Yepper! Another chapter added to the Yu-Gi-Oh madness. Sorry I cut the last chapter a little short, but I couldn't fit everything into chapter 1. I'm also sorry it took me so long to post up this chapter. Anywayz, back to what I was saying: Here goes: chapter 2 to Beach Party! Enjoy!
The week had gone by pretty quickly and Saturday came upon our main characters. At first the gang didn't know what to expect. They didn't even know what the question was going to be to win the contest. They all decided to play it cool and try to relax.
"I can't take it!" Joey screamed, "I can't take the pressure! What the hell is the question going to be? What if we get it wrong? What if-
"Joey, cool it. The contest hasn't even started yet. Didn't we all agree that we would try and keep it cool?" Tristan told Joey.
"I know, but I can't help it! This is the same way I get when mid-terms and finals come around," Joey looked at the gang frantically, "I know I'll never pass because I haven't studied all year so then I get into a panic and I start to cram everything into my head as fast as possible so that I won't fail, but then it turns out that-
"JOEY! SHUT-UP! WE GET IT!" Tea yelled at Joey. Tea took a deep sigh and then turned back to the gang, "Look, everyone is nervous about the contest, but we can't let the pressure get to our heads. We have to stay calm."
"Tea's right guys," Yami added, "If we get too excited, we could mess up our chances at getting the vacation."
Everyone who was standing flopped onto Tea's couch and sighed. Nobody would admit it, but they all were really nervous. To them this was a big deal. They hadn't had a break in months and they all really needed a vacation. The room was silent for the next couple of minutes. There really wasn't much to talk about except the contest, but everyone was avoiding that subject. Finally Tristan spoke up.
"So….ummm…" there was a pause. Then he added, "Have any of you guys ever been to the beach?" Where the gang lived, it was all shopping centers and work buildings. There was no beach or anything like that. The closest thing that they had to a beach was the city park, which wasn't very big anyway.
"Nope." Joey answered.
"Not me." Yugi said.
"I was stuck inside the millennium (sp?) puzzle for 1,000 years. I don't think that I've ever been to a beach." Yami explained.
"I have." Tea answered quietly. The guys turned to her, "When I was really little. My mom and dad used to take me to the beach every summer. But then….." Tea stopped and looked at the floor, hands gracefully placed in her lap, "After my dad died, we couldn't afford to go to the beach anymore because mom was always working."
"Oh…" the gang said all at once. There were a few more minutes of silence.
Yugi finally asked, "So what was it like? The beach?"
Tea looked up, "Well, the beach that I went to I thought was one of the most beautiful places in the world. The sand and sun, the ocean….man, nothing could replace those memories….."
The gang all sighed. All of them were daydreaming of what would happen if they won the contest.
Joey's daydream: You could see the sunset in the distance. Everything was calm as Joey belched loudly. Joey opened another soda can and got comfier in his beach chair. The sea breeze blew in his face and he sighed.
"Ahh… this is the life."
(Joeys daydream over)
Tristan's daydream: (see Joeys daydream and change all of the 'Joey's' to 'Tristan's')
(Tristan's daydream over)
Yugi's daydream: Yugi could see the sandy beach before him and the sun setting behind the ocean waves. As he walked slowly towards the ocean, a hand rested on his shoulder. He turned around and saw the whole gang behind him.
"Com' on Yug'! Let's go have some fun." Joey exclaimed.
"Yeah, come with us."
"Ok, I'm right behind you guys!" And with that, Yugi followed his friends into the water and they played until the sun went down.
(Yugi's daydream over)
Yami's daydream: Yami stopped and stared at the beauty that lied before him. There was a sparkling ocean and an endless white sandy beach. Yami saw his friends playing around in the water and having a good time. Wishing to join them, Yami started to run, but something stopped him. He looked at all of his friends again. Someone was missing.
"Where's Tea?" Yami whispered to himself. He turned around in an attempt to find her, but she couldn't be found.
"Tea! Tea!" Yami started to yell, "Tea where are you?"
By now, Yami was running around frantically trying to find her. People stopped and stared. Someone was running around like a mad-man calling out someone's name. (That's not something you see everyday!) Yami finally stopped. It was no use. Tea was nowhere to be found.
"Damn it! Where is she?" Yami continued the search, only this time, he walked instead of ran, "Tea! Tea, please show me where you are!" There was still no answer. "Damn it, Tea! I care about you too much to not have you with me!" There was a few seconds of silence, then:
"Is that true?" Someone said softly behind him.
Yami turned around quickly. There stood Tea; in a red bikini and jean shorts. Yami looked at her up and down and then answered slowly and quietly: "Yes."
"Oh, Yami that's so sweet." Tea said with a smile, "I care about you too." Tea reached out and grabbed Yami's hand. She dragged him along with her towards the sun; where they joined their friends and played until they couldn't play anymore.
