She's A Lady…

The light will always find us.

My heart will always love you.

x:x:x:x:x

o3

smile, my darling.

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Jack woke up to the bright sun shinning in through the light curtains Carly had in her room. Sometimes, he didn't mind it too much, but on mornings when the sun was way too bright, he would've preferred Carly to go out and buy a whole new set of darker curtains to block out the sun.

Maybe, later today he would ask Carly to go buy some.

He turned away from the window and concentrated on getting back to sleep. He didn't like going through his days feeling tired, especially around Carly. That girl always had an abundance amount of energy and never seems to stop talking, but she kept the days interesting. She wasn't a boring person; always seemed to have something to talk about. There was a presence around her that made you feel calm, like all the dreadful things that existed in the world were all gone, just for that second you were with her.

Three minutes passed and Jack wasn't able to fall asleep again and threw the covers off, and decided to give up.

He headed down to the kitchen/living room.

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Jack walked into the kitchen/living room calmly. He looked over at the kitchen counter and found Carly standing there with her back facing him. From where he was standing from, it just look like she was just standing there, spacing out like she usually did. Regularly, when she saw him come down the stairs, she would greet him with a "good morning" and start making his coffee.

"Oi! What you doing?" he called from where he was standing.

Carly screamed.

She didn't hear Jack come down and was used to the silence. With the sudden outburst, the sudden shock made her drop the item she was holding her hands; her camera, into Jack's coffee.

"Ah!! Crappp!!" Carly screamed once again. Jack back away when he heard her scream, but walked towards her to get a closer look to what had happened to make her scream like. He saw something metal floating in his cup of coffee that Carly had let Jack use the whole time he's been staying here.

She recklessly reached in to retrieve her camera but quickly yanked her hand out of the steaming hot cup of coffee; not controlling where her hand was going, and ultimately, slapped Jack's tired face from behind with a great force, whacking some of the coffee onto his face.

Carly didn't realize what she did until she heard someone yell.

"Baka! What the hell are you doing?!" Jack's face had the hot brown liquid dripping down his face to the tile floor.

Carly's face slowly became white. She ran over to Jack. "Oh! I'm so, so sorry, Jack!! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, the pain will go away." He looked over to the counter. "What the hell happened over there?"

Carly stopped, debating if she should tell Jack what happened and risk being called an idiot again, or just stay silent. She decided to just go ahead with the truth.

"I, um… you kind of scared me back then… and I was holding my camera in one hand because before I was trying to connect my camera to my laptop… and, um, I kind of, dropped my camera in your coffee."

"Baka!!"

"And then I tried to get my camera back… and I think I burned my hand a little…"

Jack sighed. Seriously, this girl was possibly the clumsiest person he ever met. He took her hand, earning a blush on Carly's face, and examined it.

J-jack is holdinnngg my haannnd!! Carly mentally squealed, with her face turning redder by the second. Jack, could this mean that you care about me?

"It seems fine." He dropped her hand and walked over to the counter and drained the coffee from the cup and took the camera out. Jack looked at it. "It's obviously not going to work now."

Carly's heart dropped. "No! It can't be!" Jack was taken aback by Carly's words. They were so unexpected, why didn't she want to get rid of it. It was already broken; there was no use in keeping it.

"M-my parents gave that camera to me. I promised that I would take good care of it."

He placed the camera in Carly's hands and headed towards the coach and grabbed his jacket. Carly looked puzzled. "Jack… where are you going?"

"I'm going out for a walk, I'll be back later."

"O-okay…" Carly mumbled.

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Carly looked to the clock with a frustrated frown with a hint of worry in it. After spending a couple seconds of staring at it, she turned her attention back at her laptop screen, getting a few more words into her article. A few minutes passed and Carly found herself staring, no, more like slightly glaring, at the clock, hoping that doing so would the clock go faster.

It had already been about three hours since Jack went on his little "walk". The longer he'll be gone, the more Carly started to worry. The more she worried, the more she'll fidget around. The more she fidgeted, the harder it was to get the article done when her mind was clearly on something else. A while ago she caught herself typing "Jacccckkk~ where are yoo?".

