What it Means to Regret (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Yaoi Fanfiction)

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That same night, Yugi received a phone call from Joey. He stared at his cellphone, debating between his mind and his body about answering the call. If he didn't, his blonde-haired friend would hunt him down and stuff him into his locker out of sheer concern for their friendship. If he did, Yugi would have to hear a five-minute lecture about how much the gang worried about him, which would eventually lead to a speech about the history of the cellphone and the pros of its usage.

Mister Mutou really wasn't in the mood to be nagged at. But he tapped the green icon anyway.

"Yu-gi Mutou! Just what the hell do you get from making your friends worry about you like this?!"

Here we go.

"I overslept. Besides, my working schedule was way past overdue."

"Oh! So just because you oversleep you get to skip out on school entirely?!"

"Did you not here the part about me having to go to work?" Sometimes Joey only listened to the things he wanted to listen to.

Sometimes.

"You could've worked any other day!"

"I literally just said that my schedule for work was overdue."

"And to think that we saved a seat for you at lunch! At a table by ourselves! Do you have any idea how stupid we looked?!"

Yugi heaved a giant sigh through his nostrils and took a seat in one of the living room armchairs. His grandfather sat in the one across the room and watched the flatscreen so intensely you'd think he was watching a documentary on a guide to surviving the Apocalypse.

Nope.

Elder Mutou was happily spectating young, female adults perform complex cartwheels and splits in too short skirts and skin-tight panties. Solomon swears it isn't the Playboy Network. Yugi gave up awhile back.

"Anyways, did you here the rumor about Vivian?" Joey asked, and Yugi could picture him curling up in ready-to-gossip position.

"Which one? The one about her dad buying out the Top Ramen business or the one about her mom and the chopstick thing?"

"Neither," Joey sounded surprised, as if there weren't enough rumors about Vivian dancing around, "the one about her boyfriend."

"Oh yeah; Dino."

"How do you know his name?"

"After work, I ran into him and Vivian at the arcade, and let me tell you, that guy is ripped."

"...you went to the arcade?!"

"Joey,"

"Right, right. Now, what were you saying?"

"The guy was huge. He was like... Five-eleven."

"Yug', that isn't as tall as you think it is."

"Joey,"

"Hey, don't blame me for the fact that you were born vertically-challenged."

"Gramps says that it runs in the family."

"That's a weird generational curse, y'know."

"You make it sound like I chose it from a hat."

"Don't get sassy with me, Yugi, I'm still going to find you."

Fuck. Time to move to Plan B.

"Hey, Joey?"

"Yeah?"