cared since Yugi had this unexplainable habit to make the microwave explode and that tended to make more of a mess then making it more clean, and Joey and Tristan would probably eat everything they saw.
"Because, we have one more thing to do before we go to bed." Joey said. Tristan nodded, grinning broadly.
Yugi blinked. "What then?"
"Ghost Crab Hunting, we can make it fun even."
Yugi pouted and looked outside. "How the heck can it be fun? It's cold, windy and probably won't be fun." He pointed out but Joey and Tristan ignored him.
"Come on you guys," Joey whined. "For half an hour only, we can make it a small competition. Yugi, Anzu, and Atem against Tristan and me, whoever gets the most ghost crabs doesn't have to pay for dinner on Monday."
Anzu blinked. "Pay for dinner?"
Joey shrugged. "Since you said it was going to be raining all day why not just go out somewhere. See the town."
"I like that idea." Atem said, smiling. "I would be willing to hunt the crabs, just to make Joey and Tristan pay." He turned to Anzu. "How about you?"
She grinned. "That sounds just fine with me." She said. "Are you a little willing, Yugi?"
The boy pouted before sighing. "Fine. Might as well go." He muttered before going to put on some sweat pants. Once again they closed everything up, Anzu locked the door and everyone went down again. The boys already had the flashlights, the buckets, and shovels.
"I guess you guys are ready?" she asked, already feeling the chilling air.
"Yeah." Yugi said, not looking all that interested in the activity. She smiled.
"You'll live, I'm sure." She said. Yugi rolled his eyes and walked towards the beach. Everyone followed, lights on the sandy ground, eyes carefully watching for any moment.
"Alright," Joey said, hands on hips, grinning. "We split up here; you guys have your phones?"
Anzu waved her phone around before slipping it back into her sundress pocket, which was why she bought it in the first place. A dress with pockets, a nice touch when you didn't want to carry a purse or your phone around in your hand.
Joey and Tristan walked off, leaving the others just standing there. "Maybe we could leave them and just go back and sleep." Yugi suggested tiredly.
"Yeah, but then we would have to pay for dinner Monday and just because I have a lot of money saved up for this trip alone doesn't mean I want to go back money-less." She said.
Yugi groaned but gave up and the walked in the dark, carefully watching the ground. Anzu's eyes flickered back and forth until . . . scuttle! "Right there." She whispered softly. Atem looked down and carefully picked up the crab with the shovel and quickly placed it into the bucket.
"One down." He grinned.
Yugi pointed his flashlight in the bucket and a small grin formed on his face. "Maybe this won't be so bad after all." He said. Now, with newly charged vigor, they watched the ground. Atem found three while Yugi spotted two.
"Six total. You know," Anzu said as she spotted another one and gently scooped it up and put it into the bucket. "Seven now, anyway, I'm getting real excited, if I go back now I don't think I'll be able to sleep."
Atem smiled. "I would have to agree, how about you, Yugi?"
The teen smiled. "Yeah, I am a bit pumped up now." He pointed to a small ghost crab just sitting there, as if waiting to be scooped up. When the two groups met up again Joey and Tristan were grinning like crazy.
"We've totally won."
Anzu shared a look with Yugi and Atem before snorting. "Really. How about we count at the beach house."
Both groups walked back, grabbing their sandals and carefully walked back so they didn't step on any sharp shells. When they got back they placed their buckets on the picnic table. Atem, with a stick, counted the crabs and then counted Joey and Tristan's bucket.
He stepped away grinning. Joey frowned knowing exactly what that meant. "How much did you get?"
"Fifteen." He smirked.
Joey's jaw dropped and peeked into the green bucket. He counted fifteen. "Damn it!" He sighed and looked over to Tristan. "Well T, looks like we got the bill for Monday."
The two marched their way up, not even bothering to let their crabs go, Anzu guessed that they blamed the crabs for not magically multiplying. The three teens, grinning and laughing, high-fived each other before letting the crabs go into the sand behind their beach house.
They walked in to a silent house with the exception of some grumbling in the room with the bunk-beds. Anzu grabbed her pajamas and quickly rushed in to the bathroom to take a shower. Atem and Yugi walked into their room, exhausted but happily content that they didn't have to pay the bill when they went out Monday night.
Anzu had to say, for a chilly second day, it wasn't so bad. When she got out of the hot shower she sighed and exhaustion hit her, starting from her very suddenly heavy shoulders to her feet which felt as though weights had been tied to them. Anzu stumbled to her room, closed and locked her slid-y door and crawled under the covers, nuzzling her pillow as she smiled. Not a bad second day at all.
Second day, COMPLETE! :D
(1) Wally-World is what I call Walmart. (I don't own it btw...)
So, what did you guys think? I hope I managed to get some laughs out of you guys with Joey's crab situation. (I mean, even I was laughing a bit as I wrote it.) Now, for the game part, you all won't believe what I did. (Well, maybe you will...) I grabbed my own Monopoly game, set it up for five peeps, and I played it. I spent an entire day working on that game, recording the events, the dice rolls and everything. I got some weird looks from my family but I told them bull-poopie and they believed it. (Sorry Mom...)
Now, next chapter we will be playing the game, BEER PONG! Yes, and it will be funny, for everyone will be tipsy and they'll turn on Atem! (Haha, oh boy, I have a lot to write next chapter.)
Thank you for reading everyone and I am so pleased with the reviews!
EgyptianBlueEyes-Perhaps I will add more characters to this, but for right now, I'll keep it to the five. Perhaps I'll invite Bakura and Ryou. ;)
RedMoonAlchemist-I'm glad that it does actually sound like what a group of teenagers would do, for it was my intent. *giggles* You wouldn't be the first who'd like to hang with the YGO gang. (Cause I want to hang with em too. lol)
As for everyone else I'm so glad I could actually make you guys laugh and smile. I hope this chapter was just as good as my first one!
Thanks for reading everyone! See you guys in the third chapter! Have a nice day or night! :DD