Hi, I'm starting a new story. I had it in my head for a while and I decided to write it out. Okay, now before you read it, Tea is a bit OOC in this story. She is the new student in class who had a rough past and it makes her distant to anyone who tries to talk to her.

Disclamer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

My Shining Light

Alone. Distant. Cold-Hearted.

This is how she felt as she was walking through the busy hallways of her new high school. This is how she felt for most of her life. This is how she felt ever since that day when she was only 5 yrs. old. Those were suppose to be her innocent days where she never had a care in the world. Those days where she would play in the park and have her parents watch her while she plays kid games with her little friends or enjoy a nice ice-cream treat once in a while. Instead, she had to watch the most horrific event in her life that no 5 yr. old should ever have to witness and because of that day, she was never able to have a real childhood. So she stays away from anyone who tries to talk to her. Even when she sees councilors about what happened to her, she would have a cold glare and never tell what happened to her. To this day, no one knows what she encountered in her life to make her act this way and she made a vow to herself that she would never tell anyone. That she would never trust a single person.

A tri-colored haired boy was on his way to his first class. He was known for his popularity because of his talents, his looks and grades. He was also the schools heartthrob to all of the girls that desperately tries to get his attention, but he doesn't care about all of it. He has two best friends and a twin brother that really sees him for what he truly is. Actually, he doesn't even remember how he ever became popular. It all started when he first came to high school in his freshmen year. Now he's a junior and he has popularity standards throughout the whole school. He finally reached the class and he saw his two friends and his brother already at their seats.

"Hey Atem, what took you so long?" one of his friend asked.

"Yeah, got stopped by a girl again, didn't ya?" his other friend asked as he snickered. Their names were Joey Wheeler and Tristan Taylor. They have been friends since they were little and way before they met Atem.

"I had some things to do in the office before I had to come to class. And no Joey, I did not get stopped by any girl. You know that I'm not interested in them." he explained.

"Aw c'mon Atem, if it were me, I would have ladies hanging off of me in a minute. You gotta get one of these girls to date ya."

"Joey, you know that Atem doesn't care about them. He'll find someone when he's ready." his brother Yugi said. Yugi understands that his brother never cared about the popularity and the attention that he gets from the school. He knows that Atem wishes that he was just a normal student instead of feeling like some sort of celebrity every time he walks through the door. So once Atem sat down in his seat and they started chatting, another girl came up to Atem swaying her hips to him thinking that he would fall for her in an instant.

"Hi Atem, what are you doing?" she asked seductively. Atem groaned in disgust when she did.

"I'm talking to my friends and my brother Carmen. What does it look like I'm doing?" Carmen was a blond-hair green-eyed girl and the rich popular girl of the school who thinks that she could anything that she wants. Including Atem. She always wore alot of skimpy clothing and and throws herself at any guy who she thinks was cute(coughslutcough).

"Wouldn't you rather talk to me instead? I would show you what a good time really is." she said. Yugi, Joey and Tristan had almost threw up from the sight of her.

"No, I rather stay here and whatever you have planned for a good time, I'll probably die from boredom." Joey, Tristan and Yugi snickered at what he said.

"Oh Atem, you know you want me so why don't you just stop pretending?" she asked snobbishly.

"Carmen, if I really wanted you, then I would have went with you the moment you came over here. But I guess you can't take a hint considering that you have a peanut-sized brain. What happened, did you get dumped again?" Yugi, Joey and Tristan started laughing uncontrollably when Atem said that. Carmen couldn't think of anything to say so she just went back to her group of flunkies.

"Oh man Atem, I take back what I said earlier. You can date anybody as long as it's not that slut Carmen." said Joey. Atem chuckled.

"Don't worry, I won't."

As soon as the words left his mouth, the bell rang and everyone sat down in their seats. The teacher came in front of the classroom and began the lesson for the day.

"All right class we have alot of work to do for today. We need to review everything we talked about in chapter 6,7 and 8 because next week, I will be giving a test on what you learned in the lesson." he said. The whole class moaned tiredly when they heard this.

"Oh stop moaning, you know it was only a matter of ti-" he was cut off when there was a knock at the door. When opened the door, everyone was talking amongst themselves.

"Saved by the door. Can you believe that we have a test next week and it's on three chapters? complained Joey.

"C'mon Joey, its only three chapters, What's so bad about that?" asked Yugi.

"Joey and reading do not mix. That's like saying you're going to put mint frosting on a pepperoni pizza." said Tristan.

"Mm that sounds kinda good."said Joey.

"EWW" grunted Yugi, Atem and Tristan.

