Barrier

The Beginning of the Beginning

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Chapter 3:

The Beginning of the Beginning

Yami had spent that night tossing and turning, his sleep fitful rather than peaceful. He slowly began to open up his eyes, glancing at the alarm clock. He gave a feeble groan, turning over and covering his head with his pillow in attempt to shut out reality.

It was seven o'clock in the morning, and he just knew he wouldn't be able to get back to sleep. He didn't want to be up this early; in fact, it was even earlier than he had to get up for school in the mornings, but there was nothing to be done about it now. Going back to sleep would only upset his body and make him even more tired later in the day.

Promising himself that he'd take a nap later to make up for it, he threw the covers off of him and his feet gently touched the ground below them as he let out a yawn, stretching back his arms to loosen his muscles. He rubbed his eyes, hoping to get rid of the sleep that was clinging to his consciousness and attempting to force his mind back to the comfortable darkness.

Yami stood up, forcing his body to fight against gravity as he took a couple of clumsy steps into the bathroom. Unfortunately, he had a lot of caffeine in his system the night before, so he really needed to pee. After his business was done, (typical morning routine said now was the time to get changed, but he didn't feel like changing his clothes and he was in a hoodie, so he didn't think anyone was going to notice) he decided it was time to go and start the day.

Yami thought. Mai wasn't coming back to the hospital until eleven AM, so he didn't know what he would do until then. After a moment's deliberation, (and realizing that he wasn't hungry enough to eat breakfast yet) he decided that he would take a walk around the hospital, maybe stretch his legs a bit. He'd been getting lazier and lazier these last few months, and he knew that he should really at least try to keep himself in shape. Even if that only came from sprinting to class to make sure he was on time and occasional walks around the place.

He took a couple of steps down his usual route before deciding to change it up. He hadn't gone to the other side of the hospital in quite some time, and he knew that Cecelia would be there doing extra tutoring for those who needed it, so he figured that he might as well drop by and say hello. He started down in that direction, his eyes wandering around as they typically did when he was exploring.

It didn't take very long to get there; the hallways were mostly empty, and the hospital wasn't too large, so he knew his way around.

When he did get there, he saw a flurry of activity. There were kids running around, (kids that were typically supervised at this point in the day) and a nurse who looked like she was about to pull her hair out in stress, Yuugi sitting by her with a look of displeasure on his face. Yami wondered if it was because the kids were being loud.

The nurse's eyes lit up when she noticed him, and she waved him over. Yami did a quick check and saw that Cecelia was nowhere around; he figured that she'd taken the day off to spend with her husband, Pegasus. The nurse didn't look familiar, but he figured they must have interacted before, because she knew sign language.

"Listen, I've been told to take care of the kids and stay with Yuugi at the same time, I don't know how to do that. Do you think you could watch Yuugi for a few minutes?" She asked, her eyes pleading. Yami nodded his head yes immediately, happy at the opportunity to spend some time with the intriguing new kid. She breathed a sigh of relief, thanking him, before she walked over to Yuugi. He assumed that she was explaining what was happening to the object of his interest.