Author's Note: Hello again! Wow, it’s been a while since I last updated, hasn’t it? Sorry about that! School has been keeping me busy lately and a lot of things have been happening in life as well.

Also, I had this story saved on a floppy disk so that I would have more space on my stupid computer and stupid me, I lost that disk! Yeah, but it’s alright. I had only written like a paragraph of this chapter there. I have no problem writing it over.

Anyways, I hope you guys like this chapter and please review and enjoy. :]

Chapter 3:

The Baseball Incident

About three weeks had passed since the entire cheerleader fiasco. I was feeling much better now. Rejected the pleas from those stupid bimbos to join the cheerleading squad was definitely sweet. I knew they were only asking me to join because their coach had told them to do it or else.

I seriously hope they get their butts kicked right out of the squad for being so damn stupid and egotistical. It would serve them right for everything they do.

Life went on normally for the rest of us. I continued failing math test after math test. Claire never failed to get on my nerves. I tackled her a few times and Aunt Jimena had to rip us apart. But that wasn’t anything new. Naturally, I would call Tea and whine to her. She was the only who would listen to me without rebuking me for it.

“So, what did Claire do this time?” she said knowingly as we sat at our usual table during lunch time at school.

“I don’t know what the hell she’s got against me,” I shook my head. “But can believe she took all my clothes and dumped them into the trash. And Aunt Jimena didn’t even do anything about it. She simply told her not to do it again. You have any idea how many times she’s told her than and Claire has just gone and done it again?! Then when I do something, I get punished. This world is filled with injustices, I’m telling you.”

“You’ve got too much on your mind, Yvette,” Yugi said as he came to sit with us. “There’s a baseball game going on tonight. Why don’t you come with us?”

“It sounds like fun,” I said but shook my head. “I’m not really a sports type of person…”

“Then why did you want to become a cheerleader?” Tea chuckled with disbelief. “Cheerleaders have to stay there for the whole game, you know.”

“Yeah, that’s true,” I replied. “Back when I was a cheerleader, my friends would have to tie me down to the bleachers so that I wouldn’t run out. I have a short attention span…”

“That’s for sure!” Joey crackled loudly as he came over with Tristan. “I saw you drooling during science class!”

I gasped and turned to him as he sat beside me. “That’s not true! I saw you picking your nose, anyway, so you shouldn’t be talking about me!”

My friends and I laughed loudly as Joey’s cheeks burned.

“So it is true!” Tea snickered, holding onto her stomach as she laughed.

“No it’s not!” he said lowly, scratching his head. He thought it might be best to change the subject now. “So are you coming to the baseball game with us, Yvette?”

I looked up at him. “You’re all going?” They all nodded their heads simultaneously. I shrugged. “Okay…I’ll go. I don’t see why not.”

“We’re going to meet at your house, okay, Yvette?” Tea said as she stood up and threw her tray into the garbage can nearby.

“All right. What time is the game?”

“It starts at 7 pm. It’s a home game so it’ll be in our baseball field.” After deciding what we were going to do, the bell rang and we each departed to our classes.

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“Don’t tell me you’re going, too,” Claire rolled her eyes as she saw me getting ready.

I gasped and looked at her wide eyed. “T-that means…y-you’re going too…”

“Yeah,” Claire said, coming into my room. She pulled out her compact mirror and bumped her hips into mine, pushing me right out of the way so she could apply her blush in front of my mirror.

I grunted and placed my hands on my hips. “And why are you going? I don’t remember ever seeing you at school.”

Claire refused time and again to be seeing in the same high school as me. So, instead of going to the high school nearby, she insisted on attending one more than five miles away. Quite an intelligent eighteen year old, eh?

The doorbell rang as I threw darts at Claire with my eyes. I smiled and clapped my hands. “That must the guys!” I raced down the stairs and opened the door. It suddenly flung open, sending my poor body into the wall behind it.

“CLAIRE, DARLING IT’S TIME TO GO!!”

It was Claire’s little posse, consisting of two bimbo girls and three moronic guys. I can definitely see how Claire fits in there…

“Oh hey,” the brunette nineteen year old girl with blond highlights said as she saw my mangled body lying behind the door. “It’s the runt.”

I growled and stood up immediately. “I’m not a runt! Show some respect!”

“Stop being such a nuisance, Yvette,” Claire said coldly as she walked down the stairs and joined her friends. She came up to me and pinched my nose.

“AHHH!” I squealed and leaned back into the wall harshly, bumping the back of my head against it. “YOU BIT--”

“BYE!” She cut me right off before I could finish cursing at her.

The group suddenly walked out and shut the door, causing a picture frame on the wall nearby to crash to the ground. “YVETTE DID IT!” I heard Claire shout from outside, followed by a roll of laughter from her and her band of dimwits.

