Toys

Oh no! My Malik drabble turned into more! This is a little different. Not like the series at all I took some liberties. Still not much more than a short little look at Malik's life is he hadn't grown up underground. Think of it as like a journal entry or something


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My school life was always hell.


We moved quite a few times so I was always the new kid. I'm not good at making friends either and when I would finally have one we'd leave again.


Middle school I was home schooled for two years which I loved then shoved into a large public school in the middle of a city I didn't know. And so that year I was invisible.


That's also the year I changed forever.


Ninth grade took me to a new building which only held other ninth graders.


I was quiet and shy and so the perfect place for me was with the stoners, goths and other misfits. My friend Marik kidnapped me one day and took me shopping. That was the day I discovered the joys of hair dye. It was also the day my hair went from mouse brown to Sandstorm Blonde #135. It's been that color ever since. Marik says it goes well with my naturally exotic looks and I'll admit that most days I agree with him.


My best friend Ryou became the only stable thing in my life halfway into the year. Everything was going fine considering and then life got hard and we all grew up a lot. Let's just say that not all of us made it though that year.

But the most vivid thing I remember is Bakura.


He was my first real crush. The problem was he was part of a different group and as we all know different groups don't mix well.


It was doomed from the start.


10th grade we finally moved to the High School building.


At the time it was exciting, later it would crush more than half our group.


That year I lost most my stoner friends to drug busts and got in tight with the goths from the other middle school. Yami, Jou, Yugi, Miho, Anzu...the ones who would never turn on me. So I thought.


Marik talked Bakura into asking me out and Ryou, Jou, and Yugi introduced me to Yami.


Bakura and I were happy being the couple in the group but that all changed.


At first Yami and Ryou and I just joked around about stuff but then Jou took it upon himself to help out. He told Marik I thought Bakura was boring who in turn told him. Needless to say we broke up not long after that. No hard feelings on my part.


I just threw myself into flirting with Yami. It was fun and it kept people talking. For once I was the center of attention. It was unexpected and taboo. I was supposed to pine away for Bakura but it didn't happen that way. Yami was 17 to my 15 and that in itself was a shock to everyone except me and Ryou. But after 10th grade that relationship died.


11th grade brought about new faces and new problems.


My friend Yugi got Yami and has spent the last two years rubbing that in my face. What he doesn't know are the things Yami has told me. Our relationship is a strange one that I doubt anyone would ever understand.


My friend Anzu got knocked up by her older boyfriend that year and in May gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Kota. Kota's dad ran off to join the army before he was born.


Bakura and I got back together twice and broke up both times.


12th grade and the end of my school life was by far the strangest.


We got involved in all the stupid school stuff for one. Clubs and activities. Things like that.


That's when the troubles started.


Fights broke out and our group split in two. I won't get into the nasty details but I will tell you that we spent most our days in the principals offices quite often.


I lost interest in most of my old friends and only talked to a few of them. It was better that way. By the end of the school year however we had all made up with each other. Well, almost all of us. Three people are cut off but after the things they've done they aren't missed.

Bakura and I decided the best thing for us was to be friends. He's accepted me for myself finally. For a long time he tried to change me. He wanted someone who was easily dominated and that's just not me. Still dispute our differences he's the one I've learned the most from. I love him but not in the way most people think of love. I wouldn't be the person I am today without him. The good things and the bad. I'll never forget him.


Oddly enough he was the only person I ever really dated.


Don't misunderstand me I went out with guys but we just screwed around...no, not in that way you sick person. I take that back. Yami and I messed around and then Ryou and I did but that was just a short little I'm bored let's see how good of a kisser you are. I'll leave that there before I get myself into trouble.


I met people who were just like me in so many important ways but I'll never see them again. It's sad but a relief at the same time. Maybe I'll be normal now...yeah right I think not.


But school is over and done with now and I won't think about it anymore. Best to forget the bad parts in life or they'll drive you insane and I'm crazy enough thank you.


There's so many of them that I don't regret meeting and that will always hold a place in my life. And also the ones we've lost. All the ones who've left us by choice or by force.


Well, this was a nice and depressing entry.


I'm going to go and try and get some sleep. Experience leads me to believe however that I'll be up all night looking at my pictures of my friends from school.