It's Time to Rock the Dragon

I’ve never been good with starting stories. Whenever I have to write one for English, I spend half of the writing time twirling my pen, sometimes sucking on the back, in an attempt to think of an idea. I was usually stumped.

Like I am right now.

However, this was harder because this was real life and not fiction.

I’ll try and summarise the whole story from the beginning, because I don’t want to go into detail. I hate thinking about him, the devil. The cold hearted one who stole my heart, something he didn’t need, just like every other material possession he owned, and took it for granted. So this is going to be painfully brief.

I lived in Domino City my entire life. I was born in Domino Hospital 17 and a half years ago.

In grade one I had a best friend called Tea Gardner. We met in dance classes outside of school, and we both went to Domino primary school so we of course became best friends instantly. We even stayed best friends when I dropped out of dance in grade three.

In our last year of primary school we became acquaintances with Yugi Motou. By the end of middle school we were all good friends.

Then in freshman year of Domino Tristan Taylor and Joey Wheeler joined our group, making us a cosy group of five.

We did almost everything together. At lunch we were always seated together. After school we regularly visited Yugi’s grandfather’s game shop, and on the weekends we were always together, whether that be at the arcade, in a movie or just out in the park on an outing.

But that was soon to change.

One fateful day in English class I was partnered up with a boy. A very famous boy that goes by the name of Seto Kaiba. It was a major assignment that ran over a month, so we had to spend a lot of time together.

During this time I stupidly developed feelings for him. I kept it quiet and not a soul knew. If my friends knew they would have KILLED me. They HATED Seto Kaiba with a passion.

However, out of the blue Seto asked me out on a date. I should have seen through this and said NO. It was way out of character, but it attracted me to him even more. I thought that he let his guard down around me because I was special. HA, how wrong I was!

As Seto and I got closer, my group made it apparent. It was either them, or Seto. I still don’t regret my decision of choosing Seto over them, though. Real friends don’t make you choose, just because they dislike the person you’re dating. I would have kept Seto separate from my friends, but they had to have all of me, or none of me. However, even though I’m glad NOW I chose that decision, a while ago I wasn’t.

Ahem, anyway back onto track.

I was with Seto around about 6 months. They were fun, and I fell in love with Seto. I spent nearly every second at school with him, and I saw him for a few hours every weekend. I was infatuated. You have no idea how obsessed I was with him. It’s hard to show without going into too much detail, but I truly loved my boyfriend.

But the day I used the “L” word everything came crashing down. I had been contemplating for months on when/where/how to tell him. But one day I couldn’t stand it anymore. It was after school on a Friday. As I was walking home I saw so many couples doing lovey-dovey things, I thought it was a sign to tell him.

I never thought it was a sign that my world was about to crash down.

I drove over to Kaiba corp. as soon as I got home, and I ran all the way through the corporation to outside Seto’s office. I barged in before his secretary could page me in, and I landed in front of Seto and told him I loved him.

Thinking about what happened next makes me feel sick and I’m going to make it as brief as possible.

Seto straight away told me he didn’t return those feelings. He explained to me that his publicist advised him that people were getting bored and untrusting of him, and in order to retain his image he needed to date a ‘girl next door’ and I was his unlucky victim.

He said he felt bad and he’d no longer string me along. Yeah right, like that helped the heartbreak I at that second.

So that’s the short story of Seto Kaiba that has been shortened down in order to spare my feelings of grief and illness.

I never became friends with Tea, Yugi, Joey or Tristan again. After Seto and I’s break up Joey approached me and made it clear the gang were not going to accept any apologies and there was zero chance for friendship again.

So those 3 months of summer vacation that followed were the worst possible. I had no friends, I had no boyfriend. I only had empty dreams and memories to wallow in for 2 months.

However, on the third month my mother and father made an announcement to me. They were thinking of moving 6 hours away, to Satan City. Kaiba corp. had swallowed Domino City, and jobs were thin. There were plenty more job opportunities elsewhere, and Satan City was a good place to build a semi-new life.

Usually people would scream at their parents for moving them away from the town they had lived their life in right before senior year. But most people had friends, and things to hold them down. I had nothing, but hope and opportunity ahead of me.

So I know that everything I just told you was brief, and only begins to scratch the surface of my past.

But you know what? Forget everything I’ve said about my past. Forget all information I’ve just told you, it’s no longer relevant.

I start Orange Star High School tomorrow. It’s time for Charlotte Judge to take advantage of the new opportunity and hope and to rebuild her life.