***This story is in the viewpoint of the main character Bre***
Of course, you managed to be late for your very first day of school, you thought bitterly to yourself as you frantically drove toward your new school, Domino High. All you wanted was to make a good first impression, but it was not looking too good for you at the moment. Damn your terrible sense of direction, you thought shaking your head slowly at all of the new territory surrounding you. Of course, you knew your way around your hometown back in Pennsylvania in the good ol' US of A, but Domino, Japan was an entirely new place. Everything seemed so different. It was intimidating to be honest, but you promised your father when he moved the headquarters of his business over here to branch out, that you would try your hardest to accept this as your new home. You knew your father just wanted what was best for you, so you accepted the move and attempted to learn what Japanese you could before your transition over here. Of course, the class was offered at your school, but not many students took an interest in learning Japanese. Typically, they would attempt Spanish or French since it was what you saw most often in the States, but lucky you got to learn Japanese.
Carefully, you glanced over at your directions and at the huge high school towering above you. This had to be it, you sighed, feeling even more nervous as the giant building unfolded around you. You carefully pulled into the student parking lot and sat there for a moment trying to calm yourself. Looking up into the rear view mirror, you made a once over of yourself before your grand entrance. Your bright hazel eyes glistened like stars in the mirror. They were of course one of your best features. You always artfully lined them with mascara and dark eyeliner to make them pop. You had a rather round face and beautiful full lips. Cascading around your face was your long light brown hair highlighted throughout with a light caramel. Overall, your were definitely above average in your looks. You were however, very short for your age of 17 and only measured in at 5' even. You slowly took a deep breath in and stepped out of your Mitsubishi Eclipse to make your way to the entrance of the building. Domino High was much larger than you had expected. The entrance grounds were beautiful though. The landscaping was vast and elegant with flowers lining all of the pathways. You saw groups of students making their way inside for class. You tried to blend in and followed them all. As soon as you stepped into the building, you saw a room labeled Main Office and you headed toward it. You had to pick up your schedule and meet with the principle. You stepped inside and asked for the principle. The secretary smiled at you and led you toward his office. Slowly you opened the door and found him in there talking to a student already.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I was not aware you were in a meeting. I'll wait outside for you..." you said trying to close the door behind you.
"Not so fast! Miss Walters, I presume?" the man asked you, extending his hand to you. You carefully accepted it and shook his hand offering a small smile.
"Yes, sir. Bre Walters. Pleased to meet you," you nodded.
The girl in his office rose to her feet. She was tall with short brown hair cut into a bob. You could tell she was friendly as you met her bright blue eyes. "Hi!" she exclaimed. "I'm Tea Gardner! The principle asked me to be your student ambassador and show you around campus. I'll be escorting you to all of your classes."
You could not help but to smile. You were so nervous being in a brand new school and having someone there to talk to and show you around would be so much help. So much stress was lifted off your shoulders as you shook her hand.
"It's so nice to meet you, Tea. I'm Bre Walters. Thank you so much for agreeing to help me around," you said smiling.
"It's really no problem! I'm always up for meeting new people! Well, I already have your schedule. Is there anything else we need, sir?" Tea asked the principle.
"No, Miss Gardner. I believe Miss Walters is set to start her first day here at Domino High. I hope you have a fantastic first day. I am pleased to have you as a student here," the principle said standing and spreading his arms as if to welcome you to this vast new land.
"Thank you, sir. I am pleased to join your school," you said and suddenly you felt Tea pulling you toward the door.
"Come on! Let's start your first day! I'm so excited to introduce you to everyone!" she exclaimed and rushed you out. Suddenly you were pulled into the hallway and found yourself following her around the large school.
"So, what brings you here to Japan, Bre?" Tea questioned to start a conversation.
"Well my father runs Walters Industries, and we just moved the headquarters from the U.S. here to Japan," you said, hoping she wouldn't judge you and assume you were some spoiled rich kid. Quite the opposite, she seemed excited about the news.
"Oh, that's so cool!" she exclaimed. "What does the company do?"