"How about after school, we go to my house and study the chapters together?" asked Atem. They all agreed.

Mr. Collins came back to the front of the classroom and began to talk to the class.

"Okay class listen up. We have a new student joining our class today so I want you all to make her feel welcomed. You can come in now."

The door opened and everyone was curious as to who it may be. In came a girl with brown shoulder lenth hair and cold blue eyes. She was wearing a black hoody, black jeans and black shoes. She was coming in at a very slow pace and she stood in front of the classroom ready to be introduced.

"Class, this is Tea Gardner. She's new to the class so I want everyone to treat her nicely. Tea why don't you tell us a bit about yourself."

The class was quiet as they waited to hear what she had to say. Tea just stood there with a cold glare to everyone who watched her. She didn't like to be stared at like she was some sort of animal waiting to perform a trick. So she just gave a brief answer.

"I just moved here from New York 2 weeks ago. That's all you need to know." she said. Everyone was surprised by her answer.

"Well what about your family. Can you tell us about them?" Tea snapped her head towards the teacher and gave him a menacing glare.

"No. May I take my seat now, sir?" she asked coldly. Mr. Collins hesitated before answering.

"Uh, y-yes you may. You can take the empty seat in the back next to Atem. Atem would you raise your hand please?" Tea saw a student raise his hand and made her way to the empty desk. While she was walking, she could hear the class whispering about her.

"I wonder why she didn't say anything about her family."

"What's with the get-up she's wearing? It's like she's some sort of serial killer."

"I wouldn't go anywhere near her. She looks like a freak"

Tea didn't pay attention to any of the whispering. She was used to it all her life. Whenever she would walk into a room, she's the first thing everyone talks about. She just learns to drown out the whispers as long as they don't bother her. Tea sat down next to Atem and waited for to begin his lesson.

When Atem saw Tea sit next to him, he got a really good look at her. He never looked at any girl the way he looked at Tea so he was thinking of getting to know her, but when he saw the way she talk to the class, he was thinking that it was going to be more work to get her to talk to him. He saw how beautiful she looked and her mysterious personality just makes him want to get to know her more. When he saw her eyes close up, he noticed that they show anger and a little hurt inside of them. He was curious as to what caused her to be this way.

"Alright class let's begin."

One hour passed and class was just about over so let everyone have ten minutes of talk time. Atem, Yugi, Joey and Tristan were talking in their usual corner of the classroom. They watched as Tea was sitting as far away from everyone as possible.

"Man, have you ever seen anyone so distant before?" asked Joey.

"Yeah I know. And did you see the way she talked to class this morning? It's like she hates life or something." said Tristan.

"Well she must have went through something to make her like this." said Yugi.

"I think you're right. Hey, why don't we go and talk to her? Make her feel welcomed and maybe let her hang out with us." said Atem. Yugi, Joey and Tristan were stunned when they heard this. Atem looked back at them when they went quiet.

"What?"

"Nothing, it's just... well this is the first time that you ever payed attention to a girl before." said Yugi.

"Well, I guess I just want to get to know her a little. She doesn't seem like the other girls here at this school and whatever she's going through, maybe we can help her." The guys agreed and went over towards Tea.

Tea was writing in her special book that she kept since she was little. This book kept all of her pictures, secrets and most of all, everything that happened to her in her past. While she was writing, a shadow loomed over her book and she looked up to see who blocked her light. She saw it was four students that she was sitting by during class. She slammed her book shut and put it in her bag.

"Hi, Tea. My name is Atem. This is my brother Yugi and my friends Joey and Tristan."

"Hi" said Yugi.

"Hey" said Tristan

"What's up?" said Joey.

Tea was looking at them like they had extra heads. No one has ever came up to her and talked to her before. If it was to talk, it would be people trying to find out what happened to her when she was little. She watched them with a suspicious cold glare.

"So, what do you want?" she asked coldly.

"We just saw that you were by yourself and thought that maybe we come over and talk to you." said Atem.

"Well you are just waisting you time. I rather be by myself."

The bell rang indicated that it was time to go to the next class. Tea got up from her seat and started to leave, but before she left, she turned back to Atem and the others and said.

"Take my advice and stay away from me. It's best if you don't know anything about me." With that she left the classroom. Yugi, Joey and Tristan looked at each other when Tea said that. Atem just stared at the door with a confusing look.

'What did she mean by that? Something must have really hurt her. Well, this is just going to make me determined to help her.' he thought.

What did you think? This was just something I had in my head and I wanted to see if it was good. Tell me what you think in your reviews. Please no flames.