[YGO fic] A New Chapter - Chapter Three
※ Pairing - Fragileshipping
※ Warnings - It's one of my older stories.
※ Disclaimer - I obviously don't own it.
[Ryou’s Diary: Entry 194 - Date: July 17th, 1997 (Age: 10, turning 11!)]
Dear Diary,
Well, today’s my birthday. I’m now officially 11-years old. When I was nine, I couldn’t wait to be ten, and when I was ten, I couldn’t wait to be eleven. Now, I don’t really care. I think I couldn’t wait because it meant that every year there would be a bigger party. Jacob and I were born on the same day so we’d always have a birthday party for the both of us, and the older we got the bigger the parties.
I know Jacob’s got a big party set up. His parents went all out this year. Dad and I were coming back from the store after buying a small birthday cake and we saw the giant circus tent that had been set up in his backyard. There was also a large trailer in the front of the house and a clown was leading a horse out of it as we passed.
I didn’t say anything and I was happy that Dad didn’t either. When we got home I went up to my room and looked through my Duel Monsters deck. It was a game that had been created by an American named Pegasus J. Crawford. I hadn’t dueled in a long time because my usual dueling opponent didn’t come over Saturday nights anymore.
I was looking at my favourite card, Change of Heart, when Dad called me for supper. We ate in silence, which now that I think about it, has become usual. There is always silence between us now. I don’t talk to him like I used to, I can’t. He doesn’t understand me anymore. How can he when I don’t understand me?
Anyway, we ate supper and then I went back up to my room. I got an envelope ready with a letter and then I dropped a small pendant inside. Actually, it was half a pendant. Jacob had the other half. One year, for our birthdays, our friends had gotten us a necklace, but they had only had enough money for one. So we had split it, broken it in half and then we each took a different half, a promise that we’d forever be friends.
Funny, isn’t it.
I got the letter ready and I left the house, telling Dad that I’d be back soon. I walked over to Jacob’s and was putting the envelope in the mailbox when his mother opened the door. I looked at her. She had always been like a mother to me and she had always treated me like her own son. My mother had died of complications from childbirth and I had never met her. For as long as I can remember I’ve always called Jacob’s mom ‘Mom’.
She looked down her nose at me and demanded to know what I wanted. She asked if I was here to ruin the biggest day of her son’s life. I handed her the envelope and told her that this was my present to Jacob and then I left.
When I got home my dad took me into the living room and he gave me a few presents since it was my birthday. I got a few books, which thrilled me because I was running out of reading material. Now that I had a lot of spare time on my hands and nothing to do, I had turned to books. They make it easy to forget reality for a little while.
I also got new clothes too, which I’m happy for. Everything was getting a little too small, not tight because I was losing weight and not gaining any, but I was growing taller. Slightly. And the last present he gave me he called the Millennium Ring.
He said that it was one of a kind and that it was said to be magical. He thought I was destined to have it. I liked it, it looked really old and it had some gold to it. I didn’t care if it was some cheap thing he had picked up along his travels; it meant a lot to me. After the presents we had cake. He was about to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ but stopped when I asked him not to. He said ‘Happy birthday Ryou’ and then we ate cake.
And now I’m sitting in my bed writing this down because for some reason, I can’t let go of the past and I want to remember. The memory hurts, but I still want to remember.
Oh yeah, and the note that I had written and gave to Jacob’s mother. It had said:
To Jacob,
I’m giving this pendant back to you because I don’t think you want me to have it anymore. Happy birthday.
Sincerely, Ryou Bakura
- Ryou
※ Warnings - It's one of my older stories.
※ Disclaimer - I obviously don't own it.
[Ryou’s Diary: Entry 194 - Date: July 17th, 1997 (Age: 10, turning 11!)]
Dear Diary,
Well, today’s my birthday. I’m now officially 11-years old. When I was nine, I couldn’t wait to be ten, and when I was ten, I couldn’t wait to be eleven. Now, I don’t really care. I think I couldn’t wait because it meant that every year there would be a bigger party. Jacob and I were born on the same day so we’d always have a birthday party for the both of us, and the older we got the bigger the parties.
I know Jacob’s got a big party set up. His parents went all out this year. Dad and I were coming back from the store after buying a small birthday cake and we saw the giant circus tent that had been set up in his backyard. There was also a large trailer in the front of the house and a clown was leading a horse out of it as we passed.
I didn’t say anything and I was happy that Dad didn’t either. When we got home I went up to my room and looked through my Duel Monsters deck. It was a game that had been created by an American named Pegasus J. Crawford. I hadn’t dueled in a long time because my usual dueling opponent didn’t come over Saturday nights anymore.
I was looking at my favourite card, Change of Heart, when Dad called me for supper. We ate in silence, which now that I think about it, has become usual. There is always silence between us now. I don’t talk to him like I used to, I can’t. He doesn’t understand me anymore. How can he when I don’t understand me?
Anyway, we ate supper and then I went back up to my room. I got an envelope ready with a letter and then I dropped a small pendant inside. Actually, it was half a pendant. Jacob had the other half. One year, for our birthdays, our friends had gotten us a necklace, but they had only had enough money for one. So we had split it, broken it in half and then we each took a different half, a promise that we’d forever be friends.
Funny, isn’t it.
I got the letter ready and I left the house, telling Dad that I’d be back soon. I walked over to Jacob’s and was putting the envelope in the mailbox when his mother opened the door. I looked at her. She had always been like a mother to me and she had always treated me like her own son. My mother had died of complications from childbirth and I had never met her. For as long as I can remember I’ve always called Jacob’s mom ‘Mom’.
She looked down her nose at me and demanded to know what I wanted. She asked if I was here to ruin the biggest day of her son’s life. I handed her the envelope and told her that this was my present to Jacob and then I left.
When I got home my dad took me into the living room and he gave me a few presents since it was my birthday. I got a few books, which thrilled me because I was running out of reading material. Now that I had a lot of spare time on my hands and nothing to do, I had turned to books. They make it easy to forget reality for a little while.
I also got new clothes too, which I’m happy for. Everything was getting a little too small, not tight because I was losing weight and not gaining any, but I was growing taller. Slightly. And the last present he gave me he called the Millennium Ring.
He said that it was one of a kind and that it was said to be magical. He thought I was destined to have it. I liked it, it looked really old and it had some gold to it. I didn’t care if it was some cheap thing he had picked up along his travels; it meant a lot to me. After the presents we had cake. He was about to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ but stopped when I asked him not to. He said ‘Happy birthday Ryou’ and then we ate cake.
And now I’m sitting in my bed writing this down because for some reason, I can’t let go of the past and I want to remember. The memory hurts, but I still want to remember.
Oh yeah, and the note that I had written and gave to Jacob’s mother. It had said:
To Jacob,
I’m giving this pendant back to you because I don’t think you want me to have it anymore. Happy birthday.
Sincerely, Ryou Bakura
- Ryou