Chapter 43

I got to micks before i got a reply from abbey

“I think it's just a stomach bug not a big deal both me and my dad have it i should be better by tomorrow hopefully if you wanted to meet up”

I knew that I might be able to meet up in the afternoon once I had got home from Emilys and showered. I would have to think of an excuse as to why I couldn't meet up first. I was shocked at how willing I was to lie to people and how easily it came to me. I also thought I needed to tread carefully the more lies I told the easier it would be for me to be found out. I decided i would be partially honest about it

“It would need to be afternoon as josh has invited me to stay at his tonight”

I wasn't sure if she would know who josh was as the only interaction she had had with him wasn't great and ended with her leaving and me letting her leave on her own

“Oh ok sure xxxx”

The bluntness of the reply felt sharp and left a small piece in my mind. I had reached Mick's front door and was greeted by6 him holding a new pack of yu-gi-oh cards. They had just released a new shiny artwork for one of the cards and Mick had been going on for ages about how he wanted to buy the first packs when they came out in the shop. Mick's mum and dad had always given him an allowance per week on the condition that he did a few chores around the house, more often than not this income was spent on sweets or booster packs for card games and sometimes even a few new minis or dice sets. It appears true to his word that as soon as the packs had been released he had gone to the shop and bought the first few packs. We went to his room, it was a decent size however it would have had more room if not for the double bed and the D&D minis and other such items scattered across his desk and the several shelves he had. I always found it interesting as no matter how many times I had been into Mick's room there was always something I either hadn't noticed before or something that simply had not been there before. He sat down at his desk and motioned for me to sit on his spare gaming chair. As I sat down he handed me 2 packs, and kept 2 for himself.

“ im looking for a morning star rare card lets see who is luckier me or you?”

I nodded and said probably one of the nerdiest things i could in this situation but i knew mick would understand and appreciate the reference

“May the heart of the cards be on my side”

We both laughed a little as we began opening the first pack. Neither of us had much luck. The second pack however i drew “Darklord morningstar” the card appeared to be a shiny and mick almost flew out his seat across the room

“Finally i will be able to create a decent fallen angels deck”

I couldn't help but feel this situation was like a scene from a teen film or something. Here I am getting these weird nightmares about fallen angels and the morning star and here we were trying to find playing cards that were the same. Oh how irony had a weird sense of showing itself. I looked over at mick

“So why are you building a fallen angel deck you always seemed to love your blue eyes deck especially as it was based of the world champions deck”

Mick just shrugged

“I like the artwork plus it seemed different and i just had a strange feeling of being drawn to it who knows this could be my world championship deck”

I laughed at him

“Oh yeah like your gonna be able to go to the world championship on your pocket money”

He smiled as he slowly slid his new card into a protective sleeve

“Who knows man stranger things have happened”

I nodded and picked up his blue eyes deck which was always on the side in a card box

“Wanna see if it holds up against the current champion”

He moved his desk towards the centre of the room so we could sit either side and play. Qas we were shuffling our cards he quickly added

“It won't be the best atm as i haven't got all the cards or had time to build it properly”

“That's ok i will go easy on you then but at least we can try build it as we play like make edits to the deck after each game”

I said this knowing that with the blue eyes deck this would be a walk in the park. So long as I could get the right cards on the field I was almost guaranteed a win even if I didn't know what cards were in the fallen angels deck.

We played the first game and as expected I won with ease. We broke down the fallen angels deck and rebuilt it with other cards we thought would work well with it. I won another three games and we continued in this fashion until my phone started buzzing.