The Alternative

Chapter Seventeen

            "Wake up, sleeping beauty!"

*Knock Knock Knock*

"Hurry up, Yug! We're going to the dining hall for lunch!"

Yugi groaned, exhaustion blurring his train of thought. All of his body remained numb, similar to feeling glued to the bed. He focused all of his strength into movement, and from there was able to sit up on the mattress.

A quick look around assured him that he was in his dorm room. Jonouchi and Honda continued to pound on his door from the other side.

"I think I'll pass," Yugi muttered, rubbing the back of his head with a yawn. "I'm not feeling so well."

The knocking stopped, silence filling the space between.

"Suit yourself!" Honda hollered behind the closed door.

"See yah, Yug!" Jonouchi dismissed. Quiet footsteps followed the empty words.

After hearing the suite door shut, Yugi sighed in tiresome and let his body fall back down on his bed.

"It was only a dream," he mumbled to himself, not realizing that sleep was tugging at him once more.

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The second time Yugi woke up, he wasn't just tired.

He was anxious.

He couldn't sit still, in fact.

His heart raced a mile a minute, leaving him abnormally breathless and worked up.

His stomach seemed to be flipping more than a gymnast at the Olympics.

If Yugi didn't know any better, he would have thought he was pregnant.

He paced around his room, scratching the back of his neck and rubbing his tummy in attempt to soothe the nausea. His mind kept reeling his dream from the night like a movie marathon.

Though he knew it was all in his head, something about it felt utterly real.

Including his newfound feelings for Atem.

Especially his newfound feelings for Atem.

Yugi plopped down on the couch in his suite, shivering slightly at his overactive emotions. Thoughts swarmed his mind; resurfacing memories and creating possibilities from them. What was he supposed to do?

During his reminisce, Yugi recalled the reading he had done a few weeks prior when he had helped Anzu. He twitched at the realization of its accuracy.

"I can't believe it all came true," he mumbled to himself. "Anzu was right."

Anzu! Now that was a friend he hadn't seen for quite some time. A friend that he really needed. A friend that could possibly understand and lend advice...

A friend he couldn't afford to not reach out to.

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"Let me buy you a coffee."

"You don't have to do that, Anzu-"

"I work two jobs and barely get to see any of my friends anymore," the charming brunette grinned. "This is my one day off and I have enough money to buy a friend in need a cup of coffee. So let me."