A/N: Hey guys, sorry for the wait for those of you who actually read this story; I've been incredibly busy, plus I was in a car accident so um...yeah. Please enjoy Chapter four.

Figured it was time for a disclaimer; as much as I wish I did, I don't own Yugioh. Or Airi, who belongs to YugiorAtemlover. But I do own Charlotte!

"So Charlotte, how are you liking the new school?" Shrugging, for the thousandth time in just two hours the blackette was quick to tug on the hem of her sickly blue colored skirt in an effort to somehow shorten the amount of leg currently being shown.

"Its fine, I guess; wish I could have transferred into the right age group, but it's probably better this way, right?" Unable to help from smiling, the seventeen year old made it a point to lean almost all her full weight on her blond friend, practically knocking his taller frame over despite the obvious height difference. "I mean, all the fun things happen when I hang out with you guys; well maybe not that whole mess with Rebecca, but everything else." Honestly, Charlotte hadn't expected to see the smaller American duelist so far out of the states, and all over such a stupid thing as her believing Yuugi's grandpa had taken her blue eyes white dragon. Then again, the young child had always possessed the tendency to look before leaping; Charlotte had figured that out a long time ago considering she'd once beaten the pigtailed child beyond repair (not worth the weeks of screaming and whining by so much as a long shot).

"I'm just glad she's gone; the way she was treatin' Yug…still doesn't sit right wit' me." Joey muttered, leaning so far back in his desk chair that Charlotte feared he'd topple it over and consequently bash his head against the probably not so well kept school floor.

"Oh Joey, I'm sure she didn't really mean it," The purple eyed youth reassured his friend with a pacifying gesture. "She was just upset and confused; anyway we're all friends now, right?"

"Yeah sure…friends and all that. But there's one person I'm not eva' gonna be friends wit'!" Puffing her bangs out of her eyes with a sigh, Charlotte was quick to apply force to the blond's head to shut him up.

"If I have to hear about this new game shop one more time I'll take you out behind the woodshed. Yuugi, do we have one of those here? Even if we don't I'll find one and take you behind there, don't think that I won't." Sure, it was quite unfortunate that Yuugi's grandfather was receiving competition when according to the smaller boy he'd been working so hard for so long, but the blackette had already made a trip to the Black Clown Game shop and it wasn't all that impressive; after all, the thing was centered around trends, not nearly as comfortable as the older man's property.

"Wait, dat's the one that sells Dungeon Dice Monsters, right?" Arching a brow, Charlotte nodded wordlessly; to be honest she wasn't too surprised that Joey already knew about it, but that fact that he seemed so interested in it…more than a little concerning. "But don't think I've gone in there yet! I just pass by it on my paper route; gotta make a little extra spending cash so all the prize money can go to Serenity's eye operation." Perhaps fortunately for Joey, whatever remark the seventeen year old had been about to make was quickly and quite suddenly interrupted by the loudest shriek she'd ever heard; sounded like a dying cat…or several dying cats.

"Oi….hang on guys, I'm gonna go see what all the commotion is about." Of course, this was much easier said than done; you would have thought that there was some sort of superstar in the building from how many girls Charlotte was forced to push aside, effectively creating a gap for the rest of the group to follow through so as to avoid any unnecessary bodily harm.

"Oh I missed it, show me again!"

"Please?"

"Ladies, try to keep your eyes on me this time alright? Not that I mind having to do it again." Oh god, really? Unable to help a snort of laughter from escaping, to her credit Charlotte was deft enough to look the other direction to avoid seeming rude.

"Hey, who is this guy?" Biting down on her bottom lip to keep from snickering, Charlotte merely shrugged, unable to help from being utterly mystified by how anyone could find such a simple trick so amusing; hell, back where she came from tricks weren't worth watching unless they involved at least two white tigers and some saws.

"I can't say I've ever seen him before; but check out that headband. Pretty sweet right? I have a belt that looks just like that."

"Hey, what are we all talking about over here?" While Tea and Joey very quickly brought Airi up to speed, Charlotte was kind enough to tune them out; even though she'd only met Tea very recently, just a few days ago actually, the brunette wasn't really the kind of person Charlotte had ever really gotten along with. A little too peppy for her tastes.