I stomped my feet angrily on the floor like a five year old throwing a temper tantrum. Now that I was alone, I wasn’t going to hid it. the door bell rang again and I sighed.

“Are you ready?!” my friends asked simultaneously asked. Their faces fell when they got a good look at me. “WHAT HAPPENED?!”

My precious hair, on which I had spent nearly an hour on, was ruined and I look like an escapee from an asylum that was ready to murder someone. That someone was sure to be Claire…

“Claire happened, that’s what!” I shouted. “Just give me ten minutes. I’ll be ready…again…”

I said ten minutes, but it actually took about a half hour. Finally, we left my house and arrived at the school’s baseball field within fifteen minutes. The place was filled to capacity with students, parents, and other people.

“I hope we don’t run into, Claire,” I spoke too soon. Almost on cue, Claire and her crew appeared in front of my friends and me.

“It’s the runt again,” Claire’s friend Janet sneered. It was the same bimbo who hit me with the front door back home.

“And her friends, too,” added her friend named Nichole.

“Losers,” Claire chuckled as she brushed past us. “Let’s not waste our time…”

“Well, that was painless, wasn’t it?” Tea said blankly as the five friends watched the others go by.

“That witch,” I growled with a tightened fist. “She’s so sure of herself…I’d like to slap her around this field and see how pompous she’ll be then!”

“Calm down, Yvette,” Yugi said coming up to her. “Let’s just watch the game. It’s about to start.”

“All right,” I agreed. “I guess there’s no need to get worked up over nothing, right?”

“Right,” they all nodded in unison and we went off to find somewhere to sit.

We found four seats high in the stands and sat there. We hadn’t been sitting for three seconds when Joey and Tristan suddenly spoke up.

“We’re hungry,” Tristan said and looked at Joey.

“Yeah, we can’t watch this game with an empty stomach,” he agree and slid out of the isle with Tristan. “We’re going to buy some food.”

“Buy us something too!” I shouted at them as they took off.

“Why is it that those two are always hungry?” asked Tea rhetorically.

After a few minutes, Joey and Tristan returned with arms full of junk food. We all munched as we watched the game. I didn’t pay much attention. After eating as much as I could, the game pretty much put me to sleep.

“If my head falls on your shoulder, Yugi, I am really sorry,” I yawned with my head rest on my hand. My elbow was leaning against the armrest. I sat in between Yugi and Joey. Every now and then my head would carelessly careen to one side as if to fall right off my neck.

Yugi just chuckled.

“You won’t kill me if I, will you, Tea?” I opened an eye and winked at her. She looked as if she were ready to jump over the seats and maul me.

“YVETTE!!” she bawled angrily.

I giggled and shook my head. Of course, Yugi didn’t think anything of this.

I had dozed off for about ten minutes. Strange though, it felt like I had been sleeping for much longer. When I closed my eyes, I was in a different world again.

I could clearly see Yugi there, standing in the middle of garden with me. Upon closer inspection, I realized that it wasn’t Yugi. Though I hadn’t seen him that many times before, I knew it was him.

Inside that golden puzzle that Yugi carried around his neck was the spirit of an old pharaoh. It was hard to believe when I found out, but when that spirit appeared to me I didn’t have any choice but to believe it.

It was that spirit that I saw there in front of me. It was an awkward feeling. What was I feeling exactly? I never felt this way before…I was really confused. All my other dreams paled in comparison to the amount of confusion this particular vision caused me.

“Forgive me for that mistake,” he said softly, grabbing on my hands. His violet eyes stared into mine lovingly. I found it hard to breathe. “I almost pushed you away from me forever…I want to be with you. I don’t care what anyone else says…”

I couldn’t speak. Maybe I wasn’t supposed to speak, but even if I had tried I couldn’t choke out the words. I wanted to be with him too. I’ve never felt such a longing before. I wanted to be here with him. I wanted to stay with him.

My wish couldn’t be granted, or so I thought. My drowsy eyelids slowly came open and I found myself face to face with the spirit. I gasped and sat up, staring at him as if his eyes were inside out. “…Y-Yugi?”

“What are you doing here, Pharaoh?” asked Joey.

“I’m not really sure,” he replied, continuing to stare down at me. “Were you…calling out to me?”

I stared at him dumbfounded and shook my head slowly. “…No…”

The others stared at us the same way. None of us had any idea about what as going on. I stood up from my seat and took off to the women’s restroom.

Tea was frozen in place for a few seconds but eventually snapped out of it and followed me.

“What was that about?” she asked as we entered the crowded restroom. I sighed and leaned against a wall.

