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Lady Luck	By : Amarin Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Het - Male/Female Views: 2207 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Life�s A Bitch
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I hate the world today.

You�re so good to me,

I know, but I can�t change.

I can understand how you�d be so confused;

I don�t envy you.

I�m a little bit of everything

all rolled into one.

I�m a bitch, I�m a lover;

I�m a child, I�m a mother.

I�m a sinner, I�m a saint;

I do not feel ashamed.

I�m your Hell, I�m your dream;

I�m nothing in between.

You know you wouldn�t want it any other way.

So take me as I am.

This may mean

you�ll have to be a stronger man.

Rest assured that

when I start to make you nervous

and I�m going to extremes.

Tomorrow I will change

and today won�t mean a thing.

***
Meredith Brooks � Bitch
***
Of course, things were never that easy.
While Tristan now realized he wasn�t gay � or even bi, really � the rest of the world�
Well, the rest of the world was still ignorant of Duke Devlin�s real gender. So anyone who saw them out together would assume they were both gay.
Ironic, wasn�t it, that neither of them was?
Life was a bitch, all right.
Luckily, since they both attended Domino High, no one thought it was all that odd that two �friends� would �hang out� together occasionally.
Or more than occasionally.
It was disturbingly easy to date in secret. Almost too easy. And the anxiousness that this actuality brought about was only compounded by the fact that neither Dara nor Tristan had brought up telling their friends. They were both so happy, but they couldn�t tell anybody. Tristan, because while he knew his friends would be okay with either or both of them being gay, didn�t want to lie to them.

Dara didn�t want to lie, either. But she�d kept her secret for so long, that contemplating actually telling someone without mitigating circumstances � such as had been the case with Tristan � involved�
Well, that scared the living daylights out of her.
Almost as much as how quickly she�d become comfortable with Tristan in her life.
It boggled the mind � hers at least.
She and Tristan could talk about anything and everything, it seemed. School, work, politics, religion, Duel Monsters, Dungeon Dice Monsters, their families and friends� Mistakes they�d made, movies they�d seen, books and manga they�d read, people they knew�
Even old girlfriends�
Talk about mistakes.
�What about Serenity?� Tristan asked. �I mean, why did you hit on her if you aren�t interested in girls?� he asked, only curiosity in his voice, with no hint of censure.
Dara blushed slightly and squirmed in her seat on the couch. One of the problems of only spending time with Tristan when they were sure they were alone was that there was no else around to bail her out of any sticky situation that happened to come up. �Ah� Well, when I first met her, she seemed like the type of girl I could be friends with�under different circumstances,� she finally said, masking her discomfort under a small grin. �And there�d been rumors going around that I was gay � apparently some of those cheerleaders that had been following me around had gotten tired of hitting on me and not getting anywhere � and I wanted to quash them, and I thought pursuing an unattainable girl would be the ticket.�
�Rumors that you were gay?� Tristan asked, amusement apparent in his voice. Apparently, they had more in common than he�d thought.
Dara quirked a wry grin at him �Yeah, I know; ironic, isn�t it? I mean, I like guys, but that doesn�t really work well into my whole deception. Hell, dating doesn�t � didn�t � really work into my whole deception. I refuse to date girls and lead them on, and the same thing goes for a gay guy, since I am�well�neither gay nor a guy.�
�True,� Tristan agreed.
Dara thought then that that would be the end of the discussion, but apparently the brunet had more to say on the subject.
�So you went after Serenity because you were worried about what people would think if they thought you were gay,� Tristan said.
�Not�exactly,� Dara hedged. �I�I didn�t want people looking at me too closely and possibly finding out my secret.�
Tristan made a noise of encouragement, sensing there was something more on Dara�s mind. He�d learned in the past four weeks they�d been �dating� that while Dara was a very sociable person, she had never allowed herself to get close to anyone until she came to Domino City.
He was the closest thing she had to a best friend; Yugi, Joey and the others were all nice to �Duke,� but they weren�t close.
�I�there haven�t really been many times in my life when I cared what people thought of me,� she said softly, looking off into the distance. She blinked repeatedly, though no tears were visible, and continued, �My mother loved me no matter what; I think she would have loved me even the way I am now.� There was desperate hope in her voice, as if that was an illusion she�d clung to ever since her mother�s death � knowing Dara�s situation, Tristan thought she probably had held onto it for that long.
�But when she died�well, that started my father off on his whole vengeance kick, which is why I am the way I am now. I used to care what he thought of me, but I realized quite a while ago that I don�t give a shit about him, so why should I care what he thinks?� Dara gave Tristan a half-grin, and the brunet responded in kind. �And he�s dead now, so it doesn�t matter either way.�
�So�you don�t care what anyone thinks of you?� Tristan asked, trying to mask the disappointment in his tone. He needed to be there for Dara, not getting caught up in his own petty insecurities.
Though, relationships were supposed to be about give and take � he wondered if it was selfish of him to want her to be the one giving this time.
�Actually�yeah, I do,� Dara admitted softly. Her eyes flicked uncomfortably from side to side. �I�I care what you think of me, Tristan.�
A soft smile crept over his face and scooted further down the couch to sit right next to her. Wrapping one arm around her shoulders, Tristan murmured, his voice a deep burr in her ear, �I care about you too, Dara.�
A smirk crossed her lips and she pulled him down into a deep, probing kiss. �I�m glad,� she said sincerely, her words whispering across his now-damp lips. �It�s good to know you don�t just consider me another pretty face.� With that, she shot him a wide grin and bounded up from the couch. �Now, I have a calculus test tomorrow that I need to study for. You can join me if you want,� she offered, before sauntering out of the room to her library/office/study.
Tristan just blinked after her, the whirlwind that his girlfriend had become having utterly confused him with her split-second personality � and attitude � change.
One minute she was depressed, the next she was all smiles. Yesterday she�d bitched him out one minute for holding out her chair in a restaurant � okay, that was a bad idea on his part, if only because they were trying to keep a low profile � and the next she�d turned right around and flirted with him all through dessert.
Today she was one thing; tomorrow she�d be something completely different. And neither of them were what she would have been yesterday.
She was definitely a bundle of contradictions.
Tristan grinned. And he wouldn�t have it any other way.
Life may have been a bitch � but at least his girlfriend wasn�t.
All of the time, anyway.
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