"Excuse me, I don't mean to intrude…" Oh god, what was up with that hair of his? "But I heard you play a little duel monsters, is that right?" And just like that, Joey whirled back around, crossing his arms with a look of smugness which Charlotte ordinarily would have smacked right off his face; however, seeing how they were in public she kept her hands to herself, proceeding to idly chew on her thumbnail. "Oh I'm sorry, how could I forget to introduce myself? My name is Duke Devlin."

"Now you listen up; if you know anything about dueling you'll have heard about Bandit Keith, intercontinental champion. Yeah, I wiped the floor with him!"

"Way to be modest Joey."

"Oh, just let him have his moment." Not that it seemed to last very long; like so many times before, Charlotte gathered, much of the focus was directed to Yuugi pretty quickly, though the newcomer made sure to carve out a few seconds to smile quite flirtatiously at both Charlotte and Airi, the former of which quirked a brow. Airi was quick to sigh and shake her head, as if to say it was better to ignore him and just not ask.

"You're Yuugi Motou, champion of Duelist Kingdom, right?"

"Hey dicey, what've you heard about me, Joey Wheeler? Hm? Huh?" Sensing the whole thing to be going in a bad direction, Charlotte sighed and placed a hand on the blond's shoulder, pulling him back a fraction of an inch; no need to get so close.

"Not a thing." Oh, damn; not the best thing to tell Joey, especially since it was so rare an occasion that anyone gave him recognition at all from what the American duelist had been told online. "But why don't we a play a little game and you can show all these ladies what you're made of? It's simple, just involves a cup and dice." The blackette was starting to sense a very obvious theme with this newcomer. "I bet I can move the dice into my right hand without touching the cup."

"Yeah, right, next you'll be saying you can fly around the room!" Oh, Charlotte would have loved to see that!

"You really shouldn't underestimate the power of the mind; perhaps the dice are already gone from under the cup. Of course, that's probably beyond your comprehension."

"What? No way! Lemme' see!" Stormy eyes widening, the slim duelist reached out for her obviously flustered friend in an effort to prevent him from effectively losing the bet, but Joey was already on the move, much faster then she would have given him credit for. "See, you lied; the dice are still right there!" Charlotte could only run a hand over her face then, especially when the taller male picked the dice up off the table with an irritating smirk of victory; it was such a dirty but effective trick, even Yuugi had seen it coming.

"See, I moved the dice into my right hand, and I never touched the cup. That makes me the winner."

"That's a dirty trick, you're nothin' but a faker! If you were any kind of real man you'd play a real man's game! I challenge you to a game of Duel Monsters!"

"Sure, that's fine." Unable to help from narrowing her eyes, Charlotte carefully and rather nonchalantly leaned over to Airi.

"Why does he keep doing that with his bangs?" She muttered, somehow fascinated by the way he continued to twirl and play with his hair. "I thought only girls did that."

"Believe me, I've seen him do weirder."

"But since this is your game, I do have a small condition. I'm afraid I don't have a deck of my own so how about we open up new packs and make new decks. That's fair, right?"

"What's fair about that?" Yuugi was quick to exclaim.

"Yeah, if you aren't playing with your own deck then its just luck!" Charlotte agreed. "I mean Joey, there's a ton of cards we've never even seen before!"

"Aw c'mon, have a little faith. Wasn't I a finalist in the championship?"

"Well yeah, but-"

"Then it's settled; but how about we make a little wager? If I win you'll have to do whatever you say for an entire week."

"Fine, but if I win you have to close down your fancy game shop! There's no way I'm gonna lose!"

"He's toast." Tea muttered.

"Burned to a crisp," Tristan agreed.

"He sure does like to get in over his head, doesn't he?" The blackette sighed.

"Aw c'mon Char, you can't serious think I'm gonna lose to a guy wit' a dice hanging from his ear?" Not wanting to say anything, Charlotte merely shrugged; it was true that Joey was good, but Charlotte herself had met plenty of people much better than her.

"Then it's settled; we'll hold the match today after school. I have a state of the art dueling ring in my game shop." Of course; totally not surprising. "Of course, you're all invited; wouldn't want you to miss any of the action. See you all later then."

"Joey, you're an idiot."