After I put the phone back into my pocket,
I didn't say anything. Joey and Yami looked at me in silence. I knew Yami
had listened into what the man said, but Joey was just curious. I knew it by
the look in his eyes.
//You know Leighann, you should really tell the others about that. They
really need to know.//
/No Yami. I have a feeling that they shouldn't know. A really strong
feeling./
//You're just nervous Leighann. You need to relax. But if you don't want to,
that's fine, but I can't keep that a secret forever.//
/Fine, tell Yugi later. No one else. Tell him not to tell anyone. I don't
want the others to know./
//Fine.//
"You okay Leighann?" Joey asked. The others stared at me.
"I'm fine," I lied. They couldn't see through my bluff.
"If you say so," Joey noted, then turned back to Duke, who was trying to
wipe all the tears off his face. Serenity rubbed her hand up and down Duke's
arm. Then a police officer walked in. It was a girl with long, wavy brown
hair and crystal blue eyes. I knew Tristan would have fallen in love with
her because she looked like Serenity.
"I'm sorry, but you'll all have to leave," she noted, "Duke, you need to
come with me." I looked at Duke, who seemed pretty upset that we had to
leave.
"Sorry Duke," Joey noted. Duke nodded. Everyone got up and started leaving.
Serenity and I stayed in the room for a minute.
Serenity looked at me and noted, "Please don't tell Joey," then kissed Duke
on the lips. I was shocked, but I never intended on telling Joey. Then I
heard Serenity wisper, "That was for good luck Dukie," then she left the
room and I grabbed my coat and followed. We left through the main lobby.
"I can't beleive they would accuse Duke just because he was there when they
found him," Joey noted. Serenity looked at him.
"What are we going to do now?" Yugi asked.
"Why don't we go back to Leighann's. If that's okay with you," Tea noted. I
nodded silently. Yami went back into the puzzle due to the coldness.
//I still think you should tell the others.//
/Not now Yami./
//But...//
/I SAID NOT NOW!!!!/
Yami didn't bother me for a while after that. "What was that phone call
about?" Bakura asked.
"It was nothing. Just my brother playing jokes on me," I lied again. I never
lied that much to my friends before. (A.N. Actually, I've never lied to my
friends before. Alison and Hannah, I'm sorry for playing that joke on you
though.... It's really funny now though.)
We got to my house and opened the door. We all walked inside and took our
shoes and coats off. Phil wasn't in the living room like I thought he was
going to be. We walked upstairs, and then something caught my eye. It was
white. At first I thought it was snow, but then I noticed that it was too
thin. I walked over to it and picked it up. It was a white rose peddel.
'Didn't Duke say something about a rose?' I thought.
*flashback*
"On the ground, beside him was a blood red rose. I picked up the rose, then
the police showed up and brought me here. By the looks of it, there was no
one else there."
"Where's the rose now?"
"They took it and they went to go see if there was any other finger prints
on it."
"Leighann, that rose that Duke was talking about... Only has Duke's finger
prints on it. And Tristan's as well. Tristan might have been holding it and
dropped it, then Duke picked it up, but we highly dought it."
"Those two marks are from the same person that kill Tristan. Do you remember
Duke anytime in your past when you got that scar?"
"Don't say a thing. Let me tell you something. You'll never be able to prove
Duke's innocence. The only person who knows who killed Tristan is Tristan.
The only way you'll be able to prove his innocence is to find me or find
Tristan. But you can't do either in one week, so don't even try."
*flashback ends*
I shook my head and looked down at the ground and saw a small trail of white
peddals. I followed them. They led to a small closet all the way down the
hall. I silently opened the door and looked inside. At first I didn't see
anything, then I heard the sound of breathing. All of a sudden, out of the
darkness of the closet, a woman's arms came out. I screamed and ran back to
the others. The woman followed me. I hid behind Joey and looked at the lady.
She had long nails, gray eyes, black hair, and pale skin. With the snap of
her fingers, she was gone.
"Wh-who was that?" Yugi asked.
"I don't know. Whomever it was is defenatly after me.... or one of us..." I
noted. Serenity started bawling.
"She might have been the one that murdered Tristan," Bakura noted.
"My question is why didn't Phil hear her come in?" I asked. Joey hugged
Serenity tightly.
"Or us?" Yugi asked. Yami hadn't come out of the puzzle yet. I knew he was
mad at me. He had a lot of my secrets and I knew if I didn't apoligize, he'd
tell them all to Yugi.
/Yami, I'm sorry./
No one answered.
/Yami?/
No one replied. He might have been ignoring me. Then started getting a
headache. He rubbed his head a little. We walked into my room, which was
rather big. I sat down on the bed and looked at the ceiling. Everyone else
walked in. Tea sat on my bed, Bakura sat at my desk, Yugi sat on my desk,
Serenity sat on the bed next to Tea and Joey leaned against the wall next to
my bedroom door.
"Yugi, I'm trying to apoligize to Yami for yelling at him and he's not
listening to me," I noted. Yugi looked at me, then started mindtalking with
Yami.
"He says that he doesn't want your apoligy yet," Yugi replied. I got mad at
Yami for that. I was trying to apologize and he wasn't listening to me. I
was about to say something else when my cell phone rang. I took it out of my
pocket and looked at the name. It said KC.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Leighann, it's Kaiba, listen, I need you to come down here for a minute,"
he noted. There was a small muffled sound in the backround.
"Is everything okay?" I asked.
"Everything's fine, I just need you to test something out," he noted. The
muffled sound got louder. It sounded like a person.
"Who's that in the backround?" I asked.
"It's that puppy dog Wheeler," he noted.
"What?" I asked.
"Hang on," he noted. I sat there for a minute.
"Can you just get down here?" Kaiba asked.
"Why? What do you need me to test out?" I asked.
Then I heard someone in the backround yell," LEIGHANN HANG UP!!! THAT'S NOT
REALLY SETO!!!!" It was Mokuba.
"KEEP QUIET YOU BRAT!!!" a man yelled. I sat up and stared at the floor. I
was listening to everything.
"Who are you?" I asked. The man on the phone chuckled.
"So Mokuba helped you out? So what... you'll never get here in time. By the
time you get here, the only thing will be the sweet smell of roses," and the
man hung up.