(Yami's daydream over)
Tea's daydream: Tea opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was her dad in front of her; walking towards the ocean. Then she looked up and saw her mom holding her tiny hand.
"Wait…what happened to me?" Tea looked down. She was in the body of a 5 year old! 'Oh, I must be remembering what the beach was like when I was little.' Tea thought. Then her mom released her hand from her grip. Tea looked up at her mom. She smiled and said, "Go on, honey. Go to your dad. I'll catch up." Tea stared up blankly at her mother and then to her dad who was about 30 feet away. Not sure what to do, she slowly walked to her dad and looked back at her mom. As her mom slowly faded away, her dad grew bigger.
Up ahead, her dad greeted her, "Hey there, sweetheart. Did your mom tell you to come and visit me?" Tea simply nodded and looked up at her dad's face. It was hidden behind his locks of black hair, something that she didn't have, but wanted. Tea smiled to her dad. All she could see was his smile, but that was good enough for her. Anything that reminded her of her dad made her happy. That's one of the reasons why she liked Yami so much. He was strong and powerful, and he never gave up. They were both very close to her.
"I have to go now, but I'll be back soon. Don't you worry." Tea's dad started to walk off, but Tea caught his hand.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Tea asked curiously in her squeaky, 5-year-old voice.
Tea's dad just smiled down at her and answered, "Somewhere far away. But don't worry; we'll see each other again." He started to loosen his grip on her hand and walk away, but Tea still followed.
"What do you mean we'll see each other again? How far away are you going? Daddy? Daddy!" But this time he just kept on walking towards the sun. He never looked back.
"NOOO! DADDY DON'T GO!" Tea screamed, crying. Her eyes went blurry from crying, and she couldn't see her dad's figure anymore.
"There was nothing we could do, honey. It was fate and we can't change that." Tea's mom had come up behind her. Tea turned to her mom. It was just the two of them.
"sniff When will daddy be back, mom?sniff"
Tea's mom sighed, "I don't think that he's coming back, dear."
Tea's heart almost stopped. 'What does she mean he's not coming back? I don't understand.' Tea thought.
"You'll understand in time." Tea's mom patted her head and picked her up. Tea rested her head on her shoulder and looked back to where her dad had just stood.
'I wish I knew why he won't be coming back…'
(Tea's daydream over)
It had turned out that the whole gang had fallen asleep while daydreaming. Yami was the first to wake up.
"Oh, no." Yami stood up and stretched. "We all must've gone to sleep. Looks like I'm the only up." Yami looked around at the gang. Everyone was sleeping peacefully except for Tea. She was tossing and turning in her sleep, "I wonder what's wrong with her?" Yami turned to Tea and brushed some of her bangs out of her eyes. She was crying in her sleep, "Why is she crying?" Yami shook her a little bit and tried telling her to wake up. It didn't seem to work.
"Tea, please wake up. You're having a bad dream. Tea!" Yami shook her a little harder. This time her eyes started to open.
At first all Tea could see was something blurry in front of her. Then things started to look clearer and she could make out Yami's figure. "Ugghh…Yami, is that you?" Tea asked groggily. She sat up and rubbed her eyes. They were puffy and red from crying.
"You were having a bad dream. It looks like you were crying too." Yami sat down next to Tea on the couch.
"I guess I was."
"What was it that you were dreaming about?" Yami asked curiously. He looked straight into her icy blue eyes.
Tea looked at him and shook her head, "I-I don't remember…." She lied.
'Wow, great job, Tea. Why do I have to be such a bad liar?' Tea thought to herself.
Yami gave her a concerned look. Tea hated and loved that look. She hated it because it made her feel like he was reading her mind. She loved it because it was the way her father used to look at her.
"I know you're lying to me, Tea. It's ok. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I just thought that it might help you get some things off of your chest."
Tea bit her lip.
'Should I tell him? No. He might think that I'm a total freak. But then again, he really wants to know….Oh, this is too hard!' Tea yelled in her head.
"I…I….I don't know if you would understand…." Tea drifted off. She looked down at the floor.
"Tea I can understand anything if you just explain it to me." Yami tried to look down at her face, but it was hidden behind her hair. He sat and waited for her reply.
"It's just….I don't know if I even understand it myself…" Tea looked up at Yami and gave him a sad smile, "I think maybe we should wake everyone up. The contest should start soon if we didn't already miss it." Tea proceeded to wake the rest of the gang up. Yami sat and watched her, concerned, but let it go.
'I'm sure if it was really important she would've told me.' Yami thought to himself.
"Whoa…What happened?" Joey asked no one in particular. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, he sat up and asked, "Did we fall asleep?"
"I'm afraid so." Yami answered.
"Oh, man! That means we missed the contest! Shit!" Tristan yelled; punching the living daylights out of his pillow.
