For those who haven't noticed, I changed the title from 'A Fairy Tale' to 'Ever After' in order to avoid confusion with my other story, 'A Modern Fairy Tale'.

Thanks to the reviewers: s2Teennovelist, Monkey Girl xD,

Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh!

Ever After

School Start

Mai Valentine watched the newest customer to Rainy Tuesdays with great interest. The poor teen obviously had no idea what was going on, which would be to her benefit.

"You sure you're ok, Hun? You don't look to good…"

He blinked up at her. "I-I'll be fine in a minute… Just hungry…"

She gave him a kind smile. He really was a sweet kid. "Well, that's why you're here, isn't it? We have a batch of cinnamon rolls, fresh out of the oven. Would you like one?"

Yami nodded to her slowly, just realizing that she was a waitress. "Yes. Thank you. And a mocha iced coffee, if you don't mind."

"Coming right up!" She said with a snap of her manicured fingers. Mia quickly made her way to the back of the café and yelled Yami's order to the chef. She grabbed a phone as she shut the door to the office. "Hey, you guys are going to LOVE this…"

Yami sighed and laid his head on his arms. His head ache was gradually diminishing, but he was still very hungry. 'I really should have just ate at home… This is what I get for diverting from my normal routine.'

"Hear you go, Hun. You feelin' any better?"

Yami slowly lifted his head and nodded. "I think so…"

She smiled at him. "Well that's good! Here you go." She placed a plate with the largest cinnamon roll Yami had ever seen in front of him. "Oh! I forgot that coffee! I'll be right back!"

Yami's mouth watered at the sight of his order. He quickly ripped off a piece of the roll and stuffed it in his mouth. He had already eaten half of the roll when Mai returned with his coffee.

"Geez, Kiddo, slow down. Don't want you to choke!"

Yami blushed and looked up from his breakfast. "Sorry…"

Mai laughed and set his coffee down. "No need to apologize. I just assume you're from that classy private school? Don't want some rich kids parents suing us."

Yami chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, I go there."

"Well, take your time, Hun." Yami's face turned red when she threw another wink over her shoulder as she walked away.

Yami rubbed his face. With the combined efforts of the roll and coffee his headache was almost gone, but his vision was still messed up. The teen was beginning to suspect it had something to do with this magic nonsense he was caught up in.

Yami glanced around the small café and took note of quite a few familiar faces. In fact, most of the customers were kids from his school. It probably helped that Domino Private Academy was just around the corner.

Now that he finally had his head on straight, or as straight as it was going to get, Yami noticed the strange looks he was getting. It wasn't full on staring, most of the upper-class kids knew better, but he could still feel their eyes on him and hear his name being whispered. It unnerved him.

Yami finished the rest of his breakfast and quickly paid for the food at the counter. Once Yami was outside and away from the other kids, he felt much better. This magic thing was making him jumpy. He constantly felt as if the secret was out and everyone was trying to catch him in the act. Which, of course, was silly. He didn't even know how to cast a real spell, or how he did it the first time.

He glanced at his watch as he approached the school. 'Geez, I'm early. Still half an hour until class starts.' Yami shook his head as he stood on the sidewalk just before the entrance.

The school was fairly new and built like an American building. Bright red brick stacked two stories high with white framed windows, the academy wasn't like any other building in this part of town. It even had a tall tower at one corner with an analog clock at the very top. Of course, the clock was always about twenty minutes slow.

Yami slowly made his way toward the building and up the front stairs. He was glad his locker was near the front doors. Yami spun the lock and was surprised for a moment that that nothing fell out. Girls were almost always sending him love letters or little gifts to win his affections. He personally thought it was degrading too do such things.

With a shake of his head Yami shoved his backpack into the locker, leaving only his binder and math book free. Once he was done, Yami just stood there. What was he supposed to do NOW? All his homework was done and almost no one was here yet. Now Yami remembered why he never came to school early, there was nothing to do.

"I might as well go to class. It's not like I have anything better to do." Yami mumbled to himself and headed to his first hour class.

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Gasp! I've been gone soooo long! (sob) Sorry for being absent, but my life got pretty hectic with final exams, graduation, and my computer crashing/getting viruses five different times. -_- I have pretty much lost almost everything, so updates will be kind of slow until I get back in the groove of writing. ^_^'