Sightless Music Chapter 2

Chapter Two: Caution, Doubt, and School.
Yugi stepped out of the car and onto the cheep gavel that covered the ground in front of the school. "I'll see you later, Solomon-San!" Yugi called as she got out her bag.
Suddenly, Solomon's hand caught hers, "I've told you a hundred times, call me Jii-Chan!" he said as he mocked an annoyed voice but was obviously smiling through his words.
"Yes,  Jii-Chan." Yugi replied in an equally fake-annoyed tone as she pulled the retractable guide staff she had in her bag and extended it to its full length. "See you later." she called again as she turned on her heels and started up the school steps, her staff tapping away at the stone slabs.
Solomon sighed bitterly as he watched the young girl walk into the school's main building before reluctantly re-starting the car and pulling out of the iron gates that surrounded the school. The old man lost himself in his thoughts once more as he began the twenty minute drive back to the mansion. 'That girl doesn't need this.' he stated in his mind as he picked up speed on the high way. 'Yugi deserves a life with loving parents and without the weight of her dead brother. I don't see how they can blame her, not for that. If only she could stop beating herself up over it, she might have a chance at a normal, happy life.' Solomon sighed again as he thought of the small blind girl he cared for. 'Atemu, why did this have to happen? What can I do?'
Yugi walked into the warm school building with ease as she shouldered her bag and headed down the maze that made up the halls. Her staff tapped along to the steady beat of "My Immortal" as she made her way through the building to her locker. Yugi stood in front of the tall blue door of the metal container that held her books as she waited patiently for her friend, Tristan.
Tristan was a rather odd boy who had been Yugi's friend since middle school and after Yugi had lost her sight, he had made it his job to protect her when he could. For instance, he commonly led her to her classes and helped her with her locker combination seeing as she couldn't see the numbers. The loud padding of some all too familiar footsteps met the girl's ears and a few moments later the girl was pulled into a hug.
"Hey Yugi, baby! How's things been?" asked Tristan as he released her and ran a hand through his ridiculously pointy brown hair, his brown eyes glowing with childish happiness.
Yugi let out a giggle as she poked the taller teen's stomach, "Not bad Tristan. Same old really."
The brunet rolled his eyes, "Oh, come on, Yugi. I know something must have happened, like the contest Millennium is holding." The older teen smirked as a light blush covered the girl's face.
"OK." the girl mumbled, "You win, that was...interesting. But I don't think I'll be entering the contest."
Tristan stared at his friend, horrified."What do you mean you're not entering?" he asked, outraged."You're, like, the best song writer I know, not to mention singer!"
Yugi blushed heavily, "I'm not that good, Tristan..."
Tristan quickly shoved his hand over her mouth, instantly silencing her."Don't you dare look down on yourself!" he yelled at her, not caring who else heard. "You are the best I know, you should use your gifts, not belittle them."
Yugi smiled but pushed the teen away a little, "I'm sorry, but you know I hate singing in front of people. You should know that better than anyone..."
Tristan cut her off again, "I know! But what if you entered this contest. They don't even have to see your face to see if it's good or not. Come on, what's the harm?"
Yugi smiled, "OK, I give! But you have to help me choose the song." Tristan punched the air as she said this, but soon was clutching his shin; Yugi had whacked it with her staff. "Now stop being an idiot and help me with my locker."
"I'm going to get you for that!" he grumbled as he started on the locker's combination.
"No you wont, you love me too much." Yugi let out a laugh when she only got a small grunt in response. The steady clicking of high heels hitting the laminate floor immediately wiped the smile off the girl's face. Yugi mumbled something unrecognizable, but before Tristan could ask, her saw what she was scared of. Tea Gardener, AKA the school slut.
Tea wasn't one of the nicest people in recorded history, in fact, of everyone in the school she was Yugi's least favorite person. Tea had shoulder length brown hair and bright blue eyes, she also wore the school uniform, but she had adjusted it first day. Yes, she wore the blazer, skirt and all but... more revealingly. Her blazer was almost always open, the collared shirt was undone to the extreme, only one button lower and her bra would have been completely visible, not that it wasn't already. Her skirt was too short, by far the shortest in the school, most would think a girl would like to hide her undergarments from all the horny teenage that happened to love going UP the stairs. Tea also wore at least six inch heels and enough make-up to repaint a wall, but despite all this, Yugi didn't hate her. No. What she hated about the woman/slut was the fact that she had a really nasty habit of picking on the only blind girl in the entire school, that and the fact that she wont shut up about, to quote her, "all the boys she's shagged".
"Hello, Yugi." A high pitched voice of the brunette screeched as she strutted over to the blind teen."How are you today?" Yugi could here the mocking in the older teen's voice, and she knew there was a catch, but she couldn't figure out what it was.
"I'm great, Tea. Why do you ask?" Yugi said as she put on the fake smile that was often shown to her parents. The blind girl quickly reached over and opened her locker before she ran her fingers over the spines of the books inside, looking for the things she would need for her next few classes. When Yugi had first lost her sight, Jaden, Solomon, Tristan and one of her other friends had all worked together to help her live a normal life by teaching her Braille and changing all of her favorite books to Braille so she could continue to enjoy herself. They had also gone the extra mile in getting her a specially designed laptop that had Braille and letters on the keys and could read back what she had written.