Yugi sat up, "We didn't miss the contest. We only slept for about 20 minutes. The contest doesn't start until 3:00."
Everyone sighed.
"Man, that's a relief. I thought we were goners of a second there." Tristan said.
"Me too." Joey added.
"Well, now that we're all awake, we should try and stay awake. We can't afford to miss the contest." Tea explained to the boys.
Joey yawned, "Oh, com' on. Five more minutes? Who died and made you queen, anyway?" Joey complained.
Tea clenched her fists, "You wanna try saying that again?"
Joey looked up at her, scared, "Not really…"
"Good," Tea flopped back down onto the couch.
"Hey, Tea?" Yugi asked turning to her.
"Yes Yugi?"
"Why are your eyes so red?"
Tea looked into his puppy dog eyes, "What are you talking about? My eyes aren't that red." Tea stood up and walked over to the nearby bathroom.
"Oh my gosh!" everyone heard from outside of the bathroom. Then the sound of running water filled their ears.
Yugi turned to Yami, "You don't know anything about what happened to Tea, do you?"
Yami sighed, "I asked her, but she didn't give me an answer. I'm sure it's not that important anyway."
The sound of the water eventually turned off, and Tea walked out of the bathroom still wiping her face with a towel.
"Any better?" Tea asked.
The whole gang nodded yes.
"Good. Sorry about that." Tea went to return her towel.
"Hey wait," Joey interrupted, "you never answered Yugi's question."
"A question? What question?" Tea turned around to face the gang again.
The gang looked at her, surprised, "Don't play dumb. You know, the question Yugi asked you about your eyes. Why were they red?"
"Oh." Tea sighed quietly, "I think that I was having a bad dream, that's all. It's nothing you guys should worry about." Tea went back into the bathroom and returned her towel.
"Good enough for me." Joey said. He got up and went into Tea's kitchen, "Hey, Tea? You wouldn't happen to have any soda's here, would ya?"
Tea came out of the bathroom, "No I don't have any sodas. Why do you need them anyway?" she yelled from inside the living room.
"Why do you think?" Joey yelled back to her.
"Because you want to eat me out of house and home." Tea answered.
"Wrong! Guess again."
"Because you're stupid?" Tea guessed again.
"Wrong-o" Joey yelled back.
"Because you're trying to get on my nerves?" Tea yelled back more angrily this time.
"Oh, darn it, you got it right!" Joey looked around some more in her fridge, "Did it work, though?"
"Did what work?"
"Me getting on your nerves." Joey answered with his head buried inside Tea's fridge.
"What do you think?" Tea replied.
"I don't know. Apparently I'm too stupid to know." You could hear Joey fumbling around in Tea's fridge. Then he yelled back, "Hey, there is some soda in here!" taking his newly found treasure, Joey went back into the living room. Tea huffed at Joey as he walked by, but he just flopped down on the couch while opening his soda, "I knew there was some soda in there. You never run out. You can't hide anything from me."
"I'm sure you were about to give up looking for your precious soda in the last 5 seconds." Tea snapped back at him.
"So, what? I still found it." Joey took a sip of his soda and leaned back, "Yep, this is the life…"
"Hey, guys!" Yugi interrupted, "The contest is about to start soon. We should get ready."
"Alright." Everyone agreed.
It was almost time for the contest to begin. Everyone made sure that the batteries on their phones were charged and that they had the number of the radio company memorized. They were taking this a little too seriously, but they were all nervous, and the last thing they needed was some malfunction to occur. Tea finally turned on her radio and the whole room went silent.
BEEP
"Hello folks at home! Welcome back to the greatest music mix of all time: Mix 106! Ok, well it's time of the moment you've all been waiting for; The Caribbean contest! The 100th caller to answer one of our special questions correctly wins an all expense paid vacation to the beautiful Caribbean. Now the number to call is 467-2813 (a/n: I don't know if this is a real phone number, so please, DON'T TRY CALLING ANYONE!)
"Good luck, guys." Tea told the group.
"Yeah." The gang replied.
"Ok, get your phone ready and start calling in!"
The gang furiously punched in the number to call on their cell phones. The dial tone rang, and you could here a beeping sound on the other end. The beeping sound was followed by a person telling you what number caller you were.
"I got number 96." Tristan told everyone.
"I'm number 97." Joey said right after Tristan.
"I got 98." Yami told the group.
"I'm 99." Tea announced.
Everyone turned to Yugi. He was listening to what was being said on the other end.
"Yug', what number are ya?" Joey asked hesitantly. Yugi stayed quiet. They all anxiously waited for him to answer. Finally Yugi looked up and said,
"I'm caller-
To be continued….
Well, that's it. Haha! I have to make you guys wait for what number caller Yugi is. You'll just have to read and find out. PLEASE R&R! Seeya!