"Well, it deals with different computer things. We make a lot of software and develop new technology. It's quite interesting if you work along side the technologists," you added trying to make it sound less boring.
"I think it sounds great! I bet your pretty good with computers then, huh?" she asked.
"I guess you could say so," you said carefully. You didn't know if you wanted to tell her that you worked with your father and have been trained since a very young age to help in the company. You did after all work there so you took the easy road and said instead, "I have a part time job there. My dad lets me tinker around with different things."
"That's awesome Bre! I have a part time job too, but it's not nearly as exciting as that. I just waitress," she said, almost seeming crest fallen from her statement. You remembered the days when you tried to be a normal kid and insisted upon having a normal job for a kid your age. You worked at McDonalds for four whole years before accepting the position at your father's company.
"Tea, that's so cool! You'll have to show me where you waitress. I don't know any cool places to go around here," you said and it seemed to cheer her up.
She smiled at you and said, "That would be great! It's not the coolest place to go or anything, but they have great food. I will show you some fun places we all go though. Oh, that reminds me! I need to introduce you to the gang!" She grabbed your hand and picked up the pace leading you over to a small huddle of people standing by some lockers.
"Hey guys!" Tea said startling everyone. "I would like to introduce you to Bre Walters. She just moved here from the U.S.!"
You looked around at the group of people surrounding you. You small a small guy with blonde spiky hair with streaks of different color in it. He had a giant gold necklace on with a funny symbol on it. You found it a little odd but couldn't help but to be drawn to it for some reason. You found out that this was Yugi Moto. He seemed extremely nice and friendly. Then, you noticed a guy with long black hair pulled into a ponytail. He had the prettiest bright green eyes and one of his ears pierced with a die hanging from it. He even hugged you as a hello. Then, you were introduced to a guy named Tristan Taylor. He had brown hair almost put into a fau-hawk and seemed nice enough. Lastly, you were introduced to Joey Wheeler. He had messy blonde hair and a thick accent that you placed from Brooklyn. Looking at him made you want to blush. You couldn't deny that he was good looking. Carefully you looked down to avoid him seeing you blush. You tried to cover your face with your light brown hair, but you felt the redness creeping up your face. Thankfully, someone tapping you on the shoulder saved you from the embarrassment. You carefully turned around to see a boy glaring down at you. He had the brightest blue eyes you've ever seen and seemed very upset at something. You assumed it was probably you since he was directing his anger your way.
"What do you want, Kaiba?" came Joey's voice from behind you. You were shocked to hear Joey sounding not so friendly.
"Certainly nothing from you, Wheeler," the boy identified as Kaiba said. His voice was deep and cold. It brought a chill over you and made you wonder what had happened between the two of them to raise such hostility. His glare focused back on you. "Now if you wouldn't mind moving, you're blocking my locker. I would hate to keep you from the crowd of losers for much longer."
You didn't know where your courage came from but suddenly you couldn't stop yourself from speaking.
"Excuse me; I don't think any of that was necessary. You don't even know me, and you're being rude. These people you call 'losers' are 100% nicer and friendlier than you," you said this all very quickly and pointed your index finger at him while you did as if he didn't know who you were speaking to.
A wide smirk spread across his face. It was almost as if he took pleasure in knowing that he had the power to piss you off. "No, you're right. I don't know you. Seeing you with this crowd tells me that I don't need to know you. Enjoy being part of the loser crowd." And he walked off just like that. You couldn't help but stand there, mouth wide open, appalled at the sight of him. You turned to Tea and asked, "Who the hell was that?"
"Seto Kaiba. He owns this big company here, Kaiba Corp, and he thinks he's a God or something. Way to go sticking up for us though! You're pretty tough!" Tea exclaimed. The others nodded with a big smile on their faces.
Suddenly the name rang a bell. You knew who that was. Your father's company was the neighboring building to Kaiba Corp. You had a meeting with a Kaiba Corp executive this very evening. Surely, Kaiba would have been nicer to you if he had known you were a member of Walters Industries. The meeting would surely be something else to say the least...