No! What if he found another girl who's more attractive and prettier than me to stay with and spend his life with?! Carly thought. "No!! Jack!! You playboy!" she thought out loud, bringing her head to the desk and started to bang it with her hands. The second those words were spoken, the door opened revealing Jack standing there, obviously peeved at what Carly had just called him.

"What did you say?!" Carly turned around towards the duelist with teary eyes filled with happiness. "Jack! You're back!! Welcome back!"

Jack's frown didn't go away. He calmly walked inside and walked towards the stairs that would lead to the room he was staying at, but not before tossing a box at Carly. She caught it clumsily and stared at it with a confused look. She looked at Jack. "Um, what is this?"

Jack's frown deepened. "Can't you read the box?" he didn't want to spend time explaining what he got her. It was already embarrassing enough that the Jack Atlas went out in public to buy a stupid present for a girl.

"A-a new camera?!" she said louder than she intended. "You know, I could've just gone out myself and buy one for myself…"

Jack turned to the reporter with a death glare and stomped over to her. "Then I'll be taking this back to get a refund"

He continued on to the door, but Carly stopped him from leaving by tugging on his black top, pulling with all her strength to keep Jack from leaving her. "No! No!" she desperately cried. "It's not that I didn't like it! I really love it! I really do!"

Once she felt Jack pull back, she released her hold on his shirt, her head dropped so that Jack could only see the top of her head. "I just didn't expect you to get one for me…" she didn't know why she was blushing madly. She lifted her head up to look at Jack's face and smiled. "Thank you!"

Carly started to freak out a little bit when she heard no response from the blond-hair man. Carly put her head down and bit her lip. That means I just said something to embarrass myself in front of Jack again…

He walked passed her, patting her head lightly along the way and headed up the stairs. Carly's fingers touched the place where Jack's hands just were, blushing.

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It was a typically evening for Jack and Carly at her house. Carly would be at her desk, working on an article, or revising one, typing madly on her keyboard. Jack would be to the right, watching TV with a blank expression, as if nothing in the world would amuse him, but since there was nothing else better to do, he'll just stick with the TV.

It wasn't long until Jack had fallen asleep on the couch. Carly hadn't noticed until she saw what time it was in the corner of her laptop screen, and turned to her right to tell Jack what time it was and saw him already asleep on the couch with his arms crossed.

Carly froze when she saw him asleep. She couldn't stop staring. It was like her eyes were locked on his sleeping face. Even though, throughout most the days, Jack would wear the same annoyed expression. Sometimes it would change to a scowl or a blank frown. But what Carly saw was a calm expression on his face. There was still a slight frown, but Carly found it cute. She reached over and grabbed her new camera. After Jack had gotten it for her that morning, she had spent the rest of the day learning how to use it properly without breaking it.

She had been successful.

Carly walked behind the couch, she had her arms come out and lightly wrapped her arms around him, holding the camera right in front of Jack's adorable sleeping face, with the lens facing the opposite direction. She flipped her camera over so that the lens faced Jack this time. She waited for the camera to focus a bit and pressed the button.

Flash!

"Crap!" Carly squeaked. She did not expect that the flash was left on and the bright light flashed in Jack's face. Carly ran over to the front of the couch, praying that the flash didn't wake Jack up. It would be so embarrassing if Jack found out that she took a picture of him sleeping. He would think that she was a freak and would never talk to her again. Oh, the horror! After long struggles and being ignored, she finally got Jack to accept her and actually considered her as a close friend. All that effort would be put to waste if he were to hate her again for her clumsy mess-up.

Luckily, Carly saw no change; it was still the adorable calm sleeping face and sighed, wiping the sweat off her forehead. For once, Carly was thankful that Jack could basically sleep through anything. She placed the camera back on her desk and headed to the bathroom to get ready to go to bed.

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Jack opened his eyes and looked around to see if Carly had left. His eyes strayed over to the camera on the desk and lightly smirked.

That girl was so clumsy, it was cute.

But, of course, he would never tell her that he was awake when she took that picture of him. It would be his secret.

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Chapter o3 [END]

To Be Continued…

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a/n: Personally, i like this chapter a lot~ :3 I think Jack is in character (for once... i hope). I've done the same thing as Carly did before by leaving the flash on ;;
I hoped you enjoyed this chapter~~

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or the song "She's A Lady" by Forever the Sickest Kids.

Next Chapter: "You're such a child," he huffed.

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