IX. Love Game

                                    

                                          
Tammi wasn't exactly in a good mood. She woke up late this morning, left her keys at home, and apparently failed her essay because she couldn't provide evidence on why Dark Magician decided to train Dark Magician Girl as his apprentice in her Duel Monsters Mythology class. Today just wasn't her day.
                          
"I swear Mimi. I'm just so tired of this. I wanna go home!" She whined as she stopped at her locker. 
                          
"Oh come Tammi. Look at the bright side." Mimi said.
                          
Tammi began to put in her combination. "The bright side of what?" She opened her locker and found an envelope with a heart as the seal. "What is this?"
                          
"Oooh who's that from?"
                          
"I don't know." Tammi opened the letter and read it aloud. "Oh my sweet and delicate Tamisaki Itaru." She wanted to puke when she read her full name. She hated that name a lot because it made her sound like a boy. "You are wise and excellent and no one could ever forsake you. Meet me at the garden above school at 4 pm and we will ride off and fall into an everlasting love." Tammi finished and looked up at Mimi. "This has to be that dumbest love poem ever. It didn't even rhyme!"
                          
Mimi kept smiling. "That has to be the cutest poem ever!! OMG Tam, you have to meet this guy!"
                          
Tammi wanted to laugh. This wasn't the first time someone had written a poem for her, but this was the funniest one yet. She tossed the letter in the trash. "I'd rather not. He's probably a creep." She began to walk away, but Mimi stepped in front of her.
                          
"Oh come on Tam! Look at it this way! Someone will be waiting for you on the roof and if you don't show, he would be heartbroken." 
                          
Tammi looked into Mimi's eyes. She couldn't say no to her. She was just too sweet and innocent. "Fine. I'll go." Mimi cheered. "But you're going with me."
                          
"Sounds good to me!!"
                          
*****
                          
After school, Tammi and Mimi ran up to the school's roof garden. Once they reached the top, Yuko and Benta were there waiting. Tammi got confused. 
                          
"Yuko?! Benta?!" She hoped that one of them didn't write the poem. "Did you guys write me that poem?!"
                          
The boys exchanged looks. "Poem?" Benta said.
                          
Yuko scratched his head. "What poem? And why are you guys up here?" Then something dawned upon him. "Wait a minute."
                          
"What Yuko?" Tammi grew a little angry. She hated having her emotions played with. A little part of her hoped that she could actually meet a decent guy. "What's going on here?!"
                          
"Well there's this guy in our gym class and he kept going on and on about this girl he was in love with." Benta explained. "He said he wanted to impress her by taking her up here, so he asked Yuko and I for help for some reason."
                          
"Who is this guy?" Mimi asked.
                          
"Romeo Detama." Yuko replied.
                          
Mimi and Tammi exchanged confused looks. "Who?"
                          
"Me." A boy with a fancy white suit and a yellow glove appeared from behind some plants. To Tammi's suprise, he was actually pretty attractive. "I am very pleased to meet you my love." He took Tammi's hand and kissed it.
                          
Mimi thought it was cute while Tammi yanked her hand away. She found it creepy and unnecessary. "Yeah um look-"
                          
He put his finger on her lips. "Don't say another word my sweet." 
                          
Tammi slapped his finger. "Okay look creep, I'm not interested."
                          
Romeo smiled and laughed. Tammi was more lovely than he thought. "Hard to catch huh? That is just fine with me my sweet. That is why-" He pulled out his Duel Gear. "I prepared to duel for your love."