“I have no idea,” I replied and crossed my arms. “It felt weird…something strange is happening here, but I can’t figure out what it is, exactly.”

Tea sighed and scratched her head. “I get that feeling, too, Yvette. But what do you think is going to happen this time? It’s been such a long time since the last adventure…and we just barely escaped in one piece.”

“I remember you guys told me about that.” I hadn’t yet met my friends when the last escapade took place. Part of me was disappointed. I would’ve really liked to experience it myself, despite Tea’s words on how horrible and frightening the whole ordeal was. Yet here I was, on the brink of finally getting a taste of the adventure I so longed for. Well, if I could call it that. I was probably exaggerated a bit.

“Let’s go back,” Tea said. “I think Yugi might have returned.”

“Yeah,” I agreed. “That spirit dude gives me the creeps though, Tea.”

“Why? He’s really nice…”

“I don’t know why, but I felt strange when he looked at me. I felt like he was suffocating me with his eyes. It was so bizarre…”

“Don’t worry about him, Yvette,” Tea said as she came behind me and gently steered me out of the restroom. “I promise he won’t harm you. If he does anything funny, which I doubt he will, I will personally take care if him. Okay?”

I looked at her with a slight pout as we walked through the crowds of people. “I guess…”

My eyes fell to the ground. I crossed my arms and brought my thumb up to my lips. What was this feeling? I had told the gang about my unusually prophetic dreams. It had been a long time since they began. Were they trying to tell me something? Warn me about something?

I was so confused. I needed answers and I couldn’t find them anywhere. I didn’t know where to look or who to turn too. My life was hard enough. This just added a hundred pounds of more unnecessary stress.

“HEADS UP!!”

I jumped at the sound of voices screaming at me. I didn’t really understand why nor did I see. All I remember was a pain on top of my head and then darkness.

THUMP!!

I groaned as the bright lights stung through my shut eyes. I slowly opened them and looked around. “Where am…I?”

“We’re in the nurse’s office. How are you feeling?!”

“Are you all right?!”

“That was quite a blow!”

“I’m sorry! I should’ve warned you sooner!”

I stared up blankly at my friends who stood over me with concerned eyes. “What the hell happened?” I asked.

“You got a hit by a flying foul ball!” Tristan exclaimed.

“You were knocked unconscious…” Joey said. “Are you feeling alright?”

I sighed and carefully sat up. I grabbed my forehead. “Oh, I feel like I got hit by a truck! Why does this keep happening?”

“You just have terrible luck, that’s all,” Tristan said before getting elbowed in the gut by Tea.

“But you’re okay now?” asked Yugi.

“Yeah, I guess…”

“I’m back!” the nurse said as she entered the room. “You’re awake, are you?”

I nodded. “Uh huh.”

“Wow, you’ve been here two times in the same month,” she said briskly. “You’ve got terrible luck!” My friends and I exchanged glances. “Well, I’ll need you guys to please wait outside. I need to run a few minor tests on your friend.”

Agreeing, my friends bid me farewell for now and headed out to the halls. The entire time, my eyes gazed out at the window beside me. Something was calling out to me. I could see the sky begin to fill with clouds. It was going to rain tonight.

“All right, Yvette,” the nurse said softly. “You’re all done.”

She stood up off her stool and left the office. I was surprised when my friends didn’t reenter, but I didn’t bother to check if they had left. Instead, I stood up off from the bed and walked over to the open window. I peered out of it and noticed that we were only on the first floor. I don’t know what I was thinking exactly, but next thing I knew, I was climbing out of it and jumping to the soft grass below.

I took a deep breath and breathed in the crisp rainy air. I began walking toward the street. I walked down the sidewalk in a sort of daze. The answers I was looking for felt so close. I could feel it.

I had been walking for about ten minutes and reached downtown Domino. I stopped at the crosswalk and patiently waited for the light to change colors before proceeding. My cell phone rang in pocket. I grabbed it and saw that Claire was calling. They must’ve realized that I had left somewhere and were trying to find me.

I didn’t care much now. I wasn’t in any danger so there was nothing to worry about. The rain finally began to pour, abruptly and without any warning. Now I was beginning to regret having left like that, though I had to admit that it was refreshing. My head wasn’t throbbing as badly anymore anyway.

I was now making my way through the residential area of town. I was thoroughly soaked. My clothes and my dark hair were now sticking to my skin like glue. My ponytail had collapsed under the weight of water flowing on it.

I was scared near death when I passed by an alley, only to hear a bolt of lightening strike something or someone there with a loud crash. It sounded like a train wreck. I gasped and turned around. “What the hell?”

I entered the alley cautiously and noticed something at the far end. I was afraid to get any closer at this point. My eyes squinted, trying to get a good look from where I was. “Oh my gosh!”

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