Atem was speechless. He had been completely taken off his guard by her arms enveloping him, and for several seconds, he couldn't even find his voice.

Then: "A-Anzu…"

But then, he did something that left her just as speechless. He wrapped his arms around her and held her in return, securely, as if she would fall if he didn't hold on.

Her entire face lit on fire. When he held her fast against his chest, she could barely choke out, "Yugi?" But he gave no response.

Anzu looked down, her hair brushing his face. She didn't notice, but Atem welcomed the sensation, and couldn't stop himself from leaning his head down ever so slightly to take in the scent of her shampoo. He filled his lungs with it before exhaling slowly, deeply. Anzu took his profound sigh as a sign to relax, and stop thinking so much.

And yet… Here she was…in Yugi's arms…

Finally…

As soon as it crossed her mind, Anzu drew in a breath, frightened at her own, strange thoughts. Did she really just think that?

But as if to answer her, she couldn't bring herself to break away.

"Yugi…" she called quietly.

And she had to meet Seto, her boyfriend, soon.

And at this rate, her transgressions by the time she got there were going to extend far beyond just being late.

At this sobering realization, finally, she looked up at him.

"Yugi!"

But he still hadn't responded. Not verbally. He looked down into her face and, unbeknownst to her, was suddenly overcome with the strongest desire to brush her bangs back away from her beautiful sapphire eyes with a hand.

But he didn't. He held his hand steadily away from her face and contented himself with continuing to lose himself in her pools of blue.

She called his name again, this time in protest to his overwhelming intensity: "Yugi…" She placed a hand on his chest and began to push ever so slightly against him.

But when she looked up once more, his eyes drew her into a trance and held her there. He looked at her as if seeing nothing else, his arms still wrapped securely around her.

Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. The magnetism almost pained her. She pushed off of him; it was hard enough to extricate herself from him and break free, but lightly enough not to hurt him. Nevertheless, she felt tears welling up in her eyes at what she just experienced, or thought she just experienced – after all, could it have been real? – between them.

The two looked at each other longingly. When at last Anzu began to understand what that look in his crimson eyes might mean, she could only begin to muster the thought… The thought that he…

She had to go. Right now.

"Goodbye, Yugi," she said simply, abruptly, quietly, barely even above a whisper. Before they could say anything more. Before they could look any more into each other's eyes.

She turned and ran away from him in the direction of the movie theater.