Never Second Rate – Chapter One
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Joey glanced up from his book to look at the blue-eyed beauty sitting across the library. Joey admired the casual way he draped one long leg over the other, slouching down in his chair with his elbows propped on the armrests. He held the book he was reading loosely in his hands, his head cocked to one side as if he were pondering the messages contained between its bound covers.
Sighing heavily, he tried to return to the research he was supposed to be using this class period for, but soon found it impossible to concentrate.
"What's wrong, Joey?" Yugi asked, concern filling his wide eyes.
"Nothing, just trying to focus," Joey said, using his normally short attention span as a reasonable excuse.
If his report were about one Seto Kaiba, he would certainly bring home an A, since that was all he could think about these past eleven days. For that was how long it had been since that wonderful rain sprinkled kiss they had shared in Kaiba's front yard.
Eleven days was also how long it had been since either of them had mentioned that kiss, or even mentioned the fact that it had ever happened. Things went back to normal – or as normal as they could with the obvious tension that was brewing between the two boys.
And then there was the fact that he couldn't just turn off the feelings he still held for Tristan. True, his feelings for Kaiba ran longer and deeper, but with Kaiba ignoring the fact that anything had happened, Joey couldn't help but wonder if he regretted what they'd done.
Needless to say, Joey Wheeler was one confused puppy.
Looking across the room once more in hopes of making eye contact, Joey found Kaiba seemingly absorbed in his book, and finally gave up and attempted to return to his work once more.
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Seto Kaiba stared longingly at the blond splendor which lay sprawled on the library floor across the room. It was endearing the way his legs were bent at the knee, feet pointing towards the ceiling as they swayed nonchalantly back and forth. His chin was propped heavily in both hands, elbows digging into the carpet below him. His eyebrows were furrowed as if in concentration, and Kaiba longed to brush that unruly lock of hair away from those tender golden eyes.
For eleven days, Kaiba had been longing to do one thing or another to Joey Wheeler, not all of it appropriate for younger audiences. But for eleven days, Kaiba had also been behaving as if the best day of his life had never happened. You see, Kaiba wanted to be with Joey, but he wanted to be Joey's first choice, not a runner up to that pointy-headed crush Joey had told him about moments before their wonderful kiss. So until Kaiba was sure that Joey no longer held feelings for Tristan, things would continue exactly as they had for eleven days.
No matter how much it hurt.
Note: Sorry this chapter was so short. Trust me, the ones to come are much longer.