Tea smirked evilly, sending a shiver down the spine of the brunette boy and causing Yugi's skin to pickle with a worrying sensation."I just wanted to know how you felt about never seeing again." Tea smiled at the horrified look Tristan gave as he paled and looked at Yugi to see her tense up.
"You know, Tea," started Yugi, trying her best to stop herself from shaking, "I'm at peace with the fact that I will never see again. However, I will not stand here and be verbally abused by a tone deaf girl like you."
Tea had always been into performing arts, ever since she was a child, but no matter how much training she got, her voice was terrible, not that she knew. Tea had always believed that she was best, no matter how much people tried to tell her otherwise, and, although she was a talented dancer, she had no voice. But even so, the brunette refused to listen to peoples comments that she didn't like.
Tea stared at the small, tri-colored haired teen in utter shock. "E-Excuse me?"
Yugi smiled, "You're excused." she stated happily as she closed her locker and started to walk toward her first class. "You coming, Tristan?" Yugi called over his shoulder as her guide staff when on tapping along the tiled floor.
"R-Right!" called Tristan as he ran to catch up to his blind friend. "How did you do that?" he whispered as they were out of Tea's range of hearing, which was pretty small considering the storm she was cooking up over Yugi's comment. (Unfortunately, those dents in the wall were never fixed.)
Yugi just shrugged as she stopped before the door to their home room, and, like the millions of times before, Yugi reached over with incredible accuracy and grabbed the door-handle."Hi, Serenity!" called the young teen as she opened the door, taking both Tristan and the red head hiding behind the door by surprise.
Two pairs of brown eyes fell on Yugi as she walked into the room, as well as the eyes of just about every other student in the class. "How did you know where I was, or if it was me?" asked Serenity as she blew her fringe out of her face.
Yugi smiled, "Simple, I know you." and with that, the blind teen walked over to the back row of desks and sat down at the one farthest from the window. Tristan and Serenity just stared at their friend as she started to pull out her laptop. "Come on, Tristan! I need you to help me chose the song I'm going to send in."
Tristan let out a groan but quickly stalked over to the smaller teen and looked over her shoulder as she started to browse through the documents. "Damn, Yugi! How many songs have you written?" Yugi shrugged as she continues to scroll through the dozen or more songs. "Hey, wait!" called Tristan as one of the songs caught his eye, "Open "Hero" up for me." Yugi nodded and did as the taller teen asked. Tristan started to mutter under his breath as he read the lyrics to the song. "This is brilliant! This is the kind of thing Millennium sings so it should work! Let's got to the library after school and print this off!"
Yugi shook her head, "Sorry, Tristan. But I can't go today. I have to get home ASAP."
"What? Again?"
Yugi smiled, "Yeah. I have a lot of studying to do before we graduate."
Tristan glared at his friend, "That's over a month away!"
"Yeah, and?" she replied as she started typing in the address to the fan sight so she could email in her song. "Here we go. Tristan, would you send the song over in an email?"
"Sure." Tristan mumbled as he started typing in the address and copying and pasting the lyrics, that is until the laptop was slammed shut, just about catching his fingers. "What the Hell?" He looked up to meet the blue eyes of Tea Gardener. "What the Hell do you want?" he grumbled as he tried to pull the laptop from under her hand, but to no avail.
"I've come to pay back the little slut of a friend you have for the comment she made." Tea replied, a smirk covering, but soon the look changed to one of confusion as Yugi started sniggering and it grew from a small giggle to a full out laugh. "What's so funny?" demanded Tea as she stared at the blind girl.
Yugi almost instantly stopped laughing and took on a smirk, still trying to suppress her laughter. "Oh, nothing. I just find your nickname for me funny, after all, there is someone else in this room that is FAR more deserving of the title "Slut" that I am. I find the brunette with the too small of a uniform and the seven inch stilettos much more deserving of the name "School Slut" than I am, or am I wrong and all those boys you've slept with did not mean anything to you and are not nothing more than toys for you to enjoy and exploit?"
Tea stared at the small, blind girl in horror. 'How could she, a F***ing blind girl know how she looked or dressed?' Tea thought as she stared at the all-knowing smirk plastered on the girl's face. The sound of skin hitting skin echoed through the, by now, teen filled classroom as Yugi fell to the floor, her cheek red as Tea's hand finished it's ark. "You little Bitch! You dare say something like that to me? I am and always will be your superior; you will never be higher than me. You aren't worth my time!" she spat angrily before marching over to her desk.
Yugi sat up from the floor and sighed, 'I have enough of this at home, so why do I have to get this at school too?' she thought as a hand rested against her shoulder.
"Yugi! You OK?" asked Tristan as he helped his friend back onto her chair.
Yugi nodded as she was handed her staff by Serenity, "I'm fine. Just a little knocked up."
Just then, the teacher walked in, "OK, class, time to get sorted. Tristan Taylor, Serenity Wheeler! Please return to your seats!"
And so the class began. No one noticed the small drops of water dripping down the blind girl's cheeks as words drifted through her mind. 'You're not worth it! You're a murderer! You don't deserve to live! Useless! Killer! Cripple! Just go and die! Just go and Die!' Yugi sat in her chair, not wanting to show it, but she believed them. 'I'm a murderer.'