Suddenly, Yugi snapped you out of your daydream. "It's almost time for our first class! We should all get going. Bre, what's your first class?" he asked you.
You took the schedule Tea handed you and saw that you had math first thing in the morning. To your excitement so did Yugi. You then learned that you had a class with each of them. You had history with Tea second period, language arts with Tristan third period, science with Duke fourth, lunch with everyone fifth, art with Joey sixth, and computer programming seventh all on your lonesome. Yugi smiled at you and said he'd show you to class. You followed him and entered the classroom.
The day seemed to zip right by and before you knew it, you were in art class with Joey. Nervously you took your seat next to him. He made casual small talk with you and then jumped as if he had just remembered something. "Hey, Yugi told me to ask you if you'd like to stop by his place and hang out with us sometime. We go over there every day after school to chill for a bit so it could be anytime you were free," Joey said, rubbing the back of his neck and smiling at you. He looked a little nervous too for some reason.
You smiled at him and said, "Of course I would love to stop by and hang out with you all! I do have to work tonight though. Would tomorrow be okay?"
His nervousness seemed to vanish and a wide grin appeared across his face. "Sounds good to me, Bre. I'll tell the gang to expect you there tomorrow. Hey, do you play duel monsters?"
You stared at him perplexed. What in the world was that? "Ummm..no. What's that?" you asked.
He seemed more excited that you didn't know. "Well looks like I get to teach you how to play! This will be great. You'll love it."
Art was fantastic. You loved being able to hang out with Joey. He was just so easy to talk to and there was never a dull moment with him. He decided to walk you to your next class since it was on the way to his. He stopped outside of the door and put his arm on the wall leaning toward you. He stuck his other hand in his pants pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. "I..ah..had a great time in class with you. I thought that..maybe..you could text me sometime and we could do something..."
You grabbed the piece of paper from his hand before he could say anything else and said, "Yes of course! That would be fun. I'll text you my number now." You couldn't believe he gave you his number.
"Awesome. Well I'll talk to you soon then," he said and smiled at you before walking away.
You put your head against the wall and thought about how well everything was going so far. The people here were so nice and accepting, and you managed to get the number of one of the cutest boys in the school! You thought to yourself that you should definitely thank your father for talking you into moving here when you heard a chuckle coming from nearby. Not changing your position, you slowly turned your head to the left and saw Seto Kaiba standing in the doorway to the classroom. "God damn it", you thought aloud. His humored expression quickly turned into one of confusion. You decided to not let him get to you and walked right past him to get into the classroom. To your disappointment, there were only two empty seats left and they were side by side. It was almost as if you were destined to be around this asshole. He walked over and sat down beside you. "I'm not happy about this either," he said gravely. It was your turn to smirk at him. You took pride in knowing that your presence bothered him just as much as his did to you. You decided to ignore his comment and focus solely on the work in front of you all of the class period. To your dismay, at the end of the class, your instructor told you all that he had paired everyone up for the group project of designing a webpage from scratch and identified all of the things that needed to be included in it. The project sounded extremely simple until you found out your partner was none other than Seto Kaiba. Grimly you looked over at him. He had the same look of disgust on his face as you did. You blew out a sigh and carefully chose your next words. "I will do the project. This will be extremely simple. If you would like to look over the website when I have finished and make any changes then you are more than welcome," you said meeting his icy glare. He looked at you somewhat shocked.
"What makes you think you're such a pro?" he asked almost sounding offended. "I am the CEO of Kaiba Corp. I believe I could handle this as well."
You just stared at him dumbstruck. You figured there was only one way to deal with him. "Okay, then how about I give it a shot, and you can see if it's to your liking when I'm done?" you asked, giving up the will to fight over something so stupid. He seemed to consider this and found it in his favor because he agreed.
"Fantastic," you said standing up to leave class and school for the day. "I'll have it up and running tonight no doubt. Now if you don't mind me, I have a very important meeting I must prepare for." And with that you left him there guessing.