Your Life in Domino High Pt. 1

“So, this is Domino High School?” you ask no one in particular as you near the entrance of your new high school casting its shadow across the freshly cut lawn. Looking around you can’t help but compare how different this school is from your old one. Whether I enjoyed my last school or not, I can’t help but miss the familiarity. You sigh checking out the “New people”. Well, this school may be different, but some things are the same in every school. You smile spotting the group easily classified as the “preps”. The head of that group seems to be a happy little blue haired girl. They are all wearing a pink top with a blue skirt, you look down and gasp. Great, I’m the new kid and I have already made a fool of myself. You’re wearing a comfortable pair of jeans and a new band t-shirt. You swallow hard. “Great, just what I needed.” You drop your head and walk into your new school. You look down at your schedule, worn and torn from your excessive handling. You had the thing memorized inside and out but had to stare at it for reassurance. You look up just in time to watch yourself collide with a tall blonde guy. You fall flat on your back, your books scattering halfway down the hall.
He looks down, you expected him to apologize and help you up, instead he cocks his head and says “Hey, watch out new kid. While your down there, would you mind handing me that science book?” You sit up and look at the guy irritably but still trying to be polite. It’s your first day; don’t make a bad first impression. You pick up the afore mentioned science book, smile up and hand it to him. A shorter boy with the strangest hair you’ve ever seen comes up behind him and knocks him upside the head laughing. “What he meant was, welcome to Domino. I’m Yugi Muto this is Joey Wheeler. Nice to meet you!” Joey laughs and apologizes helping you pick your books up as Yugi helps you to your feet. “So what’s your name?” Yugi asks politely.
“I’m _______. Nice to meet you two as well.” You smile organizing your books into the order of which you will be using them. You glance back down at your schedule. “Where is locker 3789?” you inquire blushing, hating to be the new kid.
Joey thinks for a minute “It’s on the third floor.” You laugh thanking him for his aimless answer. “Well, I’ll see you later _______!” Joey calls out waving, heading towards, you assume, his class.
Yugi turned back to you beaming “If you go up that staircase and go to your left, you should see it. I have to get to class as well ______ see you around.” He waved ducking into his classroom.
You smiled thanks and waved heading towards the staircase. Looking at your watch you realized there was only five minutes before the first bell. Luckily you made it to your locker and into your first class on time. Ugh, what now? You groan inwardly looking around the classroom. Where to sit? You recognized no one at all. You had hoped to be in a class with Yugi and Joey so at least you’d know someone. If I sit in the back of the room I’ll look like a bad student. If I sit in the front I’ll look like a nerd. You chose a seat in the middle next to a tan boy with longish blonde hair. You couldn’t help but notice the attention you were drawing from the class. You sighed and kept your head down. This was going to be a long day.
Everyone was talking, catching up on and telling each other about their summers. A girl with shoulder length hair walked in and sat a seat in front of you. She turned back “Hey Marik. Didn’t know you were going to be coming here!” she grinned talking to the tan blonde haired boy next to you.
“Hello Tea.” He greeted the girl and turned to you. “Welcome to Domino. My name is Marik Ishtar, this is Tea Gardner.” He extended a hand.
You smiled at the formal gesture and shook his hand. “I’m _______, nice to meet you.” The bell rang and all the students diverted their attention to the front of the class. After a brief introduction to the class everyone began breaking off into group to, as the teacher called it, get to know one another. You were paired with Marik.
“Hmm were to start?” he smiled kindly “Like I said, my name is Marik. I moved here from Egypt this year with my sister Ishizu and brother Odion. I know a lot of people from here though because I was here for the Battle City Tournament.” You perked up at the mention of dueling. You had dueled for a while, you weren’t the best, but you could duel. “Your turn.” He sat back.
“Well, I’m ______ again.” You described your family situation and why you decided to come to Domino. “As of now, I know four people.” You stated matter-of-factly and Marik started laughing. You couldn’t help but laugh as well. You took a closer look at Marik; he had light lavender eyes and wore a shirt under his uniform that was nearly the same color. His arms and neck were embroidered with gold jewelry. He looked at you and smirked. You flushed every shade of red unable to come up with anything to say, fortunately for you the bell rang. You jumped out of your seat and were one of the first out the door. You could feel Marik staring after you laughing.
As soon as you know you are far enough away from the room you slow down, your face still beet red. You took a breath calming down. You noticed Joey and Yugi walking down the hall in your direction with a small group. Yugi notices you and signals for you to come join them. You sigh a breath of relief and join them. “So how have classes been going for you ________?” Yugi inquired.
“Pretty good thanks.” You looked to the others.
Joey pointed to each of the people in the group “That’s Tristan, Miho, and Bakura.”
Miho looked at you curiously, she was that blue haired girl from earlier. “Why are you wearing that? I thought we were supposed to wear these.” She asked innocently pointing to her own outfit.
You rubbed the back of your head and laughed, “Yeah, I realized that a little bit too late.”
Miho thought for a moment “You can borrow one of mine! I always bring a few spares!” she grabbed your arm and pulled you towards her locker. “Hang on just one second.” She smiles opening her locker, revealing pink frilly decorations. She shuffled through an arrangement of outfits and pulled out a school uniform. “Here you go _____! This looks like it should fit you.
“Thanks Miho, I really appreciate this!” you look around a bit. “Uh, where can I change?” you ask embarrassed.
Miho pointed, “There is a bathroom over there or a locker room over there.”
You bowed slightly thanking her again and entered the locker room. You looked in the mirror, critical of the new outfit. You shrugged, well everybody is wearing the same thing, and at least I won’t stand out that much. You check your schedule again and turn to walk down a corner of the building. Miho had given you a map of the school, and no matter how dorky you looked gawking at a map of the school, you were still very thankful.
You turned your head and saw someone who looked almost exactly like Marik. You were about to say hello when you realized it was not him. His hair was longer and he looked… evil. He caught your glance and glared. You turned your whole head quickly away and walked quicker. Note to self, don’t mess with, hmm what would his name be? He seems like a darker Marik; ha I will call him Yami Marik. You smiled at your creativity and stepped into class. You took a seat in the middle if the class again. This time you were one of the first to get there so you were able to watch everyone file into the classroom. The faces were becoming more and more familiar. Now, if only I could put a name with the face. It seemed like this class was full of cliques and long time friends. Every seat was taken, except for the two next to you. You lowered your head, and tried to suffocate the feeling that your heart had fallen through to your feet. A few minutes after the bell rang “Yami Marik” walked into the room, looking disgusted to be in class. His eyes scanned over the room as he looked for somewhere to sit. He strode over to the seat to your right and dropped into the desk. You kept your eyes locked firmly on the writing on your desk. You would not lift your eyes off of the heart with initials carved inside of it until the teacher entered the room.
“Welcome to algebra-trig. This year you will be covering-“ she continued on with her lesson plan. You snuck a look at Yami Marik and seen that he had his eyes closed. Judging by the slow rise and fall of his chest you assumed he was asleep. You laughed quietly to yourself. One of his eyes opened as he gave you a death stare. Your breath caught in your throat and you hastily shuffled through your backpack pretending like you were looking for something. He huffed loudly closing his eyes and leaning back further into his chair. You copied down the notes the teacher was scribbling down on the board. It’s the first day of school and she is already teaching! How awful. The teacher was going over what she considered to be review from last year. You stared at it dumb-founded.
“Any questions?” she asked full of smiles.
You raised your hand timidly “Yeah, where did the X come from?”
The teacher looked a bit frustrated “Malik, would you mind explaining this to ______?”
Malik opened his eyes resentfully and slammed his book on your desk giving the teacher a dirty look and turning to you. Never in the world had you hoped a dark hole would appear and suck you in more than now. Malik flipped through a few pages, you stared wondering how the pages didn’t tare. He pointed to something on the page, turning again to glare at the teacher who had moved onto her next lesson. “Look, I’m not going to sit here and explain this. Read this and do that problem.”
You nodded frantically and tried to concentrate on what you were reading. You pulled out a piece of paper and tried to figure out the problem. Malik smirked realizing that he scared you half to death. Without your knowledge pulled his head close to your ear “Boo!” he pronounced in a voice barely above a whisper, but enough the stop your heart. You shrieked nearly falling out of your chair. Everyone turned around and stared. Malik threw his head back laughing while you buried your head in Malik’s algebra-trig book flushing red. Malik grinned retrieving his book “I think she gets it now.” He shut the book and stuffed it into his bag. The class snickered and the teacher called everyone back to attention. You glanced over resentfully at Malik who had resumed his previous position, attempting to make up for lost sleep.
The bell could have never ringed any sooner. You flew out of the room and to your locker. Thank god it’s lunch.” You exhaled unpacking your backpack into the locker and taking out the books you would need for the upcoming classes. You closed the locker and nearly jumped out of your skin when you saw Joey standing there. “Woah, didn’t mean to scare you ______.” He laughed. You bowed your head and apologized, “Crazy day.” You uttered smiling.
Joey smiled and nodded understandingly. “I’d bet. So how do you like Domino?” he pried.
You looked up thinking for a bit “Well, it’s certainly a lot of fun.” You concluded walking side by side with Joey to the cafeteria.